Nursery flourished by going native

Source: Los Angeles Times

The gig: Mike Evans is the founder of Tree of Life Nursery near San Juan Capistrano, California's largest seller of native plants. Over 30 years, he and business partner Jeff Bohn have become mainstays for natural restoration and landscaping proje ...
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Movie review: What isn’t ‘found’ is lost in ‘Chernobyl Diaries’

Source: Salt Lake Tribune

Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures Uri (Dimitri Diatchenko) drives a van of "adventure tourists" into danger in the thriller "Chernobyl Diaries." Review » Thriller veers from the ‘found footage’ gimmick. The "found footage" genre — the conce ...
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Greendale man's home holds all that he finds special

Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

When Ron Jaeger first saw his tri-level home, it wasn't exactly love at first sight. He liked the location - a quiet cul-de-sac in Greendale - but the layout didn't fit his entertaining-filled lifestyle, and it didn't pr ...
Full article at: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  More like this  15 hours ago, 6:37pm CDT

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Alexander Monson's mother: I watched my son die handcuffed by police to a hospital bed

Source: Daily Mail - UK

Alexander Monson, who died last weekend. He spent much of his time in the Kenyan resort of Diani Fatalities resulting from ‘blunt force trauma’ to the head are chillingly familiar to any pathologist. Such an injury is n ...
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Movie Review: Chernobyl Diaries – Beware of The Trite Horror Fallout

Source: BuzzFocus.com

No matter how much money you put into something, once in a while, you have to cut your losses and move on. That would’ve been sound advice for the characters in Chernobyl Diaries, where six vacationers buy an “extreme ...
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‘Chernobyl Diaries’ Review

Source: ScreenRant

Unfortunately, is caught in an unsatisfying middle ground between traditional horror tropes and (as alluded to earlier) a number of filmmaking choices borrowed from Peli’s found footage repertoire. As mentioned ...
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Weekend Reading: Memorial Day edition

Source: Chronicle of Higher Education

I currently feel like this squirrel looks: pancaked by, yet ready to flee from a semester that refuses to end, and so rather than talk much here, I’ll simply wish American readers a happy Memorial Day holiday, and everyone a good weekend. (Spare ...
Full article at: Chronicle of Higher Education  More like this  19 hours ago, 2:03pm CDT

Taking the Slow Road to the Top

Source: Wall Street Journal

By Michael J. Ybarra The distance from California's Badwater Basin in Death Valley to Mount Whitney is 80 miles as the crow flies, or 146 miles by road and hiking trail. Badwater, at 282 feet below sea level, is the l ...
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The Five Worst Mistakes You Made as a New Grad

Source: The American Interest

It is college graduation season once again. Tens of thousands of intrepid young men and women are preparing to venture into a brave new world in which playing beer pong at one a.m. on a Wednesday night is no longer considered a point of p ...
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