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Some great albums here. And memories.
Musings on the byways of popular culture
Some great albums here. And memories.
minibreakfast says
Nice to see Trio get a mention.
Moose the Mooche says
What? Da Da Da was 1982….!
minibreakfast says
I KNEW it would be you.
fentonsteve says
considered it beneath me was too lazy to type it.
minibreakfast says
Glad you sorted out your html fail there.
Moose the Mooche says
"Hutumel" – tumfuttle.
fentonsteve says
I'm a stickler for detial.
deramdaze says
Number I own = zilch.
However, the picture of the Pixies guy I am 99% sure is taken outside Tottenham Court Road tube station, where in 1987 I used to get "Record Collector," probably from that very newspaper seller, and across the road from the old Virgin Megastore, where I'd buy 60s reissues on See For Miles and Bam Caruso and charge them up as "coffee," "taxi" or "washing-up powder" back at the office.
NigelT says
Number I own = 6
Fleetwood Mac (note wrong lineup is used for the illustration), Eurythmics, U2, Bruce, REM, and the Trio album.
I would add Robbie Robertson's first album as a personal favourite from that year.
I was working in that part of London in the 80s and have pangs of nostagia for the enormous record emporia that existed – including that Virgin Megastore which seemed to be forever expanding at the time. We probably rubbed shoulders at the 60s section….
Native says
Probably being a miserable old git, but the release of albums used to be such an exciting event in the 80s/90s. You were nearly always hearing at least 90% of the music for the first time. You had to make an actual journey somewhere to get it. They'd usually been a bit of press, maybe one or two interviews on the radio and the adverts – that was it.
In contrast, say, The National's new album – heard four tracks already (will probably be five or six by the time it's released), saw the artwork months ago etc. And it will just appear on my phone…
Sewer Robot says
Not just that – when you finally had your treasure in your sweaty hand, you (well some of us) still faced the agony of a forty minute bus journey home before you could play it.
(Often followed by months of translation: for an embarrassingly long time, I thought Rakim was looking to kill the President..)
Moose the Mooche says
Well, that year Chuck D said "Impeach the president, pullin' out my ray-gun/ Zap the next one, I could be a shogun" – looking to kill not only the current president but whoever followed him… with some kind of sci-fi weapon. Even Huey P Newton would have said "I say, steady on old son…"
minibreakfast says
In 1987 the thought of an album just "appearing" on a tiny, powerful mobile telephone-cum-computer would have been mind-blowing.
Moose the Mooche says
Well, to me in 2017, buying a fantastic new 12″ single for £2.99 in a shop without having to elbow a load of obese boomers out of the way to get to it would be mind-blowing.
minibreakfast says
"Obese Boomers". Tumfuttle.
minibreakfast says
"Tumfuttle". Tumfuttle.
tinysuns says
I enjoyed this, yet 2017 is to 1987, what 1987 was to 1957. Inconceivable to me then as an 18 year old, all too real to me now.
Tiggerlion says
1987 was the point at which music got interesting again after the fallow years of the mid-Eighties. For me, it was time to sober up and start behaving like a responsible adult.
minibreakfast says
And how's that going, d'you think?
Moose the Mooche says
I was going to say that but I held back out of respect.
I am disappoint.
Tiggerlion says
It's been a rollercoaster, I can tell you.
H.P. Saucecraft says
The thought of Tigger's wild years – when he left his cardie unbuttoned, and drank milk from a dirty glass – bring me out in a sweat.
Martin Hairnet says
Yes, but wasn't it also the year of the Beatles on CD for the first time? When the industry started looking back as much as looking forward.
deramdaze says
"Sgt. Pepper's" almost certainly had the biggest promotion in Oxford Street, a huge picture of the inner-sleeve photograph all over HMV.
A decent retrospective magazine (Mojo) was, incredible as it seemed even at the time, a full six years off. Your only bolt holes were "Record Collector" and The Beatles and Elvis monthlies.
Dark days, Wacko Jacko et al were almost impossible to avoid.
Now, the no. 1 single is familiar only to the artist and his/her immediate family.
Martin Hairnet says
Q started in 1986. Macca on the cover. I remember buying issue one from a platform kiosk at Preston railway station. It included a small booklet of reviews of the 'best' music available on CD, which gave the whole thing a bit of a retrospective feel. I was still just getting into music so I embraced it all as essential background reading, but I know there are some who took Q's preoccupation with the past as a warning sign.
Moose the Mooche says
Q put the Beatles on the front that summer presenting a big feature on the making of Pepper. The shape of things to come…
Vulpes Vulpes says
Famous Blue Raincoat and Bring The Family are both conspicuously absent.
Poor. Must try harder.
And The Smith's entry should have been Louder Than Bombs, obv.
count jim moriarty says
Not obv to me.
8 on that list I'd give house room to – none of those mentioned in the link…
dai says
It's not a list of the best albums of 1987 it's just a collection of reader's comments on some of the releases from that year.
Baron Harkonnen says
It's not what I would call a good/interesting list despite owning 7 of them. I reckon I probably purchased at least new, 35 LPs/CDs in that year, all of them more deserving to be on that list than those listed. That's my opinion obviously, others will differ as is their right.
Regarding listening to albums before they are released, or viewing the artwork, I manage to avoid doing so until the CD or LP is in my hands. Listening for the first time at home to a new album is still an experience I love.
Diddley Farquar says
I didn't buy many records in those days despite following new music. Of the records I bought that year I never really came to love Erik B and Rakim's Paid In Full (I much preferred Coldcut's more instrumental 7 Seconds of Madness remix single), Public Enemy's Yo! Bum Rush the Show or The Smiths' Strangeways. Girlfriend in a Coma is the only proper Smiths track on the album. The rest is mostly rather straightforward indie rock to my ears.
I warmed more to Echo and the Bunnymen's eponymous effort, especially the fantastic Lips Like Sugar. Of the featured albums, I did buy Sign of the Times, which is superb too and got played a lot back then but not so much since.
1987 was great for singles. Coldcut as mentioned but also Pump up the Volume, True Faith, Push It by Salt n Pepa, Birthday by Sugar Cubes, Rent by Pet Shop Boys, Come into my Life by Joyce Sims, among others. People always go on about albums but in many ways singles are more interesting.
Wheldrake says
Nice to see Savage get a mention. The last great Eurythmics album.
minibreakfast says
No mention of Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'arby, a rather big omission I feel. And as for leaving out the Housies' second – well!
Other notables (for me) not mentioned are Madge's You Can Dance, George Harrison's Cloud Nine, Aztec Camera's Love, The Communards' Red, It's Better To Travel by Swing Out Sister, and the 'Nana's Wow!
The less said about Five Star's Between The Lines the better.
Sewer Robot says
Terry was the sound of the hot summer nights; then it was Darklands and George Best (which was a bugger to get where I lived – instant on-yer-phone music rules!) as Winter descended, but the record that overshadowed everything else in '87 was New Order's Substance. Until the moment its release was announced, we never imagined this lot – with their parade of 12 inches with inscrutable covers – would just scoop them all up on a chartbusting compilation. And still there wasn't room for Touched By The Hand Of God…
Gary says
David Sylvian gets a mention! That never happens anywhere! (Except here, natch.) And, whatsmore, the person what mentions him recommends Blemish and Manafon! Lordy! What a jolly good article, even though I can't be arsed to read the rest.
bricameron says
Hi Gary. The guitars on when the poets…
I wanted to include the lp track here to illustrate but as fucking usual as of late, "this video is blocked". Sorry, I mean, Unavailable. What a sorry state.
H.P. Saucecraft says
Get yourself a VPN, Bri. Don't expect me to hold your hand, though – use an internet.
bricameron says
I have no idea what the fuck you are talking about.
Gary says
VPN = Very Posh Negligee. He's a bit peculiar that H.P. character, if you think about it.
H.P. Saucecraft says
One of bricameron's many – well, one – charming qualities is his expectation to get everything that the internet (and possibly life) has to offer via the Afterword.
bricameron says
Damn straight!
bricameron says
Cheers Gary. I love the 'Air' around the guitars on this.
Tiggerlion says
Don't forget that David Bowie released his classic, Never Let Me Down.
I also liked The World Wrestling Foundation's Piledriver, The Return Of Bruno by Bruce Willis (it was his debut) and The Hooters, similarly inaccurately titled, One Way Home.
Album of the year had to be Faith by George Michael. However, the release that changed my life was Duke Ellington The Blanton Webster Years.
MC Escher says
Faith?! With Sign o' The Times in the list? I am disappoint. (I know you're just being puckish).
Tiggerlion says
Too much dicking about on side four. 😉
Sewer Robot says
Hmmm… I've never actually heard Faith – might give it a spin later..
count jim moriarty says
And the other three…
Rigid Digit says
I have always considered 1987 to be something of a nadir.
Maybe it's because I was 17, grumpy and moody, and wanted more (more of what, I don't know).
Then again, a quick look at the database reveals:
The Cult – Electric
Marillion – Clutching At Straws
Ramones – Halfway To Sanity
Sisters Of Mercy – Floodland
Jesus & Mary Chain – Darklands
(plus the mentioned The Smiths – Strangeways Here We Come and Guns n Roses – Appetite For Dustuction (which I didn't actually buy until sometime in the 90s))
all still getting regular-ish plays 30 years later (did I just write that?)
Hell, even Jethro Tull's Crest Of A Knave is pulled from the shelf once in a while
And then … I look at some of the other 1987 date stamped albums and singles. "Of their time" is perhaps the right phrase.
My count: 17
The one that's missing? T'Pau – Bridge Of Spies
(perhaps not?)
Moose the Mooche says
I know what I wanted more of when I was 17.
Dave Amitri says
The Cult. What a fabulous nonsense of a band they were. That's my listening sorted for tomorrow. Peace Dog
Rigid Digit says
Many people say that Love is the Cult album, and Electric is just a bunch of recycled AC/DC riffs.
I like recycled AC/DC riffs.
Dave Amitri says
They are 2 albums I can play together as one. Both barking mad but brilliant. Brother Wolf and Sister Moon, just the title makes me smile…….
ClemFandango says
Electric is a better AC/DC record than anything the Akka's put out themselves around that time
Moose the Mooche says
Them making a sort of heavy rock record with Rick "Licensed to Ill" Rubin was quite a big thing at the time, the first of RR's many makeovers – in this case turning Doctor & The Medics into Alice Cooper.
pawsforthought says
That's made me laugh. Have an up!
Milkybarnick says
Oddly when I read the article earlier, the first record from 1987 that popped into my head was China in Your Hand by T'Pau. It reminds me of singing Christmas Carols that year at Gatwick Airport with the junior school choir I was in – had a conversation about it with the chap I was stood next to at the time.
Blue Boy says
God I can actually picture some of those records on the shelves at Our Price in Reading.. of those listed Tunnel of Love and Savage were rarely far from the turntable, fighting for their place on it with the majestic Poetic Champions Compose by Van the Man.
As Mini says, Terence Trent Darby was ubiquitous that year, as was The Christians debut album, and we played both of them to death.
minibreakfast says
Oh yeah, The Christians! Mate of my dad's taped it for me when he heard I liked the single. Most thoughtful. Got it on car boot vinly now of course.
Moose the Mooche says
Bloody loved the first two Christians albums…. if you didn't like them then you'll never like them now as they're dated to buggery.
PCC was Van's best album for five years – a perfect, beautiful record setting him up nicely for his commercial resurgence at the end of the decade.
H.P. Saucecraft says
PCC was what you say. Shame about the Mr Potato Head cover, though but.
Moose the Mooche says
I know. Usually his album covers are so beautiful.
Black Type says
I'd give a big shout for 'No Guru…' Being its equal.
Rigid Digit says
Most of those I listed above were bought in Our Price Reading
Blue Boy says
Friar Street or the Butts?
Rigid Digit says
Friar Street was bigger, but The Butts usually had better stock.
Butts was the preferred choice for me
Blue Boy says
Went to both but the Butts was closer to work for that lunch hour visit. Will never forget buying the White Album in the Butts store, and the slightly hippie-ish guy behind the till, gazing at the sleeve and sighing audibly, clearly delighted at finally selling a proper album after a day of selling Rick Astley or whatever.
Moose the Mooche says
Missing from the list… Zodiac Mindwarp. If you were reading the music press at the time you'd have thought he was going to be the new Marc Bolan. In the event he wasn't even the new Joe Dolce.
moseleymoles says
But what an initial blast. The Darkness years before The Darkness.
fitterstoke says
1987 for me was….Frank's Wild Years & Strange Weather….me 'ead was in a funny place that year….
bigstevie says
Not a funny place, just different.
I was in my very late 20s, and couldn't find much interesting in British music. I remember –
Lyle Lovett self titled album. I had to send to London for it.
Exit 0 by Steve Earle
Hillbilly Deluxe by Dwight Yoakham
The latest Tom Waits available though can't remember which one.
fitterstoke says
That would be Frank's Wild Years…
Timbar says
T'Pau? Our Price? – this brings it all back
mikethep says
The 1980s were the decade of children, so my album of 1987 was probably All Aboard.
The only one on that list I actually bought was Tunnel of Love. Other albums I bought included Exit 0 (Steve Earle), King's Record Shop (Roseanne Cash), Frank's Wild Years, and of course this:
H.P. Saucecraft says
Tunnel Of Love was the only one I bought, too. What else? Not much, I expect. The dB's Sound Of Music, Santana's Freedom/Blues For Salvador, Van's Poetic Champeens, Psonic Psunspot … I can't even remember where I was in 1987, so I had to be there.
mikethep says
Thanks to bigstevie above, I now realise Lyle Lovett's first album and Hillbilly Deluxe by Dwight Yoakam were on my list too.
H.P. Saucecraft says
It was, for me, a pretty barren time. Springsteen seemed to have shot his bolt – I was one of the few who thought Tunnel Of Love wasn't that great (still don't). The Dead released In The Dark (I now remember) but Little Feat, Steely Dan, and the Left Coast bands I loved were part of a wave that had already crested. Even for the profligate Zappa 87 was a ho-hum year.
mikethep says
I doggedly kept buying BS's albums through the 80s and 90s, but in truth none of them between Nebraska and the Ghost of Tom Joad really hit home, although they all had their moments. Those two albums summed up what I wanted him to move on to after the glories of the 70s.
Just discovered that Ian Maclagen played piano on Human Touch. Who knew? Maybe everybody but me.
H.P. Saucecraft says
Lucky Town and Human Touch have both been surprise keepers for me. Like nearly every other fanboi, I felt he'd betrayed his band and his fans with those cheap-looking albums (two at once was not a good move, either), but taken on their own merits – I don't subscribe to the general view that LT is waaaay better than HT – they're both good listens.
Blue Boy says
Tunnel of Love is still one of my favourite Springsteen albums – the production hasn't worn well on some tracks but the songs are brilliant.
Black Type says
I'd go as far as to say, in a Brucie stylee( not this Bruce, the other Bruce), it's my favourite.
H.P. Saucecraft says
A lot of fine people – on both sides – are saying this. There was an online list recently of Bruce albums and it was at Number One. But I never much liked Neil's Ditch albums, and this is maybe Bruce's equivalent.
Tony Japanese says
I remember 1987 well. Incoherent gurgling, a dependency on other people to look after me, regularly spilling food down me.
H.P. Saucecraft says
Hah! I was doubly incontinent myself back then. Out of choice, mind you.
retropath2 says
I thought I would have loads, actually only having the Deacon Blue, nearly all of theirs you would ever need. Lots I would still not cross the street for, or would cross over to avoid. And lots of so so albums by acts past their better, Mac, Eurythmiccs etc etc. Mind you, at 30 I was mainlining Folk Roots rather than Q.
Mike_H says
I didn't think I'd bought any current music in 1987, but maybe I did after all.
That would have been the point at which I abandoned suffering lo-fi music from cassettes on a boombox and got myself a CD player, a mediocre amp and some not-very-good speakers.
I don't think I was buying all that many CDs, what with the price they were back then.
Some of the earliest Zappa CD remixes/reissues on Rykodisc probably and I might have bought Midnight Oil's "Diesel And Dust" and Man Jumping's "World Service" that year, or possibly the next.
Dukes Of Stratosphear's "Chips from The Chocolate Fireball", The KLF's "1987: What The Fuck Is Going On?", John Hiatt's "Bring The Family", Cabaret Voltaire's "Code", Klaus Schulze's "En=Trance", Chris & Cosey's "Exotika", "Take Five" & "Obsession" EPs, Jennifer Warnes' "Famous Blue Raincoat", Tom Waits' "Frank's Wild Years", Ry Cooder's "Get Rhythm", Dwight Yoakam's "Hillbilly Deluxe", Gil Evans & Steve Lacy's "Paris Blues", Miles Davis & Marcus Miller's "Siesta" soundtrack, Prince's "Sign O The Times", Penguin Café Orchestra's "Signs Of Life" and Dolly, Linda & Emmylou's "Trio" have all been acquired since.
Tiggerlion says
I've always been impressed with the breadth of your taste. You are willing to give everything a go and have an uncanny ability to pick out the best.
That KLF album will be worth something. Wasn't it withdrawn for copyright infringement?
Moose the Mooche says
Yes. Whitney's people got riled. They then released a sample-free version which, er, wasn't as good.
Mike_H says
My taste was not all that broad back then, believe me.
I have just mp3s of 1987:WTF?, alas. Until about '94 they were not on my radar.
Proper copies are even rarer than hens teeth. If the legend I heard is true, every single copy was either destroyed or handed over to ABBA's legal representatives, except possibly one. Or something.
About a sackful of hens teeth for a copy if that's correct.
Some of it is quite amazing, the rest is pretty dire really. They later released a guide to which samples were required and full instructions for remaking it yourself.
paulwright says
the current KLF:1987 story is that they went to Sweden to give the albums to ABBA but failed so burnt some and gave the rest to a sex worker.
Regardless of the music, you have to say the KLF give great music business anecdote.
fentonsteve says
The big ones for me, not mentioned above (or I don't think so, at least)
Danny Wilson – Meet Danny Wilson
Triffids – Calenture
Sinead O'Connor – The Lion & the Cobra
Happy Mondays – Squirrel & G-Man etc
I still listen to the first two (or three). Calenture was Peak Triffids in my book.
I was working school holidays testing CD players, with a choice of three CDs – one of sound effects, one Tchaikovsky, or The Joshua Tree. I now twitch involuntarily if I hear U2.
rocker49 says
not forgetting a couple of pop metal classics that came out in 1987, both of which probably outsold every other album mentioned in this thread.
Def Leppard's Hysteria
Whitesnake's 1987
Rigid Digit says
1987 officially marks the point when Whitesnake became "a bit rubbish", and Hysteria marks the point Def Leppard became American.
Both sold by the bucket-load though.
1987s biggest sales occurred when they re-issued it with the re-recording of Here I Go Again tacked on
minibreakfast says
Funnily enough I picked a copy of Hysteria today in lovely nick for just two pounds. (Plus an equally lovely Planet Waves for the same price.)
Pouring on of sugar will commence at approximately 7pm.
rocker49 says
I'm pretty sure that Joe Elliott would have listened to Bob Dylan over the years. But I wonder if His Bobness has ever spun a Leppard record. Worth thinking about.
paulwright says
11 for me – first year of work, so for me Tallulah would be on the list.
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The Mortgage Bankers Association said its seasonally adjusted composite index of mortgage applications for the week ending September 13 rose 11.2%. Purchase volume rose 3%. Refinancing applications increased 18%.
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Industrial production at the nation's factories, mines and utilities rose 0.4% in August after a flat reading in July. Compared to August 2012, industrial production has increased 2.7%. Capacity utilization rose to 77.8% in August from 77.6% in July.
Consumer prices rose 0.1% in August, following a 0.2% increase in July. Compared to August 2012, consumer prices have risen 1.5%. Consumer prices at the core rate — excluding volatile food and energy prices — were also up 0.1% in August.
Initial claims for unemployment benefits for the week ending September 14 rose by 15,000 to 309,000. Continuing claims for the week ending September 7 fell by 28,000 to 2.787 million, a new recovery low. The less volatile four-week average of claims for unemployment benefits was 314,750, the lowest level since October 2007.
Upcoming on the economic calendar are reports on the housing price index on September 24, new home sales on September 25and pending home sales on September 26.


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There's been a running theme of history over the last month or so in my posts. I started January with some sofa-based time travel through my childhood using the medium of old school TV and film, I did some Walking with Dinosaurs, made a trip to the Titanic exhibition in Belfast and wrote about my visit to the Cabinet War Rooms on Florence Finds.
The last three were all a bit grown up and serious, so I needed something a) a bit more upbeat and b)some slightly more recent history - step up The Spice Girls and Viva Forever!
I loved the Spice Girls. Correction, I LOVE the Spice Girls. I've loved them since they first mimed Wannabe on breakfast TV. They provided a soundtrack to my teenage years. They inspired us to dress like divs, dance like mad girls, perform their hits in the school talent shows (prompting rows with rival groups in the playground) and shout "GIRL POWER" as a response to anything and everything. For example:
P.E. Teacher: "Go outside and run cross country"
Me: "NO - and you can't make me, because, well, GIRL POWER!"
Exam board letter: "Dear Ms Hale, You achieved an A in your French GCSE exam... blah... accepted on the A level course... blah"
Me: "Brilliant. GIRL POWER!"
McDonalds drive through operative: "Drive round to the next window please"
Me: "Ok. GIRL POWER!"
They had attitude but weren't bitches. They inspired outfits/hairstyles but weren't fashionable. They were naughty but they weren't bad girls. They wore skimpy outfits but they weren't slutty. They weren't the best singers, the best dancers, the best actresses or the best looking, but in my humble (musically uneducated) opinion they were the original and BEST girl group. They worked hard, put the time and effort in, took control and responsibility, they gave it their all and seemed to have so much fun whilst they were doing it, and most importantly, they did it for the girls, not for the boys. For me they were inspirational role models, and, really, when I look at them as Spice Women, they still are. Oh, and they reformed for London2012 and used black cabs as skateboards. Awesome!
Anyway, I digress. Enough gushing about my love for the Spices, let me tell you how we played homage to them this weekend.
We started out with tickets to the show Viva Forever! purchased by Katy and Claire (the Disney Princesses) as Christmas presents for me and their big sisters (the 2-4-1s) and then we all got over excited when we discovered that Harvey Nichols was serving a Spice Girls-themed afternoon tea in their Season restaurant and Spice Girls-themed champagne cocktails in their Fifth Floor Bar. So we booked in, last minute, to sample both before the theatre.
The afternoon tea started off with mini savoury bites: a cured beef and chutney bagel, an egg and cress roll, smoked salmon on pumpernickel and chicken and chutney roulade in fresh white bread, which we all wolfed down in our excitement to get to the sweet treats: the Sporty Spice cake pop, the Baby Spice mouse (served in a bottle), the Ginger Spice Union Flag lemon and ginger mille feuille, the Scary Spice chilli and chocolate roll (complete with white chocolate leopard print, ahem, decoration) and the Posh Spice Harvey Nics-branded marzipan and Victoria (of course) sponge handbag. There were also the usual scones with jam and clotted cream on the menu too.
You all know how I love a theme, and you all know how I love an afternoon tea, so add in the Spices and I was virtually fizzing with excitement. And then it got better... with cocktails!
We started off with some standard cocktails from the menu (with which we are already familiar, following our cocktail masterclass, back in the summer) and then we worked our way through the themed cocktails, which were delicious. It was difficult to select, but in the end I was happy with my choice of the Scary (Fresh chilli, lychee liqueur topped with Champagne). We spent most of our time talking about our favourite Spice (mine's Victoria - obvs), our favourite songs (mine being Who Do You Think You Are) dance routines (Spice Up Your Life) and generally making a spectacle of ourselves singing, laughing and pinning the bows from our cocktail glasses in our hair (I was grateful for the splash of leopard print against my all-black outfit)!
A few pictures as a group (sadly, no one took Katy's instructions to dress according to the Spice we had been allocated, except for me in black) then we piled in to a cab and made our way to the Piccadilly Theatre.
They clearly saw us (as in a gaggle of giggly, slightly intoxicated girls) coming at the door as we were immediately offered the opportunity to be "upgraded" to the Ambassador Lounge, a small private room with a dedicated waiter to bring us drinks and nibbles before the show and during the interval "for only a small fee". Hmmm. Of course we accepted and it was all pretty exciting as it was the room the Spices themselves had used on visiting the theatre to watch the show. Naturally we acted like complete geeks, singing and dancing around the room, posing for cheesy photos and generally not playing it in the slightest bit cool.
We needn't have worried, about playing it cool because the minute we walked out in to the theatre itself and saw the audience we fitted right in! 98% female, and 100% tipsy the audience, like us, was raring to get stuck in to some Spice Girls singalongs...
We weren't disappointed.
I won't ruin the story, but I will say that it won't be winning any Olivier awards. In the same vein as Mamma Mia and We Will Rock You, the story is just a vehicle for the songs to be introduced and you can see them coming a mile off. But, as a Spice Girls fan, guessing what's coming is one of the best bits!
I'm not a theatre critic so I won't analyse the staging, casting (although there were two stand outs!) or scripting but it has Jennifer Saunders written all over it, which is a good thing in my book. There's more than a hint of Eddie, Patsy and Bubble in amongst the main characters and I swear I heard one of Patsy's Ab Fab lines crop up. If you loved Ab Fab, Ugly Betty, Glee and The Catherine Tate Show you'll love the characters. If you follow(ed) shows like X Factor and Pop Idol you'll recognise parodies of some very prominent characters from Saturday night TV and you've read Ben Elton's Chart Throb then you'll get the underlying message. Basically, if you read this list and know what I'm wittering on about, then we're on the same wavelength and you'll really enjoy it! I chose not to read the reviews, but I heard that the critics panned it. Clearly they were boring, a bit too serious, old, and male.
Come on. It's not Les Mis, but if you don't expect it to be, you can just appreciate it for what it is, and have fun. Also, when else can you go to the theatre and, during a touching romance scene, put your arms in the air and sing along to 2 Become 1 at the top of your voice or stand up and do the original dance moves along with with cast (and the rest of the audience) to Stop or Spice Up Your Life?
My suggestion? If you don't take yourself or your theatre choices too seriously, and, of course, if you are a Spice Girls fan then get your glittery platforms on, round up your best girls for a some pre-drinks and go see it!
Read more about the Viva Forever Champagne Cocktails here and the Viva Forever Afternoon Tea here.
Book tickets and find out more about Viva Forever, the show, here.


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Ubisoft this morning revelaed that a new version of Brothers in Arms is on the way for the DS and Wii consoles. The tactical shooter is already a favourite on other platforms, and Ubi are promising new titles which take advantage of the unique controllers of both Nintendo gizmos.
Brothers In Arms Double Time is the Wii offering, and is due out in the autumn, sporting 31 levels of WWII grittiness, taken from Gearbox's first two main Brothers releases. Once again players will be assuming the roles of Matt Baker and Joe Hartsock, and you'll even be able to issue commands using Wiimote gestures.
On the handheld, we'll be getting our teeth into Brothers in Arms DS, which will be due out in the summer featuring stylus-based controls. A 3D title is the order of the day, though the gameplay will be somewhat simplified as your co-troops carry out covering, health-recovering moves automatically.
16 missions spread across various WWII theatres of conflict are promised, with various vehicles also included, not to mention weapons like bazookas and grenades.
"I am a huge fan of both systems and thrilled about making games for the two platforms," enthused Gearbox president Randy Pitchford. "In the entire space of first-person shooters on videogame systems, Brothers In Arms really lends itself to both the Wii and DS interfaces. Imagine using the Wii remote to give actual hand signals or aiming with the DS stylus from a covered position. That's what you can look forward to with Brothers In Arms Double Time and Brothers In Arms DS," he added.
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The Way We Were in 1957
Heska Amuna Synagogue Kindergarten Sunday School graduation
Heska Amuna religious school classes met at the Jewish Community Center on Vine Avenue from 1956 when the joint Community Sunday School disbanded until the new building on Kingston Pike was completed.
Left to right: the late Helene Bebergal (Markus), the late Mark Balloff, Alan Gruenberg, Donna Tobe, Mitch Burnett, Michael Burnett, Lindsey Brown, teacher Marcia Goodstein (Menuskin)
In the background are several adults. Visible are the late Rabbi Aaron Mauskopf and the late Mitchell Robinson.
The Archives has a second slide of this event which shows a bit more of the interior of the old Center.
Donna Tobe, Mitch and Michael Burnett, and Mitchell Robinson's wife Natalie and son Pace continue to live in Knoxville.
Thanks to Michael Burnett for identifying his classmates.
The Archives needs your photos! Send your photographs (identifying who, what, when, where) to firstname.lastname@example.com or contact the archivist at (865) 690-6343.


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┌── Joshua Henshaw │ 1765-1840 ┌── John Leavitt Henshaw ──┤ │ 1792-1832 │ │ └── Esther Burnham │ 1768-1853 John Cory Henshaw ─────┤ B: 1815 │ ┌── Ebenezer H. Corey D: 1877 │ │ No Issue └── Ann Maria Corey ───────┤ 1795-? │ └── Phebe (Corey) M: Amelia Nash Kellogg
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Born May 25 18151,2 [about 18165], New York, New York1,2 [Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island3,4, New Jersey5].
He married Amelia Nash Kellogg1,2,6 [Amelia Edwards6], Jun 18 18381,2,6, New York, New York1,2,6. Amelia, daughter of Edward Kellogg & Esther Fenn Warner2,3,4, was born Jun 25 18202,3,4 [Jun - 18317, about 18215], Northfield, Connecticut2,3,4 [New York5].
John was a major in the United States Army. He served in the Seminole and Mexican Wars as well as the Civil War. In the Mexican War he took part in seven battles, and his regiment was the one to lead the assault on Cerro Gordo, a mountain fortified from base to summit, crowned with a fort nearly impregnable. In the Civil War he served at the Siege of Vicksburg, and as Judge Advocate General of the Department of the South.6
John and Amelia were shown in the 1850 census (Aug 10 1850), living in the household of Amelia's parents in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York:4
John was appointed as Captain Asssistant Judge Advocate of the U.S. Army on Aug 17 1862; promoted to Major Judge Advocate, Feb 29 1864; discharged Sep 30 1864.8
John and Amelia were shown in the 1870 census (Jun 20 1870), living in the household of Amelia's (apparently widowed) mother in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York:5
John was the author of "Recollections of the war with Mexico" (ISBN 0826217990, 9780826217998), which one reviewer critiqued as:9
Major John Henshaw, a dutiful regimental officer in the American invasion of Mexico, was one of only a handful of eyewitnesses to describe the two major theaters of that war from start to finish. But unlike most of his peers, he did not see himself as a conquering warrior and took pride in never having taken a life. He even wrote, "If I were alone, no earthly power could induce me to lend a helping hand in this base and infamous war." This book presents Henshaw's recollections for the first time, covering all the action from the first skirmish in southern Texas to the collapse of Mexico City. As a member of the Seventh Infantry Regiment, this pugnacious line officer from New England served under both of the war's principal generals, Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott, and survived seven major battles. His writings constitute a virtual "minority opinion" report on the Mexican War. Henshaw's recollections include a rare and highly descriptive account of the siege of Fort Texas (later Fort Brown), plus rich new details of the storming of the Bishop's Palace at Monterrey, the bombardment of Veracruz, the assault on Cerro Gordo, and the savage fighting outside the capital. His records of battles, marches, and maneuvers greatly augment what is already known about the campaign, but in addition to reporting daily occurrences and describing combat in graphic detail, Henshaw also reflected on the strategies and tactics--and what he saw as shortcomings--of officers on both sides. Bitingly critical of those in command, of American volunteers, and of the war's glory hounds, Henshaw admired the valor of ordinary soldiers on both sides of the fighting. And in the midst of the carnage, he also found time to describe Mexico's cities and scenery in rhapsodic prose and express considerable empathy for its people. In addition to the "Recollections," the volume includes vivid passages from letters Henshaw sent back to his wife, which supply additional details of the campaign. Editor Gary Kurutz provides an extensive biography of Henshaw, as well as comprehensive annotations to the text. What Henshaw may have lacked as an unquestioning officer he more than made up for as an astute observer. Offering a decidedly different view of this war of American expansion, these writings with their balanced approach lend a fresh perspective among other primary sources and paint a startlingly honest picture of both Americans fighting abroad and those they fought.
During about 1872-1876, John served as the first Tabasco sales agent for the young McIlhenny Company10 (which had a connection to his uncle, Ashben Burnham Henshaw).
John Cory Henshaw died Oct 30 1877, Elizabeth, Union County, New Jersey; buried Nov 3 1877, Section 92 Lot 330, Green-Wood Cemetery, 500 25th Street, Brooklyn, New York.2,3,11
John died leaving no children.6
Widow Amelia was shown in the 1900 census (Jun 18 1900), 58 57th St., Manhattan, New York, New York:7
Amelia died Feb 24 1905, at her home, 58 West 57th St., Manhattan, New York, New York; age 85.3,11,12,13
Amelia's obituary was published in the "New York Times" (New York, New York) on February 27, 190512 (see scan below).
Beatrice Dunham was a daughter of Amelia's sister, Harriet E. (Kellogg) Dunham. Beatrice Dunham authored the book "Aunt Rabbit - a Lover of Animals"; Amelia was the inspiration - Beatrice's actual "Aunt Rabbit".3
Photo: Amelia Nash Kellogg obituary "New York Times", Feb 27 1905 12
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text: Read some of Baker 2008, and his proposal for a universal three-way distinction between nouns, verbs, and adjectives. Not hard to get behind. Interesting stuff about the unique situations you'll find adjectives in as well. Makes it easier to talk about lexical items being flexibly recategorized, if there are categories we can assume exist. (Or to rule this out.)


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Visit Togakushi shrines, Chusha, Okusha, and Kuzuryusha. On the way to Okusha, you can enjoy the beautiful avenue of cedar trees that is perfect for pictureя. Also check out Togakushi Folk Museum and Ninja House, and enjoy local soba noodles.
- Visit Togakushi shrine's Chusha, Okusha, and Kuzuryusha
- Explore Ninja and local tradition at Folk Museum and Ninja House
- Eat Japanese Soba (buckwheat) noodles for lunch
- See the great view of Mt. Togakushi and beautiful ponds
- Try making soba by yourself (optional)


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Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Ride To Work Day
I usually keep a pair of pants hanging up at work as well as a pair of shoes. I've found a great brand of dress shirts that are "wrinkle free". Not entirely true, but they do hold up better than any others I've seen. They're called G2000. Unfortunatey they can only be found in Asia, so next time you're in Bangkok, Beijing, KL, etc you should easily stumble across one of their stores. I think any 55% cotton / 45% polyester shirt should do though.
The way that I attempt to keep my clothes from wrinkling is to neatly roll them - not fold them. Lay the shirt face down, fold back the sleeves and then roll from the bottom up. Keeping a plastic dry cleaning bag on your clothes while rolling them also does wonders. The compression in your bag is what causes the creases on your clothes. The looser the things are in your bag, the better they'll come out.
If you have any good commuting tips please leave them in the comments section under this post. I'd like to hear them!
Now get out there and kick some ass on the Wed morning World Championships!
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City Council Approves Garden District
Nov 20, 2013 11:37AM
● By Mike
The Residences: luxury condominiums from the developers of Southlake Town Square have been approved.
With opposition coming from city councilmembers and residents alike at a past Sept. 3 city council meeting, Southlake Town Square developers Cooper and Stebbins went back and amended their original plans for The Garden District at Southlake Town Square, an upscale residential district comprised of luxury brownstones and condominiums. After a Nov. 19 city council meeting that ended well after midnight, the Garden District was approved, but not before a lengthy public commenting period where supporters and those in opposition were heard.
The now-approved plans call for 33 new brownstone homes ranging in size from 2,700 to more than 5,000 square feet. Yet, the most opposition centered around The Residences — a proposed five-story residential building with 38 condominium homes to be located in the lot west of Central Ave. between Café Express and Harkins Theatres. A main concern: The two- and three-bedroom units, which range in size from 1,500 to 3,200 square feet and cost upwards of $500,000, could present an unwanted opportunity for leasing in the heart of Southlake's downtown district. After listening to concerns, Cooper and Stebbins increased their proposed presale requirements to break ground from 25 to 50 percent, ensuring all parties that the project would remain a "condominium-for-sale" concept.
"We're pleased with the outcome — it's an important decision for Southlake Town Square," said Director of Residential Development for Cooper and Stebbins Larry Corson. "And we're pleased with the amount of care we saw from the community and city council." With the approval, Cooper and Stebbins will now focus on land development activities set to commence in the spring of 2014, which will include grading the land, street development, aesthetic landscaping to the north of the current brownstones and the addition of more than two acres of green space and trails around the new Oval Park.


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This is a case of an extremely radicalized individual policing the streets and pushing his views on anyone he sees fit. This was an act based on what the man had been ingrained to think due to his time in prison, rather than strictly an attack based on the public display of affection. I do not see any problem with a couple showing their love for one another, as long as it does not turn vulgar. Is there a grey area there? Of course, but to say public displays of affection should be banned because one man took it upon himself to attack a young kid is completely asinine.
Ever since the beginning of time, young people have wanted to embrace. And since the beginning of time, young people have wanted to share their affection in public. There is no harm in it. No one should honestly be offended by a hug or a kiss. There is no reason to ban something because a few people don't like it.
I do not believe that public displays of affection should be banned. In a world where there is so much hatred being displayed, it would be nice to see a lot more people showing affection to others. In the case of a simple embrace, which is not inappropriate in any way, I feel that this is perfectly acceptable.
Showing affection is a personal matter between two people. A hug or even a kiss is a sign of showing love and affection which ahould be encouraged, rather than banned. There is so much violence in the world that any kind of love and kindness should be heavily encouraged all the tine.


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My notion of freedom is neither complicated nor political; just as a squirrel has claws to climb trees, and a fish fins to swim in the water, and a bird wings to fly through the air, man has two legs to walk across the uneven ground — and often over long distances. The human being is naturally a migrating animal.
I have always enjoyed walking outside. Some of my earliest memories were of my father and I taking a backwoods trail from our home in rural Maryland to the Potomac River. It was about a mile long and mostly owned by the local Beagle club – but not much used – usually my Dad carried a stick to strike down the many cobwebs in our way. As a six-year old I perceived this small forest land to be vast and mysterious, it's pathways opening up the possibility of wandering among trees, streams, and hills seemingly forever before reaching the next house or town. I may have been naive then but as I grew older my enchantment with the woods continued as my father took me on longer hikes in the nearby Appalachain mountains.
Sometime later I was formally introduced to the American West by my Aunt and Uncle. From their vacation photo album I learned about the national parks of southern Utah and the Colorado plateau. Images of Bryce Canyon are what I remembered most: pine trees along the canyon rim, desolate mountains in the background, and it's castle like spires — the hoodos — rising up at least a hundred feet from the desert floor forming a complex labyrinth of pinkish stone, like a prehistoric garden maze. So different from the leafy scenery of my familiar surroundings, I wanted to go there one day and see it for myself.
When I reached my thirties I was fortunate enough to have the both time available and the money saved for my first road trip out West. My choice of transportation was minimalist: the Ford Transit, a European-style mini-van designed for fuel efficient work with just enough space in the back to lay out an air mattress. After a couple of practice runs car-camping in nearby Shenandoah National Park I felt ready enough. And so with the necessities, a mountain bike and camera packed inside I said goodbye to my parents and dog, pulled out of the driveway and headed west towards those particular places I'd never been before.
Interstate travel is boring, quite often a drive by ugly billboard signs, monotonous suburban housing, endless commercial strips, with road work and traffic gridlock ahead. Even so my first cross country road trip felt exciting. Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois were states I'd never been to before and drove through quickly on the first day. By late afternoon I had crossed the Mississippi River at St. Louis, stopped at the Gateway Arch, and then continued on until dark, resting overnight in a state park somewhere in the middle of Missouri.
The next day's drive through Kansas was surprisingly interesting. Much hillier than I'd expected, an ominous sky hung low over the increasingly treeless landscape. At a rest stop, watching the swirling dark gray clouds pick up speed overhead, the thought occurred to me that, perhaps unfortunately, I might experience a tornado on my first visit on the Great Plains. However, by the time I left the state the bad weather had cleared while the ground had turned flat as a pancake. After a couple of uneventful hours crossing eastern Colorado the front range of the Rocky Mountains came into view on the distant horizon. In just two days I had reached the West and would spend the next several weeks (and during the next year I would return for several months) exploring it's National Parks and other places.
But what defines the West? Where are it's boundaries? Is it simply all of the land on one side of the map? Or is "The West" more of an idea, the romantic resting place of our collective American longing for the last days of the frontier? Can there be a meaningful connection between places as diverse as the alpine regions of the Grand Tetons and the cactus forest of the Sonoran Desert?
In my experience there are two main features that gives the American West geographical unity and distinctive character, combining to create what must be one of the most compelling places in the world to see. The first is the region's overall dryness. The second is the wide range of elevations caused by recent and ongoing geological activity. Since large elevation changes alter rainfall patterns (as well as temperature), and because even small differences in rainfall can greatly change the ecology of an arid environment, a vast area of dramatic variation has come into being. In contrast to the gradually changing topography of the land east of the Mississippi the landscape from the Rockies to the Pacific is highly fragmented.
And so, as I was situated on a high plateau of Ponderosa Pine in Flagstaff, Arizona — with a ski resort nearby, a place that could easily be mistaken for a mountain town in Colorado — I was just sixteen scenic highway miles away from the red rock formations of Sedona; one of most enchanting desert locations in the entire Southwest.
Likewise, at Glacier National Park in Montana, I traversed the continental divide on the Going-to-the-Sun Road beginning with the woodland plains and glacial lakes, passing through the open subalpine meadows, until I reached the icy tundra near Logan's Pass, and then descended back again — all within fifty-three exceptionally steep and curvy miles. Several other mountain passes I traveled across the Rockies, the Sierra Nevada, and the eastern Cascades could be described in much the same way.
However the best place I remember for seeing the effect of elevation up close was at Big Bend National Park in Texas. While most of the park is part of the Chihuahua Desert trees such as junipers, pines and even small oaks began to appear as I drove upwards on the Chisos Basin Road to the campground on the Chisos Mountains. On the next day's hike I experienced desert and forest life alternating and mixing even more tightly together as I climbed further up in elevation. Within a ravine I passed by a colorful cactus growing by a moss covered boulder. When I looked down from the highest ridge, at the edge of the Chisos Mountains' South Rim, it became obvious that the isolated mountain I stood on was a relatively moist green island within a sea of heat and rock.
I also recall the land appearing to resemble a parched sea, this time from below, while driving through the Great Basin of western Utah and Nevada; the desert's many, shallow mountain ranges rolling by in shades of pale blue, covered with deep pines and often granite peaks, swelling up like waves from the otherwise empty sagebrush plain. This was along the so called Loneliest Highway, and not a single building did I encounter for nearly one hundred miles, only pronghorn antelope and a stray cow. Perhaps twice did someone drive by going the opposite direction. It occurred to me then that the sweet sentiments of solitude and loveliness are insufficient conditions for human habitation — a source of water is necessary.
Concentration of scarce precipitation, usually by distributing melted snowfall from the highlands, across a wide network of reservoirs, canals, and pipelines, is essential for the western states. And so after leaving that lonely highway, traveling south into a seemingly far less hospitable climate of scorching sun and barren earth, I still was able to find a far more social place in Las Vegas. With it's water provided by Lake Mead and it's energy generated through the turbines of the Hoover Dam the city is probably the most conspicuous beneficiary of the American West's artificial hydrology, but is not exceptional; all the Sunbelt mega-cities depend on this system for what we call civilized life. And agriculture in the region is dependent as well, consuming several times the water than all of the urban population centers combined. The big farms that I drove by in the West had such long, precise rows of identical plants or trees on otherwise lifeless soil with such large-scale sprinkler systems supporting them that they looked more like a factory assembly line than anything organic.
The majority of America's fruits and vegetables now come from extensively irrigated areas. This has lead to a thirst for diverted water that has proven so insatiable that the Colorado and many other rivers are now drained to the point that they no longer reach the ocean. In this way the land out West seems much less free than back East. But in another way the land seems more free; in the fourteen western-most states about half the land is publicly owned and is therefore accessible.
The responsibility for almost all of this federally controlled land is divided between three agencies: the National Park Service, caretaker of world famous landmarks like the Yosemite Valley and Yellowstone; the US Forest Service, notorious for fighting summer wildfires; and the Bureau of Land Management, or BLM, the largest landlord in the country.
Before going out West I had never heard of the BLM, and learned about them only after traveling through their territory for some time; rarely do they post signs at the bounderies. Most of their land remains unnamed, often empty and unloved, or used, or used up. The main activity of the BLM is permitting livestock grazing above ground and mineral, oil and gas extraction below it. I have no doubt the agency is a den of the worst sort of politics — but bless them, they allow free camping!
While in New Mexico I intentionally visited some better known BLM sites (Bristi Badlands, Valley of Fire, Tent Rocks) as well as a recreation area named Angel Peak, for no other reason than it was the closest camping area shown on my Rand McNally while I was traveling short on daylight. Pulling up to a designated overlook, past an array of natural gas wells and some heavy equipment, I discovered below me a fantastic badlands canyon of blue-gray mudstone, topped at spots by sandstone formations — an unexpected secret in the fading twilight. However, after camping on the rim overnight I learned of the area's true purpose in the morning: not only were natural gas wells surrounding the canyon, they were within it as well, the pipelines and roads below now visible in the early light.
Unlike the BLM, the National Park Service does not serve the interest of the extractive industries and is, instead, part of the friendlier business of tourism. And they have been successful enough at attracting visitors that it's become a cliche, "we are loving the National Parks to death." But in my experience that seems to be an overstatement; most of the time during my stays I've been completely alone.
To beat the crowds I've learned that it helps to start early.
On one of my all-time favorite hikes at Arches National Park, I woke up an hour before dawn to catch the magic light of sunrise on Landscape Arch. Only one other vehicle was parked at the Devil's Garden trailhead. After walking for a mile to the end of a paved path I talked with the car's owner while taking my photograph; he was the last person I would see for the next few hours as I ventured further on the primitive loop. Living up to it's name, the route climbed up the narrow fins of salmon colored sandstone and into crevices a hundred feet below, where it was imaginable that a Triceratops could be lurking around the Jurassic stone walls. After reaching Double-O Arch and the monolith Dark Angle by mid-morning I began to pass a few other hikers on the return trip. When I made it back to Landscape Arch at mid-day I joined a crowd large enough to fill a mall during the Holidays. The lot was now full and cars were parked along the road up to a quarter mile away.
So the average person, spending most of their time at the most crowded places in the most crowded parks during the most crowded seasons, being unloaded off tour buses or checking off the highlights on a whirlwind tour in a rental car, gets a false impression: there are not necessarily too many people in the national parks, just too many like themselves.
The next day I found myself at an opposite extreme in the nearby Canyonlands. On a trail called the Syncline Loop I was by myself with the exception of one other hiker I found briefly who was lost — and who also happened to be from Maryland. That was a day I spent carefully route hunting, looking for cairns (piles of rocks that serve as markers) over very steep terrain, believing that there was a real risk I might stumble off trail, dehydrate, and expire unfound. But as I walked through a canyon full of bright green cottonwoods and songbirds, with a warm breeze on my face, following footprints in a gulch of soft sand, only vaguely aware of where I was at — I felt that vivid sense of freedom that only comes from embracing the unknown.


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"Family drama, small-town pressures, and life's unexpected turns are all set within the charming parameters of a Southern perennial garden. Add the literary links to Faulkner and Welty, a soul-stirring romance, and Cantrell's lyrical story-telling skills and you've got a heart-warming tale that is sure to outlast the seasons. You'll love Perennials!"
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"With languid prose and vivid description, Julie Cantrell's novel unfolds as beautifully as one of her protagonist's favorite flowers. Cantrell weaves moving and inspirational stories that make her one of today's most beloved storytellers. Perennials may be her most breathtaking yet."
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"Like the perennial plants that give the story its namesake, Julie Cantrell's characters survive drought and flood, sunshine and storm. Readers will see reflections of their own lives as they travel along with Lovey when she returns to the rich Mississippi soil to bloom again. If Julie Cantrell isn't on your reading list, she should be."
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"Full of southern charm, this evocative family saga delves into the weight of our relationships and the roles played by fate, redemption and love. Beautifully written, Julie Cantrell's Perennials is a must read, especially for those who believe in the power of second chances."
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"In Perennials, Julie Cantrell offers a modern Southern family saga brimming with traditional family values and contemporary problems. Cantrell's well-paced story, beautiful prose, and lush descriptions effortlessly carry you through the estranged, yet enmeshed, lives of sisters Lovey and Bitsy. The novel is deftly woven with bits of Mississippi history, literature, and landscape, adding to this immersive read that goes right to your heart, and makes you remember what's truly important."
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"In Perennials, Julie Cantrell has written a love letter to her home state of Mississippi, Deep South summers, and flower blooms that can heal the soul. Through main character Lovey's return trip home, we see what it means to keep "Family First" no matter what. And her journey home is much more than just miles traveled–it's a glimpse into a life full of heartache and longing, the illuminating light of truth, and the redemptive power of love."
—Lauren Denton, author of The Hideaway
"With her proven ability to peel back the layers that expose the frailty of the soul, Julie Cantrell has created another evocative tale that tackles tough themes like trust, loyalty, truth, and the familial ties that bind us, whether we want them to or not. A story that will settle in and stay with you, Perennials is a masterpiece not to be missed."
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"Oxford, Mississippi–In the span of only a few pages, author Julie Cantrell, in her new novel of the South, took me from a place I'd never been to a place I now feel I need to go. With tender hearted prose and characters full-to-blooming, Perennialsis a poignant family drama that reminds us all what it means to return to our roots and come back home."
—James Markert, author of The Angels' Share
"Perennials is much more than a testament to the South and the healing power of family, it is a love letter that speaks to the deepest longings within us all. Julie Cantrell is a master."
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"You can leave home—but does home ever leave you? That's the question at the heart of Julie Cantrell's stunning new novel. With a story that's at once classic and unlike anything you've read before, Perennials is as lush and entrancing as the gardens described within its pages."
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"From the lush Mississippi setting and lyrical writing, to the flawed yet engaging characters, Julie Cantrell's Perennials is an engrossing reading pleasure. I loved this story of a fractured family and a prodigal daughter, and the healing power and connections that tending gardens brings to their lives. Like an artist, the author uses a delicate brush to carefully illustrate the joys and pains of life's growing seasons, and of learning how to surrender old hurts to find forgiveness. This is a book to read more than once."
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Excellent beginners book for growing grape vines. Having read a lot on the subject on the internet, I would say this book lacks a lot of explanation or other options, but for a beginner I guess this is perfect because he narrows down on the best methods that have worked for him in a UK climate. So if you want to start growing.
Browse our list of books, book suppliers, magazines and newsletters written for winery and vineyard owners. Grape Growing Weaver, Robert J. New York: John Wiley & Sons Inc., (1976). Available through Practical Winery & Vineyard ( see magazines). Grape Pest Management (Publication No. 4105) Grapevine Nutrition.
Allow three bunches of grapes on three-year-old vines and about five on a four. often used for grapes growing indoors or against walls. Red wine grape:.
The biological occurrence known as "stenospermocarpy" is what causes the berries of grape vines to be seedless. More accurately. If you don't have room to turn your backyard into a vineyard, The Fruit Gardener's Bible book has wonderful instructions on growing grapes in containers – perfect for small-space gardening!
Want to grow grapes in the South? If so, you have two choices: Plant muscadines, or plant another type of grape and watch the vines die. Table, wine and concord type grapes rarely live for more than a few years in our area, but.
In 2006, she took mission grapes from Gypsy Canyon vineyard near Lompoc and planted them to grow up her arbor. The historical information in this article.
Good grapes for central Pa.? – I just didn't have the time to keep the vines trained, and they were growing out of the beds. I'm thinking of putting grapes there. and preferably little or no-spray types. A superb book to read on this subject is Lee Reich's "Uncommon Fruits.
Feb 21, 2012. Ideally spurs should be spaced every 6 inches along the cordons of the vine. For more information on wine grapes we recommend a comprehensive book on vineyards, From Vines to Wines, which advises you on everything from site selection to the actual winemaking. If you have table grapes, use the 20.
From Vines to Wines: The Complete Guide to Growing Grapes and Making Your Own Wine. Jeff Cox is the author of 21 books on food. Vineyard Soil and Grape Quality.
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Local producers are growing thousands of grape vines and many of them are already harvesting fruit. "When people think of Newfoundland they think of rocky soil – rain, drizzle and fog so obviously grapes are not going to grow everywhere.
When I was ready to plant four varieties of table grapes at the bases of the posts of my newly constructed arbor, the books I consulted showed the grapevines trained on a. By annually trimming the cordons to 5 feet, I am able to grow four types of grapes across the top of my arbor, each one pruned to its own quadrant.
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VALLE DE COLCHAGUA, Chile — Dozens of tourists armed with sharp scissors and donning dusty gloves and aprons walk through rows of green vines, hand-picking dark purple grapes that will. allowing winemakers to grow vines.
Best Grapes To Grow On Vancouver Island Mar 17, 2003. I'm trying to find out what vines grow well in a typical small Vancouver back yard, south-facing but surrounded by trees, and what varieties are suggested. Also, I' m not yet familiar enough with vinifera which will grow here, other than a friend's concord, which are good for eating, making jelly and
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Good grapes: Bitterroot Valley amateur wine maker brings home multiple awards – "Fence first, plant second." The Putnams currently have 170 grape vines representing 15 different varieties of grapes growing in their vineyard. Over the next few years, Putnam believes he'll reduce the number of varieties as he learns.
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Discussion in 'Windows 7' started by FattysGoneWild, Aug 15, 2011.
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Yeah something did screw up
You can:
Ignore the partition as it's just 100MB anyway
Allocate it and name it System Reserved and rebuild whats supposed to be on there and rewrite the BCD on there
Use a good partition tool to get rid of the partition (this will take forever, cause the partition is infront of the partition)
Hey thanks for the reply. I think option 1 sounds best? Option 2 seems really involved? If I leave it alone. It will not cause a problem or anything?
Yes, option 1 recommended as it will not appear in My Computer as well.
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Thank you guys as I am still reading up on this. I did come across this post using google. That sounds easy but never used that program before. I also still do not know how it happened when I installed 7. Obviously I did something wrong.
Note that you will then have 100MB of unallocated space on your HardDrive, but that is a tiny amount, and you will have no hidden, system partition to worry about messing things up... (Then you can even use a non-destructive disk editing and merging utility to then merge the 100mb back into the main Windows 7 install partition if you want. I didn't bother on the system I did it on since it is such a small amount of space that will not be missed...but if I wanted to, I would just use Acronis Disk Director to do it.)
I don't recommend that; I always have a non-allocated space in my HD, but never worried about it. I don't like partition or HD tools or software as its damage is more than its benefit (in special cases), or if I can say, not always they do the job perfectly. So, if you leave things as it is, this might be more comfortable to you and your system.
Okay. I will go ahead and leave it as is. As long as it will not cause problems? It would be all the same I imagine even if the System Reserve was originally there and still lose that 100mb.
One possible fix.
1. Back up your c: thru acronis, etc
2. Boot from partition wizard boot cd and delete all partitions to make the entire disk unallocated.
3. Boot from acronis boot cd and recover the image. You can resize the recovered image to any size or the entire disk (wonder why you need the entire disk for windows). It is always better to keep docs/photos on a separate partition.
In fact, I would say partition wizard 5 is easier than 6.0 where the `apply' button is not easily seen.


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The progressive bee-keeper
The progressive bee-keeper
Vol. XI, No. 6
Higginsville, Mo.: Leahy Manufacturing Company, June, 1901
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[Cover] Progressive bee-keeper
[Masthead] The progressive bee-keeper, vol. XI, no. 6, p. [174]
[Contents] Contents of this issue, p. [174]
Are there any queen-breeders? Starters vs. combs for swarms, Thompson, F. L. pp. [174]-178
Good things in the bee-keeping press, Somnambulist pp. 178-179
The use of comb foundation, Miller, S. E. p. 180
The cliff-dwellers, Davis, J. M. pp. 181-185
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W – One Year Old!Posted in children's portraits, family portraits with tags 1 year old, children's portraits, family portraits, Florida, natural light photographer on July 21, 2008 by lovinglegacy
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Well, my precious hubby is sleeping of a killer sore throat (of COURSE the baby and I didn't give it to him!) so I've got more time to get some photos posted! These are from a recent family session with our precious pastor's family. It was so much fun, guys, and I'm looking foward to "playing" with K at your engagement shoot! Keep bringing those super creative ideas, you two.
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Recently I had the opportunity to photograph this precious family. They are an example to my husband and me (although they may not know it!) of firm, gentle, and God-honoring parenting… and their kids show honor to their commitment. This session was so much fun for me because the kids, who are so sweet but normally shy, were SO relaxed and really let me in on their giggles. Thanks, guys, for sharing your memories- I hope you will remember these days through the photos we captured!


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The research on summer slide is down right frightening! Conservative estimates are that children loose two months of progress over the summer months.
So we are trying our best to prevent the slide as much as possible this summer. We have school for an hour every weekday morning. No screen time or outings until our work is done. We practice reading, writing, math and typing (for my nine year old).
To encourage the reading we joined a summer reading program at our local bookstore. I also set up a pop up tent on our deck with pillows, blankets and a basket of books.
Right now my Kindergartener is loving the new Pete The Cat I Can Read books -- check them out!


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Happy New Year
There is a break today in a series of winter storms. Beyond these Cypress trees in Pacifica yesterday, the ocean still looks blue-gray and wild. I like the change of seasons. Winter should feel like winter. I feel hopeful about the new year, keeping my fingers crossed (superstitious? me?) about several good things coming to pass this year, all having to do with progress, moving forward, being fearless.


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Steven Siceloff NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center A new bus made an unusual impression on officials at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida recently when the all-electric vehicle carried a contingent of center, state and local officials on a tour of NASA's launch site. Driving around the Vehicle Assembly Building, the bus made so little noise it couldn't be picked out from among the ambient sounds outside the facility. Your first impression will be that it's not even on, that it's not even running, Proterra engineer Joel Torr told the group just before they climbed aboard for the ride. People aren't used to this big, quiet, clean bus. It's ...Read full article »
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A 'current' vehicle Electric car dealer wants Marco drivers to go green 7 photos at full size MARCO ISLAND — Mike Harris wants to help spark a revolution in driving. As the owner of GEM of Marco Island, Harris is working to introduce the electric car to local motorists. His company sells the Gem Electric Motorcar, and is the only dealer in Southwest Florida. The GEM is well-suited for local driving, and with gas prices climbing ever higher, can represent a saving on transportation expense, while also helping to curb air pollution, he said. You're going to use the GEM car in situations where your gas-powered car gets its worst gas mileage, he said, hopping over to Publix ...Read full article »
Clemson Vehicular Electronics Laboratory Electric PowerAssisted Steering
Electronic Power Steering Basic Description Power steering systems supplement the torque that the driver applies to the steering wheel. Traditional power steering systems are hydraulic systems, but electric power steering (EPS) is becoming much more common. EPS eliminates many HPS components such as the pump, hoses, fluid, drive belt, and pulley. For this reason, electric steering systems tend to be smaller and lighter than hydraulic systems. EPS systems have variable power assist, which provides more assistance as the speed of a vehicle decreases and less assistance at higher speeds. They do not require any significant power to operate when no steering assistance is required. For this ...Read full article »
A123 Systems Bankruptcy Is A Complete SellOff Next? Forbes
A123 Systems Bankruptcy: Is A Complete Sell-Off Next? Lithium ion battery maker A123 Systems today said it has sold its automotive business to Johnson Controls and is filing for bankruptcy protection. The moves are a change in strategy for the ailing Waltham, MA-based company, which in August said it will sell an 80 percent share to the auto parts division of Chinese conglomerate Wanxiang for $450 million. Johnson Controls will acquire a significant set of assets for its $125 million investment, some of which were paid with federal aid. A123 Systems' auto business includes its technology, two battery factories in Michigan, a cathode powder manufacturing facility in China, and A123's stake ...Read full article »
Smart Grid Implementation in Sacramento IEEE Smart Grid
Smart Grid Implementation in Sacramento Details Written by Jim Parks With little prior experience to draw from other energy companies, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District is trying out a wide array of smart grid technologies. The goal is to develop a roadmap for large-scale deployment. Prominent elements include smart metering, time of use and peak pricing, microgrid islanding and energy storage. The Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) is an electric-only municipal utility with a service territory covering 900 square miles in the heart of California. SMUD serves over 600,000 customers, including six cities and the County of Sacramento. Awarded almost $150 million in grants ...Read full article »
A 1972 SAAB 96 Electric Vehicle Saab History
A 1972 SAAB 96 Electric Vehicle With everyone going green these days, it does not surprise me when I received the following information from a colleague. Apparently, a Saab Enthusiast by the name of Christen Johansen in New York, has recently outfitted a beautiful 1972 SAAB 96 into a full on Electric Vehicle or EV . This is certainly not the first Saab or vintage SAAB that has had the necessary modifications in order to run with electric power. Back in 1993, Walter Kern, a physicist by trade and also the creator of the SAAB Quantum. designed and re-engineered a 1974 SAAB Sonett III to run on electrical power. Here are some additional videos covering this project that are of particular ...Read full article »
August 2003 Show and Tell in San Jose V is for Voltage electric vehicle forum
August 2003, Show and Tell in San Jose The local chapter of the Electric Automobile Association (http://www.eaaev.org/ ) regularly holds events where they gather electric vehicles in a public place, place out flyers and the like, and talk to whoever goes by. In August 2003 I got to be part of one of these events, bringing my big scooter (EVT 4000). The venue was the Tech Museum of Innovation in downtown San Jose, and it was the same weekend as the San Jose Jazz festival. This meant the downtown was absolutely bonkers with exhibits all over the place and a ton of people all over. You might think that would be good, but the people were generally too busy with the music to talk with us. The ...Read full article »
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Status message Pub. L. 111–5. div. B, title I, § 1142(d),Feb. 17, 2009, 123 Stat. 331. provided that: "In the case of a vehicle acquired after the date of the enactment of this Act [Feb. 17, 2009] and before January 1, 2010, no credit shall be allowed under section 30 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as added by this section, if credit is allowable under section 30D of such Code with respect to such vehicle." The table below lists the classification updates, since Jan. 3, 2012 . for this section. Updates to a broader range of sections may be found at the update page for containing chapter, title, etc. The most recent Classification Table update that we have noticed was Tuesday, ...Read full article »
Why China& s Electric Vehicle Industry Isn& t Ready for Prime Time US News
Why China Isn't Ready for Electric Vehicles Despite China's ambitions, it's not well positioned to compete in the global electric vehicle market. In this Nov. 5, 2013 photo, a visitor looks at an E30 EV, a small electric vehicle of Chinese state-owned automobile manufacturer Dongfeng Motor Co. at China International Industry Fair in Shanghai, China. Facing pressure to overhaul a worn-out growth model, China's leaders are promising dramatic changes at a weekend meeting, starting on Saturday, Nov. 9, 2013, that reform advocates hope will make history by unleashing a new wave of economic transformation. By 2020, auto analysts expect more than 2 million electric vehicles to be sold ...Read full article »
Vandals Attack Electric Grid In Arkansas Forbes
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JacobVask's home in Grimney
I have lived an eventful life, my wife Matila, (May the Zoriat Gods cradle her soul) My wife used to say that with all its lines, scars, dents and ridges, my face looked like a map of Grimney. The remark still makes me smile, and she's been dead now some ten year or more. During my life, I've been a soldier, a tree feller, a hunter and in my darkening years I am now a butcher in Toraz, it's not a very grand shop but it suits me just fine, and I can still wield an axe as good as any warrior, despite the loss of two fingers. Other than that I'm just happy keeping to myself, smoking pipe weed, arm wrestling, (I'm unbeaten at Holme's Tavern) and I enjoy hearing poems and stories from the more sociable regulars. I often sit quiet in the corner and listen when Elvira and Nydas sing. I also enjoy watching Clara Jane when she dances, after all I'm not that old!


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The weather in Oklahoma can be crazy with wild changes daily, but one obstacle can be devastating to a good day's ride. Yes, I'm talking about the life giving RAIN. It relaxes me, feeds our crops and normally a great day to stay home to watch old B/W movies. Then again, it's a hard ride home (or to the studio) getting hammered by rain drops cruising at highway speeds. My old rain gear purchased about ten years from Aerostich is (was) awesome. Keep me dry on many rides through Europe and the western United States. I finally meet it's match on the exhaust of the new bike and I have a huge hole on inside right leg. And since I lost the top jackets some time ago during moving, I new rain suit was in order.
I checked with some motorcycle communities, mainly Kawasaki Vulcan forums, and found an inexpensive but durable suit that would just stay in the saddle bags. I found my suit at Walmart in the camping section and so far it has been awesome. It's a very lightweight material that packs small and best of all, it was very inexpensive. Even if it only makes it though a season or two of wet Oklahoma weather, it will be worth it.
I'm not sure that it's very stylish and I get purchase the XXL version to easily fit over bulky riding gear. Here I am sporting the new Frogg Toggs Ultra-Lite2 Rain Suit and a shot of the small pouch I was able to cram it back into after the skies parted.
I just checked the weather while writing this post, and I get to use it again this Saturday. Yeah! OK, that was a little sarcastic. Just saying. Let's hope for good weather for the Scott Kelby Worldwide PhotoWalk in two weeks! Enjoy the Day!