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The best gifts are really opportunities — to learn, to grow, to discover.
And they are often as much fun to give as to receive.
Like all good Santas, teacher Eric Kallenborn wrestled with what to get the student whose name he drew in the Shepard High School speech team's Secret Santa gift exchange.
"Leeana Skuby is a great student. She's an excellent writer, a hard worker and a tremendous asset to the speech team," Kallenborn said. "But I also knew she loved to bake."
As he pondered the possibilities, ticking off things such as cookie sheets and other items she likely already had, Kallenborn came up with an idea.
He emailed Mindy Segal, renowned pastry chef and owner of the Hot Chocolate restaurant and dessert bar in Chicago. Segal is a 2012 James Beard Award winner for "Outstanding Pastry Chef in the Country." Hot Chocolate, 1747 N. Damen Ave., has been featured on national TV.
"I love that place," Kallenborn said. "It's one of my favorite spots in the city."
He thought maybe Segal had a cookbook he could buy for Leeana. He wondered if Segal would sign it.
Right away, Segal's publicist emailed him back. Her cookbook doesn't come out for another year, but Segal went one better.
She offered to let the student spend four hours in the Hot Chocolate kitchen working beside professional pastry chefs. In return, she asked that Kallenborn make a donation to her favorite charity, the Greater Chicago Food Depository.
On Wednesday afternoon, Kallenborn presented the gift certificate to Leeana, who beamed with excitement.
"This is incredible," she said. "Crazy. I get to spend time with a real chef? And she's like the chefs I watch on TV every night when I don't want to go to bed."
An honor student and Alsip resident, Leeana said her demanding school schedule does not allow time for classes in the culinary arts.
"Everything is all about getting into a good college," she said.
But Kallenborn reminded her that it's important to nurture the soul, too.
"Sometimes we don't have enough time to explore those creative loves we have, there's such a big push to do well academically and get into a good school," he said. "But your passions are important, too."
Leeana said the gift will "help me learn more about myself, what I like, what I want to do after high school. Who knows, maybe I just will open a bakery one day."
She said her family is not big on cooking or baking.
"We never had the big Christmas dinners that everyone talks about," she said. "My mom knows how to use the microwave, and my dad knows how to call Dominos (pizza)."
For most of her life, Leeana said, she focused on academics and helping the Shepard speech team become a force to be reckoned with. But during her sophomore year, she began noticing an urge to bake and create confections.
"I started watching 'Chopped' and 'Cupcake Wars' on the Food Network," she said. "I got hooked."
The following summer, Leeana began experimenting. Among the creations she has mastered is the perfect chocolate chip cookie, which took seven attempts.
"I made them for a month straight until I was happy," she said, adding that the secret is the right ratio of ingredients. "That's what makes a difference."
She also loves to bake cupcakes and to modify recipes to make them her own.
Leeana said baking is a release.
"You can tell when I haven't baked in awhile because I get cranky," she said.
Leeana still has to contact Segal to set up a day when she can come to the restaurant and hang with the chefs. Kallenborn said he and the other speech team coaches will visit that day and judge her performance.
Segal recently signed a lease in Chicago's Logan Square community and is reportedly opening a new bakery sometime next year. She said in a statement that she suggested the gift because it would enable Leeana to see if she really wanted to pursue baking as a profession.
During her four-hour assignment, Segal said, Leeana will work beside professional chefs, doing "whatever we ask her to do."
Segal said that when she was Leeana's age, she had no idea she was destined to one day own a restaurant, but she knew she wanted to work with food.


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The City of Santa Clarita formed an Anti-Gang Task force back in 1991, and since then the group has worked to tackle gang violence and crime in the SCV.The Gang Outreach Committee, formed in 2007 as a subcommittee of the Anti-Gang Task Force, reached out to hundreds of local youth in 2008. Group members hosted gang awareness presentations at local youth facilities to help deter them from the lifestyle and Committee members implemented POWER (Peers on the Way to Everlasting Recovery) – a male mentoring program at the City's Newhall Community Center.
Gang-affiliated teens participated in weekly discussions and attended field trips dealing with diverse issues affecting behavior and choices. High risk youth were also able to find employment through the Youth Employment Services (YES) program, an Anti-Gang Task Force, city-funded program.
Gang Outreach Committee members also assisted with the formation of the Valle Del Oro Neighborhood Committee which aims to empower neighbors to take a stand against crime, graffiti and gangs in their neighborhood. The committee boasts over fifty members who hosted a "Cultural Walk" to foster cultural sensitivity and understanding among neighbors, worked with residents to report graffiti and illegally parked vehicles, and saw that resident requests for increased lighting were approved by the City. Committee and Task Force members are currently working to form a similar committee in the Canyon Springs area of Canyon Country in 2009.
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COLUMBUS, Miss. — Boater Tim Fox of Meridian earned $3,965 Saturday as winner of the Wal-Mart Bass Fishing League Mississippi Division event on the Columbus Pool of the Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway. The tournament was the third of five regular-season Mississippi Division events and featured 126 boaters vying for the win, which earned Fox 200 points in the Boater Division.
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Price earned an additional $500 as winner of the Ranger Cup award.
Kyle Glasgow of Guin, Ala., took Boater Division big-bass award honors, earning $630 for a 7-pound, 5-ounce bass. He caught his big bass on a spinnerbait.
David Cook of Pearl bested 126 Co-angler Division competitors to earn $1,982 as the co-angler winner, thanks to five bass weighing 11 pounds, 4 ounces that he caught on a spinnerbait.
Rounding out the top five co-anglers are John Speake of Terry (five bass, 10 pounds, 10 ounces, $991); W.K. Luckett Jr. of Ridgeland (four bass, 10 pounds, 5 ounces, $651); Monte Knight of Ouitman (five bass, 9 pounds, 7 ounces, $505); and Brandon Bolton of West Point (four bass, 8 pounds, 15 ounces, $414).
Eddie Laster of Morton earned $315 as the co-angler big-bass award winner with a 5-pound, 15-ounce bass he caught on a buzzbait.
The Mississippi Division's next event will be held June 25 on Columbus Pool near Columbus. The Mississippi Division will wrap up its regular season Sept. 17-18 with a two-day Super Tournament on Ross Barnett Lake near Brandon.
Following the regular season, the Mississippi Division boater with the most points will earn $1,000 as the Yamaha "Be the Best" points champion. The co-angler amassing the most points will earn $500 as the Yamaha "Be the Best" points champion in the Co-angler Division.
Every angler who receives weight credit in a tournament earns points, with 200 points going to the winner, 199 for second, 198 for third, and so on except for Super Tournaments, which award 300 points to the winner, 299 for second, 298 for third, and so on. The top 40 Mississippi Division boaters and co-anglers based on year-end points standings will advance to the Lake Martin Regional near Alexander City, Ala., Oct. 18-22 where they will compete against Everglades, Gator, and Savannah River division anglers for one of six slots in the 2006 All-American. With a total purse of $1 million and a potential $140,000 cash prize going to the winning boater and $70,000 going to the winning co-angler, the All-American is one of the most prestigious and lucrative events in bass fishing.
The $8.4 million Wal-Mart Bass Fishing League features 28 divisions nationwide. In BFL competition, boaters and co-anglers are randomly paired, with boaters supplying the boat and fishing against other boaters and co-anglers fishing from the back deck against other co-anglers. For more information or to enter a tournament, call (270) 252-1000 or browse this Web site.
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Welcome to the website of the Caledonia Middle and High School bands in Caledonia, Michigan.
Mark your calendars for the annual Chili Cook-off on March 21, 2015. Watch here for more details to compete, eat, dance or just have a great night!
Check out the 2014-2015 Band Sponsors here!
The next Culvers fundraiser dates are 2/4/15 and 5/6/15
Did you know the band collects Boxtops for Education? Drop them off in the box located in the bandroom.
The next Ucellos fundraiser dates are 2/19/2015 and 3/19/2015. Download and print the flier here!
The CHS Band 2014-2015 Handbook can be downloaded here. This is a great reference for everything you need to know about the 2014-2015 season.
Here are some easy things you can do to help!
We're pleased to share some exciting news about a fundraising program for our organization. It's called "Scrip", and it's the fundraising program that works while you shop. Scrip is simply a word that means "substitute money" - in other words, Scrip is gift certificates from national and local retailers. They're the same gift certificates that you buy at the store. Many popular retailers participate in our Scrip program including Meijer, D & W, JCPenney, Wendy's, Shell, Pizza Hut, Target, Speedway, Home Depot and many, many others.
You're probably asking yourself how these stores help raise money. It's simple -- Scrip participating retailers agree to sell gilft certificates to our organization at a discount. Member families like ours buy the certificates for full face value, they redeem them for full face value, and our school keeps the difference as revenue. And Scrip is exciting, because everybody wins:
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Your student receives funds directly deposited into their Band Boosters account.
Caledonia Band Boosters has chosen to place 90% of the posted revenue into your student's individual band account. The remaining 10% will go to the Band Boosters for shipping, handling and the purchase of supplies. (The funds in your student's band account may be used for marching band camp, uniform and instrument fees, and the like. Any funds remaining in your student's account will be donated to the Caledonia Band Booster's when you student leaves the band program).
The beauty of Scrip is that you put your regular household shopping dollars to work. You earn money for our school without spending a single additional penny. Just spend your regular shopping dollars with Scrip at the stores that participate in the Scrip program! And Scrip can be used for just about any household purchase including food, clothing, entertainment, gasoline and even dining out. The Caledonia Band Boosters Scrip program promises to be a simple and effective fundraising program.
Questions? Please email Jenny Kuck.
D&W Cash For Class: The Caledonia Bands are participating in the D&W and Family Fare Cash for Class program. You can register your YES Card to donate a certain percentage off the total of your purchases to the Band Program. This is only during certain times of the year, but sign-up now so you are ready when it is time! Click here to Set up your account and designate Caledonia Bands as your choice! See below for instructions.
Gordon Foods Fun Funds: We also participate in the Gordon Foods Fun Funds Rebate Program. When you use your card a percentage of all your purchases will be donated to the Band, plus you are eligible for discounts and coupons once you register. Click here to get started Caledonia school code 2544890
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We have some lofty fundraising goals this year, which if met, will reduce camp costs for everyone!
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Phormiums divide nicely, but if they are well established, it can be a big job. Divided my 8 year old Maori Chief last spring and it took three of us to get that rootball out of the ground and an old pruning saw to break it in to manageable clumps. My container grown phorms divided much easier. Just make sure each division has a good number of fans. FYI, phormiums are not a grass - they are a flowering perennial in the agave family. |
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Chevrolet Volt Lease Questions
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eat_my_voltage Posts: 2good to know my deal is still decent 3 wks later. more time will tell though as it seems likely the deals are really going to sweeten up come aug-sept as the model year closes out after a slow start to yearly sales goals and now a spluttering economy. July's 24 month lease may be a taste of what will come... I'll call shenanigans when Ally roles out a 12 month lease with the tax credit applied such that some of us get to drive a Volt free for one year. :sick: So, stay dispasionate and don't settle with less than a great deal now.
while the variation in deals between local lots at any given time is small relative to level shifts that might occur over the next two months, which local dealer will deal best varies as a function of current and pipelined inventory, where the sales staff is wrt end of month/quarter sold unit goals, etc.
my dealer is in pdx area, so you should do at least as well by pitching to the one with the highest inventory in the fourth week of the month. be willing to walk away and if they don't later call you back with acceptance, I'd just repeat at end of Aug and again in Sept. given the dark clouds on the economic horizon. -
reboot2012 Posts: 1
happycamper7 Posts: 2I learned a lot from this forum so wanted to share my experience. Thanks!
2012 Volt with Navigation, Park Assist/back up cam, and Premium trim package
36 month 12,000/year lease
MSRP on my options: $45,683
Actual Purchase Price: $43, 124 (Total Confidence Price per https://www.gmsupplierdiscount.com/ip-vpp/ )
Residual: 59%
Money Factor: 1%
Lease Fee: $695
Tag Fee: $118
Doc Fee: $200
Cap Cost Reduction From Ally: -$5,045
Money Down: $0 (I paid $847 to cover a refundable deposit and first payment)
Monthly Payment: $386 ($422 with Virginia sales taxes rolled in)
I love the car and my commute is about 30 miles round trip so I will buy hardly any gas for three years. Also, came with three years of Onstar and 6 months of sat radio free. Be sure to call your utility company as well as SPX Home Charging (https://homecharging.spx.com/portal/) to see if there are incentives in your area. I was able to get the charging station completely free including installation. -
orlem Posts: 2We are looking at buying a 2013 Volt and I went in and test drove one. Love it. Spoke to the dealer about leasing options. I drive around a 100 miles for work each day and am looking for around a 35000 mile/ year high mileage lease. one of the dealers mentioned "impossible" and i should opt for buying the car. Since I'm pretty sure I will be looking for a new car in 3-4 years I'm thinking a lease would be a better option. Do we have any high mileage lease options in Southern California for a Volt? or is this just not possible?
peterindb Posts: 2Hi, there,
Just leased a Volt with the help of this forum and thought I'd also share what I experienced (A smooth process at Selman Chevy at Orange, CA.)
Model: 2013 Black with Premium Package, Bose audio.
Price offered: $40498
$ up front (including 1st lease payment and security deposit): $ 1200
Residual: 67%
Lease Term: 36 months @ 12,000 miles/yr.
Interest rate: 1.35%
Monthly payment: $366/mo + tax
I did the initial negotiations via email with their internet fleet manager. The offered price (almost 2K off MSRP) got me in the dealer door. Of course when they found out I wanted to lease, they offered up the monthly payments (low $400's) without showing me the other relevant numbers at first. I Was able to get the payments down as soon as I asked for the residual and the money factor numbers behind their calculations.
Love the car so far, Build quality is indistinguishable from import, and the thing has some zip. -
sport73 Posts: 1Thought I'd share my experience:
2012 Chevy Volt Loaded with Premium Leather Trim, Navigation, Bose, Rear Park Assist, polished wheels...
36 months; 15,000 miles/yr.
$2500 down.
$320/mo. including FL tax
Don't really care what they valued the residual at as I have no plans to purchase at lease end. Only downside was having to suck up the vehicle's red accents. -
krish3 Posts: 2I got the following quote from the dealer yesterday. Want to see if it is reasonable?
Car type: Volt fully loaded (MSRP: 44875)
Monthly lease: 350$/month (including taxes)
Lease term: 36 months
Miles: 12000/year
Downpayment - 1500$ [he claimed 1500$ you MAY get back from California]
Residual price: 26300 (around that)
Is it reasonable? Should I ask for 15K miles & should I ask for 0 down?
I will appreciate any feedback. -
CarMan@Edmunds Posts: 38,515
CarMan@Edmunds Posts: 38,515Here's the information that you're looking for alonzov1. Ally's current base lease rate and residual value for a 36-month lease of a 2013 Volt with navigation and 15,000 miles per year are 1.35% and 64%, respectively.
As you can see, Ally publishes lease rates instead of money factors for the vehicles that it leases. You can convert its published lease rates into approximate money factor equivalents by dividing them by 2400.
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jmcmannis Posts: 39I'm picking up my 2013 Volt Friday!! Can you provide the current lease numbers (mf and residual)? I'm looking at 10,000 miles/yr. I'd like the numbers for both 24 and 36 months. This is for a 2013 Volt with Nav. Also I assume the $5045 lease cash is still good on the 2013? Thanks!!
vfanrj Posts: 3I chatted with Chevy on the 2013 lease terms early last week and they told me "no." They also were not willing to publish a date when they would apply the promotion lease terms on the '13 models.
My guess is that they are trying to clear out the 2012s first before promoting a 2013. I leased a 2012 last week and absolutely love the car. It is the best car that I've owned. Money saved in gas more than cover my $250/month lease payment. -
bacchusm Posts: 5Hopefully picking up my 2013 Volt Saturday.
They told me that Ally/Us Bank changed their residual around so now it is about66% and only about $1,750 rebate for the 2013. I ordered my from the factory so I have been waiting for almost two months now. I worked out a kinda deal because when I ordered it the rates weren't available, but we have talked since and I am get closer to the numbers I would like. I guess we will Saturday. Thank all of you here are you have help me stay in touch with the numbers. -
jmcmannis Posts: 39Yea, it's tough trying to make a deal when you don't now the incentives or what others are paying since the car is brand new. That's why I figured I'd wait until it comes in to talk numbers. Hopefully it'll work out, I'm a little nervous. Now there aren't many 2012's left so if I decide the lease incentives on the 2013 suck it'd be hard to get a 2012 with what I want.
bacchusm Posts: 5Yeah, there are a couple of things I wanted on the 2013 that weren't available on the 2012.
The main one was:
front park assist, forward collision alert and lane departure warning systems
I both on my previous car and really like them.
The rear camera and rear park assist as important to me.
I like that the 2013 are all HOV California, the 2nd half of the 2012 were also. -
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CarMan@Edmunds Posts: 38,515Here you go oregunguy. Ally's August base lease rate and residual value for a 36-month lease of a 2012 Chevrolet Volt with Navigation and 15,000 miles per year are 1.0% and 57%, respectively.
When negotiating your deal on this car, make sure to take advantage of the $5,045 cash incentive that is currently available on 36-month leases of it through Ally.
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text: HORROR: Your latest book, The Throat, is a culmination of plots and themes you've been toying with since the mid-Eighties, tying together elements of Koko, Mystery and some of the stories in Houses Without Doors. When you published the short story "Blue Rose" in Dennis Etchison's Cutting Edge anthology back in 1985, did you suspect that you would eventually write an odd sort of thriller trilogy centered around your fictional Blue Rose Murders? STRAUB: I would never have thought of the idea of doing a series. The whole idea would have turned me off. That's why the series isn't really a series. It's an accidental, inadvertant one, but it resolves itself in a way that pleases me a lot. The origin of "Blue Rose" is a moment I remember very, very clearly. I had taken about a year off on purpose. I had done Floating Dragon and then The Talisman with Steve [King], and it seemed to me that I was sort of burned out. So I didn't do anything for about a year. One day I was sitting on my lawn in Westport, Connecticut and reading a book called The Freudian Fallacy. It wasn't a very good book. It attempted to discredit Freud on neurological grounds. There was a sentence in one chapter that said that the physical effects of epilepsy on the brain were very similar to the effects of hypnosis. And a little spark jumped in my brain. I thought, "Epilepsy equals hypnosis. Maybe you could induce epilepsy through hypnosis, or maybe someone killed in a hypnotic state might be thought to have died during an epileptic fit." This triggered something in me. I jumped up off the lawnchair and went up to my office and made some notes. Two days later, I started to plan "Blue Rose." I wanted to figure out what combination of forces and events could make somebody be the type of person that other people would describe as a monster. I had just read in the New York Review of Books an article about some non-fiction work that said that many seriously disturbed people and murderers come from a family in which the mother imagines herself to be of a higher social class than the father. A good deal of physical abuse is also generally a part of this picture. So I sort of had the Beevers family sketched in for me. I knew I was going to write Koko and I knew there was a character in it named Harry Beevers who was an extremely nasty piece of work. So I put old Harry in the story. I was entranced with the story When I was writing it, I remember thinking, "God, I love this story!" I think that was because I was really writing again after not having written for some time. The whole point of "Blue Rose" is to lead the reader, step by step, up to a point where he has to look unblinkingly upon an act of real savagery. He has to just stare at it, witness it, experience it. I figured out a way to end the story and I was very pleased with it. I had also learned during the writing of that story a lot more than I'd known before about re-writing. Since the point was to lead the reader to that point where he had to look at something he probably didn't want to see, the writing had to be perfectly transparent. Otherwise, there would have be "writing" between the reader and the event. This was the first time I had ever tried to have no style, or a style so good it couldn't be seen. This was immensely valuable for me. It gave me an aesthetic I hadn't had before, an aesthetic of clarity. I had to work much harder over each sentence. In all my earlier books, I just wrote, opened my mouth and let the notes come out. I was generally pleased. I rewrote some, but I never tried to write plainly. This time I was trying to write very plainly, with the right words in the right order, with the dialogue as full of pungency as I could get it, with the whole ethos that the prose should be unobtrusive, so as not to mess with the effect. That stood me in very good stead when I finally got to Koko, because I was prepared to re-write extensively. One of my models for this was very early Hemingway, the Heming way of In Our Time and The Sun Also Rises. I don't write anything like him, but in his very early works there's a sense of a style like transparent water, that you can see through and that allows every detail to emerge fully and clearly, in fact glowing a little bit because of the precision with which it's seen. That's a tremendously moving idea for me, because it ramifies itself in a thousand interesting directions. It's also good in itself. It denotes a sense of morality to let things speak for themselves. HORROR: Prior to "Blue Rose," you hadn't published much short fiction. Why not? STRAUB: At other times in my life I'd had ideas for short stories, but I never wrote them, because I had the complete idea and it seemed to me too easy and not worthwhile. What I really want is an unknowing, a process of discovery. If I can think of an idea and it's completely formed with a beginning, middle, and ending, then it seems worthless. I won't get any thing out of it, and the world doesn't need another mediocre story. The idea for The Juniper Tree also jumped out of me in the middle of writing Koko. I was staying in New York by myself while carpenters were putting bookshelves in my office. I had read the Marguerite Duras novel, The Lover, which is essentially about the way a seemingly powerless sexual object really has more power than her abuser, the man she's sleeping with. It struck me that I could do the same thing with a man and a little boy, and have the little boy's role be more ambiguous than it's normally thought to be. That's how I wrote the first two stories I had written in a very long time, because something presented itself with enough force to almost knock me off my chair. It was not possible not to write them. HORROR: Why did you eventually attribute these stories to Tim Underhill, the secret hero of Koko and the protagonist of The Throat? STRAUB: As I got to know more about the character, those events seemed to part of his moral world, part of his own process of exploration. This may just be a way of deflecting all that experience from myself, but I know I can't do that. The reason I write about these things is because that kind of experience is mine, I mean, the Tim Underhill kind of emotional experience. Also, I just like the idea. I thought it was "cute" for someone else to have written these things I had written. To me, Tim Underhill has a certain amount of reality, and I quite like him. I probably like him more than he likes me. HORROR Was Tim Underhill the starting point for Koko? STRAUB: No. The origin of that book was the idea of men having to return to the Far East to deal with one of their old comrades who has gone seriously off the track. Tim Underhill appeared with rest of them, when I was thinking very hard about the book and trying to imagine the men who would undertake that task. In most cases, once I thought of their names, I could see the whole man. Wlth Tim Underhill, I couldn't. I really only knew what he was like when Michael Poole finally caught up with him in Bangkok. He looked like a wraith, a tall, skinny, grey-haired guy with a beard and ponytail. I knew as soon as I saw him that he was a tremendously decent human being, that he lived a moral life, despite its excesses. In the end, I let him talk. I gave him the key, and said, "Go through the door." HORROR When you finished Koko, did you suspect you would ever use Underhill again? STRAUB: No, but when I did finally consider it, I was really, really happy. Because I felt such affection for him, and because through him, I could easily get to the sort of emotional world he represents, a world filled with devastation and hints of glory. HORROR: What started you writing Mystery? STRAUB: The novel I set out to write was very different from the one I did write. I went to a resort to dream up the story for the book after Koko. I had done some of the best initial work for Koko at a similar place, so l thought, I won't mess with a formula that works. What I came up with was a kind of Daphne Du Maurier story. I have a great fondness for some of her books, and especially like their readability. The book was to be called Family Romance. It was about two brothers, one raised in comparative splendor, the other in absolute deprivation. The first is raised by an alcoholic mother and a lousy father, but treated OK. The other is treated brutally by people hired to keep him locked in a shed out behind their house. This second brother is a very angry fellow, and one dy he gets out of that shed and starts looking for the people who did him wrong. I started writing the book, and the best parts were the parts about that kid in the shed. They were really, really hot. And then the other main character, Tom Pasmore, went to visit the old detective, Lamont Von Heilitz. As soon I saw Von Heilitz, he stood up and said, "I am the center of this book! This book is about me!" I tried to keep the two halves of the brothers' story in synch, but Von Heilitz didn't want to to talk about that. He wanted to talk about a murder at Eagle Lake in Wisconsin in 1929. He talked about it and talked about it. So then I had to follow him. I loved the whole idea of a Sherlock Holmes-like character, because I had been entranced by Doyle's stories as a kid. The more I thought about it, the more it struck me that nothing is accidental, that there's a reason for everything. Therefore there's a reason why a person would become a great detective. And there can only be one reason: unknown to him, there is something he must find out about himself. This sounded worthwhile to me. The whole book suddenly wheels around to certain overwhelming revelations directly concerned with the main character. The Throat, by no accident, does exactly the same thing. It wheels around to a gigantic understanding, and then another, and then another at the end. This pleases me. HORROR: Have you always been a mystery fan? STRAUB: I read tons of mysteries. I think Raymond Chandler was a great artist. The Long Goodbye is a masterpiece of our literature. I'm probably the only guy who sees Henry James and Chandler on an equal plane. Of course, I don't see Henry James as most people see him. I don't see him as this orotund, foolishly verbose prig that he's sometimes portrayed as. I see hlm as a really modern, wise and psychologically knowledgeable character. HORROR: What inspired The Throat? STRAUB: I came to write The Throat be cause I realized that there had been these Blue Rose murders and that, while we knew who didn't do them, we still didn't know who did. I was in terested enough to think I could get somewhere if I began by pushing away at the question of who the real murderer had been. A very quick way to invoke that question would be to have the murders start again. That gave me the opportunity to wake up Tim Underhill from the dream world and bring him back into my real world, so l could spend more time with him and enjoy myself in the way you do when you see someone you've been missing. It sounds a little like The Twilight Zone, but the people a writer makes up have a great deal of reality to their inventor. Once again, I started off with a premise that wasn't at all like the book turned out to be. I wrote very slowly for about a year. I included two long, third-person sections about the childhood of Fielding Bandolier, because I wanted to see what forces could produce a serial killer. I wanted to see it from the inside. I wanted to be present at the creation, so l could look with pitying eyes at a person being gradually but surely transformed into a killing machine. It struck me that evil is not born into the world but that it's created by brutality, ignorance and stupidity. I wrote these passages that were really powerful. They're very much like those about the boy in the shed that I had to take out of Mystery. I eventually had to take them out of this book, too, because they slowed it down and they were in the wrong voice. I'm pleased to say that those two chapters are now joined together in one novella. It's called "Fee," and it will be in Tom Monteleone's Borderlands IV anthology. Anyhow, I had Tim Underhill describing his life in the Army and how he met John Ransom. Then we had Fee Bandolier. Then a little more about Underhill, a little more Fee. It seemed to me that what I was doing was writing an interestingly structured book in which the different parts didn't connect. I thought my publisher might not be too happy with this and that maybe that this would be the first time in my life when I would write the novel I had been afraid of writing all along -- that is, one without an actual story. But it might be interesting anyway. So I wrote along and wrote along. Tim Underhill is driving around Millhaven, going from pillar to post, searching for one answer after another. Tom Pasmore is working away on his computer, finding out who owns various bits of real estate. It was like Ross McDonald or something but very compelling. So there went my wonderful artistic novel made of independent and only tangentially related bits. I was writing something far more conservative and traditional, but which went the way my talent naturally goes, toward complicated but coherent stories of some length. Once I saw that happening I knew I was really in for it. I really had to solve the Blue Rose Murders and I would have to find out who killed the wife of Underhill's friend. That meant I was in for as long, long book. It not only had to do those things, but the book also had to swallow Koko and Mystery. The Throat had to digest them and exist around them like an onion. When I finished the typescript, it was 1,400 pages long. I spent a month editing it. I turned every page into a wiring diagram, with arrows and squiggles and Xs. Every single page was almost unreadable. I put those changes into the machine and what came out of the printer was a 900 page manuscript. It was still long, but it was as short and as tight as I could get It. HORROR: During the writing of The Throat, were you ever concerned that the market was becoming saturated with serial killer novels? STRAUB: Yeah, I was. At the time I started, there were hardly any. By the time I finished, there were slews of them. What seemed to me to be different about what I was doing was that, even though I took out the close-up chapters about Fielding Bandolier's childhood, I was still looking at the issue from the inside out, rather than from the point-of-view of a cop trying to nail someone he perceives as a beast, a ravening, ferocious animal. Tim Underhill feels love for little Fee Bandolier and sees him all over the place, because he himself is little Fee Bandolier. There's so much more emotional weight and gravity here, so much more actual pain, that The Throat isn't like any of those other books. HORROR: There's a fine line between being a victim and becoming a victimizer. Did you ever worry about how much sympathy should be given to a serial killer? STRAUB: I think I did probably fret about that. But because my focus was so much on the actual love I felt for the child, and the sorrow I felt, I thought I was doing it all right. But there comes a point when that child is not a child, when he is a killing machine. And I could never find the division, where we lost the innocence and had a murderer instead of a victim. That move from one to the other always bothered me, but there's no way around it. HORROR: In Mystery, Tom Pasmore is nearly killed in an auto accident. In The Throat, Tim Underhill announces that, no, it was he who was run over after witnessing his sister's murder, not Tom. But here in the real world, you yourself were badly injured in a childhood accident. Can you tell me how that incident shaped your life and writing? STRAUB: It was a really transforming experience. The person that had my name before that incident was very different from the one who emerged out of the hospital later and spent a year recovering from his wounds. Coming to terms with that, and with what could be termed a classic near-death experience, was one of the great chores of my life. Once I began to understand the depth of this in my own ife, I had to write about it. And in the end, it taught me all, everything I know that's worth anything. HORROR For example? STRAUB: It taught me that the world is not benign, that the world doesn't care what happens to you. It taught me that great, great pain is survivable and contains within it something that isn't pain. I'm speaking mostly about emotional pain, because physical pain blots out everything else. Things of overwhelming, almost unbearable power, in some way connect to joy, beause they remind you that things can e overwhelming, that majesty is majesty, whether it's awful or good. Real grief and real joy co-exist simply because you discover you have them all inside you. This is a complicated message, but it makes sense out of life. It makes sense in a way other ways of coping do not, like "God has told me something" or "I've found Jesus." I'm not tring to denigrate those, because they are very typical human responses to events of too much magnitude. If you stick with the unbearableness, I think you get to a more profound place. I think of that amazing photograph from Vietnam, of that naked little girl running down that road, her face a tragedy mask. That photograph announces that ultimate things are right overhead. There's something powerful and meaningful chasing that girl -- and chasing us -- that we can witness and observe. HORROR: As someone who didn't fight in the war, were you at all concerned about writing about the Vietnam experience? STRAUB: It was rash to try to do it. But what we've been talking about now is the only reason I thought I could. I came to that realization through the accident of having met three or four combat veterans and recognizing within them the same thing I could feel within myself. There is an emotional territory that I share with those people that most people don't have. Their lives are too lucky. But I thought this emotional territory was of unbelievable richness. I had a long conversation with Joe Haldeman at a convention once, and he saw a lot of combat during Vietnam. We spoke like people with the same mind almost. It was very, very moving. "My life hurts a lot less now," I said to him. And he said "Mine, too." And then we had one of the best conversations of my life. HORROR: In your most recent books, you have moved away from plots powered by supernatural antagonists. Was that a conscious choice? STRAUB: Very much so. In Floating Dragon, I went as far as I could go with supernatural special effects. It would have killed me to try to top it or done anything again in which I used the conventional mechanics of the supernatural. The very idea of it caused real despair. When I decided that I just didn't have the same imaginative, emotional belief that I'd had when I started, I had to find something else. And Vietnam was right in front of me. I turned on the television and watched veterans marching toward the memorial wall in Washington. These raggedy characters leaking trauma from every pore, yell ing wonderful and foolish and moving things to one another. I thought, "Oh, boy. This is it. Here we have actual horror in the world." Eventually I spun around to child abuse, which also seems to be one of the most horrific things imaginable. I didn't think I'd have trouble bringing readers with me. I mean, I lost some, but I think I gained others who might never have thought of reading a horror novel. If I have a problem, and it's only halfway a problem, it's that I'll forever be seen as a horror writer. But the emotional content of these books isn't like that of any other horror writer on earth. If I wrote a bodice-ripper, every reviewer in America would say, "There's a subtext here." And they would be right. HORROR: Which of your books do you feel succeed most thoroughly? STRAUB: I would say Koko, Houses without Doors and The Throat. I think Houses Wtthout Doors is realIy, really good. Some people saw it that way, and others didn't. Houses Without Doors isn't just collection of stories. It's a book, stitched together with those little interludes. Many a reviewer said, "And then there are these really terrible, pointless little things that this guy sticks between these stories to no purpose." But that's what I'm proudest about, the way those little pieces echo all the themes that tie the stories together and go somewhere. HORROR: What's your opinion of the two movies made from your work? STRAUB: Well, the smaller, cheaper one is infinitely better than the bigger, more expensive one. The Haunting of Julia is actually kind of incoherent, but that incoherency adds a level of mystery. You don't know why these people are connected, what they're up to, and that's atmospheric. With Ghost Story, what you can see through the darkness is all too obvious. My sleek but expansive Cadillac was turned into a push-bike by the director. Now I don't think I have a chance of ever having another of my books turned into a movie. They're just too complicated, too full of story. And there s actually compassion for the villains. In fact, the villains get more love than the heroes do. HORROR: Did Steven Speilberg's proposed adaptation of The Talisman go anywhere? STRAUB: You know, it didn't. That kind of surprised me. I thought it was perfect for Spielberg, and Spielberg thought it was perfect for him. He was very encouraging to us. What was even better than that was that, through a few suggestions he made to us, he showed he really understood the book. But right after he bought our book, he bought Thc Color Purpk and did that. I think he wanted to do work that would be seen to be "more serious" and I think The Talisman just fell between the cracks. There was a rumor a while back that it might be done as a mini-series and I'd be happy to see that, too. I should also say that William F. Nolan has done a script based on Floating Dragon and that might happen someday. HORROR: What are you working on now? STRAUB: I've only written a couple stories since the end of The Throat. I'm trying to work out an idea that's loosely based on Rogue Male, the Geoffrey Household novel. It's a long chase, and I'm trying to find whatever depth I can to enlarge that idea. I hope to start writing by summer. That's the way it has worked for a couple books. I start in the summer and finish in the summer two years later. I would be happier, though, if it were every 18 months. HORROR: One last question. What would have happened to your career had you been able to publish Under Venus, the mainstream novel you wrote between Marriages and Julia, when you first finished it? STRAUB: I've often wondered about that. It seems as if I would have gotten to the same place, but I would have wasted more time writing mediocre books without much muscle to them. Sooner or later, I would have realized that there was more feeling, more anger and imagination, awash in the scuppers than I was using. The rejection of that book, though it cost very dearly in peace of mind, was a very good thing in the long run. (c) 1993 by Michael Berry |


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- Lamar Alexander U.S. Senator [R] Tennessee
- Michael Bennet U.S. Senator [D] Colorado
- Christopher "Kit" Bond U.S. Senator [R] Missouri
- Barbara Boxer U.S. Senator [D] California
- Sherrod Brown U.S. Senator [D] Ohio
- Samuel "Sam" Brownback U.S. Senator [R] Kansas
- Maria Cantwell U.S. Senator [D] Washington
- Benjamin "Ben" L. Cardin U.S. Senator [D] Maryland
- Thomas "Tom" A. Coburn M.D. U.S. Senator [R] Oklahoma
- Bob Corker U.S. Senator [R] Tennessee
- James "Jim" DeMint U.S. Senator [R] South Carolina
- Christopher "Chris" J. Dodd U.S. Senator [D] Connecticut
- Byron L. Dorgan U.S. Senator [D] North Dakota
- Dick Durbin U.S. Senator [D] Illinois
- John Ensign U.S. Senator [R] Nevada
- Michael "Mike" B. Enzi U.S. Senator [R] Wyoming
- Russell "Russ" Feingold U.S. Senator [D] Wisconsin
- Al Franken U.S. Senator [D] Minnesota
- Charles "Chuck" E. Grassley U.S. Senator [R] Iowa
- Judd Alan Gregg U.S. Senator [R] New Hampshire
- Kay Bailey Hutchison U.S. Senator [R] Texas
- Mike Johanns U.S. Senator [R] Nebraska
- Edward "Ted" E. Kaufman U.S. Senator [D] Delaware
- Patrick J. Leahy U.S. Senator [D] Vermont
- George LeMieux U.S. Senator [R] Florida
- John S. McCain III U.S. Senator [R] Arizona
- Mitch McConnell Jr. U.S. Senator [R] Kentucky
- Robert "Bob" Menendez U.S. Senator [D] New Jersey
- Jeffery "Jeff" Merkley U.S. Senator [D] Oregon
- John "Jack" F. Reed U.S. Senator [D] Rhode Island
- Harry Reid U.S. Senator [D] Nevada
- Bernard "Bernie" Sanders U.S. Senator [I] Vermont
- Chuck Schumer U.S. Senator [D] New York
- Richard C. Shelby U.S. Senator [R] Alabama
- Jon Tester U.S. Senator [D] Montana
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Tax Tips for Seniors and Caregivers
Whether you are a senior citizen or a caregiver for one, tax season means accounting for the past year's medical expenses. Both individuals and people who care for qualifying relatives can claim tax deductions and credits for out-of-pocket medical expenses. These costs can include a range of expenditures, including dental treatments, the cost of transportation needed to get to a medical appointment, health insurance premiums, and qualified long-term care services. The IRS states, "Medical expenses are the costs of diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of diseases, and the costs for treatments affecting any part or function of the body." For a full list of allowable medical expenses, see Publication 502 (2007) at the IRS web site (http://www.irs.gov/). Read on about the rules that govern deductions and for more tax tips for seniors and their caregivers.
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Senate passes tax credit bill for families caring for elderly.
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Text of June 10 Senate press release.
SENATE PASSES BILL TO HELP FAMILIES CARING FOR ELDERLY LOVED ONES Bill Would Provide A Tax Exemption For Family Members Of The Elderly
The New York State Senate today passed legislation (S.2060), sponsored by Senator John A. DeFrancisco (R-I-C-WF, Syracuse) that would provide individuals who are caring for an elderly family member with an additional tax exemption.
"Often family members are struck with the difficult decision of deciding how to care for their elderly family members who are no longer able to live independently," said Senator DeFrancisco. "Many families find it challenging to provide care for an elderly family member, while working a full time job and managing their own lives. My bill would help to eliminate some of the pressure."
This bill would provide a personal income tax exemption to an individual taxpayer who cares for a parent or immediate family member, seventy years of age or older, residing in the household of the taxpayer. Individuals would be allowed an additional tax exemption of $1,000 for each elderly dependent, whose gross income does not exceed $5,000 or in the case of a husband and wife with joint income, does not exceed $7,500. This would help to encourage family members of the elderly to care for their aging relatives at home to avoid costly institutionalization.
"Caring for an elderly family member has become increasingly expensive as prescription drug prices and gas prices have been on the rise," Senator DeFrancisco said. "This bill would create an incentive for families who are worried about being overwhelmed by these costs and all of the other costs of caring for an elderly parent or relative."
"Caring for elderly loved ones places additional demands on the time and finances of a family, but they do it out of love," Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno said. "This legislation would help families strike a better balance in meeting the additional responsibilities they face in this situation."
The bill was sent to the Assembly.
Dependency deduction
To qualify for a dependency deduction, you must pay for more than 50% of your qualifying relative's support costs. The relative only qualifies as a dependent if he or she meets the gross income and the joint return test. He or she must not have a gross income in excess of $3,400 in 2006 and cannot file a joint return for 2007. If your relative doesn't qualify as a dependent because of these tests, you cannot claim a dependency deduction, but you can still claim his or her medical expenses.
This portion of the rule always seems to disqualify every senior out there. 90% of all seniors have more that $3400 in Social security.
However, the IRS DOES NOT include SS in this calculation.
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I have a friend who is 76 years and looking into moving into an independent living facility in North Carolina. She owns outright a small condo that she intends to sell. It should sell around $70,000. What are the tax laws regarding capital gains? Will she have to pay taxes on her profit (which is all of the amount, minus real estate commission?)
Thank you.
No. she can exclude up to $250,000 INprofit.
also remember, independent living facility can be tax deductible if it is for care. if doc says dont cook, move to ind lvg, thats a medical expense. as per the IRS 1997 definition of LTC expenses.


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AMVETS Post No. 88 meetings
AMVETS Post 88 meets the second Thursday of each month at 6 p.m. The Sons of AMVETS meets the second Wednesday of each month at 7 p.m. The Auxiliary meets the third Wednesday of each month at 7 p.m. The meetings are at the post home.
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The 63rd Annual National Day of Prayer was celebrated — with a prayer for the country and its citizens — on May 1 at noon at Chiefland City Hall around the flag pole out front.
The Day of Prayer is held the first Thursday in May and was enacted by Congress in 1952 as a request that people "turn to God in prayer and meditation." It is celebrated by Christians, Muslims, Sikhs and Jews, to name but a few faiths.
Church luncheon
The Tri-County Community Resource Center will have a yard sale and craft show on Saturday, May 17, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the John Fisher Building at the corner of Park Avenue and Main Street.
Booth space is available for vendors for a suggested donation of $10.
For more information, call 352-493-4627.
Proceeds go to the new Community Resource Center.
Haven Hospice will be offering five dates and locations to help children, teens and families understand their feelings of loss and to heal through the free, grief-support Camp Safe Haven program.
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Ever since the HTC J Butterfly was announced for Japan we've been wondering when that glorious 1080p display would be coming to US soil. We've seen leaks that indicate that the internals would be released here in a much more One X-looking case, and we're sure by this point that it will be called the Droid DNA. Now, everyone's favorite Twitter leakster (tweakster?) evleaks has dropped a press shot on us with the familiar name and promising an "early December" availability.
We've been hearing rumors of Verizon's massive 5" HTC phablet codenamed DLX for weeks now, but now we may have an idea of what the device's release name could be: the Droid DNA.
According to a leaked MAP (minimum advertised price) document that fell into the hands of Android Central, the DNA could hit Big Red's shelves around November 20th for the typical $200 price tag. Then again, it also has the Note II listed with today's date, yet we haven't heard anything about it from Verizon.
Complain as some people might, smartphones are getting bigger and bigger. Nothing exemplifies that fact more than phablets like the HTC DLX (or other variants, such as the J Butterfly), Samsung Galaxy Note II, and LG Optimus Vu II. Packing 5"+ displays, powerful CPUs, and 2GB of RAM, these phones aren't for your grandmother.
Last week, HTC announced the J Butterfly, a 5" phone with a monster 1080p display (that's 440ppi) mated to a quad-core CPU and 2 GB of RAM. The announcement made it pretty clear that the J Butterfly wasn't coming to the US, but similar devices certainly weren't out of the question.
Now, we're seeing blurrycam photos of what's claimed to be Verizon's variant, dubbed the DLX ("Deluxe"). Sure enough, it's apparently packing similar specs: the same 5" 1080p display, a quad-core CPU, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of storage, 8MP rear shooter and 2MP front.


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• Will Joe Lieberman really shut down the Senate? [Huff Post]
• The cut chapter from Mark Ebner's juicy Paris Hilton book has been released. Three things: Prostitution, Ron Burkle, and Air F%$@ One. Need we say more? [Gawker]
• Has the N.S.A. thought about submarine attacks from terrorists? [Slate]
• Sully's first words after landing his jetliner in the Hudson? "That wasn't as bad as I thought." [NY Times]


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We've seen devices before that measure power consumption around the house, but this is the first we've seen that measures it around your body. Minnesota-based design firm Worrell did the ID for the Gruve, a personal energy-burning monitor based on research by Dr. Jim Levine of the Mayo Clinic.
Dr. Jim Levine of the Mayo clinic discovered that if people are active throughout the day by being reminded to move or stop being inactive they could keep their metabolism from shutting down and therefore be able to lose unwanted weight.We [here at Worrell] designed the Gruve, a tri-axial accelerometer that monitors an individual's every movement throughout the day and indicates their progress against their pre-measured metabolism. An indicator located at the top of the device shows an individual's progress by LED color. The data collected is ultimately synced to an Internet portal to synthesize caloric intake and personal progress.
The clip on the Gruve was designed to integrate into the shape of the device and function on virtually any type of clothing or belt to be unobtrusive to the user. The Gruve uses vibration to notify the user it is time to get moving. A targeted customer base is corporations looking to explore the possibility of reducing the cost of insurance premiums by improving peoples health through prevention rather that treatment and those who need that extra reminder to get up and at it to stay fit.
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I worked in Ethiopia from 1982-1995. My work there included teaching linguistics at Addis Ababa University, doing language surveys, organizing courses for mother tongue Bible translators at the Ethiopian Bible Society, linguistic research on Ethiopian languages, leading a language development project (doing literacy, teacher training, and Bible translation) among the Majangir people under the Mekane Yesus Church.
I am fascinated by the study of the history of Bible translation. There have been some fascinating people involved in Bible translation over the years--everyone from godly pioneers from the far past, to Napoleon's nephew, to a slave that was rescued by the Italian navy.
I have become fascinated by Wikipedia. I have created or edited a number of articles related to my interests--a dangerous, but fascinating, hobby.
My wife Carole (queen of GIAL interlibrary loan) and I enjoy hosting students in our home, such as a weekly Bible study and an Ethiopian feast every semester.
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Montacute House
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Elizabethan arrival
Discover why the front is the back and the back is the front with the help of one of our Volunteer Guides. They'll be able to tell you all about the missing gatehouse and how Montacute would have been viewed in days gone by. Learn how the Elizabethan visitor arriving on horseback would have seen the house, and how the villager in the fields would have viewed it during construction, when it was seen as the most modern of houses.
Ask at reception on arrival for more details.
Alive with the sound of water
For the first time in many years the cascade in the Orangery will be living up to its name. During the winter the central feature of the Orangery was restored and now water trickles from above, enhancing new plant life.
As well as restoring the cascade we have also been busy planting over 60 ferns into Edwardian terracotta pots, helping to recreate the atmosphere of the Orangery.
A perfect spot
The Cedar Lawn is the perfect spot to roll out a blanket and enjoy a picnic with family and friends on a sunny afternoon. It's also a great place for a game of hide and seek amongst the wibbly wobbly hedges, or to relax with a good book. Pick your spot on the lawn and spend a moment away from the hustle and bustle.
Five fantastic views
West Drive
Get the full lantern effect of the house and its walls of glass from the top of the West Drive
Lime Avenue
Stroll to the top of the Lime Avenue and admire the view as an Elizabethan visitor
East Court
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It's a wibbly wobbly world
We believe that the hedges are about 150 years old. Until 1947 they were a similar height and depth but straight, without all the lumps and bumps you see today. During the harsh winter of 1947, heavy snow remained for weeks, if not months, causing the flat tops of the hedges to collapse under the weight.
This often happens but the snow usually disappears quickly and the hedges bounce back to their original shape. However, by the spring of 1948 the snow had made such an impact that the hedges did not bounce back. Over time the collapsed hedges became lovingly known as 'wibbly wobbly'.
Hedge management
The hedges are English yew and we start cutting them in August each year. The job normally takes about three months because there is over a mile of hedging that needs a trim. By cutting the hedges in August we can be sure that the plants have finished growing for the season, which leaves them crisp and clean for the winter and the next season before they become hairy again.
The wibbly wobbly hedges take two people ten days to complete and we use electric hedgecutters, platform scaffolding and a cherry picker to reach the tops.
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by Victoria Erica | staff writer
To preface, I have never seen a full episode of Gossip Girl. I'm going into this review with a fresh perspective or without any comparison to the hit WB teen drama.
It's almost unusual to find a manga adaptation of prime time television. While I have seen manga and anime adaptations of Western superheroes and other male-related sundries, when I saw the Gossip Girl manga at Barnes & Nobles, it caught me off guard. While the TV series is based off a series of teen novels by Cecily von Ziegesar, the manga adaptation is by Yen Press and illustrated by Baek Hye-Kyung. The Yen Press version exists in its own universe and has original stories apart from the novels and TV series.
For those of you who find prime time WB to be too foreign for your taste, Gossip Girl follows an ominous blogger that observes and reports all the glitz and drama of Manhattan's upper crust. We never see the title character, but we do follow a foray of complex love polygons.
I do admit, I have to backtrack and find out who's currently seeing who and for what nefarious revenge purpose. Once you get the gist of it, it's fairly easy to follow. Perhaps my favorite is Vanessa because she's not suckered into the drama – a film student soon to be some big shot's ingénue – she confronts the misfits who cause all the drama without pity. She's one to look for.
While it is typical teen drama, in retrospect, it is still an enjoyable graphic novel. If you enjoyed the sophisticated illustrations in INVU and Paradise Kiss, you're in for a treat. I love how Baek Hye-Kyung draws the Upper East Side Elite. They are very much sleek and pleasant designs to look at. I find myself comparing the chapter title pages to a Vogue photo shoot designed by Ai Yazawa. The characters are drawn beautifully and echo more of a Korean manhwa aesthetic.
If you can keep up with stories about rich girl problems and love polygons, this is a good one to check out. While the main girls, Blair and Serena, have yet to show any likeable qualities, they're very pretty to look at. Likewise, if you have never seen Gossip Girl, you can get into this adaptation fairly easily. I recommend this one to those who enjoy the more adult teen romances and sophisticated artwork.
On a somewhat related note, I hope there is an adaptation of the Gossip Girl: Psycho Killer novel where the main cast is in a slasher- killer situation. I can imagine both Serena and Blair going insane-yandare in a Higurashi kind of way. Adapt that, Yen Press!
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At Harris Family Practice Clinic, we provide comprehensive healthcare for individuals and families. From a simple stomachache to something more serious, you need a doctor you can trust with the well-being of your family. Harris Family Practice Clinic is here to help, offering compassionate care. We provide routine and preventive care, as well as chronic condition management and sick appointments -- often with either same- or next-day appointments available.
Barbara Sweatt, family nurse practitioner, is ready to care for you. She has specialized training to manage the healthcare needs of a broad age range of patients, from infants to seniors. We can provide individualized care for every member of the family.
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