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Wise County grand jury indicts 58 - Kingsport Times News

James Morrison Johnson, 28, 5639 Flatwoods Road, Rose Hill, was indicted on three felony counts of attempted first-degree murder, use of a firearm in commission of a felony and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. The charges stem from a Dec. 8, 2018 attack against a man. Conviction on the charges could result in a maximum 18 year prison term.— Sam Landers Hicks, 42, 3060 6th St., St. Paul, was indicted on one count of aggravated malicious wounding in connection with an alleged April 7 attack on a female victim. Conviction on the charge could result in a maximum life sentence.— Gary Lyle Hudson, 56, 10107 Sparrow Hawk Road, Coeburn, faces a maximum five-year sentence for an alleged attack on a female June 8.— William M. Mills, 35, was charged with two felony counts of malicious wounding, one count of strangulation and two misdemeanor counts of assault and battery on a family member in connection with an alleged April 21 attack on a woman. Each malicious wounding charge carries a maximum 20 year prison term and the misdemeanors 12 month maximum jail terms.— Christopher Lee Elliott, 23, 401 Sherman Crouse Drive, Big Stone Gap, w... http://www.timesnews.net/Law-Enforcement/2019/08/24/Wise-County-grand-jury-indicts-58

napp studio abstracts traditional chinese temple for flower market entrance - Designboom

DIY submissions‘ feature, where we welcome our readers to submit their own work for publication. see more project submissions from our readers here.edited by: cristina gomez designboom... https://www.designboom.com/architecture/napp-studio-golden-gate-market-entrance-china-08-12-2019/

Roses — in full bloom - Financial Times

Flirty, spriggy rosebud prints appear on sexy satin skirts at Paco Rabanne. At Valentino, roses are a recurring theme on prints in a show that could not have been — with its specially commissioned poetry by Greta Bellamacina — more loved up. London designer Richard Quinn, a rapidly rising star, went loud and splashy with his overblown roses, where modern day ball gowns are subverted with latex gloves and boots like some champagne-blasted punks charging the Chelsea Flower Show. Marc Jacobs applied generous amounts of Miracle-Gro to his silk rose sashes, corsages and chokers; so gigantically do they swell off his satiny dresses and blouses, they morph later in his collection into rose dresses, turning those who wear them into a woman-sized bloom. 'Bouquet of Flowers in a Glass beside a Tobacco Pot', by Jean Baptiste Camille Corot © Bridgeman Images And the roses keep on coming. Some 26 of Dries Van Noten’s catwalk looks bore a rose motif. The Belgian designer and passionate gardener often employs floral prints and embroidery. Last October, he took late-season cuttings from his own garden — where he grows more than 50 varieties of rose — and photographed them to create a series of striking prints for his autumn/winter collection. He wasn’t feeling swoony about them, however. “The flowers couldn’t be romantic. I didn’t want to have sweet flowers,” he said in a short film that shows him and his team transitioning the stems from garden to garment. “At the end of the season you have mildew, blackspots, so that within the flowers you have all the imperfections.”Backstage at Prada AW19Alexander McQueen’s creative director Sarah Burton took her design team back to her native northern England, where in the 1400s, the houses of York and Lancaster battled for the throne of England. (It was later known as the Wars of the Roses because of the rose badges used by the two sides — red for Lancastrians, white for Yorkists.)Roses appear lavishly throughout the collection; as prints on double duchess satin dresses, elsewhere embroidered on a bustier in blue silk jacquard. A black corset dress is edged with laser-cut roses; frilled high-necked knit dresses recall those worn in the Rose Queen pageants of the north. A “lust red” corset dress with sweetheart neckline has a twisted leather rose draped on the front that creates an asymmetric volume, directly referencing the emblematic Red Rose of Lancaster. The red is worn, in the brand’s current advertising campaign, by Kate Moss — surely the definitive modern... https://www.ft.com/content/9a85adf0-a23b-11e9-a282-2df48f366f7d

Nexus Capital Management Acquires FTD's Consumer and Florist Businesses - PRNewswire

FTD thrived by focusing on the needs of florists and enabling them to help customers during the most important moments of their lives," Clarke said. "It is a new day at FTD, and our mission is to put the florist at the center of everything we do. I look forward to working with the FTD leadership team and all of our employees to take FTD to new heights."FTD headquarters will remain in the Chicago, Illinois area.About FTDFTD has been a leader in the floral industry for over a century.  We are a private equity-backed company with one of the largest florist networks in the world, supported by the iconic Mercury Man® logo displayed in over 30,000 floral shops in more than 125 countries.  We partner with local florists to hand-craft floral arrangements available for same-day delivery on FTD.com and ProFlowers.com.  In addition to delivering flowers, we support locally-owned retail florists by providing technology, marketing, and digital services to members of our florist network.  For all of life's occasions and everyday moments, visit FTD.com, ProFlowers.com and ProPlants.com, and follow us on Facebook and Instagram at @ftdflowers. We love helping our customers #sayitwithflowers.About NexusNexus was formed in 2013 to make opportunistic investments in a broad range of companies and industries. Nexus employs a flexible investment mandate that focuses on long-term value creation by partnering with leading management teams and businesses.  For more information on Nexus, please visit www.nexuslp.com.    Contact: Emily Bucholz FTD, LLC 630-724-6692 l ebucholz@ftdi.comSOURCE FTD; Nexus... https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nexus-capital-management-acquires-ftds-consumer-and-florist-businesses-300906422.html

At Harvard, glass flowers that perfect the imperfection of decay - The Boston Globe

Natural History. The collection consists of 4,300 models, representing more than 780 plant species. Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka, father and son, made them between 1887 through 1936. Harvard had commissioned them as teaching tools.A selection of the glass flowers are on permanent display at the HMNH. “Fruits in Decay,” a new exhibition that looks at an unusual aspect of the collection, runs through March 1.AdvertisementThe glass flowers are marvels: so exacting in detail as to be a kind of botanical virtual reality, only this version of VR is analog and in three dimensions. They’re astounding, of course. But that very capacity to astound raises all sorts of interesting, even unsettling, questions. Surely, no art-making material lends itself to as wide a range of aesthetic outcomes as glass does. That range extends from the sublimity of the windows of the medieval craftsmen at Chartres and Matisse at Vence to the sub-kitsch of Dale Chihuly’s“Lime Green Icicle Tower” at the Museum of Fine Arts.The Blaschkas’ handiwork manages to partake of both extremes. The glass flowers straddle technique and inspiration, craft and art, verisimilitude and imagination. They are, in their spectacularly more detailed way, a bit like the Terracotta Army of Chinese soldiers unearthed in the 1970s. With both flowers and soldiers, representation is an end unto itself. Long before anyone ever heard of the uncanny valley, that’s where the flowers were planted and the soldiers stood at attention.Advertis... https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/art/2019/09/05/harvard-glass-flowers-that-perfect-imperfection-decay/SbW5FA3jqnOskov2WXxx8M/story.html

This Stunning Texas Greenhouse Is A Cactus And Succulent Paradise - Narcity

Amarillo isn't the greenest place on earth so when tons of colorful plants are seen blooming together in the Northwest Texas town, you know we have to snap a pic. This flower filled greenhouse in Amarillo will transport you to a cactus paradise. Chaparral Cactus and Succulents has over 20 types of plants to choose from.The greenhouse specializes in tropical and winter succulents as well as shrubs and grasses that do well in the Amarillo environment. Being that the Texas Panhandle can have a limited water supply, the shop helps its customers pick their perfect plants that will thrive in the environment. When you're at the greenhouse, you'll be amazing at the number of cacti with blooming flowers.All the green in the shop is perfect for an impromptu photo shoot. The greenhouse provides everything you might need for your new plant and they are open most of the year so you can stop by at any time. They carry plants both big and small so no matter how much space you have at home they are sure to have one that fits your style.This awesome greenhouse is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday through Saturday an... https://www.narcity.com/things-to-do/us/tx/this-greenhouse-in-amarillo-has-tons-of-cacti-and-succulents

Flowers from all over the world sent to El Paso victim's funeral - WKMG News 6 & ClickOrlando

EL PASO, Texas (CNN) - Antonio Basco stood in front of his wife's casket for two hours Friday hugging strangers. The El Paso man initially thought no one would show up for his wife's visitation service. His wife, Margie Reckard, 63, was killed when a gunman opened fire at a Walmart. The couple had no relatives in the area. Basco walked into the La Paz Faith Memorial and Spiritual Center to a storm of applause and a procession of people wanting to hug him. The building was at capacity with 400 mourners. Outside, another 700 waited in nearly 100-degree heat to pay respects, according to funeral organizers. "People were telling me they came from different faiths, different cities. It's just incredible how much love and support every single one of you has shown," Reckard's grandson, Tyler, said.   Margie 'always had a smile on her face'   Reckard's son, D... https://www.clickorlando.com/news/national/flowers-from-all-over-the-world-sent-to-el-paso-victims-funeral

Petals by the Beach uses donation to spread kindness through flowers - A beach florist got an unusual contribution and request recently: $500 from a Pacific Beach woman to pass out flowers to random passers-by. “We have never seen such generosity ... - San Diego Community News

That was pretty cool.”The donation came from Pacific Beach resident Thera Storm, who is a grief counselor. Storm said the recent back-to-back mass shootings in Texas and Ohio, that left at least 31 people dead, prompted her to do something extraordinary.“After those two shootings within 13 hours of each other, I noticed the reaction on Facebook was just so scary and negative,” said Storm. “The next morning I sat down and thought, ‘What could I do that’s positive?’ Then I had the idea of donating money to a local flower shop.”Storm was almost afraid of the reaction she’d get from Cummings, whom she didn’t know, when she approached her with her unorthodox plan. But Storm shouldn’t have worried.“She donated a generous amount at our shop for us to pass out flowers to complete strangers,” said Cummings. “She wasn’t paying it forward. In her words, ‘She wanted to spread kindness to the masses.’”Cummings took Storm’s money and honored her request.“For two weeks I’ve been passing out flowers every day to random people walking by of all different ages,” Cummings said, adding she wasn’t embarrassed about it. “I just said, ‘We had a customer recently donate a significant amount of money, and we’re spreading kindness and happiness.’”The reaction to Storm’s flower donation has been uplifting. “People said that is so nice, we need more of that,” said Cummings, adding, “A few people even cried. I began taking pictures (of recipients) and putting them on our Facebook and Instagram pages.”“I feel like I had a very small, passive role,” said Storm of her gesture. “All of the work has been done by Melissa.”It’s Storm's practice to take 10 percent of every paycheck and stash it away to do something special at a later date. Asked if being a grief counselor facto... http://www.sdnews.com/view/full_story/27660789/article-Petals-by-the-Beach-uses-donation-to-spread-kindness-through-flowers-?instance=bbp

Local Flower Shop Offers Free Bouquets to Place at Memorials - klaq.com

After they were contacted by some of these businesses, they decided to give back to the city and to the victims. They thank in particular Teleflora, an online flower delivery service, the Texas State Florist Association, Miami Flowers Wholesale and Greenleaf Albuquerque.Stop by Debbie's Bloomers and pick up your flowers and together we can spread some healing comfort with flowers across the Sun City. https://klaq.com/local-flower-shop-offers-free-bouquets-to-place-at-memorials/