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Park Overview
Victoria Park takes up 60 acres of Bristol, just to the South of the city centre, in between the districts of Totterdown and Windmill Hill. You will find various features including a water maze, an enclosed childrens' play area, a natural gym, marked run routes, a bowling club, a tennis club and skate park.
Click here to find Victoria Park on a map
Current Elected CommitteeChairman; Heritage Bid lead: Shaun
Vice Chair: Rob Porteous
Secretary: Andrew Campbell
Treasurer: Annie Hutton
Membership Co-Ordinator: Andrew Brown
Fun Day Organiser: Shaun Hennessy
Friends of Victoria Park Co-ordinator: Emma-Jane Richards
Photographer: David Smith
Dark Sky Co-ordinator: Kerry Smith
Website Editor; Media Co-ordinator: David Smith
Wildlife Group Co-ordinator: Alex Morss; Gavin Smith
Community gardener: Luke Keen
Bench Co-ordinator: Andrew Campbell
Key Holder: Shaun Hennessy
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Derek Adams, Mark Bailey, Gillie Harries, Christine Higgott, Elspeth Loades, Robin Richards
Foundations of VPAG
The Victoria Park Action Group was started in 2002 by people living near the park who wanted to preserve and improve its facilities.
Initially, the only purpose of the group was to raise funds for new play equipment. In 2003, its aims were widened to include the more general maintenance and rehabilitation of the park.
VPAG is now a formally constituted voluntary group with around 100 members and some challenging goals for the improvement of Victoria Park.
Working together with Bristol City Council, the police and youth workers, VPAG is improving the facilities and infrastructure, discouraging crime and vandalism and promoting legitimate use of the park by all members of the community.
We have achieved a lot, but we need your help to bring about some of the dramatic changes we have planned for the park in the next few years. Can you spare a little time to help VPAG achieve even more? If so, please contact us and join the group today.
VPAG meets every month usually at the Bowling Club (for more details on the next meeting check the homepage). If you care about the park and want to see it improved, please come along and share your ideas or just give your support and meet new people.
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Building a seedling nursery needs a few basic requirements: ready access to water, shade, flattish ground and protection from pigs, dogs, chickens and deer. Most importantly of all it needs one or more people who can take responsibility for the nursery, water it once a day and check for damage from insects.
Because we are working with four communities with whom we have a broader collaboration through our partner NGO Herencia we were able to work with each community to find a suitable site and identify a manager for each nursery. Working with four communities also meant that we had to decide whether to establish a single centralised nursery or locate a nursery in each community. There are advantages and disadvantages of either strategy. But due to the large distances of the communities from each other, 50 to 200 km, and the high cost and difficulty of covering such distances on a dirt-track we opted for four local nurseries. Had we had access through good roads and low vehicle costs we may well have opted for a central nursery that we could manage more closely.
We started out by clearing an area of ca 50m2 of ground vegetation and leaf litter and being careful to leave any trees as a source of natural shade. Because the Inga species that we are using are relatively light-demanding species we aimed for light shade. This meant trimming some of the lower branches of the trees at our site. Where there was not enough shade then we constructed a wooden frame from saplings that we cut down and placed a few palm fronds across these. Where livestock was able to get at the seedlings then we attached chicken-wire to the frame to keep them out.

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Tuesday, October 14, 2008
My Piggies Are Ready!
And by soaking tubs, I mean GladWare®.
I hope the surgical team will be able to stay focused on my brain rather than my beautiful feet and toes.
T minus 36 hours and counting...
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- brooke said...
Your piggies look AWESOME! We're rootin' for you, man.
Many hugs and prayers,
(school mate of Lee Ann's)
- 15 October, 2008
- SallyB said...
Love those twinkle toes, cuz. Keep us posted on your progress - will Lee Ann somehow be able to let us know tomorrow how the surgery went? How long will it take? How soon will you know anything, like your prognosis and such?
Many hugs and prayers coming your way from NE Ohio. Be well, be strong, and know that the whole Harper clan is behind you on this thing.
Love, your cousin Sally
- 15 October, 2008
- Michele said...
Hello Terry - I have been reading your blog and want you to know you are in my prayers. You will do great. What a blessing you have in your beautiful family and friends. I look forward to reading your future blogs.
Did you ever think you would talk to me again?
- 15 October, 2008
Good luck to you. We will actually be in Indianapolis this weekend for a visit. We'll be sending you the most positive of thoughts and karma. Go for it!
Best regards always,
The Johnstons
(Rhori, Pamela, Piper, Seaver)
- 15 October, 2008
I am sending love and good wishes to you Terry!! You will do great! Can't wait to hear from you and Lee Ann after surgery. Love, Strib.
- 15 October, 2008
Every one of your toes is a tiny Peyton Manning throwing a game winning pass!
Dad and Mom
- 15 October, 2008
- Dana Blozis, Virtually Yourz said...
Very cool toes, Terry!
On behalf of the Western Washington Pro SPJ Chapter, we wish you the very best, Terry. Good luck and Godspeed. We'll be thinking of you!
Dana Blozis
- 15 October, 2008
- Dave Harper said...
Looking forward to coming to Indy next week for some brotherly fun.
Catch my chi, bro!
- 16 October, 2008
- ldp said...
Best wishes for a speedy recovery.
- 17 October, 2008


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If Sarah chooses to become a vampire, she also has to find the strength to fight in a vampire war that could destroy literally everyone and everything she holds dear. Can she triumph over her fears and become Immortal in time to join in a fight to the death? Read Aris Reigns to find out whether true love can vanquish evil.
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The last traces of snow finally left us this week, although I see that large swathes remain on the hills. The tractors round about have finally got going with their spring sowings, much later than usual, so hopefully the weather will be kind come late summer for the harvest. Today the mercury finally got into double figures, spring temperatures at last! The birds have known which season it is for the last few weeks as evidenced by the resounding dawn chorus which starts at around 4.30am, long before dawn, with the quacks from the trio of mallards which have taken up residence by the lily pond; they come every spring for a few weeks, then move on for the rest of the summer. By 5.30am, all the birds are singing their hearts out- only in Spring are they in full voice.
In the garden, plants gradually come out of their winter slumbers. Buds are swelling, bulbs are appearing, weeds are starting to grow! In the woods, the snowdrops are still flowering, preserved by the incessant cold that we've experienced this past month. This is one of those years when daffodils and snowdrops are flowering at the same time, although most of our daffodils are yet to burst into bloom.
I finally managed to get round to doing some planting this past week. The ground wasn't too bad in places, although very wet and heavy in the woods, where the new Rhododendron has gone. A new order of three David Austin roses arrived during the week for the new west-facing border; I started planting this last spring with herbaceous but it lacked height which the roses will give it. I'm a great fan of David Austin roses; we have some already which start flowering around June and were still flowering in early January this year. The varieties I've just planted are Golden Celebration (golden yellow), Port Sunlight (apricot) and Harlow Carr (pink), named after the marvellous RHS garden in Yorkshire.
Delighted to see that the first of my Easter greenhouse sowings are starting to come through with the advent of the Pyrethrums; hopefully we'll start to see some movement with the others during the week now that the temperatures are starting to warm up a little. Meanwhile the sweet peas, early lettuce and wild flowers are making good progress.


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New CEO for Starship Technologies
Delivery robot company Starship Technologies has announced the appointment of Lex Bayer as Chief Executive Officer.
Bayer joins Starship from Airbnb where he led the Business Development, Payments and Airbnb for Businesses functions of the company.
In a statement to Post&Parcel today (7 June), the company also reported that it has raised $25m (€21.4m) in additional seed funding in a round which included existing investors Matrix Partners and Morpheus Ventures. Additional investors include Airbnb co-founder Nathan Blecharczyk, Skype founding engineer Jaan Tallinn, and former chairman and CEO of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Gary Barber.


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* Results show comedian Zelenskiy easily wins presidency
* Outcome is bitter blow for incumbent Poroshenko
* Investors, West and Russia wondering what he will do
* Zelenskiy says win shows anything is possible
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By Matthias Williams and Andrew Osborn
KIEV, April 22 (Reuters) - Ukraine entered uncharted political waters on Monday after near final results showed a comedian with no political experience and few detailed policies had dramatically up-ended the status quo and won the country's presidential election by a landslide.
The emphatic victory of Volodymyr Zelenskiy, 41, is a bitter blow for incumbent Petro Poroshenko who tried to rally Ukrainians around the flag by casting himself as a bulwark against Russian aggression and a champion of Ukrainian identity.
With over 90 percent of the vote counted, Zelenskiy had won 73 percent of the vote with Poroshenko winning just under 25 percent.
Zelenskiy, who plays a fictitious president in a popular TV series, is now poised to take over the leadership of a country on the frontline of the West's standoff with Russia following Moscow's annexation of Crimea and support for a pro-Russian insurgency in eastern Ukraine.
Declaring victory at his campaign headquarters to emotional supporters on Sunday night, Zelenskiy promised he would not let the Ukrainian people down.
"I'm not yet officially the president, but as a citizen of Ukraine, I can say to all countries in the post-Soviet Union look at us. Anything is possible!"
Zelenskiy, whose victory fits a pattern of anti-establishment figures unseating incumbents in Europe and further afield, has promised to end the war in the eastern Donbass region and to root out corruption amid widespread dismay over rising prices and sliding living standards.
But he has been coy about exactly how he plans to achieve all that and investors want reassurances that he will accelerate reforms needed to attract foreign investment and keep the country in an International Monetary Fund programme.
"Since there is complete uncertainty about the economic policy of the person who will become president, we simply don't know what is going to happen and that worries the financial community," said Serhiy Fursa, an investment banker at Dragon Capital in Kiev.
"We need to see what the first decisions are, the first appointments. We probably won't understand how big these risks are earlier than June. Perhaps nothing will change."
The United States, the European Union and Russia will be closely watching Zelenskiy's foreign policy pronouncements to see if and how he might try to end the war against pro-Russian separatists that has killed some 13,000 people.
U.S. President Donald Trump phoned Zelenskiy and pledged to support Ukraine's territorial integrity, while European Council President Donald Tusk congratulated the Ukrainian people on what he called a show of democratic maturity.
Zelenskiy said on Sunday he planned to continue European-backed talks with Russia on a so far largely unimplemented peace deal and would try to free Ukrainians imprisoned in Russia, which is holding 24 Ukrainian sailors among others.
Viktor Medvedchuk, the Kremlin's closest ally in Ukraine, last week outlined ways in which Ukraine and Russia could mend ties, though Zelenskiy has given no indication of being open to the prospect.
Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Ukraine now had a chance to "reset" and unite its people.
Zelenskiy has pledged to keep Ukraine on a pro-Western course, but has sounded less emphatic than Poroshenko about possible plans for the country of 42 million people to one day join the European Union and NATO.
Poroshenko, who conceded defeat but said he planned to stay in politics, said on social media he thought Zelenskiy's win would spark celebrations in the Kremlin.
"They believe that with a new inexperienced Ukrainian President, Ukraine could be quickly returned to Russia's orbit of influence," he wrote.
Critics accuse Zelenskiy of having an unhealthily close working relationship with a powerful oligarch called Ihor Kolomoisky, whose TV channel broadcasts his comedy shows.
Zelenskiy has rejected those accusations.
One of the most important and early tests of that promise will be the fate of PrivatBank, Ukraine's largest lender, which was nationalised in 2016.
The government wrested PrivatBank from Kolomoisky as part of a banking system clean-up backed by the IMF, which supports Ukraine with a multi-billion dollar loan programme.
But its fate hangs in the balance after a Kiev court ruled days before the election that the change of PrivatBank's ownership was illegal, delighting Kolomoisky but rocking the central bank which said it would appeal.
Zelenskiy has repeatedly denied he would seek to hand PrivatBank back to Kolomoisky if elected or help the businessman win compensation for the ownership change.
The IMF will be watching closely too to see if Zelenskiy will allow gas prices to rise to market levels, an IMF demand but a politically sensitive issue and one Zelenskiy has been vague about.
Zelenskiy gave few new policy details on Sunday, but said he wanted a new general prosecutor to replace incumbent Yuriy Lutsenko, and spoke of wanting new generals to work in the army.
His unorthodox campaign traded on the character he plays in the TV show, a scrupulously honest schoolteacher who becomes president by accident after an expletive-ridden rant about corruption goes viral.
Zelenskiy has promised to fight corruption, a message that has resonated with Ukrainians fed up with the status quo in a country that is one of Europe's poorest nearly three decades after breaking away from the Soviet Union.
Additional Reporting by Pavel Polityuk, Natalia Zinets, Andrei Makhovsky and Polina Ivanova in Kiev and by Steve Holland in Washington and Foo Yun Chee in Brussels Writing by Andrew Osborn; Editing by Marguerita Choy and Michael Perry


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But if it was a mistake, it was a calculated mistake, a mistake well worth making. It was a mistake worth making when we think about what is the real challenge facing Israel. The challenge facing Israel isn't to win the war against the Palestinians. The war can't be won. We can't eradicate them, and they won't accept our being here. The challenge that Israel faces is not to move towards peace. Peace can't be had. No - the challenge facing Israel is to learn how to live in perpetual, never-ending war, and in the face of that, to flourish, and to be a country that our kids still want to defend. And that is what we did this week.
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01 of 15Glasses by Michel Henau, jacket by Sartorio, shirt by Maison Kitsuné, shorts by J.Crew
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Shares of Valueclick Inc. rose nearly 5% Friday as a notable analyst initiated coverage with a buy rating, while Time Warner Inc. shares moved ahead as Carl Icahn stepped up his criticism of Chief Executive Dick Parsons and company management.
The Net sector flashed gaines as The Dow Jones Internet Index DJI_DJINET closed up 0.6% to $96.68, while the technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index $COMPQ ended up 6.20 points to 2,276.66.
Shares of Valueclick VCLK rose throughout the day to close up at $20.24. Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney stamped the online marketing company with a buy rating and a $24 target. The analyst wrote that the company is well positioned to benefit from the strong secular growth in Net advertising, as well as the market for Internet Ad Networks.
Time Warner TWX, +0.00% shares closed up 0.6% as Carl Icahn said on CNBC: "The management team there has done an abysmally bad job. Mr. Parsons is 'not the guy to run the company."
Mr. Icahn, however, continued to laud Time Warner as having a "great content company" and a "great cable company." Icahn said that the company's AOL unit is still undervalued as a component of the Time Warner's share price. Google Inc. GOOG, +0.94%, Microsoft Corp. MSFT, +1.21% and Yahoo Inc. YHOO all have been reported to express an interest in a partnership or acquisition of AOL.
Other notable movers in the Internet sector included shares of Audible Inc. ADBL, Digital River Inc. DRIV, +1.54% and Overstock.com Inc. OSTK, +1.38%.
Earlier this week, Overstock President Patrick Byrne again claimed "naked short selling" is a growing problem within the securities markets. Naked shorting is when shares are sold that haven't been affirmatively determined to exist. Last week, Byrne said he believes there are "millions of counterfeit shares of Overstock shares trading on Nasdaq." See full story.
Among Chinese Internet stocks, shares of online video game company The9 Ltd. NCTY, +1.29% were up as much as 18%. The company is the Chinese licensor of the popular massively multiplayer online role playing game "World of Warcraft." The rise came despite a Deutsche Bank analyst initiating coverage of The9 with a sell rating.
Meanwhile, Internet market research firms were busy putting out reports on consumer-related online activities.
ComScore Networks published its first-ever market report -- "State of the Consumer Streaming Market" -- on Internet video and audio among U.S. consumers. The survey was based on a sample of 1.5 million participating Internet users and found that more than 100 million users consume digital media, and nearly two thirds of users streamed audio or video through a portal in August.
In online retail, Nielsen//NetRatings reported in a recent study that the heaviest buyers accounted for 18 percent of the online buying population to represent the largest majority of online spending. However, most online buyers, or 55 percent, in fact spend less and buy less frequently.
In Internet milestones, online magazine Salon Media Group Inc. SALN, +0.00% celebrates its 10th year anniversary this evening.


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Tales from the Archives: American Archives Month and the J. E. Caldwell Collection
The Society of American Archivists promotes October as American Archives Month each year. This event gives archivists an opportunity to promote both the collections they work with and their profession. For the past few Octobers we have blogged about the NSDAR Archives, giving readers a glimpse at the treasures it contains and how we care for them.
For this Archives Month blog we are featuring a donation the NSDAR Archives received of J. E. Caldwell records in early 2018. From 1892 until 2010 J. E. Caldwell was the official jeweler for the DAR, producing insignia pins, officer pins, and numerous other pins for DAR members. The donated records date from the mid-1890s to the early 1910s, which gives us an early glimpse of the company's association with the DAR. While we do have an existing collection of J. E. Caldwell records, our collection documents only a small aspect of the 118 year association between the two organizations.
This blog has a twist. Normally at this point, we would go into show and tell mode and highlight the significance of the items that were donated. Have you ever wanted to know what happens to records and items after they are donated to the NSDAR Archives? If so, read on.
It was an easy decision to add this donation to the existing J. E. Caldwell Collection. When I compared the donated records to the existing collection, there was a fair amount of overlap of subject matter and type of records. For example, both collections contained contracts covering similar time frames and items, such as the production of the official DAR insignia, ancestor bars, and souvenir spoons.
This image is of a 1901 contract that was among the donated records. This contract for items including the DAR insignia, rosettes, ancestor bars, and souvenir spoons, is new to the NSDAR Archives. DAR President General Cornelia Cole Fairbanks and Recording Secretary General Eleanor Selden Washington Howard signed this contract. For the DAR insignia it stipulates, "The same to be furnished members only, on the presentation of a properly executed permit. For the sum of Five Dollars and Seventy Five Cents ($5.75)."
As I added the donated records to the J. E. Caldwell Collection they were rehoused into acid free folders and boxes. The NSDAR Archives is the institutional archives of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution. The records housed in the archives document the daily business carried out by the Society. Institutional archives provide continuity by recording an organization's practices and procedures. They also provide accountability through documented agreements and legal records. The 1901 contract exemplifies a document that provides accountability to both parties that signed a contract. The J. E. Caldwell Collection is a good example of an institutional archive, as the collection primarily consists of business contracts and correspondence that possess a long term value that will help those who research them understand previous business practices and procedures.
This 1904 letter written by DAR Recording Secretary General Clara M. Fuller and this 1900 permit allowing Pearl Powers to purchase a DAR insignia are more examples of institutional archives documentation from the J. E. Caldwell donation. While institutional archives are made up of routine business records, researchers will always discover documents that enrich the historical narrative. For this donation, I found interesting correspondence between the DAR and J. E. Caldwell regarding other jewelers that were selling unauthorized DAR insignia pins and infringing on the insignia's copyright.
This 1898 document evaluates the manufacturing of a pin by the firm of Harvey & Otis that was an infringement on the DAR insignia's copyright. This 1904 letter written by Clara M. Fuller tells J. E. Caldwell that the DAR National Board of Management "expect[s] you to protect [its] rights in the matter of the Insignia, according to the terms of the contract." Examining these records tells us that J. E. Caldwell had to work diligently to protect the copyright of the insignia. Both the DAR and J. E. Caldwell took this matter very seriously during the early years of their association.
All of the donated records were added to the J.E. Caldwell Finding Aid and to our collections management database so that they will be available to answer future questions about the association between the DAR and J. E. Caldwell. I hope this blog not only gave you a sneak peek behind the scenes of the NSDAR Archives, but also demystified archival work done to preserve DAR's documents.


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TAMPA — The United States brought a relatively young squad into Thursday night's exhibition match.
Colombia, on the other hand, brought 12 players who played in the World Cup over the summer.
Experience won out as Colombia defeated the Americans 4-2 in front of 38,631 at Raymond James Stadium, a record crowd for a U.S. national team match in Tampa. Three of the goals were scored in the second half.
Palm Harbor's Ben Sweat earned his first cap as a member of the U.S. team when he entered the game in the 76th minute as a left back. Captain Michael Bradley played for the first time with the national team since it was eliminated from World Cup qualifying a year and a day ago. It was his 141st cap, which ties Clint Dempsey for third on the all-time appearance list.
Midfielder James Rodriguez had a goal and an assist to lead Colombia.
"This is a great example of when you play a team like Colombia that has been together as long as they have and has the experience that they have,'' U.S. coach Dave Sarachan said. "They will punish you when you make mistakes, and we saw that tonight.''
The Americans made their share of mistakes, especially in the first half. Colombia led 1-0 and had several other close calls. But two nice goals early in the second half gave the U.S. team a brief lead.
In the 50th minute, Antonee Robinson lofted a perfectly placed pass into the box from the left side. It fell onto the foot of Kellyn Acosta, who was able to redirect it from nine yards out to tie the match at 1.
Three minutes later the Americans struck again, and again it was the result of nice pass. This time Tim Weah dropped a ball between two defenders to Bobby Wood. Wood's redirect found the net to make it 2-1.
That was the end of the highlights for the United States.
Colombia tied it in the 56th minute on a Carlos Bacca goal off an assist from Santiago Arias. In the 74th minute, Rodriguez found Garcia, who scored from 9 yards out for a 3-2 lead.
And for some insurance, Rodriguez passed to Miguel Angel Borja about 7 yards from the net. His bicycle kick rolled into the left side for a two-goal lead.
"I thought we were sloppy in the first half,'' Sarachan said. "Our approach and quality improved in the second half.''
Colombia controlled the game for most of the first half and had several scoring chances. That changed in the 36th minute. Rodriguez showed why he is one of the most coveted midfielders in the world when he scored on a perfectly placed shot.
Rodriguez gained control in the left corner of the 18-yard box, then worked his way around defender John Brooks and launched a left-footer that curled into the upper-right corner of the net. U.S. goalkeeper Zack Steffen could only watch as the ball hit the net.
That started a flurry of Colombia chances before halftime, but the Americans were able to keep it at 1-0.
Sweat played the final 14 minutes in front of the home crowd. He hopes its the start of many more matches with the national team, but he also realizes this match was special.
"There was a ton of emotion, a ton of passion," he said. "Even more so when you're representing your entire nation. It's a special moment."
The United States is 4-2-1 in national team matches played in Tampa. It continues its kickoff series Tuesday against Peru in Hartford, Conn. Peru is ranked 20th in the world.


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What shall we have for lunch? KFC, Mcdonalds, Fish and Chips or Subway?
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- Backwoods BarbieLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
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- BudLtLv 51 decade ago
KFC Chicken Strips with Honey Mustard. Subway is disgusting.....
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
it depends what you are in the mood for. i say subway. if you want chicken go to kfc if you want fish go to fish and chips if you want a sub go to subway and if you want somethin different them all of them go to mcdonalds.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Fish and Chips
- BrendaLv 51 decade ago
Subway in the morning is so healthy because is a light breakfast, for lunch the Mc Donald's because you can eat a chesseburger, bacon burguer, mcnuggets, or a salad and for dinner the KFC the chicken is for dinner, get used to dinner chicken
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- ThinkAboutItLv 71 decade ago
Subway 5 dollar foot long!
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subway everytime at least u stand a chance of being healthy
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SUBWAY!!!!!!! it's probably the best tasting and healthiest lunch out of your options.


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Toward Eden's Trees
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Selected Poems: Wilmer Mills
Edited by Kathryn Oliver Mills
(Evansville, IN: University of Evansville Press, 2013)
The death of poet Wilmer Mills in 2011 at the age of forty-one was the occasion of my memorial commentary in Modern Age: "Singing the Pieces Back in Place: The Life and Verse of Wilmer Hastings Mills (1969–2011)."1 In that essay I discussed the course of Mills's all too brief life, his family background, his poetics, and some of the best poems from his remarkable and highly praised book Light for the Orphans (2002). Now, in Selected Poems, Dr. Kathryn Mills has brought together in four sections a number of poems from that first book (here, section 1), along with later poems from three possible new collections, each one titled and sequenced by Wilmer Mills, and overlapping in part. Poems chosen from these proposed books—Arriving on Time, The Heart's Arithmetic, and The World That Isn't There—make up sections 2, 3, and 4 of Selected Poems.
There is both continuity and difference in Mills's earlier and later poems. Among the later poems are character studies similar to those of the orphans of modernity sympathetically portrayed in the earlier verse. There are also poems on family members, but in place of honoring his mother, father, or a grandfather Mills now celebrates domestic life with his wife, son, and daughter.
Most noticeably, though, Mills in the later poems engages more directly, more often, and at greater length with interrelated philosophical questions that are certainly present in the earlier poems yet not as dominant or as explicitly and fully treated. These concerns include the mysterious relationship between memory, time, and eternity; the kinship of words and things; the meaning and consequences of Eden and the Fall; the role of the poet as "linker"; and the ways in which metaphor and etymology trace roots and branches of human and natural history back to, yet also onward toward, a primal place faintly discerned as a wind on the verge of articulation, whispering in Eden's trees.
Since my memorial essay dealt at length with the earlier orphan poems, I will comment on only two of the poems included here from Light for the Orphans. These are poems that preliminarily explore major themes of the later poems.
In "Mockingbird Boy," the boy of the title hears the songs of mockingbirds and picks out notes from their songs on the piano. Both birds and boy are artists who imitate what they remember:
His music comes from listening
To mockingbirds reciting songs
That on his ears might well have been
The fossil calls of ancient birds
That only mockingbirds remember.
The boy may be seen as a figure of the poet listening back through time toward time's beginnings.
In "The Basket Weaver's Dream," Mills enters the mind of a young boy weaving baskets in an orphanage. The sound of the boy's departed or dead mother brushing tangles from her hair blends with the woven "basket splinters" and these in turn with his dream of "the trees / Of Paradise," trees on which hanging moss reminds him of his mother's hair. And through these trees a breeze blows, an elemental wind—perhaps the ruach—the source of the ancient fossil music another boy long afterward would hear in mockingbirds' songs. The poem closes with the weaving together of these various strands of metaphor as the boy, now a man, attends carefully to his work:
We've seen him often, crouching over,
Almost listening to the grain.
And if you ask him what he hears,
He'll stroke his beard and talk about
A lost significance of wood;
He'll lean and whisper in your ear
About a breeze in the trees of Eden.
Section 2, from Arriving on Time, is the first of three sections taken from various selections and orderings of Mills's later poems. Some of these poems are set on the Gulf coast, including Grand Isle, Louisiana, where the Mills family had a house.
One of the best of Mills's Gulf poems, "The Flower Beds of War," considers both nature and history with their many conflicting yet balancing opposites. Visiting Fort Gaines, an old fort on Dauphin Island, Alabama, Mills is taken with both the distinctions and the correlations between the long-abandoned guns and the new spring flowers growing around them. The flowery fort becomes a symbol of contrasting things in life that cannot exist apart from one another—the conflict between North and South, the natural and the man-made, peace and war:
Can we distinguish flower from the weed
When each is uniformed in blue or dun,
On battlefields, or in the human seed,
Where life and death are waging to be won?
We rage and kill and also love and bless,
One grows around the other, truce and bruise,
And can't be separated, not unless
We silence one and lose them both, and lose
This relic of antique belligerence
That nature calls a garden, we a fort,
Where spring, in its sublime indifference,
Has flanked the guns with clumps of spiderwort.
Implicit in these lines is the power of metaphor to link together—perhaps, in a way, even back together—things that have been separate yet still akin ever since the end of that prelapsarian state where like and as once lay as dormant seeds within the is.
Two other poems from section 2 show Mills's increasing tendency in the later work to address more comprehensively those philosophical questions noted above.
"Treowe: An Etymology" was discussed at length in my memorial essay on Mills.2 The poem is a brilliantly interwoven history of the connections, both physical and metaphorical, among wood, words, and truth by way of a common origin for Tree and Truth in an Indo-European root word. The final stanza—here, in a slightly revised version—gets close to the heart of Mills's poetics:
But long before the folio and poem
Had been pressed together in a tome,
Before the logs were kept on tablets hewn
Of oak or elm, before the druid's rune,
There grew a seedling noun that ramified
The names of Tree and Truth and then it died.
Its sound was solid, finely grained and grooved,
As was its meaning: "That which cannot be moved."
Even more comprehensively, "Making the Cradle" finds deep correspondences between the heavenly constellations and the music of the spheres—and in the case of this poet's own family life—the making of a cradle for one of his children:
I've heard it planing knots in oak where scenes
Of grain in radiating lines abound.
Their patterns look like solar systems drawn
In books, elliptical by how they're sawn.
Such profound likenesses in things— ". . . Orion keeping time / With Leo in a pattern like a rhyme"—lead to the conclusion about the craft of a cradle maker: "The walnut whispers and the starlight croons. / I'll make this cradle by the sky and swing / Our child to what the constellations sing."
This skill in woodworking shows, as do so many of his poems, Wilmer Mills's deep roots in the Southern Agrarian tradition. In "Rest Stop, Alabama," Mills takes a break at a truck stop. Automatically flushing urinals, the "sticky sentiments / Of country music," "You Are Here!" marked on a map, and a button-activated weather news device leave the farmer-poet thinking how neither he nor migrating birds need such things:
Back in my truck I hang my head out, looking
More at the constellations than the road
As if to follow my nose and navigate
From star to star, as the crow flies, like geese
And all the hordes of fowl that need no sign
To beat the shortest course from A to Z.
This poem is a worthy addition to the Southern Agrarian writers' analysis and criticism of modernity.
Section 3, from The Heart's Arithmetic, and section 4, from The World That Isn't There, complete Selected Poems with a further generous sampling of some of the best of the later verse.
"From Lookout Mountain at Night," in section 3, is one of Mills's most impressive poems. Descending by car with his family from the mountain into Chattanooga, Mills hears his son compare the city lights below to Christmas lights while he himself thinks of the bright lines as similar to lines on a person's palm but "enlarged / Like a traffic map, each intersection lit / In different colors." These multiple comparisons lead to what are perhaps Mills's deepest reflections on the relationships between metaphor, memory, and time:
Is metaphor a memory, two things
Remembering when they were both the same?
Consider the stars, no, all things far apart;
By a common trait or someone's turn of phrase,
They leap together in the linker's mind,
A backwards bang that reunites the light
That shines as various and sundry suns.
The word "linker" describes a poet by way of what for Mills may be the poet's most essential task: to demonstrate that likeness implies a oneness from which all likenesses descend.
This understanding of the poet's role in a post-Edenic human condition is apparent in "Fallen Fruit." There the poet's children ask those difficult questions children are given to asking: "How are shadows made?" (daughter) and "What if time could slip?" (son). Mills sees these questions as indicating that his children's ". . . minds and garden-hearts could already lisp / In metaphors," could sense the existence of a world beyond this fallen one we live in, and "Could see the world that isn't there, could smell / The sweetly fecal scent of fallen fruit / That issues out of symbols like a spell." Paradoxically, "The Fall was knowing what it meant 'to stand,' " a statement reflecting the poet's belief that all things like and unalike are deeply interconnected. Mills sees himself, as poet and painter, trying to understand these matters as if he were blind Helen Keller learning to communicate: ". . . like Helen when she knew / The beauty of the world, what liquefied / Across her hands that felt and wrote and drew."
Section 4 brings Selected Poems to a close with "Ruach," a poem written by Mills in anticipation of death, its one-word title being Hebrew for spirit, mind, breath, wind, and God. With both courage and hope, the poet looks toward his end:
When I die and breathe my last
It won't be in or out.
I'll take my final breath,
Hailing the silence of glass,
Glass that isn't a solid,
But slowing cooling back
From molten silica,
The unheld breath of time.
The best commentary on this poem so far are passages from the draft of an essay sent by Mills to his close poet friend Jeff Hardin and in an e-letter essay that Mills posted on the Web in June 2011, just a few weeks before he died:
The simplest way to enter the fullness of time is by breathing our words aloud to each other, and often, with love and hope. The miracle of spoken language is that it insists on face-to-face contact, or, in the case of a letter, it brings the speaker's spirit into the room in a real sense and in real time at the right velocity, the speed of breathing. It has the tempo of people eating a meal together. In this sense, Kairos Time and spoken language are two sides of the same Koinonia.
Time is not a cold finality but a fullness, a place in which to abide and to breathe deeply without respect to calendars and deadlines. It is where we are simultaneously most human and most divine. Too often we live only for the clock and fail to notice how in the absence of incremental time we would ironically be more able to see the pattern in the rug, how the stained glass windows of our lives make sense as wholes and not as mere pieces.3
. . . being face-to-face with mortality shows me more clearly who I am. It reminds me of something the Southern writer, Andrew Lytle, told me once when I was a student. When he turned ninety-five, I asked him how that felt, and he said that the years didn't mean anything because he had already begun to live in the sense of eternity. I now know what he meant.4
Selected Poems gathers together many, but by no means all, of Wilmer Mills's best poems. When the time is right, a volume of collected poems should most certainly be published. Until then, readers will need copies of both Light for the Orphans (2002) and Selected Poems (2013) to take as full a measure as is now possible of his stature as an important contemporary poet.
A basket weaver himself, like the weaver in his poem "The Basket Weaver's Dream," Wilmer Mills has written poems whose words and music take the reader forward, yet also back, along time's mysterious road through many of the joys and sorrows and unanswered questions of this life toward "a breeze in the trees of Eden." ♦
David Middleton is poetry editor for Modern Age.
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Google's latest Android operating system, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is all the craze as of late. With carriers and manufacturers trying to get updates ready, and confirm with their customers when they'll receive said updates. Today AT&T has just released Android 4.0 ICS for the HTC Vivid and long with it detailed the next 10 devices that are up next for the frozen treat.
We've heard plans recently from HTC and what they'll be updating, along with Motorola's sad attempt at a list — but today is all AT&T and they have at least 10 more devices that are set to receive Android 4.0 ICS updates. They even include the original Atrix 4G, and they should because it's a powerful dual-core smartphone. Everything else detailed today is fairly new and we expected updates for. Either way here is their official list:
– LG Nitro
– Motorola ATRIX 2
– Motorola ATRIX 4G
– Pantech Burst
– Pantech Element
– Samsung Captivate Glide
– Samsung Galaxy Note
– Samsung Galaxy S II
– Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket
– Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9
Samsung has recently confirmed all of those will see the update, but to hear it from AT&T gives us even more reassurance the updates are coming, and soon. LG and Pantech have both been pretty quite in regards to updating their devices so it's nice to see these added to the list. AT&T didn't give exact dates but did say we can expect the above listed devices to receive Android 4.0 in the "coming months". Hopefully those arrive before summer but we'll have to wait and see.
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World of Tanks has a very simple premise: take a square chunk of land reminiscent of a World War II-era countryside or ruined city, put two teams of 16 tanks on either side of it, and let them shell each other into oblivion. There's no story here as far as I can tell, but there are objectives and win conditions. Each map in World of Tanks has two capture points. One belongs to your team and the other to your opponent. To win you have to either capture and hold the point until a bar fills up or destroy every opposing vehicle.
Before you can go about blowing up enemy tanks, though, you need your own. There are three starter tanks (one each for the US, Germany and Russia), each of which starts off pretty poorly, but by participating in a few battles you will earn enough credits and experience to upgrade it to something, uh, less bad.
Credits and experience are both earned through your performance in battle. Virtually every action you can perform that benefits your team is awarded in some way with experience and credits. Naturally this includes damaging and killing enemy tanks, but even simply locating them on the map will net you something. Credits and experience are rewarded at the end of a battle, but if you're using a fancier tank than one of the starting ones, you will probably have to spend some of your earnings on repairing and restocking your tank.
Using your tank in battle is deceptively complex. Your instinct might at first be to run and gun, trying to cut off and eliminate your opponents, but underneath the hood of World of Tanks is a lot of mathematics that determines whether or not your opponents can see you and whether or not you can see them. If you rush in without any thought, you will be pummeled from the shadows by dozens of shells. Factors that go into the sight system include your movement, the type of vehicle you are using and whether or not you're using cover.
None of this is explained in-game though, much to the detriment of World of Tanks. In fact there seems to be a mentality within the game of "we built it, you figure it out" which might appeal to some but could turn off others. This spreads into the combat itself, in which every tank has a dozen parts to target and be targeted, and each offers a different effect. Shoot an opponent's treads and the tank may not take much damage but it might come to a complete halt, letting you and your allies quickly pick it off. Shoot it in the turret and it might lose its ability to aim properly. Then there's armor to factor in, with most tanks heavily armored in the front and less fortified in the rear.
On top of the complexity of all the tank parts, players need to be mindful of other factors like angling their tank in such a way to encourage incoming rounds to ricochet harmlessly off the hull, or using the tilt of the ground to help expose an enemy's underside or make them unable to target you.
If it sounds overwhelming already then I'm not surprised. There are myriad other factors to mull over outside of battle when it comes to customizing your tank and crew, and there is no tutorial in-game to help you even get the basics. Instead, the game links you to an extremely comprehensive wiki which, although helpful, is still built with high-end players in mind
If you're planning on playing for free, you are going to experience an extremely steep advancement curve. I was able to obtain my first two new tanks within about a day, but after that the journey to my next tank became an arduous one. That's not to say it isn't fun -- at times it certainly is -- but the gameplay itself is already quite slow. Buying a new tank also hardly feels like an upgrade at times, and I've found myself having worse results in supposedly better machines than in old ones. This is probably due to an inexperienced crew, or possibly because I'm simply not used to the new tank, but it has so far made buying new vehicles feel like less of a watershed moment than they should.
I plan on testing out the payment options to see how they affect the game very soon, so check back later for the full review.


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Turkish Press Review, 08-01-18
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From: Turkish Directorate General of Press and Information <http://www.byegm.gov.tr>Summary of the political and economic news in the Turkish press this morning
[01] GUL TO TRAVEL TO SYRIAPresident Abdullah Gul is set to travel to Damascus tomorrow at the invitation of his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad. During his one-day stay, Gul will attend events marking the opening of the Damascus 2008 Arab League Culture Capital. The president will be accompanied by State Minister Nimet Cubukcu and officials from the Culture and Tourism Ministry. /Cumhuriyet/
[02] ERDOGAN SPEAKS TO THE NATION'S GOVERNORSPrime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday attended a meeting of the nation's governors at the Interior Ministry. Speaking to the gathering, Erdogan said that Turkey has made necessary reforms for its European Union bid. "If the impact of these reforms is felt in Istanbul, we urge that it also be felt in Hakkari, and our governors have an important role to play in that," he added. Erdogan said that once the terrorist PKK claimed that evidence of the state in the country's southeast, such as schools and hospitals, was lacking, but that now they can no longer do so, and the PKK is losing its power. Erdogan called on the governors to come out of their offices and meet with the public. "Our prime minister, Cabinet ministers, mayors and governors should help the poor," he said. He added that the government with never concede on security. /Aksam/
[03] BAYKAL CRITICIZES PM'S HEADSCARF REMARKSResponding to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's recent statements about headscarves, main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Deniz Baykal yesterday said that an attempt to create constitutional grounds for the headscarf as a political symbol would pave the way for the proliferation of political symbols in public places and even the Turkish Armed Forces. "This will be a major breaking point in the constitutional history of the republic," he warned. He added that Article 24 of the Constitution clearly calls making political symbols of religious beliefs a form of religious exploitation. /Hurriyet/
[04] MHP SIGNALS SUPPORT FOR CHANGING HEADSCARF RESTRICTIONSTurkey's conservative parties seem to be joining forces to lift the ban on wearing headscarves in certain places through changing the Constitution. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has challenged the ban on headscarves in universities and public offices, saying this week there was no need to wait for a constitutional amendment to end the ban. Opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahceli seemed to agree with Erdogan as he said yesterday that a "minor change" to the Constitution could accomplish that end. In a written statement, Bahceli said the problem could be resolved without sowing political and social tensions through adding a clause to paragraph 4 of Article 10. /The New Anatolian/
[05] CHIEF PUBLIC PROSECUTOR WARNS AGAINST ENDING HEADSCARF BANIn the midst of calls by some political leaders to lift the headscarf ban in universities, Supreme Court of Appeals Chief Public Prosecutor Abdurrahman Yalcinkaya said yesterday that lifting the headscarf ban would violate the "secular unitary structure" of the state. In a written statement, Yalcinkaya warned political parties not to violate principles of the republic, saying that efforts to destroy Turkey's modern structure would sow divisions and cause conflict. /Sabah/
[06] TUSIAD DELEGATION MEETS WITH GOVT TO DISCUSS REFORMSA delegation from the Turkish Union of Industrialist' and Businessmen's Association (TUSIAD) yesterday met separately with Labor and Social Security Minister Faruk Celik and Health Minister Recep Akdag. The delegation, led by Arzuhan Dogan Yalcindag, reportedly exchanged views on the government's economic and health policy reforms set to be implemented this year. /Turkiye/
[07] CB LOWERS INTEREST RATESThe Central Bank yesterday announced quarter-point cuts in interest rates. At its meeting, the CB's Monetary Policy Committee decided to lower the overnight borrowing interest rate from 15.75 to 15.50 percent and the lending rate from 20 to 19.50 percent. /Star/
[08] LIRA STRONGER AGAINST ALMOST ALL CURRENCIESThe Turkish lira appreciated against the currencies of 99 out of 100 countries last year, according to Finance Ministry data. The ministry yesterday announced the exchange rates for foreign currencies as of the end of 2007 for use in all types of debt and claim transactions in these currencies. The value of the lira ranked 83rd among the 100 other currencies included in the data, with little difference in the four currencies following it in terms of exchange rates. /Today's Zaman/
Columnist Bilal Cetin comments on the headscarf issue. A summary of his column is as follows:
"The Justice and Development Party (AKP) has been the ruling party for more than five years. In addition, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been the prime minister for nearly five years. The AKP is sensitive about the headscarf issue and has been promising to solve this issue since 2002, when it first ran for office. But there hasn't been any solution, because solving the issue isn't as easy as it seems. There is a high risk of tension and even crisis. The AKP has made a few moves but each time it saw the lack of social and institutional consensus, it beat a hasty retreat. But now, for the first time, Erdogan seems to be very determined. For a few days, he has been hinting that even if you call headscarves a symbol, the ban at universities will be lifted. In other words, there will be a constitutional change to end the ban.
The Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) has been wanting the ban ended for a long time. Just like Erdogan, MHP leader Devlet Bahceli wants the ban lifted and the issue solved without any tension or conflict. The only disagreement between them is this: Erdogan thinks that people should be allowed to wear it, even if it's a symbol, whereas Bahceli thinks it shouldn't be allowed to be used as a political symbol due to sensitivities about secularism. In addition, Bahceli thinks that the AKP's initiatives to solve the headscarf issue are insincere and that it's only using this issue as a political tool.
So yesterday the MHP took action on this issue. It proposed a constitutional amendment, saying that if the AKP is sincere, the change should be made to end the wrangling over the issue. The MHP's solution is very simple. It says a clause on 'presenting all kinds public services and benefiting from them' should be added to Article 10 of the Constitution, which is on the principle of equality before the law. In other words, all citizens will be able to benefit from all sorts of public services equally, and thus students wearing headscarves will be able to benefit from this service equally, as higher education is a also a public service. But this doesn't seem likely to overturn a 1989 Constitutional Court decision establishing the basis of the ban, because the ruling says nothing about the principle of 'equality before the law or benefiting equally from public services.' In upholding the ban, the court directly referred to the principle of secularism and Articles 2 and 24, where this principle is stated.
Turkey will be discussing this issue for a while longer with non- governmental organizations, lawyers and universities. Most importantly, government agencies will become parties to this discussion. Actually they started doing this yesterday. The Supreme Court of Appeals' chief public prosecutor issued a statement criticizing the push to end the ban. He branded the MHP and AKP efforts as 'activities aiming to alter the republic's secular character.' In other words, he thinks that these parties are violating the Constitution. Even if the way seems simple, it won't be easy to end the headscarf ban. Yesterday came the prosecutor's harsh criticism. Tomorrow this might be followed by other institutions. Even certain institutions whose intervention is never desired might criticize this as well."
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MENDON, MASS. (WHDH) - Police in Mendon are investigating the death of an infant Tuesday at a church in the town.
The Worcester County District Attorney's office says a 10-week-old boy was found unresponsive around 6:30 p.m by his mother at a day care inside the Bethany Community Church.
The child was taken to Milford Regional Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, according to District Attorney Joseph Early.
The infant's mother was so distraught that she needed medical attention herself. She was taken by ambulance to the hospital.
A spokesperson for the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care told 7News that Bethany Community Church did not have a license because it is a private K-12 school. In 1996, the "private" status granted the church a license exemption. The exemption, however, did not include infant care. The facility is now under investigation.
State Police detectives are investigating but say, right now, they do not believe there was any foul play.
The boy has not been identified by investigators.
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do trips to the grocery store always make you want to eat a lot? someone should do a study.
yesterday was decided to be our grocery store run day.... since well there was basically nothing in our kitchen. unless you are a cilantro fan. which i am. but i like a little guacamole with my cilantro.
so... we usually eat at home after church but well... the bare cupboards have been explained already so we made the executive decision to eat out. wow. it was my first menu in a while, i forgot how much food you get. appetizer...main dish of a meat/veggie (potato) /rice... drink and dessert? we were both stuffed. which ive read is a good way to go to the grocery store. you shouldnt go hungry or you will buy too much.
so we hit up the store then later while julton was cutting up the chicken (see previous post) he requested... french toast. im not sure how you make the move from chicken to french toast... but... well there was french toast for dinner. actually, i wasnt that hungry so julton ate a huge stack of french toast.
then later while watching a movie... me: you know.. im kind of hungry. julton: me too... (hes always hungry) julton: are you thinking about making something? (with a glimmer of hope in his eyes) me: yes....
and i disappeared into the kitchen....
and made potato soup! i think. i mean, all that requires to be called potato soup technically is the presence of potatoes right? so technically all of the soups i make could be called potato soup... hmmm
anyway im really excited about this. i think i had potato soup on my brain because earlier in the day i was talking with my mom about her sending me my grandmother rogers potato soup recipe.
this was not my grandma rogers soup. but i have to say... im pretty proud of it and its going to get made again. i will admit that i was afraid of making potato soup. for a few reasons. if youve never made it before and you have the memory of your grandmothers in your mind... its a little intimidating to take on the task, i mean lets be honest you arent going to just pull the recipe out of thin air. especailly if you are me. and i feared, will it be similar will it be horrible all those comparisons. well. the good thing is julton has never tried my granmothers potato soup. he hasnt in fact tried anyones potato soup. so he had the potential of being a good guinea pig... but when i said i was making soup hes got chickeny brothy soup in his head.
so i weighed all this against my sheer craving for potato soup. -the craving won. i looked at several potato soup recipes on the internet and then just mixed a bunch of them together based on what we had and didnt have in the kitchen (it was late... super... super late). je..je..je. and it worked! so.. if you wanna give it a try...
"Julies every potato soup recipe possible plus or minus a few things wrapped up in one explosion of a potato soup. "
half red onion
2 large garlic cloves
1 1/2 (ish) tablespoons butter
4 strips of bacon
let all of this get happy together in a pot, set the fire on low so the garlic doesnt burn. burnt garlic is not a good thing
once the onions are all clearish and the bacon cooked but not crispy, add two cups chicken stock. 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley and about 3/4 can of evaporated milk. salt and pepper to taste. also add two large cubed potatoes. let simmer until potatoes are done and enjoy!
and we did, two bowls each. if that doesnt go against the dont eat anything heavy late at night or you wont sleep well rule then i dont know what does. but we passed out. im not sure if it was because it was so late, or the soup just put us both in a coma. (not the healthiest soup)
on a different note... im still really enjoying the dried cranberries that gillian sent (salad)
and im really content with being able to have time to make my lunch again instead of rushing home at 2:30 famished and ready to eat anything visible.
todays lunch:
left: spinach/boiled egg/dried cranberry/cheese/tomatoes/balsamic vinaigrette
right: tomatoes/garlic/onion/shrimp sauteed in extra virgin olive oil pasta


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Three of our games are in the finishing stages, one of them being Rail Yard Rivals. It was originally a card game called Track Attack, a kid's game meant to be light and fun. The problem was that something was missing, off, and we weren't sure what . The basic premise was you had cards with various configurations of train tracks, which you collectively built. The object was to be the first one to close off all the open ends of the track. Very simple.
Too simple.
Kids had fun building the tracks, but yeah. Something was missing. So we went back to the drawing board. We tried some other ideas. I wanted each player to have a train, so you could use the tracks you laid out. Then we added stations. You had to visit each station and transport passengers to win the game. Still simple, yet still kind of monotonous. We experimented some more and we are now at the stage of trying out another idea: what if each player had a deck of their own and they have to build their own track? What if you have to close off your track before you can start placing stations and your train? Then, when your track is complete, other players can blow up your tracks to keep you from being able to transport passengers? (The original version had bomb cards in it.)
It's still intended to be a kid's game, but we want parents to have fun, too. Going to give this new idea a try and see if it heats things up a little. And I do like the new name, Rail Yard Rivals.