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Wayfair Inc., online seller of home accessories, recently launched Archie & Oscar, a new Wayfair-exclusive line of furniture and household accessories for pets.Available at Wayfair in the U.S. and Canada, Archie & Oscar features more than 500 items ranging from aquariums and gerbil cages to outdoor chaise lounges and murphy beds designed for dogs and cats.

Starting a band? Way before getting up on stage or into a recording booth, there's a lot of work to do. Here are five things all band leaders need to think about as they get their acts together.1. Pick a style. Will you be playing rock, pop, jazz or some kind of fusion? Will you be playing covers or originals? Not only will you want to approach other musicians with your vision already in mind, but knowing these details can also help you determine the size and instrumentation you'll need for your band.

Fill your garden with colorful annuals you and the pollinators can enjoy all season long. Look for outstanding varieties chosen by All-America Selections, a nonprofit plant trialing organization, to brighten your garden, attract pollinators and outperform other varieties on the market.Attract hummingbirds and second looks from passersby with the vibrant bright orange flowers of Canna South Pacific.

Q: I have some evergreens that I planted when they were about 1 foot tall. Now, they are about 4 or five 5 tall. The tops on several of them have branched in a number of directions. What used to be one main one is now several. My friend said that I should cut some of those extras off the tree but I think that these extras will make them fill out and will make the trees look fat faster.

Court's anti-union ruling will hurt teachersSelf-righteous teachers and other public employees who "stand on principle" are hailing the Supreme Court ruling that public employee unions cannot require a contract negotiation fee be paid by those who choose to not belong to a union. What sort of principle encourages someone to benefit from the hard work of others without paying a fair share?

It's depressing.It's scandalous.It's debilitating.It's immoral.It's tiresome.It's un-American.It's emotionally draining.It's saddening.It's corrupt.It's sickening.I think most readers will understand the reference to "it's. Just in case, it relates to Donald Trump and his administration (a singular pronoun for a plural subject) as I reflected on the president's 1½ years in office.

Dear Sgt. Hosbrook, though you are my ancestor, I thought it only fitting and proper to address you by your rank and title in that great war for independence that we are celebrating some 242 years later. As an officer in the First New Jersey Regiment of General Washington's Continental Line, you were well aware of the blood and treasure being sacrificed to break free from a pompous and tyrannical British king.

The hole just got deeperWill Rogers once said: "if you find yourself in a hole, stop digging." The simple lesson was to keep digging would only make matters worse. There is no hope in getting yourself out of a deepening hole! One of the nation's leading outdoor sporting goods retailers, Dick's Sporting Goods, has done exactly what Mr.

Is there a Lincoln among us?The rhetoric of hate has been blaring and getting louder in America.Forcibly taking children from their moms at our southern border has enhanced the volume. President Trump's policy to arrest mothers and put thousands of their children in "kiddy jails," has ripped the scab off the inaction of Congress to fix the immigration problem we face on our southern border.

It would be flippant to say it's Anthony Kennedy's world and we just live in it. Justice Kennedy, who this past week announced his retirement as a Supreme Court justice, abhorred the moniker of "swing justice." In a talk to students at Harvard Law School in 2015, Kennedy said the phrase conjured up images of wild gyrations.