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Hiking
If you're looking for some outdoor adventure without all the organization that camping requires, consider going on a hiking trip for the day. Investigate some of the local nature preserves, wilderness trails or state parks near your home. You can also make a day of hiking more engaging for your little ones by allowing them to read the map and giving them a list of birds, trees and animals to identify.
Fishing
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Chalk: Fencing class a lesson in humility

That's what I got when I took the eight-week adult beginners' fencing class through Three Rivers Fencing Club in Midland this winter.
Humble, as in being defeated by fencers much younger than myself.
And respect, as in seeing that age and gender are often irrelevant in fencing. Experience, wits, and courage are the most important factors in this sport, which is often called "physical chess."
My athletic background consists mainly of playing 10 years in the Midland Soccer Club while growing up, and running in several road races in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
I was inspired to take this class while reading a book called My Year with Eleanor by Noelle Hancock, a memoir in which the author does one thing that scares her every day for an entire year.
When I showed up for the first session on a Monday night in mid-January, I was the only true "adult" in the class, which was for anyone aged 13 and above. The other three students were boys in their early teens, while I am 41.
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One thing that Sabrie said, made a big impression on me.
When experienced fencers take on novice fencers, they will never "fence down" to their competition.
In other words, they won't take it easy on me just because I'm a beginner. They'll always fence at their best, because they want to see me improve.
Another, more difficult, lesson in fencing is this: Don't worry about being hit by your opponent's blade, as long as you have the right of way.
"It's counterintuitive," Sabrie would often say of this approach, because it goes against one's natural instinct, which is self-protection.
But in foil fencing, once you have established the right of way by initiating a correctly executed attack, you are the only one who can score a point.
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Polish village transforms itself into a ski resort

Just years ago, winter was a dead season for the Kotelnica Mountain, quiet under a quilt of snow.
Today, Kotelnica vibrates with activity from countless ski fans who flock to the new resort, one of Poland's trendiest.
The amazing transformation happened in a decade and reflects the inventiveness and spirit of enterprise seen in Poland since a market economy arrived with democracy in 1990.
Residents of this 17th century village at the foot of the Tatra mountains in southern Poland were making a modest living on farming and sheep breeding, with some additional funds coming from relatives who had gone, in a long-standing tradition,While Online Belstaff Outlet Shop Sale of what Americans might call knickers, to the United States for work.
Then, in 2000, some 50 farmers put their heads together and started up a joint venture to develop a ski resort, similar to the ones some of them had seen in Austria or Switzerland when Poles were finally allowed to freely travel abroad in the 1990s.
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Ten years on, Bialka Tatrzanska, about a 90-minute drive from the Renaissance city of Krakow, is among Poland's leading centers for skiers of all ages and levels, and a favorite family winter sports venue, though less demanding and more modest compared to many Western European resorts.
A recent ranking of Poland's ski centers by the Onet.pl Internet portal listed it as the country's second-most-popular ski resort based on quality of slopes and other amenities. In first place was Krynica Gorska, which has been around longer and boasts more challenging slopes.
Bialka Tatrzanska has a school employing some 80 instructors who stay busy in their black-and-orange jackets from morning until well after dark. It has six large and nine small ski lifts that take some 15,000 skiers per hour to the top of the Kotelnica and Bania mountain slopes. The longest route is 0.9 mile.
A thermal spa, built with a $26 million loan, opened this season, and a second hotel is under construction. All of them have created hundreds of jobs.
At the foot of the Kotelnica peak, the village of less than 2,000 residents now thrives on visitors who mostly lodge in private houses, eat at the inns and shop in newly built supermarkets. Some 10,000 tourists can be accommodated at a time.
All of Bialka and the entire county live off the ski resort, Piszczek said.
Bialka's reputation has spread across Poland's borders, with Russian, Ukrainian,It is the best time to be Moncler Aliso Chalet Down Coats Outlet sale. German and even English heard on the slopes, although not much foreign publicity has been done.
Vasyl Grib and his friends drove 600 miles from Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine.
"It has everything you need: many ski routes, good ski service, restaurants, good accommodation for every pocket," Grib said. "And it is cheaper than in Ukraine or in western Europe."

Let's hear it for the boys as menswear charms London

LONDON: Menswear was the focus of autumn/winter 2012 London Fashion Week with designers of classic Savile Row suits and avant garde Fashion East casual wear saying that London was still a synonym for quality in men's clothing.
London's Savile Row is world-renowned for its tradition of bespoke classic menswear pieces and quality construction, and Gieves and Hawkes design director Barry Tulip told Reuters that his collection stayed true to tradition whilst updating it for this season.

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"When everybody is depressed as they are now, you have to dream a little bit – for instance we've gone to town with our printed ties taking our inspiration from David Hicks," he said.
Hicks was a well known interior designer in the swinging '60s of London, and Tulip said that the collection featured many other small 1960s elements such as widened lapels and a lowered notch.

Elsewhere in London another Savile Row brand, E. Tautz, sent models down the runway in handmade woollen tweed and cotton creations in hues of black, charcoal and grey.Shop popular stores to find wholesale canada goose outlet on sale.
Double breasted polo coats, charcoal tweed jackets, and wool tweed zip duffel coats were featured in an elegantly decorated Freemason's hall replete with colorful stainglass windows.

Designer Patrick Grant said he was inspired by the heavy materials worn by the military, having wanted to become a member of the horseguard cavalry when he was a boy, as well as the dark absorbent forms he saw at a Richard Serra exhibition in New York.
"All the clothes in this collection are very matte, quite heavy, and it's that really light-sucking matteness that we liked and that came from Serra," he told Reuters.

London's reputation for quality and originality was also an important focus for many of the casual menswear designers featured at NEWGEN and Fashion East Men.
Designer Paw Hansen, originally from Denmark, said that the level of quality was very important for his minimalist 1950s and American baseball inspired jackets.

"All my clothing is handmade in Britain. I've worked at many places before and I didn't want to just tap on a keyboard send the designs off to be made in China, I wanted to be involved with the patterns," he said.
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Kids ecommerce retailer Wellies And Worms to stock new Swedish clothing brand

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Wellies and Worms co-founder and Director; Graham Cox says "Generally children are not affected by bad weather, they still want to run around and play outside and that's fine as long as they are wearing suitable protective clothing to do so. We decided to stock Kozikidz because their garments are unique, highly practical and excellent quality. They are not the cheapest, but there is a level of attention to detail in their design that you simply wouldn't find in most mainstream high street shops. Already the classic Kozikidz cerise and lime jacket is selling extremely well for us and we expect the Oxford Jackets to be a big seller in the spring."

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Lamb: Celebrating sweater weather

Winter is here, and despite months of unseasonable warmth, some people are complaining.

Not me. I've actually been waiting for Mother Nature to snap off a couple of cold days. The reason is simple – this is sweater weather.

You see, I come from sweater people. My mother is Norwegian, and my father was Irish.ralph lauren sweater Name two cultures that have done more with wool.

When it was time to bury my father, we skipped the jackets he never felt or looked comfortable in and sent him off in his favorite cardigan – fitting for a librarian.

I have a number of very nice suits, but they are only pulled out of the closet for funerals, weddings, gala events or the occasional dress-like-your-favorite-corrupt-politician party. Hello, Huey Long!

Sweaters are my preferred approach to looking presentable. No muss, no fuss. Maybe a little fuzz,wholesale canada goose outlet but nothing you need a stylist or tailor to fix.

And while suits are impressive in their complexity – buttons, folds, vents, pockets, hidden pockets, hidden pens in pockets that will eventually leak and ruin the suit – there is a stoic simplicity to sweaters. Suits may look sharp, but that's all for show. Sweaters get the job done.

Think about it. In any movie where someone is dropped in the wilderness and needs to get back to civilization, they are always wearing a sweater. Survivalists don't wear sport coats.

Suits may be more stylish, but sweaters have more personality. Put a man in a cable-knit turtleneck and he'll either look Hemingway-esque or like someone who got shanghaied onto a fishing boat. But nobody says their friend in a double-breasted gray flannel suit looks "positively F. Scott Fitzgerald-ish."

The converse is also true. If a suit doesn't look right, it's "ill-fitting." When a sweater doesn't work, it's "Cosby-licious.cheap canada goose"

Of course, sweaters aren't just fit for men. The fairer sex makes pullovers far sexier.men canada goose parka for cheap Lana Turner earned the label "sweater girl" for being a knockout in a knit top. Though, truth be told, Turner could make a Snuggie look sexy.

But a disturbing trend in sweaters is emerging. Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum made news sporting sweater vests with his name printed on the breast.

I have a beef with sweater vests, specifically: Tubby fellas, don't wear them – it makes our arms look like they are oozing out of our body like a sausage extruder.

Santorum credits his "style" with helping him gain momentum during the recent Iowa caucus, saying, "the vest gave me this power."

What power? He looks like a bad golfer or a league-average bowler. He does not look like a president. If you have your name embroidered on the front of an article of clothing, that's a work smock, not a sweater.

Santorum's not pulling the wool over anyone's eyes. If he wants to look presidential, he should arrange for his plane to go down in a remote, wooded area, where he, in a sturdy Woolrich sweater, must fight his way through the elements and packs of wolves – or other Republicans – back to the campaign trail.

If that doesn't get him elected, it should at least get him a movie deal.

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