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Springtime, 1872, oil on canvas. Claude Monet, 1840-1926, French. Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland
The flowers are columbine (Aquilegia), a perennial which flies from mid-Spring through late Summer in the park at Longwood Gardens and in many gardens of the area.
The Tulip Folly, oil on canvas, 1882. Jean-Leon Jerome, 1824-1904, French. Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland
And despite the madness of financial speculation depicted in this painting in which soldiers trample tulip beds in an unsuccessful attempt to destroy tulips to stabilize the tulip market by limiting the supply, tulips have survived and thrived in variety, numbers and areas in which they mark the coming of Spring.
A craze for tulips in the first half 17th century in the Netherlands and much of Europe created an economic bubble. When it burst, speculators were financially ruined.
Tulips in the park at Longwood Gardens, Pennsylvania; at the Quaker Meeting House, 3rd and Arch, Philadelphia and in so many gardens in the area.


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How to Exercise All Possible Medical Billing Appeals
In a perfect world, claims in medical billing always get paid on the first go-round. Because we do not live in a perfect world, you may need to max out your appeals.
If a claim does not pay correctly at first, you can either call or send a written appeal, and the payer will recognize his error and process the claim correctly. Sometimes, even after the phone call and letter, the claim still isn't processed. In that case, you need to follow the appeals process as outlined in your contract.
Some payer contracts outline their appeals process. Several define the process in steps such as first-level appeal, second-level appeal, and request for outside review as the final level.
When sending a written appeal, send medical records and a copy of the claim along with a copy of the explanation of benefits that was included with the payment. Including the EOB helps the payer identify the claim, including the individual processor. If you don't include a copy, make sure that the claim number is on the appeal so that the payer can identify the correct claim.
First-level appeals
A first-level appeal may just be a reminder that, according to your records, the claim should have processed a certain way. It's basically a friendly reminder that the contract wasn't followed or a discount was applied without a contract. If the problem is purely a pricing issue, this reminder may be all you need, and the payer will correct the error without further delay.
If the problem is that the claim was denied for medical necessity or anything of that nature, include all documentation with your first-level appeal. When you do so, the payer (hopefully) will reverse its decision and reprocess the claim correctly. If your first-level appeal defines the reason for the request along with any supporting documentation, it may be the only appeal you need.
The response time to appeals is often included in your contract and varies among payers. In cases where the payer has implemented new processing software and has multiple claims paying incorrectly (or not at all), the backlog can quickly become months.
If you have not had a reply within 30 days, follow up to make sure that the appeal has been received. Each state has its own prompt payment statute, so your timing also depends on the statutes for your individual state.
Second-level appeals
Sometimes, the payer denies your request. In this case, you need to send another request. The second request is called a second-level appeal. You may need to send this appeal to a different address, or you may be able to simply mark it "second level" in order to identify that you have asked for resolution once already.
A second-level appeal is more formal. In it, make sure you do the following:
Clearly define the problem and note that you have asked once already without success. You may even include a copy of your original appeal.
In a second-level appeal, if you can state your case in a different way, try to do so. Sometimes simply rephrasing your words makes a huge difference.
Include all documentation. This documentation would include things like the EOB, medical records, applicable invoices, and a copy of the contract (or the applicable section of the contract). (Note: If you send a copy of the claim, make sure to mark it "COPY.")
Check your contract before sending a second-level appeal. Some payer contracts specify that the second-level appeal is the final level, and if it is denied, no further appeal options are possible. In this case, check your contract for options. The contract may identify a third-party mediation process for disputes if the dollar value is high enough. If you're dealing with a non-contracted payer, you can involve an attorney.


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Way Too Indie is celebrating the recent Blu-ray and DVD release (Nov. 17th) of the raunchy throwback comedy film, The To Do List, which stars Aubrey Plaza, Rachel Bilson, Andy Samberg, and Bill Harder, by traveling back in time and giving one lucky reader a 90s themed prize package. This rockin' package includes; a Surprise and Delight Caboodle stocked with a pearl necklace, a cheetah-print notebook, a gel pen, snap bracelets, a lifeguard lanyard, a scrunchy, a copy of the soundtrack and a Blu-ray of the film!
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PETS: Readers send in photos of their animals
Readers have submitted hundreds of entries to View's pets section. Because we only can feature a few photos each week in the newspaper, we decided to expand the sharing online. We hope you enjoy these extra faces, and remind you to check back each Tuesday for more photos of your best friends.
"This is our 4-year-old dog Bailey, who is a medical alert and therapy dog," wrote Eileen and Marvin Minushkin of Las Vegas. "He visits children and adults in hospitals. Bailey is a teacup Chihuahua and weighs 2 pounds, 8 ounces. He loves to travel and play with his toys when not on duty."
"This is our beagle Bella with her best friend," wrote Florence White of Las Vegas.
Daryl Governale and Tammy Shaw of North Las Vegas shared this photo of their best friend Cheeto, a Lab and beagle mix who was adopted from a shelter. "As you can see, when we are playing cards, he likes to be in the action."
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Cross Compliance Rules
Cross Compliance rules are a set of rules that need to be met by the individual farmers in United Kingdom in order to become eligible for getting direct benefits through rural payments agency. Cross compliance rules would apply to those individuals residing in United Kingdom receiving direct payments under Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) or to those who are receiving payments under the rural development programme for England (RDPE).
Main Regulations of the Cross compliance rules
There are three important regulations, which form the crux of the cross compliance rule.
1. Statutory management requirements (SMR) applicable across the European Union countries. The different area that are covered under the statutory requirements include public health, animal and plant health and environmental health
2.Standards that have been created based on the European legal framework, which requires the land owner to maintain the land in good agricultural and Environmental conditions (GAEC). The quality of soil structure and soil organic required to maintain the habitat and the water levels is covered under the standards
3.Agreeing to maintain a permanent pasture land area that is not part of the crop rotation. The member states in the European union have to ensure that the ratio of the permanent pasture to the total agricultural land should be maintained within the permissible limits. When the ratio falls below the allowed limits due to the pasture land area shrinkage, the member states have to instruct their farmers not to convert any more pasture land in to agricultural land without getting prior authorization
Statutory Management Requirements (SMRs)
As part of the cross compliance rules, there are 18 statutory management requirements that needs to be adhered to by the individual farmers. This includes wild birds, sewage sludge, ground water, habitats and species, Nitrate Vulnerable zones, pig identification and registration, cattle identification and registration, sheep and goats identification, restriction on the use of plant protection products, restriction on the use of substances having a negative impact on the hormonal balances of the farm animals, welfare of calves and pigs and Animal general welfare.
Good Agricultural and Environmental Conditions (GAEC)
This section consists of 16 major conditions that need to be met by the individual farmers. The conditions include soil protection review, Environment impact Assessment, Scientific interest sites, public rights of way, scheduled monuments, Over grazing of the pasture land, grass burning, control of weeds, Agricultural land that is not doing any agriculture related activities, protection of water courses, Tree felling, Abstraction of water and Tree preservation orders.
Each and every section of the SMR and GAEC has to be complied by the individual farmers in order to continue receiving the scheme benefits. Farmers in United Kingdom are bound by the Cross Compliance rules in addition to the already existing rules under European and UK Legislation.
Schemes that are covered under cross compliance rules
Individual farmers in United Kingdom have to meet the rules specified in cross compliance standards in order to continue receiving payments through the following schemes.
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Whether you're sticking with the classics or trying something less traditional, it's always a good idea to branch out in what you're drinking along with Thanksgiving dinner. I caught up with Matt Dolan, who handles all things beer and wine at Rocket Market, and Kristi Gamble, a cocktail and spirit consultant, for a few tips on what to pair with your feast.
Stick to a story
For Dolan, whatever the drink, it should contribute to the conversation.
"It's an opportunity to try something different, especially with family or friends," he says. "Some family gatherings need stimulation."
Whether it's a seasonal beer, an obscure grape, or wine from a region you've always wanted to visit, a little context can elevate it to special. "You don't have to be a wine expert to have a wine with a story," says Dolan.
Splurge for your splash
While Dolan is all for a good value (he favors Crémant, the rest of France's answer to Champagne, but at a fraction of the price, as well as Australian port), he recommends spending a little more than usual for a celebratory dinner.
"When I'm in a festive setting I want to be wowed," he says. "You're with people that you consider special, why not make the wine match the people?"
Mix it up
Why should you choose a cocktail to complement your turkey?
"Why not?" says Gamble. While she's all for wine pairings, she feels that cocktails take the process a step further.
"Wine can be limiting," she says. "Once the bottle is open, the flavors are immutable. Cocktails, on the other hand, can be invented and tweaked to match a dish perfectly."
Gamble likens cocktail making to cooking.
"When you season a dish, you're thinking about combining flavors that taste good together," she says. "The same idea applies to cocktail pairings. This is where the miraculous happens: sometimes flavors in solid form and flavors in liquid form come together to create a third, delicious set of flavors, bringing out something you wouldn't taste if you hadn't tried them together."
Powerful pairings
"I always start with something bubbly," says Dolan. "There's a reason they call it the universal food wine."
Looking for a white wine? Dolan recommends a medium-bodied one. "They tend to be appealing to a wider spectrum of people," he says. His pick this year is a Pinot Gris.
If you're in the market for a food-friendly red, Dolan has a few options.
"I like Barbera, or sometimes Nebbiolo for a softer red," he says. "Pinot Noir is a slam dunk." He's also a fan of Zinfandel. "A roasted turkey would be amazing with Zin."
For dessert, Dolan favors a late-harvest Riesling or Gewürztraminer, or a tawny port, especially with pumpkin or pecan pie. "You can get a great bottle of tawny port for around $15, or you can get an exceptional, 10-year-aged tawny port for around $20 to $30," he says.
Although it might not be natural to think of pairing beer with a Thanksgiving dinner, Dolan thinks it's a great bet. For Thanksgiving, he's a fan of German hefeweizens, seasonal beers, fresh hop (also known as wet hop) beers, and barrel-aged Imperial stouts. Gamble plays with contrasts and complements in her cocktail pairings.
"Too much contrast could make one element overpower the other, so be careful, but a little bit of contrast can bring out good things in both. Also, consider picking a drink that offers continuity with the food, complementing similar characteristics and helping them shine," she says.
Both Dolan and Gamble agree: pairings are all about your palate. Drink what you like above all else. ♦
Matt Dolan's picks for wine and beer*
Crémant: Domaine Albert Bichot, $23/bottle
Pinot Gris: Elk Cove 2015, Oregon, $18
Pinot Noir: Row 503 by Drouhin, Oregon, $18
Barbera: Poderi Ruggeri Corsini, Italy, $17
Zinfandel: Thurston Wolfe, Washington, $19
Dessert wine: Capitello Ice Wine of Gewürztraminer, Oregon, $22
Port: Niepoort Tawny, Portugal, $18
German hefeweizen: Franziskaner Weissbier, $2.75/bottle
Seasonal: Iron Horse Cozy Sweater, A smooth vanilla milk stout from Ellensburg, $1.65
Fresh/Wet Hop: Sierra Nevada Celebration fresh hop IPA, $1.60
Barrel-aged Imperial stout: The benchmark is Fremont Kentucky Dark Star from Seattle's neighborhood of the same name. $22 for a 22-ounce bottle. Served close to room temperature with pumpkin pie, it's super-dreamy.
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John Hagee: Address at the AIPAC Conferencehttp://zionism-israel.com/israel_news/2007/03/john-hagee-address-at-aipac-conference.html
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I came here tonight to deliver a message to you from those millions of evangelicals in America and I want to say this as clearly and plainly as I can possibly say it - Israel you are not alone.
If a line has to be drawn, draw the line around both Christians and Jews; we are united; we are indivisible; we are bound together by the Torah - the roots of Christianity are Jewish. We are spiritual brothers and what we have in common is far greater than the things we've allowed to separate us over the years.
Let me be clear; Israel is not the problem here.
Scapegoating Israel will not solve the problem; the problem is the Arab rejection of Israel's right to exist.
Not everyone will agree with all of John Hagee's views about Israel and other matters. However, it seems absurd to argue that Hagee is not a good friend of Israel, or that Zionists should turn away the hand of friendship when it is offered.
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Pastor John Hagee: AIPAC Policy Conference 2007 March 11, 2007
Pastor John Hagee: AIPAC Policy Conference 2007
March 11, 2007
Good evening dear friends of Israel; thank you for the privilege and pleasure of speaking to this distinguished AIPAC gathering. May I begin by thanking Melvin Dow for his friendship and wisdom that have been a guiding light for me personally and in all out endeavors on behalf of Israel over the years. I also want to thank AIPAC and each of you for being Israel's defender in the halls of the US Congress. You are the finest and most efficient advocacy organization in Washington, DC.
On September 10, 1981 we conducted our First Night to Honor Israel in San Antonio and there are two people with me tonight that made that First Night to Honor Israel possible - my wife Diana, the love of my life and Rabbi Aryeh Sheinberg without whose courage there would never have been the First Night to Honor Israel nor the birth of Christians United for Israel. There to my left, would you please stand; I'd like you to be welcomed by this great group of people.
We meet tonight at dangerous and difficult time in world history. To anyone with eyes to see and ears that hear, it is clear that Israel is in the gravest danger she has faced since six Arab armies tried to strangle the Jewish state in the birth canal in 1948. I know that during difficult days such as this when it seems that the whole world is against Israel many in the Jewish community nervously scan the globe searching for friends. You look toward the United Nations which Dore Gold calls The Tower of Babble. You look at Europe where the ghost of Hitler is again walking across the stage of history. You open your newspapers and read about American universities where Israel is being viciously vilified by students taught by professors whose Middle Eastern chairs are sponsored by Saudi Arabia. You look to America's mainline churches and their initiatives to divest from Israel. You go to the bookstore and see slanderous titles by the former President of the United States and you feel very much alone.
I came here tonight to speak about Christians United for Israel and millions of evangelicals in America who have a deep-seated faith-based belief to love Israel, to speak up for Israel, to standup for Israel, to pray for Israel and to financially support Israel until Israel achieves a just and lasting peace.
I came here tonight to deliver a message to you from those millions of evangelicals in America and I want to say this as clearly and plainly as I can possibly say it - Israel you are not alone.
There are millions of evangelical Christians across America who consider the Jewish people the apple of God's eye, who see you as the chosen people, a cherished people and a covenant people with an eternal covenant that will stand forever. Ladies and gentlemen of AIPAC it's a new day in America. The sleeping giant of Christian Zionism has awakened; there are 50 million Christians standing up and applauding the State of Israel.
If a line has to be drawn, draw the line around both Christians and Jews; we are united; we are indivisible; we are bound together by the Torah - the roots of Christianity are Jewish. We are spiritual brothers and what we have in common is far greater than the things we've allowed to separate us over the years.
As you know, Iran poses a threat to the State of Israel that promises nothing less than a nuclear holocaust. I have been saying on national television, in churches and auditoriums across America it is 1938; Iran is Germany and Ahmadinejad is the new Hitler. Ladies and gentlemen we must stop Iran's nuclear threat and stop it now and stand boldly with Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East. The only way to win a nuclear war is to make certain it never starts. Iran's President has not limited his maniacal threats to Israel. He has also asked his fellow Iranians to imagine a world without America. This is a clear threat to destroy the United States of America. I have something to something to say to Iran's President or Iran; Mr. Ahmadinejad, don't threaten America.
Do not threaten Israel by saying they will pass away in a sudden storm. In the Bible when Pharaoh threatened the Jewish people of Egypt he became fish food in the Red Sea. When Haman threatened the Jews in Persia in modern-day Iran he and his sons hung from the gallows that he built for the Jews. Mr. Ahmadinejad's threats against Israel have a way of becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy; you may be well speaking about your own demise when you talk about passing away with a sudden storm, but you are not talking about Israel's future.
The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is watching you. King David wrote that thou that keepeth Israel neither slumber nor sleeps. The Christians of America are not going to sit by in silence this time and watch you plod and plan a nuclear holocaust. There will never be another holocaust - not on our watch and never again.
Beyond that threat from Iran there's another more subtle threat that concerns me. I am concerned that in the coming months yet another attempt will be made to parcel out parts of Israel in a futile effort to appease Israel's enemies in the Middle East. I believe that misguided souls in Europe, I believe that the misguided souls in the political brothel that is now the United Nations and sadly - and sadly even our own State Department will try once again to turn Israel into crocodile food. Winston Churchill said and I quote an appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile in the futile hope that it will eat him last - end of quote. In 1938 Czechoslovakia - Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland land was turned into crocodile food for Nazi Germany. The Nazi beast smelled the weakness in the appeasers, ate the food and marched and devoured most of Europe and systematically slaughtered 6,000,000 Jewish people.
We are again hearing calls to appease the enemies of Israel.
Once again those who would appease seek to do so at the expense of Israel.
They tell us that if we want the Sunnis and the Shiites to stop massacring each other in Iraq then Israel must give up land.
They tell us that if we want the Syrians to stop murdering the leaders in Lebanon, then Israel must give up land.
They tell us if we want the Saudis to permit women to drive and to vote, Israel must give up land.
If we want the sun to rise it the east and set in the west, Israel must give up land.
Let me be clear; Israel is not the problem here.
Scapegoating Israel will not solve the problem; the problem is the Arab rejection of Israel's right to exist.
The problem is that Israel has no partner for peace; the problem is radical Islam's blood - blood-thirsty embrace of a theocratic dictatorship that believes they have a mandate from God to kill Christians and Jews. The problem is the failure of the moderates in the Arab and Muslim world to stand up and rein in these Islamic extremists.
If the moderate Arabs believe that murdering Christians and Jews is wrong then standup and say so - this is America. We welcome your participation in free speech but your silence is deadly.
Appeasement is not the answer my friends. To quote the great evangelical abolitionist William Wilberforce - quote - appeasement is nothing more than surrender on the installment plan - end of quote. America should not pressure Israel to give up land and America must never pressure Israel to divide the City of Jerusalem.
Dore Gold in his latest book, The Fight for Jerusalem said and I quote - turning part or all of Jerusalem to the Palestinians would be tantamount to turning it over to the Taliban - end of quote. I agree. Jerusalem is the eternal capital of the Jewish people now and forever. Jerusalem is united under Jewish control and must always remain under Jewish control.
Why do Christians support Israel? Truth is not what I say it is. Truth is not what you think it is. Truth is what the Torah says it is; there's the Torah way and the wrong way. Genesis 12 and 3 says I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you. We believe those blessings are very real and those judgments are very real.
Where are the nations that have persecuted the Jewish people? Where is Pharaoh and his army? Where are the Babylonians? Where are the Greeks? Where is the Ottoman Empire? Where are the Romans? Where is that goose-stepping lunatic Adolf Hitler and his Nazi hoards? All are historic footnotes in the bone yard of human history. Where are - where are - where is Israel? Where are the Jewish people? They're alive and well; they're thriving; they're prospering; they're growing - even on a day of adversity they're still going forward.
Where is Israel? Where are those who are scattered throughout the Diaspora? The mighty right hand of God has gathered them from the nations of the world and Israel was miraculously born May 15, 1948. Israel lives! Shout it from the house top - Israel lives! Let every Islamic terrorist group hear it - Israel lives! Let every tin horn dictator in the Middle East hear it - Israel lives! Let it be heard in the halls of the UN - Israel lives! Let it echo down the marble halls of the Presidential Palace in Iran - Israel lives! Let it ring in the terrorist camps of Osama Bin Laden - Israel lives! Israel lives! Israel lives!
Jews have suffered programs and persecution; they have outlasted Pharaoh's slavery and Hitler's final solution and I have no doubt that long after Hamas and Hezbollah have been buried in the bone yard of human history long after the crisis with Iran has been resolved, the Flag of Israel will still be flying over the ancient walls of the sacred city and Jerusalem and Israel will be the praise of all the earth.
Why do Christians support Israel - because Christians deeply believe we owe a debt of gratitude to the Jewish people; you gave us the word of God, you gave us the patriarchs - Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; you gave us the Prophets, Ezekiel, Daniel, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Zachariah, Amos, Josiah, Joel - not a Baptist in the bunch. The first family of Christianity - Mary, Joseph, and Jesus, the Apostles, John the fourth chapter says salvation is of the Jews; that's a New Testament verse. You don't hear it many sermons that preached on that but that's a real verse. Salvation is of the Jews; the point is if you take away the Jewish contribution from Christianity there would be no Christianity. Judaism does not need Christianity to explain its existence but Christianity cannot explain its existence without Judaism.
Therefore I have been saying for 26 years over national television it's time for Christians to stop praising the dead Jews of the past - Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob while avoiding the Jews who live across the street. That's anti-Semitism and anti-Semitism is sin and as sin it damns the soul. As Christians tonight on this historic occasion we ask God's forgiveness and yours for every act of anti-Semitism in our past. The crusades, the inquisition, Martin Luther's Concerning the Jews and Their Lies; the final solution of Adolf Hitler carried out by baptized Christians in good-standing with their church; the fact that the Roman Church was silent during these atrocities and did not share - we did not share their theology. They did not share our appreciation for the great contribution the Jewish people have given to humanity and to Christianity. Tonight I humbly ask forgiveness of the Jewish people for every act of anti-Semitism and the deafening silence of Christianity in your greatest hour of need during the Holocaust. We were not there; we cannot change the past but together we can shape the future. Think of our potential future together; 50,000,000 evangelicals joining in common cause with 5,000,000 Jewish people in America on behalf of Israel is a match made in heaven.
Let the word go forth from Washington, DC tonight. There is a new beginning in America between Christians and Jews. We pledge to God and to the Jewish people to fulfill the words of the Prophet Isaiah; for Zion's sake we will not hold our peace and for Jerusalem's sake we will not rest. You who make mention of the Lord do not keep silent and give the Lord no rest until he makes Jerusalem the praise of all the earth. We have organized Christians United for Israel. We have 13 Regional Directors; we have 40 State Directors; we have 80 City Directors and they're growing. We're organizing Congressional District by Congressional District, so that as body we can standup and speak up for Israel every year in Washington, DC and Congress will know that the matter of Israel is no longer just a Jewish issue; it is a Christian Jewish issue from this day forward.
In closing - in closing, I believe 2007 is the year of destiny. America and Israel are at war with a common enemy. It is a war of good versus evil. It is a war of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness versus the culture of death. I close with the words of Winston Churchill, who is my favorite statesman of all time. Spoken during the dark days of World War II when Hitler seemed unbeatable and victory seemed impossible, Churchill said, you ask what is our aim; I can answer in one word - it is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of the terror, victory however long and hard the road may be for without victory there is no survival - end of quote. Ladies and gentlemen, as Christians and Jews, our aim is victory - victory for Israel and victory in our time. May God bless Israel; God bless America; and God bless each of you.
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Denver recommends designating 317 acres as city parkland in fall, 121 acres in spring
Denver Parks and Recreation is continuing work to designate acreage as official city parkland with a proposal to add 317 acres this fall and another 121.5 acres next spring with a goal of designating 90 percent of its land as parkland by 2015.
Many parcels the city acquired after 1956 never have carried the designation of being an official city park. Parcels were officially recognized as open space, parkways, medians or natural areas. A city survey found 31 percent of the city's nearly 6,000 acres of parks was not official city parkland — land that cannot be sold or leased unless a majority of voters approve.
The plan is to have about 90 percent by the end of 2015, said Deputy Parks Manager Scott Gilmore.
"About 10 percent cannot be designated because of right of way issues or utility corridor issues," Gilmore said. "But we are trying to designate as much as possible."
In the spring, the city began the change, designating 178.5 acres, including nearly 16 acres in southeast Denver that was open space near Hentzell Park. That area has been under dispute because the city has swapped about 11 acres of natural space to Denver Public Schools to build a school. Some neighbors are upset about the swap, saying the city didn't have the right to do so without a vote. A District Court judge disagreed.
On Tuesday Gilmore presented recommendations to a City Council committee to designate another 317 acres throughout the city, including the 79-acre Bear Creek Park in southwest Denver, 78.9-acre Central Park in Stapleton and 40.3-acre Greenway Park also in Stapleton.
Next spring, the plan is to designate 121.5 acres, including the 56-acre Lakewood/Dry Gulch Park, the 32.5-acre Hampden Heights Park and the 16.5-acre Veterans Park near East Iowa Avenue and Interstate 25.
The council must approve all of the changes.


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Win a floral masterclass for Mother's Day!
Congratulations to the winner!
Charlotte Scotton, you and a friend are off to the Brekkie & Blooms workshop this weekend!
All mothers love flowers: FACT. If your mum says otherwise, tackle her to the floor and tear off her wig because she is probably a man, man. But de-wigging aside, the real aim of this game is to win two seats to the Brekkie & Blooms (Mother's Day Edition) workshop by the creative bunch at Maker's Society.
They hooked us with flowers then reeled us in with the mention of breakfast, so we are really excited to give away two spots to this flower workshop for one lucky duck – bring your friend and each make a bouquet to give to your respective mums, or bring your mum with you to spend some quality time learning ninja arranging skills together (and lock down the medal for favourite child this year).
Happening on May 10 at The Hop & Grain in Enmore, the workshop kicks off with a feast of Bourke St Bakery croissants and jam by Cornersmith, fresh juice, tea and coffee, and a fruit platter to get all your vitamins in order and your creativity levels boosted to MARTHA STEWART for your next task: making a posy of blooms sourced fresh from the flower markets. Not only will you pick up the know-how, you'll also get a vessel to take your posy home in, a pair of florist scissors to maintain your stems for longevity, and let's not forget the now thrice-mentioned breakfast spread. (Got a problem with our passion for breakfast? Why don't you take it up with science because it's the most important meal of the day you dingle berry – full stop no returns.)
If you want to nab a spot before they're gone, you can head here to secure a seat for you and a pal at Brekkie & Blooms for $50 a pop. Or if you're feeling a little risque, then you can enter to win two seats from your old pal Yen and the fine ladies at Maker's Society HQ. Give Makers Society a thumbsy like here, and all you have to do to score tickets is tell us in 25 words or less "Why do you want to go to Brekkie & Blooms and who would you take with you?"
For more info, head to makerssociety.com.au.
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I'm all about living life outside of a comfort zone, traveling anywhere and everywhere I can, raising an incredible daughter, rocking entrepreneurship, living authentically and treasuring relationships deeply.
Life is to be GULPED, not sipped… so come along the wild ride with me as I share what I'm learning along the way.
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It's amazing what happens when you decide to take a journey. You open your mind to different possibilities, you meet fascinating people and if you're lucky, you'll take away some genuinely gorgeous life lessons as well. Join Gabriella as she takes you around the world and shares some of the most memorable highlights that have had life-lasting impact and discover why travel is so essential to the soul.


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I live up the road from Whistling Straits, the venue for the 2015 PGA Championship, won by Jason Day among some incredible golfing performances on one of golf's most beautiful courses. My extended family was involved as staff and volunteers. Many of our friends walked alongside their favorite golfers, celebrating the locale and taking joy in the beauty of their home region getting national attention. Many of us kept the radio or television on from beginning to end. Herb Kohler of the Kohler Co., and the visionary behind the championship courses and the high-end tourism in my area, made a few television appearances. He epitomizes a privately-owned family business deep into its fourth generation of leadership. A legacy like this is rare, but not quite so rare among the businesses and industries that line the western shoreline of Lake Michigan. The Kohler legacy is a standout among many families in my part of the world that endeavor for:
- A family legacy.
- The long-term.
- The well-being of employees and their families.
- Civic engagement.
- Land and facility stewardship
These values do not match well with much of the American business landscape. But consider the many companies that bolted into existence and disappeared with an eye on the short-term while these family-owned industries keep plugging along, changing more slowly and with a longer-term view in mind. Enron anyone? How about some investments in big box stores?
Family-owned businesses get it wrong all the time. They fail spectacularly too. However, if you care about these five values – values that can easily be anchored in Christian faith and living – then we might note that the best at demonstrating them come from multi-generation, family-owned, deeply-rooted businesses. Might this be because leaders are surrounded in a culture that they cannot escape, not even at the dinner table, not even when they go out to eat, and not even when the family reunion is passing out corn on the cob? Family members and friends might chafe at being swallowed up and not feeling like an individual, and yet, given time and the opportunity to learn how to lead, so often they return to bring that new generation of leadership with a freshened vision.
Companies like these are modern expressions of the Asaph's prayer in Psalm 78:
I will utter hidden things,
things from of old—
what we have heard and known,
what our fathers have told us.
We will not hide them from our children;
we will tell the next generation the praiseworthy deeds of the Lord,
his power and the wonders he has done…..
so the next generation will know them, even the children yet to be born
and they in turn will tell their children.
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Marina Graham
I was born in 1960 in England. I studied French and German at Newnham College Cambridge before doing a BA Hons in Sculpture and printmaking at Bath Academy of Art. For 15 years I worked as a freelance artist, doing portrait sculpture, bronze figures and restoration work. I spent some time living in Germany, France and Italy during the eighties and nineties but my home has mainly been Wiltshire in England. Both my parents came from Longtown near the Scottish border where my wider family is still based.
I will eventually add pages showing my sculptures, which I have now also recommenced, although for the time being I am mainly occupied with this geometry.
The Geometry
Geometry is a natural extension of the work of a sculptor and since 2010 I have been engaged in a thorough investigation of the geometry of Avebury Henge, which is just a few miles from where I live. To begin with I worked with a ruler, a compass and a pencil on A2 sized drawings on a Google Earth view of Avebury.
I soon realised I could never test my hypotheses about the geometry accurately enough to reduce potential ambiguities in its significance without the help of a very detailed aerial view of Avebury. Fortunately I was given one. It was incorporated into a piece of graphics software with layers showing the positions of the surviving stones, Alexander Keiller's concrete markers, the missing stones and various other features.
The Basis of the Research
My detailed graphics document was originally created by the writer Steve Marshall to assist him with his own research into the landscape of Avebury. His book Exploring Avebury; The Essential Guide comes out in May 2016. It contains many beautiful photographs and aerial views and a wealth of information on all the features in the landscape within a five mile radius of Avebury Henge.
He gave me a copy of his aerial view of the Henge with all the stone positions several years ago for me to use as a basis for my geometrical experiments. All my research since then has been based on his original document. Its northing matches the one on Alexander Thom's Survey, which it was possible to insert as an overlay for comparison; they correspond extremely well. I have created hundreds of layers of geometrical drawings on top of it and these are the main body of my research.
The image of the aerial view of Avebury is very large. In addition to this the graphics software measures the azimuth from due East of every line drawn on it to within one tenth of a degree. It also allows for layers to be made transparent to different degrees and switched on and off. This means that I can experiment with many different geometrical constructions, all based on the actual layout of the stones and earthworks, which can be made to show through from underneath or switched off, and I can compare the resulting patterns with one another and discover where and how they synchronise.
I compiled a table based on data from NASA. It givies the lengths of planetary orbits of the sun and other cosmic cycles in days and various calculations based on them. I then set about matching the geometrical patterns formed by the ratios between these cycles with the patterns I had drawn on the aerial view of Avebury by cycling its lines of stones around its geometrical centre. This may sound arcane but it is in fact entirely logical, if a bit laborious.
Probably, one of the reasons no one has ever tried this before is that we are used to thinking of our stone circles as circles, even though we all know they are not round, and this has prevented people from recognising that the outer 'circle' at Avebury in fact contains many straight Lines. Alexander Thom, despite the accuracy of his survey, still perceived these straight lines as very shallow curves.
The other reason it hasn't been done before is probably just that it required a lot of maths as well as a lot of imagination, although there is actually no good reason why mathematics and imagination should not co-exist!
If the theory I put forward in my book is recognised to be correct, as I believe it gradually will be, then it is a discovery of major importance about a significant aspect of the purpose of Avebury. It may have potential implications for other stone circles as well (although perhaps Avebury is unique) so it will also be important to recognise all the steps up to this point and all the people whose earlier hard work has made it possible to get here.
Previous Researchers and protectors of Avebury
If my theory is correct then it should shed light on the findings of archaeologists about the way the site was used by people during the Neolithic era. If geometry is outside the usual domain of evidence any archaeologist would be expected to consider this need not be seen as a criticism of archaeologists; I doubt that I would have got very far without them. Nor however should it trivialise the importance of geometry. I am confident that the bigger picture will eventually be visible and make sense to more researchers.
Because specific detail as to the purpose of the henges and stone circles in the British Isles has long remained unknown they have attracted a whole range of speculative ideas. Archaeologists established their true age as going back three millennia BC and therefore that they could not have been built by the druids of the iron age who the Roman invaders described. Modern archaeologists are nevertheless indebted to the antiquarians John Aubrey and William Stukeley for their detailed records drawn and written before so many of the stones were destroyed, even though Stukeley also considered himself an archdruid and had mystical imaginings which archaeologists cannot accept as truth.
Archaeologists have had good reason to be sceptical of many things. They remain sceptical of astronomy being suggested as a primary purpose for Avebury and Stonehenge. They do however see them as ritual spaces which appear to have been exclusively accessed by elites.
Alexander Thom's survey of Avebury is still regarded as the most accurate one there is, even though his theories about the Megalithic Yard appear to have been dismissed as wishful thinking by a number of leading archaeologists.
Without Alexander Keiller who bought Avebury to save it from further destruction or Alexander Thom's recognition of the element of engineering in the layout of Neolithic stone monuments I very much doubt that I would ever have done this study and made the discoveries I have made. Without having seen the books of John North, John Michell and John Martineau I probably would not have had the inspiration and had it not been for the geometer Joan Moore telling me how she always followed the geometry wherever it led her I may never have completed it.
Actually I'm still working on it; every time I think I've finished I discover more, although I have now filled in all the missing pieces in the jigsaw of Avebury's lines and angles and the cycles they all reflect.
I am making some big claims here and fully expect these to be met with healthy scepticism from more critical and discerning thinkers. Geometry is however mathematics, which can be demonstrated to work, and my full set of geometrical proofs will appear clearly in my book. My work came to a near standstill for several years while I looked after my mother during her battle with Alzheimer's. Now that I am back into this project with a critical eye, and having tested my hypotheses many times over, I feel confident that they amount to a coherent theory.
The fact that I am a sculptor and not an archaeologist or a scientist should not rule out the possiblity of my theory being logically coherent; consider after all that if I make a dancing figure in bronze that stands on one toe then it must not fall on people and kill them, and that this must work in practice and not just in theory. Consider also that sculpture is an ancient art that depends greatly on ancient science for its successful execution.
Lost wax casting of complex shapes in bronze is as subtle and as old a technique as is designing temples and maintaining calendars based on observation of the skies. All of these things came originally from the minds of sculptors and architects, artists who observed their world and recreated its forms in temples whose highest priest was also the king. Pythagoras learned everything he knew about geometry in Egypt, a nation of sculptors and architects. No sculpture or architecture that stands up at all, let alone for millenia, exists independently of mathematics and logic.
It is however to the modern mathematicians who researched the Antikythera Mechanism that I owe my breakthough in understanding the geometry of Avebury, hence the name of my book.
The Antikythera Mechanism was made in bronze in about 200BC and was found in 1900 on a shipwreck near the Greek island of Antikythera on a ship thought to have been on its way to Italy. Although the bronze was corroded so that it looked like one large lump it was discovered to actually consist of a number of gearwheels with hand cut teeth.
The Greek archaeologist who discovered the gearwheels believed it to be an astronomical clock but this was considered too complex for its time and so investigations into this idea were dropped until the British science historian Derek de Solla Price took an interest in it in 1951. He published extensive findings on it in 1974. In 2006 the Antikythera Research Project succeeded in clearing up a number of outstanding puzzles. They were also able to produce clearer images enabling the greek text on the gearwheels to be read as never before, thereby providing written evidence for the precise numbers of teeth and the purpose of some of the wheels.
The BBC documentary about their research provided me with the solution to the biggest mystery that was bugging me about the persistent recurrence of certain types of numbers in the geometry of Avebury.
For this reason I have called my book 'The Avebury Mechanism' although in the case of Avebury the 'mechanism' is a theoretical one whose gearwheels reside in the geometrical patterns for which the stones in the outer circle form baselines.
The geometry of Avebury, though theoretical, is nonetheless real and precise, so I expect it to be at least mostly recognisable to the mathematicians familiar with the numbers and ratios of the Antikythera Mechanism, both of these things being based after all on the same cosmos.
I feel I can reasonably describe the Avebury Mechanism as an instrument that plays the music of the spheres, even though the music is in this instance not heard in the way the Pythagoreans claimed to be able to hear it but seen in the synchronisation of the geometrical patterns.
Two books have been written recently which are pertinent to my subject.
One is Anthony Johnson's Solving Stonehenge, which came out in 2008, and which I have only just read because I knew he was dealing with the geometry and wanted to follow my own methods to their conclusion about Avebury before comparing this to his evidence and conclusions about Stonehenge. His book addresses in depth the roles of both archaeology and geometry in understanding the architecture of Stonehenge.
The other important book is Nicholas Mann's Avebury Cosmos, which builds on the work of John North before him in the sense that it puts forward a strong argument in favour of an important role having been played at Avebury by the rising and setting of certain stars and constellations. This is a valuable book, which I also put off reading until my research was at an advanced stage.
I believe that my discoveries make sense in the context of these two books but since I have concentrated exclusively on geometry they go far beyond anything that either of these two authors would ever have expected to find. The fact that I have concentrated exclusively on the geometry in my study should not be taken to mean that I consider other elements in the choice of location for the henge, such as the availability of water or the suitability of the landscape for farming to be unimportant, just that they are not part of a geometrical study.
Had I studied Stonehenge instead of Avebury, I think I may have stayed with two of the conclusions Anthony Johnson came to;
- that the builders of Stonehenge were using a type of Pythagorean geometry 2,000 years before Pythagoras.
- that they were engaging in the practice of geometry purely for its own sake.
I am very grateful to Anthony Johnson for having written his book and established within the academic world a theory that Pythagorean type geometry is present in a British henge so that I am not the only person saying this is so!
I had concluded by 2011 that 1. was definitely true of Avebury, but without having read Anthony Johnson's book. I still think that Britain could possibly have been the original roots of the Pythagorean geometry.
For a long time I believed 2. to be true of Avebury. It seemed bizarre but an enormous effort and great numbers of people had clearly been involved in the pursuit of these geometrical patterns over very long periods of time. Not only this but I could not escape the impression that they had found the peculiar numbers it kept generating highly amusing, if not absolutely hilarious. For a long time it really did seem to me that this obsessive practice of geometry was a big game they played purely for entertainment. It may have required a lot of people to hold hands and form lines, circles and patterns or they may have used sighting tools and marked points and fractions of circles out with sticks. Sighting tools and sticks may have been an easier method than ropes on a site as huge as Avebury. They had no television of course, and so I began to think that maybe the geometry was a form of regular sport.
But there is in fact a lot more information and complexity in the geometry of Avebury than in that of Stonehenge and so eventually it took me beyond these conclusions.
At the beginning I thought that by far the oddest thing about Avebury was the way it was absolutely infested with multiples of ten ninths. It got to the point where I imagined people falling on their backs and laughing all around me every time I divided an angle into 360 or a length into a radius and got 1.11111'1′, 2.22222'2′, 3.33333'3′, or 6.66666'6′. I began to regard these imaginary laughing people, and these numbers, as 'the henge demons'.
The most puzzling question really though was this; why set it in stone when it would have been so much easier to continue this pursuit with conveniently sized sticks?
The Big Breakthrough
Finally the thing that enabled me to make the most crucial breakthrough in understanding the patterns I had drawn and the seemingly Kabbalistic or even demonic numbers they generated was the BBC's documentary on the Antikythera Mechanism.
I have called my book The Avebury Mechanism because of the similarity of my patterns and the way they synchronise with one another to the gearwheels of the Antikythera Mechanism with their hand-made bronze teeth.
The Reason
I am not an archaeologist or a historian. I am a sculptor who likes music and has an aptitude for learning languages. Perhaps few people will expect that I will really be able to back up my claims with proof – but geometry, however it may relate to art and music, is ultimately a branch of mathematics, and there is no such thing as 'maths fiction', as I intend to demonstrate.
'Mad Mathesis alone was unconfined,
Too mad for mere material chains to bind ;
Now to pure space lifts her ecstatic stare ;
Now running round the circle finds it square :
These lines from the Dunciad by Alexander Pope appear to speak of insanity but they also remind me of an experience I had in the late eighties while visiting Egypt. The outlines of the pyramids are all indisputably straight triangles from a distance but they transform themselves when approached into huge curved edges due to the effects of perspective when something of such size is seen by the human eye from close up.
While walking around the Great Pyramid about two yards from its sides an idea suddenly occurred to me – and I went and stood at the middle of one of the huge sides and looked up. I howled with laughter; what I saw was just as I had suspected; a huge semicircle.
It was still square when I ran round it though!
Rather like this, the geometry of Avebury is a language. When read starting in the East, it takes on a startling narrative ability of its own and after millennia of silence it speaks again its many deep volumes of mathematical truth.
The Book Itself
The proof copy of The Avebury Mechanism, which I am editing and printing at the moment, is A2 sized and contains over a hundred precise and detailed geometrical drawings with annotations and explanatory text. There is a comprehensive index to these.
There is an introduction to the basics of the geometry, how I established the working centre, my methods of experimentation leading to the discovery of the patterns, their eventual decipherment and my discovery from these patterns of specific events in time, giving rise to the concept of the Avebury Calendar.
There are chapters explaining why I believe the Neolithic people went to such trouble to build Avebury at all when they could just have carried on using wooden sticks in the ground.
There is some speculation about the types of beliefs they may have based on their perceptions. This has to remain open speculation since it is very difficult to cross the large void from ancient geometry to the oral tradition of the British Isles in the form it survives in, tantalising though it is to try. Both Anthony Johnson and Nicholas Mann venture into this territory to some degree in their books and made some suggestions I either agree with or at least find plausible. It is hard to resist adding some further thoughts on the subject, even though I am aware that we may possibly all run into errors which come from the particular perspective of our own time.
The main body of my book however will be 'The Circumnambulation'.
This starts with the line of stones on the easternmost side of the outer circle and moves sunwise around it, examining by means of annotated drawings and explanations every angle the lines of stones make in the centre by crossing three significant circles and every angle between the radii to these lines. All angles are considered in the light of the patterns they create when cycled around the circles and the cosmic cycles these reflect.
It will be seen that this process reveals a remarkable complex of endlessly interrelated proportions that is stunningly beautiful in itself. These willin fact show themselves to be a complete account of the planetary and luni-solar cycles as perceived by the ancient Britons. Whether this was still the astronomy of the druids at the time of the Emperor Hadrian I do not know but it would certainly have been something they would have wished to knew.
Once deciphered it is shocking, both in its simplicity and in its sophistication. Nothing is left out; the series of angles covers all the cycles, and after you have been round the circle once you can go round again and look into it in greater depth in relation to other circles.
A series of angles between the various radii covers ratios between the orbits of all the visible planets and adds up to 360º.
There will be sections in the book on the various axes running through the monument and on the orientation of other sites in the wider landscape with respect to its centre. One of these axes is very similar to the axis described by Nicholas Mann with reference to the stars of the Southern Cross, except that in the terms of this geometry it does not relate to stars. (It would be interesting at some point to discuss this with Nicholas Mann because I think that at some point there was a shift in emphasis from stars to planets and I also think I know why this happened.)
There will be some analysis of the geometrical layout of other sites in the Avebury landscape as well as Avebury Henge itself.
The earliest origins of the geometry can be traced back to certain places. One of the inescapable conclusions of my research is that a profound understanding of spherical geometry is evident from a very early stage in the Avebury complex of monuments and may have been a mature tradition even before they were built.
As well as hundreds of geometrical drawings the book will include photographs showing the planets and the sun and moon taken from within and interacting with the Avebury landscape.


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Bleeding Heart
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The bleeding heart is native in bright forests of East Asia. Even in the garden this beautiful plant prefers shady sites. Because of the spectacular shape of their flowers they are popular ornamental plants and cut flowers.
Current location
This plant is in MiaSkywalker's Greenhouse.
Finally full grown.
It began to sprout.
Taken by MiaSkywalker.
Taken by agajol.
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When you choose Lyon, you choose one of the most attractive cities in Europe, an international competitor and a gateway to the rest of the world. Each year Lyon attracts an increasing number of businesses with a wealth of talent. Set up your company in the heart of the Rhône-Alpes region, one of Europe's most thriving regions.
France's top choice after Paris for business start-ups and relocations, the Lyon urban area is considered by 46% of European decision-makers to be the main rival to the French capital (EY 2015).
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Lyon in figures: discover the potential of this major European economic and demographic center
- 1.3 million inhabitants in Greater Lyon (INSEE 2010)
- 2nd largest urban area in France with 2.2 million inhabitants
- + 0.5% average annual growth (Insee)
52% of the population was between 25 and 49 years old in 2011 (DIRECCTE)
- A surface area of 51,500 hectares
Economic profile
- 39,543 businesses and institutions
- 56,000 companies created in the region, including 15,386 created in the Lyon metropolitan area (Metropole de Lyon, 2015)
- 5 competitiveness clusters (including two world-leading clusters): Lyonbiôpole, Axelera, Lyon Urban Truck & Bus, Minalogic, Techtera…
- #1 region for entrepreneurship in France (outside of Ile de France)
2nd highest GDP in France (Insee 2013)
- 2nd largest economic centre in France
- 467 foreign-capital establishments with over 20 employees representing 52,000 jobs. (CCIR 2015)
Lyon in the rankings
#1 business-friendly city in France (L'Expansion-L'Express 2014)
Most attractive city in France (PWC 2015)
#1 rival city of Paris according to international investors (EY 2016)
15th most attractive European city for foreign investors (Financial Times-FDI Intelligence/ European Cities and Regions of the Future, 2014)
19th most attractive city in the world for international investment (IBM 2015)
#1 choice among executives who are attracted by the city's offer in terms of quality of life and dynamic economic environment (APEC 2014)
15th most innovative city in Europe and 30th in the world (Innovation Cities Global Index 2015, 2ThinkNow)
#1 city (after Paris) for its reach and renown in digital technologies (Factory NPA, 2015)
- 3rd favourite city among international tourists (TripAdvisor 2016)
- In the Top 10 European City Breaks list (The Guardian 2015)
Lyon's leading companies and fields of excellence
After Paris, Lyon is the first choice city in France for businesses and is considered the future alternative to the French capital according to 60% of the decision-makers interviewed as part of the Ernst & Young 2013 survey. The city is now home to internationally-renowned companies and major decision centers, including:
Numerous fields of excellence make Lyon a major international hub:
International Lyon
Lyon is also a city that is open to the world and receives significant foreign investment. 66% of the businesses which set up in Lyon in 2012 were foreign. The region hosts ¼ of France's foreign businesses and there are now 1,800 foreign companies in the region, employing 92,000 people in total.
World-renowned organizations have also chosen Lyon as the location for their headquarters:
- Handicap International
- CIRC (International Cancer Research Center)
- Interpol
- Euronews
Lyon is also a favorite city with foreign students who represent 10% of the student population in Lyon (Grand Lyon 2012) and strengthen the city's international character.
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10 Places to Look When You've Lost Your Kid in IKEA. Again.
Admit it. This has happened to you. I'm a grown adult and I've gotten lost in IKEA. It's like a gigantic labyrinth stuffed to the bowels with enticingly inexpensive furniture. I'm just gonna run in for a roll of easel paper and I walk out with three light fixtures, a birdcage, and a collection of kitchen utensils that I had no idea I needed.
Those savvy Swedes. They suck you in. Every damn time.
IKEA claims that I can leave my children with them in Smaland, where they will have a cozy romp among mini chairs that look like psychedelic mushrooms. I would like to believe that's true, but I'm suspicious. Every time I happen to go to IKEA, Smaland is always closed.
It says they accept potty-trained children 37-54 inches tall. That's like having a unicorn. Pretty sure those don't exist.
So I get to shop with children in tow. Lucky me. And we all know how that ends. You get distracted by that expanse of pristine sofa, tuck your feet up for just a minute to convince yourself it's totally uncomfortable, and poof. They're gone. Into the vast, terrifying territory of a showroom where you're certain they are touching all the things. All of them.
If you, too, have lost your kid in IKEA again, I'd like to suggest you start looking in the following places:
It's likely your child is probably...
1: Standing at the top of the escalator
Staring in fascinated horror at the metal teeth that march up and down like ravenous monsters. Step away slowly, sweetie. Yes, those things eat fingers. All the time. It happens in China like once a day.
2: In one of the mock kitchens
Opening and slamming shut every damn cupboard in the place. Or perhaps your charming offspring is rifling through the fridge for snacks and leaving all those snotty, smudgy fingerprints all over the stainless steel. Classy move, kid.
3: Trying all the beds
Like an adorable version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. This one is too soft, this one too hard. Nah. Never mind. Your kid is the jackass jumping on the bed and catching some serious air.
4: Hiding under the dining room tables and giggling the second they catch sight of you
As if you totally can't see them down there, like little trolls under the brilliant fluorescents.
5: Scaling a Hermes bookcase like a boss
You got that anchored to the wall, right IKEA?
6: Spinning around in one of those desk chairs until they puke
Winner, winner, chicken dinner.
7: Cleaning up toys and putting them away in the children's section
Hey, wait! Why can't they do that at home? The price of a Lillabo wooden train set, $9.99. Finding out you've been catfished by your three-year-old? Priceless.
8: Smooshing their little faces up against the glass in the café
Salivating over cinnamon roll smell as if they're starving orphans from a Dickens novel. It doesn't matter if you fed them two granola bars on the way to IKEA. That was like an entire hour ago.
9: Sipping from all the green cups in market hall
Only the green cup, Mom! Any other color is unacceptable. Sweet Jesus. Seriously. Stay away from the red cups. That's a tantrum no one should have to watch.
10: In housewares
playing with knives. It's okay. Those things are dull as shit. Don't panic. The money you'll save on buying a three piece Andlig knife set will pay for the ER visit anyway.
Congratulations on recovering your kiddo in IKEA. Good luck making it out without emptying your bank account. May the odds be ever in your favor!


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