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A residential eyesore on a parcel formerly owned by Star Theater owner Michael O'Donnell is in the midst of demolition.
A residential eyesore on a parcel formerly owned by Star Theater owner Michael O'Donnell is in the midst of demolition.
Workers on Wednesday tore down one of two small, junk-filled, dilapidated houses on High Street Extension abutting the Taunton River. A late '70s Dodge Colt was also removed by a backhoe brought in to clear the property.
The city took possession of the blighted real estate in May after a Land Court judge granted it right of foreclosure for unpaid taxes.
O'Donnell, who is also involved in a long-running, legal dispute with the city over the downtown Leonard Block/Star Theater building, bought and sold the property in the late 1990's by means of a phony non-profit entity, according to a civil complaint by the state Attorney General's Office.
The AG's suit, which is scheduled to begin in October, accuses O'Donnell of "property flipping schemes" and "deceptive lending transactions" in Taunton.
"This is a clear demonstration that the tide is turning," said Taunton City Solicitor Jason Buffington, who has pursued cases in court against the 50-year-old O'Donnell.
Mayor Thomas Hoye Jr. also showed up to watch the work crew tear down the first of two houses.
"Removing dilapidated properties is a priority for this administration, and we'll continue to attack them one by one," Hoye said.
When asked about a junk-filled, sprawling property full of unregistered vehicles and houses at 115 Tremont St., also owned by O'Donnell, Hoye said the city "is making strides" and has been in contact with the AG's office.
"I'm happy," said Grace Trow, who watched the action from the back porch of her house at 30 Ingell St.
Trow, 63, said that she, her brother and nephew have been renting their house for five years. During that time, she said, the man she assumed owned the 2-6 High Street Extension property would only show up on occasion to trim bushes.
At one time, O'Donnell had three cars on the parcel. One of them, Trow said, was mysteriously towed away at 2 a.m. about a year ago. A motor boat on Wednesday was still sitting on the property's edge.
Bill Milka, a Taunton native whose Rochester-based Reliable Excavating is demolishing the structures and hauling away debris, said the High Street Extension job was notable in one respect.
"I've never seen a building so dense with material. I'm used to tearing them down when they're empty," Milka said.
Referring to the level of apparent hoarding inside the house he'd just demolished, Milka said: "The guy was a pack rat."
He said it will take at least two days to completely clear the site.
The city paid Milka $15,000, according to Buffington, who said his company was low bidder for the job.
Buffington also said it would be unwise of O'Donnell to make an appearance.
"He'll be arrested," Buffington said, noting that Taunton's tax-possession custodian Susan Barber had taken out a trespass order against O'Donnell.
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This is an edited transcript of a talk I gave at /dev/winter 2015.
Some people call it stream processing. Others call it Event Sourcing or CQRS. Some even call it Complex Event Processing. Sometimes, such self-important buzzwords are just smoke and mirrors, invented by companies who want to sell you stuff. But sometimes, they contain a kernel of wisdom which can really help us design better systems.
In this talk, we will go in search of the wisdom behind the buzzwords. We will discuss how event streams can help make your application more scalable, more reliable and more maintainable. Founded in the experience of building large-scale data systems at LinkedIn, and implemented in open source projects like Apache Kafka and Apache Samza, stream processing is finally coming of age.
In this presentation, I'm going to discuss some of the ideas that people have about processing event streams. The idea…
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they're not 'blmph'ing this out on the radio. is this normal?
yes yes but,, she calls him a 'faggot'
and i'm sure it used to be muffled out. but not this year, ohhhhhhh no.
i've never heard them bleep
faggot out in that song
It's an odd thing
They leave that intact but blank it out on hipping hop records. Maybe it's because it's sang with affection and not spat? Although she does seem quite annoyed.
I saw Shane Macgowan once. It didn't look like he was alive.
I saw him recently
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Faith Life Church's Worship Ministry Open Heaven Releases New Album 'Miracle Maker'
Open Heaven, the worship ministry of Faith Life Church in Columbus, Ohio, is proud to release their new album Miracle Maker with DREAM Worship. The 12 song album, produced by Sean Cook and David Hanley, mixes powerful musical sonics with melodic vocals and a prophetic message for revival and hope.
When the team sat down to write this album, they were challenged to keep the focus on Jesus' character, His miracle-working power, and what He truly means in their lives. Senior Pastor Gary Keesee said, "I'm very excited about this album, because I know people will encounter the power of God in a very real way when they listen."
The title track, "Miracle Maker" beautifully shares that, as Worship Pastor Amy Freudiger says, "In our hour of greatest need, Jesus is stronger than any force in this world, and He is just waiting to move on our behalf if we will only believe." She wrote the title song as a result of God instantly healing her of a 13-pound tumor. In fact, many of the Open Heaven team members have miraculous stories of how God did the impossible in their lives. The Miracle Maker album is a result of those stories.
Open Heaven's mission is to bring a prophetic but musically relevant voice to believers everywhere, inspiring them to join together in seeking a spiritual renewal across America and the world. Releasing two projects on DREAM, Live From Faith Life Church (2015) and Lion Of Judah (2016), the group saw themselves on The Case For Christ album that accompanied the release of the film in 2017.
You can purchase Miracle Maker here or via text: text MiracleMaker to 51555.
Take a listen to the track:
Miracle Maker track listing:
1 For You
2 Be Glorified
3 Wonderful Savior
4 Miracle Maker
5 Oh Precious Jesus
6 Creation
7 Heaven On Earth
8 Without Fail
9 Won My Heart
10 Rock of Ages
11 King of Kings
12 Here With Us
For more information visit: http://openheavenband.com and www.DreamLabelGroup.com.


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Most bands' self-titled efforts throw the gauntlet down, serving notice they've finally found the sound they've been looking for (either that, or name-brand groups like Zeppelin—and later, parodically, Weezer—get a bit too complacent about everyone knowing precisely who they are and how to tell each album apart). That qualifying parenthetical (The Album) is typical, then, of the push-pull between Jeff Tweedy's insecurities about himself as a musician/songwriter and Wilco's hard-to-ignore status as a beloved concert act with a large fanbase which worships Tweedy. It's a declaration of Major Rock Band Hubris, but it isn't! As if that wasn't enough self-aggrandizing self-deprecation, there's the totally hilarious "Wilco (the Song)." It's expert, textbook unimaginative rollicking '70s stuff, complete with a plodding, ridiculously simplistic keyboard riff that's just the same three notes repeated in a downward 5-4-1 progression.
The lack of stretching is deliberate; this is Wilco's purposefully hemmed-in self-definition, doing all the simple stuff their critics don't like and staking those boundaries as their turf. It's not as if Tweedy doesn't know Wilco's become totally uncool these last few years: "I'm probably the only person that wanted to be a rock critic and failed at it and started a band" he told The New York Times a few years ago before going on to rhapsodize about Battles and Grizzly Bear. The man has had Deerhoof and The Fiery Furnaces open for Wilco (and when I saw the latter opening at Radio City Music Hall years ago, it was clear the Furnaces had the crowd flummoxed; "Rock-'n'-roll," some lost 40something soul chanted, which is the wrong answer). Tweedy's aware of spazzy music that pushes things forward; he just has no interest in doing it himself. The furor over Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, then and now, seems to be totally missing the point; for all the frills at the corners, it wasn't particularly "experimental," and the fact that Wilco was adopted as a banner standard by critics seems more of a show of ideological solidarity with stuff marginalized by major labels than a genuine response to an admittedly excellent album. That so many people have since complained that Wilco has morphed into something much blander is missing the point; they were always pretty bland, just with a slightly different attack for each album.
So the chorus of "Wilco (the Song)" is a double-edged sword: "Wilco will love you baby" is a promise requiring no reciprocation. If you want to come around on Sky Blue Sky, they'll be there, patiently waiting. If you think it's a bland piece of shit, that's cool too; the Wilco faithful are unshakable, wearing the dad-rock smear like a badge of honor, none more proudly than the band itself. All Tweedy's offering is a "sonic shoulder for you to cry" on; he's disowning any grander ambitions.
The first six tracks are as great as anything Wilco's ever done; unfortunately, it's an 11-track album. "Deeper Down" goes a lot of places without building to a cumulative impact, but it's a curious, tentative song whose opening gets stuck in my head anyway. "One Wing" has a ripping guitar solo in the middle in E major; the rest is all minor-key build from tentative strumming to all-out break-up chorus. You can mentally add the cowbell yourself; it's so clearly not there it's almost like a negative presence stripped away. The metaphor's simple enough ("One wing will never ever fly dear"), and it's the thematically appropriate prelude to the album's three-track mini-masterpiece run, which starts with a dysfunctional relationship, switches to a healthier one, then moves to a place of a-/anti- sexual calm.
First up: "Bull Black Nova," one of the simplest lyrics Tweedy's ever written (which is good, because sometimes his aspirations to poetry fall flat on their face). "It's on my hair, it's on my clothes" is clarified, one verse later, the "it" being "blood on the sofa…blood in the trunk." This is a man who's killed his girlfriend, and—aside from the reveal of the third verse confirming the darkest hints of the first—there is nothing hard to understand about this. It's krautrockin' like "Spiders (Kidsmoke)" (as noted by damn near everyone), but it's way less digressive and hence much less of a patience-tester. Tweedy will never be confused with Nick Cave vocally, but the music is intense enough to make up for whatever true danger he's simply incapable of projecting, stacking terrifying guitar solo and insistent, tension-ratcheting piano octaves on top of Wilco's default '70s chug 'til there's no place left to run and Tweedy screams he's about to black out. This is easily Wilco's darkest song, though "dark" is pretty much relative; they're mostly just morose, generally speaking. There's precedent: "Bull Black Nova" extrapolates "Via Chicago"'s opening admission "I dreamed about killing you again last night and it felt alright to me" and expands on it, and the same album (1999's Summerteeth) also has "She's A Jar," with its closing shot, "She begs me not to hit her." But those were Tweedy building on frustration from his marriage (with his wife's grudging permission); on Wilco (The Album), Tweedy spends more time singing in character than at any point since possibly Being There. He was never exactly confessional, but it's good to have him freed up for experiments like this.
"You And I" mostly speaks for itself; it's a good joke to follow up "Bull Black Nova"'s murder with a relationship duet (with Feist!), though this is one bleakly adult, barely romantic partnering: "I don't need to know that much about you, and you don't need to know that much about me." (Good advice, honestly.) And then there's "You Never Know." I have very mixed feelings about this song. To wit: the lyrics are beyond smug and preachy. "Come on children, you're acting like children," announces the super-wise, seen-it-all, world-weary Mr. Tweedy; "every generation thinks it's the end of the world." But not Tweedy! Why? "I don't care anymore," he repeats over and over for the chorus, as if he's suffered so long and hard that he's achieved transcendent, elder guru status, attaining ultimate karma in this lifetime alone. My immediate reaction is that it's the kind of smug bullshit you'd hear from an aging hippie and must be killed, and also that it's a bit rich for a man who two albums ago was inflicting 10-minutes of drone on unprepared listeners to share the tenor of his migraines with us to now go around building himself up as past suffering and worth taking advice from. On the other hand: this song fucking rocks. There's a cribbed guitar riff from "My Sweet Lord" and a hypnotic, most-'70s-ever verse that has organ drone and the kind of slinky, jazzy drum pattern people just don't play anymore, because it screams instant 1974. Perversely, that's what makes it refreshing, as annoying as I might find the real thing: the ability to seamlessly recreate a sound with impeccable musicianship for no real reason other than a personal fixation, something I automatically respond to probably a little more than I should. I prefer simulacra of sounds I don't care about to the real thing.
The back half of the album is fine, though it's basically retreads of their past work: "Solitaire" the generic ballad of loneliness, "Everlasting" the generic cathartic closer repudiating the last album's conclusion of "Please don't cry, we're designed to die." Only "Sunny Feeling" sticks out, but it's basically a breather for hardcore fans and probably unconvincing to everyone else. Still, the first half is spectacular. This is the most schizophrenic, least internally consistent album Wilco's put out maybe, like, ever. The only thing holding it together? "Wilco" (the concept).
Vadim Rizov is a New York-based freelance writer. His work has appeared in The Village Voice, The Onion A.V. Club, and Paste Magazine, among others.


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James Merrill, Postmodern Magus: Myth and PoeticsBy: Evans Lansing Smith (author)Hardback
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DescriptionOne of the unique voices in our century, James Merrill was known for his mastery of prosody; his ability to write books that were not just collected poems, but unified works in which each individual poem contributed to the whole; and his astonishing evolution from the formalist lyric tradition that influenced his early work to the spiritual epics of his later career. Merrill's accomplishments were recognized with a Pulitzer Prize in 1977 for ""Divine Comedies"" and a National Book Critics Circle Award in 1983 for ""The Changing Light at Sandover"".In this meticulously researched, carefully argued work, Evans Lansing Smith argues that the ""Nekyia"", the circular Homeric narrative describing the descent into the underworld and reemergence in the same or similar place, confers shape and significance upon the entirety of James Merrill's poetry. Smith illustrates how pervasive this myth is in Merrill's work - not just in ""The Changing Light at Sandover"", where it naturally serves as the central premise of the entire trilogy, but in all of the poet's books, before and after that central text.By focusing on the details of versification and prosody, Smith demonstrates the ingenious fusion of form and content that distinguishes Merrill as a poet. Moving beyond purely literary interpretations of the poetry, Smith illuminates the numerous allusions to music, art, theology, philosophy, religion, and mythology found throughout Merrill's work.
About AuthorEvans Lansing Smith is a professor of English at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas. He is the author of seven books, including The Myth of the Descent to the Underworld in Postmodern Literature, Figuring Poesis: A Mythical Geometry of Postmodernism, Ricorso and Revelation: An Archetypal Poetics of Modernism, and Rape and Revelation: The Descent into the Underworld in Modernism.
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The truth, via Ted Koppel
Bizarre editorial in the NYT by Ted Koppel. He says things that leftists get ridiculed for saying - you know, pretty much anything that ought to be obvious to anyone with human DNA and a pulse, e.g., maybe oil had something to do with the invasion of Iraq, maybe the US isn't planning on leaving Iraq any time soon - but he doesn't really seem to disapprove. The article is behind NYT's annoying subscription wall or whatever you call it, but here are some excerpts via Cracks in the Facade and Editor & Publisher (emphasis added by me):
But the Bush administration's touchiness about charges that we acted — and are still acting — in Iraq "because of oil"? Now that's curious. Keeping oil flowing out of the Persian Gulf and through the Strait of Hormuz has been bedrock American foreign policy for more than a half-century.I may disagree with Koppel regarding the normative implications of all this, but it would be nice if the discussion could proceed based on a similar acknowledgment of reality by all parties concerned. Until then, it will just be more silly rhetoric about "freedom," "democracy," "The War on Terror," blah blah blah blah blah.
Fifty-three years ago, British and American intelligence officers conspired to help bring about the overthrow of Iran's prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh. Mossadegh's shortcomings, in the eyes of Whitehall and the State Department, were an unseemly affinity for the Tudeh Party (the Iranian Communists) and his plans to nationalize the Iranian oil industry. The prospect of the British oil industry being forced to give way to Soviet influence over the Iranian oil spigot called for drastic action. Following a military coup, Mossadegh was arrested, imprisoned for three years and then held under house arrest until his death in 1967. Power was then effectively concentrated in the hands of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi.
The shah's unswerving commitment to the free flow and marketing of Iranian oil would, by the end of the 1960's, become a central pillar of the so-called Nixon Doctrine, in which American allies were tapped to be regional surrogates to maintain peace and security. The sales of sophisticated American weapons to Iran served the twin purposes of sopping up billions of what came to be known as "petro-dollars," while equipping (in particular) the shah's air force.
That reliance on Iran to maintain stability in the Persian Gulf enjoyed bipartisan support. On New Year's Eve in 1977, President Jimmy Carter, visiting the shah in Tehran, toasted his great leadership, which he said had made Iran "an island of stability in one of the more troubled areas in the world." By January 1980, after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini had driven the shah from the Peacock Throne, President Carter made absolutely clear in his final State of the Union address that one aspect of our foreign policy remained unchanged:
"An attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the vital interests of the United States of America, and such an assault will be repelled by any means necessary, including military force."
In 1990, when Saddam Hussein appeared likely to follow his invasion of Kuwait by crossing into Saudi Arabia, the defense secretary at the time, Dick Cheney, laid out Washington's concerns:
"We're there because the fact of the matter is that part of the world controls the world supply of oil, and whoever controls the supply of oil, especially if it were a man like Saddam Hussein, with a large army and sophisticated weapons, would have a stranglehold on the American economy and on — indeed on the world economy."
What Mr. Cheney said was correct then and remains correct now. The world's oil producers pump approximately 80 million barrels a day. The world's oil consumers, joined today by an increasingly oil-hungry India and China, purchase 80 million barrels a day. Were production from the Persian Gulf to be disrupted because of civil war in Iraq, the freezing of Iranian sales or political instability in Saudi Arabia, the global supply would be diminished. The impact on the American economy and, indeed, on the world economy would be as devastating today as in 1990.
If those considerations did not enter into the Bush administration's calculations when the president ordered the invasion of Iraq in 2003, it would have been the first time in more than 50 years that the uninterrupted flow of Persian Gulf oil was not a central element of American foreign policy.
That is not to say that the United States invaded Iraq to take over its oil supply. But the construction of American military bases inside Iraq, bases that can be maintained long after the bulk of our military forces are ultimately withdrawn, will serve to replace the bases that the United States has lost in Saudi Arabia.
...Perhaps the day will come when the United States is no longer addicted to imported oil; but that day is still many years off. For now, the reason for America's rapt attention to the security of the Persian Gulf is what it has always been. It's about the oil.


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Winter 2017 Learning Counsel Market Briefing
As a market, we are in the proverbial, "eye of the storm," of getting truly sophisticated in the adoption and use of digital curriculum. There are all types of confusion as to how to choose digital resources or how to build them for free and how to transform instruction in the classroom.
Here, Leilani Cauthen, CEO and Publisher at the Learning Counsel presents the latest Learning Counsel market findings and statistics regarding digital curriculum strategy shifts. Data presented is compiled and summarized from our survey of 708 education executive respondents from across the U.S. K-12 market.
The annual Learning Counsel digital curriculum strategy survey was developed as a tool to evaluate national trends in how digital transitions are happening, particularly from the view of software sophistication and its impact on device and network infrastructure. "Beyond providing all of education with that national view, it is an invaluable tool for every school and district to use to self-assess," Cauthen said. "Furthermore, the data also helps the vendor community plan their strategies to support educators in this time of massive changes as districts go digital and networks expand to support the shift."
The complete survey findings are available from the Learning Counsel. For more information, visit our survey page.


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Lucky Luke (1991)
Rating: 4.7/10
Comedy, Western,
Terence Hill, Nancy Morgan, Roger Miller, See full cast and crew,
Lo chiamavano Trinità... (1970)
He Was On the Side of the Law and Order. He Was On the Side of Crime and Chaos. He Was On Any Side That Would Have Him.
Rating: 7.4/10
Comedy, Western,
Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Steffen Zacharias, Dan Sturkie, Gisela Hahn,
Chi trova un amico trova un tesoro (1981)
Rating: 7.2/10
Adventure, Comedy, Action,
Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, John Fujioka, Louise Bennett, Salvatore Borghese,
...altrimenti ci arrabbiamo! (1974)
You gonna get mad?
Rating: 7.4/10
Action, Comedy,
Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Patty Shepard, Deogratias Huerta, John Sharp,


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Found in a block of cheese in Dragon Age, even modern gamers are no strangers to the image of Pac-Man.
For the 30th anniversary of his creation, Toru Iwatani (the creator of the original Pac-Man) decided that it's time for the old yellow arcade chomper to make a comeback. This title is a PSN Mini, and does a great job of reproducing the original gameplay, with just enough tweaks to keep things fresh.
If you've somehow managed not to hear about Pac-Man, I'm impressed and horrified at the same time. But to clarify, you're the yellow circle with a dot for an eye and a wedge-shaped cut-out mouth. You eat dots for points, and avoid ghosts. Power pellets (large dots) let you eat the ghosts for extra points. Getting caught by a ghost without a power pellet makes Pac-Man turn inside out, and you lose a life. Running out of time also turns you inside out, and ends the game, just like when you run out of lives.
Championship Edition has retained the blocky graphics, the painful-but-catchy music, and the sound effects of the original. There's also the same sense that you'll never truly "win" - you get the same "game over" message whether you run out of time or lives, and the dots just keep coming back when you eat them. Clear one side of the maze, and it'll spawn a fruit pickup on the other side. Collecting this gives you bonus points, and refills the side which you cleared. The longer you survive, the faster everything becomes, and the more points each dot is worth.
I'm no high-score junkie, but, like the original, this game is far more addictive than any sensible analysis would expect. You're, well, Pac-Man. An old washing-powder mascot shouldn't be so much fun as a main character. Your enemies are the four ghosts, Inky, Blinky, Pinky and... Clyde. Pinky's the one to watch out for, because unlike the others, he'll try to cut you off - moving to where you're heading, instead of where you've been. With the game (and the music) speeding up the longer you stay alive, the challenge of dodging all the ghosts becomes greater, and makes survival more of a priority than those precious dots, even with bonus lives every 20,000 points.
Of course, Pac-Man isn't totally defenceless - if he can get to a power pellet, he has a few seconds in which he's able to eat the ghosts - who turn blue, slow down significantly, and try to retreat from him. Eating ghosts in quick succession earns escalating points; eating several then another pellet, and continuing to eat them without pause, earns even more. When ghosts are eaten, their eyes remain, rushing back to the centre of the maze, which is supposedly their home or something (no, this game has never made sense). Even if the other ghosts are still affected by the power pellet, a resurrected ghost will still be inedible, and ready to turn you inside out if you run into it.
There are various modes with different mazes and gameplay in Championship Edition, including a super-speed mode, which is even more chaotic than usual. My personal favourite is a darkened maze where you can't see the walls until you're right next to them, leaving only the dots to show you the path from a distance, and hiding the trail after you eat them. The basic "championship mode" is 5 minutes, as is one of the "extra" modes, the remaining four are 10 minutes each. It's not easy to make a game last the whole five minutes, let alone 10, but the addiction is likely to hold many players until they do.
Although it has retro graphics and sounds, there are concessions to modernity. The edges of the maze, as well as the outlines of the ghosts and Pac-Man, have subtly rounded corners and a varicoloured neon effect which looks pretty good, even though those outlines are wide blocks of colour - it looks like a reproduction of the game in neon lights, which emphasises "newness" while retaining the retro feel. The music, still the same familiar tunes, is clearly high-quality synth as well, rather than the original's squealing speakers. It's still uncomfortable at even a medium volume, though.
The different modes have enough variety to add a measure of replay value, with minor changes in the gameplay and some new mazes to chomp your way through. As a Mini, this game easily does all it sets out to do, providing addictive retro gameplay at a reasonable price. If you find the original Pac-Man a little too retro, though, this game doesn't do much to change the formula.
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*Please excuse the mess. I took these pictures in a hurry.
So that doorway goes to the master ensuite, pics to come.
My cat Shibby wanted in the pics.
And here is the after:
The blue paint is very pale silvery blue. It's called French Silver and it's by CIL. I love CIL paint. It goes on nice and thick. The black wall is wallpapered with a textured damask wallpaper made by Debbie Travis from Canadian Tire which has been discontinued. You can order this stuff from Home Depot, though. I think Martha Stewart makes one. The paint on the wallpaper is called "Evening Hush" by Behr. It's actually a dark charcoal grey.
The curtains are cream silk from Linens and Things. You can find them at Pottery Barn and Restoration Hardware as LnT is now out of business.
I'm still in the process of choosing linens so I haven't taken any photos of the bed and the pictures we've put up on that side of the room. Maybe I'll get around to it this weekend. Stay tuned!


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Ta moko, referred to tattoos in Maori language, were traditional tattoo lines carved on the face and other parts of the body using a sharp or a serrated bone chisel from the sea bird. Although the tattooing process was extremely terrifying, painful and long, it was a sacred event. Tattooing was usually accompanied by traditional flute music performance and poems chanting in order to help the bearers eased the pain while their bodies were being chiseled with lines and curved patterns. Due to extensive pain induced by any body movement, the bearers would not be able to eat any solid food until the wounds on the face were recovered.
The ancient men usually wore Maori tribal tattoo arts on their buttocks, faces, and thighs, whereas the women would chiseled their Polynesian tattoos on their upper lips, chins, and the nostrils. Maori tattoos were visual signs that conveyed the bearers' tribal identity, ancestry, family rank, social status and spirituality. This practice has been there for over a thousand years. In the past only the important Maori wore tattoos, and for those who did not own any ta moko tattoos were considered to have no social status.
Modern Maori tribal tattoo is becoming increasingly popular, and is a great expression of uniqueness, style and fashion. It is also a symbol of sacrifice, daring and respect due to its traditionally long and painful process of acquiring ta moko. If you choose to ink ta moko tattoos on your body, you may want to avoid using those designs that carry special attributes of the Maori tribe. The Polynesian tattoos are creative and beautiful which consist of complex curved patterns and spiral shapes. Contemporary ta moko are usually blended with Celtic tattoos to form new distinctive artworks. Ta moko arts have become one of the most important sources of tribal tattoos around the world as Maori tattoos have their own uniqueness and special characteristic among all the Polynesian tattoos.
Maori tattoos look superb to be worn on the shoulder rather than on the face like in the old days. The most popular Maori tribal tattoo designs are of the medium and large sizes, and they appear in many different colors, shapes and styles to suit the taste of all types of tattoo lovers.
Selecting the most inspiring design is important as tattoos will be with you to love forever. It is always advisable to pre-select your tattoo designs carefully before setting off to your favorite tattoo parlor. This is to prevent any last minute decision making in the tattoo parlor that may impact you for life. Investing money and time doing research on magazines, books and internet will make certain that you get the best body art option. You should make use of all available resources when searching and picking your perfect Polynesian tattoos.
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Karen Martini, Chef and Author/
Gastronomically gifted, Karen Martini's talent lies with pot and pan in hand. The celebrated chef has headed some of Australia's most famed kitchens, including Tansy's, Iceberg's Dining Room, the Melbourne Wine Room and her current artisanal pizza restaurant, Mr Wolf. She has taken her culinary capability to the screen, whipping up delectable fare on Better Homes and Gardens as their resident chef and is a recurrent judge on My Kitchen Rules. From pan to pen, Karen is also an author, with seven cookbooks under her apron, including the recently released 'New Kitchen' and is a food columnist for Epicure in The Age and Good Food. A mum of two girls (Amber and Stella aged 7 and 8); the foodie is passionate, unpretentious and possesses a zesty, tongue-in-cheek sense of humour, all with just the right amount of bite.
Proving to be the hostess with the most-ess, the beautiful Karen welcomed us into her eclectic Melbourne home, where we rummaged through her makeup bag, engaged in a highly fascinating discussion about the evolving food-sphere, the superfood impetus and what her natural remedy to appease all ailments is.
My skincare is up and down.
I do love the sun, so I try and apply sunscreen every day and then [my routine] depends [on what I'm doing]. I'm travelling tonight so I'll take my Cosmedix Rescue Balm. It can be a bit heavy, but I'm quite dehydrated most of the time. I use a really good cleanser, when I remember! I use the L'Oreal Eye Makeup Remover - not many work, especially for when I'm wearing TV makeup and it's a little bit heavier, that's seriously one of the best!
As you get a little bit older you tend to get a bit stricter on the amount of things you do…
I use a Vitamin B serum and also a Vitamin C serum, sometimes it's just a squirt on the hand and you just pat it on! I do Ellis Faas [for foundation] and Chantecaille Tinted Moisturiser every day - it's got a sunscreen in it - and the Laura Mercier Concealer if I'm wearing more serious makeup. The Obagi Elastiderm Eye Cream is one of the best eye creams I've ever come across. SkinMedica is amazing too, and they have a really good cleanser. Then the Cosmedix Rescue Balm and Mask you put on at night, not every day cause it's quite thick.
I like that dewy, fresh look…
The Kevyn Aucoin is amazing mascara and all the Nars Pencils and Laguna Bronzer, I know everyone's got that. And this Pencil for eyebrows - it's actually not a pencil - it's like little wind-out tiny crayon, so you can put individual little lines on rather than the big sha-bang! It's Bloom, not many people do that particular one and I can't bang on about it enough!
The three things, if I'm going to leave the house…
… and I'm not in a professional makeup situation, it'll be moisturise, obviously, and either the MAC Studio Moisture Fix Illuminator, Chantecaille or Ellis Faas, and then always, always eyebrows and always mascara. And that's the no makeup look haha!
These amazing little capsules stop your hair having that frizz factor.
Snobgirls Hydramend and Amino Collagen capsules that contain a smoothing serum, they're cute and they're easy to carry around, you just rub it through towel-dried hair and they smell really nice too. My hairdresser, Marco Terzini, imports them from New York. I go to Spada in Melbourne for cut and colour. Marco is a very good cutter and his wife is great at colour and so is Jess there. They don't take themselves too seriously; they're just doing their thing. I quite like it 'cause it's quite a low-key salon and he gets on with it.
For facials and such I've just switched over to Liberty Belle…
The other place I was going to has disappeared over night! But now I get a dermal sweep type treatment which is a non-invasive sort of facial which is really good, it's like buffing your face essentially and it does have great results. And laser treatments on blemishes and spots and bits and bobs that come and go! Waxfx, a little place in Murphy St, South Yarra for eyebrows, Tamsin and Nicky there, and I actually go to Glam Nails which is like two doors up – just keep it all local!
I am quite loyal once I find someone
I like to get a rapport with them and they know you need to be in and out quite quickly and be efficient. Sometimes Paris my PA might come and we'll have a meeting while I'm in amongst it. As a chef, I wouldn't have thought that I would be 'upkeeping' that much with beauty, but I do now, obviously because I'm in front of the camera a lot and my face is recognisable – and now I sort of need to look good shopping at the market! Hence the eyebrows and mascara and washing your hair - no, the hair can be anything - as long as you've done your face!
I wear the Diptyque Philosykos everyday...
I can't get enough of the fig… and the Bergamask by Orto Parisi is the newest one, it's from France and I picked it up in Wellington, New Zealand of all places, it's musky and spicy but there's some sense of green notes in there as well 'cause I tend to lean towards the citrusy, green notes. Maybe it's more suited to winter but it stays with you! I can't find my Gypsy Water but I wear that too. And the Comme de Garcons, although I think Michael's getting through that quicker than I am!
I LOVE this Celine bag…
I'm trying to downsize bags, of course you've still got three compartments and I always tend to overfill mine! Fat Celine is never a good look! I'm not totally faithful to brands, but I wear J Brand jeans, Carla Zampatti – for the odd well-cut jacket, she's very good at that, Willow, Scanlan and Theodore, although often they design for quite small-chested women – I've told them that! Then you can pick up your little basics in Witchery and Country Road.
It's just about well-cut, everyday stuff.
Chantelle for bras with beautiful details and Love and Lustre for their underwear, they're sort of larger, like French knickers rather than a G-string, if you've had children – you'll get it! Fiorina for jewellery and I had some stuff made while I was away too, I like a crucifix, a drop earring with a pearl, a bit of a rocker edge sometimes. Alexander Wang and Jerome Dreyfuss for handbags – I've got a few of those and Miu Miu.
I get travel sickness and I take fresh ginger with me.
I also moisturise and drink water, and then drink more water if you're drinking alcohol! And some sort of illuminator too, this one is MAC Studio Moisture Fix, it's probably actually meant to be a lotion that goes under your makeup but I find that it keeps you looking better when you come off the plane.
If I'm feeling nauseas or tired or before I go to bed…
I put ginger and turmeric shaves into tea or hot water and then infuse. The healing qualities in fresh turmeric is nuts – so you grate it into your tea, or even in food, but it's better to infuse it in a simple, tisane-style. It's new, well not a new superfood because it's one of the oldest superfoods! But it's really good for you in terms of cleansing and helping your gut absorb nutrients as well. They dry it and powder it down, but the qualities it has in the fresh form is way higher than when you get it in the dried and processed. So ginger and turmeric together, my chef who is from Nepal, I tell him 'oh Chef you're sick drink this', and he's like 'oh yeah, I've been doing that for years! Now it's hip!'
My kitchen is my office 50% of the time!
That book has basically come off these benches – I generate it, it's me, I don't have a team of recipe writers. All the stuff on the wall – I cook and plate – it's not that I'm a control freak, but possibly I am! I really enjoy that, that's not something I want to hand over, I have a vision for the dish, and it gets tweaked as I'm cooking so I can't necessarily hand over a recipe for somebody that's not finished for them to refine. I like to say that the recipes resonate and work for people, and what you see in the pages you'll almost get. Well hopefully I can take you through to the point of plating, but then it's up to you, haha it's not my fault if you can't do it!
I do cook at home.
You can see on my Instagram, I cooked a curry the other night that will probably end up on the pages of the next book or on TV. Everything has its place and it's like a cycle of what's in season, how I'm feeling – everyone in this house is generally eating whatever I feel like eating! The girls can be [fussy eaters], or I get a 'oh mum, there's a bit of spice in this!' or 'I think you've maybe added too much mint to this salad!', I get a bit of feedback like that!
If you want to know what's going on in your family and children's lives…
have dinner with them…hey, how simple is that! We sit around the table as often as we can, and even if the kids are having dinner on their own, the girls will eat at the table, not on their laps in front of the TV or computer. The focus is on food, and then they can regulate themselves, we don't tell them how much or not to eat, it's an important thing. That's why I am writing recipes and trying to inspire people to just have that down time. It might only be 20 minutes, but the TV is never on, and I put my phone over on the bench so it's not at the table. If you can't have that half an hour of peace, life is just as fast enough as it is. I love it when you go out for dinner and see people all on their phones, haha sometimes couples get on better that way!
We're a multi-cultural country and we are very indulgent in the way we eat…
Because we go 'oh I feel like…' and you can go and get it. We do have extravagant palettes in Melbourne, and even Sydney's catching up haha! We're very serious, and I think Australian chefs are good at going overseas, coming back, and crafting whatever they've learnt to suit us here. New Kitchen is a snapshot of Australian cookery, and the way people are eating out and therefore want to start trying to experiment, in wanting to cook that style themselves, with Korean, Japanese, Indian, etc. It's all about pickling and brining and curing and health but still tasting really good and rewarding yourself at the other end – like ice-cream sandwiches, donuts, hot-dogs, cronuts, all that stuff – so everyone is indulging and then they're juicing! I do find the food-scape has changed with social media, you can flick something up on your phone and automatically you're either inspired or feeling guilty.
I think we're challenged by social media.
We're told what we should be looking like, feeling like and how we can achieve it. But I love it, I need it, especially Instagram. I've got more to say in a photograph. It's fun, and it means that you see things from around the world that inspire us here, so it makes for a really fast life. But I really believe that there is a place for good things done well and well-crafted all the time, whether it's hot on social media or not, it will still be wanted and needed because people just want to go back to what they know sometimes. You want to be able to go to your restaurant and know you can get a beautiful Caprese salad or stir-fry noodle or whatever it may be from that particular place because you know they do it well, and they're not going to experiment with coffee foam and potato on Thursday night! You need those restaurants too, but you need a balance – the whole thing's a balance!
I believe cooking from scratch is healthy.
My mum cooked everything from scratch. Buying the marinated chicken at the butcher, that they've marinated usually from some sugary jar mix and they've diced some chicken breast and then you go home and cook it, that's not healthy cooking. Cooking from scratch is marinating it with whatever yourself, so you know what's in it. The other healthy angle is the superfood angle, and incorporating more raw or wholefoods that are good for you - it doesn't mean it has to be hippie – it used to be called hippie food back in the day where it was just about lentils and socks and sandals and hairy armpits and crystals!
The superfood thing…
they are better for you yes, but it doesn't have to be obsessive, I think Paleo is good too, a little bit of this, a little bit of that mixed together, but being black and white, and no dairy and no carbohydrates and no this for long periods of time is not good for you, I don't believe on long term basis. But there is a tribe out there, like the Messiah's come! But it is a good thing because it's making people think about their diet and what they're putting into their system, and that's what My Kitchen Rules which I'm on inspires people to think about food in a different way, whether it's good or bad. Paleo costs a lot to live like that! And if the whole world did, the footprint is too big to be consuming that much meat. I think if we all drank more water and had smaller portion sizes and we moved a bit more we'd be healthier. You can still eat what you want but think about the portions. I say! I've done eight days overseas and I'm running around Caulfield Park, which is three km - when I say run, it's more like a shuffle!
I have a fetish for shoes and pepper grinders!
You may as well throw in handbags as well! I'm Tunisian, French, Italian, English and Irish – there's a bit of everything in there in my cooking. I do rather get excited by knives, sorry I like knives too! My other collection is cookbooks, I've got around 450. I do use cookbooks – I have to check my own recipes sometimes! The Stephanie Alexander, Greg Malouf, Maggie Beer [cookbooks] – I flick constantly, I love seeing people's work, it's like their heart, their bible."
Story and styling by Chrisanthi Kaliviotis; Photography by Neiyo Sun; Makeup by Claire Vyverberg; Hair by Peter Beckett at Edwards & Co.


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Seaplanes West
Seaplanes West is a strong company that takes pride in their high standards, excellent workmanship, and attention to detail.
When the company was about to leave for Oshkosh (North America's largest airshow), they came to Beacon with a challenge… how do they attract attention at an airshow that has thousands of aircraft, among hundreds of thousands of spectators (and potential customers)?
Oh, and we only had 2 1/2 weeks to plan, set up shoot, edit, and produce hard copies in time for the departure!
The video we made was designed to function as a sales tool both on and off the 'showroom' floor, as well as an effective corporate marketing piece throughout the following year.
Watching the video, you'll see a blend of stunning visuals, color and movement. You'll feel a building excitement, and as you watch you'll come to understand what makes Seaplanes West really tick. Its not just the flashy planes to look at, but whats under that skin that counts!


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How to Use
Manually apply the contents of an ampoule and allow to soak in. Then apply cream.
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Shock Radio??? Shock Radio is just the most obvious example of how low the standards of American contemporary radio have sunk ("Shock Radio," by Patrick Goldstein, Feb. 22).
As a broadcaster with quite a few years of local experience, I'd like to offer the opinion that L.A. radio just about leads the way in setting new lows. This used to be a great market for Top 40 and AOR stations. KHJ, KRLA, KMET, KPPC, Morgan, Steele, the Rabbit, B.M.R., Mintz and on and on. Class, integrity, honesty.
But today in L.A., you've got rock jocks giving their political views, jocks whose future careers have been in poor taste, jocks with tremendous egos and virtually no talent, classic here, classic there, 10 in a row, no repeat days, insincerity, zero creativity, boring bad radio. And then you have the Wave (KTWV-FM)? Thank God for the few exceptions.
I feel sorry for the younger broadcasters of today. When I was coming up, finding role models was as easy as turning the dial.
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MC Dev 07-28-17 - NPC Majesty Child Design Complete
Finished NPC Dr. Majesty Child's basic set of emotions and overall character design as well as character sheet. Whether or not NPCs will have secondary outfits within Mosaic Child has yet to be decided. You can review their background information below and view a small portion of their range of emotions (11 out of 21) above in the watermarked images provided. I haven't decided if Majesty will be an dateable NPC or not as their guidance and caretaking of the player character is integral to the storyline. Not to mention if the player character is both a patient and eventual staff member it would be inappropriate for a boss to form that degree of a relationship with them...but it would add to the drama now wouldn't it? ;)
[Dr. Majesty Child - CHARACTER SHEET]
Art & Concept : theaugustuslioness.tumblr.com
Story: theaugustuslioness.tumblr.com
Name: Majesty Child
Age: 53
Gender: Non-binary / X (Other) / U (Unassigned)
Pronouns: They/Them/Their (Gender Neutral etc.)
Race: Black
Ethnicity: African
Nationality: American
Occupation: Psychologist
Health Conditions: Arthritis, Amelia (absence of one or more limbs) , Heterochromia
Likes: Innovative Fashion, Books, Cats, Herbal Teas, French Cuisine, Jazz, Lily of the Valley Flowers
Dislikes: Stuffy Suits, Reality TV, Spiders, Dogs, Heavy Metal, Diners, Summer Heat
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Brand new IVECO Stralis Hi-Way Euro-6
The brand new IVECO Stralis of Pieter Smit is part of IVECO's new range of Stralis heavy-duty trucks. The vehicle is equipped with a Hi-Way cabin, the biggest cabin in the IVECO Stralis range. Underneath the bonnet is an IVECO Cursor 11 engine. IVECO's 420 bhp Cursor 11 engine delivers a maximum torque of 1,900Nm starting at 900 rpm and maintaining up to 1,550 rpm. The Euro 6 emission standard is achieved without EGR system, reducing fuel consumption.


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My mum is on Facebook
....and she's got more friends than me on there too.
I'm not sure what to make of all this.
dont worry,
we all already knew this
My mum too is on facebook
all my friends keep on adding her. Scary!
She loses though because she has way more lame applications.
my mum
has just got on it, if she attempts to add me she will be denied without question, I was devestated about it to be honest.
Facebook is only good for Texas Holdem anyway and maybe the occasional game of scramble.


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text: View from our bedroomWaking up in hotel rooms – there is just something that I love about itAnd playing in the sand, I think it's amazing feeling having your toes in the sand 🙂 feels like freedom to me! By the beach, we weren't very lucky with the weather, so we didn't swim. But still enjoyed hanging out at the beachA Froyo in bed while watching a movie, perfect after a long day. Funny story behind this photo though haha, so I was really carving for Acaii bowl and asked for it from every cafe I could find and they didn't have it. And the places that had it were closed. So I decided to buy Acaii flavoured yoghurt and they had an offer that if you guess the weight of your Froyo you'll get it free and guess what? I freakin guessed the exact weight how's that even possible?! 270 grams in your face, haha!


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And I thought I had a peculiar name!
If you're a curious fumehead and want to learn how to pronounce the brand's name, check out this text-to-speech link I've found for you. You're welcome.
I was offered this with a purchase at Shoppers Drug Mart, and I'm not one to turn down a whiff of something new. Besides, the name makes me feel exotic (in reality it just means man in Italian). The bottle is one of the least imaginative flacons I've seen in a while – over 100 years of brand presence and still no design aesthetics? I'm teasing of course, but I wouldn't mind brands being edgier with their men's fragrance bottles. Just a Monday-morning thought.
The carded 1.5 mL sample comes in a clear glass vial with solid black font, with clear fluid.
A 2013 release, this perfume comes from the Italian house of Ermenegildo Zegna, and is their 19th fragrance. I could tell you the concept of this fragrance, but I don't think it'd be as effective as watching the fragrance film.
Let's dissect this thing for a minute; to Ermenegildo Zegna being a man means 1.) metrosexuality 2.) playing chess against oneself 3.) many, many stairs leading to oddly design architectural feats 4.) anti-climatic endings? To be honest, I just don't get the purpose of this ad. It doesn't deliver the message that a simple 30-second spot could, and I think having a deep-voiced male narrator should have practically been a necessity for this. I suppose this isn't a marketing blog, however, so we will forgive Zegna. Good Zegna, nice Zegna.
Also, I won't tell you what I think of Zegna's following statement: "You buy a fragrance, you buy a dream. And it's easier to sell dreams with fragrances than with fashion." (Hint: I disagree)
Okay, let's talk fragrance. Uomo opens with a clean, herbal, earthy citrus combination of vetiver and citruses. There's no sweetness to it, not by a long shot at least. A general, dim aura of mint, unimportant but noteworthy for the lack of a 'body'. Almost has a hot hay smell to it. The type of fragrance a person who doesn't want fragrances would wear – simple and unimaginative. Not in a bad way, though.
Collective thoughts about what I've sniffed today: I find so many problems with Uomo that it's not worth elaborating on any more than I have. Not a purchase for me, and not for anyone I know if I can help it.
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You can check out Ermenegildo Zegna at www.Zegna.com or follow them on Twitter at twitter.com/Zegna


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"Or are they freeing them from slavery? Walther Kiaulehn's hard-hitting book "The Iron Angel" provides a chronicle of inventions from the antique to the modern age, a moving history of the spirit which created the machines, a cultural history of human work and power, a thoroughly optimistic philosophy of technology."
Book advertisement from "Börsenblatt für den deutschen Buchhandel", January 1936.


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Who is up for a Card Sketch challenge? I love card sketches and would love to see what you do with them too! Here is one to get us started:
I will design a card and then take a sketch from it - Here is the card I did for this sketch:
5.5 x 8.5 Bazzill Orange for card base
2.25 x 4.5 TAC Brown
1 x 5.5 Bazzill Green
2x3 Ivory Ultrasmooth - tear edge after you stamp image
Stamps: Give Thanks
Inks: Noir and Burnt Umber Palette pads
Accessories: Brown Paper Floss, Prisma COlored Pencils, Gamasol Odorless Mineral Spirits, Blending stump, Tombow Grey Marker
Add a link to your version in a comment - so we can all check out your handiwork!


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San Francisco has long been a culinary city where the denizens wait patiently in line to slurp handmade noodles in fragrant pork belly broth, swallow fresh-shucked oysters bathed in tangy mignonette, or indulge in pillowy sugar-coated, nutella-filled doughnuts. While we are a city of hungry eaters always eager to experience the next great dish, until recently most people left the cooking to the professionals. However, thanks to a handful of revolutionary new meal delivery services, more locals are taking to the kitchen — of their own homes. No need to menu plan or grocery shop. With these meal kits, ingredients arrive portioned, prepped, and ready to cook. Eager to experience the next big trend in the food world? Here are five of the most delicious meal delivery services in SF.
5 Hautest Meal Delivery Kit Services in SF
1 toGather
For 11 years chef Jan Birnbaum manned the kitchen at Epic Steak (formerly Epic Roasthouse). Two and a half years ago, Birnbaum left Epic to launch toGather, a meal kit company that supplies home cooks with dinners that simply have to be assembled. Birnbaum wants home cooks to gain confidence in the kitchen by cooking his easy-to-follow, hard-to-screw-up multi-course menus. There's minimal cooking required — all you have to do is heat up a few components. For example, one recent dinner involved roasting rainbow carrots and warming a pot of velvety white bean soup. Within minutes, a scrumptious bowl of creamy soup with restaurant-like flavors and presentation is ready to be devoured. To reduce waste, all of the food comes in a reusable cooler. This week's menu includes little gem salad with tomatoes, melon, and green goddess dressing; rock shrimp orecchiette pasta with rapini; marinated ranch hanger steak with oven-roasted kale and Yukon gold creamer potatoes; and butternut squash bread pudding with maple syrup and huckleberries.
2 Sun Basket
Before beginning Sun Basket, Justine Kelly was the head chef at Charles Phan's James Beard award-winning restaurant, The Slanted Door. Today Kelly works closely with local farmers to bring the freshest, most seasonal ingredients into your kitchen. Sun Basket is farm-to-table food that's fresher than what you'll get in the grocery store. The produce is organic and non-GMO, the meat is responsibly-raised and hormone-free, and the seafood is sustainably sourced. Most of the meals take 30 minutes to prepare and if you're not sure of the instructions on the card that comes in the Sun Basket box, you can refer to the website where there are online tutorials and videos. Those on a special diet will be happy to know that Sun Basket offers a variety of meal plans catered to the paleo, gluten-free, or vegetarian crowd. Next week Sun Basket is offering up the following meals: pork blade steaks with roasted sweet potatoes and red-pepper salsa; pan-seared steaks with artichoke butter and braised green beans; spinach risotto with fresh ricotta; and padang salmon with jade rice.
3 PlateJoy
Worried about where all that food comes from? PlateJoy is the meal delivery service for you because with it, you do all of the grocery shopping. Here's how it works: you take a quick online quiz that tells the PlateJoy folks how much time you have to cook, what ingredients you love, and what culinary gadgets you own. PlateJoy uses your answers to put together a meal plan that is specific to your diet and lifestyle needs. A grocery list is created and recipes are sent your way. You shop for the food to make PlateJoy's breakfast, lunch, and dinners in the comforts of your own kitchen on your own time. If you don't feel like grocery shopping, you can sign up to use one of their affiliate grocery delivery services. Menu items include goat cheese omelet with avocado toast; curry chicken salad wrap with spiced chickpeas; and beef and broccoli stir-fry.
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About Us
Meetings: 4th Thursday (morning / times vary)
Enjoy nature's bounty and beauty
through work and creativity.
The Wildflower Garden Club enjoys informative field trips, programs, socializing and lunch.
Our key focus is to always strive to go to interesting places all around the area. We enjoy learning about plants, traveling to different locations around the area, and most of all we enjoy the friendships we gain through gardening.
Wildflower members visit various greenhouses, nurseries and gardens both public and private to learn more about trees, shrubs and plants to improve our home gardens. For each scheduled trip, members and guests usually meet at the East State Street K-Mart parking lot to travel together to our destination.
Wildflower members enjoy several service projects and donations to the community. We donate a hanging basket to City of Rockford Beautification project ($125), a porch plant to new home owners through Habitat of Humanity and serving dinner at Maya's House, a shelter for children. We have also made monetary donations to: Severson Dells Environmental Center ($100); Grandview Folk Art Gardens ($75); Rock River Food Pantry: $100; Rock House Kids: $100; Klehm Arboretum Vi Bates Wildflower Garden: $50; Sinissippi Quilt Guild Stocking for Soldiers project: $100. We also donated and served dinner twice at the Veterans Drop-in Center.
2018 Wildflower Calendar of Meetings
(Additions to programs, locations and information subject to change)
Click here to obtain a printable schedule of Wildflowers Club meetings for 2018.
If interested in attending a meeting, joining our club or just want more information, please use the "Contact Wildflower Garden Club" form at the bottom of this page. Everyone is welcome to attend three meetings as a guest.
Co-Presidents: Jan Person and Jan Duncan
Secretary: Mary Pinter
Treasurer (Membership): Irene Vella
Ways and Means: Karen Irwin
Sunshine: Peg Goral
Hospitality: Joyce Lillie
e-Mail: Jan Duncan
Callers: Alice Moczynski and Karen Irwin
Members (50)
Marion Applegate*
Martha Bauch
Pat Bellezza
Carol Benney
Georgia Boyer-Lichthardt
Sharon Bramel
Sarah Britton
Fran Cleven
Marilyn Drake
Jan Duncan*
Carol Edson
Shirley Engelbrecht
Diane Fitz
Elizabeth Forlow
Inge Frye
Peg Goral
Joan Graceffa
* = member in more than one club
Janice Haberle
Pat Hanson
Barbara Herbig
Karen Irwin
Barb Jensen
Marilyn Johnson
Joyce Lillie
Hazel Lindblade
Sue Martinetti
Geri McNeany
Alice Moczynski*
Alice Pampe
Elaine Parrovechio*
Alice Pearce
Jan Person
Mary Pinter*
Cynthia Piper
Judi Pivoras
Peggy C. Pogue
Linda Price*
Catherine Rudolph
Nancy Saunders
Judy Schellenberger*
Shari Smallwood
Rosanne Southwood
Erma Svoboda
Judith Thorn
Sarina Tillis
Irene Vella*
Jane Warner
Lorraine White*
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Saturday, March 23, 2013
Baby Fever
I recently told my daughter I dont think Ill be able to share her new baby brother with her-- I have just waited to long and am afraid Ill hog him. Her response, "well, you have to share him with me cause I rub your belly and talk to him. He wants me tohold him too." And my husband shared similar thoughts too-- he was kind of thinking he'd get to hoard the new baby. And so on and so on-- we're all pretty determined that we won't be able to share this new little guy cause we all have waited for him for a long time. I mean a really long time. Like years-- and now that we're getting so close, noone wants to share. Is there a chance this little guy might get spoiled from being held so much? Absolutely-- but I see it as him getting 5 times the love from 5 people who just cant wait to hold him. And smell him. And kiss him. And stroke those newborn cheeks and hair. And change those little diapers... okay, well, that might be one area we all are willing to share! I also keep thinking Im ready to trade first morning finger pricks with morning feedings. And night time bathroom runs with nighttime feedings and cuddles. And so much more-- Having a baby for me is more than just having a baby, its like the long awaited prize after months and months of strict diabetic restrictions. And they might not let up this time and I have just given that all over to the Lord, but there is so, so, so much joy when we have our baby! And this time, there are 3 more people to love on this little man and share in the joy. I know people think bigger families mean you have to spread the love and time around, but I think its the opposite-- there is just 5 times more people to love on this little one. 3 big siblings waiting to hold and love on him instead of just mom and dad. We are just so excited to be in the home stretch-- the last lap. Sure at times it seems like Ill be pregnant forever, but I know at some point God will give him the perfect birthday at just the right time.
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- angie said...
Your perspective is refreshing and heartwarming!
- March 23, 2013 at 11:46 PM
- Rebekah Del Collo said...
This made me smile because Nathan and I had a similar talk the other night. He said to me "You know when Jude goes home, you have to let me and the boys hold him too right?"... Boy does he know me too well, LOL! I guess I will share, but we are all so excited I don't think he will be put down for months. He will be one spoiled little boy. I guess our guys will have that in common, but I am just as OK with it as you are.
I can't wait to wake up to nurse an actual baby and not sit there staring at the pump instead.
Not much longer for either of us now.
- March 27, 2013 at 9:57 AM
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Janet J. Zenz, 86, of Montpelier passed away early Friday morning at Genesis HealthCare Center in Bryan. She was born on May 1, 1930 in Montpelier to Lawrence and Mildred (Spangler) Snyder. Janet graduated from Montpelier High School in 1948. She married Jack D. Zenz and he preceded her in death on February 15, 2012.
Janet was a member of St. Paul's United Methodist Church in Montpelier. She was an operator for General Telephone and was employed by Allen-Cunniff Furniture in Montpelier. Janet and Jack enjoyed collecting antiques, together they owned and operated J & J Antiques for approximately 25 years.
She is survived by two sons, Steven (Gayla) Zenz of Des Moines, Iowa and Scot (Linda) Zenz of Pioneer; one daughter, Stacey (Bob) Walkup of Pioneer; one sister, Linda (Dick) Moog of Bryan; and four grandchildren, Kevin (Gwen) Zenz, Katie Zenz, Emma Zenz and Jack Zenz.
Janet was preceded in death by her parents, husband Jack, and two brothers, Keith and Larry Snyder.
A time to receive friends will take place on Tuesday, March 21, 2017 from 4-7 p.m. at the Thompson Funeral Home on Main Street in Montpelier with a celebration of life service immediately following calling hours at 7:00 p.m. at funeral home with Pastor James Mays to officiate. Janet will be laid to rest at Riverside Cemetery in Montpelier.
Memorial contributions may be given to CHP-Hospice or the Alzheimer's Association. Condolences can be left at www.thethompsonfuneralhome.com
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The British Novel: 20th Century
- The great overshadowing events of the 20th century include:
- World War I
- The Great Depression
- World War II, including the Holocaust and the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima
- The Cold War
- The launch of Sputnik and advent of space flight
- The end of colonialism and the rise of Third World countries
- The reshaping of the face of world Communism
- The twentieth-century novel experienced three major movements. High modernism, lasting through the 1920s, celebrated personal and textual inwardness, complexity, and difficulties. High modernists like Woolf and Joyce wrote in the wake of the shattering of confidence in old certainties. The 1930s through the 1950s saw a return to social realism and moralism as a reaction against modernism. Writers like Murdoch and Golding were consciously retrospective in their investment in moral form. By the end of the century modernism had given way to the striking pluralism of postmodernism and postcolonialism.
- Although there were major innovations in Continental drama in the first half of the twentieth century, in Britain the impact of these innovations was delayed by a conservative theater establishment until the late 1950s and 1960s. Samuel Beckett played a leading role in the anglophone absorption of modernist experiment in drama. In the shadow of the mass death of World War II, Beckett's absurdist intimation of an existential darkness without redemption gave impetus to a seismic shift in British drama. The Theatres Act of 1968 abolished the power of censorship that had rested in the Lord Chamberlain's Office. Wole Soyinka and Derek Walcott, two eminent poets from Britain's former dominions, helped breathe new life and diversity into English drama.
- Another of the twentieth century's defining features is radical artistic experiment. The boundary-breaking art, literature, and music of the first decades of the century are the subject of the topic "Modernist Experiment." Among the leading aesthetic innovators of this era were the composer Igor Stravinsky, the cubist Pablo Picasso, and the futurist F. T. Marinetti. The waves of artistic energy in the avant-garde European arts soon crossed the English Channel, as instanced by the abstraction and dynamism of Red Stone Dancer (1913-14) by the London-basedvorticist sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska. Other vorticists and modernists include such English-language writers as Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, and Mina Loy, who also responded to the stimulus and challenge of the European avant-garde with manifestos, poems, plays, and other writings. This topic explores the links between Continental experiment and the modernist innovations of English-language poets and writers during a period of extraordinary ferment in literature and the arts.
- Major Authors:
- English novelist and essayist, whose fiction featured stream-of-consciousness technique
- Major Works:
- Mrs. Dalloway (1925)
- To the Lighthouse (1927)
- A Room of One's Own (1929) a book-length essay about a woman's need to find a space to do her own creative work


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The purpose of the Prehistoric Quarry and Early Mines Interest Group is to advance the study of non-industrialized mines, quarries and other forms of extraction sites. As such, the group is concerned with studying the archaeological and geological records of extractive technologies and their remnant manifestations in order to better understand the social, political and economic contexts in which they operated - from the cultural landscapes that quarries and mines have formed to the artifact assemblages associated with them. Unlike mobile and seasonal subsistence resources, mines are fixed on the landscape. Inter-generational knowledge can be assumed for all resources, but especially for mines and quarries in terms of geological, technical and geographical experiences that must have been passed down through the generations.
Like all archaeological sites, mines and quarries are nonrenewable resources in terms of our understanding of the prehistoric past. Mines and quarries, however, are unique in that their on-going use eradicates the record of what has gone before; often these sites (as opposed to other cultural resources) are treated as if they were renewable because of the nature of sites and because there is a lack of awareness of types and quantities of information that these sites represent. As development proceeds, the rate of destruction of prehistoric quarries and mines increases.
A chairperson should be elected on a bi-annual basis from nominations proposed and seconded by the group as a whole. Other officers would be similarly elected (i.e. publications officer/editor, treasurer if needed, outreach officer, etc.).
Contact Person
Dr. Lynn Fisher, Associate Professor
University of Illinois at Springfield
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THE QUARRY–CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS–The Quarry is the interest group's e-newsletter. The Editor invites your short research papers, news, reports or announcements. This is your chance to report your latest findings to our growing group membership, not only to inform, but also to facilitate debate. Our e-newsletter is archived online (see link above), so it is accessible to the wider membership, which increases readership and provides an easy way to disseminate research. The newsletter offers you a great opportunity to report on current research or cultural resources management (CRM) projects and to inform your peers of planned events at the next Annual Meeting.
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Evening Strolls in the Japanese Stroll Garden
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The Mizumoto Japanese Stroll Garden typically closes for the winter on October 31; this winter, November 30-December 22, we invite the public to enjoy evening strolls in the garden on Fridays and Saturdays from 5:30-8:30pm. Take in winter's subtle beauty and festive lighting.
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Back from Greece
Hey all~
Thanks for staying tune to Eafotoson!
2 More Days to Greece!
Hey All
I will be away on holiday for a while :)
Going to Europe this time round, GREECE! I'm so excited :D
I will be back on the 23rd June, catching the late night plane.
Stay tune for Greece photos ;)
Orangutan - On the Tree Top
Caught this Orangutan high on the tree top. If you noticed carefully, the little pair of legs on the shoulder belongs to a baby Orangutan.
Singapore Zoo - Our Dear AhMeng
Do you still recognize who this is?
It's "Ah Meng" the Orangutan. AhMeng used to be the Singapore Zoo's living mascot, until it passed away in 2008. This is the steel statue located at the Singapore Zoo, in memory of AhMeng.
Young Orangutan at Play
This is an innocent scene of a young Orangutan playing by a man-made stream of water
See the Palm of a Full-Grown Orangutan
See how big the palm of an Orangutan is, compared to a human size's palm.
That's huge..
King of Animals - Lion
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So here I am in Joshua Tree National Park, one of my favorite place in California. I'm obsessed with the view there! I think I love it so much, 'cause I'm not used to such a nature type and for me, it looks so futuristic and inspirational.
It's my second time in the Park and I want to back again 😉 Obviously obsessed!
I fell in love with my skirt from Dolls Point I bought at Urban Outfitters. I think it's a perfect one for the weather out there. I combined it with Zara's crop top and my beloved good old Converse. Believe me, they never get old. As for accessories, I resorted to The Zulu wool hat by Lack of Color, oversized sunglasses, and Celine box bag (also in red here). What do you think about the look?


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6/30 – As Tall As Lions @ Bowery Ballroom.
July 2, 2009
I hadn't been to a general admission show since April, so this one really reminded me of what I've been missing out on these past couple months – dehydration, aching feet, ringing in my ears, and really being able to get involved and move around during the music; all of which being things I've missed.
Afuche opened, and were like nothing I'd ever heard live before – they had a tremendous amount of energy with facial expressions to prove it. Their sound was unique and seemed improvised at some parts, which I thought was great, and the transitions between songs, all with completely different time signatures, were smooth. They were smiling the whole time, making it evident that they were having a great time playing, and the crowd seemed pretty into them (I know I was). There was a great trumpet solo towards the end of the set that really got everyone going, and Julio from ATAL was jamming along with them on a percussion instrument throughout the set backstage. I was thoroughly impressed.
The Dig played next, and had incredible bass lines and pleasant vocals, but had a sound too familiar to me. I probably would have enjoyed the set more if they hadn't taken such a long time to set up, making most of the crowd pretty restless. Not that I didn't think they were good… just no better than good.
As Tall As Lions finally came on, well after 10:00, and opened with Circles, just as I had hoped they would. They had background singers all dressed in white who stood near the drums, clapping the beat to the song, but otherwise not doing much. It felt good to be one of the only people who knew every word to the new song. It was impossible to stand still, and I couldn't help but throw my hands in the air at times, completely losing myself to the music. It was the perfect song to open with and woke up every person who had had an ounce of weariness in them prior to the start of the headlining set.
Rest of the set list:
-Song For Luna
-A Soft Hum (Maybe I'm Just Tired Hidden Track)
-Be Here Now
-A Break A Pause
-Ghost Of York
-Goonite Noises Everywhere straight into Into The Flood
-Milk and Honey
-Lost My Mind (Encore)
-Stab City (Encore)
As well as three new songs.
Surprisingly no Love, Love, Love (Love, Love), but that's probably because everyone was screaming for Stab City throughout the entire show.
The bridge of Song For Luna, one of my favorite ATAL song climaxes, made everyone pound their fists into the air, and the crowd challenged Dan, carrying the tune even louder than he; "Sing into the moonlight, who could ask for more?" over and over again. Eventually, he stepped back from the mic and just soaked it all in, and everyone kept going, even when all the instruments stopped. It was similar to the feeling I always get at Anthony Green shows during Devils Song where everyone sings "We're all in the same spot." Afterwards, Dan joked that we would all have to get together before the next New York show to practice our vocals. Perhaps the most impressive part of the set, though, was when they played Ghost Of York, a song that everyone was able to sing along to and head bang to at all the right parts. At one point I just thought to myself, this is what happiness really feels like- and I was surrounded by it. Everyone felt it. It moved everyone. I closed my eyes and smiled, practically tearing due to the hauntingly beautiful vocals.
A set had never gone by so fast to me, and when it ended, I couldn't believe it. I would have paid all the money in my pocket to hear just ONE more song, even half a song. It had to end at some point, though, and at least now I'm left with memories of one of the most enjoyable sets I've ever witnessed. I'm so proud to say I listen to this band, and look forward to seeing them again at the end of the month.


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A mother of 3 with an Associates Degree in Broadcasting from City College. My passion was always music. After graduating college, I realized that I wanted to be a voice to many. I wanted to be a radio host at a major station. I landed an intern at Hot 105.1 in Hollywood, Florida which opened my eyes to what I had an interest in doing. I played with writing news and promotions. I loved promotions, but I always wanted to be a voice on the airways. I now have my own Web Radio Station "The T with Sonya B" which airs on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10 am. Go to Blog Talk Radio and listen live.
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The last building remaining to complete the basic needs of our school is a dining hall. God moved on the hearts of 2 dear brothers in Christ to contribute the money for this. And it's perfect timing as we are able to get the rock and sand delivered just before the rains start (if the money had come a month or 2 later, it would have delayed the entire project almost 6 months til after the rainy season).
Delivery of rocks
Digging! Our school Director is working the long digging spade in the left corner of the left picture.
This reminds me of the kids book Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel–yes I think one steam shovel CAN dig as much in one day as 100 men can dig in a week. We're moving a LOT of dirt over the next several weeks by hand. Ethiopia's a developing country and there's not a machine within 50km that can help us. And it costs a lot to bring one of the few machines to do the work . . .
. . . but it's a joy to work together . . .
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My Yahoo! – RSS Headlines Module — Frequently Asked Questions I just set up this RSS Feed Beta on my My Yahoo! page and it works fantastically. Can't recommend it enough. If you love myyahoo as much as I do this is truly a great addition. This, in addition to the Yahoo Local beta show that things really are turning around for our old friends at Yahoo.


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Thursday, December 07, 2006
KNOW Magazine -- Spot the spots
Scientists at ECOCEAN are using pattern-recognition software developed for NASA's Hubble Space Telescope program to recognize individual whale sharks, which are covered with small, white spots on a dark background similar to a starry night sky. I wrote a short news piece about it for the May/June 2007 issue of KNOW--The Science Magazine for Curious Kids.
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Kids Making a Difference
This was a fun assignment -- find out what local elementary schools and teachers are doing to teach philanthropy and community to their students. There were some great ideas, and the enthusiam behind the projects was truly inspirational!
"Little kids can make a big difference," ParentMap, December 2006
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