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This panoramic photograph gives very little indication of the number of people wandering around the Colosseum at the time it was taken. The Colosseum is huge, even when in such a ruined state it is very impressive. It is not surprising that so many tourists visit it. This panorama was taken quite early in the morning when the temperatures in Rome had not yet climbed to over 30C.
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The Colosseum is one of the most visited attractions in Rome. Even though over half of the material that made up the Colosseum has been plundered for other building works, the ruins are still very impressive. It is next to the Arch of Constantine and close to the Roman Forum.
Because of the popularity, the Colosseum is often full of people unless you get there early. If you see a queue outside the building then there are another 100m or within the outer ring of the Colosseum hidden from view before you get to the ticket office! Tickets to the Colosseum also allow entry to the Palatine Hill, accessed through the Roman Forum.
The Coliseum in Rome was built by the Flavians. Work started in AD72 and finished in AD82. The inauguration of Titus in AD80 was a 100 day festival during which over 5000 wild animals and 2000 gladiators died. During the Middle Ages the Colosseum became an informal quarry and stones were often used for other buildings in Rome, including parts of St. Peter's Basilica.
The Coliseum is a huge ellipse 188m long and 156 wide. Originally 240 masts were attached to stone corbels on the 4th level. From these a vast canopy could be extended to cover the whole amphitheatre to shield spectators. The Colosseum was used for the re-enactment of famous Roman battles, with gladiators saluting the emperor with 'Ave Caesar, morituri te salutant!' (Hail Caesar, those who are about to die salute thee!). Such a death was not considered dishonourable in Roman times.
Steep steps ascend at points within the Colosseum ascend to the upper tier from where this picture was taken. This panoramic photograph was taken at the end nearest the Roman Forum, and the tunnels and works that rested under the arena floor from which animals and people entered the arena are clearly visible. Part of the arena floor has been reconstructed at the far end. Gladiators used to enter the arena through a gate just below the crowd of people in the foreground. The Imperial box was located at the mid point of the left hand side of the arena.
The most common spelling is "Colosseum", but search will quickly show that it seems that no two places spell it the same. Other variants include 'Coloseum, Colisseum, Colliseum, Colleseum, Colossium and Colissium'.
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10th Anniversary Meaning Article
The tradition for wedding anniversaries dates back to medieval time when people would give a reef containing a specific material for each year.
With the 10 year anniversary that traditional material is Tin or aluminium (mainly Tin), the traditional stone being black onyx and the modern material being Diamond.
What is the meaning of Tin? The exact 10th anniversary meaning cannot be confirmed as there are many theories for why Tin was chosen at the gift for the 10th anniversary, Tin is a very soft material and it has been said that the flexibility of the tin represents the flexibility of a good relationship, the give and take that makes a relationship strong.
Another theory for the 10th anniversary meaning is one that may represent what many of us see as the use of Tin. In 1810 Peter dunard patented the use of Tin coasted iron for the use on cans with the purpose of preserving food, the protective layer of Tin protected the iron and stopped corrosion and thus keeping the food safe. It's believed that it's this meaning that tin symbolises preservation and longevity.
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Ray J Hospitalized for Exhaustion & Dehydration
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China posted a final current account surplus of $50.9 billion in the second quarter, compared with a preliminary surplus of $52.9 billion, the foreign exchange regulator said on Thursday.
For the April-June period, China recorded a $400 million deficit in its capital and financial account, versus a preliminary deficit of $52.9 billion, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange said on its website.
For the first half this year, China's final current account surplus stood at $69.3 billion while the capital and financial account deficit was at $38.9 billion.
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Selected articles, essays, and reviews
"The Renegade Miss Americas Who Spat on the Pageant's Ideals," Vice.com, Sep. 29, 2017.
"Out of Print Children's Books Worth Digging Up," SF Gate, Feb. 24, 2016.
Man in Profile: Joseph Mitchell of The New Yorker (book review), San Francisco Chronicle, May 7, 2015.
"Visionary Tattoo," Fluence Magazine, Issue 3. 2014. (catalog essay for "Body Electric" at Ricco/Maresca Gallery Sep. 18-Oct. 25, 2014).
"Race Matters, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Aug. 27, 2014.
"Ink sessions" (profile of Roxx 2Spirit) Aeon Magazine, Jan. 10, 2014.
"Hate the Brand, Love the Man: Why Ed Hardy Matters," (essay) Los Angeles Review of Books, Aug. 25, 2013.
"Inkside Out:Visual Artists are Incoroporating Tattoo Imagery and Techniques into Their Art," ARTnews, Dec. 2012.
"More on 'So,'" The Chronicle of Higher Education (Lingua Franca), Dec. 19, 2011.
"Mockingbird Sings" (review of Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee by Charles Shields), Salon.com. June 6, 2006.
"A Blank Human Canvas: The Literary Tattoo Leaps from the Page to Living Parchment," The Believer, (Dec/Jan 2005-6).
Personal Essays:
"Learning to Die," The New York Times, September 30, 2015.
"My Most Spectacular Failure: A student transcends his circumstances but not his demons." The Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov. 25, 2013: rodriguez3
"Remembering Obama at Occidental," The New Yorker.com, Oct. 3, 2012.
"The Scarlet V," Proto Magazine (fall 2010). An essay about the beauty of an ugly scar.
"Life Stories Unlocked by Literature," The Chronicle of Higher Education. May 25, 2009. life-stories1
"The Occidental Tourist" (Op Ed), from "The Places He Remembers: Postcards from Barack Obama's Life," The New York Times. Jan. 18, 2009.


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Why can you not issue signals before the market close?
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La Liga Wrap: Sevilla win derby, Valencia stunned
Sevilla secured the bragging rights over Real Betis in the Seville derby on Sunday with a 4-0 victory at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan Stadium.
Sevilla made an ideal start as Carlos Bacca opened the scoring after just two minutes and things twent from bad to worse for the visitors - who remain bottom and without a win in seven La Liga matches.
Paulao was shown two yellow cards in the space of five minutes before Stephane Mbia headed home from a free-kick.
Vitolo made it three a minute short of the hour-mark and Vicente Iborra rounded off the scoring after 88 minutes as Sevilla beat Betis by four goals at home in the derby for a second successive season, having triumphed 5-1 in the corresponding fixture last season.
Elche recorded a surprise 2-1 win against Valencia, with Fidel putting the home side ahead after 57 minutes only for substitute Juan Bernat to equalise just two minutes after coming on.
It was another substitute who stole the headlines however, with Cristian Herrera scoring the winner on his senior debut six minutes from time.
The win puts Elche level on points with Valencia and Fran Escriba's men are now above them on goal difference.
Villareal strengthened their grip on fourth place with a convincing 3-0 victory over Levante on Sunday.
Levante, who have now scored just once in their last four games, suffered their third straight defeat as they were well beaten on home turf.
Bruno Soriano opened the scoring for the visitors from the penalty spot 13 minutes in, with Keilor Navas shown a red card for the foul that resulted in the spot-kick.
From then on it was always going to be a tough ask and the hosts held out until the 74th-minute, when Ikechukwu Uche fired home from inside the area to score for a third straight game and he added another goal late on.
A Sergio Garcia hat-trick condemnded Rayo Vallecano to a fourth defeat in five La Liga matches, with the visitors going ahead from the spot at the Estadio del Rayo Vallecano after Ignacio Martinez was sent off 25 minutes in.
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This thesis documents the Walla Walla Superior Court's procedures of enforcing legal financial obligations (LFOs) imposed by the Court through contempt of court proceedings. The Court systematically prosecutes individuals who have failed to pay their debts without sufficiently verifying their ability to pay beforehand; this practice results in the illegal incarceration of indigent debtors. I completed an empirical observation of Court procedure and interviewed both Court Judges as well as the public defender assigned to these cases. I then juxtaposed the information gathered with an analysis of the relevant laws and judicial precedents, sociopolitical case-studies and statistical studies, and normative political theory. By placing the County's procedures in the relevant legal, social, and political contexts, I was able to conclude that Walla Walla Superior Court's LFO enforcement procedures are illegal, impractical, and unethical and sketched out the likely impacts these policies had on those unable to pay their court-imposed debts.
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Two iconic restaurants that have been around more than 35 years are closing.
Herrera's on Denton Drive between Hudnall and Inwood will close. That restaurant is in a strip center with Elliott's Hardware and backs up to the former site of the Resource Center Food Pantry. That property is set to be torn down to become another overpriced, overcrowded, poorly-built and worse-maintained Stalinist-style apartment complex.
Herrera's is probably the oldest Mexican restaurant currently operating in Oak Lawn. There have been several restaurants owned by the Herrera family over the years, although owned by different members of the family. The popular Herrera's restaurant that used to be located on Maple closed some years ago as that area was being redeveloped. But that restaurant, billed as "The Original Herrera's Cafe, is now located at 3311 Sylvan Ave, at the western end of the Sylvan Street bridge over the Trinity.
Dixie House in Lakewood Shopping Center is closed. That restaurant was started by Gene Street, who owns Lucky's. It was sold with Black-eyed Pea. The current owner is in bankruptcy, but continuing to run the Black-eyed Pea chain in the Dallas area. The Cedar Springs store closed at the beginning of the year. The original Dixie House was on McKinney Avenue in one of Jack Ruby's former nightclubs.


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Jo Wilfried Tsonga defeats Feliciano Lopez
Posted on August 2nd, 2012
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga defeated Feliciano Lopez, the Spanish challenger, in straight sets in the 2012 London Olympics, a major sports event that is held in every 4 years. Tsonga was able to garner a 7 – 6 (5), 6 – 4 triumph against Lopez, currently world number 29 and made himself a place in the quarter-final match on Wednesday, much to the joy of those placing bets on his victory.
Having the rank 6 in South African Airways Association of Tennis Professionals World Tour Rankings, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga began his run in the XXX Olympiads with a lot of conviction. He was able to smoothly hold on to his entire serves, yet could not capitalize on the break opportunities. The Frenchman however dominated during the tie-breaker, thereby winning the opening set by 7 – 6 (5).
Tsonga then carried his fluent rhythm in the next set and was able to easily swipe his entire serves. Eventually he got his breakthrough against left-handed Lopez in the 7th game and claimed the set by winning 6 – 4.
The 27-year old French player outshined Lopez completely by hammering 13 aces and managed to clobber a higher share of first serve (67%) than his opponent (66%). Tsonga was also able to strike 31 winners and thereby prevailed throughout the entire match.
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From 2011 to 2013, Shai Kremer was granted access to photograph the construction of One World Trade Center, as it grew into the spot on the Lower Manhattan skyline once occupied by the Twin Towers. The series he made from the images, "Concrete Abstract," is on view at the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts in Tampa until September 20, where the prints are shown for the first time at their full size, 60 x 80 inches. The images combine Kremer's photographs of the controlled chaos of the construction site—expanses of raw cement, cranes, scaffolding, and a growing network of iron—with images of the destruction of September 11, taken from the public record. The results are dense, turbulent pictures that attempt to combine the past, present and future of the site. Kremer tells PDN by email, "I was very pleased for this late opportunity to finally unveil the work the way I envisioned it while constructing the images in my studio. Each image contains so much information, that in smaller sizes, the abstract can take over and viewers could miss all the details that tell the many stories."
For Kremer, an Israeli based in New York whose earlier work has examined the way history and politics mark the landscape in his home country, the series was a way to explore American identity. As he writes in a statement about the series, "The accumulation of layers and viewpoints in the images themselves parallels the metropolis in general, New York and America in particular: accumulation—destruction—reconstitution, the paradigm of modernity."
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It's international break, which means we have to trawl the internet for appealing Liverpool content!
And this today took our fancy. It's a quiz by Sporcle, asking Reds to name the 45 players selected by Jurgen Klopp during his year at Liverpool.
We got 42, missing three – one of which was Sadio Mane – which we cannot quite believe…
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The St. Thomas Aquinas softball team fell to Mercy College, 13-1 and 7-3 on Tuesday afternoon.
In the first game, Mercy exploded for 13 runs and 16 hits in taking game one in five innings. Both teams went scoreless in the first inning, but the Mavericks put together seven runs in the bottom of the second to take a 7-0 lead.
In the top of the third, Amanda Schweitzer singled home Ashley Landolina to make it 7-1. After going down in order in the third inning, the Mavericks responded by plating six runs in the fourth to up their lead to 13-1.
In game two, the Spartans jumped out to a 1-0 lead in their first at-bat on an unearned run. The game remained 1-0 until the bottom of the 5th, when Kaylee Stevens hit an RBI single to tie the game up at 1-1.
Landolina went 4-for-4 with two runs for the Spartans and Colleen Borum allowed four earned runs in five innings to take the loss.
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What was that guy with the pleated khakis and the trophy wife really like at 18? No context. No nostalgia. Then again, no ill-formed prejudices picked up from my boyfriend's boss' story of his 1989 engagement party. Some, I thought, are in step with Seattle's evolving restaurant scene, while others seem to be showing their age. One may be entering a second midlife crisis. However, whether I'd send my own out-of-town friends to these seven places or not, I have enormous respect for each one. In a Darwinian business that eviscerates the idealism and the bank accounts of all but the most driven restaurateurs, it takes passion and commitment to keep a restaurant alive for 20 years. Ray's Boathouse and Cafe [1945] For the first 30 years of its existence, this 61-year-old restaurant was primarily a lunch counter where you'd find off-duty Scandinavian fishermen hanging out with amateurs who'd just spent the morning casting lines from one of Ray Lichtenberger's rented boats. According to current chef Charles Ramseyer, dramatic shift number one came when a team of professionals, led by Russ Wohlers, transformed the fish-and-chips shop into a real restaurant specializing in wild seafood purchased from local fishing boats. "They were the first Seattle restaurant to put calamari and whitefish on the menu," Ramseyer says, "as well as Olympia River oysters and Copper River salmon." Dramatic shift number two: a massive fire that burned down the building in 1987. It took a year for the owners to rebuild, and when they did, they added a second story to house a casual cafe. Since then, the remote restaurant with its spectacular Puget Sound view has been one of the city's must-visits, attracting tourists from all over the world. Ramseyer, a Swiss-born chef who'd toured the Pacific Northwest with the Four Seasons hotel chain, came on board 14 years ago. "My job," he says, "is to secure the best-quality seafood in the Pacific Northwest, from San Francisco to northern Alaska, and whatever is in season is important to us." Over the years, he's expanded his mission to include sustainably grown, local vegetables and meats, too. Perhaps due to its tourist-destination reputation, I've heard more local Seattleites report to me that the quality of the food has slipped, but I found every piece of fish that I tasted sublime. The stuff surrounding the actual seafood—the salads, the side dishes, the sauces—varied in quality from ho-hum to delightful, but the actual meat, from the Alaskan coho salmon to the sea scallops, was all finesse. My smoked Chatham Strait sablefish was a revelation: the outside of the creamy white filet only brushed with wood smoke, and the interior flesh tasted as if Ramseyer had molded it out of butter. A downstairs meal can cost you $80 if you drink lightly, and after the light fades, the interior becomes just another seaside restaurant. So the best way to enjoy Ray's, longtime Ballard residents have told me, is to race home from work, pick up the kids, and run up the steps to the cafe so you can secure one of the tables closest to the edge of the patio, bundle up with blankets, and watch the sun set over the Sound while you snack on crab cakes and fried calamari. Ray's Boathouse 6049 Seaview Ave., 206-789-3770, www.rays.com. Canlis [1950] It's hard to think of Canlis as revolutionary, but back in 1950, when Peter Canlis moved from Hawaii to Seattle, he created a formal restaurant that defied all the conventions of formality: The chefs didn't hide back in the kitchen but grilled—grilled!—steaks where the customers could see them. Instead of tuxedo-clad waiters parading in French formation, Canlis staffed the floor with Japanese women wearing elegant kimonos. Not only did his Asian-influenced food capitalize on America's post-Prohibition fascination with tikitude, but Canlis turned out to be a master restaurateur. He, and then his children, ran a restaurant so well that they were able to transfer it to the third generation. In the restaurant world, that's practically immortal. Since 2003, Peter's grandson Mark Canlis, who last year was joined by younger brother Brian, has been working to move the institution into the future without violating its past. "People have a deep-founded respect for the family," he says of his decision to make sure a Canlis remained at Canlis. "If we turn our back, it's like walking away from a friendship." It's a tricky dance, the pas de deux between new and old, but he seems to have mastered the steps. Mark's latest round of renovations simply freshened the decor, whose rock walls and steep angles have cycled back into fashion. Chef Aaron White has retained signature dishes such as the steak tartare and the Peter Canlis shrimp, rephrasing the rest in 2006 terms. The Canlises have maintained all the markers of a classic restaurant, including the wine list as thick as a photo album and the magic valets who drive your car to the door just as you're exiting the building (an impressive trick that will never grow old). There are waiters who wear their formality like a uniform—just a little too starched to look comfortable—and others, like the ones who served me during my Canlis meal, who seem born to the suit. With the exception of a white corn and red pepper risotto whose flavors never knit together, White's food was exactly as it should be, the duck breast (with beluga lentils and a cherry reduction sauce) a rosy, moist medium; a vanilla crème brûlée as sensual as an Anaïs Nin novel. "Roasted halibut with fingerling potatoes, caramelized honshimeji mushrooms, and tobikko" reads like a risky East-West combo, but it doesn't taste ambitious; it tastes hearty and good. In the days after I returned from my meal, I heard a lot of jokes about dining with the blue hairs. Around my table were meeting-the-parents dinners, professional-conference outings, and 30th-anniversary celebrations: definitely a more established crowd than the regulars at the kinds of places I frequent on my own time, but far from a country-club atmosphere. Canlis is still the kind of place where you have to earn a seat with a view of Lake Union, either by dint of a special occasion or by accruing influence. But Seattle needs a few of those kinds of restaurants, and the younger Canlises deserve a lot of respect for running theirs right. Canlis 2576 Aurora Ave. N., 206-283-3313, www.canlis.com. Elliott's Oyster House [1975] Current–day manager Greg Hinton describes the Fish and Oyster Company's early menu as "Northwest seafood and fish and chips," in tune with the Seattle of the 1970s, with far more fried food than the kitchen produces today. As Seattle passed through the 1980s and 1990s, Elliott's focused more and more on wild salmon and other sustainable seafood. Eight years ago, it installed a giant oyster bar and began promoting mollusk love. Smart move: Though Elliott's is primarily a tourist destination (not surprising given its waterfront location), the oyster "program" has kept it in the guidebooks and magazines. At the height of the R-months, the oyster bar stocks as many as 30 varieties, all shucked before an audience of hungry customers, and on summer evenings the windowside tables are never empty. Even in a non-R month, bivalves are probably the best reason to go to Elliott's. The waiters seem conversant in everything from European flats to Kumamotos, and the one, two, or four dozen you order come nestled on a platter of ice and seaweed, with lemon wedges and a lovely pink-peppercorn mignonette sorbet that slices elegantly through. Every variety I tried tasted of the clean, cold ocean. The massive restaurant bustles even on its quiet nights, and there is a high-volume tinge to the cooked dishes. A seafood cobb lined mounds of sweet pink bay shrimp, crab meat, crumbled hard-boiled eggs, avocado, and, of course, bacon and blue cheese, but not enough rosemary vinaigrette (a whiff of the forest on the beach), and the white king salmon napped with a sundried-tomato caper butter sauce was overcooked and dry. But if the restaurant has one other signature dish, it's the crab, primarily Dungeness or Alaskan king. Served in its simplest guise—steamed with drawn butter and lemon—the crab was easy to screw up, and so Elliott's skilled cooks didn't. Elliott's Oyster House 1201 Alaskan Way, Pier 56, 206-623-4340, www.elliotts oysterhouse.com. Maximilien [1976] "Do you still serve your Market fish stew?" the middle-aged tourist asked Axel Macé, co-owner of Maximilien, as he and his wife quizzed Macé about reservations while I slipped into the restaurant. "Sometimes it's on the menu, sometimes no," Macé hedged. "It was so wonderful when I had it 20 years ago," the man said dreamily. Which illustrates exactly why you'd want to buy a 30-year-old restaurant. Maximilien was started by the exuberantly Gallic Francois Kissel and his American wife, Julia, whose first restaurant had been the iconic bistro Brasserie Pittsbourg in Pioneer Square. In 1997, the Kissels retired, selling Maximilien to long-term employees Macé and Eric Francy, who cleaned out the place, freshened the menu, and shocked the aging restaurant out of life-support mode. Today, some of the polish has worn off the food and room once again. Announcing itself to Market visitors in pink neon swirls, Maximilien has the look of a long-loved restaurant. The dark-green walls, the bistro chairs—which, my friend said happily, forced you to swivel your torso and tuck your arms inside the chair arms like you did as a child—could be the set for any movie filmed between 1975 and 1995. Few diners pay attention to the interior, anyway, once the waiter opens the shutters: Both the upstairs and downstairs dining rooms are filled with couples looking out over the Sound, and the owners have hung mirrors on the opposing wall for the martyrs facing the other direction. I know, I know. It's fashionable to pooh-pooh a good view, but it can really make an evening. Just as standing on a hilltop encourages the thinking of Big Thoughts, when you're spending an evening watching the sky and the water go peach and then blue-black, a plate of scallops can take on mystical overtones. Chef Francy aims for a balance of what Americans expect to eat at Pike Place Market and what they expect from a French restaurant: smoked salmon and warm spinach salad with raspberry vinegar alternate on the menu with escargots, foie gras, and tournedos Rossini. Bourgeois fare in either case, his food can come off as classic—such as an entrée of velvety sea scallops in a white-wine butter sauce with creamy-centered potato croquettes— or well-here-you-go-then, like a salade niçoise (seared tuna fillets, skinny haricots verts, black olives, anchovies, hardboiled eggs, bell peppers) that called out for fewer bagged mixed greens and a lustier, more mustardy vinaigrette to cut through the eggs and tuna and bring the salty cured fish in line. Also a cultural amalgam, Maximilien's wonderful service strips the formality from French fine dining while retaining its sense that a waiter is there to facilitate the meal, not color it with his or her presence. Service this good, like the view, never goes out of style. Maximilien 81A Pike St., 206-682-7270, www.maximilienrestaurant.com. Cafe Juanita [1977] Back when he waited tables, Peter Dow always thought he wanted to open a French restaurant, before he realized he was more of an Italian kind of guy. He opened his cafe in a house in Kirkland by Juanita Creek, serving no more than four or five entrées, which he priced affordably and changed every season, and making his own pasta. He got so popular, so quickly, that customers had a month's wait for a table. "It became a burden," he says, "because a couple who waited for a month could be divorced by the time they came, or were expecting too much out of their meal." So, in 1979, he moved a block and a half away to a larger ranch-style house. The buzz eventually died down (at one point, in fact, he was three weeks away from closing until a rave review in the Argus saved the business), and Dow enjoyed a 20-year run, making the simple, seasonal Italian-inspired food that he loved, and more and more, making wine in his basement. One longtime food writer recalled that, at crush time, he could smell the grapes fermenting from the far end of the parking lot. Eventually, Dow's wine business pushed out the restaurant business, and he sold the latter in 2000 to a bright young chef named Holly Smith. Smith turned the place inside out, and now entering the doors is like walking into a kiwi: From the dowdy exterior you'd have no idea how gorgeous the olive-hued restaurant is—straight out of a Dwell pictorial, sleek and cozily romantic at the same time. Smith has intensified Juanita's commitment to local ingredients, and her dishes read like odes to Seattle's seasons—right now a sonnet to game and huckleberries, mushrooms, and the last, spectacular, summer eggplants. She's doing everything I love. Despite the fact that Smith has won every accolade imaginable, including a spot on the 2006 Gourmet list of best restaurants in America, her kitchen delivered one of the worst dishes I've eaten in months: rabbit with chanterelles and a chickpea-flour crepe. The roast loin was sublime, but the braised leg and sauce (made from the reduced braising liquid) was salted so heavily that it stung my tongue; I even shied away from my favorite mushrooms, which were saturated with sauce. I felt so guilty for not having sent the dish back and given the kitchen another chance that I returned a few weeks later. On visit two, no one dish was so appalling, but again, all the meats were succulently roasted, and every sauce and risotto salted beyond reason, which means that someone in the kitchen is not tasting his or her food. Despite the perfection of a green bean salad dressed in crème fraîche and pastry chef Sara Novesky's sensual olive oil gelato—one of the most memorable desserts I tried—I was left hoping that Smith would remedy the problem fast instead of letting Cafe Juanita coast on its reputation. Cafe Juanita 9702 N.E. 120th Pl., 425-823-1505, www.cafejuanita.com. Campagne [1985] Twenty-one years ago, Peter Lewis opened a Capitol Hill bistro specializing in country French food in the spirit of those Berkeley folks who worshiped Elisabeth David's cookbooks and named their places after Marcel Pagnol films. Two years after he launched Campagne, a spot at the Pike Place Market opened up, and Lewis wisely jumped on it. Seattle's enthusiastic response—and the steady influx of tourists—confirmed that Lewis had picked the right place, right time, and the right menu. His original concept has been revitalized several times. In 1994, the restaurateur opened the more casual Cafe Campagne downstairs, specializing in the "rustic" part of "rustic French" so the upstairs could focus on the upscale. In 2000, Campagne regular and real-estate baron Simon Snellgrove bought into the business, taking over much of the day-to-day management. Most importantly, when well-regarded chef Tamara Murphy moved on to found her own restaurant, Brasa, Lewis promoted Daisley Gordon to executive chef. A Francophile and Culinary Institute of America grad, Gordon has kept pace with the city's food scene. For example, Campagne was the only one of the seven restaurants I visited to serve a new-millennium trend like the green-pea foam tracing a jade-colored ring around roasted wild king salmon on a truffled potato salad (truffles and salmon and mayonnaise, oh my!). Yet he also swings über-classic in dishes like his charcuterie plate, where a dash of cognac in the smooth, meaty pork rillettes haunts the nose and where velvety slices of veal tongue are saturated with the herb-infused stock the meat was braised in. One warm evening at Campagne, when I sat on the patio instead of mooning over the Market view from the marigold-walled dining room, I encountered a few off notes (an oddly bland guinea fowl, a meaty cousin to the pheasant, surrounded by a salt-sludge reduction sauce). But they were outweighed by pleasant surprises (a warm cucumber soup, the vegetable used more like an herb than a primary ingredient). On the whole, Gordon's food found a smart balance between clean and rich, and the waiters enacted all of the little fine-dining rituals, such as the between-course changing of the silverware and the post-entrée decrumbing of the table, that seem so fussy when you subject them to post-Marxist critique and so gracious when you don't. Campagne 86 Pine St., 206-728-2800, www.campagnerestaurant.com. Rover's [1986] Aspiring restaurateurs, here's your first lesson in how not to start up a classic restaurant: When Thierry Rautureau and a partner (who moved on in 1991) bought 15-month-old Rover's off its founding chef, who was eager to flee back to Los Angeles, the new chef didn't clean out the old one's fridge. Nor his menu. "We got the key on Sunday night and opened on Monday morning, serving his food," Rautureau laughs. It's hard to imagine one of the Northwest's most refined chefs putting out two to three meals a day of New American (roast chicken with herbs, warm spinach salad), but he did, for a year, until he realized he was burning out and not making enough money. "That's when I said, if we're going to be poor, I'm going to do what I want to do," he says. What he wanted to do became, over the next 19 years, one of Seattle's most celebrated showcases for Pacific Northwest haute cuisine. To the public, Rautureau is "the chef in the hat," with a celeb-chef cookbook and a James Beard Award to boot. Yet he complains that diners think of his restaurant as a museum, something they anticipate visiting for 10 years instead of stopping in for a few plates and a glass of wine. Is it the once-in-a-blue-moon cost, which Rautureau has tried to soften by offering the dishes in his famous prix-fixe meals à la carte? Is it the Madison Valley location, tucked so deep in a suite of grandma-cottage offices that you can get lost walking back from the street? Is it the ambience, designed so you don't waste time admiring anything but your tablemates and your plates? My initial reaction to the suburban-print burgundy carpet and the off-white walls, garnished only with a few Chagall-esque paintings and drapes, reminded me of my first impression of the French Laundry down in Napa. Waiting for the $90 five-course dinner (or $80 vegetarian or $125 eight-course meal, if you choose) to begin, I wondered: What's the hype about? The food. It's amazing how timeless, how fresh French technique is when it's used to glorify local, seasonal ingredients instead of Frenchitude itself. Rautureau nods to a number of current trends—salumi plates, Kobe beef—yet goes his own way, his cooks doing dozens of delicate little things with dozens of delicate ingredients. It's a meal whose every nuance is considered, down to the tiny dots of sauce that garnish the amuse-bouche, and so well prepared that a lover of good food doesn't have to waste time divining the cook's original intention from what actually ends up crossing his or her palate. Not to say that dishes like a silky roasted squab breast with cauliflower mushrooms or a scallop topped with a fat slice of seared foie gras don't go for the gut, but I found myself, as I rarely get to do, engaged with the dishes in the same way that I would be with a play or an abstract painting: studying the composition, meditating on what each bite told of the seasons and of my own sense of taste and smell. I can see why the hushed-voice service (flawless), the doorstop wine list, and the swank food make people who don't go out to dinner as much as I do feel like they need to save up, both psychically and financially, for Rover's. But Rautureau swears that I can "pop in" his restaurant for a $60 meal, a dare I may take him up on some day. Rover's 2808 E. Madison St., 206-325-7442, www.rovers-seattle.com. firstname.lastname@example.com


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After 96 arduous days the Premier League returned with a bang this weekend.
There were thrills and spills, shocks and surprises - and that was just in Louis van Gaal's disastrous Manchester United debut.
Arsenal got out of jail, Liverpool went again even shorn of Suarez and Leicester out-foxed Everton for a deserved point on their top flight return.
READ MORE: 5 things we learned from the opening weekend
There were talking points galore and plenty to get our teeth into - even without a certain Uruguayan - but what more can we glean after the first 90 minutes.
Well, here are some stats from Opta who crunched the numbers to lift lid further on a thrilling opening weekend.
495 - that's the number of days it has taken for Manchester United to rack up 10 home league defeats. It took 2562 to add up the 10 before that.
29 - the number of passes that were put together prior to Ki Sung-yueng's stunning opener for Swansea at Old Trafford. That surpasses last year's best mark, 24, again set by the Swans with Wilfried Bony finishing that particular flowing move off.
1972 - that's the last time United lost their home league opener.
3 - on three occasions the team to win the Premier League title has lost their first game - all three were Manchester United.
1 - the number of set piece goals conceded under Tony Pulis all last season. Palace conceded two goals from set pieces on Saturday alone at the weekend.
11 - QPR conceded a joint-Championship-high 11 goals from corners last season. James Chester's winner against them on Saturday was also from a corner situation.
Most passes on Saturday (stat via Opta)
4 - more sad reading for QPR fans - the Rs have only won four of their last 40 Premier League games.
6 - the number of chances created by Joey Barton against Hull, the most conjured by any player this weekend.
2 - Saido Berahino scored the same number of goals against Sunderland as he had in his last 18 Premier League appearances.
400 - the clash with Tottenham was West Ham boss Sam Allardyce's 400th Premier League game of his career.
10 - Mark Noble had netted his last 10 penalties before missing from the spot against Tottenham.
106 - Match-winner Aaron Ramsey made over 100 passes against Palace, more than any other player this weekend.
97 - Brede Hangeland had gone three entire seasons (or 97 games) without scoring a goal before netting on his debut for the Eagles.
22 - since the start of last season, Daniel Sturridge's goals have earned the Reds 22 points in the Premier League.
28 - after two more on Sunday the Reds have now netted in 28 of their last 29 league outings.
12 - Newcastle managed 12 shots against Manchester City at St James' Park, none of which were on target.
4 - following his opener against the Magpies, David Silva's last four goals have all come away from home.
0 - no defending Premier League champions have ever opening game the following season (W20 D3).
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In Basics
March 01, 2005
Falling is something we worry about as we get older. We often see our older friends slow down as they age, take shorter steps, need help getting up from a chair, and then need a walker. We watch this and are not surprised to hear that one of them has taken a fall. But even older folks who are active can suffer serious consequences from falling. As we age, our recovery times get longer, and bones break more easily and heal more slowly. A major bone break can start a downward spiral that may result in lost mobility that is never recovered.
Jim Baker and I are coaching a group of seniors in a class we call CrossFit Elements. Now that our clients have begun CrossFit, they are starting to feel some progress toward becoming fit and commanding more balance and agility than they used to. This in itself will reduce their risk of injury from a fall. That risk can be further reduced by knowing how to fall.
Adding falling practice to the set of skills one tackles in CrossFit makes good sense, not just for older or beginning participants but for everyone. Adding falling practice in slow, incremental steps is an example of CrossFit's being scalable to all ability levels.
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Nice article, having been invloved in Martial arts for over 25 years, i cannot recommend learning to fall correctly enough!, it has saved my bacon and potential injury numerous times,(outside of class) and is a true life skill.
An example i tell my students i had just finished filling my vechicle up at a garage whilst drinking coffee, i turned and slipped on some gas that was on the floor, i went into forward non rolling break fall (the end position is a plank)
my face was a whisker form planting the floor,i had three points of contact on the floor my right forarm and my toes, and i had even managed not to spill a bit of coffee on the way down, still to this day it amazes me.
all the years on the mat had paid off lol!
learning to fall is a huge life skill!!!


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A girl has to get her hair cut.
Especially when she's leaving on a fun weekend escapade in six days (more on that later).
Unable to find a sitter, I decided earlier this week (thanks to my Twitter peeps) to just take Benjamin to the salon with me. The place, right down the street from our apartment, is an industrial type of salon and also doubles as a barber shop. Not your average frou frou place and being edgy and alternative I figured Benjamin would be welcome there. I've also been going there for four years, maybe more.
I even asked when I made my appointment – just to be sure, "Is it okay if I bring my two-year-old with me?"
"Of course!"
I packed up a book, a few toys, a coloring book with crayons and some treats and we headed to the salon. After my shampoo and two minutes into the actual cut (half of my hair was 2.5 inches shorter than the rest) the salon owner came up to me and told me very shortly, "Is there anyway you can do anything about this? We can't have him running around like this."
I said, "I can try."
But I knew it was impossible. Hell, I was just happy Benjamin wasn't throwing a tantrum or breaking things. From my point of view, his crawling around beneath my legs and gabbing with salon patrons was excellent behavior. Given this, if half my hair weren't gone I would have walked out that moment.
So the hair cut went on and so did Benjamin – my little rascal.
See him there on the floor… being sweet and having fun.
The entire time I'm now very well aware of the owner's glare.
From the front of the small shop and even while she sat in the back and ate her lunch, she was scowling and shaking her head. The rest of the staff members, including my stylist, were incredibly cool about it – playing with him, picking up his crayons when he dropped them in the middle of the floor, telling me it was "cool" and "not to worry."
In the meantime I'm realizing painfully that my son is not ready for a hair salon. I feel bad, actually, and decide that this won't be happening again– for years. I even consider tipping everyone in the place.
One hour later my hair cut is finished and I jump out of the chair.
"Time to go Benjamin, c'mon baby."
I'm paying, gathering my stuff – frantically almost. I just wanted to get the hell out of there.
When I turn around she is standing within six inches of my face.
The salon owner, who looks like she should be permanently fixed to the back of a Harley with streaky blond hair snapped out of an 80's time capsule, is out for blood. Then she starts in on me – loud enough – for everyone in the tiny place, staff and patrons alike, to hear perfectly.
"Out of respect for me and everyone in the salon I just want to say that – this," she points at Benjamin who is now running around between our legs, "was completely disrespectful to everyone. My staff had to pick up after him and none of us could work."
"I understand and we definitely won't be coming back again," I say this expecting her to then leave me alone. But, no, she continues.
I can't remember exactly what she said because at this point my brain is pumping with adrenaline and the butterflies are crawling through my stomach, the sobs are welling up in my throat and I'm also on the verge of punching her in the face.
She went on berating me and then paused because Benjamin had just slapped her calf with his Bob the Builder toy. He does this when he's running between people's legs. Toddler tag or something.
"If he hits me one more time," she growls.
"He's two years old," I growl back, "and I called and asked if he could come beforehand."
"We have two-year-olds in here all of the time and they are perfectly behaved."
Then Benjamin hits her again. And she says it again, "If he hits me one more time."
Instead I say, "I would like to leave so he won't be able to hit you. But you're not letting me leave."
And then he hits her again.
At this point it's all a blur. I grabbed my little man, scooped up all of our stuff and pulled him outside with no coat on.
I wanted to add that as soon as we got home Benjamin and I were both sobbing, crying messes on our couch. He was sad because I don't think he's ever, ever seen me cry that hard. I rarely cry. I didn't want her to get the best of me… but this was just too much.
Just didn't want you all to think I'm some kind of bionic woman. I'm not… at all.
I'm still trying to sort it all out in my head.
Again, my mistake for bringing him there and the salon owner had every right to tell me not to bring him again — but she had no right to treat us like that, no right at all.
Have you had any experiences like this? How did you react?
I'm already brainstorming ideas for a mom review website or some kind of organization that gives mom-friendly businesses a seal of approval. Businesses should be held accountable for how they treat mothers… we are, after all, raising the next generation. Motherhood is not an easy job. Far harder than running a hair salon.
If people were held accountable for treating parents this way, then perhaps, they would go out of their way to make our lives easier – not more difficult – in this way we could focus on what's really important, our children.
Airports have family lines now. Why don't grocery stores have family aisles? Why aren't staff members rewarded for helping a mother with her shopping?
I can't tell you how many times I've stood in line at a store with Benjamin on the brink of throwing a tantrum only to have the childless people in front of me firmly hold on to their place and also turn their backs.
There have been exceptions… nice people who are friendly and improve my experience. From now on I'm going to give them the most enthusiastic thank you I can muster.


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By BRIAN LEWIS
As the Red Bullsâ search for a striker draws _ moving from players like Costa Rica's Jonathan McDonald to USL penom Macoumba Kandji to a still-undetermined Caribbean _ itâs becoming clearer and clearer that it wonât be short, easy or cheap.
Coach Juan Carlos Osorio saw several of his targets on last weekendâs scouting trip to Costa Rica, but Herediano coach Paulo Wanchope _ who played for Osorio in Manchester City and again in Chicago _ didnât want to sell the best of the lot, Jonathan McDonald.
âNo, they have a good forward there but my conversation with Paulo was very straightforward,ââ Osorio said. âHe has a couple of players that he doesnât want to trade, a couple players that he thinks are very good at the moment for him, and heâs one of them. So thatâs not a player we can (get).ââ
So what about his two lesser-known teammates, Fabian Rojas and Franklin Chacon?
âHe has two other players that I like,ââ Osorio said. âBut to be honest the player that I like the most is a guy that didnât play. I saw him the following day in a friendly match. I think in the long run that trip might prove to be productive but for just immediate solutions, no.
âThere were two good players in different positions that eventually may be important for us. But at the moment the strikers I like on that tram, itâs a strain for Paulo and he doesnât want to move them.ââ
Osorio and assistant Richie Williams flew Friday to watch Atlanta Silverbacks striker Macoumba Kandji play vs. Miami. The 23-year-old from Senegal leads USL in goals (10) and points (25) and the Red Bulls have the top discovery claim on him, but Atlanta wants $200,000 for him.
Considering they've used the $400,000 from the sale of Jozy Altidore to get Jorge Rojas and Gabriel Cichero, that may be too rich for Osorio's blood.
âSomebody somewhere doesnât quite understand the rules of the league, because for that money, itâs very difficult. Itâs not easy to say that much for a player. In this league $200,000 is a lot of money,ââ Osorio said. âIf Iâm honest itâs a lot. Everybody is entitled to put a price to what they have, but I think for that money itâs a lot.
âI think theyâre looking at the European market more than MLS market. I canât fault them for the way theyâre thinking. I can only say regardless of the ability of the player _ and he has ability _ itâs a lot of money for this league; so we have to be careful as to how much weâre going to spend and where.
âAt the present moment, heâs just one of the options we have. We have to make a decision soon but there are other options weâre considering and discussing at the moment.ââ
One undetermined target is a Caribbean, and two are in MLS. And no, Carlos Ruiz doesnât fit the mold. Think more like Coloradoâs Omar Cummings, although he isnât one of the two because the Rapids have no intention of giving up a cheap speedster. But clearly a player of that type.


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This is the worst book i have ever read. there is no plot and it is too hard to follow.
I thought this was pretty good for a pulpy space-adventure. Nothing mind blowing, but the writing was clear and it moved fast, and the action was good.
An excellent and timely book from 1898. With Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, you can't go wrong, but this narrative of an excursion on the river Nile is stunning in its parallels with the present. The characters have a great debate over the "world's policeman," Great Britain. The book relates a struggle with Mohammedans who are fierce and violent and behave as if they are still living in the 9th century. Just switch GB with USA and you have the story of US involvement in the Middle East. History sometimes repeats and this story gives tremendous insights.


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Does Charlize Theron Cross the Line in Young Adult?
Where's the fine line when it comes to a lead character's misbehavior?
The Charlize Theron dark comedy Young Adult opened wide this past weekend, but the release was sort of a hedged bet: Unlike the slowwww, months-long expansion of The Descendants, Paramount pushed Young Adult into nearly a thousand theaters after teasing it in just eight last week. The box-office results were inconclusive, but for those of us who've seen it, this spiky reteaming of director Jason Reitman and screenwriter Diablo Cody still gave us plenty to talk about afterward. Let's stuff our yippy little dogs in our purses and convene a meeting of the Monday Movie Club, but beware: There will be spoilers.
Where does Charlize Theron rate in the 2011 pantheon of comic bad girls?
It's been a good year for women who go bad. After Kristen Wiig played a bracing mess who often does the wrong thing in Bridesmaids, Cameron Diaz upped the ante with her character in Bad Teacher, a woman who gleefully embraces her worst qualities in the pursuit of snagging both a sugar daddy and a boob job. While watching Young Adult, you can tell how giddy Charlize Theron and Diablo Cody were to craft a woman that dares the audience to dislike her, but to judge from this weekend's so-so box-office take, did they succeed only too well? Where's the fine line when it comes to a lead character's misbehavior?
Let's discuss the nineties alt-rock soundtrack.
Teenage Fanclub! Suicidal Tendencies! Young Adult has a very specific mixtape sensibility, and while it does include the easy layup of "What's Up" by 4 Non Blondes, it's nice to revisit the nineties through a soundtrack that has more to offer than just "Remember Semisonic? Remember Spin Doctors?"
What was up with Patrick Wilson and Elizabeth Reaser?
A whole lot of Young Adult's comic kick comes from how transparently heinous Theron is in her attempts to win old love Wilson away from his wife Reaser. Still, at times while watching the movie, we wondered the same thing we often think during Santana's admittedly well-written insult monologues on Glee: Why isn't anyone reacting to her? Both Wilson and Reaser let Theron's catty comments land like dopes, and though Reaser eventually explains that they were tolerating Theron because they felt sorry for her, their motivations seemed awfully opaque. Would you really invite your husband's unstable ex to a party for your child, knowing that she'd pull focus so severely? As for Wilson, after he sorta-kinda kisses Theron back one late night, why does he act so oblivious to her advances the next day?
How do you rate the movie's Oscar potential?
With this movie's pedigree — two Oscar winners in Theron and Cody, and one multiple nominee in Reitman — it was inevitable that there'd be Oscar talk surrounding it, and Reitman's decision to keep the movie out of all the fall film festivals (supposedly a course correction after he felt that his festival darling Up in the Air peaked too early in awards season) would seem to confirm that the filmmakers had Oscar hardware in mind. Alas, Young Adult hasn't gotten much recognition from the usual Oscar precursors, and to be honest, we liked the movie precisely because it's a bit too modest for the Academy Awards: There's no fumbling attempt to invest its small-scale story with any of the usual Oscar grandeur or capital-M meaning. We certainly respected the efforts of Theron and Patton Oswalt, but what we loved even more was that the movie is swift and occasionally nasty and it's over before you know it.
The ending.
Near the end of Young Adult, Reitman and Cody go Ghost World: Mavis sleeps with the nerd who has not-so-secretly desired her, then skips out of town, leaving several relationships unresolved. Much has been made of the fact that Mavis avoids the usual character-arc epiphany, and though she acts out in major ways during the third act, she doesn't appear to be a significantly changed woman after the dust settles. Is that a refreshing change from the usual, or were you surprised that Mavis never got some sort of comeuppance?


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Guest Post by Kass the Clueless Gardener (Apologies from Susan for posting this a tad late.)
Hmmmmm. Every August, just like a patient with
her psychiatrist away at Truro, I start brooding.
I stare balefully at the
flowerbed, wondering why I haven't cut down the iris stalks yet, even as the
seed pods grow larger, sucking more energy from the plant every moment. I notice
the swarm of red ants that have taken up residence here, wondering if they bite,
and not caring much. I see the Japanese beetles, having no roses to eat here,
chomping on my climbing petunia. Why don't I go get a container of soapy water
and get those guys? Instead I just stare at them. My felcos are so dull they
won't slice a daisy stem, yet…am I sharpening them…? No.
I realize I've let
the back field almost completely revert to forest mode, which I didn't want, but
now there are too many saplings and huge wild roses, and it's too late for
anything but a major renovation. So that's out. Rather than get out there and
attack the flower bed with gusto, I take a nap and wait until the bed is in
shade til I mosy on out there. I do nothing more ambitious than weed the moss. I
find a white slimy mold on some of the moss that is grosser than anything, even
slug slime.
But it all makes sense in August, when All Things In the Garden Go
South. I can grasp that once peony poppy and iris season passes, I become
listless…I am concluding, as I do every year about this time, that I am not a
real gardener. Wouldn't I have kept my precious weeping pear pruned if I were?
Wouldn't I care that deer eat the leaves off every year? What do I do about it?
Is my tough love policy really just neglect?
If I were a real gardener, wouldn't
I have kept the lilacs clear of the imposing weeds, which now includes poison
ivy? Would I have stood by and watched goldenrod take over the tigerlily bed (at
least I hope it's goldenrod, and not something worse)? Wouldn't I keep the weeds
out of the cracks? Wouldn't I be dying to plant all sorts of new plants found in
out-of-the-way garden centers or catalogs? Would I really have a flowerbed
filled with only the easiest plants to grow, those that really don't mind total
abandonment? Wouldn't I have a gorgeous climbing rose around my door? And,
every time I get up from a crouch, the pain in my back reminds me not only am I
not much of a gardener, I'm also getting creakier every season. If I were a real
gardener, wouldn't I have tons of containers adorning my deck? (I used to, but
this year there is only one, and that one doesn't look too hot, either.)
I had a
dead tree taken down two years ago, and have let all weeds fill in the space. It
looks horrible, but I follow my main gardening motto: "If it looks bad, direct
your attention elsewhere." I think that instead of modeling my gardening self on
V. Sackville-West, I am channeling the Beales of Grey Gardens. All the seedlings
I started last spring went south, and the hastily-bought substitute nicotiana
alatas just aren't the same, so I don't care much for them. The doldrums go on
and on. And yet….and yet….and yet….
Just in time to save me from the
noose is Joe Pye, the weed I love most. I scan the roadsides and fields for it,
and squeal with delight upon spotting it. I tromped through (doubtless,
tick-laden) weeds to cut three stalks to bring home, and all is saved. With
mood cheered, I get down to weeding that moss, and ignore the shooting pains in
my lower back. As I pull out the intruders, earthworms literally pop out of the
moss, and take off for a safer spot. I always say hello to them, and then if I
glance away for even a split second, they disappear. Who knew wormies could
travel so fast?! The rudbeckias are glorious this year, and the globe thistles
did well, too. Is it that I was so lazy that instead of fertilizing the garden,
I just threw a mulch of manure atop? This must be the silver lining to neglect,
I guess.
I'm still waiting for the 'Heavenly Blues' to bloom; what's taking them
so long? But having them still in store is like a good mood in the bank, so
necessary during the month when I am becalmed in the garden. Maybe that wisp of
sweet autumn clematis will bloom if the yard guy didn't completely kill it with
his weed whacker…I decide to hope for that, too. And the anemones are coming
on, too. So maybe things aren't so bad. The humidity's been low, something to be
truly grateful for. That's a real upper in the dog days. Hmm…I begin to feel
strangely better now…There, doc, I just did all my own horticultural
therapy, so who needs you? August!
Yep! Nothing is so important that it can't be ignored so as to watch Butterflies, Hummers, and flowers bending in the breeze!
I run out of steam at this timeof year as well. I flag when it comes to tidying up after the early summer flowering and only start to find some enthusiasm when it comes to choosing bulbs for spring
I agree with Helen. For me, August is the monthe that I am just not interested. I do not know if it is the heat, or I am just tired, but a lot slides then. However, I perk up when bulb planting in the fall, and it is always a good time to move plants, make new beds. Then, I am really glad when winter comes. I can doze in front of the fire, with my catalogues, happy my plants are all tucked in under their fluffy duvet of snow. And I dream of spring.
You are my brand of gardener. If Martha Stewart ever visited my patch, I would hope she would see June's potential and not August's overgrown mess. Fortunately September is here, lower humidity and hope for the fall growing season. In Florida we rarely get to the dozing in front of the fire stage but that's ok too.
oH BOY– where do I start? This is nature's way of preparing us. Things sprout, they grow, they flower– they die. Wah! If I were a lion in the veldt I might break into "The Circle of Life." Clueless, you are channeling the Great Inevitable, which is better than trying to push against it– a battle you would lose!
Wow, did I need this. On-line gardening therapy at its best!
Clueless Gardener, I owe you $125.
oh, the sweet sentiments of the late summer gardener! I have the identical thoughts. You put it all perfectly! Thanks for the therapy!
What is a real gardener anyway?
One who constantly is at work, or one who loves a garden and piddles around enjoyably, and loves all the little worm(ies) and weed (ies)
and petals and leaves and blossoms. You sound like the real kind of gardener to me. Not clueless at all, really.
Kass, you captured my own gardening behavior so well! Last weekend I did some weeding and then flopped in the hammock to look at the different beds and begin the planning for next spring. It was lovely to just lie back and drift.
I guess you spoke for many of us – me included. August is a tough month, but really, aren't the grandchildren and the Heath Fair more important. Talk about directing one's attention elsewhere. It's done! September is a whole different thing.
hi kass; can i relate and now i am so glad that in this very lazy month of august, i have found others just like me…before i would look at all the over growth and weeds that have crowded so many of our beautiful flowers and plants, but now i just look at the late beauty of the garden after a gorgeous display this summer..and think about next spring and how i get to start all over..
Kass is an excellent gardening writer! I hope to see more of her work publicized. I happen to know that she is an excellent cartoonist as well; she illustrates the "Imponderables" book series. Check 'em out!
Ha! That is me all over, except that the apathy usually sets in even earlier in the summer. I've always blamed it on my lassitude in hot weather. But this year I've had to face the truth: The Michigan summer has been lovely and cool, and I STILL haven't done any of those small tasks of which you speak so eloquently. So it's just me, a lazy–yet appreciative!–semi-gardener. And it's okay. Thanks for the therapy!
Kass, you described the August gardener exactly! Made me feel much much better about myself.
I have a love/hate relationship with my garden sometimes, but in August it turns to hate/hate. They say that humans remember pleasure but not pain, but when it comes to August I remember only sweat and bugs. But — this morning it was 60 degrees and unhumid, and I bought a beautiful "Limelight" hydrangea at Home Depot at a bargain price, and it's time to choose bulbs for the reclamation area, so heighho for the autumn season.
Hmmm, now that August is over, why not look for inspiration in September?
My sentiments exactly. My August gardening can be summed up as a lot of "just don't look too closely and things don't looks so bad."
This week, the weather has turned cooler and already I am starting to think about what shrubs to plant this autumn. What a difference a change in weather can make!
The Clueless Gardener is my new favorite therapist! Please tell us that you'll be back for the winter woes and the bulb blues and the Spring showers. You're a treat, Kas
The bees polinated the heck out of my apple trees. Now I have apples. I've spent the past two weeks trying to figure out how to get the apples out of the trees. They're tall. We never really pruned them effectively. And until we got the bees, the one only fruited every other year or so. One year, a tropical storm completely de-fruited the tree. Alas, no tropical force winds can save me. This weekend's task is trying to figure out how to pick apples from a too-tall tree.
I loved reading Guest Post by Kass the Clueless Gardener. What a delight. Hope I see more of her comments in the future!!
Love the Beales of Grey Gardens reference. Clearly they had the right idea.
Kass, that was so entertaining. I need further therapy because my laziness began sometime in mid-June. Thanks for letting me know I need to cut down the Iris stalks (truly clueless) … if the mosquitoes let up, I might actually go out and do that!
It is a wonderful treat all through the year to read about Kassie's garden and thoughts and flowers and weeds and insects and highs and lows of garden energy.
The cartoons are perfect.
Your writing is dog-day-delightfully dreamy, Kass. You've made me feel like I have a kindred spirit who knows all too well what it's like to feel the inner lament of "If I were a real gardener" or "if I were a real writer…."
Can't wait to savor more of your pretty penned ponderings.
Thank you Kass, for this wonderful reflection!
August is the time of year when I find that it's so much more interesting to watch the Monarchs at the milkweed, the hummingbirds fighting over the trumpet honeysuckle, the Goldfinches picking the seeds from the Helianthus, and the Tiger Swallowtails floating lazily through the air.
This activity is much better than TV, and also much better than disturbing this activity with gardening chores. Those can all come later…..
Its been so hot here in central Florida that pretty much all I've been able to do is go outside take a look around and head back inside..I have taken to gardening in the rain to avoid the heat. I love to just watch how the bee's (and I mean some pretty big ones) like to move from flower to flower on my Caryopteris, Dark Knight…
Been feeling the call of the lounger to… Have a great Day Kass.
I know your pain! I just split and cut back all my irises and I have ALOT! They are so hard to saw up, I died. I hated it every minute. Why are they so MUCH work! But it feels good when you actually get it one.
Yes, this time of the year sucks. What I did was got rid of my flower pots and replanted them with shrubs, goldflame spirea. I just need to look at something else. They will turn to red and drop their leaves and thats fine. It's different to look at.
I just planted mini coral roses in front of my large bed in the front yard. I took out the strangely annuals that got wild and a little burned out and I was tried of looking at them.
Yes, it's a bit wasteful because I could have gotten a few more months out of my overgrown, somewhat burned out annuals. But you know what…. I'm excited again. I needed a change. And not just adding some mums which are *yawn* boring. And what everone is doing.
It's nearly bulb time, and if you dont feel like digging up and replanting perhaps planning a site for bulbs to plan next month might get the fix your looking for.
But I guarantee you this, after you get those iris split and cut back, you do feel good about it.
Kass, thanks!! You captured precisely the way I feel in August, as well as how I feel in April, July, October, May, November, June…you get the picture.
Susan Orlins
I used to think it was just me, sigh.
Great post. Mostly, I'm just happy to see that I'm not the only one.
this is so beautifully written that it's fun for me — I don't garden but love the idea of living things like flowers and moss, and she includes so many evocative names that make music for the ears and visions, albeit not precise ones since I don't know all of these plants, for my tired September eyes. Thank you Kass!
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''I dove in with both feet. If I didn't feel it was morally sound, or that it would be easily misinterpreted that I'm just C. Thomas Howell in [Soul Man], I would've stayed home.'' —Robert Downey Jr. on playing an actor who uses blackface in Tropic Thunder [EW]
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We also work in partnership with the following organisations:
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Kent Savers Credit Union was set up in 2010 to provide affordable financial services to the people of Kent. Kent Savers is a financial co-operative, owned and controlled by its own members and running on a not-for-profit basis. Kent Savers main aims are to promote saving and provide members with loans at reasonable rates, so that they feel in control of their own money.
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Churches Together Canterbury consists of 22 churches from across the city. We are from many different denominations and backgrounds but we all have the same basic calling to worship God and to share the good news. We also want to work in partnership with the community and be a sign of God's grace to organisations working with those in need in the city, through the support of their initiatives.
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Roberta's is an esteemed locavore pizza and gastro-temple in the boho arts enclave/hipster compound of Bushwick, Brooklyn. Its popularity is hard to overstate; a recent wait at 9:30pm on a Thursday was 1 hour, 45 minutes for a party of 4, even though the space is large. After opening to much acclaim in 2008, they quickly parlayed their cultural cache into the nightlife and music realms, hosting parties like Roberta's Tiki Disco in their backyard garden, and opening Rippers, a boardwalk burger joint and music venue in the Rockaways. Over the past few summers they've also thrown a day-long block party, which, like the Roberta's empire, has grown each year. The most recent incarnation happened on July 28 and consumed a parking lot adjacent to the restaurant as well as the road outside, beneath one of the neighborhood's hulking residential loft buildings, atop which onlookers perched in rows like pigeons on the roof. The party, which Roberta's promoted via this comical YouTube video, offered 12 hours of live bands, craft beer, bougie food booths, plus other miscellaneous attractions that didn't quite come to fruition in the rainy weather.
Hive went for the headlining acts, who included Andrew WK and Heems of Das Racist. Heems was scheduled to play solo, but instead he paraded out several of his labelmates, including his friend from Wesleyan and queer-rap breakout artist Le1f, who performed his hit "Wut," as well as frequent collaborator Lakutis. Despot also came out for a song, and Heems' co-conspirator in Das Racist, Victor Vazquez, joined for several songs, including some Das Racist numbers.
Of course, the real main attraction at any Roberta's event is the food. They gave away their famous pizza to the devoted who arrived early. The other vendors hawked many creative choices: the Brooklyn Star was selling a fried chicken and mashed potato-filled cheddar-waffle cone, dressed in your choice of three gluttonous ways. There was a ramen booth featuring chilled tomato-clam Mazeman, and a snow-cone vendor with flavors like Mardi Gras King Cake and Arnold Palmer. NY's famous Crif Dogs had their bacon-wrapped delights, and the Heritage Meat Shop and Radio Network (a butcher-run, culinary-focused station which broadcasts from Roberta's backyard) had a booth offering nothing but Ham Sandwiches.
Andrew WK played a synth and sang over a backing track, and brought his wife Cherie Lily, who often performs alongside him, to sing along and dance to his party anthems. As you'd expect, thing got rowdy for Andrew's set, with the crowd pushing in the barriers and falling all over the place. Between sound system issues, the rain, and the wild audience, it got sloppy on the street. After midnight, Andrew's set and sound was cut off due to noise regulations, but he kept performing unamplified, briefly, until he was tackled and literally dragged off by a security guard. It takes a lot to rattle Andrew WK -- not even a crowd of garbage-tossing Juggalos could throw him off -- but he wasn't pleased when he was dragged off stage. We hope he got a slice afterward.