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This page contains specific geocaching land management policies for Mississippi. Naturally all other Geocaching.com guidelines, including obtaining adequate permission for any geocache placement, apply. This listing is not all-inclusive as some land managers have instituted policies we are not yet aware of or may have amended their posted policies. If you are a land manager with a geocaching policy which should be listed here please send a copy of your policy and contact information to isht kinta.
There are several National Park areas in Mississippi. The National Park Service only allows geocaches on their lands with permission of the park superintendent. Currently two of the park units in Mississippi have allowed geocaches. You must receive permission from the park service before actually placing the geocache and follow their instructions for submitting the cache.
- Brices Cross Roads National Battlefield
- Corinth National Battlefield (Part of Shiloh National Military Park)
- Gulf Islands National Seashore (*See NOTE 1 below)
- Natchez National Historic Park
- Natchez Trace National Scenic Trail
- Natchez Trace Parkway (Also in TN and AL) (**see NOTE 2 for important update below)
- Tupelo National Battlefield
- Vicksburg National Military Park
*NOTE 1: the Davis Bayou unit of the Gulf Islands National Seashore has allowed one geocache in the unit as part of a tour of the unit. Currently they have not approved any other geocaches in the unit.
**NOTE 2: On August 8, 2012, the Rangers with the Natchez Trace Parkway introduced a geocache to the Parkway. They are working with geocachers in the area of the Parkway to allow geocaches on a limited basis. You are not allowed to place a cache without asking for permission first.
US Fish and Wildlife Areas
Currently the following National Wildlife Refuges in Mississippi do not allow geocaches:
- Bogue Chitto
- Grand Bay
- Holt Collier
- Mathews Brake
- Mississippi Sandhill Crane
- Morgan Brake
- Panther Swamp
- Saint Catherine Creek
- Theodore Roosevelt
NOTE: As of April 6, 2015 the Noxabee National Wildlife Refuge has changed its geocaching policy. All existing geocaches will be archived over a period of time. The Refuge staff will be placing geocaches in certain areas that it determines will have an educational value.
Mississippi Wildlife Management Areas
Geocachers seeking geocaches in Mississippi Wildlife Management areas must follow all permit and check in procedures. Hunter orange clothing may be required during certain periods of the year. Cache owners must include any such procedures in the opening description of the cache page. Some Wildlife management areas are closed to non-hunters during hunting season. Geocaches may not be placed in any wildlife management area that is closed to the general public for six or more months of the year.
Geocaching is prohibited in all or portions of the following Wildlife Management Areas;
- Calhoun County Wildlife Management Area restricted area
- Canemount Wildlife Management Area
- Charlie Capps Wildlife Management Area
- Charles Ray Nix Wildlife Management Area shooting range
- Graham Wildlife Management Area
- Howard Miller Wildlife Management Area
- Indianola Wildlife Management Area
- Mahannah Wildlife Management Area
- Muscadine Farms Wildlife Management Area
- Trim Cane Wildlife Management Area
Mississippi State Parks
Geocaching is allowed inside the Mississippi State Parks. Certain areas of the state parks may be restricted to users paying a fee to use that specific area and geocaching may be prohibited in that area to non-users. Check with park management before placing geocaches in such areas. The following restrictions apply to geocaches in the Mississippi state parks.
- No tree climbing is allowed to place or find a geocache.
- No screws, nails or similar objects may be placed into the trunk of a tree to attach a geocache.
- No wires, bands or similar objects may be placed around the trunk of a tree to secure a geocache to a tree.
- No digging in the ground to place or seek a geocache is allowed.
- No geocaches may be placed in the camping areas of Paul B Johnson State Park.
The following military installations in Mississippi do not allow geocaches:
- Camp McCain
- Columbus Air Force Base
- Gulfport Naval Construction Battalion Center
- Jackson Air National Guard Base
- Keesler Air Force Base
- Meridian Naval Air Station
- Pascagoula Naval Station
Camp Shelby and the military operation areas of the DeSoto National Forest do allow geocaches in certain areas. The guidelines for geocaching in these areas are as follows and are subject to change.
Guidelines for placing and seeking geocaches at Camp Shelby:
- A photo ID and proof of automobile insurance is required to enter the base.
- Stay away from all buildings, historic or in use.
- Geocaches may only be placed in the designated public areas of the base.
- Do not park on the traveled portion of any roads. Park only on the shoulder or designated parking areas.
- Do not block any gates when parking.
- Do not use dummy or reconstructed ammunition as a cache or decoy.
- Do not drive down any roads that are not paved or gravel. Park and walk.
- If a sign indicates an area is currently restricted, do not enter the area under any circumstances.
- You may only geocache between 6 A.M. and 6 P.M. Gates close at 6 P.M. and you must be off the property at that time.
Guidelines for placing and seeking geocaches in the military operations area of the DeSoto National Forest:
- Caches may only be placed in non-restricted areas. Restricted areas include but are not limited to: tracked vehicle maneuver areas, artillery/mortar firing points, aircraft landing zones, artillery and aerial bombing impact areas, military range areas, military buildings and their grounds, drop zones and tank trails.
- Do not use dummy or reconstructed ammunition as a cache or decoy.
- If a sign indicates an area is currently restricted, do not enter the area under any circumstances.
John C. Stennis Space Center
- Geocaching is prohibited on the lands of the John C, Space Center.
- Geocaching is prohibited on the adjoining Naval Training Center lands.
- The buffer zone land surrounding the space center is a mixture of Federal and private land. Generally geocaching is not allowed in the buffer zone, but it has been allowed on the right of way of a few of the public roads not immediately adjacent to the Space Center. This is subject to change depending on law enforcement concerns in the area.
- Due to past landowner conflicts, geocaching is not allowed at the Point and Napoleon Cemetery areas.
- Geocaching is allowed at the Infinity Space Center with permission of the center.
- Geocaching is allowed at the rest area next to the Infinity Center.
Corps of Engineers lands
The Corps of Engineers has no objection to the legal pursuance of geocaching activity based on your understanding of the following conditions:
1. There will be no site disturbance, illegal substances or uses involving the geocaching on Corps of Engineers property.
2. Caches will not be placed in or near restricted or sensitive areas or those areas not open to the general public.
3. The Corps of Engineers may terminate this permission at any time.
4. This permission conveys no property rights, grants no exclusive use, and in no way restricts the general public's privilege of using Corps of Engineers properties.
5. The Corps of Engineers assumes no liability and undertakes no obligation or duty (in tort, contract, strict liability, or otherwise) to you or to any third party for any damages to property (real or personal) or personal injuries (including death) arising out of or in any way connected with your performance of activities which are the subject of this statement of no objection.
6. Permission must be obtained from the managing public or private entity in situations where the Corps of Engineers has granted land rights via license, lease, or easement for public or commercial purposes.
7. Caches will not be placed on or in the immediate vicinity of dams, locks and water control structures.
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) properties
TVA has no objection to the geocaching activity based on your understanding of the following conditions:
1. There will be no site disturbance, illegal substances or uses involving the geocaching on the TVA property.
2. Caches will not be placed in or near restricted areas, dams, power generation facilities or equipment, substation sites, gated or signed areas, and/or transmission line sites, etc.
3. TVA retain the rights to terminate this permission for the use of the TVA property at any time.
4. This permission conveys no property rights, grants no exclusive use, and in no way restricts the general public's privilege of using TVA public land.
5. TVA assumes no liability and undertakes no obligation or duty (in tort, contract, strict liability, or otherwise) to you or to any third party for any damages to property (real or personal) or personal injuries (including death) arising out of or in any way connected with your performance of activities which are the subject of this statement of no objection.
6. Permission must be obtained from the managing public or private entity in situations where TVA has granted land rights via license, lease, or easement for public or commercial purposes.
There are six National Forests in Mississippi.
- Holly Springs
Generally geocaching is allowed in the National Forests.There are private landholdings in all the National Forests. Geocaches may not be placed in those locations without the landowners permission.
Geocaches may not be placed in the following Wilderness or Military areas of the DeSoto National Forest:
- Black Creek Wilderness area
- Camp Shelby military operations area (see Camp Shelby above)
- Leaf Wilderness area
Universities and Colleges
Generally geocaching is allowed in areas on University and College campuses where the general public is allowed to visit unrestricted. Geocaches are not allowed to be placed near student housing, including Greek fraternity areas.
There are several hiking, bicycle and horse back trails in Mississippi. Listed below are some of the more popular ones:
- Blackland Prairie Trail. This trail is part of the Natchez Trace Parkway unit of the National Park Service. See the guidelines for National Park caches above.
- Longleaf Trace. Geocaches are permitted.
- Potkopinu Trail. This trail is part of the Natchez Trace Parkway unit of the National Park Service. See the guidelines for National Park caches above.
- Ridgeland Mulituse Trail. This trail is a joint effort with the City of Ridgeland and the Natchez Trace Parkway. Caches placed on the portion of the trail inside the Parkway property must be approved by the National Park Service Ranger in Ridgeland. Caches on the city property are only required to meet the standard geocaching guidelines.
- Rocky Springs Trail. This trail is part of the Natchez Trace Parkway unit of the National Park Service. See the guidelines for National Park caches above.
- Tanglefoot Trail. Geocaches are permitted but the cache page must state access is limited to the hours between dawn and dusk.
- Tuxachanie Trail. Geocaches permitted
- Yockanookany Trail. This trail is part of the Natchez Trace Parkway unit of the National Park Service. See the guidelines for National Park caches above.
Most cemeteries are private property. There are a few cemeteries in the state that are owned by municipalities. Several states have banned geocaches in cemeteries due to disrespectful actions by geocachers. Geocaches may NOT be placed near graves in Mississippi. You must have permission from the entity that owns or controls the cemetery to place a geocache there. Just owning a plot in the cemetery is not sufficient permission. When submitting the geocache, attach photographs of the geocache placement to the reviewer note looking at the geocaching from different directions.
Navigable waterways, Gulf Coast beaches, and islands
- Geocaches may not be attached to navigation markers or buoys along the Mississippi Gulf coast, Mississippi River or Tenn-Tom Waterway.
- Islands along the Mississippi coast consist of property that are privately owned, owned by the State of Mississippi or included in the Gulf Islands National Seashore. The standard permission issues as if on the mainland apply for these islands.
- Islands along inland waterways generally are either privately owned or owned by the Corps of Engineers. Privately owned islands require permission of the landowner. Corps of Engineers islands are generally available for geocaching.
- Geocaches are not allowed in the Least Tern nesting areas along the Mississippi gulf coast.
- Events located at the beach fire pits in Harrison County require a permit from the Sand Beach Authority.
- Geocaches may not be placed near marine restricted areas at ports (Homeland Security designated).
Caches in residential areas tend to arouse the suspicion of neighborhood watch groups and general neighborly suspicion. This usually leads to either the police being called or confrontations with landowners. Geocaches in neighborhoods will require permission of the adjoining landowners.
Youth camps are properties dedicated for the use of the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, special needs children, church camps for children or similar sites. Geocaches may not be placed on portions of these properties that are not open to the general public. A geocache placed on public portions of the camp must be placed with permission of the governing authority for the property and the contact information of the director granting that authority must be included in the reviewer note when the geocache is submitted to be published.
Geocaching is specifically not allowed by the owners of these properties. There may be a few grandfathered geocaches that were placed before the prohibition took effect.
- All Cracker Barrel locations
- All Simon Mall Properties
- Southaven City Hall grounds and park complex
- Batesville Civic Center grounds
- Berryman Institute grounds at Mississippi State University
- Harbor Walk property at the Ross Barnett Reservoir
- Kamper Zoo
Bridges and guardrails
Geocaches may not be placed on, over or under bridges located on federal roadways, interstate highways, U. S. highways and Mississippi highways.
Geocaches generally may be placed on municipal and county road bridges with the following exceptions:
- Over or under federal roads, interstates, U. S. routes and Mississippi state highways.
- Over or under railroads.
- On bridges containing active drawbridges as listed by the Corps of Engineers.
- Bridges located over spillways or part of dams.
Geocaches may be placed on bridges designed for pedestrian use only or former railroad bridges converted to pedestrian trails that pass over interstate or U.S. highways with the following restrictions:
- The geocache must be accessible by a geocacher standing on the surface area designed for foot traffic.
- Ammo cans or PVC containers are not allowed.
- Containers must be clearly labeled as being a geocache and designed where they could not be mistaken as an explosive device.
Guardrail caches are not allowed on interstate highways, controlled access highways or as part of railroad signaling locations.
On U. S. and Mississippi highways they must be placed on the portion of the guardrail away from the bridge structure.
For bridge and guardrail geocaches to be published, there must be a location available for a geocacher to park his vehicle completely clear of the roadway and the parking location shall not be in a curve or other visually obstructed area.
Geocachers should understand that all roadway bridges are inspected on a regular basis by government inspectors and any geocache found attached to the bridge structure will probably be removed by the inspectors.
Geocaches may not be placed near:
- Airports used for commercial or military flights.
- Electrical Power generation facilities and substations
- Facilities restricted to access or approach by Homeland Security rules.
- Federal Courthouses
- Financial institutions including close proximity to drop boxes and ATM machines.
- Highways designated as controlled access by the Mississippi Department of Transportation.
- Nuclear facilities
- Post Offices. This includes blue postal service mail boxes and green postal service mail storage boxes. Virtual stages inside post offices require the permission of the Postmaster of that post office.
- Prisons and jails
- Railroads and their right of ways. Depending on the location, right of ways range from 25 feet to 200 feet from the center of the track.
- Schools and day cares
While there's no specific guideline against hiding a cache on playground equipment, many geocachers consider it a bad idea. It's perfectly normal for a 10 year old to be on a playground with their mom. But how normal would it be for him to go there without a parent and for someone who may be fifty something and doesn't have a kid with them to be prowling around the equipment? This might make most mom's kind of nervous. If the playground is not part of a school or daycare the geocache can be published, but the cache owner will be asked to reconsider before it is published.
The rest of Mississippi is pretty much wide open as long as the geocaching guidelines are met. Be aware that geocaching guidelines are subject to change. There is no precedent for placing geocaches. This means that the past publication of a similar geocache in and of itself is not a valid justification for the publication of a new geocache. If a geocache has been published and violates any guidelines listed, you are encouraged to report it. However, if the geocache was placed prior to the date when a guideline was issued or updated, the geocache is likely to be grandfathered and allowed to stand as is.
Many of the counties in Mississippi have on-line resources that can be used to help you determine the ownership of land and obtain permission to place a geocache. For the other counties, you may have to either visit the local courthouse or subscribe to a paid service to determine the land ownership.
Virtual Posted Coordinates
Generally if the posted coordinates for a multi-cache, puzzle cache or wherigo cache are virtual coordinates, they must not be placed in any restricted area listed above without permission of the landowner or authority controlling the property. This helps avoid confrontations for new geocachers who may not understand what a virtual waypoint is.
- To help improve the overall caching experience, Geocaching HQ created an algorithm to calculate a hidden Health Score for each geocache.
- A low Health Score provides an indication that the cache may need attention from the owner.
- The goal is to improve the overall geocaching experience and avoid frustrations due to missing or broken caches.
- The algorithm isn't perfect; it cannot read and interpret the text within a cache page - however it does take the following aspects of a page into consideration:
- Did Not Find logs (DNF)
- Needs Maintenance logs (NM)
- Needs Archived logs (NA)
- Last find date
- Difficulty and terrain rating
- If the Health Score of a cache is calculated below a dynamic threshold, an automatic alert email is sent to the cache owner by Geocaching HQ.
- A Community Volunteer Reviewer may follow up to perform further actions on the cache page.
- Neither Geocaching HQ or the Community Volunteer Reviewer can assess the true status of a cache; it is the responsibility of the cache owner, as part of cache maintenance.
- If there are a multiple DNFs logs on a cache - the community may not know if the cache is missing or is simply hard to find.
- If a cache page has several posted DNFs - and the cache owner knows that the cache is in definitely in place - they should reassure the community by posting a Note log.
e.g. "There have been a few DNFs, however it is a clever hide! I checked on it this morning. Check the hint!"
- If a Community Volunteer Reviewer does not see a posted response from a cache owner on their cache page after several DNF/Maintenance requests, it may be Disabled.
- If a cache owner knows with certainty that their cache is in place and ready to be found, they may Enable the cache page, with an explanatory note.
- If a cache owner is unable to definitively confirm the status of their cache, the cache page should remain Disabled and a Maintenance visit should be scheduled.
- An Owner Maintenance log should only be posted after a maintenance visit has occurred.
- Only when a cache is confirmed to be in place and ready to be found should a cache page be Enabled.
The number of "false positives" flagged with this process are minimal compared to the number of abandoned caches that this process will remove from the game.
About This Guide
The local laws and guidelines for geocaching placement vary from place to place. As community reviewers learn geocache placement policies for a certain location, they can add it here. This site may not be a complete or accurate list of land policies. These policies are made by the land owner or manager, they are neither the reviewer’s nor Geocaching HQ’s. This guide is just for reference, if no policies for the area you’re looking for are listed, that doesn't mean no policies exist. You must still obtain permission to place your geocache from the landowner or land manager,comply with all applicable laws, and follow the Geocaching Listing Requirements.
If you have an update, email the community reviewer(s) listed.
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October 15, 2018
There are tons of newborn photographers Denver so I’m always honored when clients choose me to document their baby as a newborn! This sweet family came to me all the way from Loveland! Baby Owen was such a dream to photograph, I think the long car ride made him extra sleepy!
I love the colors his parents choose for his session. Cream is always a great neutral color that goes with everything. He looks so cozy in the basket with the mossy green blanket. It’s a new blanket from: https://www.facebook.com/whatsoeverthingshandmade/
There are so many amazing newborn vendors that make such beautiful natural blankets, wraps, hats and headbands for us newborn photographers. I wish I could buy it all!
Hillary Wheat is a Denver newborn photographer based in Stapleton. She specializes in posed studio newborn photography and natural family photography in the greater Denver area including, Loveland, Longmont, Boulder and Broomfield.

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I’m sorry to say that this is how I felt about the new Pizzeria Delfina on California Street. As anyone who knows me already knows, I am a huge Delfina booster. I love that little pizzeria on 18th street, despite the crushing popularity that has made a wait just par for the course. I love the stools flanking the open kitchen, the breadsticks and the bustle. I love the food, which always just seems like the perfect version—the perfect roasted cauliflower, the perfect tuna conserva, the perfect pizza.
I’d like to point out a little gem of a market on Church Street in Duboce Triangle, across from Safeway. It’s called Golden Produce, and it’s got some of the freshest, best-looking and most affordable vegetables in town, much of them certified organic. We’re talking plump, perfectly shaped eggplant the color of Cabernet and muscular-looking bell peppers that seem to have been airbrushed by Pantone. Even more enticing are the baby vegetables—fingerling potatoes, tiny artichokes, mini-bulbs of bok choy and sunburst squash the size of silver dollars.
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Given enough time and togetherness, any relationship between two people will face a challenge or two. And all marriages take a bit of work, no matter how in love you are. “Love is a component, but it really is only one component,” says clinical psychologist Darren Sush, Psy.D., whose Brentwood-based practice specializes in helping parents of children with autism. Many other things come into play in making a marriage work.
Having a child with special needs can impact a marriage in several ways. It can cause couples to ignore their marriage completely as they focus on caring for their child. It can also intensify challenges within the marriage, driving couples to the breaking point. Talk about how often marriages between parents of children with special needs fail might even cause a couple to give up on theirs without trying to make it work.
With more than a decade of working with families impacted by autism, Sush, a husband and father, offers advice to help couples keep their marriage strong.
Don’t ignore warning signs.
When a marriage begins to suffer, there are generally warning signs. Frequent arguments, lack of communication and lack of physical intimacy are a few. Couples struggling with their relationship also often let go of things they used to enjoy together, whether that is reading together in bed, going out with friends, date nights, travel or hobbies. “They just don’t find the motivation to do it any more,” Sush says.
If you notice these or other signs that something is wrong, Sush says it is time to take action. “It’s really easy for parents to sweep these warning signs under the rug,” he says.
Don’t play the comparison game.
Couples often talk themselves out of working on their marriage by comparing themselves with other couples, but Sush warns against this. Don’t let that couple that looks so happy on Instagram make you feel like a failure. And don’t let that couple that is open about all of the troubles in their lives make you feel like you have no cause for complaint (and so shouldn’t devote the time and energy to working on your marriage). “These other couples are not in your shoes and don’t have the same experience,” Sush says. You have to do what is right for yourself and your marriage.
Don’t let go of couple time.
You probably can’t leave your child and run off to Las Vegas for an impromptu grown-up weekend, and even “date night” might seem like an impossible dream. But don’t give up on togetherness. “Try to spend some time together as a couple,” urges Sush. “It’s going to be challenging, and many parents try to avoid this challenge.” This time won’t be like the time you were able to spend while you were dating, but as an important way to keep your relationship strong it is worth the effort.
“Remember the things that you once loved to do, and then try to make them new,” Sush advises. Instead of dinner out and a show, maybe make a candlelight dinner at home (after the kids are in bed) and watch a movie on TV. Instead of a trip to Vegas, plan a poker night with friends. Keep your plans simple enough that they won’t stress you out. “Otherwise, you’re just setting yourselves up for failure,” Sush says. “Find a way to deal, even if it’s not ideal.”
Don’t think you’re being selfish.
Parents of kids with special needs often feel they should be devoting all the time and energy they can to their child, and that it’s wrong to indulge in anything for themselves. But leaving marital problems unaddressed can impact your kids as well as you. “The mental-health challenges of parents don’t just impact the couple,” Sush says.
Struggles within your marriage can even make your participation in your child’s treatment, care and therapies more difficult and less consistent. When you are feeling unhappy, tired and stressed out, you are less equipped to follow through, for instance, on responding consistently to your child’s problem behaviors. For example, if your child is having a meltdown because they want a toy, and you know all of your therapists have said not to respond by giving them the toy, sometimes you just want to give in. “Those times can increase exponentially when you’re not feeling yourself,” says Sush.
Failing to communicate with your partner can also impact your child’s treatment because it is rare for both parents to make it to every therapy session. If you aren’t in close communication, how will you share new instructions and lessons learned, to keep everyone on the same page?
Don’t go it alone.
Rather than waiting until the marriage is definitely in trouble, Sush urges couples to be proactive. “Solve the problem before it becomes one,” he says. “Taking care of yourself is taking care of your family.”
Many times, parents of kids with special needs distance themselves from family and friends who would normally be part of their support system, and available if they needed to talk. Reach out to them, or find others to support you. “It can be an important way of reducing stress,” Sush says.
You can also enlist the help of a therapist. Sush says it is best to seek out one with experience working with families with special needs, who will understand your situation and help you get back to that “team aspect” of being a couple.
Couples in marriage counseling can face some stigma, especially if they have children with special needs. Therapies and treatments for these children can be intense, stretching a family’s time and money. Parents are afraid that spending resources on therapy for themselves make them look like they aren’t focused on their kids.
But Sush says most insurance plans have mental-health services included in their coverage, and some therapists offer sliding-scale fees. If therapy isn’t an option, Sush recommends looking for free parent or couples support groups.
Think of your marriage as the foundation that holds your family up, and it is easier to see why you don’t want to let it fall into disrepair. “Getting support for yourself may not only help you,” says Sush, “but may allow more support for your kids.”
Christina Elston is Editor of L.A. Parent.

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Last night at Crowbar, the 813 came out strong to represent & celebrate for one of their very own favorite & gifted artists - emcee/producer, Jinx. The release of his long awaited sophomore album, New Growth was a moment in hip hop that had to be witnessed. Accompanied by all the good and bad of the culture - squealing mics, smokey air space, b-boys and gay boys who love the music equally, old school funk and soul joints, mad scratching courtesy of a few hometown djs, the tight fit of the crowd and the feeling of being out in the park after dark made the night just right for the occasion. This was Jinx' time to shine as he unveiled the second coming of himself.
Sharing your flaws, achievements, struggles and overall soul isn't always received by the fickle fans of this music, but there's no increase to ones being when you remain in one lane. Sure you can have a couple dope beats, but what's left after that? Simply the beats! But there needs to be some substance as well to balance. Jinx provides that substance with New Growth and it is pure honesty from a humble young man who's very aware and informed of his surroundings.
The 16 track album produced by Jinx with the exception of two, featuring fellow Tampa artists, Dynasty, Mike Mass, Monica Delgado, Ron Marks and others touches heavily on the current state of the music via tv/radio programming (Robots), the beauty and ugly of female relations (Split Personality & Let Me Go) his dance vibe paying homage to the b-boys & b-girls (U) and various aspects of todays society on Reality Check. Jinx spits raw emotion into every track from commencement to close. A true sign of growth from his previous works and just a preview of what's to come from this continually aspiring artist.
I interviewed Jinx back in March where he spoke briefly about the album and his excitement for the world to hear it. After witnessing his performance last night, I can say he accomplished one tier by breaking ground once again at home. Now it's time to spread it out beyond the city. Physical copies are currently only available via mail order and the digital will soon be on his Bandcamp. Contact firstname.lastname@example.org for your copy. Until then vibe to two gems from the album. Support the real!
Jinx - Official ft Dynasty
Jinx - My Advice ft J'Nelle


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In the race between secrecy and truth, it seems inevitable that truth will always win.
Rings true, does it not? And who said this? None other than Rupert Murdoch, back in 1958 when he was young and presumably not the ultra-conservative reactionary that he is now with Fox TV and the rest of his empire being essentially a propaganda machine for warmongers and reactionaries. And, these days we are witnessing a fierce battle between those who want to hide as much as they can, and those who want the public learn about what is being hidden; those who cannot handle the truth - at least not in public - and those who can. And, who are the two sides in this epic battle? On one side is a guy named Julian Assange with extremely limited resources - just a website called Wikileaks that is run by volunteers - but equipped with a deep and honest conviction that the public has a right to know almost anything that the governments that represent them do, while the other side consists of the entire United States political establishment. The only people who seem to be willing to defend Assange are the progressives and some libertarians.
Glenn Beck, the "star" of Fox TV, asserts that Assange is a menace; that similar to Al Qaeda's "Operation Hemorrhage" Assange's WikiLeaks is a "perfect storm" that is attempting to defeat us with "thousand cuts," and may even be colluding with the American communist party to create "chaos." Read again: American communist party, the dinosaur that became extinct decades ago. Beck also predicts that Assange's leaking activities would get the ball rolling towards "bringing down the system," which he believes is a leftist tactic. But, who can blame Beck? When President Obama, the man who made so many progressive promises, has turned out to be just another politician - and a very weak one at that who buckles easily under pressure by just about anyone and anything, from the Republicans to the Israelis - is a "socialist" in the view of Beck and people like him, then what Assange is doing must be worse than a socialist thing; it must be a communist thing, right?
Now, if such hallucinations were restricted to the Beck type of people, we could easily ignore them. But, no, sane people are also saying the same. Consider just a small sample:
As Davis Samuels aptly points out, when it comes to deciding what to do with Assange and his Wikileaks, Attorney General Eric Holder has become our era's H.R. Haldeman, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has turned into John Erlichman, and White House spokesman Robert Gibbs into John Dean. Remember the trio? They were President Richard Nixon's men when the courageous Daniel Ellsberg publicized the secret history of Vietnam War - the Pentagon papers - had a big role in the Watergate scandal, and Nixon's attempt to silent his critics in the press. Holder has even threatened Assange with prosecution.
Clinton has declared the leaked documents "assault on international community" that "tear at fabric of government." Well, I do not think so. The only thing that the leaks have torn apart is the duplicity of a government that says something in public - not just to us citizens, but also to the globe - but does something else behind everybody's backs. Is it not shameful that U.S. Secretary of State may have ordered American diplomats to spy on foreign diplomats and obtain information as private as their credit card numbers and their DNA? Here is how State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley tries to justify this: "Diplomats are diplomats. And their job is to interact with people, gather information, gain perspective on events around the world and report those findings in a way that helps inform our policies and form out actions..."
Representative Peter King (R-L.I.) declares that Wikileaks should be declared a foreign terrorist organization. Really? Which is worse? Wikileaks that has only revealed the duplicity of the U.S. government - leaks that, by the way, have not killed or injured anyone and have not inflicted the catastrophic economic damage on the U.S. - or the illegal - many believe criminal - war that Republicans began in Iraq that has killed nearly 4500 U.S. soldiers and injured tens of thousands, and wrecked our economy, not to mention hundreds of thousands of Iraqis that have been killed? Which one is worse? Wikileaks, or the all the cuts that Republicans like King have made in the budgets all over this country that have put millions of people below the poverty line, and at the same time given $1 trillion tax cuts to the richest of the rich?
The staffers of Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-CT), the turncoat Democrat, call Amazon to pressure the company to remove Wikileaks from its servers. Senator John McCain condemns Wikileaks, calls it "anti-U.S.," and blames the New York Times for the released documents. Why is Wikileaks anti-U.S.? Is it because it has revealed the duplicity of the government? Is the messenger guilty, or the message?
And, consider this: After filing antitrust lawsuits against Visa, MasterCard, and American Express, the Department of Justice has settled with Visa and MasterCard... the same two companies that stopped processing donations for WikiLeaks. "The companies agreed to stop allowing customers to donate to WikiLeaks after one of their biggest legal headaches conveniently disappeared," according to Jason Ditz of Antiwar.com. The settlement terms were agreeable on all sides, and MasterCard has even said the terms are no different than the policies it currently has in place. It "defended its decision to block WikiLeaks by arguing that the organization is using donations to commit crimes."
Newt Gingrich, that great teacher of morality, has declared that we should treat Assange as "enemy combatant." Really? I thought that we are closing Guantanamo, and do not treat people as such anymore. Well, may be Gingrich is still counting on the President not delivering on his promise of closure of Guantanamo. After all, he has not done so after nearly two years in office, among many other promises that he made but never delivered. In fact, a catch all spending bill which narrowly passed in the House of Representatives effectively ends the Obama administration's effort to close the detention center, because the bill "forbids the Obama administration from transferring any detainees held at Guantanamo Bay to the United States for the purposes of giving them an actual trial."
In an article in the Wall Street Journal, Senator Dianne Feinstein, the Democrat who (unfortunately) represents my state, California, has called for Assange "to be vigorously prosecuted for espionage." Feinstein co-sponsored the bill that extended the Patriot act that has limited our freedom, and is the same Senator who supported the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, knowing full well that Iraq had nothing to do with the September 11 attacks. But, now that Assange and Wikileaks have allowed us to learn about what is going on in those two countries, Feinstein has the nerves to call for his prosecution.
And, William Kristol - the "little Lenin" of the neoconservatives - has called Assange "the villain." I ask, which one is a villain? Kristol, who was one of the "brains" behind the invasion of Iraq that has brought upon the world so much misery, or Assange who has only publicized some documents to inform the people about what their government is doing, and in particular what it is doing in Iraq?
And, do not let these morally bankrupt characters muddy the issue. They believe in what Prescott Bush, the patriarch of the Bush dynasty, said in an interview in 1966: "There are three things to remember: claim everything [that is supposedly good], explain nothing [about what you do behind people's back], [and] deny everything [when your wrongdoings are revealed]." The crux of the issue is the bogus claim of these characters that the release of the documents harms the national security of the country. It does not, period. Remember that even at the height of the Cold War we did not have the security apparatus that we have today, and that was when the Soviet Union's thousands of nuclear warheads were pointed at us, nor did we have so many bogus claims by so many bogus "pundits" about what is or is not harmful to our security. The fact is, the over-stretched American empire does not want to tell the American people what it is doing, or did, in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, and many other places. It is as simple as that. So, if anyone is to be prosecuted as the result of Wikileaks documents, it is the politicians who have gotten us into the quagmire that their adventures and illegal war in the Middle East have created, from George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, to those in the Obama administration that continue to wage foolish wars abroad.
Have Assange and his comrades broken any law by releasing the documents? Read the article here by Gilead Light, a member of the white collar criminal defense group with a law firm in Washington, D.C., who has worked on numerous criminal defense representations, including a jury trial on charges of espionage and other national security violations, and then decide for yourself. All I can say is that Assange et al. have only opened our eyes to what is really going on.
Now, since some have likened Assange to terrorists and Osama bin Laden, let us take a look at what happened to him, and compare it with what the political establishment is trying to do to Assange. Eight days after September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks George W. Bush allowed at least 13 members of bin Laden's family and their body guards to fly out of the United States, when no one was allowed to fly, without even having them interrogated first. To my knowledge, no asset of members of bin Laden's family at large (aside from that of a few of his own immediate family) has been frozen or confiscated. And, although Bush could go after bin Laden in late 2001 when he had been trapped in Tora Bora, he did not do that and instead focused on his long-planned invasion of Iraq. After all, the Bush family had many business dealings with the bin Laden family; see here, here, and here.
But, when it comes to Assange, he is first ridiculed because he is "on the run." He was not, but even if he is, perhaps he is afraid for his life. After all, as early as 2008 there was a secret report that called Wikileaks a "threat" to U.S. Army. Then, he is called upon to turn himself in. I am sorry, but terrorists do not turn themselves in! Have we asked bin Laden to turn himself in? Assange did turn himself in, not only because he has not committed any major offense, if at all, but also because the charges against him are so bogus that even Glenn Beck believes are fabricated. After all, even if Assange committed some sort of sexual offense in Sweden, what does that have anything to do with his courageous journalism? Nothing, but it is being used to discredit the man.
And, why are they ratcheting up the pressure on Assange? Is it because he has threatened that his next releases will have to do with banks and financial institutions and how they have shafted the people, leaks that may bring down one or two of the fat cats?
But, I want to go even further. Do you remember Salman Rushdie, the man who published the infamous book, The Satanic Verses, which, in addition to its shallow content, insulted hundreds of millions of Muslims around the world? What did the world do when Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a Fatwa, calling for his murder? It rushed to his defense, as it should have, because only when we can tolerate such insults and deal with them peacefully and through discussions not threats, can we declare ourselves believers in freedom of expression and thought. How about the Danish Cartoonist Kurt Westergaard who drew his notorious and insulting cartoons about Prophet Muhammad? Again, everyone rushed to his defense.
So, I ask: is it not true that freedom of thought and expression goes hand in hand with free flow of information? After all, there would be no thoughts without information. So, if that is true, why is it that the same political establishment that defended Rushdie and Westergaard in the name of freedom of thought and expression is now savagely attacking Assange? Obviously, it is because in the view of the establishment such noble concepts should serve their interests. But if they begin hurting their interests, the political establishment will forget about such noble principles.
The atrocities that have occurred in Guantanamo, Bagram, Abu Ghraib, and elsewhere; the lies and exaggerations that the public was fed with in order to justify invasion of Iraq and the drumbeats of an unjustified war with Iran teach us that we should be skeptical about the official versions of what has happened, and hence support courageous people like Julian Assange who try to tell us the real truth.

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David and I celebrated our 8th anniversary a month early this year. His mom's going to be gone for our real one and we couldn't wait to try the Melting Pot so we just went Saturday!
We had never been here and had heard great things about it, so we were excited to finally try it!
We did the 4-course meal which started with a cheddar cheese fondue with bread, veggies, and apples for dipping.
Then we had amazing salads. I'm still drooling over their house dressing!
Then we each picked the same mixed-meat entree so we could try a little of everything. It came with veggies and all these different sauces. Sidenote-I didn't know the meat would come raw and we had to cook it in the pot! I thought the pot would just be a dipping sauce lol
His first cooked piece!
The steak with the spicy plum sauce was my favorite!
Then our dessert arrived on a cute Anniversary plate! It all looked SOO GOOD!!
I love me some chocolate covered strawberries! We did the plain milk chocolate for dipping everything in. I'd never eaten so much in my life!
And they brought us a Happy Anniversary card!
It was funny to me the waiters were making a big deal out of 8 years like it was some feat or something lol It made me feel old, but then I told David I kinda don't feel old enough to have been married 8 years lol It went by fast!
We had a fabulous dinner and while it's very pricey so we can't go often, I hope to go back another time. Except maybe skip the cheese appetizer so there's more room for the other good stuff! They had to roll us out of the place! lol

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It was wonderful to have a small stash of breakfast options and snacks available to us in our Disney world resort room without having to bring things or leave the resort to go shopping. Our groceries were waiting for us when we arrived and was in good condition and exactly what we had ordered.
This was a great timesaver for our family on our recent Disney trip! Bell services held our order and we had time to enjoy the hotel pool while waiting for our room to be ready instead of going to the grocery store. It also saved us money because we only ordered what we needed. No impulse purchases! Service was excellent and right on time! They called me to make sure the order was received and correct. Highly recommend use of this service and we will use them from now on!
Such a smooth process. Our food was in our room when we checked in. Had a group of 40 people and having food a water was a lifesaver! I like that you can add to your order once it's been submitted. Everything was accurate. Well done!

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Presidential hopeful Amy Klobuchar was interviewed by the New York Times editorial board as part of their endorsement process yesterday. The Minnesota Senator addressed a number of topics, including Israel.
Klobuchar implied she might roll back the Trump administration’s declaration on the legality of settlements, but said she would not move the United States Embassy back to Tel Aviv:
I am a strong supporter of Israel. I still see it as our beacon of democracy in the Mideast. But I have been horrified by some of the things that Trump has done, which has eroded support for Israel in the United States and I think has lessened their security position. I would not reverse the embassy change, but I do think that some of the things that he did recently when the administration said that the settlements were not against international law. That is in violation of longstanding American policy.
And if we truly want to build support for this democracy, then we have to restart these negotiations for a two-state solution, which I would do. When I went to Israel with a number of senators, I went only — it was just me and one other senator that did this — and met with the Palestinians. I think that their economic future is important, and I would push for a two-state solution.
When asked a follow-up question about Trump’s Embassy move, Klobuchar said she has always supported moving it to Jerusalem.
Klobuchar also cited her strong record of pro-Israel votes in the Senate. “I still think that they are in a really tough neighborhood in a really dangerous position,” she explained, “And made worse by what Trump just did with Syria because now Iran has a foothold there.”
In addition to an increase in political support, she also said that she’d work toward improving Israel’s reputation with the American public. “One of the things that I see as this really high-stakes opportunity for a new president is to bring in American support again in a big way for Israel,” explained Klobuchar, “And you do that by stopping these Mitch McConnell divisive votes, making it a wedge issue, trying to play politics instead of looking at what the challenges are ahead. I think that we need to emphasize Israel’s historic support for women’s rights, working on climate change, all of these things that have been lost because of Trump’s continual effort to use this as a partisan pawn.”
Klobuchar is the only Senator running for president who voted in favor of an anti-BDS bill last year. That AIPAC-backed legislation would provide legal cover to states that aim to crack down on the movement. When she was asked if Israel met the international standard for human rights by the paper last year, Klobuchar said the country did.


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Mr. Philip Hammond (Runnymede and Weybridge): Will the hon. Lady acknowledge that, when opening the debate, my hon. Friend the Member for Woodspring (Dr. Fox) specifically said that the motion was worded as it was so that he could make it clear that he was not suggesting that the Government public health policy was failing as a whole, but that there were certain failures that needed to be addressed?
It is important that we applaud the successes of the programme. Before coming into the Chamber, I spoke to the southern Derbyshire consultant in communicable diseases. He told me of his fear that, once a specific illness had almost been eradicated, the public would not be so keen to get their vaccinations, leading to a danger that deaths would occur, whereupon the public would flood back, banging on the door, desperate to be part of the immunisation programme. My area and others have witnessed remarkable successes in terms of the incidence of and the number of deaths resulting from meningitis. As other speakers have said, we cannot be complacent. Even with the meningitis C programme, a number of people have still not been vaccinated. In the past year, cases of meningitis C in my area have arisen only among groups that have not yet reached the vaccination stage. There are still some who have not been treated under the programme.
The trauma, despair and terror of a village and an area that is imbued by such a disease are horrendous; there is hysteria, upset and anxiety. As was pointed out, we still need to find a vaccination for meningitis B. Parents and families must be on their guard, and it is important for that message to keep going out.
I thank my hon. Friend the Minister for Public Health for the quick response that she gave when I informed her of local fears that the Public Health Laboratory Service would charge for the polymerase chain reaction--or PCR--test, which has been important in identifying what is going on in relation to meningitis. The test has been one of our major successes in public health policy.
My neighbouring Member of Parliament, my hon. Friend the Member for Erewash (Liz Blackman), was influential in setting the terms of the debate about the flu vaccine. She initiated a debate on the matter last year in the House and was one of those who argued for lowering the age at which free inoculations can be given. The response given to the vaccination programmes by health authorities and all those involved has been remarkable.
I want briefly to mention broader public health issues. In my area and elsewhere, a number of imaginative initiatives are ensuring substantial success on the broader public health agenda, in direct contradiction to the terms of the motion. That success has occurred not only because we are putting massive extra resources into the health service--it is hard to see how the Opposition can square their incredible policies of tax cuts and maintaining spending--but because of the new structures and the way in which they are working.
I should like to give a couple of examples. The House recently discussed smoking cessation. My area now has smoking advisers, who are available in general practitioners' surgeries. Doctors can pass patients on to such advisers, who will provide assistance and talk to them about what giving up smoking will mean. If people decide to go ahead with the programme, the advisers can give them free nicotine patches. The chief executive of my primary care group said that her mother had been smoking 60 cigarettes a day for the past 40 years. As she pointed out, if she can give up because of the counselling programmes, anybody can.
We have also managed to reduce waiting times for GPs by introducing another initiative under which counsellors work in their surgeries. When people go to a doctor with mental health problems, whether they have been caused by bereavement or specific problems in their lives, they can be referred immediately to counselling services within the surgery. Such provision is now available throughout Amber Valley. It is reducing waiting times and dealing with the difficulties that arise when GPs do not have time to get to the bottom of what is happening to the patients who present themselves in their surgeries.
There are a number of other imaginative new initiatives, such as the use of physio-triage within GPs' surgeries. The range of initiatives that have been introduced are making a genuine and important impact on public health. That is down to the new structures that are in place, which are enabling us to spread best practice and to make resources available in GPs' surgeries while also linking them into services in local community hospitals and acute hospitals.
My Conservative opponent in the forthcoming election has just been reported in the local paper as saying that she will conduct a survey of all the local health service failures and that she will pass on the results to the hon. Member for Woodspring. I hope that she will leaflet Ripley market, as I have done recently. I was astounded to meet two people in one hour who had just left Glenfield hospital. They were extremely bright after triple heart bypass operations.
When I mentioned the incident to the chief executive of my primary care group, she assured me that it had not been deliberate and that she had not planted the people there simply because she knew that I was leafleting. The group had decided to set up a major programme to deal with triple heart bypasses. I do not know whether it has a conveyor belt programme, but we are starting to make an impact. We need new structures as well as resources.
We have had major successes in public health. They have helped people who suffered unbelievable trauma in my constituency. I am grateful for the support and help of Ministers in dealing with some of those difficulties.
Mr. Peter Luff (Mid-Worcestershire): I point out to the hon. Member for Amber Valley (Judy Mallaber), who spoke in generally measured tones, that I could reveal a different story about coronary care in Worcestershire and the west midlands. However, that is not the subject of the debate.
The debate is important and has been measured. I welcome that. It was intended to be about issues of real anxiety to people outside the House. Those issues deserve to be addressed seriously. I was genuinely puzzled by the comments of the hon. Member for Wirral, West (Mr. Hesford), who questioned the point of the debate. He spent much of the early part of his speech doing that rhetorically. He should realise that this place exists to address the concerns of people outside it and that it is not irresponsible but responsible to deal with them. Were the hon. Gentleman in his place, I would ask him what was the point of Parliament if not to tackle such anxieties.
On MMR, people want to take control and make decisions about vaccinations for their children. If a child contracts a disease, the parents will not blame themselves. However, if they believe--rightly or wrongly--that their action in getting the child immunised has led to autism or some other condition, they will blame themselves. That is a crucial difference.
There has been a series of health scares in our nation. They have often been unfounded, but they have led to declining respect for professionals and politicians who advise on health. We should be genuinely worried about that. I therefore emphasise to the hon. Member for Wirral, West, who is now in his place, that it is important to conduct a measured debate on the subject.
We should also be frank about our lack of knowledge of diseases. I am inclined to believe that we have the necessary knowledge to reassure people about MMR. However, I am glad that my children are old enough for me not to worry about making the decision. We do not have such knowledge about other matters.
When I was Chairman of the Select Committee on Agriculture, we spent a long time considering the link between tuberculosis in badgers and in cattle. We have no idea what the link is. The science is unclear and almost non-existent. We may believe that we know through anecdotal evidence, but we do not. That is often the problem in public health matters. Bovine tuberculosis is not irrelevant to the debate because there is increasing evidence of farming families contracting the bovine form of the disease. That seems to be related to their exposure to cattle, and is a matter of considerable anxiety.
MMR has been the focus of the debate, and I, too, will focus on it. The World Health. Organisation recommends an immunisation rate of 95 per cent. to avoid the spread of a new epidemic in the population. Our immunisation rate for the three diseases controlled by MMR is only 88 per cent., and in some parts of the country the rate is only 75 per cent. We are therefore at genuine risk of epidemics of the three diseases involved.
I hope that the Minister and the Secretary of State will ask themselves again where the real balance of risk lies. I know that this is a difficult and controversial area, but I have to say that Governments are no longer respected by people out there: they are no longer trusted to give secure and safe advice on public health policy.
The Secretary of State said clearly at the Dispatch Box that MMR was the best way of dealing with the problem, but even if the Government are entirely right I do not think that he will reassure people. Many will still be worried and will opt for no vaccination at all. That could have serious consequences, as we seem to see already
I hope that the Secretary of State and his ministerial colleagues will realise that in public health policy it is sometimes necessary to choose the least worse option. I recommend a twin-track approach. There should be reassurance--I welcome the reassurance that the Government are trying to give about MMR--but parents who are not reassured should be offered the alternative of treatment on a single-vaccine basis. I realise that that would involve problems in doctors surgeries and a greatly increased work load. It is not an easy solution, and it is not without its costing problems. It should, however, result in an increase in overall immunisation rates.
Some children will be exposed to measles, mumps and rubella for longer than is necessary, which is bad: I do not rejoice in it at all. It is possible, however, that we shall manage to raise the overall immunisation rate to the critical 95 per cent. level.
This has been a good-natured debate, which has approached the issues seriously. However, I ask the Government to consider whether what the official Opposition are saying, in a non-partisan fashion, may represent the best way of avoiding the spread of dreadful diseases whose effect is often underplayed now that we have lost our experience of them.


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TRANSPORT OPERATIONS (PASSENGER TRANSPORT) ACT 1994 - SECT 91ZX
Taxi Industry Security Fund
91ZX Taxi Industry Security Fund
(1) The Taxi Industry Security Fund (the
"fund" ) established under previous section 80B is continued in existence.
(2) The Financial Accountability Act 2009 applies to the fund.
for the fund must be kept as part of the departmental accounts of the
(4) Amounts received for the fund must be deposited in a
departmental financial institution account of the department but may be
deposited in an account used for depositing other amounts of the department.
(5) Amounts received for the fund include taxi industry security levies under
section 91ZW .
(6) Amounts may be paid out of the fund for the costs of
improving the security of taxi services, including, for example, the costs of
engaging rank marshals and security guards at taxi ranks.
(7) If there is a
surplus in the fund at the end of a financial year, the surplus must remain in
(8) In this section—
"departmental accounts" , of a department, means the accounts of the
department under the Financial Accountability Act 2009 , section 69 .
"departmental financial institution account" , of a department, means an
account of the department kept under the Financial Accountability Act 2009 ,
section 83 .
"other amounts" , of a department, means amounts received by the department
other than amounts received for the fund.
"previous section 80B" means section 80B as in force before the commencement.
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The son of a shoemaker, Thomas Traherne came to Brasenose at the age of fifteen in 1653 and took his B.A. in 1656. He was admitted as incumbent of Credenhill near Hereford in 1657 and held the living for the rest of his life. At some point he became domestic chaplain to Sir Orlando Bridgeman, Keeper of the Seal to Charles II, and remained with the family until his death.
For two centuries Traherne was known only for two works, Roman Forgeries (1673) and Christian Ethicks (published posthumously in 1675). But in 1896-1897 came the first of several discoveries, when manuscripts of prose and poetry were purchased from two book barrows in London. Several more discoveries were made in the course of the twentieth century, and Traherne is now seen as one of the great mystical poets of the Anglican church.
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CLEVELAND — Looking for some springtime photo ops? The Terminal Tower is reopening its observation deck this weekend.
The event site says you can enjoy a self-guided tour of the building’s 42nd floor which features beautiful views of the city.
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Retro’70s style have been tenderly twisting around at fashion designer collections of spring.
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Dear Salem is awesome!! Pick them and you will not be disappointed! I want to see them play at live on the green soooo bad!
Twiggs!! They are rockin Nashville and the west coast!
THE GRANNY WHITES please and thank you.
Pick Dear Salem! I love their music and I think they would be perfect for live on the green!
Allen Thompson Band all the way!
Allan Thompson Band
Allen Thompson Band is the sexiest bunch of bearded, beautiful musicians in Nashville! Their pretty good musicians too
I would like to see Grant Garland win. He’s amazing!!
Yall best vote for jomo
Safe in Blue! Awesome music!!!!
Safe in Blue!!! Awesome music!!!
Down Home Band all the way, hands down the best live performance in Nashville right now.
Dear Salem!! They put on a killer show!
Dear Salem would be an awesome addition!!!
I just checked out Dear Salem, WOW! and they’re playing The Basement tomorrow night @ 10:30, I’ll be there! Music City Mayhem with Dear Salem, YEAH!
* DEAR SALEM * WILL ROCK YOUR MUSIC CITY MAYHEM! http://www.dearsalemmusic.com/
Mammoth A FTW.
alicia michilli….you won’t be sorry. she’s a ton of sass in a tiny suit!!
Alicia Michilli would kill it!
MONTEZUMA FIRE MACHINE!
Please choose Grant Garland!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I became a fan of his when he was headlining in Vegas at the BB Kings Blues Club and now he is in our own backyard of Nashville!!! The guy is truly phenomenal and did I mention he can do anything with a guitar?!? Amazing and a very rare talent!!
The Twiggs 4 life!
TWIGGS! Give it to me, man…
I want to see TWIGGS play !!
Breaux Gargano should be rockin LIVE ON THE GREEN THIS SUMMER!! You won’t be disappointed!!
I would love to see Breaux Gargano live on the Green!
the Granny Whites are awesome. nothing more needs be said.
You guys need to have Memphis Cole and his band play this year.
the granny whites would be cool as ever to see at live on the green! super cute and super talented!!
THE GRANNY WHITES WILL ROCK SOME SOCKS OFF AT LIVE ON THE GREEN….
Please get Backup Planet!! So awesome
BACKUP PLANET is seriously one of the best live shows i’ve ever seen! The next big band out of Nashville!
the Granny Whites … don’t feel i have to say anything else.
The Granny Whites on The Green ! http://www.TheGrannyWhites.com
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The Granny Whites are an awesome, original,homegrown talent. Fun band to watch, too!
The Granny Whites are the best! They should definitely play Live on the Green in 2014!
Vote for Twiggs !!!
Oliver and the Spectacles!
I would LOVE to see Haunted Device as part of this!! http://haunteddevice.com
Haunted Device deserves some love! Great band that really brings it on stage.
Diamond Carter, no questions asked!
T W I G G S T W I G G S T W I G G S T W I G G S T W I G G S T W I G G S T W I G G S T W I G G S T W I G G S T W I G G S
MONTEZUMA FIRE MACHINE!!!
Adam Del Rio all the way! You guys need to play punk rock and folk punk!
I just want to throw Ring of Fire’s name into the proverbial hat.
ALL THEM WITCHES!!!
I want to hear DNA (with Chuck Callahan and his brothers play)!!
I want to see DNA perform! They rock! http://www.dnaofficialmusic.com
Hot Mess Loves You
I want my Hot Mess Loves You!
I would love to see Hot Mess Loves you
Staying For The Weekend dont ya know
I’m hoping we’ll see Wild Cub this year. I seriously can’t get enough of them and they put on a good show.
Chris Nathan. He rocks
Would love to see Chris Nathan perform at LOTG!!! One of Nashville’s Best Local artists! This guys got soul!!!!
I want to see Rodeowaves at Live on the Green. Awesome Beach/Country with horns.
Mize and the Drive!!!
I really want to see Rodeo Waves at Lightening 100!!! They are an awesome band that energize and rock a crowd better than any band I’ve seen in a long time.
I would LOVE to see Rodeo Waves perform at Lightening 100!!!! They are an amazing band and really get the crowd eneenergized and rocking!!!
Rodeo Waves needs to be Live on the Green!! They are awesome ! LOVE their sound! True musicians !!
I want to see RodeoWaves at Live on the Green this year! RodeoWaves is energy filled good time
MERCY BELL! REMARKABLE!
Mercy Bell. Genuine talent, genuine lady.
I <3 you, Lulu Mae!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Go Lulu Mae!
Who are the 5 greatest music city mayhem artists of all time…think about it
Diamond Diamond Diamond Diamond and Diamond
Spity hot fire!!!
go Diamond Carter
DIAMOND CARTER OR DIE!!!
Diamond Carter all the way!!!
Diamond Carter’s got it. You just watch.
DIAMOND CARTER! LET YOURSELF BE LOVED and VOTE FOR DC!
Lulu Mae. Let’s do this!
DIAMOND CARTER ALL DAAAAAAAAAY!
C’mon Lulu Mae!
The Cultivation … Smoking right now as I DRIIIVVEE! DJF
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so cool: Cultivation!!!
Way to go Cultivation!!!!
Keep going Levi!
Good Luck to all the contestants; but especially to the “Cultivation”, my very favorite!
Way to go Mercy Bell!
Go Adam Burrows!
Mercy Bell, you are great!
Today’s match up has too much awesome in it. How can I pick just one?
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DC BOOM BAY YAY! Diamond Carter crushes it….all the way to the top
Cultivation has a terrific sound!!!
LET YOURSELF BE LOVED!
DIAMOND CARTER!!! LEVEL UP!
Josh is MUCH better
Making it happen again. Go Shannon!! Mark
Making it happen once again. Go get em Shannon!! Mark
Shannon making it happen again!! Awesome tune!! Mark
Extraordinary talent!! Vote Shannon.
Shannon Labrie’s new album is awesome! Vote for Shannon!
Vote for The Young INTL! You can catch them at 3rd & Lindsley TOMORROW Night!
Diamond Carter…WOW!! Great sound.
Diamond Carter is God.
Black Sea Royalty rocks
Black Sea Royalty rocks! Check out their show!!
Black Sea Royalty rocks!! Check out their show!
The Weakenders ROCK!!! The group to watch.
Black Sea Royalty!!Refreshing!!Rocking great talent!! Check them out! Will move ya!!
Diamond for sure….
come on vote
WOW Diamond Carter….wish you the best.
Black Sea Royalty rocks. Do your self a favor and catch their show!
Black Sea Royalty rocks. Do your self z favor and catch their show!
Black Sea Royalty…………W.a.r.C.r.y.
Black Sea………….Royalty…I see you wearing your black shades!!!
Black Sea……….Royalty… I see you wearing black shades!!!!!!
Diamond Carter hands down!!
Diamond Carter hands down!!!
Two words: Bear Cub. nuff said.
Saw Black Sea Royalty live, and they rocked – enjoyed all their tunes and look forward to more…
Bear Cub rules. Check out their latest video for “I’ve Been Around” //www.youtube.com/watch?v=35THJy6IlyA
I really love the Allen Thompson Band. Their music is unique and creative!
Allen Thompson Band is the BEST BAND IN NASHVILLE!!!!! …. sorta. Vote for them for your chance to see and decide for yourself!
Grass Root Kids are awesome! Original sound! Love em! Everybody needs to check em out!
Fans clearly wanted Grass Root Kids at Bonnaroo!! What happened!?!
Grass Root Kids have an awesome sound and are a great group and will definitely go places!!!
Josh Farrow and his band have a great sound. Lightning in a bottle. Keep making this music, expand the instrumentals and emphasize the vocals! Great young artist and band.
Shannon is a real talent and her songs go deep! Love her sound!
Josh is going to get a lot of attention….Great entertainer !! Love his vibe.
I remember watching Adam as a child in church. He had a lot of talent as a child .
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Lightning 100 rocks!
Chris Bodily is the contact for the Dead Martinis. 615-300-9670
Thank you Lightning 100!!!
Cheers to our friends at Lightning 100!
FOLLOW GreG MaC because he is heading to the Mainstream.
Thanks for putting this on. Your support of left of center music in Nashville is the lifeline of the creative community here.
Hooray for local music! Thanks 100.1!
One Must Fall already has a strong following snf it grows larger each day. It’s time they become a household name.
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Let’s see the local ladies put up a good fight this round!
Hannah Thomas Band should be the Lightning 100 winner. and your traffic guy ROCKS!
Cryptic Calling for the win!
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