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Chances are, if you're in your 20s, the only couches you've ever owned were hand-me-down freebies or thrift-store finds, the spitting image of what slipcovers were invented to disguise. If you're lucky, that sofa has served you well despite its obvious flaws (the food stains, claw marks, its resemblance to a dirty Shar Pei) and less apparent shortcomings (it's too short to lie on, too long for the room, the evasive spring that pokes you in the butt cheek). Perhaps you even feel some amount of loyalty to this otherwise worthless piece of furniture, that if you don't keep it safe in your living space, its next home will be the Dumpster.
At some point, however, the time will come to put sentimentality aside and replace that embarrassing mess of cushions with a couch you can live with and be proud of. When that moment arrives, you'll need the well-trained tough love that only the Couch Coach can impart.
On the field of home décor, the sofa is home plate, the spot you want to feel most comfortable before heading out to first base or back to the dugout (the bed, naturally). The couch needs to be comfortable but not too lumpy, so you can get your bearings without sinking in. Its surface must not agitate your senses, and its style should suit your own.
Additionally, the couch must be a team player with your lifestyle and the rest of the furniture in the room. Adding a couch to your roster is a major decision, but don't be intimidated. The process can be broken down into six S's: Size, Shape, Structure, Style, Stuffing, and Surface. Once you line up those major players (plus the cost of the thing, which is important but doesn't start with S), choosing your new couch is just a trot around the bases.
The sofa in a one-couch household tends to serve three main purposes: It's the furniture you lounge on daily, the piece your guests (from college roomies to in-laws) sit on, and the piece your guests (see options above) sleep on when they stay over. The couch must stand up to all of those responsibilities and still be the significant tone-setter in your living space.
Lisa Sorensen, owner of Bliss Home, the sophisticated home furnishings shop in Market Square, navigates a list of decisions similar to a solo couch-buyer's. "When we're looking for a couch, it's going to be something that's comfortable, generally with pretty clean lines, not too contemporary—not crazy—maybe a little bit," she says. In other words, somewhat retro and funky but not wacky (sofas shaped like lips are out), plus well made and affordable. They're even delving into sofas that are—get this—both attractive and convert into beds. "There's furniture you're living on and furniture that your guests are sitting on. Although many people downtown in lofts don't have that separate space. So it's got to be both."
Take into account a sofa's size . A couch can be the most stunning piece of furniture you've ever laid eyes on, but if it won't fit through the doors or windows of your house, tough luck. A recent Bliss Home customer took multiple measurements of his dream couch and his home's entryways and ultimately had to throw in the towel because the laws of physics just wouldn't bend for him. Another couple living on the square chucked the idea of a couch altogether, opting instead for side-by-side recliners.
Consider also your room's dimensions. Furniture showrooms have notorious mind-bending properties that can confuse your sense of space. Their half-walls and high ceilings can make you forget how small your house really is. If your den is an overgrown closet with a TV on one end, don't fall hopelessly in love with an L-shaped sectional.
Design also contributes to a couch's sense of belonging. An overstuffed number, especially when accompanied by a matching chair and ottoman, can take up a lot of visual space and fill a room to capacity. A slim-lined sofa of comparable comfort and length can strike a smaller impression more suitable to a space-challenged room.
Which leads to the issue of shape , which is inextricably linked to style . Certain shapes speak of fashion influences and in turn say things about you. An antique mahogany settee says that you are prim and proper and hopefully have an actually comfortable couch in another room. A poofy, leather couch that looks like an elephant's hind end says you either inherited the piece from your pimp uncle or you yourself are looking into going into the world's oldest profession. A camelback sofa says you're classic and unique. An armless sectional says you live life without boundaries.
Clearly, you want to be in charge of the message your couch sends about your personal aesthetic. And there are the nitty-gritty issues: a tight vs. a loose upholstered look; round arms vs. squared arms; short arms, tall arms; three cushions, two cushions or one cushion.
Cyndie Johnston, an interior design graduate and former employee of furniture design firm Craig Nealy, now works at Bliss Home as their resident designer. She says designers study proxemics, or how people relate to each other spatially. For example, depending on the household in question, a couch with one long cushion may invite multiple sitters. However, in the case of the white Isamu Noguchi couches that help give Gay Street bar Sapphire its ultra-modern flair, Johnston says, she never sees multiple strangers share the continuous cushion. The same might also be said for the brightly colored no-back couches at the Knoxville Museum of Art's SubUrban Thursdays events. While those rules might not apply at home, couch shapes have adapted to suit their users.
"Couches have evolved," says Sorensen, referring to an armless modern sectional with a chaise longe on the end. "Ten years ago, couches weren't like that. And now we have people coming in and saying they want two chaises to put together, so they can both sit and watch TV. It's almost like a bed."
All these shapes evoke different styles. There's probably an online quiz to help people concisely define their style, but, really, it boils down to what you like and what you don't. And since nothing's new under the sun, most '00-era couches out there will echo the past few decades.
In the '70s, couches of all shapes and sizes (though mostly big and lumpy) were covered with atrociously busy fabrics in popular color-combos, like brown and orange and green and gold. Stylish '80s and '90s couches were probably flowered or plaid with backrests like giant triple chins.
Today's hippest couch is a direct throwback to the era of Modern architecture with hardly a lump in sight. With squared arms, squared backs and squared legs, today's hottest couches are angular and proper enough to make any living space look like an urban loft apartment. To some they may look better suited to a doctor's office than a living room, but that's fashion for you.
In the middle ground between the modern streamliner and the upholstered Moonwalk is a sofa that strikes a seemingly timeless profile. The comfiest-looking have interchangeable slipcovers; the more tightly upholstered ones have elegant feet without looking like something your great-grandma bought with war bonds.
An important question to ask yourself is: How do I feel about feet? Some couches don't have them, or hide them with pleated fabric. Some couches' feet are ornate, some plain; some are metal, some are wood. Some are thick and masculine; some are hardly more than spokes. You don't have to be a fetishist to like them. But, like a couch's arms, they speak multitudes about the piece's character and attitude.
Regardless of the diverse new offerings on the market, some folks are nuts for antique sofas. Those in the best shape are rare and expensive says Kelly Phibbs, proprietress of Chintzy Rose on Maynardville Highway. Antique sofa frames are more likely to have been made from strong hardwoods, which can make them sturdier than cheaper modern constructions. Phibbs quotes one of her friends who swears that the cost of rebuilding a sofa from an antique frame will result in a couch that's still better than those being made today.
"Most of them you find are going to need a little work," she says, but the cost may be worth it to folks who want a couch like no one else's.
Structure and stuffing are important details that are less obvious but make a heckuva difference in the long run. Bill Cox Jr., who has been in the furniture business for 22 years, says most of his customers are easily distracted by what a couch looks like on the outside and not concerned enough with its insides, which is truly the test of quality.
"We preach the inside. They buy the outside," says Cox from his Lovell Road showroom. In addition to Sorensen's recommendations of choosing frames made of kiln-dried hard woods that are both screwed and glued together, Cox emphasizes the piece's spring system. An eight-way, hand-tied spring system is the best, he says, while webbing (think lawn furniture) is the cheapest and least resilient. Sinuous springs and coil springs fall somewhere in between.
Cox says employees in his showrooms help couch-buyers make decisions based on how much they can spend which equates how long they intend their couch to last. "It'd be nice if you could buy a $399 eight-way, hand-tied couch," he says, alluding to the bargain-basement prices of some discount showrooms, "but you can't."
You also can't discern a couch's quality from sitting on it, Cox says. Only time and wear will reveal the good from the cheap.
Sofas' comfort-making contents are either foam or a mixture of down and foam. For those not allergic to it, down can make a serious difference in a couch's cushy factor. But it's not entirely maintenance free.
"You're going to have to fluff them," says Sorensen. Down cushions (you want the kind that's sewn into channels so the feathers can only shift around so much) deflate and get out of whack, "so if you're not into fluffing, you should not buy a couch with down."
Foam doesn't require fluffing, or improve much with it, but you want it to keep its shape. Foam's density is measured by weight, so the heavier the foam, the less air it contains and the less it gives when sat upon. Like a mattress, your choice in that area depends on your firmness preference.
Probably the most enjoyable part of the couch, its most distinguishing feature, is its surface . It's the color, the texture, the feel-good part that comes in contact with your skin. For every kind of fabric used to cover couches there are equal and opposite reasons to choose some other fabric. One of the best choices on the market is Smart Suede or microsuede, a pure polyester fabric that really looks and feels like suede. It repels water and can be cleaned using water-based products; other fabrics like wool blends and such require chemical cleaners like Renuzit. Cotton-based fabrics absorb liquid and stain more easily than polyester blends, which might not feel as good to the touch. And treating your fabric with Scotchgard to make it water-repellant can void your warranty. The trick seems to satisfy your senses while knowing how to clean a stain at a moment's notice.
What about color? Sorensen and Johnston are adamant about one thing that's obvious the instant you walk into Bliss Home: solid print couches. "Couches are bigger, and you're going to be looking at it all the time," says Sorensen. Johnston also always recommends people begin with a one-color, preferably neutral, couch. "I always think of it as your staple clothing," she says. "Like black pants, black dress, or jeans. You don't go completely nuts on that stuff because it's your staple."
Grays, browns, black, beiges in plentiful fabric blends counter the notion that a non-color couch limits your options. And even a solid color—like an emerald green chenille fabric swatch reminiscent of moss—can act like a neutral given the right accessories. A plain couch gets dressed up with vibrant pillows, which can be changed with the season or your moods. Save the funky prints for the side chairs and the rugs.
A note about leather: Some people dig leather. Those people will pay double and forever fret about pets' claws, kids with scissors, and clumsy winos.
Actually, such worries are shared by all but the most Zenned-out couch owners—worries that must be acknowledged when couch-shopping but then put mostly out of mind. Because you can't worship a sofa so much that its artistic value overwhelms its usefulness. Save that reverence for something that hangs on the wall in a frame, far away from cat hair and dog pee. Couch-hunting is a game worth playing. Just take it once couch at a time.
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---- — By all counts, new U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren seemed genuinely moved by the financial horror stories she heard here last week from Gloucester fishermen facing ruin under the dire new catch limits and other rules imposed upon them by their own federal government.
And she seem committed to trying to fix the problem, notably by vowing to get NOAA to ease off an absurd proposal to sock fishermen — already facing a 77 percent cut in their allowable catch of Gulf of Maine cod, a longtime staple of the New England seafood market — with a share of the feds' cost of supplying on-board monitors.
So with the hopes of fishermen in mind, retired Congressman Barney Frank — a political mentor of Warren's — said he would offer to help her carry out her commitment to help the state's and region's fishing industry by pressing and going with her to the White House to drive home the urgency of the situation to the president. Indeed, Frank noted that the Senate can force the president to hear the industry's case by holding up confirmation of any top Commerce or NOAA appointment until these dire cuts are erased or other fisheries' aid addresses the documented "economic disaster" the industry and fishing communities such as Gloucester and New Bedford are facing.
Warren's reaction? So far, nothing.
The day after Frank extended his offer of assistance — and especially urged Warren to press the case for needed fisheries relief while the Senate has some leverage to do so — Warren's office noted that the senator "appreciated the opportunity to meet with fishermen, family members, local small business owners, and advocates earlier this week in Gloucester and New Bedford to talk about the future of the New England fishing industry."
And Bruno Freitas, a senior advisor to Warren who, for many years, served as Frank's fisheries advisor, added that "Sen. Warren will use the tools she has available to provide them the help they need."
Left unsaid, however, is that the fishermen and lawmakers fighting for them are out of tools, and out of options. Standing on a 2010 federal court ruling that leaves interpretation of the Magnuson-Stevens Act up to NOAA, and given the disputed and unvetted stand by NOAA Northeast Regional Administrator John Bullard and general counsel Lois Schiffer that he cannot and will not extend the current interim limits with cuts of a mere 2 percent for another year, there seems no timely means of halting this virtual shutdown of the Northeast groundfishery short of getting an executive order from the White House to put these new cutbacks on hold.
The time for rhetoric is over. If Warren is serious about helping fishermen, she needs to take Frank's lead and press the White House for relief — now, before it's too late.


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My wife's great great grandmother is a Sarah Hayhurst Arnett (1830 - 1895)is buried in Arnettsville (Cemetery), Monongala, WV. We know very little about here and her family. It is our hope that she might be related to you and you could share information.
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I have no information or relations to the Triplett's. I have been working on documenting the burials at Frankfort Cemetery. If any of these are your relatives please send a message on each one requesting transfer to your managemetn and I will be glad to do so.
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Double cousins too!
Sometimes I feel like my own cousin how these family lines cross so often. My Shreve family (Jonathan R.) married into the Edgell line. How funny.
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i know why i dont have them under a cemetery now. its because on ancestry i have them buried under warrior's fork in marion county. So is hayhurst and warrior's fork the same cemetery?
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We seem to have duplicate memorials for Sabra and Andrew Hayhurst. If you want to be in charge of the memorials I can transfer them to you. I am not related to the Hayhurst families some of them have just married into some of my family lines. I dont have them listed under a cemetery tho. I didnt know there was a hayhurst cemetery in marion county but i do know there is one in wetzel and i was thinking that they may be buried in the wetzel county one. Do you have any proof of where they are buried?
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Well, I know he served (along with most of his family!) but I don't know the specifics....Sorry. From whom do you descend?
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not many deaths were recorded in 1846. . .and not many headstones are still around from that time period either. I just know the death record is in Belmont Co., OH
there are several burials in the Chestnut Level Church Cemetery there and that would be my best guess as to where he and elizabeth are buried.
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Michael, I'll "digg" around and see what I can find out. I'll let you know if I find anything.
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No, sorry to say I don't know where Heinrich (Henry) Sirgrist (Secrest) and his wife are buried. All I have in my tree is he died April 1, 1799 Frederich, Va. When I get time I'll do some more "digging" around and if I find anything I'll let you know. I know he was married twice. Are you a descendant of the Secrest's?
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RALEIGH — Chris Corchiani earned the nickname "Fire" for his ebullient personality when he played point guard for N.C. State. But in 124 college basketball games, Corchiani never got ejected. Twenty-one years after his last college game, that changed on Saturday.
With 6 minutes and 40 seconds left in N.C. State's 76-62 loss to Florida State on Saturday, head referee Karl Hess had Corchiani and fellow former Wolfpack great Tom Gugliotta removed from their front-row seats behind the scorers' table.
About two hours after the game, he was still looking for a reason why Hess stopped the game and asked him and Gugliotta to leave their seats.
"I'd like to know why it happened," Corchiani said. "You could hear us, there's no doubt you could hear us, and we said something about three or four different times, but not once did we use profanity and we never threatened him."
Corchiani didn't know if Hess, who had two Raleigh police officers and an arena security guard help him confront the two former players, had the right to ask him to leave but he said he didn't want to make a scene.
"At that point, you don't want to create a situation," Corchiani said. "So we left."
According to NCAA rules, the game officials have the authority to "eject unruly fans." Rule 10, Section 2, Article 9 of the NCAA rulebook reads:
"When the misconduct of the followers is extreme or excessive, such behavior may be penalized by the official requesting home/contest management to eject from the premises the team followers involved in the misbehavior. In such a case, a technical foul shall not be assessed."
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"Game officials, by virtue of their elastic power have the authority to eject unruly fans. In instances where fan, player or official safety is not an issue, or the conduct and administration of the game is not threatened, we have requested that officials permit management an opportunity to address unruly fan behavior prior to issuing an ejection."
After the game, Hess declined to offer for an explanation for his decision. He said "no comment" when asked by an Associated Press reporter about the incident. Reached by phone after the game, ACC head of officials John Clougherty also declined comment.
After the game, N.C. State athletic director Debbie Yow asked the ACC for an explanation and said she talked with commissioner John Swofford and associate commissioner Karl Hicks.
"We want to make sure our fans are being treated fairly," Yow said.
The ACC issued a statement at 9:32 p.m. which stated that Hess followed the rule but not the protocol of the rule, which was to permit the game management, or an N.C. State official, to address Corchiani and Gugliotta before they were ejected.
"We will re-communicate this policy with all officials to ensure proper protocol is followed," Clougherty said in the statement issued by the league.
An ACC spokeswoman said the statement stands as the conference's response and any possible punishment for Hess would be handled internally.
Corchiani, who ended his career in 1991 as the NCAA leader in career assists (1,038) regularly attends Wolfpack games. Corchiani and Gugliotta, an All-ACC forward for the Wolfpack, played from 1989 to '92 and later an NBA All-Star, both have their jerseys honored in the RBC Center rafters. They went to N.C. State's practice on Friday and talked with the current players.
Corchiani was sitting next to his wife, Stewart, and his daughter, Annabelle, 11, on Saturday. He said there wasn't anything out of the ordinary in his reaction to some of the foul calls made during the game.
"We were just fans, cheering and yelling like everybody else," Corchiani said.
After Hess' confrontation with Corchiani and Gugliotta, N.C. State briefly cut into what was a 20-point Florida State lead in the second half. The atmosphere in the arena was noticeably livelier after Corchiani and Gugliotta walked off the court and watched the remainder of the game from the tunnel leading to the N.C. State locker room.
Scott Wood scored six straight points to cut FSU's advantage to 59-47 with 6:11 left in the game, but that was as close as the Pack would get.
"If State would have come back and won, for me, it would have been worth it," Corchiani said.
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As of Nov. 15th, 2012, all 50 states had petitions in place to secede from the ŌĆ£UnionŌĆØ. Some of the alternative news media have jumped on the wagon, vying for first place to lead the charge.
Fighting the system to ŌĆ£fixŌĆØ (or resurrect) it, is the same as fighting over who gets the tenderloin steak off a dead and rotting cow. For many of you I am sure this will be an extremely radical statement. But if that system lead us to the morass of greed and evil in which we are today, wouldn't it be better to step aside while it collapses and help lead society to a better paradigm, based more on caring about others than about squeezing the last penny out of some useless consumer product?
Just what is ŌĆ£the systemŌĆØ? The system is an interlocked, interdependent, inter-cooperative combine of societal control. These systems work their tentacles into all facets of society, including
Contrary to what you may think, these institutions are not there to serve you. They serve only themselves.
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The education system is designed to program you with societal lies and put you in a situation that will deeply program the insecurities that will be exploited by the corporations and governments in your later life. If you don't know why so many schools and so many scholars could be bent to the dark side, it is really not difficult to understand. It all has to do with money.
If you pride yourself as an ŌĆ£academicŌĆØ (someone who has gone to college ŌĆō gone to school most of their lives ŌĆō and doesn't stop because they keep getting rewarded for being such excellent repeaters), someone has to pay the tab for this to be possible for you. How is it done? It is done mostly with grants. These are used by corporations and governments to give the academic seal of approval to the governmental or corporate baloney.
Let's say I'm a pharmaceutical company and I want research done on my particular drug so that I gain government approval. I, as the corporation, get to decide who gets this research grant. Savvy academics know how to make themselves desirable to government grants and corporate payoffs. The academics need only write ŌĆ£white papersŌĆØ on the benefits of a particular drug (or the need for homeland security or global warming issues, etc.) and grant money will flow in their direction. So the academic merry-go-round goes, spewing baloney as truth with the academic seal of approval.
The elementary and secondary (high) school system is just as filled with baloney as the college level, but gives the students a good background and training in how to accept and repeat the baloney while getting them used to taking orders from the ŌĆ£authoritiesŌĆØ and being good little compliant ŌĆ£citizensŌĆØ (read: consumer slaves). That system also makes sure the good instincts ŌĆō like asking thoughtful questions ŌĆō are turned into insecurities for being different than everyone else.
Government ŌĆō
Government is a euphemism for ŌĆ£our┬ĀgangŌĆØ. The government operates no differently than the Mafia or any common street gang. If you are an aficionado of Monty Python you may have seen one of their more popular sketches with the ŌĆ£Facotti BrothersŌĆØ. Soaked with sarcasm and irony, the two brothers visit an army base and try to shake it down for protection money. One of the brothers says to the colonel, ŌĆ£You got a lot of really nice tanks here, Colonel. It'd be a shame if something happened to them.ŌĆØ
This, in a nutshell, is how all governments work ŌĆō state, county, municipal, federal, world (the U.N. and the soon coming ŌĆ£one world governmentŌĆØ) ŌĆō they all have the same racket. That racket is harvesting money from their ŌĆ£human resourcesŌĆØ under the guise of ŌĆ£serving themŌĆØ.
I recently read an article about an Englishman who bought a piece of rural land in what the English call the north country and got himself some cows, goats, chickens, solar power, built himself a small home and was an excellent model of self-sufficiency. He was contacted by the Borough Council and was told that he must return to his suburban London home, enroll his children in school, pay his pole tax, get himself and his family inoculated, reconnect to the grid, buy his food at the grocery store, etc. ŌĆō even though he had achieved 100% self-sufficiency ŌĆō or risk jail. It was just ŌĆ£their┬Āgang'sŌĆØ way of saying ŌĆ£we need our piece or something gets brokenŌĆØ.
Those of us who have seen beyond the veil understand that empty euphemisms like ŌĆ£for the betterment of societyŌĆØ, ŌĆ£for society as a wholeŌĆØ and, last but not least, ŌĆ£for the childrenŌĆØ (by far their favorite), are used to hold you into society.
Years ago, our daughter, who never had a social security number, went to get a passport. She told us that the people at the passport office actually seemed scared of her because she did not have a SSN. What on earth could possibly be frightening about not having an SSN at 18 years old? Truth is, the only thing frightening is how you are conditioned to respond to it, not the condition whatsoever.
In order for governments to maintain their hegemony, they absolutely need servile, docile taxpayers. Without that they no longer exist. Like the Mafia needs people paying them for their protection, the government needs your compliance!
At least the Mafia has a rule…they don't involve ŌĆ£civiliansŌĆØ in their business. That is, unless you borrow money from a loan shark, rent one of their prostitutes or make a bet with them, you are pretty much ŌĆ£hands-offŌĆØ to them. But the government claims you the moment you flow out of the ŌĆ£river of the wombŌĆØ (investigate what Jordan Maxwell says about a birth certificate being like the birthing of a boat and why Admiralty law is the de facto law of this country. Note the gold fringed flag of the seas).
It's all about taking back your sovereign rights. No government or system┬Āgives┬Āyou those rights. They must be claimed and accepted on a daily basis by you personally.
Corporations ŌĆō
The primary directive of a corporation is to extract their pound of flesh from their ŌĆ£human resourcesŌĆØ at hand in the most cost effective way.
When you consider that the ŌĆ£raison d'etreŌĆØ of a corporation is to obtain the most profits for the corporation as possible, it makes sense for them to cut every corner, pay every employee as little as possible, squeeze every penny from the consumers by making a cheaper ŌĆō albeit lower quality ŌĆō product. What the corporation ŌĆō by definition ŌĆō needs not consider is, ŌĆ£is this the┬Ārightthing to do, the┬Āethical┬Āor┬Āpositive┬Āthing to do?ŌĆØ
Efficiency is how they euphemistically describe this penny pinching money grubbing. The sterile inhospitable d├®cor of a Wal-mart is a stunning example of corporate efficiency. Psychologists, psychiatrists and human relations experts are the directors of this environment. Their job is to find the most efficient ways to exploit all the insecurities you have had hard-wired into you by the advertising gurus and, like a combine tearing through a wheat field, harvest all the ŌĆ£edible fruitŌĆØ it can.
If you have never seen the documentary film,┬ĀŌĆ£The High Cost of Low PricesŌĆØ┬Āit is a real window into the corporate world. It shows the worker abuse, anti-union activities, lack of health care and (this is rich) Wal-mart instructing it's employees on how they can also collect welfare, WIC, food stamps, etc., to augment their lack of a living wage. Al ways to keep you in the grasp of the system.
Sadly, the only reason that I have had to ever set foot in a Wal-Mart was because the other grocery and retail establishments to whom I would have gladly paid higher prices, had been put out of business by Wal-mart.
Suffice it to say, big business/corporations do not have your best interest at heart. Whenever posed with a choice, choose a small, local business to spend your dollars with. The goal for all American workers is for us to be like good Wal-Mart employees, making less than a paycheck you can live on, and dependent on the government hand-outs to make up the difference. Can you say ŌĆ£slaveryŌĆØ?
Here's someone with a clear understanding:
Banking ŌĆō
The Banking system, if you really look at it, is the greatest scam ever. In a nutshell, the Federal Reserve creates money (electronic credits, really) out of thin air ŌĆō just on their own ŌĆ£say soŌĆØ ŌĆō and then sells it to the governments at interest. The money to pay the interest is also created out of thin air and is also sold at interest, so that they system's cycle never ends.
There are plenty of places on the Internet that explain this in detail. We recommend watching at least the economic section in the movie,┬ĀZeitgeist: Addendum┬Āby Peter Joseph, and our article,┬ĀThe Illusion Laid Bare.
Pop Culture ŌĆō
Pop Culture is broadly defined as our entertainment ŌĆō TV, movies, radio, music, magazines ŌĆō all designed to maintain the consumerist lifestyle. Any doubt of this at all and you need only to pick up a copy of Mother Earth News and see how utterly commercial even they have become.
These institutions are also employed to exploit the deep-seated insecurities we have had hard-wired into us from education, government, corporations, et al. Some things they do are very subtle, like the 29.9 flicker rate standard on a TV that is designed to put your brain into a mid-theta state.
The theta state is the one in which the subconscious mind is most vulnerable to suggestion. It is possible to watch a TV show or movie, fall deeply into a theta state without knowing it and then, exploiting the natural rhythms of your mind, they can implant, word-by-word, buried within the dialogue, a particular set of ŌĆ£programmingŌĆØ ŌĆō that is, mental programming. Have you ever wondered why they call it ŌĆ£PROGRAMMINGŌĆØ?
Nothing goes across the mainstream media news outlets that isn't sanitized and specifically constructed to bring about the desired result. The CIA has had case officers working all major media outfits long before 9/11. This is even admitted by our government.
If you were aware that watching TV some number of hours a day literally changes your mind and removes your free will, would you really watch it? Sadly for many of us, life without our favorite TV show would be just too unbearable. But if reading this has woken you up ŌĆō┬ĀTURN YOUR ********* TV OFF!!!┬ĀIt does not serve you. It serves others who do not have your best interests at heart.
Even Sesame street (especially┬ĀSesame Street) is used to start the training early. Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuit order said, "Give me a child for for his first seven years and I'll give you the man."
If you feel uncomfortable about disconnecting yourself from ŌĆ£the systemŌĆØ, remember TPTB have conditioned you to feel uncomfortable about thinking these kinds of thoughts.┬Ā If you choose the freedom of self-reliance, it's perfectly normal to feel even scared. If you think all your thoughts are yours, please re-read this and try to form a clear thought process. For some of you I know it will be a new experience, but once you can see that the system is designed to make you into a ŌĆ£good worker (slave)/consumerŌĆØ and nothing more, you should understand their need to keep you in the system, and how good it is to be out.
Every part of the system is in existence because you agree to be a part of it, you agree to accept that it has power. Don't give it power by fighting against it.┬Ā Our intention ŌĆō we believe that our intentions create our realities ŌĆō is to help you to extract yourself from being someone else's ŌĆ£human resourceŌĆØ ŌĆō and become┬Āyour own┬Āresource.
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Here is an excellent article. Instead of fighting off the beast, we should all help precipitate its ongoing fall.
Well agreed and what I have felt all along. Let the beast die. Kind of glad Obummer got "re-elected" back in office. We should have been voting and supporting the worst possible SOB's the whole time and help the system on out….of existence.
Only problem is the beast wants 90% of us to die and they will soon have all the ammo. I guess I will stand with the fighters. When enough of us die for the cause you can poke your heads out and smell the burning flesh of patriots and tyrants and sit back and enjoy the shade of the Liberty tree we die to provide.
Viva la revolution!
So, all these institutions are bad. Is there a good institution? No, don't tell me, you are going to say churches, right. Just what we need, more propagation of myths, fables and legends.
Unless it is a stand alone congregation the church has partnered with goverment and corporations.
I no longer am no longer willing to go along with this crap,
Why should i have to live in fear that the government will penalize me for trying to keep more of the little bit of money I HAVE WORKED FOR WITH MY SWEAT?
I am not stealing, killing, swindling, taking without compensation, nor aquiring through unjust means any good or service, so why should i be made to feel that I owe the politicians and government ANYTHING?
They are no more than or better than I.
I have taken nothing from the system.
I suppose some would argue that i have driven on their roads and been protected by the government,
I say HOGWASH
I have paid into the system since i first started working at the age pf 14, the only thing i get is a headache from the crap these politicians and bureaucrats feed us.
Im done with this crap, it is not my fault the government can not live within its means any more than it is anyone els' if i cannot live within mine.
We need change, wee need to get back to basics, i will bow before no man and will no longer be held hostage to a failed system. This can be a national movent. But where and how to start.
Keiser Report: ŌĆśCrash JP MorganŌĆÖ 2nd Anniversary Special (E368)
THIS gets good at about 19 minutes in: Alex Jones LAYS DOWN THE TRUTH ABOUT AMERICA:
Americans Must Withdraw from The Corrupt, [International Central-Banker-] Hijacked Federal Gov't
The World Order: Our Secret Rulers
[Or, A Study In The Hegemony of Parasitism]
by EUSTACE MULLINS
Free .pdf download here:
Getting your money out of any TBTF Bank is ONE thing that you can do. However, there are many, many other things that we all can do, too!
Here are just a few:
1) BOYCOTT ŌĆō learn this concept well, and EMPLOY IT ŌĆō against those enslaving you!
2) THINK for yourself. TURN OFF the IDIOT-BOX (TV) OR THROW IT AWAY!
3) QUESTION all ŌĆśauthorityŌĆÖ (Big Business/Government, Big Religion, Big Media, etc.)
4) Get out, and/or stay out, of DEBT!
5) USE CASH AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. Avoid using credit, debit, and customer loyalty cards
6) Bank at a local credit union!
7) VOTE WITH YOUR DOLLARS! (What do you support, with your time, money, and energy?)
8) Contact your Representatives on critical issues: such as "END THE FED!"
9) Re-read the 2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. It isnŌĆÖt about hunting. It's about tyranny.
10)Buy (products) Made in U.S.A. Put AMERICANS to work!
11)Invest in precious metals, primarily SILVER (and gold).
12)Buy ORGANIC food! Support your local Organic food store or Co-op!
13)Start your own garden using NON-GMO, non-hybrid seeds!
14)Pray or meditate ŌĆō reduce your stress!
15)Read a book, you know, an actual book! Open your mind!
16)Exercise your brain muscle!
17)Listen to soothing classical, jazz, ambient or other music you thoroughly enjoy!
Good stuff, although I do find no. 8 to be a waste of energy, I continue to do it
It's the New World Order that's really pushing on nowadays.
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During 2012, ongoing Swedish research, development and demonstration efforts related to ocean energy have continued to progress. While the financial climate and the high costs related to new energy conversion technology constitute challenges for developing companies, the area of ocean energy conversion has attracted the attention of universities and technical research institutes. Access to public funding remains vital to all stages of the ocean energy research and innovation process in Sweden.
The forefront of Swedish ocean energy technology development and demonstration is the consented 10 MW wave power demonstration project at Sotenäs, which commenced late 2011. During 2012, the developer Seabased Industry AB has undertaken preparation activities for site development, wave energy converter construction and grid connection for the first 1 MW phase of the demonstration park.
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Friday, August 9, 2013 —
RALEIGH — The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission welcomed into its ranks 20 new wildlife officers with a sworn duty to enforce boating and conservation laws, and protect the public.
Graduation ceremonies took place at Campbell University, culminating 20 weeks of rigorous and intensive training for the class of 2013.
The new wildlife officers now will begin six months of on-the-job training under supervision of a veteran officer. Upon completion of this field training, they will receive a permanent duty station assignment.
Wildlife officers must meet expanded law enforcement qualification standards in North Carolina. Candidates for training to become an officer are required to pass extensive background, psychological and physical screenings prior to entering the training school. Instruction covers statutory and investigation procedures, defensive tactics, fish and game laws, as well as pursuit driving and boating.
"This is an exemplary group of men and women, and I am proud to have them join the Wildlife Commission," said Capt. Jon Evans, training director for the Commission's Division of Law Enforcement.
"They have faced the arduous challenges of multi-faceted instruction, worked as a team and as individuals, and are ready for the next step in their careers in conservation."
The 20 new wildlife officers, their hometown and home county, and assigned county for training:
Eric Landon Blalock, Fuquay-Varina, Wake County.
Training duty station: Caswell County.
William Amos Bridges, Sanford, Lee County.
Training duty station: Perquimans County.
Eric Daniel Crouse, Ronda, Wilkes County.
Training duty station: Davidson County.
Darby Dustin Wayne Enoch, Mount Pleasant, Cabarrus County.
Training duty station: Hyde County.
Murphy Williams Hall, Albemarle, Stanly County.
Training duty station: Beaufort County.
Gary Craddock Harrison, Jr., Cape Carteret, Carteret County.
Training duty station: Craven County.
John Mark Howell II, Albemarle, Stanly County.
Training duty station: Swain County.
Mitchell Earl Lawrence, Mocksville, Davie County.
Training duty station: McDowell County.
Trevor Daniel Lemon, Winston-Salem, Forsyth County.
Training duty station: Bladen County.
Barbara Elizabeth Marshburn, Beulaville, Duplin County.
Training duty station: Iredell County.
Sampson Rodney Parker, Jr., Harrisburg, Mecklenburg County.
Training duty station: Northampton County.
Charles Tyler Sale, Ronda, Wilkes County.
Training duty station: Jackson County.
Darryl Gregory Southern, Stokesdale, Guilford County.
Training duty station: Brunswick County.
Justin Allen Stout, Ramseur, Randolph County.
Training duty station: Davie County.
Michael Vincent Varano, Spout Springs, Harnett County.
Training duty station: Warren County.
Charles Ray Vaughan, Jr., Rich Square, Bertie County.
Training duty station: Forsyth County.
Cody Adam Walker, Concord, Cabarrus County.
Training duty station: Burke County.
Stephanie Brooke Weaver, Vale, Catawba County.
Training duty station: Randolph County.
Brandon Blair Wilkins, Elizabeth City, Pasquotank County.
Training duty station: Union County.
Benjamin Tyler Wood, Raleigh, Wake County.
Training duty station: Duplin County.
Go to www.ncwildlife.org to learn more about conservation laws, the role of wildlife officers and the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission. A booklet on careers in wildlife enforcement is available online or upon request by calling 919-707-0101.
About the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission
Since 1947, the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission has been dedicated to the conservation and sustainability of the state's fish and wildlife resources through research, scientific management, wise use, and public input. The Commission is the state regulatory agency responsible for the enforcement of fishing, hunting, trapping and boating laws and provides programs and opportunities for wildlife-related educational, recreational and sporting activities. To learn more, visit www.ncwildlife.org.


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Chapter 6…in which Falafels and a phone call save the day
In the hours preceding her after-school pick-up arrangement, Sarah found herself standing on the doorstep of long-time neighbor and best friend, Hafsah Habeeb.
On days that she didn't work at the Gold Coast Hospital, Sarah had Amir's Autism therapist/tutor hold sessions at home, and usually afterward, both Sarah and Amir felt drained and (in Sarah's case) in need of companionship and strong coffee.
"Assalamu alaikum- Peace be on you- Habeebty, come in, come in!" Hafsah's thick accent fell on Sarah's tired ears like a soothing balm after the drones of a rather unproductive day with Amir and his tutor.
" Wa alaikumus salam, Hafsah – Peace be on you too – It's so good to be out of my house and visiting my home." Sarah stepped over the threshold and fell thankfully into Hafsah's warm, bear like embrace.
"This will always be your home, Azeezi." Hafsah smiled and then bent to hug a disinterested Amir, before closing the door and leading her guests into the house.
"Chaotic day, yes?"
" Oh, you wouldn't believe it," Sarah fell on the couch and covered her eyes with the back of her hand. "We've been going through the same routine since the beginning of last month. Amir just won't budge!"
" Insha'allah – God Willing – he will soon, habeebty, don't fret. There is a time for everything." Hafsah gently coaxed Amir onto his favourite little beanbag, reserved especially for his frequent visits.
Sarah quickly jumped up from her relaxed sprawl on the couch. "Oh, how silly I am, allow me,"
" No, no, go seet, seet dhown!" Hafsah chided her. " I handle heem. You go help yourself to some nosh I keep for you on kitchen counter."
"You're too kind," Sarah tried to inject every bit of gratitude and warm respect she felt for her old friend into her clichéd words. But as she watched Hafsah painstakingly put Amir's favourite DVD on and shower him with toys, books and lastly a warm throw, Sarah knew that their friendship exceeded the realm of corny statements or congeniality presents…
It was just another night shift at the hospital.
Just a couple of coffees down and a few pages into a romance novel that was the complete opposite of Sarah's crumbling marriage, a paramedic broke the stillness of the night by catapulting into the nurses' station shouting, "Emergency! Emergency! There's been a car accident and medical staff needed stat in room five!"
"Right behind you, Colin!" Sarah hastily stashed her much-interrupted novel in the drawer and with two other nurses at her heels, sprinted to the emergency room.
The sight that greeted her, as she burst though the double doors, wasn't pretty.
An injured and heavily pregnant woman was being transferred from a gurney to a bed by two paramedics. She was covered in blood right from top of the scarf that was matted against her head.
"What happened here, Jason?" Sarah asked one of the paramedics, trying not to let the sight of the swollen, vulnerable belly distress her.
"Drunken driver smashed into their car from the passenger side," the paramedic replied as he and Sarah worked side by side to staunch the bleeding and discover the extent of the wounds. "This woman got the worst of it. Her husband who was driving and the daughter in the backseat narrowly escaped. They're in the observation room."
"Her name's Hafsah Behary Habeeb, aged thirty-six, lives in Arundel," supplied one of the night-shift doctors, while she strapped the moaning patient to a machine that monitored her vital signs.
"She's lost a lot of blood and is dilated."
"How much?"
"Five centimeters, and she's twenty nine weeks along the way."
"The ultrasound's not picking up baby's heartbeat," Jason, the paramedic announced after a few minutes, while he looked at the fetal monitor next to him.
Sarah's hands worked mechanically, tending to the ugly gash on the woman's forehead. Drunken driver…pregnant woman injured, probably on the throes of death…leaving a family behind.
And then an icy feeling crept up her spine. Her husband Imtiaz spent most evenings at the pub and usually returned home drunk as a skunk. Sometimes his friends would drop him off but then they were more or less as inebriated as Imtiaz himself.
She thought of six and a half year old Aisha cozily waiting her mother's return at their neighbour Suzanne's house while this woman's child was probably feeling emotions no child of that age should ever experience.
Fury wallowed in her throat. Even though reason argued with her saying that she had no proof it was Imtiaz who had initiated the accident, she mentally condemned her husband for his nefarious hobby.
"Ya Allah, save my baby," whimpered the patient, her eyes struggling to flutter open.
It was as if a hand gently nudged Sarah's soul at that moment.
"Your husband and daughter are doing fine, Mrs. H," Sarah forced a smile into her sketchy words.
"But my baby," she continued to cry softly and a doctor from the medical team announced that the patient's blood pressure was rising.
Her own pulse quickening, Sarah squeezed the bloodied hand and whispered fiercely,
"Mrs. H, pull yourself together now! We are here to help you. Your family is waiting for you!"
"No, no," the lady was shaking her head, seemingly gaining more energy with suppressed passion.
"Stabilize her," commanded a doctor. "We have to get the baby out. Put her on Oxytocin."
"You can't help me, only Allah can!"
For the second time in several seconds, Sarah felt a mini quake inside of her, for, the words rasped out carried a resonant weight with them.
Wow, for someone who is on death's bed as she is, she sure has the spunk to not believe in us, Sarah thought as she cleaned the wound on the forehead as much as she could.
Nearby, another nurse, Alana Morris, Sarah's shift buddy, set up the drip that would induce labour.
"My, my, the poor wretches that come in here," muttered Alana in her Tasmanian drawl. "This one's husband can pull up a pretty massive lawsuit on the bugger that did this to his family. And that clod would be in even more peril if this lady died."
Sarah's fingers shook as she tried to undo the woman's headscarf to begin suturing the head wound.
"Here, let me," offered Alana, reaching out to assist Sarah, when the latter stopped her.
"No," she said, frowning in thought. "Leave it on. I can work my way around that. The wound's deep but not wide, and nearer her brow than her hairline. Anyways, why strip this woman of her dignity even more than she already has suffered?"
"Suit yourself," Alana smirked and in a few minutes Hafsah Habeeb let out an ear-piercing scream as the first pangs of labour began.
"What are you theenking?" Hafsah broke into Sarah's vivid reverie.
Forced back into the present, Sarah realized she had been holding a falafel halfway to her mouth for probably several minutes without actually taking a bite out of it.
"Oh nothing," Sarah blushed and hastily shoved the chickpea fritter into her mouth. "Mmm! Can I have another one?"
Hafsah lightly tapped Sarah's hand as it reached out towards the tray. "Not until you tell me why you look like zombie the whole time I was with Amir. I am mother of Mena for donkey's years you know! I cannot be fooled!"
Sarah chuckled. "Well, if you must know, I was thinking back to the day I met you."
Hafsah shuddered. "It would make anyone a zombie. Why you theenk of that now?"
"Because it was the day I found a true friend. And I found myself too. How could I ever repay you?" Sarah squeezed Hafsah's hands.
"Oh well, you didn't take off my hijaab. I owe you one too." Hafsah joked.
"Oh that," Sarah smiled mischievously. "It was just hard to untie all the knots so I left it as it was."
Both women laughed.
"Alhamdulillah, all praise to God, everything was meant to be." Hafsah said, wiping away tears of mirth.
Sarah withdrew her hands only to pick up a falafel and thoughtfully chewed a bit off.
"Well, that's the thing, see. It was how even in that desperate situation you had complete faith in God and totally none in the medical team working to save your life. That got me thinking. Why? How come? And in the days that followed, I learned about your then 'mysterious faith' and how it came to be that even after the death of your baby, you were more at peace than you were upset. It totally baffled me."
"Well, it was tough, I will not deny it," Hafsah admitted, as she absently traced her finger along the rim of the tray of falafels. "Baby Radwah was a long-waited child for us and a sister for my Mena. Losing her was.." she struggled for words, " Torture. Reel torture! But then, I reminded myself, I did not lose my Sulaiman or my Mena. Imagine if I had lost them! It was only the mercy of God that they were spared. Subahaanallah, how could I not be grateful for that? That's what kept me going on."
"Maasha Allah, your level of imaan is astounding, Hafsah," Sarah marveled.
"No, not to my face, habeeby, never praise me in front of me. That's the worst thing you could do!" Hafsah chided and to soften her reproach, immediately shoved the coffee decanter in front of Sarah. "Please, help yourself!"
"Those were some days eh?" Sarah poured each a cup of steaming black coffee.
"Well, you were going through tough period too," Hafsah gratefully accepted her cup. "You were about to divorce your husband and then you found out you were pregnant with Amir."
"I know right!" said Sarah. "If not for your friendship during those nine months and me finding my Deen, I don't know how I would have coped! To think that I had been married to Imtiaz for seven years and not known Islam! It's ironic I learnt about it from observing a total stranger!"
Hafsah smiled. " If God wants you to have something, then no one can stop that from coming to you and if He does not want you to have a thing, then no matter how hard you try you will not have it. God knows what's best for you."
Sarah winced. "The second part does pierce me a bit. What if it's not meant for me to have my sister's girls live with me? The meeting with them last week was a diabolical disaster!"
"Then God knows you are unable to have them. For some reason or the other, it's best for both you and the girls to stay exactly where you are right now."
"Yeah, that…" Sarah remembered the standoffish attitudes and the stylish clothes Lex and Sophie had sported. And she thought how much more she would have to sacrifice if they were to live here. Yet, to relinquish all hope of ever taking care of them didn't make her feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
"There's just this feeling I have. Like I'm connected to them. Like they're my own daughters out there and I have to protect them." Sarah shrugged sadly. " I dunno. Maybe you're right. Maybe they're better off where they are."
Hafsah patted Sarah's shoulder and stood up to refill their cups. "Don't worry habeebty. You have two gorgeous children of your own. Spend time with them and make Du'a-prayer- for your nieces. Allah knows your intention. He'll give what's best for all of you."
Just then Sarah's cell phone rang. Frowning at the caller ID, she hesitantly picked it up.
Hafsah watched in trepidation as Sarah's face changed from curiosity to surprise, then joy and finally she broke down in tears.
"You'll never believe who that was!" she said, once she'd disconnected the call.
"Is everything all right?" Hafsah asked, confused.
Sarah's face slowly lit up like the full moon, her tears twinkling like stars .
Enveloping Hafsah in a tight bear hug, she said, "You're right. God knows what's best for me! And he has just answered my Du'a! Today has just got to be the best day in months! Alhamdulillah!"


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Diamonds and Hearts — A Poetic Memoir What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 The latest bachelorette, Desiree Hartsock, was wooed by now-fiancé Chris Siegfried's heartfelt poetry, so it's no surprise they collaborated to produce a book of poetry. Diamonds and Hearts — A Poetic Memoir includes 44 poems plus synopses from Chris and Des, journal entries, and Desiree's "original poems to Chris written on postcards from around the world." 1 / 14 Happily Ever After What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 The very first bachelorette and one of the few success stories, Trista Sutter, wrote a book titled Happily Ever After: The Life-Changing Power of a Grateful Heart. The book about love, family, and happiness was released in 2013, as she and her hubby, Ryan Sutter — who she picked on her season of the show — celebrated their 10-year wedding anniversary. 2 / 14 Better Single Than Sorry What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 After breaking off her engagement with Bachelor Andrew Firestone, Jen Schefft went on to star in The Bachelorette but rejected the final two bachelors. Her 2007 book Better Single Than Sorry: A No-Regrets Guide to Loving Yourself and Never Settling is a guide to thriving as a single woman. 3 / 14 The Date Night Cookbook What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 Meredith Phillips, who came in fourth in Bob Guiney's season of The Bachelor, went on to star in the second season of The Bachelorette. 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Egg hunts aren't just for kids—read a few ideas to throw an adult egg hunt at home or in your community.
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The events can be a lot of fun, and many are big traditions, so why limit it to children? A adult Easter egg hunt is a fun idea you can have at your home or as a larger event for the community.
Here are a few ideas for organizing such an event—and make sure to comment with any ideas you have or things you've done before!
Play in the dark: For obvious reasons such as safety (and early bedtimes), Easter egg hunts are usually during the day. But with an adult egg hunt, boost the level of difficulty and give everyone a flashlight to search for eggs in the dark.
Give better prizes: Small chocolates are fun for kids, but think outside the egg for this adult event. Mini bottles of liquor, lottery tickets or even gift cards could make great gifts.
Awards and tasks: If you're having a family gathering for Easter, you could write various prizes or tasks on a piece of paper to hide inside eggs. One person might luck out and get the first plate of food, while someone else might get tasked with dish duty.
Craft beer hunt: Get a variety of beers, remove the labels and wrap them in Easter-themed construction paper or ribbon. Hide the bottles around your yard, and the adults who find them get to drink them!
Make it a community event: If you're really ambitious, take the event out of your yard and partner with a local organization, such as the Park District or Chamber of Commerce. Participants could pay a small entry fee, with proceeds going to a local charity. Local businesses could donate gift cards in small amounts as the prizes.
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This is the first time in my life I've been a late bloomer. Sorry for the lack of posts, but recently a straight-growing wisdom molar decided to take a sudden left turn into my jaw and cheek, causing me extreme pain until my dentist yanked the fucker out this morning. I've spent the last 72 hours in dental hell, but this morning waiting patiently as he and his assistant tag-teamed the tooth for the better part of an hour until it finally came loose making an unforgettable *thock!* sound as it released from my jaw had to take the cake. That, and communicating with the pharmacist using kitty stationary.
In all seriousness my dentist presented me with the cleaned tooth in a little box with the kind of pride usually reserved for newborns, exclaiming "this is the largest tooth I've ever removed from a woman!" I sincerely hope that is not my 15 minutes of fame. And I was about to tell him to keep it until I looked at it and I have to say it's pretty impressive. I won't post a photo of the tooth (which is an inch long and at least 3/4 of an inch wide) because the two people I have shown the tooth to have both gagged. I figure that's a sign I should keep it to myself.
So, yeah. I'm sure I'll have some stuff to say about dental soft diets after this, but stay tuned, because we've got Toiv's birthday to talk about, winter salads, and much more. Talk soon!


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A woman accused of shooting her husband six times, killing him while he slept, in 2010 is scheduled for trial in December, according to NJ.com.
Forty-seven-year-old Amalia Mirasola, who suffers from multiple sclerosis and is wheelchair-bound, allegedly told , "I think I shot my husband," when they arrived on the scene on May 22, 2010 and found Carl Mirasola, 43, dead. But that statement, and others, should not be allowed as evidence in court, according to defense attorney Kalman Geist, because they were made before Mirasola was read her rights, as reported by NJ.com.
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Horrible Histories team to make Shakespeare film
William Shakespeare + Horrible Histories + Monty Python + historical inaccuracy = Bill, due in cinemas in 2014...
One of the current triumphs of the BBC is the Horrible Histories show, based in turn on the terrific books that have made some of the most significant events in history brilliantly accessible to a younger audience.
The six key cast of Horrible Histories - Mathew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard and Ben Willbond - have got a brand new job on their hands, too. They're set to unite for a new project from BBC Films, which is basically, for want of a better way of putting it, a William Shakespeare origin story.
Based on a script by Laurence Rickard and Ben Willbond, Bill - as the movie is called - is a comedy adventure that's set to reveal how Shakespeare went from being "a hopeless lute player" to someone who proved "the quill is mightier than the sword" (we're quoting the official press announcement, by the way).
Gleefully taking liberties with history, "just as Shakespeare did", the six core cast will play multiple roles, Monty Python style, and already this looks like a whole lot of fun.
The fifth and final series of Horrible Histories, incidentally, will start at the end of this month. Bill is likely to be in cinemas in 2014.
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Haven't watched it in a while, but still some interesting news.
By the way Den of Geek; WHERE IS YOUR ARTICLE ON AGENTS OF SHIELD!? They've just released posters, promos and a trailer!
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I grew up on Horrible Histories books, and if anyone out there has kids, you have to get them to read these, they are amazing.
Looks really good. I loved the books as a kid.
I had plans for today, dammit. Now I'm just watching Horrible History songs instead. Thanks.
Am I the only one who read Horrible Science more than Horrible Histories???
.... I'll leave now.
Do Rickard & Willbond write for the series?
I love the show but I'll be waiting to see what the film's like. Can they sustain the level over 90 minutes?
Still, even if it's not as good as the show, it will be miles better than most kids content these days.
Books were awesome, have yet to see the show. Glad it's such a ripping success!
Very excited about this! The Horrible Histories books were the whole reason I ever became interested in history.
The TV show definitely benefits from a lot of top comedy talent writing behind the scenes. Whether these two can break out from that and show off what they're capable of will be a great test.
When was the last time we had a british comedy ensemble that has worked together as much as these guys have?


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Russian River Valley, California
The Russian River Valley, an hour north of San Francisco, has long been on the radar of in-the-know wine lovers searching for a less commercialized take on the California wine country vacation. But recently, the region has upped its game, becoming a mini hub for artisan foodmakers. In Sebastopol, don't miss The Barlow, a converted apple-processing facility that opened in May to showcase local winemakers, food growers, and farm-to-table restaurants. A hotel is planned but details have yet to be confirmed; in the meantime, the most luxe Russian River option is the charming 18-room Farmhouse Inn, run by brother and sister Joe and Catherine Bartolomei—fifth-generation farmers, winery and vineyard owners—who serve produce and eggs straight from their farm. Just two examples of how the tipping point is imminent; put this wine region on your 2014 travel list before the hordes arrive.—John Newton
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He will be away from home 330 days out of the year traveling to just about every state by the time it is done.
Mexico — Armed with a book called "The Peaceful Pill," foreign tourists are heading to Mexico to purchase pentobarbital from veterinary-supply stores and backstreet pet shops near the U.S. border.
Berkeley, Calif. — While debate continues over whether lethal injection in people is cruel and unusual punishment, some are looking to the veterinary community and its method of euthanasia — typically a large dose of pentobarbital.
Schaumburg, Ill. — While Minnesota veterinarian James L. Busby is certainly entitled to his opinion, that doesn't mean the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) has to like it.
Washington — The $288 billion Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 passed both the House and the Senate, even surviving a Presidential veto.


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Back in the days of the early Cretaceous, when we lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, my husband and I used to have Saturday lunch in a place called Grendel's Den. The food was very good and not overly expensive for a graduate student and a teacher.
I remembered vaguely who Grendel was (the foe of Beowulf ) from my AP English class. I'm sure my Classics graduate student friends (Old English and Hittite and Sanskrit, oh, my!) could have told me a good deal more about him, much more than I really needed to know.
Grendel, for those of you who didn't do Anglo-Saxon literature, is the first antagonist slain by Beowulf in the epic poem that bears the latter's name. Grendel has been attacking and killing (and drinking the blood of) the warriors of King Hrothgar's hall, for reasons that are not entirely clear. Beowulf, an outsider from Geatland (southern part of present-day Sweden) mortally wounds Grendel by ripping off his arm, after which Grendel staggers back to the den he shares with his mother beneath the marshes near the king's hall. And dies.
The second antagonist is Grendel's mother, who comes to the hall to avenge her son's death. Because we don't know what many words in the Anglo-Saxon lexicon mean, it's not clear whether she is a hideous monster or a woman warrior.
Beowulf is dragged into her home under the marshes and almost killed, until he finds a sword there and cuts off her head, and then Grendel's, to take back to the hall as trophies.
Late in his life, Beowulf, now the king of the Geats, fights his third antagonist, a dragon who burns everything in sight because a gold cup has been stolen from his hoard. He and Beowulf fight, and both are killed.
Isn't this a nice story to complement a peaceful Saturday lunch? I'm glad my Classics colleagues kept their mouths shut.
Anyway… good tales full of blood and gore and clanging swords never go out of style. If you are the academic type, there's Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney's Beowulf – English and Old English on facing pages (don't even try the Old English, it's unintelligible unless you've been trained to read it). If you want to know all kinds of fascinating details of this epic, look at the Greene Hamlet website – it won a prize for being the Best of the Web for Students.
Meanwhile, if you just want to read for fun, here are a couple of suggestions. I saw a new book entitled The Coming of the Dragon, in which an orphan tries to protect his adopted land from a dragon and finds out he's related to Beowulf. I skimmed the review too fast and ended up thinking that he was related to Grendel!! But what a great hook for a story – the good guy related to the bad guy – like Darth Vader being Luke Skywalker's father! In any case, it's a good read; a coming-of-age story about a boy who sees himself as a coward but learns what courage is.
For those who like graphic novels, and the old epics are perfect for them, try Gareth Hinds' adaptation of Beowulf. Much "glorious and gruesome detail;" Hinds is an excellent graphic artist for teens who like the ripped heroes and the deluge of blood and guts.
And one more thing. There is a series of graphic novels for younger kids, entitled Kid Beowulf, by Alexis Fajardo, in which Beowulf and Grendel are BROTHERS – and they face off against Roland (of the Song of Roland, totally fictitious) and Ruy Díaz de Vivar in the Song of the Cid (largely factual, from the 11th century). And let's not forget Gilgamesh, older than the Old Testament (and with a global flood). What a hilarious idea – just mix up the heroes and the villains, and throw in a few thousand years of epic tales!
The library doesn't have these Kid Beowulf books (yet), but we can get some of them from other libraries. Stop by the Children's Desk and ask us about them, or about any other epic stories. And by the way, all medieval tales are not as gory as the original Beowulf. Try Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady, for a lovely Arthurian story about breaking enchantments by giving people what they want.
Many of the tales about El Cid, King Arthur, Robin Hood, Merlin, Roland, the Round Table, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight are wonderful too. After all, there's a reason why all these stories have lasted so long.


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NORMAN — The subject matter is controversial, but Norman High School students are getting quite the lesson in the First Amendment this week.
Anti-abortion protesters are standing on the public sidewalk adjacent to the school. They have signs and flyers with graphic images and are out to bring an anti-abortion message to high schools.
It's been unsettlling for many students and parents. The school district has called for help with security and is encouraging lawmakers to consider buffer zone laws for schools, much like the restrictions enacted on protesters at military funerals.
A block east of the school grounds, also on Main Street, protesters have anti-war protests each week. Some of their signs ask passersby to honk for peace.
We want students to feel secure at school, but we'd also hope the schools would use the occasion to discuss the First Amendment and the various rights that many American take for granted.
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OAKLAND — Both drivers who were involved in a rear-end collision Thursday evening in Oakland were taken to Garrett Memorial Hospital, according to Oakland Police.
William Byrne, 50, of Oakland was northbound attempting to turn into a parking lot at 13227 Garrett Highway when he was hit by James Reckart, 80, of Oakland at about 5:40 p.m., police said.
Reckart was found at fault in the accident.
Byrne was released from the hospital, police said, but information about Reckart's condition was not available.
Both Northern and Southern Garrett rescue squads and Oakland Volunteer Fire Department responded, ac-cording to the Garrett County 911 center.