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#8024 - 10/15/00 05:39 PM ballroom
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I have ben trying to recall the name of the ball used in dance halls that is covered with mirrors which reflect light in little spots on the dancers.
#8025 - 10/16/00 09:01 AM Re: ballroom
Carpal Tunnel
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the name of the ball
Gary Glitter
#8026 - 10/16/00 11:37 PM Re: ballroom
Carpal Tunnel
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Loc: this too shall pass
Glitterball - Radiate round the hall
Lifts me up - Then leaves me to fall
Glitterball - Radiate round the hall
As the great unloved go dancing all the way
-Simple Minds
#8027 - 11/28/00 12:39 AM Re: ballroom
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 09/06/00
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Loc: Seattle, Washington, USA
Am I the only one too dense to understand why this inquiry is posted on a thread entitled "Words from medicine"?
#8028 - 11/28/00 05:51 AM Re: ballroom
old hand
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Loc: London, UK
Am I the only one too dense to understand why this inquiry is posted on a thread entitled "Words from medicine"?
I was going to appeal to surrealism - what's in a title, sort of thing, but then decided not to.
My suspicion (more seriously now) is that newcomers do not always find it easy to interpret the structure of AWADtalk (some, of course, taking to it like fish to bicycles), and may post their queries on whatever forum 'comes to hand'. If they stay, with time, their posts become more accurately targetted. But this is not a theory I would fall on my sword for. (Or go to the mattresses for?)
the sunshine warrior
#8029 - 11/28/00 10:59 AM Shame, shame
Carpal Tunnel
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Shame on you, Shanks, for further counfonding the tangle of threads on this board, by subtly cross-referencing our discussion under "ditches" into this unrelated thread.
#8030 - 11/28/00 03:25 PM Re: Shame, shame
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 03/15/00
Posts: 11613
Loc: Louisville, Kentucky
[bristle]Kindly do not denouce my sweet shanks, if you please.[/bristle] ("Nod" to Anna of thanks for this idea!)
The idea of crossing threads is entrenched on this board.
And yes, lorenzo did not know his way around, and it looks like he may have disappeared. Counfond it.
#8031 - 11/28/00 07:09 PM Re: Shame, shame
Registered: 09/20/00
Posts: 347
Loc: Melbourne, Australia
>The idea of crossing threads is entrenched on this board.
Oh, what a tangled web we weave...
#8032 - 11/28/00 08:33 PM Retraction
Carpal Tunnel
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Posts: 2788
Loc: Seattle, Washington, USA
Let us pause and give God thanks
for his loyal servant shanks
I am sorry for my saiding
he was bad for his cross-threading.
God made threads to be as tangled
As this meter to be mangled.
Sad I made Lorenzo go;
I won't do it any mo'.
#8033 - 11/28/00 08:57 PM Re: Retraction
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 03/15/00
Posts: 11613
Loc: Louisville, Kentucky
Father Steve, I loved your poem!
Howsomever, I fear you may have given offense with this one.
I now rue this trend I started,
Mourn lorenzo, dear departed;
Not all folks are loyal servants--
Non-believers can be fervents.
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- Free Trade Agreements move forward
- The TAA hurdle
- Labor
- Pending Free Trade Agreements to be taken up by the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday.
- Tentative deal struck on labor program issues.
Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) with South Korea, Panama and Colombia moved forward on Tuesday with the announcement that a deal had been struck between Democrats and Republicans. Later in the day, doubts – centered on an extension of the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program -- emerged about the solidity of the announced compromise but it is expected the Senate Finance Committee will take up the FTAs on Thursday.
The Obama administration, eager to boost trade in a slow-moving economy, has long seen the proposed FTAs as a quick shot in the arm. At the same time, to the irritation of Republicans, Democrats have insisted on an extension of the TAA program, which would assist U.S. workers who lose their jobs in the wake of the trade deals.
For more, see Time running out for Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, Progress on Colombia, Panama trade deals and FTA fact sheets.
Commodity groups were largely positive with Tuesday's news. In the Mid-South, the lack of U.S. access to Korea's rice market has tamped down some enthusiasm for the FTA. On the flipside, the American Soybean Association (ASA) said the three trade pacts represent the potential of some $3 billion of additional agriculture exports.
"This is a critical step in the right direction," said ASA President Alan Kemper, a soybean farmer from Lafayette, Ind., in a statement. "Now that an agreement on Trade Adjustment Assistance has been reached, we call on Congress and the (Obama) administration to quickly advance these trade agreements in order to boost our economy."
Bart Schott, farmer and National Corn Growers Association president, said the "NCGA is greatly encouraged by the movement on the pending FTAs. The United States is the largest corn producer and exporter in the world and developing new markets for our country's agricultural products will help our sector lead the nation in economic growth and international competitiveness."

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Michael Kammen, historian of US psyche, dies at 77
Michael Kammen, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian whose scholarly aim was no less than the illumination of the collective American psyche, died Nov. 29 in Ithaca, N.Y. He was 77.
His death was announced by Cornell University, where he was the Newton C. Farr professor emeritus of American history and culture. His family said he had been in declining health in recent years, according to a university spokesman.
Kammen received the 1973 Pulitzer for the history People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization, published the previous year. That book sought to describe the national character from the countrys earliest days to the 20th century.
Underpinned by exhaustive research and abundant documentation, Kammens books, essays and criticism he was a frequent contributor to The New York Times Book Review and other publications were noteworthy for remaining accessible to the general reader.
His work, which stood at the nexus of history, folklore, psychology and sociology, helped cast the form of the modern scholarly field known as memory studies.
Kammen displayed a passion for paradox and an affection for contradiction, and in People of Paradox he uncovered no shortage of either. The American sensibility, he argued, was rooted in a simultaneous opposition: the continuity of Old World traditions juxtaposed with the discontinuity of New World innovations.
We should understand, as William James did, that Americanism is a volatile mixture of hopeful good and curable bad, he wrote.
Reviewing the volume in The Times Book Review, the historian Marcus Cunliffe wrote of Kammen, I pay him the sincere tribute of envy: I wish I had written People of Paradox even though I do not agree with him in every instance.
If the historians essential task is to answer the question What happened? Kammen sought to answer further questions: How do we as a people construct what happened? How do we remember or misremember it long afterward?
At some point, it must have been the early to mid-1970s, he told Publishers Weekly in 1999, I began to ask myself over and over, what difference did the story of what happened in 17th- and 18th-century America make to Americans living in the 19th and 20th centuries?
In a spate of subsequent books, Kammen explored Americans conceptions of a variety of cultural phenomena, including the American Revolution (A Season of Youth, 1978), the Constitution (A Machine That Would Go of Itself, 1986), freedom (Spheres of Liberty, 1986) and even history itself, as in his 1991 book Mystic Chords of Memory: The Transformation of Tradition in American Culture.
In Mystic Chords of Memory (the title is a line from Lincolns first Inaugural Address), Kammen looked at history as a cultural construct, ranging over subjects like Margaret Mitchells rendering of the Civil War in Gone With the Wind and President Franklin D. Roosevelts savvy invocation of the American past for political effect.
In A Machine That Would Go of Itself, he examined what he called popular constitutionalism in his words, the perceptions and misperceptions, uses and abuses, knowledge and ignorance of ordinary Americans regarding the Constitution.
His later work also took in art and aesthetics. In American Culture, American Tastes (1999), he drew a distinction between popular culture (which in his view encompassed old-fashioned participatory entertainments like vaudeville and county fairs) and mass culture (including more solitary electronic pursuits like television, video games and the Internet), arguing that by the late 20th century the boundary between the two had become indistinct.
In Visual Shock (2006), he explored Americas long history of engagement with controversial works of art, discussing, for instance, the furor surrounding Robert Mapplethorpes photographs in the 1980s and 90s. The very existence of such controversies, Kammen maintained, is an index of a thriving democracy.
Michael Gedaliah Kammen was born in Rochester, N.Y., on Oct. 25, 1936. He earned a bachelors degree in history from George Washington University, followed by masters and doctoral degrees in the field from Harvard, where he was a disciple of the renowned American historian Bernard Bailyn. Kammen joined the Cornell faculty in 1965.
His other books include A Rope of Sand: The Colonial Agents, British Politics, and the American Revolution (1968), Colonial New York (1975), The Lively Arts: Gilbert Seldes and the Transformation of Cultural Criticism in the United States (1996), and Robert Gwathmey (1999), a study of the American Social Realist painter.
His most recent book, published in 2010, is Digging Up the Dead: A History of Notable American Reburials. In it, he examines the social forces that give rise to exhumation and reinterment, a fate that befell notables from Sitting Bull to Jefferson Davis to F. Scott Fitzgerald.
A past president of the Organization of American Historians, Kammen began his professional life as a historian of Colonial America. Little by little, however, his purview crept down the centuries to the present day.
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Live Blog: Ravi Coltrane at the Village Vanguard 11.19.08
November 19, 2008. Posted by Joshua Jackson.Add new comment | Filed under: coltrane, Listening Post, Live Chat, Live Music Blogging, photos, Places and Spaces
Listen to the show.
See some photos.
Hear an interview with Ravi Coltrane.
Doors have opened at the Village Vanguard for tonight's show. More than 40 years have passed since a saxophonist named Coltrane led a group at this club. This evening, we will hear Ravi Coltrane's debut. Welcome.
None of the musicians are here. Ravi and the band tend to operate freely on their own internal clock. We, on the other hand, are following a master clock. Thirty-two minutes to showtime!
We're live from the Village Vanguard. Saxophonist Ravi Coltrane is playing an original, "Amalgams," from his upcoming release, Blending Times. The quartet includes pianist Luis Perdomo, bassist Drew Gress, and drummer E.J. Strickland.
Pianist Luis Perdomo just crashed the keyboards. Bassist Drew Gress is now taking a solo. Gress was featured in pianist Uri Caine July performance of Live at the Village Vanguard. Check out the entire series.
Another Ravi Coltrane original, "Round Two," begins peacefully.
"Trading Duos" seems fairly self-explanatory. Band members sort of move in and out of this composition. I'malways a fan of the sax/drums sections.
This composition named after Ravi's first son, William (John Coltrane's middle name). "One Wheeler Will."
After a long and heartfelt introduction, Ravi plays "Jagadishwar," a composition by Alice Coltrane, his mother. She passed away on January 12th 2007. On Ravi's upcoming release, Blending Times, he closes with a harp/bass/saxophone version of Charlie Haden's "For Turiya." Turiya is Alice Coltrane.
The quartet is closing with "Giant Steps," a Coltrane original. John Coltrane, that is.


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Welcome back, Miss Mora
Great review, but this album sounds like my nightmares.
Written by Risto on 22.05.2012 at 19:40
The singer is pretty good (when he sings clean, that is...), but otherwise this is severely lacking edge based on the promo streams around. The 7 minute "Gargoyle on a Belfry" is ruined by bad ideas which doesn't really tempt me to go further when it's labelled progressive
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From Venezuela to Vuvuzela
I proudly retell the story of the time my brothers hassled Manny Ramirez so much at Comerica Park that he finally looked up into the stands and practically begged them to stop. Maybe it runs in the family because even when we were little and sitting way up in the upper deck of old Tiger Stadium, that didn't stop us from keeping up a steady chant of "Hey batta' batta' batta', swing." Baseball lets you get close enough to the players that you can actually get inside their heads if they let you.
And this is probably the one area where soccer fails by comparison to baseball. Sure, the fans are up there in the stands cheering on their team. And sometimes they'll try to get involved by starting racist chants (if you're in Italy) or throwing objects at the opposing players. They even try to help with the rhythm by singing songs and banging drums.
However, at this point it seems that soccer fans are best known for blowing those goddamn vuvuzelas all game long. Seriously, I'm pretty sure the buzzing is still bouncing around my head from the games I watched this past weekend. This leads me to wonder what the long term effects will be on the players who had to listen to them for the entirety of at least three matches. Will they suffer permanent disabilities?
Well, if animal testing is any proof, the answer is yes:
If the vuvuzela can drive a dog to that, what will it do to the internal wiring of a human? But more importantly, if a plastic toy can have that effect, what happened to Manny after my brothers' heckling? I'm sure the guy is housebroken but so was that dog.
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Maybe it was the FREE beer during the Marlins Rays game, but myself and my band of merry Frat brothers actually were doing some creative things with our vuvuzelas/Marlin Air Horns when they were given to us during a recent game.
Besides the general concensus that an evil entity designed these horns, they do hold 12 oz of frosty beverage.
But we also did a number of classic songs with the vuvuzelas as a centerpiece.
"Brass Monkey" by the Beasty Boys, "Who Can Ity Be Now" by Men at Work, and my favorite..doing a rendition of of Rhianna's song "Umbrella" substituting the word "vuvuzela" for "umbrella".
Of course the group did not remember these and other songs before our videographer reminded us of the future extortion of getting money so the tapes would not fall into the wrong hands.
*SIGH* Away games.
Rays Renegade
The first World Cup game I watched I thought there was a swarm of bees outside. Then I changed the channel and realized it was the television…
Baseball definitely has the better of it, I'd find it hard to focus with those annoying instruments…
Got a message saying the video was no longer available, but I get the idea. Since I haven't watched a single soccer game, I guess I've been spared.


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But still, I needed a second opinion before purchasing. Hence I asked every female college mates I saw at that day in case there was another loyal consumer (with a good testimonial) to convince me. I instead got bad news.
One of my college mates told me that her mom suffered from cervical benign tumor and had it surgically removed twice few years ago. The second time she was about to undergo the surgery, her gynecologist asked her if she ever used any feminine wash and apparently she did, on regular basis. After listening to the gyn.'s explanation, she immediately trashed all the bottles of the feminine wash she had.
Apparently there's not so many cases reported to have something to do with feminine wash in Google. I found one case from myhealthblog.org; a 20-year-old female was sick all the time and once had a miscarriage because she was addicted to feminine wash. She bought all brands of feminine wash and used it every time she peed.
Up till now, I admit I haven't found any scientific research to confirm that the intimate feminine wash may lead to cancer or any other adverse reactions. I'll keep you posted if there's any. For the record, the Environmental Working Group on cosmeticsdatabase.com classifies one of American brand feminine wash as moderately hazard cos ingredients in the product are linked to cancer, developmental/reproductive toxicity, allergies/immunotoxicity, violations, restrictions and warnings.
What makes me feel the urge to submit this topic in my blog is because a friendly internist, who is also one of my freakin' smart lecturers, shared a case about this feminine wash but she couldn't do anything about it. She couldn't stop people from buying until they come to her as patients seeking for help.
Apart from what the ads tell you, the chemical ingredients in feminine wash products can actually upset the naturally occurring bacterial flora in your vagina and make you more prone to infections. They want you to ignore the fact that the vagina has a self-cleaning system and some odor can be a normal part of the cleaning process. The vagina cleans itself in part through vaginal secretions, or leucorrhea, which range from thick and white-ish to slippery and clear. If you notice something out of the ordinary for you, you should see your health care provider.
It's inevitable that modern day women have been persuaded by massive healthcare and sanitary products advertisements on the mass media that merely focus on embarrassing female problems.
After the era of instant whitening creams, pharmaceutical companies have been trying to convince us that women need a special soap to keep their genitals clean and fresh with the right pH and natural antiseptic. They want us to believe that unpleasant 'fishy' vaginal odor is one of the problems affecting the lives of many women so that we can all jump on the bandwagon of feminine freshness.
I'm not trying to oppose capitalism whatsoever here. All I want is you being a smart consumer regardless how consumptive you are or how much money you have.
Believe it or not, most women often live in insecurity. They have huge fear of weights, skin tones, zits, wrinkles, body odor, unwanted hair on some parts of the body, you name it. I can't deny that I used to be one of them and still is, LOL. Lucky me, my life is surrounded by great people that keeping me sane I can turn myself to if I have any questions related to health and well-being. *wink*
P.S. Hopefully my clean-freak girlfriend who loves to carry around a travel size of a feminine wash will somehow get to read this.
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Time: 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Speaker: Staff Educator
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Famous for his Impressionist paintings of ballerinas, Edgar Degas was also an accomplished sculptor. He made over a hundred sculptures in wax and clay, some of which were later cast in bronze. Spend an afternoon among galloping horses and dancing ballerinas, then head to the studio and use clay to make your own creation.
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During the 20 summers we spent at our little bungalow near Monticello, we would occasionally wake to the sound of Bobby Somer's tractor revving up to mow the communal property. If it was a weekend, when the 11 families that comprised our co-op were likely to be in residence, I would make a mental note to ask Bobby to hold off on mowing until the weekdays. But then, in less time than it took to put on a pot of tea and shower, the tractor would be back on its trailer and peace would once again reign in our little patch of paradise in the Catskills.
We were a motley crew of friends and friends of friends—all city residents who craved a bit of nature on the weekend. We were young and middle-class (when there was a middle-class), most of us working to pay the bills with not much left over for family vacations. Our willingness to cooperate bought us 58 acres and a pool two hours from the city. Our children grew up like children once did—with the freedom to run out to play with friends in the playground. The only rules centered on the pool, where parents were always on hand to supervise their safety. Screen doors slapped as the kids roamed together from house to house, seeking and hiding in a game, or settling in someone's kitchen for a bowl of mac 'n cheese.
Up the road from our little colony there was an airport. It was not what you think of as an airport. It always reminded me of the Bob Newhart sketch, "The Grace L. Ferguson Airline and Storm Door Company." Old Doc Heins ran the airport from his trailer home. A few Cessnas made port there, and once a year a helicopter would give rides to the locals for $15. The noise was akin to Bobby's lawnmower and about as frequent.
The airport closed after the good doctor died. We wondered what would happen to the hilltop landing strip. Eventually, a plan was announced to build a racetrack. The Monticello Motor Club was to be a swanky place for high-rollers to test their Lamborghinis without risking a speeding ticket. The entrance to the club was to be opposite our dead-end road.
At first we doubted this plan would ever take shape given the county's history of fizzled plans. But, with the help of town supervisor Tony Cellini, the racetrack was given a green light by the town planning board, and the forest across the road from our property was quickly denuded. Landscapers from another county were brought in to plant shrubs and trees along the road that was once dense forest. A massive gate appeared.
The old airport (that had been illegally operating a landing strip for years) was transformed into a new mini Grand Prix racetrack that roared for hours at a time on weekends and weekdays. A sound study was done that equated the noise to a helicopter port—something it never was—and a good PR campaign was rolled out to make us and our neighbors sound like nattering nabobs of negativity.
Bobby and his family were offered a new home six miles away. They took it. Last month, the noise from the racetrack was so loud they could hear it in their new home. The older bungalow kids are having children of their own now and hoped to continue the communal experience with their families. But the peace has been broken by a need for speed. Race cars don't move as fast with mufflers. The town fathers have decided that the racetrack can operate seven days a week from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. (8 a.m. on Sunday). The only noise abatement required is a recommendation by the engineer that we install insulated windows in our bungalows and homes.
Think about my story as you vote in November. Your local officials have all the power they need to make your paradise hell on earth.


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Stolen iPads return former defendant to courtERIC FRANCIS PHOTO
Paul Farnsworth, 35, of White River Junction, has been charged with receiving iPads that were stolen instead of delivered by a UPS driver who later told investigators he gave them to Farnsworth in exchange for drugs.
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION A man is accused of buying stolen iPads from a United Parcel Service driver.
Paul Farnsworth, 35, of White River Junction, pleaded not guilty Thursday to a felony charge of possession of stolen property. He also refused to waive extradition to New Hampshire. He is being held on $15,000 bail as a fugitive from that state.
A New Hampshire grand jury indicted Farnsworth in December on a felony bad-check charge alleging that he knowingly cashed a fraudulent $3,000 check at a bank in April.
Farnsworth made headlines across the region 15 years ago when he was accused of shooting a man who was dating his ex-girlfriend. The man survived a gunshot wound to the abdomen; Farnsworth was acquitted of attempted murder.
The new charge stems from an investigation by Hartford police detectives in May. A security supervisor from the UPS depot in Wilder told police that three packages containing iPads and a methadone prescription had disappeared over a period of weeks.
Computer scans showed these packages were loaded onto UPS trucks for delivery but never reached their destinations, police said.
Police said Chad Liles was driving the UPS trucks each time the parcels disappeared. Detective Michael Tkac said a subpoena sent to Apple revealed that one stolen iPad was activated by Farnsworth and another by a relative.
Tkac said Farnsworth voluntarily surrendered all of the missing iPads, but he insisted he didnt know they were stolen and had paid his friend Liles several hundred dollars for them.
Liles allegedly wrote in a statement to police, I took the iPads because in that period of my life I was addicted to narcotics and I traded them for narcotics. ... I also took the methadone for the same reason.
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Montgomery, Alabama -a photo essay
This past July I was in Montgomery, Alabama for work meetings. Besides being the state capital, Montgomery is also the county seat for Montgomery County. Today, the city has a population slightly more than 200,000 -a significant increase from the … Continue reading
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This popular Chalet Hotel in the very heart of Val dIsère remains a firm favourite with families, many of whom have already booked to return this coming winter! Traditionally appointed with warm wood tones and rich fabrics, this is one of those hotels that makes you feel welcome and comfortable from the moment you enter.
What a pleasure it is to be staying at the Ducs de Savoie, and have only a mere 350m stroll to the choice of Val dIsère's three main high-speed lifts lifts to whisk you up into the very heart of the skiing.
The Solaise Express chairlift goes straight to the Solaise peak at 2,560m, from where a choice of lifts and runs fans out, including the connections across to the Le Fornet area and the superb snow of the Pissaillas Glacier.
Alternatively, choose either the Bellevarde Express chair or the Olympique gondola to access the Rocher de Bellevarde, with its long cruising runs down to La Daille, and the connections across the Tovière ridge to the wonders of Tignes.
The childrens ski area and adult nursery slopes are also situated in the same base area as the above three lifts, so are equally convenient for our guests.
Holidays to this property are particularly suitable for families.
For six days of the week the staff prepare all your meals.
On the hosts' day off, they will prepare a Continental style breakfast for you, which will be left for you to help yourselves, and that evening you have the chance to eat out in one of the local cafés or restaurants – the resort team will be happy to provide some suggestions. In our Chalet Hotels, a buffet breakfast is also served on the staff's day off.
Breakfast: we pride ourselves on giving you a great breakfast to start your day, with a choice of cereals, fresh fruit and juices, yoghurts, plentiful English tea and good filter coffee, local bread (plus croissants or 'pains au chocolat' in France), cold meats, cheeses and preserves, and boiled eggs. This is normally presented buffet-style for you to help yourself. And to cap it all, we also cook a hot dish of the day for you six days per week, such as sausage and bacon or pancakes with fresh fruit, individually served.
On the hosts' day off, they will prepare a Continental style breakfast for you, which will be left for you to help yourselves, and that evening you have the chance to eat out in one of the local cafés or restaurants – the resort team will be happy to provide some suggestions. In our Chalet Hotels, a full buffet breakfast is served every day.
Afternoon Tea: The traditional 'welcome home' after a day on the slopes will be laid out for you in your chalet or Chalet Hotel, ready for your return, every day except on the staff's one day off per week. A good cup of tea or coffee is the perfect accompaniment to a delicious slice of freshly home-baked cake and keeps hungry skiers happy until dinner is ready.
Children's High Tea: In chalets and Chalet Hotels with family guests, children under 13 years are provided with high tea at 5.30pm, and do not join the main adult-only dinner.
Dinner in Chalets: A tasty and innovative, freshly cooked dinner will be prepared for you six nights per week by your Chalet Host - or by an experienced and qualified chef in our larger chalets - and served with a choice of wines. The four-course adult-only chalet dinners start with canapés and an aperitif, followed by an appetiser, main course and dessert, and followed by coffee with chocolates to round off your evening.
Wine is unlimited during the meal service and freshly chilled water is also of course always available.
Vegetarian & Special Diets: Vegetarian options are always available if you advise us in advance, and other special diets can generally be catered for at a cost per person per week. Please confirm your requirements to us in writing at the time of booking
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If you like the Gurkha brand then you can't go wrong with this Grab Bag. I ordered one batch smoked em all and just now ordered another bag. Be sure to keep these in a humi for a month to really bring out the flavors.
So far, good brand. Smooth!
Disappointed and I bought two bags. My friend bought it and ended up with two Beast, so he gave me one. It was great. I didn't get any. So far I have smoked three from selection. The first one cracked and the wrapper fell off. On the second two the wraps unravelled. I use a good, shape cutter and my humidor is well maintained. The only think I didn't do was let them set in the humidor for a few weeks.
Got my sampler about a month ago. Lots of high quality great smoking cigars. All were large and most were very tasty. Not a huge fan of the more mild cigars, but the others more than made up for it. I will definitely buy again. And for the record I was NOT a fan of Gurkha before; thought they were just over priced cigars. Now I learned to enjoy the variety. Very nice smokes.
Probably the greatest deal CI has on offer. The selection is great and you will get a couple of very, very, very good cigars. At this price, it's a no brainer.
Great deal for the price. I have told my son and he ordered also.
If you like Gurkha than you will like this. I do like big cigars and this gives you 10 at an unbeatable price. I will order again in the future.
Pretty good grouping. Beauty, Beast, European Collection (both), Elegance, Viper, Status, Symphony, Shaggy, and Widow Maker. I'm new to Gurkha so this was a pretty good start at an affordable price.
Excellent grab bag! I got about $100 value from my bag. I am happy with the average of $10 a stick, and only paid $2.50 per stick.
My delivery bag has Viper, Widow Maker, European Selection Habana 2000, Elegance, Crest, Symphony Grand Churchhill, Status, Vintage Shaggy Grand Rothschild, Beauty and the Beast.
The Gurkha grab bag never disappoints with good variety and always a couple of higher end Gurkhas for a good treat. Will buy this package again and again.
While Gurkha's are generally well made and tasty, I usually find them to be overpriced. Not with this deal!
Top of the line Gurkhas for a fraction of the price. How can you go wrong?? Any Gurkha is going to be a great smoke!
Awesome deal, or as we say here in New England, its a wicked pissah of a deal. So happy I ordered these.
Awesome deal, or as we say here in New England, it's a wicked pissah of a deal. So happy I ordered these.
10 Gurkhas for $25? Unbelievable... My ten had a retail of $178. If you like Gurkhas or want to try them, this is the deal...
The better deal can't be found. Top drawer cigars at a great price.
This might be CI best deal. You get 10 great cigars for $2.50 apiece. What's not to like. I try to keep 20 of these in my humidors at all times. These are great to impress clients on the golf course!
Awesome...will order again!
I love Gurkha's and this is an awesome deal. Plan on picking up another one very soon!
Cannot recommend this enough! For Gurkha fans, it's a great way to try new stuff you're not sure of. Gurkha's prolific production and hit and miss track record make it a necessity and this price is unbeatable. Two of the cigars I receieved would have cost as much as the 10 they sent! Found some new favorites and rare stuff! For non-Gurkha fans, same deal. You'll get the best, the obscure and the mediocre, but you're bound to find something box worthy. If you want to give Gurkha a fair shot or a second chance, leave it to the good people at Cigars International!
Great deal there is no disappointments on my end, but I have never been disappointed with Gurkha. If you are new to Gurkha this sampler is a must try.
Amazing sampler! I can honestly say I have yet to find a Gurkha that I don't love! Great selection and worth every penny! Don't be afraid to order this one. I will definitely order it again!
Got a great selection of cigars. I even got a 50$ one. looking forward to smoking these cigars. Some of them I would never be able to afford otherwise.
Awesome selection!
Good grab bag of Gurkhas. Nice variety. I totaled around a 70-75 dollar value on the 10 cigars in the bag. I got a few 13-15 dollar range, a couple valued at 10, and the rest in the 3-4 dollar range. Not a bad deal to mix up your daily stick with some variety by a great brand.
Excellent deal! Any 2-3 cigars I got from this would have cost over the price I paid for all 10! Got some old favorites, some I'd never heard of and some new favorites. Worth it for the Grand Reserve and Black Dragon Fury alone! Gurkha gets a bad rap and yes, with as many lines as they've produced, there are some definite clunkers. But if you read reviews and ask Gurkha fans, they'll steer you in the right direction. Do NOT miss some of the best cigars you'll ever smoke because of a few bad apples.
This is unbelievable for $25. I ordered 2 samplers to try and 2 weeks later ordered 5 more, which got me 3 more great Gurkha's free. I hate to put this out, because I want it to never run out for me!!!
Absolutely great deal!! I received a plethora of goodies!
Let me start off by saying WOW!!! This sampler is totally worth the price. I am one of those people who doesn't mind spending money on a good cigar, but this sampler saves you a lot of money and gives you an excellent choice of top cigars. Thank you CI once again you guys have out done yourselves.
excellent variety, I look forward to my next grab bag
Pretty sweet deal, not all are winners but at $2.50 each its a cant miss. They don't give you all junk in fact 7-8 are good sticks.
Happy with the good selection!
What a shocker! This by far is the BEST way to find a cigar that fits your needs and your budget. CI hits another out of the park!
I have only smoked a few of the cigars so far but I am thoroughly impressed. The price is one of the biggest selling points because at least one of my cigars was over $25 if purchased as a single. I will definitely purchase this grab bag again to keep my humidor stocked with Gurkhas!
When the package arrived, I was quite pleased! A great looking sampler. But, when I smoked them, I had some problems. About half have a very tight draw. Too bad; the ones that are smoke-able were very good smokes.
Not bad for $25 I received a wide verity of cigars in there line. I did notice that there where some very miner mistake's nothing that has changed the performance of any of the cigars. I know I will be buying another one in the near future. I would recommend any cigar smoker to pick one up.
From a Gurkha fan this is well worth the money! If you want to try them for the first time or just fill the humidor. Go for it and enjoy! Thanks again CI!!
Just received the sampler today. Well worth the $25 price tag and then some!
A great buy!
Great selection cigars well worth the price, will be ordering again when it comes back in stock.
Hey just wanted to let all you CI loyalist that this is well worth the risk. The best part is not knowing, then when it comes - there is a Beauty, Beast & Widow Maker. Those three super sticks alone is worth the $25 investment. Plus there was seven high quality Gurkha cigars to enjoy as well. Another home run for the BOYS at CI. I cant attest to smoking quality - but I usually let all CI cigars properly rest in my humidors for at least 60 days.
Good Sampler. I bought a second. I really wanted a royal reserve (which I doubt I'll get) and a titan. I didn't get either. But I did the math and I got 70$ worth of cigars for the 25$ so great value. I bought a second one. Really hoping that I get at least a titan. They throw in some low end Gurkhas which I didn't like but they are still Gurkhas. And I've never had a bad Gurkha. I would definitely recommend it to friends.
Scored some great Gurkha's. Excellent value!
Amazing deal! Never disapointed.
Great sampler!!!! Will buy again!!! I do advise do not buy two of these samplers at same time as it seams you will receive two of the same exact ones
First off, this is an amazing value. These cigars ain't cheap, but this sample sure is! Gurkha is easily a top 5 brand and this package is perfect. The variety is perfect. Overall it's perfect
Great deal! Well rolled cigars. Burn evenly to the end. I've bought 3 so far.
This was my first purchase from CI. I had the Gurkhas sent to my brother for his birthday. Great gift idea and I'll buy them for myself.
Received some nice cigars. Widow Maker, a Beauty, a Reserve, a European Select. Great Smokes.
It's well worth the the price. I got well over $100 worth of cigars in each of the bags i bought.
I was quite impressed, I got 2 grab bags and my favorite smokes so far are the Black Dragon Fury, Widow Maker and the elegance. I was disappointed with the Status... but that is really the only one I didn't like so far. Great deal overall, I would recommend
Great sampler, and I truly mean that, BUT my only quam with this is that I ordered 2 samplers on my purchase and both bags had the exact same cigars as the other bag. Kind of makes me wonder about the integrity and true nature of this "random sampler". Luckily though, I love them all. Thanks, CI...I think.
What a Deal!!! I love this Sampler Bag- if You haven't ordered one yet Your missing out, all 10 Cigars were perfect. I would Recommend this to everyone
After reading the reviews, I had to order not one, but two. What a great deal, but I do notice that it lists the sizes that come with it and I'm noticing that it doesn't include my favorite shape, which is perfecto. Anybody get some in their bags?
Always fun and exciting. If you are a Gurkha fan you must try this bag. Some familiar somenot. But always tasty and cheap. Go ahead. Pull the ttrigger.
I was skeptical about this grab bag initially, but I ordered it any way because I'm a huge Gurkha fan and the price was hard to beat. I'm glad I did. What a bargain?!!! After opening the package I immediately went online and ordered another.
This sampler is awesome. I'm a reguler buying this grab bag. And the price is great. Can't beat it. Gurkha is one of my fav brands out there. So if you like a good fine gurkha cigar this is it.
Outstanding deal for some GREAT cigars !! I just smoked the Gurkha Elegance last night.... it was worth over half the cost of the deal, in coins and in pleasure. Great cigar. Don't miss this deal !!!
got them in today cant wait to try a couple great lookin bunch of smokes
This truly was a treat. They had a cigar from mild to full. Any size you could think of it came with. They thought through this and really put together a treat. I will order again for sure. Thanks gurkah!
I have never met a Gurkha I didn't like, and these are no exception.
I have yet to smoke a bad Gurkha, and have actually found some new favorites with the sampler.
I received several expensive Gurkhas in my grab bag, well worth the 25 bucks... glad i bought 2. keep the deals coming CI.
Great cigars, great value, great everything. Only downside is if you order more then one at a time plan on them being the same.
I've ordered these a few times now and CI has never disappointed me with their selection. Great variety of Gurkhas at an excellent price. Two thumbs up!!!
I've gotten 2 of these so far...and wow...what a damn steal for the price...you'd be a fool not to cash in on this means of obtaining one of the premiere brands of cigars out there...and they have a true sense of sampler to them...some really dark maduro style, some mediums and some connecticut styles in each back...all different shapes and lengths, but most are 6"...and all of them smoke exceptionally well...if you really took the entire retail cost of each cigar in the bag into account, from a retail/boutique price, some of the sticks by themselves are worth more than the whole damn bag! So what the heck are you waiting for, go get some of this happy and get your Gurkha on!
Awesome selection of gurkhas but I purchased two grab bags and both grab bags were exactly the same which defeats the purpose of a grab bag they needed to be random. Or they should have just called it a "gurkha gargantuan sampler"! (still great cigars though)
I decided to go ahead and try this out. I bought 2 samplers. Each of them contained the same sampling of cigars. $50 bucks for 20 Gurkhas?...no matter what they are? Insane. I received them today and I was more than pleasantly surprised. Retail for over 100$?...this batch must be well over $200. It included a Beast, Beauty,Widow Maker,Elegance,Symphony,Crest and a few others. I was blown away! I'm sure glad I got 2 of these! This is why I love Cigars International!!!
I loved all the sticks in this as I am a huge fan of Gurkha. However I am slightly annoyed that's after getting 3 of these that all 3 were identical. More variety would be great!
Great deal I try and order 1 or 2 every few orders well worth it. I rate the package at a 10 out of 10. The cigars all high rated and they change the mix. nice surprise
If you like Gurkha cigars like me, this is a perfect way to try some you haven't had before. You will be pleasantly surprised what you might get.
Best bang for your buck, guaranteed! CI impresses me time and time again, and this grab bag is no exception. Every stick pulls its weight, good luck finding value like this anywhere else.
AWESOME selection! Every cigar was in great shape. Can't believe it for the price. Going to order another one soon!
Some really good cigars here. I just ordered another. Best buy !
Over the years of enjoying my choice cuts of cigars, Gurkha has only made one cigar I did not simply love, with so many to select from chances of getting that one is low with the grab bag, for the price of $25.00, you just could not beat it with a stick.
So far so good, my cigars came just as fast as I expected them to (day and a half tops), and also just as happy with the selection. It came with a few very high rated cigars and just as someone else had mentioned I had no idea what one to start with. I'v never had a Gurkha before and didnt know what to expect but as i smoked my very first one yesterday I was very happy with the result, no complaints so far.
Wish their were more cigars like these, great flavor, thick rich smoke, full flavor right to the end
ok, so my 1st order from CI was this, nothing less than amazing, Gurkha grab bag. only had one Gurkha before this and loved it, so I was excited to see that a sampler like this was available. I placed the order on a Saturday night and received it on Thursday. pack contained a status, beauty, blue steel, (I think) beast, black dragon fury, crest, viper, widow maker, symphony, and im about 90% sure that number 10 is a grand reserve without the tube. my math puts this amazing friggin deal at a value of $90 ish through CI. go to your local cigar shop and if I had to take a guess, you could easily double that value. so to finish my rant, if you like a quality smoke, and like to get kick a$$ deals...BUY THIS NOW! ill be getting more, for myself and as gifts for friends (mainly cause they'll share with me!). thank you CI.
Great sampler, best bang for your buck to sample a brand!
If you like Gurkha you will love the Gurkha Gargantuan Grab Bag. Top quality smokes at a ridiculously low price. I've ordered this a couple of times and haven't received a dog in the bunch. Come on, order it. We all can use a little mystery in our lives.
You just can't beat a Gurkha, no matter what the blend! Great sampler here. All burned evenly and tasted great. At 2.50 per stick, you can't go wrong. Thanks, CI. I'll be ordering more.
I bought this as a way to try Gurkha cigars. I honestly didn't care what I got. It was just a curiosity I needed satisfied. Best order I've placed. Over 160 dollars worth of cigars. Beauty, Beast, Viper, Fury and much more. Gave me a taste of what a real cigar was. Complexity to simplicity. Only 1 I didn't like and it was not because the taste. Hard draw.
Thank you CI for offering the Gurkha Grab Bag... I love the Gurkha's ... Slow even burning delightful smokes. Worth every cent... A huge Gurkha fan...
Very impressed by the selection. Not an overall Gurkha fan but at these prices I can do Gurkha's as my everyday cigar.
If you don't order this for such an incredible price, you need to go back to school. The best selling name brand in the free world, and a pack of ten for 2.50 a pop? Get ready for Beauty & Beast, Symphonies, Grand Ages, Black Dragons, and who knows? Maybe even a whopping Warlord! Once I got these into my humidor, my buddies thought I got a raise at work.
In this grab bag I have over $100 worth of cigars if I priced em each. None duplicated just need some time to get through them all.
Every one that I have tried in this sampler were full of flavor and at a great price. You cannot go wrong.
If you enjoy the sheer variety of the Gurkha brand, then this is a great way to always have something different! Great value and very pleased with the quality.
Fast delivery, on time delivery, packaged well, beautiful Gurkha smokes, thanks.
Received my grab bag on 9/25, containing one of each: Beauty, Status, Fury, Beast, Widow Maker, Crest, Blue Steel, Symphony, Viper, and one unknown in orange label (royal reserve, but I doubt it). Using each cigars stick price in a CI five-pack, I value this right around $90. If you were to walk into a B&M store you'd be out maybe double that. Great deal!!! Glad I purchased two (they were identical).
Wow! Just got my "grab bag sampler" in the mail today and let me tell you, this is the best bang for your buck on CI! I got my order in just two days and I did not expect to get the quality sticks that I got out of a sampler pack at this price, that's for sure. 7 out of 10 of the cigars were worth well over $10 and the others though slightly cheaper are amazing cigars none the less. I will be ordering this again for sure.
Wowee!! BUY THIS NOW!!!! just got mine today, and........ HOLY SMOKES!!! pun intended.......what a fantastic selection!!! I got a Blue Steel, Crest, Vintage 2001, Viper, Master Select, Status, Dragon Fury, Symphony, Beauty AND the Beast!! This is an insanely good deal, I am a VERY happy man!!! I love you, Cigars International!!!!
I picked this sampler up at the Hamburg CI store, so I could see what was in it before buying it. I highly recommend it, I got close to $150 in cigars if bought as singles. I smoked a few of these so far and they are great. Some high dollar sticks in here that almost cost what the sampler does. Also 10 different cigars, so you get to try variety with it.
Great deal!! I am back for my second order. Really starting to become my favorite brand smoke!
Great deal!! I am back for my second order. Really starting to become my favorite brand smoke!
WOW! GREAT deal!! Just received the cigars. Great selection and I even received a cigar that's worth $25.00 plus alone! NOT disappointed! Great way to sample different Gurkha's without spending a lot!! Love it!
This is one crazy sick deal! I even got a Beauty; that stick alone is worth the asking price for the entire sampler. Packaged great! I am going to let them rest for a few days and I plan on a great smoke weekend. I will purchase quite a few more of these samplers and just fill up the humidor. I have had many Gurkhas in the past and this is the best deal on the net. Stock up while you can and enjoy!
Worth it. Solid package. Every cigar was enjoyable. Huge range, too. Nice to get so many different ones in the same quality brand.
Awesome sampler, couldn't keep my younger brother's hands out of my bag.
While I agree that this sampler is a great deal price-wise, I have been relatively unimpressed with the cigars I was given. Perhaps it's just my rotten luck, but the cigars tend to have bad pulls, uneven burns, and, if you're the cigar I smoked last night... taste like sucking on a penny. My first experience with the Gurkha brand was a pack of Titans I got for free. They were awesome. I have yet to smoke a bad one of those suckers which led to some excitement when this backordered sampler finally came it. To my chagrin, these cigars have been on the mediocre to bad side of flavor and smoke and have all but turned me off completely to Gurkha. I have not smoked them all, but I only have a few left of 10. I personally would recommend a Pinar del Rio or Bahia sampler of some kind over this. Perhaps more expensive, but I have enjoyed each cigar from the PdR sampler and absolutely loved each random Bahia I have received.
This deal is nothing short of amazing! I mean that honestly! I got unbelievable cigars at a more than unbelievable price. Some of the awesome cigars I got were the Gurkha Black Dragon Fury, the Series 4, the Blue Steel, the Vintage 2001, the Signature Collection, the Beauty, the Beast, a Gigantic Crest, a Status, and to be honest easily over $250 worth of cigars! Also, it's very exciting getting 10 different cigars and if I would have went to my local cigar shop I would have been broke, but thanks to these crazy guys at CI, I can smoke fancy cigars on a school teacher salary! And yes, I know that was a run-on sentence!
Got a Beauty. Got a Blue Steel. Got a Satus. Totally worth it, I'm going to order another. Thank you CI!
I just received two Gurkha grab bag samplers from CI. I honestly feel like I stole them. At $2.50 a stick this is a hell of a deal. There is not one bad cigar in the bunch. They are all top shelf. I priced each cigar out and it is well over $100 at CI's prices. If I was to buy each of them at my local smoke shop they would have been well over $150. Thank you CI!!!!
You guys are awesome! I got $143 worth of cigars for $25! They all arrived in perfect condition and I am very excited to try them. I will definitely be ordering more of these. Thanks CI!
WOW! What a deal! A entire spectrum of Gurkha cigars for pennies on the dollar. Thank you, Cigars International, for such a great deal. I don't know which one to fire up first.
The Gurkha grab bag is an awesome deal. How else can you sample ten premium cigars for twenty five bucks? A truly great deal.
Just got the "Grab-Bag" in the mail today. I am really quite surprised with the quality. I was expecting some rinky-dink sticks, but they are all great cigars from Gurkha. I will definitely be re-ordering these on my next order.
Great smokes for a great price. Gave me some new cigars to try, just wish it had a list of which cigars you are getting, to make ordering more of what you like easier. Thanks CI!
Buy it, but it now. Don't hesitate. This is hands down one of the best buys I've seen, my bag had at least $60 worth of smokes.
Wow great deal! Delicious cigars. I'm going to order more.
This is a great deal, there are smoke big time smokes, all range of sizes but mostly thick or big ring ones. After reading the other reviews it seems like everyone gets more or less the same stoogies. Usually one of these cigars will run you $10 , so for the price, it is well worth stocking up.
I've only ordered from CI twice, and I have to say that I'm impressed. This Grab Bag is wonderful. I've got about $80+ worth of Gurkhas to sample for a fraction of the price. The brand comes highly recommended from a few of my more frequent smoker friends, and I'm excited to dive in. The only thing that I wish had been sent with this and the other grab bag I purchased, would be a list of each stick. It was a little hard to ID each one. Cheers, CI.
Im new to the cigar world but I have tried a lot of cigars over the past few months and I must say gurkha's are starting to become my cigar of choice. I bought two of these and I am not disappointed. I got some great sticks in this grab bag, a great buy
Great selection of Gurkha cigars. Not done with all of them yet but I'm sure I will be pleased with the rest of them when the time comes to smoke them. Great deal too as well CI.
Awesome deal, I ended up getting some really good cigars for pretty cheap. Some of the cigars that I got were; Status, Legend, Blue Steel, Crest, Vintage, Status 2001, Beauty, Beast, Fury and Empire. Highly recommend this sampler to someone who has never had Ghurkas before because it allows you to sample 10 different ones for a cheap price.
Go for it. Great selections 5x the value. I will do it again.
If your a Gurkha fan you should buy this grab bag. I received 3 90+ Rated Cigars in my bag and Well buy more grab bags very soon.
Feel like a thief. Value far outweighed the paltry 25 dollar price tag. My second grab bag and certainly not the last. If you even remotely enjoy Gurkha at $2.50 a piece you will not be disappointed.
Awesome selection and range of choices. Couldn't figure out which one to have first!
Very impressive selection of cigars. As soon as I opened the package, I made up my mind to order another. I enjoyed the surprise, all excellent Gurkha blends. Please keep these coming CI!
Just got this a few days ago..I had a couple from gurkha before. They are not a bad brand, I like them so thats why I ordered this deal..I looked up the ones I received and got one thats a $36.00 alone and one $26.00 a couple in the teens, some I couldnt identify on CI's single list but well over $100.00 worth for 25 bucks, I'm thinking of ordering another grab bag.
Gurkha Rules! Buy em! You will definitely enjoy em.
For $25 you get a plethora of different Gurkhas. Although I have no idea what most of these cigars actually are, they have been very good and I am definitely getting my money's worth.
Took a chance and glad I did. Gurhkas are becoming my favorite cigars, and every one of these cigars was excellent.
For a low price of $25, this is a great deal. Kinda cool getting a mystery box in the mail. All 10 sticks are good ones, well worth the buy.
There were some decent smokes in here, including my new favorite Gurkha, the Blue Steel...


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Arkansas's outstanding management support for the Earth Team resulted in every NRCS office having volunteers, a 65 percent increase from the previous year. The Arkansas NRCS Business Plan requires district conservationists in every office to perform a 'Volunteer Needs Assessment' for their volunteer program. Arkansas has excellent support and cooperation from the Arkansas Association of Conservation Districts (AACD) management – especially through conservation education and a new statewide rain gauge measurement program. During a year of budget constraints, Arkansas increased its recruiting efforts at churches, universities, high schools, internet, community organizations, conservation partners and the public. A portion of their volunteers are specialists in their field. Volunteers helped perform the NRCS mission with tasks ranging from engineering work and language translations to editing a newspaper column and measuring rainfall.
The Jackson County Conservation District relies heavily on a strong partnership with NRCS and volunteers to serve in a multitude of capacities and events to accomplish the goals and objectives of NRCS and the District. Earth Team volunteers assisted in hosting the Regional Envirothon, planting vegetation on a stream bank stabilization project, setting up and developing the program for the Delaware River Watershed Tour, hosted field days on no-till and cover crops/pollinators and plant ID, prepared meals for the Eastern Kansas Grazing School, hosted Ag/Water Festival, set up a Women in Ag meeting and the Livestock Drought Workshop. Working together the Jackson County Conservation District, Earth Team Volunteers and NRCS staff in Holton, Kansas has built a strong education program and implemented a number of conservation projects.
Seventy volunteers participated in a tree buffer program at the headwaters of Muddy Creek. This large scale community project created a stream side buffer to absorb a multitude of nutrients before any water runs off the pasture and into the stream. In Virginia, 60% of the state's rivers and streams flow into the Chesapeake Bay. Earth Team volunteers work diligently to help restore the Chesapeake Bay's fragile ecosystem to health by reestablishing native oysters and planting grasses and tress from the headwaters to the bay. One of the many positive outcomes of the Muddy Creek project has been the interest generated among other farmers with similar conservation concerns. The Chesapeake Bay Foundation, NRCS and Earth Team volunteers are truly making a difference in Virginia and the Chesapeake Bay.
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I've lost count of how many times I've asked and been asked this question. So, I've decided it's time to break it down and explain what hashtags are and how parks and recreation can use them with a good ol' who, what, when, where, why and how. You don't have to be a social media genius to use them and they are definitely applicable for parks and recreation.
WhoYou and your park and recreation department, of course! Anyone can use hashtags in social posts. Just don't become an abuser of the hashtags—especially on your organization's social platforms.
Not ok. WhatI really like this definition from How to Hashtag: "the # symbol, called a hashtag, is used to mark keywords or topics in a tweet. It was created organically by twitter users as a way to categorize their messages."
Creating a hashtag is as simple as putting "#" in front of a word. Doing so makes the word clickable and tags your post with that hashtag. If you click on a hashtag, it pulls together all of the other posts with that same hashtag.
WhenHashtags can be used in almost any social post, but there are two good times to use them:
Watch the #SOTU last night? Great to hear that @LetsMove is helping to lower childhood obesity rates for the first time in 30 years!
— NRPA news (@NRPA_news) January 29, 2014
Watch the #SOTU last night? Great to hear that @LetsMove is helping to lower childhood obesity rates for the first time in 30 years!
So glad ya'll are tweeting with us! Keep it up! #NRPACongresspic.twitter.com/YkAPdvWCzQ
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So glad ya'll are tweeting with us! Keep it up! #NRPACongresspic.twitter.com/YkAPdvWCzQ
WhereHashtags can be used on most popular social media platforms — Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and more. The two platforms that are most conducive to hashtags, though, due to fewer privacy rules, are Twitter and Instagram. Users on these platforms are also more accustomed to seeing and using hashtags.
WhyHashtags help draw visibility to you and your events. Besides some of the reasons mentioned above, hashtags can also be used to communicate about trail conditions, park closures, etc. By regularly hashtagging park, rec center or even city names in posts, residents will know to look for information about these places under those hashtags.
Dogs: Leash Walking Skills, #HauloverPark, 6pm-7pm, $120 for 4 weeks, Start Tues, Mar 11. http://t.co/HfryRShgpc#dogs#training@roccospack
— Miami-Dade Parks (@MiamiDadeParks) January 28, 2014
Dogs: Leash Walking Skills, #HauloverPark, 6pm-7pm, $120 for 4 weeks, Start Tues, Mar 11. http://t.co/HfryRShgpc#dogs#training@roccospack
Miami-Dade does this to communicate about activities happening in their parks.
HowAdding "#" to the beginning of a word or phrase is the easiest part, but there are a couple other considerations. You always want to search the hashtag you intend to create to make sure that it's unique, not already being used for another park, event or campaign, and to ensure it isn't tied to anything salacious. The same goes for jumping on to a trending hashtag — make sure you know what it's related to before you start adding it to your social posts. You'll also want to keep any hashtags you create relatively short (on Twitter you only have 140 characters!).
Make sure you keep track of the hashtags you create — you don't want to forget which hashtag you use for what.
Social media is constantly changing. Today's hot topics are in and out faster than you can blink. Let us know how you are using social media to engage with your community. Are you using hashtags at your parks and recreation? Any creative ideas that others could benefit from? Don't be shy — brag about what you're doing! Enough feedback just might prompt a follow-up post.
Roxanne Sutton is NRPA's Marketing and Communications Specialist.
A happy hashtag day to allThis is a very informative article. While hashtags are ripe for satire - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57dzaMaouXA - they definitely have their application in parks and recreation.Since recently creating our Instagram account, @jeffcoopenspace (or www.instagram.com/jeffcoopenspace), I've been seeking out and liking images that visitors have taken at parks through hashtags. The photos are fun and sometimes magnificent. I've found syncing our account to http://web.stagram.com/ to be beneficial in sharing.Because Instagram doesn't yet have built-in 'regram' capability, webstagram allows you to apply a watermark with the users' name and profile picture at the bottom of the photo. The photo's then e-mailed to me so that I can upload. Including the users' handle in the post is also good practice.Will LebzelterJeffco Open SpaceGolden, Colorado
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Thanks for this info. I can see how we can use it to reminders to camp parents on special activities, specific park activities and more.
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I do like to dig around in the dirt come spring, but then I usually just put in some plants and then hope they survive by their own devices. I definitely lose interest when the temperatures get above 90 degrees.
My mother and all her sisters had Grandma Schneider's green thumb. They were constantly exchanging seeds, bulbs, or cuttings. People driving by Aunt Linda's house on U.S. Highway 59 would stop and take pictures of her iris beds and bridal bushes.
So I'm hoping the Garden Club will help me tap into that deeply hidden ability of my forebears so I can get some color around my house.
Lon Smith from Devereux gave a nice demonstration on how to make topiaries. I can tell this isn't going to be my thing as I do not possess the patience it takes to shape a living plant into a thing of beauty for the months or sometimes years it takes. No running dinosaur shapes will be seen in my yard. But I might try a simple circle or ball and see how that goes.
After the meeting, of course, there were snacks. My co-hostess made some tasty chicken salad sandwiches and chews. I made some Nutella mousse dessert shooters, red velvet brownies (I'll give you that recipe next week) and refrigerator pickles (recipe coming as soon as I measure everything).
I hope everyone enjoyed their afternoon. And by the way, the grapevine was right. They are a lovely group of women, every one.
Nutella Mousse Dessert Shooters
(I put this in individual little glasses that you can pick up at Ross or BBB. They are a bit bigger than a shot glass. The small spoons needed for these little desserts can be found at BBB or a restaurant supplier.)
• 1 jar Nutella (smaller of the two sizes)
• 1 8-oz. pkg. cream cheese, at room temperature
• 1 pint whipping cream, whipped
• With an electric mixer, whip the cream cheese until smooth. Then add the Nutella and mix well.
• In a chilled bowl, whip the cream with a little powdered sugar and a few drops of vanilla.
• Add several tablespoons of the whipped cream to the Nutella mixture to loosen it up a bit. Then add the remainder of the whipped cream and whip until thoroughly combined. Spoon into serving dishes of your choice. Chill for several hours or overnight. Top with whole or chopped hazelnuts, if desired.
Cook's notes: I meant to use a tub of mascarpone, but forgot I had bought some. Mascarpone is a sweet cream cheese. Use that if you want less of the tang of cream cheese. You can also use a jar of Biscoff (a cookie butter) instead of Nutella which is what I did for a function a couple of weeks ago. Crunched up windmill cookies would have been good in the bottom of the little glasses, too.
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of Goliad)
• 4 eggs
• 1 box light brown sugar
• 2 cups biscuit mix (like Bisquick)
• 2 cups chopped pecans or walnuts
• 1 tsp. vanilla flavoring
• Put eggs, sugar, biscuit mix and vanilla in a bowl. Mix well, stir in pecans or walnuts.
• Pour into a greased and floured 9x12-inch pan.
• Bake at 300 degrees for 45 minutes. Cool in pan.
• Cut in little squares and dip the tops in powdered sugar.
Cook's notes: LaNell says you can put a cream cheese icing on these if you want, but I thought they were perfect this way. These were so good with a glass of cold milk that I was up in the middle of the night sneaking the leftovers.
Chicken Salad Sandwiches
Cook's note: I love chicken salad. LaNell didn't have measurements for me, just ingredients, so make according to your own likes. I ate way too many of these little things.
• Baked or boiled chicken pieces, deboned and ground or chopped fine, plus a little chicken broth
• Boiled eggs, chopped in little pieces
• Miracle Whip (regular or lite)
• Mustard
• Hot dog relish
• Craisins
• Nuts (pecans or walnuts)
• Combine in the amounts you need and think taste good.
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By Aaron Bracy, Associated Press 4:59pm, May 19, 2013 - Updated 6:33pm, May 19, 2013
Freddy Galvis leaps into the group of his teammates after hitting a game-winning solo-home run in the ninth inning. (AP Photo/Tom Mihalek)Freddy Galvis and Erik Kratz each homered off closer Aroldis Chapman in the bottom of the ninth innings Sunday, rallying the Philadelphia Phillies past the Cincinnati Reds for a stunning 3-2 victory.
Chapman (3-2) blew his second straight save opportunity after converting his first eight chances this season. The 100 mph throwing left-hander walked pinch-hitter Delmon Young on four pitches to open the ninth.
Phillies pitcher Cliff Lee pinch ran and was caught trying to steal second base, but Chapman wouldn't record another out. Kratz, who entered the game in the third inning after Carlos Ruiz left with a strained right hamstring, pulled a 3-2 pitch over the seats in left to tie it 1-all.
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This was former Three Rivers Mayor James Liska's dream according to Executive Director of the Three Rivers Chamber of Commerce Murrell Foster. Liska said it was a shared dream between he and his wife, Shelley.
"We wanted to have a show that people would remember for the rest of their lives, and I think we did that with the fireworks and the bands; they will always remember it," Liska said.
About 8,000 people attended the Three Rivers Centennial throughout the evening, with 5,000 in attendance during the grand finale Randy Rogers Band performance.
"I want to thank everyone for coming out, without them coming it's not a celebration; it is the people that made the event in my opinion," Liska said.
Festivities kicked off at 4 p.m. with carnival rides, food stands, beer tents and vendor booths.
Liska said Shelley Liska was a big supporter of providing carnival rides for the kids.
"We tried to get a bit of everything for everyone to make it a true family event from young to old," Liska said.
"We tried to cover our bases because this is a one-shot deal; it's the only time something of this magnitude being held in Three Rivers," Foster said.
Local elected officials took to the stage at about 7 p.m. to speak about the town's centennial anniversary.
Liska thanked the city staff for helping to make the celebration possible during his speech including Rosie Forehand, Rocky Mendez, Three Rivers Police Chief Vance Roberts, and Centennial Committee members Diana Kuenstler and Patty Reagan.
Speakers also included Live Oak County Commissioner Donna Mills, Judge Jim Huff, and state representative Ryan Guillian's chief of staff, Reid Koenig.
Three Rivers resident Joe Burch was the first musician to hit the stage with his performance of the national anthem and two original songs, one about the history of Three Rivers and the other about the Eagle Ford Shale.
Ruben Salazar wasn't just on the Centennial Committee's sub-committee with responsibility for getting beer and a barbecue stand, he was also on the stage as lead singer of Ruben Salazar and el Groupo Patron. His band was next on the stage with the first round of dancers to hit the dance floor at about 7:30 p.m. Three Rivers High School graduate Gary Glenn and his band, Gary Glenn and the 20X Band were next on the stage before the fireworks started after sundown.
Liska said Richard and Robin Dockery allowed the city to launch the fireworks from their property so the crowd would have a good view of the display.
The dance floor was packed with the crowd standing shoulder-to-shoulder when the Randy Rogers Band took to the stage.
"What surprised me the most was the age of the crowd," Foster said. "I knew they were young, but they were even younger than what I anticipated."
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