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Have you ever driven by a home that has clearly embraced native plants with a prairie growing right up to the curb? What was your first thought? As a horticulturist and lover of naturescaping, I am thrilled at the biodiversity and food sources I see. However, as a designer I cringe.
Recently, we've seen an increase in attention focused on the plight of pollinators, in particular the honeybee. Honeybees are extremely important agricultural pollinators, while other native bees are also seeing population declines. The Rusty Patched Bumblebee is native to the Upper Midwest and was just added to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services endangered list. Many people have been asking us what they can do to help support local St. Louis-area bee, butterfly, and other pollinator populations.
Grow Native! is a native landscaping educational program of the Missouri Prairie Foundation.
Quiet Village Landscaping first learned about Grow Native! through our involvement with native planting and biodiversity events and programs throughout the Midwest, and this summer we were happy to become the latest professional member of this amazing organization.
If your like most homeowners, your looking for ways to reduce the cost of home maintenance, including landscaping costs. Keep your St. Louis yard looking good by paying special attention to the health of your perennial plants, shrubs & trees.
Oftentimes, our clients ask us what plants work best to attract beautiful butterflies to their yard. For over ten years we've been working with homeowners and property managers to create an outdoor oasis
Native plants and pollinators make great additions to any landscape.
Add some Power Perennials to your garden – Plants that strive and survive in all types of conditions. Check out our picks for perennial flowers that are easy to grow:
Hot and sunny weather doesn't stop coneflowers from producing an abundance of flowers from early summer until fall. Coneflowers are purple natives that are easy to grow – and are also available in while, yellow, orange, and red.
As an added bonus, these nectar-rich flowers will attract butterflies and hummingbirds to your garden as well!
Liatris (or, commonly called gayfeather or blazing star) is a tough native plant that produces interesting spikes of pink, white, or purple blooms from midsummer to fall.
While this plant is drought-tolerant, it prefers moister soils – making it a great choice for wet spots in your landscape (see our last post on how to handle the wet St. Louis summer).
With its silver-gray foliage, Artemisia makes a great companion for other perennials in your landscape or containers.
Artemisia is a tough plant that can tolerate both hot-dry conditions and pool soil. Just keep in mind that it needs full sun to stay healthy.
These ultra-easy foliage plants come in all types of shapes, sizes, and colors. Use hostas to brighten any shady spots in your garden and landscape.
When blooming, this fragrant perennial shrub attracts butterflies of all types. Buddleia produces nectar-rich blooms in purple, pink, yellow, white and even blues!
Buddleia will die back to the ground each year, but rebounds quickly once the weather warms up in the spring.
Add some beauty to your late-summer and fall garden with the bright and beautiful Helenium. This sun-worshiping native plan blooms in bright orange, red, and yellow blooms.
Growing to about 24-36 inches, black eyed Susan's thrive in full sun and can tolerate dry conditions – and is also a bee and butterfly favorite! The more you cut the daisylike flowers of the black-eyed Susan, the more prolific they will bloom.
You are an artist and your plot of land is your canvas. What will you create this year? Something beautiful? Functional? Sustainable? The better you define your priorities at the start, the more you can tailor your landscape to meet your needs and desires.
Train small trees, shrubs and vines to grow up a trellis or wall. Certain trees and shrubs—including some apple and pear tree varieties—can be trained in the espalier style, growing in a pattern against a wall or weaving in and out of a trellis. There are many vegetables that grow well on a trellis, including varieties of cucumber, squash, indeterminate tomato, and even a perennial climbing spinach vine. Vertical gardening is a great option for small spaces or places that could benefit from a living privacy screen.
Xeriscaping is landscaping with a focus on water conservation. Limiting turf areas, choosing drought-resistant plants, installing strategically positioned shrubs and trees, and incorporating turf alternatives such as rock gardens all have a place in xeriscaping. When correctly installed and fully established, this landscape style is very low-maintenance and does not require excessive fertilization or attention.
Install a raised bed next to a patio or along a pathway to add a new dimension to your landscape. Raised beds can be a good place to contain certain flowers or plants that you enjoy but that have fairly aggressive spreading tendencies. Raised bed gardens drain well and their height makes them easy to weed and tend to. Consider wood frames, cement blocks, or brick, or think outside the box with reclaimed materials. Fill the beds with compost or organic fertilizer before planting, and select varieties that contrast and complement each other in height, color, texture and shape.
Herbs make a fragrant and flavorful addition to your garden space or landscape border. You may be surprised how many interesting and colorful variations of well-known herbs you may find, such as lemon basil and chocolate mint. Perennial herbs come back year after year, while some annual and biennial herbs "seed themselves." You can interplant herbs with flowers for a beautiful effect, but be sure to remember which plants are okay to eat and which ones are strictly ornamental.
Growing your own fruits and vegetables is deeply rewarding. With some research, practice, patience and a little bit of luck, you can grow some of the best produce you have ever tasted. If you are interested in growing your produce organically, limit synthetic fertilizers and pesticides and find out how to cultivate a mini-ecosystem in which plants, soil microbes and beneficial insects all help each other flourish. If this is your first attempt at vegetable gardening, start small, prepare the soil, and plant at the right time. Also, make sure to double-check how large the plants will grow–you don't want a melon plant unexpectedly taking over your yard!
Installing native plants in your landscape have several major benefits. Many native species are so well-adapted to our climate that they require little additional water during our extreme St. Louis summers, so they are easy on resources. Native plants and flowers provide nourishment and habitat for birds, bees, butterflies, and other local wildlife. Choose plants that flower at different times or that produce colorful berries so that you have color for three seasons of the year and you keep a steady supply of food for your garden's little visitors. There is something very comfortable and homey about bringing native plants into your yard—it gives your landscape a very "Missouri" feel.
We are happy to offer your home or business our expertise and professional installation skills. Call our office at 314-657-7050 or email email@example.com to request a free initial design consultation.
Great news—the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District's initiative "Project Clear" offers small grants to help improve water quality through rainscaping! As MSD announces on their website, they "will invest billions of dollars over a generation in planning, designing, and building community rainscaping projects, system improvements, and an ambitious program of maintenance and repair."
Residents of participating St. Louis County municipalities can now apply for a rainscape rebate to establish a rain garden, amend the soil, or install permeable pavement, rain barrels, or even a green roof on their property. Find out if your property is included in the grant program focus area.
Quiet Village Landscaping can design a rain garden that adds beauty to your landscape while improving your property value. A rain garden is a great solution for existing drainage problem areas in your yard that hold water for hours—or even days—after a downpour. If your lawn has sections where turf refuses to grow and always looks patchy and weak, a rain garden may be just what you need.
By creating a shallow depression planted with a variety of attractive native plants, rain water can be held and properly absorbed by the soil to replenish groundwater supplies. This prevents rainwater from streaming off of your property to pollute and flood neighboring creeks and waterways, and it also provides food and refuge for native wildlife like butterflies and birds.
"I love my new rain garden. Thanks!" – Victoria V.
A rain garden is a shallow depression containing rocks and plants that can thrive in wet conditions. These gardens provide an alternative to drainage systems, attract native wildlife, and prevent chemicals used in the yard and home from polluting the water further along the system.
Perhaps you have an area in your yard that retains water for hours or days after a good rain where your lawn looks patchy and weak. That is an ideal spot for a rain garden. With the right sculpting and the right plants, a rain garden holds and absorbs water, replenishing groundwater supplies. This is a much greener alternative to allowing rainwater to stream off of your property, polluting and flooding neighboring creeks and waterways.
Quiet Village Landscaping designs gorgeous rain gardens that add beauty to landscapes while improving property value. A well-planned St. Louis rain garden will also attract a variety of birds, butterflies, and other native wildlife that your family can enjoy throughout the year. Let us install your rain garden for you and you'll feel good about providing a habitat for native creatures, reducing water pollution and conserving our soils.


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BERLIN The U.S. travel ban on residents of seven Muslim-majority countries could affect demand for travel to the United States, the UN World Tourism Organization mentioned on Tuesday. From right here, we now have extra travels planned and a return to Hoi An is within the playing cards, but a lot of the beauty of long-term travel lies in its flexibility. Sometimes, the longer your trip and the more places you select to travel to, the more important it is to set your travel targets. Visa Services: There may be a whole lot of technical paperwork which must be completed earlier than a visa could be applied to the relevant embassy / high fee; a travel agent assists the visitors in documenting the visa files in a fashion that the visa is granted by the authorities without any delays.
Let's take a typical Journey: 30 individuals meet in Central America (Mexico, Nicaragua, El Salvador) and spend 2 days of building properties, skate parks or faculties, and 2 days of Integration: processing the experience with meditation, yoga, surf, shared meals, and new associates. Now she is over traveling in Egypt with him, and what's worse, they're ceaselessly sharing rooms whereas traveling the nation!!
And when you just wish to be in an surroundings where you feel like you are on vacation all the time, you can all the time travel to Hawaii and take an assignment there. Traveling solo as a married lady has given me the chance to find who I am when I am not with my husband. The truth that this speaker roughly suits inside the palm of your hand makes it superb for traveling as effectively, and it also comes with a nice fabric traveling pouch.
Sustaining correct alignment while traveling or sleeping upright isn't only necessary as regards to personal comfort, but very important in lowering stress, soreness and stopping injury. Early variations of travel clubs had been groups of mates that saved slightly bit of money by sharing expenses on a trip trip. Thus you've got to find out which India Travel package fits you the best and the place you wish to travel in your subsequent holiday.
However for some who had changed their travel plans following the ban, the order was not sufficient reassurance. Get to your travel agency and get your low-cost flight to Israel, or a pair of cheap Europe airline tickets! My husband knew this about me earlier than we mentioned our vows and was conscious I would travel with or with out him. The profit to a work from home travel agent affiliate program is that there's no purchase-in costs, and the only bills from you'll be the expenses you incur by way of promoting and working an internet site as a work from home travel agent.

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Accessible Materials Made Right is a regional workshop intended to help equip participants with the skills and understanding needed to begin creating accessible materials and to train others to do likewise. Topics include:
- Why accessibility matters
- Principles and components of accessibility in Word, Acrobat, and PowerPoint
- Creating accessible material from the start
To help facilitate the learning process and guide teams toward effective implementation, the workshop has been split into three non-consecutive days. Participants are expected to attend all three days. The workshop alternates between lecture, hands-on practice, and group discussion. Upon completion, everyone will have had hands-on practice creating basic-level accessible:
- Word documents
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Who should attend?
Intermediate school district teams, or local district teams, of at least two people who are responsible for, and will be, training others on the creation and remediation of accessible materials on publicly facing websites are invited to apply. Please refer to the Accessible Materials Made Right Information Guidefor guidance on selecting a team.
When and where is the training?
Location: Berrien RESA
Dates: January 11, February 2, and February 15
Interested teams must first submit an application. Successful applicants will receive registration information upon acceptance of the application.
Application deadline: December 15
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Edmonds Commerce Handbook¶
Welcome to the Edmonds Commerce Handbook.
Here you will find various items of useful information. This is an ongoing work in progress so there are no doubt gaps, inaccuracies, typos etc. For that we apologise, however we hope that you do find the information useful.
Open Sourced¶
We have open sourced this Handbook primarily to aspiring new members of the developer team so that they can get a deeper understanding about what we do and can also start to look into specific topics in more detail.
Hopefully there is plenty of useful content in here that is relevent not just to Edmonds Commerce, but to anyone in PHP web development and E-Commerce
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We are always looking for new people and organisations to work with
If you are a PHP developer and would like to come and work with us, please do get in touch.
Our work is varied, interesting and challenging. If that sounds like something you would enjoy then we'd be really happy to hear from you.
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After our 15hrs. Lay-Over at Hotel Nikko-Narita in Japan we already went to Narita Int'l Airport using the Airport Shuttle from Japan Airlines.Then my mom and I strolled at Japan Duty Free and bought something and I also got 2 Free Origamis which are very Kawaii !! Japan's Keychains are so Cool and also their Sushi Magnets !! but its worth a hundred yen to which I prefer to just buy Japanese Ice Creams , Chocolates , Chips and etc because they are just so tasty ! Sometimes the packaging looks very weird but the taste is terrific ! but for the drinks well.. guess who's honey tea got confiscated in the airport and got thrown away ? well its me ... anyways it Its okay.. because I don't like the taste of it that much.
Top - Vintage Tee
Shorts - Landmark
Shoes - Auztralian (Landmark)
Headband - SM Department Store
Necklace - Trinoma (I forgot the boutique)
Bracelet - Oh its from My Mom
Bag - Parisian
The Left One which is the Milk Tea is My Mom's , The Honey Tea is Mine (The one that got confiscated in the Airport)
Free Origamis
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That's Why I grabbed 2 Kawaii Origamis from Duty Free
Its a souvenir too you know !
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After a solid 6-5 win over Arthur Fane last week, Matt Bugler takes on slightly more unfamiliar football opposition in the shape of Exeposé Online Editor Olivia Luder (Moomin). It turns out that all this time she had been concealing some really fascinating and unique insights to the game…
Liverpool- Arsenal
Olivia: 4-0
I definitely think that Liverpool are going to win this because back in year five, all the boys in my class hated Arsenal and really liked Manchester United. So yeah, pretty sure that if a football team is hated by a bunch of ten year olds, it's really not got a lot going for it. Really looking forward to the traditional half-time Macarena that Liverpool and Arsenal are well known for.
Matt: 2-1
Arsenal's project for the rest of the season is to hang onto their lead against two superior teams in the shape of Man City and Chelsea. They've found this season that every time they lose a good player, another one mysteriously emerges; Podolski in for Ramsey, The Ox in for Walcott etc. Thus the recruitment of already injured Kim Kallstrom was actually a pre-emptive strike to allow Yaya Sanogo to come blinking out into the light. Cunning.
Aston Villa- West Ham
Olivia: 0-2
I think Aston Villa are at a distinct disadvantage in this game since everyone knows England hasn't got any nice terracotta tiled villas in it. They're going to need to come back from some sunny location in Europe and rename themselves Aston Semi-detached if they want to beat West Ham.
Matt: 2-2
Every time Kevin Nolan does his chicken dance, 100 real chickens are brought out of a lush green paradise and into cramped battery cages. What a cruel man. Villa's suspect defence means that Chicken Run is looking increasingly unlikely to happen.
Chelsea- Newcastle
Olivia: 3-3
Obviously, the real deciding factor in this game is whether Roman Abramovich plays. I don't know what position he is but I've heard that he's really shaken things up for Chelsea in the past. Newcastle will have to beat the jetlag they'll inevitably be dealing with having come from so far north. All in all, an exciting match.
Matt: 4-0
Newcastle have been exposed as a Wizard of Oz style team, with Yohan Cabaye as the curtain that conceals a fragile bunch of gawky, technically-limited scoundrels. Chelsea could score as many as they want, but Mourinho is opposed to unnecessary attacking, and will be silently resenting the fact that his side score more than twice.
Crystal Palace- West Brom
Olivia: 89-0
Are these actually real football team names? I'm pretty sure Crystal Palace is the spin-off of Takeshi's Castle. In which case, psyched for when all the players have to leap over the goal (just had to google to make sure it was called that, for those of you also not in the know, here's a handy resource – http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/vocabulary/football.shtml) and storm the stadium to win the match. I guess West Brom will just sit and enjoy the entertainment.
Matt: 1-0
This is the easiest prediction I'll ever do. Pulis at home vs team in the second half of the table is a 1-0 win as reassuring and ever-present as hearing Mr Brightside in an Exeter night out. My need for a comforting football result has been enhanced further by the fact I don't currently have a bedroom in Exeter, so please Tony, don't let me down.
Norwich- Man City
Olivia: 2-2
This is getting progressively more and more dull. Hang on, hang on, hang on. There's a team that's called MAN City? Can't tell if sexism or if abbreviation. To be serious right now, I think, based on my extensive knowledge of Norwich and all its inhabitants, that it'll be quite an evenly fought match provided Man City's well-known striker Tess Tosterone is still injured (ho, ho, ho!)
Matt: 0-1
City have been bizarrely criticised in some quarters for not winning tight matches. Apparently winning 4-0 is not as important as playing badly and sneaking a 1-0. This match against Norwich represents a good chance to gain that much coveted "hallmark of champions".
Southampton- Stoke
Olivia: 5-1
Studying at Exeter, I have a natural distrust of Southampton (or is it Loughborough we're supposed to not like? I forget…) but I can't deny their nautical ability. Everyone remembers their famous underwater football match of '08. Since it has been raining a lot in the South West lately, it could go swimmingly for Southampton but Stoke could draw surprising strength from its mascot, the water Stoat.
Matt: 3-0
Saints have been quietly returning to their early-season form, and continue their development into a side entirely made up of teenagers. Much rests on whether Pochettino decides to play the industrious Jack Cork in midfield, or Victor Wanyama, who despite his £12 million transfer fee struggles to pass a ball 10 feet to a teammate.
Sunderland- Hull
Olivia: 6-0
Hull really hasn't been on form lately, have they? Though they've just been through a gruelling training regime of toe curls, brow furrowing and studying semiotics, it'll take more than that to get them up to standard. Tom Daley, of course, has been seen hanging around the stadium in anticipation of the match – speculation currently suggests that he hoping to dive into the sea of their post-match tears. Sorry Hull but Sunderland are going to put you s'under…
Matt: 3-1
Adam Johnson's decided to end his 18 month sabbatical from the game and fancies a bit of World Cup after-training table tennis with Phil Jagielka. Hull are no strangers to being very good in the first half of a Premiership season and God-awful in the second, so we'll have to wait until May to see if Steve Bruce will be banging out the tunes at the KC.
Swansea- Cardiff
Olivia: 1-0
Aaaand finally the Welsh contingent have arrived. You really have to take Cardiff on a game by game basis, depending on whether the city is being ravaged by Doctor Who monsters that week or not. The whisper in the wind suggests Slitheens are on their way in which case Cardiff's boasting of a win is all just hot air (Doctor Who fans in the house, can I hear you say 'heeyyyy'!)
Matt: 1-1
As a football player, Gary Monk always had the air of being confused as to how he made it to the Premier League, and as a manger represents the hopes and dreams of every pub-goer who thinks they can do a better job in charge. Swansea have decided that having a suave, cultured European manager is not for them, and fancy a good ol' relegation scrap instead. Good for them.
Tottenham- Everton
Olivia: CANCELLED- to be replayed when Everton is in a better state of mind
My Dad works in Tottenham. I know it's often quite blocked up with traffic. Had a quick google to find out where Everton is and it turns out it's in Liverpool… I'm really confused. Why is there a Liverpool football team AND Everton? Why can't they work together? Did something happen? I'm calling this match off on the grounds that Everton really needs to stop taking out its angst over the break up with Liverpool on other people and instead just sit down and really talk through their issues.
Matt: 1-0
Tim Sherwood is the model that Gary Monk aspires to be, a plucky underdog rising to the challenge, and suffering the odd setback before coming through in the end-of-season finale. If this were a sports film, Everton would be a chance to prove that they've learnt lessons from their thumping by City. Expect Michael Dawson to head home a glorious, slow-motion winner in the 95th minute as White Hart Lane erupts.
Man United- Fulham
Olivia: 100-0
Oh good lord, it's the last one. Thank god for that. Let's return to where we started – my primary school class in year 5. I was a Manchester United fan then and I'm a Man U fan now. David Beckham is definitely my favourite player for the team. Giggs, Cole, Keane, Sheringham, Scholes, the Nevilles – all players whose success with Manchester United continues and I'm sure will last long into the future. Fulham are exactly that – full of… ham. Ham being uselessness on a football pitch.
Matt: 0-0
These two teams are in a competition to see who can be the most bad. United lost to Stoke, Fulham raised them with a home defeat to League Two-bound Sheffield United. This match will be a hilarious montage of air-kicks, scuffed efforts and teammates tackling each other.
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The worst thing a writer can do is think. First, it is a waste of brain cells, and second, thinking gets in the way of creativity. Call it Zen. Ray Bradbury did in his book "Zen and the Art of Writing." He says what other writers have said and when more than one tell you it is so, and you can verify by your experience, you know they are correct.
I have experienced it many times, none more so, then when I wrote 2,700 words in three hours.
When writing you visualize in your cinematic brain what is happening in the scene. As a writer you know every scene has a purpose, a beginning, middle, and an end, or at least a hanging chad type of ending, one that leads the reader to the next scene, because they can't put the book down, not yet anyway, got to keep reading, because there is that chad hanging on and the need to find out what that chad means.
Example: I wrote a scene where three people come across a car they were looking for, the car of someone who is missing. The car is on an isolated road. They follow the dirt road in a misty rain, the road overgrown with weeds, hardly, if ever used. (since I write on the fly, I have no idea where they are going). But as they go down the road, I see the road in my cinematic brain. I see the rain- and see it is misty, so I write that it is misty. I see the weeds, I see the tall grass, and I describe what I am looking at. I see the bear in the middle of the road. I see the bear raise up and let loose a tree shaking, knee buckling growl.
What happens then is not important (hanging chad), at least to the point I am making. A writer sees and writes what he sees, and what he sees is shaped into a story. So don't think, sit back and visualize and then report what is going on, what is being said. At the end of the day-or days, you will have a story.
The hanging chad resolved: one of the three, a woman raised in an area where bears would be encountered, knew how to shout and yell to scare the bear off. They then come upon a weather beaten old shack that they approach slowly; the woman who scared off the bear slowly turns the knob on the front door. (another hanging chad)
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Many people think Android phones are not as good as Apple, but in fact, many Android phones are equipped with high-quality cameras, as long as the right way to get the perfect picture with the mobile phone is very simple, the following brings the Android mobile phone practical tips to take a look.
Understanding Camera Settings
Before you start filming, familiarize yourself with the settings of your phone and camera, and then you'll be handy. If we can understand different patterns and settings, we can explore and experiment in depth and make shooting more creative.
Make sure the lens is clean.
It seems strange that when using SLR cameras, we may remember to wipe the SLR lens, but it's hard to remember to wipe the phone lens. Android phone camera does not have a dust-proof scratch protection cover, professional cameras have.
Take a small piece of clean cloth with you, or sew a small piece of microfiber lens cleaning cloth in your wallet and jacket, reminding yourself to wipe your phone lens and screen so that you can make sure your phone is taking the clearest picture. If you are in trouble, you can wipe it directly with a sweatshirt. Don't forget to wipe the front-facing camera.
Forget the flash. External light source
If the external environment is dark, we will unconsciously open the flash to take photos, but the quality of the picture is always unsatisfactory. In fact, we can completely not use the flash, almost never used. When taking photos, we can look for natural light sources. If you are in a restaurant and want to take a picture of a dish, you can choose a window seat so that you can get the perfect light and the details of the dish.
If you want to take a photo, you can stand in front of the big window. This will not make your face and features "bright", but it will darken the background, so that you are in the center of attention. If there is no natural light, it is impossible to take a photograph, so it is better to look for an external light source than a lamp or candle when filming. It may seem silly, but almost all the other rays are better than the flash, and with a brighter light, you can control the content and let the part that we want brighten up.
Do not zoom
Like the flash of the Android phone, we should avoid the zoom function. Zoom reduces the quality of the image, and when we edit the photos we may find something amazing that we can cut off before we see it.
It's hard to remember that Android devices are different from SLR cameras. If we use the Zoom function when shooting with mobile phone, the quality of the image is very difficult to keep consistent.
If you really want to get close to the object you're shooting, stand up and come near it, not using zoom. Shooting in this way, you can control the object, if the zoom function will reduce the overall quality of the photo.
Explosive shooting and then pick
When shooting a photo, a burst shot is really a lazy shot, but it's probably the most effective way to take the perfect picture.
Whether it is self-portrait, the scenery, or the shooting of dishes, the use of explosive shooting methods can be no pressure to take a large number of photos, we just need to press the shutter, you can use a quick lens to take a lot of photos, after the film to select the most perfect.
Although many of the photos taken are bad and totally unusable, there are still a handful of gems hidden in them. Take the time to peruse the photos, pick the best ones, and remove the bad ones.
Find a photo editing software that you like
After you've taken your picture, you can choose to edit your favorite app editing software. Now there are a lot of software available on the market, each software has its own unique features, such as filters, adjust brightness and contrast, and can even increase text information and stickers.
Photo editing software is a great addition if you don't have enough confidence in the photos you're taking. If you are a little worried about the quality of some photos, edit the software slightly to "save" the photos.
Watch your favorite photographer in social media
Sometimes the best photos taken with Android phones are not from the camera app, but from browsing social media, where we see photographers using Android phones to take beautiful pictures and learn from them.
Focus on the photographers in the community media, learn from them, and get some good experience, so we can just look at the good pictures taken by others and go out and try. You can comment, ask him, see how he shoots specific objects in a particular style, or ask them how to edit a particular photo and make it appear in a particular style, and the photographer may respond.


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How To Earn Money Selling Traveling Vineyard Wines
The Traveling Vineyard is an Ipswich, Maine-based company that gives people the opportunity to sell their products as an independent contractor. Called Wine Guides, these independent contractors use direct sales methods to sell Traveling Vineyard's wines and make money for themselves.
A Wine Guide starts with a Success Kit which includes everything they will need to get started. They also have access to Traveling Vineyard's "Tasting Room" which is an online training course that teaches them everything they need to know in order to be a successful salesperson. This includes tips on how to expand their business, find new customers, and everything they need to know about wine.
The Wine Guides set up wine tasting events in people's homes. Everyone gets to sample one of the 5 wines that the Wine Guide Supplies. These events are meant to be fun and informative, without the stuffy air that oftentimes surrounds the world of wine. At the end of the night, the participants of the event are given the opportunity to buy any of the wines they sampled which will be delivered to their door.
One of the best things about being a Wine Guide is that you are completely free to set your own schedule. You can set up as many wine tastings as you please and schedule them at times that work for your schedule and life.
Traveling Vineyard also holds an annual Harvest conference where Wine Guides get to learn more about wine, how to operate their business, and have fun with their associates in the wine industry. Team Leaders of Traveling Vineyard around the United States also hold regional meetings where local Wine Guides can meet each other and get any hands-on training they need in order to succeed with their business.
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Before we get into this WW-III thing (for no good reason save advancing globalism), let's get a few things straight.
We are being set up...and it isn't for a surprise party.
The set up of Russia and China as resistors to the New World Order is masterful.
Also quite masterful, is the carefully concealed progression of Marxism across every country in the Third World.
Anything if not ingenious is the careful concealment of KGB-dominated Marxist leaders in Russia along with China still being a hard core Communist country sworn to bury capitalism.
Quite creative has been the lore that democracy is actually spreading across the world, buoyed by America and NATO.
Have you seen how the 'democracy' in Bosnia, Kossovo, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Egypt and Ukraine is working out lately?
Let's see.
Chaos, assassination, murder, bombings, terrorism, kidnappings, instability, crime, economic stagnation, white slavery, social collapse...if this is 'democracy' then just let me have tribal tyranny.
No, NATO and America are NOT spreading 'democracy.'
Under the guise of democratization, their treacherous intelligence agencies are collapsing entire nations and rebuilding them as anti-American entities.
People, what follows is the TRUE reality underlining the next world war we are being conned into:
To fight any 'world war' you need industry.
We don't have any.
We have exported all our industry to China....and so, to a large extent, has Europe...and even Japan.
We do not have the industry to fight a world war.
To fight any 'world war' you need masses of fit young men in uniform trained and ready to fight.
We don't have any.
American ended the draft in 1973 and the rest of Europe ended the draft during the first decade of the 21st Century...and replaced it with a volunteer paid military.
We don't have enough trained soldiers, certainly don't have enough reserves and replacements and by no means have enough fit young men.
Worse of all, we now lack even the very concept of military service.
The draft or conscription itself has become something totally alien to the Euro-American mind.
Most Americans don't even know what 'conscription' means.
The American population in particular not only has no notion of military service, but is both psychologically and physically unready, unprepared and incapable of performing military service at all.
To fight any 'world war' you need to be entrenched within a defensible piece of territory.
NATO is stretched beyond all capacity to defend itself.
When you have a 'front' running from Norway, down through the Baltic states and continuing on with Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria...and finishing up in Turkey - for a length of two thousand four hundred miles, what you've got is basically an un-defensible front.
Especially if you have no conscription and token-sized armed forces which have been reduced even further with downsizing.
To fight any 'world war' you need sizable armies and tons of materiel.
NATO has little when it comes to war material.
Without conscription, NATO European forces have become even smaller and more pathetic than they were before they got rid of it.
If armor is a measure of military power, the UK, France and Germany each basically has the equivalent of a single weak armored corps...the US has
one and a half.
A lot of NATO equipment looks modern, but there's hardly any of it.
The new Lecrelc tank has been cancelled.
The new F-22 Stealth Fighter has been cancelled...
...as have a plethora of other NATO dream weapons.
To fight any 'world war' you need towering depots consisting of hundreds of thousands of tons of ammunition.
Unfortunately, NATO fails here too.
The alliance has been caught embarrassingly short of ammunition even in short limited conflicts like the Gulf War, Bosnia and Libya.
This is an important point here.
NATO has been running out of Ammunition after a few weeks of combat in small, limited battlefields like Bosnia and Libya.
If NATO begins running out of ammunition during silly little operations like these, then what will happen when a WORLD WAR happens?
To fight any 'world war' you need highly motivated, dedicated, tough and well trained personnel.
What type of personnel make up NATO?
In a very socialist fashion, NATO's main recent mission seems to prove that men, women and homosexuals are all equal and equally capable.
To prove it, NATO has put men, women and open homosexuals together inside co-ed units due to some sort of politically correct obsession.
This combination has lowered the combat effectiveness of NATO units to zero.
The co-ed Dutch contingent recently proved so combat ineffective that it could not even carry out its limited security missions inside Bosnia and had to be withdrawn.
If you can't even tackle a limited combat patrol deployment like Bosnia, how are you going to tackle the Russians?
And NATO navies aren't doing much better.
NATO warships have become steaming pots of enough sexual liasons, jealousies, sex, love triangles, obsessions, revenge, distractions to make for a prime time soap opera.
Recently US warships can't seem to help 'grounding' themselves off coasts all over the world...
...and capital warships like the USS Reagan have shown themselves unable to cope even with simple radioactive environments (like the Fukushima coast) poisoning their entire crews with radiation through neglect and incompetence (in case you don't know, the Reagan is a nuclear carrier carrying nuclear weapons).
US soldiers now have a record 'suicide rate' and (regardless of what they tel you) morale is rock low in the US Army (an army that considers a combat mission 'a job.')
So, no, the few paid personnel NATO has manning the front are not an impressive group of people.
To fight any 'world war' you need an ideology, whether it be nationalism, democracy, freedom, revenge etc.
What ideology does Europe and NATO have?
Well, the European Union is simply an economic bloc whose ideology is money, welfare, benefits, standard of living, subsidies, civic duty and internationalism.
How far is all that going to buoy your morale when you have to fight off waves of enemy attacks from a filthy, muddy trench?
How about our professional armies?
Well, they don't operate based on the concept of 'duty' any more...they now see everything as a 'job.'
They get paid a certain salary every month and they have certain jobs to do.
And 'dieing for your country' is not one of those jobs.
From what they tell me of the US Army today, the word 'duty' and 'esprit d'corps' are not even mentioned...instead, everything is referred to as a 'job' which is the reason (joblessness) most people join anyway.
So no, I don't see how an economic bloc whose ideology is based on welfare and subsidies and an army who sees a combat mission as a 'job' is going to put up any steely resistance.
To fight any 'world war' you need an economy strong enough to fund and finance a war.
War is outrageously expensive.
You need mountains of money to fight one...especially if it is a WORLD war.
So how is it that America and NATO are going to fight WW-III...
...if they are now totally BANKRUPT?
The US is more than $17 trillion in debt and its dollar is about to collapse.
The Euro is steadily declining in value while the European Union is economically troubled and certain members like Portugal, Greece and Spain are already collapsing into economic chaos.
So where is all the MONEY going to come from with which we are expected to fight the next world war?
Not only do we NOT have a stable currency...
...not only do we NOT have a viable balance in our accounts...
....not only are we submerged in debt...
...not only do our governments lack any sort of hard metal currency...
...but our economies are themselves collapsing.
How are we going to finance a WAR with that?
The least you need for any world war is a close concordat with your allies.
You need your friends close, trusting, supportive, collaborative and agreeing...
...you know, the sort of relationship we had with England during WW-II.
Unfortunately, NATO and America don't even have THIS.
The recent NSA scandal has alienated the European leadership from America.
The unattended and neglected governments of the Third World have fallen to America-hating, pro-Chinese and pro-Russian governments.
Europe no longer trusts America.
Meanwhile America's large scale betrayal of Middle Eastern and Third World countries has made them distrustful - the populations of Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia and even Turkey (a NATO member) now hate our guts.
In other words, the alliance with which we are supposed to fight the next world war has all the consistency of taffy.
To fight any world war you need a certain degree of homogeneity - a degree of agreeable sameness so to speak - everybody on the same sheet of music.
How much homogeneity does Europe and America have?
Both 'countries' are being socially torn apart from within.
Europe is being torn apart by its ballooning Muslim population, its unemployed, and its skyrocketing crime.
America is being torn apart by its burgeoning conflicts between state and government, Christians and Government, minorities and whites, Democrats and Republicans, retirees and bureaucrats, business and regulators...and its collapsing job market.
The government here in America already is getting ready to go to war... against the American people, for crying out loud...how is it going to go to war against Russia and China?
How are either of these non-homogeneous, conflicting and collapsing societies going to fight WW-III?
To fight any world war, you need an opponent you can actually and in all truth take on, in other words, an opponent you have sized down, studied, weakened, isolated and set up to be defeated.
What do our OPPONENTS in fact consist of?
Two gigantic countries - Russia and China - who have
-armed to the teeth
-unified under a single ideology (nationalistic resurgent imperialism for Russia / Marxist anti-Western revenge-ism for China)
-continued universal conscription throughout their history
-INCREASED the numbers and quality of their armed forces
-access to enough hard currency, money and natural resources to wage a war
-industrialized instead of de-industrialized
-populations aching for war against the West
-a nuclear stockpile three times our own
People...these are the types of enemies you build up to DEFEND against, NOT try to provoke or attack.
Yet in spite of all this the West seems to be on a crazy pecking spree against Russia and China, seemingly seeking to provoke these nations into coming to blows.
To fight any 'world war' you need a highly capable diplomatic corps, planning the moves, making the alliances and sewing up the international relations to make a successful war happen.
The problem is we don't have any such statesmen.
While Russia has Bismarck and Metternich...we have Soupy Sales and Howdy Doody.
What was that Third rate performance over Syria that ended up with NATO-America with egg all over their face...and Russia pushed to new heights of international prestige?
What is this new situation in the Ukraine?
America and NATO make one useless threat after another, draw one useless line-in-the sand after another, showing the whole world how useless and desperate they are...while they try to influence events in a part of the world that is way too far from their spheres of influence.
Meanwhile, more and more, its coming out Russia (and China) are not only holding all the political cards...but all the economic ones as well!
All this as just-about-useless NATO goes around trying to start WW-III.
What NATO is doing is behaving like one of those uppity new chicks that go around pecking all the adults until it gets its guts pecked out of it by the real birds...or a fat bully that gets the tar knocked out of him by a trained boxer.
NATO and America, it seems, have lost all sense of reality.
Just like Hitler near the end of WW-II promised the German soldier to keep fighting because wondrous new weapons were on the way, NATO and America are shrugging off their pathetic conventional forces by saying that conventional forces are obsolete...and that THEY have a new secret arsenal of paradigm-changing weapons which can wallop the enemy in minutes.
I hear a lot of talk about these weapons - HAARP, orbital platforms, drones, lasers,stealth aircraft, satellite weapons, fire-and-forget missiles etc, etc...but have yet to see any demonstration of their power.
If the super-drones we are all so proud of are an indication of these weapons, then their easy takeover and confiscation by the Iranians and the Russians is a real warning that our secret super-weapons might not be all they are being made up to be.
My question to oh-so-sophisticated NATO is very simple: how the hell are you going to stop a mass tank and infantry attack across open ground?
To fight any 'world war' you need bona-fide leadership composed of legitimate, outstanding, upright, leaders.
Unfortunately, NATO and America seem to lack any real statesmen...
...and I mean that literally.
The President of France, Francoise Hollande, is a standing member of the Communist Party.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is an ex Communist Agitation and Propaganda agent (agitprop) from East Germany.
Like Merkel, Germany is heavily infiltrated by ex-KGB assets who have come in following unification with East Germany...and have been inexplicably promoted to the epitomes of power.
The EU and NATO itself has been heavily infiltrated by KGB assets from the formerly Communist Eastern Europe.
On the other hand, our own President Barack Obama is a suspected Marxist, the son of two bona fide communists, and an acolyte of Marxist terrorist Bill Ayers and Marxist professor Zbignew Brzezinski...to top off the cake, this impostor is unable to prove just where he was born, what his real name was, or if he ever really attended Columbia University.
Is this the man you want to lead you in a war?
The trump is that Russia seems to be run by the old Communist Party apparatus (Putin is a KGB agent)...and Russia seems to be a secretly Communist-dominated country.
On the other hand, China is an OPENLY and proud Communist country.
When you understand this, you understand why going to war with the type of leadership we have today in NATO and America is especially DANGEROUS.
So what are we seeing here?
A military alliance...readying itself to go to war against two communist powers...led secretly by communist agents.
If that isn't a recipe for total disaster...I don't know what is!
And the rest of NATO-America leadership?
Paper pushers, salary collectors, clock watchers, opportunists, liberal leftists, yes men, career politicians, bureaucrats, sell outs, informers and intelligence assets...uh yeah, we have a real chance of winning with these people at the helm.
Europe and America are being set up for the fall in the next upcoming world war.
Simply put, we will lose...and we will lose quickly.
Many American and European leaders are suspect Communist agents at the service of the Russian KGB (which also dominates Russia).
Yet, in spite of our weakness...the 'leaders' of Euro-America seem to be doing their very best to involve us in a conflict with Russia...in Ukraine...and the Black Sea?
Talk about trying to start a war in the enemy's back yard.
So not only are we weak...but we are trying to start wars in geographic regions we can't possibly protect.
No will, no armies, no weapons, no ammunition, no economy, no money.
Yet we are pushing for war.
Not only that...but our very leaders are turning out to be suspected agents of the same enemy we are preparing to fight.
If this doesn't smell like a set-up to you, then I don't know what does.
Given the circumstances (and to make a long story short) WW-III stands to not only be over very quickly...but end with Europe occupied by Russia, Korea and Japan occupied by China...and a possibly collapsed United States (if it erupts into civil war) under the occupation of Marxist troops under the blue helmet of the United Nations.


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In the Environmental Cooperative at the Vassar Barns
By William Shakespeare
Adapted and Directed by Emily Mendelsohn
Corruption and contempt are at the helm of a world in change. When the ghost of Hamlet's slain father demands he exact his revenge, the young prince ventures down a path fraught with mounting turmoil. This new adaptation - incorporating music, movement, puppets, and more - probes our relationship to the state, our capacity to trust, and the manifestation of rage into action for the betterment of all.
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On Friday night, ten days before Christmas, I was at Kohl's finishing up my Christmas shopping. I was determined to have all my gifts purchased and wrapped a week early. Everyone else must have had the same idea, because Kohls was packed. The checkout line was very long, and I had to lean over my cart a couple of times because I was in pain. I chalked it up to 3rd trimester discomfort, after all I had just turned 37 weeks and I didn't think I was having "real" contractions… I assumed it was false labor. On Saturday, the "false labor" continued. That weekend I sang with the choir in our church's Christmas concert. During the concert, whenever we would sing a big note – I had a contraction! I started joking that I was going to go into labor from singing, but I did not actually believe it. When the concert was over, I told my friends I felt like it was close, but I still assumed I had about a week. That night, I timed the contractions for a while and they were 6-8 minutes apart. Because they didn't hurt badly enough, I stopped timing them after an hour and went to bed. The next morning I felt very nauseous. I still went to church and sang with the choir for the second performance of the Christmas concert. Again, the big notes triggered contractions! Afterward I told my husband I wasn't up for visiting with family, I just wanted to go home and sleep. And sleep is what I did — I ended up sleeping until 5pm! I woke up, still feeling nauseous and told my little boy we were having cereal for dinner. That is all I could stomach. I told my husband to go to our friends' Christmas party without me and I stayed home with Micah. At ten to six, I got up from the table and started cleaning up our bowls. All of a sudden, I realized I was leaking. My water broke!! I had to call my husband to tell him to come back home, and he was shocked!
8 1/2 hours later, in total disbelief and awe, I was holding my tiny Matthew in my arms. He was so perfect. It was 2:35 in the morning on Monday, December 17th. Almost 3 weeks early… He just couldn't miss Christmas!
Here he is with his proud big brother at 5 days old:
And this morning I captured wide open eyes, kissy lips and big smiles. He is 3 weeks and 2 days old. Time is flying by and I can't believe how fast he is growing. I just moved him up to size 1 diapers yesterday because the newborn sized diapers weren't fitting around his chunky little thighs anymore. I just love this little man!


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Saturday, September 20, 2008
World Class Soccer
We got a call this morning from a family member who wanted to know if Grace's first soccer game was going to be televised. For some reason, ESPN did not pick it up, but we do have some of the highlights for you here:
The morning started with great excitement, but upon arrival at the field, the pre-game jitters started.
"I'm never playing soccer!" She announced.
But after a pep talk from Daddy she made it out to the field and was playing with enthusiasm in no time.
She played a great game and was encouraged by her cheering section:
The fans did get a little rowdy a few times and at one point one of them was even interfering in the game:
The score was... well, that's not really important at this age is it? As Grace says, "It's not about winning or losing; it's about having fun."...Pause.... "But I do think it might be more fun if you win."
She did have a lot of fun, and was still beaming when we went to visit her great-grandma for her birthday. As Grace was chatting with some of the ladies in the care center, one of them said, "You are so sweet. Can I take you home with me?"
"No," Grace replied with a giggle, "but maybe you can have my brother."
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Coco Republic celebrated the launch of Australia's first Timothy Oulton store, located in Church St, Richmond and AMPR were delighted to be involved.
To mark the occasion, guests were treated to an English Gentlemen's Cub themed cocktail evening at the store, complete with on-duty Queen's Guards and roaming British bulldog puppies. In keeping with the theme, musician, Pluto Jones entertained the crowd with renditions of Brit-rock favourites played on the impressive grand piano.
The event offered a preview of the signature furniture, home wares, art and lighting that will be housed at Australia's first stand-alone Timothy Oulton store. Each piece demonstrating a British design aesthetic synonymous with the iconic brand and in-keeping with its heritage.
Head down to 448 Church Street to snap up your own distinct Timothy Oulton creation.
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WOW! I just finished the fourth book, Breaking Dawn, last night. It took me 2 weeks to get through the 4 books. I devoured them! I couldn't get enough, reading one book to the next and then the next. What a spectacular story line with amazing writing!!
Although, I was a little disappointed in the movie...I must say the books are definitely worth the read. Late night reading, sneaking a couple of minutes here and there while my hubby played with Matthew...and I haven't scrapped at all. Scrapping has been on the back burner for sometime now, since Feb 14th...but once I started reading the Twilight Series..I didn't even think of scrapping...scary, huh?
I am now an official TWILIGHT FAN! Off to find a cool blinkie for my blog!
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A computer desk is one of the furniture pieces that came outside the twentieth century. More preference is given to space a computer desk occupies in looking at the factors for choosing the most suitable. Besides space other factors include design, the quality of the material, the fit and time it takes to assemble. The qualities we have mentioned characterize the various types of furniture work, one of them being the computer desk. Features like design and color vary from furniture to furniture. There are those that are health-friendly. Gamers find those with space more suitable since enhancing their ability to organize their work. Some computer desks for gamers are designed in a way that they contain almost provisions for all parts of a computer. You will find the following top best five computer desks in the market.
The Walker Edison Soreno is top in the list. This design takes the shape of an L. It is the most liked of the four. You can comfortably put your gaming tower at the compartment located at the bottom side of it. It is also distinctively characterized with legs that take an X shape which gives it pleasing suspended look. The top made of glass and frames coated with steel add to the prestigious look of this type of gaming chair and computer desk. The fine and black clear paint on the body sides gives it a sleek and classy look.
At position number three in the rank is the Atlantic Gaming type of Computer desk. The Atlantic Gaming, compared with the Walker Edison Soreno type, does not take a large space due to it's typical compact design. In terms of functionality, it is way above the rest. Double speaker trays, a compartment to manage the cables, a drawer, a holder of drinking bottle, a game shelf and an earphone hanger, all form part of the Atlantic Gaming desktop.
The Techni Mobili complete. Huge the value of functionality is also derived from its nature of compact design just like the Atlantic Gaming. The Techni Mobili can be easily distinguished from the others since it is characterized by a set two wide monitors. For those users who have a challenge with space and feel that they cannot be able to organize their work well, the Techni Mobile is the ideal one. You can also learn more tips on where to find the best computer desk, just visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desk.
Lastly in the top best five is the DXRacer computer desk. The value you will derive from the way it is designed is great compared to the other, although it tends to be more expensive than the other four. You will be amazed at the tilted top at an angle which prevents users from wrist pains. Falling of loose items on top is prevented since its perimeter is raised. The two cable holes are an advantage.
The bush furniture is another one. The longevity of this type is almost guaranteed. There is a great space from which to choose.
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In the scarcely two weeks since Donald Trump's surprise victory over Hillary Clinton, he and Russian President Vladimir Putin have spoken at least twice by phone.Their aides have had additional contacts.
Republican President-elect Donald Trump said he's "fine" with same-sex marriage as the law of the land, calling the issue "settled" by the Supreme Court.


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|The construction of the Kwangtung Mint outside the City of Canton at Huang Hua T'ang commenced in 1887 and was completed in 1889.
The Kwangtung Mint began trial minting by machinere of cash coins on the 26th day of the fourth moon in 1889. It was officially inaugurated on the 3rd day of the eighth moon of the same year and commened minting of the Kuang Hsu Tung Pao cash coins.
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|This cash coin weighed 1 mace (Chinese measurements) and bore the mint mark Kwang written in both Chinese and Manchu characters and the denomination in Chinese [Equivalent to one cash]. They were for general circulation at the rate of 1000 cash to one tael of silver. This was the new machin-made cash coin, but the cash coins of early issues were allowed to continue their circulation in the market
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Access to Volunteering
Everton in the Community (the community arm of Everton Football Club) is one Merseyside charity that has benefitted from the Access to Volunteering Fund, an initiative from the Office for Civil Society which aims to increase the number of disabled volunteers by breaking down the barriers they face, through the funding of special equipment, changes to premises, and the extra cost of travel and support workers.
Everton received a £5,000 grant which will help them provide opportunities for ten disabled volunteers: in sports coaching, refereeing, IT, web design, office administration and PR.
Unlike the DWP's long-standing Access to Work programme, the Access to Volunteering grant can only be give to voluntary groups or public bodies; is limited (in the pilot study) to £5,000 per organisation; and it is the organisation that applies for the funds, not the disabled person.
The North West is one of the three pilot areas for testing the new funding, and the the final deadline for the pilots is September 6th, 2010, with a decision due in October.
Applications can be made online, or using a downloadable form.
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Missouri Botanical Garden
A view of Seiwa-en, the largest Japanese garden in North America
|St. Louis, Missouri
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|December 8, 1976[2]
The Missouri Botanical Garden is a botanical garden located at 4344 Shaw Boulevard in St. Louis, Missouri. It is also known informally as Shaw's Garden for founder and philanthropist Henry Shaw. Its herbarium, with more than 6.6 million specimens,[3] is the second largest in North America, behind only that of the New York Botanical Garden.
Founded in 1859, the Missouri Botanical Garden is one of the oldest botanical institutions in the United States and a National Historic Landmark. It is also listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
The Garden is a center for botanical research and science education of international repute, as well as an oasis in the city of St. Louis, with 79 acres (32 ha) of horticultural display. It includes a 14-acre (5.7 ha) Japanese strolling garden named Seiwa-en; the Climatron geodesic dome conservatory; a children's garden, including a pioneer village; a playground; a fountain area and a water locking system, somewhat similar to the locking system at the Panama Canal; an Osage camp; and Henry Shaw's original 1850 estate home. It is adjacent to Tower Grove Park, another of Shaw's legacies.[4]
In 1983, the Botanical Garden was added as the fourth subdistrict of the Metropolitan Zoological Park and Museum District.
For part of 2006, the Missouri Botanical Garden featured "Glass in the Garden", with glass sculptures by Dale Chihuly placed throughout the garden. Four pieces were purchased to remain at the gardens. In 2008 sculptures of the French artist Niki de Saint Phalle were placed throughout the garden. In 2009, the 150th anniversary of the Garden was celebrated, including a floral clock display.
After 40 years of service to the Garden, Dr. Peter Raven retired from his presidential post on September 1, 2010. Dr. Peter Wyse Jackson replaced him as President.[5]
The Garden is a place for many annual cultural festivals, including the Japanese Festival and the Chinese Culture Days by the St. Louis Chinese Culture Days Committee.[6] During this time, there are showcases of the culture's botanics as well as cultural arts, crafts, music and food. The Japanese Festival features sumo wrestling, taiko drumming, koma-mawashi top spinning, and kimono fashion shows. The Garden is known for its bonsai growing, which can be seen all year round, but is highlighted during the multiple Asian festivals.
Major garden features include:
Douglas Trumbull, director of the 1972 science fiction classic film Silent Running, stated that the geodesic domes on the spaceship Valley Forge were based on the Missouri Botanical Garden's Climatron dome.[7]
Bonsai showcased at Missouri Botanical Garden
Henry Shaw's Mausoleum is located in the gardens
A white oak tree at the Missouri Botanical Garden
A statue of George Washington Carver, on display at the Missouri Botanical Garden.
Missouri Botanical Garden also operates the Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House in Chesterfield. The Butterfly House includes an 8,000-square-foot (740 m2) indoor butterfly conservatory as well as an outdoor butterfly garden.
The EarthWays Center is a group at the Missouri Botanical Garden that provides resources on and educates the public about green practices, renewable energy, energy efficiency, and other sustainability matters.[8]
The Shaw Nature Reserve was started by the Missouri Botanical Garden in 1925 as a place to store plants away from the pollution of the city. The air in St. Louis later cleared up, and the reserve has continued to be open to the public for enjoyment, research, and education ever since. The 2,400-acre (9.7 km2) reserve is located in Gray Summit, Missouri, 35 miles (56 km) away from the city.[9]
The Plant List is an Internet encyclopedia project to compile a comprehensive list of botanical nomenclature,[10] created by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and the Missouri Botanical Garden.[11] The Plant List has 1,040,426 scientific plant names of species rank, of which 298,900 are accepted species names. In addition, the list has 620 plant families and 16,167 plant genera.[12]
Monsanto has donated $10 million to the Missouri Botanical Garden since the 1970s, which named its 1998 plant science facility the 'Monsanto Center'.[13]


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Wrapped Up in Chains Release Party – the cover edition
March 14, 2014
This is the cover that Paul Richmond and the fabulous art department at Dreamspinner came up with for Wrapped Up in Chains. It's kind of funny because most people reading the blurb after seeing the cover will probably assume that the man on the cover is supposed to represent Chase, the sub in the story. In reality though, it's really more representative of Devon, the Dom.
While Chase might have literally been kept in chains by his abuser, Devon is trapped in a different way. He loves the lifestyle he's chosen to live but without someone to share it with, he's lonely and feeling constrained. When he finally finds Chase and makes a real connection with him, the rules he's chosen to live by make it hard for him to take what he wants and needs from the sub who's so desperate to give it to him.
I think so many of us are like that. We get trapped by our way of thinking and even when the opportunity for change presents itself to us we find it hard to accept because we're afraid. I think we all make our own chains and its up to us to find our way out of them.
When I saw this cover the first time, I knew it was the one I wanted. It jumped out at me and seemed to really embody what I saw in Chase and Devon. Of course, I still had to ask all my friends their opinion because I'm really terrible at making a decision of any kind without some kind of input and as my friends were the ones who helped me through writing it, it seemed only fair they help chose the cover!
You can get this at Dreamspinner here and in paperback here. And remember, only the first 20 copies of the paperback are autographed by yours truly. Btw, signing my first autographs was mind blowing!!!
Wrapped Up in Chains Release Party!
March 14, 2014
Hi! I'm Cindy Sutherland and I'm here with you today celebrating the release of my latest book and first full length novel, Wrapped Up in Chains. I'm so glad to be here, and I'm really excited because I've never done anything like this before. I'm going to be hanging out throughout the day, chatting and answering any questions you might have. I'm actually have the day off because the flu has been running rampant through my house and it's finally my turn. At least it waited until everyone else was over it!
I'm going to be giving away a copy of the ebook version of the novel and you can win by commenting below and answering this question:
Would you rather spend an hour as a sub or as a Dom…no judgements, just for fun! I'll tell you my answer at the end of the day.
I'm going to start by sharing the blurb with you.
Devon West is a professional Dom who runs his own club, doesn't believe in romance, and had never been in a long-term relationship. All this changes when he rescues Chase Mackenzie.
Chase is a runaway who has been kept as a slave since he was sixteen. Now twenty-three, he's still innocent and sweet despite being severely abused and left behind by his Dom.
When Devon finds out that the man who held Chase hostage is the same man who hurt him terribly when he started learning about the sub/Dom lifestyle, he knows he has to keep Chase safe.
Spoiled rich boy and sociopath James Kingston is obsessed with Devon. He's convinced Devon would be his perfect sub and Devon only thinks he's a Dom because he needs proper discipline. Losing Chase to Devon is like rubbing salt in the wound, and he's determined to get them both under thumb. This time, Chase may need to rescue Devon.
You can get Wrapped Up in Chains here. It's also available here in paperback and the first twenty copies of that are autographed by me!
I look forward to spending the day with you all and lets have a little fun! I'd love to answer any questions you might have.
New releases: August 26, 2013
August 26, 2013
Make Me Whole by Marguerite Labbe
Nick has a lifelong dream of finding the Dexios Collection, and it winds up in the hands of Galen, the man who broke his heart. Make Me Whole by Marguerite Labbe, available from Dreamspinner Press.
After a grueling battle in ancient Greece, lovers Dexios and Lykon committed their lives to each other in the name of Goddess Cythera. After the war, fearing the strength of his love for Dexios, Lykon abandoned his vow and returned home. Heartbroken, Dexios called on Cythera, who changed him into four unfinished statues. In that form he would wait for his fickle lover to return, break the curse, and make him whole.
Thousands of years have passed when Galen Kanellis finds the disassembled pieces in the storeroom of a Seattle museum and makes them the focus of his new exhibit. Needing information, he contacts his ex-lover Nick Charisteas. Nick has a lifelong dream of finding the Dexios Collection, and the last thing he expected was for it to wind up in the hands of the man who broke his heart. As both men search for answers about the statues, worries of abandonment and fear of loss test their renewed relationship, threatening to separate them again—this time permanently.
Length: Novel (294p.) | Genre: Fantasy, Contemporary, Paranormal, BDSM/Kink | Release Date: August 26, 2013 |Buy as eBook ($6.99 ISBN: 978-1-62798-056-2) | Buy as Paperback ($16.99 ISBN: 978-1-62798-055-5)
No Angel by Daniel A. Kaine
Josh has horns and Sam has wings. Their relationship grows and they find a haven in each other's arms until tragedy threatens them. No Angel by Daniel A. Kaine, available from Dreamspinner Press.
Born with a birth defect called Devil Syndrome, it is impossible for Josh Harper to hide the two small stumps of hornlike bone atop his head. If people also knew about his ability to create force fields with his mind, they'd lock him up for sure. Left to fend for himself on his eighteenth birthday, Josh tries to make it on the streets. When he's attacked, he's rescued by Sam Mitchell, who has an equally strange power—and a set of pure white wings.
Sam ran away from home a year ago, and the new life he's built for himself includes living in an abandoned house and looking after three younger kids, all with Devil Syndrome. Then along comes Josh. After a rough start their relationship grows and the two young men find a haven in each other's arms. But when tragedy strikes their newfound family, Sam's hatred of regular humans spirals out of control, and Josh will have to make Sam see sense before everything he's worked so hard to build is destroyed.
Length: Novel (200p.) | Genre: Contemporary Fantasy, Paranormal, Coming of Age | Release Date: August 26, 2013 | Buy as eBook ($6.99 ISBN: 978-1-62798-124-8) | Buy as Paperback ($14.99 ISBN: 978-1-62798-123-1)
New releases: June 19, 2013
June 19, 2013
Mountain Prey by Lyn Gala
Stunt doesn't have a problem in his home in the Appalachian Mountains. Then one day he runs into Alex Soto, a man out for revenge. Mountain Prey by Lyn Gala, available from Dreamspinner Press.
Stewart Folger lives in the Appalachian Mountains, where people take care of their family and follow the Bible. He feels that Appalachian pull in his blood, but that hasn't tamed his wild side. A youth full of pranks left him with the nickname Stunt and a preference for danger in and out of bed. Other than a few contrary moonshiners who hate him for philosophical reasons since he's a forestry technician and federal employee, he doesn't have a problem in the world. Then one day he runs into Alex Soto, a man out for revenge.
Just out of prison, Alex knows firsthand that the justice system doesn't treat poor and rich equally, so he'll have to go outside the law to avenge his brother's death. When an innocent man lands in the middle of his plans, he doesn't know what to do… other than take him hostage. Unfortunately, he never planned on having to deal with Stunt or with the twisted logic that passes for reasonable in Stunt's mountain home.
Length: Novel (210p.) | Genre: Contemporary, BDSM | Release Date: June 19, 2013 |Buy as eBook (ISBN: 978-1-62380-584-5) | Buy as Paperback (ISBN: 978-1-62380-583-8)
Born This Way by Poppy Dennison
When Dayton shows up unannounced on his doorstep, Hart wants nothing more than to claim him as part of his liger heritage. Born This Way by Poppy Dennison, available from Dreamspinner Press.
Dayton Whitmore injures his arm playing basketball with his lion-shifter friends, and his best friend asks Dayton to check on her estranged brother Hart while he's in Atlanta visiting a specialist. Though Dayton and Hart were never close, he grudgingly agrees.
Banishment from his pride meant Hart Sherman could never see his family again. His liger heritage—a tiger mother and lion father—was a thorn in his alpha father's side. He always planned to go back for Dayton, the man he knows is his mate, but he uses his career as an entertainment attorney as an excuse to avoid risking Dayton's rejection. When Dayton shows up unannounced on his doorstep, Hart wants nothing more than to claim him.
Knowing what it means to be a lion's mate, Dayton isn't in any hurry to make a lifetime commitment. To convince Dayton he's serious, Hart must come to terms with the circumstances of his birth—and find a place in the pride for them both.
Length: Novella (115p.) | Genre: Paranormal, Werewolves/Shapeshifters | Release Date: June 19, 2013 |Buy as eBook (ISBN: 978-1-62380-755-9)
Shadowcraft by Jean Woolf
In Tessera, the law can be as ruthless as those who break it. Li, hustler by night and drug runner by day, is caught in the crossfire. Shadowcraft by Jean Woolf, available from Dreamspinner Press.
In the city of Tessera in the twenty-third century, the law can be as ruthless as those who break it. Li, hustler by night and drug runner by day, is caught in the crossfire.
His best friend and occasional lover is a prostitute, like himself. His nemesis and occasional savior is a man with a secret identity. But then, everyone's identity is a secret in Tessera. Everyone is a shadow. If he plans to survive, Li must blend in—he must remain quiet and unseen, passed from hand to carnivorous hand without getting captured by a single one.
But what happens when he is captured? Will the shadow, once trapped, manage to escape? Or will Li fade away into the endless night, a shadow among shadows, one death among many?
Length: Novella (135p.) | Genre: Science Fiction| Release Date: June 19, 2013 |Buy as eBook (ISBN: 978-1-62380-576-0)
Fettered by Lyn Gala
February 22, 2013
Until Dylan and Vin learn to trust each other, Dylan will have to face his fear and the growing threats alone. Fettered by Lyn Gala, available from Dreamspinner Press.
Dylan Carter has always played second fiddle to his perfect older brother, but now that brother is implicated in a terrible crime, and Dylan's family is imploding. Dylan can't hide anymore. Knowing he's falling apart, he searches for something or someone to hold him together—and lands in a BDSM bar called the Stonewall.
Dylan doesn't understand Miss Dolphinia, the hard-drinking queen who seems determined to play matchmaker. But more confusing is the way the powerful men in leather make him feel. In her wisdom, Miss Dolphinia sends Dylan off to a back room for his introduction to the world of erotic spankings and bondage.
Dylan's teacher—for want of a better word—is the very dominant Vin Hauser. Vin likes to play hard, but he's honest with himself—he knows all those men want is a strong hand, not a long-term relationship. Yet Vin can't help but hope Dylan might be different.
With controversy over his brother's sins stirring up danger around him, Dylan needs Vin's support more than ever. But until he and Vin learn to trust each other, Dylan will have to face his fear and the growing threats alone.
Length: Novel | Genre: BDSM | Buy as eBook | Buy as Paperback
Bound: Forget Me Knot by H.B. Pattskyn
September 24, 2012
All Jason wants is to be with Henry, but what if that means becoming his slave? Bound: Forget Me Knot by H.B. Pattskyn, available from Dreamspinner Press.
Jason Kennly needs to get a closer look when he spots a gray leather collar from across the dealers' room at a science fiction convention, even if there's no way he can afford it on his college student budget. After all, looking is free. But then he spots something he wants even more than the collar: leather booth owner Henry Durand, who insists Jason try it on. When Henry asks Jason to be his model at a bondage demo, Jason agrees despite his lack of experience as a sub and ends up spending a no-strings-attached weekend exploring his kinky side with a virtual stranger.
Then the con is over, Jason and Henry go their separate ways, and it's back to real life. Coming to terms with his identity as a submissive and masochist isn't easy for Jason. Suddenly he has to face fear, doubt, and a best friend who'll do anything to get him away from "that creep" and back together with the ex-boyfriend who ignored him. All Jason wants is to be with Henry, but what if that means becoming his slave?
Length: Novel
Genre: BDSM/Kink
For the Long Run by Elizabeth Noble
September 12, 2012
Eric and Jay have to deal with politics, Jay's fake fiancée, and a murderer who may be something more than human. For the Long Run by Elizabeth Noble, available from Dreamspinner Press.
After being bullied into the closet by his conservative senator father, Jay Molloy reconciles himself to a life of one-night stands instead of the loving D/s relationship he craves. When he meets the man of his dreams, trained Dom Eric Keger, all Jay dares to hope for is a quick fling. Eric has other ideas. He's been hired by Jay's father to run security at the family's hunting resort, but now he has his heart set on Jay.
When murder victims begin to turn up at the resort, Eric and Jay start an investigation, but chasing down the killer proves less frustrating than dealing with Jay's abusive, homophobic father. Exploring their new relationship would be hard enough on their own, but Eric and Jay also have to deal with politics, Jay's fake fiancée, and a murderer who may be something more than human.
Length: Novel
Genre: BDSM/Kink, Werewolves/Shapeshifters, Mystery/Suspense
Switch by Clare London
May 23, 2012
Sequel to Ambush and Payback
Miles Winter and Zeke Roswell have excited and enthralled each other since the day they met. Zeke's uninhibited lovemaking has allowed Miles to grow in confidence and their relationship to deepen. Back from a business trip, Miles knows he should take care of his backlog of work, but the delight of being reunited with Zeke makes him realize he has other, more important needs—including the one sexual step he hasn't yet taken. Business can wait in favor of a commitment far more primal and more permanent.
Category: Romance
Lenght: Short story
Cleave by Mickie B. Ashling
May 11, 2012
Sloan has a hard decision to make, go back to Cole or stay with Trent. What is the best for him? The third installment of Cutting Cords, Cleave by Mickie B. Ashling.
On New Year's Eve, Cole Fujiwara stands vigil at his father's deathbed while his surrogate wife, Noriko, gives birth to twins. As Cole contemplates his future, he acknowledges that he's living his father's dream… and that he's probably destroyed his chance at happiness with Sloan, the love of his life.
Finding harmony in an emerging D/s relationship has not been without issue for Sloan Driscoll and his Master, Trent Hamilton. Their journey has been littered with mishaps, but their powerful love and sexual connection continue to bind them together—until Sloan comes face to face with Cole for the first time in nine months.
The meeting means different things to each of them. To Cole, it's the first step on the path to a reunion. To Sloan, it's a terrible mistake, one he confesses immediately. As for Trent, the bitter realization that a connection between the former lovers still exists forces him to issue an ultimatum. Is Sloan willing to do anything to prove their relationship is worth saving, including becoming Trent's 24/7 slave? And if Sloan stays with Trent, how can Cole ever hope to find happiness again?
Series: Cutting Cords by Mickie B. Ashling
Genre: BDSM/Kink
Length: Novel
Pages: 230
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April 20, 2012
Can Charlie learn to ask for what he wants before Will grows tired of waiting? Play It Again, Charlie by R. Cooper, available from Dreamspinner Press.
After an accident left him broken in body and spirit, Charlie Howard retired from the police force to teach at a community college. Life has taught him that he's unlikely to get what he wants, so he's stopped asking. Instead, he hides from the world in the apartment complex he manages. After all, no one can leave him if he doesn't let anyone in.
Will, a sexy, classic-film-loving twink, moves into the apartment across from him and—to Charlie's surprise—makes it clear that he'd like nothing more than to hole up with Charlie and get kinky. Will has no problem expressing what he wants in bed or out of it, but he's never dated anyone long-term, and Charlie isn't sure Will's ready for anything serious.
Charlie is a serious kind of guy. He wants Will and everything a relationship could mean, even if he doesn't have any experience in that scene—even if that makes him vulnerable. As they grow closer, Charlie realizes that it's time to start asking for what he wants, and if he wants to be happy, he'll have to risk everything and ask Will to stay.
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Genre: BDSM/Kink
Length: Novel