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- Dom Mongeard Mugneret Bourgogne Rouge 2011 Product #27687 (In Stock)
From a family-owned estate based in Vosne Romanee comes this very serious Bourgogne Rouge. Unlike many estates who style their basic Pinot Noirs to be as friendly and approachable young as possible, this has a bit more structure and aging potential than its humble appellation would lead you to think.
Aromas of dark, ripe cherries, mushrooms, and a bit of baking spice lead to classic flavors of savory red fruits. No overt oak, but the fruit and acidity is nicely supported. What's really impressive here are the tannins - a little grippy now, but ripe and mouthwatering. This will benefit from a little more time in bottle, but can be enjoyed now with a little bit of air. It's the kind of wine that makes you want old-school French bistro food that is decidedly not diet-friendly - a little chicken liver mousse and a crusty baguette, and you wouldn't even need a main course.
- Langlois Pere Et Fils Cassis Nv Product #28099 (In Stock)
The first thing you'll notice about this delicious creme de cassis is its almost neon color, a gorgeous, glass-staining magenta. Made from super-ripe cassis berries grown on the Langlois estate, this is sweet, rich and lucious, to be sure, but also has an intriguing undercurrent of something leafy and herbal that keeps it from becoming cloying. If you've never had a real creme de cassis, try adding a few drops to sparkling wine for a Kir Royale you won't forget!
- Langlois Pere Et Fils Mure Nv Product #28100 (In Stock)
Wild blackberries harvested from around the city of Nevers in Burgundy make this unctuous liqueur, traditionally drunk with Bourgogne Rouge for a sort of brunette sister to the Kir called a Berrichon. After the berries are harvested, they are frozen to break down their cell walls, making for more concentrated flavors. Combining the sweetness of ripe fruit with more earthy, musky aromas than the more common creme de cassis from the same region, this is unusual and delicious.
- Dom Michel Sarrazin Rully Sans Nom Blanc 2012 Product #28779 (In Stock)
A lot of wine here for the money, especially considering the estate's small production, painstaking vineyard work, and willingness to use 50% (expensive!) new French Oak barrels on this wine. Pretty, pure, aromas of yellow fruits - peaches, nectarines, pears - plus toasted hazelnut, rich butter, and a hint of caramel. On the palate, the texture is nicely rich and round and the caramel and hazelnut flavors more emphatic, suggesting pear or peach tart with a buttery crust, before the bright lemon/lime citrus and green apple acidity comes up to make your mouth water and chalky minerality intermixes with the buttery, salty caramel, and ripe pear flavors that linger much longer than you'd expect.
The balance between ripe fruit, rich butter caramel, and juicy citrus/apple acids is outstanding, making this a satisfying and refreshing wine to just sip and giving it the "oompf" it needs to shine with food. Pair it with simple roast chicken, fresh seafood, rich white or mushroom sauces, or even with fresh salads – it's going to shine with them all.
"This Rully Blanc is an honest, straightforward wine. It is pleasantly aromatic and offers fresh, yellow fruit on a creamy, well-integrated palate, finishing on a long, chalky note. Drink over the next 2-3 years."i-Wine Review 90 points


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An upcoming food-sampling event with a celebrity chef gives residents something to sink their teeth into.
DJ Chef Marc Weiss, who appeared on Food Network's What's Hot, What's Cool, is coming to Columbia County's Tasting at The Rapids on Thursday at the Savannah Rapids Pavilion in Martinez.
"He mixes beats while simultaneously preparing his delicious dishes," county Community Events Specialist Virginia Atkins said. "It's going to be really fun."
Additionally, the event will showcase several local restaurants, caterers and bakeries.
Bailey Lewis enjoyed a unique birthday celebration Wednesday in Evans.
CSRA Home Connections members celebrated the Hephzibah Middle School sixth-grader's 12th birthday and his donation to help deployed military personnel at the local business marketing group's networking breakfast and spring success seminar at Be My Guest.
Bailey heard about the group's Operation Hand-Warmer on the radio. Instead of buying the video game he was saving for, Bailey opted to donate more than $100 he'd earned cleaning beagle cages to the cause.
Two recent high-profile burglaries in Columbia County spotlight the rising numbers of those crimes.
On Feb. 29, a Martinez 15-year-old shot and killed a burglar who, along with another man, forced his way into the Martinez apartment the boy shares with his parents.
Earlier that week, a Harlem man held someone trying to break into his neighbor's home at gunpoint until authorities arrived.
The number of burglaries in Columbia County rose 31.8 percent, from 346 in 2010 to 456 in 2011, according to recently released crime statistics.
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Columbia County authorities charged a Martinez woman Thursday for indirectly furnishing alcohol to four Lakeside High School baseball players.
Courtney Devin McIlwain, 23, of Villa Lane, was charged with furnishing alcohol to a minor.
The players were drinking the alcohol on a school bus Friday or Saturday as the varsity team traveled home from a late game against South Effingham County.
Harlem High School's senior JROTC instructor resigned while under investigation for a reported sexual relationship with a 17-year-old student.
Mitchell Sivas, 57, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, resigned March 4 when confronted by Harlem Principal Dietmar Perez, said Columbia County Schools Superintendent Charles Nagle.
Under Georgia law, a sexual relationship between a student and teacher from the same school is illegal even if the student is past the age of consent, said Columbia County sheriff's Capt. Steve Morris.
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An Evans man was arrested Tuesday after another man claimed he stabbed him.
Leon Harris, 58, of the 600 block of Mims Road, was charged with aggravated assault.
A 37-year-old Evans man said that without a confrontation Harris attacked him at a home on Mims Road, according to a Columbia County Sheriff's office incident report.
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12-year-old arrested for writing bomb threat
Columbia County authorities arrested a 12-year-old girl Friday for writing a bomb threat in a Columbia Middle School bathroom stall.
The girl was charged with making terroristic threats or acts and disrupting a public school, both felonies, Columbia County sheriff's Capt. Steve Morris said.
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University Hospital is securing its future footprint in the Grovetown area with the recent purchase of six acres next to the Gateway shopping center.
The land was purchased Feb. 28 for $900,000 after University Health Inc. voted to approve the sale a few days earlier.
"It was purchased because of the extensive growth in Grovetown," said University Communications Specialist Erica Cline. "We do know that there's not enough out-patient services out in that area to meet the demand of that growth."
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Two airplanes, a Cessna and a Piper, collided midair in a mountain pass while traveling in opposite directions. The pass is a river valley, about 1/2-mile wide, with the floor about 1,000 feet mean sea level (msl), between mountains in excess of 5,000 feet msl. Neither pilot saw the other airplane in time to take evasive action. Both airplanes landed safely after the collision. The airplanes were operating in visual flight rules meteorological conditions, in uncontrolled airspace at about 2,300 feet msl, without any air traffic control services. The westbound Cessna sustained minor damage to its left float and the eastbound Piper sustained substantial damage to its vertical stabilizer and rudder. The Cessna pilot reported that he was monitoring the common traffic advisory frequency (CTAF) for the pass and making position reports. He saw the opposing airplane pass under his left front and heard a loud "thump." The Cessna was equipped with wingtip- and tail-mounted strobe anticollision lights, which were operating at the time of collision. The Piper pilot reported that when he spotted the Cessna floatplane he did not have time to take evasive action. He was not monitoring the CTAF, and the airplane he was flying had no anticollision wingtip strobes or any forward-facing lights.A local Federal Aviation Administration publication contains a graphic representation of the pass, and includes remote communications outlets, weather cameras, reference points, and a CTAF for the pass.
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Research on arsenic can be broken down into three general areas -- health effects, treatment options and cost evaluations.There are more than 1,000 published research papers on health effects alone. This section provides an over-view of the most prominent research related to these areas which have impacted EPA's decisions. There also are links to research organizations that can provide access to the specific projects conducted.
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Consumers unwilling to drink arsenic contaminated water are demanding a more rapid implementation. Publicly owned utilities, however, will be held hostage from implementing a more rapid solution due to government approval cycles, annual budgets, required biding processes and slow implementation schedules. As a result, in-home treatment systems, which immediately can be installed, are a very popular treatment option for individual homeowners. Other advantages such as low implementation/operating costs and improved flexibility make the POU/POE approach option appealing.
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I am coming from Brooklyn, NY and visiting this weekend. I try to sample the best pizza when I travel (if appropriate) and was wondering if I should try a slice while I am here and if so where would be the best place to go locally? Thanks!!!
re: Robert Lauriston
Not L'Osteria del Forno for a slice while touring North Beach?
re: Melanie Wong
Yeah, there's a good chance their porcini pizza bianca's not like anything in NYC.
re: Robert Lauriston
Here's a shot of the my half of three slices split for lunch with a friend.
The porcini pizza bianca is in the middle.
L'Osteria del Forno
519 Columbus Ave, San Francisco, CA 94133
re: Robert Lauriston
Any reason why you recommended the SF Arizmendi as opposed to the 2 East Bay locations?
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It's near places a tourist might have some reason to visit.
re: kresge86
Gioia's owner explicitly characterizes the pizza as Brooklyn-style.
They have some quality toppings, but personally I find the crust oddly tasteless.
re: Robert Lauriston
I love Gioia's crust. Often steal it from the plates of friends and family. Other crusts are often over-salted. In fact, the last two pizzas I've had from Pizzaiolo have been seriously over-salted. Don't think Charlie was there.
re: rccola
Tastes vary. It's most likely Gioia's stinginess with salt that makes the crust seem so tasteless to me. Their choice of flour might be part of it as well.
NY pizza may be better than the spots out here. I haven't ate at the spots listed above, my I usually head to Amici's Pizza. They have several locations in the Bay Area. I like it there.
re: virtualguthrie
Arinell is a passable rendition of an average NY "Ray's"-style street slice. Serious waste of time, money, and calories for anyone on a short visit from New York, especially given its proximity to Poc-Chuc, Yamo, and many of the contenders for best burrito.
re: Robert Lauriston
Agreed. Unless you're interested in seeing the lunatic fringe of Mission style (bullet belts, amazingly unwashed hair), I'd save your money.
There's an excess of good food in San Francisco, but none of it is pizza.
re: jpancake
There's great pizza in San Francisco, most of them are just similar to what can be had in New York. E.g. pizza-loving visitors from most other places might be excited to try the AVPN-certified Neapolitan-style pie at A16, but New York has two AVPN members.
re: Robert Lauriston
I think you can go to any large city in America and get something like you get at any of the pizza places that have opened in SF within the last 3-4 years: 10" or smaller pizzas cooked in precious ovens and topped with arugula.
In my book the only pizza place on the west coast that is worth getting excited about is Apizza Scholls in Portland. Everything else may serve to feed a pizza need, but it's not worth directing someone from out of town to seek them out. The pies just aren't that special.
re: jpancake
Not a big pizza guy but Mozza in LA and Chez Panisse might be worth it. Not east coast but it doesn't need to be.
re: ML8000
Chez Panisse's former pizza chef opened Pizzaiolo, which makes somewhat similar but to my taste better pizza. Also, at CP there's just the pie of the day, Pizzaiolo gives you a choice.
I found the pies at Pizzeria Mozza a step or three down from those at Pizzaiolo, Dopo, or A16:
re: Robert Lauriston
It seems like the OP wants pizza and isn't too concerned about trying something they can easily get at home, and they asked for slices so....
I've had plenty of pizza in NYC, slices and restaraunts, and I think if you're looking for a good slice of pizza here in SF that's one of the few places to get one.
What are you looking for ... comparing NY-style pizza or just what might be the best of a local version? If you are looking for what you get back home, it is not worth it. However, California-style pizza might be worth it. Arizmendi makes a good slice of pizza if you are up near Golden Gate Park.
Tomasso's is close to East Coast pizza though I'm not a fan of it.
A16 gets positive mentions as does Pizzetta 211.
Then again you can give Orson a try. The chocolate, espelette, sea salt, olive oil pizza just got an enthusiastic report
Other pizza on the menu
- boudin noir, arugula, potato, oregano pizza
- sausage, olive, summer squash, pecorino pizza
- tomato, guanciale, egg, chili flake, robiola pizza
One pizza will be a meal for one or can be shared by 2.
re: rworange
Tommaso's (opened as Lupo's in 1935, the oldest pizzeria in the west) isn't really very East Coast in style. The oven burns wood rather than coal, the crust is thicker, and they don't bake as dark.
Funny... I know everyone loves A16, but my pizza was soggy and uninteresting. Pizzetta 211 is okay, but feels quite precious and overpriced for what it is. Delfina is good. I've heard Little Star is good. I've also enjoyed good pizza at Tomasso's. For "everyday" pizza (as opposed to special-occasion, expensive, wait-in-long-lines, pizza), I enjoy Extreme, Orgasmica, Gaspare's, Arizmendi and Nizario's.
re: kresge86
Little Star makes the best Chicago-style deep-dish pies in the area. Might be better than what you can get in NYC since Goldberg's closed.
Tommaso's usually has a line, but its prices are similar to Gaspare's or any nice neighborhood pizzeria.
re: Robert Lauriston
I've had surprisingly good Chicago-style pies at Little Star when I ordered 'off the menu' -- specifying specific ingredients. The tables at the Valencia location are criminally close together (honestly, not more than 6" apart), and, for that reason, I like the Divisadero branch better -- even if it can be monstrously loud.
re: Robert Lauriston
I would not say Little Star has the best deep-dish. I have had it, and while it is quite amazing, I think if you went out to the East Bay and tried Zachary's you would agree that Zach's pies edge out LS' 9 times out of 10.
Also, Mozza in LA is definitely the best in the state. Indescribable.
re: kresge86
I absolutely agree about A16. Soggy, and boring. Pizzetta 211 varies wildly based on who's working the oven; though their salads are almost always stellar. I've been to Pizzeria Delfina three times and never had a good pizza. Twice I've had cheese that tasted ... foul ... after it set.
For everyday I like Serrano's; their slices are a screaming deal and, given the price, I'll overlook the overabundance of cheese.
L'Osteria del Forno. Porcini pizza for something you cannot find easily in NYC. But they are all wonderful.
Gialina or Arizzmendi for something a little different then what you can get in NY.
If you're looking for something similar to NY then Delfina at lunchtime. If you like the square at Artichoke then try one at Golden Boy in North Beach. If you like John's then there are a few places in SF of the same era and style.
San Francisco has been reinventing itself as far as pizza goes, going more rustic or trying to copy fresh mozzarella pies, but the city used to do great pizzas with thick well done crust, lots of cheese and heavy rich sauces...you'd have a tough time finding and individual style these days though.
re: sugartoof
Pizzeria Delfina's menu is the same all day. No slices.
John's of Bleeker Street has a coal oven, which makes for a different crust than anyone does here. Tommaso's is the only pizzeria in this area that's that old.
Nizza la Bella explicitly styles its pizzas after old-school New York pizzerias. They have a note on the menu that the pies are baked at 800 degrees and that the crust will be "lightly charred ... unless otherwise requested." My favorite's the San Gennaro with scamorza, sausage, peppers, onions, and garlic.
Nizza La Bella
827 San Pablo Ave, Albany, CA 94706
re: Robert Lauriston
Delfina at lunch is calmer with less wait, and I find the pies less rushed. I never claimed they had a different menu or served slices.
Gaspare's Pizza is very similar to John's. Brick oven aside, Tommaso's is nothing like John's.
re: Robert Lauriston
john's is on bleecker. i mean no offense. it's like the sfo or san fran thing.
I'm originally from NY. Our favorite pizza out here is the L'Artigiano pie with a double order of anchovies at Nizza La Bella in Albany. It's as good as anything I've had back east or in Italy.
Orgasmica and Little Star (deep dish only) are both worth seeking out. Orgasmica has slices but Little Star is only dinner and whole pies.
...the OP is asking for suggestions-not a rehash of "boo hoo we have no bagels or pizza'.
Again.. Inner Sunset you can hit three:
Arizamendi (not like your pizza - bakery foccacia weirdness but considered some of the best)
across the street...
And PASQUALE'S! I would go with the latter if you only hit one around these parts.
Well, AOL just published its best restaurant lists and here are the results for best pizza in SF
Arizmendi Bakery
Mozzarella Di Bufala Pizzeria
Tommaso Ristorante Italiano
Little Star Pizza
Goat Hill Pizza
Pauline's Pizza Pie
Actually some of the other categories are respectable enough ... though there are ringers in every category ... probably some enthusiastic owners getting the votes in. The Family Friendly category is just a mess though ... even the one or two good restaurants are not places I'd recommend taking a family.
re: rworange
Has Goat Hill improved in recent years? It used to be very average.
re: Robert Lauriston
It's average, but I think it might be a good example of a style of pizza more commonly seen in the Pacific Northwest. There have been discussion on Yelp about how transplants to New York can't get anything close with the low barely there crust, and sweeter sauce. To me it's similar to Round Table Pizza.
The all you can eat special at Goat Hill Pizza is probably why it still wins votes.
re: sugartoof
For people who don't know: the special is on Monday nights.
re: walker
And every day but Sunday at the Howard location. It's fun to try once.
re: sugartoof
That's interesting - my first thought when I tasted Goat Hill's pizza was "tastes exactly like Two Boots" (I didn't like Two Boots either).


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Dear Santa,
I would like a __________ for Christmas.
Thank you,
With a grey marker – one of the narrow Crayola ones – I filled in the blank, before my parents could stop me, with the word Bird. They should have known it was coming. I had been obsessed with birds since I could talk. My first word might have been 'Ky-a!' – the name of our cat – but 'Bird!' probably came not too long after. My five-year-old brain, like my three-year-old brain and my seven-year-old brain, was utterly devoted to all things feathered.
The letter was duly posted to the North Pole, as I thought, and I forgot about it – Can the mind of a five-year-old really look forward to Christmas when there are jay-feathers and crow-feathers to be straightened in the here and now? Christmas morning, 1998, I didn't even notice the absence of anything resembling a bird. There was a chunky plastic camera that would actually work if film were added, which it never was, because really, who cared? That was distracting enough. Engrossed, I turned my back on the room and the tree for a few moments – maybe more. When I turned back, there was a large rectangular object that had not been there before. It was loosely draped in a sheet of wrapping paper. And it was chirping.
I've probably never been more excited than I was that day. I named my new pet 'Spotty,' as I named everything at that time. He had a large, orange spot on each side of his yellow face – of course his name would be Spotty. One of the fish had spots too, as did the crippled monarch butterfly I had taken home. Everything, everything was named Spotty. Within hours, my arms and neck were covered in tiny white scratches from the bird's rather sharp claws – why he didn't simply fly away from me, his tormentor, I know not, but whatever the reason, it was months before the scratches ceased to be regularly replenished.
Eventually he ended up in one of the three bedrooms at my mother's house, the one that would later become mine. I don't know where he was until then; I really don't. But eventually he had this one room all to himself. Why? Because nobody could stand the noise he made. Squeek, squeek, squeek, all the time. And we couldn't let him within reach of the cat, either, just in case, although he had made an odd sort of peace with her (him? that cat was probably transgender) by biting her/his nose through the bars of his cage, after which point the cat never expressed any interest in what would have been its natural prey. Occasionally, when the cat was outside, we would let the bird fly around the house – but only occasionally, as it was devilishly difficult to get him back into his cage. Neglected and lonely, he became a supreme misanthropic grouch. He hated everybody, and most returned the feeling. I must have had some fondness for him, though, since my mother's threat to give him away unless I shaped up my behavior at school was quite effective.
At some point I renamed him – Dunno. I had outgrown naming everything Spotty, and one evening I was playing with the word, Dunno, that I had just made up. Everything in the house was called Dunno just once, but it stuck, hard, to the bird previously known as Spotty. Years later, my cousin would ask me 'Hey, didn't you use to have another one of those, named… Spotty, or something?' Apparently he didn't remember about the name change – I can't really blame him.
Everything changed not so very long after the cat died – at least, I think that must have been when. Dunno was flying about the house in one of his rare bouts of freedom, and my mother was coming in through the front door. Or possibly going out. In either case, she saw him coming and quickly slammed the door to prevent him from escaping into the wide world, where he would unquestionably die within days. Two moments later and that would have been his fate. One moment later and his head or body would have been crushed in the door and he would have died gruesomely. A moment earlier, and he might have lived out the rest of his days as unwanted, frustrated, and alone as he had been.
He spent all the next day at the veterinarian's, and maybe the next day, too. His wing was broken – there had been blood everywhere when it had been smashed in the door, and he would have bled to death had it not been for my mother's quick thought and quick action to slow the bleeding by applying cornstarch – and it was unclear whether it would need to be amputated. He returned from the hospital a changed bird, with both wings still attached to his body, but the broken one bound in a bright blue cast, never again to be used for flight. For as long as he wore the cast, we let him (as our only warm-blooded pet at the time) roam freely around the house. He was sooooo cute running around on the floor, chirping, with his wing all wrapped in blue, and, most amazingly, he liked us. He'd never liked anyone before, as far as I know, but once he lost the power of flight, he liked us – especially me. He usurped a human girl's place as my best friend, he started to live in a cage with an open door, and I would kiss his little beak every night before lights-out.
As I grew up, the obsession faded, but the bond between us remained strong. My family got a dog, and Dunno moved into a closed cage and became almost like his old grouchy self, except toward me and my father. His loyalty to us (and, as always, to me especially) was unshakeable. If anyone 'threatened' me (though the supposed 'threat' was always either motherly or friendly affection), or even so much as entered the room, Dunno would attack with all his great ferocity and almost nonexistent might. But he demanded much in return: if I ignored him, or sometimes even if I paid him any attention less than holding him to my body and running my fingers through the feathers on the back of his neck, he would yell at me. As he aged, he grew ever more demanding. My brother never tried to hide his dislike for Dunno, and my mother made it fairly clear that she only tolerated him for my sake. But still, he was a part of the family and a part of me.
There were some signs that he was getting old. He was more demanding than ever, and there was that one unexplained incident when he seemed to lose control of his body. Subconsciously, I think I knew the end was nearing. I thought more often of his death, and with more dread. I thought 'I can't lose him' like it was actually a possibility, which it had rarely been before. And when I returned home from vacation, on the night of New Year's Eve, hours before 2010 became 2011, I entered the house with a sense of apprehension: the words running through my head as I approached my bedroom were 'Horror or relief awaits me through this door.' Still I was expecting relief, but was met with horror.
The evidence is that he had another of those mysterious attacks, this one fatal. He was on the floor, yes, but he could have gotten back to his cage. Other than a place on the other side of the room, on the lowest shelf of my bookcase, where some paper had been chewed and some feces deposited, there was no indication that he had spent any time away from his food and water supply – and even that could have happened at any time; the feces looked normal, not like those of a starving bird trying to subsist on the pages of books, and besides which, when he would up on the floor he would always go either to the door or to the rocking-chair, neither of which places had been visited. No, he had not starved. Much as I tried to blame myself, it was not my neglecting to put food and water on the floor that had killed him.
But those thoughts did not come until later. Just then, all I could do was whisper 'No…. No….' and pick up the little body, a few days dead, and hold it in my hands and sit on the edge of my bed and whisper 'No…. No….' and finally cry out, in a voice weak but unbroken, 'Somebody. Somebody.' My father came. He sat beside me. Only then did my lungs begin to shake and my eyes to fill with tears. And then I cried, long and hard, never letting go of the body.
The next day, my father and I made a box to hold the corpse, which would dry out and never need burial. One month later, we held a service, a 'Powa,' at the Buddhist prayer center my father attends. We printed some photos, including the one above, and framed them all in one frame. It sat on the altar, or the shrine, or what have you, with offerings of Cheerios, and the oaken box holding the dog-chewed remains wrapped in a shroud, and people who had never met Dunno prayed for him to be sent on to some Peaceful Land where the ground is strewn with flower-petals.
It was in about fourth grade that I had gotten it into my mind that I wanted to marry that bird. I waited, though, until I was 'old enough' – I figured twelve or thirteen was about old enough – and by that time I thought the idea was embarrassing and stupid. It was only more recently that I realized that I had married him, sort of, the moment I pulled back that sheet of wrapping paper. So strong was the bond, so deep the commitment. We would be together until death parted us. And so we were.
The Buddhists prayed for Dunno's being to be sent to a blissful otherworld all too similar to Heaven, but not I. I know where bliss is for him, and it's not in any perfect world. I held his spirit to me, to my bosom, with my fingers in the feathers at the back of his head. And there it stays, and will stay, forevermore.
That's so sweet and so sad.
I'm sorry for your loss.
you're a beautiful writer and this is a beautiful story. Teared me up. Thank you for this.
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Hello, I recently had my garden extended by a piece of land measuring 34 metres by 14 metres, and my son purchased 23 Phormiums from you in last August on my behalf. I was delighted with the service I received, and the plants appear to be thriving well especially considering the dreadful weather we have suffered this winter. We also bought Rootgrow from you to assist with their development ,and also for use when we moved mature Acers and other shrubs. I still need more shrubs or other types of plants and would appreciate some advice as to what to use. Along one of the 14 metre lengths there is a "hedge" of bamboo plants, and adjacent to these on the return (long) length there is a small rise of earth, tapering down to ground level, with a specimen black bamboo at the end of the mound. There is also a mature acer, which we had to move, situated at the edge of the dividing path (between the lawn) on the field side of the garden. Would it be possible for you to suggest the names of suitable plants which I could purchase from you and which would compliment the existing ones. I am in my eighties and therefore need a very low maintenance garden. I would also like to introduce a little colour if possible. My garden is very exposed and is on quite a windy site. I look forward to your reply.Asked on 2/15/2010 by Marian Burgess
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Scottish whisky sent into space three years ago to discover how gravity affects the maturing process will return to earth in 11 days, on September 12, according to its distiller.
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Open Educational Resources: Revolutionizing Teaching and ResearchThis workshop introduces participants to Open Educational Resources or OERs. Participants will learn to 1.) locate OERs using the Affordable Learning Georgia website, 2.) create an OER account, 3.) evaluate OERs, and 4.) assess student responses to OERs.
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Open Educational Resources or OER's "are teaching and learning materials that you may freely use and reuse, without charge. That means they have been authored or created by an individual or organization that chooses to retain few, if any, ownership rights. For some of these resources, that means you can download the resource and share it with colleagues and students. For others, it may be that you can download a resource, edit it in some way, and then re-post it as a remixed work. OER's often have a Creative Commons or GNU license that state specifically how the material may be used, reused, adapted, and shared." OER Commons (2014).
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4. Redistribute – the right to make and share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others" Wright (2009)
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