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Naturalist Julie Fox will share a nature-related story and activity with pre-schoolers and their parents. Nature Storytime will generally last between 30-45 minutes, depending on the participants. We'll spend time indoors and outdoors, weather permitting, so dress accordingly. Ice Age Center. 10 a.m.Friday, Jan. 4Kettle Moraine State Forest Northern Unit, Campbellsport, (920) 533-8322Nature storytime: True story of wolvesAre wolves really the big bad animals of fairy tales? Join us as we share the true stories of timber wolves. This hour of nature fun awaits 3- to 6-year-olds with accompanying adults. Ice Age Visitor Center. 9:30-10:30 a.m.Saturday, Jan. 5Harrington Beach State Park, Belgium, (262) 285-3015Candlelight ski/hikeA candlelight ski/hike through the woods. Refreshments served by the Friends of Harrington Beach State Park Trailhead at Adolph & Marie Ansay Welcome Center.
Keeping it alive — the Christmas Cactus
It is an epiphyte which is a family of plants that grow on the crotches and branches of trees. It gets its nutrition and moisture mostly from the air rather than soil. Its basal roots are simply for the purpose of anchoring the plant to its perch. It also wants to live in areas of low light and high warmth and humidity. .
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More than any other top group, the Beatles' success was very much a case of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. Their phenomenal cohesion was due in large degree to most of the group having known each other and played together in Liverpool for about five years before they began to have hit records. Guitarist and teenage rebel John Lennon got hooked on rock & roll in the mid-'50s, and formed a band, the Quarrymen, at his high school. Around mid-1957, the Quarrymen were joined by another guitarist, Paul McCartney, nearly two years Lennon's junior. A bit later they were joined by another guitarist, George Harrison, a friend of McCartney. The Quarrymen would change lineups constantly in the late '50s, eventually reducing to the core trio of guitarists, who'd proven themselves to be the best musicians and most personally compatible individuals within the band.
Vanuatu: where only the menu has changed
An unspoilt, tribal way of life still holds sway in the South Pacific islands of Vanuatu. But, as Nick Squires is relieved to discover, they don't eat visitors any more. A dozen semi-naked men ululated in a jungle clearing as the ticklish business of how best to cook a human being was patiently explained to me. .
In the Big Easy, gumbo goes meatless on Friday
In these northern environs, gumbo is a dish that many think of but once a year, as a marker of the pre-Lent celebration of Mardi Gras. But down in New Orleans, where gumbo is the most important dish in the Louisiana lexicon, most restaurants serve some version of it year round - at least once a week. At this time of year, two days post-Carnival, with strands of glittering beads, doubloons and plastic spears - parade throws all - already gathering dust, Lent has arrived in the largely Catholic city. And the people must suffer with seafood gumbo. For Friday is gumbo day in scores of New Orleans restaurants, and many comply with the Lenten restrictions, preparing it without meat. One of NOLA's best gumbo haunts, Dunbar's Creole Cooking, flooded badly following Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 and has since relocated to the cafeteria space at Loyola University's law school.
Neighbours told to shop drunks and drug addicts
Junkies who's infants died because mum was 'on the nod', malnourished children because mum spends all her money on smack and dad's either in jail or off the planet somewhere...That all said... a friend has a drinking problem which I am certain interferes with her ability to take care of her children. Should I grass on her when this would only make her life more likely a continuous drinking session and would deprive the children of their mother.The father is deceased... from cancer...Big problem... no ONE policy or approach fits all. It is and likely will remain a Gordian knot. There is no sword (or mind) sharp enough to slice through it. Political will is weak and determined by opinion polls more than the good of all people in a society.If a parent is endangering their children - shop them.It's f**king hard and cold but so is the truth and they need to face it.
Warning over new homes carbon plan
The housing industry needs to rethink the whole construction process if the Government is to meet its target for all new homes to be zero-carbon by 2016, a report has said. According to the National Trust, a study of a housing development on Trust land near Altrincham, Cheshire, showed large scale building could deliver high environmental standards on water and energy consumption. But the project also revealed there were currently a number of obstacles, ranging from gaps between predicted energy conservation in the design and actual performance to a lack of labour and environmentally sustainable products in the UK. The National Trust said a strong sense of direction from the Government and wholehearted support from the construction industry was "vital" if the 2016 zero-carbon targets were to be met.
Sally Anne lover grilled in court
THE boyfriend of murdered model Sally Anne Bowman was forced to defend himself in court yesterday as he was asked if he killed her. Plasterer Lewis Sproston, 22, was challenged by barrister Anthony Glass, QC for accused pub chef Mark Dixie. Lewis admitted he had a row with Sally Anne, 18, just before she was savagely stabbed to death. And Mr Glass asked him: "Had you left her dead or dying?" Looking shocked, the boyfriend replied: "Are you being serious? No." Mr Glass persisted: "Did you lose your temper and kill her?" Lewis replied: "No." Dixie, 37, admits having sex with Sally Anne's corpse after finding her sprawled on a pavement. But he insists she had been killed by someone else. Sally Anne and Lewis had a tempestuous relationship, with each suspecting the other of cheating.
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