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Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants (Updated and Expanded)
The perfect antidote to the belief that nature happens somewhere else. If you have a backyard, this book is for you — get outside and learn about the wildlife around you, and then do something to make a haven for species at risk.
Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods
As development and subsequent habitat destruction accelerate, there are increasing pressures on wildlife populations. But there is an important and simple step toward reversing this alarming trend: Everyone with access to a patch of earth can make a significant contribution toward sustaining biodiversity.
There is an unbreakable link between native plant species and native wildlife — native insects cannot, or will not, eat alien plants. When native plants disappear, the insects disappear, impoverishing the food source for birds and other animals. In many parts of the world, habitat destruction has been so extensive that local wildlife is in crisis and may be headed toward extinction.
Bringing Nature Home has sparked a national conversation about the link between healthy local ecosystems and human well-being, and the new paperback edition — with an expanded resource section and updated photos — will help broaden the movement. By acting on Douglas Tallamy's practical recommendations, everyone can make a difference.
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 360 pp.
- Book dimensions: 6 x 9 in. (230 x 150 mm.)
- Images: 312 color photos, 4 diagrams, 4 tables
- Product code: 682992
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"Tallamy explains in beautiful prose the importance of native plants to our wildlife."
—Cleveland Plain Dealer
"This is the 'it' book in certain gardening circles. It's really struck a nerve."
—Virginia A. Smith, Philadelphia Inquirer
"Provides the rationale behind the use of native plants, a concept that has rapidly been gaining momentum. The impact on our environment is huge. The text makes a case for native plants and animals in a compelling and complete fashion."
—Joel M. Lerner, Washington Post
"This book not only shows how important native plants are but also how easy they can be to incorporate into a landscape plan."
—Marianne Binetti, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"A fascinating study of the trees, shrubs, and vines that feed the insects, birds, and other animals in the suburban garden."
—Anne Raver, New York Times
"I want to mention how excited I am about reading Bringing Nature Home. ... I like the writing — enthusiastic and down-to-earth, as it should be."
—Elizabeth Licata, Garden Rant
"This book belongs in every gardener's library."
—Scott Shalaway, Parkersburg News and Sentinel
"Douglas Tallamy is the guru of the habitat gardening movement sweeping the country."
—Christine Aquilino, Arlington Advocate
"Offers a clear, science-based and ultimately understandable 'how-to' for ensuring ecologically balanced gardens and wildlife-rich residential landscapes."
—Daytona Beach News-Journal
"My book of choice of the year."
—Sally Cunningham, Buffalo News
"Doug Tallamy's book is a gift. It's not the kind of gift wrapped with a pink ribbon and a tiny rose tucked into the bow. It's the kind of gift that shakes you to your core and sets you on the path of healing. Your garden. Your planet. One plant at a time. Open it."
—Kathryn Hall, Plant Whatever Brings You Joy
"A delight to read and a most needed resource."
—Cheryl Cadwell, Warwick Beacon (Warwick, RI)
"The book that is going to change how gardening is conducted over the next century."
—Ants, Bees, Birds, Butterflies, Nature Blog
"Opens our eyes to an environmental problem of staggering proportions. Fortunately, it also shows us how we can help."
—Judy Brinkerhoff, Petaluma Argus-Courier
"Illustrates well how gardeners have contributed greatly to tipping the environment off balance and how they are equally able to turn the trend. ... Plants and insects are integrally intertwined. Understanding the beauty of these relationships deepens our appreciation of our gardens and the important role we play."
—David Bare, Winston-Salem Journal
"Tallamy makes such a compelling case for the importance of insects to birds that I've completely changed the way I garden. From now on, insect attractors are my first choices."
—Val Cunningham, Birding Business
"I am reading [this] with great enjoyment. ... I am finding new ideas in his book and continued inspiration to talk about the problems and the answers."
—Judy Brinkerhoff, Petaluma Argus-Courier
"This informative book delivers an important message for all gardeners: Choosing native plants fortifies birds and other wildlife and protects them from extinction."
—Jessie H. Barry, Wild Bird
"With Carsonic remonstrance, Tallamy communicates a hopeful message: it's not too late to save the ecological community of fauna and the answer is as simple as replacing foreign plants with natives."
—John Bagnasco, Garden Compass
"What a delight ... to acknowledge that the voice of reason — and an eloquent one at that — has entered the fray. ... Fascinating insight that's presented in an engaging manner perfectly tuned for gardeners of every stripe. ... Worth your while."
—Felicia Parsons, Northern Gardener
"Filled with beautiful photographs of insects, plants, birds, and hard data presented in an easy-to-read style, Bringing Nature Home is a book every conservationist should read carefully."
—Kay Charter, Windstar Wildlife Institute Blog
"Tallamy explains eloquently how native plant species depend on native wildlife. ... Dedicated gardeners will find his descriptions of the plants and insects (bird food) interesting."
—San Luis Obispo Tribune
"Filled with beautiful photographs of insects, plants, and birds and hard data presented in an easy-to-read style, 'Bringing Nature Home' will persuade all of us to take a look at what is in our own yards with an eye to how we, too, can make a difference. It has already changed me."
—Kay Charter, Traverse City Record-Eagle
"Combines the passion which many of us have, with the science, and that's a winning combination."
—Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp, Indianapolis Star
"A call to arms. There is not much ordinary citizens can do to create large new preserves. But we can make better use of the small green spaces we have around our houses. While the situation in the United States is quite serious, Tallamy offers options that anyone with a garden, even a postage-stamp-sized one like mine, can do to help."
—Tammar Stein, St. Petersburg Times
"If you cut down the goldenrod, the wild black cherry, the milkweed and other natives, you eliminate the larvae, and starve the birds. This simple revelation about the food web — and it is an intricate web, not a chain — is the driving force in Bringing Nature Home."
—Anne Raver, New York Times
"We all know where resistance to natives, reliance on pesticides, and the cult of the lawn still reign supreme: suburban America. And suburban America is where Doug Tallamy aims the passionate arguments for natives and their accompanying wildlife contained in his wonderful book."
—Elizabeth Licata, Garden Rant
"An informative and engaging account of the ecological interactions between plants and wildlife, this fascinating handbook explains why exotic plants can hinder and confuse native creatures, from birds and bees to larger fauna."
—Ann Lovejoy, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"Full of information to motivate us — and contains lists and resources to help us get started."
—Christine Aquilino, Arlington Advocate
"There is much to learn in the field of biodiversity and this is a perfect place to start and continue that education."
—Sonia von Matt Stoddard, Awareness Magazine
"Buy, borrow, or steal this book! It is essential reading with ideas that need to become part of our understanding of how life works on this planet."
—Prairie Moon Nursery Blog
"This book will not only foster a love of the outdoors in all who read it, but also create a deeper understanding and appreciation of the intricate web of wildlife outside your door."
—Andy Bennett, Cabin Life
"You can look at this book as a manifesto explaining why we should favor native plants, but it's much more than that. It's a plan to sustain the endangered biodiversity and even more, it's a plan to transform suburbia from an environmental liability to an environmental asset."
—Raz Godelnik, Eco-Libris Blog
"[A] book that opened my eyes. ... Tallamy illustrates well how gardeners have contributed greatly to tipping the environment off balance and how they are equally able to turn the trend."
—David Bare, Statesville Record & Landmark
"We may not be aware that there is more to the need for natives than concern about invasive species that upset an ecosystem. According to Tallamy, a balanced ecosystem needs more insects. It is when the balance of the system is disrupted that problems arise."
—Pat Leuchtman, Recorder
"People in the gardening world are calling Douglas W. Tallamy's book on native plants the next Silent Spring, Rachel Carson's 1962 book that warned of the dangers of chemical pesticides and helped launch the modern-day environmental movement."
—Bill Cary, Westchester Journal News
"Reading this book will give you a new appreciation for the natural world — and how much wild creatures need gardens that mimic the disappearing wild."
—Val Cunningham, Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Easy, thought-provoking, and stimulating to read."
—Ilene Sternberg, Green Scene
"Tallamy's tome is school-in-a-book for the nursery acquisitions person, the plant aficionado, the individual looking for the most effective and sensible way to grow a natural garden and support the environment."
—Bloomin' News
"I rank this as the most important gardening book I've read. It's about ecology and about gardening, but it's more than that. It's both inspiring and sobering."
—Janet Allen, Upstate Gardeners' Journal
"A book that plant lovers as well as insect lovers can enjoy."
—Wild Foods Forum
"Tallamy builds his case with research-based facts enhanced with engaging personal stories. ... [He] offers inspirational native design ideas with a focus on creating balanced landscapes and increasing biodiversity. ... Logical and convincing, this book is an essential guide for anyone interested in increasing biodiversity in the garden."
—Deborah Smith-Fiola, American Gardener
"An eloquently written theory, offering recommendations for conservation to gardeners everywhere."
—Buffalo Spree
"Makes a powerful case for native plants in our landscapes. This is a fascinating look at how importing exotic plants into your garden can negatively affect native birds, bees, and wildlife. Tallamy offers an engaging argument for the power of gardeners to contribute to maintaining biodiversity."
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August 26, 1997
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Mike Ward announced today that for the 38,468 college-bound seniors taking the SAT in 1997, higher scores were related to the number of higher-level courses taken.
North Carolina students, overall, improved their scores by two points on the math portion of the test reaching an average score of 488. Verbal scores stayed the same, at 490, on average. Fifty-nine percent of North Carolina high school seniors took the SAT. Nationally, only 15 states posted a participation rate that high.
Nationally, math scores went up by three points to an average score of 511. Verbal scores, on average, stayed at 505. The highest score possible is 1,600 for verbal and math combined.
The difference between the national average score and North Carolina's average score is the smallest that it has been since 1972.
The SAT measures a student's reasoning, verbal and math skills against the skills needed to be successful in freshman level college coursework. The primary use for SAT scores is as a tool for admission's officials at colleges and universities. The College Board discourages the comparison of states on the basis of SAT scores alone and considers it invalid.
The results released today showed that for North Carolina students who took more than the minimum number of courses required for graduation in each subject area, the payoff was in higher SAT scores and a stronger knowledge base.
For example, North Carolina students who had taken four years of high school-level mathematics earned an average score of 1,003, several points higher overall than the average score for all students and 81 points higher than the average score for students who took only three years of mathematics. Students are only required to take three years of mathematics for high school graduation. Coursework in geometry, trigonometry and calculus boosted scores significantly. North Carolina students who took calculus, for example, scored an average combined score of 1,156, a score that is higher than the state and national averages.
This relationship of coursework to performance held up in other subject areas also.
"The SAT is an important measure for individual students," Supt. Ward said. "It can open important doors for them to continue their education. It is encouraging that North Carolina continues each year to gain points on the SAT. I hope that these increases will help more of our students pursue their educational goals."
The ABCs of Public Education, North Carolina's major education reform effort, begins this fall in high schools. It also places a strong emphasis on reading, writing and mathematics in the elementary and middle school grades. This emphasis, Supt. Ward said, will pay off for students as they enter high school and prepare for college.
Supt. Ward said that details of the SAT report showed the importance of good study habits, of taking advanced courses and of taking a balanced, rigorous selection of courses.
"The message to students and their families is that preparation for college and for the SAT needs to begin early, even before high school enrollment. The more courses students take in every subject and the more rigorous the quality of those courses, the more prepared students will be for college admission and for college success," Supt. Ward said.
The fact that more North Carolina students are taking Advanced Placement (AP) courses is one indicator that this message is being heard. AP courses are rigorous, college-level courses which students take in high school. Students can earn college credit for these courses through the national AP exams. A total of 16,436 students took at least one AP exam in North Carolina last year, a 3.3 percent increase from 1996. Of the 26,148 AP exams taken by these students, the students earned college credit for 15,647 of the exams. This is a 13 percent improvement from 1996 performance.
Supt. Ward also noted that more efforts need to be targeted toward minority students whose scores continue to trail the scores of white students. Participation rates for minority students have improved over time, but more needs to be done to help prepare these students to do well on this test, Ward said.
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WASHINGTON -- Austin Tice, an American freelance journalist covering the civil war in Syria who was last heard from in mid-August, remains unaccounted for and is likely being held by the Syrian government.
Statements in recent days by Czech diplomats, information from Syrian rebel supporters and reports from people inside Syria indicate that the 31-year-old Houston native, who contributed to McClatchy, The Washington Post and CBS News, was detained by Syrian government forces near the Damascus suburb of Daraya, his last known location.
The U.S. State Department says the Syrian government has not responded to inquiries about Tice that were made through official channels and that U.S. diplomats were "working through our Czech protecting power in Syria to get more information on his welfare and whereabouts." A Syrian official in the United States declined to comment Thursday.
Tice entered Syria in May without a visa – a common practice for journalists attempting to cover the rebel side of the conflict there – and traveled throughout the country with rebel forces, reaching the Damascus area in late July. He remained in that area, basing himself in Daraya, a city of 200,000 southwest of Damascus proper, but had planned to leave Syria to meet friends in Lebanon on Aug. 19 or 20. He last communicated with colleagues on Aug. 13 but did not reveal precisely how he intended to exit Syria.
On Monday, the Czech ambassador to Syria, Eva Filipi, told a Czech television interviewer in Prague that sources had informed her mission that Tice was in detention, though further information had been hard to come by because of an Islamic holiday at the time. The Czechs, who oversee U.S. interests in Damascus because the U.S. closed its embassy there in February, sent a formal diplomatic note about Tice to Syrian counterparts, she said.
"Our sources report that he is alive and that he was detained by government forces on the outskirts of Damascus, where the rebels were fighting government troops," Filipi said in response to a question about Tice. "Our additional steps were halted by the fact that the report came at the beginning of the final holidays of Ramadan and therefore we had a week off in Syria and some of our contacts were not in Damascus."
The remarks followed a Czech radio report over the weekend that also said Tice had been detained by the government.
Since then, other information, gathered from a variety of people by the news organizations that publish Tice's work, has provided support for that version of events.
One reporter who had met Tice previously said that rebels who had been with Tice expressed concern, saying he had left abruptly and not returned. The rebels were worried that he might have been taken captive, according to the reporter, who is not being identified out of security concerns.
Thursday, executives at both McClatchy and The Washington Post renewed their calls for information about Tice and urged his release if he is in Syrian government custody.
"We welcome any news about Austin, after three long weeks without word. He is a widely respected and dedicated journalist," Anders Gyllenhaal, McClatchy vice president for news, said in a statement. "If he is in fact being held by the Syrian government, we would expect that he is being well cared for and that he will quickly be released."
"We're investigating reports that Austin Tice is in custody of Syrian authorities," Marcus Brauchli, the Post's executive editor, said in a statement. "If the reports are true, we urge these authorities to release him promptly, unharmed. Journalists should never be detained for doing their work, even – and especially – in difficult circumstances."
Tice's parents, Marc and Debra, pleaded for his safe return.
"Austin is our precious son, and we beseech the Syrian government to treat him well and return him safely to us as soon as possible," they said in a statement.
In recent months, Daraya had become a stronghold for the rebels who are battling to topple the government of President Bashar Assad. Syrian government forces began shelling the area in mid-August and then fought pitched battles with rebels there for several days, before the rebels reportedly abandoned their positions late Aug. 24 and Syrian troops entered the city Aug. 25. Hundreds of people died in the violence, though it was impossible to know how many of those were combatants.
Tice, however, apparently had left the area before the fighting began.
A number of foreigners, including at least one other American besides Tice, are believed to be in Syrian custody, according to people familiar with the matter in Damascus and outside of Syria who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the topic. It could not be determined if all the unnamed individuals remain in Syrian captivity.
Tice, a law student at Georgetown University and a former Marine infantry officer, was one of the few foreign journalists to report from inside Damascus as fighting raged in Syria's nascent civil war. Tice's reporting drew on his own military background to explain fierce battles between regime forces and guerrilla groups. The opposition forces he traveled with weren't immune to his scrutiny; Tice reported on their own apparent battlefield atrocities in addition to the bloody setbacks they endured from the better-armed Syrian military.
Apart from McClatchy and The Washington Post, Tice also contributed to CBS News, Al Jazeera English, the Agence France-Press news agency and the MCT Photo Service.
Tice was keenly aware of the dangers he faced, he wrote in a posting on his Facebook page, but he implored his friends and family to "please quit telling me to be safe." He wrote that he drew inspiration from Syrians in the throes of conflict, and that "coming here to Syria is the greatest thing I have ever done".
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Are we lucky as fans or what? After one of the worst slides in Sabres history, they go on a 4-0-1 tear – against good teams even. I feel sorry for anyone who left the First Niagara Center early last night, as they missed a great show.
When it went to a shootout, I felt confident in Miller. He let in a few, but he was solid overall. When Gerbe's shootout chance came, I knew he would sink it. Hell, the whole game I wasn't worried about their play. The team is playing tough, confident hockey, with smarts to boot. They're making crisp, quick passes and working hard in the corners. If they lost, they lost, but they were playing hard most of the way.
I don't do much "real" analysis about the Sabres, as that's not really my mindset (or forte). I'm more of a fan who just loves the game and makes bad jokes – but even I can see how much better this team is than just a few short weeks ago.
Perhaps part of it is the German bump, although the Sabres were playing well before the contingent of Mannheim Eagles fans came to Western New York. For more on that go here, it's a feel good read. And we could take some notes from their cheering playbook. They were rambunctious, perhaps annoyingly so to some, and even tried to get the wave going.
Or maybe it was Lindy Ruff. Perhaps his ego overshadowed the players and now that he's injured they can finally play their best hockey. Now, I don't believe this, but I'm sure there are detractors out there saying that. But the Sabres started this run well before Lindy fell and busted up some ribs.
Whatever the case, the Sabres are playing tough and are now eight points back in the East. I don't think I need to say "buckle up", we're all pretty aware that this will go down to the wire, much like last year. But you couldn't write a better script: a billionaire owner takes over the team, spends gazillions picking up all-star talent. The team flounders and all hope seems lost. Then, in Act 3 they get it together and miraculously make a huge comeback.
The only question is how does the story end – do they win it all, or is it just a feel-good drama where the team takes 2nd place but that was further than they ever should have expected to get to?
Whatever the case may be, it'll be damn exciting to be a part of. The Sabres are eight points back now with the Tampa Bay Lightning coming into our barn. We've got a lot of good hockey to watch ahead of us the rest of the year.
Go Sabres.
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French experimental film maker Philippe Garrel's 1972 allegorical mindfuck La cicatrice intérieure (The Inner Scar) lays on the symbolism with a trowel as it winds its way through the deserts of our mind (or somebody's) in pursuit of Garrel's lover Nico, actor Pierre Clementi and some elusive deeper meaning. It's a gorgeous looking folly that, despite its abundant tracking shots, is so inert it makes L'Avventura look like The Fast And The Furious.
Filmed in North Africa, Iceland, and Death Valley, La cicatrice intérieure has its moments of haunting beauty that suggest a better movie, or at least a more emotionally engaging one. The soundtrack features five songs by Nico and they contribute to the film's other-worldly weirdness and existential despair.
Garell seems to want to echo the feel of Alejandro Jodorowsky's mystical western El Topo. Unfortunately, Garrel doesn't have Jodorowsky's nerve or wisdom.


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COLUMBUS – In conjunction with Major League Soccer's Jersey Week from March 3-7, the Columbus Crew announced today that the club is hosting a full-team event on Tuesday, March 4 to unveil its new 2014 primary kit. The social and business alliance Season Ticket Member communities and selected Crew corporate partners are invited to this private event held at Bar Louie Short North (504 Park St., Columbus) from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. ET.
To celebrate a new era of soccer in Columbus, doors are opening for the private event at 5:00 p.m. ET, before the official start of 6:00 p.m. ET. The new primary kit is set to be unveiled at approximately 6:45 p.m. ET followed by a player and guest mingling until 8:00 p.m. ET. A photo opportunity along with interviews will take place shortly after the unveiling.
Although the evening is a private event, a live stream of the debut of the jersey will be hosted on TheCrew.com.
Following the unveiling, the new jerseys are set to be available for sale at a merchandising area within the restaurant. There will also be other new 2014 Official Team Gear for sale on-site. Attendees can enjoy 20% off of product and personalization at this event. Additionally, food and drink specials are available for everyone in attendance throughout the event, including the restaurant's renowned Tuesday burger and beer discounts.
Before the Crew begins the 2014 season at D.C. United on Saturday, March 8, the team continues its preseason preparations. For more information on catching the Black & Gold in 2014 – visit TheCrew.com/tickets. Single-match tickets for all Crew regular-season home games in 2014 are now on sale.


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The proliferation of essays and books on the topic of literary history in the last few decades suggests that this may be a fitting time to explore not only the problematizing challenges that new methodological paradigms have raised, but also the new concrete possibilities opened up by precisely these challenges. The specific context of our particular exploration is a proposed set of multi-authored volumes of comparative literary history to be published in a series sponsored by the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA). Each of these new projects, in its own way, takes a very different tack on the writing of literary history than have other histories — even those in the series, for these have been organized around international movements (romanticism, symbolism, expressionism, avant-garde, postmodernism), linguistically-limited geographic regions (European languages in Sub-Saharan Africa), or cultural historical periods (renaissance, baroque, modern). For the purpose of initiating debate and eliciting response, this essay will outline both the general methodological frames of reference and the theoretical underpinnings of the new group of projects as a whole, and will then give a sense of what form these might take in practice by presenting the specific proposals for several of the volumes.
While on the surface seemingly benign, each of the words in our title, "Rethinking Literary History — Comparatively," opens out onto large areas of both contention and excitement today. To "re-think" is not only to think again; it is to think anew. This does not involve revisionism or revising: it is not a question of correcting, altering, amending or improving. To rethink is to reconsider, with all the associations of care and attentiveness and serious reflection that go with the notion of consideration.
One of the things that has consistently been rethought over the centuries is the very concept of the "literary": its boundaries have been extended from the view of literature as only imaginative writing, to include many other categories of discourse — factual as well as fictional, oral as well as written, vernacular/popular as well as canonical/"elite." This inclusive and non-normative notion of "literature" is not new to the late twentieth century, but it has been theorized anew, with the help of, among others, post-structuralist and feminist thinking that has crossed cultural and national language borders. A significant result of this theorizing (as the examples that follow will show) has been the articulation of new and more complex ways to think through the already acknowledged importance of both literature and literary history to more general categories of social history.
Thus, this broadening of the object of study not only increases the number of types of texts to be examined by literary historians, but also expands the historical contexts in which such texts will, of necessity, be considered. The "history" of literature is, in fact, the multiple and complex histories of its production, but also of its reception. Literary historians over the centuries have always been aware of the complexity of literary production, but the new methodological paradigms developed by various critical theories in the last few decades have made it impossible not to add to this an awareness of the equally complicated and equally significant nature of literary reception. What has come to be called the "literary institution" — the field in which literary experience occurs — is therefore as much a part of this history as is the development of genres or thematic motifs. For this reason, economic, political, and broader cultural and social perspectives on issues like race or gender must be brought to bear in the constructing of any "literary" history today in a different way than they might have in the past. Newly theorized by post-colonial and gender theorists, these perspectives help make conscious the ideological underpinnings of the experience of producing and responding to literature — and of writing literary histories.
It is because of this sort of "rethinking" that the recent critical reconsiderations (both constitutive and methodological) of "history" as a discipline were bound to have inevitable repercussions on the conceptualizing of what a "literary" "history" can and should be. These rethinkings are so extensive and so central to this entire project that they will be examined in detail in the second section of this essay.
What is at stake in the move from the more traditional national model of literary history to a "comparative" one can be seen best, perhaps, by analogy. Stylish Shoulder C8wc0634al FancyPrint School Bags Bags Women Zdxw5wqFHUIn the introduction to the English translation of the first book of his monumental three-volume, BQZ7 BELLARIA for Crossbody FURLA Black White Womens Maroon Bag Civilisation matérielle, économie et capitalisme, 15e–18e siècle, the French historian, Fernand Braudel described his project as comparative, as moving dialectically between past and present, between concrete observation and an awareness of the heterogeneity and complexity of life.1 Lady Clutch Bag JAGENIE Prom Purse Fashion Black White Handbag Party Evening Women Shoulder Bridal 45CwSqxwYX "comparative" literary history would not only try to keep in the foreground this dialectic hermeneutic movement between past and present, but would try to do something analogous to what Braudel and the Annales school accomplished in their moving of history's emphasis from the events of politics and diplomacy to, on the one hand, a study of the broader circumstances (demographic, geographical, climactic, etc.) conditioning such events and, on the other, a parallel and very detailed scrutiny of the concrete material data (quantified) of life of the past. A "comparative" literary history would move from this life as it is lived to how it is told. Just as Braudel's BELLARIA Bag for Womens Maroon Black Crossbody FURLA White BQZ7 La Méditerranée et le monde méditerranéen à l'époque de Philippe II brought together such diverse elements as the religion, history, geography, technology, agriculture, and general intellectual trends of this place at this time, so (as section iii will show) the specific comparative literary histories being proposed for this series will study literature in contexts beyond the aesthetic and formal, taking into account relevant political, anthropological, economic, geographic, historical, demographic, and sociological research in articulating the contexts of a community's literature.
Tassel with Red Crossbody Double Compartment Wristlet Bag 1xRfqwSfHThe ICLA series of comparative literary histories, as a whole, has sought to do something very different from what national literary histories have done, both in their traditional forms and in their recent, quite differently formatted ones (such as BQZ7 Crossbody Black for Bag White Maroon Womens BELLARIA FURLA A New History of French Literature).2 As Benedict Anderson argues in his influential study, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism,3 nationhood is a matter of "imagined community." In Europe, he claims, that sense of collective identity was conceived in the nineteenth century and born largely of the printed word and the literary genre we know as the novel — though others would, no doubt, want to argue for the centrality of drama or even opera.4 This general intertwining of the literary and the national, however, is not one to be abandoned in a "comparative" literary history, but to limit oneself to it would be to downplay the power of other "imagined communities" based on, say, language or geographic region rather than nation. Either of these categories might foreground the artificiality, not to say fragility, of national borders: after all, as historical entities, such borders have changed often and, indeed, change constantly.
In addition, any monolithic construction of a national literary history risks marginalizing or even excluding the literary creations of even those working within those borders, but in other languages or other cultural traditions. There are other complicating factors too that suggest the need for a more flexible and integrative concept of the scope and scale of literary history than that which might be implied when the focus is on a single language (often acting as a synecdoche of a nation): besides the obvious fact that people can and often do participate in several language communities at once, texts, as well as ideas and images, pass from one language to another through the medium of translation. Films are released in many languages at the same time; novels are simultaneously published around the world in translation; plays are performed on several continents in different languages. As we shall suggest, a "comparative" literary history is also, perhaps, the history both made possible by and even demanded of our age of international information access and electronic technology.
Each example discussed in section iii will address these possibilities and fulfill these demands in the very specific and individual ways dictated by its particular, appropriate choice of focus and methodology. Despite this necessary particularity of engagement, there does exist, among all, a certain, general shared methodological and theoretical grounding on which to build in order to put into practice the insights that issue after issue of a journal like FURLA BELLARIA Womens Crossbody Black White Bag Maroon BQZ7 for New Literary History has been theorizing for over twenty years. It is in practice, as well as theory, that we seek to "rethink" "literary" "history" "comparatively."
Fernand Braudel called his own historical work comparative not only because it crossed traditional disciplinary boundaries but because it involved what he called the "dialectic of past and present."Bridal Pink Elegant Clutch Wedding Butterfly Beaded Purse Chichitop Women's Floral Handbag Evening 6qpRzFw Similarly, literary history is inevitably the history of the past as read through the present. It cannot be simply a cumulative record of all that has been written or performed or even a compilation of themes or forms. The literary past — that is, the past of both literature's production and its reception — is unavoidably interpreted in the light of the present, and present knowledge of it will therefore be partial and provisional, but not insignificant for all that. A comparative literary history would have to acknowledge the epistemological limitations that its hermeneutic situation creates: each historian will be situated, as a real person living in a linguistic and cultural community, and it is from that specific position that he/she can engage what phenomenologists call the horizon of the past. The texts of that past were created by people in a specific language, at a specific moment, in a specific place; but the literary historian is also an historical being, "situated" with similar particularity. The community of readers of any text, as Hans-Georg Gadamer argued, is historically constituted, but is never limited to its creator's contemporaries in the past.
This hermeneutic underpinning of a "situated" literary history is only one of the senses in which there is a "dialectic of past and present." As the work of Hayden White and others has shown, it is in the present that the historian shapes and orders the events of the past, making meaning even more than recording it. In Anglo-American literary criticism, the rise of what has been called the New Historicism is an example of a post-New Critical (formalist) return to the historical embeddedness of literature. It also marks a specifically literary engaging of the issues that historians have been debating for some time now, provoked by the work of marxists, feminists, and theorists of race, ethnicity, and sexual choice.
The implications of this notion of the "situatedness" of the historian dovetail with those created by the new awareness of (and openness about) the interpretive and narrating act of history-writing. And these all have special resonance for the literary historian: perspective, interpretation, and narration are among the staples of the study of literature, as much as history. Just as a work like Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie's Carnival in Romans (1979) challenged the convention of historical narrative as objective, neutral, impersonal and transparent, so too does fiction such as Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children or E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime. Crossbody White Womens Bag AUSTRALIA Gold QUAY wEZ0HxThe inevitable self-consciousness of literary historians, when they are faced with such "historiographic metafictional" texts,6 cannot but condition their sense of what the "imaginative reconstruction"7LeSportsac City Essential Crossbody Blue Herringbone HxrqH8a of the past in the present might entail. History's explanatory or narrative "emplotments," to use Hayden White's term, are never innocent or without consequences. To admit any of this is, in some way, to challenge the cognitive status of historical knowledge as it had come to be known in empirical and positivist terms in the last century. Ground-breaking work, such as Paul Ricoeur's multi-volumed Temps et récit, with its painstaking study of the reconfiguration and refiguration of time by narrative — both historical and fictive — has provided the kind of necessary bridge between those cognitive challenges faced by the discipline of history and those that need considering when writing about the past of literature. As a human construct, literary history too is a narrativizing of literary "events", and its "archive" is a textualized one in only a more immediately self-evident way than is the archive of all historiography.
Such analogies between the writing of history and the writing of literary history are also possible because of what intellectual historian, Dominick LaCapra has articulated in terms of "the postulates of unity, continuity, and mastery of a documentary repertoire"8 which have underpinned both endeavours in the past and which thus have come under close scrutiny in the wake of post-structuralist, post-colonial, and other critiques that point to discontinuities, gaps, ruptures, or exclusions rather than linear development, evolution, or continuity. This means that the very task of the historian has to be rethought. Pouch Crossbody Bag Butterfly Girs Canvas amp; 9 Cell 9 5in Shoulder Mini Owl1 Womens 7 Owl A Phone Bv1AFqB8In White's words: "a specifically historical inquiry is born less of the necessity to establish that certain events occurred than of the desire to determine what certain events might mean for a given group, society, or culture's conception of its present tasks and future prospects."9Hobo w Genuine Purse Back Front Trim Personalized Christmas Monkeys amp; Leather 6waq5CUZx With this kind of shift from validation to signification, it isn't hard to see where the push might have come for literary historians, as well, to reconceptualize historical process to include the relations between texts and the contexts of production — and reception. The kind of question asked of historiography for decades should also be (and is also being) asked of literary history writing today: "How did [a given] phenomenon enter the system entitled history and how has the system of historical writing acquired effective discursive power?"Women's Lavender Backpack Rose Doughnut Macaroon Mini vaq6Own7T The Foucaultian linking of power and knowledge points here, as elsewhere in contemporary theorizing, to an awareness that, while events did occur in the past, we give meaning to — that is, we name and constitute — those "events" as "historical facts" by selection and narrative positioning. And those acts are carried out by people who are as "situated" in the particularities of such things as time and place, language and gender. (So too are the people who first produced the literature being studied.) It is in this sense, perhaps, that we should read Nietzsche's admonition in The Use and Abuse of History: "You can explain the past only by what is most powerful in the present."11Cross Chain Bag Pink Women's Fur Purse body with Bag Strap Shoulder OVOV wIEFxzqR The present is what always gives the past whatever meaning it accrues. This is not a defeatist invalidation of the process of history-writing; it is merely a frank acknowledgement of a hermeneutic reality.
In literary history, as theorists as diverse as Robert Weimann, Ralph Cohen and Claudio Guillén have shown, the "events" of the past to be ordered and given meaning are, in this case, literary texts — as they are produced and received — and, for the historian as interpreter, these texts act as both documents of the past and experiences of the present. This is another of the senses in which these projects involve a "dialectic of past and present." In openly confronting this duality and in reflexively engaging with the fact (and consequences) of the power that accompanies the shaping and ordering process that constitutes the writing of any history, a comparative literary history such as we are proposing would foreground these methodological frameworks (hermeneutic, post-structuralist, post-colonial, feminist, and so on) and directly address its own theoretical assumptions regarding both texts and contexts (sociocultural, economic, political, aesthetic). How this might work in practice may become clearer if we turn now to three of the most fully articulated of the projects. With contributors living in many countries and doing their research under radically differing working conditions, it will also be clear why this is the kind of vast venture that can only be possible in an age of electronic communication among scholars and computer access to bibliographic sources previously unavailable to many.
a) Comparative Literary History of Latin America
(editor: Djelal Kadir)
Beginning from the fact that, in historical terms, "Latin America" is a nominal, social and cultural construct, this three-volume project seeks to take into account the very process of that constructing — the framers' plural agendas and investments — in its historical consideration of the production and reception of "Latin American" literature. The orientation of its comparative investigation of the literary archive and its contexts will be toward what the research team has called "problematics": it will explore a group of contingent, shifting problems that have arisen across national borders, geographic regions, time periods, linguistic systems, cultural traditions. The first of these involves the fact that the Americas designated "Latin" are plural: the Andean region, Brazil, the Caribbean, Mexico and Central America, Rio de la Plata. Their diverse "discoveries" by different European imperial powers provide another site of literary historical research to be carried out, through an analysis of the texts written at the time in both European and Indoamerican languages. Besides studying the texts (written but also oral, ritual, and performative) of the indigenous cultures, this comparative project will investigate the relationship between indigenous and European cultures through the literary traces of the processes of cultural rupture and even destruction, as well as superimposition and hybridization. The various displacements and uprootings — both from Africa and within the Americas — form part of this investigation. The broader political (colonial), cultural, and social context in which "literature," such as it is defined in this series, comes into being is obviously crucial to the understanding of the literary history of this vast area of the Americas.
Among the other concerns permitted and even provoked by a comparative approach would be the relation between nationhood and literary forms (epics, chronicles, utopian visions, hymns, encomia, philosophical discourses). Also of importance is the relationship between the production/reception of literature and literary institutions (indigenous and European — academic, publishing, media, church, state, etc.). Among the most significant of the issues to be tackled in these volumes is the issue of the meaning given to colonial cultural forms in a variety of New World settings — and, more recently, vice-versa — through complex processes of repetition, syncretism, appropriation, recuperation. Dialogue is another of the models used to structure the vast field of investigation here: dialogue across oceans, national borders, ethnic divisions, cultural and linguistic contexts, dialogue between centers and between centers and margins. These volumes will deal not only with so-called "high-art" forms, but with popular culture, from oral literature and folklore to radio serials, telenovels and comics. The recent renewed interest in "orature" or the oral tradition in its many versions will inform these discussions.
There will clearly be no attempt at any illusory comprehensiveness: Latin American literature is too diverse and multifaceted. Nevertheless, what will inform all the discussions of these various historical problematics will be two important matters: an awareness of the once-elided role of gender in each, and a reflexive self-questioning about the very terms and methods of analysis and explanation being used.
b) Comparative Literary History of the African Diaspora
(eds. Biodun Jeyifo and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.)
This project is not regionally based. It is, of necessity, complexly international, for the African diaspora involves four main world-dominant languages — English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese. The four volumes planned will investigate the relationships between the literatures of these various diasporic communities and the "original" literatures of the languages of imposition and adoption. They will also study the historic contacts and exchanges between the diaspora cultures (e.g. anglophone-francophone). There will therefore be a dual need for (1) literary historians with both deep knowledges of the literatures but also the broader cultural and intellectual context of specific local diasporic communities, and (2) scholars with "regional" diasporic interests (North and South America, the Caribbean, Europe) and continental African expertise. While acknowledging that no global literary history of the diaspora is possible, the editors of this project are also aware of the pedagogical and broadly political possibilities opened up by a comparative study such as this. Given such a self-situating, then, what becomes central to this project is a reflexive exploration of diasporic literature in all its political and historical contexts of enslavement, captivity, marginality, imposed definitions and identities, struggle and resistance, accommodation and integration.
The four volumes projected are: (I) a study of the pre-diasporic cultural and literary repertoire of Africa; (II) a comparative synchronic and diachronic history of the different literatures of the four diasporic regions; (III) an exploration of recurring topoi, themes and motifs across the regions; (IV) a meta-critical study of the historical, epistemological and systemic grounds that would make the construction of this comparative literary history of the diaspora even possible. As in the Latin American project, the category defined as the "literary" here includes oral as well as written literature, vernacular and creole texts, performance arts, popular culture, mass media, as well as the interrelations between written literature and the visual arts. What it also shares with the first project is its interest in the literary institution, and specifically in the exclusions and ethnocentric elisions that get reproduced through entrenched institutional practices.
c) Comparative Literary History of Eastern and Central Europe
(ed. Wlad Godzich)
This project is a response to both the needs and the opportunities offered by a specific historic moment: that of the breaking-up of the bipolar system of Western and Soviet powers that used to define Eastern and Central Europe in terms of its own cultural politics and ideological agendas. This is not to say that new problems and new areas of contestation did not open up at the very moment that old ones dissolved. This single-volume project sees itself as more of a tactical intervention than a definitive explanation, more of a useful heuristic tool than a problem-solving synthesis. It aims to investigate and challenge past historiographical practices in the region, which have been organized for the most part along the lines of familiar Western European models of either nationally- or linguistically-based canons. This border-crossing and problematizing volume will start from an adaptation of the Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of "heteroglossia"13 to explore what it will argue to be the defining literary complexity of Eastern and Central Europe: the multiple and varied layers of political, religious, linguistic and cultural experience that condition the production and reception of literature.
This notion of cultural "heteroglossia" will be used to explore what are called "nodes" of intersection. The suggestive illustration used to explain the comparative methodological orientation is a series of superimposed, transparent maps that would show the interrelations among centers of cultural production, trade routes, patterns of movement for "cultural mediators," sites linked to historical turning points, linguistic demographics, and so on. The idea would be to make visible the underlying patterns of cultural transfer as well as the multiple layers of cultural affiliation and competing cultural pulls felt by the region. But even such a complex map, however, might not do justice to the aim of giving a sense of the dynamic historical process of intersection and interference that this volume hopes to communicate.
Of the many possible types of "nodes" available, three will be chosen as revelatory and examplary, but by no means exhaustive.
The organization of the project around these types of "nodes" means adopting a version of what Braudel called a "pointillist" method, borrowing from art history a term that he hoped would suggest the myriad details needed to represent the complexity of the past. This is to be accomplished by a careful, comparative "inventory" of a range of cultural practices in order to give a sense of the "thickness" of the "heteroglossic" cultural base of the literary history of Eastern and Central Europe.
In full awareness of the current debates in historiography, then, and necessarily drawing on the work of experts in the other adjacent fields of anthropology, sociology, geography, fine art, music, communications, economics, and political science, as well as history, the proposed series of comparative literary histories described here seeks not only to address specific instances of historical exclusions and inclusions, but to rethink the very categories of selection and ordering used in the writing of literary history. As we have described it here, comparative literary history seeks to recast literary works as historical "events" within a dynamic cultural context of reception and transmission. This undertaking will necessitate the reexamination of certain historiographic blind spots involving such matters as the institutional promotion or suppression of literature. It will also involve a questioning of the basic assumptions of historical narrative, including those of narrative time frame and narrative authority.
Our model, adapted to literary ends from Braudel's historical one, calls for the separate and detailed elaboration of the broader social context along with the narration of literary "events," in an attempt to redress some of the omissions of the past by confronting issues such as the social institutions which have been important in the production/reception of literature or the politics of readership in a given community. This model eschews periodization based on either empirical evidence (dates of birth and death of writers, publication dates) or interpretive/generic categories ("late romantic prose" or "neo-classical drama"), and substitutes instead alternative time frames of reception in which, for example, specific literary works can be examined as mobile attractors of larger cultural forces: The Tempest as a post-colonial historical text, perhaps, or Don Quijote as a twentieth-century mediator of Spanish literary identity (in Unamuno, Ortega y Gasset and Azorin). This will mean expanding the scope of what constitutes the "literary" as well as what a "period" might entail. As Denis Hollier put it in his Introduction to A New History of French Literature: "Today it is increasingly difficult to draw one solid line of demarcation between the inside and the outside of a work of art; sometimes it is even impossible to distinguish between form and background" (xxv).
This expansion of scope, however, does not do away with, but rather only intensifies, the need to acknowledge that the act of narrativizing — of writing a literary history of any kind — imposes a sense of order and, inevitably, closure upon the literary "events" under scrutiny. The question of narrative authority is one that both the meta-theoretical volume and the individual histories will all address, for this authority is linked not only to the multiple truth-claims that historical narratives propose but to the historians' causal explanations themselves. The exercise of narrative authority is more blatant, perhaps, in such nineteenth-century histories as the first volumes of Michelet's Histoire de la Révolution Française, but it is a constant in historical writing, for this process involves selecting and sorting evidence, organizing it into a narrative sequence, and thus interpreting it and giving it meaning. Literary histories are no different: they too give form and coherence to data. The task set by a comparative literary history is all the more complex because such a project must deal with multiple social and demographic factors, sometimes of long duration. That more than one such historical narrative should — and inevitably will — be offered in each collaborative volume is a sign of the interpretive complexity of both the data and the narrativization process itself.
Literature does not exist in isolation from the culture in which it is "experienced" — that is, the culture in which it is both produced and received. While acknowledging the undeniable specificity of language or nation, we feel it may now be time to consider as well other more comparative configurations for the historical knowledge of literature.14


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I'm still not quite sure what I'm going to tell my son when he looks me in the eye and asks me whether Santa is real or not, but one thing's for sure, when I do decide to tell him the truth -- it's going to come out of MY mouth, not anyone else's.
And that's why I was completely outraged and saddened after hearing about an Austin, Texas teacher who told a group of 5-year-olds that Santa was fake, and that their parents are responsible for putting all the presents under the tree each year.
Oh wait -- it gets worse.
One of the little girls naturally went home and asked her Dad about Santa's existence. He, of course, was pretty stunned when the words came out of her mouth, so he told her that, yes, Santa is real, but he wanted to know why she was asking in the first place.
And here's what she had to say:
Because Mrs. Fuller said he wasn't real. She said 'None of you believe in Santa do you?' and said that you and mommy buy all our presents and put them under the tree. She said that you should tell us the truth.
OMG!! Who in the heck does this Mrs. Fuller think she is?!? (Duh, obviously she's the real Grinch.)
I'm sure you can only imagine just how outraged this little girl's parents were, and her mother posted the following message on her Facebook page:
Another adult has no right to submit their own beliefs on a group of 5 year olds and their families -- about Santa, God, politics or whatever -- especially phrased 'your belief is not right.
Um, can I get an "Amen" for this poor mom, please?
And yes, she did email the principal of the school, who was apparently "horrified" and reprimanded the teacher -- but is that really enough punishment for the level of cruelty she exercised on those innocent kids?
No -- I don't think the word "cruelty" is too strong. Because deliberately trying to take away a child's joy and sense of wonder is nothing short of mean, heartless, and seriously inappropriate.
And aside from that, her job as a teacher is to TEACH kids the fundamental skills they need -- not enforce her own personal beliefs on them.
Holy freakin' moly. If this had happened at my son's school, and one of HIS teachers had told him that Santa wasn't real? Yeah, odds are good my husband would've had to take a second job to try and raise enough money to bail me out of jail.
Because I probably would've marched right down to that school and given "Mrs. Fuller" a huge piece of my mind, among other things. I certainly wouldn't have been satisfied with a simple scolding from the principal, and I highly doubt I would've let the situation go until she was fired, driven out of town by a pack of angry mall Santas, or worse.
This woman overstepped her bounds as a teacher, period. And in my opinion, she should lose her job over it. (And hopefully Santa is watching and gives her nothing but coal in her stocking this year.)
Would you freak out if a teacher spoiled Santa for your kid?
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Chocolate and drinks are divine. Food wasn't the best. If we return, would go for dessert only. Celebrated a birthday and no birthday dessert offered, so we purchased one to share.
Amazing experience from the service to the food! We will be back!
I would give this all 5 stars but one dish was not enjoyable. Left most of it on the plate and moved on to next course.
It was wonderfully delicious. The vegan menu could be spelled out a little better and they could have more vegan desserts but it was quiet wonderful overall. Very pleased, will be one of my go to places for out of town guests.
I've been hearing about Conche and Sunday brunch did not disappoint! The food was amazing, I highly recommend the Steak & Eggs flatbread and the service was spectacular.
So amazing
Way over priced for the area, food and drinks. The lobster tagliatelle had 5 pieces of lobster and a large amount of pasta - $34. The champagne flight was small and standard - $20. The food was average. The chocolate flair The Conche is adding is nice, but if you're not into chocolate, don't waste your money.
Best restaurant in loudoun county. Food is amazing, service is great. Not aware of any other restaurant that comes close to this quality in loudoun county.
Lived up to the hype. Wish the tiny booths weren't so tiny. Felt like a NYC restaurant experience with incredible food at NYC prices. I highly recommend a couple of apps before the smaller-than-normal entrees... And don't skip dessert! The salted caramel one at the top of the dessert menu is a perfect end to a great meal!
Just Amazing, great for celebrations and events. Would visit again and again
Delicious food
Great service - !
Small, busy and noisy but a delicious meal.
We weren't served until 30 minutes after our reservation, but the service and food and drinks were all so outstanding that I wouldn't even dock the review a single star. This place rocks!
Best meal we've had in years! Everything was amazing!
A hidden gem snuggled in an otherwise unremarkable shopping center. The Chef Owner is an active participant in the dining experience but his presence is simply as a member of the team that works together to enhance your experience. My chocohloic wife was in ecstasy throughout the meal. Our waiter Randy is as good as I've ever experienced and did a great job of explaining nuances and tailoring recommendations to our tastes. Not inexpensive but well worth it! The artisanal chocolates on display up frobt are incredible! We will definitely be back!
Two of four entrees were great. Two were so so. The halibut was over cooked and not the nicest fillet. The short rib was tasty but a very disappointing portion size (tiny). Desserts were delicious.
Excellent restaurant
Our waiter was new and did an awesome job! Attentive and personal. Can't ever complain about the food, we had the shrimp appetizer, sticky bun pork belly, lamb chops and half chicken. Amazingly delicious! Second time here and it was amazing.
First, I want to say the stf
The Conche makes every day dining a special occasion. It is unique, decadent and fun. I love taking friends and family there that aren't easily impressed. The Conche always delivers a fantastic meal and experience.
Too congested for group. Food is good but Very expensive. Overly priced.
Exceeded our expectations!
Creative menu, attentive service & outstanding chocolate quality!
We liked the menu, had a variety for all tastes. Noise was very loud and a distraction- had to speak in a raised voice. Loved the desserts!
Go for the desserts! Very good service, very good food but not outstanding. Sweet and sour Cauliflower and bacon Mac and cheese appetizers were superb, pass on the cheese fritters. My halibut was over cooked and salty due to a poor blending of the capers sauce? Scallops outstanding paired with mini Brussels sprouts. The monkey bread dessert first class and decadent. Other desserts equally delicious with creative presentations. Tried a total of 4. Limited but quality wine list. 4 bourbons listed and they were out of one on a Friday night. Strange. Overall a very good experience but bring a well stocked wallet.
We started out with the Cauliflower bites, and some drinks. I had the Fetish which was outstanding . Then we had the braised beef short ribs and the lobster tagielette which were both melt in your mouth to die for.
You will not be disappoint. The food and the ambiance were amazing and we cannot wait to go back!!
Food was excellent. Service was fantastic. We'll be back.
The food at The Conche is excellent. It is a lovely experience but it is too expensive for everyday. Also the ambiance is lacking and the volume is so noisy that even in a booth it is hard to hear your dinner partners. I will recommend it but doubt I will return.
All aspects of dinner were outstancing from drinks to desert.
Great anniversary dinner
The addition of chocolate to the appetizers and main courses make them really good. We were next to a table that ordered the special chocolate dessert and the show associated is amazing.
It was an average experience, nothing to rave about. I booked the table for a birthday celebration, but it was never acknowledged or celebrated in any way. Usually restaurants try to make it special.
Best place and we enjoyed every dish thoroughly. Sofie and managers went above and beyond to ensure our wait was enjoyable with drinks and chocolate offering. Love the place! They truly care about their guests.
This was the absolute best meal I have ever eaten. I can't explain how flavorful my steak was. The chef is amazingly talented. It was way beyond my expectations!!! Can't wait to go back
Amazing place, food, service and ambience. Has an incredible experience. Very highly recommend it for couples and family.
Exceptional food and DESSERT. Chocolate is exceptional.
I recently took my 13-year-old granddaughter to The Conche for Sunday Brunch for our "Girls Day Out." We both loved it (and anyone who knows 13-year-old girls, knows that it's an accomplishment to make them happy!). The shrimp and grits was delicious and one of the most authentic and best I've had in this area. My granddaughter got the "Eggs & Hash" and it was soooo yummy! Dessert (oh yes, you MUST try their desserts!) was divine - dark chocolate creme brûlée - oh my!
Fantastic brunch on my wife's birthday. Originally made reservations for 2 people but the kids decided that they wanted to be there so needed to change to 6. Conche was great about changing reservation. Food service was very quick, chocolate was terrific. My only issue was I figured out why I didn't drink Bloody Mary's. They are gross. Others at our table thought they were fantastic.
Outstanding food and service. Very knowledgeable staff


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No dollar: Grisham gives it away on Main
When John Grisham has a new book, he typically makes an appearance at New Dominion, a bookstore on the Downtown Mall. We checked in with the owner, Carol Troxell:
Do you have to pay Grisham to read and sign?
Absolutely not. And we get him here because he volunteers. He adores meeting his readers; he's charming and polite every time.
How many come?
We issue 200 tickets at 9am, and we give away every one. There's always a line by 9am.
How many do you turn away on average?
Usually not too many. There aren't usually many more than 200.
Well, Charlotte is having to pay $75,000 in response to attendees' requests.
I understand it completely– he's very much in demand, people love him. But that's quite a sum.


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v. t. - To bend or curve 2
v. t. - To guide and manage, or restrain, as with a curb; to bend to one's will; to subject; to subdue; to restrain; to confine; to keep in check. 2
v. t. - To furnish wich a curb, as a well; also, to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth. 2
v. i. - To bend; to crouch; to cringe. 2
n. - That which curbs, restrains, or subdues; a check or hindrance; esp., a chain or strap attached to the upper part of the branches of a bit, and capable of being drawn tightly against the lower jaw of the horse. 2
n. - An assemblage of three or more pieces of timber, or a metal member, forming a frame around an opening, and serving to maintain the integrity of that opening; also, a ring of stone serving a similar purpose, as at the eye of a dome. 2
n. - A frame or wall round the mouth of a well; also, a frame within a well to prevent the earth caving in. 2
n. - A curbstone. 2
n. - A swelling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just behind the lowest part of the hock joint, generally causing lameness. 2
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Collegiate Bests
400m 59.10
500m 1:16.57
800m 2:10.45
5k (xc) 22:04
High School Bests
600m 1:33.43
800m 2:13.01
2010-2011: USTFCCCA All-Academic ... In indoor track, personal-best of 2:10.45 in the 800m to finish 5th at the ECAC indoor championship... Eighth at indoor Heps in the 800m... In cross country, competed in the Dartmouth Invitational.
2009-2010: Competed in the 400m, 500m, and 800m...ran a season-best 2:13.21 at Harvard-Yale.
High School: Broke the state record in the 600m…Set eight school records…Seven-time "LL" state champion (three times in 600m, three times in 800m, 4x800)…Three-time state open champion (twice in 600m, once in 800m)…Team MVP all four years.
Personal: Jonathan Edwards College.


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Snowboarder Magazine, DVS, and Baldface Lodge teamed up to create the dream shred trip give away this winter. Two lucky readers won a 4 day trip to shred Baldface Lodge with snowboard legends Marc Frank Montoya and Mikey Leblanc. Located North of Nelson B.C. and East of Calgary, this pow playground is home to the some of the most epic guided terrain in North America.
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text: Market Focus Turns South January 25, 2013 07:37 PM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Sara Schafer Top Producer Editor Email The weather in South America is the front-and-center topic for the current market movements, says Jerry Gulke, president of the Gulke Group. Overall, corn and soybean prices have started to mellow out, as more time passes from the market-jolting Jan. 11 USDA reports. "The January USDA reports are out of the way now," says Jerry Gulke, president of the Gulke Group. "So, the question is what kind of crop will we get out of South America?" Gulke believes overall, the crop will be large out of South America. He says while some areas may have had some weather challenges, overall favorable rain has been improving forecasts for corn and soybeans in Brazil and Argentina. So, will these corn and bean crops make it to the countries that need them? Will they prove competitive against U.S. grain? "What we're gathering is the chips are starting to line up for these beans that are coming out of Brazil because they are cheaper. But the waiting time could be as much as 45 days to load a ship. That may cause some buyers to buy beans from the U.S. instead." Gulke says if that happens, it could provide one last rally in beans. In the meantime, Gulke says they will continue to watch daily reports out of South America and be ready for any knee-jerk reactions to any news coming out of there. Listen to Gulke's full analysis: Catch Jerry Gulke and others from the Gulke Group at the 2013 Tomorrow's Top Producer event and 2013 Top Producer Seminar. Back to news