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Fall is almost here, meaning the leaves will be changing as well as some of the services at Glacier National Park.
Labor day is the last day visitors can take advantage of the free shuttle system accessing Logan Pass.
In fact, the last day to get to Logan Pass from West Glacier is October 20, from East Glacier it is September 22, so the park can do maintenance work on the Going-To-The-Sun Road.
Although open year-round, spokeswoman for Glacier National Park, Denise Germann, says there is a distinct drop in the number of visitors between Fall and their peak month of July-- when they saw about 650,000 people this year.
"Fall is beautiful in the park, some of the services may change, but the park is open and there's still several services. For example, the ranger-led activities, the guided hikes, continue through the month of September," said Germann.
Most of the campgrounds in the park are closing mid-September, but will allow primitive camping--without running water--a few more days after.
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This is an Authentic Balenciaga Work bag in latte color, from the 2013 Spring/Summer collection. This is made of soft distressed lambskin leather. It is beautifully combined with raised brass hardware and has gorgeous braided handles. The bag has a zip top closure, black textile interior with a convenient zipper pocket, and leather string tassels on the zipper pulls. A great bag for any stylish fashionista on-The-go.
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Design Trend: Rough Patches
- This Berlin kitchen's unfinished look works well with its overall industrial, stripped down vibe.
- In contrast to the structured modern sofa, the walls in this Amsterdam home look unstudied and soft.
- This Abigail Edwards-styled shot for Homesense reads unpretentious and eclectic.
- This bedroom, fresh from Ikea's 2013 Spring catalog, is all about dreamy, bohemian romance.
- While others might quickly patch and paint, John Derian went to great lengths to save these walls, preserving house's patina, character, and history.
- Even kids' rooms are getting in on the action, like this one from Ferm Living.
- Mr. Perswall's Dusty Patina wallpaper.
- Emilia over at Reclaimed Home shows you her technique for making the new look old again.
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I feel like this only ever looks good in an editorial, or maybe some really wealthy person's paris apartment. IRL it just looks like your just too lazy/poor to paint.
I agree with paigep. I think rough-hewn places only work if you have really expensive things and/or an expensive neighbourhood, just like "shabby chic" only works (if you think it works, lol!) in a really nice, well-put-together place.
@paigep couldn't agree more. It takes a lot of work to make distressed walls look amazing and not like they are falling down and full of cockroaches. I don't think many of these rooms would be very nice to actually be in, no matter how well photographed.
I had a spare bedroom one time in a huge old farmhouse that I needed to make ready for a student tenant.
My girlfriend and I slathered plaster on many cracks and did some fun mixed shades of yellow, making it look like what she called "French country chic." It ended up looking somewhat glazed with darker shades toward the corners.
I loved it and so did the tenant.
It saved me a lot of bucks and the creativity was fun.
I think there are places where this works really well.
Remember that massive room in The King's Speech?
Yeah, I'm going to jump on the bandwagon here, poverty is only cool if you aren't actually living in it.
Another vote for what paige said.
I think maybe this would work for me in a very small industrial loft that had cement walls. But, I'd expect the ceilings to be perfect and the floors to be very high end with high end cabinets and appliances as well. In short, it would have to look deliberate and only in a very narrow set of circumstances.
Well, all I can say is that I'm on-trend. I guess I won't have to spend the summer painting the new kitchen walls and woodwork.
Some people have to live with it, whether they want to or not. I bet living with some honest "Bohemian romance" doesn't usually involve being comfortable in any sense of the word. While I can appreciate the history behind some of these walls, and I can definitely find the beauty in peeling wallpaper in an abandoned building, I'm pretty sure I'd never want to live there. Most people wouldn't. And I have trouble identifying with people who are wealthy enough to think that adopting random symbols of poverty in order to be fashionable is acceptable. Living in a centuries-old farmhouse because it's your family home, I get that. Building a new house and installing pre-aged MDF cabinets in the kitchen, because you want your suburban middle-American mcmansion to "feel like Tuscany," is just gross.
Not a fan. It's like showing up to a gala in an evening gown and dirty, distressed combat boots. Helen Bonham Carter might be able to get away with it, but the average person would just look like a redneck doing it. Same goes with the exposed walls. Photo number 3, in particular, gives me the heebie-jeevies.
Sometimes I feel like this aesthetic is lovely and homey, like in the 1st and 5th pictures, and other times I feel like it's cold and unfriendly, like in the 3rd and 7th pictures. Not sure why I like it some times and not others, maybe it has something to do with the decor.
Glad that the loss of my back boiler and 70's gas fire twinned with badly splatted plaster (I live in local council housing in the UK) puts me right on trend!
I"m with previous commentators. Not my cup of tea at all!
Distressed wall wallpaper pattern? That is trying a little too hard.
I also agree with paige - this is so not my thing. It's just too unfinished.
I absolutely love this look but agree it needs to be real aging (not faux) in an old place, the room needs to be large with a high ceiling, and the space itself needs to be spotless.
I liked image 5 at first sight. Then I imagined sleeping there and my thoughts turned to splinters in my feet, dust, insects, drafts... Perhaps these are too much for my active imagination.
another upvote for paigep comment.
Bobo only works in very specific situations as many have outlined in the comments. Rich, foreign or rustic... but for most it just looks unkempt, dangerous and dirty. I personally like it in small doses, or when it is translated to art...but other then I cosign the poverty isnt cool...when you are actually living it statement.
#5 I like & not really a fan of plain Jane country farm. #10 would be great abstract are; on a canvas; not a whole wall. Didn't grunge clothing go out of style maybe a decade ago? Did it literally sneak back into the HOUSE?! This is one of those looking back 'this was so stupid' trends.
these are walls I can appreciate in photographs but would never want for a home. I also appreciate in homes where I see areas of the home that are well worn or dirty because of a routine use that often tells a story of their home in that one spot BUT don't appreciate if I have those areas in my own...
Agree with those who said that indications of poverty are only chic for the wealthy.
lead paint is back in style
Much more shabby than chic.
Well, I LOVE it!!
When I first looked, well, nevermind, I think everyone previously commented what I was thinking.
#5 looks like my former "loft" apartment when I first moved in-but I sure as heck wasn't going to leave the walls & ceilings looking like that!! I spent months painting every square inch.
Couldn't help what was underneath though. After 8 years of painting, renovating the beautiful wood floors and knotty pine walls in the "sunroom"-the building was condemned last March & I had to move. :(. (The "living room" ceiling and part of the roof sat on my living room floor, (and over ruined furniture) for over 2yrs. Hauling 37 buckets out EVERYTIME it rained or snowed wasn't exactly "healthy". LOTS of sweet memories though...and I DO miss my, (and my cat's), "pet" bats though!! (Now living on a farm, my cat has plenty of other "pets" she thinks should be playing with her.. ;)
Some of us have these walls not because we are in poverty or are rich (funny extremes in these comments) but because it takes time and energy to get things fixed "just right."
Now me, I prefer an old genuine plaster wall, maybe not in perfect shape, to a flat, perfect drywall panel. But unfortunately it's not easy to find people who can repair that old plaster sensitively so that it doesn't look brand new.
I can see doing this in a museum or restaurant, maybe, but not sure I can live with it, They all remind me of set designs which is pretty interesting.
Does anyone else see a llama on the wall in the 3rd photo? Just me, then? Okay.
Yup, it's a llama. I can't help but wonder what event burned its image into the wall though....
I'm in the "this is great for editorial pictures but not in real life" camp. That said, I admire the recently posted work of the Jersey Ice Cream Co., specifically this house, because the entire home is done in a rustic/salvaged/pseudo-decayed/aged fashion with neutral furnishings: http://www.jerseyicecreamco.com/beforeandafter
Thank you for this post! I live in an 1800s Victorian house and our bedroom in particular has very aged and worn plaster walls. In some rooms it has worked to just paint the walls as normal, but I want to embrace the irregularity of the walls in the bedroom. Trying to make them look perfect would be working against the space. I want to do a really dark purple distressed wall. I think the key is to have more perfect, glossy pieces to contrast against the "dirty" walls so it doesn't just look like a hovel.
I also have a hallway where I started to scrape the paint off the walls. My intention was to sand and repaint, but scraping revealed layers and layers of beautiful old wallpaper from as far back as the 30's (when the addition was put on the house). I've kept it as-is and it looks lovely.
Hail wabi-sabi!
Also, I am a few steps away from a "starving artist", so this is not just a trend for the wealthy!
Looks like a good portion of homes in New Orleans, mine included. Most of my walls still have their original blue casein paint that's over a hundred years old and other walls have no paint because they were wallpapered their whole lives, an I scraped it down to the original warm grey plaster. I think if your walls have enough character you barely need anything in a room to make it feel interesting, plus we don't mind the age of things." La beauté de l'entropie ". But yeah, plenty of tourists I've meet speak of wishing everything was freshly painted an new looking. Unfortunately 60 percent of housing stock here is at or over a hundred years old. And 25 percent is closer or over 200 years old.


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Now is not the time for GM crops to be grown in Britain - that is the answer to last week's big question.
A total of 67% of the 3,368 people who voted were against the idea of the so-called 'Frankenfood' being grown by famers and the controversial crops being backed by the government.
Robert Watson was concerned that such a move would set a precedent. He said "If this Pandora's Box is opened, there is no turning back. We would have to endure whatever side effects of cross pollination etc.. that will without doubt arise as a direct result of us allowing genetically modification of whatever crop. Greed is the main driving force behind the farmers' ongoing publicity schemes to try to somehow change the mind of the public. The main aim and result of genetic management of any crop is greatly increase yield - so more money for the farmer.
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Albert Herbert Hawkins gave the debate an international view:"As a Brit living in the USA and having to suffer GMOs please no, no, no. Nutrition levels of GMO are pitiful compared to organic. Keep the rest of the world GMO free! There are now super bugs resistant to the bug resistant corn that are demanding ever increasing pesticides and modification. The other side is that once you start GMO you have to buy new seeds every year, price and supply controlled by Monsanto, life controlled by Monsanto. It is too much power concentrated in one company, a very dangerous situation."
Alan Tindall also wondered about the effect it could have on the people eating the GM food, saying: "As a family, GM food would not be on our shopping list this food has not been tested on humans over a long period of time so no one knows if there is a long term affects or what affects is would have with someone that was already ill. Once these crops have been planted there is no going back they are messing with nature and with things at will destroy the older natural version of the crops the modify."
And Colin White added: ""GM crops are not worth the risk. The companies who make them, such as Monsanto, are irresponsible and have destroyed many farmers in the USA. We cannot rely on their research as it is not truly independent, if independent at all."


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As Information Technology Director for N.C. FAST (Families Accessing Services Through Technology), 39-year-old Anthony Vellucci makes sure statewide computer systems are running smoothly. He's held his current position since 2010, according to state records. In June, he received a pay raise of more than $23,000, bringing his annual salary to $168,000. That's $27,000 more than the annual salary of Gov. Pat McCrory.Vellucci's raise is in addition to other pay bumps at the Department of Health and Human Services, which we told you about earlier this week. 24-year-old Communications Director Ricky Diaz got an extra $23,000 in April. 24-year-old Chief Policy Advisor Matthew McKillip took in an extra $22,500 around the same time.
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On Thursday, in an interview with WNCN's Penn Holderness, McCrory defended those raises saying they were the result of well-deserved promotions, but state records show Vellucci's raise was not the result of a promotion. In fact, it's classified as a "retention adjustment."DHHS Human Resources Director Mark Gogal said doling out an extra $23,000 in pay was necessary to keep Vellucci from leaving."Retention of Mr. Vellucci was critical," Gogal said in an email response to WNCN on Friday. "He is the project manager for an IT project that has been in development since 2009 and affecting all public assistance benefits in all 100 NC counties. This project - North Carolina Families Accessing Services through Technology (NC FAST) is a program designed to improve the way the NC Department of Health and Human Services and county departments of social services serve North Carolinians. Implementation of the project is critical for NC to meet deadlines imposed by the federal government for the ACA."Other high-level staffers at DHHS have recently taken in big raises as well. For example, 35-year-old Jason Simmons, a senior planner, took in a $22,500 pay raise in April, bringing his salary to $62,500.Those raises took place after a March 8 memo McCrory sent to state agencies, directing them to reign in salaries due to major Medicaid cost overruns.That memo read in part, "Limit compensation increases to only those needed for promotions and reclassifications where there is clear documentation of increased responsibilities and the expectation that agency accountability and performance will be improved."McCrory has also blamed those Medicaid cost overruns, in part, for freezing teacher salaries in the two-year state budget he signed into law in July.Friday, WNCN's Steve Sbraccia traveled to Greenville, where McCrory and DHHS Secretary Aldona Wos held a press conference on an unrelated topic.
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Read more → Foreign Policy Religion Afghanistan Middle East 2012 Election Tweet Posted May 4, 2012 By Carah Ong Friday Roundup President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai exchange documents after signing the strategic partnership agreement at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, May 1, 2012. Each week in the Friday Roundup, Riding the Tiger takes a look at the major news stories of the week involving the presidential election of 2012. The one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden and President Obama's surprise visit to Afghanistan to sign the Strategic Partnership Agreement dominated headlines this week and drew attention to the role of foreign and national security policy in the election. Romney and Obama have started the attacks early and, folks, it ain't pretty. 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On Sunday, George Stephanopoulos asked a panel of six distinguished commentators whether or not America's economic recovery is built to last. No one answered "no" outright, but pessimism pervaded. Read more → Economic Policy 2012 Election Miller Center Resources Tweet Posted May 3, 2012 By Brian Domitrovic Scholarly Response: "It's Hard to Put a Happy Face on This Recovery" On Sunday, April 29, the Miller Center partnered with ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" on the second of six special episodes examining some of the key issues heading into the 2012 Election. On Sunday, six distinguished panelists discussed and debated whether or not America's economic recovery is "built to last." Today's guest post is from historian Brian Domitrovic offering his assessment of the arguments presented in the debate. Paul Krugman said some misleading things in this debate. "This is not especially worse than the recovery from the 2001 recession," for example. And, "If you actually just look at the job gains, or lack thereof, they're more or less on track." Read more → Economic Policy 2012 Election Miller Center Resources Tweet 22 of 28 Pages ‹ First < 20 21 22 23 24 > Last ›


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Posts categorized "Slow Cooker Recipes"
Slow Cooker Barbecued Beefby Joe Cassady
Photo: allrecipes.com I'm a crock-pot person. I like to prepare my recipes ahead of time. What's more, I like the convenience of sl...Read More »
Tangy Slow Cooker Pork Roastby Joe Cassady
Photo: allrecipes.com When I cook meat, I prefer to use a Slow-Cooker. One of my favorites is Tangy Slow Cooker Pork Roast. Her...Read More »
Slow cooker Taco Soupby Susan Kennedy
Tried this one this weekend...very easy and tasty! Got the recipe from allrecipes.com 1 pound ground beef (i used turkey meat to m...Read More »
Slow Cooker Italian Beef Sandwichesby Joe Cassady
Photo: allrecipes.com Make sure you have the following ingredients or add them to your shopping list, because today we're going to...Read More »
Dishwasher Diningby PJ Lacey
Oprah's done it- Salmon, noodles, or veggies can be steamed in your favorite kitchen appliance according to Michaeleen Doucleff fro...Read More »
Not Enough Chili Makers Know This Secretby Mark Evans
If you're like me, there's nothing better than a big heaping bowl of thick and meaty Chili! Some people prefer beans (Chili Co...Read More »
Quick and Easy Crock Pot Dish-Creamy Chicken and Noodlesby Aimee Sedik
With a one year old and a full schedule, I LOVE my crock pot! And this one was an instant hit with the whole family. I a...Read More »