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As we welcome in the New Year, we take time to reflect on the past 12 months and the year that was 2008. The period of July to September saw some major headlines breaking, both on and off the track. Sebastian Vettels maiden win for Toro Rosso, Lewis Hamiltons controversial pass on Kimi Raikkonen at Spa and Formula Ones first night race were just a few of them
Red Bull driver David Coulthard steps back in time and takes a tour of the UK headquarters of his former team McLaren. Coulthard won his exclusive visit after outbidding rivals at a charity auction and invited along Red Bull team principal Christian Horner, technical chief Adrian Newey and his manager Martin Brundle.
The Scot is back in the headlines a day later ahead of the British Grand Prix, announcing his retirement. Coulthard, who started his Formula One career back in 1994, pledges he will continue to work for Red Bull in a new testing and development role. The team, meanwhile, extend Mark Webbers contract to the end of 2009, but do not confirm Coulthards replacement.
FIA President Max Mosley asks the Formula One teams to submit proposals to cut the costs of competing by 50 percent. The proposals, which must have the support of the majority of teams, will help form revised regulations for the 2011 season. Melbourne secures a new contract with Formula One Management to host the Australian Grand Prix until at least 2015.
Theres a surprise in store for British race goers with the announcement that the Grand Prix will move from Silverstone to its new home of Donington Park from 2010.
Lewis Hamilton, Christian Klien, Jenson Button, Alex Wurz, Marc Gene and Kamui Kobayashi all make appearances at the annual Goodwood Festival of Speed, while Williams and Red Bull attend the inaugural Moscow City Racing event.
Red Bull subsequently announce that Toro Rosso star Sebastian Vettel will join their line-up for the 09 season, alongside Webber. After 30 years, the BMW M1 Procar Series makes a comeback as part of the German Grand Prix support programme. First across the line in the near 500 hp mid-engined racers is three-time world champion Niki Lauda.
As testing gets underway at Jerez, a BMW Sauber mechanic is injured after suffering an electric shock as the German-Swiss team try out their Kinetic Energy Recovery System (KERS). The new Valencia Street Circuit hosts a number of Formula Three and GT races in preparation for the venues debut Formula One event in August.
McLaren reveal that Heikki Kovalainen will continue with the British squad in 2009, despite the Finn having only scored one podium to date, a third place at Marchs Malaysian Grand Prix. Kovalainen subsequently celebrates his maiden Formula One victory at the Hungarian Grand Prix.
BMW Sauber boss Mario Theissen insists that the team have not abandoned their 2008 development work, despite a recent dip in form. Toro Rossos Sebastien Bourdais reveals he has finally adapted his driving style to his new car and warns younger team mate Sebastian Vettel he could finally challenge for more points.
Renaults former director of aerodynamics, Dino Toso, loses his battle with illness and passes away peacefully at home. And despite his comparatively slow start to the 2008 season, reigning world champion Kimi Raikkonen learns he is to be honoured by his home country, Finland, with a special set of stamps.
Toyota, Force India and Renault all demonstrate cars as part of the Bavaria City Racing event in the Dutch city of Rotterdam, ahead of Valencias maiden Grand Prix. Frank Williams is awarded the Tom Wheatcroft trophy in recognition of his contribution to world motorsport.
Toyota confirm Formula One team manager Richard Cregan will leave at the end of November to take on a new role elsewhere in motorsport. His replacement will be Jens Marquardt from Toyotas engine engineering department. There is change afoot at Toro Rosso too, with the Italian team announcing that GP2 driver Sebastien Buemi and former Super Aguri racer Takuma Sato are to test at a forthcoming session, as the team ponders their 2009 line-up.
Official tyre supplier Bridgestone reveal they are developing a single wet tyre for Formula One cars, inspired by similar rubber used in the GP2 Series. Toyota drivers Jarno Trulli and Timo Glock unveil the manufacturers new small road car, the iQ, ahead of the Belgian Grand Prix.
McLaren confirm they will lodge an appeal against the punishment handed to driver Lewis Hamilton at the Belgian Grand Prix. Stewards gave Hamilton a 25-second time penalty after deciding he had gained an advantage by cutting a chicane during a late battle with Kimi Raikkonen. As a result, Ferraris Felipe Massa was declared the winner of the Spa race, while Hamilton dropped to third.
Former F1 driver Riccardo Patrese, who raced in 256 Grands Prix between 1977 and 1993, gets behind the wheel of a modern car, testing Hondas RA107. Ferraris engine technical director, Gilles Simon admits that the development of the teams Kinetic Energy Recovery System (KERS) is proving to be a major challenge.
Red Bull host a party at Monza to celebrate David Coulthards career. The event features an exhibition of 39 images taken throughout the Scots 14-year Formula One adventure. The paddock is united in praise for 21 year-old Toro Rosso driver Sebastian Vettel, who takes a historic pole and maiden race win at the Italian Grand Prix.
Bridgestone announce they will use special reflective paint to mark their super-soft and extreme-wet compounds at the Singapore Grand Prix, the first Formula One race to be staged after dark. With the season finale in sight, the teams begin their final tests for the 2008 season.
The FIAs International Court of Appeal throws out McLarens case against Hamiltons Belgian penalty on the grounds that their appeal was inadmissible. The ruling means Hamiltons championship lead remains at just a single point over Massa.
Night owls Red Bull host a nocturnal beach party ahead of the Singapore race. But Ferrari are left with little to celebrate in the race itself after a disastrous pit stop sees Massa exit with the fuel hose still attached. Following Fernando Alonsos subsequent victory for Renault, Ferrari boss Stefano Domenicali sets a one-two target for the final three races of the year.
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Agricultural Marketing Programs Act (S.C. 1997, c. 20)
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Agricultural Marketing Programs Act
S.C. 1997, c. 20
Assented to 1997-04-25
An Act to establish programs for the marketing of agricultural products, to repeal the Agricultural Products Board Act, the Agricultural Products Cooperative Marketing Act, the Advance Payments for Crops Act and the Prairie Grain Advance Payments Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts
Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:
Marginal note:Short title
1. This Act may be cited as the Agricultural Marketing Programs Act.
Marginal note:Definitions
2. (1) The definitions in this subsection apply in this Act.
« agent d'exécution »
"administrator" means one of the following organizations, if it has the power to sue and be sued in its own name:
(a) an organization of producers that is involved in marketing an agricultural product to which Part I applies;
(b) an organization, other than a lender, that the Minister, taking into account any criteria prescribed by regulation, determines to be an organization that represents producers who produce, in an area, a significant portion of an agricultural product for which advances will be made; or
(c) an organization, including a lender, that the Minister determines to be an organization that would be able to make advances more accessible to producers and that the Minister designates as an administrator.
« avance »
"advance" means an advance payment to an eligible producer for an agricultural product.
"advance guarantee agreement"
« accord de garantie d'avance »
"advance guarantee agreement" means an agreement under section 5.
"agricultural product"
« produit agricole »
"agricultural product" means an animal or a plant or a product, including any food or drink, that is wholly or partly derived from an animal or a plant.
- "Board"
"Board"[Repealed, 2011, c. 25, s. 16]
- "crop"
"crop"[Repealed, 2006, c. 3, s. 1]
- "crop unit"
"crop unit"[Repealed, 2006, c. 3, s. 1]
- "crop year"
"crop year"[Repealed, 2006, c. 3, s. 1]
"Her Majesty"
« Sa Majesté »
"Her Majesty" means Her Majesty in right of Canada.
« prêteur »
"lender" means a financial institution, as defined in section 2 of the Bank Act, or any other legal entity that the Minister of Finance may designate for the purposes of this Act on the application of that entity.
« bétail »
"livestock" means cattle, sheep, swine and bison and any other animals that may be designated by regulation.
"marketing agency"
« agence de commercialisation »
"marketing agency" means
(a) an association of producers whose object is the marketing, under a cooperative plan, of agricultural products produced by the producers;
(b) a person engaged in the processing of agricultural products for marketing under a cooperative plan; or
(c) a person authorized by one or more associations or persons mentioned in paragraphs (a) and (b) to market agricultural products under a single cooperative plan.
(d) [Repealed, 2011, c. 25, s. 16]
« ministre »
"Minister" means the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food.
- "permit book"
"permit book"[Repealed, 2011, c. 25, s. 16]
"price guarantee agreement"
« accord de garantie des prix »
"price guarantee agreement" means an agreement under section 28.
« producteur »
"producer" means a producer of an agricultural product who is
(a) a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident within the meaning of subsection 2(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act;
(b) a corporation a majority of whose voting shares are held by Canadian citizens or permanent residents;
(c) a cooperative a majority of whose members are Canadian citizens or permanent residents; or
(d) a partnership or other association of persons where partners or members who are Canadian citizens or permanent residents are entitled to at least 50% of the profits of the partnership or association.
For the purposes of Parts I and IV, "producer" includes a person or entity mentioned in any of paragraphs (a) to (d) that is entitled to an agricultural product or a share in it as lessor, vendor, mortgagee or hypothecary creditor on a date specified for the purposes of this definition in an advance guarantee agreement.
"production period"
« campagne agricole »
"production period", in respect of an agricultural product, means the period of up to 18 months — or any longer period that is fixed by the Minister — specified in the advance guarantee agreement relating to the agricultural product.
"production unit"
« unité de production »
"production unit", in respect of an agricultural product, means the production unit specified in the advance guarantee agreement relating to the agricultural product.
"repayment agreement"
« accord de remboursement »
"repayment agreement" means an agreement under subsection 10(2).
(2) [Repealed, 2006, c. 3, s. 1]
- 1997, c. 20, s. 2;
- 1998, c. 17, s. 30;
- 2001, c. 27, s. 203;
- 2006, c. 3, s. 1;
- 2008, c. 7, s. 1;
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Vacation! Day Trip #1 to Angelino Heights
I'm on vacation this week, and it's a strange week for me, but in a good way. For one thing, Monday was my birthday, and this is the first time in I don't know how long that I've taken my birthday off. I've never even taken just the day off, much less a whole week. But I needed some time off from work - not to do anything in particular, but to spend the week poking around the house and seeing some things around Los Angeles that I've been dying to do.
Yesterday I spent some time in Angelino Heights, which is a small neighborhood just north of downtown, right off of the 101 Freeway, that has the highest concentration of Victorian Homes in the city. Some of you that live in other states, that may not seem like such a big deal, but in los Angeles to have one Victorian in your neighborhood is a treat, much less an entire street. The street that my friend Karen and I focused on was Carroll Street which is without argument the most famous of the streets. The other streets around have some Victorians, some Craftsman homes, a smattering of houses with questionable architecture. There are even some houses for sale, like this one.
It was blazing hot, even at 10:30 in the morning, which was when we agreed to meet (Karen lives in the San Fernando Valley) and by the time we hit the street, it was one of those times that you immediately start looking for the shade. Too much sun for really good photographs, but I made do. You can hear the 101 Freeway, thats how close the neighborhood is to the freeway, and in these shots of the house at 1300 Carroll you can see the downtown skyline so you can get an idea of where the houses are situated in proximity to the rest of the city. But for the most part the street is quiet, but then you have to remember that we were there on a Tuesday morning. By the time we were leaving, there were other people there taking photos as well. I have a feeling that these residents are used to people taking pictures of their homes. .
Here is some history on Angelino Heights. The Wikipedia page is pretty good. This page from Laist.com is a good site as well. the Los Angeles Conservancy also does historical walking tours of Angelino Heights.
After about an hour, Karen and I surrendered to the heat and said "let's eat!" and we headed to The Original Pantry Cafe on 7th and Figueroa in downtown L.A. A traditional late morning breakfast was the perfect ending to a wonderful day trip, and I was home by 2. Next time, I'll hit Carroll Street earlier in the morning when there are more interesting light and shadow contrasts to work with.
Next day trip: The Huntington Library.
2 comments:
- Chris said...
What a house! Great pictures, too.
How did all of your talks go? - August 29, 2008 at 2:49 PM
- Laurie Powers said...
Thanks for asking, Chris. I had one a few weeks ago in Orange that went very well. It was a little nervewracking at first, though, because we couldn't get the projector (a rented one, but brand new) to 'talk' to my computer - and my talk is very dependent on a Power Point presentation! Two minutes before the talk was supposed to begin, we got it running.
- August 29, 2008 at 7:45 PM
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- Posted: Dec 9, 2010
- Updated: Jul 4, 2011
My first trip to Branson, the Marriott property was so close to the 'Strip' but yet far enough away to be on vacation. The staff was absolute wonderful. Made us feel at home. Plenty of activities and special priced activities. We could not have asked for a better experience.
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- User: markw58
- Posted: Jun 17, 2010
We don't own at Branson but traded into it. We were there the week of May 28th. The weather was great, 80-85 Deg everyday. Marriott personnel were very pleasant at the desk and concierge and helpful. Check in went well. Some of activities included a buffet with presentations by several Branson acts, a cookout, a wine & cheese social, and a Branson tour. The resort is nice with 3 buildings, 5 stories high. The new name is Marriott's Willow Ridge Lodge. Only negative was the lack of a porch or patio on the lock-out--as we just had the efficiency unit. The pool area is very nice (great for children). We had previosly been in Branson in April and enjoyed the much better selection of shows available in May-June. Willow Ridge is ideally located to get to the show locations. We would definitely go again and recommend Landrys for fine dining.
- User: marcias56
- Posted: Jul 6, 2008
This resort was fabulous. The two bedroom that we rented was just like brand new. No problems with noise from neighbors. The activities and pools were wonderful. We definately are going back.
- User: frank1286
- Posted: Sep 23, 2006
We stayed in a one bedroom in mid August.The units are well appointed,spacious and very clean. I was disappointed that the villas did not have jacuzzi tubs and the TV's were quite small.Other then that the pool was great and there were a couple of outdoor hot whirlpools. The resort is not that large,there were only two buildings but there are plans for more in the future.The resort itself is in a great location in close proximity to all the activities but not on the main strip.We would return here again but not in late August due to the heat and humidity.Branson has alot of great shopping.The newest area the Bransons landing is on the lake front and has a water and fire show similar to the Bellagio in Las Vegas and also great shops and restaurants. Worth Visiting.
- User: debbie15
- Posted: Jul 24, 2004
We stayed there for 4th of july week. The resort was awesome!!! WE exchaged to go to Branson and didn't know what to expect. We are from PA so this was a quite a drive for us(18 hours). I would go back in a heart beat!
The resort was beautiful!!! WE had a 1 bedroom and and efficiency unit. They were able to open the door between the units so it was like having a two bedroom.
Units were spotless clean and done in good taste. Also, staff very friendly and organized activities every day. Fire works were great. We were on the 5th floor of the newer building (1503) and had great views all around.
Just wish they had a snack bar/ restuarant like other marriott properties. Concierge very helpful in booking shows and answering questions.
Overall, highly recommend this resort and area to visit. well worth the drive:) Also, do the Ducks boat ride, Show boat Branson Belle early dinner cruise, and The Dixie Stampede show. Great for younger kids too.
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35 Comments on "Sword Art Online Episode 23"
December 8th, 2012 at 7:05 pm
almost over, thanks
December 8th, 2012 at 7:07 pm
December 8th, 2012 at 7:13 pm
Shit… this series is almost over
Gonna miss all reactions and reviews making fun of it
Such a wasted potential
December 8th, 2012 at 7:17 pm
more Asuna Mode ?
December 8th, 2012 at 7:21 pm
nice one.. Thanks
December 8th, 2012 at 7:43 pm
yaiy ♥ asuna ♥
December 8th, 2012 at 7:43 pm
Awesome more Sao
December 8th, 2012 at 7:56 pm
god this anime is plain godly
December 8th, 2012 at 8:14 pm
^I offically second that.
December 8th, 2012 at 8:20 pm
December 8th, 2012 at 8:21 pm
watch some reactions here
It's flawed as fuck
It was good at the beginning but went really downhill
December 8th, 2012 at 8:31 pm
thumbs up if ur black
December 8th, 2012 at 8:38 pm
It is selling like crazy, you are going to see second season soon after.
December 8th, 2012 at 8:47 pm
Oh man, I love watching/reading series that has the same ridiculously long storyline repeated 3-4 times while being paraded as different arcs and assumes everybody is either retarded or computer-illiterate.
December 8th, 2012 at 8:54 pm
I actually watched this guy 's videos and he has nothing. Of the worst reaction videos I have seen. And anyway why is someone not enjoying this show, actually watching it? Bashing on a popular show is an easy way to get views and comments for a youtube channel. That is easy to understand right? The anime has flaws, mainly skipping big parts of the books, but not that many..Also anyone thinking that all the episodes would be like episodes 1 and 2 must be below 12. They havent altered the plot from the books and thats always a good thing
December 8th, 2012 at 9:17 pm
People who base their opinion of something on other peoples opinions is immature and can't think for themselves.
Not liking this show because of how many people like makes you look like a child. If you actually watched it and decided it wasn't for you then fine, but it is still an opinion. It is all subjective material.
December 8th, 2012 at 9:28 pm
I'm waiting for the 3 way sex scene.
December 8th, 2012 at 9:51 pm
@IzzyData Aw, shut the hell up. People bitching about opinions because they're defensive as fuck is annoying.
Now, you say, wouldn't bitching about bitching about opinions be even more annoying than simply bitching about opinions?
Yes, yes it would.
December 8th, 2012 at 9:55 pm
OMG!!!!!!!! Im Log back in, Hell yea, this anime rocks
December 8th, 2012 at 9:55 pm
I'm not "bitching" about anything. It doesn't matter to me what you do.
December 8th, 2012 at 10:17 pm
First 12 eps of this anime.. are Masterpieces!.
After that…. Not so.. much. But! still Very good and the animation is still Epic! as ever… O.o;.
December 8th, 2012 at 11:28 pm
Story is shit but the only reason why im still watching this is that the action is good
December 8th, 2012 at 11:58 pm
^ And people call "Ecchi" "shit" or any other anime.. That they Don't Like/understand.. for the matter..
"To Each His/Her Own!"
December 9th, 2012 at 12:17 am
damn, no jojo this week
December 9th, 2012 at 12:49 am
This has nothing on Space Brothers.
December 9th, 2012 at 1:19 am
Thanks DAO
December 9th, 2012 at 1:23 am
Commie out :)
December 9th, 2012 at 5:15 am
Thank you Dao ლ|❛▽❛ლ|
December 9th, 2012 at 4:29 pm
gonna miss asuna, i DEMAND 2nd SEASON!!!!
December 9th, 2012 at 4:42 pm
Is it working?
December 9th, 2012 at 4:48 pm
OMH! Everybody!! I thought you all died! I go missing, and when I find myself nobody was anywhere!?
December 9th, 2012 at 4:48 pm
I paniced,I even thought to call the national guard! Nobody told me what went on…>_<
December 9th, 2012 at 4:49 pm
It's been too long, but im happy to see that all the anime lovers and vets. are coming back to color the comments section with loads upon loads of bitching, laughter, snyd remarkers, and preaching about anything that catches the eye.
In short,Nice to see you again Everybody! ^.^
P.S. I tryed…like 10 times to post this on "Update on site repairs and everything else."
So I'll finish by saying
December 9th, 2012 at 4:50 pm
Oh and for dome reason, i cant make a longer comment than the one before this. Why? Dont know.
But thats the reason for so many in a row.=,=
August 8th, 2013 at 8:59 pm
Thanks a bunch for these!
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Washington, D.C. – Last week, Martin Kao made the nearly 5,000 mile trek from Honolulu, HI to Washington, DC as a guest of Senator Brian Schatz to meet with Senate Democrats to share the success story of his company, Navatek Ltd. Kao was able to provide a unique perspective on job creation and innovation as his company is a member of Hawaii's small but strong high tech industry which emerged a decade ago. It's not often that Senate Democrats get a chance to hear from Hawaiians, and this opportunity was something Kao did not take lightly.
"As a CEO, I'm always eager to hear success stories. Maybe I can adopt that winning idea or strategy to make my own company more successful and profitable," said Kao. "The Senate Democratic Steering Committee meeting gave me an opportunity to learn how the smartest and most nimble survive and thrive in tough economic times. It gets you pumped up. If there's a will there's a way."
Over the last two decades, Navatek has worked with the Office of Naval Research to improve and validate the simulation tools the Navy uses to help design ships and boats more quickly, efficiently and less expensively.
Kao added, "Our company is now recognized as a global leader in the application of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to the design of advanced ship hull forms. As the national and Hawaii economies stalled and went into recession in 2009, we aggressively brainstormed new applications and uses for our existing simulation tools and expertise."
Kao was one of thirteen business executives that were invited by Senate Democrats to the Steering meeting last week, and was able to hear how other dynamic job creators are fostering economic growth and creating jobs in their local communities.
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Obama on His Own Middle East Record: Zero Percent Success
"You're not listening to what the people who are fighting you say about this fight. In your arrogance, you think you write the script."
– Lara Logan, CBS News, on Obama's Middle East policy.
A few days before taking office, on January 15, 2009, Barack Obama gave an interview to CBS News and explained his Middle East policy:
"We're gonna have to take a regional approach. We're gonna have to involve Syria in discussions. We're gonna have to engage Iran in ways that we have not before. We've gotta have a clear bottom line that Israel's security is paramount. But that also we have to create a two-state solution where people can live side by side in peace."
The pro-Syria policy, despite that regime's repressive and anti-American nature, failed. The Obama administration's proposed solution now is to replace that regime with one that's likely to be a revolutionary Islamist anti-American regime.
The pro-Iran policy failed. The Obama administration's proposed solution now is to have tough sanctions — which is good — but then to insist that this will solve the problem and not to deal with the inevitable outcome of Iran getting nuclear weapons, not to mention Tehran's continuing subversion and backing for terrorism. The Obama administration is eager to make a deal with Tehran, and if the Iranian leaders were only a bit more flexible they could probably get a diplomatic arrangements with that U.S. government that would give them much of what they want. As so often has happened in the Middle East, it is only the radicals' intransigence which prevents them from gaining appeasement from the West.
The "peace process" policy failed. And this administration has done more to undermine Israel's security than all the previous presidencies put together. The problems include pushing Israel to ease the pressure on Hamas in the Gaza Strip; helping a genocide-oriented anti-Israel government into power in Egypt (same thing in Syria); making America's leading ally in the region a Turkish regime that is viciously anti-Israel; and more.
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1. rbj
Jimmy Carter at least got a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt. The Whine lost Egypt.
Worse than Carter.
October 10, 2012 - 7:04 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Raymond in DC
Yep. Since Obama came into office, the gas line from Egypt to Israel has been bombed 14 times. Israel's embassy in Cairo has been attacked. Egypt has begun to remilitarize the Sinai. And Egyptian leaders have talked about modifying – if not renouncing – that peace treaty.
That means, rather than a more peaceful border, Israel now has to worry about another front and the prospects of a SIXTH military confrontation with Egypt. Israel will win that one too, but victory will come at a heavy price, especially as Egypt has been so well armed and trained – by the US!
October 11, 2012 - 12:50 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
2. Jack in Silver Spring
Prof. Rubin: You wrote: "An American reader writes me, "I've tried explaining the situation in the Middle East to friends and there are blank stares. I believe what they're thinking is that how come, if it is so bad, I haven't seen in the newspapers or on the national news? The New York Times doesn't mention it at all." " Of course, the NYT does not mention it. What do you expect from the Ministry of Propaganda and Lies.
October 10, 2012 - 8:03 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
David Levavi
Reading today's NYT you would hardly know there was a hearing on the Benghazi cockup scheduled. Sins of omission are MSM's stock in trade.
Back when I used to read such trash, the Boston Globe included the following epigraph in their masthead: "Give the people light and they will find their own way." The object of MSM is to keep us in the dark.
Sometime next week, loyal, liberal NYT readers will learn that the Benghazi raid was not a copy-cat demonstration mirroring events in Cairo. Next Tuesday or Wednesday, NYT readers will learn that the streets around the embassy were quiet, there were no demonstrators and the first sign of anything amiss were security CCTV images of armed terrorists coming over the wall. By Friday they will know that there are questions being raised in Congress regarding security lapses at our embassy.
Like Obama, the NYT leads from behind.
October 10, 2012 - 8:49 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
David Levavi
BTW: The best part of today's hearings was seeing the State Department in the dock. State hasn't been publicly called out since Senator Joe Mccarthy was waving around lists of Communists at Foggy Bottom.
Tail Gunner Joe was fast and loose in his method but he wasn't far wrong. "The Taliban is inside the building," whistleblower Nordstrom testifies he told a friend named Jim referring to those in the State Department denying the embassy in Benghazi proper security.
Indeed. The Taliban is inside the Foggy Bottom and the White House as well. Has been for some time. The coming election will clear the enemies of America out the the White House. After that must come a thorough housecleaning at the State Department. The America-hating, Zion-hating old boy network at State must go.
October 10, 2012 - 9:13 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
Barry understands, more than most, that the Middle East is imploding, and that the Islamist-in-Chief is its main pyromaniac. Of course, he is more circumspect about its origins.
It is hardly happenstance that everything Barack HUSSEIN Obama touches turns to flames, particularly signaled through his 'outreach' in Cairo; his blindness (in 2009) in Iran; his jaw jaw with Iran's Hitlerite regime; and his dictates to Mubarak – GO NOW.
The only question is:what's his end game? Here's some food for thought – http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/08/13/coming-full-circle-the-planned-empowerment-of-the-muslim-mafia-aka-brotherhood-via-egypt-most-populous-arab-country-under-the-guidance-of-barack-hussein-obama-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/
There is no way around the above conclusions. NONE of the chaos in the Middle East is accidental. It is done by design, and with the Obama regime's sticky fingerprints all over the region.
BTW – Hill & Huma are deeply in bed with said mischief!!
October 10, 2012 - 8:50 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Obama and his apologists keep insisting that he is not a Muslim, but again and again I find myself asking the same question. "If Obama were a Muslim what would he be doing differently than he is doing now?" Invariably the answer is "nothing".
October 11, 2012 - 4:34 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
Menachem Ben Yakov
October 11, 2012 - 5:12 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
Menachem, and here is another – http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/10/10/mystery-solved-is-the-potus-an-islamic-devotee-his-wedding-ring-tells-the-tale-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/
October 11, 2012 - 5:41 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
I have seen this article. The Obamaphiles will insist the ring is only a reminder of his childhood days in Indonesia.
Nothing to see here.
October 11, 2012 - 6:01 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
P Jay Medilla
One of Obama's traits that receives little attention is his propensity for "clever lying". We all know he's a liar, that much is proven. But he's also of the ilk where he thinks he's hoodwinking people and those in his camp "get" the subtlety of his "clever" dalliances with fiction vs. truth.
I worked with a dozen people like that in the military. One in particular had a significantly below average IQ but thought he could BS his way through anything with clever words and sentences. All that really did was make him look like an even bigger boob.
And such is the case with the lightworker. He thinks his contrivances are so bloody clever that he, himself considers himself a genius. "Oh, they'll never get that", he thinks. When, in fact, any thinking human-being, especially the ones who don't particularly care for him, do get it and know exactly what it means.
And, probably, like everything else, he doesn't put that much effort into thinking these lies up. They just have to be "plausible enough" to allow him to get through the day where he goes to bed thinking, "Heh, I really snowed 'em today. They have no idea what I'm up to." This, of course fits into his ulterior motives of showing the sand-people how much he is in love with his dad and is trying his best, not to show a new path to peace between the West and the sand-people, but to make a nest for protection when the wars come.
In other words, he's planning for his own future. A nice home inside Cairo would be nice if Hawaii doesn't work out or if he can't seem to get along with the neighbors, etc.
The lying on all levels is also part of his mental makeup. One of the most common complaints I hear from people who travel abroad is how the natives of whatever land is visited in the deserts are so comfortable with lying to them. Not so much in Europe (except Spain) or Israel but in all muslim naitons, they lie, they lie and they lie. Not just to Westerners but to each other. Those who have spent the time to learn the languages have found they are masters at lying. Not necessarily deception, but at lying.
It's part of his muslim heritage he has truly embraced and to him, it no doubt signals that he's on the side of the mullahs for future resume' material.
October 11, 2012 - 1:38 pm Link to this Comment
4. snork
This is an accurate description of what a very large portion — a majority? — of Americans think.
No. The majority don't ready the NYT. The majority don't even consider it credible. Paying tribute to the NYT is a sure indication of a die-hard leftist. Don't be fooled by friends who live in deep blue states.
Sorta like "I don't know anybody who voted for Nixon". Twas always thus. And NYT wasn't losing readers precipitously back in Nixon's day.
October 10, 2012 - 9:00 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Yes, most Americans dont read the Times or any liberal paper. And remember Fox news – which is biased in the other direction. Those of us who want a variety of views so we can at least get an idea of what is going on and not
have our biases reinforced need to surf around the Internet a bit and read
news and comment from a variety of perspectives.October 11, 2012 - 6:29 am Link to this Comment | Reply
5. perry1949
Who is John Galt?
Just started reading Atlas Shrugged and from the first chapter I saw exactly what is happening now in a book written in the 1940s. I can see why the lefties always put it down as nonsense, it is so true.
October 10, 2012 - 9:46 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
You are in for a surprise then. That book describes the modern liberal so well it's uncanny.
October 10, 2012 - 10:28 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
6. stoicheion
Not sure there is an American consensus on how to approach the ME. I am sure that is the biggest part of the problem.
The USA evolved into it's current politics toward the Islamic Crescent. Without writing a paper on the topic, during WW2 FDR promised freedom ( human rights, self determination, etc.) to the Arabs. As colonies, the Arabs embraced those promises.
FDR died (thank God) and Truman took over. American allies France and England were not happy about losing their colonies. They were less happy about the Germans kickin' their behinds, so they put up with FDR's insistence on them losing their colonies.
With FDR gone and Truman being the weak person he was, colonial ambitions once more came to the fore.
At the same time, Truman's cowardice in the face of Stalin's refusal to give up eastern Europe created a need to build containment around the Soviets. That created NATO and the cold war. The Arabs won their wars for independence from the colonizing nations. The results were mostly despotism. The Soviets saw the opportunity there and moved to cut off the OIL to the west by creating client states out of the various despotic regimes. That forced the USA into the unnatural position of supporting tyrants to fight the Soviets indirectly and maintain containment. The key event here was Ike threatening to ask congress to declare war on England and France if they didn't stop their invasion of Egypt ( the Suez Canal affair). Ike was really pissed. He saw the English, French, Israeli attempt to capture the Suez canal as an attempt to throw his re-election chances under the bus.
The self styled elites running America during the early days of the cold war came of age during world war 2. They were serious control freaks and much more bigoted then the self styled elites of today. That is why they had the CIA destabilize the proto democracies formed post WW2 and replace them with more trustworthy dictators.
Nationalism was promoted as a way of helping the despots maintain control.
Eventually the strategy worked. The Soviet Union collapsed because it ran out of OPM (other peoples money). Once the Soviet Union collapsed the USA was left with no strategy. Not only in the Islamic Crescent but everywhere.
Nation states and the entire western system of government was founded on Feudalism. Feudalism was replaced by representative governments over the course of centuries. For over a thousand years Europe was under attack from many different barbarians. Feudalism allowed them to build a military system strong enough to defeat them all.
Islam had a different form of Feudalism. Instead of a lord and his manor, with lands worked by serfs that supported the lord and his knights, Islam had mosques.
More then just a church, the mosque is also the courthouse, the armory, a marketplace and a social center. So Islamic civilization and Western Civilization are starting from two divergent sources.
The West enshrined the nation state in the peace of Westphalia. Islam has no such concept. The attempt at creating nationalism hasn't quite worked out. All it has done is confuse the Muslims and create chaos. Islam wants a Caliph. One man, presumably on a white horse, to lead them. That might not be a bad thangie from the Western POV. Having a Caliph will not change the balance of power between Islam and the west, no matter what color his horse is. However a Caliph would allow Islam to present a united face to the West and give the West someone to negotiate with.
That is important because Islam cannot change their 'House of Islam, House of War" approach to the world. Without that or a peace treaty that eliminates terrorism, my grandchildren will exterminate Islam. We have the tools now, we just lack the will. My grandchildren and their generation will have grown up waiting for the suicide bomber to strike. At some point they could decide Genocide is just a word and solve the Islamic problem once and for all.
Final solutions are seldom solutions and never final.
So we need a plan. One the west can get behind and work to a conclusion. It doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to have a chance of working.PBUH- Place Bomb Under Hood?
October 10, 2012 - 10:46 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
7. eon
The self styled elites running America during the early days of the cold war came of age during world war 2. They were serious control freaks and much more bigoted then the self styled elites of today.
Actually, to a great extent, the ruling clique' up to about 1960 or so was still the prewar FDR New Deal contingent. It wasn't until Ike's second term and JFK that the WW2 generation came to the fore, Robert S. McNamara being a typical example (USAAF officer in WW2, one-time president of Ford, JFK's SecDef), and JFK and LBJ both falling into the same category.
As for modern enlightened elites' being more open-minded, go to Democratic Underground, HuffPo, or any university PoliSci website and say something nice about the United States or Israel. Then duck.
And as to them not being control freaks- if that were true, how do you explain all of The One's "tsars"?
The present-day lot is about as ecumenical, open-minded, and disestablishmentarian as Orville Faubus. They just aim their bigotry and dreams of absolute power at different targets- that the news media elite' don't like either.
October 11, 2012 - 12:23 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
8. Jack in Silver Spring
One other thing: To echo Gov. Romney: Some people pick winners and losers, O only picks losers.
October 11, 2012 - 2:10 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
9. Agoraphobic Plumber
"As for modern enlightened elites' being more open-minded, go to Democratic Underground, HuffPo, or any university PoliSci website and say something nice about the United States or Israel. Then duck."
Oh, yeah. Heck, try saying something nice about America or Israel in the freaking NYT or WaPo comment sections for that matter. It occurred to me a few years ago that "mainstream" opinion in the US has become decidedly anti-US. Declining civilization? You decide. Now somebody give Obama a fiddle and please pass the bread and circuses.
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Exactly! This is why
the attempt to move voters against Obama by exposing Jeremiah Wright's "Goddamn America" rant failed.
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…. but now that America has seen BHO put Wright's words into action they are very motivated against him!
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If Obama had gone to Benghazi and shot the ambassador himself, the media would not have reported, most Americans would know nothing about it, and the Democrat voters who did know about it would vote for him anyway. We are long, long past the time when Democrats can have scandals that most of the electorate will hear about, or at least hear about with a shred of accuracy. The combination of a ruthless, anti-democratic media and a lazy, gullible voting public that still takes its view of reality therefrom brought us Obama to begin with. Until the media are thoroughly overthrown by alternate media and an attentive, interested public, there are no depths to which a Democrat politician cannot sink with impunity. Maybe that day is somewhat closer than in 2008, but we are still a very long way from it.
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Basically, Obama was elected as a novelty President, and the novelty is wearing off, rapidly. I don't think he'd even break even as a dashboard doll for that selling like a buck toothed ho Chevy Volt. But I can see him in platform shoes partnering up with Big Bird for a cut of the red S T shirt sales on Sesame Street.
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Apparently, French President Hollande doesn't seem to be sitting and waiting for answers and drawing up conclusions Dr. Rubin. I've read he's fairly resolved to lead a NATO revolt against Obama's Syrian policy since the Benghazi disaster.
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As unimpressive as he his, Obama is not so dumb as to not understand that the Nation's who live by the Sword and embrace an "eye for an eye" legal system, who chop off people's heads and hands on hearsay and without due process, are "engage-able" in the manner to which he speaks!
He is deliberately dismantling our foreign policy influence and enabling our enemies. He is the Infidel placed in the White house and is undermining us while pretending to be working for us. He is practicing taqqiya and anyone who trusts him or thinks otherwise will pay dearly for it!!!October 11, 2012 - 3:56 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
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Presumably, Mr Blakeney took proper, qualified legal advice which led him to believe his business was exempt from the need to have a GLA licence and your article says he is not amongst those charged. Good.
But Our Civil Service never miss an opportunity to interpret the law to someone's disadvantage and to bring in fines or fees in lieu of court proceedings. The more defendants they can implicate and charge the easier it is for them to justify their existence. It's all about raising revenue. But the consequences are that we burden industry after industry with unsustainable costs and taxes and make them non-viable. We export the jobs and the ability to create wealth across the Channel to our fellow members of the EU who laugh at the lack of business acumen amongst our politicians and civil servants. These people are kicking us back down a slippery slope which we will never get back up. Our debt increases by £400 million a day: we are still going in the wrong direction. Trying to collect fines off these dairy farmers is feeding the people on the seed corn; the Ultimate Sin. Who will rid us of these Turbulent Priests?
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Advice on plants for foundation bed in zone 6a
Hi, I am new to the gardening world and after looking through many books and magazines with beautiful gardens and landscaping, I thought well that doesn't look so hard, a little elbow grease and bam a beautiful front yard. So I jumped in head first by tearing up the area in front of my house near the foundation. When I started going to local nurseries and browsing websites for trees, shrubs and flowers, I quickly learned that I was in way over my head and perhaps it wasn't as easy as I thought. While I know what I like (lace cap hydrangeas, purple and blue flowers, etc), I realized that I have never been good at designing or putting together a pallete that flows well. So in an effort to not buy a bunch of items that completely clash with my house, would not do well planted with each other, or have to endure months of my neighbors glaring at me for leaving unplanted mounds of dirt next to my house, I am reaching out for advice. If anyone is good at garden layout, knowing what is good planted with what and how to make a foundation design flow well with the house, I would appreciate any and all advice. I can email pictures of the area and dimensions. Thanks so much!
Soxi, you have both ambition and elbow grease --- plus it sounds like you want to take your time to it right --- so good for you! There are so many talented gardeners on this NE site and I'm sure you'll get lots of help. But more information about your yard would be helpful.
What direction does the front face and how much sun does it get throughout the day? It looks like there is one or more trees in your front yard. What kinds are these and how close are they to the house?
How is the drainage in your yard?
Please take some photos from a distance and show us the front and side of the house. This gives a view of your home from the street. All of these photos will be very helpful when you go to a gardening center and ask for help.
To post several pictures at once, place the first photo in your message. Then hit "return".
Type the description for photo #2 in your message. (There should an empty line between the bottom of your first photo and the description of photo #2.) Go to the hosting site and copy/paste photo #2 into your message. Make sure that the code for photo #2 is not "broken up." This code should start on the left underneath the description and not be part of the description. Then continue with all the other pictures you want to include.
By the way, I "learned" how to do this by reading Claire's "How do I include a photo in my post?" tip in the FAQ page. It's a great reference.
Thanks so much for your reply! I will work on more pictures and info on the yard in the next few days. I also just heard that a new garden center opened in my area and they are supposedly very helpful with picking out plants. Unfortunately, they close at 6:00 and I work until 7:00, so it will have to wait until my day off Monday. I have been getting a lot off ideas browsing the pictures on this site, particularly helpful since I know they do well in this area, and I will be sure to check out the FAQ section. Thanks again!
I see drain pipes and cellar windows in your photos. Do you want the windows to remain unblocked after planting? Will those drain pipes empty water directly where they are now or do you intend to divert that water further from your house? Are you interested in low maintenance small shrubs or do you want some perennials and annuals for longer color in these beds? Have you seen any other foundation plantings that you like?
Most importantly can you tell us how many hours of shade/sun each bed receives during the day and whether that sun is morning or afternoon sun.
More pics would be great, but you will have to open a free account on Photobucket or Flicker or some other photo hosting web site in order to post several photos per post.
There are a few more pictures. The house faces north, the left (straight bed) is mostly shaded, the bed on the right gets about 4 hours of afternoon sun n the front of the bed, the part of the bed closest to the house is shaded by the house in the afternoon but does get a few hours of morning sun. The cellar windows will be covered, they are ugly and don't let in any light. As far as draining and downspouts, the soil, as is, is very sandy and does drain well, I will be taking a few inches of that soil out and adding in compost and top soil. I was planning on adding decorative downspout splash guards or digging out a trench and filling it with rocks where the water drains, should I do something else for it?
Overall, I would like a colorful perennials and annuals look, with some low maintence shrubs mixed in. :) The bricks that you see lining the right bed will be set in flush with the ground. I am at a loss for what to edge the left bed with, because it butts up against the walkway I think brick may look odd and I don't love the black edging, but I don't want to sweep mulch off the sidewalk every time it rains. That area almost begs for a raised bed but i can't do that right now.
First, the beds are too small for what you want to do. You'll need enough room for some structure from shrubs in the back and color from perennials/annuals in front. So I'd start by digging up the edging. Once that thought barrier is out of the way, work on a pleasing *evergreen* design. This is what the plantings are going to look like for six months of the year.
I also thought the beds needed to be bigger. I suppose there's not much to be done with the one with the sidewalk, unless there's money in the budget to replace it (the sidewalke, that is) but perhaps you could bring out the right-side bed more. I just don't know how having two different-depth beds would look aesthetically, but I'm sure others can chime in and help us both on that one!
You seem to be putting a lot of thought and planning into this and that's good. I wish the previous owner of my house had done that, because now I have to, lol. So I am watching this thread with interest!
I can definitely go bigger on the bed to the right of the door, good thing I haven't dug in that edging yet. While I would love to replace the sidewalk, it is unfortunately not possible right now. Perhaps if I dug out the other side of the sidewalk and planted there as well, maybe it would balance the bigger bed on the other side? I am putting a lot of thought into it, sometimes I tend to overthink and talk myself out of everything, which may be where I'm at now. :) The worst part is that I'm renting...but I've been there for 9 years and it's from family, so I don't mind putting work and some money into it, to make it more enjoyable while I'm there. I also made it known that when I move I will be taking a lot of the stuff that I plant with me.
I like your idea of digging out in front of the side walk to make a bed. I have a similar layout with a sidewalk in front of my Colonial and that's what we did. We incorporated the left side in front of the sidewalk into the bed on the right side and made the right side larger. I kept it formal in front bc th rest of my yard has big beds that are more informal. Good Luck!!
I would not plant on both sides of the walk way. I would leave the left side the way it is - from house to path. On the right side, I like the curve lines. And I think you could go bigger by keeping the curved lines - just extend the radius by another 2-3 feet. To me the curviness creates a balance by stating that you are not trying to mimic the opposite side.
Since the garden is on the north side, I'm guessing most of the shade comes from the house, not the tree in the front yard. But that is important to note. For instance, my shade garden is under a tree. I have some spring plantings that require more sun - they survive their since the trees have not leafed out when those plants bloom.
Many hydrangeas are shade tolerant, so that may be a place to start for your shrubbery. Many evergreens are also shade tolerant. Pay careful attention to how wide the plants get - in addition to height. You really don't want any shrubs to end up touching the house. Ideally you would want 2-3' between the shrub and the house.
Good luck with your gardens. I wish I had put as much thought into my gardens when I was starting out!
Thanks for the updates. The fact that you are not the owner definitely affects any advice we'd give ---- like don't spend a lot!
I agree that the front right side should be extended out. Looking at your second diagram, I'd suggest reworking that curve. The 5' deep arc on the right should swing out to about 10-12' from the house and even continue back to the right edge of the chimney. In other words, if you redrew you plans, the largest arc would be on the right corner of your house.
This will give you lots of room for planting plus give a better chance of survival for the vine that is growing in front of the chimney. Pixie is correct that no shrub/plant should be anyplace near the house. Consider the eventual size of any shrub you purchase. I always add a foot or two to these predictions. You'll need room in back of any foundation shrub so that you can trim as it grows.
GreenHaven's suggestion about digging out in front of the straight sidewalk is also a great one. In fact, you can berm "up" the dirt so that the plants are raised above the sidewalk level, which will shield the view of the sidewalk (that you don't like). We did that very same thing to our house. The front sidewalk, below, was too straight and harsh looking. By creating a bermed garden in front of the sidewalk, we extended and softened the sidewalk area.
Looking from the other end, you can see how the berm is higher than the sidewalk. The plants here don't need to be tall.
You have plenty of time to plan and prep your garden. Fall is a great season to plant, plus many garden centers and places like Lowe's or HD have sales on their shrubs and perennials. If you start with a few evergreens or shrubs along the back, you'd have room for a second row of lower plants in front. Just place these between, and not in front of, the back shrubs. If your planting areas are deep enough, they'll be room for colorful annuals in front next year.
I only have one suggestion: when we bought our house all the exposed foundation was surrounded by average hostas. It's really nice. They provide green camouflage for the cement, don't get in the way of anything else in the garden bed, don't mind being shaded by other plants, and don't insist on being seen. They are just a nice green background, but if you do notice them they are pretty because they are hostas! Since hostas recover so quickly from division you could easily split a 1 gallon hosta from a nursery into 3, maybe 4 hostas, plant in the fall, and next summer they'll fill out and look great. Basically they use make for a nice cement hider where you don't have a big bush planted. I'm not such a big bush fan, so I've really appreciated them.
Thanks for the replies everyone! Very helpful. I had a woman from a garden center over yesterday to see the area and draw up some plans that should be ready next week and I have another appointment next week with someone else from another garden center to come look at the space and draw something up for me. I'll keep you informed as I start getting things in the ground. :)
Welcom, Soxi! Thanks for posting the photos; they really help.
I would agree with those that suggested that you plant on both sides of your entry sidewalk. Your walkway will go through the garden instead of being the edge of the garden. Over the years, I've yet to make a garden too wide, but I've often had to widen them. I've also had to whack things away from the house so it could be painted, so I'd suggest leaving a minimum of 2-3 feet between where the plant's width will be at 10 years (the usual info given for mature size, though most will get larger) and the house. I also don't like the look of plants lined up - I prefer having layers of plants, and I include bulbs, shrubs, vines and perennials to provide a longer season of interest, so bed depth is needed for that. I try to include at least some hardscape (like a trellis, birdbath, etc) or evergreens in most of my gardens so that there is some visual interest between when the first frost kills most of the foliage and when everything is buried in snow (or in years like last year with little snow, for most of the winter.) As Mad Gallica mentioned, often this period is several months of the year, so anything I can do to make March and November and any other snowless months less dismal outside, is all to the good. This isn't a foundation bed, but this could be done on a smaller basis in a your beds. A good chunk of its interest is year-round, and the evergreens and trellises add interest as background and support for the flowers in the growing season as well as providing all the interest during the 6 or 7 months in the non-growing season.
From December 2010
In laying out the shape of the beds, be sure that they are easy to mow - don't make those inner curves too tight. I use the black plastic edging buried up to the top bead just outside of the bricks which edge my beds; the grass hides it and it keeps the grass from growing between the bricks. The lawnmower wheels run on the bricks and the blade misses the plastic edging, so a separate pass to edge the bed isn't needed. While I don't find the plastic aesthetically pleasing, it does reduce maintenance without being too obvious. Here's a photo of a bed edged this way, and you really can't see the plastic. From June 5, 2012
As a relative beginner to gardening, it's easy to get caught up in just the flowers, but also try to think about foliage. Varied leaf shape, color, and texture will add to the appeal of your garden even when there isn't a lot in bloom. Check to see if any of your plants have nice autumn colors. Try to plant so that you have at least some plants in bloom all through the season as well. The annuals will help with that, but also try to spread out your shrub and perennial bloom.


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Executive chef and owner Frederic Joulin was French President Jacques Chirac's private chef for two years and worked with three-Michelin-star chef Guy Savoy in Paris. Joulin knows tough customers and conditions. Yet asked about the construction outside, he utters, "Horrible, horrible," in a heavy French accent.
But Joulin turns lemons into $6 Bonne Maman lemonade cocktails. Every day, from 6 to 8 p.m., the restaurant also offers Florida draft beers, well drinks, wines by the glass, cocktails, pot stickers, tempura, and barbecue skewers for $6 each.
The pot stickers come in playful variations such as Buffalo chicken, braised beef short rib, barbecued ribs, and organic tofu with vegetables. Imagine the enjoyment of eating chicken wings without the bones or messy finger-licking. Seasoned chicken with hot sauce is stuffed in wonton skins, fried, and served with a blue cheese sauce. It's a winning idea -- use Japanese cooking techniques with American fillings -- but the execution is lacking. The pot stickers were inconsistent. One was too cold, only one had perfect crunch on the bottom, and very few were just right.
Braised beef short-rib pot stickers fared better. The short rib is prepared with portobello mushrooms in a green curry sauce for seven hours. It is then packaged in its dumpling casing and fried on an iron griddle using oil and an upside-down metal bowl. It all makes for a fun show and a pot sticker with a lot of depth.
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