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Anthony Green to contribute to Balance and Composure's forthcoming album
Posted by Brandon Vesely on 07/30 at 01:34 PM
Anthony Green announced that he will contribute vocals to a track on Balance and Composure's upcoming album, The Things We Think We're Missing, on Monday via Instagram.
Here's what Green had to say about the recording:
"So excited about the new @balanceandcomposure record. I had the honor of singing on a track and I can honestly say its one of the best songs they ever wrote. Go check it out at http://balanceandcomposure.com and tell them how much they rule and tell them I sent ya."
Green is a founding member and lead singer for the immensely successful alternative group, Circa Survive, and has performed with other notable bands like Saosin, Say Anything, and Good Old War. The prolific artist has released two full-length solo albums and his third effort, Young Legs, will be out sometime this fall.
That said, Green's announcement bears testament to Balance and Composure's steady increase in popularity among indie/alternative fans.
Formed in Doylestown, Pa. in 2007, the budding quintet has produced a considerable amount of recorded material including a 2009 split with fellow Pennsylvania indie rockers, Tigers Jaw and their successful debut album, Separation, released in 2011. They specialize in heavier indie rock, driven by dark lyrics and melodic guitar riffs.
Here's the official music video for 'Quake', a popular track off Separation:
Amidst the hype surrounding the release of their sophomore effort, Balance and Composure have released a complete track listing for the record and added an instrumental sample from the album to their website. They have not released any promo singles.
In June, the band announced a fall tour alongside co-headliners Title Fight, (another punk/indie group from eastern Pennsylvania), with openers Cruel Hand and Slingshot Dakota. The tour will be stopping at Union Transfer in Philadelphia on October 12 and 89 North in Patchogue, New York on October 13.
Watch Title Fight's 2012 performance at Philadelphia's First Unitarian Church here.
For more information about Balance and Composure, go to their website and be sure to tune in to them on Spotify, where you can find their entire discography. You don't want to miss your chance to check out this rising group before they hit it big.
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Media Contact: Debbie Belt, 574-6587/303-6167Neighborhood Place locations in Louisville will help to offer free, valuable events in August including four back to school events, an employment and resource fair and an educational baby shower. To learn more about these events, including reservations requirements and contact info, please refer to the phone numbers listed by each event or visit http://www.louisvilleky.gov/CSR/Calendar/viewall.htm. Aug. 4, Back to School Bash at Farnsley Middle School, 9 – 11 a.m.
Located at 3400 Lees Lane. Call 485-6810 for more information. Free school supplies and free school physicals will be offered and inflatables for the kids. Sponsored by Shively Area Ministries in partnership with Cane Run Neighborhood Place, Gutermuth, Wellington, Millcreek, Kerrick and Health Promotion Schools of Excellence with support by Metro Council representatives.
Located at 4108 Market St. Call 485-7230 for more information. Free school supplies and backpacks will be distributed (while supplies last), raffle prizes and book giveaways, a vendors plaza filled with academic and community resources, and a JCPS Informational Center. Sponsored by Jefferson County Public SchoolsPublic Schools, Service for Peace and Northwest Neighborhood Place. Please note that all children must be accompanied by an adult.
Located at Thomas Jefferson Middle School, 1501 Rangeland Rd. Call 485-3889 for more information. Enjoy this community resource fair with free school supplies and lots of music and fun!
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Already off to a solid start, it appears as though the Nashville Predators have added some extra toughness as they have signed forward Steve Begin to a one-year, two way contract worth $550,000.
The 32-year old Begin is scheduled to head to the Predators' AHL affiliate in Milwaukee for a conditioning stint before joining the Preds. The Predators were forced to place Begin on waivers after signing him so that they would be able to get him in the lineup when he is deemed ready.
The Trois-Rivieres, Quebec native played in 77 games for the Boston Bruins last season, picking up five goals and nine assists. He also scored once in 13 Bruins' playoff contests.
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We are experiencing an issue where our Moxi client is losing its connectivity with the Membase server. When this happens the CPU on the web server spikes to 100% and the server becomes unresponsive. We've sifted through the Moxi logs at the time of these issues and there is nothing obvious being logged.
Can anyone point us in the right direction as to what to check for on the Membase side of things that might help us with this issue. We are running a Membase 18.104.22.168 cluster and the Moxi clients are version 1.7.0_4 running on RHEL 5.3. We have a dozen Moxi client processes running listening on different ports. Also, the clients are virtual machines with shared storage.
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There are a number of bugs which have been addressed that could have this symptom. Can you upgrade to Couchbase Server 1.8? This is the successor to Membase 1.6 and 1.7.
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Ethanol margins returned to the black during late spring and production bounced back from last year's lows—increasing the corn grind and demand, even for pricey old-crop corn.
In addition, companies such as DuPont, POET-DSM, Abengoa and about 20 others are moving forward on cellulosic production, which uses corn byproducts. They are expected to reach up to 100 million gallons in 2014. This is good news for the bioenergy sector and farmers.
While no one knows for sure what bioenergy has meant to producer bottom lines, a study from Purdue University concluded that if the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) mandates had been waived in 2012, the impact on corn prices could have ranged from very little to more than $1 per bu. In total, the biofuels industry means billions of dollars for producer returns each year.
Despite the good news, some dark clouds have emerged. The petroleum industry has launched a full-court press to roll back the RFS.
Linked to that is the market reality. The effective 10% blend wall for ethanol has been reduced because gasoline consumption has fallen. This means if E15 and E85 don't catch fire, corn use for ethanol could fall.
With global corn production increasing and weak U.S. export demand, continued biofuels growth is key to corn profitability.
Production Bounce. High drought-driven corn prices forced many ethanol plants to either close their doors or cut production. Today, they operate at 87% to 89% capacity, up from 84% to 85% in 2012.
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"Plants figured out how to make $7 corn work," says Chad Hart, ag economist at Iowa State University. How? Ethanol prices jumped 10¢ to 40¢ per gallon higher than costs.
The production change has been dramatic. The week of Jan. 25, the ethanol industry was using 82 million bushels of corn, but by the third week of June, that had increased to 95 million, a 15% increase. The forecast looks even better for 2014.
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BRISTOL, Ind. A fire that killed a mother, her adult son and the family dog in a Bristol trailer home Monday has been ruled "unintentional" as the investigation continues.
It happened shortly after 7:00 a.m. at the Timberbrook Mobile Home Park in Bristol (526 N. Arbutus).
The call for help apparently came in from the emergency medical alert device of 66-year-old Crisinda Kabay.
Kabay's 42-year-old son Chad Russell also perished in the blaze. Russell recently moved into his mother's home after her husband fell ill and moved to a nursing home.
"Trying to break it to my step-father, he is already going through a lot. Going through rehabilitation in a nursing home and now we have to go try to break it to him that his wife is gone. We are a week from Christmas he is already looking at spending it without her just being in a nursing home. Now he has to spend it without her for the rest of his life," said another son of Crisinda Kabay, Bob Chupp.
Members of the Bristol Fire Department who were called to fight the flames say they did not have a fighting chance to save the people and pet trapped inside.
"Upon arriving at the scene, the east half of the building was fully involved," said Chief Fay Kemp. "And there was no one around so, we assumed that the occupants were still inside."
Both bodies were found near the front door. They both, from what I understand, they both tried to make it out," said Chupp. "And I guess the smoke was too much for him (Russell) to get out."
For the family, this holiday season of giving has suddenly turned into one of great loss.
"The biggest thing is be with family and appreciate your family. You never know when you're going to lose them," said Chupp.
Chupp said his mother had mobility problems, and "had a hard time getting around," but adds, "She was a mother to everybody, all the neighbors, she tried to be a mother to all her neighbors. She just tried to be there for everybody."
Turns out Bristol firefighters had been to the same address before, sometimes to respond to medical calls and on at least one prior occasion, to respond to a fire that was caused by smoking while using oxygen.
It is too soon to say for sure if Monday's fire was related to smoking and the use of oxygen for medical purposes, but those who know and love the family say they would not be surprised.
"Don't smoke in your home, don't smoke period," said Raymond Conway who used to live next door to the Kabays. "I was really worried when we were living here; I mean I feel kind of bad I mean I probably could have helped if I was here. I feel like I didn't do enough."
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Tomorrow, Wednesday August 1, will be Teacher Truth or Dare Day.
Truths will operate as usual dare day. Here are the rules.
Dares: You may put requests in people's asks. For example, I dare Pablo to build a fort with his wife in their new house. You have the right to not do a dare without any peer pressure. For example, I will not post a picture of how messy my room is right now.
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A study published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) provides evidence that use of antibiotics is associated with an increased risk of breast cancer. The authors concluded that the more antibiotics the women in the study used, the higher their risk of breast cancer.
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October 9, 2012 | by Kalie Lowrie
Dallas, TX – Raquel Contreras, who currently serves as president of the Baptist World Alliance's Women's Department, visited the Dallas Baptist University campus on September 26 and shared her testimony with students, faculty, and staff, encouraging them to trust in God for His plans and His perfect timing in their lives.
Contreras began the day speaking in the DBU chapel service in front of more than 1,400 students. A native of Chile, Contreras explained to students how she grew up in a home characterized by justice and spirituality. Her mother was a Southern Baptist missionary from North Carolina to Chile, where she met and married a Chilean lawyer. Naturally, Contreras pursued a legal career early in her life and even considered a life in diplomacy, while she always remained active in her Baptist church. One day in Sunday School, she met and soon married a young man who was studying to be a pastor, Guillermo Catalan. Sensing a new call to be a pastor's wife and support her husband through school, she left her growing legal career and moved with Guillermo to Dallas in order for him to attend then Dallas Baptist College.
Raquel Contreras speaking to DBU students in the Patty and Bo Pilgrim Chapel during a DBU chapel service on Wednesday, September 26.
Over the next eight years, the couple remained in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where he completed two degrees at DBC, as well as a degree at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, all the while pastoring a church. When they returned to Chile, Guillermo was eventually named president of the Chilean Baptist Theological Seminary. He served in this role as a leader among Chilean Baptists until his unexpected death in the early 2000s.
At that time, Contreras' life changed overnight. No longer a pastor's wife, she was now a widow with two teenage children. However, instead of standing in despair, she decided to serve the Lord one day at a time, and through this step of faith, God began to use her as a leader in new and unexpected ways.
After serving for a brief period of time in a local church, the Chilean National Convention, who was undergoing internal strife, unexpectedly and unanimously elected her as their president. During her time as president, she helped maintain harmony and order within the national convention and even helped to bring about reconciliation between the two Baptist conventions in Chile. Next, she was invited to be involved with the Baptist World Alliance on various councils, and eventually, the Union of Baptists of Latin America elected her to serve as their president. Her term as president of UBLA expired in 2010, and the following year, the Women's Department of the BWA asked her to serve a five-year term as president, and for the past two years, she has travelled the world serving Baptist women.
Recently, the Spanish Baptist Publishing House in El Paso, Texas, asked her to join them as their editorial director. Since that time, she has spearheaded a project to complete work on the first-ever Spanish Study Bible written by native Spanish speakers from a Latin American perspective. The Bible, sold in bookstores around the world, will soon be entering its second publishing.
"We don't see what is going to happen, and many times, we feel frustrated," Contreras shared with the students. "But then when we live one day at a time, we are able look back and see how the Lord works in our lives."
During the luncheon with the faculty and staff, Contreras also shared her story as a way to show how the Lord is working all over the world. She also brought greetings on behalf of the Women's Department of the BWA and shared stories from women around the world, especially those struggling with persecution, poverty, violence, and disasters.
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Say goodbye to cold rides.
The Mavic Men's Helium Cycling Vest stuffs in your saddle bag during the ride up and comes out to warm you up on long, cold descents. A full-length zipper lets you vent if you need something in-between, and the Dura Lite SL fabric even holds off a bit of rain if the weather turns nasty. Mavic included a rear zip pocket to hold a few energy gels or maybe a road map.
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Great looking, too small
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The vest looks terrific and is made of very nice material - incredibly light and appears to have great wind-blocking capabilities. However, it is sized WAY too small - I'm an average guy (5'10", 175#) and usually wear a medium shirt. I order cycling stuff in large (it's sized for all the racers so you can't expect it to fit regular folks the same way) and this vest was really, really tight in large. I need an XL and I've never bought anything in that size.
In short, order s MUCH bigger size than you normally would.
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Mavic sizing is typical Euro really. Castelli/Santini normal. This helium fabric is whisper lite.
Bang 4 your Buck.
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Got to wear my new vest yesterday and it was great. I didn't know that I was wearing it. Light and aero. I had been looking at this vest for a while but couldn't justify the cost. When I saw it for sale at Real Cyclist I thought it was time to bite the bullet. Well worth it. Fits easily into my rear pocket but at a moments notice a great wind resistant shell. No zipper in my neck and great styling. My freinds were jeoulous. 5 Stars.
Hiroman - great thoughts
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Hiroman - I understand your frustration. I would send it back! It didn't meet your needs. Give us a ring or live chat. Let us make this right.
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I give it 5-Stars for the Function and Purpose of wind-proof and easy of packability; however, I give it 1-Star for aerodynamics. I could hardly feel it when I was wearing it as it is extremely light weight and virtually wind-proof. The biggest downfall it has it the excess flapping garbage bag sound coming from the material behind your head. The vest creeps up and the loose material flaps in the wind that eventually wore down my tolerance that I determined it was a very expensive Hefty bag. I ended up having to tuck the bottom of the vest under my jersey to minimize the sound which I had to redo periodically.
I purchased the Large, which is the smallest I could get, as the Medium, I could not zip up. Please think seriously before buying this product. I didn't give it a 1-Star because it does work as which it was designed so it doesn't out right suck. I just would like not to recommend it due to the excess noise it creates.
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Mavic jersey size select option - it's mean international size or USA size?
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Is there a size chart available for Mavic apparel? I'm wondering if the sizes are more Euro ? Thanks!
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Here is a sizing chart (this is for their jerseys but should be the same for the vests). Hope this helps.
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Just to add-Sizing on this is Japan Large and international medium. What Backcountry has listed as a large is pretty spot on, with a 30" center back length. Also, material is 100%Nylon in the body and 100% Polyester for the lining.


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Will Food Magazines Survive The Slump?
We're a cooking website, sure, but we still love the old-school cooking magazines. I have a few favorites stacked up here on my desk for inspiration, and I'm willing to pay for a select few to arrive monthly, hang around on the kitchen counter, grease-spattered, for a week or two or stashed in my bag for subway rides. Call me old fashioned, but I like to hold the paper and dog-ear recipes to try.
But the question everyone's asking is, with more and more people getting their content online, will the food magazines survive the economic slump?
Last year we asked you Where Do You Find Your Recipes and many of you said you go online. But with such a roster of major food magazines still being published, someone must be using them. I know I am.
Tell us below: do you think food magazines will take a hit as many print publications have recently? Given what Apartment Therapy has seen in the shelter category (Domino, House & Garden, O at Home and Blueprint have all folded), one might guess that some culinary titles will have to fall. If so, which do you think will survive, and which do you find dispensable?
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CI is so practical and has so much good information in it and combined with America's Test Kitchen I think it should be around forever.
I'm also impressed at what looks to be a new direction that Gourmet is heading. I'm really enjoying the styling in the last couple of issues.
couple more thoughts:
CI also has a subscription based website--I'm pretty sure it's the same content plus more than the magazine so who knows about the longevity of the magazine.
And the styling in Gourmet is such that a computer monitor would not do it justice in my opinion--there are some really nice photos which look fantastic on paper.
My understanding is that the sales are actually better right now because more people are cooking to save money than ever before.
I will second the concept that the CI website is phenomenal. I finally ponied up for a subscription, and the engineer in me is still gleeful. The recipes are great.
As far as magazines go, I tend not to love getting lots of paper clutter in my mailbox, but I do love swinging by the grocery store racks when I'm feeling uninspired by the ideas swirling around my own brain. I probably end up picking up a magazine every other month or so when I find one that inspires my culinary side at the grocery store.
Unfortunately magazines, like newspapers rely on ad revenue and not subscriptions to make money.
(Except for my favorite Cooks Illustrated!!!)
Rumor had it on another cooking blog that Gourmet would be a casualty as Conde Nast owns it AND Bon Appetit.
I personally prefer Gourmet over Bon Appetit but I haven't subscribed (or bought one) in ages (one only needs so many magazines, ya know?).
I subscribe to tons of food magazines. Love them. Unfortunately, this may not be enough to make the difference.
I am so bummed that Domino and House & Garden folded.
I really hope Gourmet stays around. Since Ruth Reichl got there the magazine has struck a really nice balance between
1. eye-candy stuff I only aspire to make
2."weeknight recipes" that I actually cook
3. at least one article that examines the environmental or economic or ethical impacts of how we eat.
I guess I'm just a little worried that the agro-business giants that keep the advertising budget up are going to retaliate for all the slow food/slave picked tomatoes/death of the family farmer articles Gourmet has run in the last two years. I'll be really upset if they do.
"I guess I'm just a little worried that the agro-business giants that keep the advertising budget up..."
Similar thoughts here cedargr0. Have you read the latest issue of Saveur (the one above)?
check out the "Reporter" piece:
"You've probably heard of the food-services giant Sysco; you probably haven't heard that the company is going green."
By Indrani Sen
It appears that these magazines are aware of the possible scenario you brought up and are going to great lengths to preserve this relationship. The article is about Sysco yet names like Chez Panisse, Dan Barber and Per Se are used in the article--names most people would not expect to be associated with a 30 billion dollar food corporation.
Ruth Reichl is amazing. What an inspiring woman. I would be sad to see Gourmet fold after all the wonderful changes she has made. I love the articles and even the feel of the pages.
I subscribe to Everyday Food and Gourmet.
All I know is, I received my Bon Appetit yesterday, and made the Spanish Manchego cakes listed at the very beginning of the mag this afternoon, sans chorizo. AMAZING. If I make one recipe a month from the mag, it's fine.. I just love the inspiration, and I too read it on the subway.. it's very relaxing and I enjoy imagining eating all those wonderful meals.
@ Jen: Conde Nast has been suffering a lot in the recession, given that they own Domino, and owned Jane which folded a few years back. All the good magazines are going by the wayside.
I don't see Everyday Food making it, because Martha has such a huge empire, and both Living and Body Soul cover eating. Also, I could see Conde Nast putting Gourmet Bon Appetit together, especially since Epicurious archives all the recipes.
Between my mom and I (we swap magazines amongst the two of us) we subscribe to more than we care to admit. However, I get at least one recipe out of each issue; some are keepers and some aren't. If anything, it's a great way to get inspired and a relaxing diversion.
When it comes to browsing for recipes/inspiration, I'm still attached to physical cookbooks and magazines. Something about the pictures, the act of turning the pages, that makes the recipes more real.
I'm a Bon Appetit fan myself; the redesign last year (or was it 2007) reinvigorated the whole brand, so I hope it gets to stick around. Cooks Illustrated, to which I also subscribe, doesn't even accept advertising; it's also been robust about franchising (with books, shows, Web sites, etc.) so I suspect it'll survive.
As for the others, Cooking Light will probably make it by virtue of its diverse focus: articles on fitness and makeup bring in a different crowd of advertisers than just food. Everyday Food's massive subscriber base will probably help it weather the storm.
The rest seem like a crapshoot to me, and will depend on whether the sales teams are able to convincingly argue that people reach for their publication when they decide to start cooking at home more often.
I subscribe to Bon Appetit, Martha Stewart Living, Body Soul, and Real Simple. The only one I paid for was Bon Appetit (my favorite). The others were though frequent flier miles or gifts.
I like Bon Appetit a lot, especially since their "make-over" within the last year. I would definitely trade both Living and Body Soul for Everyday Food, but that is because I am most interested in the food/recipes. I like the idea of Real Simple, but I never really get anything out of it.
Wow-- am I the only Cooking Light fan here? Their recipes are easy to use, but not boring; and fairly mid-price. Too bourgeois maybe?
@nicole612--Definitely not! I LOVE CL! They are great for beginner cooks like me, and they are so unique! BTW their cover is GORGEOUS this month (see above). An what's even better is that their delicious recipes are somewhat healthy, lots of fresh produce. I hope they don't go under, it's just not the same online, even though I am an avid food blog follower. I still love magazines. (sorry, I'm really all over the place today.)
I rarely buy food magazines, but everyone I know who does isn't going to stop. I often buy summer issues of vegetarian times but that is it.
However, I would estimate that I only spend more money on rent that I do on food. I have a weakness for well aged cheeses, good balsamic vinegar, and organic cold-pressed olive oil, not to mention artisan breads... I hardly make enough to get by as a student right now, but no matter my finances, good food is a must!
Fun topic, although worrying. I'd really suffer the loss of Gourmet. Maybe I'll have to take another look at Bon Appetit. Sigh. It's been a year or so, and I didn't like the old layout very much. I find the content of Saveur pretty good but the layout really confusing, so I don't read it much.
I used to get Everyday Foods, and I have a stack of torn out recipes from those books that I use all the time. But after a while every issue started looking the same. Probably because they don't do articles and they don't do super fancy, and there's a limit to how many easy-ish family friendly meal plans that exist even in the Martha-verse. They do have the best cookie recipes on the planet, however.
Nicole, Cooking Light isn't too bourgeois, exactly. My roommate used to get it, and some of the recipes are great. But I never was happy with the baked goods I made from there, possibily because they were always using low-fat versions of everything, and I only buy the old-fashioned stuff, so I wasn't ever truly following the recipe. My own fault, I suppose. But really, who has Eggbeaters in the house? Maybe if you've just had a quadruple bypass?
ive been getting cooking light for probably a year now, and it always seems hit or miss. there wasn't really much in the most recent issue that really struck me, but there have been some good ideas, at least. still, i hope it sticks around.
and ive been thinking of getting a CI subscription. one of my former coworkers worked on the site quite a bit, and he said it's fantastic.
I am in love with Gourmet and would be incredible heartbroken if it didn't make it.
@cedargr0, you really summed up why it's so amazing.
I receive Gourmet and Bon Appetit (that subscription combo seemed too good to pass up), and I enjoy Gourmet much more than BA, although both are nice. Everyday Food is the one I recommend for new cooks or newly married folks who now have to get dinner on the table every night. It is great, although 3 years into it I did find it repetitive, as mentioned. Plus, I had learned enough to think up my own simple recipes.
I think that food mags have a better shot at sticking around than home mags. We've all still got to eat and it is cheaper to cook your own, but I seem to have survived without much home decor for lo these many years!
i read this post a while back about the success of cook's illustrated (in its many forms) and found it quite interesting:
the fact that they have managed to not just survive in a time when so many print publications are failing, but also *grow*, hadn't occurred to me before, but it's pretty amazing - they not only have a growing base of print subscribers, but many of those people also pay for an online membership! i certainly fall into that category, and CI is also the only print subscription i own.
I get Delicious magazine (Both the UK and Australian edition) and Olive every month, and occasionally buy Donna Hay Magazine. I hope they all survive :)
Yes, I'd say a combination of people staying home to cook more yet still craving more varied food than Hamburger helper, plus possibly some families temporarily cutting back to one breadwinner due to job difficulties so someone is actually home to cook, plus the perfect sales placement the magazines have in the checkout aisle will help most food-recipe magazines stay afloat.
Besides, if you ask fans of an online food blog where they get their recipes, you shouldn't be surprised when they say "online." ;)
Now, the foodie magazines that focused more on fancy restaurants and such... they may have a problem. But I'm willing to bet a lot of magazines are realizing it's smarter right now to focus on cooking at home, and how to get the best bang for your buck (even when going gourmet).
Gourmet is my top food magazine w/CI a close second. Both fulfill needs (cooking as an art and cooking as a need).
I love Cooks, but I just canceled my online subscription. I found the new format more difficult to navigate, and I have so many wonderful cookbooks to use (some of them Cooks). Plus there are sites like The Kitchn or Epicurious if I"m looking for something that's not in my cookbooks, or for fresh inspiration.
I don't miss it at all.
Saveur is by far my favorite of the bunch, I feel it's for people who truly love everything about food, rather than those who like to cook & eat. Their feature stories and photography are beautiful and their recipes have soul.
Accodring to magazine trade pubs, Saveur is the only one in the category whose ad pages are growing. Its pages spiked 11% in March compared with a year earlier. In contrast, Gourmet's pages plunged 48%, Bon App's fell 29% and F&W's dropped 22%.
Interestingly enough, Saveur is not allowing the recession to influence its approach to food. "You don't see 'budget' anything in my book," Publisher Merri Lee Kingsly says.
Perhaps she'll eat her words as the year wear on...


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A few days ago, I attended a seminar on the economics of obesity and overeating that left me thinking, not about obesity and metabolic syndrome, which are epidemic in the US and important contributors to both national health care costs and declining national health indicators, and not about medicine's inability at present to provide satisfactory preventive remedies. It left me thinking about the "split" between our presumably rational, self-interested, fully-informed or near fully-informed deliberative selves and our primitive, acquisitive, also self-interested (if a trifle myopic), less than rational selves.
The seminar speaker motivated his analysis of overeating and obesity by providing a nice, albeit simplistic, overview of human brain areas and function. The limbic system, the primitive part of our brains, gives rise to impulsive behavior and affective (emotional) responses to stimuli that may have had and may still have value in promoting at least short-term survival of the individual, for example, fight or flight, "eat this now it will lay down fat for winter", "mate now for tomorrow we may die." Our deliberative functions, the thought, the marshaling and integration of cues, stimuli, signals, previous experience, and conjectures about future states of the world and our place in them that temper the primitive impulses emanating from our limbic system to form more complex and rational behavioral responses, resides in the frontal lobe.
The seminar provided a simplistic framework for thinking about what I think is a key metaphysical question that we economists are only recently starting to wrestle with: what really determines the behavior of homo economicus? Or perhaps more correctly, is there such a being as homo economicus, at least as economists have tended to conceptualize him?
As I listened to the seminar speaker, I kept thinking of John Stuart Mill's famous quote from Utilitarianism:
It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question. The other party to the comparison knows both sides.
It seems to fit exactly the dilemma we face in understanding and in modeling human behavior. (Note: use of this quote is in no way meant to imply that the obese and overweight are "pigs" or "fools." This same model fits people making choices about saving for retirement or taking preventive measures against (bad) future health or income states. It also fits investment bankers making decisions about whether or not to continue to invest in mortgage backed securities even after being warned that they are on a collision course with disaster. It fits economists and bank regulators who were warned a decade ago that derivatives markets should be regulated. We are all pigs and fools at some times in our lives, some more so than others.)
But there was another stark question raised by the seminar that economists in particular must come to grips with: are consumers really utility maximizers or are they, at best, preference satisfiers? It matters because our theory takes as given that consumers are utility maximizers. Implicit in this are the essential requirements of rationality, self-interest (presumably long-term and broad enough to encompass family, friends, and community), and full-information. If we are primarily preference satisfiers and those preferences do not correspond to some approximation of "utility" where utility comprises more than immediate, uninformed happiness or satisfaction, we are at the heart of an epistemological conundrum: are consumers the best judges of what is best for them? We take as given in economics that they are and much of welfare economics rests on this assumption. We often take it as given regardless of uncertainties and information asymmetries that clearly compromise the assumption.
What then is it within us or without us that forms the bridge between affect and deliberation? What are the determinants and what are the public and health policies that would strengthen that bridge in ways that benefit the utility of both individuals and society?
One seminar participant suggested that the relationship between the ideal or utility maximizing state of the world (as judged by the individual, for example, their optimal body mass index (BMI)) and the actual state of the world (in this case a person's actual BMI) be modeled as a weighted average of the empirically observed or inferred desiderata of the two portions of the brain. A simplistic equation may help here:
B=θD + (1-θ)A
Let B be the "bridge" between the two parts of the brain or between our primitive selves and our rationally self-interested, fully-informed selves. D is the empirically observed output or state of the world that results from the deliberative portion of reason. A is the empirically observed output or state of the world that results from the affective or primitive portion of reason, and 0 ≤ θ ≤ 1 is a weight. (My words and interpretation, not his.)
What I liked about this suggestion is that it provides a nice conceptualization of what I like to think of as the "Socrates parameter, " θ. The parameter that determines how deliberative, how reasoned, how fully-informed, how forward thinking we really are. A high value implies high deliberation, but it can also imply better information or better use of available information, or even openness to new, information that conflicts with preconceived ideas or ideology. A high value may also imply lower rates of time preference or a longer time horizon to a quasi-hyperbolic "cliff." Low values imply low deliberation and are consistent with poor information or poor use of available information, higher rates of time preference and/or very short time horizons, or an inability or unwillingness to consider novel information and perspectives.
(For those not used to thinking in equations, it may help to notice that θ can only take values between 0 and 1. When θ = 1 (the highest value it can take), (1- θ)=0, so a person with the highest possible value of θ had B=D, i.e., they are pure deliberative with no influence from the limbic portion of their brain. Conversely, a person with θ = 0, the lowest value it can take, has (1- θ) = 1. That person is pure limbic, affective with no deliberative influence on choices. A person with θ = ½ will have (1- θ) = ½ implying a 50/50 split between deliberative and affective influences on his/her decision making. Thus, varying values of θ describe the degree to which a person or group of people temper emotion and impulse with deliberation.)
Behavioral economics and neurological economics are now helping us to understand the Socrates parameter; the dimensions of being, belief, and behavior that serve to bridge and temper affect with deliberation as well as the aspects of being, belief, and behavior grounded in emotion that serve as barriers between the good that we will to do and our actual behavior.
This is important stuff to understand. Right now, A in the equation above usually shows up in our error terms. If it is a genetic component we all share, then it may well generate correlation across individuals and communities as might also D, but in less easily measured and quantified ways. In the absence of widely disseminated, easily understood information bolstered by regulation, A may well be a major contributor to bank bubbles and bailouts as well as to obesity and overweight, youthful smoking initiation, and unfettered appetites for risk and sweets to name a few.
The seminar speaker made the point that marketers of food and drink (and this could also apply to marketers of subprime mortgages and subprime political ideas) have tended to focus on the emotional, primitive part of our brains rather than the deliberative part. Foods have been engineered to contain more calories and fewer nutrients per portion as portion sizes have increased. To the extent that our limbic systems respond to such engineering by over-riding the judgment of our frontal lobe and to the extent that our frontal lobe is deprived of the information it requires to make a rationally self-interested judgment, we are not only pigs and fools, we are slaves.


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The first thing I got accomplished, was getting the fireplace taped and prepped for painting. My fireplace is one of the things in my house that I don't love. It is just TOO WHITE. My interior designer recommended that I "age" it a little to soften it. She recommended using Ralph Lauren Glaze in Tobacco, by painting it on and wiping it off. We'll see how that goes. I have a feeling that I am going to be repainting it a nice creamy color in the end.
The other thing I accomplished was finishing cleaning out the 2nd spare bedroom that is going to become Neely's playroom. Brad is so sick of me finding more things to put in the attic. But, someday I might need all this stuff. I also taped all the trim off so we could paint that room too. We have NEVER painted in our entire life, but we're going to give it a shot. Again, I have a feeling that this isn't going to work and I'll be calling Pete the Painter.
I have a lot of goals for this week. I thought I'd put them out here to make myself more accountable. 1. Finish the panels for my living and dining room 2. Glaze the fireplace 3. Pack up the baby stuff that I have piled in the hall (then have Brad put in the attic) 4. Convince Brad to paint the ceiling in the playroom 5. Finish putting the locks on the cabinets. As I write this, I realize I'll probably only do about 2 of these, but oh well.
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Even though I had known this was coming, that in no way made it better.
They say that it isn't about the destination; it is about the journey, I think that now I know the true meaning of that phrase. You know that the inevitable is coming for you, the journey merely postpones that. But when the destination of your journey is so terrible, sometimes the journey - as horrible as it is - can prepare you in some ways. Sometimes.
However, nothing could have ever have prepared me for this. When the inevitable is coming for you, there is no one that you can trust. I have learnt this, and so many over things from this journey. I have found strength, life, and the true meaning of the word 'love'. Maybe there was some force that made sure not everything was agony, that made sure that you had some happiness. This final destination was horrible, but I wouldn't trade what I have found and disscovered from it for anything.
They had come for us. They had come for me.
As if our thoughts were shared - which they practically were, we both shrank into each other, not only for warmth, but for comfort, just curled up against each other, listening to each others breathing and watching our own breaths make beautiful swirling clouds in the freezing morning air.
We were waiting.
No matter what the outcome of this would be, my whole life would change.
If we had the advantage, we would have a great duty, a duty that we could not shake off. We would be murderers.
If we lost, I would die. We would all die. The world would revolve around as if we were never here, but my world would stop, along with at the worlds of twenty-two people, at the minimum.
After many, many minutes of silence, we heard the sound we had known was coming.
The gentle breeze, that we knew could only mean one thing.
To someone else, someone who had a normal life, this might have meant a gust of wind, but to me it meant so much more. It meant that the danger was here, it meant that screams would soon pierce the morning, it meant that everyone I cared about was about to put their lives on the line. It meant this could be my final breath, it meant that my entire world could crumble down around me completely. It would crumble down.
But above all it meant one thing.
They were here.
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27. Photo
I was looking through some of my old photo-album.
When I was little, Alice and Rosalie had spent days on end dressing me up and taking an endless stream of pictures. It was quite clear who had chosen the clothes in which shots.
In one picture I would be wearing tiny dark navy leggings, little pale blue pumps and a white t-shirt with the words la belle rose blanche printed in a cream colored font; In the next I would be wearing a little baby-pink dress with white frills around the sleeves and the collar.
It was a strange sight – seeing me like that.
I looked so happy, so much like a normal child, with a peaceful life. Just having fun with her normal family.
I turned over and saw a picture that made my heart warm.
There was a tall boy, maybe seventeen years old. He had beautiful russet skin, and glossy black hair that was slowly crawling down to his chin. He was laughing, and there were huge laugh-lines around his eyes, but instead of making him look older they made him almost look like a twelve year old.
On his shoulders was a small girl, she was probably two years old, though it was hard to know. She had pink cheeks, and her bronze ringlets cascaded around the man's shoulders, going down far past her back.
Jacob and me.
It's odd – thinking about how you used to be with someone else.
On one hand, you can imagine exactly how you acted, how you felt. It seems completely normal, like you could just go back to how you were and it wouldn't seem at all out of the ordinary.
On the other hand, every thing is impossible.
I could never even consider him just being a friend of mine; he would always be so different. Looking back at that picture, I could barely even imagine that the little girl in that picture was me.
There was more light in her eyes, I knew that mine had been extinguished a week ago, or a lifetime, as it seemed. But there was harshness to the light. Now my eyes were gentler.
I would never go back to being the girl whose best friend was just her best friend. I would be the girl whose best friend was so much more than that.
He could never be just my best friend. He would always Jacob.
My Jacob.
you really caught the happy and sad in this chapter.
"He could never be just my best friend" vs "best friend was so much more than that"
Short and sweet.
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I'm sorry for the length,
aww sweet :) this chapter was sweet
28. Uncovered
I was in the house.
Right now, Rosalie and my Mother were having an argument about whether it was safe for me to see Charlie.
Personally, I didn't think there was much danger. Carlisle had said that he was acting similarly to how Mum had when she was a new born. This had fascinated him.
If you were more controlled when you were told what would happen first, there would be so much more control for newborns, and that meant that there would be less executions.
Apart from this being wonderful because people wouldn't be dying needlessly, it would give the Volturi less power. The reason (according to Carlisle at least, and he was right about most things) that the Volturi had become so unstoppable was because they had power.
When he stayed there, he had noticed that every time there was an execution (or a murder, depending how you saw it) the guards would get just a bit more scared of them, treading just a little bit more lightly.
After years of people assuming that they had all the power, they finally had.
That was part of the problem.
Not many people realised how much strength the Volturi had. They had only been warned of their brutality and amazing supremacy, and each time the legend had been told it had become slightly overemphasised.
Nobody could know what they were really like, because if they ever got the chance to find out there was no chance of survival for them.
So when people thought that they had immense power, they immediately thought that it was hopeless to fight. For a few centuries this was how it had been, people not fighting because they had been told it was useless to even try to.
But now it had become reality because that was how people thought it was.
Maybe now things would be different.
I had gathered from Carlisle that them getting rid of newborns was why the Volturi were feared so much. Because newborns were so strong and fast, they were near impossible to destroy, meaning that not only did people feel scared at their obvious power, they in a way almost relied on them to get rid of the danger of losing secrecy.
It was quite clear that Volturi were beginning to crumble along with their castle.
However, even though Carlisle seemed to be with almost as much control as Mum had had, Rosalie was completely against me seeing him.
"It's too dangerous. He's only a few days old!" Rosalie said defiantly. Her eyebrows were concave, and they contrasted with her otherwise angry face.
"He's her grandfather, and he has as much self control as me. And he already knew her, I didn't. So he's much more used to her and-""
"It's not safe! Of course you had self-control! She was your daughter," said Rose, sounding quite mad now, and waving her hands in the air for emphasis.
Emmett, sensing where this was heading, walked swiftly over to her and put his arms around her waist, whispering 'calm down' in her ear.
"Why don't you care about her safety," hissed Rose, ignoring her husband, "like you said, she is your daughter, not mine! So why a I the one who feels like this?"
Mum flinched, as if Rosalie's words were causing her physical pain.
Dad was in the corner, and before now he had ignored this conversation, but when he heard what Rose said, his brow furrowed deeply, making him look angry.
Was he angry at Rose? Or was he worried about her upsetting Mum?
I still had no idea about whether he was angry at Mum. Well, the word angry didn't really fit in the situation.
I don't think there is a single word to describe the way that they were. They couldn't be angry at each other, because their love was much, much stronger than that. And anger sounded too dramatic, yet in a way, anger wasn't serious enough.
If I didn't know my parents, and I had just happened to hear that fight, I would say that they despised each other, put it was obvious to that they didn't. Maybe it was because of my heightened vampire abilities, but I was able to notice the way that they weren't trying to fight at all.
It pained them to shout each other; it was quite easy to see. Whenever Dad would say a spiteful retort, he would flinch as if it was aimed at him as well.
I don't know how I could bare it.
Whenever you love someone enough, your pain becomes their pain, this I had learnt. And once that happens, life becomes impossible.
How can you hurt the person you love?
You are just hurting yourself even more.
Right now I felt like I didn't want to look at her. Yet I was also fighting the urge to look away.
Why did I blame her? It was only her natural instinct as a mother to defend her child no matter what, and her immortality would only have strengthened that yearning to protect.
When she was human, weak and so irresistibly fragile, she had been so ridiculously in love with the thing that was taking her life; she had protected it even though she knew that she was probably confirming her death by doing so. She had loved the child inside her so much.
To think of a strengthened version of that incredibly intense devotion strengthened, it was no wonder she had defended her.
That thought made me wonder.
Why was she the one protecting her from me? I would never forgive myself for trying to kill my own daughter. It was so odd to think about, yet really it made some sense.
On one hand, I didn't know how I could have ever wanted to and I had always told myself that the only reason I had wanted to kill her was to save the reason for my existence, my wife, but the hate had been so strong, equal only to the immense feeling when I first smelt Bella's scent.
I thought the most intense feeling was hatred. But now I saw that the only thing that could make me feel that way was love.
I had loved my daughter too much.
I knew myself well enough now that I realised that I would have immediately tried to defy that love, because it was wrong. How could I love a thing that was killing the woman I loved?
Now the question was could I ever resent my daughter for something that was her nature? I'm don't really think I could. I just needed to realise that.
Because of this knowledge, I suddenly had the strange impulse to do something I hadn't done in what seemed like years; laugh. I looked up to see if anyone had noticed.
Alice and Jasper were standing close together; Jasper's arms were around Alice's shoulders, his head slightly resting on hers. Alice looked slightly frustrated, her eyebrows were deep set, and this made the rest of her face – which was smiling — seem off. Jasper however, seemed calm. His eyes were closed, his mouth just slightly curved upwards.
Rosalie was standing nose-to-nose with Bella. Her eyes were narrowed, a spark of something like disgust in her eye. Her upper lip was curved up in something that looked like a forced smile, and her teeth were gritted together.
She looked absolutely furious.
Bella's expression was hard to explain. There were so many words to describe how she looked. Angry. Sad. Frustrated. Hurt. Desperate. None of them seemed to fit.
I tried to look at her face, to see how she as feeling, but I was lost in her eyes.
They had the look in them of someone who had died. They were blank on the outside, completely cold, unloving. You would think that she would have lived a thousand years, lost a million loves, or been without a trusted friend on for years and years, but she was only twenty-two. Not one of these things could be true.
If I didn't know her, I would say that she was hard faced, serious. But I did know her so I knew that this was how she looked when she was sad; lonely.
Because of me.
I needed to find some way to make it up with her. But how?
I looked into my father's eyes.
In less than a second, the bitter, harsh, cold look had completely vanished from his face. It had been replaced by hope.
Hope for what? For the future, for me, for my mother? I didn't know. I did know however, that at that time there could be nothing wrong with hope. It meant that this wouldn't be the end, even if we lost the fight, because there would still be that tiny flicker of life; that hope.
That's the most fundamental characteristic about hope; it never dies.
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29. By the River
I was sitting on a log by the river.
I had come out here, to the forest, to get some peace, some time with just my thoughts alone.
There was little sound, just the occasional rustle of tree leaves in the wind, and the small, rhythmic, somewhat comforting sound of the softly gushing stream at my feet.
Sunlight filtered greenly through the canopy of branches behind me, setting a hazy glow around me. He sky was barely visible through the treetops, but I was able to see a couple of grey-blue slits above me.
Thair air was odd for forks: sunny. It was exactly the right weather, warm but with a gentle breeze blowing around to stop in from being too hot.
Everything was so peaceful; calm.
This must be what meditating was like, well; I suppose this was my very own kind of meditation. I didn't need to clear my mind; I just needed to be away from the things going through my mind.
Here I was finally able to think.
I looked back over what had happened since I knew about the fight.
Everything was so different, it was hard to believe it had only been about, what, a week? This thought stirred a memory.
Alice's face was displaying horror. Her mouth was slightly open, and her brows were raised slightly in the center, dropping down at the corner of her eye.
Only once had I seen that expression before.
"When?" Asked Carlisle. His tone was completely flat and cold, but his eyes were closed, like he was bracing himself for the worst.
"It is very sunny, almost unnaturally bright. There should be a weather forecast for that in a week."
In a week. In. A. Week.
I stood up, as if by doing that I might be able to escape the fact that any moment now, a fight could begin.
My heart was pounding loud in my ears, and my breathing was speeding up to an impossible rate.
Just when I thought that the time had been going slowly, it had really been going incredibly fast instead. This situation had completely thrown off my ability to judge time. How could I have misjudged the time so?
My senses were on full alert, so I caught a tiny movement in the corner of my eye. I gasped and spun around.
There was a woman in the tree. She had bright red eyes, and long hair that reached down to her back. She was perched on the top of the branch, a bright red cloak surrounding her.
Her eyes were wide, and she looked almost scared. Her lips were slightly parted, but they curved upwards now, making her look even more petrifyingly sinister. Her eyes glinted.
Before I had time to scream she was gone.
I was completely frozen.
Surely she had to be from the Volturi, and if she was here that had to mean that the rest of them were coming. Coming soon. What could I do?
Should I go back to the house and tell everyone, and risk getting in the way of the fight, or should I run? No, no, I couldn't leave everybody. Never.
I spun around, and ran as fast as I could run back to the house. The wind rushed around me, and heat burned my forehead. I could barely see, it was like I was in a bubble. I could only notice my surroundings up to a meter away; everything else was just a blurry haze.
I caught a black dot behind me, and then I was plunged into darkness as a howl hit the morning air.
Oh family Drama! Oh no no Poor Nessie :( I hate cliffies lol. I wonder what will happen to her now.
Thank you!
I also hate cliff hangers, though I can't handle the suspense myself so I will probably have to update today! Thanks,
welcome and yeah lol :) welcome
JUst something for you to wonder about, the next Chapter is called 'Mountain'.
Great cliffy, now I really want to know what happened.
I loved Edward's views.
Best wishes
Thank you!
Like i said to Stay, I will update today, but probably not till the afternoon.
I'm glad you enjoyed seeing how Edward felt. I think that in the books they never show much of what he is really thinking, and since Midnight Sun was left halfway, there is still a while to find out more about him. He's a very open-ended character.
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Garfield Park Conservatory is a fantastic place to bring family members of all ages. Something's always growing, and there's always something new to discover! To make your "growing" experience here even more enjoyable, we offer a number of special educational opportunities FREE for kids and families! Come visit the
Elizabeth Morse Genius Children's Garden, which is open during normal Conservatory hours, or visit us during one of our scheduled activity times.
Are you bringing a birthday party or community group to the Conservatory? Please refer to our "Children's Birthday Parties & Community Group
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Family meetup groups consisting of over 10 adults and
children wishing to visit the Conservatory and/or participate in
our programs must contact the School and Group Program
Coordinator at 773-638-1766 x.25 at least three weeks prior to
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Pre-registration for groups is required.To learn about all the programs, events and activities taking place at the Conservatory this month, visit our
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Please note: all scheduled activities are subject to change.
Plant Party Play Dates
Saturdays & Sundays
Date: May through SeptemberTime: 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Location: Play and Grow Garden or Elizabeth Morse Genius
Children's Garden
Cost: Free, donations requested
Each weekend we cook up projects that get kids and families wondering about the plants and the natural world.
Come visit over the weekend to get a dose of nature and keep your kids connected to nature throughout
the summer. Each month, we will wonder about the natural world in a different way, with activities changing weekly.Please note: Plant Party Play Date activities are subject to change.
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Summer "Field Day" Nights
WednesdaysDate: May through September Time: 4:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Location: Various Locations Indoors and Out – check the front desk for location and look for the orange flags
Cost: Free, donations appreciated
This summer, we are offering up special "field day" nights, with facilitated opportunities for kids to play Simon Says, Red Rover, Flashlight Tag, or parachute games. We'll also have opportunities for kids to build, explore, and make soil muffins. Bring a picnic and make a night out of it!
*Due to staff limitations, we cannot accommodate groups. Kids must be accompanied by an adult (at least one adult per 5 children).
Conservatory Kids: Busy Bees
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Cost: TBD
This fall we will debut "Conservatory Kids: Busy Bees" a six-week science-focused program for children ages 3-6 and an accompanying adult. Busy Bees is designed to teach young children about bees and beekeeping through a combination of hands-on activities, stories, and songs. Kids will develop their problem-solving and critical thinking skills as they discover how and why bees do what they do. This 90-minute program will meet weekly on Sunday mornings November 2 – December 14. Look for more information, pricing, and registration details in October.
Chicago City of Learning Badge Program
All Conservatory Hours
Location: Ask for information at the Front Desk
Cost: Free!
School's out, but there's still plenty of fun opportunities to learn at the Conservatory! Come visit us this summer to participate in a city-wide project called Chicago City of Learning. Chicago City of Learning encourages children to participate in classes, programs and activities that further their knowledge and skills and promote positive life-long habits and attitudes. As children complete activities, they earn electronic badges to show what they've accomplished.
At the Conservatory we have three badges you can earn! Ask the front desk how you can get involved!
Conservatory Sleuth: Novice – Have you ever seen a Chocolate tree? What about a Vanilla vine? Have you been to the tropics? Visit the Conservatory to discover an entire indoor tropical environment right here in Chicago! After your visit collect a Conservatory Sleuth: Novice badge simply for discovering the plants and gardens we have here.
Conservatory Sleuth: Back to Glass - Have you ever been on a scavenger hunt? What about in an indoor garden? Come to the Garfield Park Conservatory and you can do both, at one time! Pick up our free Back to Glass scavenger hunt at the front desk and see if you can find all 8 clues as you learn about how a hail storm destroyed our glass house and what we're doing to rebuild it.
Conservatory Sleuth: City in a Garden - Do you like to be outside? Have you ever been on a scavenger hunt? Come to the Garfield Park Conservatory and you can do both, at one time! Pick up our free City in a Garden scavenger hunt at the front desk and see if you can find all 8 clues as you learn about how to make our city greener.
For more information about the Chicago City of Learning Program and to sign up for the program, please visit
FREE Conservatory Scavenger Hunts
EverydayTime: All Conservatory Hours
Location: Pick up your scavenger hunt in the Lobby
Cost: FREE, donations appreciated
Try one of our FREE Conservatory Scavenger Hunts on your next visit! Enhance your adventure at the Conservatory by using one of our free scavenger hunts to explore. Themes will vary throughout the year and include: Backyard Bingo (outside), Candyland, African American History, and more!
Birthday Parties & Community Group Visits
Location: Conservatory
Cost: Call
Have you visited the Conservatory and thought it would be a great place for your child's birthday party or to bring your community group? Great idea! We welcome birthday parties and community groups here at the Conservatory, however there are a few details you need to know to make your trip more successful for everyone.
At this time, we unfortunately do not
provide any private birthday parties or events led by
Conservatory staff. However, there is an outside animal
presenter that is approved to make on-site visits at the
Conservatory. If you are interested in having a live
animal come to your birthday party at the Conservatory,
you can contact Scott Heinrichs from Walk on the Wildside
at 773-823-1466 or
flyingfoxconservationfund.com. (Please note: a room must be rented
if you are going to hire Walk on the Wildside for your
You can rent one of our rooms here to hold your birthday party by contacting Joan Colon at 312-746-5250 or email@example.com.
Your party is welcome to participate in the public ongoing weekend activities (See Kid & Family Fun for details). You can also pickup scavenger hunts for your group at the front desk free of charge. We do suggest a donation of a $1 per child to help cover the cost of materials.
All visitors are served on a first come, first served basis. Due to limited resources, we cannot guarantee birthday parties and large groups participation (20 or more) in the make-and-take program. If you decide to participate in these programs, please split your party up into groups of 6 or less.
Children must be accompanied by their adults at all times inside the Conservatory.
During your party, please be considerate to other visitors so that everybody can enjoy the Conservatory spaces.
Birthday Parties and groups of 10 or more that wish to participate in the weekend programs must call ahead to inform us of when their group will be coming to the Conservatory. To register, or if you have any questions, please contact the Program Registrar
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Origami Open House
Presented by the Chicago Area Origami Society
Saturday of Each Month (except February)
Drop in anytime between 1 pm - 4 pm
Origami is a fascinating, fun-filled creative
activity for children as well as adults. With a minimum of folds
and creases, you can transform a flat sheet of paper into a
three-dimensional form like a swan, a boat, a flower or even a
So, if you're interested in creating animals, dinosaurs,
flowers, decorative boxes and various other models, please join
Every second Saturday of the month in the Conservatory's Classroom, the Chicago Area Origami Society presents a free drop-in Origami Open House to our visitors. Please drop by — both kids and adults are welcome, but children must be accompanied by an adult. Experienced folders welcome as well.
Also, though there will be a limited supply of paper available, you are encouraged to bring your own. The workshop is FREE and OPEN to the public.
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Chicago Wilderness's Leave No Child
New Website
As a Chicago Wilderness
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is the first step to conserving our natural heritage for the
future. We're now learning that this connection is just as
important to healthy childhood development. That's why we are a
part of Chicago Wilderness's Leave No Child Inside, a multi-year
initiative to improve children's health and foster generations
of children that care for nature.
Chicago Wilderness' new web site at
is just for the Leave No Child Inside initiative. Throughout the
initiative, this site will be a resource for parents and other
caregivers with fun ideas on where to go and what to do outside
with their kids.
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Sure sometimes it's frustrating
Difficult, fundamentally challenging
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Vikki is an Assistant Curator for the Steinhart Aquarium.
Briefly describe your job and your area of expertise. Duties include husbandry, training, public presentations. Rainforest birds, raptors, penguins.
More about Vikki
Selected Articles and Publications
Melton, B, V. McCloskey, R. Orlando. "Management and Treatment of Avian Chlamydiosis in a captive Magellanic Penguin Colony at the San Francisco Zoo." Animal Keepers Forum 2006, 33 (12): 533-540.
Vikki's Suggested Reading:
"Hand-Rearing Birds" by Laurie J. Gage, DVM and Rebecca S. Duerr, DVM, 2007 (Blackwell Publishing).
"Don't Shoot the Dog!" by Karen Pryor, 2002 (Cox & Wyman Ltd.).


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