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Although Halloween is often claimed to be a cultural descendant of the Celtic festival of Samhain, such claims are generally not considered either historically accurate or scholarly.[4] In particular, the custom of dressing up in costumes and going “guising” or trick-or-treating at Halloween developed from Christian customs created in Western Europe around the 15th century.[5] Guising at Halloween in Scotland is recorded in 1895, where masqueraders in disguise carrying lanterns made out of scooped out turnips, visit homes to be rewarded with cakes, fruit and money.[2] The practice of Guising at Halloween in North America is first recorded in 1911, where a newspaper in Kingston, Ontario reported children going “guising” around the neighborhood.[6]

The holidays of All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day were often celebrated with costume parades, wild parties, and licentiousness of all sorts.[7] In the 18th century in the United Kingdom, Halloween was celebrated in rural areas by farmers as a fertility rite, while in cities it had a Carnival-like atmosphere.[7] But as Halloween was transported to the United States by waves of European immigrants,[8] the licentious and rowdy elements of Halloween were domesticated to conform with the emerging Victorian era morality. Halloween was made into a private rather than public holiday, celebrations involving liquor and sensuality de-emphasized, and only children were expected to celebrate the festival.[9]

While wearing costumes at Halloween is recorded in Scotland in 1895, there is little evidence of costumes in England, Ireland, or the United States prior to 1900, however.[3] Early Halloween costumes emphasized the pagan and Gothic nature of Halloween, and were aimed primarily at children. Costumes were also made at home, or using items (such as make-up) which could be purchased and utilized to create a costume. But in the 1930s, A.S. Fishbowl, Ben Cooper, Inc., and other firms began mass-producing Halloween costumes for sale in stores as trick-or-treating became popular in North America.

Halloween costumes are often designed to imitate supernatural and scary beings. Costumes are traditionally those of monsters such as vampires, ghosts,[10] skeletons, witches, and devils, or in more recent years such science fiction-inspired characters as aliens and superheroes. There are also costumes of pop culture figures like presidents, athletes, celebrities, or film and television characters. Another popular trend is for women (and in some cases, men) to use Halloween as an excuse to wear sexy or revealing costumes, showing off more skin than would be socially acceptable otherwise. Young girls also often dress as entirely non-scary characters at Halloween, including princesses, fairies, angels, farm animals and flowers.

Halloween costume parties generally fall on or around October 31, often falling on the Friday or Saturday prior to Halloween.

Jakarta – For those of you who like to collect unique items, can come to the exhibition of Footwear, Leather and Fashion at the JCC, Senayan, Jakarta. In the exhibition which took place April 28 to May 1 2011 featuring products made from beautiful jacket waterproof paper.

Jackets made of Tyvek paper was created by a group of students Institute of Technology Bandung (ITB), the product was named Svectra jacket.

“It’s for a college assignment, a group of classmates,” said CEO equafole Rekato Boy in the exhibition Shoes, Leather and Fashion at the JCC on Thursday (4/28/2011).

Students who totaled 33 people are admitted to the show to complete the coursework. These students have not thought of homemade products become commodities. The reason they make a jacket made of Tyvek paper to support the program go green or environmentally friendly.

For the manufacture of these jackets svectra, need capital of about USD 200,000. Unfortunately, this environmentally friendly materials to be imported much French territory Du Pont. Material costing Rp 200,000, not including the cost of color printing and sewing around Rp 50000-60000.

“The material is all imported, but ngerjainnya in Bandung,” he said.

These jackets they sell at a price of Rp 350,000. Especially for this exhibition Svectra jacket price is only priced Rp 300,000

According to Boy, there is no target of this exhibition, he and his friends sell only way I can. The advantage gained from this sale will be donated to villages in need of education, such as villages around Ciwidey South Bandung. In addition marketed in this exhibition, they also sell them in Equafole Bandung.

“It’s we take from society, so we will eventually return to society as well,” he said.

The story of the manufacture of jackets Svectra since data collection began in August 2010 to December 2010 as a college assignment. The students began to produce this unique jacket in January 2010, demand began to order alternated from mouth to mouth.

Boy is said, to order the necessary papers for 2 weeks. Paper imports from Du Pont Tyvek should be in bulk, at least memesen a mile to get a cheaper price

“The message that many are let cheap, once a message 1 mile paper,” he said.

They also sell their work items such as paper jackets, bags and bike pass online, word of mouth, close friends. Until now sold from Sabang to Manado and the people who visited the shop in Bandung.

Boy adds not close the possibility to continue this effort. So far, there have been about 3-5 students who are committed to continuing these efforts.

“There are still willing ngelanjutin, but not much, yes free-free aja. This is my stuff together,” he said.

Boy open up opportunities for investors who want to go to continue their efforts. Including not mind using a brand of investors who are interested.

Jakarta – It is undeniable Indonesia Stock Exchange where the shares we invest in Indonesia is quite volatile, aka up and down very fast like a roller coaster. The number of foreign funds seeking quick profit on the stock exchanges vulnerable to Indonesia to make an escape back to overseas funds. While the composition of the stock trader trader alias in Indonesia compared with investors still more merchants. Investors usually go through a mutual fund products, pension funds and insurance. This causes the more volatile the stock, because of the large number of transactions compared to the buy-hold for the long term.

If you are a trader, aka live or conduct share buy-sell transactions on a regular basis there are a few things to remember. Just as financial planners who have to make plans, then the alias trading trading should make plans. We plan shares will fundamentally what we buy. Then we calculate whether the price was cheap enough or not (under valued) as a sign to get started investing or buying shares.

Every person has a style different transactions. There are just going in and out (buying and selling a stock) same day. They do not want to hold the position when the market is closed. Some people love to hold them until the sale of one week or until the price they are targeting is achieved. Whatever our style, one thing to always remember is do not get greedy.

Make a target return on investment or return desired. As soon as we reach these targets and go out. Greed is always trying to hold us to stay afloat in timeissuer’s stock because we think the price will go up even higher. Make a tolerance limit losses eg 1% or 5% of our investments before we get out (cut loss).

Mistakes are often made by many novice players are not dare to come out or cut loss. They do not want to admit that they have the wrong decision or wrong position, so a loss. But they still refused to come out or cut loss. As a result they have to survive the loss who suffered in the hope that one day will return and share their money back.

When studied properly, trading stocks is actually a fun and exciting activity. Especially when the market is down like now. Return the key word is discipline in the transaction. When we discipline our investments on a regular basis will undoubtedly provide a satisfactory total return on investment.

Jakarta – A company in India launched a ‘cash machine’ first in the world that can serve a purchase of gold, silver, and diamonds through the machine.

Gitanjali Group is launching the machine in Mumbai shopping center on an annual Hindu festival called Diwali, on Wednesday this week.

Diwali is a day of traditional celebrations of Hindus. On that day, Hindus used to buy gold and jewelry.

While India until recently was known as an importer and consumer of gold and jewelry in the world.

“This machine is the first in the world and the future will continue to be developed for the purchase of jewelry and gold,” said Sanjeev Agarwal Executive Gitanjali is quoted as saying by AFP on Friday (10/29/2011).

In the ‘ATM machine’, the consumer can choose the 36 jewelry products to the size, design, and different prices. Prices range from jewelry sold 1,000 rupees to 30,000 rupees or about U.S. $ 20 to U.S. $ 600.

Consumers can pay for jewelry purchased with a credit card or debit card. Even the cash payments are also accepted.

Gitanjali Party said, this machine is it worth it to help people who want to buy jewelry on urgent basis while welcoming the day of Diwali.

Gitanjali is known as a company selling jewelry in India. The company plans to deploy these machines in various shopping centers, airports, and temples.

For information, throughout the first half of Indian gold consumption in 2011 reached 540 tons, up 21% from the same period last year.