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Father's Day this year was particularly special for Matthew McConaughey. Not only was it his first as a dad to 11-month-old son Levi, but the actor also revealed his Brazilian girlfriend Camila Alves is pregnant with their second child.
"We have more blessed news to celebrate this Father's day that (will) make this time next year double the fun," the 39-year-old wrote on his website on Sunday night.
"Levi is going to be a big brother…Yeah, we pulled off the greatest miracle in the world one more time, Camila and I are expecting our second child, bringing more life into the world, making more to live for."
"The future looks bright as the family grows and we thank you for all the well wishes you send our way. Viva la evolucion, naturally, and in the meantime and all the time, just keep livin', Matthew and Camila."
The Texan star, who has described fatherhood as "a wild, wonderful adventure", and his 26-year-old partner welcomed their first baby Levi on July 7 2008 in Los Angeles
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The Charitable Firetruck
The donor advised fund is one of the most economically efficient ways to give. Especially at the end of the year. Download the EzCharitable Excel DAF Illustrator to show your clients why.
Last month, Randy Fox wrote an article on the PGDC titled "It's now or Never." Well, we are getting very close to never. But there's one thing you can suggest your clients can do at the end of the year and they take very little time.
I've created a downloadable Excel spreadsheet that you can use immediately that will illustrate the donor advised fund (a charitable firetruck).
This spreadsheet illustrates how a donor advised fund might work for your clients over time. The DAF eliminates the sometimes-stressful decision as to which charities they should make their gifts. There's nothing like a little good advice at the end of the year to cement your relationship with your client.
The DAF is an extremely useful tool. It separates the WHEN from the TO WHOM. The when is many times for income tax purposes, and that's usually at the end of the year. The DAF allows the clients to decide to give without the stress of the to which charities.
The Charitable Firetruck
I have a friend who is very philanthropic. She told me her checkbook was her "philanthropic firehose!" She just turned on the water when she saw a fire she wanted to extinguish for a charity. I told her that perhaps she wanted to set up a parking lot for the firetruck the hose was attached to. She had a quizzical look on her face.
I explained to her that she could set up a donor advised fund as the parking lot for her firetruck and at any time (for tax purposes) she could just fill up the water tank on the truck. She could then turn on the water by making grants from her DAF (firetruck) any time she saw a fire.
I explained to her that this simply separated two different decisions she needed to make. The first being when to make that charitable gift where it would be the most advantageous from a tax standpoint (thus allowing her to put more water in the tank). The other being when the fire started, which in many cases is an unknown! This eliminates stress and possible mistakes as to where she made her gifts without time for any due diligence to see if there was really a fire.
The holidays are not a time when you want to be pressed with additional decisions when your advisor suggests you may want to make your charitable gifts before January 1st to eliminate some unwanted additional income tax.
Perhaps you could suggest a parking lot for your clients this year. They are simple to establish. Just contact your local community foundation. A warning here, the sponsoring charity does need to have time to decide whether they want to receive the gift to the fund or not. That's why I'm suggesting marketable securities. They're simple if the brokerage firm has their charitable act together. So, don't wait until Dec 31st! Mutual funds generally take longer. Consult with the sponsor of the DAF.
Let me know if you have any questions or comments below.
Lee Hoffman
Submitted by Jill Arnold Blickhan on Wed, 12/06/2017 - 16:09
Re: The Charitable Firetruck
Because these are copyrighted, may I have permission to copy and share your article and the calculator with the professional advisors in our community foundation's service area? I definitely appreciate your mention of community foundations as the place to establish a DAF!

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Although I'm currently sitting here, patiently waiting for my tester copy, (hint hint) the latest cookbook from my favorite vegan superhero & author, Isa Chandra Moskowitz, Appetite for Reduction has hit the shelves – so it's time for a fond look back.
This marks the fourth Post Punk Kitchen book I've been a recipe tester for – which is so.much.fun. While I didn't have as much time on my hands or mouths to feed as I used to, and didn't test every single recipe, I did made a bunch of satisfying dishes that I'll round up below. Whether you're looking for more responsible, vegetable dominated entrees, oil-cutting tips, healthy meal plan inspiration, or straight up, great and usually gourmet vegan cuisine, you should pick up this book! And try to do it from a vegan business, like Herbivore, Cosmo's, Never Felt Better or Food Fight!, if possible. Is free shipping really that enticing? Does Amazon offer this shirt, or this one?
Some of my favorites:
- 40 Clove Chickpea & Garlic – I've seriously made this countless times, and usually up the garlic even more (spoiler alert: there's not actually 40 cloves in the recipe)
- Surefire Seitan – This was my go-to seitan recipe this past year.
- Braised Seitan & Cabbage – This one surprised me in how much I liked it. Plus, it's super easy if you have the seitan already made, and cabbage contains fiber and vitamin c and you should probably be eating more of it!
- Pasta con Broccoli – Simple and great – especially topped with one of the baked tofu options in the book. Like I'm not going to love a healthier version of a classic Italian dish full of more broccoli & garlic…
- Thai Green Beans – Again – so easy, but so flavorful.
- Jerk Asparagus – Ditto! You should have these spices in your house anyway, and await the countdown to one of spring's first contenders.
- Curried Tofu – One of those recipes you'll find yourself making semi-weekly after trying it.
- Apple Miso Tofu – because it's another one casserole dish entree, and it's just so unique!
- Ginger Soba with Bok Choy – it's literally ginger, soba, and bok choy, and that's so, so right.
- Black-Eyed Peas & Greens – purposely reminiscent of the Bye & Bye's dish, and another I find myself making regularly. With the buzz about the book popping up over the last week, it was the first recipe that came to mind and that I just had to make this past weekend.
And these are just a few favorites. Crazy, but I don't have photos for everything. Sometimes I forgot, or the lighting was awful, or the dish was being transported elsewhere, or I was just…really hungry. Off the top of my head, I know the Ethiopian Mushroom Tibs are missing, and probably a few others…
Without further adieu, my Appetite for Reduction photos:
40 Clove Chickpea & Garlic
Pasta con Broccoli (pictured with red wine roasted mushrooms)
Smokey Split Pea Soup
Pineapple Collards – oh, I really dug this, too!
Broiled Blackened Tofu
Curry Baked Tofu and Orange Scented Broccoli
Curried Chickpeas and Greens – hello, delicious lunch for the week!
Apple Miso Tofu (pictured with a chiffonade of miner's lettuce and brown rice)
Curried Cabbage and Peas
Red Curry Tofu – how pretty is this?! bonus = it's baked!
Thai Green Beans
Fussilli Roasted Veggie Primavera – okay, more and more favorites
Herb Roasted Cauliflower and Breadcrumbs
Cashew Miso Mayo – yeah, you read that right!
Surefire Seitan (pictured baked with chickpea breading)
Silky Chickpea Gravy (pictured with whole wheat biscuits)
Hoisin Tofu Lettuce Wrap (pictured with cabbage shells)
Red Wine & Kalamata Tempeh (pictured with mashed potatoes) – hello, classy!
Ginger Soba with Bok Choy
Vietnamese Salad with grilled tofu
Quicky BBQ Tofu
Curried Summer Loving Corn Chowder
Black Eyed Peas & Greens (pictured with cornmeal baked tofu)
Jerk Asparagus
Braised Seitan & Cabbage
Now, I'm sorry there are no before and after shots of my butt to show my own weightloss progress during this round of testing. Truthfully, some of these dishes were made over a year ago, I wasn't focused on hiding my oil – because that can be crazy, and I make a point to be comfortable with my weight, my body, and myself, no matter what. Vegans come in all shapes and sizes, too!
That being said, I'm currently on week 12 of a new workout/activity plan, where there's less beer, laziness, and more vegetables and whole grains in my diet lately, but I just hate using that word, so back to my point –
This book is not only full of wholesome, creative, special-diet-friendly recipes – it's full of truth one can relate to, and a whole lot of healthy inspiration.
For sample recipes, check out the PPK book page.
For prettier photos, check out the flickr photo set from the wonders behind What the Hell Does A Vegan Eat Anyway?
If you have the book already, I'd love to hear other recs. And while you're at it, leave Isa a review on Amazon and Goodreads and spread the word!


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Sub Pop Makes Record Store Day 2012 Worth Living with Releases from Beach House, Blitzen Trapper, and Shabazz Palaces
Pre-orders for the new Beach House Album Bloom start today, March 20th!
Terminal Sales Vol. 5: Mixed Nuts, Sub Pop's FREE 16-track 2012 label sampler will also be available on Record Store Day.
We love few things more than Record Store Day. We'll be demonstrating and celebrating this love on April 21, 2012 with an array of exclusive and limited-edition releases featuring new, rare and unreleased tracks from Beach House, Blitzen Trapper, and Shabazz Palaces. On this same day, we will also release our FREE 2012 label sampler, Terminal Sales Vol. 5: Mixed Nuts, a 16-track collection of new, rare, and, in some cases, previously released tracks from Beachwood Sparks, Jaill, Shearwater, THEESatisfaction, Spoek Mathambo, Debo Band, King Tuff, and 9 more. All Sub Pop Record Store Day releases come with exclusive and ridiculously handsome artwork. Full track lists and release details are below.
In further Beach House news: fans can now pre-order the band's May 15, 2012 release Bloom from iTunes (Pre-order Bloom from iTunes and get a download of the song "Myth" instantly), Amazon, Insound, (Pre-order from Insound and get a free Beach House poster) and Sub Pop. Fans who pre-order the vinyl LP format of the new record directly from Sub Pop will receive the limited, white vinyl Loser Edition. All pre-orders (CD and LP) will receive a bonus poster. A new Bloom t-shirt design is also available for pre-order from subpop.com.
Beach House
"Lazuli" b/w "Equal Mind" 7" single
(Limited-edition of 2,400 copies on blue vinyl)
1. Lazuli
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Beach House
Pre-order: iTunes / Amazon / Insound / Sub Pop
Blitzen Trapper
"Hey Joe" b/w "Skirts on Fire" 7" single
(Limited-edition of 1,800 on yellow vinyl)
1. Hey Joe
2. Skirts on Fire
Shabazz Palaces
Live at KEXP 12" EP
(From the band's spectacular 2011 live session on KEXP, one of the station's most popular live sessions, limited-edition of 2,000 copies on purple vinyl)
1. bop hard
2. An echo from the hosts that profess infinitum
3. a mess, the booth that soaks in palacian musk
4. free press and curl
Various Artists
Terminal Sales Vol. 5: Mixed Nuts
1. Shearwater "You as You Were" (demo version)
2. Memoryhouse "Walk With Me"
3. feedtime "rock n roll"
4. Spoek Mathambo "Kites"
5. THEESatisfaction "QueenS"
6. Poor Moon "People in Her Mind"
7. Retribution Gospel Choir "The Stone (Revolution!)"
8. Shabazz Palaces "bop hard"(From the Live at KEXP 12" EP)
9. Father John Misty "Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings"
10. Beach House "Myth"
11. King Tuff "Bad Thing"
12. Jaill "Waste a Lot of Things"
13. Beachwood Sparks "Forget the Song"
14. Debo Band "Asha Gedawo"
15. Husky "History's Door"
16. Niki & The Dove "DJ, Ease My Mind"
More About Record Store Day
This is the one day that all of the independently owned record stores come together with artists to celebrate the art of music. Special vinyl and CD releases and various promotional products are made exclusively for the day and hundreds of artists in the United States and in various countries across the globe make special appearances and performances. Festivities include performances, cook-outs, body painting, meet and greets with artists, parades, djs spinning records and on and on. Metallica officially kicked off Record Store Day at Rasputin Music in San Francisco on April 19, 2008 and Record Store Day is now celebrated the third Saturday every April. In 2012, Record Store Day takes place April 21st.


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Dance On Film: First Position
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A film by Bess Kargman.
The Dance on Film series is presented by Bud Werner Memorial Library, Perry-Mansfield and Steamboat Dance Theatre. The free screening includes an introduction by dance history professor and Perry-Mansfield Executive Director Joan Lazarus.
"Irresistible… a slam dunk." - The New York Times
Poignant. Hilarious. Heartbreaking." - Los Angeles Times
"Marvelous. Breathtaking...a real-life Billy Elliiot. So profound as to be unfathomable." - The Wall Street Journal
"Irresistible. A valentine to the art. Director Kargman triumphs by picking characters who largely defy expectations." - Time Magazine
About First Position
Every year, thousands of aspiring dancers enter one of the world's most prestigious ballet competitions, the Youth America Grand Prix, where lifelong dreams are at stake. In the final round, with hundreds competing for only a handful of elite scholarships and contracts, nothing short of perfection is acceptable. Bess Kargman's award-winning, box office hit documentary First Position follows six extraordinary dancers as they prepare for the chance to enter the world of professional ballet, struggling through bloodied feet, near exhaustion and debilitating injuries, all while navigating the drama of adolescence. A showcase of awe-inspiring talent, tenacity and passion, First Position paints a thrilling and moving portrait of the most gifted ballet stars of tomorrow.
First Position had its World Premiere at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival and was named the audience choice's first runner-up for Best Documentary. It also won the Jury Prize at the San Francisco Doc Fest, the audience award for Best Documentary at the Dallas International Film Festival, the audience award for Best Documentary at the Portland International Film Festival, and the audience award for Best Documentary at DOC NYC. Director Bess Kargman was also given the Best New Director award at the Portland International Film Festival in 2012.
Run time: 90 min.
About the film's commentator
Joan Lazarus served as Executive Director of Oakland Ballet, General Manger of Cowell Theater at Fort Mason Center, and Executive Director of WestWave Dance, an annual festival of new choreography presented in San Francisco. Joan has performed with or in the works of Alonzo King, Cliff Keuter, Ellen Bromberg, Victoria Morgan, Krissy Keefer, Frank Shawl, Bill DeYoung, Toni Pimble, Richard Colton and Alan Ptashek. She taught at the University of Oregon, Mills College, San Francisco Ballet, Dance Circle of Boston, The Princeton Ballet, RoCo Dance & Fitness, and Shawl-Anderson Dance Center, and co-authored the Dance Curriculum Guide adopted by the San Francisco Unified School District. She received Bay Area National Dance Week's Contribution to the Field of Dance Award in 2006, and in 2012 she received an Isadora Duncan Dance Award for Sustained Achievement. Lazarus was named 2011 Dance MVP by the San Francisco Chronicle. Joan joined the staff at Perry-Mansfield in June 2012.
About Dance On Film
This 2013 Dance On Film series is presented by Bud Werner Memorial Library, Perry-Mansfield and Steamboat Dance Theatre. Perry-Mansfield celebrates its 100th anniversary as the oldest continuously operating arts camp in the United States this year. Steamboat Dance Theatre is a community dance organization presenting its 41st annual concert March 14-16, 2013, in addition to year-round dance scholarships and education programs in Yampa Valley schools and throughout the community. This collaborative and educational dance film series features free screenings of the hottest new dance documentaries along with the finest classic dance films from a variety of genres filmed throughout the ages.


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My Room: Parker Olivia
A trip to the ice cream parlor may excite your taste buds, but for Lindsey it was a visual feast: When we first found out we were pregnant we knew we didn't want to find out the sex...so putting together nursery ideas was tough at first. Then we walked into a local ice cream shop and I LOVED the colors!
The walls were celery green and pale blue with pops of bright orange and purple everywhere. So we started with those colors and just went from there. We wanted the space to be modern yet whimsical, full of bright colors and fun things for a baby to take in and look at. So we decided on the light green and blue for the wall color, used tons of white to keep the space bright, and then added in pops of bright colors in all the accessories and toys. I knew that I wanted to incorporate the stripes somehow and I'm really happy that we took the time to paint all four walls. The colors that I choose were Celery Sticks and Tropical Surf by Glidden, but I wanted a zero VOC paint, so I decided on Harmony by Sherwin Williams and had them color-match (which I was really happy with).
The lanterns were my take on a classic mobile, and as my mom has pointed out, every nap and bedtime will be like a party for our little babe. The crib is BabyMod from Walmart and the crib linens are from Pixie Dust Decor. The rocker and ottoman are from Walmart as well, and I custom made the slipcovers from a few yards of white cotton duck. My husband built and painted the bookshelves, which were inspired by similar pieces from West Elm and Ikea. We picked up the dresser at a local Goodwill a few years ago and added new hardware and a fresh coat of white paint. I bought the changing pad for the top of the dresser and sewed a couple covers for it in a white chenille.
Overall I couldn't be happier with the space and am SO EXCITED to bring home our baby (due in 3 days on May 20th) and introduce him or her to the space that we took months to bring together just for him (or her).
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Hi Tim, ** Regarding Sqlite / Python ** I'm studying Python/Sqlite by querying a KJV database.
I know this is a little off topic, but would you mind sharing how you are counting the number of occurrences of a word, per verse? For example, on a normal Sqlite3 table, I can get the verse occurrences by using LIKE...
for example,
SELECT bname,cnumber, vnumber FROM kjv_bible where vtext like '%David%' ORDER BY bnumber,cnumber,vnumber;
This returns all of the chapters and verses, however it doesn't get every occurrence in a verse...for example, in 1 Samuel 17:39, David's name occurs 3 times.
I assume your probably using a Python loop or the Full Text Search feature in Sqlite, or maybe both.
It would help my studies. If you prefer email, please email.
Thanks for the great Bible study tool.


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A 1-Day Self-Guided 'Old Way' Pilgrimage from Patrixbourne to Canterbury
The Last Day of the Old Way
Patrixbourne to Canterbury
Distance: 8 miles
Sign up to download our FREE guidebook and easy-to-use digital navigation tools, so you and your friends can walk the last day of the 'Old Way' pilgrimage to Canterbury.
The route includes a wild-swimming holy well, a lost Roman pilgrim track, the smallest town in Britain, and the oldest Church in the 'English speaking world. Plus Elephants!
Bring your own Beliefs. Open to All.
This is a journey guaranteed to make you re-encounter Britain in new (and very old) ways.
The FREE guidebook will tell you where you arte going and how you can connect with the holy palces you encounter, in very traditional British ways. It will tell stories of where you are, and who has been there before you. It will share tips and tricks to help make your pilgrimage sing.
What to bring
A packed lunch; A pair of trusty walking boots; Waterproofs (if applicable); Waterbottle; Comfortable clothes and backpack.
Is this a religious pilgrimage?
If you are religiuous, you will make a religious pilgrimage. All and no-faiths are equally welcome. British Pilgrimage operates a "Bring Your Own Beliefs" policy.
That said - when you are approaching Canterbury, you should expect to find Canterbury-like things. This Cathedral is the centre of the worldwide Anglican Church. But there will be no pressure on you to subscribe to any angle or form of faith. Just follow your own path.
Are there fitness limitations?
Pilgrimage is moderately intense. If you struggle to walk all day, this type of pilgrimage may be an unsuitable activity for you right now. But if you walk slowly, and start early, we believe this is a very manageable distance for the majority of people.
Due to the stiles and off-road access along much of this route, unfortunately this pilgrimage is not suited for mobility-impaired people or those requiring wheelchair access. Sorry. We're working on good alternatives...
This pilgrimage is open to all. Bring your own beliefs.
We hope to see you on the path.
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The capital cost to build to National Broadband Network (NBN) has increased $1.4 billion to $37.4 billion, according to a revised corporate plan by NBN which was released today.
The company detailed financial figures for the NBN, such as the 3.9 per cent increase in capital expenditure, as well as a forecasted revenue drop of $600 million to $23.1 billion and an increase of $3.2 billion in operating expenditure to $26.4 billion for the FY2021.
Mike Quigley, CEO of NBN Co, said the increased cost of the NBN was a result of the inclusion of an $800 million agreement between NBN Co and Optus, which involves steady payments to Optus for migrating its customers to the NBN.
Quigley also cited the additional costs being due to anticipated technology upgrades to the fixed wireless and Long Term Satellite Service End-Users in regional and remote Australia; implementing the government's New Developments policy; and moving to a Build Drop method.
The Build Drop method would connect premises to fibre at the same time as construction of the distribution and local segments of the NBN fibre.
"Build Drop is when a fibre drop cable is installed from a connection point in the street (aerial or underground) to the nearest practical and safe installation point on the premise during the initial construction phrase," Internode states.
This compares to NBN Co's previously stated method of Demand Drop, with customers connecting to the NBN when an order is received from a retail service provider.
Capital expenditure has also been impacted by increased assumptions for network distances, according to NBN Co, which states assumptions are now more accurate than previously stated in the 2010 corporate plan.
The covered road distance for the network has increased 18,000km from 130,000km to 148,000km. The Gigabit-capable Passive Optical Network (GPON) physical distance has increased 25,000km from 181,000km 206,000km.
"Where prudent, we have built in additional costs to the plan but these are largely offset by savings we have made elsewhere. In areas where we are spending more it is generally because there are long-term benefits to NBN Co," said Robin Payne, NBN Co chief financial officer.
The company also predicts its return for the network will be 7.1 per cent, slightly higher than the 7.0 per cent previously stated.
In its revised corporate plan, NBN Co states the total forecast peak funding requirement of the NBN will be $44.1 billion (including funding costs). This will be made up of around $30.4 billion of peak government equity and around $13.7 billion of peak debt funding.
In its 2010 corporate plan, NBN Co stated the network would have a total funding requirement of $40.9 billion (including funding costs), comprising around $27.5 billion of government equity and around $13.4 billion of debt funding.
This equates to $3.2 billion in extra funding requirements.
"It is expected that total external funding would contribute up to 31 per cent of the total funding to FY2021," NBN Co states in its revised corporate plan.
Quigley today stated NBN Co would start seeking debt funding in 2015.
Premises connected
NBN Co increased its forecast for the total number of fibre premises connected for the FY2021 to 8.5 million, up from 8.3 million forecasted in NBN Co's 2010 corporate plan.
NBN said construction has commenced or will be completed on around 758,000 premises by December this year, which Conroy had stated at an earlier media briefing event.
Around 3.5 million premises are expected to be passed by mid-2015.
The NBN has experienced a nine-month delay, which NBN Co has attributed to a delay in the approval process by the ACCC of the definitive agreements between Telstra and NBN Co, an $11 billion agreement which resulted in Telstra's structural separation and the use of its network assets in the NBN.
The delay has resulted in NBN construction being extended by another six months.
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I know it's look silly to ask this here but, could someone suggest me some french and/or english poet ? I want to try a fews one but I don't know which ones to choose.
( For the french I already readed some work of Beaudelaire and Rimbaud and for the english Robert Browning, William Blake, Lord Biron and John Keath )
|2009-11-21, 09:59
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You do...realize of course that "good poetry" is the kind of term that turns docile literary scholars into bloodthirsty gladiators fighting all out death matches, right? If all art is subjective, then poetry is in its own class of quantum confusion. If all art is actually objective after all, then the snob who claims to really know good poetry is still bullshitting you anyway.
But I shall hold back my philistine posturings on poetry and list a few famed English poets for your interest:
- William Shakespeare is a playwright. Captain Obvious says he's the most famous guy to ever write rhymes in English. Captian Not-So-Obvious claims he knows everything there is to know about everything, or something like that.
- John Donne is a famous representative of a certain kind of metaphysical Elizabethan poetry. Don't ask me what that's supposed to mean.
- John Milton is a legendary figure of 17th century English poetry. His magnum opus on Satan's epic quest to mess shit up (also known as Paradise Lost) is considered one of the greatest English epics of all time.
- For the Romantics, see TRL's recommendation of Wordsworth, to which I'll add Coleridge and Shelly.
- Going way back in time, 14th century poet Geoffrey Chaucer wrote the Canterbury Tales, a major work in the landscape of English poetry. Make sure you read a modernized version, given that he didn't write in your grandfather's English, but some weird foreign language they call Middle English.
- On the American side of things, Emily Dickinson is a household favorite. Just for the record, there are essentially two versions of her work out there (not counting countless complications of complex literary issues), the ones with lots of dashes (what she wrote) and the ones that replace the dashes with more "sensibly mainstream" punctuations, courtesy of her original publishers.
- Continuing to American modernism, the two giants are Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot.
- Contemporary poetry is a much, much more difficult world to grasp. Given that I know jack all about it, all I can really suggest is go through a list of poets laureate and see whose poetry catches your fancy.
- As said, though, I won't give opinions on how "good" I think each of them are. I can argue a good case for a good novel, but arguing poetry is a battle you come prepared with chariots, machine guns, and tactical nuclear weapons and a willingness to be thoroughly mutilated after all is said and done, only to get some worthless little corner of a foreign field to call your own [hint: that's a reference to Rupert Brooke, another English poet you might wanna look at].
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Edgar Allan Poe isn't technically an "English" poet. He's an American poet/writer and it usually makes more sense to read him in conjunction with other American contemporaries. Unfortunately, I've never really studied American poets, so I can't really tell you much other than the few names you've probably already heard of, like the Transcendalist poets Nathaniel Hawthorne and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
As for why academics distinguish between English and American literature, well, it's too hard for me to explain. Suffice to say that there are subtle differences in style and philosophies behind the English-language poems and novels of the two realms. Try comparing the poems of Robert Frost (American, famous for his poems inspired by rural New England) to those by Williams Woodsworth (English, generally known for his poems inspired by England's Lake District), or even those by Robert Burns (Scotland's "favourite son", also a Romance poet like Woodsworth), and you'd see what I mean: American poetry tends to be more prosaic, more terse, more matter-of-fact, more down-to-earth, compared to the romanticism of contemporary English poems, which typically feature more lyrical flourishes.
Since you appear to be tending towards the Romance poets, I would also recommend the works of Percy Bysshe Shelly, famous for Ozymandias, among other poems. You may also enjoy the works of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night), although he isn't actually a Romance poet, being a more modern writer who was born in Wales and lived in the United States.
There's also Lord Alfred Tennyson, England's Poet Laurete during the reign of Queen Victoria, well-known for the The Charge of the Light Brigade. I don't enjoy his works, but I can see why the English found it appealing in that era.
That said, I generally prefer English poetry to American poetry. On the other hand, I prefer American novels in the style of Ernest Hemmingway over that of modern English novels. How to put it? Hemmingway is more macho — I like. I identify with the sentiment more easily than I do with the post-war, post-Imperialism angst of English writers like George Orwell, even though I do enjoy Orwell's short stories like Shooting an Elephant.
Hopefully, the above gives you a good starting point. I'd suggest borrowing an anthology of poems from your local library to sample a broad range of poetry from different eras. From there, you'd get a better idea of what kinds of poems you enjoy.
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Got a prompt from Autoupdate today, alerting me to install a few updates. One of those updates had this description:
Did some Googling and came back with more questions than answers. Can someone explain to me what this update does in layman's terms?
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I'm guessing you have something like Visual Studio or something that require that junk it. Its saying that (likely since its a service pack) it can not be removed. The other things you are describing sounds like a consequence of code soup in the bakasoft network. This is a development related tool, so if you don't particularly needed you should perhaps consider not installing it.
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Does anyone remember a game graphically similar with dragon age except that the world was in total freedom instead of closed maps like in dragon age? I can't remember the name of the game and the only thing I do was that the game sucked at ranged attacks or so.
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The Elder Scrolls series. You probably are talking about either Morrowind or Oblivion. Alternatively, check Fallout 3, since the company that made the Elder Scrolls series made it as well and applied the same gaming philosophy to that game too.
Or, in a long shot -- Fable II for the Xbox 360?
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The Witcher?
I've not played Dragon Age or The Witcher so it's just a random guess as it came out the following year after Oblivion.
EDIT: And another random guess of a game release around '06: Gothic 3?
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The emcee of Friday night's monster truck performance at John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville–- Ken Dickinson of Lyndhurst–- appears to have been seriously injured when struck by one of the trucks, the Maine-based Crushstation. Newsplex asks if venue too small for such rallies. A Saturday morning call to promoter Checkered Flag Productions was not answered, but a call to UVA Hospital found that Dickinson is in the the post-operative area of the cardiovascular-thoracic unit. On Saturday afternoon, he was listed in critical condition, according to hospital spokesperson David Foreman, who offered no further information on his injuries or prognosis.
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I personally have known this announcer for the better part of 20 years. He is one of the safest people in motor sports that I have ever met, and he is very experienced at this. He doesn't stand where its not safe, and he doesn't let others stand where its not safe. I've seen him shut down an event because people (or himself) weren't where they should have been. DO NOT BLAME the man who is fighting for his life for doing his job. You don't know the man, and you don't know the situation.
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Time to head off to a cigarette smoking contest. Gotta love the local activities!
um ya i second the "quality monster truck rally?" and the announcer shouldn't have been so close to the trucks especially where there might be a possibility of him getting hurt like he did i feel for the guy but we cant blame it all on the size of the venue theres this thing called human error tht has a lot to do w/t accidents like this it coulda shoulda been prevented
Wait, i haven't heard about a striptease joint?? Where is that, i am all about supporting local businesses and all.
I went to this event 2 years ago to see what it was all about, and while i wouldn't go again, i didn't feel that it was excessively small. This seems to be a problem an events company getting a local announcer with little experience with this kind of event and a lack of communication and training in such a dangerous situation.
I do like blaming the jack, uva and c-ville for all of it though. So here goes, uva is a stuck up money grubbing horn, and intentionally tries to get people hurt to make the news. While Chancellorsville is a has been, stuck up gang infested slum of a city that doesn't give their residents any services, but taxes too much to provide their residents with services. Oh and everyone is a cell centered, tax and spend liberal racist.
I think i covered it all.
Would the people involved like to go back and change things, sure, but unfortunately accidents happen.
I've been to plenty great truck shows,all outdoors tho. If u don't like them don't go
"A quality monster truck rally?"
could I second that?
just so people know, even though it was obviously in jest, my post got edited. The Hook should probably mark edits.
I'm getting quite tired of reading all of these comments that are saying that JPJ is too small for monster trucks. This accident has absolutely positively NOTHING to do with the size of the venue people!! Yes, these promoters were very un-professional but it's also largely the announcers own fault. I mean he should have known better than to even be near the trucks while running. He shouldn't have been on the floor at all. An announcer got killed several months ago by getting ran over byba monster truck named Samson in this same manner. All I can say is what in the world was this guy thinking and why is everyone just pointing their fingers and trying to find someone to blame. Blaming the venue? Come on people. Accidents happen. That's common sense.
Holy crap, that had to hurt. Hopefully the guy is all right. I always felt the JPJ was to small of a venue for such an event. Crazy!!!
I was told when we moved up here that JPJ has some great things going on but one was the monster trucks venue that some say is too large and dangerous too. I hope this is a wakeup call to the organizers that this is way too big for JPJ! Sad that it took someone getting seriously injured to get this change I hope will happen now.
Yeah, wait to stick it to Chancellorsville, although you left out the part about Stonewall Jackson getting shot there.
Jan 17, 2009, similar sized arena, in Tacoma, WA. Spectator killed, event proceeds. Then end of the article catalogs other incidents of the last two decades.
Umm... that would be Chancellorsville.
Wow. Well, you know how Charlottesville is this city of culture huh? Late night concert venues with people getting kidnapped, eating dinner on a mall where you are assaulted with a Pavilion blasting out at 100 dbs, a stiptease joint, and monster truck events where the drivers run over people. It's crushing fan yeah, baby!
I tell ya, I don't know what to do with all that culture.
The JPJ is jinxed.
The roots of Monster Trucking go back almost 30 years. And after all of that experience they have not figured out where to place the emcee so he/she does not get run over?
Wow! There is a theme running in the Hooks' articles and I think, again, that the folks that made leaving snow on your sidewalks a criminal offense in Charlottesville, are the same folks that let the emcee get in harms-way of the Monster Trucks.
Get the emcee off the floor! Duh! Or at least let us make a Mount Chipotle for him to stand on. Then he can make at least ten commandants of things "thou shalt not do" as emcee at Monster Truckin'. "Thou shalt not get run over" should be number one! Duh!
Went with my Cub Scouts to Monster Trucks at the Jack, it is a ridiculous venue for a monster truck event. Instead of a quality monster truck rally it just looks like the University trying to squeeze every dollar out of the Jack.
A quality monster truck rally?
I too feel this venue is to small for these trucks. Last show, last night!
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This story is nowhere to be found on the frontpage of their website
Good job, Hawes
This is not the first time this has ever happened. In January of 2009, a promoter of Monster Trucks in Madison, WI walked out in front of the truck and was crushed. It's a dangerous place to be. He had no idea the truck was there or was going to be there. "A lot of the direction that comes after driving over the cars is dependent on how the trucks hit the cars, and what happens with the trucks when they come to a landing," so no one knows where the truck is going to be. He saw the first one go by and probably didn't hear the second one. I have been to these kinds of shows before and know that there is so much noise you can't tell where the sound is coming from.
JPJ is the largest indoor arena in the state. Or commonwealth.
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Real Property Conveyance (Transfer) Fees: Amounts Collected,
by County,
Calendar Year 1997
Ohio Revised Code Section 319.54(F)(3) establishes a
mandatory transfer fee on the conveyance of real property.
The fee is one dollar per thousand dollars of value of real
property transferred. In addition, Ohio Revised Code Section
322.02 allows the board of county commissioners of each
county to levy a permissive real property transfer fee of up
to three dollars per thousand dollars of value of real
property transferred. In simple terms, both the mandatory fee
and the permissive county fee (a maximum of 4 mills) apply to
the selling price of real estate at the time of sale. The
revenue from both the mandatory fee and the permissive fee is
deposited in the general fund of the county--none of the
revenue goes to the state.
County auditors reported total collections of $78.8 million
($29.3 million mandatory fees and $49.5 million from the
permissive fees) during 1997 on real property conveyances.
The number of conveyances by county on which the mandatory
transfer fees were collected ranged from 406 in Noble County
to 27,255 in Cuyahoga County. The total mandatory transfer
fees collected by each county ranged from $11,703 in Monroe
County to $4.0 million in Franklin County. The average
mandatory transfer fee collected by each county ranged from
$28.27 in Monroe County to $178.31 in Delaware County, with a
statewide average of $106.56. For the 67 counties having a
permissive real property transfer fee in effect in 1997, the
total collected (both mandatory fee and permissive fee)
ranged from $25,467 in Noble County to $14.8 million in
Cuyahoga County.
Ohio Revised Code Section 319.54(F)(3) exempts certain
conveyances from the mandatory transfer fee. During 1997, a
total of 208,999 (43.2 percent of the total) transfer fee
statements filed with the county auditors were exempted from
the fee. The lowest percentage exempted was in Delaware
County with 27.4 percent exempted. Wyandot County, with 62.9
percent had the highest percentage exempted.
Table PC-1 shows the revenues collected by each county from
both the mandatory transfer fee and the permissive real
property transfer fee. The data presented in the table were
compiled from a survey of county auditors conducted by the
Ohio Department of Taxation.


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AMD FX-8150 Review
3DMark 11 is the next installment for Futuremark in the 3DMark series, with Vantage as its predecessor. The name implies the benchmark's focus on Microsoft DirectX 11 and with an unintended coincidence, matches the current year in number (which was the naming scheme to some prior versions of 3DMark nonetheless). 3DMark 11 was designed solely for DirectX 11, so Windows Vista or 7 are required alongside a DirectX 11 graphics card in order to run this test. The Basic Edition gives unlimited free tests on performance mode, whereas Vantage only allows for a single test run. The advanced edition costs $19.95 and unlocks nearly all features of the benchmark, while the professional edition runs for $995.00 and is mainly suited for corporate use. The new benchmark contains six tests, four of which are aimed only at graphical testing – one that tests physics handling and one that combines graphics and physics testing together. The open source Bullet Physics Library is used for physics simulations and although not as mainstream as Havok or PhysX, it still remains a popular choice.
The new benchmark comes with two new demos that can be watched; both of which are based on the tests, but unlike the tests, contain basic audio. The first demo is titled "Deep Sea" and involves a number of vessels exploring what looks to be a sunken U-Boat. The second demo is titled "High Temple" and displays a location similar to South American tribal ruins, with statues and the occasional vehicle. The demos are simple in that they have no story, but really demonstrate testing conditions. The vehicles have the logos of the sponsors, MSI and Antec, on the sides, helping to make the basic edition free. The four graphics tests are slight variants of the demos. I will use the three benchmark test preset levels to find the performance of each card. The presets are used because they are comparable to what can be run with the free version, so results can be compared across more than just a custom set of test parameters.
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A former Lee's Summit youth soccer coach pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to attempting to produce child pornography by secretly video recording his players.
Joel D. White, 40, of Lee's Summit, pleaded guilty to three counts of attempting to produce child pornography. He remains in federal custody without being able to post bond.
White, who coached girls under-12 and girls under-15 teams through the Lee's Summit Soccer Association, admitted he recorded 11 child victims without their knowledge or consent while they were changing clothes in his daughter's bedroom at his home.
White recorded the 11- and 12-year-old girls 10 to 15 times between May and October in 2012. He also admitted he inappropriately touched a young girl with his hand and mouth while she was sleeping at his house and recorded the incident.
White was shown on video positioning a camera in a bedroom in his home so that it was hidden, and it shows him recovering the camera after the girls left the room. In one video, as he recovers the camera, White looks into the camera and shows two thumbs up.
Police officers in Commerce City, Colo., discovered the videos of nude minors on White's camera after he was arrested in March 2013 for felony stealing of soccer-related items and merchandise at a stadium in the Denver area where he was attending a U.S. World Cup qualifying game. White was in possession of several stolen items in a backpack and officers found more items in his hotel room.
Police recovered White's cameras, computer and computer media during the course of the stealing investigation. While investigating the possibility that White was placing ads on Craigslist to sell the stolen items, detectives discovered the videos of the girls changing clothes and contacted the Lee's Summit Police Department, which began the child porn investigation.
Under federal law through the Project Safe Childhood initiative, White faces a minimum sentence of 15 years and a maximum of 30 years in federal prison without parole on each of the three counts, plus a fine of up to $250,000 on each count and an order of restitution. A sentencing hearing will be scheduled at a later date.


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Researchers at the Honda Research Institute in co-operation with boffins from Japan's Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute dub the system the "Brain Machine Interface". Details of the rig itself remain sketchy, but the system reads "natural brain activity... for the near real-time operation of a robot".
The scientists found that while monitoring brains to find the right signals for commands like 'yes', 'no', 'move forward' and so on is hard - at least not without considerable training on the part of the user or without electrodes implanted in the brain - it's much easier to detect the neural activity triggered when someone moves their hands.
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Barcelona Marathon 2013
Be Hostels wants to invite you to the 35th Edition of the Barcelona Marathon. This is one of Barcelona's annual marathons, and has the classic length of 42.195 km. This year it takes place in March.
Every year in March, all adventure-seeking runners have the opportunity to get a spectacular cruise through a beautiful city, as this is the time when the Barcelona Marathon – or the Marató Barcelona takes place. The marathon has existed since 1978, and also features 5 and 10km races, which share their starting line and course with the 42.195km marathon.
The marathon course takes runners past some of the most important landmarks in Barcelona as they run through the Catalan Capital's streets. Some of the landmarks on the course are: Camp Nou (home base of the soccer team, FC Barcelona), Gaudi's magnificent La Pedrera, his masterpiece The Sagrada Familia, and the UNESCO-sight, Hospital de Sant Pau.
- March 17th
- The race begins at 08:30 at Avinguida de La Reina Maria Cristina
The marathon starts and finishes below the green hills of the Montjuïc Park in front of the Magic Fountain, and some of the 42 km run along the harbour, which gives runners a more than welcome breeze to cool them down in the sometimes rather hot Spanish spring weather. The course is advertised as being flat, but it does contain some inclines, which are not that steep, but are quite long. The hilly parts are mostly situated in the beginning of the route, but the scenery, which is practically packed with excellent sights, makes up for the relative toughness of this part of the course.
Not surprisingly, many foreigners take the opportunity to visit Barcelona in the springtime and get an extensive tour through the city at marathon speed at the same time. Almost half of the 8,000 marathoners are usually visitors from abroad. The amount of runners is still relatively small, which prevents overcrowding in the streets and at water stations. But the number of participants is increasing rapidly each year, so hurry up if you want to be part of this event while it is still rather exclusive!
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UNITED overcame stubborn Reading resistance to book an FA Cup quarter-final berth at Old Trafford tonight - but the victory came at the cost after Phil Jones was forced off with a first-half injury.
Selected at right-back, Jones was hurt after attempting to tackle Reading skipper Jobi McAnuff and it was immediately obvious the former Blackburn man was in considerable pain.
Jones headed straight down the tunnel and it seems the man who helped subdue Cristiano Ronaldo in the first leg of United's Champions League last-16 tie with Real Madrid at the Bernabeu faces a battle to be fit for the return on March 5.
The injury took the gloss off a victory that keeps United on track for a repeat of their historic 1999 treble, and Sir Alex Ferguson on course for a possible encounter with Rafael Benitez, whose Chelsea team must beat Middlesbrough for the right to face the Red Devils in the last eight.
The third goal of Nani's largely disappointing season and Javier Hernandez's 15th strike of the campaign saw the hosts through, although McAnuff's late effort ensured the Red Devils were never able to relax.
On Friday, Ferguson had warned his players to "expect the unexpected" against Reading and the message appeared to have hit home in the opening stages as the hosts carved their opponents open at will.
A goalmouth scramble after just 90 seconds saw Hernandez's shot blocked, Danny Welbeck fluff the rebound and Antonio Valencia finally head straight at Adam Federici.
As it turned out, it was one of Federici's least taxing jobs.
The Reading goalkeeper was also forced to deny Welbeck and Ashley Young had a shot blocked before the visitors got into their stride, with Noel Hunt to the fore.
Hunt sustained a nasty cut following a collision with Nemanja Vidic that required two shirt changes, but also set the pattern for a bruising collision between the pair.
Vidic just edged it; one header out of his own six-yard box under severe pressure was particularly impressive, but it was Hunt who brought an excellent save out of David De Gea with a rasping 20-yard drive.
The sharpness had gone out of United's play by that point, although they should still have been in front after Federici pushed Tom Cleverley's long-range effort into Young's path.
It seemed the England man only had to hit the target. But Federici was able to scramble across to push the shot wide when really he should not have had chance to.
Funnily enough, Jones' departure, while potentially a major blow to Ferguson's plans for subduing Ronaldo next month, sparked the hosts into life.
Nani's third touch following his introduction as Jones's replacement saw him strike the far post with a fine volley, while his fourth was tipped over by Federici's flying save.
Hunt cleared a deflected Vidic header off the line, Federici saved from Anderson and Nani flashed a shot wide following the introduction of Robin van Persie.
Ferguson's obvious frustration at Reading slowing the game down extended to a message apparently being sent to the ball-boys to do their jobs with a little more speed.
There was one more save from Federici before the dam finally broke.
Nani's introduction had undoubtedly been significant and moments after his effort had been repelled, he strode onto Valencia's cross and supplied a deadly finish.
When Hernandez flashed home a near-post header on United's next attack, it appeared their work was complete.
Instead, McAnuff struck nine minutes from time to bring a familiar sense of nervousness to Old Trafford which only Andre Marriner's final whistle was able to ease.


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BROCKTON - The Adult Learning Center recently celebrated the end of the school year with four ceremonies honoring graduates and adult learners who accomplished educational milestones during the year.
Founded in 1973, the Adult Learning Center offers four core areas of academic instruction. Basic literacy courses provide students with reading and mathematics comprehension to a ninth-grade level and High School Equivalency Test (HiSET) preparation courses help adult learners prepare for the HiSET (formerly the GED) test.
English Speakers of Other Languages courses teach students how to understand and speak English, and Family Literacy courses are geared toward ESOL students who have children in the Brockton Public Schools, teaching them how to help their children with homework, meet and talk with teachers and understand the expectations for parent involvement in their child's education.
The center also provides citizenship classes, computer assisted training, a Bridge to Nursing program and counseling and mentoring services.
This year, the Adult Learning Center enrolled 444 students in its programs and nearly 1,600 Brockton-area adults are on its waiting list. Currently, 402 are waiting for adult basic literacy courses, and 1,196 are waiting to learn English under the tutelage of certified instructors.
"We know that lifelong learners are the best learners and I congratulate you for continuing to learn," Adult Learning Center Coordinator Suzanne Martin told a group of 50 students at a culminating ceremony June 23. "Most of you are working one and two and three jobs, you have families and commitments, and yet you recognize the importance of education and you are here to make a better life for yourself and your families. I applaud your dedication."
Marie Jose Pierre grew up in a single parent household in Haiti. Education was not a priority, but she understood when she came to America that it was the only way to success, she said.
"When I came to the United States, I began to plan my future. I was given a second chance to make it happen. I learned that the ALC staff were dedicated to their students and would do whatever it took to help people like me obtain a GED. I enrolled in the GED program, and from that day forward, I knew I was destined to succeed," Pierre said. "I'm not going to say that everything was easy. I had to balance the stresses of work and class. Then, on top of that, I had other responsibilities as a daughter, wife and mother. "
But through hard work and perseverance, she passed the HiSET and earned her equivalency degree. In the fall, Pierre will be studying to be a nurse at Quincy College.
"I want to thank God who made such an achievement possible. I'm truly grateful to the staff at the ALC for all of the opportunities they provided for me," she said.
ALC students are parents to more than 400 Brockton Public Schools students, and many have said they enrolled in adult education courses so that they can help their children with homework, speak to a child's teacher or get a better job, Martin said.
The average age of an ALC student is 39, and most are immigrants: 158 students are originally from Haiti, and 156 are from Cape Verde. Twenty-nine ALC students became citizens this year, and all are registered voters.


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"The side dishes - sweet potato soufflé, mac and cheese and avocado and green bean salad (suggested by our friendly server), were an assemblage of southern comfort foods not seen in any one place in a very long time. I dove into the mac and cheese first, like a spoiled child wanting to eat dessert before dinner." - Undercover Eater
1055 May River Road,
11 a.m.-3 p.m.
11 a.m.-5 p.m.
5-9 p.m.
Sunday Brunch and Dinner
9 a.m.-3 p.m.
On the menu, in the market.
Cahill's boasts a broad menu filled with home-cooked meal options comprised of meats, seafood, Cahill's signature fried chicken (served everyday) and daily specials. Find sides (many made with fresh produce from Cahill's farm), such as field peas, collards, okra and tomatoes, squash casserole, creamed corn, mac and cheese and more. Burgers, sandwiches, wraps and specialty salads available, as well. Also offered are "field to fork" plates (with four sides or salad choices), vegetarian items, plus kid's meals for little folks aged 12 and under. Dessert specialties include warm peach cobbler and homemade peach ice cream. Before exiting the restaurant, linger a while in the market, run by owner John Cahill's sister, Debra. You'll find a little bit of everything country here, from farm fresh produce, eggs and boiled peanuts to jars of jams, honey and plants.
Food 4.5 stars
Service 4 stars
Ambiance 5 stars
Cleanliness 5 stars
Cost $$
Dress Casual
Kid-friendly Yes
Reservations Not required
Sitting on picturesque farmland that has been owned by the family of John Cahill since 1918, Cahill's Market and Chicken Kitchen is the postcard-perfect setting for down-home country dining at its quintessential best.
Located one mile west of historic Old Town Bluffton, the restaurant is popular among locals and returning tourists appreciative of its laid-back setting (pretty much as comfortable as a farmhouse eat-in kitchen) and approach to southern-style comfort foods, including Cahill's famous fried chicken, side dishes (many of them prepared with fresh produce coming from Cahill's 60-acre farm) and honest-to-goodness homemade peach ice cream.
Arriving for supper on a busy Friday night I was glad to be greeted promptly and chose a table near the market's kitchen - I didn't want to be far from the source of what I was there for - Cahill's famed chicken, the three sides that came with it and, of course, the ice cream. My companion, perusing Cahill's detailed three-columned menu, plus the list of supper "specials," soon made a selection, too, opting for the meat loaf (from the list of market specials), which came with mashed potatoes and gravy, a side of fresh green beans and a piece of cornbread. Also selected, were appetizers, again from the specials' menu, of deep-fried squash sticks, plus a bowlful of crispy fried okra. Despite the restaurant's doing a brisk business, the appetizers came out quickly, with lightly breaded squash sticks (made from homegrown yellow summer squash), arriving hot, nicely seasoned and presented with a well-chilled, creamy ranch dressing. While the coating on the squash needed to be just a speck crispier to better contrast with the squash's soft insides, the coating, nonetheless, adhered well and was not soggy, or over saturated with oil. With the breading discernibly heavier and more aggressively seasoned than what was on the squash, I did not enjoy the fried okra as much; however, they were both very tasty and of generous quantity.
Within moments of finishing our appetizers, out came supper - with plates brimming over with food not encountered since last Thanksgiving. The chicken (a large breast and an ample size thigh), fried to greaseless golden brown perfection, was - in a word - perfection. Crispy on the outside, and moist and tender within, the breast meat was juicy and succulent, as was the thigh.
The side dishes - sweet potato soufflé, mac and cheese and avocado and green bean salad (suggested by our friendly server), were an assemblage of southern comfort foods not seen in any one place in a very long time. I dove into the mac and cheese first, like a spoiled child wanting to eat dessert before dinner. Overflowing with good cheddar cheese flavor, it revealed a slightly crunchy melted cheese top, a creamy middle and mac that was neither cooked too hard, nor too soft. I tried the sweet potato soufflé, crowned with praline topping, next, finding it to be as good a sweet potato soufflé as I've ever eaten, and then went on to the avocado and bean salad. Made up of small chunks of slightly mashed avocados, black beans and diced tomatoes and onions, the salad was brilliantly executed, and were it not for the mac and cheese, I probably could have dined on this one dish alone.
The meat loaf plate looked equally bountiful, decked out with a large slab of meat, brown gravy pooled in a substantial mound of mashed potatoes, a piece of cornbread and green beans that, I swear, looked as if they might have just been picked. While there was absolutely nothing wrong with the meatloaf, I found it to be a little bland and void of personality.
The meat was of excellent quality, however, and I'm thinking, perhaps going easy on the spice was intentional so that the taste of good meat could come to the fore. The mashed potatoes were acceptable, as was the gravy, but, they, too, were found to be a little on the light side in terms of flavor and texture. The cornbread, on the other hand, was full of flavor and gritty cornmeal texture, with the only disappointment being that it was just a little too dry. The star of this plate, to me, were the green beans, cooked crisp/tender with a hint of bacon flavor.
Dessert was next - warm peach cobbler (with homemade vanilla ice cream) and a dish of made-from-scratch peach ice cream. With it being summer in the lowcountry of South Carolina, it doesn't get much better than this. I loved it, and what's not to love? I realize I haven't said anything about the service we experienced at Cahill's other than to call our server "friendly," which she was, but truth is, had she had time sufficient to be a little more attentive, Cahill's would have scored higher in that area - a function of their possibly being understaffed on a busy Friday night.
You may disagree on my assessment of Cahill's food, but I wouldn't budge an inch on any of it. Eating someone's homemade food is very subjective. It may not be the way you make it, but it's the way they make it, and it's something a lot like going to your grandma's house for dinner. Grandma's pot roast may be plain, or perhaps the meat was left on the stove a minute, or two, more than intended, but it doesn't matter a lick. We're talking about grandma here - her house, her homemade food, her recipes, her way. You're going to leave Cahill's full, you're going to leave satisfied, and you're going to want to go back.