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On the heels of becoming the only solo male artist in the history of Country Aircheck/Mediabase to top the chart with his first four, out of the box, No. 1 singles as a solo artist (including his latest No. 1 smash "Let Me See Ya Girl," along with Platinum-certified mega hits "Hope You Read More
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HOUSTON - Two teenagers were forced to climb a tree and dial 911 as they waited to be rescued when a storm hit, flooding the area where they were fishing.
Ruy Lozano with the Houston Fire Department said the two 19 year olds were fishing off a trail near Cullen Park when a storm hit. The water started rising, so the pair climbed 15 feet up the closest tree and used a cell phone to dial 911.
"We had cell phone communication for quite a while but they were having trouble locating them," said Lozano.
Rescue crew members also exchanged text messages with the boys.
After some searching, a Houston police helicopter spotted the teens, but thick brush made it difficult for boats to get to them.
"Unfortunately, the original boat canopy was too wide," said Lozano. "But, like always, HFD has backup."
He said they sent a narrower boat out to rescue the boys.
Senior Rescue Captain Billy Martin was one of the first to reach the boys.
"It's very dense," Martin said. "We had to take chainsaws with us through there."
He said this was one of his most unique water rescues because of the brush, wildlife, and rising water.
After hanging to tree limbs for about three hours, the boys were soon in a boat and then an ambulance to be checked out. Lozano said they had no apparent injuries.
The boys didn't want to go the hospital so an ambulance escorted them to their car.
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Art Renewal Center - 2011 NTDTV Chinese International Figure Painting Competition Speech
Real Art is Alive
To be here at a competition focused on truth, beauty and compassion.
Your mission, like mine, is to return art to its rightful path. To see living artists bring the focus back to our unique humanity, and to do so with the highest levels of craft, creativity and imagination.
We are bearing witness here at this great competition, that the fine arts of painting, drawing and sculpture, are returning to their rightful place alongside the other great arts of writing, poetry, music, dance and theatre. And to affirm that fine art is only at its best when using the vocabulary and grammar of Realism. The vocabulary is objects and figures from the real world. The grammar: drawing, modeling, perspective, composition, light, tone, paint handling, design and balance. And like vocabulary and grammar in writing, in painting and sculpture too both are used in the service of the subject, theme or story being told...to do what the art imposters of Modernism and Post Modernism are unable to do: capture, display and express the ideas, thoughts and emotions of mankind with poetry, beauty and grace...
Our beliefs, our experiences, our fantasies our dreams, our hopes, fears and desires, our best and our worst, all of which are singular, specific and unique to our shared humanity.
Anyone who has been paying attention to the world of fine arts during the last few decades, can't help but be aware of the resurgence of traditional realism in drawing, painting and sculpture.
This has especially been true since the advent of the internet where it has become possible to broadcast responsible opposing views to the Modernist art establishment. Art Renewal Center, (ARC) was created for this purpose specifically and then inevitably became much more.
The post-modernists like to credit Andy Warhol and post-modernism generally for ushering realism back in to the art world and giving it respectability. But in truth, Post-modernism is just another way of expressing the existential and the nihilistic chaos which is at the core of Modernism itself. Randomness the accidental and the intentional removal of intention are misnamed by these ideologues as spontaneity which is given the highest value in their mind set.
The hegemony achieved by the practitioners of this movement laid to waste the institutions of art during most of the 20th Century. They mandated disorder as their order of the day. They tell their disciples to let their hands move disjointedly, and instruct their brains to choose lines and colors which are preferable if they clash and are unrelated and they admonish themselves continuously not to tell any story and inject any meaning into their work.
Mostly modernists aim for the inarticulate as a virtue; and define the communication that comes from the articulate, the intended, the ordered, and the meaningful as a vice which should be shorn from the artist's work as one would tear off and destroy the diseased garments from those afflicted with the Plague.
This core body of principles have become the bulwark of the Modern and Post Modern paradigm which had by the 1940's succeeded in taking over the entire world of the fine arts: whether in the public schools, universities art departments, curatorial staff of most museums and the overwhelming preponderance of journalistic art criticism.
The primary cause of their success emanated from the economic interests of a large and powerful network of art dealers. The agents who represented the most successful masters in the 19th and prior centuries would have to wait for weeks or months for each painting if it was from Bouguereau, Meissonier, Gerome, Alma-Tadema, Lord Leighton or by any of the masters of that came just before the Modernist era.
Meanwhile, they had scores of wealthy collectors who were ready willing and able to purchase works by the famous or the up and coming artists of the day.
If only they had a larger supply.
How convenient was this new set of core principles which justified and praised works that took hours instead of weeks or months to create each new saleable item in their inventory. They quickly realized too that they needed to drive realism completely out of the art world if they were to succeed. How could they hang a William Bouguereau or Lord Leighton next to Jackson Pollock or a Willem De Kooning and convince clientele that they were equivalents in value?
This greatest of all art scams needed the wealthy and cynical to buy into their prospectus. Even the art departments at the colleges and universities started singing the same song which was now at the peak of fashion. Most people don't realize that the majority of colleges didn't have art departments prior to 1950. When those art departments were formed it was at a time when Modernism was in full force educating students to this mindset in droves and still do to this day.
To this end they invented their own art history, and made up events that never actually happened, creating a history and mythology orchestrated by highly articulate verbal craftsmen whose skill with language to turn a word or develop disingenuous ideas, ordained their new paradigm with its own language...a language which many of us call "art-speak".
Art-speak deftly utilizes the most sophisticated artifices of language to praise the inarticulate the shapeless, formless and meaningless in art to convince people to deny the evidence of their own senses. The craftiest of wordsmiths hammered the nails into the coffin of craft. And the most sophisticated of sophists using machinations of meaning to convince their constituents of the death of the meaningful. These word jugglers use seemingly sensible claims and clauses to entrench the nonsensical and chaotic. And then using their mythological laced history with sentiments of biblical rage, they hoodwinked 5 generations of educated people into rejecting human sentiment which was at the core of the great art and artists of all the art in the past.
What irony, that stories fabricated about oppressed Impressionist artists at the hands of the French Academy were used to sew the final strictures in their modernist structures to insure the death of story-telling.
Anyone who has studied art history over the past half century was taught how the Impressionists were mistreated and not permitted into the art world of that day.
I'm here to tell you that it's a lie. It never happened.
I have it fully documented with footnotes where I explain at some length in my Introduction to the William Bouguereau Catalog Raissoné and Biography which I co-authored and which finally was published last year...a 1000 page project that took 32 years.
But far worse than all these lies being taught about Impressionism being suppressed at the hands of the Academicians...is the fact that those stories have been used as the justification for the suppression of living traditional realist art and all of the living realist artists have been driven from the museum and galleries far more aggressively vengeful, mean-spirited and absolutely than even their false history describes as being suffered by the Impressionists.
In actuality its infinitely worse since the Impressionists were never stopped from showing at Paris Salons and the Salon de Refuse was not formed by Manet but by Napoleon III who did so due to the complaints of a number of academic artists who were not allowed into the Paris Salon of 1863.
So a fabricated history and a convoluted language "Art-Speak".
The art of writing and language was thus used to destroy the visual arts of paintings, drawing and sculpture.
Irony indeed!
But if we go back to the 19th century, there were great writers and poets who lived and worked with fine artists of the day and thought of each other as colleagues. Both groups used their art as a way of communicating ideas, thoughts, feelings, beliefs.
The great writers and artists of that era were praised and elevated by their society. Victor Hugo, was considered by the French to be their greatest writer of his era. When Hugo died, his family and the top officials of government consulted on how to handle his funeral since he was so beloved by his countrymen. They concluded that the best man to preside over his funeral should be the fine artist who had attained the same level in his chosen field.
That man was William Bouguereau who happened too to be friends of Hugo and his family. Hundreds of thousands of people lines the roadways when the hearse drove by with Victor Hugo, and there were just as many again straining to see too when Bouguereau passed on himself a few years later.
The writers and the artists of that era celebrated and elevated humanity in their writing and paintings. They were the first generation that derived from the great revolutions in America and Europe. Outgrowths of the Enlightenment and the Age of Reason, their work celebrated freedom, equality, and the human spirit.
Today those 19th century writers are still praised to the heavens: Hugo, Balzac, Stendhal, Dickens, James, Sinclair, Clemens, etc.
But the artists of the same era, the Academicians, who were communicating the same life affirming, humanity elevating subjects were ridiculed, suppressed and slandered.
The first 50 years of my life was during the time when Traditional Realism was in headlong retreat...in the 1950's and 60's, nearly to the point of being completely exterminated.
While every college and University in the western world had art departments with unskilled and untrained faculties committed to the tenants of Modernism, there were but 7 ateliers in 1978 with perhaps 50 or 60 students in total. They learn skill sets and a craft built on a 600 year tradition of Western Art. Modernism is art about art, but ARC ateliers are committed to art about life.
Between 1978 and 2001 the number of ateliers expanded from 7 to 14 schools from 60 to perhaps 150 students in total.
Then we formed The Art Renewal Center, ARC in 1999 and didn't go live until we had over 15,000 of history's greatest art works on our website available in higher resolution than anywhere else on the internet.
In 2001 we added this section called ARC Approved™ ateliers schools. In only ten years we have grown from 14 to 72 schools and programs, from 150 to nearly 4,000 students...clearly now a full blown rapidly expanding art movement.
If you look at the yearly ARC Salons during the past decade the quality of the work being entered has increased by leaps and bounds.
I can't tell you how pleased we were to learn how many other organizations were developing down a parallel course. The NTDTV Chinese International yearly Figure Painting Competition clearly demonstrates this.
I'm pleased to see that every winner in this year's competition would readily qualify to become an ARC Approved Artist, possibly even ARC Living Masters.
I encourage you all to apply.
In conclusion, let me assert that abandoning the intentional, the articulate, the poetic and the meaningful is no virtue, and the espousal of skills, harmony, beauty and human sentiment is no vice.
Thank you!


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Master pastry chef Jean-Yves Charon crafts our croissants in the traditional French style, using his buttery, award-winning puff pastry, cutting and shaping the pastries by hand. Shipped frozen, they are easy to prepare—just let rise overnight and then bake. The croissants emerge from the oven with flaky, golden-brown exteriors, delicate interiors and an irresistible buttery aroma. There's no simpler way to bring a taste of France to the breakfast table.
- 15 croissants; 2 lb. 13 oz. total.
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- The croissants ship frozen with dry ice. Please take care not to touch the dry ice with bare hands. Upon receipt, remove croissants from the shipping container and place in the freezer, where they will keep for up to one month.
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- Enriched flour (wheat flour, niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid, enzyme, ascorbic acid [dough conditioner]), butter, water, sugar, yeast, salt, dough conditioner (wheat flour, malted barley flour, ascorbic acid [dough conditioner], enzymes).
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Rated 5 out of 5 by silverdove from Good to the last Croissant! I purchased these two months ago so I could have an occasional croissant for breakfast. I just finished the last one and it was as good as the first. Much better than any croissants I have ever purchased, even in specialty bakeries. I originally bought these because they were running a special, but will definitely buy again in the future. If making more than one at a time, be aware they do expand a great deal in the oven.Date published: 2017-05-14Rated 5 out of 5 by NSB53 from Worth Every Bite I've been buying these for years and they never disappoint. At first it was for a special occasion . Now I buy 2 boxes at a time so I have them in the house all the time. They are wonderful . Great for egg sandwiches or a ham and cheese sandwich, alone with jam. They are huge in size. Just buy them...... I hope Sonoma never stops selling them.Date published: 2017-05-13Rated 5 out of 5 by cat0909 from Magnificant ! I am so glad I purchased these! I made bacon/egg/cheese croissants and they were TO DIE FOR. I will order again. You should try them. You will NOT be disappointed. The ONLY down side is you have to plan when you will eat them, since they have to sit out, and then bake.Date published: 2017-04-27Rated 5 out of 5 by TammyZ from Delicious! These croissants are absolutely delicious. We only eat them when they are hot out of the oven. I served them to a guest and she was very, very impressed. I have not ordered any other brand of frozen croissant, and I do not plan to do so, since these are so good. They also make a great gift - but only for someone who would appreciate the fine quality that these are.Date published: 2017-04-06Rated 5 out of 5 by sunryze from Easy, fast & tasty Croissants During a Croissant promotion, I thought I'd try these as they were highly rated. Now I know why. These are so easy to make, just let them rise overnight then pop them in the oven. You won't be able to wait until they've cooled to try them!Date published: 2017-03-27Rated 5 out of 5 by Petunia52 from Perfection! I bought this as a birthday gift for my husband and it was truly the perfect gift. We love croissants, and have tasted frozen ones before but honestly none compare to these- flaky on the outside, moist and doughy on the inside with a fabulous taste. At first the prep (defrosting overnight, parchment paper) was a bit of a concern. We didn't have parchment paper! Nevertheless, they plumped up fine over night sandwiched between two sheets of wax paper. They triple in size so give them plenty of space between.. We cooked them on a lightly oiled Baking pan and the result was perfection. We made a big pot of French roast and closed our eyes and imagined being in France! Eating them warm is truly heavenly. These are definitely worth the price.Date published: 2017-03-12Rated 5 out of 5 by Connie4321Oh from Classic croissants I have ordered many times. So good ... Put them out the night before and pop in the oven in the morning. Great to to make a egg sandwich. My kids enjoy them Christmas dinner.Date published: 2017-03-04Rated 5 out of 5 by OceanGal from Fabulous! These croissants are perfect -- flaky, airy, great flavor and so easy to make! I have ordered these for myself as well as for gifts and they have always turned out great and been much appreciated by gift recipients.Date published: 2017-02-09


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The man was then arrested and police searched him, locating what is believed to be a home-made firearm down the front of his pants.
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SOLD Bronze Kalinga Krishna Statue 15"
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Total Height Including Base: 15 inches
Base Width & Depth: 4 x 4 inches
Weight: 6 pounds
- Krishna dances triumphantly on top of the serpant Kaliya
- He wears a hat with a peacock feather in it with his right hand held up in the abhaya mudra
- Krishna holds the end of the tail of and dances on the serpant's 5 heads
- Krishna is a one of a kind, lost wax method, bronze statue. Only one of these statues is ever made
- He ships the same day from our California gallery
In that time, there were many frightful demons, who had all kinds of mystic powers. Lord Krishna had specifically appeared to rid the world of all these disturbing elements. The Lord came to this place with His cowherd boyfriends and decided to confront the king of the snakes. He climbed the large Kadamba tree and from there, jumped into the poisonous waters of the Yamuna.
Lord Krishna then began splashing about and making very loud noises just to disturb the Kaliya serpent. Sure enough, the Kaliya snake came up to the surface to see who was attacking his home. This huge black serpent Kaliya (Kaliya means black) possessed over one hundred hoods, each bedecked with a precious gem. When he breathed, fire emanated from his nostrils. He suddenly seized Krishna in his powerful coils, and bound the Lord as tightly as possible. But unfortunately this serpent did not realize that within its coils was the Supreme Personality of Godhead, playing as a child and enjoying His earthly pastimes in the transcendental land of Vrindavana. Without warning, Krishna, the Supreme Mystic, started to expand His body, and Kaliya, who began to feel the incredible pressure, was forced to release the Lord from his deadly coils. Krishna then jumped on to the hoods of the great serpent and started to dance, stamping His foot down on the heads of the snake demon, Kaliya.
This stamping of Krishna, felt to Kaliya serpent like Indra's thunderbolt striking a mountain. The Lord jumped from one hood to another, and Kaliya felt helpless and bewildered; in anger he spat fire from his many mouths but the Lord was so dexterous that His dancing movements caused the-snake to become dizzy. After so many kicks from the Lord, Kaliya started to first vomit blood, and then refuse, before becoming almost unconscious. At that time, the many wives of the Kaliya serpent appeared and begged the Lord with folded hands to spare their husband. Krishna decided to banish Kaliya to the great ocean never to return again. Thereafter, the giant snake along with his wives, departed forever, and the transcendental Lord re-joined His cowherd boyfriends on the bank of the Yamuna, to continue their wonderful pastimes in the land of Vrindavana.
About the Golden Polish: This bronze sculpture has been polished after casting giving it a golden shine. Polished bronze pieces are often used in temples. Temples prefer the polished bronze icons because the rituals involved in puja often involve bathing the bronze deity, which naturally removes the bronze patina of an older piece. Over time and with no periodic care the golden polish will naturally dull to form a dark patina that is naturally found on aged bronze.
One of the most widely revered and most popular of all Indian divinities, is Krishna worshipped as the eighth incarnation (avatar) of Vishnu. Krishna became the focus of a large number of devotional cults, which over the centuries have produced a wealth of religious poetry, music, painting and sculpture.
The child Krishna was adored for his mischievous pranks; he also performed many miracles and slew demons. As a youth, the cowherd Krishna became renown as a lover, the sound of his flute prompting gopis (wives and daughters of the cowherds) to leave their homes to dance ecstatically with him in the forests. His favorite among them was the beautiful Radha. Krishna's youthful dalliances with the gopis are interpreted as symbolic of the loving interplay between God and the human soul. Krishna affirms life in his pranks, music and lovemaking.
The rich variety of legends associated with Krishna's life led to an abundance of representation in painting and sculpture. The most reknown story surrounding Krishna is the Bahgavad Gita or Gita which is considered one of the most importatnt Hindu texts. The Gita is the conversation between Krishna and Arjuna. Krishna is explaining to Arjuna that it is Arjuna's moral obligation to fight in a war that will put him against some members of his family. Krishna like Vishnu is an upholder of the moral order of the universe.
Bronze is an extremely durable metal made from a combination of 5 metals; copper, iron, tin, with minute additions of silver and gold. This combination is called Panchaloha bronze and is the basis for making the sacred Hindu temple statues of India and the world. Copper is the most prevalent metal in the alloy. Copper also gives the metal a softer composition that allows the bronze artisans to carve the details that are prevalent in each piece. All the South Indian bronze sculpture Lotus Sculpture carries are Panchaloham and thus suited for any home altar or community temple.
Because of the durability of the metal not much is needed to maintain a bronze sculpture. Many of our customers purchase a bronze statue and perform daily puja and abhisheka consisting of bathing the Hindu deity in ghee, milk, coconut milk or other liquids. In this case nothing is needed to keep the statue clean as it will be bathed daily. If the sculpture is used for "darshan" or simply viewing the sculpture it is best to dust the statue as needed so no dirt collects in the details of the sculpture. For both polished golden bronzes and antique patina bronze statues if you would like the sculpture to shine use a cotton cloth with some coconut oil or other natural oil to wipe down the piece as needed.
Many of our bronze Hindu statues have been placed in outdoor temples. Bronze's durability makes it perfect for cold winters and hot summers of any climate. We suggest you bathe the sculpture every couple of months so that dirt does not collect on the sculpture and then use a cotton cloth with some natural oil to give the statue a shine. Both indoors and outdoors a bronze statue can be left alone which, overtime, will give the bronze an antique patina.
On some bronze statues you can see small hints of lime green, verde-gris patina. Some people prize this color for its age others want to remove it. If you would like to remove the verde-gris use a tooth brush with some coconut oil or other natural oil and lightly go over the verde-gris. This should remove the unwanted patina from the sculpture.
If you have any questions concerning your bronze statue please email us at [email protected] or call us at 1(760) 994-4455.
This sculpture is in our Oceanside, California store and ready for immediate shipping. The shipping charge is automatically calculated by UPS for shipping within the United States. Each sculpture is usually shipped within 24 hours of the order with the exception of the weekend. To obtain a shipping quote simply add the statue you are interested in to your shopping cart and then select click on the "Calculate Domestic Shipping" button. Lotus Sculpture uses Instapak foam injection packing system or bubble wrap and recycled peanuts to ensure that all our pieces arrive undamaged. Click here to learn more about Lotus Sculptures packing.International Shipping
This sculpture is in our Oceanside, California store and ready for immediate shipping to anywhere in the world. If you are in Canada please select "UPS Standard to Canada" for the shipping option. If you are an international customer please select "International Shipping" during checkout. The shipping charge will be calculated as $0. Lotus Sculpture will email you the correct shipping cost subject to your approval or you may call us at 760-994-4455 or email us at [email protected] for a shipping quote. Lotus Sculpture uses Instapak foam injection packing system or bubble wrap and recycled peanuts to ensure that all our pieces arrive undamaged. Click here to learn more about Lotus Sculptures packing.


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(Posts in Category 'Food & Dining')
17 Mar 2017 by Amy Fisher in Food & Dining and Festivals & Events
Here are five delicious festivals and events that are worth travelling to because they go way above and beyond the 'run of the mill' food event.
13 Oct 2016 by Matt Molloy in Food & Dining , Festivals & Events , Hiking & Walking , Nature , Culture , Entertainment and Twillingate
which keeps my brain elastic and my spirit young." fr. a book entitled simply, Gratitude
24 Jun 2016 by Matt Molloy in Boat Tours , Food & Dining , Hiking & Walking , Icebergs , Nature , Culture , Cultural Experiences , Outdoor Adventure and Museum
We watched the fog rise off Mount Peyton as we drove towards Green Bay for our first trip to Triton.
3 Jun 2016 by Dave Sullivan in Camping , Food & Dining , Trip Planning , Torngat Mountains National Park , Signal Hill , Fogo & Change Islands , St. John's and Outdoor Adventure
As a former touring actor and comedian, I've spent my fair share of time in hotel rooms. And, don't get me wrong, hotels are great places to stay – I mean, they clean your room every day. How can you not love that? But, sometimes you just want to experience something different. Something a little left of centre.
28 Jan 2016 by Matt Molloy in Food & Dining , Festivals & Events , Snowmobiling , Nature , Entertainment and Outdoor Adventure
Great festivals stem from great planning, and organizers for the fifth annual Mid Winter Bivver have been busy putting together an entertaining 2016 festival following a successful one in 2015.
16 Dec 2015 by Dave Sullivan in Food & Dining , Culture , Entertainment , Top Destinations and St. John's
My second favourite food on the planet is macaroni and cheese. I'd walk a mile in a blinding snowstorm to get my hands on its ooey-gooey goodness. But if somebody offered me chocolate – I'd walk that mile blindfolded on my hands. I love chocolate. Or, as we like to say around here, "I dies for it." So, when the idea came about that I should go do a course at the Newfoundland Chocolate Company on how to make chocolate, and blog about it – well, let's just say the sentence wasn't out of their mouths before I had my coat on and was out the door.
27 Nov 2015 by Matt Molloy in Camping , Food & Dining , Festivals & Events , Nature , Entertainment and Cultural Experiences
With my hair still dripping wet from our afternoon swim in the brook, I rummaged around my tent to find a casual dress to throw on before rushing out to join the final clusters of people migrating via car, foot and shuttle bus from Burlington to Middle Arm.
11 Sep 2015 by Guest Blogger in Food & Dining , Hiking & Walking , Nature , Culture , Entertainment and Travel Media
Annie Chu, of the popular food blog, Chu on This, recently visited Central Newfoundland. She was here to attend The Gathering: Food, Fire and Music, but also got an opportunity to explore the region. She recently published her first piece on her visit: Week in Central Newfoundland. Annie talks about arriving in Gander, and visiting places like Springdale, King's Point and Grand Falls-Windsor.
27 Jul 2015 by Janelle Hickey in Food & Dining and St. John's
The Merchant Tavern - St. John's most highly anticipated new restaurant - has finally opened its doors at 291 Water Street. Founded by "The Jeremies" - Jeremy Charles and Jeremy Bonia of Raymonds - "The Merchant Tavern pays homage to hard-working people who appreciate fine fare and spirits." Casual dining, simple food, great cocktails. I sat down with some of the crew to chat all three.
20 Jul 2015 by Janelle Hickey in Boat Tours , Birdwatching , Food & Dining , Icebergs , Whale Watching , Nature , Trip Planning , Geology & Fossils and Outdoor Adventure
The sun on your face, the wind in your hair and ocean as far as the eye can see - it was the perfect summer day in Newfoundland. Zip up your survival suit and hop aboard - it's time to get up close and personal with nature, courtesy of O'Brien's Whale & Bird Tours.
7 Jul 2015 by Janelle Hickey in Food & Dining , Trip Planning , Travel Trade and St. John's
Best known for its late 70′s inception as Stanley's Steamer, the Bella Vista has been in operation for over 55 years and has been the site of various functions and events. It has grown through many stages to become the well-know and loved Bella Vista and Stanley' Pub we have today. I stopped by to take a look at their beautiful event space and hear a little of the history behind one of St. John's oldest venues.
7 Jul 2015 by Janelle Hickey in Food & Dining , History , Trip Planning and St. John's
It's easy to lose an entire morning exploring the bounty of beauty on display at the Quidi Vidi Village Plantation, and when you leave, you just might be ready for wee scoff. Lucky for you, Quidi Vidi is home to St. John's newest dining experiences in one of our oldest buildings - Mallard Cottage.
4 Jun 2015 by Janelle Hickey in Food & Dining , Golfing , Nature , St. John's and Outdoor Adventure
The game of "golf" is about to change in Newfoundland and Labrador as Clovelly introduces the first FootGolf course east of New Brunswick! Curious? Read on and discover exactly how to navigate a golf course… with a soccer ball.
2 Jun 2015 by Janelle Hickey in Food & Dining , Shopping and St. John's
"What are we going to do with this decade?" – It's the question Kelly Mansell and husband Mark, co-owners of Rocket Bakery & Fresh Food asked themselves on their 50th birthday and the question that spurred on the idea for Rocket. "We just closed our eyes and stepped off" she says, "neither of us had done anything like this before. We had clear ideas of what we wanted – high quality food, healthy options and a great atmosphere… maybe the chairs don't match but there's a feeling of community, of being at home." When I sat down to chat food, community and how it all began, it became clear they have accomplished all that and more.
1 Mar 2015 by Janelle Hickey in Food & Dining , Trip Planning and St. John's
Blue On Water is a restaurant, bar and boutique hotel located on Water Street, the oldest commercial street in North America. Much like the street itself, both façades have changed over time while the essence of the street and the business have remained the same. This year marks a decade in business for owners Jason and Leslie Brake and they're ready to celebrate. They've been busy with renovations (think inviting copper tones), a highly anticipated addition to their kitchen team, and injecting additional doses of luxury into their 11-room boutique hotel. I recently stopped in for a taste, a tour and a chat.
20 Oct 2014 by Janelle Hickey in Food & Dining , Trip Planning and St. John's
Brunch. The word itself brings to mind lazy Sundays, fresh coffee and of course, food! From eggs benny to fish cakes, St. John's has a plethora of local options to keep you full and satisfied. Read on for some of our favourite brunch locales in the capital.
30 Sep 2014 by Andrew Hiscock in Food & Dining and Cultural Experiences
To a citizen of Newfoundland and Labrador, there is nothing as beautiful as a cod fish. And perhaps that is why you'll be able to find a different, perhaps more conventional, form of beauty on the Baccalieu Trail (deriving its name from the Portuguese word for cod). And that is the beauty of love! Just a 30 minute drive from the province's largest city of St. John's, this scenic drive winds through picture-perfect towns and stunning landscapes, making it the ideal place to lose yourself with your love on a romantic getaway.
24 Sep 2014 by Andrew Hiscock in Food & Dining , Festivals & Events , Fishing , Hiking & Walking , Culture , Entertainment and Cultural ExperiencesRegion: Eastern
Each year during the third weekend of September, the Town of Elliston, the Root Cellar Capital of the World, hosts Canada's and Newfoundland & Labrador's top chefs and hundreds of participants to celebrate culinary excellence and the root cellar's cultural heritage. This year, participants voted on Newfoundland & Labrador's best cod dish crowning the "King of Cod", hiked the coastal scenes of Elliston, and sat with new and old friends to celebrate the latest installment of the Roots, Rants, and Roars Fall Festival.
11 Aug 2014 by Dave Sullivan in Boat Tours , Birdwatching , Food & Dining , Kayaking , Whale Watching , Nature , Lighthouses , Ferryland , Outdoor Adventure and Weather
I never win things. It's not from a lack of trying, because believe me I try. In fact, I try harder than most. Here's why: I love free stuff – doesn't matter how big or how small, if it's free, it's fantastic. A couple of weeks ago, Newfoundland and Labrador Tourism held a giveaway during their annual Whale Week celebration – the prize was a massive whale-watching excursion for two, compliments of Air Canada and Maxxim Vacations.
4 Aug 2014 by Dave Sullivan in Food & Dining , Icebergs , Nature , Lighthouses , Cultural Experiences , Bonavista and Twillingate
When I'm at home plopped down in front of my television, about six hours into binge watching Netflix, the only inspiration I feel is the urge to get up and get a snack.
The same can't be said for Dale and Maureen Trimmer of Smooth Rock Falls, Ontario.


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What is a savanna if not a place inhabited by savanna plants and animals? Well at the Oakland Zoo, we have such a place.
Our African Savanna garden is situated near the Lion, Elephant and Meerkat exhibits and contains within it a nice selection of native savanna plants.
We recently renovated the garden by topdressing it with several dump-truck loads of our very own compost, fixing the irrigation and adding to the existing plants (Acacia spp., Melianthus major, Sparmannia africana, Kniphofia, Aloe spp., and grasses) several Lion's tail (Leonotis leonurus), and more grasses and aloes, including the strikingly beautiful Aloe polyphylla. When adding the new plants, I worked with landscape architect Roseann Dal Bello on the design before getting approval from our director Dr. Parrott. I would be remiss not to acknowledge here, for their generosity, John Miller (who donated the aloes) and John Greenlee (who donated the grasses).
Though the ornamental plants in the garden are exotic and unusual, the weeds are fairly mundane (although the Bermuda grass IS native to South Africa, coincidentally enough). The two most pernicious weeds here are… Bermuda grass (Cynodon dactylon) and Himalayan blackberry (Rubus procerus). The most effective way to deal with the Bermuda grass is to spray it with herbicide, as it is nearly impossible to remove all the resprouting rhizomes from the soil (Note: because of the foliar mechanism of uptake, when applying the herbicide you will want the Bermuda grass to be in it's most active growth – summer, full water, otherwise undisturbed, and you WILL need to apply it several times). For the blackberry, vigilance and a Hori hori (Japanese gardening tool) to dig up the roots seem to be the most efficacious course of action, though it is a long course. Less fearsome weeds including Bristly ox tongue (Picris echioides) and Dove's-foot Crane's-bill (Geranium molle) also appear, and can be sprayed or easily plucked. In addition to the regular weeding of the garden, I have on my maintenance schedule to prune the trees and shrubs and cut the grasses to the ground in late winter.
Another duty of mine as a horticulturalist is the adjustment of irrigation systems, and this has been tested in the savanna- I had to replace a broken head, fix a cracked lateral, monitor the unreliable valve, and because of the garden's unusual shape (curved triangle) it being difficult to achieve head to head coverage without any over spray; with a very slim margin of wiggle room on the arc of each head, I have found it necessary to adjust the rotor heads periodically as they slip/slide and begin to spray into the path.
Our future plans include adding Arctotis, Ixia and Watsonia to the garden, and we will at the Member's Nite event be exchanging four-inch pots of the amazing Juncus effusus 'Afro' rush for the nominal contribution of $5 to raise money to this cause. I hope to see you there!
Thanks for reading, I gladly welcome any questions or comments.
-Landscape-Horticulturalist Devon Curry-Leech


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The IWC Shouldn't Be A Place Where Great Ideas Die...
by, 06-10-2013 at 03:39 AM (5722 Views)
It's been a while since I wrote on the How to Regain a Loyal Fan series. Being that I am OCD of sorts, I don't like the idea of leaving this unfinished. However, I made a bit of an error in my 12 critical points and even writing the title to this blog made me cringe a bit. If you want to know what they are, simply follow the links to my other blogs to understand what I laid out over a year ago. If not, all you need to know is that I expressed 12 things that need to happen in the wrestling industry, and this topic is one of them. I still feel solid in saying that there are some great ideas in the IWC for the wrestling product, booking, storylines, and dream matches… But some ideas need to die in the IWC.
I have taken this long to write on this subject because I have come to accept the fact that blogging in general is just a chance for some who think their ideas are the only way that wrestling should operate. It's a soapbox for the disillusioned to rant and rave about what is shit, or what miracle push to a superstar will make everything magically better for everyone; even if you don't agree, it will be better because it is what I want to happen and I know best. This idea needs to die in the IWC.
Such selfishness and egotism makes me happy that the creative departments ignore the masses in the IWC. We all have this thought that since we have been fans for so long, we know how things should be done; everyone else is out of touch with reality. Yet the corporation that is WWE turns millions of dollars in profit each year. TNA still registers their million viewers each week, all without doing what IWC member X said HAS TO BE DONE in order to be a successful company putting out a successful program.
I am proud to be a knowledgeable wrestling fan who has in-depth conversation about something I am passionate about with other who share the same enthusiasm for the program, but far too often I feel that those who are "inside" the industry I love are right; (Some) Internet fans should just shut the hell up.
I wrote a blog a while back about the Top Feud in Wrestling and it still stands as the biggest battle; Fans versus other Fans. Perhaps this is one of the things that factors into my feelings about the IWC at the moment. Far too often we see IWC fans taking cheap shots at other products; this idea needs to die in the IWC. Sure, I can crack a few jokes about how bad Claire Lynch was for TNA.
I can also take a few shots at how bland the WWE product has been for a while. A quick jab about the "Big Signing" for Dixie being a fighter who will see more time on Bellator than in TNA. A blow to WWE about how their poster boy has been running the same shtick for the past decade. I have no issues with specifically identifying things that you feel to be "silly" or "annoying" with a product. But the IWC seems to have become less of a place to discuss these things, and more of a place to call all things related to promotion X as "shit" and then leave it at that.
No thought behind why you think WWE/TNA is a shit product; "it sucks" is apparently the depth of thought that the new generation of fan can register. I am not sure if this is just the sad state that society has come to, or if the Internet Wrestling Community as a whole is slowly losing their ability to have a discussion about something they are spending hours of time invested into weekly. What gives?
When I wrote that the IWC shouldn't be a place where great ideas die, I had an upbeat message. I was going to steer you towards how you can provide each company in question with positive feedback as to what elements of their product they should be focusing on. A place to provide information to these companies what you would hope to see in their show.
Think of it as those in the IWC being a focus group for the brands that we most enjoy; we the consumer have a chance to voice our honest feedback to these people about what we like about their product. There are even websites set up for this sole purpose.
However I am reluctant to pass such information along to the masses of the IWC based on the reasoning that I don't think the majority can actually provide "positive feedback" to these companies because all I seem to encounter these days are the "this sucks" types (this also needs to die in the IWC).
Such "constructive criticism" by such deep thinkers would blow the minds of those who take the time to read the feedback they are given; yes they read what you write and sometimes will even send you a responding email, thanking you for your input as a fan and commenting on your ideas.
Yes, the IWC does have some GREAT ideas. Austin Aries vs. Kurt Angle, how to incorporate the Wyatt Family to make an immediate impact, potential directions for The Shield, Who should be the cause of A&8's demise; there has been excellent discussion on such great topics or potential booking of dream matches.
But this great discussion gets lost among those with the "look at me" complex who state that "it sucks" or care only to make negative comments about something without providing any sort of thought as to a countering or "better" direction to take things in. Some who do take the time to think of what they want to see are quick to dismiss any counter opinion or thought as "stupid" because it's not what THEY as an individual want to see.
There are VERY few in the IWC at the moment that I feel could actually give their constructive criticism on what they think should happen and be okay with the product if it doesn't go in the direction they would like, thinking about the masses and not the individual fan that they are. Don't get me wrong, I too have been guilty of such thoughts at times. However, I am not so dense as to think that people should ONLY eat chocolate ice cream and that every other flavor "sucks". Such idiotic thinking should die in the IWC.
As always, feel free to comment and I will reply as I can. Have a different opinion? Make your valid points as I always enjoy hearing them. Like what you read? Subscribe to this series and follow along as I continue giving my take on how the industry is progressing and regressing simultaneously.
If you feel like you've missed the direction of this blog, check out the previous blog archives and catch up a bit on where my opinions are based from(this will also help you understand why I choose the word "loyal") and what the goal of this series truly is; How to regain loyal fans.


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A WYCOMBE family got more than they bargained for when they picked up a bag of salad to go with their dinner – a 'huge' live locust.
Richard Loughton reached for the Marks & Spencer salad he purchased from Marylebone station to go alongside the pasta bake he had made for his family when he noticed the insect crawling around inside the bag.
Wife Kate told the Daily Mail: "I think because we opened the bag and gave it some oxygen it perked up and started munching on the lettuce. It was a shock.
"It really ruined our Friday night dinner. It was disgusting. I have no idea how it got in there without anybody noticing, it was huge, about two inches.
"You just don't expect to open your salad and for there to be a locust inside."
The family rang M&S to ask what they should do with the two-inch critter and were told to return it to the shop. They were also given £10 compensation.
M&S said the salad originated from 'trusted suppliers' in Italy and Spain.
The retailer apologised and said: "Quality is extremely important to us and we are working closely with our supplier to investigate the incident further."


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世界の美意識はこんなに違った! 1人の女性を20カ国以上でフォトショップ加工
When Kristen Stewart (awkwardly) posed on the cover of Glamour's November issue, she too fell victim to the photoshop madness. The potentially cute photo is ruined by a strange choice to cut off half of her arm (which somehow disappears into her leg).
In the ad, Victoria's Secret model Lais Ribeiro stands with her torso bent at an angle, but from our viewpoint, it looks like VS spliced two halves of two separate photos together to create one model, bisected by her arms. There's no way any human can have that whittled a ribcage, right? Right?
We know for sure that Drew has some sexy curves. Where are her hips?
When we first saw these photos of Namibian model Behati Prinsloo for Juicy Couture's fall 2012 jean line, we expected to see signs of Photoshop in Prinsloo's arms, torso or even hips. We were happy to see that the model actually looked pretty natural, until we realized that her left foot in this photo is wonky and she's missing several toes.
(ブランド「Ann Taylor」は、技術的ミスで、修正前の写真も掲載してしまった) Not only did Ann Taylor take a few inches off of a model's waist, the brand's website accidentally revealed the "before" shot, thanks to a tech glitch. The "before" is on the left, and Ann's "improved" version is on the right.
Gwyneth Paltrow is a women of many talents, but her pose in this Terry Richardson shot seems impossible.
女優ミーガン・フォックスはタトゥーマニアであり、8つのタトゥーを入れているが、雑誌『Grazia』は写真を掲載したときにそのひとつを消した。残っているのは『リア王』の一節「We will all laugh at gilded butterflies」 Grazia airbrushed one of Megan Fox's tattoos off her April cover. The tattoo that vanished? The Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." (Courtesy photo)
This just shows how advertisements mess up women's perceived image of what the "perfect" body is. This model had perfectly fine-sized breasts but either Free People or Karma Loop decided to enhance the model's right breast, and then promptly forgot to give the other one the extra lift.
Maybe this model is super-talented and rides some kind of unicycle contraption. We doubt it. This is a case of horrible photoshop. How could Neiman Marcus have assumed that this model's backside could cover up the entire half of a bike?
ブランド「Ann Taylor LOFT」の写真より In this jarring Ann Taylor LOFT photo of Linen Twill Shorts, the model appears to have a thumb emerge directly out of her arm, above the wrist. (LOFT photo)
Bloomingdales turned a perfectly innocent model into a mutant, giving her the pointiest, most elongated elbow we've ever seen.
In this printed ad from an Italian haircare line, the female model's legs seem to have gone missing... or perhaps the male model's biceps are so big they conceal them? (PSD photo)
Here's an interesting spin: model Irina Shayk claims GQ Spain Photoshopped the underwear right off of her and that she never posed in the buff. She's taking the Spanish glossy to court over the pics.
Model Angela Linvdall posed for the March cover of Vogue Mexico looking every beauty but also, very elongated. Her neck and jawline seemed to have been smoothed and stretched out or she's a modern-day Stretch Armstrong.
The leg bone is not connected to the hip bone. Period. And for more, check out a dozen or so airbrushed Angel fails.
While Anne Hathaway looked stunning on British GQ's February 2010 issue, something's not quite right with her ultra-smooth armpit...
In this J. Crew ad, someone went a little crazy with the photoshop and left some very interesting thigh cut-outs.
On the January issue of ELLE Czech, model Denisa Dvorakova's arms channeled Barbie's freakishly sharp angled limbs. Furthermore, the synthetic looking visage of her face doesn't adds to her plastic-doll appearance.
Another Ann Taylor photoshop fail...this time, they took out their airbrushing anger by amputating this poor model's arm!
Natalia Vodianova's July 2012 cover for GQ Russia has the model all out of proportion... and her hair seemingly carved out with the "lasso" tool on Photoshop.
It's hard to even tell that this Maybelline ad features the one-and-only Christy Turlington, who is so airbrushed that she's basically unrecognizable. While the supermodel has always been known for her flawless complexion, her skin is so overly retouched that it bares more resemblance to a 3D animation than Christy herself. CORRECTION: A previous version of this caption identified the makeup brand incorrectly.
Some were shocked at Kate Middleton's frail frame in her Alexander McQueen gown on her wedding day. But a Grazia magazine retoucher decided to take it up a notch by airbrushing her already tiny waist, to look just like a life-size Barbie's instead. It seems that Grazia has tried to trick us into thinking the Duchess has the worlds smallest waist.
Even though it was confirmed by a company rep that this was not Photoshopped, it still looks as if there is no horse body behind that model!
Someone messed up big time with this unrealistically photoshopped waist on Nordstrom's website. We're so distracted by her startlingly small torso that we can't even focus on the cute orange polo shirt. Note: This caption was edited for clarity's sake.
Um, should someone tell Marissa Miller that she's missing a limb? Evidently, Victoria's Secret took out a fit of retouching rage on the model's arm.
For being 44 years old, Julia Roberts looks pretty near amazing. And while the actress still looks pretty in this Lancome ad, we just wish they didn't make her skin look so freakishly smooth. From the looks of it, the retouchers airbrushed the life out of Julia Roberts' face, and gave her a plastic visage instead.
Does anyone else feel bad for this victim of retouching madness? This Talbot's photoshop abuser settled on giving this poor model only one leg.
SimpleBe, a UK brand known for catering to plus sizes, has photoshopped this models hand into, what appears to be, a claw.
This Target Australia ad contains one major mistake: there seems to be a hand resting on mom's hair. Yeah, that's an extra limb, that we assume belongs to the dad. (Target ad)
It's pretty disturbing that these Ralph Lauren photos somehow got the go-ahead to be published in the first place...The fashion label received harsh criticism for these images featuring an emaciated looking model, who actually more so resembles a bobble head on a skeletal frame. Even more alarming is that the photoshop victim, Filippa Hamilton- claims that she was actually fired by Ralph Lauren for being "too fat."
Victoria's Secret, who is a notorious fan of photoshop abuse, was up to their old tricks again. This time, Model Candice Swanepoel's shoulder joint appears to be disconnected from the rest of her body.
Kate Moss and her eight-year-old-daughter Lila Grace are as pretty as can be in this September 2011 Vogue spread. But unfortunately, Lila Grace and her poor fingers are the victims in this photoshop disaster.
Russian model Anna Selezneva has been stretched to her limit in this photo for German label Set. While her left leg is lifted onto a couch, her right leg has been attacked by some vicious monster that bit right into her thigh!
We don't think the lady model's legs make any sense in Dolce & Gabbana's ad for light blue, although, somehow, 47 percent of you thought everything looked just peachy.
By now, we're used to seeing models' bodies whittled down -- but how about reverse retouching? Like, making someone appear heavier than she is? That's what happened with Kamilla Wladyka who was Photoshopped to look healthier. For the cover of Healthy magazine.
We're not sure why someone would change Hilary Rhoda's already perfect and sky-high cheekbones to begin with-- but that didn't stop Numero Tokyo from engaging in this photoshop fail. The model's razor-sharp cheekbones were given a little too much tapering...yikes!
And On And On. This model loves Suave's Mango Mandarin body wash so much that she hasn't realized she's an amputee.
Jessica Alba is the latest victim of over-enthused retouching, on the June 2012 cover of Marie Claire. The whole cover seems washed in a bright pink haze, and something seems a little robot-y about it to us. Maybe it's the way they did her hair? (Courtesy photo)
"New Zealand's Next Top Model" came under fire for having a 16-year-old contestant pose topless, with only mud smeared across her naked breasts and then posted an unedited picture from the shoot online. The solution? A spray of Photoshopped steam covering up the girl's chest.
We still don't know what this was about but it seems more relevant than ever. Did Wills dye his hair just for the Hello cover shoot? Or was someone playing around with the color and contrast in everyone's favorite retouching program?
Louis Vuitton's fall 2010 campaign featuring models Christy Turlington, Karen Elson and Natalia Vodianova is so aesthetically pleasing to look at, that it's hard to notice this photoshop mystery. But if you look closely in the mirror, you'll see a random reflexion in the mirror that doesn't match up with the actual scene going on.
Oopsies, this model lost her funny bone when the people who were editing Alloy's catalogue released this photo.
It's one thing for model's to have endlessly long legs, but how can a human have more than two knees? Apparently, these models do. In this ad -- if you look closely -- the models' knees are bending but not where the skirt is bending. Optical illusion? Who knows.
We know Ralph likes to retouch his models, but can't he leave the animals alone? We're guessing that's an entirely new head on the dog wearing a Polo and that he was just dropped into the image on the right.
Kim Kardashian has always embraced her curvy figure--but the original and untouched photo that Complex.com accidentally posted of a thinner Kim says otherwise.
This photoshop faux-pass is brought to you by H&M, who decided to give this model a face lift...but literally. We're not quite sure why they choose to make her entire face disappear from a 45 degree view, but whatever the reason, it seriously freaks us out.
Photoshop was used and abused on the cover of Charlize Theron's Los Angeles Confidential cover. Her hand looks more like a paw (or claw) as it appears that her fingers have all melted together-- creepy!
We're pretty sure that a child was responsible for scribbling up (and coloring in) this photoshop fail. The sketchy image from Walmart appears to be selling a bikini top...but we can't really tell.
This Campari campaign morphed Jessica Alba into a much (much) thinner version of herself. While she looks perfectly fit in both images, if the originals hadn't been leaked, we probably would have actually believed the lies...But unfortunately this wasn't the case.
While this isn't exactly the worst (or most obvious) photoshop flub we've seen, the original footage from this Ann Taylor campaign tells a different story. The screenshot, taken from a "behind-the-scenes" video, is a much more accurate portrayal of Naomi Watts- who looks way too overly airbrushed in the final version.
Is it just us, or does Paris Hilton looks faker than ever on this Vanity Fair cover? Her strangely smooth face actually sort of creeps us out to be honest.
Just wondering, but who is that girl in those recent Rimmel ads? The faulty campaign featured a photoshopped image of someone who resembled a Zooey Deschanel lookalike with plastic surgery gone wrong.
Last time we checked, Khloe Kardashian is noticeably taller than both Kim and Kourtney...Khloe, who at 5'10 normally towers over her pint-sized sisters, apparently shrunk down to "fit" the frame for this Sears campaign shot by Annie Leibovitz. And what's going on with Khloe's right hand?
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Matter is composed only of sensations. And the only real, absolute being is Allah. This means that only Allah exists; all things except Him are shadow beings. Allah is surely "everywhere" and encompasses all. Everything that exists is an image projected to us by Allah.
Since material beings are each a perception, they cannot see Allah; but Allah sees the matter that He created in all its forms. That is, we cannot grasp Allah's being with our eyes, but Allah has thoroughly encompassed us from the inside, from the outside, in looks and in thoughts. We cannot utter any word unless it is with His knowledge, nor can we even take a breath.
While we watch these sensory perceptions in the course of our lives, the closest being to us is not any one of these sensations, but Allah Himself. The secret of the following verse in the Qur'an is concealed in this reality:
"It is We Who created man, and We know what dark suggestions his soul makes to him: for We are nearer to him than (his) jugular vein." (Surah Qaf, 16)
When a human being thinks that his body is made up only of "matter," he cannot comprehend this important fact. If he takes his brain to be "himself," then the place that he accepts to be the outside is 20-30 cm away from him. However, when he understands that there is nothing such as matter, and that everything is imagination, notions such as outside, inside, far or near lose their meaning. Allah has encompassed him and He is "infinitely close" to him.2009-01-15 14:42:29


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DRAGONS, snakes and lions took over Windmill Hill Day Nursery for a week-long celebration of Chinese New Year.
The children were treated to a visit from Jonathan's Jungle Roadshow, which included live milk snakes to celebrate the year of the snake.
They also had a session with professional dance teacher Jemma Turland, who took the dragon and lion-masked children through their steps in a special garden routine while other children played Chinese music on home-made drum kits.
Deputy manager Laura Malyon said: "The celebrations provide so many opportunities to be imaginative and creative, and the learning opportunities are endless from studying animals up close to measuring ingredients in the baking of traditional treats."
For Nursery Practitioner Haoling Lewis, the celebrations brought back happy memories of her childhood in northern China and Beijing.
"The children have been putting little red money wallets on the orange tree at nursery reminding me of the excitement I felt as a child when I woke to find money gifts under my pillow in Pingin," she said.
The master of ceremonies for the celebrations, Haoling, helped pre-schoolers make an English version of traditional Chinese dumplings using jam, and gave advice to the children as they made individual lion masks.
Haoling also provided 56 different national and regional costumes for the children to dress up, and role-play corners were turned into a Chinese kitchen and restaurant.


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Four Stars Trail Race
Muddy Monk
Saturday, September 21, 2013 at 10:30 AM (CDT)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
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Event Details
Beers, Da Bears, hot dogs without ketchup, summer days on Lake Shore, winter nights wherever it's warm, praying for D. Rose to get healthy and stay healthy, the Cubbies and Sox breaking our hearts every year, deep dish pizza...yeah, Chicago rules.
Come out and celebrate being from the greatest city on the planet while hitting the trails. The Four Stars is a four mile trail race followed by beers, Chicago style hot dogs, music, and hanging out with good friends.
The Four Stars trail race will take place on the trails of the Des Plaines River Trail (start/finish will be located at the Cubby Bear North). Come tackle the beautiful single and double track course that offers some great natural obstacles. You'll be jumping over downed trees, forging through multiple creek crossings, dodging roots and rocks, and forgetting why you ever liked running on roads. The trail is great for those new to trail running, but will also offer some challenges to the most seasoned trail nut.
All trail runners will receive a free beer*, a Four Stars tech t-shirt, a Four Stars bib, a unique, Chicago themed finisher's prize, free Chicago style hot dog bar, along with free drinks and snacks.
We will also have a costume contest! The costumes must be Chicago-themed, so rack your brains about our beloved city and think of a great costume! Costume contest winners will be awarded richly!
The race will begin at 10:30am on Saturday, September 21, 2013.
Price schedule is as follows:
$32 until July 31
$35 from August 1 to August 31
$40 from September 1 to race day
Get a team of 5 or more together and save! All season passes are active for this event.
This race will count towards both the Popes of Avignon and Plenary Indulgence challenges.
When & Where
Cubby Bear North
21661 N Milwaukee Ave
Saturday, September 21, 2013 at 10:30 AM (CDT)
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Muddy Monk
We love people. We love Chicago. We love trail running. And we love good beer. We thought it would be a good idea to combine them all. Why not, right?
Our goal is to provide Chicagoland with the best possible trail running experience. From the course design to the staff at the aid stations to the beer served at the after party, our #1 goal is for you to have the best time possible.
We are partnering with local small businesses in the Chicagoland area to start a series of trail races beginning in the fall of 2012.
Hope to see you on the trail soon!


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2008 Toyota Values & Prices | For 2008 Toyota re-designed the Sequoia 2008 and made minor style changes on the Avalon. The 2008 Toyota models included the Highlander, 2008 Toyota Corolla and 2008 Land Cruiser. We also publish the model history of the Toyota Land Cruiser and all current Toyota dealer incentives.
Select a 2008 Toyota model below to get used trade-in values and retail prices
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2008 Toyota 4Runner
A four-door SUV with great off-road capability, the 2008 Toyota 4Runner is offered with RWD or 4WD and the V8 version is rated to tow up to 7,300 lbs.
2008 Toyota Avalon
The 2008 Toyota Avalon, a premium full-size sedan, has a new six-speed automatic transmission and light updates to the exterior styling.
2008 Toyota Camry
The gold-standard in the mid-size sedan category, the 2008 Toyota Camry carries over from a redesigned 2007 model and depending on the trim, can achieve 28 - 31 mpg on the highway.
2008 Toyota Camry Hybrid
The 2008 Toyota Camry Hybrid is a mid-size sedan with a powertrain designed for fuel economy to the tune of 33 mpg city and 34 mpg highway.
2008 Toyota Camry Solara
A mid-size two-door, the 2008 Toyota Camry Solara is available as a coupe or a convertible and is offered with a 155 hp four-cylinder or a 210 hp six-cylinder.
2008 Toyota Corolla
The 2008 Toyota Corolla is a compact sedan that is powered by a 1.8L four-cylinder which is capable of a very efficient 28 mpg in the city and 37 mpg on the highway.
2008 Toyota FJ Cruiser
A retro-inspired off-road capable SUV, the 2008 Toyota FJ Cruiser now features standard side curtain airbags among its long list of safety equipment.
2008 Toyota Highlander
A mid-size crossover, the 2008 Toyota Highlander is redesigned and features more interior space for increased cargo and comfort.
2008 Toyota Highlander Hybrid
The 2008 Toyota Highlander Hybrid is a mid-size crossover hybrid that is redesigned for the model year for increased interior volume and is powered by a powertrain that is capable of 27 mpg city and 25 mpg highway.
2008 Toyota Land Cruiser
Now with more power thanks to the 381 hp 5.7L V8, the 2008 Toyota Land Cruiser is a large and luxurious SUV that offers seating for up to eight passengers.
2008 Toyota Matrix
A sporty wagon, the 2008 Toyota Matrix is fun and safe at the same time with a zippy 1.8L engine and a five-star safety rating.
2008 Toyota Prius
The hybrid that sets the standards, the four-door 2008 Toyota Prius is powered by a combination gas and electric motor which pushes the Prius to an astounding 48 mpg in the city and 45 mpg on the highway.
2008 Toyota RAV4
The 2008 Toyota RAV4 is a compact SUV that offers a 3rd row of seating to increase capacity to seven-passengers and has increased the list of items on the standard safety equipment for the new model year.
2008 Toyota Sequoia
Redesigned for the new year, the 2008 Toyota Sequoia is a large SUV with seating for up to eight passengers and two V8 engines to choose from.
2008 Toyota Sienna
Now offered with Bluetooth on all trims, the 2008 Toyota Sienna is a minivan that is able to seat seven or eight depending on the re-configurable second row of seats.
2008 Toyota Tacoma
The 2008 Toyota Tacoma is a compact pickup truck available in multiple cab-styles, bed lengths, and in 2WD or 4WD.
2008 Toyota Tundra 2WD Truck
A full-size pickup truck with multiple bed lengths and cab-styles, the 2008 Toyota Tundra 2WD pickup truck is a capable and stylish workhorse.
2008 Toyota Tundra 4WD Truck
The 2008 Toyota Tundra 4WD Truck is a full-size pickup offered in an array of cab-styles and available in a choice of 3 engines.
2008 Toyota Yaris
An entry-level subcompact available as a hatchback or sedan, the 2008 Toyota Yaris has seating for five passengers and achieves a very economical 29 mpg city and 36 mpg highway.


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How do you like this custom made mission style table crafted by Lyndon Furniture?
On the way home after Thanksgiving dinner at Gramma's, we stopped by a housewarming party in St Johnsbury, Vermont. Bill and Peggy C. have just finished a spectacular timber-frame home that's nestled into the top of a mountainside, featuring gorgeous views of the meadows below.
The view of the natural setting is breath-taking, but the scenery inside the home is also awe-inspiring. The two world travelers have assembled such an interesting collection of art from all around the world!
We were excited to see many pieces of custom furniture that we had crafted for them. This photo is an octagonal mission style table that Bill designed along with matching mission chairs.
For the custom table, we started with our American Mission Dining Table. Bill liked the base pieces so we took 3 of them and arranged them in a triangle to make his base. Then we changed the top shape from rectangular to octagonal.
I love the way it turned out! If you're looking for custom furniture at an affordable price, Lyndon Furniture should be at the top of your list. Give us a call at Vermont Woods Studios and we'll help you find (or design) exactly what you're looking for!
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This blog is written by your friends at Vermont Woods Studios. Check out our Vermont made furniture and home decor online and visit our showroom and art gallery at Stonehurst, the newly restored 1800s farmhouse nestled in the foothills of the Green Mountains.


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Terry Anderson
Sat, 04/13/2013
VIDEO: Terry Anderson explains how his Montana roots led to the development of free market environmentalism, which is about finding a way to respect one another's rights and then cooperate.
Ethan Turpin
Tue, 11/01/2016
In "Walk Into Wildfire," artists Ethan Turpin and Jonathan PJ Smith arranged life-sized recordings from U.S. Forest Service research cameras to give an otherwise unsurvivable point-of-view.
Dave Wager
Fri, 09/09/2016
VIDEO: See time the way nature does. Enviroprener Dave Wager makes tree ring watches and pens, which tell the stories of trees and the forests he restores.
Terry Anderson
Thu, 08/25/2016
VIDEO: For the National Park Service Centennial, Terry Anderson talks to Wall Street Journal live about how to get the politics out of America's national treasures.
Reed Watson
Tue, 05/17/2016
In a new video from ReasonTV, Reed Watson explains how government created an artificial shortage of our most essential resource.
Ethan Turpin
Wed, 03/23/2016
VIDEO: Installation artist and Enviropreneur Institute alum Ethan Turpin works to bridge the gap between researchers and the public.
Terry Anderson
Tue, 11/03/2015
Every time hunting is banned, we end up with fewer animals. From lions and bison, to marine fisheries, John Stossel interviews Terry Anderson about property rights approaches to species conservation.
Tue, 11/03/2015
Nature causes drought but water shortages are manmade. John Stossel interviews water economist and PERC alum Zack Donohew.
Holly Fretwell
Mon, 10/19/2015
What does sustainability mean? Holly Fretwell discusses the costs and benefits of recycling and waste management with John Stossel.
Terry Anderson
Mon, 08/10/2015
On MSNBC's Sports Matters, Terry Anderson discusses hunting as a tool for conservation.


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Saving Cheetahs & Leopards in Namibia
Namibia has more cheetahs than any other country in the world, but even here these speedy creatures are in a race for their lives. I visited Naankuse, a wildlife rescue center in Namibia that is trying to save the cheetah and other iconic African animals. Cheetahs who will let you scratch their back, a caracal…


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In Saint Mauront Catholic school in Marsille, 80 percent of the students are Muslim and they study Arabic as elective course.
With Western Europe"s largest Muslim community, France has become home to five million Muslims. France has only four Muslim schools so the 8,847 Roman Catholic schools embrace Muslims. It's estimated that Muslim students now form more than 10 percent of the two million students in Catholic schools in which good manners count alongside higher academic standards.
Imam Soheib Bencheikh, a former grand mufti in Marseille and founder of its Higher Institute of Islamic Studies, speaks of Catholic schools as follows: "It"s ironic, but today the Catholic church is more tolerant of, and knowledgeable about, Islam than the French state,"
Catholic schools apply the same curriculum as state schools and as of religious activities; they give freedom to their students. When the lunch bell rings, girls and boys leave their classrooms, heading for Muslim midday prayer
Being asked why they chose Catholic school, "We share the same God," said Zohra Hanane, mother of one of the students. "There is respect for our religion here," said Nadia Oualane, 14, expressing her gratitude for being in such an environment.
Both Christians and Muslims believe in same Allah. So both sides embrace each other with love and receive education together in a tolerant environment. Our Almighty Lord conveys the basis of this tolerant approach in the Qur'an as follows:
"...and nearest among them in love to the believers wilt thou find those who say, "We are Christians": because amongst these are men devoted to learning and men who have renounced the world, and they are not arrogant." (Al-Máída, 82)2008-08-25 00:00:00


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Did you know?
The name Polokwane means 'place of safety' in the local Sesotho language.
The Meropa Casino & Entertainment World rises up like an ancient African palace under modern skies. Palm trees wave as you enter a world of fun and entertainment. This Polokwane casino and entertainment complex offers a tempting choice of clubs, conference venues, coffee shops and restaurants.
Part of the well established Sun International group, the Meropa Casino & Entertainment World boasts a pleasant and spacious hotel set in landscaped gardens. The décor here is Afro-chic – tall pots, enormous pillars and archways, domed roofs.
Children really love the Meropa Casino & Entertainment World's Wild World outdoor area, with WildThingZ the definite highlight.
The first of its kind on the continent, this incredible multi-species enclosure contains a bird and reptile park as well as a butterfly park and insectarium.
Viv Bristow, a wildlife expert and animal trainer for Hollywood movies, together with Trevor Oertel, a raptor expert, created WildThingZ. It really is mind-blowing stuff for kids and adults alike – you'll get to see everything from the daintiest, prettiest butterflies to the scariest-looking snakes, spiders and scorpions.
If you're in the mood for music, head for Meropa's Jembe Tavern, a cosmopolitan club that hosts live comedy, cabaret and music. South African musicians ranging from kwaito king Mandoza and pop pied pipers Just Jinger, to jazz supremo Paul Hamner, have all played here.
Meropa's small but classy casino is run with Smart Card technology. Smart Cards replace coins, providing you with hours of hassle-free fun. There are 17 table games including roulette and blackjack, and 100s of slot machines, including the ever-popular Dream Machine and Poker Magic, and a Poker Lounge.
And if you need some relaxation, visit the Mangwanani Day Spa, or discover local culture at the Cultural Village.
Travel tips & Planning info
Who to contact
Meropa Casino & Entertainment World
Tel: +27 (0)15 290 5400
Email: email@example.com
How to get here
From Johannesburg take the N1 north to Polokwane. The Meropa Casino & Entertainment World is well signposted as you enter the city. GPS co-ordinates: S 23 56.583 E 29 25.297
Where to stay
There is a Sun International hotel within the Meropa Casino & Entertainment World complex that features family rooms, executive suites and honeymoon suites.
What to eat
Enjoy a classy meal at Kiba Club, an upmarket African restaurant in the Meropa Casino & Entertainment World.
Best buys
Head for the Mall of the North, Limpopo's biggest shopping mall, for some serious retail therapy.