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The most recent neighborhood meeting for the Faust building development was a productive one, and it appears that a settlement has been reached. As many long-time Bay View residents may be aware, the long-vacated Faust building was originally purchased by Mikko Erkamaa with the hope of restoring it to its former glory. However, it was determined upon further examination that the structure and façade were beyond restoration. Redeveloping the space into a mixed-use housing complex was collectively decided to be the best course of action going forward.
Over the course of several neighborhood meetings and redesigns by architect Joel Agaki of Dermond Properties, developers and local leaders have settled on a final design for how to most productively use the space. This design reflects the suggestions and concerns raised by several Bay View residents, and serves as a more subtle fit into our thriving community.
Milwaukee Ald. Tony Zielinski, whose district covers much of Bay View, is no stranger to repurposing the unwanted. It was Zielinski who first proposed cheese brine as a substitute for road salt. That experiment proved successful, but after transportation costs ran too high, the city undertook a method to produce its own brine.
Now, the alderman is looking to pilot a curbside composting program in his South Side neighborhood.
In fact, he says, "it's high time the city of Milwaukee gets started in the compost collection business."
Read more at Milwaukee Magazine
The Muse Gallery Guesthouse, a new bed and breakfast art gallery located at 602 E. Lincoln Avenue in Bay View, will celebrate its grand opening and ribbon cutting ceremony on Friday, April 10th at 6:30pm.
Alderman Tony Zielinski, who was integral to the process of opening The Muse said, "Thanks to Mary Ellen Hermann and Andrew Meechan, Bay View now has an additional amenity in the form of a BnB."
Alderman Zielinski will lead the ribbon cutting ceremony and immediately following, the innkeepers will provide tours of the new inn and gallery space. Light refreshments and live music will be available at the open house celebration.
Alderman Zielinski, Mayor Barrett and an array of other elected officials and special guests took part in a special ribbon cutting ceremony on December 18, 2014 to mark the opening of the extensively-restored Avalon Theater (newly-rechristened as the Avalon Atmospheric Theater & Lounge), 2473 S. Kinnickinnnic Ave.
Avalon owner Lee Barczak has made a long list of updates to the historic Bay View venue, including modernizing equipment and fixtures, adding a second screen to provide patrons with multiple features and renovating the building's signature marquee. Opened in 1929, the Avalon Theater was the first cinema venue in Wisconsin built to accommodate motion pictures with sound, and it became well-known for its iconic twinkling "starlight" ceiling and atmospheric ambience.
As the ArtStop transit shelter in Bay View is unveiled, planners can look back with pride on the intensive process that has brought about the creation of this unique transit amenity. At a height of 32 feet, the ArtStop shelter will provide mood lighting for the area, powered entirely by renewable energy, while serving as an iconic and recognizable gateway to the Bay View neighborhood.
At the intersections of S. Kinnickinnic, S. Howell and E. Lincoln Avenues, the ArtStop is the product of a unique partnership between the City of Milwaukee, Milwaukee County and Business Improvement District #44. With its unique artistic design, the ArtStop shelter will strengthen the already distinctive and bustling business district, and it will also be a significant aesthetic improvement over a somewhat dilapidated bus shelter that has been at the location for years.
Alderman Tony Zielinski said that he felt the triangle at the three-way intersection needed a functional public art bus shelter, which has been dubbed the ArtStop, to maximize the economic and aesthetic potential of that business district.
Legislation that Alderman Zielinski co-sponsored will soon be making the "Nuisance Abatement Ordinance" tougher on negligent homeowners. Prior to passage of this legislation, if there was more than one separate incident of nuisance activity on any given day, it would only be counted as one incident for the purposes of enforcement. That means if there was a fight in the morning and then two different people blasting their stereos beyond the legal limits at the same address, that would only be counted as one incident.
Going forward, each incident will be counted separately. The reason why this change is significant is that DNS needs to tally three confirmed incidents for a warning nuisance letter to go out to the homeowner. Now the neighborhood will have to put up with less garbage before we can use this tool to go after the irresponsible homeowner.
For the convenience of the city's night parking permit customers, there will be no requirement to display a physical permit starting in 2014. When residents buy a night parking permit after December 20, 2013, they will complete the same application, accurately listing the applicable license plate number. Residents will receive a confirmation number to prove purchase of the permit, but will not receive a physical permit to place on the vehicle's window.
The license plate number will be used by parking enforcement to determine whether the owner has purchased a valid permit. All customer service problems arising from misplaced or stolen permits will be eliminated. Failure to purchase a permit will still be subject to a $20 citation.
When a resident purchases a permit online, the cost savings derived from the elimination of permit production, handling and mailing costs will be passed on to customers. The convenience fee will be reduced from the current $2.25 to $1.00.
Visit www.milwaukee.gov/parking to purchase a night permit online and avoid the hassle of standing in line to pay in-person. Please call 286-CITY (2489) with any questions.
Alderman Tony Zielinski joined owner Julio Lopez during the grand opening of the new Guanajuato Mexican Restaurant, 2317 S. Howell Ave., in Bay View at 10 a.m. on January 16, 2013. The restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
In late November 2012 Alderman Zielinski met with members of the Student Labor Action Coalition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and presented them with a Common Council commendation honoring the coalition and stating the Council's support for its efforts to bring public attention to the unethical treatment by adidas of the former workers at the Indonesian sportswear manufacturer PT Kizone.
Alderman Tony Zielinski sponsored a successful Common Council resolution recognizing and supporting the Student Labor Action Coalition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in its effort to bring public attention to the treatment by adidas of the former workers at the Indonesian sportswear manufacturer PT Kizone.
PT Kizone, an Indonesian subcontractor of adidas Group, abruptly closed its factory in January 2011, leaving 2,800 workers jobless and without severance payments worth $1.8 million owed to them. The coalition has called for UW-Madison to honor its contract conditions requiring the adidas Group to adhere to local labor laws and give the adidas Group 90 days to remediate the violations by paying the workers of the PT Kizone company the money owed to them.
The Common Council resolution, approved by the full Council in October 2012, notes the city's support for the ethical treatment of all workers through purchasing procedures and agreements, and notes the Council's support for the Coalition's efforts to have the workers at PT Kizone be rightfully compensated.
Alderman Zielinski joined neighbors on November 13, 2012 for the unveiling of a new "Little Free Library" installation on city-owned land near S. Superior St. and E. Oklahoma Ave. The Little Free Library operates under the idea that people can take a book to read – and also leave a book or two inside for others to read. "This is a great way for us to encourage literacy and to just share some outstanding books with others," Alderman Zielinski said.
Alderman Zielinski spoke at the Labor history event commemorating the seven workers who were killed marching for an eight-hour work day.
Alderman Zielinski joins Lee Barczak, owner of the Avalon Theater, during its Grand Opening on December 18, 2014. "Tony Zielinski was critical to the opening of the Avalon in his refusal to support non-theater proposals before mine came along. Moreover, Tony needed to assure me that I could get a liquor license, city funding and help with navigating the city bureaucracy before I bought the property," Barczak said.
Alderman Zielinski samples the fare at the grand opening of Cafe India Bar and Grill, the owner of which he assisted in finding a second location in Bay View.
Alderman Zielinski joins Environmental Sustainability Director Matt Howard and Solar Shines Director Amy Heart before the Solar Bay View presentation on February 18, 2014. Visit the Solar Bay View website for more details.
State Sen. Chris Larson, County Supervisor Jason Haas and Alderman Zielinski present the children's first place award in the Spam Carving Contest to Lily Kent. The event was another one of the great attractions during the Bay View Neighborhood Association's Winter Blast event on February 16, 2014.
Alderman Zielinski visits with the organizers of Bay View High School's 100th Anniversary Party during the BVNA's Winter Blast event on Sunday, February 16th. The anniversary party they are planning is on October 4, 2014. For more details, search for BV100 Birthday Celebration on Facebook or register at www.BVHS100.com.
Ald. Zielinski visits with Archbishop Listecki and Janet Hoffman during the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce's Annual Dinner. January 18, 2014.
Ald. Zielinski participated in a Palermo's worker planning session with Jose Gonzalez Davila, State Representative Jocastra Zamarripa and Alberto Prada. January 12, 2014.
Ald. Zielinski joined John Sidoff and Frank Creed at Frank's annual Christmas party at the Newport.
Ald. Zielinski congratulates Anne and John Nehring on the 100th anniversary of the G. Groppi Food Market on Russell Ave.
At a housewarming party in Bay View for Jeremy Fojut (ART Milwaukee) and Jess Zoch, November 14, 2013. Also joined by Cudahy Alderman Justin Moralez.
Ald. Zielinski invited Allen Sparks, a Native American spiritual leader, to say the opening prayer at a Common Council meeting at City Hall. Mr. Sparks and his wife are pictured.
Alds. Zielinski and Donovan joined forces with representatives from the Department of Neighborhood Services and others to discuss the need to abate graffiti citywide.
Ald. Zielinski joins former winners of the Ohio Park Neighborhood Association Halloween costume contest.
Ald. Zielinski held a City Hall news conference to build his case for the adoption of his anti-gang loitering ordinance, citing in part a surge in violence.
Ald. Zielinski honored Bill Doyle for his dedication to Milwaukee after Mr. Doyle restored the 1903 Alexander Eschweiler historic home.
Ald. Zielinski commended the first Business Improvement District in the 14th Aldermanic District, the KK BID (#44), for its proactive attention to cultivating livable spaces in the area.
Alderman Zielinski joined Andrea Williams on the August 31, 2014 edition of "Our Issues Milwaukee" to talk about the 14th District, opportunities for economic growth and how the city can foster a better relationship between police officers and citizens.
Alarmed and angered by a sexual assault that occurred in August, residents of Bay View took back the night, joining together as a community to encourage neighbors to look out for one another and demonstrating their commitment to maintaining Bay View as one of Milwaukee's safest neighborhoods.
Led by Alderman Zielinski, victims' rights groups, police and other government officials met at the scene of the recent attack on Monday, August 26. Carrying signs, they walked through some of the area's most prominent nighttime destinations in a show of support for the victim, solidarity as a neighborhood and uncompromising resolve to see the perpetrator arrested and prosecuted.
"This is one of the safest, most lively neighborhoods in the city," Alderman Zielinski said. "We are going to catch the perpetrator of this crime and see that he is prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Bay View is organized and committed to making this a neighborhood a place where everyone can feel safe at any time of day or night, and we look out for each other here."
As part of a segment focusing on the impact of supporting locally-owned businesses, Milwaukee Alderman Tony Zielinski appeared with other supporters of the Local First Milwaukee initiative on an edition of The Morning Blend on TODAY'S TMJ4.
Local First Milwaukee is a business alliance of independent, locally-owned businesses and non-profit organizations within the five-county Milwaukee metropolitan area (Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Waukesha, Racine and Kenosha Counties) aimed at bolstering the local economy. The owners of businesses in the organization are required to live and work within the metropolitan Milwaukee area, and also must participate in community activities and assist local charities.
Alderman Zielinski was the primary sponsor of a resolution this summer that pledged the City of Milwaukee's backing to the Local First Milwaukee initiative, noting that studies have shown independent, locally-owned businesses create substantial benefits for their local economies, relative to their chain competitors.
Also joining The Morning Blend team as representatives of the Local First Milwaukee initiative were local business owner Faye Wetzel of Faye's Boutiques in Brookfield and Mequon, Faye's marketing manager Chantal "CJ" Otto and Nancy Quinn of Local First Milwaukee.
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Appreciation Award for continued support and active involvement with Mexican Fiesta and the Wisconsin Hispanic Scholarship Foundation, Inc., August 2014
Appreciation Award from Organizing for Action Organization, August 20, 2014 - This recognizes Alderman Zielinski's efforts to raise salaries of low income workers
Best Alderman Award, Shepherd Express Newspaper 2009
MICAH "To Do What Is Just" award, Milwaukee Inner City Congregations Allied for Hope, 2009
River Hero Award, Friends of Milwaukee's Rivers, 2008 - "Ald. Tony Zielinski is an elected official who doesn't waffle under pressure."
Wisconsin Film Hero award, 10th Annual Milwaukee Short Film Festival, 2008
Friend of the Taxpayer award, Citizens for Responsible Government, 2006
UMOS Building Better Futures award, United Migrant Opportunity Services, 2006
Milwaukee Police Association Politician of the Year, 2005
Appreciation Award, Career Youth Development Center, 2004-2009
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Volunteer Award, Journey House, 2002
Salute Award, African-American County Board Caucus, 2001
Friend of the Hispanic Community, United Community Center, 1995
Muchas Gracias Award, Walker Square Neighborhood Association, 1995
Appreciation Award, Puerto Rican Cultural Committee, 1995
Milwaukee Enterprise Center South Appreciation Award, Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, 1990
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The W3C provides a large number of conformance tests for different aspects of the Web Platform. Currently the tests are hosted on GitHub, two main repositories, one for the CSS Working Group (aka csswg-test), and one for pretty much everything else (aka web-platform-tests).
Blink has mirrors (web-platform-tests, csswg-test) of the GitHub repos, and periodically imports a subset of the tests so that they are run as part of the regular LayoutTests testing process (the tests are pulled in via an entry to DEPS to LayoutTests/w3c).
This page documents the current process for modifying the subset that is imported and run, and how we can submit new tests back to the W3C.
For some historical discussion of how things work (written just after the Blink fork from WebKit), see Blink, Testing, and the W3C .
Importing new W3C Tests into Blink
Updating the set of tests run by Blink requires commit access to Blink like anything else, so make sure you have that first.
We control which tests are imported via LayoutTests/W3CImportExpectations, which as a blacklist (it is a list of directories and files to skip). This means that any new tests and directories that show up in the W3C repos are automatically imported.
To pull the latest versions of the tests that are currently being imported (i.e., you don't need to change the blacklist), all you have to do is run Tools/Scripts/update-w3c-deps with
css (for csswg-test) or
wpt (for web-platform-tests). That script will pull the latest version of the tests from our mirrors of the W3C repos.
% ./third_party/WebKit/Tools/Scripts/update-w3c-deps css
% ./third_party/WebKit/Tools/Scripts/update-w3c-deps wpt
If any new versions of tests are found, they will be committed locally to your Git repo. You may then upload the changes as a patch to Rietveld like any other patch.
If you wish to add more tests (by un-skipping some of the directories currently in the blacklist), you can modify the file locally, commit it, and then run the
update-w3c-deps script with the
--allow-local-blink-commits flag (normally we don't want to allow local commits, to help ensure that the import is done in a reproducible manner).
You can also run the tests locally against tip-of-tree Blink and/or Chromium's currently pinned version to see if there are new failures that will need to be suppressed, or baselines that need to be updated.
In addition to the above, there are some other bugs remaining that limit which tests we can currently import and run, and require us to have to rewrite some of the tests (as noted above) more than we'd like to have to do. We are currently tracking such bugs in the Chromium issue tracker using the label Cr-Blink-Tools-Test-W3C.
We also currently do not automatically update the imported tests. We may set up a process for doing so in the future.
Note that currently the main reason we do not run more of the W3C tests is because they are (probably) mostly redundant with Blink's existing tests, and so we would double the running time of the layout tests for little benefit. Ideally we would identify the tests that are redundant and remove Blink's copies, so that we run just the W3C tests where possible.
The end goals for this whole process are to:
But, we do not have a schedule for accomplishing these goals any time soon. Volunteers to work on this would be most welcome.
Contributing Blink tests back to the W3C
As described above, the W3C has two main repositories of tests, one for the CSS working group, and one for everything else. The processes for getting new tests committed to each repo are documented here for web-platform-tests and here for csswg-test.
This section describes how to take tests currently checked into LayoutTests/ and get them added to the W3C repos. If you want to submit tests that are not part of LayoutTests/, you're on your own (but can probably follow the existing W3C documentation).
We currently have Blink specific forks of the W3C repos hosted on GitHub (web-platform-tests and csswg-test), in order to save individual Blink contributors from having to create their own individual forks. For access to the Blink repos, talk to the infrastructure team.
Once you have access, you should push a change to the Blink repo, and then create a Pull request to the W3C repo. Then get one of the W3C committers (TBD: who??) to grant the pull request and land the change.
If the new tests are currently being run in Blink (i.e., they are checked into LayoutTests somewhere), then in theory that should count as "reviewed" and getting the pull request approved should be straightforward.
Once the PR has landed in the W3C's repo, you can then refer to the "Importing new W3C Tests into Blink" section above to get the tests pulled back into Blink, at which point you can then finally delete the copies checked in under LayoutTests/.
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I can't ever seem to upload new photos onto my Sparkpage! The ones I have are outdated and I give up. So I have a new blog!!! I hope you'll follow it...
I've been overweight since the 3rd grade. I went on my first diet (Slim Fast) that year (yup, the 3rd grade). Over the years I've tried a little bit of everything and various programs got me part of the way there. Now, instead of bending myself to fit a certain program, I am bending EVERYTHING I've learned to fit me!
September 2009 was a HUGE turning point in my life. I started a 12 week Body for Life program and saw great results. In fact, my self-esteem sky rocketed and I did something that I hadn't been able to get the courage or self-love to do for 12 years, I ended my marriage. It wasn't some horrible, abusive hellish marriage, it was just an unpleasant one where I was denying myself (and him) the chance at true happiness.
During the course of my separation, I wasn't able to adhere strictly to the Body for Life Program but I definitely kept eating healthy (protien rich mini-meals) and working out like crazy and I dropped two clothing sizes in two months to prove it!
Now, at 33, I'm single (for basically the first time in my entire adult life) and I've never been so scared or excited in my life! The last piece of the puzzle is to finish losing this weight. And, it's just a matter of time now, not motivation because something in my mind has FINALLY clicked after all these years and I truly get it now. All the pills, books, gadgets, etc. couldn't do it. I had to love and respect myself and it came from within. Now that I have it, I'm just shedding the last of my "shell" that I've hidden in for so long and I will be my true self on the outside. I'm already that true self on the inside.
I owe most if not all of these changes for the better to my precious son who has awakened something in the very depth of my soul that I never knew existed, self-worth. I look at his face and I know that I am a part of something greater than I could have ever previously imagined to give birth to something so perfect and wonderful. He makes me want to be a better person. Or, more to the point, the best person I can possibly be, but not just for him, for myself as well.
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-FIRST THINGS FIRST!!!! I had to realize that I could keep justifying just ONE MORE DAY of eating like crap and/or not working out. It was easy! I was an expert at it. INSTEAD I started arguing with myself when I came up with those excuses. And I also thought about how I would feel AFTER I ate all the junk food or when I woke up the next morning. Would I be proud or ashamed. Would I be glad I laid around eating pizza and cake or would I regret it? What would make me hate myself a little less when I saw myself in the mirror the next morning???
-Binge eating is a learned response to stimulus (usually anxiety)...nothing less, nothing more. Our minds have subconcious "go to" actions based on what has worked for us in the past. That means, if you have alievated stress in the past by binge eating, when stress arises, your brain says "oh that's easy, stress=binge eating" and it pretty much overrides the rational part of yourself and "makes" you overeat. Your subconcious brain takes over because your concious mind needs to focus on new problems. So binge eating has now become a reflex. However, once you start intercepting this message and redirecting your brain to other alternatives (exercise, meditation, etc.), your subconcious mind's tendency to use binging as it's "go to" action will start to subside and these new "go to" methods will start to pop in your head. Sounds crazy, I know! But when I get stressed out, I often now find myself just CRAVING the feeling of running as fast as I can...and sometimes I still just crave pizza lol. But the signal is so much weaker now that I have control over it and can say no...or occasionally yes if I so choose! :-)
-Drink lots of water, especially early in the day and around your workouts. You hear it all the time but that's because it's so important. Dehydration can cause energy loss and increase in appetite. There's arguments popping up lately that water isn't as important as previously thought. I DON'T CARE WHAT THEY SAY! I know from experience what not drinking enough water does to my energy level and my muscles when I'm working out. That's ALL the proof I need!
-Eat 5-6 protein/complex carb rich meals per day. This has probaby been the #1 key to my success. I have so much more energy and SOOO much more control over my cravings when I do this. Each meal should have 15-25 g of protein and a complex carb (brown rice, sweet potato, fruit, etc.). Your carb count should not exceed 3x the protein count. For example, if you eat 20 g of protein then you shouldn't have more than 60 g of carbs. This helps to regulate your blood sugar which gives you more energy, keeps you fuller longer and helps prevent cravings that you feel like you have no control over.
-While we are on the subject of carbs. CARBS ARE VITAL TO YOUR SUCCESS! I'm not saying that extremely low carb diets don't work in the short term but your brain needs carbs to function! Women especially need carbs to regulate a whole mess of things in their bodies. Healthy, complex carbs are the key though!
-This leads me to my next point. Eating a candy bar will NOT get you through your afternoon slump...it will make it WORSE! Donuts are not brain food! They will give you energy for about 10-30 minutes then you will crash and burn. Try a handful of nuts or a piece of fruit and some cheese for an afternoon snack. If those don't work, keep trying but stop eating junk when you're tired. It is sooo counterproductive! Side note: I understand that a handful of nuts does not sound like an appealing alternative to something like a Nutty Bar. So, if you just NEED something sweet in the afternoon, start out by switching to an energy bar. These are NOT health food (as a general rule) but are better than candy bars in most cases. I transitioned over eating Zone Bars (smores are sooo good) and then Cliff White Macadamia bars. They both are, in my opinion, just as tasty as any candy bar out there. Just remember, this is a TEMPORARY TRANSITION food! These are not ideal for your blood sugar or overall health in the long term.
-Always eat before you feel really hungry. If you were to rate your hunger on a scale from 1 to 10 (1 being stuffed full, 10 being starving) you want to eat when you reach about a 5 or a 6. This would be when you�re just starting to feel that empty feeling. This also helps combat the cravings that take over your body and MAKE you eat naughty things.
-Don't ever do a workout that you hate more than once! There are too many awesome, fun things out there for you to settle on something boring or, worse, something you despise. My faves are Zumba, trail running (which I never would've guessed), yoga, pilates, kickboxing and dancing around with my son. However, I do suggest going back to forms of exercise you've previous hated and giving them another try when you're in better shape. You may find that you previously hated them because you weren't in good enough shape to do them. Also, you may now love that exercise simply because you CAN do it now and couldn't before. It will make you feel powerful and successful.
-The same rule applies to food. There are too many delicious, sinfully good tasting healthy foods to be choking down nastiness for the sake of health. Some of my personal yummy health foods: blackened chicken or fish, shrimp cocktail, strawberries, gala apples w/ natural peanut butter, morningstar black bean burgers (with lettuce, tomato, salsa, ff sour cream & avocado on top...mmmmm), mushrooms, crab cakes (emphasis on the crab, not the cake), asparagus, and Crockpot Chicken Taco Stew (in SparkRecipes). These might not be YOUR favorites but, that's the point, you have to find a list of things that are. Oh and I've replaced mayo with horseradish sauce, it's soooooooo good!
-Set goals for yourself. It's another thing everyone says but, again, it's because it's so important. Personally, weight and clothing size goals never worked for me. Fitness goals have! I challenge myself to do so many pushups or my current goal is to do a pull up. I have the general goal in mind during each workout that I want to increase my overall cardio endurance so I can run longer. I also used to hate working my quads until I started hiking and now I jump at the chance to work them cause I know it will help me scale those rocks and endure those tough inclines up a mountain. Whatever your goal is it has to mean enough to make you push yourself out of your comfort zone.
-Sleep!!! Sleep has probably been the #2 biggest influence over my success. I used to stay up half the night just because I felt like that was my only "me time" after my son came. I would, on numerous occassions, end up eating at some point late at night as well. Now that I'm getting a full night's sleep I have more energy, less cravings and, overall, a more positive attitude so I don't need as much "me time" as I thought I did.
-Kick the diet soda habit. I had a dirty dirty addiction to Lo Carb Monster drinks. Just typing the name makes me salivate and want to crack open a can right now and feel that sweet, bubbly nectar sliding down my throat. I was drinking 3 PER DAY EVERY DAY and was having horrible side effects. I read something that really stuck with me and began my desire to quit: "how many thin people do you see drinking diet drinks?" Not a lot! The stuff is not natural, has been shown to assist your body in retaining fat and the artificial sweetener actually makes you crave sugar and I know it's true cause I've lived it! If you are addicted to aspertame (and YES it IS addictive, especially to women) educate yourself on the reasons why it's addictive and it will empower you to stop.
-Which brings me to my next point. KNOWLEDGE=POWER!!! If you want to quit a habit whether it be junk food, sitting around being lazy, cigarettes...whatever! EDUCATE YOURSELF on the subject. I don't mean do an internet search and spend 5 minutes skimming the topic. I mean READ IT! BREATH IT! SLEEP IT! I have found that WITHOUT FAIL if I continue to educate myself on a topic, I will naturally pull away from that addiction just because I am so acutely aware of what's going to happen when that substance enters my body. Here's an example. The other day I was at the grocery store & STARVING. I saw a box of Nutty Bars in front of me and I SOOOOO wanted one! INSTANTLY the following calculation went through my head:
"If I eat this Nutty Bar, it will taste sooo good and make me feel good....but then a few minutes later I will regret it....then a few minutes after my blood sugar has spiked I will start to get a sugar headache...then by the time I get home I won't want to unload the groceries, I'll want to take a nap because my blood sugar will be so low. And then I'll have the rest of the box sitting on the counter when I wake up and I'll probably eat another one because I'll have introduced simple sugars back into my body and will be craving them. And my workout will suck tonight because I won't feel energetic either mental or physically. It might take me a week or even a month to get back on the wagon and I wonder how much weight I'll gain and muscle I'll lose....PASS on the Nutty Bars!"
-Take pride in yourself RIGHT NOW! Even if you don't feel attractive, take the time to fix your hair, find outfits that flatter your figure no matter what your current size, hold your shoulders back and be proud of who you are right this second because you take much better care of someone you love than someone you hate. Treat yourself how you would treat your mother or your child. If you don't learn to love yourself, even if you find a way to reach our ideal body weight, you won't maintain it. Loving yourself is not something you decide to do, it's a process. Fake it til you make it if necessary. Pay attention to your internal thoughts. When you say something negative about yourself, replace it with something positive. Eventually it will become a habit, and one day you'll accidentally start loving yourself.
-Realize that EVERYTHING counts. Every day, every meal, every workout really does count. I didn�t lose 88 pounds in 10 months. I lost an average of 8.8 pounds per month and an average of 0.28 pounds per day! Any day I cheated the number was a little less, any day I worked a little harder, ate a little better, it was more.
-Last but CERTAINLY not least, notice how things make you feel RIGHT NOW. It's like the Nutty Bar scenario I mentioned, notice how everything from the food you eat, the fluid you drink, the exercise you do and the sleep you get affects you because these are IMMEDIATE results you can see instantly. Junk food cravings suck! But when you have that first good bowel movement in years or get through the evening without needing to snack or wake up one morning with no lower back pain, these little things will help keep you on track when you can't see results for all your hard work in the mirror. Learn to love the process and you'll learn how to lose weight and keep it off forever.
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The listing says this place serves Indian food, but it was just regular international food to me. In February 2010 the lunch of the day costs 6,000 pesos (about US$3). When you enter, you pay first, then take the ticket to any available table and the server will bring your meal. It's always a tray filled with small plates with different kinds of food, usually good. Although the portions are small, so you may need a snack later on. They told me it's open for lunch only from Monday thru Saturday. I would arrive no later than 12:30pm because the place fills up and there are not a lot of tables. It's right across the street from the Profamilia Transmilenio station.
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Parallel Verses
New International Version
Wine is a mocker and beer a brawler; whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
New Living Translation
Wine produces mockers; alcohol leads to brawls. Those led astray by drink cannot be wise.
English Standard Version
Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.
New American Standard Bible
Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, And whoever is intoxicated by it is not wise.
King James Bible
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Wine is a mocker, beer is a brawler, and whoever staggers because of them is not wise.
International Standard Version
Wine causes mocking, and beer causes fights; everyone led astray by them lacks wisdom.
NET Bible
Wine is a mocker and strong drink is a brawler; whoever goes astray by them is not wise.
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Wine is strong and drunkenness is disgraceful, and no one that is excessive in it is wise.
GOD'S WORD® Translation
Wine [makes people] mock, liquor [makes them] noisy, and everyone under their influence is unwise.
JPS Tanakh 1917
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is riotous; And whosoever reeleth thereby is not wise.
New American Standard 1977
Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler,
And whoever is intoxicated by it is not wise.
Jubilee Bible 2000
Wine makes a mocker, and beer a reveler, and whoever errs concerning them shall never be wise.
King James 2000 Bible
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
American King James Version
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
American Standard Version
Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler; And whosoever erreth thereby is not wise.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Wine is a luxurious thing, and drunkenness riotous: whosoever is delighted therewith shell not be wise.
Darby Bible Translation
Wine is a scorner, strong drink is raging; and whoso erreth thereby is not wise.
English Revised Version
Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler; and whosoever erreth thereby is not wise.
Webster's Bible Translation
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is deceived by it is not wise.
World English Bible
Wine is a mocker, and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
Young's Literal Translation
Wine is a scorner -- strong drink is noisy, And any going astray in it is not wise.
Parallel CommentariesMatthew Henry's Concise Commentary
20:1 It seems hard to believe that men of the greatest abilities, as well as the ignorant, should render themselves fools and madmen, merely for the taste or excitement produced by strong liquors. 2. How formidable kings are to those who provoke them! how much more foolish then is it to provoke the King of kings! 3. To engage in quarrels is the greatest folly that can be. Yield, and even give up just demands, for peace' sake. 4. He who labours and endures hardship in his seed-time for eternity, will be properly diligent as to his earthly business.
Pulpit Commentary
Verse 1. - Wine is a mocker; or, scorner, the word (luts) being taken up from the last chapter. The liquor is, as it were, personified, as doing what men do under its influence. Thus inebriated persons scoff at what is holy, reject reproof, ridicule all that is serious. Septuagint, Ἀκόλαστον οϊνος, "Wine is an undisciplined thing;" Vulgate, Luxuriosa res, vinum. Strong drink is raging; a brawler, Revised Version. Shekar, σίκερα (Luke 1:15), is most frequently employed of any intoxicating drink not made from grapes, e.g. palm wine, mead, etc. The inordinate use of this renders men noisy and boisterous, no longer masters of themselves or restrained by the laws of morality or decency. Septuagint, Υβιστικὸν μέθη, "Drunkenness is insolent." Theognis has some sensible lines on this matter ('Parch.,' 479) -
Ος δ α}ν ὑπερβάλλῃ πόσιος μὲτρον οὐκέτι
Τῆς αὐτοῦ γλώσσης καρτερὸς οὐδὲ νόου
Μυθεῖται δ ἀπάλαμνα τὰ νήφοσι γίγνεται αἰσχρά
Αἰδεῖται δ ἕρδων οὐδὲν ὅταν μεθύῃ
Τὸ πρὶν ἐὼν σώφρων τότε νήπιος Whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. No one who reels under the influence of, is overpowered by, wine is wise (Isaiah 28:7). Septuagint, "Every fool is involved in such." Says a Latin adage -
"Ense cadunt multi, perimit sed crapula plures." More are drowned in the wine cup than in the ocean, say the Germans (comp. Proverbs 23:29, etc.; Ephesians 5:18).
Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging,.... Wine deceives a man; it not only overcomes him before he is aware, but it promises him a pleasure which it does not give; but, on the contrary, excessive drinking gives him pain, and so mocks him; yea, it exposes him to reproach and disgrace, and to the mockery and derision of others; as well as it sets him to scoff at his companions, and even to mock at religion, and all that is good and serious; see Hosea 7:5; and strong drink not only disturbs the brain, and puts the spirits in a ferment, so that a man rages within, but it sets him a raving and quarrelling with his company, and everybody he meets with; such generally get into broils and contentions, and get woe, sorrow, and wounds, Proverbs 23:29. Aben Ezra gives this as the sense of the words,
"a man of wine''
(that is, one that is given to wine, a wine bibber), so Ben Melech,
"is a mocker, and he cries out for strong drink, that it may be given him;''
which is not a bad sense of the words.
and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise; whosoever gives himself to it, is not on his guard against it, but is overcome by it, does not act a wise but an unwise part: wine besots as well as deceives men. This may be applied to the wine of fornication, or to the false doctrine and superstition of the church of Rome; with which the nations of the earth are deceived and made drunk, and which puts them upon blaspheming God, deriding his people, and using cruelty to them, Revelation 17:2.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
Pr 20:1-30.
1. mocker—scorner. Such men are made by wine.
strong drink—made by spicing wine (compare Isa 5:11, 22); and it may include wine.
raging—or boisterous as a drunkard.
deceived—literally, "erring," or reeling.
Proverbs 20:1 Additional Commentaries
Wine is a Mocker
1Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, And whoever is intoxicated by it is not wise. 2The terror of a king is like the growling of a lion; He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.…
Cross References
Ephesians 5:18
Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit,
Genesis 9:21
When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent.
Leviticus 10:9
"You and your sons are not to drink wine or other fermented drink whenever you go into the tent of meeting, or you will die. This is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come,
1 Samuel 25:36
When Abigail went to Nabal, he was in the house holding a banquet like that of a king. He was in high spirits and very drunk. So she told him nothing at all until daybreak.
2 Samuel 11:13
At David's invitation, he ate and drank with him, and David made him drunk. But in the evening Uriah went out to sleep on his mat among his master's servants; he did not go home.
1 Kings 20:16
They set out at noon while Ben-Hadad and the 32 kings allied with him were in their tents getting drunk.
Proverbs 23:20
Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat,
Proverbs 23:29
Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?
Proverbs 23:30
Those who linger over wine, who go to sample bowls of mixed wine.
Proverbs 23:32
In the end it bites like a snake and poisons like a viper.
Proverbs 31:4
It is not for kings, Lemuel-- it is not for kings to drink wine, not for rulers to crave beer,
Isaiah 5:22
Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine and champions at mixing drinks,
Isaiah 28:7
And these also stagger from wine and reel from beer: Priests and prophets stagger from beer and are befuddled with wine; they reel from beer, they stagger when seeing visions, they stumble when rendering decisions.
Isaiah 56:12
"Come," each one cries, "let me get wine! Let us drink our fill of beer! And tomorrow will be like today, or even far better."
Hosea 4:11
to prostitution; old wine and new wine take away their understanding.
Habakkuk 2:5
indeed, wine betrays him; he is arrogant and never at rest. Because he is as greedy as the grave and like death is never satisfied, he gathers to himself all the nations and takes captive all the peoples.
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Everyone needs a plan to pay your monthly expenses in case you are out of work due to an illness or injury. The chance of experiencing a disability before retirement age is 3 in 10. This may not seem like a high chance but if you and nine of your friends were together in a room, three of them may experience some type of disability before reaching retirement age. Additionally, if having a child is in your future, a short-term disability policy can help reduce the disruption of missing work due to the pregnancy and birth of your child.
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Once it was identified and understood, HIV could be eliminated from the blood supply straightforwardly - through a test for antibodies.
"We've picked the low-hanging fruit now," Katz said. "Since the onset of the HIV epidemic - that's 30 years - we've been consumed with transfusion-transmitted infectious diseases," including non-A/non-B hepatitis. Because the risk of transmitting those through blood donation has been nearly eradicated - there hasn't been a transfusion-related HIV infection in at least eight years, and the transmission risk is now estimated at less than one in 2 million, Katz said - the focus has now shifted to transfusion risks that are hard to pinpoint.
"We're beginning to ask questions about very difficult-to-measure adverse effects of blood and talking to physicians about using less," he said.
The U.S. Biovigilance Network (AABB.org/biovigilance) was formed in 2006, and Genesis Medical Center (through it relationship with Katz) is one of nine hospitals in a nationwide biovigilance pilot project underway this spring.
"Let's start counting cases" so priorities can be set, Katz said.
Katz said these negative effects might play out over weeks or months following the transfusion. "There are lots of studies that suggest that people who get more blood rather than less blood may have more infections acquired in the hospital, may have worse outcomes over the long run," he said. "There's a lot of discussion about whether blood transfusion alters the immune system or causes inflammation that could be causing long-term adverse outcomes."
Further complicating the issue is the fact that "these are people who are already sick. ... These are things that might happen to a sick person - sick enough to get transfusion - anyway. And so the relationship to transfusion is the critical issue."
By carefully tracking these events, the hope is that their relationship (if any) to transfusion can be identified, and the frequency will help hospitals and the blood-transfusion community determine which are the most important to address.
And while it's impossible at this point to know which of these suspected negative outcomes are serious problems, optimizing transfusion practices is the smart path. "We don't know how bad these other problems are," Katz said, "but we do know that an adverse event doesn't occur if you don't transfuse."
Anticipating the Next Threat
Even though HIV - through testing and donor screening - has been almost eliminated, infectious diseases could still pose a threat to the blood supply.
Katz and five colleagues in the American Association of Blood Banks' Transfusion-Transmitted Diseases Committee polled 20 members of the committee about the diseases they viewed as the next threat. Sixty-eight diseases "had at least a theoretical possibility of causing trouble in the blood supply now or someday," Katz said. So they prioritized them and assigned three or four to each committee member, who wrote a fact sheet describing the discrete characteristics of each.
"We're trying to be proactive," Katz said. "Instead of waiting for something to hit us, we're out there scouring the literature, reading the case reports, talking to regulators, talking to docs in Europe ... . We're trying to put stuff on the radar screen ... . We've been doing this reactive thing since HIV. ... Now we're trying to anticipate the problem."
Some diseases are not expected to threaten the safety of blood but still threaten the supply. There is minor concern about the transmission of the H1N1 (swine flu) virus through the blood supply, for example, but the larger concern would be a pandemic's effect on blood donation.
Katz is chair of the American Association of Blood Banks' Interorganizational Task Force on Pandemic Influenza & the Blood Supply, which is looking to get a specific exemption for blood donation from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services' "social distancing" guidelines. In a presentation (HHS.gov/bloodsafety/presentations/DrKatz0806.pdf), Katz estimated donor absenteeism of 40 percent during a pandemic. If blood-donation sites take certain precautions, Katz said, blood donation should remain safe, even during a flu outbreak.
Size Matters
These are some of the medical issues facing the Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center, but the organization is also a fascinating business.
It started in 1974 providing blood to Scott and Rock Island counties and now serves hospitals in northwestern Illinois, eastern Iowa, southwestern Wisconsin, and the St. Louis area. President/CEO Green said the organization has had a "visionary board," and that its original director saw what it could offer to other communities.
The expansion in 2005 to St. Louis created formal relationships in an area to which the blood center was already supplying a lot of product, and it gave it access to the donation program of a bankrupt blood bank that had been serving the metro area.
"It really gave us a volume opportunity," Green said.
The organization's growth has been conscientious, he added; the board will only expand into areas where there is not reliable service.
The blood center also has connections beyond its served hospitals. There's an emergency benefit there - "We have a network out there that is prepared to help us in a time of need," Green said - but also a financial one. "We have an established network throughout the United States such that we're able to provide those blood products to other communities that don't have as supportive a donor base as we do," Green said. "And historically, we have charged more for those products, and then that money comes back into this community and allows us to keep costs down ... ."
The aim is always to have more supply than demand, so that there's never a blood shortage at the hospitals served by the blood center. The surplus - roughly 35 percent a year, Green said - financially supports its core functions.
The center in 2004 moved to its current location, more than doubling its Locust Street facility's 30,000 square feet. And because the center was able to bring its nucleic acid testing back to the Quad Cities (instead of sending it to Minneapolis because of a lack of space), the larger building doesn't actually cost more. "The savings annually for bringing that back in house cover the carrying cost of the debt related to the facility," Green said. Including property and equipment, the center cost $14 million.
"We intentionally built larger than we needed at the time, but consistent with what we would expect based upon the growth that we had seen ... ," Green said.
The center provides payroll and accounting services for a Springfield, Illinois, blood-donation program, and donor infectious-disease testing for St. Luke's Blood Bank in Cedar Rapids.
That revenue, Green said, has helped to offset some price increases from the Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center's vendors, although the organization has also had to eliminate some positions and nonessential functions.
"We are mindful of opportunities ... ," Green said.
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Home Opinion Editorials Saving the squares
Saving the squares
Baker City building and store owners, along with local government officials, have devoted countless hours and millions of dollars to make the city's downtown historic district a jewel among Oregon downtowns.
A small, but meaningful, part of that effort is the campaign to ensure that downtown sidewalks look the same.
For more than 20 years a city ordinance required that all new sidewalks in the historic district have two-foot squares scored into the concrete.
That design matches the sidewalks on both sides of Main Street. Those were built when the state repaved the street (which is part of a state highway) in the late 1980s.
The mandatory design was effective. Over the past two decades, sections of sidewalks elsewhere in the historic district were replaced, and downtown sidewalks gradually took on a more uniform — and in our view more attractive — appearance.
But then last year, as part of a broader project to overhaul city ordinances, Public Works Director Michelle Owen proposed changing the sidewalk ordinance.Specifically, she suggested the city require sidewalk squares on Main Street only, but prohibit that design for sidewalks elsewhere.
Unfortunately, that change slipped below the City Council's radar, and councilors approved the revised ordinance this March.
That councilors apparently didn't notice Owen's change isn't shocking.
The ordinance overhaul document is hundreds of pages, and councilors, unlike members of Congress, don't have aides to help them wade through inch-thick legislation.
Fortunately, rectifying the matter of sidewalk design downtown is relatively simple.
The Council should revert to the previous language in the ordinance, requiring sidewalks throughout the historic district (as defined in the National Register of Historic Places) to have two-foot squares.
Owen did tell councilors last week that she proposed banning the square design, except on Main Street, because that design can cause problems for the city when, for instance, it is working on water meters or fire hydrants.
The squares also present a potential tripping hazard, and adding them increases the cost of building sidewalks, Owen said.
Those are legitimate concerns, certainly.
Still, the previous ordinance, which resulted in quite a few blocks of squared sidewalks, seemed to work pretty well for the past two decades.
Historic Baker City Inc., the organization most intimately involved in what's happening downtown, never complained about the sidewalk square mandate.
And for us, HBC's endorsement settles the matter.
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Kibbi LLC has been outfitting their specialty vehicles with MCD American Duo™ Day/Night Shades since August of 2009. Creating a more customized and updated look with MCD Shades is apparent in the new Renegade offerings. The newly designed Ikon motorcoach (shown here) utilizes MCD Day/Night Shades throughout the interior. MCD night shades are 100% room darkening and provide nighttime privacy. MCD day shades protect from heat and cold while allowing the occupants a clear view of their exterior surroundings. Those outside can not see into the coach, adding more privacy during the daylight hours. Day/Night Shades are available in powered or manual configurations or a combination of the two.
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Renegade/Kibbi LLC was initiated by Chuck McKibbin as a specialty vehicle manufacturer primarily serving the auto racing industry. Because of Chuck's vision and the entire company's relentless pursuit of unequalled quality, Renegade has established itself as the undisputed quality and volume leader in the specialty markets it has either created or chosen to compete in. Renegade has established a large customer base in the specialty vehicle industry including; custom motorhomes and motorhomes with sportdecks, mobile garage units, custom car transport trailers, mobile command communication vehicles and S.W.A.T. equipment vans. Other primary target markets include mobile technology and mobile health vehicles. Although a few trailers have been built for NASCAR drivers like Mark Martin, Tony Stewart and Dale Earnhardt Jr., drag racers are the primary customers.
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1 Cathedral Gate
36 Burgate GB - Canterbury CT1 2HA
Prix from : 69.38 GBP
Dating back to 1438, the historic Cathedral Gate is in the heart of Canterbury. Once slept in by pilgrims, the hotel predates the adjoining gateway to Canterbury Cathedral and features wooden beams and sloping floors. The rooms feature a TV, telepho..
2 Canterbury Cathedral Lodge
The Precincts GB - Canterbury CT1 2EH
Prix from : 87 GBP
In the private and peaceful grounds of Canterbury Cathedral, this stylish lodge offers free Wi-Fi, hearty breakfasts and scenic views. Canterbury's historic centre is a 2-minute walk away. The bright and airy bedrooms at Canterbury Cathedral Lodge e..
3 Abode Canterbury
30-33 High St GB - Canterbury CT1 2RX
Prix from : 72 GBP
Within Canterbury's historic city walls, ABode Canterbury is just 300 metres from Canterbury Cathedral. With an award-winning restaurant and cocktail bar, the hotel offers stylish bedrooms with free Wi-Fi. The elegant rooms at Abode Hotel Canterbury..
4 Pilgrims Hotel
18 The Friars GB - Canterbury CT1 2AS
Prix from : 65 GBP
Situated within the Roman city walls of historic Canterbury's centre, this family-run hotel dates back to the 16th century. It offers free WiFi, an à la carte restaurant, and a cosy, oak-beamed bar. With a flat-screen TV, each traditional room at Th..
5 Castle House Hotel
28 Castle Street GB - Canterbury CT1 2PT
Prix from : 85 GBP
In historic Canterbury, this charming 3-star metro hotel has free WiFi and free parking. The city centre and 2 rail stations are within easy reach. Each spacious en-suite room at Castle House is elegantly furnished and has a flat-screen digital TV. ..
6 The Falstaff in Canterbury
8-10 St Dunstans Street GB - Canterbury CT2 8AF
Prix from : 58.50 GBP
Just metres from Canterbury's medieval West Gate, this charming building dates back to 1403. A former coaching inn, it offers free WiFi and free parking, 2 minutes' walk from the city centre. The Falstaff still retains many original features, includ..
7 Best Western Abbots Barton Hotel
36 New Dover Rd GB - Canterbury CT1 3DU
Prix from : 76 GBP
In 2 acres of landscaped gardens, Abbots Barton Hotel has a traditional restaurant and elegant rooms with free Wi-Fi. The hotel is just outside Canterbury centre, half a mile from Canterbury Cathedral. The bright, spacious bedrooms are individually ..
8 Canterbury Hotel
140 Wincheap GB - Canterbury CT1 3RY
Prix from : 80 GBP
Canterbury Hotel is a charming 18th-century property with an indoor swimming pool and free Wi-Fi. Canterbury town centre and cathedral are a 15-minute walk away. A spa with massage facilities and a sauna is also available for a surcharge. With many ..
9 Ebury Hotel
65-67 New Dover Rd GB - Canterbury CT1 3DX
Prix from : 90 GBP
A short walk from Canterbury city centre and its world-famous Cathedral, this privately-owned hotel is set within a Victorian townhouse, amid 2 acres of well-maintained grounds. It offers free onsite parking. In addition to the city centre and all i..
10 Turing College, University Of Kent
University Road, GB - Canterbury CT2 7FN
Turing College, University Of Kent is surrounded by 300 acres of parkland, less than 25 minutes' walk from Canterbury city centre. The campus has free WiFi and free parking, and there is also a selection restaurants and bars, shops, a cinema and a ni..
11 Howfield Manor Hotel
Howfield Lane GB - Canterbury CT4 7HQ
Prix from : 55 GBP
This charming hotel is 2 miles from Canterbury and close to Dover and the Eurostar. Dating back to the 12th century, it is surrounded by picturesque hills and fruit trees. Howfield Manor Hotel has 5 acres of gardens and 15 rooms furnished in a tradi..
12 The Evenhill
62 The Hill GB - Littlebourne CT3 1TA
Prix from : 55 GBP
With a 4-star rating, this characteristic pub with an open fire and beams offers home cooked cuisine. Originally built as cottages in the 16th century, the Evenhill lies on the A257 in Littlebourne, between Canterbury and Sandwich. The hotel consi..
13 The Crescent Turner Hotel
Wraik Hill, Whitstable, Kent GB - Whitstable CT5 3BY
Prix from : 99 GBP
Located on Wraik Hill on the edge of the seaside town of Whitstable, The Crescent Turner is a modern property that offers beautiful sea views . Free WiFi access is available and there is also a restaurant. Each of the stylish rooms feature a TV, a p..
14 Premier Inn Whitstable
Thanet Way GB - Whitstable CT5 3DB
Prix from : 74 GBP
Just off the A299, less than 2 miles from the beaches and the heart of Whitstable's town centre, the hotel offers comfortable, great-value rooms and free parking. Just 5.5 miles from the M2 motorway, the Premier Inn Whitstable has a convenient locat..
15 Dog Inn At Wingham
Canterbury Road GB - Wingham CT3 1BB
Prix from : 65 GBP
Set within a Grade II Listed former coaching inn, this charming residence occupies a prominent position opposite the church in the picturesque village of Wingham, just outside Canterbury. Personally run by the owners, Richard and Sherry Martin, T..
16 The Marine
33 Marine Parade, Tankerton GB - Whitstable CT5 2BE
Prix from : 90 GBP
Sitting on the Tankerton Cliffs and overlooking the Thames Estuary, The Marine boasts an à-la-carte restaurant and a bar, and offers spacious rooms with stylish décor and free WiFi access throughout. Guests benefit from on-site public parking free of..
17 Hotel Continental
Beach Walk GB - Whitstable CT5 2BP
Prix from : 74.75 GBP
Just across the road from the beach, Hotel Continental offers well-appointed rooms around 10 minutes' walk from Whitstable's characterful town centre. With its own bar and bistro restaurant overlooking the Thames Estuary, this hotel provides free par..
18 Premier Inn Herne Bay
Blacksole Farm, Margate Road, Herne Bay GB - Herne Bay CT6 6LA
Prix from : 57 GBP
With free parking and family-friendly air-conditioned rooms, the Premier Inn Herne Bay has an on-site Table Table restaurant. Some rooms can take 2 adults and up to 2 children (under 16 years). The 2 children also get a free full breakfast when acco..


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Cullen pulled Olivia closer as they swayed to a George Strait tune on the jukebox at the Frog Palace. The place was packed as it was every Saturday night, but with Olivia in his arms Cullen felt as if they were the only couple on the dance floor.
His plan to erase Olivia's romantic view of him by taking her to the rodeo had backfiredbig-time. Her excitement when he'd won first place almost made him believe he was good enough for her. She'd also gotten along amazingly well with his friends tonight. Add in the fact that Summer had fallen under Olivia's spell and it wasn't hard to imagine the three of them as a family, a vision that he was finding increasingly difficult to let go of.
Exactly the life Vince Bennett did not want for his daughter. Cullen didn't look forward to facing his boss and admitting defeat.
"Have there been many women through the years?" Olivia's lips brushed his neck when she spoke.
That Olivia might be jealous of his past relationships humbled Cullen. How could she not know that his memories of her and what they'd shared growing up prevented him from committing his heart to another woman?
"I haven't had a serious relationship" since you "in a long time." Once Summer had moved in with Cullen, he'd cut out weekend flingsnot that there'd been all that many.
"What about you?" He'd always wondered if Olivia had fallen in love with a young garçon when she'd studied in France.
"Blake was my first serious relationship after you broke up with me," she said.
Olivia wasn't going to let Cullen forget he was the one who had given up on them. He wished he could make amends for the hurt he'd caused her, even though he'd had her best interests at heart. Eyelids at half-mast, she licked her lower lip. The plump flesh glistened, begging for his kiss.
One kiss couldn't hurt. For old times' sake.
The instant their mouths touched, Cullen was swept back in time eight years to their goodbye kiss before Olivia had departed for college. She tasted even sweeter and sexier than he remembered. Her soft moan swayed Cullen into believing that despite his reservations, he and Olivia were meant to be together. He poured his heart and soul into the kiss, begging her without words to remain in Surrender with him and Summer.
Suddenly a hand clasped Cullen's shoulder and spun him around. "That's my fiancée you're kissing."
"Blake?" Olivia gasped. "What are you doing here?"
"Looks as if I arrived in the nick of time before you made the worst mistake of your life."
Mistake Mistake That's all Cullen would ever be to Oliviaa mistake. If not for her fiancé suddenly showing up, he'd have talked Olivia into giving them a second chance.
"Blake, this is an old friend of mine, Cullen Montgomery. Cullen, this is Blake Tremont."
Cullen didn't offer his hand and neither did the other man. Olivia's fiancé wore designer trousers and a fancy dress shirt and tie. His hair looked styled, not cut, and Cullen swore the guy had doused himself with an entire bottle of high-end cologne. The man oozed money, sophistication and powera far cry from Cullen's redneck ways. Not trusting his voice, Cullen tipped his hat to Olivia and strolled out of the bar.
Olivia blinked to make sure she wasn't viewing a mirage. The last place her Ivy League ex-fiancé would have ever stepped foot inside was a Texas honky-tonk. "What are you doing here?"
She'd called Blake to break off their engagement as soon as she'd returned from the zoo with Summer and Cullen. Olivia wasn't proud of the way she'd ended her relationship with Blake but she'd known in her heart that she couldn't marry one man when she still loved another.
"Your father phoned and insisted I rescue you from this miserable place." Blake ran a hand over his neatly styled hair. "This bar is a dive and so is Surrender. You don't belong in here, Olivia. You're better than this." He swept his arm wide, motioning to the clientele in the bar. "You need culture and fine dining, not rednecks and barbecue."
"Don't tell me what I need, Blake."
"You have nothing in common with these people. Mark my words, Olivia, you'll be bored to death inside a month if you move back here."
"You're insulting my birthplace."
"If you're so high on this dump then why did you attend college on the East Coast? Why did you study abroad? Why are you still living in New York City?"
Olivia's chin trembled. "I stayed away from Surrender because I believed Cullen no longer loved me."
"That's what this trip was about? To see if your old flame still had the hots for you?"
"Don't be crude."
"It is what it is, Olivia." Blake paced a few steps away then faced her. "You really love that ignorant cowpoke that was kissing you?"
Olivia stared at her former fiancé and a feeling of rightness swept through her. No matter what happened between her and Cullen, she knew for certain that she couldn't spend the rest of her life with Blake. She'd rather be happy alone than miserable married. "I came home with honorable intentions. I believed that once I understood why Cullen ended our relationship all those years ago" she held up a hand when Blake attempted to interrupt "I would return to New York and set our wedding date."
"From what I just saw, you weren't laying the past to rest, you were laying with your cowboy."
Olivia refused to be bullied. "I'm sorry, Blake. I'm still in love with Cullen."
"You're going to marry that redneck?"
"I don't know. But I do know that I'm not going to marry you."
Blake's eyeballs threatened to pop from their sockets. "You're walking away from all that I can give you and your career at the investment firm without knowing if things will work out with him?"
Don't waver now, Olivia. "That's right."
"Be very sure this is what you want, Olivia, because I won't be waiting in the wings if everything falls apart between you and your cowboy."
"I'm sorry, Blake."
He shrugged. "At least I found out the truth about you in time."
Don't ask. "What truth?"
His gaze roamed over her. "That beneath all that education and culture is a redneck woman at heart." Blake spun on his handmade John Lobb Oxfords and stormed out of the bar.
Appalled that he'd ditched her, Olivia hurried after Blake. But just as she made it outside the building she saw the taillights of his rental car winking in the distance down the road.
"What kind of man leaves a woman stranded at a bar?" Cullen's voice came out of the dark a moment before he stepped into the light.
"You stayed."
"Of course I stayed. I had to make sure you were okay."
More than ever, Olivia was positive Cullen was the right man for her. If only he'd accept she was the right woman for him.
A tear escaped her eye and Cullen brushed the wetness from her cheek. "C'mon, Olli, I'll take you home."
"No one's used that nickname since I went away to college," Olivia said.
Cullen opened the door of his truck and Olivia hopped in. "You'll always be my little Olli."
The drive to the ranch was made in silence. Cullen walked her to the front porch. No one spoke for the longest time, then Olivia gathered her courage and said, "I'll leave Surrender, but only if you tell me to go, Cullen. Only if you insist there's no chance of making things work between us. Only if you say you don't love meout loud and looking me in the eye."
Seconds ticked by. Finally Cullen did as she asked and looked Olivia in the eye. He opened his mouth to speak, then shook his head and retreated to his truck. He burned rubber as he pulled away, leaving a cloud of dust and the answer to Olivia's questing hanging in the sultry night air.


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These two plants are popping up in various places in my garden. Can anyone tell me what they are?
They look a bit like sweet williams, do you have any in your garden that may have self seeded?
Hi Kate. There was one small sweet William in the garden when we moved in 6 years ago. It flowered for two years then disappeared. Could the seeds have lain dormant for so long?
6 years is a long time, do any neighbours have them?
Lorea-my guesses are usually wrong-but-could the second be a penstemon?
-if not it looks suspiciously like a weed that my neighbour seems to cultivate,but I don't know the name
It could be rosebay willow herb, self seeds everywhere
Hmmm, interesting suggestions. I suppose I could wait until it flowers and then get back to you!
Not sure of first but second is pensteman.
Don't think 1st is willow bay herb. It has a reddish stem and leaves are different shape.
I'm happy to be proved wrong but I'm with Muddyfork, we've a shed load that pop up every year at my Grannys!
There's never been any penstemon in the garden as far as I know. There's definitely more of the first one than the second. I'd just like to be sure before I ruthlessly rip it all out that I'm not getting rid of something I might like.
Hi figrat, I garden in a rural area, and there are lots of things in the garden which I've seen in the surrounding countryside. I haven't seen any valerian though. Will gladly pull one up this weekend and take a photo of the root.
top pic is Phlox bottom pic sweet william (i think) lol
Not sure either is Penstemon, leaf shape looks entirely different from mine, could be wrong though!
I think the plant on this thread from this morning
is a sweet william-having now looked again at Loreas picture they seem so similar that perhaps Kate is right with the original id-but keep that quiet
I saw that too Geoff, and thought the same thing. I'm pretty sure it is sweet william, and I'm beginning to think that the first one is willow herb as muddyfork says, although I'd prefer it to be phlox!
she will want the prize.
I think the first plant is a willowherb but not the Rosebay willowherb. There are lots of different sorts. Broad leaved comes to mind. You'll know better when it flowers. Don't want to make a guess at all at the second one. Yet.
hi lorea i'm almost certain that the plant youare looking at is Hesperis Matronalis or sweet rocket as my dear old Mum used to call it i have a garden full of it


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"viewOf" as the fundemental underpinning relation (GK)
For me, the relationship I call "viewOf, where "A viewOf B" means that A is a constrained view or version of B (e.g. "Luc in Boston" is a constrained view of "Luc"), is the fundamental underpinning on which other kinds of complementarity may be built.
As a notion, "viewOf" is quite easy to understand (if not describe), and is the basic idea which explains relationships between Resources/Entities which allows us to make provenance statements with enduring truth, hence tractability for analysis.
"Weather in London on Thursday" is a view of "Weather in London", where we might assign specific provenance to the former but not necessarily the latter.
"viewOf" as an orthogonal dimension of derivation
:luc_in_boston a prov:Entity; prov:viewOf <http://data.semanticweb.org/person/luc-moreau>; foaf:based_near <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Boston>; . :flight_home a prov:Activity; foaf:based_near <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Atlantic_Ocean>; prov:used :luc_in_boston; prov:generated :luc_in_southhampton; . :luc_in_southhampton a prov:Entity; prov:viewOf <http://data.semanticweb.org/person/luc-moreau>; foaf:based_near <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Southhampton>; .
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A holiday rental agency in West Wales recently opened a new accomodation and proved that 70s kitsch has still not lost its popular appeal. The Caban Cariad [1] (Welsh for "Love Shack") is a Swedish prefab cabin that was imported into Wales in 1973. It was leased and refurbished this year by Greg Stevenson, owner of the rental agency Under the Thatch [2], and opened to guests in July. The decor in the cabin is a mix of vintage, modern and Ikea, with a floral couch from Erika Pekkari and orange sparkly plastic stools by Henry Massonnet, pop art on the walls, a lava lamp, a shag rug and an inset pebble fireplace.
Other than the au courant addition of eco-friendly features, the Love Shack retains its 70s aesthetic all the way. Sometimes the best way to patch up an out-of-date space is just to lay it on thick and let it bask in its old-school glory.
Link: www.underthethatch.co.uk [2]
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