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Some angels can be said to have a sin nature where other ones do not because some angels have fallen into sin and others have not. We are familiar with humans having a sin nature in that we are fallen and struggle with doing right and wrong. Sin has affected all of what we are: body, mind, soul, emotions, etc. The Scriptures tell us that the unbeliever is a slave of sin (Romans 6:14-20) and does no good (Romans 3:10-12), which demonstrates that we have a sin nature. There are many such Scriptures that describe the unbeliever, but we don't find any that describe the fallen nature of the angels who rebelled, except that we find them working against God (Ephesians 6:12; Revelation 12:7-9), sinning (2 Peter 2:4), being deceptive (2 Corinthians 11:14), and injuring people (John 8:44; 2 Corinthians 4:4; 1 Peter 5:8).
We can say that the fallen angels have a sin nature in the sense that they rebelled against God and were changed by that rebellion and will forever be in rebellion against God. In this sense we can say they have fallen, sinful natures. But, those that God elected not to sin (1 Timothy 5:21) do not have sin natures. That is, they did not fall into sinful behavior.
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A 41-year-old motorcyclist lost control of his bike, slid across the road and ended up in the middle of the road in a Bradford County crash around 2:30 a.m. Saturday, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
State troopers said it happened on County Road 225 North near Lawtey.
Investigators said Stacey Jenkins, of Orange Park, was not wearing a helmet.
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Dan Tuohy has covered politics in the Granite State since 1993 and has reported from the Statehouse. A New Hampshire native, Tuohy is a past president of the New Hampshire Press Association.
John DiStaso's Granite Status: New Democratic poll shows Hassan, Lamontagne in statistical dead heat
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 26, UPDATE: RAZOR CLOSE. A new internal poll commissioned by the state Democratic Party shows Democrat Maggie Hassan and Republican Ovide Lamontagne in a statistical dead heat in the race for the open governor's seat but Hassan in a "good position to win."
Hassan holds a 48 to 46 percent edge in the Sept. 15 to 19 poll of 600 likely voters conducted by Democratic pollster Greenberg Quinlan Rosner. The poll has a margin of error of 4.9 percent.
The sample breakdown is 31 percent Democrats, 30 percent Republicans and 39 percent independents.
Greenberg Quinlan Rosner says in a memo obtained by the Granite Status that Hassan "enjoys stronger standing" than Lamontagne and "is in a good position to win this race with an aggressive campaign and the resources necessary to communicate and define the choice in this election."
The poll memo says Hassan "is currently known to three-quarters of likely voters and gets very solid ratings, with a 37-24 percent favorable-unfavorable ratio."
The pollster says Lamontagne "has 82 percent name recognition but gets much more negative ratings from voters than Hassan, with a 34-34 percent favorable-unfavorable."
Greenberg Quinlan Rosner says Hassan is running in a "good political environment."
The Washington-based firm says says its polling showed President Barack Obama leading Republican challenger Mitt Romney, 52 to 45 percent, in New Hampshire and outgoing Gov. John Lynch with a "very impressive 57-17 favorable-unfavorable ratio."
"Hassan is in a good position to win the gubernatorial race in November and keep the corner office in Democratic hands, but the race is close and will require significant effort to ensure victory for Hassan in November," the Democratic pollster says.
(Earlier updates and the full Sept. 20 Granite Status follow.)
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 26, UPDATE: BREAKING A "PLEDGE?" Republican Rep. Frank Guinta's campaign manager says Democrat Carol Shea-Porter is breaking a pledge she made in May by coordinating a "massive" television ad buy with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
Shea-Porter's campaign had used its own funds to pay for its ad accusing Guinta of voting against veterans. But Tuesday, the DCCC began picking up the tab through coordinated funds.
Guinta campaign manager Ethan Zorfas recalled that last May, Shea-Porter proposed she and Guinta jointly call on Super PACs to refrain from advertising in their race. She said it was OK with her if Super PACs engaged in grassroots organizing, however.
Guinta's camp refused, calling her hypocritical since a Super PAC called CREDO was involved in (and is still involved in) organizing against and protesting against Guinta.
Zorfas this week called that call by Shea-Porter last May a "pledge," and he said she broke it by allowing the DCCC to now pick up the payment for her ads.
He acknowledged that the DCCC is not a Super PAC, but said, "Former Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter went against her own campaign pledge when she began coordinating a massive TV ad buy with one of Washington's largest special interests (the DCCC)."
"This is just more politics as usual from her; she tells Granite Staters one thing and then does something different to benefit her own election."
But Shea-Porter campaign manager Naomi Andrews said there was no pledge in May, just a jilted call for a joint statement with Guinta, and so no pledge was broken.
"We always said we would work with our team, and obviously the DCCC is our team," she said.
Andrews pointed out the Guinta camp on Tuesday put up a response ad defending Guinta's votes on behalf of veterans, accusing Shea-Porter of "false attacks" and criticizing her for voting in favor of the Obama stimulus, which, the Guinta ad says, "provided tax breaks for companies that created jobs in countries like China" when she was in Congress.
It turns out the Guinta ad was paid for by both the Guinta campaign and the National Republican Congressional Committee -- a similar payment arrangement to the Shea-Porter/DCCC partnership that the Guinta campaign is complaining about. And if the DCCC is a "one of Washington's largest special interests," wouldn't the NRCC be considered the same?
Zorfas said, "But the difference is that my boss hasn't been writing columns for the past year saying how disgusting it is that outside groups are getting involved in the campaign."
In a recent post on BlueHampshire.com, Shea-Porter wrote, "While I abhor the amount of money being spent by outside groups, and wish that Congressman Frank Guinta had agreed to sign a statement with me asking that outside groups stay out of our race, I am more concerned about the inaccurate messages that their money might spread across our state's television sets."
Andrews, meanwhile, said Guinta's ad brags about "the fact that he re-introduced Carol Shea-Porter's bill, the Veterans Health Equity Act.
"Congressman Guinta is desperate to distract from his vote for the Ryan budget, so he has chosen to attack Carol's strong record of standing up for veterans and the middle class," she said.
(Earlier updates and the full Sept. 20 Granite Status follow.)
TUESDAY, SEPT. 25, UPDATE: AFT-NH BACKS HASSAN. Organized labor is responding to the visits this week by two of what it describes as "anti-labor" governors coming to the state for the state Republican Party and Republican candidate for governor Ovide Lamontagne.
As New Jersey governor Chris Christie, who has battled with teachers unions in his home state, campaigns with Lamontagne today, the American Federation of Teachers-NH announced an endorsement of Democrat Maggie Hassan for governor.
AFL-CIO state president Mark MacKenzie said his union will canvass Nashua on Saturday, the same day that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker will be in the state to speak to the NHGOP state convention.
Also Tuesday, the New Hampshire Democratic Party put out a new web ad, entitled "Friends of Ovide," accusing Christie of cutting education funding by $1 billion during his first year in office and Walker of cutting education by $1.85 billion during his first year on the job.
"What does 'Scott Walker on steroids'" -- Lamontagne's phrase describing how he would govern -- "mean for education in New Hampshire?" the ad asks.
It notes his support for a voucher school choice plan and his opposition to mandatory statewide kindergarten.
MacKenzie said about 150 union members "will distribute comparison leaflets on Maggie Hassan and Ovide Lamontagne as well as literature on the presidential, congressional and state Senate races."
"What kind of governor would Ovide Lamontagne be?" asked MacKenzie. "Just look at his role models. Both Scott Walker and Chris Christie made names for themselves dismantling basic rights for working people."
AFT-NH president Laura Hainey said Hassan "is a tireless advocate for the middle class and will continue to be as governor. Ovide Lamontagne positions are too extreme."
AFT-NH says it has about 4,000 members in New Hampshire. NEA-NH, the largest teachers union, endorsed Hassan in August.
(Earlier updates and the full Granite Status follow.)
MONDAY, SEPT. 24, UPDATE: TALKING GROUND GAME. Republican National Committee Political Director Rick Wiley will be in New Hampshire tomorrow (Sept. 25) to meet with local "Victory" operations staff and volunteers about the party's get-out-the-vote effort on behalf of Mitt Romney's campaign.
Wiley wrote in an update today that six weeks before the election, "the Romney Victory program has already identified over 2.2 million swing voters (nationally), has started our Absentee Ballot program and will soon begin focusing on Early Vote Turnout.
"In New Hampshire," Wiley wrote, "we've made 3 times more phone calls and 8 times more door knocks than this time in '08."
Wiley wrote that nationally, the campaign has made "more than 26 million voter contacts, thanks to the efforts of our 73,000 volunteers. This week, we expect to make our 30 millionth voter contact. By mid-September, we had already surpassed the 2008 operation in total volunteer voter contacts.
(Earlier updates and the full Sept. 20 Granite Status follow.)
MONDAY, SEPT. 24, UPDATE: WALKER TO KEYNOTE FOR NHGOP. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker will keynote the New Hampshire Republican Party's state convention on Saturday, Sept. 29, the party confirmed this morning.
Walker will follow another outspoken Republican governor to the state. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will be in the state tomorrow, Sept. 25, to campaign for GOP candidate for governor Ovide Lamontagne.
The convention with Walker will be held at the Pinkerton Academy in Derry beginning at 9 a.m.
Christie will be featured tomorrow at a private fund-raiser for Lamontagne at the Bedford Village Inn (see items below).
He will also tour and participate in a roundtable discussion at the Atrium Medical Corp. in Hudson at 1:30 p.m. Christie will then attend a Lamontagne campaign rally at 3 p.m. hosted by state Sen. Chuck Morse at Morse's Freshwater Farms in Atkinson.
The appearances by the two governors illustrate the intense focus the Republican Governors Association is placing on the New Hampshire race between Lamontagne and Democrat Maggie Hassan.
Lamontagne has said during his campaign that he would govern like "Scott Walker on steroids."
The two governors are also mentioned as potential contenders for future GOP presidential nominations, perhaps in 2016 if Mitt Romney loses to Barack Obama in November.
(Earlier updates and the full Sept. 20 Granite Status follow.)
FRIDAY, SEPT. 21, UPDATE: CHRISTIE FOR OVIDE. Outspoken and often controverisal (but never dull) New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will be in New Hampshire on Tuesday to help raise money for Republican candidate for governor Ovide Lamontagne. (See details below.)
FRIDAY, SEPT. 21, UPDATE: BLAMING BARACK AND BIDEN. Vice President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden are in New Hampshire for campaign stops today and tomorrow. Mitt Romney's campaign chided him on the rise in the state's unemployment rate.
The Department of Employment announced this week that the state's unemployment rate crept up from 5.4 to 5.7 percent in August, with the number of unemployed residents increasing by 1,700 to 41,870.
The national unemployment rate for August was 8.1 percent, a decrease from 8.3 percent in July.
Romney spokesman Michael Levoff said, "Today, we received more bad news from the Obama economy --more and more Granite Staters are finding themselves unemployed. Vice President Biden is in New Hampshire today and Granite Staters should receive an answer for why the state has continued to bleed hundreds of jobs despite the promise of a recovery.
"President Obama has changed his tune from 'yes we can' to 'no we can't,' claiming it's impossible for him to change Washington from the inside. His failure is clearly on display with today's disappointing job numbers," Levoff said.
The Bidens went to Dartmouth College Friday afternoon and were scheduled to appear at the State House Friday evening.
Saturday, the Jill Biden will be at the Obama campaign office on Maple Street in Manchester and then join her husband for an event at the Merrimack Middle School.
FRIDAY, SEPT. 21, UPDATE: SENIORS FOR BASS. U.S. Rep. Charlie Bass, accused by Democratic congressional challenger Ann Kuster of supporting the privatization of Social Security, on Friday released a "Seniors Steering Committee."
The panel includes former Federal Emergency Management Administrator and former state transportation commissioner Wally Stickney of Salem, former state Rep. Terry Dudley of Lebanon and Coos County Commissioner Bing Judd.
The Cook Political Report this week changed the outlook for the District 2 race from "toss-up" to "lean Democratic."
FRIDAY, SEPT. 21, UPDATE: CHRIS'S COUNCIL. Democratic District 4 Executive Council candidate Chris Pappas has announced a 137-member Leadership Council comprising a cross section of party activists.
Included are Alderman Patrick Arnold, former Ambassador George Bruno, Dr. Sylvio Dupuis and state Sen. Lou D'Allesandro.
(More on the Lamontagne fund-raiser featuring Christie and earlier Granite Status reports follow.)
FRIDAY, SEPT. 21, UPDATE: THE OVIDE-CHRISTIE EVENT. The Ovide Lamontagne fund-raiser featuring New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is slated for Tuesday, Sept. 25, at 11:30 a.m. at The Bedford Village Inn, according to an invitation obtained by the Granite Status.
Suggested contributions are $250 per person although a $1,000-a-couple VIP reception will also be held.
Other Lamontagne campaign events featuring Christie are planned for Tuesday and will be announced.
Hosting the fund-raiser will be U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte, who defeated Lamontagne in the 2010 U.S. Senate primary, and former Gov. Steve Merrill. Lamontagne served as chairman of the state Board of Education when Merrill was governor in the early 1990s.
Christie, an early supporter of Mitt Romney for President and a key surrogate, was the keynote speaker at the Republican National Convention last month in Tampa.
Tomorrow, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett will be in New Hampshire for a Lamontagne fund-raiser at the Hanover Street Chophouse in Manchester.
The joint appearance by Corbett and Lamontagne drew criticism from the Planned Parenthood of North New England Action Fund.
"Lamontagne has chosen one of the most extreme anti-women's health governors in the country as an ally," said Jennifer Frizzell, a Planned Parenthood fund senior advisor.
For the most recent fund-raising and cash-on-hand totals for Lamontagne and Democratic candidate for governor Maggie Hassan, see our item below.
(An earlier update and the full Sept. 20 Granite Status follow.)
THURSDAY, SEPT. 20, UPDATE: INTO THE GENERAL. Although they won in landslides, Maggie Hassan and Ovide Lamontagne spent campaign funds during their primaries as though they were in razor close elections.
In the end, maybe they didn't have to spend more than a $1 million each. It was about more than the primaries, however.
Hassan, who had been virtually unknown to all but political insiders earlier this year, had to spend big to gain name recognition moving into the general election..
And even Lamontagne, despite being in his fourth major campaign, wasn't exactly a household name statewide.
According to Hassan's post-primary finance report, filed on Wednesday, she raised $1.072 million during the primary, spent $1.05 million and had only $16,395 in cash on hand as she moved into the general election.
Lamontagne spent almost as much in his primary campaign. While raising $1.27 million, he spent $1.01 million.
But Lamontagne's campaign opened the general election with $258,000 on hand, about 16 times more than Hassan.
Hassan's campaign says there is no reason for concern about the huge cash gap.
"We're raising the money we need and we're confident that we're going to have the resources to win," said spokesman Will Craig.
What they're not saying is that Hassan will also receive plenty of help from outside groups making independent expenditures, such as EMILY's List and the Democratic Governors Association.
Lamontagne will also receive help, as he already has, from the Republican Governors Association.
Lamontagne, by the way, raised $48,000 and spent $289,000 in the final week or so of his primary campaign, while Hassan raised $63,000 and spent $81,000 during the same period.
In other closely watched state races, Democratic District 4 Executive Council candidate Chris Pappas had no primary opposition and opens his general election campaign against Republican Bob Burns with more than $82,000 on hand. Burns did not file a Sept. 19 report, but in his Sept. 5 report, he had $1,200 on hand.
In the District 9 state Senate race, Democrat Lee Nyquist, who had no primary, enters the general election with $70,000 on hand compared to nearly $46,000 for Republican Andy Sanborn, who won a hotly contested primary.
And District 18 state Senate Democratic candidate Donna Soucy reported $64,000 on hand, while her GOP opponent, J. Gail Barry, does not yet have a Sept. 19 report on file.
(The full Sept. 20 Granite Status follows.)
THURSDAY, SEPT. 20: "MOMENTS" FOR MAGGIE, OVIDE. Each candidate in Wednesday's interesting, informative and sometimes spicy gubernatorial debate had moments to explain afterward.
Democrat Hassan sure seemed to be blaming the Department of Health and Human Services' response to the hepatitis C outbreak at Exeter Hospital on funding cuts enacted by a GOP-dominated Legislature.
When Republican Lamontagne called that "irresponsible" and "reckless," Hassan responded, "It is reckless for anyone to suggest that you can just keep cutting with no consequences to our entire health care system. We have people in this state who aren't getting care because of the cuts this Legislature has made."
It certainly appeared she "connected the dots" from funding cuts to the outbreak.
But afterward, Hassan said she was "just trying to make the point generally that we have to make sure that we have the resources we need to provide health care, and that's the broader point."
Was she saying that the state's response was connected to cuts?
"No, I'm not," she said.
Lamontagne said she "absolutely linked" the two.
"It's irresponsible to say that, and there is no evidence to suggest a lack of funding even contributed to this whole issue."
Lamontagne said candidates "should not try to politicize important public health issues like this."
Hassan again took the anti-broad-based tax pledge, but Lamontagne and his campaign insisted it's not genuine.
It wasn't backed up by her record, they said. She was open to an income tax while running for the state Senate in 2002, although she did oppose income and sales taxes in subsequent years.
While Lamontagne also promised to oppose any hike in gasoline taxes or tolls, Hassan would not, saying these items needed to remain on the table as a possible way of funding infrastructure.
"For someone who has taken the 'Pledge,' Hassan is chronically unable to say whether or not she'll raise any other tax in the state," tweeted Lamontagne adviser Jim Merrill.
"This is what they say about every Democrat running for office," Hassan said. "They made similar accusations against John Lynch."
She said there is a $90 million hole in the transportation/infrastructure budget "and we have to find a way to come together to fund that."
Lamontagne said it's hard to believe Hassan because of her support for a tax on Limited Liability Corporations (LLCs), "which is an income tax on small business, and the fact that she started her career in favor of an income tax."
Hassan said the highly unpopular and since-repealed LLC tax was passed by the Legislature in which she served as Senate Majority Leader with the support of the Business and Industry Association of New Hampshire, which happened to be a cosponsor of the debate.
But the BIA said no way; it didn't support the tax. It did acknowledge it supported the budget that included the tax.
But Lamontagne had a bit of explaining to do, too.
Hassan said he signed a pledge put forward by the conservative Cornerstone Research advocacy group, which, she said, promotes "some of the social issues he said he wasn't going to pay any attention to as governor.
"But part of that pledge also says he will work to completely deregulate private health insurance in the state of New Hampshire," she said.
Lamontagne said he didn't know what she was talking about. He said the pledge he signed weeks ago had no such call and was a general statement of conservative principles.
What he did not know was that Cornerstone this week issued a "2013-2014 Families First Legislative Agenda" calling for health care deregulation.
Cornerstone said it was "based on the goals identified earlier this year by Cornerstone's Families First Pledge for candidates."
Cornerstone's Shannon McGinley said, "We fully expect our pledge signers to introduce the bills identified in our agenda."
"I haven't even read (the agenda)," Lamontagne said.
Hassan said it doesn't matter what came first.
The pledge he signed "is from Cornerstone Research, which has an agenda which includes deregulating insurance companies, which Ovide has also talked about."
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SCHOOL CHOICE VS. PUBLIC EDUCATION. Hassan and Lamontagne each made their cases on school choice.
She said Lamontagne's choice plan, including a voucher system, would "divert millions of dollars from our public education system, which in Manchester has as many as 40 kids in a classroom, to private and religious schools.
"That doesn't help our middle-class families."
Lamontagne replied by noting that Hassan lives at Phillips Exeter Academy, where her husband is principal.
"Your family is fortunate," Lamontagne said. "You've had the experience of the Phillips Exeter Academy. That's a wonderful school. But it's not a public school and I want every child to experience what I did when I went to St. Paul's School advance studies program.
"They took high school students from the public schools and Catholic schools and gave us the experience of what a boarding school was like in the summertime.
"I want that for every child. That's why I support choice. That will empower our children to realize the things that they can only aspire to."
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THAT "47 PERCENT" THING. Lamontagne distanced himself from Mitt Romney's comment in a May video that he will never get the vote of 47 percent of Americans who pay no taxes, view themselves as "victims" and are "dependent on government."
"There's no 47 percent in New Hampshire as far as I'm concerned," Lamontagne said. "Every citizen deserves to have a responsible government."
Hassan turned the question to abortion, saying, "You can't be the governor of everyone in New Hampshire if you deny the right of a woman to make her own health care decisions."
Lamontagne said he would be "duty-bound to enforce the law of the land," under Roe v. Wade.
"And if a bill comes to your desk to ban abortion, you won't sign it?" asked Hassan.
"It's not coming to my desk," he said. "The law of the land provides for abortion and that's not changing."
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APPEARANCE OF THE WEEK: It was great to see longtime Democratic activist/strategist Judy Reardon at the debate. She has been battling major health issues. Asked if she was playing a role in the Hassan campaign, she smiled and said, "unpaid advice."
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AD OF THE WEEK: Charlie Bass' new ad charging that 2nd District U.S. House foe Annie Kuster is running from her liberal record includes a woman who is a spitting image of the Democratic challenger.
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TWEET OF THE WEEK: Chris Cizilla, political reporter of the Washington Post and author of The Fix column:
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"Format: Sununu in single leather chair. Off cam people throw subjects out. He riffs.
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Gifts for book loving children and families – 3
Posted on | November 14, 2010 | 7 Comments
If you love Tove Jansson's Moomins then there are some wonderful gifts out there for you…
A Moomin Love bowl, plate and mug set from the UK store Cooks Paraphernalia, who stock a wide range of Moomin crockery.
Moomin 4-Piece Cutlery Set available at a UK store which specialises in Scandinavian goods, Cloudberry Living.
Moomin overnight bags from Pussy Home Boutique – they also have Moonin keyrings, jars, pencils and other goodies!
Moomin duvet cover and pillow set from Artbox, who also sell many other Moomin gifts
Are you a Moomin fan?
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7 Responses to "Gifts for book loving children and families – 3"
November 13th, 2010 @ 11:37 pm
Yes! Yes! Yes! But you don't see them in Australia.
November 14th, 2010 @ 4:15 am
Oh my gosh! These are so amazing! We just discovered the Moomin's last year, but you don't see much of their stuff here in the US. I LOVE the dinner wear!!
Zoe @ Playing by the book
November 14th, 2010 @ 6:34 am
MakemineMid-Century and Maria… without saying too much you might want to return to the blog on Tuesday [nod nod wink wink]
November 14th, 2010 @ 2:24 pm
The Bangalore Book Fair is on and I found so many treasures in a used book stall. Parked myself shamelessly on the floor and went through pile after pile!
Currently they are all being devoured up, dinner all forgotten.
Found a lovely book called The Button Box and thought of you (and we've never even met!)- how you'd do stuff around the story etc
November 14th, 2010 @ 2:28 pm
oopa that comment was meant for the previous post about the igloos. would LOVE to have lay my hands on immi – world habitats are the flavour of the season with the 5 yr old.
and LOVE moomintrolls. awesome gift ideas!
btw waitrose did a whole range of the hungry caterpillar cutlery/crockery one time i think.
and lastly, tulika (the publisher of my mother's sari) has recently brought out gift options (mugs, gift paper, etc) based on their recent books based on the panchatantra stories (heard of these?)
November 14th, 2010 @ 2:29 pm
(butter fingers!)
November 15th, 2010 @ 7:06 am
I'd love to know more about The Button Box – we have a button box and it gets played with everyweek – the girls love using them to thread, or just as as magic objects / money / cakes / things to put in bags. And I love the excuse to add to our collection whenever I see a beautiful button!
I definitely recommend Immi – just beautiful and such a lovely story. Off now to see if the tulika products you mention can be viewed on line!
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Skies, Light and Atmosphere in Watercolour Book Review
By Angela Youngman Sep 17, 2012, 23:03 GMT
Renowned watercolorist David Bellamy shows how to paint essential elements of landscapes-skies, light, and atmosphere-in this painting resource, demonstrating how choices involving these three key elements can affect a painting. Starting with skies, the basic techniques are covered, including composition, clouds, special effects such as silver linings, sunsets, and shafts of light, followed by a dramatic sky demonstration. The next element is light, with plenty of advice about warm and ...more
Watercolour is the perfect medium for capturing the changing moods of skies. David Bellamy is an expert in this type of art and in this book, sets out to share some of the skills he has acquired over the years.
He explains the techniques carefully and thoroughly in such a way that anyone, no matter whether they are a beginner or experienced artist, can follow him.
There are clear step by step photographs showing how to achieve the various effects. It is a good way of learning how to paint different cloud types, silver linings, shafts of light, shadows, as well as getting the greatest effect from painting the sun. A good solid book, 'how to' book for artists with plenty of good advice and help.
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-- It was my first spring turkey season. I had gotten permission to hunt on 80 acres that had a creek running through the middle of a small alfalfa field and a thicket of woods.
I located a big oak tree on the edge of an alfalfa field because I knew the turkeys came into it around 5 p.m. So I set up about 20 yards off the field and waited. I began calling while looking around the trees and back to the fields. I called a few more times and decided to give the birds the quiet treatment.
Almost an hour later, I heard a twig snap behind me. I turned slowly and watched as a gobbler moved around to the right of me not even 10 yards away.
I couldn't shoot because there was a fence between the bird and me. Since I did not want to take a risky shot I waited. The bird looked right at me, and I froze, trying not to blink or flinch. After what seemed like an eternity, the bird made it to the alfalfa field.
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People walk near a mound of salt on the site of the new coal gasifaction plant which is on the site of the former LTV coke plant at 115th and Burley Avenue in Chicago, IL on Monday July 11, 2011. It is called the Chicago Clean Energy Project | Matt Marton~Sun-Times Media
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Chicago Clean Energy, a subsidiary of Leucadia National Corp., plans to use a chemical process to convert coal and petroleum coke into synthetic natural gas at a $3 billion plant it proposes to build in Chicago's East Side community. Carbon dioxide and other emissions would be captured and eventually stored underground, according to Gov. Quinn's office.
Utilities such as Nicor and Peoples Gas would be required to buy natural gas produced by the plant, but Quinn said legislation he signed Wednesday to approve the plant contains consumer safeguards. He had vetoed a similar bill earlier this year.
With the Chicago project, Leucadia has three other gasification plants in development in the United States, including one in Indiana.
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Gov. Pat Quinn signed legislation Wednesday that would help establish the state's first coal gasification plant on land owned by three Southland men.
Leucadia National Corp., through its subsidiary, Chicago Clean Energy, plans to invest $3 billion in the plant, which would be built on the site of the former LTV Steel coke batteries at 114th Street and Burley Avenue.
Chicago Clean Energy would clean up the brownfield site, shuttered after LTV Steel went bankrupt at the end of 2000. Quinn signed the legislation at the site of the former coke plant.
The 140-acre site is owned by Orland Park resident Alan Beemsterboer and his cousins, Simon Beemsterboer and Steve Beemsterboer. Simon lives in Mokena and Steve in Frankfort.
Chicago Clean Energy still has to file an application with the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency to build the gasification plant, which would create at least 1,000 construction jobs and 200 permanent jobs, according to Tom Mara, an executive vice president with Leucadia and president of Chicago Clean Energy.
The project faces opposition from some area residents as well as environmental groups, including the Sierra Club. Quinn called the plant a "clean energy project" that would convert Illinois coal to natural gas in an "environmentally positive way."
The governor suggested the plant, which would consume at least 1 million tons of coal annually, would be instrumental in helping the United States become more energy independent. He also hinted that securing a reliable domestic energy supply might trump environmental concerns.
"We have to be practical and realistic in our country," Quinn said. "Ultimately, we have to have energy."
Earlier this year, Quinn vetoed similar legislation allowing Chicago Clean Energy to build the plant after opponents, including consumer groups, warned the result could be higher natural gas prices. Quinn said Wednesday that the new legislation incorporated consumer safeguards.
Mara said construction of the plant could take four years, and a consultant to Chicago Clean Energy said the process of securing a permit from the state to build and operate the plant could take 18 months.
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Watch European interbank lending rates closely. A spike in these rates will be your signal to sell stocks globally and take profits.How should this affect your portfolio management? If bank runs are not triggered in Spain or elsewhere in southern Europe, perhaps not at all. In the absence of external shocks, I am bullish on the U.S. economy and markets, as I have written at Seeking Alpha.
Investors Should Not Ignore SignalsThe German Bundesbank just published a major study, outlined by West, saying that Italians and Spaniards are significantly wealthier than Germans. This follows on the heels of the Eurogroup-imposed bail-in of unsecured depositors in Cyprus. The implications are clear, and the timing is very telling. Northerners signal that they will not pay for southern bank bailouts. On Tuesday, Eurogoup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem said that Europe (read northern countries) should not bail out southern banks. He said that there must be "push back" on the pleas to bail out investors such as bondholders and unsecured depositors (i.e., those with deposits in excess of 100,000 euros). According to Mr. Dijsselbloem, after wiping out equity and debt holders, if more funds are needed, unsecured depositors should be "bailed in," as is currently being done in Cyprus. Make no mistake, northern Europeans do not want to spend a single penny on a bailout for southern Europeans. The Cyprus "solution" is now the blueprint for how they can avoid paying for future bank bailouts in southern Europe. But the Germans and the Dutch do not want to be accused of being "heartless" or "unfair." So, they need some cover.
The Bundesbank StudyThe Bundesbank just published the aforementioned study (leaked about five days ago) to head off charges that the northern countries are being "stingy" ogres who are not showing "solidarity" with their southern brethren. The study implies that it would be unfair to force relatively poor Germans to bail out the relatively richer Spaniards and Italians. The Germans have actually been making this claim for a while, but this is the first time they have published a formal study on it.
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Professor Manos Anagnostou, the Northeast Utilities Chair in Environmental Engineering in the School of Engineering and a professor in civil and environmental engineering, is an expert in the remote sensing of water, a specialty that has become urgently important as the world debate about water rises to new levels.
"We are working to develop an early damage prediction model, with the idea of expanding it into a Center for Natural Hazards and Resilience for Civil Infrastructure," says Anagnostou, who uses his endowed chair to call together colleagues from around the state, UConn, and Northeast Utilities to work together on the project. "Often, it takes a catastrophe to drive people to build these centers. I don't want that to happen here."
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Jay Chesshir thinks so — and he's in a position to have an opinion.
Chesshir is the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce's team leader for economic development, and he's the executive director of the Metro Little Rock Alliance.
To back up his feelings, Chesshir said there's going to be an announcement this week of a company opening up a facility in the region that will employ 140-150 full-time workers. The impending arrival in Little Rock of yet another new company will be announced on Sept. 9, he said.
"In the first six months of this year," Chesshir said, "we've had three times as many site visits as we did in the same period last year. We're light-years ahead of where we've been."
Paul Latture, executive director of the Little Rock Port Authority, said visits have "picked up markedly" this year. "Little Rock is getting more attention than in the past," he said, crediting the chamber and the Arkansas Department of Economic Development's efforts.
Although there have been no official announcements, Latture said the port authority has recently sold three parcels of land to a grease recovery company, an agriculture feed-additive business and a plastics company.
The turnaround is the result of a process that began when local leaders saw the need to develop a regional concept for economic development rather than have each small town fighting it out for a new business or industry.
That effort started with what was at the time simply a joint marketing effort by the 11-county Central Arkansas Economic Development Alliance. That developed into the Metro Little Rock Alliance.
The alliance shelled out about $145,000 for AngelouEconomics of Austin, Texas, an economic development consulting firm, to survey the central Arkansas region and develop a plan. It took 10 months, but the result was a comprehensive plan.
And it's that plan the Little Rock chamber and the Metro Little Rock Alliance are following.
"Regional economic development is working," Chesshir said, and he traces the upturn to the Angelou analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the region.
"It provided us with a good road map not only of where we were, but where we want to go," he said. "It crystallized what we already knew."
Once everyone got on board and approved the plan and started to implement its recommendations, the results started showing up.
"We're on the same page now," Chesshir said. "We've created a plan, and we're working the plan."
One of the first recommendations to be adopted was the renaming of the alliance to take advantage of the fact that Little Rock is a recognized name while the geographic reference to central Arkansas meant little outside the state.
The second step of the Angelou plan was the hiring of a full-time, paid director. That happened in February with the choice of Chesshir, who was at the time president of both the Hot Springs Chamber of Commerce and the Garland County Economic Development Corp.
New Targets
About three months ago, Chesshir said, MLRA and the chamber changed the focus of their marketing efforts.
Rather than try to market the business opportunities in the Little Rock region on as wide a group as possible, the focus was narrowed primarily to site consultant firms — perhaps only 500 or so people.
The six industries targeted by the chamber's board of directors are advanced manufacturing/distribution, aviation, biotechnology/medical re-search, information technology, nonprofit organizations, and retail and office/business development.
"We feel this is a much more effective way of marketing," Chesshir said.
It's not the consultants' job to find communities for their clients, but to weed out areas, he said. And MLRA discovered that very few had any impression of the Little Rock region — either positive or negative.
That always changed to the positive, however, when the site consultants made a visit to the area, Chesshir said: "If we can get them here, everything changes."
One of the main priorities of the chamber and MLRA is an economic development Web site being developed by Aristotle of Little Rock that targets those site consultants and company executives.
"It will be a massive amount of information that will be put on the Web site, but we think the more information available to the targeted people, the better it will work," Chesshir said. "They will be able to know everything about the region and they'll know before they come if a site is suitable. It will provide all the information that site consultants say they want. It will put us in front of a lot of companies that we wouldn't be without the Web site."
The first phase of the site will launch next month. "It will be a tool that few others will have," Chesshir said. It will catalog all commercial and industrial sites and buildings.
"And it again points to the value of regionalism in economic development. No single community in the region could afford to do it."
So what have been the comments from the large influx of site visitors in the past few months?
"First-time visitors are surprised at many things: the downtown area, the River Market District, Alltel Arena, the airport," Chesshir said. "They were not expecting to find that. The metropolitan area is beyond what they were expecting. They are surprised at the investment made in the community, the friendliness of the people and the cleanliness of the area."
"It's difficult and expensive to have a successful economic development program," he said. But a cost-benefits analysis of getting the site consultants here for a visit compared with the investment and jobs that could result is a no-brainer, Chesshir said.
The MLRA has a $300,000 annual budget that comes from both private sector companies and community economic development organizations.
MLRA has a volunteer board of business leaders and economic developers from Pulaski, Garland, Faulkner, Jefferson, Saline, White, Lonoke, Hot Spring, Conway, Grant and Perry counties.
By forming a region of nearly 1 million people, the area has begun to appear on the radar screen of many who never even considered the area before. It's a figure economic developers say is critical to those who look for sites for businesses to relocate.
Chesshir sees that partnership as critical for the future growth of the area. "I believe by continuing to be partners, we will create short-term and middle-term success," he said. "For long-term success there must be no political or school boundaries that stop us from working together."
"If we don't work together, there'll be pockets of success while other areas will be left behind. The key is working together," Chesshir said.
Regionalism took on new meaning for the announcement that's coming this week.
The visitors came wanting to locate in Little Rock and nowhere else, Chesshir said. They had their eyes on the Southwest Airlines customer service center building, but Blue Cross & Blue Shield beat them to it. At first the visitors were reluctant to look around the region, but after a tour of the area, they were impressed enough to decide on another site in the region, he said.
The other announcement set for Sept. 9 will be a new business in Little Rock.
The region also has several sites that could be appropriate for a "super project," even for an auto assembly plant.
"I believe without a doubt that Marion will someday have a Toyota plant," Chesshir said. "But there are other automakers out there looking for sites, and we're actively working on getting an auto plant in central Arkansas."
"These days you have to have a site to the point where a company can come in and start construction," he said. Getting that needed infrastructure is very expensive, he said, but now, "with the passage of Amendment 82, we have a tool that makes us more competitive where beforehand we weren't."
Despite the success that's developing, Chesshir said the work of economic developers is never finished.
"I believe we're getting ready to see the fruit of labor we've put into this work so far," Chesshir said. "I see ripe fruit ahead. There's a lot of growth ahead of us if we seize the opportunities."


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Last night was Jon's birthday party even though his birthday was on the 4th......I think lol
But anyways I'm going to write what happened at our school yesterday...... I was out in the parking lot (me and my bro are the first upperclass people to get to the school that drive) and I look out at the school(bc the parking lot is a mile away) and I'm thinking yay! They finished the senior wall and there are more colors to it now. So I walk up to it and I'm like holy fuck! Someone sprayed painted all over the senior wall and all over the school. They drew a penis on the sidewalk that said JF loves cock. and they drew a penis on a tree. and fuck JF and all this other bullshit on the wall. Anyways I felt so bad for Ashley bc she stayed at JF until 10:30 last night just so the seniors could see their wall on the last day of school but we repainted most of it except for the names.
Anyways afterschool me and Heather went shopping for Jon's b-day present and I got three shirts from PacSun. I got Jon's preesent from Spencers bc I was going to get him the Garfield thing that you put in your car that sticks to the windows but they didn't have anymore. :( So I got him this Garfield stand thing that has a motorcycle that said "It's good to be bad." I was actually going to pay $20 dollars for the bitch but I found out it was half off at the registar. :)
But a lot happened last night.......and I have to call Heather and talk to her about it so I will finish this later.
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Well here is what happened after me and Heather got to Jons
Rich let us in and we talked to Kip and Jon went somewhere to get stuff so it was just me, Heather, Kip, Rich and Katie(Rich's gf) and then Nik gets there and we all talk and Rich breaks out his acoustic guitar and he asks me if I like Avril Lavigne and I was like who doesn't? Even though nobody likes her or they're not going to admit it. So she sings Things I'll Never Say which is my favorite Avril Lavigne song and I was about to cry bc it was so pretty and the way Rich was looking at her while he was playing guitar.
Then everbody gets there and we do karyoke(sp?) and I go upstairs with Kip and make him start cooking bc I'm hungry lol and then everybody comes up there and we eat and stuff and then me and Jacob go into the living room and talk and I was sitting on his lap and then Jon comes in and hides behind the chair bc people are tickling him and then he sits on me lol and then we are all wrestling each other and we decide to go on a walk with Ashley, Sara, Jon, Carrie and Nathan and we go through some field and there is a hidden lake behind it. It was so cool. Carrie, Nathan and Ashley leave so it's just Sara, Jon, Jacob, and me but Sara's in her own little world. I'm leaning against Jacob and he has his arms around me (we're both facing forward) and so I don't why but Jon comes over there and he's facing me and Jacob and he starts hugging me. I was like o-kay! Bc Jon's not really the type of person to do that.
But Jacob kisses me :) And then Jacob tries to get down my pants but I wouldn't let him bc I'm not even dating him and so JON tries to do something. lol but I'm gonna go now and I will finish THIS later lol
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A man is dead and three others are injured after a man walked up to them and began firing late Tuesday night, according to Suffolk County Police.
The incident occurred on the front stoop of a home located at 165 Railroad Street in Huntington Station, where the four men were walking.
Police say an unknown gunman walked up to the group and began firing just before 11 p.m. and fled the scene.
Russell Peterman, 25, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Another man was shot in the stomach and the two other men suffered non-life-threatening injuries. Their identities were not immediately known.
The investigation is ongoing and police are searching for the gunman.
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In Greek mythology, Mentes (Μέντης) is the name of two different Trojan War leaders, the King of the Cicones (according to the Iliad) and the King of the Taphians and the son of Antiloches (according to the Odyssey).
In Book XVII of The Iliad, Apollo disguises himself as Mentes to encourage Hector to fight Menelaus, ("Hector,now you're going after something you'll not catch, chasing the horses of warrior Achilles, descendant of Aeacus. No mortal man, except Achilles, can control or drive them, for an immortal mother gave him birth. Meanwhile, warrior Menelaus, Atreus' son, standing by Patroclus, has just killed the best man of the Trojans, Euphorbus, son of Panthous, ending his brave fight.")
In The Odyssey, a deity again takes on the form of Mentes. This time, in Book I, the Goddess Athena disguises herself as Mentes (son of Anchialos), an old family friend of Odysseus, when she goes to visit his son, Telemachus. Athena, disguised as him, tells Telemachus that he is sailing to the city of Temese with his own crew, claiming that he is in search of copper. "Mentes" (truly Athena) recommends that Telemachus should call a counsel to try to remove the suitors and travel to Pylos and Sparta to learn of his father.
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Grimm Review: Bloody Cookiesby Nick McHatton at . Comments
"Island of Dreams" pulled from its past back into the present this week, and, as is always the case with Grimm, we were left with more questions than answers.
The biggest person to come walking back in to the present was Adalind, who we haven't seen since "Danse Macabre" when she attempted to get closer and closer to Hank. As it turns out, in our time away from Adalind, Hank decided to keep business and pleasure from intertwining, but that's nothing a few blood-tainted cookies couldn't fix.
And Adalind couldn't have done it without a little help from Captain Renard. Renard continues to slide under the radar. Even as we get a little more from him every time we see him, there always seems to be one half of the coin that is shrouded from our vision with him. Are he and Adalind partners? Or is he much more interested in his goals and, as long as she stays within his limits, she is free to do what she wants?
However the outcome turns out, one thing stayed constant during all of it: Hank. The guy is so stereotypically bad at his job now it's comical. At this point his only purpose now is to be a foil in every investigation since he seems to always be in the crosshairs of any magical item that crosses his path. But at least he got to make his best-blood-laced-cookies-in-the-world face.
For all the boring that Hank dished out, the Grimm world was expanded for the better with Rosalee, who decided to stick around in Portland. Which means Eddie gets to have just a little bit more to do since the two of them hit it off a little bit.
Rosalee seems to have arrived just in time, too, because Wu decided to enjoy one of Hank's blood cookies. As it turns out if anyone other than the target eats them they could die, but Team Nick came together to save him. Although Wu doesn't seem to be the same anymore since he's now eating his couch cushions.
I'm going to bet against the odds and say he probably won't be calling Nick for help with that.
Overall, Grimm's first episode back wasn't the best it has ever done – especially as a stand-alone episode. The case wasn't particularly interesting, but this doesn't feel like one that can be taken as anything other than the beginning of the rest of the season. There was a lot of set up, and I'm excited to see where it goes.
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- Nick is no longer worried about hiding being Grimm. He easily uses it to further his own investigations and intimidate people. I continually wonder, though, if Grimms have any abilities. Eddie has his smell and strength. Does Nick have some type of ability other than recognizing who people are?
- The Grimm Grossness Factor is alive and kicking this week with Wu's disgusting boils, the drug addict who decided to sew his wound together, and Adalind's gross looking bloody cookie dough.
- Nick's other life continually gets closer and closer to Juliette, who didn't get to do much other than shoot a gun.
- What exactly was Hank having in bed without Adalind's touch? That was awkward to watch.
- No more breaks for Grimm! It's all new every Friday until the season finale. What makes things even better is the show has been picked up for another season!
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I wonder if Juliette will turn out to be a fairy-tale character? One of the many princesses/queens/witches that populate the genre? They have to do something with her, else kill her off. There's no way her relationship with Nick is going to withstand the knowledge of what/who he is--and she WILL find out...
Grimm's are evidently much feared by the Wessen, which would indicate that Wessen consider Grimm's dangerous--even compared to the creature folk who we've seen to be generally more powerful than humans.
Furthermore, that while its apparent that Nick is quite the fighter--he defeated the reigning death-match champ in "Last Grimm Standing", slew the dragon in "the Damsel and the Quest" and knocked out the jay addict in this episode, it probably has more to due to his being a Grimm than his police training.
My wife loved the "jay-den" and once again I think some of you are being too hard on Hank.
I have been suspicious of Juliette from the beginning (the first time Nick sneaks out to look in his aunt's trailer and she is just standing there, that was odd) and I feel like when Adelaine was wondering why she wasn't seducing Nick and Renard had sort of a halted response (best way to a man is through his...friends...that was odd too) but maybe because he already has a mole with Nick who he imbedded with Nick in case he inherited the Grimm powers. I think that Rosalee is probably the character to start pointing out some of the conspiracies surrounding Nick to him, Monroe is just too close to the matter (and kind of seems to want to believe the best in people).
I'm going to be the contrary one and say that I like Hank. I like the actor and I wish his character was written better because Nick needs a human ally on the police force. Also, if there was anything "special" about Juliet, Nick's aunt would have probably told him. While he may be coming into his abilities, she was clearly at the peak of hers, cancer notwithstanding. Finally, I want to see Ariel back and have her fight on Nick's side against Adalind. Imagine having a sexy dragon lady on Nick's side!
three things. first I do not like what they do with Hank at all. In my opinion it is not the fault of the actor,who in my opinion is a better actor than the guy who plays Nick, its just the actions the writers give him make no sense for a cop to be making, let alone a veteran of the force like hank.also youd think in a profession were your life is literally in your partners hands, dont you think Nick is making their jobs more dangerous by not telling hank what he is. Second why is Renard having adeline hex hank in the first place? the only thing i can think of is that so when he does reveal himself to nick, hank could be a selling point to get nick on his side. third, Renard is really a roller coaster to try and figure out. One episode he has nicks back, the next he is deliberately sabotaging nicks progress. and heres one thing that mind boggles me . if renard was supposed to be straight out evil his decision to put a hit on nicks aunt makes sense. but because he has somewhat middle ground(key examples when he talks on the phone with a Reaper he says nick is different he has a conscience, or in the last grimm standing he chides leo for the morality of taking parolees who are trying to turn their lifes around for the lowen games)it doesnt hold water that he would make that decision. he has a conscience(somewhat) and is a genius perse so youd think hed realize that a) he is trying to kill a beloved family member of a "friend" he in essence cares for and b) if nick were to ever find out what renard did, it would forever blind nick to renards cause. if there was sort of a see saw act between his good and bad sides then it would not be as jarring, but his bad acts are so evil, that when he does do good they fall flat.
Hank is the worst. I wish we'd have seen more of Adalind this season. I didn't even remember her name. I was like oh yeah the Hexenbiest! Poor Wu! When Rosalie said that Nick wasn't what she expected, Nick should have said "I get that a lot". Nice for Monroe to have a love interest who isn't crazy and unstable. The wesen "opium den" scenes were well shot.
@joyeful, I tend to think Grimms have some kind of powers as well. Back in Last Grimm Standing Nick was able to use those weapons with ease, and I don't think medieval weaponry is back of his training as a cop. Perhaps Grimms are natural experts with weapons? Or maybe very tactical fighters?
I really do think the Grimms do have some kind of powers.
Agreed with that possibly something adrenaline-based (like how Slayers in btvs were). What increases the chances for that is the dragon episode - especially the scene when Nick found Ariel in his house and Juliette nowhere to be found, he seemed to push Ariel slightly, you had this weird sound and she pretty much crashed into the wall.
Oh my goodness - wasn't Hank AWFUL?! I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed that. Yikes! They either need to rewrite his character completely, or just get him off. He's pretty bad. I love Monroe and Rosalee. She's a great addition to the show, and they have great chemistry. However, I'm a little concerned now about Nick having more Wessen allies than human ones. There isn't a single regular human that knows what he is. But I have a feeling that Wu (or as I like to call him, network-friendly-Masuka)is going to be the one first introduced to that world. I'm still convinced (as I have been from the beginning) that there's more to Juliette than meets the eye. There are way too many clues being dropped. @Nick McHatton - I'm with you on that first point. I really do think the Grimms do have some kind of powers. I'm thinking that Nick hasn't tapped into it yet since he doesn't know too much about his heritage yet.
Loved the episode, though I think that I too am (finally) ready to jump on the "Hank is useless" bandwagon. It seems as though perhaps the showrunners have realized it as well, and are slowly writing him out. The obvious problem there is that detectives tend to work in pairs, so Nick would then need a new partner who may not be any better. Of course, I doubt he/she could be much worse, so why not roll the dice? RE: Wu and the couch stuffing, my first thought wasn't that it was a side effect of the cookie (or whatever it was that Rosalee gave him). I could be wrong, but he's always seemed a little off to me...