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Wilfrid Barbier
St-eustache, QC - Canada
Wilfrid Barbier
Member Since: 01/18/2011
I'm one of few artists in Quebec who's working with colored pencils. Usually I'm using prismacolor on bristol board. I'm a figurative artist and I do specially landscapes and sometime streets of cities. I love this medium and I think is unfortunately too much unknow. Most of people associate automatically this medium to children and think it's impossible to do a professionnal work with it. Like some other colored pencils artists arround the world, I would like to promote this medium and prove all possibilities hidden behind that first medium that most of us used when we were kids. So, I invite you to take a look on my artworks and let me know what you think about it.


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Kristopher Anderson/News-Sentinel
Police arrested a man at the Lodi Econolodge motel today after they said he made threats against the motel manager.
Matthew Suess, 32, who was staying at the motel on Cherokee Lane with his wife, was arrested around noon after police say he threatened the motel manager.
"(The manager) said he was a former Marine with sniper training and was going to come down the hallway and kill her," Lodi Police Sgt. Mike Oden said.
The manager also told police she thought she heard a woman screaming, and then gunshots, before the yelling stopped, Oden said.
When police arrived, Suess reportedly told them, "You're going to need a whole SWAT team," Oden said.
Police surrounded the area and communicated with Suess, who they said sounded frustrated, from outside.
"He was pretty agitated," Oden said.
Police called the motel room and spoke with his wife, Nancy Suess, who said Matthew Suess was upset and possibly suffering from mental health issues, Oden said.
Nancy Suess soon left the room uninjured, and told police that her husband never hurt or threatened her, Oden said.
A Lodi police negotiator called the room and spoke with Suess, who began to calm down. Within five minutes, Suess walked outside and was arrested without further incident.
Police did not find a weapon. Suess will undergo a psychiatric evaluation, Oden said.
Suess is currently being held on charges of felony threats.
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It's a battle so titanic that only Tokyo, birthplace of giant mutated monsters, could possibly hope to contain it! This isn't about Street Fighter X Tekken anymore. It's all about Rufus X Bob.
Seriously, they could have just released Rufus X Bob and I would have gladly paid $60 for it. Just look at how much fun they're having in this Tokyo Game Show trailer!
Of course this is the Capcom side of the Street Fighter, Tekken crossover, so they'd release Rufus X Bob and then six months later announce Ultimate Rufus X Bob, featuring the rest of the characters and all of the Rufus and Bob costumes they already released as downloadable content.
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Restaurant and Green Building
Our green building restaurant may look fragile, but it passed October 2010's Hurricane Richard test. Hurricane Richard made a direct hit on the Orchid Garden Eco-Village (s) and caused (a) great damage,
However, before the hurricane came, we were most concerned about what would happen to our green building. The results came as a surprise: it was well preserved; the hurricane blew in through the bamboo windows and left through them as well. It did no damage at all, either to the building or to its contents. It was as if Richard had not noticed there was a building in his path.
Natural solar light
The green building uses natural sunlight, which shines into the building through the surrounded bamboo windows and the central skylight. It floods into most of the indoor area, so that we do not need to use lighting during the day time.
Natural air-conditioning
We also use natural air conditioning: the building has bamboo windows on three sides. There are of five to six inches of space between the lengths of bamboo. Therefore, in more than five thousand square feet of space, only one tenth of the space needs air-conditioning. For the majority of the time, air-conditioning is not necessary anywhere in the building. Most of the time, even the fans are not needed.
Natural irrigation
All indoor plants use natural sky water for irrigation. The flowers and plants are placed near the bamboo window, or planted in the mini-rainforest area in the open-sky atrium: so that the plants there are irrigated by rain. We only need to water them manually if there is no rain for days.
We have two roofs to collect rainwater. The ten thousand gallon reservoir is used to to irrigate the vegetables we plant, or pumped to the storage tanks and used in the kitchen for cleaning.
We also have a system for collecting clean rainwater, which after boiling we use as drinking water. This is one of the reasons our tea or coffee taste particularly good – there is no chlorine or lime in the water.
Humans watching birds or birds watching humans.
The green building is surrounded by green shrubs outside the bamboo window. At any time of day we have different birds peering in curiously. Guests interested in bird watching do not need to leave the building. The birds seem to enjoy watching people inside the bamboo cage, and we enjoy watching the birds outside it.
Water Falls and Symphony
The courtyard garden is a small tropical rain forest. We see waterfalls when it rains heavily. When heavy rain hits the steel panel roof tiles, it sounds like war drums. It certainly creates an impressive symphony of sound.
Tropical rain forest treasure
Next, I will introduce you to a few Tropical Belize Treasures which are used in this green building.
The Mayan tree of life
The ancient Maya regarded the Cohune as the "tree of life ". Whenever they cleared a patch of forest to plant corn, they left the Cohune palms standing because every part of the tree was useful to them. They used the leaves for thatching and for insulation (as we do ourselves). In our green building we needed only 400 leaves to insulate the roof, and found that it also created a feeling of being in a natural space – as if we were under the trees themselves!
The cohune palm can grow to a hundred feet. Its leaves can be as much as thirty five feet long. The Maya used its trunk to build their houses. The nuts produce oil which is used for frying, or as a lubricant, for soap, or for lighting lamps. The top center of the trunk is also edible, and is known locally as a cohune cabbage (You may know it as the heart of palm). It is as delicious as bamboo shoots. Because of its wide range of uses, it was and is the most important tree in Mayan life, which is why people have called it the Mayan tree of life.
The Tree that changed the history of Belize
This tree is also arguably the reason for Belize being the only English-speaking country in Central America.
In our green building,nineteenof the thirty posts supporting the roof are made from the trunk of this tree.
Because the British found this dyewood in Belize in the early 1600s, they came to cut it and ship it back to England to dye fabric. The value, at that time, of 50 tons of this dyewood was higher than a ship's normal freight for a whole year.
The British called it Logwood. It grows in swamp areas and is very heavy - it sinks in water and is too hard to nail.
The price of dyewood gradual declined because of the invention of artificial dyes, and eventually the cutting of logwood was no longer sustainable. However Belize had become a British colony by that time.
Belize's national tree
The third treasure of the Belize rainforest is the national tree of Belize, "mahogany".
The tables in this restaurant are made of mahogany that was more than 50 years old when it was harvested. The chairs are made of younger mahogany, which is why they are a lighter colour.
The slices of mahogany were taken from the trunks of trees that had already been felled. The loggers are only interested in the straight trunk, and leave the lower portion of the tree – where it begins to spread its roots – in the ground, where it does not grow again. We took slices before the trunks rotted, brought them back, polished them and made them into the tables you eat your breakfast on.
Mahogany is one of the tallest trees in the tropical rain forest. If you are above the canopy of the tropical rain forest, you may well see some trees towering 30 feet above the canopy. Those tall trees are likely to be mahogany.
Mature Mahogany is a hardwood, too hard to be food of termite or worms. The color is a very beautiful red. Compared to other hardwoods, mahogany is much lighter in weight, so it is one of the most popular woods with cabinet makers.
Once the value of logwood declined, the British switched to mahogany. Before Belizean independence, logging was Belize's staple industry. The mahogany tree forms part of Belize's Coat of Arms. The motto "Sub Umbra Floreo" means: Under the shade of the mahogany tree, I flourish.
The most precious carving wood in Belize
The wood most prized by woodcarvers is Ziricote;
In the courtyard center of this building, you see a natural carving art work. In fact, it is a root of the Ziricote tree, sitting upside down.
Ziricote is one of the most dramatic members of Belizean hardwoods. The heartwood is dull brown with irregular dark brown and black strips, and the sapwood is creamy white to light golden tan. Its texture is easily worked with machine and hand tools, making it most popular in the gift-shops in Belize.
The treasure local people do not know about
Very few Belizeans use bamboo for buildings. Most people do not know Belize also grows a lot of bamboo.
All of the bamboo used at The Orchid Garden has been harvested from the banks of the second largest river in Belize; The Sibun. Some of the lengths were cut sixteen years ago, and are still in good shape.
Bamboo is one of the most environmentally friendly building materials. It only needs a few years to grow back after harvesting,
The most species in the plant kingdoms
Belize is one very small country out of two hundred countries in the world. There is only one Belizean for every twenty-four thousand people worldwide. However, for every hundred varieties of orchids in the world, one grows in Belize. Orchids are a tropical rain forest treasure.
Belize has over three hundred varieties of wild orchids. The Orchid Garden Eco-village has a collection of more than one hundred species. In the interior of this green building and along the trail, almost every tree has a different orchid growing on it.
There are more than 30 thousand varieties of wild Orchids that have been identified. The Orchid is one of the biggest families in the plant kingdom.
Over ninety percent of the orchids grow on trees in Belize, and many people think that this is because the orchids are maximizing their access to sunlight. In fact, it is an adaptation that protects them from being washed away in the rainy season, when the ground floods easily throughout Belize.
The plant that came from outer space
The Orchid is one of the major epiphytic plants in the rainforest and the number one in varieties but not the number one in quantity. Another epiphytic plant - the Bromeliad – exceeds it in number.
The folktale is that the Bromeliad came from outer space and refused to settle their roots on the ground, because of the pollution in it. They did not trust the nutrients the ground provides, and so they made their own.
The bromeliad does not absorb nutrients from their roots; they use them only to anchor themselves. They have their own way of producing and storing nutrients.
Bromeliads have a pond in the center. The pond attracts different kinds of insects and amphibians, which come to them. Some animal species spend their lives generation after generation in this water side property, and their bodies provide the nutrients for the plants.
You will find some large or small bromeliads attached to almost every tree in the rain forest. There are only a few thousand varieties of Bromeliads. The Pineapple is one of the very few members of the Bromeliad family that does root itself in ground. It produces a fruit much valued by human beings. Maybe that is another reason for most bromeliads not to come down out of the trees!
The next plant to introduce to you is "The palm that is not a palm"
There are many sculptures from nature on our walls and posts. Almost noone outside Belize knows what they are, or which plant they came from. In fact they are flowers from a tree known as the Travelers' Palm. It is not a palm at all, but a herbaceous flowering plant from the bird of paradise family. Some older classifications include these plants in the banana family.
From the Western bamboo window of our green building you can see a row of Travelers' Palms just outside of the window. The lower part of its fibrous leaf stem fills with the rainwater that drains off its huge leaves. The water is pure and can be tapped by travelers if they are in the wild and need water. Its huge flowers are shaped like sailing boats.
All the decorations in this green building are the work of Mother Nature, The flowers of the Travelers' palm are probably her most dramatic artistic creation.
Nature's pots
All the pottery in this building is provided by Mother Nature. It will not break if dropped, as dried coconut shells are very hard.
The coconut palm is the most common sub-tropical palm, and is probably the most well known, and the most useful palm, in the world. For many people the coconut palm angled across a white sand beach provides them with the most evocative image of a tropical or sub-tropical paradise.
The life cycle of the coconut is similar in certain respects to that of human beings: the nuts take almost a year to mature, and the trees commonly live between 80 and 90 years.


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Alaska House leaders gathered today to set the record straight. They say natural gas for Alaskans remains their top priority, despite Governor Sean Parnell's recent announcement that he no longer wants to pursue a gas line to the Lower 48 -- and instead will focus on an in-state line with enough capacity to serve both Alaskans and markets overseas.
House Speaker Mike Chenault says he will continue to support a small-diameter line from the North Slope to Cook Inlet to serve the rail belt – and that legislation introduced last session to develop the line will continue to move forward.
But Chenault also says bills introduced thus far wouldn't block the governor's efforts.
"We think this is enabling legislation that helps in every aspect, whether it's a small line or a big line." said Chenault. "We're not going to propose anything in there that would stop a bigger line going to tidewater or anywhere."
The Speaker believes the smaller in-state line has the best chance of success, because a large diameter line may not be politically possible, due to size limits imposed by the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act, or AGIA.
The legislation, which gave TransCanada a license to build a pipeline to the Lower 48, also has an option for a stand-alone gas line but restricted its capacity to 500 Mcf, which is only enough gas to supply Anchorage and Fairbanks, with a small amount left over for industrial development and export.
Parnell says he hopes to use the AGIA framework to develop a large capacity in-state line, but gas producers and TransCanada would have to agree on raising the threshold for the amount of gas that can be shipped.
Chenault says, if the governor comes forward with a project that aligns the producers with an in-state line, he said he would get behind it.
"If all of these corporations come together and form a project, I don't care what that project looks like," said Chenault. "I'm interested in getting gas to Alaskans."
But Chenault believes the small capacity line, known as the "Alaska Stand-Alone Pipeline," or ASAP, is more likely to happen.
"I think it may be the only proposal at the end of the day that comes forward," said Chenault.
Rep. Mike Hawker, R-Anchorage, says the ASAP project is also more necessary.
"We have an absolute need to take care of the citizens of this state, the Interior, South Central," said Hawker. "This is about the security of our homes, our families and our communities."
House leaders also singled out Fairbanks, a community that hasn't had the benefits of natural gas from Cook Inlet but is dependent on diesel fuel for electricity and home heating.
"You had those two together, and it's becoming more than peoples' mortgages are, said Rep. Tammy Wilson, R-North Pole. "It's getting to a point to where, 'How high can it go before I just can't live there anymore and have to move to some other area?'"
"If Anchorage was paying the cost that Fairbanks pays today, we would have had a gas line ten years ago," said Chenault.
Rep. Bob Herron, D-Bethel, says the ASAP project would also benefit communities outside the rail belt.
"There's a potential for using that gas for a major mineral extraction," said Herron, referring to the Donlin Gold mine project in the Upper Kuskokwim region. "There's gas that could generate low-priced propane that could be shipped down the Yukon."
Herron believes the ASAP project also needs to stay on track, to keep the pressure on producers to develop Alaska's gas.


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I had a great time. The average age of this cruise was pretty old, honestly, but this wasn't such a bad thing. The people I met on board were legitimately awesome. They were very kind, and had fascinating stories to tell. The downside of this was that I generally did feel like I didn't quite belong. The young kids all flock together in Club HAL, and the teenagers go to the Loft. I look younger than I am (everyone from the juggler/comedian to our room steward assumed I was about twelve), and when I met people I thought were my age, they were almost always Loft-aged. No offense to the high schoolers though, the people I met were neat. But I am a college Junior... too old for Club Hal and too young to party with the "old folks". I spent the great majority of time either alone or with my family. Honestly, this was a family vacation, and I preferred actually being with my family to totally branching out and never seeing them, so I guess this was pretty ideal. But, If my goal was hanging out with other young adults... it really was not available :(
The Neptune Lounge was pretty cool, and was the location of most of the in depth conversations I had with older strangers. I also spent a lot of the time in the Crow's Nest with my family and the friends we made, because we are hideously addicted to trivia games. Trivia games can actually fill a lot of time, just so you know, and we learned a lot of random fluff. Also, what wouldn't a sane person do for Holland America pins? Games are ageless, so I was a part of things.
The Amsterdam's cast and crew could probably benefit from some new shows? I went to most of their performances, and I don't regret it, but I spent a lot of the show feeling bad for the cast for having to wear so many sequins. The talent that HAL brought on was amazing. Ronn Lucas is this big time ventriloquist who I would actually go out of my way to see performing in the real world. We also got to see a performer called Jeff Trachta, who was amazingly talented. It's really neat to be on the ship, just wandering around, and run into people like juggler and talk to them. I liked that experience.
As a practicing Catholic, I was grateful that HAL provides a priest onboard their ships. It made life a lot easier, and it made the trip much more meaningful. Alaska's beauty comes from God. It's somewhat nice to remember that while we're actually there. I loved seeing the Orthodox churches in Kodiak and Sitka. They were amazing, and I had some really enjoyable and informational conversations with the people who worked in the church in Sitka, and with the gift shop lady in Kodiak.
The morning we spent in Kodiak was probably my favorite. I loved the little wildlife center/museum thing. Since we've been to Alaska many times, we skipped most of the nature-lectures, and this was about as informational about nature as anything got for me. The Baranhov Museum has some work going on around it, but if you follow the signs it is still accessible. It was a small, charming, and informative museum. It's this really old house that's been around for ages, and you can see the original wallpaper and woodwork in some parts. It deals with natural life in the area, as well as with the early Russian influence.
Homer is covered in fireweed, and the beach was pretty charming. I didn't see much of the area, but it was probably really worth seeing, I suppose...
I liked our family outing in Anchorage the best (probably more detailed in my mom's post), because in renting a car and just driving out of town, it kind of felt like we were runaways, or at home and taking a daytrip. It didn't really fit in with the cruise, and it made you feel more like a normal person, or a legitimate explorer.
There it is then, that's my briefish but honest review of the Amsterdam in Alaska. Good times were had by mostly all, I met about 5 other people around my brother's and my age group (all within the last 3 days or so, of course), and whales are still awesome. My brother was pretty frustrated and says he never wants to go on another HAL cruise... but I am sure he will. We both just wish HAL had stuff especially for people our age...
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The soccer and football fields at The Out-of-Door Academy clucked with excitement Nov. 20, as students chased, high-fived and blocked each other in friendly flag-football competitions, as ODA hosted its annual Turkey Bowl competition.
"This is the best day, ever," said avid football fan, Samantha Albano, as her team readied to take the field. "We all come together as a community and have fun — put the books away.
"I'd say we were playing to win, but we're just trying to get a touch down," said Samantha, when asked about her team's performance for the day.
After students competed with each other, ODA seniors took on faculty members. They lost the battle, however, with faculty beating the seniors 32 to 26.
The Turkey Bowl started in the early 1990s, when former ODA history teacher Mike Sprout brought a family tradition — playing football after the Thanksgiving Day meal — to the school.
Named in honor of Sprout's own "Turkey Bowl" competitions, ODA began the football contest for middle-school students. Since that time, it has evolved into a cherished event by upper- and middle-school classes.
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by Hilton Hater at .The world of fashion met the world of professional sports in Brooklyn today, as some of the NFL's biggest stars gathered with representatives from Nike and Commissioner Roger Goodell to unveil new uniforms for the league.
Dubbed the Nike Elite 51, the shirts and pants are meant to be more elastic and lighter. As you can see by this Chicago Bears mockup, the actual look varies little:
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Ben Roethlisberger of the Pittsburgh Steelers, Ray Rice of the Baltimore Ravens, Alex Smith of the San Francisco 49ers and Wes Welker of the New England Patriots were among the stars who modeled the new uniforms on stage.Said Super Bowl hero Victor Cruz of the Super Bowl of the champion New York Giants:
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Controversial 'Stand Your Ground' Laws Took Center Stage In 2012
Weekend Edition Sunday guest host Linda Wertheimer talks to NPR reporter Greg Allen about the controversial Florida "Stand Your Ground" law which has now been copied by more than 20 states.
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Even before the horrific shooting in Newtown, this was a year in which guns were in the news. There was the mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado. And another story we've followed began in February with a 911 call in Sanford, Florida.
GEORGE ZIMMERMAN: This guy looks like he's up to no good, or he's on drugs or something. It's raining and he's just walking around looking about.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: OK. And this guy, is he white, black or Hispanic?
ZIMMERMAN: He looks black.
WERTHEIMER: That's former neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman talking about 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. A few minutes later, there was a struggle that ended with Zimmerman shooting and killing Martin. Zimmerman says the teenager was reaching for his gun and that he, Zimmerman, acted in self-defense. Under Florida's Stand Your Ground law, if a judge agrees, Zimmerman will be immune from prosecution. More than 20 other states now have Stand Your Ground laws patterned after Florida's. Joining me from Miami to talk about the law and questions being raised about it is NPR's Greg Allen. Greg, good morning.
GREG ALLEN, BYLINE: Morning, Linda.
WERTHEIMER: Now, remind us exactly what the Stand Your Ground law say and why it's so controversial?
ALLEN: Well, you know, it's a law that says that people who are threatened with death or great bodily harm are entitled to use deadly force to defend themselves, and they have no duty to retreat. And the law goes further. It has a provision that says people who defend themselves are immune from prosecution. You'll recall the national outcry when police in Sanford investigated the Trayvon Martin shooting, but then delayed arresting and charging George Zimmerman. It was because they were concerned that by doing so, they might run afoul of the Stand Your Ground law.
WERTHEIMER: Now, the Trayvon Martin case has certainly cast a spotlight on this concept. Are there other cases where it's been an issue?
ALLEN: There is currently a case in Jacksonville that has some similarity to the Trayvon Martin shooting, in that it was another black 17-year-old - in this case Jordan Davis, who was killed. And there are many other cases in Florida where police and prosecutors are frustrated that defendants they'd like to put on trial are sometimes just able to walk away.
WERTHEIMER: So, with all the concerns that law enforcement, prosecutors, citizens have, is Florida going to reconsider this law, maybe make some changes?
ALLEN: Well, we'll have to see. Shortly after the Trayvon Martin shooting, Florida's governor, Rick Scott, convened a task force to do that; to look at the law and see if it needs to be changed. They heard from many impassioned advocates for repealing the law or changing, taking away the immunity provision. But proponents of the law also testified and they say this was written to protect law-abiding citizens who are defending themselves from having to lawyer up to defend against charges that shouldn't be brought in the first place. So, the task force members - we've gotten down to the final report - and it looks like they're going to say that if there's any problem with the law, it's not with the law itself but with how it's interpreted by law enforcement and the courts. They judge in the George Zimmerman case has scheduled a Stand Your Ground hearing in April where she'll decide whether he'll have to stand trial or whether he acted in self-defense and should get off.
WERTHEIMER: With the Newtown shooting now, Greg, there is a sense that public attitudes are shifting on gun control. Is that affecting Florida's debate over Stand Your Ground?
ALLEN: Well, not so far, Linda. This is a state with a strong NRA presence. The NRA helped craft the law and they're firmly behind it. There's a push to change the law that's being led by Democratic leaders in Tallahassee and also some civil rights leaders. And the parents of 17-year-old Jordan Davis, who's the teenager in Jacksonville who was recently shot and killed, they've launched a campaign to get the law repealed also. But clearly opponents to the Stand Your Ground law are fighting an uphill battle.
WERTHEIMER: Greg, thank you.
ALLEN: You're welcome.
WERTHEIMER: That's NPR's Greg Allen in Miami.
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The present volume, the third in the Wiltshire series to be published, has been prepared under the superintendence of the Wiltshire Victoria County History Committee. The origin and constitution of that Committee are described in the Editorial Note prefixed to the Victoria History of Wiltshire, Volume VII, and it is sufficient here to say that the Committee have been good enough to continue their valuable grants for the support of a local editor, and have thus enabled the University of London to play their part as publishers.
Users of the History will be familiar with the original scheme of arrangement under which the general history of a county was broken into single chapters on ecclesiastical, political, and economic history, each covering the whole period of time. In the case of Wiltshire this plan has not been followed, and a substantial modification is to be found in this volume, where, in place of a single chapter on ecclesiastical history, there will be found three chapters on the Church of England, one on Roman Catholicism, and one on Protestant Nonconformity. In these general sections it has been the aim to bring out the spiritual life of the religious communities no less than their institutional development. The articles on religious houses are of conventional design but are longer than those in preceding county series.
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Have a festive kickoff for your wedding
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Engagement parties create a memorable atmosphere for a bride and groom to announce their upcoming wedding plans. The engagement party is typically held no later than three months after the initial announcement. Although engagement parties are typically hosted by the bride's family, these days it's not uncommon for the family of the groom to be financially involved. Engagement parties are also a chance to get creative and have fun announcing the upcoming wedding. Choose a fun theme for your event and have a good time.
Hawaiian Luau
Celebrate in tropical style with an island party. Send colorful announcements; images such as a hula girl, hibiscus flowers or a tiki torch can be added to the invitations or envelopes. Instruct guests to wear tropical Hawaiian or beach-themed attire for the evening. Purchase grass skirts and hats for additional party attire. Give each guest a floral lei when they arrive, but make sure you reserve a white lei for the bride. A buffet can include quintessentially Hawaiian fare such as pina coladas, smoked mahi mahi and pineapple chicken on skewers. If your budget permits, see if you can hire entertainers to perform the luau.
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Dessert buffet party
An engagement party doesn't always have to include dinner; instead host a dessert party. The party can easily be held at a private home. Set up a display table with a large variety of sweet treats. Add a chocolate fountain to the center of the display. Surround the fountain with dipping items such as strawberries, cookies and pretzels. Serve champagne, mimosas or martinis. Include clear glass bowls and vases of candy and chocolates in a variety of colors and textures. Create a large display sign reading "So sweet to be in love" with the couple's names for a finishing touch.
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What better way is there for a couple to announce that they're getting hitched than a Wild West theme party? Choose a backyard barbecue for the event and include home-style favorites such as grilled hamburgers and baked beans. Place checkered tablecloths on picnic tables and make sure you have bandanas, cowboy hats and other Wild West garb on hand. Create faux "wanted" posters of the bride and groom and place them around the venue with information that includes how the groom proposed to the bride as well as the date and time of the wedding, if it has been determined.
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If the couple has decided on their honeymoon location, announce the engagement around the theme. Have guests dress in native costumes or colors if they're headed to an island paradise. Or else, use the national colors of the designated country or location for your design palette. Purchase small flags and place them in clear glass vases or in cocktails associated with the region-- a Jamaican flag in rum and coke cocktails for couples headed to the Caribbean, for example. Serve national foods at the party such as spring rolls representing China and mini tacos representing Mexico. You can also play music from the country the couple will be visiting.
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The three rooms of the 1787 "lean-to" addition of the historic house have been transformed into a hands-on activity space for children and adults. The Discovery Learning Space offers a variety of activities to explore Noah Webster's early life. The space includes an interactive archaeological section where reproductions of artifacts can be found, a colonial kitchen where children can try on costumes and pretend to be one of the Websters, and an area devoted to colonial farm life and what West Hartford was like during Webster's childhood.
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Explore the alphabet soup of West Hartford's dynamic past, colorful personalities, and pivotal events. This semi-permanent exhibit allows visitors to discover our community's history and the people who have helped to make it an "all-American town".
Stylized artwork by West Hartford native painter Pamela R. Levy vibrantly brings each letter of the alphabet to life. Enjoy hearing veterans tell their heroic stories, test your sense of smell by identifying the aroma that matches one of our town's culinary establishments, stomp your feet to the melody of local music, or explore the visual record of our triumphs and losses through the hundreds of images in the exhibit.
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Today we celebrated the 69th Anniversary of the D-Day Allied Landing Invasion of Normandy. What a full and wonderful experience. As always, we were accompanied by our fabulous guide who took us to Ste. Mere Eglise, Utah Beach, Omaha Beach, the American Cemetery, and Pte. du Hoc. My guide is also a dear friend whose Dad was in the French Resistance, was captured in Caen, and who had the unfortunate misfortune (understatement to be sure!) to be sent to Dachau Prison Camp for the remainder of the war. (He survived the war, but not without great pain!)
...Today was a splendid walking tour with our Paris guide. We tasted sausage from the Auvergne, a kouign aman from Brittany, chocolate from somewhere in France (mint…tasted like the mint was picked from my garden, but it melted in my mouth). We marveled at Haussmannian architecture on the Left Bank (I always note it on the Right Bank in Paris, but hadn't seen so much on the Left Bank). We watched the throngs of Parisians in line for tantalizing pastries and baguettes for their Sunday family dinners.
...I arrived in Paris today to begin my annual Normandy and Paris D-Day Escorted Tour. The weather in Paris is gorgeous and everyone is out. People are in cafés, biking down the Champs Elysees, strolling Boulevard St. Germain. It's absolutely wonderful! Saturday is shopping day and it's bustling right now.
...The 2013 French Open has begun in Paris! Like always, it should be another exciting event. Last year's male champion, Rafael Nadal managed to escape defeat in his first-round match against Daniel Brand of Germany. Maria Sharapova also won her first-round match against Hsieh Su-wei of Taiwan. Whew! This year's French Open is off to a good start.


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Lakeisha Scott, Capitol Heights woman, convicted of lying for boyfriend in shooting case
A jury has convicted a Capitol Heights woman of obstructing justice for lying about her boyfriend's involvement in a shooting.
Lakeisha Scott, 31, faces up to 30 years in prison. Her sentencing date will be set in a hearing on April 20.
In a statement released Wednesday, authorities say Scott, a probation officer for the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency, gave a false alibi for her boyfriend while testifying before a grand jury in a shooting case.
On January 16, 2011, Scott and her boyfriend were at her home when she found out he had been cheating on her with another woman. Scott spoke with the woman on the phone about the relationship. Scott's boyfriend left the house and went over to the other woman's home in Southeast and fired 11 shots at the side of her apartment building. The woman, who was not injured, told police that she was on the phone with Scott at the time of the shooting.
Scott's boyfriend was arrested in connection with the shooting and, when interviewed by police, he said that he had been with Scott all morning. Scott later told a detective that she knew nothing about a shooting, and confirmed that her boyfriend was with her all morning, except for about 10 minutes.
After Scott's indictment, her boyfriend pleaded guilty to assault with a deadly weapon in connection with the shooting.
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Samsung to reveal 'retro' NX200 RS
With retro designs the in thing these days, rumor has it Samsung has decided to milk the trend by launching an NX200 RS interchangeable lens camera (ILC) this weekend.
According to Photo Rumors, the NX200 RS is functionally identical to the original NX200. What separates the two is that the new RS variety would be fitted with a metallic-chrome top plate.
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LAGUNA HILLS, CA (BRAIN)—Floyd Landis told ESPN.com yesterday of his decision to appeal an arbitration panel's vote against him in his doping case.
The panel's vote stripped him of his 2006 Tour de France title.
VALENCIA, CA (BRAIN)--Valencia Sport Group added a new online ordering system for dealers on June 1. Valencia, which is the distributor of SixSixOne, Royal and Sunline products, plans to use the site to enhance sales and improve ordering.
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MONTEREY, CA (BRAIN)--While this year's Sea Otter overall attendance numbers were slightly down from last year because of Saturday's deluge of rain, other numbers indicate a continued growth in the event.
RYE, NY (BRAIN)--Jarden Corporation has signed a merger agreement under which Jarden will acquire K2 for $1.2 billion in a stock and cash deal.
BETHEL, CT (BRAIN)--Cannondale recently promoted Scott Struve to global director of marketing. Struve will be filling the void left by David Budd.
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SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, CA (BRAIN)--Interbike will be the presenting sponsor of the World Criterium Championship, to be held in Las Vegas the night of Thursday, Sept. 27--day two of Interbike's international bicycle expo.
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BATAVIA, IL (BRAIN)--Sigma, the world's largest manufacturer of cycling electronics, is proud to announce the appointment of Jim Jarnagin as its Northwest Tech Rep.
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A marketing strategy used by firms to attract customers to a new product or service. Penetration pricing is the practice of offering a low price for a new product or service during its initial offering in order to attract customers away from competitors. The reasoning behind this marketing strategy is that customers will buy and become aware of the new product due to its lower price in the marketplace relative to rivals.
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Penetration pricing can be a successful marketing strategy when applied correctly. It can often increase both market share and sales volume. Additionally, the high sales volume can also lead to lower production costs and higher inventory turnover, both of which are positive for any firm with fixed overhead.
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New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson returns to the exciting world of the Mistborn in The Alloy of Law.In the three hundred years since the events of the Mistborn trilogy, science and technology have marched on. Scadrial is now on the verge of modernity, with railroads, electric lighting, and even the first steel-framed skyscrapers racing for the clouds.Yet even with these advances, the magics of Allomancy and Feruchemy continue to play a role in this reborn world. Out in the frontier lands known as the Roughs, they are crucial tools for those attempting to establish order and justice.One is Waxillium Ladrian, a rare Twinborn who can Push on metals with his Allomancy and use Feruchemy to become lighter or heavier at will. After twenty years in the Roughs, Wax must now put away his guns and assume the duties incumbent upon the head of a noble house—until he learns the hard way that the mansions and elegant tree-lined streets of the city can be even more dangerous than the dusty plains of the Roughs.
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Sanderson continues to show that he is one of the best authors in the genre."—Library Journal, starred review
"Part Sherlock Holmes, Part X-Men, this exciting stand-alone adventure is full of close shaves, shootouts, and witty banter." —Publishers Weekly
"Rive with laugh-out-loud moments, religious and philosophical ponderings, and plenty of crime-fighting action, this book fits nicely in any gun-holster." —Booklist on The Alloy of Law
"An engaging and fun romp of a read. The characters really shine."—RT Book Reviews on The Alloy of Law
"Sanderson's fresh ideas on the source and employment of magic are both arresting and original."—Kirkus Reviews on The Alloy of LawPraise for the Mistborn series and Brandon Sanderson"[The Hero of Ages] brings the Mistborn epic fantasy trilogy to a dramatic and surprising climax…. Sanderson's saga of consequences offers complex characters and a compelling plot, asking hard questions about loyalty, faith, and responsibility." —Publishers Weekly"Sanderson is an evil genius. There is simply no other way to describe what he's managed to pull off in this transcendent final volume of his Mistborn trilogy."—RT Book Reviews (Gold Medal, Top Pick!) on The Hero of Ages
"Mistborn utilizes a well thought-out system of magic. It also has a great cast of believable characters, a plausible world, an intriguing political system and, despite being the first book of a trilogy, a very satisfying ending. Highly recommended to anyone hungry for a good read." —Robin Hobb" It's rare for a fiction writer to have much understanding of how leadership works and how love really takes root in the human heart. Sanderson is astonishingly wise." —Orson Scott Card
THE ALLOY OF LAW by Brandon SandersonKirkus Book ReviewsRead the Kirkus Review of THE ALLOY OF LAW . Sanderson returns to planet Scadrial (<em>The Hero of Ages<em>, 2008, etc.) where, 500 years later, the scenario is a fantasy Wild West where the largest city, Elendel, despite its unpredictable mists, boasts railroads, electric street lighting and nascent skyscrapers.- Kirkus Reviews
BRANDON SANDERSON grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska. He lives in Utah and teaches creative writing at Brigham Young University. He will shortly complete Robert Jordan's bestselling Wheel of Time® series with the long awaited A Memory of Light.
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