Beignet, sopapilla made from same mix: Difference is whether the product is covered with powdered sugar or honey

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Monarch butterfly's life story on PBS right now!

Monarchs' incredible journey on PBS right now!

Frost flowers the morning glories of first hard frost of fall

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Verbesina virginica on Sept. 14, 2011, stem is frost flower in December

Ward Four meeting Monday included Fayetteville budget and several other subjects

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Planning Commission hears presentations on Kum & Go stores and Campus Crest (The Grove) apartment plans as well as proposed rezoning for Hollywood Prairie, a parcel listed on the Enduring Green Network endorsed by the City Council two years ago or more

My takes recorded Monday to show next Monday through Friday on Fayetteville, Arkansas, public-access television

Person who wants to remain anonymous contributes important message to share with people in Little Rock

Dear Little Rock friends and folk who might forward this info on to Little Rock friends of their own----

Your   water quality is being put in jeopardy by this decision of the Central Arkansas Water Commission,  and you need to do something about it.  EVERY one of you, IF, of course, you have any interest at all in what you put in your mouth and body.   

http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2011/11/21/central-arkansas-water-meets-on-maumelle-zoning

http://protectarkansaswater.org/

These links should be forwarded to everyone you know  that drinks water in Little Rock.  

This "political compromise"  by the Central Arkansas Water Commission is clearly one of the most stupid decisions possible in regard to water protection.    If enough people call, write, and/or show up at the final decision making meeting(s), your right to clean water might have a better chance.  The problem in not taking this personally and not acting on this issue is that no one knows what is "enough," when it comes to influencing the outcome of a vote by a governmental body, therefore everyone needs to voice  their opinions.   OR just show up and clap or give a hurrah when someone speaks for the watershed's protection.  Don't take this "political compromise" of your health lying down.

Below are a couple of links to a great site about New York City's watershed.  It is protected by forests, not eroding sediment into the water supply from subdivisions and roads, and it serves millions of people with relatively clean water. The water is tested constantly, and their watershed is understood as a filter and purifier, the total opposite of what the lame brains in central Ark are doing. 

"The success of the program is one of the main reasons why New York City remains one of only five large cities in the United States that is not required to filter its drinking water."

http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/watershed_protection/watershed_regulations.shtml

http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/watershed_protection/about.shtml

Should you want anything less for your body, your city, and your state than what New York provides its citizens?

Get out there and fight these people, for heavens' sake!

Photos to be used in a short take to be recorded at 5 p.m. today at the public-access television studio on Rock Street in downtown Fayetteville: Got to record between 5 and 6 p.m. today because Fayetteville television center won't be open for the usual second taping of the week on Thursday. The employees will be thankful for the holiday

Photos for a short-take to run next week on Fayetteville public television at this Flickr link Photos on public television next week.

Pony rides a part of Fayetteville's Lights of the Ozarks

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To view more photos from Saturday, November 19, 2011, at the Fayetteville Farmer's market on the square, please use this link. New photos appear at the bottom of the Fayetteville square set after one goes to the bottom and clicks on the latest page number.

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Saturday, Dec. 3rd, 10am-3pm at the Botanical Garden of the Ozarks. Fresh evergreen decorations, holiday baked goods, gift items, furniture, art, seasonal produce, gift certificates for 2012, Santa and his Alpaca Reindeer photo op.
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Flower, Garden and Nature Society to hear presentation by Steve Sampers, president of Northwest Arkansas Master Naturalists: Maybe someone will ask him how to identify various flowerflies and how to tell a flowerfly from a solitary native bee

Please click on individual images to ENLARGE for better view of Heirloom Italian arugala (Diplotaxis tenuifolia) with two individuals from different flower fly species nectaring and for easier reading of meeting announcement.

Arugala, Diplotaxis tenuifolia, offers extraordinary beauty, nectar for late pollinators and salad flavor hard to beat

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Fayetteville public-meeting list extra large today: Fayetteville Council of Neighborhoods the important one for residents of the city who want to have their voices heard

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November 17, 2011

• Fayetteville Farmers Market
• Compost Site open 8 am to 3 pm
• Subdivision Committee
• Airport Board
• Deadline: RFP 11-12, Concession Services
• Bid Opening: Bid 11-69, Irrigation Reels
• Commercial Building Energy Code
• Telecommunications Board
• Housing Authority Board of Commissioners
• Fayetteville Council of Neighborhoods
• Southeast Fayetteville Community Center Meeting

Fran Deane Alexander's presentation at Shiloh Museum draws retired and active journalists and fans of good journalism

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For more photos, please scroll to the bottom of the Conservation Groups and People set on Flickr.

Report from Truthout on last night's events in New York

Last night, I watched lower Manhattan turn into a militarized lockdown. The park known as Liberty Square was apparently cleared by force, though I arrived 20 minutes after the police barricades encircled a two-block radius, kicked out all media and prevented all foot traffic on public sidewalks surrounding the park.

This was expected. The emergency text message went out at 1:00 AM and read, "URGENT: Hundreds of police mobilizing around Zuccotti. Eviction in progress!" prompting a mass mobilization of people like me, part-time protesters who signed up to converge on the park for the looming police raid on the physical heart of the Occupy movement.

The police were prepared for this flood of bodies. Many subway stops were shut down, as was the Brooklyn Bridge. My go bag had been packed for weeks, waiting for just this moment. I laced up my boots, and spent an agonizing 20 minutes on the subway from Brooklyn.

Upon arrival in lower Manhattan, I struggled for about two hours to get to a position where I could see into the park, to no avail. From a block away, I saw massive piles of what used to be supplies dumped into waiting trucks. People's major concerns were two-fold: first, the health and safety of the occupiers locked in the camp; and second, the 5,000 books of the Occupy Wall Street library. What a picture it would be (maybe it exists) of police in riot gear gathering boxes of donated books and loading them into garbage trucks. A perfect metaphor for what appears to be the intention of last night's raid: destroying the body of knowledge that had been collected by a movement just two months old, which was built by collective effort, literally from the ground up.

After four hours of wandering in groups and alone on the dark, empty streets of lower Manhattan, Foley Square, a park rich with the history of labor struggles in New York City, became the rallying point. After a short discussion with the handful of police on hand, Foley Square was determined to be a safe zone - for the time being.

Here I sit, watching the pulse of the Occupy Wall Street movement strengthen. Stories of arrests are being exchanged over a breakfast of apples and muffins. A sleepless crowd is beginning to be reinforced by New Yorkers from around the city as the morning news streams images of a camp turned back into a barren, soulless corporate park known as Zuccotti. But the drums are back. The spirit and the idea of the Occupy movement has only been strengthened. Today is the end of the beginning, and what has been built cannot be disbanded. Now, we stand at the beginning of the next phase, looking into the eyes of the people who created a new consciousness and a new politics.

Today is November 15, 2011, a beautiful day tainted only by the physical harm of those who left their blood and sweat on the cement of Liberty Park.

Please support Truthout as we cover this revolutionary history in the making. We're skating on the edge and we need you there with us. Can you make a donation so we can continue this vital coverage?

Mayor's town-hall meeting provides lots of important information for Thanksgiving and Christmas: Watch it on Government Channel later this week and next week

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Overall winner of Veterans' 5 K was far ahead of the pack: Link to final results and numerous photos have been added to this post

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Complete official results added.

Town Branch Neighborhood fought apartment plan hard in 2009

Shortakes for 21-25 November 2011 say goodbye to summer and fall and reluctantly welcome winter

Fayetteville: The Superstar among the shining stars of Arkansas

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After receiving successive Shine Awards, Fayetteville received the first Superstar Award

After accepting the award for the city, Mayor Lioneld Jordan stands with a few of the many stalwart supporters of keeping Fayetteville the leader in Arkansas environmental action

High water after rain in Northwest Arkansas as seen at confluence of West Fork of the White River and the Town Branch of the West Fork

Election today (Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011) important to future of Arkansas and adds no new tax

dayGovernor Beebe has called a special election for this Tuesday, November 8, giving Arkansans an opportunity to modernize our Interstates, support jobs, and improve economic development — all without raising taxes.

The Interstate Rehabilitation Program will continue the successful 1999 Interstate rebuilding program by authorizing the Arkansas Highway Commission to re-issue bonds for Interstate maintenance. The bonds will be paid by future federal funds and the existing 4¢ diesel tax approved by voters in 1999. No new taxes and no increase in existing taxes will be necessary to rebuild over 400 miles of Arkansas Interstates.

Join with Governor Beebe and support the 2011 Interstate Rehabilitation Program this Tuesday, November 8. By voting FOR the bond issue, we can make Arkansas Interstates smoother, safer, soo

Did you feel the earthquake in Fayetteville at 10:50 or shortly thereafter Saturday, October 5, 2011?

Even birthday a great day to do a short take on Fayetteville Public Television: This nature video runs Nov. 7-11 on Cox Cable 218 and U-verse 99

The Arctic Inuit and Climate Change lecture by Carlos Velazquez from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011, at Fayetteville Public Library brought to you by Omni Center for Peace, Justice and Ecology's Climate Change Task Force and the Ozark Highlands Chapter of the Sierra Club

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Ozark Headwaters Group Sierra Club and the OMNI Climate Change Task Force will host Mr. Carlos Velazquez, a renowned environmental educator. 
Mr. Velazquez will share with our community from his unique experiences living with the Arctic Inuit People. 
 
On Thursday, November 3rd from 6-7:30 p.m. in the Walker Room at the Fayetteville Public Library. 
 
Carlos Velazquez has lived among the Inuit people to gain deep understanding of how climate change has severely, altered their way of life. 
 
He will present: "The Arctic Inuit: A Harbinger." 
 
This event is free and all are encouraged to attend. 
 
 

Fayetteville Council of Neighborhoods elects officers in October: Video embedded below

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