| Exhibition's kiss of death | | Posted Friday, February 02, 2007 12:56:03 PM by Blog57 Team | | "OH my God, I think she's dead!" On what was a quiet Sunday in the Temperate House at Kew Gardens in London - a perfect winter's morning, with a cold, low sun, the crisp edges of the day softened with dew and mist - something of a commotion is stirring. As the hordes gather, they can conceal their concern no longer. The model Erin O'Connor is lying lifeless in the subtropical undergrowth, her complexion bloodless, her languid, porcelain limbs unfurled, her eyes glassy. An angel's trumpet flower is poised over her ceramic beauty, like the final curtain about to drop. High above, on a wrought-iron Victorian balcony, a photographer is snapping away, capturing the moment from a God's-eye perspective. "You look too alive, Erin." O'Connor lets out a peal of laughter.... | |
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| | | Author writes about U.P. residents who served in World War II | | Posted Wednesday, January 17, 2007 3:05:00 PM by Blog57 Team | | MARQUETTE, Mich. -- Eleven Upper Peninsula residents were among those killed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. In all, 1,466 Upper Peninsula soldiers died in World War II. Thanks to a book recording many of their stories, these soldiers, along with the thousands who were able to come home, will not be forgotten. Larry Chabot of Marquette wrote the book, "The U.P. Goes to War: Upper Michigan and Its Heroes in World War II," because he felt there was a need to remember the stories of U.P. natives who served, especially as time passes and WWII veterans are becoming few and far between. "I wrote it because it had never been done," he said. "There are thousands of stories that need to be told and time is running out to tell them.... | |
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| | | Lee Schneller on Japanese Gardens, Wed., Dec. 13 | | Posted Wednesday, December 13, 2006 1:01:59 PM by Blog57 Team | | ROCKLAND (Dec 6): Master Gardener Lee Schneller will discuss the esthetics of Japanese Gardens at the meeting of the Midcoast Maine Branch of the American Association of University Women in the Community Room of the Rockland Public Library on Wednesday, Dec. 13. The program at 1 p.m. is free and open to the public. .... | |
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| | | Marlins will talk, but not about Willis | | Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 2:58:57 AM by Blog57 Team | | If there Marlins make any trades this winter, chances are they'll tap their surplus of young pitchers. But don't expect Dontrelle Willis to be dangled as trade bait just yet. Despite speculation that the Marlins left-hander could be moved, a National League general manager said Monday that the Marlins are telling teams that Willis is not available. .... | |
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| | | Salmon find their way even in floodwaters | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 3:21:00 AM by Blog57 Team | | I n a windstorm so strong that you have trouble hiking back to camp, you either find shelter below the rimrock and wait out the gusts or pick a quieter path behind some trees. Same for fish. Reverse the scenario if you had fins and lived and breathed under water during this past week's floods. Returning salmon will do just fine. When floodwaters like Monday's surprise record deluge expand their habitat into ours, salmon simply find the quiet water and ride it out -- no matter where. By Tuesday, chinook were seen crossing U.S. 101 in Tillamook, coho picked their way through blackberry bushes and flooded yards and gardens coastwide, and cars dodged chum salmon by the hundreds as they scurried up the flooded Skokomish River from one dairy field to the next across the same U.S.... | |
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| | | HOME & GARDEN: BULLETIN BOARD | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 7:12:17 AM by Blog57 Team | | ELECTRONICS RECYCLING: Recycle computers, monitors, televisions, printers, cell phones and other electronic devices 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. today at St. Christopher's Lower School, St. Christopher's Road. Drop-off fee for monitors and televisions, most other electronics are accepted at no charge. (804) 282-3185, ext. 310. .... | |
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| | | Oregon Nursery Stock Draws Interest In Japan | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 1:07:11 PM by Blog57 Team | | Salem, Oregon - The Netherlands has been exporting nursery stock to Japan for the past 150 years. A special, targeted project involving Pacific Northwest nursery growers is only in its fifth year of trying to make inroads. Still, there are signs that the effort is taking root following a successful three-day trade show in Japan a few weeks ago. The IFEX horticultural show in Chiba, Japan is one of the largest of its kind in Asia. Some 24,000 visitors attended with 4,000 exhibitors representing Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. The only U.S. presence at the show was a booth largely funded and organized by the Western United States Agricultural Trade Association (WUSATA) that included three Oregon nurseries. "This show provides us a platform to be in the Japanese market, and promote the Oregon brand of plants and U.S.... | |
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| | | Coastal forests are living on the edge | | Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 7:10:05 AM by Blog57 Team | | Where once vast inland forests meet the rocky extremes of coastal rivers and shallow brackish, tidal estuaries, combined effects of weather, past agriculture, development pressure and recently introduced landscape trees and aggressive invasive plants contribute to a chaotic "Frankenstein forest." Located on Sagamore Creek in Portsmouth, just inland from Rye and New Castle, Creek Farm Reservation is owned by The Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests. Its 35 acres includes oak and pine forest, former agricultural fields and fresh and brackish wetlands which provide habitat for resident and migrant birds and mammals. Perhaps the greatest challenge facing the Forest Society managers of the property is defining what forest conditions are most "natural." "Succession," is a term foresters use to describe how open fields revert to mature forest after mowing or grazing ends.... | |
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| | | Kenya: Wide Variety On Offer At Show | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 7:04:42 AM by Blog57 Team | | After 18 months of drawing, moulding, dyeing, inking, and painting, design consultant Sian Daniel finally began her first art exhibition yesterday. The exhibition, which began yesterday and runs until November 10, will feature her latest 50 pieces of artwork, It is taking place at the Blue Gallery on the top floors of Victoria Furnishers Building on Parklands Road, Westlands. Daniel's skills with variety of art media will be exhibited through her oil paintings on canvas, screen-printing, embroidery, dyeing, and hand painting on textile, as well as through moulded decorative paper plates she calls "Japanese gardens". These paper moulds are artistically coated with silk, linen or cotton pieces of cloth dyed with natural colours extracted from the leleshwa shrub, grevillea leaves and rose heads.... | |
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| | | Trump club again raising island eyebrows | | Posted Friday, November 03, 2006 11:21:39 AM by Blog57 Team | | Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago may have become slightly less exclusive this summer with the addition of four companies. The Donald's organization has sold memberships to the owners of four SoFla event-planning companies that could bring in many visitors this season — something that's sure to drive longtime members and traffic-weary neighbors nuts. .... | |
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