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The Nissan Quest is a minivan that has been in production and for sale in the U.S. since 1993. There have been four generations of the Nissan Quest, with the first two being a joint venture with Ford. Because Nissan was working with Ford when it released the Quest, the Mercury Villager was basically a rebadged version of the Nissan Quest. The Mercury Villager was discontinued by Ford in 2002, which lead to the Nissan Quest being completely redesigned for the release of its third generation.
The Quest is Nissan's only minivan. Nissan has tried to produce vehicles that lead the way in innovation, as well as style, and the same can be said for the Quest. Particularly for the later generations—Nissan tried to create a minivan that offered something for everyone. With each successive generation, Nissan included innovative technologies to improve the ride, handling, and the comfort of the Nissan Quest. With four different trim levels to choose from, drivers can find the right Nissan Quest to fit their needs.
There was no Nissan Quest for the 2010 model year. The fourth generation was launched for 2011 model year sales. For this generation, manufacturing was moved from the U.S. back to Japan. This Nissan Quest is built on the Nissan D platform, which is used by Nissan for its luxury van, the Elgrand. There are four trim levels currently available, including the S, SV, SL, and LE. All are fitted with a 3.5-liter, V-6 engine that produces 260 horsepower. The engine is coupled with a continuously variable transmission that electronically moves through gears and acts as an automatic transmission. The Nissan Quest has dual side sliding doors, and in all but the S trim level, these doors are one-touch, power sliding doors. Anti-locking brakes, an antiskid system, a tire pressure monitoring system, and front and side airbags are standard safety features on all trim levels. A rearview camera comes standard for the SV, SL, and LE trim levels. A blind spot warning system is available in the LE trim level only.
The first Nissan Quest was unveiled at the North American Auto Show in Detroit in 1992. When it went on sale for the 1993 model year, it was fitted with a three-liter, V-6 engine that produced 151 horsepower and 182 lb-ft of torque with a four-speed automatic transmission. It was a three-door minivan that provided seating for up to seven passengers in three rows. The second row was removable and allowed the third row to move forward and provide more cargo space in the rear. There were two trim levels initially available, and except for a few minor styling changes, the Nissan Quest was basically identical to the Mercury Villager. As part of the deal between Nissan and Ford, Ford assembled the Quest in North America and was then able to rebadge it as the Mercury Villager. This first generation was in production until 1998.
The second generation Nissan Quest was launched in 1999. Both it and the Mercury Villager underwent a major overhaul for this new generation. The exterior styling gave the minivan a more aerodynamic look, and a driver's side sliding door was added to make it a four-door minivan. The engine was updated to a 3.3-liter V-6 that provided an increase of 19 horsepower and 26 lb-ft of torque, but the only available transmission was still the four-speed automatic. Three trim levels were available for the second generation, and all had three rows of seating. As with the first generation, the third row could be moved backward and forward when the second row was removed.
In 2002, the Mercury Villager was discontinued, and this was also the second generation Nissan Quest's last year of production. There was a one-year gap before the completely redesigned third generation Quest was available for sale for the 2004 model year. One significant change was that this new generation was built on the same platform as the Nissan Altima and Maxima, which made it longer than the previous generations. It was also fitted with the same 3.5-liter, V-6 engine used in the Altima and Maxima. The engine produced 240 horsepower and 242 lb-ft of torque and was coupled with a standard four-speed automatic. There were three trim levels to choose from: the S, SL, and SE. The SE trim level was fitted with a five-speed automatic transmission and 17-inch wheels. All three trim levels seat seven and were fitted with dual side sliding doors. This generation Nissan Quest was in production until 2008 for the 2009 model year.
2016 Nissan Quest
2015 Nissan Quest
2014 Nissan Quest
2013 Nissan Quest
The 2013 Nissan Quest is a versatile minivan that was built for family life, according to the manufacturer.
2012 Nissan Quest
While the Quest carries over from 2011 with no changes, it is a massive departure from its predecessor, retaining only the 3.5-liter V-6 engine, albeit bumped up 20 horsepower for the redesigned model.
2011 Nissan Quest
When the previously designed Nissan Quest had a little bit of a different approach to its interior and exterior appearances, the competition outshined them.
2009 Nissan Quest
The 2009 Nissan Quest is a minivan with a difference, as it actually has bold and aggressive styling instead of the normal bland appearance of this class of car.
2008 Nissan Quest
Nissan introduced the third-generation Quest minivan in 2004.
2007 Nissan Quest
The 2007 Nissan Quest is a seven-passenger minivan.
2006 Nissan Quest
2005 Nissan Quest
The Nissan Quest is a sleek minivan with a powerful engine that provides solid performance and handling.
2004 Nissan Quest
The 2004 Nissan Quest made its entrance to the market place and rivaled many class leaders, including the Honda Odyssey in terms of performance and styling.
2002 Nissan Quest
The Nissan Quest is a seven-passenger minivan that was introduced to the market in 1993.
2001 Nissan Quest
The 2001 Nissan Quest is a vastly improved model when compared to the 2000 version.
2000 Nissan Quest
The 2000 Nissan Quest is the product of a complete redesign in 1999, which was meant to keep the Quest competitive with other vehicles in its class.
1999 Nissan Quest
The 1999 Nissan Quest has proved it is a serious contender in the minivan arena with a complete redesign.
1998 Nissan Quest
The 1998 Nissan Quest is one of the highest selling minivans for good reason.
1997 Nissan Quest
The 1997 Nissan Quest is a front-drive minivan that was designed to accommodate a family in comfort and style.
1996 Nissan Quest
The 1996 Nissan Quest is one of the top-selling minivans.
1995 Nissan Quest
The 1995 Nissan Quest is in its third year and seems to have gotten a foothold in the market.


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This article comes to us courtesy of California Watch.
To walk into the central gathering space of the Potawot Health Village in Arcata, a multi-tribal health clinic, is to be made instantly aware of the concept of traditional native food as medicine. "Got Acorns?" reads a poster. "Got salmon?" "Got seaweed?"
Built, administered and owned by American Indians, Potawot is at the front line of a national resurgence among native peoples to address the link between the loss of ancestral native foods and disproportionate rates of diabetes and other chronic diseases.
California is home to more American Indians and Alaska Natives than any other state, with 107 federally recognized tribes, making diabetes a major community health issue. The statistics are sobering: According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, from 1994 to 2004, there was a 68 percent increase in diabetes among native youth ages 15 to 19 across the country and a doubling of the diabetes rate among those 35 and younger.
"We're trying to re-establish the traditional ways we thought about food," explained Paula "Pimm" Allen, the clinic's traditional resource specialist, who comes from a long line of respected Yurok and Karuk healers and cultural practitioners. "Taking care of ourselves, our families, the community and the environment all are interconnected."
Potawot Health Village opened in 2002 to serve Yurok, Tolowa, Wiyot, Hupa and Karuk Indians who live within in a 5,000-square-mile territory encompassing most of northern Humboldt and Del Norte counties. The village also has five satellite clinics, including one in Weitchpec, an isolated Yurok village along the Klamath River that has yet to receive electricity.
The village's traditional redwood plank construction embodies its place as well as the connection between food, community and the environment. The complex is organized around a central "wellness garden" composed of native medicinal plants, fed by rainwater captured from roofs. It is all encircled by a 20-acre restored wetland, along with two miles of walking trails wending their way though a "basket garden" of native grasses used for weaving. A 2½-acre organic nutritional garden and orchard supplies produce for the clinic's seasonal farmers market, where native cooking demonstrations are part of the repertoire.
Cultural traditions are a route to healing, Allen explained.
"We were forcibly disconnected from our food, just as we were with our language and our culture," she said. "People who are connected to community are more likely to take care of themselves."
Potawot was one of 17 Indian organizations nationwide chosen to receive a $100,000 grant from the CDC's Native Diabetes Wellness Program. The clinic is using the money to develop a comprehensive Food as Medicine program for patients. In conceptualizing the grants, the CDC conferred with tribal leaders.
"They said culture is the source of health," said Dawn Satterfield, team leader of the wellness program at the CDC's Division of Diabetes Translation. "They made that connection very clear."
Although the reasons for the devastating impact of the disease on American Indians are complex, many experts believe that historical trauma – including the forced abandonment of traditional practices and native habitat – have been contributing factors.
Mariana Leal Ferreira, a medical anthropologist and associate professor at San Francisco State University, said government policies – such as forcibly taking children from their homes and placing them in boarding schools – had deleterious, long-term effects. Children were taught to abandon native language and culture, wrenching entire generations away from skills like hunting, fishing and gathering.
Over time, Ferreira said, it made families more susceptible to stress, setting up an overly reactive autonomic nervous system, which in turn can raise blood sugar levels in the body. Government-supplied commodities such as white flour and lard, along with a more sedentary lifestyle, also adversely affected health. The latest research shows that networks of social support and a strong cultural identity "can be protective factors that make people less vulnerable," Ferreira said.
The Yurok lands along the Klamath River are a part of California that feels more like the Pacific Northwest. In this remote corner of the state, Gold Rush massacres and federal policies opening up native lands to settlers have been echoed in more recent history by hydroelectric dams, which depleted water levels and salmon populations, and timber harvesting on ceremonial lands.
In Northern California and elsewhere, access to native foods has become both an environmental and human rights issue. Karuk elders recall eating salmon three times a day. They also relied on eel, freshwater mussels, Indian rhubarb and acorns to which they now have limited access, said Kari Marie Norgaard, a sociologist at the University of Oregon.
"Every native tribe has a story about what happened to their food system," said Kibbe Conti, a native dietitian and a nutritionist at the Indian Health Service Hospital in Rapid City, S.D. In the northern Great Plains, for instance, the Sioux hunted for buffalo, fished and collected wild rice. After reservations were established, however, they grew dependent on flour, salt pork, low-grade beef and pork, sugar, and other government rations.
As an alternative to the classic American food pyramid, Conti has developed a nutritional "medicine wheel" that emphasizes traditional lean protein like bison and once-primary beverages like fresh water and tea.
"We're not going to completely rebuild the traditional food system," Conti said. "But there is wisdom there we can apply."
Joy Sundberg, a 79-year-old resident of Trinidad Rancheria and a Potawot board member, recalls when the skies over Humboldt and Del Norte counties "were black with ducks," she said.
"When I was young, it was disgraceful to be fat," she continued. "We always had deer, and smoked salmon was a staple. There were acorns and fish and berries for every season."
Everything changed within her lifetime. Slim and vivacious, Sundberg is nevertheless dealing with diabetes. "You've got a McDonald's here and a Hooters there," she said. "It's like Mothers Against Drunk Driving; it's going to take dedication to change."
At Potawot, about 500 schoolchildren a year visit the demonstration garden to learn about traditional food ways and healthier eating habits. Allen and her colleagues are working on adapting ancestral foods to contemporary life, emphasizing healthy organic foods that can be found at the supermarket, such as grass-fed beef and sustainably harvested fish.
They join a native food movement with considerable momentum. In Minnesota, for instance, the White Earth Land Recovery Project's Mino-Miijim Program delivers buffalo meat, hominy, wild rice and other native foods to isolated Ojibwe elders. Indian rights activist and writer Winona LaDuke started the project to buy White Earth Reservation property in northern Minnesota that was privately held. To aid economic development, the group set up a website, Native Harvest, to sell locally grown organic food and handicrafts.
The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, on the Columbia River plateau in eastern Oregon, have forged new approaches to land management, adopting a conservation strategy to protect and restore "first foods," including salmon, deer and huckleberries.
Dr. Elizabeth Topsky, a family physician at the Jemez Pueblo in New Mexico, notes that poverty continues to play a major role in the diabetes equation. On the Jemez reservation, she said, the only local source of vegetables is the cooler at a gas station convenience store.
"Coming from a poverty background myself, I can remember not having enough food," said Topsky, a board member of the Association of American Indian Physicians. "So I have a different outlook than my children. We were always told to finish our food – because we had it," she said.
The tribe recently started a farm-to-school garden program at several local elementary schools.
Allen, at the Potawot Health Village, recently was diagnosed with diabetes herself. She notes that bad food choices often reflect the day-to-day pressures on families, especially in a down economy. "As a parent, you're stressed out, trying to get the bills paid," she said. "Do you buy cauliflower for $6 and cook for an hour? Or zap something in the microwave for 99 cents?"
To Allen, making healthier decisions, including growing fruits and vegetables in the backyard, is an embrace of both culture and wellness. "We are trying to make people aware that food comes from people and places," she said. "We need to be eating food that represents our values."
Patricia Leigh Brown is an investigative reporter for California Watch, a project of the non-profit Center for Investigative Reporting. Find more California Watch stories here.

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Flights across the U.S. have become quite commonplace since Calbraith Perry Rodgers completed the first one ever back in 1911, but now a new group of aviation pioneers wants to attempt the same feat with a decidedly more difficult twist thrown in – they can't use any fuel except for the power of the sun. The Solar Impulse team, led by Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg, announced last night that it will be taking its solar-powered plane to the skies this summer on a transcontinental flight from San Francisco to New York. If successful, the trip would be the first solar-powered, cross-America flight in history.
The Solar Impulse has made several other successful sun-powered trips in the past but the one planned for this summer will be its first in the U.S. The logistics of the flight are still a bit fuzzy but the team has chosen San Francisco as a starting point and New York as a final destination for the trip. Washington D.C. will also be a stop but the other few cities are still – forgive the pun – up in the air.
The first-of-its-kind plane has 11,628 solar cells on its wings that are capable of powering its four 10-horsepower engines. It has the wingspan of an Airbus A340 but amazingly weighs only 1600kg – about the same as a typical sedan. It flies much slower than a regular commercial jet at 70 km/h but only uses about the same average power as a scooter. And even though the Solar Impulse gets its energy from the sun, it is capable of flying day and night without fuel.
Since the Solar Impulse cannot, as of yet, fly from Switzerland to California in one straight shot (or to be more specific, it cannot accommodate a human being comfortably for such a long trip), the plane will be taken apart and shipped to the States in many small pieces. Gregory Blatt, Solar Impulse's head of marketing and communication explained to us that the plane will be deconstructed in Zurich in March and packed very, very carefully (as you might imagine) into containers to be loaded into a 747 for transport to California. When it arrives, it will then be reconstructed over the course of three weeks before it takes to the skies in May.
Piccard and Borschberg, both experienced pilots, will take turns flying the Solar Impulse on different legs of the cross-country trip. Each leg will span approximately 20 hours, which is considerably shorter than the Solar Impulse's successful 26-hour straight flight, which proved it could be flown both when the sun is shining and when it's not.
Although, if successful, the transcontinental flight will be a recordmaker, the Solar Impulse team has made it clear that they don't intend to race across the country. They plan to take it slow and even make stops at schools to raise awareness about solar power along the way. "Our goal is to do a coast to coast flight," Borschberg explained to us. "The goal is not to set records. The goal is to show what you can do with exploration."
Several corporate partners have already signed on with Solar Impulse, and some of them have seemingly nothing to do with the aviation industry but could nonetheless utilize some of the cutting-edge materials and technologies used to make the plane. One example is elevator company Schindler, which has expressed interested in the lightweight carbon fiber that the Solar Impulse is made of as a way to make their product lighter as well.
This summer's cross-U.S. trip will be a lead-up to the Solar Impulse's 2015 attempt to fly around the world in a new, improved version of the plane that is being worked on currently.


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Environmental Science
Minor in Environmental Science
An Environmental Science minor is a good choice for anyone interested in the relationships between humans and the environment. This minor is a good complement to a degree in biology, chemistry or intercultural studies and provides good exposure to integrating one's Christian faith with environmental studies.
The Evangel University Department of Natural and Applied Sciences is dedicated to the spiritual, academic and social growth of every student. The department's purpose is to provide an excellent scientific education that is thoroughly integrated with the University's emphasis on the development of strong Christian character. Within this framework, students must contend with new scientific, social, ethical and technological challenges. Students learn to communicate technical concepts clearly and effectively and exhibit analytical thinking and problem-solving skills. This minor is a great option if you are interested in helping others through the promotion of sustainable environmental solutions but you have chosen to major in another field. This minor provides you with some excellent opportunities to learn how to help provide people with such things as clean drinking water, effective crop practices and health education to improve their lives.
Each of Evangel's academic programs is made up of a set of core curriculum, program requirements and electives. The courses listed below are just a small sample of courses that might be taken as a part of this specific program.
|Primarily the study of zoology with emphases on adaptations and taxonomy. Also included is the study of protists.
|Primarily the study of botany with the study of fungi and ecology.
|Basic ecological theories and practice. Field trips are included.
|Environmental Biology
|The influence of environmental factors including geology, climate, water, wastes, and political factors on plants, animals, and microbes and their interactions. Conservation/utilization, population growth and sustainability of resources, and ethics.
|Environmental Chemistry
|Broad range of topics related to the chemistry of the air, soil, and water, including environmental pollution, global warming, alternative energy sources, and the treatment of hazardous wastes.
Evangel University's world-class faculty is made up of caring, Christian professionals who are distinguished in their fields and dedicated to the development of tomorrow's Christian leaders.
NOTE: A minor is a secondary field of interest that is meant to complement your academic major. While your major is chosen for your intended career choice, your minor may be something you pursue for your personal interest or to augment your major.
No special requirements for this program.
General Undergraduate Requirements
The following are general requirements for all students beginning an undergraduate program at Evangel. For more information visit Undergraduate Admissions Requirements.
|Graduation from high school, or having the equivalent of a high school diploma such as the General Education Development (GED) examination.
|Core Subjects
|A minimum of a 2.0 GPA in core college prep classes (English, math, social sciences and science with a lab) or high school final GPA if no college credits have been earned.
|Standardized Tests
|>Entering freshmen should take the ACT or SAT test. The codes for Evangel are as follows: SAT: 6198. ACT: 2296.
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Here they are.
1. Create a free course on a topic related to your business and invite people in your neighborhood to attend. For example, if you're a caterer, maybe it's how to host the perfect dinner party. If you're an accountant, maybe it's on what you need to know before filing your taxes this year. Promote the event using both local print and online resources.
2. Send out a direct mailing thanking your customers for their patronage in 2011 and sharing what you hope to bring them in 2012. Make sure you're top of mind as the New Year hits.
3. Compile your 20 best/most trafficked/most commented on blog posts into an ebook and offer them as a free download.
4. Participate in industry-specific Q&A sites and help solve others problems. Don't promote your business, but do include a link to your website in your profile so people can find it on their own should they be interested.
5. Dedicate 30 minutes a week to commenting on relevant blogs to build relationships, get your name out there and create authority.
6. Creating a buying guide related to your industry. If you sell a product, focus on the different specs, installation, uses, etc. If you offer a service, focus on the best questions to ask when evaluating a vendor, the different types of services, etc.
7. Start an industry-specific Twitter chat. Invite guests to co-host with you.
8. Put together an informative blog series (maybe three posts long) to capture traffic for a competitive keyword phrase show expertise in a particular area. Later, bundle the posts together and turn them into an ebook.
9. Create a video interview series where you chat with influential people in your industry or community and post the videos on your website.
10. Start an email newsletter.
11. Host a weekly Google+ hangout to talk about timely issues and topics.
12. Be a guest on a podcast.
13. Get other local business owners together and hold a workshop on a hot issue in your industry. Or, get together with other business owners in different industries and talk about how you've used the Internet/Facebook/Twitter to increase business.
14. Write guest posts for other blogs in your industry.
15. Review products/services/books you like.
16. Write case studies for your website. Promote them.
17. Create a tool to help your community. If you're a tax preparer, maybe it's a deduction finder or a planning worksheet. If you're a social media consultant, maybe it's a list of Twitter conversation starters for people not sure how to jump in.
18. Write a white paper detailing a specific issue affecting your industry, what it means and your take on it. Get other experts to share their opinions as well. Include them in the whitepaper.
19. Speak at your local Chamber of Commerce. Create a PowerPoint presentation to go along with it and then post it on your website.
20. Start a video grab bag series where you answer common questions on YouTube and post the videos on your blog.


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- 6 boneless skinless chicken breasts
- 1 can lo-fat cream of mushroom soup
- 1 carton lo-fat sour cream 8 oz.
- 1 sliced mushrooms 8 oz. package
- salt pepper, paprika
- Sprinkle chicken with salt, pepper and paprika and arrange in crock pot.
- Mix soup, sour cream, and mushrooms and pour mixture over chicken.
- Cook on low 6 to 8 hours.
- Serve over rice or noodles with freshly grated parmesan cheese.
Terri's Notes
- Boil the rice or pasta, add a fresh vegetable or salad, and you have dinner within minutes of getting home from work!
- Any flavor cream soup will do.
- I do love the extra flavor of Portabella mushrooms.
- Add sliced red pepper, a minced clove of garlic, or garnish with chopped chives.
- Try whole grain pastas and brown rice.
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on 10 October 2002
The Characters:
Lieutenant McGregor - The destroyer's XO (Executive Officer). He thought that the Navy's worst enemy was the Japanese.
Doc - I do not envy this man at all.
Chicken - Nice guy, but he desperately needed that lay. Now he desperately needs antibiotics.
Margaret - Nice girl who falls for Chicken and cries when she finds out her tunnel of love is infected. Whore! Whore!
Windy - The man who knows it all. Unfortunately, his "aspirin prevents VD" hypothesis has a couple of holes.
Domino - The faithful sailor with a wife and kid. All that he wants from strange women is a home-cooked meal.
Cook - He contracts a venereal disease after using up all fifteen of his condoms. I would imagine that, for a few days, he could not distinguish the infected aching sensation from his already sore equipment. Fifteen!
Tennessee - Big, cornfed kid from the state he is nicknamed after. He probably beat up Windy.
The Plot:
I have to tell you, the military loves to show us (your friendly neighborhood Marines) training films that horrifically portray the results of sexually transmitted diseases. Ever see a man with what appears to be cauliflower growing off his privates? Been there, done that, though I refuse to wear the T-shirt. So, watching a movie from the World War II era, that was intended to educate sailors about STD's, is a real treat. Heck, the darn thing is even sort of fun until they start doing the same infected penis parade. What was used as a visual aid in the old days, before movies? "Spartacus, get up here and show the other legionnaires what that Greek tramp gave you."
DE 733 pulls into harbor with severe damage and a demoralized crew. The destroyer has obviously had a rough tour of duty. The newly appointed Captain, McGregor, is summoned so that whatever tragedy befell the warship can be avoided in the future. Mr. McGregor asserts that it was not a problem of design, nor the quality of the crew, which laid the destroyer low. He narrates us into a flashback.
The ship's crew is excited. The destroyer is arriving back at port and the sailors are being granted shore leave. Windy and his friends might be frothing at the mouth to get ashore and sink their anchors into a few scummy harbors, but Doc is nonplussed. The corpsman has seen what happens a few days after shore leave. He does not relish the prospect of treating a steady stream of sailors suffering from gonorrhea and syphilis. I do not blame him. To help drive the message home, Doc asks the XO to talk to the men, tell them about the dangers of VD and how they can avoid becoming victims. Reluctantly, McGregor does so, but his heart is not in the message. The corpsman provides government rubbers to anyone who asks.
The new guy is Chicken, who tags along with Windy once they get ashore. The older, more experienced sailor's taste in women leaves much to be desired. He manages to find a group of heavy old battleships who just love the Navy. Chicken wisely bails and meets "Rosie the Riveter" herself. Her name is Margaret. Over the course of one or two days they fall in love. Meaning, in 1940's talk, that their premarital sex is just innocent porking and not something crass. Some of the other crew members are seen in situations soon to degenerate into such debauchery. Ah, shore leave.
Back aboard ship, the sated sailors compare stories. Then the trouble starts; men complain of painful genitals and putrid discharges (not the kind that means you are getting out either). Yes, it is infected penises on parade and the destroyer's sole medical representative is treated to a firsthand view of every diseased John Thomas aboard.
Doc's job SUCKS.
With rosters short due to the rampaging VD, the few healthy crewmen must pull double watches. To further compound the problem, the syphilis cases start showing symptoms. Now Doc has to inspect men who have open sores on their schlongs. He must hate his job. In fact, I would be watching out for Doc to have a psychotic episode. Compared to the guy who has to look at putrid male sex organs all day, the stressed-out postal clerk is second fiddle.
Chicken is among those who contracted syphilis. He agonizes over letting Doc notify the public health department. Finally, the lovesick fool caves in and tells all. Margaret is contacted by a curt lady who tells her to seek medical treatment immediately. The doctor tells her matter-of-factly about being a carrier of syphilis, then uses a scale model of a woman's groin area to illustrate his lecture. Perhaps the most disturbing part of the film was when he split the pelvis in half to show her the internal workings of her sex. Margaret sobs, "What will he think of me?" as the old physician consoles her.
It is certain that your lover boy will be thinking of you, Margaret. Every time that he takes a piss and it feels like napalm is burning through his urinary tract, I bet that you are foremost on his mind. Whore! Dirty whore!
Sorry, I am totally uninvolved from the situation, so berating the already emotional girl amuses me.
The DE 733 finally sees combat when a Japanese submarine attacks. Windy, who is suffering badly, but has denied any infection, contributes to the destroyer's failure. Heck, a number of the crew are performing at less than optimum due to swollen balls and tender bits. The flak gun crew saves the day by sinking the enemy boat with their weapon system. We fade back to the present for a summary by the very humble McGregor.
A casual observer will notice that the Japanese sailors were not suffering from the debilitating effects of VD. I guess that all those women impressed into "service" in brothels were pictures of perfect health. Either that or the submarine crew had not been on shore leave recently.
Things I Learned From This Movie:
Navy messmen are jealous of your wife or mother's cooking.
Overdosing on aspirin will not prevent syphilis.
Your grandfather hated rubbers too.
Put it on before you put it in.
If offered, never split a group of prostitutes 50/50.
Despite what girls may think, pickup lines have improved over the years.
Nice girls do not get gonorrhea; they get syphilis.
Having an STD impairs the ability to tell your left from your right.
Stuff To Watch For:
1 min - Boy, that is one nasty hole. (Wondering, aren't you?)
12 mins - When you are a destroyer escort, uneventful is good.
15 mins - Look at that! The sailor on watch is armed with a rifle and standing vigilant. Motivating!
18 mins - I suddenly have newfound respect for the Navy.
21 mins - The roller skating rink has a barker to attract customers?
27 mins - Didn't need that...
30 mins - Didn't need this either!
34 mins - Doc's job universally sucks after they visit port.
41 mins - My nuts are killing me! Ohhhhh! Ahhhhh!
42 mins - Yet another scene I could have done without.
Doc: "A creamy, yellow discharge. Shows up two to ten days after exposure. You have a burning, itching sensation when you take a leak?"
Sailor: "Yeah Doc."
Sailor: "Those are the symptoms of gonorrhea."
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Starving actors speak out
Windy: "We ought to have genuine doc aboard this ship instead of one of you chancre mechanics."
Doc: "Well, if guys like you didn't keep the doctors busy with the clap, we'd have enough meds to go around."
Sailor: "So what? So you get burnt. Clap's like a cold."
Doc: "The only resemblance between the clap and a cold is that you catch both easily."
Doc: "What did you use?"
Sailor: "I douched my canal with whiskey."
Doc: "Well, whoever told you to do that?"
Sailor: "Well, that's way we do (it) back home."
Doc: "Well, that's a helluva use for good liquor."
The Captain: "Mr. McGregor, this is your first time on a small ship, without replacements, where we need every man fit to fight. Well, they're not fit to fight. VD has stricken this ship in every department."
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Doc is up to his armpits in pus-filled tallywackers, but he is dealing with it pretty well. Considering the foul nature of his patients' ailments, I think that humor was probably his only real defense.
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Reply #1.
Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM by
I think I'm going to get sick! If ever there was an advertisement for A.) Abstinence B.) Monogamy (With rigorous health check ups.) this would be it.
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Reply #2.
Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM by BoyScoutKevin
Technically speaking, in 1942, DE 733 would not be a Destroyer, but a Destroyer, Escort type (Jane's Fighting Ships, 1942) A Destroyer would be designated by the letters and numbers DD 733.
This caught my eye, because my father served on a DE during the Cuban Missle Crisis, and even twenty years later, Destroyer Escort, types were indicated by the letters DE and Destroyers by the letters DD.
But, I see the reviewer corrected his mistake in "Stuff to Watch For," so all is forgiven.
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Reply #3.
Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM by Squishy
I'm SO curious about the censored image now, I may have to buy the damn thing. Ewwwwwwww, pus-a-licious!
Austin: "Only sailors wear condoms, baby."
Vanessa: "Not in the Nineties, Austin."
Austin: "Well, they should, those filthy beggars! They go from port to port!"
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Reply #4.
Posted on October 13, 2002, 05:04:19 AM by voltron
Why does it hurt when I pee?
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Reply #5.
Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:09:03 PM by JM
I actually saw this movie in 1969 in basic training. It ranks right up there with the one on hygiene (Hillbilly stinks, gets wire-brushed, learns to brush his teeth(to a country/western song) and goes to the dance all clean and gets the girl.) Which, of course, leads us to VD. (See, the military ties these things together.) Possbily one of the grossest films made, not counting the one about proper mess hall techniques, where a guy gets trichinosis from undercooked pork, and ralphs for about ten minutes, in technicolor.
Thr reviewer is a genius. I laughed out loud and it took me about ten minutes to read through this.
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Reply #6.
Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM by Hando
Bugger...You guys got actual movies?
During basic for the Australian Navy, all we got was the slide show...Just before Lunch!
Mind you, what was more entertaining was the lcture we got from an old Cheif when we got our first postings. He pulled aside all the young blokes who got posted to Western-Based ships. He then gave us the lecture on the dangers of Rockingham women and why the town has the dubious honour of being Australia's "Single Mother Capital" (Can you all say "Child Support" boys?)
Mind you, every time we wnet to any SE Asian port, we wheren't allowed off the gangway unless we carried at least 3 rubbers.
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Reply #7.
Posted on December 28, 2003, 01:00:38 PM by Todd Shields
I never actually seen this movie but the review has permittently scared me for life! Now I have visions of rotten bananas dancing though my head! VD is nothing to clap about! OH! THE HORROR! THE HORROR!
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Posted on January 11, 2005, 10:00:47 PM by comrade conrad
My own nuts hurt just thinking about it! THE PAIN!
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Marguerite (the stunning Danièle Gaubert) is a girl who seems to have it all. Young, beautiful ,and married to a fabulously rich duke who puts few demands on her time and fewer still on her body, she is free to explore all the pleasures and excesses that late-sixties Rome has to offer.
These, you will find, are considerable.
We watch Camille as she organizes and attends a series of galas, orgies, and freak-out happenings, against some of the most sumptuous settings and clad in the grooviest fashions imaginable. She drinks, shoots up, and pops pills with abandon, floating from one erotic adventure to the next in a haze of altered reality. (When one of her exhausted, tripping friends asks breathlessly, "Marguerite, don't you ever come down?" she replies, "Not if I can help it!") The victim of an unspecified wasting disease, Marguerite has apparently decided to live life to the fullest every day, and to grab all the sexy goodies she can in the process.
Directed by Radley Metzger, the infamous auteur behind art-house classics (The Lickerish Quartet, 1970) and less-respected but no less arty porn flicks (The Opening of Misty Beethoven, 1976), Camille 2000 is a movie with so much style, substance almost doesn't enter into the equation. From the lush cityscapes of Rome, to bedrooms with inflatable furniture and mirrored walls, Metzger delivers one visual treat after another, for which the main story of Marguerite's affair with comparatively stodgy businessman Armand (Nino Castelnuovo) is simply the framework. The new Blu-Ray release from Cult Epics does great justice to Metzger's film, and should have arty-erotica fans standing at attention and saluting.
Nota bene: I do not have screen-capture capability on my blu-ray...therefore I have shamelessly stolen all the images in this review (unless otherwise noted) from Retrocinema by Wetcircuit, an excellent site that everyone should visit immediately. Full credit to Wetcircuit, who I hope will not hate and/or sue me.
About that story--Marguerite's world of carefree, casual sex and drug use is rocked when she meets and falls in love with Armand, the son of a wealthy Italian tycoon in Rome to learn the family business. After some rather stoic flirtatiousness at a couple of parties (including an orgy featuring a Eurobabe in an amazing mesh bikini), Marguerite takes Armand to her bed, kicking off a series of sensual sex scenes and an affair that will change everything for her, and not really in a good way. While Marguerite is a free-love kind of girl, Armand demands faithfulness.
When he tells her he wants her to be his alone, Marguerite sighs, "Are we there already? Measuring love like a coffin? Who loves the most, how do we measure it? In carats, or ducats?" Armand is not to be dissuaded, however, and Marguerite reacts by breaking a date with him so she can make love to a cruel young Count with whom she has a strange sex/power relationship. When Armand learns of the betrayal, he responds as you would expect--by sending a model to Marguerite's bedroom, who then strips nude to reveal a note on her back reading "YOU ARE A WHORE! I WAS AN IDIOT!"
Okay, maybe you wouldn't expect that. But it does make an impression.
"No, it wasn't the couch...that one was all me."
The rest of the film is about Marguerite's relationship with Armand, how his need for faithfulness and hers for freedom clash. This comes to a head when Armand's father confronts her and warns her off, leading to a break-up, misunderstandings, erotic revenge, and a glittery partner-swapping bondage party with chain-mail dresses and public sex! Finally, Marguerite's strange malady reappears, lending a tragic end that you pretty much had to think was coming.
Except that's not really what the film's about. What it's about is the visual experience of Metzger's imagery, the amazing sets and costumes and compositions, which are usually centered around the act of sticky love. Two long sequences in Marguerite's amazingly appointed bedroom are visually stunning, containing some representations of oral sex (but cunni- and fellati-) that are both artistic and tasteful. (ba-dump) To be honest the story drags a bit at times, but if you give yourself over to the beauty of the images on the screen, it's well worth the trip.
For Mad Movie fans, there is joy to be had in the amazing costumery of Marguerite's hippie entourage, including some that look like they just walked off the set of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Also, though the flick was filmed in English, few of the actors seem comfortable in the language, and Armand's father's mush-mouthed delivery is an unintentionally hilarious highlight. The acting throughout is fairly wooden, but whether that's a directorial decision, or a result of the language barrier, or just how Europeans acted in the 60s, it's still rather secondary. Gaubert is stunning, Rome is beautiful, and the camera drinks it all in. That's all you really need.
Promo Art from Cult Epics
Cult Epics has done a great job with the Blu-Ray presentation, improving greatly upon previous transfers (despite some perhaps inexpungable print damage). The colors and sound are great, and the disc is packed with extras, including behind-the-scenes and restoration featurettes, commentary by Metzger himself, deleted scenes, outtakes, and trailers. A great package for lovers of 60s sexploitation.
Movie: 2.5 thumbs
Blu-Ray: 3 thumbs
And be sure to visit http://www.retrocinema.wetcircuit.com/ for more great images from this and other films!
Not from the Cult Epics transfer, but it does appear in the film, and was too wild not to show. Credit to Tenebrous Kate for the grab!
Friday, July 15, 2011
Blu-Ray Review: Camille 2000 (1969)
Marguerite (the stunning Danièle Gaubert) is a girl who seems to have it all. Young, beautiful ,and married to a fabulously rich duke who puts few demands on her time and fewer still on her body, she is free to explore all the pleasures and excesses that late-sixties Rome has to offer.
Posted by The Vicar of VHS at 11:33 AM
Labels: '60s, 2-3 thumbs, Blu-Ray Review, Sexploitation
2 comments:
- dfordoom said...
This was the first Radley Metzger movie I saw. It's not his best, but it may be his most gorgeous movie.
- July 15, 2011 at 9:07 PM
Outstanding movie. Now, if they could ever release The Libertine to Blu ray. that would really be something!!!
Much respects to a great blog.
- July 18, 2011 at 3:47 PM


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Incoming 1Ls / Re: Worth Going to Law School If...« on: May 04, 2011, 01:18:51 PM »
Well in regards to transferring it probably won't happen. This is not an insult to you, but every student at any ABA school is pretty smart and motivated and on the first day everyone is certain they will put in the work and be in the top 10%. When 100% of people think they will be in the top 10% you don't need to be a math major to understand 90% will be incorrect.
FCSL & Appalachian are not phenomenal schools, but they are ABA approved institutions and if you graduate and pass the bar you are a lawyer. I think the main issue with Appalachian is that it is literally in the middle of nowhere. FCSL is in Jacksonville and there are no law schools in Jacksonville, but is a larger town so there might be some opportunities.
Also realize that at every ABA law school you learn literally the same thing. You read supreme court cases and the Supreme Court does not real special editions for T14 students to study. No matter what ABA school you attend you will take Civil Procedure, Torts, Criminal Law, Constitutional Law, Property, Contracts, and LR&W in your first year. In Civil Procedure whether you go to Harvard or Appalachian you will read International Shoe, Pennoyer v. Neff learn about personal & subject matter jurisdiction etc. In Torts you will read the firecracker subway case I think Pelsgraff is the name of it and learn negligence, intentional torts, etc. In Criminal Law you learn the McNaughten Rule for insanity and the list goes on and on. These famous cases are written the same no matter what law school you attend and all ABA law schools are required to have a nearly identical first year curriculum.
Don't listen to the rankings they are written by a for-profit magaizne that the ABA, AALS, LSAC, and every legal organization discredits. The reason for this is their methodology consists of this. They send out scantrons to judges & lawyers across the country who check a scantron of 1-5. A judge in L.A. who has never been to Jacksonville or met anyone from FCSL decides they are a 2 and that is your ranking. Then based on this ranking schools become tied for 84th place in the most recent ranking everything is at least in a 5 way tie and my personal favorite was a 12 way tie for 84th place. You can see the absurdity directly from U.S. news and the 12 way ties etc. http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/law-rankings/page+4. This article from LSAC does a pretty good of explaining the whole system. http://www.lsac.org/LsacResources/Research/GR/GR-07-02.pdf
So bottom line don't worry about the rankings or what a "good: school is. FCSL is not Harvard and I am sure you already knew that. Now as FalconJimmy said the real question is whether or not you want to be a lawyer. If the answer to that basic question is yes then go to law school. ABA schools are all accredited by the ABA, which is not a perfect system itself, but whether or not you pass the bar & and are in good standing with the bar is much more important to your legal career than what a private, unregulated, magazine thinks of a particular school. If you attend FCSL or Appalachian you will have an ABA law degree and you can be a lawyer. You have a 0% chance of being a lawyer without going to law school.
There are worse ways to spend 200k than getting a law degree. There can also be better ways to spend it, but as FalconJimmy said the real question is whether or not you want to be a lawyer. If the answer to that question is yes and you have 200k and been accepted then I would say go for it. If the answer is I am not sure if I want to be a lawyer then you should work as a paralegal in a law firm somewhere and see if it really appeals to you.
You can also retake the LSAT if you want and if you are in Florida getting into FIU is much cheaper than FCSL and the admission requirements are not that much higher. It is a tough decision, but disregard the ridiculous things you read on the internet. Sites like JDunderground etc are so off base it is not even funny. When someone takes the time to b***h about how unfair everything is the reason everything is so unfair is because they would b***h about anything. There are people that will complain all day and all night and sadly many law students fall into this category, but if you put the work in and can handle a few rejections along the way you can have a successful legal career no matter what ABA school you go to.
Sorry for the long rant, but hopefully something in there was helpful.
No offense taken, Biggs, I've got thick skin. The answer is yes, I do want to be a lawyer. The only thing that really has been giving me cold feet is all the stuff I've been reading about the abysmal prospects for jobs, even for graduates of really top notch schools. I've read the different law school scam blogs and even lurked around in the JDUnderground site (those guys are really depressing) and I keep wondering that if even lawyers from great to decent schools aren't finding jobs, what hope would I have for coming out of a place like ASL or FCSL? I am indeed willing to put in time and effort to study and network, I just don't want all that effort to be for naught.
Either way, thanks for the advice, bigs, I"ll hop on this site to see what others have to say as well.


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Here's a link to a cool freeware tool released by Adobe called the 'Adobe AIR Marketplace'. I stumbled across it tonight and it is a great help for people like me who want colors that go well together but suck at figuring them out themselves.
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/i ... id=1429018
It's a map that has strips of colors similar to those in the paint aisle in hardware stores, and a lot of them actually work rather well. Figure it could help individuals out when making schemes for maps
note: It's actually called Adobe kuler.


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Monday, November 22, 2010
Slowly Adjusting
One kind lady told me that she was surprised about how much I shared on my blog.
I feel I need to, especially in this very crazy moment.
Some of you have been following me for years. A lot have tried my recipes at home.
Some have mustered up the courage to send me an email, leave a comment.
Some I have had the pleasure to meet in person.
I feel like I know all of you a tiny bit.
There are 229 of you who proudly say you follow me.
There are hundreds more who pop in for a visit daily - I see you!
Thank you. You keep me going.
Media has played up the fact that I was a food blogger. Like Molly from Orangette, they love the romantic idea that I just took my recipes, opened up a place and now it works. Reality is that I have worked in the industry for years - a little mouse in the back, doing what others hate to do, helping others look good, making everything more efficient. I am a work pony (not a horse, I am too small) and I am very stubborn. This is why it works.
We started our third week.
Again, it was full of surprises. We were much busier than we anticipated. Now people wait for tables. Some people come back almost every day.
Weekday lunches have been packed. Prep I did for the next day ended up being used the day of. I lock the door and I start over for the following day. And I feel like crying. Last Wednesday I called home and sobbed. I was tired, hungry, the place was so full of pots and pans, it was raining hard, recycling, garbage... Then there are days like yesterday. Even though it was madness until 3:30 pm, Simon and I were home 45 minutes after turning the key to close, that was bliss.
One thing I want to get out there is: Encourage chef owners. Encourage small businesses. Think about this every time you go out. There is a real person behind those pots and pans, they put love in the food. And they work hard. And they take out the trash. And they care that you stop by. I do.
Things we tried this week...
*Waffles! They need to be perfected a bit.
We made chocolate chip and bacon caramel.
*Frittata. Will do bigger pieces. People want a salty breakfast on the weekend.
*My favourite soup of the week: celery root and potato.
*Peanut butter cookies. Melt.in.your.mouth.
*THE hit: cranberry walnut upside down muffins.
*Combining the two most popular ingredients from last week: cranberries and goat cheese - in a chicken sandwich!
*Something chorizo. I want chorizo.
Things we discovered...
*I should label spices. Lynne had much fun figuring out what was what to make ginger cookies... And I would not win Top Chef sniff tests - I guessed garam masala 20 minutes later.
*Firemen love brioche.
15 comments:
- Moonlight said...
*Firemen love brioche.
That sounded very sweet in my head for some reason.
Keep going little pony, courage!
You made my dream come true, i must have said that already here, but anyway!
Im sending you loads and loads of love and positive vibes from halfway around the globe!
- November 22, 2010 at 9:15 AM
- marie said...
Yay small businesses and chef owners! I hope I'll make it up to Canada one day to visit your beautiful little restaurant. Keep on keeping on!
- November 22, 2010 at 9:29 AM
- One of Ottawa's Real Foodies said...
I am one of the guilty ones that keeps coming back. Like bees to honey! :)
I can vouch for that celery root and potato soup.
I love her teas. The last two times I have had tea. High praise coming from me because coffee is my crack.
Her peanut butter cookies do melt in your mouth and they are better than mine. I am emotionally adjusting to that.
I support labeling the spice jars!! :)
I also think it would be great if the take out items listed ingredients too. I have been caught up with an allergy friend taking a pass at home with the granola and the hummus because I couldn't tell them what was in it. Would that be giving away secret recipes? Just a thought.
I still feel like this place is my "Cheers", minus the beer.
- November 22, 2010 at 9:44 AM
i loved our game of "guess the spices" - and i love that the waffles were a hit on Sunday! YAY!
goat cheese, chicken and cranberries - bliss in the mouth. AMAZING!
and my advice to all customers - purchase one of each cookie- marysol makes a killer chocolate ginger, ridiculously insane, intense peanut butter cookie, plus you can get one with chocolate chips, her chocolate chunk cookie is DELISH... and perhaps (just perhaps), there will be an edgar's granola shortbread cookie on the menu one day :0)
- November 22, 2010 at 10:22 AM
- Maria said...
Chorizo frittata!!!! :)
Yes everything with goat cheese is awesome. Love the goat cheese burritos.
Good job Marysol!
- November 22, 2010 at 10:23 AM
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- November 22, 2010 at 11:00 AM
- cupcait said...
haven't had a chance to get over and try Edgar out yet, but soooo looking forward to it based on this. congrats on how everything is turning out so far!
- November 22, 2010 at 11:01 AM
- ElsieD said...
Stopped by for lunch last week. Yummy food, obviously made with love. I wish you much success as I want to keep enjoying your food.
- November 22, 2010 at 11:45 AM
- Jojo said...
Keep your chin up, you are doing a FANTASTIC job, enviable by so many.
You are fulfilling the dreams of many right now, until we have the courage to take the leap on our own.
Cheers :-)
- November 22, 2010 at 1:25 PM
If it weren't for your blog I wouldn't know the wonders of kale or halloumi cheese! And all your beet receipes helped cement 2 whole rows in my garden this year.
Congrats on the sucess of your restaurant.
- November 22, 2010 at 4:48 PM
- Rachelle said...
You are doing an amazing job Marysol! Keep it up! I can't wait for 10 more days and I'll be done the stupid non-wheat test. The first place I will go is Edgar and indulge!
- November 22, 2010 at 7:24 PM
- foodiePrints said...
Stubborn work pony?
You're also an artist, a painter, a photographer...
There are 229 people who follow you. Behind the foodiePrints account are 3 fans.
Congrats on your third week.
You know we support local businesses. They're written about all over our blog. We admire chef/owners and are lucky to call a couple friends.
Hugs to you, Marysol! We're so happy Edgar is doing well!
Sigh, going to have to come in for some cookies. Lynne's never wrong with it comes to bakery!
- November 22, 2010 at 9:11 PM
I strongly support chef owners and women entrepreneurs! We have tons of patience for Edgar and continue to spread the word, but now I just tell people to be prepared to take it to go! :o) (Yes, I adopted The Twisted Chef's smiley bonhomme.) How about kale and chorizo frittata?! I just picked all the kale in my garden, so that'll be on my menu sometime soon!
- November 22, 2010 at 9:12 PM
- Victoire said...
Yay to small businesses and chef owners! I am so proviledged to know so many amazing small business owners (like you!), and it truly is possible (and so much more enjoyable - better service, better products) to frequent these kinds of places most of the time. Bridget from Workshop and I were chatting about that just yesterday! Aside from the occasional visit to the Bay to buy pantyhose & undies ha ha, I'm happy to say that most of my daily shopping & eating routines are with people like you. As soon as I'm back from my little vacation, Luke and I cannot wait to come and try some of your waffles, so exciting!!
- November 24, 2010 at 9:47 AM
- Genny said...
J'ai vraiment hâte d'aller chez Edgar!!!! I'm reading your blog and my mouth is literally watering... Discovered the blog through the urbanspoon app on my iPhone... Yea I'm bragging lol... Mais pour une fille gourmande comme moi faut vraiment que j'aille chez Edgar! Any kind of unique, out of the ordinary, homey-cozy place that has good food gets my approval!
Keep up the great work!
- January 13, 2011 at 4:22 PM


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Below is a list of the programs that are part of the Recreation Series. To register for the programs please contact the agency listed. For more information on the "Conservation Partnership 2013 Recreation Series" please contact Michele Ulmer at the Pike County Conservation District at 226-8220 or email email@example.com.
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