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Discovering Tobacco – early milestones at a glance
With a fascinating history that spans generations and cultures across the globe, the journey of tobacco from explorers' curiosity to everyday indulgence has been a long one. So we thought we'd highlight some of the key milestones, to help tell the story.
2.5 million years ago – Evidence of tobacco dating back this far is found fossilized in Peru.
Around 1 BC – According to many historians, native Americans were using tobacco for ceremonial and medicinal reasons, establishing its role in society, particularly in Latin America.
5th- 7th centuries – As the Mayas spread throughout the Americas, they took their culture of smoking with them, introducing their customs to neighboring tribes.
Around the 8th Century – Pictorial evidence of smoking dating back this far is found on Guatemalan pottery.
1492 – Christopher Columbus discovers tobacco when gifted dried leaves by local. But it's Rodrigo de Jerez who first brought it to Europe. (Although as Europe's first smoker, he was imprisoned for 7 years for looking like a devil.)
1493 – Despite Jerez, it's Robert Pane, a monk accompanying Columbus, who is actually credited with introducing tobacco to Europe.
1498 – Columbus names the island of Tobago after the native tobacco pipe.
Early 16th Century – Tobacco use is also discovered in Mexico and Brazil, spreading intrigue throughout Europe.
1530 – Rolling tobacco becomes popular in Spain, with European cultivation beginning a year later.
1560–1565 – Tobacco use spreads to Portugal, France and England, largely popularized by Catherine de Medici, the Queen Mother of France, who believed it was an excellent remedy.
Early 17th Century – The popularity of tobacco spreads and pipe-smoking takes off.
1730 – The first American tobacco facilities are established in Virginia, USA.
1818 – Grand Duke of Tuscany, Ferdinand III, discovers the pleasure of fermented Kentucky tobacco and establishes Toscano cigars.
1826 – Cigar smoking becomes popular in England.
1832 – One of the first modern cigarettes is created by Egyptian soldiers.
A special way to bring in the new year
Cigars on the silver screen
Cigars in song
You don't need alcohol to find a great match
Slow burners and page-turners
Hot off the press – how cigars made the news
The 'do it yourself' humidor
See a cigar in a whole new light
Discover more about Toscano cigar on www.toscanocigars.com or www.miamicigar.com
Trulli – the stone witches' hats on the hill
"Buona Notte al Secchio"
Literally translating as 'good night to the bucket', this is an expression used in the darkest hour, with the sentiment of 'we're done for'. It uses bucket in a similar way to the English saying 'kick the bucket'. Bleakly, both come from the idea of hanging, where the 'bucket' was traditionally the name of a beam used to suspend the rope.
Ferrari – THE Italian sports car
Italy, captured in the words of her biggest fans
Piadina, Italy's favorite flatbread
Verdi: from humble beginnings to opera luminary
The peculiarity of intercalari
"Meglio l'uovo oggi, che la gallina domani."
Translated as 'better an egg today, than a chicken tomorrow', this strange expression is similar to the English 'a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush'. It's clearly aimed at the impatient, because in reality, a chicken tomorrow is much better, as you'll get more eggs.
Torrone – a tasty Christmas treat
Le bugie hanno le gambe corte
The Italian for Christmas
Cheers! Chin Chin! Prost!
Tuscany's top tastes
Polenta, an often-overlooked Italian staple
Denied by the two of spades
Why stop at 30?
Orvieto – one of Europe's most dramatic cities
"Tenere il piede in due staffe"
Translating as 'to have one's foot in two stirrups', it's an expression used to describe someone who won't commit to a side of an argument, instead trying to balance both.
How Italians toast the festivities
Una mano lava l'altra
"Translating as 'one hand washes the other' it's an expression that's used in the same situations a the English 'you scratch my back, and i'll scratch yours', and is a way of suggesting an ally works with you for mutual benefit."
The tale of Mortadella


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I Like To Keep Myself in Pain
Bloodshot Drinking Buddies, Kelly Hogan
iTunes Sale!
Both new and instantly classic.
" I hope that people love the songs as much as I do and I hope people will listen to them and make out to them."-- Love, Kelly
On her most recent solo album for ANTI‐, "singer's singer" Kelly Hogan takes her vast experience working with Neko Case, Andrew Bird, Mavis Staples, Drive‐By Truckers, The Decemberists, The Mekons, and so many others, and molds that into something both new and instantly classic.
I Like to Keep Myself In Pain finds Hogan curating an ambitious collection of songs, many written specifically for her, from a who's who of indie songwriters [Ed. and many Bloodshot friends!], including M. Ward, Vic Chesnutt,The Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt, The Mekons' Jon Langford, The Handsome Family, Freakwater's Catherine Irwin, John Wesley Harding, Robbie Fulks, Gabriel Roth, Robyn Hitchcock, and the aforementioned Andrew Bird.
She is backed on the album by an all‐star group of musicians: R&B legends Booker T Jones and James Gadson (Bill Withers, Marvin Gaye, Beck), as well as talented young lions Gabriel Roth (of Daptone Records, The Dap‐Kings) and Hogan's long‐time collaborator Scott Ligon (of the newly resurrected NRBQ). The result is an album that captures the country‐soul elegance of albums like Dusty In Memphis while updating the sound with a modern literary sensibility.
"This record is my history and all my acquired tools and these really amazing songs that people sent me," Hogan says. "I'm just this person who loves music. And it's my life. And I hope that people love the songs as much as I do and I hope people will listen to them and make out to them."
Despite the lineup of notable contributors, I Like To Keep Myself In Pain is fully Hogan's album, built around her captivating country-tinged vocals.
— Onion AV Club
There's a reason these respected artists have always called on Hogan—listen to this album and you'll understand why.
— Paste
On I Like to Keep Myself in Pain, she does justice to that remarkable cross-section of songwriting talent, blending vintage country, classic soul and pop into a sound worthy of any era.
— NPR First Listen
1. Dusty Groove (Catherine Irwin of Freakwater)
2. We Can't Have Nice Things (Jack Pendarvis/Andrew Bird)
3. I Like To Keep Myself In Pain (Robyn Hitchcock)
4. Haunted (Jon Langford)
5. Daddy's Little Girl (M. Ward)
6. Golden (Hogan)
7. Ways Of This World (Vic Chesnutt)
8. Slumber's Sympathy (Gabriel Roth)
9. Plant White Roses (Magnetic Fields)
10. Sleeper Awake (John Wesley Harding)
11. The Green Willow Valley (Handsome Family)
12. Whenever You're Out Of My Sight (Robbie Fulks)
13. Pass On By (Margaret Ann Rich)
Kelly Hogan - Papa Was A Rodeo
Kelly Hogan - No Bobby Don't
Also From This Artist
The many touchstones (a gamut stretching from The Beach Boys and The Boswell Sisters, to Trip Shakespeare and Dr. Dog) were gathered on the shores of late night AM radio and get tossed at the listener with a giddiness that jumps outta the grooves.
12" LP
Autographed CD
Autographed LP
It's a World of Love and Hope
The Flat Five
Nora O'Connor
Kelly's voice is so versatile it can wrap itself around any song, in any style, be it torchy jazz, country weepers, soul-fueled bump and grinders or long-lost pop nuggets, and transform them into something all her own. Hell, just her compilation appearances could be their own "Best of..." collection. She's that good.
Best of... Kelly Hogan
Kelly Hogan and Nora O'Connor make you swoon with a Ron Sexsmith tune while Joe Pug closes the bar with an original song
Me, Myself and Wine/This Our Hour (7" Single)
Kelly Hogan & Nora O'Connor, Joe Pug
Kelly's voice is front and center as she treats you to a Dusty Springfield on a Staples Singers jag vibe. We'll let the hairs standing on the back of your neck decide if we're lying.
Because It Feel Good
When asked to name her musical influences for this effort, Hogan rattled off a Rain Man-like list that started something like "Lotte Lenya, Charlie Rich, Howard Tate, and Ronnie Van Zant..." and went on and on, as she is apt to do.
Beneath the Country Underdog
Kelly and Neko nestle up to each other, with only a thin layer of vinyl betwixt them, and channel the rebellious spirit of the Coal Miner's Daughter.
Loretta Lynn Tribute (7" Single)
Glossy Photos
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Shaken is full of potent memories and emotional outpouring translated into warm but dark sonic textures---sort of a rootsy Frankenstein's monster with essences of Broadcast, Portishead, Serge Gainesbourg, and Ennio Morricone felt throughout.
Maggie Bjorklund
The secret weapon behind many recordings by Nora O'Connor, Justin Roberts, Kelly Hogan and Robbie Fulks steps to the front of the stage.
Home Now
Gerald Dowd
Powerful and moving material, heartbreaking and hilarious, downtrodden and uplifting, suffused with longing, alienation, resilience and hop. Humor, resignation and outrage stalk a superficially familiar musical landscape that's been re-populated with stockmen, bandicoots, wallabies, porcupines, grog-drinkers, pelicans and policemen.
Stranger In My Land
The Pine Valley Cosmonauts
Full of soulful urgency and longing, conjuring the ghosts of mates-in-spiritual-arms from Dylan Thomas to Johnny Cash.
Old Devils
Jon Langford
Jane's is a voice that captures the timeless ache that seeps up through the dirt and hills of her native Kentucky and evokes the spook and hope and wonder and joy of the forests and the moon.
Harm Among the Willows
Jane Baxter Miller
These songs have thrived in the folk traditions of America for a reason. They are tough and long lasting but malleable enough to be adapted and re-invented easily.
Old Town School of Folk Music Songbook: Volume 1
Old Town School Recordings
Kids music with a brain and that won't make the adults run screaming from the room.
The young will thrill to the sing-a-long tunes about ducks, squirrels, flies, newts and turtles, while the music geek in all of us will marvel at the dexterous harmonica and National steel guitar playing and super excellent vocals.
Wee Hairy Beasties
Full of effortless pop smarts and early rock n roll style, casting his creative powers in a whole new light and elevating his craft. Think Buddy Holly in Nashville duds.
For years around Chicago, Nora has been an in-demand hired assassin of singing to the hit-making hoi polloi, but here she scootches over just a little bit to center stage where she belongs.
Til the Dawn
Tracks from many of our long out of print singles and EPs, as well as some totally unreleased dandies from the likes of Neko Case, Ryan Adams and the infamous Madonna Trilogy
Making Singles, Drinking Doubles
The All-star cast consign songs of murder, mob law, and cruel, cruel punishment to the realm of myth, memory and history. Eighteen songs that are as old as the hills (though some were written last week) about America's grim fascination with the savage cycle of crime and vengeance.
The Executioner's Last Songs: Volume One

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A courageous address from Brene Brown at last year's TED summit in Houston, jam-packed with insight and premised on a concept of 'enoughness' which has more than a little in common with what we talk about on here so frequently. It's, um, enough to make one wonder where Brown, the social worker responsible for that fantastic article on Perfectionism a few months back, is coming from. That is, it seems positively soaked in Christian understandings, endorsing in roundabout ways the healing power of repentance, our enslavement to self-justification and inherent obsession with righteousness, the entire idea of strength in weakness, she even touches on grace in parenting. And minus a grounding in something a bit more realistic/Eternal, her notion of 'whole-heartedness' is almost a direct borrow from the church, going so far as to co-opt religious language.
I really needed this today.
I'm surprised that this was your take on the talk. I felt it was quite anti-Gospel. I'm enough is not the message of the Gospel. People who have a strong sense of love and belonging believe they're worthy of love and belonging is almost right, but because it's mostly truth and partly lies is what worries me. We are not worthy of love and belonging, and realizing that is the start of accepting grace and knowing we are loved and we do belong. Maybe I didn't read correctly what was being said here. Could you speak more to this?


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A novel view of the posthuman future
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The tagline on the cover of Darwin's Children reads "Evolution has changed the face of the world." In the sequel to his brilliant 1999 novel, Darwin's Radio, Greg Bear now spells out the ways in which a dramatic event in the evolution of the human race has laid the foundation for a posthuman future. Not through human agency such as implanted chips or genetic editing, but naturally, by means of an evolutionary process that responds to the growing stress in the human environment.
While it may be possible to read Darwin's Children as a standalone effort, I don't recommend it. If Bear's thinking on this subject intrigues you, start with his Nebula-Award-winning novel, Darwin's Radio. Be careful. If you do opt to read that book first, this review will spoil the story for you. If you haven't already read my assessment of Darwin's Radio, begin there.
Darwin's Children (Darwin #2 of 2) by Greg Bear (2002) 512 pages ★★★★☆
This diagram portrays what scientists have traditionally thought was the difference between "coding" DNA and "non-coding" DNA, which has popularly been called "junk DNA." The former consists of genes that are exons, which help determine our genetic makeup. The latter, introns, do not. In Darwin's Radio and Darwin's Children, Greg Bear posits that some non-coding DNA has broken ranks and effected widespread changes in the DNA of every newborn. Image: Pinterest
Four characters confronting the posthuman future
In Darwin's Children, the cast of characters shifts. CDC Director Mark Augustine has been sidelined by bureaucratic infighting and plays only a minor role. Of the four original principals, three continue to bring focus to the story: Kaye Lang Rafelson, Mitch Rafelson, and Christopher Dicken. And now Kaye and Mitch's eleven-year-old daughter, Stella Nova Rafelson, enters center stage. She is one of the first wave of SHEVA children demonized and incarcerated by a terrified and vengeful government. And it is really she who is the protagonist of this sequel to the story in which she was born.
"I am not human"
Darwin's Children opens at "SHEVA + 12," or a dozen years since the emergence of the SHEVA virus in America. Stella is eleven and on the run with her parents. The draconian forces of the Right-Wing government, riding a wave of fear and hatred fanned by hysterical media reports, is rounding up all the SHEVA children. ("The last thing Mark Augustine had ever imagined he would be doing was running a network of concentration camps.") And in the midst of the chaos, "For the first time, Stella had formally proclaimed: 'I am not human.'"
As the story proceeds, we encounter increasing detail about the many changes that make this claim credible. And despite everything—despite the widespread abortions of SHEVA fetuses, the massacres of SHEVA children by terrified people, and all the efforts of governments everywhere to suppress the growth of the new species—Stella is far from alone. "Worldwide, in two waves separated by four years, three million new children had been born." Thus we gain our first glimpse of the posthuman future. Genus homo has taken another step forward.
The book's Part Two is set at "SHEVA + 15," and Part Three at "SHEVA + 18." Thus, we follow Stella's life until she reaches the age of seventeen. Then, she has found her way into a community of young people like herself. Meanwhile, we observe Kaye and Mitch's frantic efforts to relate to their ever-stranger daughter as the posthuman future begins to emerge.
"An infinitely devious shell"
As the end of the story approaches, Kaye reflects, "Nearly all her life, [she] had believed that understanding biology, the way life worked, would lead to understanding herself, to enlightenment. Knowing how life worked would explain it all: origins, ends, and everything in between. But the deeper she dug and the more she understood, the less satisfying it seemed, all clever mechanism; wonders, no doubt, enough to mesmerize her for a thousand lifetimes, but really nothing more than an infinitely devious shell." And she concludes, "Nature is a bitch goddess."
About the science in this novel
In a section labeled "Caveats" at the conclusion of Darwin's Children, Bear writes, "Much of the science in this novel is still controversial. . . However, all of the speculations found here are supported, to one degree or another, by research published in texts and in respected scientific journals. I have gone to great pains to solicit scientific criticism and make corrections where experts feel I strayed over the line." And he adds, "The theological speculations presented here are also based on empirical evidence, personal and culled from a number of key books."
For more reading
Be sure to check out Darwin's Radio (Darwin #1 of 2) by Greg Bear (A brilliant novel about accelerated evolution) and his Blood Music (A biological technothriller about genetic engineering).
In "A Brief Reading List" following the text of this novel, Greg Bear recommends "a concise, elegantly written and conservative view of neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory . . . Richard Dawkins's River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life."
For more good reading, check out:
The ultimate guide to the all-time best science fiction novels
Great sci-fi novels reviewed: my top 10 (plus 100 runners-up)
Seven new science fiction authors worth reading
The top 10 dystopian novels reviewed here (plus dozens of others)
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NATIONAL CABINET MANDATORY CODE OF CONDUCT – SME COMMERCIAL LEASING PRINCIPLES DURING COVID-19
On 7 April 2020, the National Cabinet released the National Code of Conduct (Code) to SME industrial and retail tenancies affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The purpose of this Code is to impose the certain set of rules in negotiating good faith amendments to the existing leasing arrangements.
Who does the Code apply to?
The Code applies to all commercial leases, including retail, office and industrial leases where the tenant:
has an annual turnover up to $50 million; and
is suffering financial stress or hardship as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, as defined by their eligibility for the Commonwealth Government's JobKeeper programme.
The object of the Code is where the parties have an obligation to negotiate in "good faith" and act in an "open, honest and transparent manner", whilst seeking to appropriately balance the interest of tenants and landlords.
It is intended that landlords will agree tailored, bespoke and appropriate temporary arrangements for each SME tenant taking into account their particular circumstances on the following on a case by case basis:
Landlords must not terminate leases due to non-payment of rent during the COVID-19 pandemic period or reasonable subsequent recovery period.
Landlords must offer tenants proportionate reductions in rent payable in the form of waivers and deferrals of up to 100% of the amount ordinarily payable. Rental waivers must constitute no less than 50% of the total reduction in rent payable under principle over the COVID-19 pandemic period and should constitute a greater proportion of the total reduction in rent payable in cases where failure to do so would compromise the tenant's capacity to fulfil their ongoing obligations under the lease agreement. Regard must also be had to the Landlord's financial ability to provide such additional waivers. Tenants may waive the requirement for a 50% minimum waiver by agreement.
The tenant who pays $10,000 per month in rent and it has seen a drop in turnover of 60% in April 2020 when comparing to the same month in 2019. Under this Code, the landlord must:
Grant a proportionate amount of waived rent equal to 50% of the reduction of turnover; and
The remainder of lost turnover is converted into rent repayments.
Reduction in turnover = 60%. Base Rent = $10,000
60% x $10,000 = $6,000
Therefore $3,000 (50% of $6,000) of rent is written off and $3,000 of rent is deferred.
This means that the tenant only has to pay $4,000 a month in rent during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Deferrals must be covered over the life of the lease and be no less than 24 months.
Any reduction in statutory charges (e.g. land tax, council rates) or insurance will be passed on to the tenant in the appropriate proportion applicable under the terms of the lease.
A landlord should seek to share any benefit it receives due to deferral of loan payments, provided by a financial institution as part of the Australian Bankers Association's COVID-19 response, or any other case-by-case deferral of loan repayments offered to other Landlords, with the tenant in a proportionate manner.
Landlords should where appropriate seek to waive recovery of any other expense (or outgoing payable) by a tenant, under lease terms, during the period the tenant is not able to trade. Landlords reserve the right to reduce services as required in such circumstances.
If negotiated arrangements under this Code necessitate repayment, this should occur over an extended period in order to avoid placing an undue financial burden on the tenant. No repayment should commence until the earlier of the COVID-19 pandemic ending or the existing lease expiring and taking into account a reasonable subsequent recovery period.
There will be a prohibition on landlords charging interest on unpaid rent.
Landlords must not make a claim to a tenant's security deposit or a bank guarantee for the non-payment of rent.
The tenant should be provided with an opportunity to extend its lease for an equivalent period of the rent waiver and/or deferral period. This is intended to provide the tenant additional time to trade, on existing lease terms, during the recovery period after the COVID-19 pandemic concludes.
Landlords agree to a freeze on rent increases (except for retail leases based on turnover rent) for the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic and a reasonable subsequent recovery period, notwithstanding any arrangements between the landlord and the tenant.
Landlords may not apply any prohibition on levy any penalties if tenants reduce opening hours or cease to trade due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Commencement/Expiry
The commencement date of the Code will be determined by each State and Territory, with the Code to apply from a date after 3 April 2020 for the period during which the JobKeeper programme is operational.
For landlord
If you are the landlord, you should carefully consider key listed above. The Code as it currently stands is more in favour of tenant.
When you negotiate the rent reduction with your tenants, we suggest that:
Request for relevant information and evidence to demonstrate that the tenants are eligible for relief under the Code. You may pay attention to tenants' online sales and may seek comfort from the tenants' accountants and bankers about the information provided by tenants;
Prepare a variation of lease or deed to protect your interests while still complying with the requirements of the Code.
Imposing regular reporting obligations to tenants on trading etc.
We recommend that you should commence discussions with the landlord as soon as possible in accordance with the Code, with a view to agreeing a reduction or deferral of rent payable under the tenancy agreements during the COVID-19 pandemic and a subsequent recovery period.
You should ensure that any approaches to the landlord is undertaken in accordance with this Code in good faith. You should also proactively and clearly communicate with your landlord regarding any decisions you make about full or partial closure of your premises.
Where both parties cannot reach agreement on leasing arrangements, the matter may be referred to state or territory retail/commercial leasing dispute resolution processes for binding mediation. However, there are significant questions regarding this dispute resolution process during this period. Even where mediations will be held via teleconferencing or videoconferencing, the sheer volume of matters that may be referred is likely to result in significant delays. Hence, it is practical to secure a good mutual resolution with the landlord as practically soon as possible.
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I believe there is a New World Order. But I believe Illuminati research is a waste of time. For one thing, tracking geneology back to ancient times is problematic. And I don't have time for it. There may be some facts about powerful families that emerge from the research, but nothing that adds to our understanding of the World Order that we see today.
We know enough to condemn the order. We know that the Zionist project is at the center of the Order. We know it was sponsored by the Rothschilds, the richest family in the world. We know non Jews are Zionists, and look to the Rockefellers, Cecil Rhodes and others as being Zionists.
We know that David Icke, who does not necessarily represent all Illuminati researchers, is wrong when he says Jesus was created by the illuminati. I repudiate that, even though he has some non religious articles about the current New World Order that are informative. I put no trust in David Icke.
He is a hater of God no less than the Zionist cabal, when he says Jesus was just a fictional character created by the Illuminati.
Stay away from that thinking, if you are in Christ. It is wicked thinking and will be judged on the Last Day at Christ's Second Coming.
People need to know the good news of Jesus Christ. People also need to wake up to the evil that is looking for form a one world government, one world religion, one world currency... a new world order.
Please reach out to me. Make flyers and print two to a page and put them in the door of every house in your neighborhood. Enlarge your circle of influence. You don't have to convert anyone to the truth, just let them see something and those that have ears will hear the truth. I know it's hard when they're being dumbed down and made apathetic with fluoride in the drinking water and toothpaste (You do know that the fluoride in those things is not the calcium fluoride that is good for your teeth, but the byproduct of corporate industries that don't want to pay to dispose of the poison. Check it out. It's used in rat poison) and aluminum being sprayed (amongst other things) in chemtrails. Note also that fluoride in the human system increases the uptake of aluminum in the brain. Long term effects? Dementia anyone? Dumbed down? Apathetic?
God bless anyone willing to step out of their comfort zone and speak truth.


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Court Rules Michigan Cannot Sue to Block Indian Casino
Posted on: May 31, 2014, 05:30h.
Last updated on: May 29, 2014, 04:55h.
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The Supreme Court has issued a 5-4 ruling that prevents Michigan from suing to block an off-reservation casino. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
The rules governing casinos run by Native American tribal groups are varied and complex, relying on both federal laws and the compacts signed between states and the tribes that reside within them. This plays out in legal battles across the country, including one that was just settled in the highest court of the land.
The Supreme Court of the United States ruled this week that Michigan cannot sue a tribe to stop the opening and operation of an Indian casino, as tribal sovereign immunity overrules the state's legal challenges. The decision was a divisive one, as the justices were split 5-4 in favor of the Bay Mills Indian Community.
Off-Reservation Casino at Heart of Case
The case revolved around a casino that the Bay Mills tribe built in 2010 about 90 miles south of its reservation, which is located on Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The tribe had purchased land there with money it received as part of a settlement with the federal government over allegations that they had not been properly compensated for land they gave up in 19th century treaties.
Because the casino was built on off-reservation land, Michigan had argued that its operation was in violation of their state compact and without permission from the state or federal governments.
But in writing the majority opinion, Justice Elena Kagan found that tribal immunity applied to off-reservation commercial activities. That meant that the tribe is protected from being sued by Michigan unless Congress made a ruling that would limit tribal immunity.
However, she did note that there were other options for the state if it wanted to stop a casino from being operated, up to and including filing criminal charges against individual tribe officials.
Ruling Protects Tribal Sovereignty
Ultimately, the case was sent back to the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals for disposal. That leaves open the question as to whether or not the casino will eventually be allowed to open – though it did help strengthen the longstanding recognition of tribal sovereignty.
"Congress and the Supreme Court have long recognized that a state cannot interfere with an Indian tribe's sovereignty," said Neal Katyal, a lawyer for Bay Mills. "We are gratified that the court reaffirmed that longstanding principle today."
State Attorney General Bill Schuette's office argued the case for Michigan. Their lawyers argued that while there were other options available, it would make more sense for federal courts to simply limit tribal immunity for commercial activities that took place off-reservation. Traditionally, the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act – which the state had been trying to use as the basis of their lawsuit – has only applied to casinos on reservations.
Dissent Questions Extent of Immunity
As has become commonplace in gambling legislation and legal cases, the justices were not strictly divided on ideological lines. Justice Kagan was joined in the majority opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts as well as Justices Anthony Kennedy, Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor.
Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a dissenting opinion in which he stated that there was no reason for the court to continue the extension of tribal immunity to off-reservation activities.
"No one can seriously dispute that Bay Mills' operation of a casino outside its reservation…would violate both state law and the Tribe's compact with Michigan," Thomas wrote. "Yet immunity poses a substantial impediment to Michigan's efforts to halt the casino's operation."
Justice Thomas was joined in the minority by fellow conservative Justices Antonin Scalia and Samuel Alito, as well as by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Both Ginsburg and Scalia wrote their own dissents to the majority opinion.
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Ernestina is a rural locality within the Longreach Region, Queensland, Australia. Though it stretches in length and breadth up to 19.2 km2 yet it is well connected with the various mode of transportation. The population of Ernestina is approximately 520 people. Best places to be in Ernestina are Daisy Hill Koala Centre, Karawatha Forest Discovery Centre, South Bank Parklands, Fort Lytton National Park, Woongoolba Conservation Park, Wynnum Mangrove Boardwalk. Some suburb around Ernestina is Maneroo, Tocal, Longreach, Camoola, Ilfracombe, Vergemont, Morella, Isisford, Barcaldine Downs.
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Philip Roth: The Anatomy Lesson
The Anatomy Lesson
by Philip Roth (1983)
I know I said I was going to wait to read this book in an effort to prolong the pleasure I'm getting out of Roth's Zuckerman books. But hey, there are still two more Zuckerman books to go after this one, let alone the books where Roth uses Zuckerman as a type of narrator rather than subject. I have more pleasure in store! The Anatomy Lesson follows The Ghost Writer and Zuckerman Unbound (my reviews here and here) and I really wondered (with great anticipation) where Roth could go next. After all, these books are not simply books about the times and trials of a successful author. They are metafiction at its best, and how many different ways can one author using one character approach the art of writing? Plenty, apparently (and thankfully). The Anatomy Lesson is even more metafictional than the previous two novels, which were less concerned with the actual writing process than with the artist's development and isolation.
Here, Roth again enters the literary "hall of mirrors," writing about Zuckerman (who both is and isn't Roth) who is writing about Carnovsky (who both is and isn't Zuckerman). And of course, though Roth has put himself on display, he playfully eludes biography. What we get instead is perhaps even more impressive: both a serious and comical look at art and its relationship to the artist, for better or for worse. Where the two preceeding novels were more or less straightforward in their approach to art and the artist, in The Anatomy Lesson Roth has pulled out all of the stops, twisting and turning those mirrors under all kinds of light to present a virtuosic show unlike any I've ever seen before. What really makes me make such a bold statement is the fact that throughout the book Roth maintains all of this complexity yet his prose is as limpid as can be.
The story picks up with Zuckerman just having turned forty, he's in a lot of pain — "a hot line of pain that ran forward behind his right ear into his neck, then branched downward beneath the scapula like a menorah held bottom side up" — and for the past several months he's been looking for some relief. In another excellent opening line, Roth encapsulates much of what is to come: Zuckerman's relationship with his mother, who is soon "gone," and his relationship to the other women.
When he is sick, every man wants his mother; if she's not around, other women must do. Zuckerman was making do with four other women.
Though these women do their best to assist Zuckerman, the pain is practically unbearable. The only time he is even slightly comfortable is when he is lying on his playmat (the locale for quite a bit of Rothian word play). To make matters worse, Zuckerman cannot no longer write. Sure, part of the problem is the pain the physical act of writing creates, but Zuckerman can't even come up with anything to write about because the pain consumes him. Oh, and to make matters even more worse, he's going bald.
. . . vocationally obstructed, physically disabled, sexually mindless, intellectually intert, spiritually depressed — but not bald overnight, not that too.
At its roots, The Anatomy Lesson is about this pain, which is both real and metaphoric. No physician has successfully diagnosed the pain; none has given Zuckerman any relief. The only relief Zuckerman can find is by varying doses of vodka, Percodan, and marijuana. Having so much pain for so long begs the question: what is the real source of this pain? Because Zuckerman is always trying to capture his experience, he comes up with many plausible sources. First and foremost:
Zuckerman was taking "pain" back to its root in poena, the Latin word for punishment: poena for the family portrait the whole country had assumed to be his, for the tastelessness that had affronted millions and the shamelessness that had enraged his tribe.
Early in the novel, Zuckerman's mother dies. At the funeral Zuckerman's brother, a dentist, gives a seventeen-page eulogy (more than Zuckerman has composed in months), and the eulogy achieves its effect, serving to set the record straight about the mother and Carnovsky's mother and to sever the brothers' relationship for good. Zuckerman sardonically thinks that his purpose in writing is now complete: he's murdered his parents and become estranged from his brother — emancipation! Though on the surface Zuckerman speaks with mostly this type of derision, Roth won't let his character be so quickly derided by readers. Roth complicates things, and makes the book so much more worthy to read, by allowing Zuckerman to show that underneath it all, he's still lonely and scared and completely empty. Despite all of the "outward trappings of pleasure" all that results is pleasure's opposite. And you'd think all of these mixed emotions would be a great place for a writer to find new material, but no, so far nothing — only the temptation to end it all . . . or come close to it:
On the other hand, a failed suicide that didn't completely cripple him might provide a new subject — more than could be said so far for success. But what if the pain vanished halfway down, went the way it came, leaped from his body as he sailed from the roof — what then? What if he saw in every salient detail a next book, a new start? Halfway down is probably just where that happens.
But the real pleasure in this book is the metafiction, this pain as an analogue to writing, Zuckerman's physical decline and mental anguish (at least from the outside perspective) as an analogue to the irony of passing the threshold to becoming an artist:
If you were to watch some certified madman groaning over a table in his little cell, observe him trying to make something sensible out of qwertyuiop, asdfghjkl, and zxcvbnm, see him engrossed to the exclusion of all else by three such nonsensical words, you'd be appalled, you'd clutch his keeper's arm and ask, "Is there nothing to be done? No anti-hallucinogen? No surgical procedure?" But before the keeper could even reply, "Nothing — it's hopeless," the lunatic would be up on his feet, out of his mind, and shrieking at you through the bars: "Stop this infernal interference! Stop this shouting in my ears! How do I complete my life's great work with all these gaping visitors and their noise!"
And in The Anatomy Lesson, we readers get to reap the rewards of Zuckerman's pain and isolation (or Roth's).
From what I've said above, the following might come as a shock: I did not enjoy this book as much as I enjoyed The Ghost Writer or Zuckerman Unbound. The sheer pleasure of Roth's writing was still there, but some of the feel of the previous novels was missing for me. I enjoyed, for example, the isolated setting and its meanings in The Ghost Writer. And even though what Zuckerman does with Amy Bellette's past is not nearly as subtle a venue for metafiction as the body is in The Anatomy Lesson, I still think I enjoyed Zuckerman's subversive exploitation of a completely unknowing Bellette more. As for my feelings for The Anatomy Lesson compared to Zuckerman Unbound, Alvin Peppler doesn't make an appearance in The Anatomy Lesson. Happily, in The Anatomy Lesson we still have the pleasure of experiencing one of Roth's energetic rants. This one comes from a progressingly drunk and drugged Zuckerman roaming around Chicago adopting the name of his hated critic Milton Appel. It gets better: he pretends to be Milton Appel, the grittiest of pornographers. In some classic ribaldry, Zuckerman/Appel become verbally incontinent for some pages, and that makes him feel a little better. But for some reason, even this did not match the fantastic rants and comedy of Alvin Peppler. I think it is because a ribald rant is easier to create (at least, they are far more common) than a self-pitying, Zuckerman-hating, importunate rant from the Alvin Peppler.
But that does not mean I wish Roth had quit with just the two previous novels. You'll notice that my gripes with the novel are much more my own personal tastes and not to be mistaken as gripes about Roth's style or tone here. He's still spot on. In fact, this lesson in pain and anatomy goes deeper than the previous two about what it costs an individual to create through writing. I have The Prague Orgy sitting on my shelf . . . and I don't know how long I can abstain!
I think another element that, while enjoyable, made this book less pleasurable than the previous two was the ending, which I'd like to address briefly here as an afterthought — spoiler alert! As much as I enjoyed it, it was not quite as ambiguous as the other two. In The Ghost Writer we get an excellent, pathetic scene in which Mrs. Lonoff walks alone down the wintry street while Zuckerman and Lonoff discuss the car's problems. In Zuckerman Unbound we get the father's death and Henry's separation. We get a sense that it is a bitter relief for Zuckerman who then roams around the changed streets of Newark. But that didn't happen here. The Anatomy Lesson ends with irony (which is to be expected) but it left me less with a sense of ambiguity about the calling of "writer." In fact, it seemed to end with a judgment against Zuckerman. Here he is, a patient in the hospital going around seemingly concerned with the other patients. But he is actually collecting, with boyish excitement, material and "setting himself apart," failing to accept that his perceived distance is not real, that he is one of the subjects, and that these people are indeed real. It seemed to cast him in a much poorer light than the previous novels which had also recognized this state of being as a legitimate price to pay to create.
Even though I enjoyed the other two novels more, though, this is a great ending. Zuckerman, we know, goes on. I cannot wait to find out what he does next!
By Trevor Berrett|2017-09-23T19:06:48-04:00July 25th, 2008|Categories: Book Reviews, Philip Roth|Tags: 1980s, 1983|3 Comments
John Self July 25, 2008 at 7:15 am
Just get on with it, I say! The Prague Orgy is only 90 pages or so, but it's an absolutely terrific coda to the three earlier Zuckermans. I look forward to reading your thoughts on it in due course, Trevor.
Trevor Berrett July 25, 2008 at 4:37 pm
All right! All right! I'm just finishing up a Graham Greene novel, and The Prague Orgy is quickly moving up in line!
Trevor November 2, 2009 at 12:10 pm
A bit of a treasure: click here for an image of Philip Roth's edits on the galley proof of The Anatomy Lesson, from Mark Sarvas's blog.


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Lee Beale is the alternative name of Brandon Chase. He was born in Bronx, New York, USA, on March 17th, 1929. He is a director and producer who was known for Girl in Trouble in 1963, Threesome in 1970, and Alligator in 1980. Lee Beale was also the founder and owner of U.S. film production or distribution company Group 1 International Distribution Organization Ltd. and of US production company V.I. Productions. The filmmaker is also the father of film critic Andrea Chase.
The Hollywood director and producer's film His Girl in Trouble is about a farmer's daughter who sets out to make it in the big city. She gets mixed up with perverts, degenerates, and freaks and ends up being a stripper in New Orleans. Lee Beale's film stars Tammy Clarke, Ray Menard, Neiomi Salitech, Larry Johnson, Martin Smith, Bettina Johnson, and Charles Murphy, and co-written with Anthony Naylor. Threesome is about a fashion designer who returns to Denmark with his American wife. She is wary of the overabundance of female nudity and the relaxed moral standards of the country. She visits a psychiatrist to reveal feelings of latent lesbianism. The movie stars Judith Brown, Jørgen Kiil, Marianne Tholsted, Finn Storgaard, and Jørgen Weel, and written by Kenneth Pressman.
Beale produced ten films: Alligator II: The Mutation; The Sword and The Sorcerer; UFO's Are Real, which is a documentary; Threesome; Harlow; Alligator; Girl in Trouble; Four for the Morgue; N. O. P. D.; and The Dead One. He also directed three movies: Threesome, Relations, and Girl in Trouble.
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A deep, dark black tea blended with blackberry, hazelnut, rosehips, cinnamon, and strewn with flame-bright safflower. A perfect mix of the tastiest foods Autumn offers.


The IMAX release of Top Gun has been digitally re-mastered into the image and sound quality of An IMAX 3D Experience® with proprietary IMAX DMR® (Digital Re-mastering) technology. The crystal-clear images coupled with IMAX's customized theatre geometry and powerful digital audio create a unique environment that will make audiences feel as if they are in the movie.
Happy Birthday, America! As the Fourth of July approaches, we're looking back at some of our all-time American favorites to get the party started.
Also, make sure you check out one of America's most reclaimed actors, Arnold Schwarzenegger, in The Terminator Genisys this weekend in IMAX® theatres!
Top Gun: This American classic gave pride to our country during the depressing days of the Cold War. Tom Cruise plays one of the most iconic roles as he fearlessly takes flight in the US Navy.
Apollo 13: This oscar winning film is based on the events of the Apollo 13 lunar mission and was the first movie to be digitally re-mastered for IMAX.
Rocky IV: This amazing film highlights our passion for freedom in the US and the fight against communism.
Superman: Superman is the heart of American pride as he saves our nation from evil, one villain after the next. His bravery and patriotism in the movies will forever be a character that embraces true glory.
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The Patriot: No one will ever forget Benjamin Martin's (Mel Gibson) pride as he ran across the battlefield waving an American flag.
Jaws: America's favorite thriller will always be apart of the American culture. It's a Spielberg classic that completely changed our views of the terrifying great white sharks and our oceans.
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Ancient 140 kids' skeletons found in Peru; Evidence of largest child sacrifice ritual ?
By Bhaswati Guha Majumder
April 27, 2018 19:35 +08
140 Sacrificed Children Found In Peru YouTube grab/ National Geographic
A group of archaeologists in the northern coast of Peru discovered the remains of more than 140 children, what appears to be the largest event of mass child sacrifice in world history. So what would be the reason behind the mass child sacrifice ritual?
Apart from the remains of 140 children, the archaeologists found 200 young llamas, who were sacrificed for an event that took place around 550 years ago, when the area was considered the residence of pre-Columbian Chimú civilization.
The Chimú culture arouses about 900 AD and known as the second-largest empire in Peru before the Spanish colonization, next to the Inca Empire, who was also known for the child sacrifice rituals.
The excavation started in 2011, when archaeologists accidentally found 42 children's skeletons at the site that is formerly known as Huanchaquito-Las Llamas, including remains of 76 llamas at a 3,500-year-old nearby temple.
After several years of excavation, researchers unearthed the mass child sacrifice area and came up with 140 sets of child remains and 200 baby llamas. Earlier the discovery in the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán, today's Mexico City, where 42 children's bodies were found by the archaeologists, was known as the largest incident of mass child sacrifice.
The excavation was supported by the National Geographic Society and the investigations are being carried out by an international team, led by Gabriel Prieto of the Universidad Nacional de Trujillo and John Verano of Tulane University.
Even though the study on the recent discovery has not yet published, the researchers involved in the excavation explained their work in a National Geographic exclusive report. They said that all the children were aged between five and 14 at the time of death and the sacrifice ritual mainly have the majority of the children aged between eight and 12. In addition to that researchers said the llamas were all less than 18 months old during the alleged sacrifice.
As per the researchers, they found red stains, cinnabar-based pigment, in the skulls of those children and that became an evidence of sacrifice ritual, as the pigment was used in ceremonies. Archaeologists also said that there were cuts in sternum and rib bones of both the children and llamas. Such process suggested that the chests were cut open to remove the hearts.
The carbon-dating of nearby items, such as rope, put the time of death between 1400 and 1450, towards the end of the Chimú culture before they were conquered by the Inca Empire, which is known as the largest empire in pre-Columbian America.
While talking about the recent discovery, Verano said that he never expected what they have found and "I don't think anyone else would have, either."
Further research has revealed that there is a possibility of buying those children from a different region. In addition to it, Verano told Newsweek that the evidence of skull deformation arouses question on their origin.
While explaining the mystery behind the birthplace of those children, he also stated that "their heads were shaped in infancy as cultural identity markers, also their diet looks quite variable, as determined by stable isotopes of Carbon and Nitrogen."
After analysing the mud sample from sacrifice region, researchers have claimed that the incident took place during a period of serious flooding.
Now the researchers are trying to understand the motivation behind the large sacrifice ritual and the reason, why the children and baby llamas were put together.
Prieto told National Geographic, "When people hear about what happened and the scale of it, the first thing they always ask is 'why?' "
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Castle Mountain Resort is ranked No. 70 in North America for its total snowfall during an average season.
Castle Mt's snow record is close to average for western destinations. 11.9% of winter days with 6 inches or more of snow and 22% of winter months with 30 inches or less are middle of the pack for western destinations, while 6% of months with 90 inches or more is on the low side. Nonetheless Castle can deliver a premier lift served powder experience. Most of the mountain is leeward of prevailing winds and refreshed with blown-in snow. Castle is primarily visited by day skiers from southern Alberta. Nowhere will you see fewer skiers on expansive big mountain terrain than midweek at Castle Mt.
The prevailing wind tends to strip snow from exposed locations and deposit it onto the more sheltered runs. Most of Castle is wide open skiing with about a 4 foot reported base. Despite primary east exposure, Castle's snow preservation is very good through February in the chronically cold and often overcast climate. Melt/freeze conditions in the steep South Chutes in particular are likely in March if it is sunny. Castle Mt. like many resorts has its most reliable snow conditions from mid-January to mid-March.


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104 Streamlining Serious Game Development with Modular Design
Tracks: Games & Gamification
Serious games can be a great way to engage with learners. However, developing a serious game can be an extremely challenging and daunting task. Unlike traditional eLearning production, serious games add numerous game system mechanics, more detailed story-driven elements, expanded content functionality, and a much richer interaction potential. Fortunately, there are development tips and techniques that make the creation of serious games as much fun as playing them.
This session will explore the use of modular design to break serious game development down into manageable chunks. You will learn how to apply these techniques to effectively establish the core game mechanics, streamline the development process, and reduce complexity while also maximizing reusable resources and systems. Most importantly, we'll explore ways to apply these techniques to any eLearning project, not just serious games.
The process begins with a definition of the learning objectives and choosing the core mechanics to establish the basic game framework. The next step involves developing the game flow diagram and game design document to define the learner's path through the game and everything they'll do or encounter along the way. Once the design is complete, the game's various systems are broken down into manageable components. Finally, the reusable content, assets, functionality, and interactions that maximize implementation efficiency are created and assembled into a complete game. At the end of this session, you'll will be able to break down complex projects into manageable systems and components, implement components, systems, and content in a reusable and efficient way and apply these concepts to your own eLearning projects
In this session you will learn:
Best practices for planning and designing a serious game
Tips for using modular design to break down complex development projects
Implementation strategies for reusable assets, interactions, and functionality
How to implement data-driven content to maximize flexibility and reduce complexity
Ideas for applying these techniques to your own eLearning applications
Technology discussed:
Articulate Storyline, general design software (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.)
Chris Loyd
Game Developer / Animator
Chris Loyd is a game developer and animator with nearly 30 years of professional experience that includes work for IBM, Namco, Merck, GSK, the State of NC, and more. His background includes degrees in scientific visualization & computer graphics, simulation & game development, and certifications in Quality Assurance, Business for Game Development, and Modeling & Art for Game Development, among others.


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Armchain aims to develop a decentralised, self-regulating gun control platform, that will open up possibilities to fight gun violence in a completely new and innovative way. By applying several state-of-the-art technologies, Armchain keeps security at the highest level, while eliminating human factor related mistakes. Transparent, safe and reliable platform on a blockchain, combined with a strict documentation control, could prove to be a strong global solution in combating terrorism.
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Soccer teams and players continue to get more popular on Facebook. Cristiano Ronaldo continues to challenge Shakira for the title of most popular person on Facebook and recently, two popular clubs surpassed a musical icon on our monthly top 25 pages leaderboard.
According to statistics from Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer Socialbakers, FC Barcelona and Real Madrid have surpassed Michael Jackson on our list of 25 pages with the most likes on Facebook.
Look below to find the 25 pages with the most likes, as of Jan. 2, 2015.
The rating, at the right of the chart, is Socialbakers' figure of how likely a user is to recommend the page to friends.
Top image courtesy of FC Barcelona on Facebook.


Romaine lettuce, cucumber, cherry tomatoes, red onion, parsley, mint, avocado, mango, strawberries, walnuts, dates and our lime vinaigrette.
Dolphin safe albacore tuna salad, avocado, provolone cheese, mustard and sun-dried tomato pesto.
Almond, walnut, blueberry, strawberry, date and milk.
Three eggs, bacon, sausage, hash browns and cheddar cheese wrapped in a tortilla, served with salsa.
Romaine lettuce, cherry tomato, cucumber and our balsamic vinaigrette.
Please call the restaurant for today's soup selections.
Short, sweet, smooth and strong.
Ginger, lemon, mint, honey and cayenne.
For energy and immune support. Ginger, lemon, honey, cayenne, echinacea & ginseng.
Carrot, apple, celery and parsley.
Orange, carrot, beet and ginger.
Carrot, apple, beet, red cabbage, spinach, parsley and garlic.
Orange, lemon, ginger, honey and cayenne pepper.
Spinach, kale, cucumber, celery, parsley, tomato, lime and a dash of sea salt.
Carrot, orange and green apple.
Carrot, orange, cucumber, spinach, cabbage and beet.
Carrot, apple, parsley, lemon, celery, garlic and ginger.
Strawberry, banana, vanilla and milk.
Strawberry, orange juice and banana.
Spinach leaves, banana, honey, fresh mint and orange juice.
Banana, espresso, vanilla and milk.
Pineapple, coconut, vanilla and milk.
Pineapple, coconut, banana and orange juice.
Peanut butter, banana, vanilla and milk.
One whole avacado, spinach, honey, vanilla and your choice of milk.
Comes with cream cheese and butter.
Comes with cream cheese, tomato and onion.
Comes with provolone, tomato, basil and a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil.
Comes with organic egg, tomato, cheddar and a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil.
Comes with cream cheese, tomato, avocado and cucumber.
Comes with tomato, cucumber, onion, feta and walnuts.
Comes with Norwegian smoked salmon, cream cheese, tomato, onion and capers.
Almond, cashew, pistachio, walnut, dried blueberry and cranberry.
Organic quinoa served with strawberries, trail mix, brown sugar and your choice of milk.
Organic granola served with sliced banana, strawberry, our trail mix and your choice of milk.
Organic granola layered with non-fat yogurt, fresh strawberry and banana.
Fresh cut pineapple, orange, strawberry, mango and banana.
Served with sliced banana and brown sugar.
Raw walnuts, dates, almonds, organic crunchy peanut butter, honey and banana wrapped in a wheat tortilla.
Brazilian Acai and organic granola, topped with banana ,strawberry, bee pollen and toasted shaved coconut.
Organic egg and cheddar cheese on a toasted organic whole grain English muffin with your choice of bacon or sausage.
Three eggs, spinach, mushroom, onion, bell peppers and provolone cheese in a tortilla, served with salsa.
Five egg whites, hash browns and cheddar cheese wrapped in a tortilla, served with salsa.
Three eggs, sausage, tomato, onion, cilantro, jalapeno, cheddar cheese and avocado in a tortilla, served with salsa.
Egg white omelet with organic spinach, mushroom and provolone cheese, served with fruit and toast.
Three eggs, spinach, tomato, mushroom, onion, bell pepper and provolone cheese, served with fruit and toast.
Three eggs, sausage, tomato, onion, cilantro, jalapeno, cheddar cheese & avocado, served with fruit and toast.
Three eggs, organic chicken breast, spinach, tomato, cilantro, and avocado, served with fruit and toast.
Three eggs, bacon, dates, grilled onions and cheddar cheese, wrapped in a tortilla, served with our salsa.
Made from scratch daily and served with bread.
Made from scratch daily and served with bread. Vegetarian.
Romaine lettuce, croutons, avocado, fresh grated Parmesan cheese and our Caesar dressing.
Napa cabbage, romaine lettuce, carrot, cucumber, mandarin oranges, wontons, roasted almonds and our Ginger Sesame dressing.
Organic baby spinach, arugula, cherry tomato, goat cheese, roasted pine nuts and our lemon vinaigrette.
Romaine lettuce, cucumber, cherry tomato, red onion, kalamata olives, feta cheese, blue cheese crumbles, walnuts and our Greek dressing.
Romaine lettuce, red cabbage, cucumber, carrot, cilantro, avocado, cashews, dried cranberries and our spicy peanut dressing.
Romaine lettuce, black beans, roasted red bell pepper, corn, tomato, cheddar cheese, avocado, organic blue corn chips and our creamy cilantro dressing.
Organic baby spinach, carrot, cucumber, romaine, red cabbage, tomato, basil, red onion, edamame and mandarin oranges, dressed with extra virgin olive oil, sea salt and cayenne pepper and topped with avocado and walnut.
Romaine lettuce, cucumber, tomato, carrot, corn, wontons, Goat Cheese, avocado, cashews and our peanut cilantro dressing.
Romaine lettuce, organic baby arugula, red cabbage, cherry tomatoes, garbanzo beans, Genoa salami, provolone cheese, kalamata olives & our Italian dressing.
Organic kale, cherry tomato and roasted pine nuts, dressed with extra virgin olive oil, fresh lemon and sea salt.
Egg white omelet with onion, mushroom, tomato and avocado served on a bed of romaine and spinach, glistening with extra virgin olive oil & sea salt.
Egg white omelet with organic chicken breast, tomato and cilantro served on a spinach arugula salad with goat cheese and dressed with our lemon vinaigrette.
Organic tofu, organic spinach, mushroom, tomato, bell pepper, onion, cilantro and avocado. Served with fruit and toast.
Egg white omelet topped with banana, dates, walnuts and avocado with a light drizzle of extra virgin olive oil and sea salt.
Oven-roasted turkey breast layered with cashews, cranberries, avocado and an organic peanut butter strawberry spread, served with a Caesar slaw salad.
Oven-roasted turkey breast layered with organic hummus, roasted red bell pepper, kalamata olive, avocado, feta cheese and walnuts and served with a garden salad.
Organic quinoa, grilled chicken breast, roasted red bell pepper, kalamata olive, cucumber, parsley, roasted pine nuts and feta cheese. Dressed with extra virgin olive oil and sea salt.
Grilled chicken breast, red cabbage, black bean, roasted almonds and avocado with our balsamic dressing.
Grilled chicken breast, organic kale, roasted bell pepper, basil, red cabbage and onion with our balsamic dressing.
Grilled chicken breast, beet, cucumber, carrot, tomato, onion, red cabbage and avocado with our Chinese dressing.
Grilled chicken breast, organic kale, red cabbage, mandarin orange, carrot and roasted pine nuts, dressed with extra virgin olive oil and sea salt.
Organic crunchy peanut butter and organic strawberry preserves.
Organic crunchy peanut butter, fresh mango and a sprinkle of cayenne pepper.
Organic cruncy peanut butter, banana slices and honey.
Avocado, cucumber, tomato, red onion, Romaine lettuce, Provolone cheese, mustard and sun-dried tomato pesto.
Organic hummus spread, sliced organic tofu, tomato, cucumber and Dijon, served with almonds and olives.
Dolphin safe albacore tuna salad, served with Romaine lettuce, tomato, red onion, mayo and sun dried tomato pesto.
Made with oven-roasted turkey breast, provolone cheese, tomato, red onion, Romaine lettuce, mayo, mustard and sun dried tomato pesto.
Made with oven-roasted turkey breast, blue cheese crumbles, roasted red bell pepper, tomato, red onion, cucumber and mayo.
Oven roasted turkey breast, Provolone cheese, cashew, dried crandberry, carrot and our fresh basil pesto.
Grilled chicken breast, provolone cheese, basil, tomato, onion and our sumac aioli.
Grilled chicken breast, Romaine lettuce, tomato, grated parmesan and our Caesar dressing.
Genoa salami, capocolla, provolone cheese, romaine lettuce, tomato & our fresh basil pesto.
Oven-roasted turkey breast, lots of fresh cilantro, avocado, red bell pepper and a zesty peanut spread, wrapped in a wheat tortilla.
Oven-roasted turkey breast, organic hummus, tomato, cucumber, kalamata olives, fresh basil, feta cheese and roasted pine nuts, wrapped in a wheat tortilla.
Norwegian smoked salmon,tomato, onion, capers and a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil, served on multi-grain bread.
Get any salad in a tortilla wrap.
Includes 1/2 sandwich, soup and a salad.Please call the restaurant for today's soup selections.
Organic hummus dip, Kalamata olives and roasted almonds, served with organic blue corn chips and crisp veggies.
Organic egg, cheddar and your choice of meat.
Grilled toast and cheddar. Served with fresh fruit or organic chips.
Nutella spread and sliced green apple on multigrain bread. Served with organic chips.
Turkey, provolone cheese and mayo. Served with fresh fruit or organic chips.
Tuna Salad, edamame and organic chips.
Baguette medallions with Nutella spread.
Organic peanut butter and organic strawberry preserves. Served with fresh fruit or organic chips.