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Summer Edition

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82 152 ARTICLES 42 Update on the Kids Take Nashville 71 How to Fly a Kite!

168 Stories: The Envious Kigs Tiger and the Three Pigs

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PARTY & RECIPES 80 Summer Picnic 92 Birthday Picnic Theme 200 Fourth of July 228 Recipes: Baked Ziti Citrus Herb Chicken with Asparagus Meatball Sub Spicy Deviled Eggs Rainbow Fruit Salad Lemon Banana Loaf

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SPOTLIGHTS 78 Song Artist: Melissa Ramski 110 Photographers: Travis Dewitz Maria Cooper

LETTERS 222 Shared Letters: Share Your Heart Precious Winks The Civil Way Love Letter The Birth of a Dream Shimly The Risk of Love

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inamagic President Beth Roose Editor Fina Florez Graphic Designer Fina Florez Contributing Writers & Photographers: Beth Roose Patsy Trigg Maria Cooper Travis DeWitz Stephanie Hubbard Faith McGary Richard Sepcic Amy Kirby Max Eremine Laura O’Berry Jeremy Gibbs L&L Photography Merriment Photography Charlotte Wilson/ Š Envy U Photography Shelby Waltz Photography Franco Photography Address: 22777 Franz Rd, Suite 4212 Katy, Texas 77449

We are accepting photography editorials themes for Sept/Oct that feature, fall, hayrides, Halloween, football, cheerleading, cotillions or ballrooms, and anything Perfume related. Looking for stories that have to do with Football, Halloween and Fall Formals. This is our ONE YEAR ANIVERSARY so we will also be featuring my pick for favorite pictures over the last year.Submissions to be sent to nationalpark4u@yahoo.com 18

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From the Editor’s Desk Most experts call it the “super-subconscious mind,” (higher level of thinking) although whatever you choose to call it, it is as available to you at this very instant as it has been to anyone, anywhere!

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he origin of all creativity comes from the superconscious mind. The superconscious mind was used by all of the great inventors, writers, artists, business people, scientists and composers on a regular basis.

The beauty of your superconscious mind lies in the application toward your goals.

When you are striving and working toward a goal of your own choosing, your superconscious mind will provide you the continuous flow of ideas and positive energy to help you move closer to your goal. KEY POINT: Your superconscious mind functions best when you have a confident and calm mindset. Your subconscious mind automatically and continually solves every problem on the way to your goal as long as your goal is clear, concise and you believe in it fully.

REMEMBER THIS: When you get a hunch or an inspiration about the direction of your goal you must act on it immediately. This is when your superconscious mind is speaking to you, based on the time-dated material you entered at an earlier time. You see, when you adopt an attitude of calmness and confidence about your goals everything that happens to you can only bring you closer to your goal, your dream!

The truth is, “You become what you think about.” Emerson wrote, “A person becomes what he thinks about most of the time.” KEY POINT: Successful people think and talk about what they want. Unsuccessful people talk about what they don’t want. The superconscious mind is so powerful that it is working all the time and you will get what you think about most of the time!!

“Whether you think you can do something or think you can’t, you’re right!”

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hile vacationing in Europe with her mother, 26-yearold Clara Johnson falls in love with a handsome, well-to-do young Florentine, Fabrizio Naccarelli. As Margaret Johnson watches the budding romance between her daughter and Fabrizio, she conceals the fact that Clara is a mental defective; a childhood accident has left her with the mind of a 10-year-old.

When it becomes apparent that the Naccarellis would be delighted to welcome Clara into the family, Margaret (unable to tell them the truth) cables her husband, Noel, to meet her in Rome. For the brusque and unsympathetic Noel there is only one solution: Clara must return to America and be committed to a mental institution. Still uncertain, Margaret takes Clara back to Florence. Gradually she begins to feel that with the Naccarelli family Clara would somehow be safe--her every whim indulged by a devoted husband, her household needs cared for by servants, her children reared by a doting mother-in-law, and her childish nature treasured as innocence. Margaret finally decides to remain silent about Clara’s condition and permit the marriage to take place.

Then suddenly Signor Naccarelli asks, “Why did you not tell me?” But with relief Margaret learns that he is referring only to the fact that Clara is 3 years older than Fabrizio. The situation is quickly resolved when Clara’s dowry is increased from $5,000 to $15,000. Margaret remains in Italy only long enough to see her daughter wed. As she watches the radiant Clara taking her vows, Margaret feels certain that she has done the right thing. cinamagic JUNE - JULY 2014

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lint Eastwood directed this adaptation of John Berendt’s non-fiction best-seller about a Savannah, Georgia, murder case. When this film was released, Berendt’s book had been on best-seller lists for four years. As the film begins, New York journalist John Kelso (John Cusack), alter ego of author Berendt, arrives in Savannah to do a brief Town and Country article on the annual Christmas party given by sophisticated, urbane antique dealer Jim Williams (Kevin Spacey), who restored many mansions in Savannah, including the famed Mercer House where he lives. After the party, Williams kills his rude, violent lover Billy Hanson (Jude Law), explaining it as a necessary act of self-defense. Kelso decides to stay in Savannah to cover the trial, encountering a variety of colorful locals, eccentric and otherwise, including black transvestite nightclub performer Lady Chablis (appearing as herself), financially challenged bon vivant Joe Odom (Paul Hipp), vocalist Mandy Nichols (Alison Eastwood), voodoo priestess Minerva (Irma P. Hall), and Williams’s deceptively powerful defense attorney Sonny Seiler (Australian actor Jack Thompson with a very convincing Southern accent). Kelso develops a romantic interest in Mandy while tracking the events that led up to the killing.

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ommy Jo, a 13-year-old Texas ranch girl, wins a calf at a county fair and names him Champy. While training the animal, Tommy Jo gets caught in a storm and develops polio. With the help of her aunt and uncle and her parson, Tommy Jo learns to walk again and discovers that the secret of training Champy is to soothe him with music. She enters her pet--now grown--in the Houston Fat Stock Show, but loses when her radio breaks down and no music is available.

The parson encourages her to persevere, and with the help of the local Four-H Club, Tommy Jo is able to enter Champy in the Chicago International Exposition. They win the grand championship when the parson sings a song to Champy. Tommy Jo’s happiness is shortlived, however, as she learns that all champions are auctioned off for beef. Unable to raise the $30,000 auction price, Tommy Jo has a relapse and is rushed to the hospital with pneumonia. Fred Anderson, a kindly meatpacker, saves Champy from the slaughterhouse and reunites him with Tommy Jo at the hospital.

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eidi, an orphan, is taken by her Aunt Dete to live with her grandfather, Adolph Kramer, because she is going to work for a rich family in Frankfurt. Kramer, a bitter recluse, has lived alone on a mountain outside the Alpine village of Dorflo since his son Tobias married against his will. Although at first Kramer, whom Heidi calls “the grandfather,” does not speak to her, he gradually grows to love her. When Pastor Schultz visits to encourage the grandfather to send Heidi to school and church, he angrily sends the pastor away, but after remembering Tobias and the story of the prodigal son, the grandfather takes Heidi to church where they are welcomed into the community. On Heidi’s eighth birthday, Aunt Dete abducts her and takes her to Frankfurt to be the companion of Klara Sesemann, an invalid child whose rich father is away on business.

Housekeeper Fraulein Rottenmeier wants Klara to remain ill so that Sesemann will think that Klara cannot live without her and so will marry her. Because she thinks that Heidi is uncouth, she pays Dete to take her back, but after Dete leaves, Klara throws a tantrum because she likes Heidi, and Fraulein Rottenmeier agrees that Heidi can stay the night. After Heidi tries to escape, Klara promises that if she is still homesick when her father returns for Christmas in two weeks, she will ask him to send Heidi back.

Meanwhile, the grandfather begins the hundred mile journey to Frankfurt on foot. On Christmas Eve, Klara, to her father’s delight, walks as the result of Heidi’s training and inspiration. Sesemann, having heard of the grandfather’s brutal nature from Dete, refuses to send her back and, suspecting Fraulein Rottenmeier’s scheme, fires her.

That night, the grandfather arrives in Frankfurt, but he is arrested when he disturbs people while looking for Heidi. Fraulein Rottenmeier tries to sell Heidi to gypsies, but the grandfather breaks out of jail and rescues her. After he is arrested again, Fraulein Rottenmeier claims that he stole “her” child, but the police captain sends for Sesemann, and the matter is straightened out.

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he Wizard of Oz (1939) is everybody’s cherished favorite, perennial fantasy film musical from MGM during its golden years. It was first re-released in 1949, and then in 1955, and then for many seasons, it was featured regularly on network TV as a prime time event (its first two showings were on CBS television on November 3, 1956 and in December, 1959). It soon became a classic institution with annual showings for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and/or Easter time, and was a rite of passage for everyone, and probably has been seen by more people than any other motion picture over multiple decades. According to the Library of Congress, the musical fantasy is the most watched movie in history. Initially, however, the film was not commercially successful (at $3 million) with production and promotion costs set at $3 million, but it was critically acclaimed.

All of its images (the Yellow Brick Road, the Kansas twister), characters (e.g., Auntie Em, Toto, Dorothy, the Wicked Witch), dialogue (e.g., “Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!”, “We’re not in Kansas anymore,” “Follow the Yellow Brick Road,” or the film’s final line: “There’s no place like home”), and music (“Over the Rainbow”) have become indelibly remembered, and the classic film has been honored with dozens of books, TV shows (such as HBO’s dramatic prison series Oz), references in other films, and even by pop groups (singer Elton John with his Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road album, or Pink Floyd’s 1973 album Dark Side of the Moon).

The film’s plot is easily condensed: lonely and sad Kansas farmgirl Dorothy dreams of a better place, without torment against her dog Toto from a hateful neighbor spinster, so she plans to run away. During a fierce tornado, she is struck on the head and transported to a land ‘beyond the rainbow’ where she meets magical characters from her Kansas life transformed within her unconscious dream state. After travels down a Yellow Brick Road to the Land of Oz, and the defeat of the Wicked Witch of the West, Dorothy and her friends are rewarded by the Wizard of Oz with their hearts’ desires and Dorothy is enabled to return home to Kansas.

All of the featured actors and actresses - Judy Garland, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, Ray Bolger, Margaret Hamilton, Frank Morgan, Billie Burke, Charley Grapewin and Clara Blandick - had successful, long film careers before and after the film, but this film is the one all of them have become best known for, and in some cases, the only film they are remembered for. Garland’s career was overshadowed by the film, despite appearing in many classic films and musicals, including those for which she received Oscar nominations (A Star is Born (1954) and Judgment in Nuremberg (1961).) This was the sole film for which she received an Oscar, albeit an honorary special award for her “outstanding performance as a screen

juvenile.” (Garland had just completed the successful hit films Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938) and Babes in Arms (1939) with Mickey Rooney.)

The popular film was brilliantly adapted from L. Frank Baum’s venerated children’s book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (written in 1899 and published in 1900) by three credited writers Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, and E.A. Woolf, and a team of many uncredited scriptwriters (including Arthur Freed, Herman Mankiewicz, Sid Silvers, and Ogden Nash). Langley insisted that the fantastical characters have real-life counterparts to make them more believable, as they had also existed in the 1925 silent film version.

The first line of the book follows: “Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer’s wife.” The Wizard of Oz was first performed as an on-stage musical in 1902-03 in Chicago and New York. It premiered at the Grand Opera House in Chicago on June 16, 1902, and made stars of vaudeville team members David Montgomery (the Tin Woodman) and Fred Stone (the Scarecrow). On January 21, 1903, the show opened on Broadway at the Majestic Theatre in New York. The show was so popular (the production tallied over 290 performances and was the longest running show of the decade) that it toured the country in road shows lasting until 1911. [Much more recently, New York City’s Radio City Music Hall presented an annual, limited-run, live stage version of the 1939 MGM musical.]

The book was made into films (and other creative works) on many different occasions during the silent era, and many times afterwards stretching to the present day.

[Archivist Mark Evan Swartz’ book Oz Before the Rainbow (2000) compiled an in-depth history of the evolution of Baum’s work with all its stage and screen permutations up through the 1939 MGM musical version, and its significant cultural influences].

Dual Roles: Many of the film’s characters play two roles - one in Kansas and their counterparts in the Land of Oz, the locale of the young heroine’s troubled dreams. Cast Kansas Role Hunk Hickory Zeke Miss Almira Gulch Professor Marvel

Oz Role(s) Scarecrow Tin Man Cowardly Lion Witch of the West Emerald City Doorman/Cabbie/The Wizard’s Guard/The Wizard of Oz

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Reality Show “Kids Take Nashville” Films in Winchester Tn. igh on the Hog Festival in Winchester Tn. happens to be the Kiwanis biggest fund raiser of the year. The High On The Hog Festival combines a carnival, KBC sanctioned Bar-b-que competition and entertainment. The smell of bar-b-que fills the air and the sound of carnival rides can be seen and heard from all over the park. This is the perfect place to bring young, up and coming stars from the Reality Show “Kids Take Nashville” to perform. The stage may be small but has been host to such Legionary performers as the late Charlie Lovin.

Show host Melissa Ramski takes the stage first singing her hit “Moon Pie Is My Old Friend.” Melissa is not just a show host but also one of the Mentors for the show.

One of the shows goals is to show thru experience what different venues are like.

The High on the Hog Festival is unique in the fact you are singing to an audience that may not be standing in front of you. The speakers are set so the audience can sit by their campers and hear the show. Melissa took the lead and showed Alisa White and Landon Wall that even if you cannot see all of your audience, still give it your all.

Alisa White, a native of Ky, took the stage next singing “Googling Geezer.” She sang with both confidence and humor.

Following Alisa White, Landon Wall sang “Apple sauce cake.” You can tell both of these children are all in when they take the stage. Singing with all the power and excitement they had to a crowd they couldn’t see.

I don’t know if this was a lesson learned from a mentor or the passion of preforming. I do know I will be seeing both Alisa White and Landon Wall in the future. This was just one of the 22 shows set to be filmed of “Kids Take Nashville.” I am looking forward to seeing the other the young artist; Carly Green, Mia Baily, Veronica Anderson, Alaska Mathews, Baily Brandner and of course the host Melissa Ramski. “Kids Take Nashville” will air on Sundays on AMC. Special Thanks to the Winchester Kiwanis, all the KBC Bar B quers and new found fans of “Kids Take Nashville.”

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How to Fly a Kite!:

1. Check your local weather report to determine if conditions are favorable for kite flying. Look for light to moderate winds if you’re a beginning kite flier or gustier winds if you are more experienced. A wind speed of 5 to 15 mph is best for kite flying.

2. Find a large and windy open area free of trees and power lines - two things that are notoriously dangerous for kites and their owners.

3. Hold the kite in both hands and toss it lightly into the wind until the wind catches it. This works well when the wind is moderately strong.

4. Alternatively, let out a small length of kite string and, holding the string in your hand, run with the kite behind you until the wind lifts it.

5. Begin letting out string until the kite reaches a height with which you are comfortable. Good heights generally range from 50 to 100 feet.

6. Keep an eye on your kite, as it may come crashing down because of sudden changes in wind. If it dips, run or pull in the string a bit to give it some lift.

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Melissa Ramski

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elissa Rachel Ramski was born on 25th, of March 1991 in Fort Pierce, Florida, to David & Nancy Ramski along with older sister Mindy Ramski. Her mom got her started in the business by chance when she was taken with her sister to have photos taken at Walmart at the age of 1 1/2 years old, the photos of Melissa in the box were so cute the store worked out a deal for the family, so the store could use photo’s in Texas for print ads for Walmart photography. Then, from age 5 she starts singing and performing at various events, from weddings, backyard BBQ’s, fairs, festivals and concerts.

Melissa loved to sing and perform she found herself performing everywhere from South Western & Eastern Kansas, to Colorado, Nebraska, Oklahoma performing at venues such as The Opry in Oklahoma City where she wrote her name on the wall, next to Reba McEntire, Augusta Kansas Opry and even in The Wilmore Opry ran by Daryl and Jean Schiff parents of Martina McBride’s family, on October 15, 2005 (See Wilmore Opry) The Schiff’s enjoyed Melissa performances so much she was invited with her sister to perform at The Wilmore Opry Christmas Show at the Heritage Center near Medicine Lodge in Kansas December 3rd, 2005, see link to Wilmore (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kscomanc/wilmore_opry_photos. html). Melissa continued acting in theaters, performing at music concerts even many Colgate Country Showdowns, and many other contest which allowed her to travel all over the US with her family.

Melissa, now a Nashville recording artist, after recording her first Christmas

song “Winter Wonderland”; which made the 2010 CMA and Grammy Nominated Country/Pop Recording Artist list and then released in 2010 her first album “Lost In Your Eyes”. Melissa has co-hosted countless events. As host and performer for The Couture Runway Fashion Show, a special event By Faith McGary on March 29th 2013; Faith said, “Melissa and her sister helped make the Runway Show a success and was a wonderful performer. She went the extra mile to make sure that everyone enjoyed the show and supported Lone Star Bulldog Club Rescue.”

As for movies, Melissa, starred in a featured Indie Film “Lost Treasure Trails” (2008) Careful What you Wish For, starring principal role, music and composer (2010), She has been involved with many animated movies, beginning with Special Red Dress, (2010), Jimmy Paul The Pug Tooth Fairy (2010), It’s a Merry Christmas When Pigs Fly post production (2014), TV Show Kids Take Nashville (2014), TV Show Tuff Kookooshka post production (2014).

Beth Roose Films is pleased to announce that the TV Show, “Kids Take Nashville” for AMC/AMG TV and Cox Communications, has selected Melissa Ramski as the show host. Melissa has been working and filming with Record Producer Patsy Trigg, Microwave Dave, and Bronson Bush. The network has picked up the show and is filming additional 22 episodes, and will be aired September 2014.

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icnic games create wonderful summer memories, allow for photo moments and are just plain fun!

If you a planning a picnic, family reunion or outdoor barbecue, here are some fun games to try: 1. Shaving Cream Beard Relay Contest: Divide the kids into 2-4 teams of equal members. Designate some adults to be the “beard makers” - one adult is needed per team. You can either use shaving cream, or canned whipped cream. Children must line up and run one at a time to the beard maker, who will then decorate their faces with a beard. They must then run back and tag the next member of their team to be bearded.

The first team to all be wearing beards wins!

2. Potato Sack Relay Race: This is a common game for American barbecues. Don’t have any potato sacks?

Don’t fret, you can order them online.To play, divide the children into 2 or 4 teams. Determine the boundaries for the race. Children must then hop in the potato sacks (one team member at a time) to the designated spot and then hop back to their team members. He/ She must then give the sack to the next team member.

The first team for all members to successfully hop back and forth wins!

3. Mummy Contest: Divide the group into teams.

Provide each team with 2-3 rolls of toilet paper. Instruct them to choose a player to be the mummy, and the must make the selected person into a mummy using the toiler paper. The first team with a completely covered mummy wins.

4. Photo Scavenger Hunt: This one’s best for older kids and teens. If you’ve planned a big bash that lasts all day, this might be good for activity for an hour or so at the end of the day.

5. Water Balloon Toss Game: Fill a lot of balloons with water. Ask each child to get a partner. Give each team of 2 a water balloon. Have the players stand very close together and throw the the balloon back and forth.

Each time after the balloon is tossed, the players must take one step backwards. The farther they go, the more likely they will not catch the balloon and it will break.

The last team to have an intact water balloon wins.

6. Capture the Flag: This is a fun interactive game for children ages 6 and above. Get 2 flags (if you don’t have one you can use towels or t-shirts) and divide the

group of children into 2 teams. Place the 2 flags on opposite sides of the lawn in an easy to reach area, such as on a low tree, or a chair if necessary. The goal of the game is for the team to capture the opposing team’s flag safely without being tagged. If they are a tagged, they must go to “jail” where they will be released when all team members are placed in jail or the game ends, whichever comes first. The first team to capture the other team’s flag wins! (You can also play this game with water balloons - instead of being tagged, they are thrown water balloons.)

7. Watermelon Roll Relay: This is similar to the potato sack race, but instead of jumping in a sack the children must roll the watermelon. The first team where each child has successfully rolled a watermelon back and forth wins!

8. Take a Hike: This is a fun game for older kids and teens. Arrange chairs in a circle and have everyone sit down. Choose one child to be in the center, and remove that chair, so there is enough chairs for all but one person. Say a phrase such as “If you’re wearing tennis shoes, take a hike!” After that, all players who are wearing tennis shoes but run across the circle to find another seat. If they are the last one and can’t find a seat, they will be in the center and can choose the next phrase such as “If your birthday is in the summer”m “If you like ice cream”, or “If you’ve ever been skiing”, etc. It’s a non-competitive but fun activity.

9. Three Legged Race: A Three-Legged race is a game that promotes teamwork and cooperation. Have each child find a partner, preferably someone with similar height. Tie everyone’s legs together and determine the boundaries for the race. The first team to make it to the finish line wins! Don’t forget to take lots of pictures, as this is a great photo moment!

10. Egg Race Relay: This one also uses 2 teams. Provide each team with a spoon and a cartoon of eggs. One player at a time from each team must go to a designated spot (say 15- 20 feet away) and back holding an egg on a spoon. If he/she drops the egg, he/she must start over with a new egg. The first team where each player has successfully traveled back and forth with an intact egg, wins!

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Birthday Picnic Theme!

Think about this….”…. a pleasure excursion at which a meal is eaten outdoors, ideally, taking place in a beautiful landscape.”

Wouldn’t you like that type of thing for a birthday party? food – friends – pleasure – beautiful landscape. Think Picnic.

Think amazing birthday.

What? Too much time to do it? Not sure where to start?

Don’t want to make a fuss…

The BEST short term answer to all these dilemmas?

Think picnic. Let’s explore 7 refreshingly simple ways to make a Birthday Party sing using Picnics…

Think….With the Crowd OR Completely On Your own (LOCATION) Think about it… a picnic can be held just about anywhere. Once safety is considered and any permissions from local authorities etc, the world is pretty much your oyster.

Find a green oasis in a smoggy city; visit a favourite beach; discover a spot using your GPS and say: “meet me here”; a lounge room floor by the fire when it’s cold out.

The choice is unlimited but can be guided by the person you are honoring. It might be a reference they made to a location they grew up in or somewhere they’d like to visit.

Just have your radar out and think: is it safe?do I have to ask permission? will it have impact ?

Think….Plan Plan Plan or Wing it.(PLANNING) You may be limited to what you can do given time and or resources. That shouldn’t be a problem. Here is where you think about you and what you need to make this happen. If you find the tension building call in some help or let some “planning” go. If you focus on making a BIG statement with a few simple but BOLD actions then it’s more manageable and enjoyable for all. Image your birthday person getting concerned because you are not enjoying their birthday due to worrying “what’s next” and that all is on schedule. Forget it!

Go loose and relaxed. Save time by using stuff from home, catered food served up with fancy crockey, have a pizza delivered, get your friends to “appear ” out of the woods…as long as its clear and simple everyone can remeber what’s going on.

Think….To Tell Or Not To Tell (PROMOTION) How are you with surprises? You can do this for any age group and in many different ways. Choose early and make sure everyone knows to zip it. The surprise can be intensified by sending them on a treasure hunt to pick up pieces of a map to reveal the location, or sending things in the mail to alert them that something is up. Using a picnic opens up a whole bag of ways to build excitement and anticipation. Use your imagination.

Think…What about the public? (PRIVACY) A private gathering for a romantic couple or a street party for a neighborhood? You must consider the consequences for others. If you have your picnic on a public space and there are other groups around doing the same, great! But if the ground gets used for football at 3pm and you are cutting the cake, world’s may collide.

Think…Weather me timbers! Rain ho!! (CONTINGENCY) Come prepared but don’t let it dominate your thinking.

The preparedness kicks in when there is a change and subtle suggestions turn the focus from say, inclement weather and “no sun, no fun”, to “we’re all in this together” and . The focus of the leader (read organiser, read YOU) is what will see you through. Have a plan B and mobilise people to help carry stuff if you need to make a dash for it. Be considerate of peoples needs and watch for Think…Food? (FOOD) Remeber the guest of honor. It’s their birthday and showering them with things they like might be ideal. Of course, you can dress up a big mac with napkins and silver service to make it “special” and you can go completely nuts with a caterer.

Condense everything as much as possible and put it into one bag that is easy to maneuver. The wheelie bags you see at air ports and discount stores are a great choice. You can pick them up for $30 stuff them full and wheel them anywhere.

Remember to safe guard against food spoiling and damage en route. Sharing the load is a good way to go, task others up to help and even consider a caterer. The good old picnic hamper is still alive and well these days. Your options are endless.

Remember: keep it simple.

Activity? (FUN) Again…Keep it simple… how about some good old fashion games: Hide and Seek; I Spy; Cloud watching. They can be age appropriate and location appropriate. Have a couple of tried and true things in your kit: a frisbee, a soccer ball, bat and ball maybe. How about a piñata? Or croquet? You could make the location linked to the activity: picnic on the side of the fairway in a public golf course. Hit a short 9 holes and picnic after!

Think Picnic.

Using a picnic for a birthday celebration is AMAZING. The more you look at the idea the more the possibilities. A lot of web info about picnic ideas focuses on the “stuff” you can buy, but a careful look at the thinking around history’s first alfresco dining will lead you to one conclusion: purchasing stuff doesn’t equal a heart-felt or memorable celebration.

Loving the idea of a Picnic? Go have a chat to an expert picnic-er. Emily from The-Picnic-Site.com offers a dedicated picnic resource to “expand your ideas about alfresco eating and let you really enjoy hosting such gatherings, because, whatever the occasion, a picnic makes the event much more memorable.”

Did she say memorable? Isn’t that what we’re after?

Try a picnic for your next birthday event. Think about the value of the gesture, the simplicity of the idea, the freshness of the great outdoors…

It’s a winner.

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TRAVIS DEWITZ PHOTOGRAPHER SPOTLIGHT Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It’s in the soul of the artist.”

– Seth Godin My work is Conceptual, Emotive, Expressive, Editorial, Surreal and Eclectic. Photography is a genuine art form, which I demonstrate by my wide portfolio of interests. Photography is a way to capture moments and make them magical, bring the dreams into this existence. I am passionate about fashioning new worlds through photographs as I extend my visions beyond the realm of the camera, creating images that resemble paintings and speak of an era that is not our own. That’s what I love about photography; it always looks as if it was taken in another world to ours, in a melancholy atmosphere; a vintage road taken from afar. I have incredible vision, which you can see in all of my photos.

“Travis is surprising, as a young child he was always so shy that he actually got in his own way. It is a wonderful revelation to see him talk and share his photos along with encouraging people and putting himself out there. Travis is now taking risks in a new way; he worked with his enemy and surpassed all expectations. “– Cindy Dewitz, Mother

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My name is Travis Dewitz and I am from Eau Claire, Wisconsin. I love photography. It lightens my heart, fills my soul, and allows me to capture life the way that I see it. My mom often reminisces and shares unique moments with me from my childhood. One of my favorites is when she would bring me to Shopko as a young child and how I couldn’t wait to get home to take out my graph paper to redesign what I felt was a more efficient flow to their floor plan. I have always looked at designs and layouts with a keen eye and deep appreciation for the best way to evoke details. I am very technically driven; I need to know the intricate details of everything. I feel you can’t fully understand something without know all the fine details. When I was about ten years old my parents hired a college student so I could improve on my artistic love for drawing. I briefly enjoyed that, but I knew in my heart I wanted to pursue photography. My journey into photography probably officially started when at 13 years old- I bought a 35mm Canon Rebel SLR. I was so excited to bring that camera to the Green Bay Packer football game to capture pictures of my favorite players- images that I still cherish today. Before that, I remember taking photos with a blue Fisher Price Kodak 110 film camera.

Art has always been a big part of my life in some form or another. Fast forward to today and photography is my purpose, my release. I see photos everywhere I look, and I yearn to create images that burn within my soul and needs to be continuously fulfilled. Fast forward 25 years and I have been published or featured in: National Geographic, Trains Magazine, Bakken Business Journal, UnSung Magazine, Vogue Italia, Cinamagic, Child Model Magazine, International Contemporary Artists Vol. XII, Amtrak brochures, Volume One, Railroad and Railfan Magazine, along with other publications. My photography images also appear in calendars, posters, websites and online communications around the world. Recently I have been working on two books through publishers as well as an art installation.

I specialize in these three areas of photography; Corporate, Portraits, and Youth Modeling. These three areas that I offer fit my strengths and keen precision I have for these art forms. You will find my fascination with trains intertwined throughout much of my work.

I believe they are an iconic part of the American Experience and should be photographed in ways a single frame, just a small slice of time, have the influence to affect your emotions and state of mind. Shooting trains brings me back to a simpler time when my grandpa would work the rail and my dad would take me on trips to watch trains along the Mississippi River. I remember being at my cousins house who lived near the Chicago and North Western mainline, we would often find grandpa putting on a train horn clinic as he railed past us with a simple smile and a wave as he echoed off into

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the distance. Looking back to when I was just a teenager, I have a deep appreciation for how my mom and Sue always knew that trains were important to me so they would work tirelessly to plan our vacations around my first love. I proudly speak at railroad conventions, write articles, and sell my images to publications.

My photos and projects often evolve in ways in that cannot be foreseen and the true essence of the final product is captivating. The quality of my photography speaks for itself, especially when it comes to originality.

My work is engrained in my heart and in rooted in my memory, both personally and collectively as I strive to approach every photograph with a sense of intimacy. I believe that telling stories through photos are the fabric of history and that they have the power to inform and transform. I work diligently to capture a moment, where the picture says it all.

One of the most meaningful compliments I never get tired of hearing from my clients is how comfortable they feel working with me, especially when working with children. I have a genuine appreciation for the way children view the world; in ways that we as adults forget even exist. I remember being little and being able to identify all the cop cars in town because they never had hubcaps.

To capture that innocence is important to me. I strive to make my clients feel comfortable and to convey trust in me and trust in the finished quality product. Photography is an art form and any true artist will perform at their best when doing something they love, something that comes from their heart. When I am not working for my clients, you are sure to catch me with a camera in hand.

Removing all constraints is a must for an artist from time to time. I work on a lot of personal photography projects and series. I also teach photo workshops, create editorials, write articles/blogs, and pursue many endeavors. I love vintage finds; vintage everything, especially during the time period of 1890-1920; the look, style, quality, and feel remind me of an era I wish we felt today.

I feel certain strength with the camera, with life, with the way I see things. The constant crave to show life in a way that hasn’t been appreciated before, to bring images to people in a worthwhile and innovative way. I believe the most important quality of a photograph, as in all art, is to evoke an emotional response. The bold pursuit of chasing the best one yet pushes me to continually evolve my photography vision; with precision, compassion and visual drama. I assume perfection is possible and I want discover it in every picture. My style is unmistakable and I yearn for rare captures of fleeting atmospheres and souls of emotion that generate magic and energy As the images of other photographers have inspired me to push the boundaries, I hope my own contributions will inspire others to do the same.

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have been involved with photography for about 40 years now. I started with a simple Kodak 110 camera at the age of 10. At 16 yrs I was given my first manual SLR camera; a Pentax K1000, at 18yrs I was given my first darkroom set. I started shooting weddings when I was 18 but my first love has always been portraits.

I took time off from my photography to have a family. Once the digital age started I again picked up the photography. During this time I shot mainly landscapes and nature. About 1999 I started to shoot portraits and weddings again. I began my home business at that time, Dayfancy Photography. For the last few years I have ventured into the m ore artistic and surreal genre’. My goal is to establish myself as an artistic photographer showing my work in galleries across the nation. For my business I want to incorporate the surreal aspect into my portrait work giving people an option of the traditional or not so traditional portraits.

In my business I shoot Model portfolios, weddings, portrait and beauty traditional style as well fine art/surreal style. I show much of my work locally in St. Louis Galleries. I have won multiple awards locally for my work.

I prefer to tell a story for the viewer, to engage them and draw them in to the landscape of my work.

I have a studio in St. Louis, Mo but I also shoot on location when possible.

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ollowing the release of “The Wizard of Oz,” the former child star Judy Garland (1922-1969) went on to a celebrated international career as an actress (Oscar-nominated for 1954’s “A Star Is Born” and “1961’s ”Judgement at Nuremberg”) and singer — she became a cornerstone of MGM musicals and a beloved figure on the concert stage and television (”The Judy Garland Show”). The entertainer, whose personal problems sometimes made front-page news, was forever linked to Dorothy Gale, and claimed to never tire of singing “Over the Rainbow” in all her live stage appearances.

In 1940, she starred in three films: Andy Hardy Meets Debutante, Strike Up the Band, and Little Nellie Kelly. In the latter film, Garland played her first adult role, a dual role of both mother and daughter. Little Nellie Kelly was purchased from George M. Cohan as a vehicle for Garland to assess both her audience appeal and her physical appearance. The role was a challenge for her, requiring the use of an accent, her first adult kiss and the only death scene of her career. The success of these three films, and a further three films in 1941, secured her position at MGM as a major property.

During this time Garland experienced her first serious adult romances. The first was with the band leader, Artie Shaw.

Garland was deeply devoted to Shaw and was devastated in early 1940 when Shaw eloped with Lana Turner. Garland began a relationship with musician David Rose, and on her eighteenth birthday, Rose gave her an engagement ring. The studio intervened because Rose was still married at the time to the actress and singer Martha Raye.

The couple agreed to wait a year to allow for Rose’s divorce from Raye to become final, and were wed on July 27, 1941. She was noticeably thinner in her next film, For Me and My Gal alongside Gene Kelly in his first screen appearance. Garland was top billed over the credits for the first time and effectively made the transition from teenage star to adult actress.

At the age of twenty-one, she was given the “glamour treatment” in Presenting Lily Mars, in which she was dressed in “grown-up” gowns. Her lightened hair was

also pulled up in a stylish fashion. However, no matter how glamorous or beautiful she appeared on screen or in photographs, she was never confident in her appearance and never escaped the “girl next door” image that had been created for her. Adding to her insecurity was the dissolution of her marriage to David Rose. Garland, who had aborted her pregnancy by Rose in 1942, agreed to a trial separation in January 1943 and they divorced in 1944.

One of Garland’s most successful films for MGM was Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), in which she introduced three standards: “The Trolley Song”, “The Boy Next Door”, and “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.” Vincente Minnelli was assigned to direct this movie, and he requested that make-up artist Dorothy Ponedel be assigned to Garland for the picture. Ponedel refined Garland’s appearance in several ways, including extending and reshaping her eyebrows, changing her hairline, modifying her lip line and removing her nose discs. Garland appreciated the results so much that Ponedel was written into her contract for all her remaining pictures at MGM. During the filming of Meet Me in St. Louis, after some initial conflict between them, Garland and Minnelli entered a relationship together. They were married June 15, 1945 and on March 12, 1946 daughter Liza Minnelli was born.

The Clock (1945) was her first straight dramatic film, opposite Robert Walker.

Though the film was critically praised and earned a profit, most movie fans expected her to sing. It would be many years before she acted again in a non-singing dramatic role.

Garland’s other famous films of the 1940s include The Harvey Girls (1946) in which she introduced the Academy Award winning song “On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe” and The Pirate (1948).

Returning to the stage, Garland made her last appearances at New York’s Palace Theatre in July, a 16-show tour, performing with her children Lorna and Joey Luft.

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ert Lahr [1895–1967] (Zeke / The Cowardly Lion) reportedly added his own dialogue to “The Wizard of Oz” and remained in motion pictures until his final role in 1968’s “The Night They Raided Minsky’s.” His son, John Larh, grew up to become a drama critic and distinguished author of 16 books including the bestselling Notes On a Cowardly Lion: The Biography of Bert Lahr.

Dropping out of school at the age of fifteen to join a juvenile vaudeville act, Lahr worked his way up to top billing on the Columbia Burlesque Circuit. In 1927 he debuted in on Broadway in Harry Delmar’s Revels. Lahr played to packed houses, performing classic routines such as “The Song of the Woodman” (which he later reprised in the film Merry-Go-Round of 1938). Lahr had his first major success in a stage musical playing the prize fighter hero of Hold Everything (1928-29). Several other musicals followed, notably “Flying High” (1930), Florenz Ziegfeld’s HotCha! (1932) and The Show Is On (1936) in which he co-starred with Beatrice Lillie. In 1939, he co-starred with Ethel Merman in DuBarry Was a Lady.

Lahr made his feature film debut in 1931’s Flying High, playing the part of the oddball aviator he had previously played on stage. He signed with New Yorkbased Educational Pictures for a series of two-reel comedies. When that series ended, he came back to Hollywood to work in feature films. Aside from The Wizard of Oz (1939), his movie career was limited.

His later life was troubled, although he made the transition to straight theatre. He costarred in a muchpraised version of Waiting for Godot in 1956 at the Coconut Grove Playhouse in Miami, Florida in which he played Estragon to Tom Ewell’s Vladimir. Lahr thought of himself as the “top banana” in the production, telling Ewell “not to crowd him.” When Beckett learned of this, he complained that the play was being taken away from his “major character,” Vladimir.

Lahr later played Estragon in the play’s short-lived Broadway run.

Among other Broadway roles, Lahr played Queen Victoria in a sketch from the musical Two on the Aisle. He also performed as Moonface Martin in a television version of “Anything Goes” with Ethel Merman reprising her role as Reno Sweeney and Frank Sinatra as Billy Crocker. In the late 1950s, Lahr supplied the voice of an animated bloodhound in “Old Whiff,” a short cartoon produced by Mike Todd which featured the olfactory Smell-O-Vision process developed for Todd’s feature film Scent of Mystery (1960). In 1964 he won the Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical for his role in the musical Foxy. cinamagic JUNE - JULY 2014

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illie Burke’s [1884–1970] (Glinda, the Good Witch) career spanned six decades with roles in more than 80 motion pictures. The actress with the lyrical voice was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in 1938’s “Merrily We Live,” but may possibly have had her most memorable role as the woman in the pink bubble who assists Dorothy in finally going home.

Thanks to her representation by famed producer Charles Frohman, Burke went on to play leads on Broadway in Mrs. Dot, Suzanne, The Runaway, The “Mind-the-Paint” Girl, and The Land of Promise from 1910 to 1913, along with a supporting role in the revival of Sir Arthur Wing Pinero’s The Amazons.

There she caught the eye of producer Florenz Ziegfeld, marrying him in 1914. In 1916, they had one daughter, Patricia Ziegfeld.

She was quickly signed for the movies, making her film debut in the title role of Peggy (1916). She continued to appear on the stage, and sometimes she starred on the screen. She loved the stage more than movie-business, not only because it was her first love, but also because it allowed her to have speaking parts (impossible in silent movies). But when the family’s savings were wiped out in the Crash of 1929, she had no choice but to return to the screen.

In 1932 Billie Burke made her Hollywood comeback, starring as Margaret Fairfield in A Bill of Divorcement, directed by George Cukor, though the film is better known as Katharine Hepburn’s film debut (Burke played Hepburn’s mother). Despite the death of Florenz Ziegfeld during the film’s production, Billie Burke resumed filming shortly after his funeral.

In 1936, MGM filmed a biopic of her deceased husband (The Great Ziegfeld), a film that won Oscars for Best Picture and Best Actress (Luise Rainer as Ziegfeld’s first wife, Anna Held). Burke was herself a character in the film, but she was not cast as herself.

Instead, prominent actress Myrna Loy essayed the role of Burke.

Coincidently, Ray Bolger who was later cast as the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz (1939) also starred as himself in the movie.

In 1933, Burke was cast as Mrs. Millicent Jordan, a scatterbrained high-society woman hosting a dinner party in the comedy Dinner at Eight, directed by George Cukor, co-starring with Lionel Barrymore, Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Jean Harlow and Wallace Beery. The movie was a great success, and revived Burke’s career. She subsequently starred in many comedies and musicals, typecast as a ditzy, fluffy and feather-brained upper-class matron, due to her helium-filled voice.

In 1937 she appeared in the first of the Topper series of films, about a man haunted by two socialite ghosts (played by Cary Grant and Constance Bennett), in which she played the tremulous and daffy Clara Topper. Her performance as Emily Kilbourne in Merrily We Live (1938) resulted in her only Oscar nomination.

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rank Morgan [1890–1949] (Professor Marvel / The Guard at the Gates / Cabbie / Soldier / The Wizard of Oz) starred in more than 30 additional motion pictures in the years following 1939, including his Academy Award-nominated role for Best Supporting Actor in “Tortilla Flat” in 1942; the actor had already been nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor for 1934’s “The Affairs of Cellini.”

Born as Francis Phillip Wuppermann in New York City, the youngest of eleven children (six boys and five girls) to the wealthy family which distributed Angostura bitters, he attended Cornell University where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. He then followed his older brother Ralph Morgan into show business, first on the Broadway stage and then into movies.

Like Margaret Hamilton’s Wicked Witch of the West, his characters only appear on-screen for a few minutes in total, but they are show-stoppers. He was so popular that MGM gave him a lifetime contract. Other movies of note include The Shop Around the Corner, The Human Comedy, The Mortal Storm, The White Cliffs of Dover and his last movie, Key to the City, which was released after his death, in Beverly Hills, California.

He also recorded a number of children’s records, including the popular Gossamer Wump, released in 1949 by Capitol Records.

Like most character actors of the studio era Frank Morgan had numerous roles in many motion pictures. One of his last roles was as a key supporting player in The Stratton Story, a true story about a ballplayer (played by James Stewart) who makes a comeback after losing a leg in a hunting accident.

Morgan died after suffering a heart attack in 1949 (while filming Annie Get Your Gun). Morgan was the one major player from The Wizard of Oz who did not live to see the film become both a television fixture and an American institution. He was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. cinamagic JUNE - JULY 2014

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ack Haley [1899–1979] (Hickory Twicker / The Tinman) starred in films for a decade following “Oz,” then moved to television to host “The Ford Star Revue” in 1950 and appear in various ensuing projects. He came out of retirement to participate in the 1979 television documentary “The Making of The Wizard of Oz.” Before “Oz,” Haley starred in vaudeville as a song-anddance comedian. One of his closest friends was fellow vaudeville alumnus Fred Allen, who would frequently mention “Mr. Jacob Haley of Newton Highlands, Massachusetts” on the air.

In the early 1930s, Haley starred in comedy shorts for Vitaphone in Brooklyn, New York. His wide-eyed, good-natured expression landed him supporting roles in musical features like the Shirley Temple vehicle Poor Little Rich Girl, the Frank Sinatra vehicle Higher and Higher, and the Irving Berlin musical Alexander’s Ragtime Band.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer hired Haley for The Wizard of Oz after another song-and-dance comic, Buddy Ebsen, who was originally set to play the Tin Man, had a near-fatal reaction from inhaling the aluminum dust makeup. The makeup was switched to a paste, to avoid risking the same reaction by Haley. The new makeup did cause an eye infection which caused Haley to miss four days of filming, but he received treatment in time to prevent permanent damage. Incidentally, Buddy Ebsen, 10 years younger than Haley, outlived him by 24 years.

Haley did not take to the makeup or to the discomfort of the costume very kindly. When being interviewed about the film years later, he remarked that many people had commented that making the film must have been fun. Haley’s reply: “Like hell it was; it was work!”

Haley’s natural voice (which he used for the “Hickory” character) was moderately gruff. For the Tin Man, he spoke more softly, a la “Mr. Rogers”, which he later said was the tone of voice he used when reading stories to his children.

Haley returned to musical comedies in the 1940s. Most of his ‘40s work was for RKO Radio Pictures. He surrendered the job in 1947 when he refused to appear in a remake of RKO’s old story property Seven Keys to Baldpate; Phillip Terry took the role.

He married Florence McFadden on February 25, 1921, and they remained married until his death. Flo Haley opened a successful beauty shop and counted many show people among her customers. (The establishment became known informally as “Flo Haley’s House of Correction.”) The couple had one son, Jack Haley Jr. (later a successful film producer) and one daughter, Gloria. Jack Jr. was married to Liza Minnelli, daughter of his father’s Oz co-star Judy Garland, for a short time in the 1970s.

In 1972, Haley made his daughter, Gloria, the sole owner of his written memoirs. In 1978, she published them in the form of the hardcover book Heart of the Tin Man. Haley died of a heart attack on June 6, 1979 in Los Angeles, California at the age of 80. He is buried in Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California. cinamagic JUNE - JULY 2014

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argaret Hamilton [1902–1985] (Miss Almira Gultch / The Wicked Witch of the West) fittingly capped off five decades of acting with an appearance in the 1979 television documentary “The Making of ‘The Wizard of Oz.’” The actress became a steady television performer in the ‘50s, ‘60s, and ‘70s, with roles on such series as “The Addams Family” and the children’s program “Sigmund and the Sea Monsters” and in regular commercials for Maxwell House Coffee.

Hamilton’s unlikely career as a film actress was driven by the very qualities that placed her in stark contrast to the stereotypical Hollywood glamour girl. Her image was that of a New England spinster, extremely pragmatic and impatient with all manner of “tomfoolery”. Hamilton’s plain looks helped to bring steady work as a character actor. She made her screen debut in 1933 in Zoo in Budapest. Hamilton went on to appear in These Three (1936), Saratoga, You Only Live Once, Nothing Sacred (all 1937), and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938). She strived to work as much as possible to support herself and her son; she never put herself under contract to any one studio and priced her services at $1000 a week.

In 1939, she played the role of the Wicked Witch of the West opposite Judy Garland’s Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz and created not only her most famous role, but one of the screen’s most memorable villains. Hamilton was chosen when the more traditionally attractive Gale Sondergaard refused to wear makeup designed to make her appear ugly.

Hamilton suffered severe burns during a second (and unused) take of her fiery exit from Munchkinland, in which the trap door’s drop was delayed to eliminate the brief glimpse of it seen in the final edit. Hamilton had to recuperate in a hospital and at home for six weeks after the accident before returning to the set to complete her work on the now-classic film, and refused to have anything to do with fire for the rest of the filming.[4] Studio executives cut some of Margaret’s wickedest scenes, worrying they would frighten children. Whatever ill will she may have felt toward the role quickly disintegrated; later on in life she would comment on the role of the witch in a light-hearted fashion. She recalled in the past: “I was in a need of money at the time, and my agent called. I said ‘yes?’ and he said ‘Maggie, they want you to play a part on the Wizard.’ I said to myself, ‘Oh Boy, The Wizard of Oz! That has been my favorite book since I was four.’ And I asked him what part, and he said ‘The Witch’ and I said ‘The Witch!’ and he said ‘What else?’” She said this quite happily. cinamagic JUNE - JULY 2014

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ay Bolger’s [1904–1987] (Hunk Andrews / Scarecrow) film career began when he signed a contract with MGM in 1936. His best-known film prior to The Wizard of Oz was The Great Ziegfeld (1936), in which he portrayed himself.

Bolger’s studio contract stipulated that he would play any part the studio chose; however, he was unhappy when he was cast as the Tin Man. The Scarecrow part had already been assigned to another lean and limber dancing studio contract player, Buddy Ebsen.

In time, the roles were switched. While Bolger was pleased with his role as the Scarecrow, Ebsen was struck ill by the powdered aluminum make-up used to complete the Tin Man costume. (The powdered aluminum had been inhaled and coated Ebsen’s lungs, leaving him near death. Ebsen’s illness paved the way for the Tin Man role to be filled by Jack Haley.

Bolger’s performance in Oz was a tour de force.

He displayed the full range of his physical, comedic, and dramatic talents playing the character searching for the brain that he has always had. The Scarecrow’s sympathy for Dorothy Gale’s plight, his cleverness and bravery in rescuing her from the Wicked Witch of the West (played by Margaret Hamilton) and his deep affection for her shone through, endearing the character — and Bolger — in the public mind forever. Whenever queried as to whether he received any residuals from telecasts of the 1939 classic, Bolger would reply: “No, just immortality. I’ll settle for that.”

Following Oz, Bolger moved to RKO. In 1946, he recorded a memorable children’s album, “The Churkendoose”, featuring the story of a misfit fowl (“part chicken, turkey, duck, and goose”) who teaches kids that beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it all “depends on how you look at things”.

Bolger also starred in several more films, including Walt Disney’s 1961 remake of Babes in Toyland, and had a sitcom called Where’s Raymond? from 1953-1955 (also known as The Ray Bolger Show). He also made frequent guest appearances on television.

In 1985 he and Liza Minnelli, the daughter of his Oz co-star Judy Garland, starred in That’s Dancing, a film also written by Jack Haley, Jr., the son of Tin Man actor Jack Haley. Minnelli and Haley, Jr. would have a brief marriage some years later.

Bolger’s Broadway credits included On Your Toes, By Jupiter, All American, and Where’s Charley?, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical and in which he introduced “Once in Love with Amy,” the song most often connected with him (next to “If I Only Had a Brain”). He repeated his stage role in the 1952 Technicolor film version of the musical. cinamagic JUNE - JULY 2014

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a land far, far away, that would take ordinary folk twelve days to ride to, from here, but will only take you and I, a moment when we go to sleep. For don’t you know that magic happens only in the wonderful world of dreams Two kingdoms were ruled over by two brothers.

One was King Roly, and the other King Poly. These two kings were very fat, as were their subjects, for their lands were very rich. Corn and wheat grew by themselves, with never a man’s hand to plant or tend them. Milk flowed in streams, and nobody knew where it came from, and at dinnertime lovely meals on gleaming golden plates walked onto the table, on little stumpy legs.

When a family need a new home, stones and mortar would gather them selves together, the stones would sit one upon the other with the mortar in between, until they had built themselves into a fine house.

In spite of the easy life that the two kings had, they were not happy, for each of them kept thinking that the other one had a bigger and better palace, or owned more horses, or had more jewels or even had creamier milk.

One bright summers day, when King Roly thought that he had seen King Poly riding a finer horse than his, he decided to go to war with his brother. So he ordered his generals to assemble his army outside the palace gates.

There the army stood, looking splendid with all the soldiers wearing their best armour, shining in the summer sun. All the different coloured flags streamed out in the gentle breeze, and the lances standing straight, pointing into the blue sky. But oh dear me! the soldiers had grown nearly as fat as their king. They stood in a long line, with all their tummies sticking out, and their chins wobbling.

King Poly, on hearing of his brother’s plans, also ordered out his army, but his soldiers too, had become too fat. The cavalry could hardly mount their horses, and when they eventually did manage to get on, the poor beasts could hardly walk for the weight of the fat soldiers.

After a long long time, and much huffing and puffing, the two armies faced each other on a big field, which divided the two kingdoms. King Roly rode up and down, telling his army that they must conquer the cruel and greedy army of King Poly.

The soldiers of both armies looked at each other, and thought how nice it would be, just to sit down and eat the delicious food, that was preparing itself on

the cool green field between them. They watched the two fat kings as they rode up and down, their medals sparkling in the sunshine. They watched the generals riding behind the kings, each one trying to out-do the other, “yes your majesty, no your majesty”, and trying to appear clever and witty.

Then the good fairy that watches over all people, and tries to stop them from doing silly things, waved her magic wand. Tiny golden stars flew from the wand’s tip, and spread out amongst the two armies.

Some of the stars landed on the spears, and as they touched, so the spears sprouted leave and became young trees. Some of the stars fell onto the longbows, and when they touched, the bows unsprang and buried themselves into the earth and grew into thorn bushes, and some of the stars on the sharp little arrows, they turned into stinging nettles.

The two armies watched as all their weapons of war, changed into growing things, and became a impenetrable forest dividing the two countries, so that neither side could cross over to the other.

King Roly could not ever again go to war with his brother King Poly, and King Poly, likewise could not fight King Roly. So all the men in the two armies could go back home, and happily grow fatter and fatter.

Now in that far-off land, where being fat was thought of to be beautiful, only King Roly and King Poly grew thin. For day after day, they walked up and down on each side of the mighty forest, wondering what the other was doing on the other side.

The more they walked, the more they worried, and the thinner they became. The thinner they became the faster they walked, which made them thinner still, until on day they grew so thin that they turned into bean-stalks. Their feet turned into roots, burrowing into the rich soil. And their necks grew taller and taller, until their heads reached above the trees of the forest, and they could see right across.

And there they stand to this day, watching each other, never moving lest the other should move first.

And the people of the two kingdoms? Oh yes, they are still there, watched over by the good fairy.

They are happy and contented. Sometimes, just now and then, they glance over at the beanstalks towering above the forest, and they smile in a knowing way to themselves, trusting that the good fairy, aways just out of sight is always near, keeping her magic for when it may be needed.

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omewhere in the land of low self-esteem and battered body-images …

After years of terrorizing the countryside, hunting deer, poaching livestock, killing game, Tiger grew long in the tooth. Finally, he knew it was time to retire. So he packed his bag: “Poor self-esteem? Check. Poor body image? Check? Poor self-image? Check. Self-portrait? Uh … oh, well, three out of four ain’t bad.”

Tiger ambled into town and came to stand before the Three Little Pigs Retirement Home Inc. He rang the bell, and the first little pig appeared on the landing above.

“What do you want?” asked the little pig.

“I come here to retire,” Tiger replied.

“Ooooh. I don’t think so,” the little pig declared.

“You’re not like us. You’ve got big teeth. Very dangerous.

We can’t let you in.”

Tiger, having poor self-image, went to the dentist to improve these apparent deficiencies, and had his teeth removed. The next day, he returned to the Three Little Pigs Retirement Home Inc. “What do you want?” asked the second little pig.

“I have no more teeth. I come here to retire,” Tiger replied once more.

“Ooooh. No, no, no. That just won’t do,” the little pig exclaimed. “You’re different. You have sharp claws.

You scare us. We can’t let you in.”

No teeth, no claws, no self-portrait Tiger took his poor self-esteem and even worse body-image to the manicurist and had his claws removed.

The next day, he returned to the Three Little Pigs Retirement Home Inc. “What do you want?” demanded the third little pig.

“I have no more claws. I come here to retire,” Tiger repeated.

“Ooooh. Let me see,” the little pig muttered as he disappeared from sight. Tiger heard much whispering and commotion behind the big wooden doors. “Okay, come in,” said the little pig.

Tiger strolled through the doors, and there stood the three little pigs, grinning ear to ear. Suddenly they jumped on Tiger. Squealing with delight, they beat him up and sent him packing. No teeth. No claws. Yippeeee! Finally they got even with Tiger for terrorizing the animals.

Tiger should have known better. He should have accepted who he is and not try to conform to someone else’s image of him. What tiger in his right mind lets a pig paint his portrait? He should have painted a self-portrait instead.

Do you seek to improve your body or your body image? Do you seek to improve your claws or your nails, or do you improve your self-esteem? What do you see when you look in the mirror?

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et’s start with some nice and simple 4th of July decorating ideas: balloons! Balloons are an alltime favorite decoration because they’re inexpensive and require no real craft ability to use them beautifully. They’re also casual and festive and perfect for an outdoors-y holiday like the Fourth.

The Best 4th of July Balloon Decorations: Of course, go with red, white and blue. For a simple accent, tie up bundles of three around the area of your party (one of each color), or on the corners of food tables. Want a little more oomph? Make bigger bundles of red, white, and blue balloons and place them on either side of the door, or create a red, white, and blue balloon arch.

A fun tip: To make the balloon shimmer like fireworks, blow it up and spray it lightly with craft glue.

Sprinkle on some glitter and you’re done! Fast, easy and the visual impact is a lot of fun. One of my favorite 4th of July decorating ideas for a lot of effect without a lot of effort Creative Red White and Blue Lighting One fun idea for 4th of July house decorating is to consider extending your red-white-blue theme to some of your lighting fixtures. Colored bulbs now come in an array of colors for just such an occasion. Don’t over do it - you still want GOOD lighting. Just change out a few.

Want to use this 4th of July decorating idea both inside and out? Another great idea is to find strings of twinkle lights in red, white, and blue and line the hedges, a wall, a deck, or whatever suits your fancy. A bonus? Twinkle lights combined with balloons really look pretty, and are perfect for an evening barbeque.

Get Festive Flowers for the Fourth If you’ve got a few tables set up for people to eat all the delicious 4th of July food you’ve made, you’re probably thinking of how to create some 4th of July table decorations.

For 4th of July centerpieces, flowers are a great choice. And putting them together can be really simple. Get some fresh seasonal flowers, put them in a vase (line the vase with red, white, and blue ribbon if you like), and add a miniature American flag. Done and done!

Sparkle it Up Want to make your 4th of July food tables look really festive? Dot the tables with star shaped confetti and a little glitter left over from the balloons.

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God bless America, Land that I love, Stand beside her, and guide her Through the night with a light from above.

From the mountains, to the prairies, To the oceans, white with foam God bless America, My home sweet home God bless America, My home sweet home.

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t all started when I was 6 years old. While I was playing outside on our farm in California, I met a boy. He was an average kind of boy who teased you and then you chased them and beat them up. After that first meeting in which I beat him up we kept on meeting and beating each other up at the fence. That only lasted for a little while though. We would meet at the fence all the time and we were always together. I would tell him all my secrets. He was very quiet he would just listen to what I had to say. I found him easy to talk to and I could talk to him about anything.

In school we had separate friends but when we got home we would always talk about what happened in school. One day I said to him that a guy I liked hurt me and broke my heart. He just comforted me and said everything would be okay. He gave me words of encouragement and helped me get over him. I was happy and thought of him as a real friend. But I knew that there was something else about him that I liked. I thought of it that night and figured it was just a friend kind of thing that I was feeling.

All through high school and even through graduation we were always together and of course I thought of it as being friends. But I knew deep inside that I really felt differently. On graduation night even though we had different dates to the prom I wanted to be with him. That night after everybody went home I went to his house and wanted to tell him that I wanted to see him. Well, that night was my big chance and all I did was just sit there with him watching the stars and talking about what I was going to do and what he was going to do. I looked into his eyes and listened to him talk about what his dream was. How he wanted to get married and settle down. He said how he wanted to be rich and successful.

All I could do was to tell him my dream and cuddle next to him. I went home hurting because I didn’t tell him how I was feeling. I wanted to tell him so bad that I loved him but I was to scared and frightened. I let my feelings go and told myself that someday I would tell him just how I felt. All through college I wanted to tell him but he always had someone with him. After graduation he got a job in New York, I was happy for him but at the same time I was sad to see him go. I was sad also because I didn’t tell him how I felt. But I couldn’t let him know now that he was leaving for his big job. So I just kept it to myself and watched him go on the plane.

I cried as I hugged him for what I felt was going to be the last time. I went home that night and cried my eyes out. I felt hurt that I didn’t tell him what I had inside my heart. Well, I got a job as a secretary and then worked my way to a computer analyst.

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I was proud of what I had accomplished. One day I got a letter with an invitation to a marriage. It was from him, I was happy and sad at the same time. Now I knew that I could never be with him and that we could only be friends.

I went to the wedding the next month. It was a big occasion. The big church wedding and the reception at the hotel. I met the bride and of course him. I fell in love one more time. But I held back so it wouldn’t spoil what should be the happiest day in his life. I tried to have fun that night but it was killing me inside, watching him being so happy and me trying to be happy, covering up my sadness, tears inside of me. I left New York feeling that I did the right thing.

Before I left on the flight, he came running out of nowhere and said his good-byes and how he was very happy to see me. I came home and just tried to forget about what went on in New York. I had to go on with my life. As the years went on we wrote each other on what was going on and how he had missed talking to me.

On one occasion he never wrote back to me at all. I was getting worried as to why he hadn’t written anything for a long time after I had already written 6 letters to him.

Well, just when everything seemed hopeless and sad in my life, I got a note that said meet me at the fence where we used to talk about things.

I went and saw him there. I was happy to see him, but he was broken hearted and sad inside. We hugged until we couldn’t breathe anymore.Then he told me about the divorce and why he hadn’t written for a long time. He cried until he couldn’t cry anymore. Finally, we went back to the house and talked and laughed about what I had been going through and to catch up on old times. But in all of this I couldn’t tell him how I felt about him.

In the days that followed he had fun and forgot about all his problems and his divorce. I fell in love again with him. When it came time for him to leave back to New York. I went to see him off and cried. I hated to see him leave. He promised to see me every time he could get a vacation. I couldn’t wait for him to come so I could be with him. We would always have fun when we were together.

One day he didn’t show up like he said he would.

I figured that he might have been busy. The days turned into months and I just forgot about it. Then I got a call one-day from a lawyer in New York. The lawyer said that he had died in a car accident going to the airport. And that it took this long till everything was settled. It broke my heart, I was shocked about what took place. Now I knew why he didn’t come that day.

Again, I was broken hearted I cried that night, cried tears of sadness and heartache. Asking questions why

did this happen to a kind guy like him? I gathered my things and went to New York for the reading of his will.

Of course, things were given to his family and his ex-wife.

I finally got to meet her since the last time we met at the wedding. She explained to me how he was and how he always provided.

But he was always unhappy. She would always try everything but she couldn’t get him happy as he was that night at their wedding. When the will was read, the one thing that was given to me was a diary. It was a dairy that of his life. I cried as it was given to me. I didn’t know what to think.

Why was this given to me?

I took it and flew back to California. As I flew on the plane I remembered the good times that we had together.

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was started the day we first met. I read on till I started to cry. The diary told of him saying that he had fallen in love with me that day I was broken hearted. But he was too afraid to tell me what he had felt. That is why he was so quiet and liked to listen to me.

It told of how he wanted to tell me so many times but was too afraid to say anything. It told of when he went to New York and fell in love with another. How the happiest time he had was seeing me and dancing with me at the wedding. He said he imagined it was our wedding. How he was always unhappy till he had no choice but to divorce his wife. How the best time in his life was to read the letters written to him by me.

Finally, the diary ended when it said, “Today I will tell her I love her”. It was the day he was killed. The day I was going to finally find out what was really in his heart.

Precious Winks

t was a precious moment.

One of those that any money or natural resource known to man could not purchase. My heart stopped in my throat as it happened. I would have given anything to have had a camcorder to forever engrave it in my memory. As it is, I have to trust that the impact will always be strong enough for it to stay on its own...

Funny, you know, it is something that most mothers have experienced and probably taken for granted as I’m sure I did at one time. Or maybe just chalked it up to one of those cute things kids do. Something clever and heart warming to enter into ‘Funniest Home Videos’ or ‘Kids Say the Darndest Things.’ But you know it didn’t hit me like that, not today... not this child.

You see things are a little different right now, but I’ll tell you about that later. First let me tell you what he did.

We were driving along and he said, “Mommy!” and I, not paying much attention said, “What?” He said, “Look at me!” So I did, when I looked down, me heart leaped, for my little 4 year old son was trying his best to wink at me -- his Mommy, to him the most beautiful and best lady in the world. His security, his source of comfort, his buffeter, the one who makes everything OK. When he winked, I said, “What are you doing?”

Thinking that it must have been a fluke. He said, “I’m winking at you Mommy because I love you sooo much.”

Where he saw this I do not know, but I know it must have made an impact on him for him to want to do it to me and understand what it meant. You might say, “So what? My child does that.” Or, “You should see what mine did the other day.”

By Kathy Price

Please understand I am in no way minimizing the importance of your own very special moments, but you must understand something. My little son, who took the time today to struggle to wink properly at his Mommy only has days to live. He is dying before my very eyes of a cancerous brain tumor.

The impact of the everyday things that he does is like a freight train running head on into the core of my being. My thoughts and emotions are suddenly arrested throughout the day with phrases and looks that at one time were so easily ignored. It is a very bittersweet life that I live right now, my baby being so much ‘in love’ with his Mommy, so normal in so many ways and not suffering for the most part. It makes the pain that I feel at the impending loss sometimes so unreal and difficult to experience. Don’t get me wrong, I want it no other way. I know we have been graced by a loving Father to be given such wonderful days with our son, but I have to admit, at times it is excruciating. I often ponder, “Is it harder for parents when the death of a child is an accident and so sudden? Or is it harder to watch them go and to take on the immense responsibility of preparing them to meet face to face the one who loves them the most?”

I honestly do not know the answer to that question.

All I know is that today I was graced by God to receive a wink from one of the most important men in my life, my four year old son.

Somehow, the grass got a little greener, the sky bluer, a joy I cannot express filled my heart. But at the same time, a sadness and hole as big as the Grand Canyon began to fill my insides and I had to call out to the one who gives us the strength to handle the pain we suffer in this life. I’m so glad He listens. cinamagic JUNE - JULY 2014

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By Major Sullivan Ballou

ajor Sullivan Ballou of the Union Army wrote this letter home to his wife Sarah in Smithfield, Rhode Island. It is considered to be one of history’s most beautiful and moving love letters.

July 14, 1861 Camp Clark, Washington My very dear Sarah, The indications are very strong that we shall move in a few days -- perhaps tomorrow. Lest I should not be able to write you again, I feel impelled to write lines that may fall under your eye when I shall be no more.

Our movement may be one of a few days duration and full of pleasure -- and it may be one of severe conflict and death to me. Not my will, but thine 0 God, be done.

If it is necessary that I should fall on the battlefield for my country, I am ready. I have no misgivings about, or lack of confidence in, the cause in which I am engaged, and my courage does not halt or falter. I know how strongly American Civilization now leans upon the triumph of the Government, and how great a debt we owe to those who went before us through the blood and suffering of the Revolution. And I am willing -- perfectly willing -- to lay down all my joys in this life, to help maintain this Government, and to pay that debt.

But, my dear wife, when I know that with my own joys I lay down nearly all of yours, and replace them in this life with cares and sorrows -- when, after having eaten for long years the bitter fruit of orphanage myself, I must offer it as their only sustenance to my dear little children -- is it weak or dishonorable, while the banner of my purpose floats calmly and proudly in the breeze, that my unbounded love for you, my darling wife and children, should struggle in fierce, though useless, contest with my love of country?

I cannot describe to you my feelings on this calm summer night, when two thousand men are sleeping around me, many of them enjoying the last, perhaps, before that of death -- and I, suspicious that Death is creeping behind me with his fatal dart, am communing with God, my country, and thee.

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I have sought most closely and diligently, and often in my breast, for a wrong motive in thus hazarding the happiness of those I loved and I could not find one. A pure love of my country and of the principles have often advocated before the people and “the name of honor that I love more than I fear death” have called upon me, and I have obeyed.

Sarah, my love for you is deathless, it seems to bind me to you with mighty cables that nothing but Omnipotence could break; and yet my love of Country comes over me like a strong wind and bears me irresistibly on with all these chains to the battlefield.

The memories of the blissful moments I have spent with you come creeping over me, and I feel most gratified to God and to you that I have enjoyed them so long. And hard it is for me to give them up and burn to ashes the hopes of future years, when God willing, we might still have lived and loved together and seen our sons grow up to honorable manhood around us. I have, I know, but few and small claims upon Divine Providence, but something whispers to me -- perhaps it is the wafted prayer of my little Edgar -- that I shall return to my loved ones unharmed. If I do not return, my dear Sarah, never forget how much I love you, and when my last breath escapes me on the battlefield, it will whisper your name.

Forgive my many faults, and the many pains I have caused you. How thoughtless and foolish I have oftentimes been! How gladly would I wash out with my tears every little spot upon your happiness, and struggle with all the misfortune of this world, to shield you and my children from harm. But I cannot. I must watch you from the spirit land and hover near you, while you buffet the storms with your precious little freight, and wait with sad patience till we meet to part no more.

But, O Sarah! If the dead can come back to this earth and flit unseen around those they loved, I shall always be near you; in the garish day and in the darkest night -- amidst your happiest scenes and gloomiest hours -- always, always; and if there be a soft breeze upon your cheek, it shall be my breath; or if the cool air fans your throbbing temple, it shall be my spirit passing by.

Sarah, do not mourn me dead; think I am gone and wait for thee, for we shall meet again.

As for my little boys, they will grow as I have done, and never know a father’s love and care. Little Willie is too young to remember me long, and my blue-eyed Edgar will keep my frolics with him among the dimmest memories of his childhood. Sarah, I have unlimited confidence in your maternal care and your development of their characters.

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Tell my two mothers his and hers I call God’s blessing upon them. O Sarah, I wait for you there! Come to me, and lead thither my children.

Sullivan Sullivan Ballou, age 32, was killed on the battlefield in the 1st Battle of Bull Run seven days after writing this letter.

The Birth of a Dream

“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

- James Allen ould you agree with the statement that a dream is born from and idea, a simple idea conceived in the mind?

Back in the 19th century two brothers had an idea which eventually became their passionate and consuming dream. Their relentless pursuit of that dream was rewarded with an accomplishment that changed world travel.

On Friday, December 17, 1903 at 10:35 am, the Wright brothers (Wilber and Orville) achieved their dream. They flew “the world’s first power-driven, heavier-than-air machine in which man made free, controlled, and sustained flight.” This memorable feat took place at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina on a cold windy morning.

The dream started with an idea that was planted in their minds by a toy given to them by their father. In the words of the boys, “Late in the autumn of 1878, our father came into the house one evening with some object partly concealed in his hands, and before we could see what it was, he tossed it into the air. Instead of falling to the floor, as we expected, it flew across the room till it struck the ceiling, where it fluttered awhile, and finally sank to the floor.” This simple toy made of bamboo, cork and stretched rubber bands, fascinated the Wright brothers and sparked their lifelong interest in human flight.

The Wright brothers were great thinkers. They enjoyed learning new things. Initially, they recycled broken parts, built a printing press and opened their own printing office. Their interest moved to bicycles and in

1893, they opened the Wright Cycle Company where they sold and repaired bicycles.

But Wilbur (the older brother) had his mind set on something more exciting. He decided to seriously pursue flying.

The brothers spent many hours researching, testing their machines and making improvements after unsuccessful attempts at human flight. What started out as a hobby soon became a passion. With determination and patience they realized their dream in 1903.

The next time you hear or see an airplane or travel on one, remember where it all started. A simply idea conceived in the minds of two young men who did not finish high school. Believe it or not, they did not have a University degree in Aeronautical Engineering, Mathematics, Physics or any other subject. They were not scientists in the true sense of the word.

In fact, many of their peers who did not witness their accomplishment, had trouble believing that two bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio did what they claimed.

What idea or ideas are YOU working on? Have you said you can’t do this or that because you are not a scientist? Have you limited yourself by saying you are not smart enough? Or have you joined the majority in saying that everything has already been invented or discovered?

Since the introduction of the first generation of personal computers in 1981, we are able to do many things more efficiently. With a super computer between your ears and the personal computer at your finger tips, your dream can be achieved. First, give birth to that dream with an idea. A simple idea that ANYONE of us can conceive. cinamagic JUNE - JULY 2014

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Shmily

By Laura Allen

y grandparents were married for over half a century, and played their own special game from the time they had met each other. The goal of their game was to write the word “shmily” in a surprise place for the other to find. They took turns leaving “shmily” around the house, and as soon as one of them discovered it, it was their turn to hide it once more.

They dragged “shmily” with their fingers through the sugar and flour containers to await whoever was preparing the next meal.

They smeared it in the dew on the windows overlooking the patio where my grandma always fed us warm, homemade pudding with blue food coloring.

“Shmily” was written in the steam left on the mirror after a hot shower, where it would reappear bath after bath. At one point, my grandmother even unrolled an entire roll of toilet paper to leave “shmily” on the very last sheet.

There was no end to the places “shmily” would pop up. Little notes with “shmily” scribbled hurriedly were found on dashboards and car seats, or taped to steering wheels.

The notes were stuffed inside shoes and left under pillows. “Shmily” was written in the dust upon the mantel and traced in the ashes of the fireplace. This mysterious word was as much a part of my grandparents’ house as the furniture.

It took me a long time before I was able to fully appreciate my grandparents’ game. Skepticism has kept me from believing in true love, one that is pure and enduring.

However, I never doubted my grandparents’ relationship. They had love down pat. It was more than their flirtatious little games; it was a way of life. Their relationship was based on a devotion and passionate affection, which not everyone is lucky enough to experience.

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other in their tiny kitchen. They finished each other’s sentences and shared the daily crossword puzzle and word jumble. My grandma whispered to me about how cute my grandpa was, how handsome and old he had grown to be. She claimed that she really knew “how to pick ‘em.” Before every meal they bowed their heads and gave thanks, marveling at their blessings: a wonderful family, good fortune, and each other. But there was a dark cloud in my grandparents’ life: my grandmother had breast cancer.

The disease had first appeared ten years earlier. As always, Grandpa was with her every step of the way. He comforted her in their yellow room, painted that way so that she could always be surrounded by sunshine, even when she was too sick to go outside.

Now the cancer was again attacking her body. With the help of a cane and my grandfather’s steady hand, they went to church every morning. But my grandmother grew steadily weaker until, finally, she could not leave the house anymore.

For a while, Grandpa would go to church alone, praying to God to watch over his wife. Then one day, what we all dreaded finally happened. Grandma was gone.

“Shmily.” It was scrawled in yellow on the pink ribbons of my grandmother’s funeral bouquet. As the crowd thinned and the last mourners turned to leave, my aunts, uncles, cousins and other family members came forward and gathered around Grandma one last time. Grandpa stepped up to my grandmother’s casket and, taking a shaky breath, he began to sing to her.

Through his tears and grief, the song came, a deep and throaty lullaby. Shaking with my own sorrow, I will never forget that moment. For I knew that, although I couldn’t begin to fathom the depth of their love, I had been privileged to witness its unmatched beauty.

S-h-m-i-l-y = See How Much I Love You.

The Risk of Love There is a risk involved in everything Every time you share a smile Every time you shed a tear You are opening yourself up to hurt.

Some people tread slowly through life, Avoiding the closeness risk brings, Sidestepping the things they can not understand Turning away from those who care too muchThose who care stay too long, Those who hold too tightly.

There is never an easy way to love You cannot approach it cautiously It will not wait for you to arm yourself.

It does not care if you turn away It is everywhere, it is everything.

Love is the greatest of all risks.

It is not reliable, it is not cautious, It is not sympathetic It is unprejudiced and unmerciful.

It strikes the strongest of mind, And brings them to their knees in one blow.

Even in the best of times, love hurts.

It hurts to need, it hurts to belong, It hurts to be the other part of someone else, Without either of your consent.

But, from the moment it overtakes you, It hurts worse to be all alone.

The risk of love never depletes; It grows stronger and more dangerous with time.

But, it is in the total surrender of all defense, That we, no matter weak or strong, No matter willing or captive, No matter what, we truly experience love.

Despite the many things love is not, Outweighing it all are the things that love is.

Love is surrender without a loss.

It is a gift without the cost.

It consumes your every thought and desire, Every breath you take.

It is the fire that fuels you To do more than pass through life; It urges you, instead, to live.

No matter the outcome, having felt love, You will never be the same.

It may scar your heart and soul And leave you only memories of forever.

Or, it may cause every day of your life To feel like there is no need for tomorrow.

But, love is worth it. It is worth the risk...

For in all of life, Love is truly the only risk worth taking.

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Baked Ziti

An all-star comfort food, easy to follow recipe

What You Need 4 cups ziti pasta, uncooked 1 jar (24 oz.) spaghetti sauce 1 can (14-1/2 oz.) diced tomatoes, undrained 6 oz. (3/4 of 8-oz. pkg.) PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese, cubed • 3/4 cup BREAKSTONE’S or KNUDSEN Sour Cream • 1 pkg. (8 oz.) KRAFT Shredded Mozzarella Cheese with a TOUCH OF PHILADELPHIA • 1/3 cup KRAFT Grated Parmesan Cheese • • • •

Directions HEAT oven to 375ºF. COOK pasta in large saucepan as directed on package, omitting salt. Remove from pan; drain.

Meanwhile, add spaghetti sauce, tomatoes and cream cheese to same pan; cook on medium heat 5 min. or until cream cheese is melted and mixture is blended, stirring frequently. Return pasta to pan; mix well.

LAYER half the pasta mixture in 13x9-inch baking dish; cover with layers of sour cream, 1 cup mozzarella and remaining pasta mixture. Top with remaining mozzarella and Parmesan.

BAKE 20 min. or until heated through.

Kitchens Tips Size-Wise: Enjoy your favorite foods while keeping portion size in mind.

Make Ahead: This tasty pasta dish can be assembled ahead of time. Refrigerate up to 8 hours. When ready to serve, bake, uncovered, 30 to 35 min. or until heated through.

Substitute: Prepare using regular KRAFT Shredded Mozzarella Cheese. cinamagic JUNE - JULY 2014

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Citrus Herb Chicken with Asparagus • • • • • • • • • • •

WHAT YOU NEED 1/4 cup flour 2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese 1/2 teaspoon McCormick® Garlic Powder 1/4 teaspoon McCormick® Black Pepper, Coarse Ground 1 pound thinly sliced boneless skinless chicken breast halves 1 tablespoon oil 1 1/2 cups chicken broth 1 teaspoon McCormick® Basil Leaves 1 teaspoon McCormick® Oregano Leaves 2 tablespoons lemon juice 1 pound asparagus, trimmed and cut into 1-inch pieces

Directions Mix flour, Parmesan cheese, garlic powder and pepper in shallow dish. Reserve 2 tablespoons.

Moisten chicken lightly with water. Coat evenly with remaining flour mixture.

Heat oil in large nonstick skillet on medium heat. Add 1/2 of the chicken pieces; cook 3 minutes per side or until golden brown. Repeat with remaining chicken, adding additional oil if necessary. Remove chicken from skillet; keep warm.

Mix broth, basil, oregano and reserved flour mixture in medium bowl until well blended. Add to skillet along with asparagus. Bring to boil. Reduce heat to low; simmer 3 to 5 minutes or until sauce is slightly thickened, stirring frequently. Stir in lemon juice. Return chicken to skillet; cook 2 minutes or until heated through. Nutritional information (amount per servings) Total Calories: 244 Sodium: 453mg Fat: 8g Carbohydrates: 11g Cholesterol: 79mg Protein: 32g Fiber: 3g cinamagic JUNE - JULY 2014

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Meatball Sub An all-star, easy to follow, tasty recipe you always come back to • • • • • •

What You Need 1 cup spaghetti sauce 1/2 cup water 2 Tbsp. KRAFT Grated Parmesan Cheese 1/2 lb. (1/2 of 1-lb. pkg.) frozen fully cooked meatballs 4 crusty sandwich rolls, split 1/2 cup KRAFT Shredded Mozzarella Cheese

Directions MIX first 3 ingredients in large skillet until blended; stir in meatballs. Bring to boil on medium-high heat, stirring occasionally.

SIMMER on medium-low heat 8 min. or until meatballs are heated through, stirring occasionally.

SPOON into rolls; top with mozzarella.

Kitchens Tips Serving Suggestion: Serve with assorted cut-up fresh fruit to round out the meal.

Substitute: Prepare using turkey meatballs. cinamagic JUNE - JULY 2014

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Spicy Deviled Eggs Prep Time: 15 min. | Total Time: 15 min.

Makes: 24 servings What You Need 12 hard-cooked eggs 2/3 cup MIRACLE WHIP Dressing 2 tsp. GREY POUPON Dijon Mustard 1 jalapeĂąo peppers, seeded & finely diced Directions CUT eggs lengthwise in half. Remove yolks; place in medium bowl. Mash with fork.

ADD remaining ingredients; mix well.

SPOON into egg whites. Sprinkle with paprika. Garnish with additional jalapeno slices, if desired.

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Rainbow Fruit Salad Ingredients Makes 12 (1/2-cup) servings.

6 cups fresh fruit, such as grapes, melon, berries and kiwi 1/4 cup confectioners’ sugar 1 tablespoon McCormick® Imitation Rum Extract Direction Mix fruit, confectioners’ sugar and rum extract in large bowl. Cover.

Refrigerate 1 hour or until ready to serve.

Serve with a dollop of sour cream, if desired.

Nutritional Information: Total Calories: 75, Sodium: 9mg, Fat: 3g, Carbohydrates: 12g, Cholesterol: 5mg, Protein: 1g, Fiber: 1g cinamagic JUNE - JULY 2014

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Lemon Banana Loaf • • • • • • • • •

WHAT YOU NEED 2-3 very ripe bananas, mashed 2 cups all purpose flour 2 teaspoons baking powder...

1/2 teaspoon salt 2/3 cup granulated sugar 2 large eggs 1/2 cup vegetable oil 1/2 cup milk Juice of 1 lemon (2 tablespoons juice)

For the Lemon Glaze 2 cups confectioners sugar juice of 1 lemon 1 Tablespoon unsalted butter, at room temperature

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DIRECTIONS Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 9x5 inch loaf pan. In a bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, and salt; set aside. In the bowl of your electric mixer, beat together the banana, sugar and eggs until smooth.

Add the vegetable oil, milk, and lemon juice and beat until smooth. Pour batter into prepared loaf pan and bake 55 to 60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool 5 minutes then remove to a wire rack to cool completely.

To make the glaze, whisk powdered sugar, lemon juice and butter until very thick and white.

Spread this lemon juice frosting over the top of the cooled loaf.

Enjoy!

Famous Fudge WHAT YOU NEED 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar 2/3 cup (5 fl.-oz. can) Evaporated Milk 2 tablespoons butter or margarine 1/4 teaspoon salt 2 cups miniature marshmallows 1 1/2 cups (9 oz.) Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels 1/2 cup chopped pecans or walnuts (optional) 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Directions LINE 8-inch-square baking pan with foil. COMBINE sugar, evaporated milk, butter and salt in medium, heavy-duty saucepan. Bring to a full rolling boil over medium heat, stirring constantly. Boil, stirring con-

stantly, for 4 to 5 minutes. Remove from heat. STIR in marshmallows, morsels, nuts and vanilla extract. Stir vigorously for 1 minute or until marshmallows are melted.

Pour into prepared baking pan; refrigerate for 2 hours or until firm. Lift from pan; remove foil. Cut into 48 pieces.

KITCHEN TIPS For Butterscotch Fudge, Substitute 1 2/3 cups (11oz. pkg.) Butterscotch Flavored Morsels for Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels.

For Peanutty Chocolate Fudge, Substitute 1 2/3 cups (11-oz. pkg.) Peanut Butter & Milk Chocolate Morsels for Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels and 1/2 cup chopped peanuts for pecans or walnuts. cinamagic JUNE - JULY 2014

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Chocolate Cake Prep Time: 25 min. | Total Time: 1 hr. 30 min.

Makes: 18 servings • • • • • • • • • • • •

What You Need 2-1/2 pkg. (4 oz. each) BAKER’S Unsweetened Chocolate (10 oz.), divided 1-1/2 cups MIRACLE WHIP Dressing 2-1/4 cups packed brown sugar 2-1/2 tsp. vanilla, divided 3 eggs 2 cups flour 1-1/2 tsp. baking soda 1/4 tsp. salt 1 cup boiling water 1/4 cup butter or margarine, softened 3 cups powdered sugar 2/3 cup milk

DIRECTIONS HEAT oven to 350°F. MELT 6 oz. chocolate as directed on package; cool.

Meanwhile, beat dressing, brown sugar and 1-1/2 tsp. vanilla in large bowl with mixer until blended. Beat in eggs and melted chocolate. Combine flour, baking soda and salt.

Add to chocolate mixture alternately with water, mixing well after each addition.

POUR into 2 parchment paper-lined 9-inch round pans sprayed with cooking spray.

BAKE 30 to 35 min. or until toothpick inserted in centers comes out clean. Cool 10 min.; remove from pans.

Immediately remove parchment paper. Cool cakes completely on wire racks.

MEANWHILE, microwave remaining chocolate and butter in large microwaveable bowl on HIGH 1 to 1-1/2 min. or until butter is completely melted, stirring every 30 sec. Stir until chocolate is completely melted. Cool.

ADD powdered sugar, milk and remaining vanilla to butter mixture; beat until blended. Use to fill and frost cake layers. cinamagic JUNE - JULY 2014

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