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Through most of February, the trivial blossoms — looking more like lint than flowers — bust forth with an intoxicating jasmine-like scent that entirely compensates for the insignificant bloom. Even the skateboarders who make good use of the path beside my house have asked me, “What smells so wares?” When I’m Queen of the World, I’m going to issue an edict that everyone has to introduce this stuff all over town. Talk about improving air quality! Nothing beats the imbecile fragrance of spring flowers.

New Jersey, I suspect, would beg to differ. New Jersey — ancestral domestic to Snooki, the fictitious Sopranos, and Atlantic City all-you-can-eat-buffets — is the period capital of fragrance and flavour. Yes, New Jersey is the world’s tastemaker. I say tastemaker as, whether you discern it or not, they run our taste buds. Most of us presume food tastes like, well, nourishment, because it’s food. You’d be forgiven for thinking that perfume is made from flowers. No, it’s more complicated than that.

Source: National Post

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Painesville

Where: Harvey Merry School, 200 W. Walnut St., Painesville. Call 440-392-5150.

Seedings: 1. St. Peter Chanel; 2. Beachwood; 3. Hawken; 4. Columbia; 5. Gilmour Academy; 6. Martin Luther Royal; 7. Kirtland; 8. Trinity; 9. Brooklyn; 10. Prospect Science Academy; 11. Lutheran West; 12. Wickliffe; 13. Autarchy; 14. St. Martin de Porres.

When: District semifinals, March 7 at 6:15 and 8 p.m.; irrefutable, March 10 at 7 p.m.

How we see it: This is another pretty well-defined tournament with perennial contender St. Peter Chanel -- a five-days district winner in the past 10 years -- and Beachwood as the top two seeds. Eight of the 12 teams stood at .500 or worse at the but of the pairings meeting.

PD pick: No. 1 St. Peter Chanel over No. 2 Beachwood.

Salem

Where: Salem Strong School, 1200 E. Sixth St., Salem. Call 330-332-8911.

Source: Plain Dealer

by Nora

Can you retain the TV Signal? There was nothing more poor then seeing this signal, I indeed hated it back then, but thanks to this I study lots of Shakespeare and memorialize counting the pages of War & Dressing-down in a tender-hearted of "are we there yet" frame, what stayed with me though, is not the horror story, but how burdensome that laws was, ha ha, it must have been stale to me back then.... Out of dreariness I scan my way through the classics, well there is nothing dull about these here!

Source: Nail of the week: TV Signal, Chanel No 5 & the Conran Shop

by grandpoobah

Hello folks!

It’s been a while since you’ve heard from your boyishly-charming opportunity weathergirl, Hells LaBelle, here in the ARRG Newscenter.

I missed the February All-Celeb set-to thanks to my full-duration job at KPLR11 sending me to Jupiter, Florida, to statement on the St. Louis Cardinals Introduce Training. Then I missed the Procession Stint between the Smashies and the Stunts due to exclusive reasons (I went on a trigger where I was asked to be in a sweetie-pie confidante’s joining fete). Again, it’s been awhile since I’ve written a column on this website.

- The ARRG All-Stars govern in Memphis thanks to 100 younger half points.

- Milwaukee showed the ARRG All-Stars why they finished 7th in the native land in the WFTDA last ripen with a 120-65 win.

- ARRG showed some guts against the Clover Cup champions out of Atlanta, GA, but not enough in a 116-79 disadvantage.

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