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Council adopts City Plan success indicators
Date published: 26 April 2021
A Queensland-first system being implemented by Townsville City Council is tracking progress made towards achieving the objectives of the Townsville City Plan.
The Townsville City Plan Performance Indictors project has been developed thanks to a Queensland Government grant.
Deputy Mayor and Planning and Development Committee chairperson Mark Molachino said this was a new way to measure how Council was tracking in its goal to transform the city.
“Council has made significant progress in bringing the vision of the Townsville City Plan to life since it was adopted almost seven years ago and now there is a new way for us to see just how successful these measures are,” Cr Molachino said.
“The Townsville City Plan Performance Indicators are a set of measure that monitor the progress Council has made towards achieving different parts of the 25-year vision that we have for our city.
“The City Plan has four policy themes: shaping Townsville; a strong and connected community; an environmentally sustainable future, and sustaining economic growth.
“The 12 indicators are organised around these four themes. They will help Council make targeted decisions by gauging whether the policy directions identified in the Townsville City Plan are being achieved and refining the City Plan directions.
“They will also help in identifying new projects, lodging grant applications, improving governance by mobilising teams across Council towards common goals and providing a tool for community and industry engagement.”
Cr Molachino said the project had the potential to become a model that other councils across the state could use to ensure they were meeting the strategic intent of their planning schemes.
The Townsville City Plan Performance Indicators project focuses on:
- Housing growth and land supply
- Housing location and type
- Non-residential gross floor area in key activity centres
- Modes of transport
- Footpath provision
- Provision of regional and district open space
- Street trees planted as part of major projects
- Biodiversity in waterways and wetlands
- Quality of waterways and wetlands
- Changes in employment by key industry
- Value of industry sectors
- Type and value of major economic development projects
For more information about the planning scheme visit the City Plan page.


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The Metropolitan Museum in New York is currently holding an exhibition of the works of the Mexican baroque painter Cristóbal de Villalpando (ca. 1649–1714). Villalpando figures in the “la ruta de la plata” because he painted one of the very few contemporaneous representations of the Parián:
In Mexico City’s Plaza Mayor, known today as Zócalo, there was an outdoor marketplace of stalls and shops called the Parián after the Chinese district in Manila. In this market Asian vendors mixed with those from the world over. The Parián became a permanent edifice at the turn of the eighteenth century, while the term parián became the word for ‘marketplace’ in many cities of Mexico. [The Silver Way, pp. 44–45]
My co-author Juan José Morales notes that Villalpando’s painting of the Plaza Mayor is one of the most renowned in Spanish American art. Painted around 1695, the leading art historian Jonathan Brown describes it in detail:
The plaza is framed at the top by the Viceroy’s Palace, which shows the damage inflicted by an uprising on June 8, 1692. To the left is the Cathedral of Mexico and, to the right, a row of houses resting on an arcade. The square thus formed is populated by innumerable merchants’ stalls, including those within the red-roofed enclosure called the Parián. A diligent scholar, who counted the number of figures, arrived at the total of 1,283, most of whom appear to be members of the uppers classes. As a slice of daily life in the viceroyalty, this painter has no peer.
This painting, in the collection of James Methuen Campbell, Corsham Court, Bath, is not part of the Metropolitan exhibit which does however feature the extraordinary two-storey-tall Moses and the Brazen Serpent and the Transfiguration of Jesus (1683).
In a bold and erudite arrangement, Villalpando juxtaposed the Old Testament story of Moses and the brazen serpent with the New Testament account of the Transfiguration—an unprecedented pairing of subjects. The two biblical events are staged within a single, continuous sacred landscape that encompasses the wilderness of Exodus and the holy mounts of Calvary and Tabor. Life-size figures of every age and gender, clothed and nude and in an astounding variety of poses and attitudes, populate the composition. The painting’s lower half features the story of Moses making and using the image of the brazen serpent according to God’s instructions to heal Israelites bitten by poisonous serpents. This episode provides a scriptural precedent for the making and use of images in worship, while also affirming the importance of art and artists. The upper half of the composition represents the transfiguration of Jesus’s corporeal body into light, a scene that demanded nothing less than the materialization of light in paint, which Villalpando attained through shimmering color and fluid brushwork. [Metropolitan Museum description]
Villalpando has a style of his own: floridly baroque, yet nevertheless seen through a unique lens. He is a reminder that Spanish America was at this time a producer as well as well as a consumer of high culture, a status that its neighbors to the north would not reach until the latter part of the eighteenth century. In addition to Villalpando, it is worth remembering that
in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, seventeenth-century Mexico produced a world-class poet and one of the first feminists to boot. [The Silver Way, pp. 43]
Spanish America had an opera composer as early as 1701, the year La púrpura de la rosa by Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco to a Spanish libretto by Pedro Calderón de la Barca premiered in Lima.

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Professor Ganda Singh ji(1900-1987), celebrated Punjab historian who by his sustained and pioneer work in the field of historical research initiated new trends in Sikh historiography and who by his critically important work became a vital and pervasive influence in historical learning in northern India, was born on 15 November 1900, thc son of Javala Singh of Hariana, an old town close to the city of Hoshiarpur in the Punjab. He began his education in the village mosque, later translating himself to the primary school. He passed the middle standard examination from D A.V. (Dayanand Anglo-Vernacular ) Middle School, Hoshiarpur, and his matriculation from Government High School in the same town. He joined the Forman Christian college at Lahore, but soon left it to enlist in the army (1919). He served at the Supply and Transport Corps Base Depot, Rawalpindl, and at the divisional office at Peshawar before he was attached to the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force, Basra, in 1920 and later to the British Royal Army Pay Corps, also at Basra, in 1921. There he had his thigh torn by a bullet shot and he was hospitalized. After recovery he was repatriated to India, but had been mistakenly reported dead to his family. This led to a dramatic situation. When he suddenly appeared at the door of his home in the village late one evening, he was taken to be a spirit and was refused admittance. As he was recognized the following morning at the doorstep of his house, the family’s horror turned into jubilation .
Ganda Singh did not stay at home for long. He went back to Mesopotamia (now Iraq) and then to Iran, there to join the Anglo-persian Oil Company at Abadan as accounts officer. At Abadan, he came under the influence of the British scholar, Sir Arnold Wilson, who besides his official duties as general manager of the company was working on his Bibliography of Persia . Young Ganda Singh now aspired to prepare a bibliograplly of his native Punjab. On his return to Punjab towards the end of 1930, he first worked on the editorial board of the Phulvari, a Punjahi monthly published from Lahore. One long-lasting friendship he picked up there was with Bhagat Lakshman Singh, a Sikh reformer and educationist He however missed meeting with Karam Singh, the historian, then very enthusiastic in promoting the cause of Sikh history. Karam Singh died before Ganda Singh could meet him.
In October 1931 began Dr Ganda Singh long and fruitful career as a researcher and historian. The Khalsa college at Amritsar placed him in charge of its newly-created Sikh History Research Department, which position he kept till 1949. During this period he travelled extensively, rummaging various public libraries, archives and private collections throughout India in quest of materials on Sikh history, enriching the library of his department and also brought out several books and tracts based on these.
In 1949, he came to Patiala where he was appointed Director of Archives and Curator of Museum under the Government of PEPSU (Patiala and East Punjab States Union). In 1950 he received the additional charge of Director of the Punjabi Department. His thesis on Ahmad Shah Durranl earned hiln the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the Punjab University, Chandlgarh, in 1954, as well as much applause from scholars and historians Among them the counted Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, a leading Indian savant of the day.
Dr Ganda Singh was principal of the Khalsa College, Patiala, when he was invited by the Punjabi University, Patiala, to organize its Department of Punjab Historical Studies. He set up Punjab History Conference in 1965 which became a very active forum for the discussion of matters relating to Punjab history. In l967, he launched the University’s journal, the bi-annual The Punjab Past and Present of which he himself was the editor and which gathered high repute and much prestige over the years.
In 1938, he had been appointed a corresponding member of Indian Historical Records Commission of Government of India, and was a full member of the Commission front 1950 to 1956. He was nominated member of Punjab Regional Committee for the Survey of Historical Records, Government of Punjab, Lahore, and of Indian Historical Records commission, Government of India. He was secretary of the Committee for the History of Freedom Movement in PEPSU, Patiala, and chairman of the Regional Records Survey Committee for History of Freedom Movement, Shimla/Patiala, from November 1957 to December 1962. He held membership of Asiatic Society, Calcutta, Indian Institute of Historical Studies, Calcutta, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, London, and Itihas Sanshodhak Mandal, Poona. He presided over the medieval section of Punjab History Conference session of the Institute of Historical Studies, Calcutta, held at Shillong in 1974 as well as over its 13th session held at Panaji (Goa) in 1975. In 1974, he presided the 35th session of Indian History Congress at Jadavpur.
Dr Ganda Singh was a prolific writer in addition to scores of research papers, booklets and pamphelets, he published over two dozen full-length volumes of high historical value. Dr Ganda Singh’s magnificent work was widely acknowledged and lauded in his lifetime, and he received honours from a number of professional institutions and associations. The Punjab Government invested him with the Award for literature on 31 March 1963 and the Shiromanl Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, Amritsar, paid its tribute on 28 March 1964. On 19 December 1964, Muslim University, Aligarh, conferred on him the "degree of D. Litt. honoris causa." Sikh Educational Conference honoured him during its 52nd annual session held at Kanpur on 25-27 October 1974, and Punjabi University, Patiala, at the annual session of the Punjab History Conference held during November- 1976. The University also brought out during the same year an anthology, Essays in Honour of Dr Ganda Singh, lovingly edited by his old pupil Professor Harbans Singh (author of the encyclopedia from where many documents have been published on this site). The University also awarded him the degree of Doctor of literature at its 15th convocation held on 25 February 1978. The Indian, history Congress during its Silver jubilee session held at Panaji (Goa) on 5-7 November- 1987 honored him as one of the five distinguished historians of India. The Government of India honoured him With the award of Padma Bhushan in 1983.
In the course of his long career as a researcher and scholar, Dr Ganda Singh had acquired a vast personal collection of rare bookss, maps, documents and manuscripts whichh occupied several rooms of his modest residence on the Lower Mall at Patiala. This Precious treasure is now the property of Punjabi University, Patiala, to which institution he donated the entire collection. Dr Ganda Singh died at Patiala on 27 December 1987.

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Packing a Punch Through 12-inch Dual Coils and Low-Frequency Subs
Dual coils are built by a variety of manufacturers. Maximizing the amount of impedance for your car’s subwoofers occurs through dual wiring; this is done only to one sub, but you can install two subwoofers that each have dual coils. The result is a resistance factor in the speaker that manages very high levels of pressure and that sustains frequencies without any notable distortion.Are bass subs too loud for a small car?
Car subs are made with variable watts, coils, and enclosures. This is because most of them can fit just about any situation. These situations call for subs from as small as 6 inches up to 16 inches wide. The variables are based on the sound you prefer and how much space you want to take up inside your vehicle. There is no car too small for bass frequencies as long as those frequencies are managed. The dual setup remains possible with smaller vehicles as much as with larger trucks and sedans.How are low frequencies kept smooth?
Frequencies are kept smooth with:
- Distortion-free engineering: Distortion-free is often the first consideration manufacturers make when designing their subs for optimal performance. That level of distortion is contained through the construction of voice coils, stable enclosures, wood and plastic materials, and the maximum wattage in relation to the sub’s impedance output. These factors are all different between manufacturers, number of inches, sealed enclosures, and type of magnets used.
- Dynamic power handling: Power handling is a popular feature that manages the peak output of a subwoofer and that attempts to match the right watts with the overall capacity of a speaker. You want to look at the maximum output of power for each speaker, and then see its difference in relation to power handling. Most cases show that power handling has a higher watt output in order to manage the maximum capacity of a sub without much trouble.
- Average RMS output: The two components of power handling are watts and RMS management. The RMS stands for root mean square. This differs from standard wattage in that RMS measures the ability of continuous output. One component may have the ability to output high power rates, yet that rate must also be measured in a continuous flow without disturbance. The fine details of sub construction and materials used help to dictate the management of distortion and how raw power differs from power output into real applications.
Cars often have bass components built in, yet these arent woofers with a raw output of low frequencies. A subwoofer focuses on low frequencies between 20 and 30 hertz and have components that are made to deal with those frequencies solely. You will need a separate module to influence the bass or to add more of it into your vehicle.


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Chimham is Biblical name often given to a Baby Boy and it means As they, like to them. The Soul Urge Number is 1 , and people called Chimham appears to have feeling to use their abilities in leadership, also to have personal independence. They would rather focus on large, important issues, and delegate the details.. Chimham also .
Chimham expression Number is 1, and people with the name Chimham also appears to be eventful to be leaders rather than followers, with powerful personalities.
Meaning:As they, like to them

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Zakk Wylde, Down, Others Highlight Led Zeppelin Covers List
It's hard to believe that 40 years have passed since rock legends Led Zeppelin released their cryptic album (long before the days of CDS) that featured cover art depicting a painting of an old man holding a cane, with a bundle of sticks tied to his back.
The painting hung on a wall covered with peeling leaf-patterned wallpaper. There was no title on the album cover and while it has been called different names, including 'Runes,' 'The Hermit' and 'ZoSo,' the most commonly used title is 'Led Zeppelin IV.'
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of one of rock's greatest albums, our brother site Ultimate Classic Rock has put together a commemorative four-piece package highlighted by a fascinating recreation of the album through YouTube clips of covers by a diverse range of bands.
Included in the tribute are Rollins Band taking on 'Four Sticks,' Zakk Wylde tackling 'Going to California' and Down bulldozing through "When the Levee Breaks.'
Ultimate Classic Rock also posted the FAQ 10 Things You Didn't Know About 'Led Zeppelin IV,' plus the site has posted a story about Zeppelin vocalist Robert Plant performing in the video for English opera star Alfie Boe’s cover of Tim Buckley's ‘Song to the Siren.’ And while you're checking out those three posts, enter here for your a chance to win a 'Zep IV' prize pack, which features the CD, a DVD set and the books '331/3 Led Zeppelin IV' by Erik Davis and 'Led Zeppelin FAQ' by George Case.
Majestic and musically diverse, 'Led Zeppelin IV' was the band's most popular album, selling 23 million copies in the U.S. alone and over 32 million worldwide. There's good reason for its acclaim. 'Led Zeppelin IV' features the band's catchiest and best written songs: the surging, sleazy and bombastic 'Black Dog,' the epic, immortal power ballad 'Stairway to Heaven' and the murky psychedelic blues of 'When the Levy Breaks,' with its unforgettable opening drum beat, which was sampled in 1986 by the Beastie Boys for the song 'Rhymin' and Stealin.'
Happy 40th! May the forest echo with laughter, evermore.


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Urinal Gaming System Installed At Minor League Ball Park
(CNN) – You don’t need a controller to play this game. The Coca Cola ballpark in Allentown, Pennsylvania, has installed a new urinal gaming system in the men’s bathrooms.
Your urine stream, yes urine stream controls the game.
The urine-operated games are already popular in the U.K.
The general manager for the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs says there’s also a health element to it.
Ads will be displayed on the screen reminding men to check their prostates.

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The Democrats aren’t radical, but Republicans are.
Last week’s debates clearly weakened Joe Biden and increased the odds that a more definitively progressive candidate — probably Kamala Harris or Elizabeth Warren — will win the nomination. And you can hear the wailing from much of the Beltway, the claims that Democrats are moving too far left.
So it’s worth parsing those claims. In what sense are the Dems moving too far left? What I’m seeing are three fairly distinct claims.
- First, that the party is endangering its electoral prospects.
- Second, that the party is being fiscally or economically irresponsible.
- Third, that Democrats are unfairly proposing to redistribute income from those who create wealth to those who don’t.
So you should know that the first claim is probably wrong, the second is definitely wrong, and the third ignores the extent to which we already do a lot of redistribution in this country — with Republican voters some of the biggest beneficiaries.
On the politics: Politicians and pundits alike tend to have a lot more contact with the wealthy than with ordinary voters, and often seem to imagine that the priorities of the 1 percent — keeping top tax rates low, cutting “entitlements” — actually resonate with the general public. But polling overwhelmingly shows the opposite: Voters want to raise taxes on the rich and expand government social programs.
In moving to the left on taxes and spending, then, Democrats are actually moving toward voters’ preferences, not away from them. Yes, Republicans will try to demonize their proposals, but they would do that in any case. Remember, they called Barack Obama, with his incrementalist policies and willingness to consider Medicare cuts, a socialist, too.
In fact, the best argument against “Medicare for All” skeptics like me, who worry how voters will react to proposals to eliminate private insurance, is that Republicans will scream about a government takeover of health care — and Fox News viewers will believe them — whatever you do.
On fiscal and economic responsibility: Nobody who endorsed the 2017 tax cut has any right to criticize Democratic proposals to spend more on things like child care. That tax cut, after all, appears likely to add around $2 trillion to federal debt — with around a third of that going to foreigners. Meanwhile, the promised surge in business investment is nowhere to be seen.
At the same time, there’s a very good case for arguing that Democratic proposals would have economic as well as humanitarian benefits.
Support for child care, for example, would free more women to enter the paid work force — where they would pay taxes that would offset some of the cost. And the children benefiting from that support would eventually become healthier, more productive adults.
In other words, while progressive Democrats are mainly arguing for greater social justice, they can also make a much better case than conservatives ever could that their proposals would help the economy and at least partly pay for themselves.
Last but not least, if your view is that the progressive agenda is morally wrong, that people shouldn’t receive more in government benefits than they pay in taxes, you should be aware how many Americans are already “takers,” “moochers,” whatever. In fact, we’re talking about a vast swath of the heartland that includes just about every state that voted for Donald Trump.
I’ve been reading a recent Rockefeller Institute report on states’ federal “balance of payments” — the difference for each state between what the federal government spends in that state and what it gets back in revenue.
The pattern is familiar: Richer states subsidize poorer states. And the reasons are clear: Rich states pay much more per person in federal taxes, while actually getting a bit less in federal spending, because Medicaid and other “means-tested” programs go disproportionately to those with low incomes. But the magnitudes are startling.
Take the case of Kentucky. In 2017, the state received $40 billion more from the federal government than it paid in taxes. That’s about one-fifth of the state’s G.D.P.; if Kentucky were a country, we’d say that it was receiving foreign aid on an almost inconceivable scale.
This aid, in turn, supports a lot of jobs. It’s fair to say that far more Kentuckians work
- in hospitals kept afloat by Medicare and Medicaid,
- in retail establishments kept going by Social Security and food stamps,
- than in all traditional occupations like mining and even agriculture combined.
So if you really believe that Americans with higher incomes shouldn’t pay for benefits provided to those with lower incomes, you should be calling on “donor” states like New Jersey and New York to cut off places like Kentucky and let their economies collapse. And if that’s what you mean, you should let Mitch McConnell’s constituents know about it.
The point is that while you can criticize particular Democratic proposals, you can only portray progressives as radical or irresponsible, especially as compared with the modern G.O.P., by ignoring or suppressing a lot of facts. I guess facts really do have a liberal bias.


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Our Directors’ Poll voted Tokyo Story the Greatest Film of All Time. Thom Andersen explains why its maker is the greatest of directors.
Ahead of our Greatest Film of All Time poll, Michael Atkinson anatomises critics’ obsession with enshrining cinema’s ‘top ten’.
Antonioni’s L’avventura is now more inﬂuential than ever, argues Robert Koehler in the latest of our series on contenders for our Greatest Films of All Time poll.
In our series on contenders for our forthcoming Greatest Films of All Time poll, the renowned Spanish critic Miguel Marías finds himself falling once again for the fathomless mysteries of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo.
Henry K. Miller excavates the mid-60s bookshop where by night the likes of Jeff Keen, Bruce Lacey and John Latham attempted to wreck the print word.
In the space of just over a decade, Christopher Nolan has shot from promising British indie director to undisputed master of a new brand of intelligent escapism. Joseph Bevan anatomises his body of work.


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My show dog lead is very narrow.
This leather dog lead I’d designed for the well behaved show dog. At 3/8inch wide there is just enough room to get one line of hand stitching down the centre of the leather dog lead.
At around 4foot long this leather dog lead is perfect for showing your dog off to their full potential.
Handmade using Sedgwick’s English bridle leather in oak brown and hand stitched with black braided polyester thread at 4mm stitching.
To order your own handmade leather show dog lead visit my website at www.oaksidesaddlery.co.uk

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MASSAGE PARLOUR MURDER
By Khushwant Singh
A JUDGE expressed scepticism yesterday at the claims of an accused murderer who said he was forced to kill his lover in self defence.
Seafood-stall owner Eu Lim Hoklai said his China-born mistress was standing behind him when she stabbed him repeatedly in the stomach following an argument two years ago.
But Justice Kan Ting Chiu said the story was hard to believe.
'It would be so much simpler for her to stab you in your back instead of reaching over to pull up your shirt and then stabbing you on the front right side of the abdomen.'
The High Court judge made the comments on the ninth day of Eu's trial for murder. The 54-year-old is accused of killing Madam Yu Hongjin, 30 in her Ang Mo Kio massage parlour on June 18, 2006. Eu suffered nine stab wounds which the prosecution claims were self-inflicted.
Meanwhile, a re-enactment of the killing, which was set to include an aspiring actress playing the role of Madam Yu and a cardboard cut-out of the knife, was not performed yesterday.
The judge adjourned the trial at about 4pm after Eu's lawyer, Mr Subhas Anandan, said his client had slept badly and was feeling giddy.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Winston Cheng has set up a cubicle and massage bed in one corner of the courtroom for the re-enactment, which observers considered unusual.
Calling DPP Cheng 'the most drama counsel' he has come across, Justice Kan gave permission for the re-enactment but said it should have been done during the initial investigations and not at the trial two years later.
'Then, memories would be fresh,' he pointed out.
The judge also had strong words when DPP Cheng asked for a video camera from the High Court to film the re-enactment.
Justice Kan flatly refused and said: 'This court's position is one of strict neutrality. We cannot be helping either side.
'If you don't know this, you better learn it now.'
Unlike previous days, the public gallery was packed yesterday with about 50 people.
The trial continues today.
[DPP Cheng's colleagues must be having a lot of fun teasing the most "drama counsel" in Singapore. Meanwhile Jack Neo, Eric Khoo, and Roystan Tan better watch out. Competition is in the wings. Wonder if Colin Goh was ever called the most "drama counsel" in Singapore.]

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The Mudcat Café TM
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Thread Name: Origins: Wandering (Early and Late)
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I'd say there was a rough style of "art blues" song before _Songbag_ came out that I associate with names like Hoagy Carmichael, Spencer Williams (sometimes among his massive output), W.C. Handy, Willard Robison.
This was recorded about a couple weeks before _Songbag_ came out.
This is earlier and is Robison singing a Handy song.


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Martin and Sam extend a warm welcome to Helen Sadler of the Flixwatcher podcast, as she swaps audio/visual to just audio for the next few tracks of Franks Wild Years. Some wide-ranging discussion this week, from the film work of Waits through the later work of Kate Bush and into the artistic collections of Joseph Cornell. And then some animal noises, because animal noises are fun, aren't they?
Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include:
I’ll Be Gone, Franks Wild Years, Tom Waits (1987)
An Endless Sky Of Honey, Aerial, Kate Bush (2005) - timecode 19:30 for our discussion
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EDUCATING, ENTERTAINING, AND FEEDING FAMILIES ALL YEAR ROUND!
Since 1940 we have been dedicated to providing ALL families with quality products and educational experiences. Health (and fun!) are very important to us here at Tanaka Farms!
What We Do
Our farm provides customers with things to do all year round. We host Strawberry Tours March through June, Melon Tours and Corn Picking Tours July through August, a Pumpkin Patch Tour from September to October, and a Holiday Tour in December. We also offer U-Pick Vegetable Tours and Cookout Tours throughout the year.
Produce Market Stand
Tanaka Farms grows and harvests over 60 different fruits and vegetables throughout the year right here on the farm using responsible farming methods. Produce is harvested daily so we can deliver to you the freshest and best tasting produce that we can. Because we only grow row crops here at the farm, we also purchase other quality produce from partner farms, like apples, blueberries, limes, and more, which may be organic or conventionally grown.
The Produce Market Stand is open from 9 am to 5 pm, seven days a week, all year long, except for a short winter break after our Christmas season in December.
The fruits and vegetables available will vary throughout the growing season. Generally, we will have our sweet strawberries March to June, delicious cantaloupes and watermelons July and August, as well as various other produce that we grow. Check out our Seasonal Harvest Chart.
Community Supported Agriculture
Our CSA Program is the easiest way to get all your produce year round. You can get a box every week or every other week and pick up here at the farm, or at any of our numerous pick-up locations around Orange County. Along with our own freshly harvested produce, we supplement our boxes with other, organic or pesticide-free fruits and vegetables.
Responsible Farming Practices
On our farm we use Responsible Farming Practices. At Tanaka Farms, your safety is our top priority. In everything we do, we make sure that we always follow U.S. EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) standards for safety. Whenever possible, we will use all organic growing methods, which includes practices such as crop rotation, companion farming, and the use of compost and organic fertilizers in our soil.We do our best to follow "organic growing guidelines" but will deviate if necessary to save a crop.
Public Drinking Water Is Not Available.
Bring your own or bottled water is available for purchase at $2.00 bottle.
FOR YOUR SAFETY we recommend wearing comfortable shoes that you don't mind getting dirty. Please avoid wearing sandals/flip-flops, open-toed shoes or high heels.
In complying with insurance policies, and for your protection, PETS and WAGONS are prohibited.

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This recipe and photography was provided courtesy of local cookbook author and chef, Carla Snyder. Learn more about Carla and discover her recipes at Ravenouskitchen.com.
With the spring season comes endless flavors to create delicious dinnertime dishes, but delicious meals do not have to be difficult to prepare. As we embrace the season and prepare for the summer, simple, healthy and plant-based meals that easily fit into busy schedules become a necessity. That’s where Heinen’s Meals in a Flash Chart comes in.
I work with Heinen’s each season to create a variety of recipes using items from their Prepared Food case. From comfort-food classics to veggie and grain alternatives, each chart has something for every dietary lifestyle. The best part is that all of the work is done for you. Simply pick your favorite meal combination at the Prepared Food counter and follow the simple heating instructions at home for a gourmet meal in a flash. Below are a few of my favorite plant-based and comfort food combinations from Heinen’s Spring Meals in a Flash Chart.
Jackfruit Tuna-Less Salad
Ethnic flavors are so exciting and it’s fun to try new things. One of the new meatless entrees is a Vegan Tuna Salad so satisfying you’ll never miss the tuna. Loaded with celery, red onion and lemony mayo, this dish takes you from spring to summer for quick and easy lunches and light suppers. Hollow out a tomato to hold the salad and add a warmed Lemon Risotto Cake to round out the meal.
Parmesan Mushroom Casserole
Another meatless standout is the Parmesan Mushroom Casserole. You know how everyone’s favorite side dish at Thanksgiving is the stuffing? How about a wedge of cheesy, mushroom-rich casserole for a weeknight dinner? The woodsy mushrooms, salty Parmesan and herbs and spices infuse the bread cubes with a pop of flavor that makes this dish either a stand-alone entrée or a side dish to a meat-based entrée as well. When paired with a salad from the salad bar or Grilled Zucchini from the Prepared Food case, this meal really satisfies.
Cauliflower Cheddar Cake
An enticing meal doesn’t have to include a six-ounce portion of meat in the middle of the plate. A case in point is Cauliflower Cheddar Cake. Delicious and good-for-you cauliflower is tossed with green onion and cheese to make a little cake that’s big on flavor. When paired with Orange Roughy with Spring Vegetables, this dinner is a feast for the eyes and taste buds as well. You can also pair the cake with Smoked Pork Chops for a heartier dinner; simply add warmed Green Beans to round out the plate.
Comfort Food Classic
Veal Meatloaf with Marsala Mushroom Sauce
The Meals in A Flash Chart also includes many familiar family favorite entrées. Sometimes dinner just isn’t complete without a dish like Heinen’s Veal Meatloaf with Marsala Mushroom Sauce. When paired with Potato Souffle and Lemon Carrots, this dinner takes me back to the good old days when mom made meatloaf every Wednesday night. Perfect for company, this is a dish that takes hours to make at home, but Heinen’s allows you enjoy it after only a few minutes of simple heating.
With all the flavorful main dish entrees, vegetables, grains and pastas from around the world, you won’t become bored and you won’t miss meat either. Featuring dishes like Orecchiette with Olives and Parmesan, Vegan Chicken Quesadillas and Mediterranean Couscous, Heinen’s Prepared Food case takes meatless mealtime from Italy to Mexico then Africa and back to the Americas. Heinen’s is your passport to a world of delicious flavors. Enjoy the trip.

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The explosion of May-blossom, sunlight, and burgeoning life needs expression at this time, when workday commonplaces can be thrown to the four winds and the bright joy of living can bubble up within us with natural ecstasy. All who have waited at dawn to welcome in summer have felt the sudden burst of brightness that ignites the deep happiness of the living earth as the sun rises. ~ Caitlín Matthews (The Celtic Spirit: Daily Meditations for the Turning Year)
We returned to White-Hall Park on Tuesday, this time to take the lower trails around the pond and to get a closer look at the blossoming red maples. Hopefully these pictures captured some of the magic of springtime!
Let us live for each other and for happiness; let us seek peace in our dear home, near the inland murmur of streams, and the gracious waving of trees, the beauteous vesture of earth, and sublime pageantry of the skies. ~ Mary Shelley (The Last Man)
Newsflash: Some of you may remember me writing about Buddy, the 1,000 lb. beefalo who escaped slaughter in August and was still on the loose in Connecticut in September. Well, he managed to evade capture all winter long but was finally taken into custody last night! I assume he is on his way to the sanctuary in Florida… Story at the end of this post: in the woods again.
Not much else to report, except that we are having a winter-like nor’easter for weather today. Nice to be tucked inside, daydreaming about this enchanting walk…
Latest statistics: New London County now has 4,668 confirmed cases of COVID-19. Of those, 33 people are currently in the hospital and 155 have lost their lives. That’s 1,212 new cases since October 24 when I last reported.
Connecticut’s positive test rate is now 6.4%. (It was 2.9% on October 24.)
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It is, If you no longer weep from gratitude or happiness, Or weep From being cut deep with the awareness Of the extraordinary beauty That emanates from the most simple act And common object.
Self-improvement is rigid and perfectionistic, driven by beliefs, expectations and old answers, while genuine transformation is flexible, open to new discoveries and rooted in not-knowing. Genuine transformation listens for what life itself wants, while self-improvement imagines that “I” know how everything “should” be. Self-improvement is judgmental, self-righteous and narrow-minded, while happiness and real change are the release of all that. ~ Joan Tollifson (Death: The End of Self-Improvement)
It was probably inevitable, but we have just learned we now have a positive COVID-19 case in our condo complex. The news sent a chill down my spine. No doubt Dr. Fauci is right, we best prepare to hunker down for the fall and winter.
Along the shoreline, about 19 miles east of us, the waters of Fishers Island Sound give way to the the bigger waves of Block Island Sound and the Atlantic Ocean. When leaving Connecticut and arriving in Watch Hill, Rhode Island, the terrain and the beaches feel a lot more like Cape Cod to me. The irresistable desire to hear those waves crashing led me to drag Tim to Napatree Point Thursday morning and he was a good sport about a hike over the dunes.
Napatree Point is a slender, 1.5 mile long peninsula in Block Island Sound. To the north of the peninsula is Little Narragansett Bay, a small estuary into which the Pawcatuck River empties. The small bay is an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean. ~ Wikipedia
First we walked along the bay side, but not all the way to the end of the peninsula. The water was calm and there were lots of birds busy fishing and flying, but only one herring gull. He was quite handsome and paid no attention to us.
What is it with me and gulls? I won’t say how many pictures I wound up taking of this one. 🙂 But the sound of the waves on the ocean side was beckoning…
Time to take a shortcut over the dune. We made it across without encountering someone coming the other way. With COVID-19 ever on our minds we knew it would have to be a one-way-at-a-time bridge.
The waves were relatively calm, but bigger than the ones at our beach, and the sound of them crashing was soothing to me.
Till my soul is full of longing For the secret of the sea, And the heart of the great ocean Sends a thrilling pulse through me. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (The Secret of the Sea)
There was a family with two children playing there on the beach. When we got closer the parents called the little ones back to their blanket and we hugged the water, putting as much distance between us as possible. We didn’t linger so the kids could quickly get back to their playing by the water. Life in the time of coronavirus.
I’ve been wrestling with several other concerns, though. Perhaps it’s stress, but my migraines have come back and have become very frequent, waking me up almost every night. Fortunately I have a stash of meds but I’m starting to worry I will blow through it before my next refill is due.
And then there is what I thought were spider bites I woke up with last Saturday morning. Mostly on my belly, a few on my face, and a couple of days later, a spot on my ankle. By the middle of the week I suspected flea bites or chigger bites. But the itching and rash now feels exactly like poison ivy. Which means I’ve got another week or two of this misery to live through. Probably picked it up in the woods on one of our walks. I think I will confine our walks to the cemetery and dirt roads for now.
Seeing the open ocean, hearing the waves, smelling the salty air, picking up a shell to remember the morning, all of it gave me some breathing space. Even the incessant itching seemed to stop for a while.
Try to be happy in this very present moment; and put not off being so to a time to come: as though that time should be of another make from this, which is already come, and is ours. ~ Thomas Fuller (A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient & Modern)
This morning I read that headaches are one of the possible side effects of hydrocortisone cream, which I’ve been using on the poison ivy. Itching, too. So I’m going to stop using it for a while and see what happens. This too, will pass.
I was very sorry to leave but very grateful to have enjoyed our moments there. On our way out we managed to stay far enough away from a couple of people arriving and exchanged greetings from behind our masks. “It’s the new way,” one man observed, as we all did our do-si-dos along the paths.
Such is the Force of Happiness — The Least — can lift a ton Assisted by it’s stimulus —
Who Misery — sustain — No Sinew can afford — The Cargo of Themselves — Too infinite for Consciousness’ Slow capabilities —
~ Emily Dickinson (The Poems of Emily Dickinson, #889)
We planted this tree in our garden in the spring of 2014 and it has brought me so much happiness. Especially in this season, when the leaves come in and start competing with the bark curls for visual interest. When I open my kitchen shades each morning and see more and more green ~ pure joy. In summer it protects the kitchen windows from the harshest afternoon sun.
Yes, happiness is uplifting, and misery weighs us down, too heavy, impossible to carry alone. Grieving a loss is often a slow process, and might last a lifetime.
I count having the company of this tree as one of my many blessings.
Many said that now there was no hope of salvation, for a man might do anything and be in the wrong. There was no way to tell. It was better to stay on the steading and mind the cows and be content with such days as are left to one and cease to wonder about life everlasting. ~ Jane Smiley (The Greenlanders)
Conjecturing a Climate Of unsuspended Suns – Adds poignancy to Winter – The shivery Fancy turns
To a fictitious Country To palliate a Cold – Not obviated of Degree – Nor eased – of Latitude –
~ Emily Dickinson (The Poems of Emily Dickinson, #551)
The Mayflower II (above) is at Mystic Seaport for restoration. This replica of the original Mayflower was constructed in England and launched in 1956. Her home port is Plimoth Plantation in Massachusetts.
You mustn’t rush about in endless rings but learn to love the nearest things. ~ Arne Paasche Aasen (The Ways of Water)
Not all the lanes were plowed in Elm Grove Cemetery so we couldn’t get to the graves of my White ancestors, but the cemetery was full of interesting snow drifts and shadows, and views of the snow and ice covered river.
You must rejoice in life every day; don’t wait until the moment has passed you by before acknowledging what a good time it really was! Don’t pin your hopes on the happiness of days to come. The older one gets, the more one realizes that the ability to savor the moment is a state of grace, a glorious gift… ~ Marie Curie (Seasons)

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There are 23,228 law enforcement officers in Michigan for a total population of 9,990,817. Of those 9,990,817 residents, 67, 100 are incarcerated in the state prisons and another 170,967 are on probation. Michigan comes 14th in the national ranking for violent crimes rate.
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- Cocaine: 81.9 kgs.
- Heroin: 28.3 kgs.
- Methamphetamine: 3.6 kgs.
- Marijuana: 6,563.1 kgs.
- Ecstasy: 18,474
- Meth Labs: 275 (DEA, state, and local)
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The Evidence Destroyed
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Twenty-thirdillustration for The Adventures of Oliver Twist in Oliver Twist and A Child's History of England, Charles Dickens Library Edition (1910), vol. 3, facing 289.
Furniss follows George Cruikshank's illustration in the 1838 Bentley's Miscellany (see below) and depicts the mysterious Monks, who is in league with the Bumbles, destroying the evidence of Oliver's birth at an abandoned factory on the river, amidst the pathetic fallacy of a thunder storm [continued below].
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With these words, he suddenly wheeled the table aside, and pulling an iron ring in the boarding, threw back a large trap-door which opened close at Mr. Bumble's feet, and caused that gentleman to retire several paces backward, with great precipitation.
"Look down," said Monks, lowering the lantern into the gulf. "Don't fear me. I could have let you down, quietly enough, when you were seated over it, if that had been my game."
Thus encouraged, the matron drew near to the brink; and even Mr. Bumble himself, impelled by curiosity, ventured to do the same. The turbid water, swollen by the heavy rain, was rushing rapidly on below; and all other sounds were lost in the noise of its plashing and eddying against the green and slimy piles. There had once been a water-mill beneath; the tide foaming and chafing round the few rotten stakes, and fragments of machinery that yet remained, seemed to dart onward, with a new impulse, when freed from the obstacles which had unavailingly attempted to stem its headlong course.
"If you flung a man's body down there, where would it be to-morrow morning?" said Monks, swinging the lantern to and fro in the dark well.
"Twelve miles down the river, and cut to pieces besides," replied Bumble, recoiling at the thought.
Monks drew the little packet from his breast, where he had hurriedly thrust it; and tying it to a leaden weight, which had formed a part of some pulley, and was lying on the floor, dropped it into the stream. It fell straight, and true as a die; clove the water with a scarcely audible splash; and was gone.
The three looking into each other's faces, seemed to breathe more freely.
[Chapter 38, "Containing an Account of what Passed between Mr. and Mrs. Bumble, and Mr. Monks, at their Nocturnal Interview," 288]
Furniss's notion of having the diabolical Monks gain possession of and destroy the scant evidence of Oliver's true origins (including a locket that would confirm the wealthy Edwin Leeford as his father) is derived both from the original serial illustration by George Cruikshank in the August 1838 number of Bentley's Miscellanyand from the frontispiece The Evidence Destroyed by JamesMahoney for the 1871 volume in the Household Edition.
For the third volume of the 1910 Charles Dickens Library Edition, Harry Furniss's rendering of the scene (still derived from Cruikshank, but incorporating the Mahoney characterisation of Monks as dark, menacing, commanding, yet obscure) heightens its drama by the sharpened contrast of the black-and-white shading, the terror on the faces of the Bumbles, and the emphatic gesture of Monks, whose facial expression the viewer cannot apprehend. That Furniss gave the figure of Monks holding the lantern a place of prominence (the lower left-hand corner) in Characters in the Story suggests that Furniss felt this was a pivotal moment in the narrative, even if he felt it necessary to depict Monks with his signature hat on in both the vignette and the full-page lithograph, which we encounter immediately after Dickens's economical but telling description in the text.
The destruction of the objects associated with Oliver's birth that might well confirm his identity as the son (albeit, illegitimate) and heir of Edwin Leeford would seem to suggest that the powers of evil are now in the ascendant. The conventional aristocratic villain of melodrama, Edward Leeford (alias "Monks"), having suborned the Bumbles, discards the evidence irretrievably, seemingly cementing Oliver's obscurity. Thus, unlike Iago in Shakespeare's Tragedy of Othello, the malignancy of Monks is hardly "motiveless." Oliver's evil twin, as naturally bad (although legitimate) as Oliver is naturally good, is "consumed with a desire to corrupt and destroy his brother" (McMaster 185). To underscore this binary difference in the half-brothers, the illustrators consistently depict Monks clothed from head to foot in black and usually show him operating in darkness, whereas they consistently characterise Oliver as pale-faced and blond-haired. Apparently, Monks is not content with his own share of the patrimony — he must have all, and therefore must commit Oliver to a life of crime so that, by the peculiar terms of his father's will, Oliver will be ineligible to inherit. Whereas one might legitimately argue that Fagin's evil is a defense against poverty and social exclusion, Monks's evil is evidence of his corruption: he has not been forced into being and doing evil. The badge of his respectable, upper-middle-class status — his dark suit, cape, and top-hat — ironically in the Mahoney and Furniss illustrations becomes the signifier of his "apartness," his alienation from the genuinely Christian morality of Mr. Brownlow and the Maylies, Samaritans who show compassion for the orphan child and believe in his innate goodness.
Illustrations from the initial serial edition (1837-39), Diamond Edition (1871), and Household Edition (1910)
Left: Sol Eytinge, Junior's Monks (1867). Centre: George Cruikshank's The Evidence Destroyed (1838). Right: Harry Furniss's thumbnail vignette of Monks with the lantern, detail from Characters in the Story. [Click on images to enlarge them.]
Above: James Mahoney's 1871 engraving of Monks triumphant, The Evidence Destroyed (1871). [Click on image to enlarge it.]
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In just 10 weeks, we raised over $207k through events!
Slap Cancer Save Lives raised $207k this past spring.
Man & Woman of the Year is a 10 week fundraising competition hosted by The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society that originated in San Francisco 22 years ago. As part of Brianna Haag’s nomination for Woman of the Year, she formed the Slap Cancer team. The Slap Cancer fundraising campaign hosted a series of events (all ticketed via Eventbrite) to reach and ultimately double the initial fundraising goal of $100,000! Throughout the campaign the goal was to raise awareness of blood cancer research and bring young professionals together to achieve something great, which was funding 2 researchers for an entire year.


text: Har Prasad Nanda and his brother Yudi arrived in Delhi from Lahore after Partition. To impress and revive his business contacts, Har Prasad hired a suite of rooms at The Imperial, Delhi’s most expensive hotel. It worked. The Escorts Group played a pivotal role in India’s agricultural growth, especially in farm mechanisation. In 1961, it started manufacturing its own tractors, and more than 1 million tractors have rolled out from its facilities since then.

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Completing a private background check and requesting professional references are a great place to start. The average hourly rate for pet sitting services near you in Gaithersburg, MD is $17.95. It’s important to keep in mind that this price is just an average and where you live, how many pets you have, how experienced the pet sitting service provider is, and the exact services you’re looking for can all impact how much you’ll spend.
Additionally, if your pup has any special dietary needs or allergies, make sure you choose a formula that is tailored to those needs. Some dogs simply demand to have wet food, but very often these are either low-quality food or prohibitively expensive. Iams ProActive Health Classic Puppy wet food is designed to break this trend and allow you to feed your dog high-quality wet food without breaking the bank. This brand is solely manufactured in the United States and all of their ingredients, such as barley and chicken meal, meet the go well beyond the strict demands of the best puppy food standards set by the industry.
Maketto’s inventive new H Street NE sibling Bronze explores Afrofuturism through food in the old Smith Commons space. Generally speaking there are two types of puppy foods that most fall under, either wet dog food or dry dog food. Dry puppy food is made into a form of kibble or pellets that can be easily stored in a bag and fed to your pup on a regular basis. Typically, dry puppy food has more carbohydrates than protein, which helps a growing puppy keep their energy needs met. Puppy dry dog food is also convenient as it requires little preparation.
I started to research medicines and alternative therapies to help Beamer. Two re-occurring modalities were massage and weightless exercise…..swimming. There was no place locally I could safely take my dog to swim privately. Twice a week for well over a year Beamer enjoyed his therapeutic massages! Sadly, just over two years into the disease, his quality of life declined and he crossed the Rainbow Bridge in March 2016.
You will want to ask them questions about their experience working with animals and what safety precautions they have in place to keep your pet safe. We have loving Fur, Fins & Feathers dog walkers and caregivers who are dedicated to all your pet care needs. Taco BambaSeven Maryland and Virginia locationsVictor Albisu—formerly chef/owner of the late, great mod-Mex dining room Poca Madre—lets his freak flag fly at this ever-expanding group of taquerias, often pulsing with ’90s hair metal. We believe in delivering great experiences for pets, clients, staff members, and the community.
If you want to be sure you are buying from a brand that cares about the health of your puppy as much as you do, JustFoodForDogs should be one of the first brands you look at. Spot On Washington DC collects excepts of news articles from this source and add these in the ‘DC Entertainment’-category. As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work. Please go to the Instagram Feed settings page to create a feed. Enjoy unlimited access to our park for the day for only $9.99. By entering your phone number, you consent to receiving calls and texts on behalf of Camden Property Trust via automatic dialing technology about apartment listings that may fit your needs.
Overall, feeding your pup the right diet based on their size and breed can help ensure they stay happy, healthy and growing properly throughout their development. Be sure to check with your veterinarian before making any changes to assess which formula is best for your pup’s nutritional needs. On the other hand, small breed puppies require foods that are lower in calories and proteins but higher in fat content when compared to large breed puppy food formulas. Small breed puppies mature more slowly and typically gain weight quickly and a small breed puppy food is designed to deal with these differences. Wet puppy food, typically presented in a can or as pouch food, is typically a softer type of food made with higher levels of protein and moisture. Wet food can also provide your pup with essential vitamins, minerals and fatty acids that are necessary for their growth and development.
Mariscos, which means “seafood” in Spanish, opened nearly a year ago with a treasure trove of fresh fish, crustaceans, and bivalves prepared raw, fried, and grilled. Made-to-order citrusy ceviches, jicama slaw-topped oyster po’boys, Caribbean-style lechon, and other Latin dishes harken back to Alfredo Solis’s daysrunning downtown’s Ceibafor Passion Food Hospitality. A 12-seat bar sends out a pisco sour, caipirinha, mojito, and other Latin-hopping cocktails that follow the food’s lead. A Coronarita — a Corona bottle draining into a frozen margarita — keeps summer in swing all year.
The Maryland native’s Middle Eastern menu tweaks dishes to incorporate peak produce — see the smashed pumpkin labneh or apple and pear fattoush for fall — but the snack-sized lamb kefta kebabs speared on cinnamon sticks should never go out of style. Cocktails, desserts, and a lengthy wine list full of hard-to-find Eastern Mediterranean labels all rise to the occasion. An a la carte menu joins a newer multi-course option featuring lamb meat pie and swordfish dolma, pita with spreads, and larger plates like chermoula black bass. The feast is $150 for food; wine pairings are priced at $75 or $115. For something more affordable, head next-door to sibling bakery and cafe, Yellow, which just expanded to Georgetown.
There is no such thing as just one best food or brand of food. The more variety and the more species-appropriate form you can feed it in will be the very best manner in which to nourish your pets. Additionally, you may want to transition over a few weeks in order for them to adjust to the new food.

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In Slovenia, the ESF is supporting social businesses with start-up funding
Slovenia’s Ministry of Labour, Family and Social Affairs has selected 17 businesses which, over the next two to three years, will train and employ members of disadvantaged groups, including immigrants, people with disabilities, Roma, and older job-seekers, among others. These social enterprises – selected by public tender and co-funded by the ESF – will receive EUR 4.5 million in total. There is a wide variety of activities planned: for example, older women job-seekers making reusable shopping bags, former drug addicts preparing commercial advertisements, disabled people working as land surveyors, and homeless people running a fair trade shop that will sell domestic products. This new initiative is based on an earlier one launched three years ago which proved a success – with eight of its nine social enterprises still in operation.


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Molds are potentially dangerous to you. Toxic mold contamination can irritate the eyes, induce allergic reactions and can trigger illnesses and severe illness. Toxic moulds should be immediately removed. You can’t do this on your own, as the problem may get worse. Professional support is often needed. Experts in mold removal and mold remediation have the tools to find and remove this dangerous substance from your homes and buildings altogether.You may want to check out Chatham mold remediation for more.
Often mold is also present where there is water or moist air inside a building. Its growth potential always lurks around us as the organism is present all around us. Moisture coupled with a supply of nutritious substance food offers nourishment and a safe climate for hundreds of animals to build a healthy ecosystem. There is normally no danger of any potential damage. If you see mold growing, if you know how to do it, you may be able to extract it yourself.
Also damp air is suitable for certain forms of fungi because there is more than 70 percent moisture in the atmosphere. There are a number of reasons why an environment can be humid. But southern states’ warm and humid climate also makes them year-round vulnerable to mold problems.
Normal indoor temperatures ranging from 40 to 100 degrees Fahrenheit will produce the most varieties. If the temperature is not within this range the organisms will be in dormant condition.
Out of this stagnant condition a musty scent is a warning of its presence and is the call to practice. That means finding and identifying the source of the problem. If you can’t see where the issue is, it can not be possible. It can often be hidden from the naked eye, so watch out! Don’t attempt to fix this issue yourself. Any unintentional perturbation can spread the spores. The more dirty an environment is, the more difficult the remedial job would become. Seek professional support with mold remediation with any unknown issues.
When optimal environments (humid, watery environments plus nutrients available) generate poisonous mold and can only be supported by skilled mold removal experts. Such molds create mycotoxins, which are toxic products which can be very harmful to your health. This fungus may cause hypersensitivity pneumonitis according to the CDC (the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). Signs of the Telltale include shortness of breath, muscle aches, fatigue, cough, fever and chills. This disease can sound like pneumonia but its effects can not be controlled with antibiotics. But it can also lead to pneumonia, too.
If you feel the presence of this fungus is making you sick, you should go to the doctor immediately for a diagnosis. When you think a toxic fungus is emerging in your home or building, have it promptly medically checked to be sure. If you live or work in a building where you suspect mold is present, tell this possibility to your building manager.
If anyone is suffering from telltale symptoms of poisonous fungi inside the premises, experts suggest moving elsewhere until the problem is resolved. Until the grounds are secure again you should not enter. Hire only a qualified and experienced mold removal and mold remediation service, qualified to perform removal and radiation work.

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TBD is a decision making toy that caters to life’s indecisive moments.
In 2017, our team at Uncorked Studios were tasked with creating another holiday gift for our company friends. Building on what we did the previous year using the tools and resources we had in-house, we decided to create another holiday gift using what we had in the office.
We landed on creating a decision making toy which was a spinner that included custom designed plates and a dry-erase surface to answer any questions you may have. Our team wanted to make something utilitarian and with customization features, but also create something with a platform that we could build upon in the future (pushing out new custom plates for our users to add upon their spinner toy).
The team at Uncorked spent hours designing out the base of the spinner (from what wood we should use, what plastic the spinner should be), spending days at ADX Portland using their CNC router to punch out wooden bases for the toy, to even hand flame polishing the finishing touches on each spinner.
Watch the video at the bottom of the page to learn more about the product as well as see the process that went into it.
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A boy and his favorite stuffed animals share their days with one another in this cozy bedtime picture book with audio from Mem Fox.
There was once a boy who loved bedtime.
What could be more wonderful than sharing bedtime with beloved friends? The little boy in this gentle and fun story loves to talk to his stuffed animals each evening and share with them all the things that happened to him that day--and to hear about their days, too.
From bestselling author Mem Fox and award-winning illustrator Lauren Stinger, here is a celebration of imagination, play, friendship, and coziness certain to touch a chord with young children everywhere. Includes audio!
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- Adobe PDF eBook 175 MB
Mem Fox (Author)
Mem Fox is an educator and international literacy expert, and her many acclaimed picture books for young children include Yoo-Hoo, Ladybug!; Hello Baby!; Baby Bedtime; I'm an Immigrant Too; the bestselling modern classics Ten Little Fingers and Te...

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- Died: 1831/7/3
- Other Names: 猿猴庵 (Enkouan)
- Japanese: 高力種信 (Kouriki Tanenobu)
Tanenobu was self-taught in book illustration, studying ukiyo-e styles and projection drawing techniques on his own, and producing images mainly of festivals and other popular and public gatherings.
- Yokoyama Manabu 横山学, Ryûkyû koku shisetsu torai no kenkyû 琉球国使節渡来の研究, Tokyo: Yoshikawa kôbunkan (1987), 211-212n18.


text: Paul McCarthy was recently appointed the chief executive officer of the Mannkal Economic Education Foundation, a free-market think tank based in Perth, Western Australia. Paul has long been an advocate of small government and economic liberty both through Mannkal and the currently-governing Liberal Party of Australia. Paul received his BA and MA in economics and finance from the University of Western Australia. During his studies Paul was the President of the UWA Liberal Club, running a successful campaign for seats on the Student Guild Council on a platform opposing a compulsory Student Guild Fee. Paul has forged a career in the energy industry in Perth and London, primarily within the power, gas and LNG sectors, and most recently was principal policy advisor to the Treasurer and Minister for Energy in Western Australia, Hon Dr. Mike Nahan.

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Mohd Fareez Rosli (left) and Mohd Khairul Anuar share a light moment at the SEA Games. Khairul was not too pleased although he earned top seeding in the knockout stage of the men’s recurve individual event as he wanted to achieve a higher personal target.
NAYPYITAW: It was a day for debutant archer Atiq Bazil Bakri to cherish in the SEA Games after he made the cut for the knockout stage but he was far from pleased.
On Saturday, the sweat-soaked 19-year-old Atiq did better than his Olympian compatriot Haziq Kamaruddin to qualify for the men’s recurve individual after finishing third in a 21-member field at the Wunna Theiki Archery Range,
He will join his more illustrious team-mate and Olympian Mohd Khairul Anuar when the opening round starts on Sunday.
Olympian Khairul, who missed out on a gold after losing to his former team-mate Cheng Chu Sian in the final of the last SEA Games in Jakarta, finished top after the 72-arrow qualifying round with a score of 668.
Indonesian Riau Ega Agata Salsabilla came in second with 657 while Atiq came in third with 655.
Burly Haziq came in ninth with 645.
Each country can only have two representatives in the men’s individual recurve based on the qualifying score.
Although pleased that he is now on track to win a medal in his first SEA Games, Atiq wished he had shot better.
“I came here with the intention of improving my personal best of 660 but I was three shots behind,” he said.
“I could handle the searing heat and it was not as windy as I thought it would be. Today, it all boiled down to me ... I was a bit nervous in the beginning and I felt that I could have done slightly better.”
Khairul was also disappointed with his score despite earning top seeding in the knockout stage.
“I was hoping to shoot 675 at least. I may have made it as the top-ranked archer but the satisfaction is not there,” he said.
“Hopefully, we will bounce back. Based on today’s qualifying round, Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia will be our main challengers.”
Malaysia are targeting to defend two gold medals from the men in both the individual and team events.
Meanwhile, the women’s challenge wilted under the scorching heat with the top performer being Farah Amalina Azhar at 16th spot with a poor 592 score.
Indonesia made it a top three finish but the dark horse is expected to be Myanmar’s Thin Thin Khine, who came in at the seventh position with 620.
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Due to the safety aspects of the man drone we "invented" a combination of airbag and parachute with the purpose of opening the parachute in a spit second. We made a small testing sample. and we think it can work. So the idea is that a drone in an emergency situation would ignite a rocket parachute and that this one would open by airbag at the the top. Think that for normal drones (_tumble bee_ ) this might also be interesting. Anyone interested in such development, or sees a need for such parachute that should substantially reduce the the rescue height?
PS in the blog of my www.thehummingmanproject.com I have a small document for download.


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Sedimentation is a natural process. Pasteurised product. Particularly spicy taste. We recommend drinking it as an accompaniment to tea, cocktails, drinks or diluted with water. Ginger juice contains certain volatile oils that can help stimulate the taste buds, cleanse the mouth and stimulate the production of saliva, which aids digestion.
A combination of ginger juice, salt and lime or lemon before or after meals helps digestion. Ginger juice has amazing antibacterial properties. Taking ginger juice together with dried pepper can help clear excess mucus from the lungs.
To relieve colds, mix equal amounts of ginger juice and agave syrup and drink it warm at least 2 or 3 times a day. Drinking simple ginger juice can also help relieve sore throat pain.
More information about ginger in English can be found here.


Is this the ultimate trike package?
When it comes to recumbent trikes there are so many options out on the market. Is there a trike that may be overlooked and brings it all together to the pavement? It may have some of this but can lack all of that. Sure, the price is attractive but is it going to last me for a while?
All common questions come to mind when seeking that perfect all-around recumbent trike. So if you are someone looking to purchase your first trike, or maybe you’re looking for a new trike for this summer, find out why this trike may be the ultimate package you have always been seeking.
Right away the ICE Trike Sprint X Tour is a good-looking trike. The color scheme of Black, Gray, and Red make this trike frame pop with contrast, always catching the eye of any on-looker. Additionally, every element of this frame is optimized and is perfectly engineered to complement each other giving way for superior characteristics found riding any ICE.
The frame is composited with 7005 aluminum and 4130 Chromoly steel tubing. The combination of the two makes up the fundamental way the Sprint X Tour performs, handles, and feels to the rider. Heat-treated 7005 T6 aluminum helps absorb road forces while still providing the rider with maximum power transfer to the rear 26” wheel base.
One unique feature, which can be found mainly on mountain bike rear triangles is the chain-stay protection direct from the factory. This helps to eliminate the damage that can be done to the material and paint from chain slap – which mainly is caused by sudden bumps in the road or any instance where the rear wheel of the bike takes a sudden impact.
Will ICE plan to release an air/coil shock into their frame design?
This has been a question on the mind of us here for a little while now. You find other manufacturers with rear suspension trike utilizing this highly adjustable option. When are we going to see it with ICE?
The drivetrain setup on this particular Sprint X Tour is geared for more hill climbing which we find a lot of here in New England. Standard derailleur setups come with an (11-36T) Shimano Deore cassette paired with a 3 ring (48/36/26) chainring setup upfront. For this particular build, we opted for the SRAM S600 (44/32/22) front crank set up for a lower gear range as mentioned for our hilly New England geography. Having these interchangeable options and many others when putting your order together is just another perfect reason why we find this trike to be such a good value for any recumbent cyclist. Customize exactly toward your riding location and style. Want bigger gears for speed? Maybe you need 152mm short cranks? All possible on the Sprint X Tour and our trike mechanics here at Bike-On!
A few additional features that wrap this trike up as the ultimate trike of the indirect steering. Bringing natural handling to the cyclist, even at high speeds handling remains in control with tight performance, reaction, and stability as the frame geometry of the Sprint X Tour keeps your center of gravity even from body roll.
All these features are wrapped up by their C.F.T folding technology. Centered around a lightweight heat-treated aluminum hinge and quick release lever for easy folding in less than 30 seconds! As the frame folds to the rear triangle of the trike pivots to a flat fitment between the front wheels.
Need a little more room?
If you have the disc brake version, add some quick-release wheel axles to remove and set aside the front wheels making additional room for storage and transportation slimming down the overall width.
So is there a trike that brings it all together in the ultimate on-road package? Look no further than the Sprint X 26 RS Tour. Combining the best comfort on the market in our option while no lack in performance. Find everything just about every trike enthusiast is looking for. ICE struck it all with this model with tons of options available to upgrade down the line, even down to going electrical assist with Shimano STEPS. Take a look at these quick purchase Sprint X Tour options and please connect with us to work with our recumbent specialists for customizable builds, additional questions, and features ICE Trikes has to offer.


All the shit from yesterday (or maybe last week) that's fit to link
"Did you hear that they killed off Mysterio and Iron Man’s gay and Venom had knee surgery and Thor turned out to be manic depressive and the Scarlet Witch was just two children sitting on each other’s shoulders?" I don’t care" According to Nick Gazin, Marvel Comics is fucking done. (Thanks Vice)
WFMU Fest looks like it will blow some minds.


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Shooting the new Benjamin Pioneer Airbow at the 2016 SHOT Show
Looks like a fun new toy
Neat finally a arrow shooting device I can hit a target with when I am left eye dominate and right handed. Does weird things to ones aim with a BOW.
$850.00 for that toy.
That thing will keep Prozanski and Burdick up at night!?!?!?!?!
We used to call that a "SPEARGUN"
Any one notice the vehicles driving down range to the left?
Looks to me like a ferry terminal parking lot/assembly area.