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If you're not a fan of The Walking Dead on AMC, you'll be a bit lost in reading this post. But if you ARE, then you must stick around because I have a lot of thoughts about this season and some BURNING QUESTIONS too! All photos in this post are from AMC.
I love the show. I sort of got sucked into it when my mother was visiting last year and was keeping up on the episodes. I became so intrigued with it that I went back and watched from season 1 to catch-up. I made my husband watch it with me, and now we look forward to seeing what's going to happen next each week!
If you aren't a fan of the show… and you're thinking, "What? A show about zombies that are chasing after people trying to eat them? That's crazy!" Yes, you're right… it's crazy. And it's really gross sometimes. But if you watch it from the beginning, you get absorbed in the story. You get kind of used to the gory stuff after a while.
First of all, the zombies.
Do they ever die?? If a zombie can't get anything to eat… and there are so many of them that it seems like that's a likely possibility, then do they die off? And how exactly do they digest the food? Do they get full? Do they poop? And how is it that zombies can seemingly run just as fast as the humans? Are their brains still working well enough that they can open doors, etc? Seems to me that if there is a simple wood fence surrounding an area that a zombie would not be able to "climb" the fence… that they'd just sort of crash into it and not know what to do. But on the show, wire fences seem like the only safe option. Hmmmm. And how is it that they scratch people and bite so ferociously? Do their fingernails somehow become lethal weapons and their teeth become vampire-like as a zombie. I mean, c'mon… these are real questions here!
These poor people just can't find a safe haven from the zombies. I find myself thinking… Why can't they just find a nice, gated community… one with a simple chain-link fence surrounding it and a gym with tennis courts, etc. and happily live there? Or why aren't they thinking about traveling toward the ocean to hop a boat to the Bahamas or something? Surely zombies haven't taken over the entire world, right? And where is Home Depot in all of this? They should be clearing out Home Depot with all kinds of building supplies and fencing to create a safe place to live! How are they cleaning themselves up after getting covered in zombie guts and blood. Are there functioning showers we don't know about at the prison? And why isn't anyone going shopping? Seems like Nordstrom would be a fun place to hang out in this Zombie Apocalypse and free clothes too!!
Here's the other thing: they're at a PRISON where they found zombies wearing gear like this. Um, duh. Shouldn't they ALL be wearing gear like this to protect themselves from random zombie attacks? And how did these guys get bitten if they're all covered up like this? Who's running this place anyway?
Oh yeah, Rick is running this place. Poor guy- he's been through a lot. He seems like a good dude, though he's probably gonna be pretty bummed about being so cold to Laurie since she didn't survive childbirth in Zombieland. Speaking of the BABY… I was totally tense during that birth scene because I felt CERTAIN that the baby was going to be some kind of freaky little zombie thing. It was a shocker to lose Laurie, and it was an even bigger shocker that the kid had to shoot her. Poor Carl… he's a Man now. And that baby… for sure will be raised by Glenn and Maggie, don't you think? They better quit all of that fooling around or Maggie is going to find herself knocked up too!
I like Daryl a lot… though he worries me by riding on that out-in-the-open motorcycle. I fear that he and Carol are both cast members that might be in danger of being eaten by a zombie this season.
Michonne is bad ass. I loved her zombie pets (brilliant idea, by the way). I don't think she'll be getting eaten by a zombie any time soon. I do wonder what's going to happen with regard to her being in that new community. She's clearly not happy with that setup and doesn't trust "The Governor" (for good reason!)
And then there are these two. Andrea seems to be sizing up her next love-partner. I'm guessing it will either be The Governor or Merle. My money is on The Governor. She's getting sucked into the idea of living in that "happy community." I do predict that she'll leave with Merle and Michonne to try and find the other group. I'm not certain how The Governor factors into all of that, but surely there will be drama!
So what's the deal with THIS GUY??? Seriously… what could possibly be his reason for keeping heads in fish tanks? He's clearly whacked. I want to learn more about him.
Until next time… Will they make a run to a zombie-infested KMart to pick up formula to feed that baby? Will Carol resurface after disappearing in the last episode? Will Michonne, Andrea and Merle make a run for it to search for the others? And who is Rick going to hook up with now that Laurie is gone? Will the two communities merge and become one big happy family? NO WAY!
I can't stand it. The suspense is killing me!


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Dear sikko6,
If you want to talk about pollution of sea and atmosphere, we can talk about the Chinese acid rain which falls on Japan. We can talk about the Chinese atmospheric nuclear test fallout in the Uygur region which has been falling on Japan for years since 1962 (Russia and US stopped atmospheric tests then. The rest is from Mao Communist China). My bones contain radioactive strontium 90 from there, and my parents have even much more. If that is not enough, we can talk about Hiroshima which US has polluted. My grand parents survived it and still alive! My parents grew up there and they are also still alive. Fukushima is way over exaggerated by people like you.
If you want to talk about food contamination, we can talk about poisoned dumplings from China, from which several people have died in Japan recently. The bananas (some people eat almost everyday) has radioactive potassium 40. A little amount of radioactivity is even healthy and you cannot prove otherwise.
Don't make a big deal out of Fukushima. So far, nobody has died and nobody will.
Radiation is dangerous when you receive heavy dose over short time. Low level dosage over long time has no meaning. So, stop the crap and get on with other more important things.
And about the Koreans and Chinese. They are the ones blaming others for their own problems. Japan keeps its problems to itself. Just study history ...
You are quite right. Fukushima shows that Japan does not have competent nuclear scientists and engineers. In addition, it is located earthquake and tsunami prone region. Nuclear is not a good option especially for Japan. Solar and wind also are hypes.
On global warming, you could be right. Even if you are wrong, global warming cannot be stopped unless China and US take drastic measures since most CO2 emissions come from them. Global warming will affect China and America most seriously. If it indeed happens, they will take actions. Japan may benefit from global warming. It could become tropical paradise!
You are happy to blame Chinese and Koreans for everything. But you don't want to take Japan's responsibility for polluting seas and atmosphere with radiation.
Your beloved beef is already contaminated. I am sure you won't eat them. See;
The Japanese are learning the hard way that nuclear power generation is not economic. It is only built for political reasons. The same is true for wind and solar power. Hopefully they learn to get rid of any politician that supports such uneconomic projects. They must also decide to get rid of any politician that supports the unproven IPCC theory of "anthropogenic CO2 causes global warming". Most of the research behind the theory has been proven - flawed at best. Time for voters to exercise some sanity when choosing politicians. The quickest and most economical solution for power generation is probably to use LNG fired power plants.
Dear Sikko6,
You don't need to worry about Japan. It will do fine. The Americans are not able to solve problems quickly either. Look at Afghanistan. Everybody has his bread and butter as well as shortcomings.
As general comment ...
Everybody is blaming TEPCO, but they were operating nuclear plants under the guidance of Japanese govt. The Japanese government is also responsible for this. The Japanese government should find a solution that minimizes the economic impact but don't even think about raising taxes now. Japan is in deflation and it is the worse thing you can do.
And. What is all the fuss about nuclear anyway? Nobody died from Fukushima. My grand parents survived Hiroshima and they are still alive. Let's get real here. What the residents nearby are receiving is not harmful level. Receiving small doses over long time almost has no meaning. You have to watch out when you receive 100 mSv in one hour! 100 mSv in one year is negligible. Probably the same risk as crossing a sidewalk.
The TEPCO workers are making heroic efforts still. They are taking great risks to fulfill their duties despite all the negative press.
Jasiek w japonii,
The rumors explains how Japanese are so inept and out of touch, unable to solve anything quickly. They have no idea what is going on around them. Japanese are xenophobic driven by seisure mentality. Japanese fear of rising power of China. So they have all sort of funny execuses.
It is believed that US auto industry is behind the Toyota fuss. Still Japanese are not complaining at all. Of course, they cannot dare to upset Americans. Rather blame someone else!
I see that Japan won't be able to fix electricity problem soon.
The fact that the nuclear reactors at this site (an perhaps some of Japan's others) were old, not well sited, and had inadequate provision for natural disasters does not change one thing. Nuclear power is the only viable solution for Japan's power needs. And nostalgic as some may be for a simpler time, it is simply impossible to cut power usage to the point where it will not be necessary.
Yes, as a previous commenter noted, a failure can make big problems. But so can a failure in an other kind of power generation facility. What is required is replacement of obsolete facilities, and regular review of disaster plans.
Jasiek w japonii/
Sounds like a typical "OMG Jews are running/ruining the world!" crap, except that the scapegoat this time are the Koreans. No proof, just rumours - this is how lies and hate spread. Keeping silent when you only know something as a rumour is the premier mark of a mature intellect. Something which you seen to lack.
PS. If the majority of the Toyota case claimants were Korean-Americans, that would mean that this Japanese carmaker is hugely popular in that demographic - which defeats your idiotic insinuation that these people savaged Toyota with malign intent.
To better diversify Japan's energy resource, Liqudified Natural Gas is something needed to be considered. It's cleaner energy than coal and oil as it generates less CO2. Also with the discovery of hydorlic fracturing technology, a lot of the natural gas resources worldwide are unlocked, and because of the substancial increase in supply its price is down. But the only concern is the liquafication process since the technology is still new and there is not many facility available. Setting up this kind facility is captial intensive and risky so not many companies wants to do it. But once the technology matures and liquafication capcity is enough, Japan can import Liqudified Natural Gas from North America in which contains massive resources.
Here is an article showing how TEPCO has had a very poor safety record and how their largest nuclear power plant has been shut down since 2007 after a relatively minor earthquake:
Despite these issues, both TEPCO and other power companies in Japan plan massive expansion in the country's nuclear power generation capability.
@ Sikko6 @Anjin-san:
Besides capacity, Japan needs smarter grids and energy saving majors:
1. ONE big grid system: The plants in the western part of Japan could then support the eastern needs.
2. Build better isolation in private homes (windows with two layers of glass, etc.) and and in office buildings.
In the future: 3. Avoid energy peaks by using thousands of the new sony and panasonic batteries (in 2014) which are charged the night before and used during peaks.
Voila: Less need for several atomic plants.
I think people shouldn't use the nuclear power.In case it goes wrong,a disaster may occured
Well, rumour has it that it is a politico-economic manoeuvre by the connection between some Korean residents in Japan, who lead both cult movements and the anti-nuclear movement there, and the eventual benefit of the nuclear industry in South Korea, as actually happened to Korean residents in the US, who constituted most of the claimants, and the eventual benefit, albeit for a short period of time, of the car industry in South Korea in the recent Toyota issue.
I never swallow the racist crap, but it still is a popular rumour as a matter of fact anyway.
Japan fumbled the (nuke) ball. The bases are full. The next hitter is unknown matter. Japan is in crisis.
Japan should invest in fusion power except that it is a key member of the fusion reactor research programme. Japan should invest in solar energy, except that it provides insufficient yield (especially at night) and the price of materials went through the roof when Germany tried the same.
Japan should invest in (insert latest fad intellectualism)..... or maybe..... Every person has an immediate fix if only they were listened to. And the world turns on, step by step we fix things. Meanwhile the sages of popular wisdom chant away the day. For the record I think we should use seaweed reactors to power our sky cars.
Anjin-San and DT123,
At the moment, there is no other solutions than gas and oil. Nulcear is too dangerous. Coals generate too much acid rains. So gas and oil will be the solution until they come up with thorium reactors or even cold fusion.
In addition, Japan should enhance electricity grids and use 240V systems.
How do we even know that Gigawatt-scale geothermal power may not trigger massive seismic or volcanic backlash? We need 20+GW generating capacity to replace Nuclear power here in Japan.
Also, Japan already utilizes substantial amount of geothermal energy in the form of hot springs. Thermal energy from numerous onsens throughout Japan is actually close to the 20GW mark.
Japan needs to find additional sources of energy now. Apart from Hydro power and solar power, I think geo thermal power should also be considered.
In the case of solar energy, Japan does not appear to get much compared to other countries near the equator.
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Originally published in the September 2011 issue
Breakfast at 8:00 a.m. at the Mercer Kitchen at the Mercer Hotel in SoHo, New York.
SCOTT RAAB: You're fresh as a daisy.
CHELSEA HANDLER: Well, I just had my hair done. I have to do the Today show right after this.
SR: I'm a little tired. I came in from New Jersey. I took the 6:14.
CH: Is that a bus or a train?
SR: Train. New Jersey Transit.
CH: Six o'clock is rough.
SR: Here's the thing: Hundreds of people are coming into New York City from New Jersey every day, but I'm the only one coming in to meet you.
CH: That's very nice of you to say. [Waiter comes.] What are you gonna have, big boy?
SR: I'm gonna have the spinach-and-cheese omelet with Gruyère.
CH: Do you have grapefruit?
WAITER: Juice?
CH: No, an actual grapefruit.
WAITER: We do not.
CH: I would've brought my own had I known.
SR: Seriously?
CH: No.
SR: You look fabulous.
CH: Thank you.
SR: I was talking to him.
CH: Oh... I'll take an egg-white omelet with herbs. Will you tell them to go light on the oil? Or no oil would be great.
SR: Your first book [My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands] is hilarious.
CH: Do you think so? It's really stupid.
SR: Thematically, we're not talking Kafka, but I'm telling you, this is funny stuff. The midget. Was there really a midget?
CH: There's always a midget.
SR: Was there a midget named Eric?
CH: I had to change his name so he couldn't sue me. Have you ever been sued by a midget? It's not fun.
SR: You describe his penis as like a boa constrictor.
CH: Don't be jealous. I'm sure somebody will refer to your penis as a boa constrictor at some point.
SR: It's usually Mr. Tiny.
CH: Well, maybe if you find a little midget girl...
SR: Your sex tape
CH: There's no sex tape. There never was a sex tape. I know that you want there to be, but there isn't.
SR: I don't.
CH: You do.
SR: I've never wanted to videotape sex even when I was more fit. I have had sex looking into a mirror, however.
CH: How was that?
SR: Well, it was great then. This was at my grandmother's house ...
CH: Well, that was nice that you went to your grandmother's house and did that. Hopefully it was Mother's Day so you killed two birds.
SR: You're from New Jersey. Have you seen your family this trip?
CH: Yeah. We all spent time together on Mother's Day. They were at my book party Saturday night at the Boom Boom Room on top of the Standard.
SR: Is that where you're staying?
CH: No. My boyfriend owns the Standard. André Balazs.
SR: Your boyfriend's a good guy?
CH: Mm-hmm.
SR: Boa constrictor?
CH: I can't discuss that. You should be a good Jewish boy and know better. Shame on you.
SR: They used to say, you know
CH: Sheket bevakasha. [Hebrew for "quiet please."]
SR: Sheket bevakasha. Nice. Are you done with your omelet?
CH: I'm not really that hungry. It takes me a while to get my appetite going when I wake up early. I had a long day of press yesterday.
SR: What did you do yesterday?
CH: I did Regis and Kelly, then I had to go do NPR. Then I did Joy Behar, then I did Jimmy Fallon. I fly to Boston tonight. Tomorrow Chicago. Then Denver, then Phoenix, then L.A., then Oakland.
SR: Why don't you take more breathing room?
CH: You just gotta work it.
SR: You started working at 19. Did you have the persona down then?
CH: I've always been exactly who I am on TV. I'm not playing a role.
SR: Have you mellowed at all over time?
CH: I used to be a lot angrier.
SR: About anything in particular?
CH: About not being successful. Now that I make a lot of money, I'm a lot happier.
SR: Do you own a place at this point?
CH: I just bought a house in Bel Air.
SR: I think of Bel Air as very staid, stable, suburban
CH: That's why I'm coaching a little girls' soccer team.
SR: Are you really?
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Sitting in the bar, I knew I needed a burger. A couple of them, maybe. Big, fat burgers, mid-rare and bleeding juice over the sides of the buns. I needed the kind of burgers they show in commercials — straight-up porn-star burgers, all greasy and fat and bad for me.
Unfortunately, the bar where I was sitting didn't have burgers (or anyway, not the kind I wanted), and besides, I had other plans. So I had a very nice piece of fish instead, restrained and lovely, set over a bed of quartered sunchokes with a pale yellow citronette. It wasn't the same thing at all.
A couple of days later, I still needed a burger — my craving ramping slowly toward madness — but you know what they don't serve in most pizzerias? Burgers. So I had two slices of good New York thin and liked them well enough, I guess. But they weren't burgers.
Later that night, I found myself on the phone with an old friend, and all I could talk about was the burger joints in one of the many cities I used to call home. Big burgers and little burgers, thin ones and fat ones, messy ones (the best kind) with which I have ruined innumerable shirts. It was too late for me to score what I was after, but my friend, that little fucker, made straight for the nearest In-N-Out for a double-double. I was jealous to the point of contemplating murder and went to bed dreaming of ingenious airborne burger-delivery systems (perfect use for all those surplus Predator drones once the robots rise up and enslave us all) and how rich I would have to be, exactly, in order to have a private jet standing by at all times to fly Laura and me to L.A. for a Tommy Burger or to Rochester for a Schaller's burger with hot sauce whenever I wanted. Pretty goddamn rich, was what I came up with. Not the kind of rich that a newspaperman generally becomes. Maybe if I started my own boy band...
By Saturday, I was more or less out of my mind with wanting. Sitting on the couch, I heard Laura call down to me from upstairs.
"Jay! What's the plan for —"
"Burgers," I barked back.
"Yeah, but what do you —"
"If you say burgers one more —"
Seriously, it's a wonder I'm still married at all.
We were on the road within the hour, headed for Park Burger, a burger joint on the quiet end of South Pearl Street that, after a few delays, had opened on May 16 for exactly two and a half hours, then closed because the kitchen was so overwhelmed by neighbors and friends and long-haul burger fanatics (like me) who'd been waiting months for a taste of what Park Burger had to offer. After all, the place bears the fingerprints of the decidedly un-burgerish Frank Bonanno, who helped Jean-Phillippe Failyau, his right-hand man, build this simple, straightforward burger palace. And after Park Burger got back open the next day, a colleague (not quite a Predator drone, but whatever) had delivered me a ParkBurger, a plain-jane burger with nothing more than burger sauce, lettuce, onions and two strips of thick-cut bacon to gild its proverbial lily. It was so good that I took a picture and used it as the wallpaper on my cell phone for a few days, so good that one wasn't nearly enough.
I made my own run at Park Burger two days later, hitting right at the cheeseburger witching hour (six o'clock, by the way — that moment when you're so starved from a day at work or play that even a 99-cent double from Mickey D's can look appetizing), snagging a high-top at the community table in front (because pretty much every other seat was filled and I hated to take up an entire booth with just my solo-dining ass) and running down the menu with my finger. ParkBurger, mini ParkBurger, double ParkBurger, turkey ParkBurger, buffalo ParkBurger, veggie ParkBurger. No. I wanted something special, something unique to this place, this vision of what a truly great neighborhood burger joint could be. Also, I am a dumb sucker for Froggish influences creeping up in the most unlikely of places, so when I saw the Frenchy listed under "Specialty Burgers," I knew I'd found my dinner. One of those, an order of sweet-potato fries and a drink, because Failyau knew not to even consider opening without a liquor license in hand.
Park Burger doesn't keep a big bar, but it's big enough. Six wines, nicely chosen and international in aspect. A handful of cocktails (including the Strawberry Skyy that I would later taste on that cheeseburger-craving Saturday, borrowing the glass from Laura when her back was turned and drinking away a third of something that tasted like cold lime and strawberry cotton candy, melted in a glass and completely untroubled by even the least stinging hint of alcohol). A nice spread of beers, both local and not so, some German, others Belgians. I went for a can of PBR because I am a philistine.


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Jacksonville Jaguars second-year running back Abdul Deji Karim has been sporting sunglasses in practice lately, but it is not an attempt by the humble football player to big-time anybody. He actually has a medical excuse. Karim told Tania Ganguli of the Florida Times-Union that he underwent cataract surgery on his eye during the offseason, and as a result he is currently suffering from light-sensitivity.
As a policy the National Football League does not allow tinted visors, but they do grant exceptions for players with medical problems. One example of such a player is running back LaDainian Tomlinson of the New York Jets. Karim is currently seeking permission from the league office to wear such a visor during games.
Karim was drafted in the sixth round of the 2010 NFL draft by the Jaguars. Las season he primarily handled kickoff duties, which would be difficult to perform with light-sensitivity due to having to look up into the sun in order to field the kickoffs. Jacksonville takes on the Atlanta Falcons this weekend in preseason football action. They open up the regular season on September 11th at home against division rivals the Tennessee Titans.
Muhammad Wilkerson First Round Pick of the Jets
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Temple University defensive lineman Muhammad Wilkerson reacted with emotion amongst friends and family in his hometown in New Jersey last week, as he learned that he was selected by the New York Jets with the 30th pick of the first round of the 2011 National Football League draft. Wilkerson was in tears, flanked by his mother in hijab and his father in a prayer cap, amongst a group of 80-90 friends and family members at a restaurant in his hometown of Linden, New Jersey. The 6 foot 4, 305 pound Wilkerson is expected to play defensive end in the Jets' 3-4 defense, periodically moving inside to the 3 technique defensive tackle position in four-man fronts. "I think I can come in and help the defense be more destructive than it is," he stated in a conference call with reporters the night of the draft.
And in addition to being versatile from a position standpoint, Wiikerson is also versatile from a skill-set standpoint, as he is proficient as both a pass-rusher and as a run-stopper. Known not only for his athleticism and strength but also for his work ethic, Wilkerson left college early after his junior year to pursue his dreams of a professional football career. Now that he has been selected in the lucrative first round of the NFL Draft, it appears that his dreams of pro football are about to become a reality. Jets coach Rex Ryan stated that he felt that Muhammad would fit in quite nicely. "I think Muhammad really fits what we want to do defensively," Ryan told the Bergen (N.J.) Record. "He was an excellent player in college, but we think he's got more to give. We're going to push him and push him and coach him up to play the way that we play, play like a Jet."
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Abdul Deji Karim had spent over two days waiting for the phone to ring. The running back from Southern Illinois University was awaiting his selection in the National Football League Draft, and the call finally came in the 6th round of the selection process. Karim was selected on April 24th by the Jacksonville Jaguars, who hope to have him spell their star running back Maurice Jones-Drew and return kicks.
Karim, ironically, went to high school with the player that was the very first selection in the 2010 NFL Draft, Oklahoma University quarterback Sam Bradford. But Karim's college football accomplishments at a smaller school proved more difficult to display to scouts. In fact, he was not even invited to the NFL's national scouting combine in February. So, he instead secured an invitation to perform an individual workout for scouts on the campus of Northwestern University in Chicago. That is where he dazzled scouts with workout numbers that were in the top 5 of all running backs in the draft.
Now Deji Karim awaits mini-camp later this month, followed by training camp this summer. He may be a kitten amongst Jaguars for now, but he will continue to seek out every opportunity to roar.


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With the help of some other posters here, I took the jump into mail-order plant buying. I just finished putting in an order with High Country Gardens and have my fingers crossed for healthy, decently sized plants.
This year I bought seeds online too and was disappointed in the supplier. I purchased from Thompson-Morgan and while they shipped very quickly, I was dismayed at the low number of seeds in each packet. Yes, the number is displayed at ordering time but either I missed it or I underestimated how far (or not far) 50 seeds would go. Let's hope for decent germination so that all is not lost. |
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- Posted by hummersteve Indy (My Page) on Mon, Mar 31, 08 at 10:00
Kcbarbara-- Sometimes it takes a little spending to get started , but at least once you have grown plants you can reap the seeds and have them for yourself or friends. There are forums that you can get free seeds , the best one being the hummingbird forum where the most it may cost is postage. Im going to leave a link, just try hanging out there for a while, there is a lot going on and there are people on there right now offering seeds. Steve |
Here is a link that might be useful: hummingbird forum network 54
Thank you, Steve. I'm hoping that your scenario plays out for me --that I can reap my own seeds and have enough for my uses and to trade. I've dipped into the trade forums but not having anything to offer, I felt sorta stymied. I should give a shout out of thanks to Trudi at the WS forum for her free seed offer. I sent for them and WS'd a bunch of them. It was fun getting seeds for plants that I'd never even heard of, much less considered. Barbara |
- Posted by hummersteve Indy (My Page) on Mon, Mar 31, 08 at 12:47
Barbara--- I was in the same pickle you are with nothing to trade but the people are friendly and willing to help, because everyone starts from ground zero and it surprises you that they will just send you sends to help you get started, good luck---Steve |
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We come here today to remember a man. A man…
who had dreams,
who had those dreams shattered,…
On this Easter Sunday,
Let us roll away the stone
The stone that stifles the divine spark within us
That keeps us from being our true selves
In the beginning was the Word …
It all started with an act of divine self-expression.
and the Word was with God …
It all comes from the center of God.
Avowed atheist Susan Jacoby recently created a dust up with a recent article in the New York Times Sunday Review entitled, "The Blessings of Atheism." She wrote in response to all the god-talk that appeared in the immediate aftermath of the Newtown massacre; with all those unanswerable questions or inadequate answers to human suffering and death so often peddled in popular religious belief.
So too, not long ago author and "non-believer," Christopher Hitchen's posthumously published his little book Mortality; recounting his rambling thoughts on his own imminent demise; after a terminal diagnosis left him a sufficient number of days to find himself "deported from the country of the well across the stark frontier that marks off the land of malady."
But what, or where to, after that? What if this really is all there is?
It seems there has always been the human hankering to imagine all kinds of fanciful notions, in our attempts to recapitulate our mortal existence into something more than it is. Many religious traditions, including centuries of "mainline" orthodox Christianity, employ great mythic stories to describe a life subsumed into something greater than we can either know, or grasp, except by "faith." Heaven knows, some folks try to better themselves, merely in the hope of a remote possibility there something more, after our death, which is a certainty. But in the end, is it all dust and ashes? And is that OK?
This is the liturgical time of year when many in the Christian tradition undergo a seasonal pilgrimage in which the faithful are reminded at the onset we mortals are nothing more than dust. And so we will one day return to that from whence we came. Then the traditional forty days end with the perennial re-enactment of a passion play commemorating the mortal demise of the one whom Christians even these many centuries later would profess to follow.
Many do so in the hope of some kind of immortality for themselves in some indecipherable form or other; attributing to Jesus a "resurrection" that means the same thing to them as god-like immortality; while others of us may find such imaginings to be not only reasonably implausible, but of less importance than what we take to be of greater significance and meaning in this faith tradition.
Otherwise, the vainglorious hope of immortality can become so enshrouded in our mortal fears that we become – like Lazarus in his early grave – so wrapped up in death that we fail to truly acknowledge and appreciate the gift of our mortality for what it is; nothing more, nor less.
With the certain assurance then that we are but dust and ash, we can ask ourselves if the gift of our mortality is not only enough, but more than enough? And if so, as the psalmist says, how then shall we "number our days, that we may apply our hearts to wisdom?" (Psalm 90:12)
read moreIt is right and a good and joyful thing to give thanks to you always, Creator God, because you have made the world in all its complexity.
read moreA new collection of poetry and prayer. Vosper once again gives expression to the beauty and complexity of life in ways that can touch and move us on many levels. Identifying our interconnectedness as a core principle of our common, human journey, Vosper plays with imagery and symbol, weaving us into a whole that lifts and ennobles us all.
read moreThe celebration of Easter is the acknowledgement of the power of the divine spirit working through us to transform the most negative of situations. Let us commit ourselves to overcoming hate with love.
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And feel overwhelmed by the enormity of it all.
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Despite its familiarity and almost constant liturgical use, the Lord's Prayer has become difficult for even some devout Christians to pray in our day. To be sure, the thought-world of the New Testament is very different from …
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- A bracket of 32 all-time NFL legends and 32 current NFL players will go head-to-head against each other to decide who gets to be on the cover.
- Voting will be done through ESPN.com, starting on March 11th, 2013
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Steve Martin has been making people laugh so hard for so long that some — especially younger audiences — might not fully appreciate just how pure and fresh his early comic work was. Before the Oscars, before Father of the Bride, before Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, even before The Jerk, Martin was a total force of nature whose main platform was television, beginning with writing for the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. In his wild and crazy prime, an appearance by Martin on Johnny Carson or other primetime showcase was insane, yet so carefully crafted. When he hosted Saturday Night Live or had a stand-up special, there was such an element of unpredictability that you simply had to watch.
Shout! Factory has packaged together some of those classic TV moments in a new DVD out today. Steve Martin: The Television Stuff is three discs packed with hard-to-find bits and TV specials, including Homage to Steve, which features his entire 1979 live performance at the Universal Ampitheatre. Also included in the set is an new interview with Martin.
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Assassin's Creed: Revelations Review
A solid conclusion to the Ezio Trilogy.
There are several new elements to Revelations that may or may not excite you depending on personal preference. The first is Den Defense, which activates when a group of enemies try to invade the areas you control. Den Defense is essentially a tower defense game which involves Ezio setting up barricades and Assassins to stop incoming enemy waves from breach your Den. While this element can be fun, it gets boring quickly. Thankfully though, Den Defense is optional after you complete the 1st one in the game.
Another yet interesting addition to the game is the Desmond memory sequences. These sequences are not required to finish the game and merely act as optional side sequences. There are 8 of these sequences in total and they can be unlocked by collecting data fragments while roaming around the city as Ezio. What's bizarre to note is that these sequences are actually puzzle/platformer first-person levels with you controlling Desmond. These strange sequences give away mixed vibes as they can be fun but at the same time are drastically different than what you are used to from an Assassin's Creed game.
Multiplayer is a large portion of Assassin's Creed first introduced in Brotherhood and further refined in Revelations. There are new additions of characters, maps, and modes that add a ton of playtime to an already large Single-Player campaign. Ubisoft this time around decided to add a story element to the multiplayer component. Although it's not substantially significant, the story in the multiplayer gives an interesting prospective at what Abstergo Industries are planning and how the Templars undergo training.
While Assassin's Creed Revelations didn't resonate with me as much as Assassin's Creed 2 did, it did a great job of wrapping up the Ezio trilogy. Polished graphics and gameplay, a complex fascinating story, and diversity in missions and locations are on the forefront of why Revelations is a great experience. Assassin's Creed: Revelations is the most polished entry to the series yet and will definitely give fans a solid conclusion to the Ezio/Altair arc of the story.
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I Did It I Got A Pirate Stool Lol *happy Dance*
I Did It I Got A Pirate Stool Lol *happy Dance*
I really am a Princess, hiding out in a not so fairy tale Life
The Eeyore Queen, the Lady with the list. The one the only Shayleen in VMK
805 Eeyores and growing
first post has been updated!
TOP SECRET is a great way to be...
Joanne.... pick up my pirate stool trees and hippos when you can
Loves First Kiss!
if you need me just let me know
The happy haunts have received your simpathetic vibrations, and are begining to materialize.They're assembling for a swinging wake,and they will be expecting me.I will see you all a little later
I'm Mister White ChristmasI'm Mister SnowI'm Mister IcicleI'm Mister Ten BelowFriends call me Snow MiserWhat ever I touchTurns to snow in my clutchI'm too much!
I got a bunch of hippo rugs for ya....let me know when you are going to be on boss so I can get them to you!
I was just on but I'll be back on in about in hour.
I'm ready to get you started when you are, Doug and King.
Sorry I haven't been on too much lately, I've been busy with a web design project me and a few friends are working on. I got a couple stools for ya though, Ranch. I'd definitely like to help out in the ride building process if I can take the time to start gathering a ton more materials. Can't say I'd have much luck gathering tons more stools, though.
first post updated.
Moving along nicely!
I have 7 stools right now, I hope to be able to get 8 more soon and then if you want me to I can be signed up for the gold treasure room, or if that gets filled up too soon I'm sure I have enough stools for the exit. But I'm aiming for the treasure room. Now only to balance this with my studying for finals! (eek!)
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go for 10 ace and it's yours bud (the exit).
If a trade goes through as planned I will have 14 Ranch, how many do I need for the gold room? 15? You give me a number and I'll get it.
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15 would be better than 10 lol.
I feel bad though, I know Scores is trying hard to get a build together, and even more difficult for him when he's donating whatever stools he finds. Pretty torn here.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Massive U.S. government spending cuts and tax hikes due next year will cause even worse economic damage than previously thought if Washington fails to come up with a solution, the Congressional Budget Office warned on Wednesday.
Without action by Congress to avoid a "fiscal cliff," Americans should expect a "significant recession" and the loss of some 2 million jobs, CBO director Doug Elmendorf said in his gloomiest assessment yet.
He said the economy is already being "held back" by the mere anticipation of the fiscal cliff and the uncertainty surrounding it, causing businesses to put off investment and hiring decisions.
"The sooner that uncertainty is eliminated, the better," Elmendorf told a news conference. "The stakes are very high in the fiscal policy decisions we're going to have to make very shortly."
The report from the nonpartisan agency should intensify pressure on Congress and the White House to resolve deep differences over cutting spending or extending tax cuts enacted during the George W. Bush administration.
But chances for a deal before the November 6 election are slim. They could improve during the post-election lame-duck session of Congress, but that's unpredictable as well.
Reactions to the report did not signal any signs of movement by Democrats or Republicans from entrenched partisan positions that form the basis of their campaigns.
"This is a challenging time for America and one thing I will do is I will finally cut federal spending, encourage growth and as a result of those two things get America to a balanced budget," Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney said on the campaign trail in Little Rock, Arkansas.
The CBO report, added Amanda Henneberg, a Romney campaign spokeswoman, is "another indictment of President Obama's economic policies that have resulted in overspending, increasing debt and a growing financial burden on the next generation."
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney batted the blame back to Republicans in Congress.
"They're willing to hold the middle class hostage unless we also give massive new tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires -- tax cuts we can't afford that would do nothing to strengthen the economy," Carney said in a statement.
The "fiscal cliff" refers to the impact of around $500 billion in expiring tax cuts and automatic spending reductions set for 2013 as a result of successive failures by Congress to agree on some orderly alternative method of reducing budget deficits.
Failure to avoid it would spark U.S. fiscal tightening on a scale not seen since the 1969 tax increases to pay for the Vietnam War -- slamming the economy into recession as it did back then.
The CBO estimated that U.S. gross domestic product under this scenario would shrink 0.5 percent in 2013, with a crushing first-half contraction of 2.9 percent followed by a weak second-half rebound of 1.9 percent growth.
In a May estimate of fiscal cliff effects, the CBO had forecast full-year 2013 GDP growth of 0.5 percent, with a 1.3 percent first-half contraction and second-half growth of 2.3 percent.
The main reasons for the gloomier outlook now are a weaker global economy, the growing uncertainty mentioned by Elmendorf about what Congress will do, and a determination that the cliff is somewhat steeper than previously thought.
The May estimate did not include the effect of expiring payroll tax cuts and the end of extended unemployment benefits. Factoring in the end of those streams of cash to Americans would increase the shock to aggregate demand.
Were Congress to extend all current tax policies and simply halt the automatic spending cuts, as many Republicans have proposed, the CBO said the economy would continue to grow, albeit weakly.
GDP growth under this more optimistic scenario would be modest in 2013 at 1.7 percent, with an 8.0 percent unemployment rate compared with 9.1 percent should the U.S. go over the fiscal cliff.
But it would cause the deficit to remain above $1 trillion for a fifth consecutive year, versus a sharp fall to $641 billion under the fiscal cliff scenario. Elmendorf said keeping deficits this high would greatly increase the chances of a U.S. debt crisis that spikes interest rates higher, dramatically raising all borrowing costs.
The current fiscal year, which ends on September 30, is on track to produce a $1.128 trillion deficit, CBO said -- a slight reduction from its most recent estimate of $1.171 trillion.
Part of this reduction was due to lower spending on the federal health programs Medicare and Medicaid.
Helen Fessenden, an analyst with Eurasia Group, which tracks political risks for investors, noted that the CBO report showed some slightly better-than-expected revenue estimates, which could buy the U.S. Treasury a bit more time before the $16.4 trillion U.S. debt ceiling needs to be raised.
Currently, the Treasury expects to reach that limit around the end of the year, but can take extraordinary measures to stretch its borrowing capacity into early 2013.
The next major development on the fiscal cliff is a report due from the White House on September 6 that details programs where the Obama administration plans to concentrate the automatic spending cuts should they occur. Half of the $109 billion in cuts for 2013 will be borne by the military and half by domestic programs.
(Additional reporting by Kim Dixon in Washington and Steve Holland in Little Rock, Arkansas; Editing by Fred Barbash, Chizu Nomiyama, John Wallace and Phil Berlowitz)
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Peach Recipes for (an Endless) Summer
Peaches are about more than pies! The quintessential summer fruit branches out with 19 recipes: salads, savory dinners, cocktails, and, of course, dessert.
Pickled Peaches
Marcy Masumoto's go-to recipe from The Perfect Peach: Recipes and Stories from the Masumoto Family Farm requires just five basic ingredients: fruit, sugar, vinegar, cinnamon, and cloves.
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Search ongoing for passenger of NY plane crash
EPHRATAH (AP) -- Rescuers will search for a third day for a brain cancer patient on board the volunteer medical flight that crashed in a wooded area of central New York.
Ephratah Town Supervisor Todd Bradt said more than 100 people searched for Frank Amerosa into Sunday night before stopping because of darkness. The search will resume Monday. The Fulton County Sheriff's Department says Amerosa is presumed dead.
The daughter of 58-year-old Evelyn Amerosa said her mother was on board the twin-engine aircraft with her husband, Frank, when it crashed Friday in Ephratah, about an hour west of Albany. The daughter of John Campbell of Stamford, Conn., says her father was the pilot.
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I've been trying to find another place to play a Black Crusade game and I've come up with nothing so far. Thus this thread.
There are two goals I'm hoping to achieve via this thread.
- To find a GM and 3 or 4 other players willing to Play by Post or Play by Chat a Black Crusade game (hopefully with enough leeway xpwise to allow for the Tome of Fate archetypes).
- To form a nice list of people looking for online Black Crusade gaming opportunities.
So for this to work I need a handy dandy way to make a gaming directory for people to add their contact info and suchlike. The answer my friends is in google documents.
Here is the location for The Little Black (Crusade) Book!
Also since I am hoping to keep this thread and google doc alive and active I'm going to request that if you do use the directory that you link this post in your signature in an effort to get as much "publicity" for it as possible.


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BATON ROUGE, LA (FOX44) - Calling all cooks! Food Network is now casting for a new television series.
They are looking for "food entrepreneurs" who are planning to open their own business. The business should have at least some cooking on site and can include places such as a restaurant, shop, bakery, ice cream shop, etc.
The series will document people as they lead up to the grand opening, and follow them through their first weeks open. Bobby Flay will be spending time with the owners and will offer advice on how to run a successful food business.
People hoping to be on the show must be planning to open between now and summer 2012, must have little-to-no prior culinary school experience, and must have some risk in opening this business.
Anyone interested should send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com with a description of their story and business plan. Emails should be in by the end of November.
Include: type of food, location, who their team is, how many people will be hired, budget, why you are doing this, what inspires you, what you did prior, previous culinary experience, and opening date.


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Thursday 13 Jun 2013
Export Development Canada (EDC) is a Canadian Crown Corporation, providing financial solutions to Canadian companies that do business in other countries. With the long term leases on their two outdated Ottawa facilities expiring, EDC saw an opportunity to not only consolidate and house their operations under one roof, but to re-evaluate their current work processes, align them with their business goals, and develop a state of the art Headquarters facility that would support their vision.
They also saw this project as part of their business strategy to attract and retain the best talent, with the end result being a dynamic, productive, and healthy workplace. Given that the physical space had to address the diverse work and meeting styles for the approximately 1300 staff, a "one size does not fit all" approach was adopted, with several work-style arrangements being provided including resident and free address workstations of various sizes (8'x8', 120 degree "pods" and benching), which were assigned according to work processes, and not to hierarchy.
Collaboration in the workplace was enhanced through the incorporation of alternative meeting locales such as the generously sized employee "cafes" with a variety of seating arrangements (booth, bar height, café tables), huddle rooms with fully retractable glazing which could be opened and closed by staff, and high-backed soft seating clusters which afford visual and acoustic privacy in the open office environment. A dedicated and re-configurable conference floor where meetings from 4 to 300 staff could be accommodated is also a well used feature in the design In keeping with EDC's commitment to the environment, the interiors were designed to a LEED-CI Gold strategy.
Notable features include a comprehensive addressable lighting system (each light fixture has its own IP address), daylight for 75% of all spaces, low VOC compliance for paints, sealants, carpet, and furniture systems, low flow plumbing fixtures, and a fitness centre with change rooms and lockers that accommodate the 150+ staff who regularly bike to work. The resulting headquarters has seen a substantial increase in productivity and employee morale. The space anticipates how work is done, and the clean, uncluttered and vibrant aesthetic plays a big part in the re-energized mood of the staff.
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The political world has taken a break for the moment from memorializing the late, roof-ridin' Seamus Romney in favor of blowing up over Eric Fehrnstrom's description of Romneybot 2.0's adherence to political principles as "like an Etch-a-Sketch." Because I don't want to lose my pundit's card, I'd like to add my favorite E-A-S story to the rising tide of complete piffle:
When David Byrne, eventual leader of Talking Heads, was applying to the Rhode Island School of Design, his application project reportedly consisted of a collection of Xerox copies of E-A-S maps of each of the 50 states. How he did Michigan and Hawaii, I will never know.
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text: A few years ago I heard of a "shopping pass" that would allow a guest to go inside a theme park to shop for an hour or two, then leave, without having to purchase a ticket. You had to leave a credit card number with the front gate and if you did not return in 2 hours, you were charged for a single-day ticket. Does anyone know if this is still offered? We won't be able to visit all four parks during our trip this June, but I'd like to zip in and see if a few items are available (or what new items catch my attention). I can see why this kind of thing isn't publicized, but I'm more than willing to part with a few dollars to buy souviners to help increase their profits.... Any info would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!


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4K Random Read/Write
We precondition the P420m for 9,000 seconds, receiving reports on workload performance every second. We plot this data to illustrate the drives' descent into steady state.
The dots signify IOPS performance every second during the test. The line through the data scatter represents the average performance during the test. This type of testing presents standard deviation and maximum/minimum I/O in a visual manner. High-granularity testing can give our readers a good feel for the latency distribution by viewing IOPS at one-second intervals. This should be in mind when viewing our test results below. We provide latency charts for further granularity below.
This downward slope of performance happens very few times in the lifetime of the device (by some estimates only .04% of the SSD's life). This is typically during the first few hours of use, and we present the precondition results only to confirm steady state convergence.
Each QD for every parameter tested includes 300 data points (five minutes of one second reports) to illustrate the degree of performance variability. The line for each QD represents the average speed reported during the five-minute interval.
4K random speed measurements are an important metric when comparing drive performance, as the hardest type of file access for any storage solution to master is small-file random. One of the most sought-after performance specifications, 4K random performance is a heavily marketed figure.
The P420m comes out of the corner swinging, beating the SLC-powered P320h from QD32 to 256. The P420m averages a massive 734,219 IOPS at QD256. The P320h does not disappoint either, with an average of 711,962 IOPS.
Our read latency chart illustrates the minimal increase in latency as we reach the higher queue depths with both drives. The P420m provides lower latency in read access, while the P320h experiences some turbulence at QD16. The excellent performance at higher QD comes from the parallel architecture of both drives.
Garbage collection routines are more pronounced in heavy write workloads. This leads to more variability in performance.
The P320h leverages its SLC to provide a much higher score than the P420m, though it does experience some minor variability at either end of the spectrum. The P320h averages 206,543 IOPS at QD256, while the P420m lags behind with an average of 113,749 IOPS. This is well above the rated 95,000 IOPS in steady state.
Both SSDs provide remarkably consistent performance in heavy write workloads.
The write latency shows the P320h enjoying a significant latency advantage in this random write workload, primarily due to its SLC NAND.


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Does anyone have a sour cherry tree (don't know the name)? Have you ever trimmed it. Our tree is getting out of hand and want to cut it back a lot!! Is there a special way to do this? Mostly off the top so we can put the net on it again. We'd like to do it after we pick the cherries this yr. (if the hail doesn't get it)
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Marchex end user sales, part 2: Disney, EA, GE, and Google
More Marchex end user sales.
Here's the second round of end user sales courtesy of Marchex. See more Marchex end user sales here.
I've tried my best to verify the actual buyer using DomainTools' historical whois records. In some cases it's tricky because domains may have been purchased through brokers or the whois records had privacy.
Disney bought two domain names from Marchex in the 2006 to 2007 timeframe: GameKingdom.com for $40,000 and PiratesOnline.com for $37,500. Both forward to pages on Disney's Go.com; the former doesn't resolve and the latter is for a Pirates of the Caribbean game.
Ducks Unlimited Canada spend $25,000 for WaterFowling.com in 2009.
Electronic Arts (EA) bought Battlefield.com in 2007 for $80,000. It appears that Marksmen helped them with the acquisition.
Endorse Corp bought Endorse.com for $100,000 in 2011
Marchex sold DebtWise.com for 2009 and it's currently owned by Equifax. It may have been purchased through an intermediary in 2009; Equifax shows up in the whois in 2010.
Families.com bought FamilyTree.org for $50,000. The domain's whois record had privacy from 2008 to 2011, so it's difficult to pin down when the domain sold.
First National Bank of Omaha picked up FirstBankCard.com this year for $25,000.
FYI Direct paid $200,000 for FreeScore.com. The transaction appears to have been around 2008.
GE has two domains purchased from Marchex. It bought TheFeast.com for $32,500 in 2010. I believe that was for an NBC Universal shopping guide later bought by DailyCandy; so . It is also the owner of UniversalSports.com, which was purchased for $250,000 in 2008. It's unclear if it was the original buyer.
German American Bancorp bought GermanAmerican.com for $25,000 in 2009.
Glam Network bought Foodied.com for $90,000 in 2011.
Google picked up two domains: Chromium.org for a whopping $100,000 and HotPot.com for $40,000. The whois for Chromium.org was unmasked and the DNS changed in 2008, but I can't verify the domain sold then. HotPot.com may have been purchased through an intermediary in 2010.
The company that owns GourmetGiftBaskets.com bought the typo GormetGiftBaskets.com for $10,000 in 2011.
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Great part 2 article Andrew.
One of the weirdest sales is the 10.000 sale for a typo of GourmetGiftBaskets.com, amazing deal.
Besides that one, the sale of Chromium.org for 100.000 is really a premium sale!
You are missing domainindex.com which was bought by us and is being used for the appraisal and domain-tools service.
Nice reporting, this is a what a end user sales list should look like
Let's face it, these domains suck and the people who bought them are suckers.
Let's get real.
@ted knight
ha ha ha ha! i agree with you 100% and i like the way you expressed yourself so candidly.
but when people speak so truthfully and bluntly it cuts like a knife to some of the hard headed domainers out there. these were some extraordinary, long shot, jackpot type sales. many hold on to the same wild dreams, and thus price (extort) accordingly.
@Rob, you fighting your name karma?


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Originally published Friday, December 23, 2011 at 5:31 AM
Restaurant review
A bistro makeover for former Campagne
Marché, an informal bistro and wine bar, is the successor to the long-standing Campagne. It boasts a bigger bar, a racier red-and-gray dining room and a French menu of large and small plates.
Special to The Seattle Times
Sample menu
Pommes frites | $5 |
Leek and tomato tart | $9 |
Parsnip gratin | $10 |
Dover sole | $16 |
Quenelle en nage | $18 |
French86 Pine St., Seattle
Reservations: Accepted
Hours: Dinner 4:30-11 p.m. daily; bar open till midnight
Prices: $$ (nibbles $3-$6, petit plats $6-$12, grand plats $15-$22)
Drinks: Full bar; extensive international wine list, creatively presented
Parking: On street, in nearby lots, or Inn at the Market valet $15 with validation
Sound: Moderate to loud, depending on capacity
Who should go: A cosmopolitan clientele seeking refreshment après work, shopping, theater or a museum crawl.
Credit cards: All major
Access: No obstacles
After nearly 25 years, Campagne closed last January. Heralded for fine French food and wine served in linen-draped elegance, the Post Alley hideaway enjoyed a longer run than most restaurants, largely thanks to sound management and a succession of talented chefs, among them Tamara Murphy (Terra Plata) and Jim Drohman (Le Pichet).
Current executive chef Daisley Gordon worked with both, having joined Campagne in 1995. Now co- owner, Gordon guided the restaurant's recent rebirth as Marché, an informal bistro and wine bar that hews to the modern dining vernacular: loud, tight quarters; hard surfaces; filament light bulbs; and a menu of large and small plates.
Make that plats, for the food is still French, though sommelier Cyril Frechier's wine list traipses the globe. No need to commit to a bottle: everything from bubbly to local barrel selections can be had by the glass. "Wine explorations" showcase special bottles (read: spendy). Preserved by argon-gas injection, they can be sampled in one-and-a-half, three or five-ounce pours (approximately $6-$40). Frechier himself wanders the dining room like a cheerful peddler lugging a wooden wine box dubbed vins fins: his eclectic personal picks culled from the handsome pine hutch that, like Frechier and Gordon, is among the few remaining vestiges of Campagne.
Marché's metrosexual chic is the flip side of Campagne's demure country charm. The bar is bigger, the lounge more intimate, the dining room racier, with red banquettes, gray-washed walls and tabletops that resemble concrete. Large gilt-framed mirrors reflect an up-close view of the red-neon Pike Place Market sign framed in a picture window. A bay window displays a red-painted farm wagon filled with seasonal produce. Both underscore the mission signaled by the restaurant's new name, French for "market."
With a few exceptions, I was impressed with the solidly executed bistro fare. Among "nibbles," you can't go wrong with pommes frites, a generous portion with a pot of thick mayonnaise on the side. Cheeses (priced by the ounce) included a beautifully ripe Camembert paired with walnuts and black pepper honey.
Petit plats are a bit more substantial. From the house-made charcuterie I chose a rosy ruffle of savory pork shaved from a shoulder that had been brined, stuffed, then roasted. It arrived on a thick wooden board with grilled toast, grainy mustard and pickled peppers.
There's no surcharge for a basket of Grand Central Bakery bread, with butter submerged in a bowl of golden olive oil. I used the bread to scoop the last bits of pistachio aillade, an audacious sauce of coarsely chopped garlic, nuts, capers, preserved lemon and mint that topped a roasted cylinder beet (elongated rather than bulbous). Just as delicious: the salty pop of salmon roe dotting warm, oniony potato salad tossed in Dijon-spiked vinaigrette.
Salade verte (butter lettuce, arugula and fresh herbs) becomes sublime veiled in lemon and hazelnut oil with curls of brique agour, a Basque sheep's milk cheese. It would make an excellent meal, partnered with the leek and tomato tart: oniony custard on a brittle, buttery pastry crust. Parsnip gratin — sweet, thin rounds embedded in a melt of Comte cheese — came with its own appropriately tart arugula salad.
Grand plats include a stunning Quenelle en nage: the most delicious chicken dumplings imaginable bobbing in a double-strength chicken broth dense with diced celery and celeriac. Parisian penicillin, bien sur!
Other large plates achieved varying success. Best was a simple broiled sole, briskly seasoned with salt, pepper, lemon and capers. House-made chicken sausage was a bit too mild to stand up to braised red cabbage smoky with bacon.
Linguine with braised calf trotter was dismal. The fresh noodles floundered in a gelatinous broth that was excessively salted, peppered and herbed. Not finishing it, however, left room to indulge in quenelle of another sort for dessert: sensational cognac-laced dark chocolate mousse with Chantilly cream.
Service veered from anxious to unctuous; some staff are still feeling their way. Probably in those first tender months decades ago, Campagne's staff was equally tentative. It's not easy supplanting an icon, and it takes a long time to become one. But Marché might have a shot.
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Lilies are always a good choice when you are choosing flowers online from serenata flowers. We always have a beautiful selection of fresh white lilies, pink lilies and blue lilies flowers in stock. Whether you decide on a lilies bouquet of pure white Seraphims or calla lilies or an arrangement of flamboyant stargazer lilies delivery from Holland, you will be delighted with your choice.
As we have our selection of calla lilies delivered directly from the lilies flowers auctions to Heathrow, you will only receive fresh blooms in your floral gift when you order flowers from serenataflowers.com. Another advantage is that we only deliver unopened lilies in our orders, so that the recipient of your lilies delivery will have the full advantage of the beautiful lilies and roses. They will only begin to open once they reach their destination. If they take a bit too long to open, you can help them along with your fingers. Buy lilies very carefully so that you do not damage the delicate petals.
We have a beautiful bouquet of lilies in shades of pink and white. They blend beautifully with a variety of smaller flowers arranged in pretty vases or in a hand-tied calla lilies bouquet, whichever you prefer. Pink lilies represent harmony and joy in the home. For an extra special arrangement, choose colorful Asiatic lilies. Flowers lilies come in vibrant shades of yellows and reds, which make lilies delivered an excellent choice to send lilies to someone for a very special occasion.
SerenataFlowers.com offers 100% satisfaction guarantee. If you are not satisfied, you will receive a replacement or a refund.
Whatever the occasion, our florists in slough can help you with your flower needs.