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D. Geraint Lewis was the Education and Children's Librarian for Dyfed before being appointed Area Librarian for Ceredigion. Following the reorganisation of 1996 he was until his retirement the Assistant Director of Education in charge of Ceredigion's Cultural Services. He has been the Honorary Secretary of the Welsh Books Council since 1986 and was the winner in 1996 of the Tir na n-Og award for his dictionary Geiriadur Gomer yr Ifanc.
In 1967 I was a post-graduate student whose grant had dried up and who managed to get a job as a library assistant at Aberystwyth town library. 'Culture shock' is not too strong a term for what I experienced there. I was a Welsh learner from a South Wales mining village many of whose evenings were now to be spent as quizmaster in Welsh book quizzes held in the tiny rural villages throughout the county. I was aware of teachers and heads being cajoled or harangued into writing material for children's book publishing competitions, and saw the Vale of Rheidol steam engine delivering books up the line. Everywhere there were poets. Poets being celebrated for their national significance or poets writing in celebration of other peoples' achievements and the driving force behind all this was the somewhat fearsome county librarian Alun R. Edwards.
Alun Edwards (following the tragically early death of the first County Librarian) on his appointment became the youngest County Librarian in Wales and was steadfastly determined to prove himself to be the best. He continued the innovations of his predecessor which included a service to all of the 90 or more primary schools scattered throughout the county. That is, until he was stopped in his tracks by the headmistress of one of these schools who accused him of destroying any interest that children might have in Welsh by flooding the county's schools with English books.
This was Alun Edwards's Damascene experience. From this point on, while not neglecting his professional commitments, these became increasingly channeled into ensuring the provision of Welsh-language books for children and popular reading for adults.
He harnessed the support of his fellow librarians (not all of them of course, for when did that ever happen?), their respective committees and more importantly their county councilors. On the education front he established a series of competitions to discover new authors and he helped support the publication of their work by means of a scheme of guaranteed sales. This scheme spread from county to county to be taken over eventually by the Welsh Joint Education Committee. On the adult front he set up a series of book societies to promote and help publish popular books for adults. However, the powers in Whitehall were suspicious of this demagogue from the wild West and despite the most carefully prepared plans of the counties, opted to support the University of Wales Press Board as the means of distributing a new government publishing grant to support books for adults. However the societies continued to flourish and with the support of some heavyweight councilors eventually combined to become in 1961 The Welsh Books Council.
The single most important act of the new Books Council was to appoint a Cardiganshire headmaster Alun Creunant Davies as its Director. He was a towering figure who could, when necessary impose his presence on a meeting and when necessary proceed there as delicately as a cat. His vision, which remains at the heart of the Council, was the establishment of a book distribution centre. From the humblest of beginnings it has now developed into the modern commercial, internet linked centre at Llanbadarn.
During Alun Creunant Davies's directorship were established the key services of the Council: the Editorial, Design, Publicity and Marketing Departments. Tribute must be be paid here to the vision of the Arts Council's Literature director, Meic Stephens, who succeeded in finding funding to establish and sustain these departments. In successive reviews of Welsh-language reading needs the role of the Books Council became increasingly important. It was charged with administering a new government grant for providing recreational reading materials for children. The transfer of the government grant for books for adults (from the University of Wales Press) soon followed. If Alun Creunant Davies's first priority was to provide a modern book distribution centre, then his final act was to find an appropriate home for the Council at Castell Brychan.
With his vision and commitment, Alun Creunant Davies succeeded in attracting to the Council extremely able members of staff , and it was one such member who succeeded him as Director in 1987. Gwerfyl Pierce Jones had been head of the Editorial and Publicity Departments, latterly combining this post with that of deputy Director of the Council.
Amongst the various County Treasurers who acted as the Council's honorary Treasurer, Alun Creunant Davies's fame rested on what must be deemed the Welsh version of creative accounting to keep the Council's financial head above water. Gwerfyl Pierce Jones's first task was to clear this Augean stable and establish the Council on a firm financial footing with the Book Distribution Centre as its self-sustaining core. The Council's funding was derived from a number of sources, Local Government, the Welsh Office, the Welsh Arts Council and latterly the Welsh Language Board. Gwerfyl Pierce Jones's lasting legacy was the rationalisation of these complicated and piecemeal funding arrangements and the establishment of the Books Council as a highly respected national organisation directly funded by central government. Needless to say, this did not happen overnight and the situation became
Increasingly difficult in the 1990s following local government reorganisation, when the eight large Councils became 22 Councils, each of which had to be approached separately with regard to funding, and even more significantly when the Welsh Office decided to channel the government (publishing) grants through the newly established Welsh Language Board. With so many other needs to be met, books and reading did not feature large within the Welsh Language Board priorities and grant aid for books languished and declined. In a bold move, Gwerfyl Pierce Jones brought together the publishers, the booksellers, authors and librarians to set out a joint strategy for the future of writing and publishing in Welsh, and the new Welsh Assembly Government was persuaded to put this strategy under scrutiny. The result was a very challenging review, but one which concluded that for economic, cultural and organisational reasons, the Books Council must receive independent grant in aid from the Assembly Government to support and develop the very important SME publishing industry in Wales. This brought a new lease of life and injection of funding, perhaps best exemplified in the magnificent Gwales book site on the Internet. Following this decision the Arts Council of Wales soon recommended the cessation of its own responsibilities for publishing and the Welsh Books Council was given additional responsibilities, including for the first time, responsibility for administering grants for English -language publishing. The Arts Council was unique in its support for English- language writing in Wales and the transfer of its grant gave the Welsh Books Council the responsibility for developing the publishing industry in Wales in its entirety, in both Welsh and English. Soon after, the National Assembly's Culture Committee undertook a review of the much neglected field of English-language writing in Wales.
With the help of the sure guiding hand of Professor M.Wynn Thomas of Swansea University, the Culture Committee came to a similar conclusion as that reached with regard to Welsh-language publishing and a glance at any of the national papers of Wales will reveal the burgeoning developments of books in Wales in both languages.
The shift in funding resulted in a shift in function with publishers now taking a far greater responsibility for the books they produce. The Books Council through its grants panels conscientiously monitors and feeds back on the quality of this production.
Elwyn Jones succeeded Gwerfyl Pierce Jones as Director in 2009. The high ground had been won by his predecessor and he was taking charge during a period of serious economic recession. However the authority and competence demonstrated by the Council during the good years have borne fruit during these troubled times. Grants have not been reduced to the extent that they could have been, a new role with regard to encouraging the promotion of literacy is being supported by the Welsh Government and the Council is actively pursuing developments in the field of electronic publishing.
I succeeded Alun Edwards as Honorary Secretary of the Welsh Books Council in 1986, as I succeeded him as Librarian of Ceredigion in 1979. The burning conviction of the importance of books in Welsh and in English for Wales remains. The Welsh Books Council is one of the few, if not the only, institution that relies on unpaid, voluntary, book people who are as dedicated to this view as were the original founders of the Council. Panel members read, review, report and recommend on everything that the Council supports publishers to produce.
This is the cultural imperative upon which the Welsh Books Council is based, and because of it, the tensions that arise between the differing priorities of publishers, bookshops, authors and librarians become a source of strength not of contention. Given such a base, this body, I believe, will continue to survive those external vicissitudes that will inevitably beset it.
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2D Boy's pay-what-you-like sale on World of Goo has ended, with statistics showing that Brazilians are generous, PC gamers are cheap, and posting mid-point results is an excellent way to up your price averages.
On October 13th, developer 2D Boy launched a birthday sale for World of Goo for the PC, Linux, and Mac, allowing customers to pay whatever amount they felt the game was worth, from $.01 on up. On the 20th they extended the sale through October 25th after delivering a set of sales statistics that delivered an important message: they were watching.
Once customers knew 2D Boy was keeping track of sales numbers, the average price-per-purchase jumped a small yet significant amount. 2D Boy attributes this leap to the fact that they let folks know that they received no money from purchases under $.30. I'd like to attribute it to the fact that people were suddenly more aware of how cheap they were being, adjusting their purchases accordingly.
The chart at the top of this post shows the average price paid for World of Goo per platform over the course of the sale, and as you can plainly see, PC gamers took full advantage of the developer's generosity. One could argue that there are a lot more of them, but that could also mean PC gamers had more of a chance to shine. The results don't surprise me though, as Mac users are so hip that people just hand them cash on the street, and Linux users passed along the money they saved on buying an operating system.
2D Boy's website also features a chart showing the average donation by country, which they calculated into the per-capita gross domestic product of each country to determine each country's generosity. While Switzerland paid the highest on average, their generosity was only a 3.23 compared to Brazil's 5.62.
And what of the United States, the country with the second highest GDP behind Norway? Our generosity is a 1.0, paying a measly $1.83 a copy. Way to represent, America!


text: Here at Dodge, we take building cars seriously. But that's not to say we don't have a sense of humor. Take the latest advertising campaign for Dodge Dart, for example. We handpicked two of the funniest comedians around to show you what it's like to own a brand-new Dart and what it's like to wish you did.Read More


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"Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage." C.S. Lewis
Tragedy can cause us either to become bitter or better. Scarlett Lewis lost her little boy Jesse in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. She made a choice early on in the midst of her grief to choose life and to forgive. Not everyone can muster that kind of courage. But if it can be found, and shared, it becomes a very powerful message indeed, spoken from the most extraordinary and unique platform.
Years ago, a friend of ours lost her husband in a robbery. At his funeral, she stood up and said something that I will never forget. She challenged us all (as well as herself, I would imagine) to choose forgiveness, not for the sake of the murderer, but for our own sakes. She said if we harbour hate it will fester and harm us. It will eat at us from the inside out. She was right, but at that moment, it was only she who could say it.
The title of this book comes from three words Scarlett Lewis discovered on her kitchen chalkboard after the shooting. They were in a misspelled child's script – Jesse's script. It was as if Jesse himself was encouraging her and telling her how she should go on without him. Finding hope amidst a series of comforting signs such as this, and benefitting from a solid faith, Lewis was able to move towards healing. In this little book she openly shares her journey. She spoke at Jesse's funeral and asked everyone who was at the service to consciously change every angry thought to a loving one – to always choose love. Her "Choose Love" campaign resulted in this book and the Jesse Lewis Choose Love Foundation which develops programs that teach children about the power each of us has to choose a life without fear and hate.


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Prapat Jiwarangsan: I will never smile again
Installation Art Exhibition
Opening Reception: Thursday 2 February 2012, 7pm
2 February –31 March 2012
Artist kindly asks your corporation to only wear black and white color when attending this opening reception.
WTF Gallery is pleased to announce the art installation, "I will never smile again" by Prapat Jiwarangsan. Newly graduated from Royal College of Art, London, Prapat's work depicts the personal psychological confusion arising from Thailand's political and social/class conflicts. The exhibition is both politically and socially inspired and underlines the current tension surrounding Thailand's complex relationship with personal liberty and freedom of expression. The exhibition's concept derives from his experiences during his fine-art study in London, funded by the Thai Government. Through his obligatory relationship with; frequent attendance at; and finally exhibiting his work in; the Royal Embassy of Thailand-London, Prapat observes the extended meaning of social and diplomatic protocol conveyed within objects on the premises that translate into political meaning. Underlying much of the work is the 2010 violence in Bangkok that projected a reign of terror and confusion (particularly when viewed from outside of his home country,) that Prapat conveys with acute sensitivity to politics and contemporary society in an ongoing conceptual engagement.
Searching for truth is not the objective of this show. What matters is critical discourse, inquiry, comparison, change of outlook, understanding matters which are beyond your prediction and the value of being human, as well as the subjects who are acclaimed to be above humans. Whether you can see or are able to interpret the message clearly depends largely on the ability to perceive meaning beneath the surface "truths" of the artworks. All matters shown here are for you to consider whether you can still smile at these fictions.
Born in 1979, Prapat graduated with a Master of Fine Art from Royal College of Art, London in 2011. He is currently working as Artist and officer at Office of Contemporary Art and Culture, Ministry of Culture, Thailand. His works have been shown in Bangkok and London.
The exhibition comprises 10 works including photo collages, installations, video art and multimedia works, created in 2010-2012. The exhibition is a continued version of his show in Royal Thai Embassy, London titled "The Impossible Dream", incorporating the mutation of meaning under evolving contexts and new environments, depicting the interaction of the human mind and artistic rendering into political meaning.
Opening times: Tuesday – Sunday, 4-10pm
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NAME Wicket
HOBBIES Playing with balls, chasing the stream from a hose
Go to work," Aimee Hurt calls. It's a cool August afternoon in Montana's Blackfoot Valley. Dressed in an orange vest and bear bells, Wicket begins sweeping across the trail, running in wide arcs, jumping downed trees, traveling with her nose high, mouth wide open. We follow the 3-year-old Lab cross through a recently logged patch of woods at the base of the Scapegoat Wilderness.
Wicket narrows in on an area, becomes more focused, tail wagging furiously. Suddenly, she stops, sits down and stares at her handler. Hurt walks over to investigate her find. "Good girl!" she yells, and tosses Wicket her favorite toy. "It could be grizzly," Hurt says, pulling out a bag to collect the sample for analysis. Some dogs lead the blind, others sniff out drugs or explosives. Wicket's specialty is poop: grizzly, black bear, cougar and wolf. A specially trained scat-detection dog, Wicket is conducting science in a whole new way. She and a growing team of dogs like her are making significant contributions to conservation efforts in the West and around the globe.
With the DNA extracted from the scat Wicket finds, scientists can identify species and sex, and potentially determine population size, home range, paternity and kinship. The analysis of endocrine extracted from scat can even determine the reproductive status of the animals.
Armed with hundreds of millions of scent-sensitive cells, compared to the dismal few hundred possessed by humans, dogs are ideal for scat-detection work. But not all dogs are employable. As Megan Parker, co-founder of Working Dogs for Conservation Foundation (WDCF), points out, "Most people would describe these dogs as psycho."
Hurt, also a co-founder of WDCF, came across Wicket at Pintler Pets, a shelter in Anaconda, Mont., when the pup was just 12 months old. An employee contacted her about a different dog, but that mildly playful mutt lacked the off-the-charts energy and drive necessary for a scat-dog's line of work. A stroll through the kennel led Hurt to Wicket, who was bouncing off the walls, completely ball-obsessed. "When I described to the shelter worker which dog I wanted to take for a try-out, she said, 'That one's crazy,' " says Hurt. "Turned out to be the right kind of crazy." Wicket had been passed over for the last six months, but her day had finally come.
After just nine weeks of intensive training, Wicket went to work. Now, she is in her third season on the Wildlife Conservation Society's Centennial Carnivore Connectivity Project, an attempt to determine the habitat selection and movement patterns of the four critical carnivore species whose scat are Wicket's specialty. The Centennials serve as a migratory corridor between the Yellowstone area and central Idaho's Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness. Connecting these two areas is essential for preventing genetic isolation of these species.
This fall, Wicket will begin work for the Missoula, Mont.-based Rocky Mountain Research Station. She'll be part of an ongoing study of the elusive fisher. Fishers - a relative of the weasel - are rare in the Rocky Mountains; they have been found only in north-central Idaho and west-central Montana. Researchers plan to employ a variety of survey methods - including Wicket's skills - to learn more about how and why this carnivore is so rare in this area.
Wicket's work is deeply important to her human handlers and to all the scientists who use the data she uncovers. But for Wicket herself, it's all about a romp through the woods for a few minutes of ball time, her coveted reward for a successful find.
When not on the job, Wicket spends her downtime obsessing over the hose. She sits by the spigot in her yard, eagerly waiting for some sucker to turn it on so she can chase the stream. According to Hurt, "She'll wait quietly, but shiver with anticipation while we water the garden before her turn."
In the end, she is still that crazy dog from the shelter.
The author writes from Missoula, Montana.


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|Over a dozen new green home designs are almost here. Pictured to the left is the updated Enesti. We added an optional bedroom on the ground floor. These plans are complete, and the new house measures a tidy 774 square feet for the 3 bedroom version (ground floor pictured on top). When you purchase the plans, you'll receive plans for both the 2 bedroom and 3 bedroom versions. The bottom picture features the side view of the house with the additional room.
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The camera suddenly turns off
The camera turns off by itself after recording movies or when continuous shooting for a short amount of time.
Check the following:
- Check whether power-save mode is on.If you do not operate the product for a certain period of time, the camera enters power-save mode. Power-save is released by performing operations such as pressing the shutter button halfway. You can change the length of time before the camera enters power-save mode. For details, refer to the manual.
- Check whether same thing happens with another battery pack.If you have several battery packs, try another battery pack. If the same thing does not happen with another battery pack, there may be a malfunction in the battery pack.
If the camera turns off by itself after recording movies or when continuous shooting, please check the following.
When using the camera to record long movie clips or shooting many continuous bursts of still pictures, the temperature inside the camera increases. If the temperature becomes too high, a warning icon may appear and the camera shuts down to protect the circuitry. This is not a failure; the camera simply needs to be turned off for several minutes so it can cool down.
The length of time you allow the camera to cool affects the amount of time you can use it after being turned back on. The longer you allow it to cool, the longer it will take before the internal temperature builds up again. If the camera does not have enough time to cool, the camera will turn off again after a very short period. The cool down time can take up to 10 minutes or longer depending on the camera and environment.
NOTE: If after checking on the suggestions above and the camera still turns off or a temperature warning indicator is showing up, update the firmware of your camera, if possible.
To maximize the available continuous recording time for movies, you can do the following:
- Format the memory card in the camera.
WARNING: There is a risk of data loss. Formatting erases all the data from the memory card. Make sure any pictures or movies you want to keep have been saved to a computer before formatting.
- Avoid exposing the camera to direct sunlight as much as possible.
- Turn off the power when the camera is not in use.
- For DSLR and SLT models, set SteadyShot to Off.
- When you have SteadyShot turned off, using a tripod will help reduce the shakiness of your video.
- For some SLT models the image stabilization is automatically cancelled when recording movies. For this reason it may not always be necessary to turn off SteadyShot during movie recording.
IMPORTANT: The duration of time available for movie recording varies with the temperature or condition of the camera before you start recording. Any time the camera is on, the internal temperature will increase. This includes when you're actually shooting video or still images, and when not actively using the camera, such as when you're recomposing a shot.
NOTE: Capturing video with DSLR and compact cameras is growing in popularity. These cameras are great for recording short movie clips, but are not designed to replace the non-stop video recording capability of camcorders. All manufacturers in the DSLR and compact digital camera industry have defined a limit of up to 29 minutes, 50 seconds for continuous video recording with these cameras. This limit, however, can often be much shorter depending on the camera. In fact, one brand is limited to 12 minutes and another brand DSLR is limited to 20 minutes. Sony interchangeable lens cameras have an upward limit of 29 minutes, 50 seconds for non-stop video recording. This time will be affected by a number of factors, including ambient temperature, the number of clips being recorded at once, and the amount of time the camera is allowed to cool between clips.


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Assassin's Creed Unity E3 2014 Trailer: Cinematic Assassinations
Ubisoft presented a trailer for Assassin's Creed Unity along with a gameplay demonstration as part of its E3 2014 press briefing.
Creative Director Alex Amancio commented that the game takes place during the dawn of the 19th century and the French revolution. Players will be playing the single campaign through the eyes of a new character named Arno.
In addition to the four person co-op that was revealed during the Xbox E3 2014 press briefing, Amancio added that the core experience was redesigned for players to carve unique paths and immerse themselves into the open-world environment established in Unity.
Assassin's Creed Unity is expected to be released in late 2014 for Xbox One, Playstation 4 and PC.
Check out the demo below to see how co-op works in the game.


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MODIS Overview
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) is a 36-channel visible to thermal-infrared sensor. It was first launched on 18 December 1999 on the Terra satellite, the flagship of NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS) program. A second MODIS was deployed on the Aqua satellite on 04 May 2002.
The MODIS instruments on Terra and Aqua image the same area on Earth at approximately 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. (local time), respectively. Working in tandem, these sensors optimize cloud-free surface viewing and provide opportunities to investigate processes that occur on sub-daily time scales. NSIDC archives and distributes a suite of snow cover and sea ice data sets derived from MODIS observations.


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PCG (Philadelphia Church of God)
Philadelphia Church of God Leads the Laodicean Era (Part 1)
When Gerald Flurry wasn't anything in his own sight or mind God used him and now, unfortunately, it appears to have gone to his head, all the new revelation (simply a deeper understanding of some things), and he forgets that all truth is from and belongs to GOD and that God can use a donkey to deliver it (1 Cor. 4:7). Gerald Flurry has become so swollen in his own imagination that he fails to see that he is the leader of LAODICEA! He knows what warning God is giving the Laodiceans, of which he is chief! He had better heed his own words...
Philadelphia Church of God Leads Laodicean Era (Conclusion)
"It's certainly not my place to determine if what you believe God has shown you is true or not, but would you mind presenting Mr. Flurry with an abbreviated version of what you feel is inspired... as I highly doubt that he would have time to read your whole book."
Stephen Flurry and The Philadelphia Church of God
Stephen Flurry, son of Gerald Flurry, pastor general of the Philadelphia Church of God (based in Edmond, Oklahoma), has published a book that Amazon sells, Raising the Ruins: The Fight to Revive the Legacy of Herbert W. Armstrong.
The Work of God Must Go Forward!
The Work of God must go forward. The only work that's left to do now is focus on the NATIONAL LEVEL. We must get out God's ultimatum and fast! Europe is on the rise and Jerusalem is getting international attention (Zech. 14:2). Soon God's two witnesses will rise and shine in a world of darkness (Isa. 60:1-2). God's about to restore His lamp to the Middle East! (Rev. 11:3; 1 Kgs. 11:36; Amos 9:11; Zech. 12:8).
PCG: Carrying on Business as Usual
If you truly saw what is coming on this Earth, and had a vision of tomorrow, you would know that the Gathering Storm darkens as you sip champagne and boast that you're rich and in need of nothing, woefully ignorant that the Two Witnesses will soon be wearing sackcloth and fasting, not wining and dining at black tie dinners!
The Church of God Must Warn the World!
We know that certain prophecies were not to be fulfilled until these "last days." Therefore their sealed messages weren't to break their silence until the appointed time (Dan. 12:9). With the advent of the nuclear age, we've been living, for the first time in history, with the weapons of mass destruction that can erase all life from off planet Earth! (Matt. 24:21-22).
Politics in the Church of God Hinders Progress
Gerald Flurry refused to go forward with Beyond Babylon and fell backwards, treading old ground and is now going in circles, business as usual, as Europe rises and Judah and Israel have yet to be warned.
Worldwide Church Of God All Over Again?
Let's see to it that Philadelphia Church of God (Judah) doesn't go the way of the Worldwide Church of God (Israel). These biblical principles still apply: don't put undue trust in men; work out your own salvation, it's not a group affair; beware the scholarly approach that demands you rely on men - not God's Spirit or personal Bible study.
The Watchmen
"I have set Watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem"
God has called us to do a Work! Anyone can and should do good works in private, but God has called us collectively to COME OUT OF THE CLOSET and deliver His Message! We're to help save individuals and nations from the coming Holocaust!
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When getting together with family and friends over the Holidays you want to appreciate the people you have in your life. You can show them how much you appreciate them by preparing a great Holiday Party.
The majority of people these days celebrate all kinds of Holidays and with those different holidays come different kind of parties. For instance barbecues and pool parties in Fourth of July, dinner parties on Thanksgiving while a Christmas party can be a Cocktail party. Holiday party planning is not much different then planning other types of parties. You still have to invite people and make sure that you have enough food for your guests. Consider the venue, renting tables or chairs and maybe buying party supplies. If you are planning a Christmas party not only do you have to think of the party but you also have to incorporate the gift shopping, holiday decorations and all the other Christmas preparations.So you can ask someone to plan the party with you or for you, like a party-planner.
When throwing a Holiday party the theme is already chosen for you. What you have to do is sit down and do some research and put the time and money into the little things that makes your party unique. Consider doing a fabulous invitation. Change it up. Why not buy a small gift for all your guests and wrap it as a gift with the invitation on it, then send it to their home. Especially around Christmas and Hanukkah time, it is a much appreciated and fun invitation. You can send the invitation rolled up and tied with a string. There are so many things you can do; it only takes a little imagination. At Holiday times you get away with having some imagination, making the silly or impossible, possible.
Everybody looks forward to Holiday parties, it is the few parties during the year that you can let loose and forget the daily grind and pressures of life. We all look forward to have a good time. I think it is fun to be the host especially when your well planned party sticks with people and as each year goes by they still remember your party, saying; "that was the holiday that we went to so and so's place".
Above all have fun and enjoy the company of friends and family.


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When you're an Apple Music member, all the music you already have lives right alongside just about every song ever recorded. Plus, experts help you find the right music—hand-selecting songs, artists, and albums based on what you already listen to and like. You'll also hear the best new music in the world on Beats 1, broadcasting live from Los Angeles, New York, and London, and can listen to curated radio stations based on genres and themes. Join and get the first three months free, then get access to the full Apple Music catalog, and expert recommendations. All the music you want—$9.99 per month for an individual membership and $14.99 for a family membership of up to six (requires iCloud Family Sharing).
Pandora® is a personalized radio service that will change the way you discover and listen to music. Powered by the Music Genome Project®, the most comprehensive music analysis ever undertaken, Pandora is personalized radio that plays what you love and continually evolves with your tastes. Start with the name of an artist, song, genre, or comedian, and create a station. Then sit back and listen. It's that simple. Not sure what to listen to? Browse through our hundreds of curated genre stations to find the perfect match for your mood. Personalizing your listening experience has never been easier. Loving a song? Give it a thumbs up, and we'll play more like it. Not loving it? Give it a thumbs down, and that song won't play again on that station. When you subscribe to Pandora Plus™, you'll get ad-free listening Pandora Plus also streams music at a higher quality (192kbps).
Spotify gives you access to any song, anytime, to any Sonos player in your house. Just search for an artist, album, or track and hit play. You can create playlists, or collaborate with a friend to make the ultimate mix. All you need is a Spotify Premium subscription.
Amazon Music allows listeners to enjoy music any way they want, through exclusive offerings like Amazon Music Unlimited, Amazon MP3, the music included with their Amazon Prime membership, and more. As an Amazon Prime member, you enjoy a growing selection of over two million songs, plus playlists and stations–all delivered ad-free as part of your membership. With Amazon Music Unlimited, you'll unlock tens of millions of additional songs along with weekly new releases, on-demand and ad-free.
Google Play Music makes it easy to explore, share, store, and listen to your favorite music. Play millions of songs instantly from anywhere on any device. Get free cloud storage for up to 20,000 tracks, create custom radio stations, and enjoy smart recommendations that get smarter the more you play. Together we've created a whole new way to experience music.
Listen to over 155 channels of SiriusXM, including commercial-free music, plus play-by-play and sports talk, world class news, comedy, exclusive entertainment and more. Plus with SiriusXM On Demand you can replay hundreds of interviews and live events, all from the comfort of your home.
The SiriusXM Music for Business service is designed exclusively for commercial businesses. The lineup has over 100 expertly-programmed music channels that are perfect for restaurants, waiting rooms, retail stores, hotels, salons, dentist offices and more. A SiriusXM Music for Business subscription includes the ASCAP, BMI and SESAC royalty fees required for a business to play our music in public.
With SoundCloud on Sonos, hear millions of tracks from the world's largest community of artists, bands, podcasters, comedians, and more in your home. Wherever you are, whatever you're doing – SoundCloud lets you hear more. Upgrade to SoundCloud Go to access and stream an expanded catalog of more than 125 million tracks.
From Chopin to 2 Chainz, we have all your favorite music ready to stream to every room in the house. Pick from over 40 million tracks, choose a playlist to fit your mood or kick back and let Deezer Flow blend old favorites with new music recommended just for you. Start your free trial now for ad-free music and great sound quality.
Listen to the world's music, sports and news on TuneIn. With millions of listening options, TuneIn lets you hear what's happening right now on radio stations globally, or enjoy on-demand programs, like podcasts, concerts and interviews. Stream it all in every room of your home. Free service.
Meet your new music collection. It's more than just internet radio. This is the power to play the music you love anytime, anywhere. Choose from millions of songs and entire albums to create playlists of your own or sit back and relax with Napster unRadio where we bring the music to you. Enjoy these highlights with a Napster subscription on your Sonos. Ad-free music, pure listening, That's more time to play and discover the music you want. Just sit back, relax and hit play. Music experts at your service. Our editorial team is dedicated to bringing the music to you: sample playlists from every genre, ad-free featured radio stations, new releases and perfectly curated playlists for every occasion. Listen using your Sonos, computer, or just about any device in between. It´s music where you want, when you want it. Get the free Napster app for your smartphone, tablet and, computer. Play the music you love anytime, anywhere with Napster.
FIND: The Best of Live Radio. Listen to more than 1,500 live radio stations from coast-to-coast including pop, country, urban, rock, talk, and college. Browse radio stations by music genre and location, and let our DJs know what songs are hot or not by giving them a thumbs up or thumbs down. CREATE: Personalized, All-Music Custom Stations. Simply pick a song or artist to create your own commercial-free, uninterrupted Custom Station featuring music from that artist and similar ones. Choose from our catalog of over 18 million songs and 450,000 artists. ANYTIME, ANYWHERE, ALWAYS FREE: Take Your Favorite Radio Stations & Music Wherever You Go Log in to iHeartRadio through email or Facebook to make iHeartRadio uniquely yours. Create, save, and share your stations from wherever you access iHeartRadio.
7digital's store offers a catalogue of millions of high quality digital music tracks. Your purchases are automatically kept in the 7digital 'cloud based' locker for secure storage. You can access your music wherever you want and through multiple devices on any operating system. Simply sign in to stream all your 7digital music instantly through your Sonos system for a great listening experience in your home. Free Service.
Founded in 2000, AccuRadio is expertly curated Internet radio that offers more than 1,000 hand-crafted channels of rock, pop, jazz, country, classical, R&B, pop standards, Broadway, Celtic, reggae, Christmas music and more. AccuRadio offers unlimited skips and is 100% free - listen now!
Add music to your day with Anghami, and make it louder with Sonos! With millions of arabic and international songs, Anghami recommends music that perfectly suits your mood and taste. With Anghami's Personal DJ, play the right music for your house party this weekend, or while cooking in the kitchen, or sleeping in your bedroom. Oh, and let's not forget music while you shower! Music is in pure Dolby, so you can play top quality music on your Sonos.
Audiobooks.com provides the first on-demand streaming and downloadable service for audiobooks, delivering access on any Internet-enabled smartphone or PC, including Apple iPhones, iPads, Android smartphones or tablet devices, and now Sonos. The company is the first and only provider of Cloud Bookmarking, its proprietary technology that synchronizes users' last listened-to bookmark position across all devices.
Discover amazing new music and directly support the artists who make it. Create your own music collection, download or stream your purchases, and follow fans and artists whose taste you love. With a free Bandcamp fan account, you can listen to your purchases on the go via our apps for Android and iOS, or in any room in your home with Bandcamp for Sonos.
Select from hundreds of thousands of songs available on over 200 exclusive genre radio stations and over 14,000 artist radio stations to set your own personal musical experience. Create your own stations; tell us what songs, artist and genres you like or don't like and let Batanga do the rest. Batanga is on the Web, iPhone or iPad, Android and at your home with SONOS. Login to access the music you love for free.
CalmRadio.com is an internet radio station specializing in Acoustic, Classical, Jazz, Ambient, Country, World Music as well as an extensive Classical Composers category. Plus! Enjoy our extensive selection of Atmosphere channels...especially crafted for sleeping, working ambience and for sufferers of ringing-in-the-ears or Tinnitus. We have one of the largest and most extensive selection of music channels anywhere...over 140 channels and more to come! All our channels are delivered to you in high resolution 192K CD quality sound.
Classical Archives: the largest classical music site in the world! Classical Archives (ClassicalArchives.com) brings the largest collection of classical music recordings in the world to SONOS! This service presents close to 1.5 million tracks (90,000 albums) by 18,000 composers and 70,000 performers. Classical Archives is proud of the care and expertise with which our inventory is categorized. Our musicologists and computer scientists have developed a unique Contextual Metadata Engine which compares all incoming recordings to a canonical list of compositions. This allows all albums, works, movement titles, artists and composer names to be displayed and cross-linked with the care and accuracy classical music lovers expect.
Unlimited streaming access is less than $8/month (or, better: $80/year).
You will be able to:
• Create and share playlists
• Search by composer, performer (artist), album and tracks
Concert Vault is the world's greatest collection of exclusive live concerts from the '50s to the present day, all available for high quality streaming to Concert Vault Members. Choose from thousands of shows from any of eight music genre channels, Featured Playlists created by our curators, and more. Concert Vault is only one place where you can hear Bill Graham introduce the Allman Brothers at the Fillmore East, Bon Iver's Daytrotter set recorded just before they rocketed to stardom, and everything in between. With new exclusive releases every week there is always a new live experience for every kind of fan.
We're all about music for business. You want to set the right vibe and get customers in tune with your brand. We make that easy by creating a streaming music experience that reflects the heart and soul of your business. Music conscious brands can now go beyond background music to update their sound. When you're looking for a music service for your business, you want to work with a company that cares as much about your music as you do; a company that lives, eats and breathes music; a company that's not distracted trying to be all things to all people; a company that's instead focused on providing your business with the best possible music. We provide outstanding, individualized service for clients that range from one location to hundreds. Upscale restaurants, sandwich shops, fitness clubs, medical/dental offices, grocery stores, coffee shops and hair salons are just a few of the businesses that say "my music is from Custom Channels!"
Listen to your favorite radio shows and stations whenever and wherever you want, thanks to DAR.fm on Sonos. Simply browse or search to find what interests you—sports, news, talk, and music—and DAR.fm will record and store them for you. Now you can tune in to virtually unlimited radio content in any room of the house—based on your schedule, not the station's. Pause, rewind or fast forward to get to the good stuff. Free service. Available everywhere in English only.
Dash Radio is comprised of the world's biggest DJ's curating the best music over a wide variety of stations. All music is curated and is algorithm free to ensure the best listener experience. This means all the variety you ever wanted with zero commercials, live 24/7 for free.
Daytrotter gives you something special - exclusive, re-worked, alternate versions of old songs and unreleased tracks by some of your favorite (and soon to be favorite) bands, recorded live, that capture the heart of their music at that moment in time - dirty and alive. Explore Daytrotter now - your new favorite band is just a click away. Members get full high-quality streaming through Sonos, free downloads from our site, and a free Daytrotter vinyl every 12 months.
FIT Radio Workout Music: The only fitness app that provides you with non-stop, high energy music of all genres designed to motivate your workout. Dubbed the "Pandora for gym rats" by Mashable with features in SELF Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Forbes, Women's Running, Health, P90x and more. It takes a lot of time and energy to search for and download music for your workout. What you typically listen to throughout the day may not be what keeps you moving at the gym. With FIT Radio, manually putting together upbeat playlists for the gym is now a thing of the past. Thousands of mixes are all in one easy place for listeners to simply choose their favorite genre, push play and go! The music never stops, not even for ads and we upload new mixes daily, providing users with hot tracks the moment they hit the dance floor. Ideal for those on the move, FIT Radio gives smartphone and web users access to high-energy playlists in a variety of musical genres, offering a randomization of 15–20 mixes in each genre at any given time. Using the smartphone app, FIT Radio users can stream a wide range of daily-updated playlists of top 40, rock, hip-hop, house, EDM, indie, and more. Each playlist is made by a professional DJ.
Focus@Will: SUPERCHARGE YOUR BRAIN! Reduce distractions while you work and study with this scientifically proven music streaming service. Multiple channels individually customized for your brain type, maximizing your cognitive performance. Almost a million users agree: If you want to get serious about dealing with distractions, nothing compares to Focus@Will. 14 DAY, FREE, NO RISK TRIAL.
Gaana gives you unlimited access to all your favorite Indian music - Bollywood, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Kannada, Punjabi, Malayalam, Bhojpuri, Rajasthani, Bengali, Assamese, Oriya & many more regional songs on one platform. Brought to you by India's favorite music service - Gaana.com Listen to latest music albums, top charts, your favorites & playlists and much more, anytime. Just subscribe to Gaana+ service and instantly stream your favorite music to any Sonos system in your house with Gaana.
Groove Music gives you access to millions of songs to stream on Sonos. Search for any artist, song, or full album and instantly play what you want. You can even create and save playlists for easy access to the songs you love.
In a few words...Slow Music for Fast Times. Hearts of Space creates calming atmospheres with contemporary ambient and electronic music, plus orchestral adagios, ethereal ballads, transcendent jazz, sacred chants, and spatial sounds from around the world and across the centuries. Enjoy eight channels of carefully curated music, blissfully free from commercial interruptions, with or without minimal announcements. Ideal for any kind of concentrated or creative work. High quality AAC+ streams. Standard Service account required.
Hotelradio.fm™ is a Premium radio service targeted at the hospitality industry. With over 50 music stations to help set the mood there's a multitude of station choices available to define an atmosphere, be it in a restaurant, hotel lounge or spa or even at home! Curated by professional DJ's, hotelradio.fm's music programming gives you the desired music mix, when and where you need it and also offers the chance of individually programmed music channels for the ultimate customisation service.
Since 2005, the Hype Machine's mission has been to help you fall in love with something new. We think the best way to find new music is just to listen to lots and lots of music—all kinds of it. That's why we don't use algorithms and we don't try to predict what you'll like—all we do is track hundreds of music blogs around the world. We present their posts in a single stream for convenient listening and easy discovery, and we let you find your favorites. It's free-form radio where bloggers are the djs. Their passion for music is your shortcut to hearing the next great thing, months before everyone else catches up. Start on the Latest Tracks channel—the newest music just hitting our site. Our community of over 1 million users favorite the tracks they like here, bubbling them up to Popular Tracks. You can heart tracks to My Favorites directly from your Sonos and join in. Explore the blogs in our listings at hypem.com, and subscribe to their posts to create My Feed, a stream of music customized just for you. Connect with your friends via Facebook and Twitter, and add their favorites to your Feed. Or listen to your favorite blogs via the Blog Directory—all posts from a blog, in a single playlist. There's a lot of music in here. Dive in. Hype Machine is only available on Sonos for SoundCloud Go users. Please visit here to link your Soundcloud Go and Hype Machine accounts.
With your LivePhish+ subscription, unlock the entire LivePhish catalog. Stream professionally recorded multitrack mixes of every night of Phish Tour on demand minutes after each show ends, and dive into the Phish Archives.
Mixcloud helps you discover the world's best radio in one place. Listen to music & talk radio programmes from our community of over half a million trusted DJs, radio stations, radio presenters and music tastemakers. Search for what you like or browse to discover new content through our charts, editorial selections and recommendations.
Music is the most powerful artform in the world. At Mixcloud we believe that curation is art, not science, and we believe passionately in the power of expert curators and tastemakers to give you inspiration for your ears.
Listen to every MLB Regular Season and Postseason Game LIVE with no blackouts. Choose from the home or away broadcasts or alternate feed (where available).
Mood Media – Business Music Solutions - Music matters. Don't just fill the void. Experience the value of design and the peace of mind that Mood provides. From hits-based programs with broad appeal to evocative retro sounds and unexpected niche genres, our business music solutions are licensed for commercial use and designed by experts who combine an incredible knowledge of music with a deep understanding of brands and consumer experience. Pair your Sonos system with Mood Mix, our exciting new StreamingPlus™ music solution designed specifically for small business. Enjoy online access to fully-licensed music, with the ability to personalize your soundtrack at the click of a button. No proprietary device required – just a broadband internet connection.
Send your CD and vinyl collection to the future with Murfie. Murfie converts and securely stores your CDs and vinyl and provides you unlimited, high-quality streaming and downloads of the music you own and love. Add a Murfie HiFi membership for an exclusive, lossless streaming experience. Grow your collection on murfie.com and enjoy your new music instantly on your Sonos system. When away from home, stream your music anywhere with Murfie's iOS, Android, and browser apps.
Fire up nugs.net to listen to last night's show from your favorite bands. Come on board nugs.net's curated live music service to stream thousands of professionally recorded and officially released concerts. Listen to full shows on demand, make playlists of your favorite live tracks, read and post reviews, and save shows for offline playback. Sign up for a 7 Day Free Trial and subscribe for $12.99/month or $129.99/year for unlimited access to current and archive shows from your favorite bands' tours, including Pearl Jam, Bruce Springsteen, Dead & Company, Widespread Panic, Umphrey's McGee, Gov't Mule, moe., and more.
Radionomy.com is an online radio platform featuring a wide variety of music and themed radio stations to discover and listen to for free. Browse through our directory classified by genres and find the perfect radio station according to your mood - or simply create your own radio station in a few clicks on radionomy.com and listen to it on your Sonos device!
Radionomy is one of the largest user generated online radio networks in the world with thousands of radio stations managed by real passionate people. Tune in to one of the stations, sit back and relax!
radioPup is a personalized radio app featuring 300+ live & local radio stations streaming the best music and news available powered by the 3rd largest owner of radio stations in the US, Townsquare Media. Covering many genres including: Country, Classic Rock, Hip-Hop / R&B, Pop, Lite Sounds, Sports, News/Talk, Classic Hits, Rock and more. Browse through all of the available stations by location, genre or recently added stations. radioPup is the radio app that follows you everywhere. Take radioPup wherever you go with our iOS and Android apps. Free music service with no sign up required.
Rockbot is the #1 rated music app for business in the U.S., providing fully-licensed music streaming, 100% control over your vibe, and the ability to let your customers request songs from their smartphones. Start utilizing Rockbot today with your Sonos system!
Get instant access to over 25,000 classic old-time radio shows from the 1930s, 40s and 50s. Includes detective shows, thrillers, drama, comedy, science-fiction music, variety, westerns, juvenile and so much more. There really is something for everyone.
Search for your favorite series, shows or stars. Create playlists to enjoy throughout the day. RUSC Old Time Radio is a wonderful resource that is guaranteed to bring hours of listening pleasure whether you are 9 or 90. Simply choose a show from your favorite category, put your feet up, and be transported back in time to a world when radio ruled the airwaves, and when good clean entertainment enthralled the nation. If you love audiobooks or audio drama then RUSC Old Time Radio will be like an Aladdin's Cave of audio treasures from days gone by.
Saavn is the best Bollywood and Indian music listening experience, online and on the go. It's a beautiful and easy way to search, discover, and listen to over a million songs, from the latest hits to hard-to-find classics. Saavn brings you the best music, trending songs, and personalized radio in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Punjabi, English (India Only), Kannada, Marathi, Malayalam, Gujarati, Bengali, and Bhojpuri. Save playlists and favorites across genres like film, devotional, bhangra, bhajans, ghazals, and more, and access your favorite music through your existing Saavn Pro account.
Slacker Radio is handcrafted radio from passionate music experts. Listen for free and discover the perfect music for any moment with hundreds of stations, playlists and recommendations. Turn up the volume on an old favorite or discover your next obsession as we help you explore one of the largest music libraries anywhere. Slacker Radio is constantly updated and adapts to your tastes so the music is always fresh, fun and unexpected.
A fully licensed cloud-based music service for business. Create a signature soundtrack by easily mixing and day-parting your favorite curated playlists. Style multiple locations with your unique sound.
Listen to radio shows, podcasts, talk, news and sports on Spreaker. Spreaker connects you with the voices of people from all over the World: hear their stories live, or listen later as podcasts. Tens of thousands of shows available in every room of your home. Free Service.
Stingray is a leading provider of multi-platform music products and services; available on TV, Web and mobile. Choose from our selection of channels is all genres including pop, jazz, rock, pop, hip-hop, classical, country and more. Stingray offers the best music experiences for every place, moment and mood in your life; curated by experts from around the globe.
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Curate your own personalized list of podcasts and tune in to the most up-to-date content in business, sports, politics, and entertainment from brands like NPR, CNN, BBC, Adam Carolla and more. Pull together your favorites from over 5000 podcasts, radio shows and stations to create a custom playlist, or allow Stitcher to recommend shows based on past listening. Stream it throughout your house on-demand. Free service.
Tribe of Noise offers an innovative background music service for businesses, without the need to pay (annual) fees to national collection societies. This cloud music service will help businesses to create the right ambiance for their clients and staff.
• All rights included music. No need to pay to national collection societies. Your subscription covers everything.
• Wide variety of songs selected and updated by our music department.
• Choose between 3 different music channels depending on which ambience you want to create.
• No ads, 100% music, 24 hours a day.
• Being different – a fine selection of modern music from emerging artists in your shop, store, restaurant, gym, etc.
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Jury Expected to Decide Fate of Lufkin Nurse
A jury in Lufkin is expected to decide the fate of a Texas nurse accused of killing five kidney dialysis patients by injecting them with bleach. Closing arguments are set for today in the capital murder trial of Kimberly Clark Saenz.
Prosecutors say 38-year-old Saenz caused the patients' deaths in April 2008 by injecting bleach into their dialysis lines at a Lufkin clinic. Two patients told jurors they saw Saenz use syringes to draw bleach from a cleaning pail and inject it into the IV lines of two other patients.
Saenz's attorney, Ryan Deaton, says she was made a scapegoat for faulty procedures at the clinic, including improper water purification. Deaton also suggested clinic officials have fabricated evidence against Saenz.
Man Sentenced in Counterfeit Money Scheme
A 21-year-old Tyler man has been sentenced to federal prison for his involvement in a counterfeit money scheme.
Bryan Scott Mayfield pleaded guilty on Nov. 8, 2011 to possession of counterfeit money and was sentenced to eight months in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Leonard E. Davis. Mayfield was also ordered to pay $1,750.00 in restitution.
According to information presented in court, on June 4, 2011, Mayfield assisted another person in passing counterfeit money at a Wal-Mart in Gilmer, Texas. Mayfield knew a cashier at the Wal-Mart and contacted her to see if she would be working on June 4, 2011. Mayfield told her that he and others were planning to use counterfeit currency and she agreed to let them make the purchase at her cash register. Mayfield was present and assisted in the purchase of a laptop computer with eight counterfeit $100 bills. A federal grand jury returned an indictment on Sep. 15, 2011, charging Mayfield with federal crimes.
This case was investigated by the U.S. Secret Service, The Tyler Police Department and the Gilmer Police Department and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jim Noble.
Texas Man Executed for Killing of 10-Month-Old
HUNTSVILLE — A Texas man has been executed for the beating death of a ten-month-boy he was baby-sitting more than a decade ago. Jesse Joe Hernandez received lethal injection last night in Huntsville for the killing of Karlos Borja.
The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday denied last-ditch appeals for Hernandez.
JetBlue Pilot Charged for Screaming About Bomb
AMARILLO — A JetBlue captain who ran down the cabin of a flight screaming about a bomb has been charged with interfering with a flight crew.
The plane made an emergency landing in Amarillo on Tuesday after the incident involving captain Clayton Osbon. JetBlue also announced yesterday that Osbon has been suspended.


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After two weeks of growing protests in support of hunger striker Samer Issawi, Palestinians were given a new cause for anger when prisoner Arafat Jaradat died in Israeli custody inside Megiddo prison.
The Palestinian Authority stated Jaradat was tortured to death, which was verified by Saber Aloul, the doctor who was present at Jaradat's autopsy and saw the beating marks on his body.
Arrested on February 18, Jaradat was first taken to the Jalameh interrogation prison complex before being transferred to Megiddo prison. His court session on February 21 resulted in an extension in his interrogation for a further 12 days. Two days later, Jaradat was pronounced dead. He leaves behind his three year old daughter Yara, two year old son Mohammad, and his wife Dalal who is four months pregnant with their third child.
Jaradat's funeral, held Monday, February 25th in his hometown of Sa'ir, was attended by tens of thousands of Palestinians. Simultaneous demonstrations took place throughout the West Bank, including a demonstration in Hebron planned months in advance to coincide with the 19th anniversary of the massacre in Ibrahimi mosque. Thousands also attended a demonstration in Gaza on Sunday.
The recent wave of protests, many of which have been met with a violent response from the Israeli army, have inspired speculation that the Third Intifada is beginning. Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, the Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative, attended Jaradat's funeral and told Israeli newspaper Maariv that the third intifada began the day of the funeral. Dr. Barghouti said Israel is deliberately provoking violence among Palestinians and vowed, "We won't let Israel create chaos in the West Bank."
When we choose violence, it's actually a reaction of Israel's violence.They are killing us and it's a normal reaction for us to react like this in a violent way, because they did that, they started it
When we choose violence, it's actually a reaction of Israel's violence.They are killing us and it's a normal reaction for us to react like this in a violent way, because they did that, they started it
Numerous media outlets have also predicted the third intifada may start as a result of Israel's murder of Jaradat, although Israeli security forces deny this is a possibility.
Hakim, a student of Palestine Polytechnic University who attended the funeral, said he believes it's likely the third intifada is coming.
"When we choose violence, it's actually a reaction of their [Israel's] violence. And it's nothing compared to their violence. If you now look to their religious Jews, the settlers, in Nablus they cut the trees. They also come in Beit Anoun near Hebron and cut the trees and they attacked Palestinian people. So they are really violent," he said. "They are killing us and it's a normal reaction for us to react like this in a violent way, because they did that, they started it."
Mohammad, another demonstrator, said he hopes for social change inside the Palestinian borders before the third intifada begins.
"Honestly, I'm not hoping to have a third intifada for now. Since we still have the Palestinian Authority and they will only make us struggle and sacrifice our lives, and our freedom, and our dignity, and our houses," he said. "We need to have a new leadership for the new intifada."
Still, he said, the Palestinian people gave a remarkable display of unity at Jaradat's funeral.
"People came from all over the West Bank, the 1948 territories, there are many officials here also. All Palestinians are participating here," he said. "Whatever their party, whether Fateh or Hamas or PFLP or DFLP, there is a unity in Palestine."
Hakim said he doesn't believe Israel killed Jaradat on purpose, but that it makes little difference since he was tortured to death.
"I don't think they planned to kill him like this. But maybe, because they torture him, he died," Hakim said. "Now the Palestinian street has been angry [at Israel's treatment] of Samer Issawi's hunger strike. And now Israel killed Arafat, so what do they want? They want to humiliate us more and more, until when? We will not be silent anymore."
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or Sunday Sickness, is a disease peculiar to church
members. The attack comes on suddenly on Sundays. No symptoms are
felt on Saturday night; the patient sleeps well and awakes feeling
well; eats a hearty breakfast, but about church time the attack comes
on and continues until services are over for the morning. the the
patient feels easy and eats a hearty dinner. In the afternoon he
feels much better and is able to take a walk, automobile ride, go
visiting, talk politics and reads the papers; he heats a hearty
supper but about church time he has another attack and stays home. He
retires early, sleeps well, and awakes on Monday morning refreshed and
able to go to work, He does not feel any of the returned symptoms
until the next Sunday.
The peculiar features are as follows--
1. It attacks members of a church.
2. It never makes its appearance except on Sunday.
3. The symptoms vary, but never interfere with appetite and sleep.
4. It never lasts more than 24 hours.
5. It generally attacks the head of the family and continues to
spread until every member is affected.
6. No physician is ever called.
7. It always proves fatal in the end to the soul.
8. No remedy is known for it except repentance and prayer.
9. Real heart-felt salvation is the only antidote.


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REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) — The California Highway Patrol is set to release on Monday its conclusions of its investigation into a limousine fire that killed five nurses who were trapped in the back.
The May 4 fire broke out on the San Mateo-Hayward bridge while nurse Neriza Fojas, who was among those killed, was celebrating her recent wedding with a group of friends. Four other friends and the limo driver survived.
Authorities reviewed video and photos of the fire, and interviewed survivors, including driver Orville Brown, who has said he helped survivors escape through a partition blocking the passenger area.
The CHP says it will release the results of its investigation, and recordings of 911 calls, Monday afternoon.
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February 21, 2012
If you read the Valentine's Day posting on the legend of Rozafa, you no doubt found inspiring the purity of Rozafa's self-sacrificial love for her child and her country, yet you also noticed the ambiguity surrounding the brothers' decisions and actions. On the one hand, to their credit, the two elder brothers break their pledges to keep secret the imminent human sacrifice in order to protect their wives, and the youngest brother, seemingly a man of honor, keeps his "besa," his pledge to say nothing about the immurement to Rozafa. On the other hand, the elder brother hangs his head in shame when he tells Rozafa that the wall demands a human life, for Rozafa has been chosen not by "chance," as he claims, but rather by the elder brothers' manipulative hypocrisy. Further, if the sacrifice must be determined by chance, then the three brothers might have drawn lots so that one of them, not one of their wives, would die. The men, in other words, find motives for their actions in self-preservation and fear. Only the woman, Rozafa, overcomes her 'trembling' and gives her life for her child and for Albania.
Albania's great novelist Ismail Kadare draws on the legend of Rozafa in his 1976 novel The Three-Arched Bridge (Ura Me Tri Harqe), another story of immurement that roots the theme of sacrifice in the ambiguity of motives. Kadare has set his story in the late fourteenth century, just one generation before the Albanian hero Skanderbeg leads the resistance to the Ottoman invasion of 1444, a resistance that ends in 1479 at the Siege of Shkodra, where the triumphant Turks littered the Citadel of Rozafa with 60,000 Albanian corpses to be shredded by vultures. With the monk Gjon narrating Kadare's novel, we learn that Albania stands in need of another building project, this time a bridge, to link Albania to the rest of the Balkans at a time when Ottomans have already infiltrated the culture, a precursor to invasion. Though this bridge, just like Rozafa's castle, goes up quickly, after each night the piers and arches show signs of damage no hammer or claw could inflict, generating wide-spread gossip in favor of another "sacrifice for the sake of the thousands and thousands of travelers" who will cross the bridge "down the centuries to come" (105).
Well informed about Rozafa's patriotic act, Gjon immediately notices that this call for sacrifice has more to do with commerce than with defense, so he wonders who might be willing to die for a significantly lesser cause. But someone does volunteer to be walled in the bridge, Murrash Zenebisha, an "ordinary" man, a mason, just like Rozafa's husband (114). Yet instead of responding with adulation for Murrash when Gjon hears rumors of his heroism, Gjon reacts with confusion over the mason's lack of a clear motive for martyrdom, then with horror when he sees Murrash "planted in the stone," his face "splattered" with a "mask" of plaster, his "arms and legs…merged with the wall (115), his "oblivious white eyes" staring out at the monk (117). Gjon's terror grows, too, when he notices Murrash's "wounds…between the neck and collar bone" (122), and when Murrash's family members, seemingly "petrified" with grief initially, soon bring suit against one another after quarreling over "compensation" for their kinsman's death (131, 177). Has Murrash been murdered, caught sabotaging a bridge he believed would benefit only foreigners and a corrupt local Count? Has Murrash's family sold him out for profit?
With Murrash supporting the bridge, Gjon concedes that it quickly becomes a splendid "rainbow" structure. But this supposed guarantor of a prosperous future, Gjon knows, has "death at its foundations" (157, 151), a martyrdom tainted by lies. Eventually, Kadare's narrator acknowledges his own complicity, confessing his presence as the Count and the bridge-builders planned the murder of Murrash (184, 122). Yet Gjon persists courageously with his chronicle to the end, even as the Turkish horsemen clash with Albanian patriots on the bridge (179), thus mitigating his role in the death of the mason. But fear for his country blends with his courage, and that fear roots in self-knowledge, as Gjon imagines his ethnic identity plastered and dead in the bridge, a bridge built—as was Rozafa's castle—with sacrificial blood and soul-withering lies.
The significance of Kadare's novel rests not only in the morality tale—break not thy besa—but also in Kadare's Faulkner-like capacity to paint so vividly the truths of the human heart, a heart sometimes strong enough to die for others but often weak enough to succumb to fears and lies. If these same kinds of hearts beat in Asia and the West as well as in Albania, the Balkans, and Eastern Europe, then we may read Kadare's work as a prophecy for us all. As we behold Rozafa's milk streaming down the fortress walls, then Murrash's eyes peering from the bridge, we witness at once our past and our future, our collective magnificence and our self-inflicted doom.
For a full discussion of Kadare's novel in the context of the legend of Rozafa, see my article "Albania Immured: Rozafa, Kadare, and the Sacrifice of Truth," published in the South Atlantic Review, volume 1, number 4, fall 2006, pages 62-77. The ideas above and much of the language come directly from the article.


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Study: Koch and Tobacco behind Birth of Tea Party
A new report in the peer-reviewed academic journal Tobacco Control offers a deeper look at the history of the Tea Party. Commonly thought to be a grassroots uprising spurred by a TV rant in 2009, the report documents how tobacco companies and a front group established by Charles and David Koch were attempting to begin the revolt years earlier.
The study, titled "'To quarterback behind the scenes, third-party efforts': the tobacco industry and the Tea Party," shows that the Koch front, Citizens for a Sound Economy, set up a website in 2002 for the "U.S. Tea Party." Here is an archived image from that website, which is now owned by FreedomWorks.
As previously reported by DeSmogBlog's Brendan DeMelle on Huffington Post:
The two main organizations identified in the UCSF Quarterback study are Americans for Prosperity and Freedomworks. Both groups are now "supporting the tobacco companies' political agenda by mobilizing local Tea Party opposition to tobacco taxes and smoke-free laws." Freedomworks and Americans for Prosperity were once a single organization called Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE). CSE was founded in 1984 by the infamous Koch Brothers, David and Charles Koch, and received over $5.3 million from tobacco companies, mainly Philip Morris, between 1991 and 2004.
The ties between the Koch brothers' Citizens for a Sound Economy and tobacco are extensive, with Charles Koch's right hand man, Richard Fink, getting direct praise from the Tobacco Institute for his leadership in urging the U.S. Surgeon General to avoid foreign trade restrictions on tobacco products. The Checks and Balances Project has a report on Koch Industries executive Richard Fink and tobacco:
In 1988, Fink wrote to the Surgeon General to express concern about the Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health's inquiries into the subject of tobacco and U.S. trade policy. He warned that it would be unwise to suggest any foreign trade barriers, ending, "we hope that you will keep these thoughts in mind as your department discusses U.S. trade policy toward tobacco." This letter was tracked down by the Checks & Balances Project in the Tobacco Archives, with an addendum from Samuel Chilcote – President of The Tobacco Institute – urging others to follow Fink's lead and support.
For Fink's efforts, Chilcote thanked Fink in a hand-signed letter on behalf of the tobacco industry, writing, "When an advisory body such as the Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health ventures into the field of U.S. trade policy, it is vitally important that the public record be balanced by the sound economic views and sensible business judgments that you provided."
In summarizing the significance of the Koch-Tobacco-Tea Party insight from the report, DeSmogBlog's DeMelle hits the nail on the head:
Finally, this report might serve as a wake-up call to some people in the Tea Party itself, who would find it a little disturbing that the "grassroots" movement they are so emotionally attached to, is in fact a pawn created by billionaires and large corporations with little interest in fighting for the rights of the common person, but instead using the common person to fight for their own unfettered profits.
Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks have been successful in co-opting the Tea Party, directing millions in corporate and wealthy donor funding to steer the "grassroots" agenda of Tea Party activists.
Grassroots? Try astroturf.


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Women Are Racist
No, not really. But in John Tierney's continued analysis of dating behavior, he cites some interesting studies that suggest that women are far less open to dating men of other races than vice versa.
African-American women said yes about 30 percent less often to Hispanic men; about 45 percent less often to white men; about 65 percent less often to Asian men.
Black women were the most averse to interracial dating, Asian women were the most open to it, and Asian men didn't fare all that well.
I'm not going to hypothesize why – after all, I'm a dating coach, not a social scientist – but this very much corresponds with what I've heard from clients.
White women said yes about 30 percent less often to black or Hispanic men, and about 65 percent less often to Asian men.
With one exception. I'm a bit surprised at men's openness to interracial dating. While I've personally dated women across the racial spectrum, I've only had a handful of clients who ever expressed preferences for women of other races. Then again, the demographics of my clients are probably a bit skewed towards upper-middle class white people.
Any readers with interracial dating experience care to weigh in?
Hispanic women said yes about 20 percent less often to black or white men, and 50 percent less often to Asian men.
Money quote:The researchers found that most women speed daters said yes (meaning they'd like to see a man again after the four-minute speed date) less often to men of another race than they did to men of their own race. Here's how much less interested they were in the other races, as compared with their enthusiasm for men of their own race:
Asian women didn't discriminate much by race (except for showing a very slight preference for Asian men over black or Hispanic men).
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But wait, there's some "good news" from those same researchers.
A few days later, after looking at 300 reader comments, researchers sent some surprising news back.
Daters who discriminate by race… also temper these biases once they get to know one another.
"The researchers realize that their results can be depressing, but they also agree with the many readers who caution against reading too much into the preferences of online daters and speed daters. Yes, these daters clearly discriminate by race and height and looks and other superficial qualities, but they also temper these biases once they get to know one another."
People who are terribly picky in choosing partners online will relax their standards if they spend just three or four minutes talking to someone at a speed dating session.
Click here to read the whole article.
What's your view? To quote one researcher, Paul W. Eastwick, "do those stated 'turn-offs' come back to haunt you later in the relationship, or are they permanently forgotten?"


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And, let me tell you, I've been looking! So here you go, the Neon Genesis Evangelion humidifier, which is based on the iconic anime of the same name.
It features Eva Unit 01 standing atop NERV head1quarters in Evangelion and looks more like a diorama and less like a humidifier. It also looks completely bonkers.
There are even LED lights that can not only change the color of the water vapor, but also blow your mind. Priced at ¥9,980 (US$127) and out this November.
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So what comes after the future? I asked Bruce Sterling at SXSW.
But, for Bruce, the future is really the past. "I like narratives," he told me, while explaining why the most "effective" futurists are good historians. So perhaps, using this logic, what comes after the future is history.
And Bruce is certainly an effective futurist as well as a good historian. Which is why when I asked him about today's Internet obsession with "the social," he riffed with dark euphoria about the history of socialism as well as what it's like to be a 15-year-old kid with no knowledge of the past.
Check out yesterday's interview with Bruce when he explains why hactivism isn't compatible with democracy and what the difference is between gothic high tech and favela chic.
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"The Social"