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99942 - Behold, he cometh with clouds - and every eye shall see him
99942 - I am Alpha and the Omega - the beginning and the ending
99942 - The Sun shall be turned into darkness - and the Moon into blood
hail and fire is thrown to the Earth - burning up all trees and every blade of grass
By the second trumpet sounding, poison to the sea - No single live should be spared inside the oceans!
Water to blood!
Shells of fury
Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
So(u)l Invictus
I'm still alive while you are still dead Screws and wires crown the head Bring me stars and sand to create a new earth For a lonesome machine and another stillbirth
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Here it is – After their first output Inhaling Blackness – Reflecting Light the 5 lads show up with 9 9 9 4 2. Their second record named after the mighty asteroid Apophis (Egyptian god of chaos in snake demeanor) which was supposed to collide with earth in 2029 or 2036 shows the dircetion. Collision course! As we know NASA gave all-clear signal for mother earth but definitely not for this album – it will explode. With dark, futuristic and heavy appearence I Spit Ashes tried on their second work to generate more originality and steps further back from typical melodeath-clichès.Lyrically they will make you think, fear and of course like all in between. Musically they bring the heaviness back – not only in the hooks but also in the verses and flirt intensely with sountrackish arranged orchestra an electro like they did in the past. Go on to a journey with this band and discover eternity and the end. Questions and answers – big riffs and catchy refrains, stamping guitars and great melodies.


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Amid wide-ranging discussion of U.S. immigration reform — including a set of bipartisan principles introduced this week and a speech by President Barack Obama on the issue today — tech companies are particularly optimistic about a bill introduced this morning that is focused on highly skilled workers.
The Immigration Innovation Act, proposed by Senators Orrin Hatch, R-Utah; Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn.; Marco Rubio, R-Fla. and Chris Coons, D-Del., would increase the H-1B visa cap from 65,000 to 115,000 and establish triggers for more visas in response to market demand. It would also loosen green card rules for people who are dependents of visa recipients and people with advanced degrees in science, technology, engineering and math from U.S. universities.
Early criticism of the bill has targeted the fact that it is a "piecemeal change" rather than comprehensive reform, but it's possible that it could be included in future broad legislation, which hasn't been proposed yet.
But tech leaders were quick to praise the bill, with companies such as Intel, Hewlett Packard and Google and industry groups issuing statements this morning specifically in support of the Immigration Innovation Act, which has already been nicknamed I-Squared.
The bill "is a significant step forward in ensuring that the U.S. economy has the workforce and intellectual capacity it needs to enhance innovation, spur job creation and improve our economy," said HP VP of global government relations Gregg Melinson.
"The current focus on immigration reform presents the best opportunity we have seen in years to make needed fixes to the employment side of the immigration equation," wrote Intel government relations director Peter Muller.
Though his most closely watched remarks were about undocumented immigrants, Obama spoke specifically to the tech industry, saying that one in four high-tech companies was started by an immigrant.
"Instagram was started with the help of an immigrant who studied here and stayed here," Obama pointed out, referencing Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger, a Brazilian who studied at Stanford before working on the photo-sharing startup.

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Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2001 9:26 pm
Post subject: Great Quotes from Boogie Nights!
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A personal fav.:
"Jack Horner: I got a feeling that behind those jeans is something wonderful just waiting to get out."
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Thanks, Applepie! I think that is so hilarious when Mark says "HELLO EXACTLY!", and raises his arms. It was so funny! I also loved that YP MP thing, my friend and I always laugh at that part!Also the "This is a giant c*ck" quote was funny.
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Thanx for the site i was cracking up reading those cause i havent seen boogie nights in such a long time! i agree with limerick chick about the part where he goes : "Hello? exactly!"
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Jack: I'm not going to shoot you in the state you're in!
Dirk: State?State of California? I know where the f**k I am,Jack!
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lol i so agree with you on the "hello exactly" and i think it's realy cute when he's all "let me explain this to you in simple arithmatic one two three"
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The most hilarious scene for me was when Mark asks "Roller Girl" if she's going to keep the roller skates on while they have sex. The look on his face was absolutely priceless! I couldn't help but smile whenever I saw "Roller Girl" after this point.
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Reed: i love u
u love me
going down the sugar tree
we'll go down the sugar tree
and see lots of bees
but the bees wont sting
because you love them/me
Eddie/Dirk: Thats f*****g great man! did you write that??
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LOL...yeah the poem's great!!!LOL
I cracked up when he and Jack argued and Dirk says"I know karate".
I think it was very funny ,but sweet,cause Eddie was really supposed to be a kid,everytime he did those karate moves.
Also the YP MP
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Let's face it...it's an all in all quality film!!!!!
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You're not the boss of me.
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I like the part when Mark starts talking about his clothes and shoes. He looks so cute whenever he does!
And, I like this quote, "How's my little king foo fighter? He's kicking ass in my stomach. See, I told you it was a boy"
I also like the part when Mark starts talking about Napoleon. LoL! Whenever I am in history and they start talking about Napoleon I think of that part and start cracking up!
There are alot of good parts!
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Well I have a couple of favorites but this is the only one I can think of right now.
When Dirks Telling Jack about his new name
Dirk:Well . . . my idea was . . .
y'know. . .I want a name . . . I want it so it can cut glass . . . y'know . . . razor sharp.
Jack:Tell me
Dirk:When I close my eyes . . . I see this thing, a sign . . . I see this name in bright blue neon lights with a purple outline. And this name is so bright and so sharp that the sign it just blows up because the name is so powerful . . . .It says, Dirk Diggler
(i just love the way he says it)
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The week in review
Harshest weather: A severe storm pounds Charlottesville August 14 and leaves 7,000 without power in the city and more than 11,000 in the dark in the county. Park and Wertland Streets are closed the next day, and more than 1,000 are still without power 24 hours later.
Harshest rejection, part I: Halsey Minor did indeed ask City Hall for a financial assist to finish the skeletal blight on the Downtown Mall, the Landmark Hotel, Henry Graff reports for NBC29. As previously reported, the city, politically burned by the taxpayer bailout of what became the Omni Hotel, has declined to get back in the hotel business.
Harshest rejection, part 2: The local chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, affirming the national's reputation as a prohibitionist organization, declines to accept a penny from a Boylan Heights fundraiser that coincides with the popular Corner watering hole's one-week suspended liquor license. Ted Strong of the Progress has the story (which also reveals the restaurant's curious rationale for calling its suspension "self-imposed.")
Worst flash back: Nine inches of rain pound Nelson County and cause mudslides and flash flooding late August 13, NBC29 reports, close to the August 19 anniversary of Hurricane Camille, which devastated Nelson and killed 124 people in 1969.
Worst overdose: Greene County deputies assisting in an accidental overdose in Ruckersville notice contraband, return with a search warrant, and seize 15 pounds of marijuana, 30 grams of crack cocaine, a .380 handgun, $1,327 in U.S. currency, and an undisclosed amount of foreign currency, according to a release. Arrested August 14 are Vicente Beltran Antunez, 42, Rafael Hernandez, 23, both of Ruckersville, and Jesus Corchadho, 25, of Texas. The name of the 20-year-old overdose victim, reportedly in serious condition, is not released at press time.
Worst dog death: A chained pit bull is founding hanging August 14 after slipping through a deck rail in Staunton, and the incident is under investigation, the News Leader reports.
Latest Martinez brother conviction: Carmello "Pee Wee" Martinez, 22, pleads guilty to drug, weapons and probation violation charges August 10, the Daily Progress reports. Martinez was out of prison in February for the 2007 shooting of a juvenile when he racked up the additional charges. His brother, Indio "Frequently Declared Incompetent" Martinez, also involved in the 2007 shooting, as well as a a brutal 2006 beating of a teen, had been out of prison five months before his July 10 arrest (when he paid a visit to the Albemarle Charlottesville Regional Jail) on a warrant for selling cocaine.
Latest mugging of UVA students: Two are robbed on 14th Street August 12 by two men, one of whom was carrying a "cutting instrument," according to a police release. One of the suspects is described as a mid-20s, six-foot, 250-pound, white button-up-shirt-wearing black male, the other as a 5'9" 180-pound Hispanic male.
Longest sentence: Convicted murderer Antwan Lamar Jackson, 29, gets life August 15 in federal court for the 2006 slaying of his crack customer, Johnell Greene, 25.
Most motions to dismiss: The City of Charlottesville seeks to have a lawsuit filed by five homeless guys that contends its panhandling law violates the First Amendment thrown out, the DP reports, and the Transportation Security Administration wants Fourth Amendment-chest writer Aaron Tobey's civil suit tossed, as well.
Biggest grant: UVA neurologists get $25 million for the National Institute of Health to study strokes in diabetic patients.
Coziest housing accommodations: UVA gets 90 more acceptances than expected, meaning some first-years will be shoehorned into triple room assignments. The Newsplex has the story.
Oldest alleged DUI: Myrtle G. Cason, 82, is arrested in Staunton after allegedly backing her VW Beetle into a house at 3:47am August 13 and leaving the scene, the News Leader reports.
Most wacko news: Staunton continues the trend with "Daughter charged in cutlery attack" in the News Leader, which details how a 16-year-old girl is being held for hurling a meat fork into her mother's thigh on August 13.
Best indication the moon was full: See above.
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Worst attempt to pull the wool over peoples eyes: Boylan Heights "self-imposed" dry week
Aaron Tobey went to the airport expecting to be molested and then he sues them when they molest him? He ought to be sued for buying plane tickets to nowhere instead of taking it to the streets.


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Himes pranked by activist group
Congressman Jim Himes became the unwitting star of a guerrilla-style political video after an activist crashed a reception, thanked him for supporting the repeal of banking legislation, then offered the lawmaker an open briefcase full of fake cash.
The encounter, filmed and released by the year-old Represent.us organization, which has launched a national campaign against the current political fundraising structure, focuses on the recent congressional repeal of restrictions on so-called derivatives.
Called "Operation Money Fumble," the video features a suit-wearing activist who, during a recent breakfast event with business leaders in Hartford, is grateful to Himes for the legislation.
"Oh well, I don't hear that very often," reads the closed captioning under Himes, whose voice is inaudible on the video.
The 4th District Democrat backs away from the Represent.us operative after the briefcase falls and stacks of fake money cascade, revealing the political theater. The activist is then led away from the room, nonchalantly shouting at Himes to "Call me."
The group, citing independent sources, charges that Citigroup bankers wrote most of the essential parts of the legislation, which waters down some of Congress' previous reforms.
Himes, a minority member of the House Financial Services Committee, is a former Goldman Sachs vice president who collected more than $63,000 in campaign contributions from Citigroup employees in the 2012 re-election cycle.
Represent.us -- whose board includes Republicans; Jack Abramoff, the a former high-profile Washington lobbyist who served three years in prison for campaign finance violations; as well as liberal members including the activist Occupy movement -- charge that Himes' support for the bill was a favor for the bankers who contributed to his campaigns.
In fact, the bill had wide-ranging bipartisan support inside Congress and elsewhere, including from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, who said the measure, House Resolution 992, was a necessary amendment to the far-reaching Dodd-Frank banking reforms passed in the wake of the near meltdown of Wall Street in 2008.
According to his recent filing with the Federal Election Commission, Himes has about $1 million on hand toward his re-election and raised about $355,000 in the third quarter of this year.
Dan Debicella -- a former state senator who lost to Himes in 2010 and is a candidate for the GOP nomination again next year -- said Wednesday that Himes is a hypocrite.
In a phone interview, Debicella said he supports the goals of Represent.us.
"They're focusing on transparency and making sure congressmen are doing their job rather than what Jim Himes is doing, writing legislation based on contributions," he said.
Debicella's October filing with the elections commission was set up shortly after he announced his candidacy and has no listed fundraising totals, but he said that this quarter's fundraising, which will be filed in January, will about equal Himes.
Other GOP hopefuls for the congressional nomination include state Rep. John Shaban of Redding and Carl Higbie of Greenwich.
Himes is on record as opposed to the current campaign-finance system.
Elizabeth Kerr, Himes spokeswoman, said Wednesday that the Represent.us ambush wasn't productive.
"This political stunt is an example of overheated, polarizing politics making it difficult for problem-solving legislators to make progress on the complicated issues of the day," she said.
"This particular piece of bipartisan legislation was a carefully balanced compromise designed to ensure businesses can protect their bottom lines against price fluctuations while keeping the dangerous derivatives that helped cause the 2008 crash out of federally insured banks," Kerr added. "Since first taking office, Jim has worked to eliminate even the possibility of conflicts of interest, including going well above existing requirements and selling his personal holdings in companies under the oversight of the Financial Services Committee."
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This video will make you crave this salmon, prepared on a cedar plank embedded on a layer of scallions. The cooked maple-ginger sauce glazes the salmon perfectly. The Mustard mashed potatoes are mouthwatering. Great for a weeknight dinner and for entertaining a small crowd. Print and save this recipe for a Mother's Day Lunch or a Shavuot Dinner!
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Buy untreated cedar planks at Target. Treated cedar planks may have flavorings that are unkosher, so unless you find them with a hashgachah stick with the ones from Target. You can also buy them from a hardware store.
- 3 pounds Yukon Gold potatoes
- 1 1/2 cups milk
- 3/4 stick (6 tablespoons) unsalted butter
In a 5-quart kettle cover potatoes with cold salted water by 2 inches and simmer until tender, 35 to 45 minutes. While potatoes are simmering, in a small saucepan heat milk with butter over moderate heat until butter is melted. Remove pan from heat and keep milk mixture warm, covered.
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Birthday: June 26, 1992
Jennette McCurdy, best known for her role as Sam on iCarly, is an American actress and country singer-songwriter. She was inspired to start acting when she saw Harrison Ford in Star Wars. Jennette has two turtles named Tootsen and Zeus. She is a huge fan of the Food Network - yum!
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Lady Mary faces grief, suitors in 'Downton'
Lady Mary will be mired in grief as season four of "Downton Abbey" begins, mourning the loss of her husband, Matthew.
But a string of suitors awaits when she's ready to live again, said Michelle Dockery, who plays Mary in the hit drama that will return to PBS' "Masterpiece" next January.
"She has more than one love interest," Dockery said. "She's kind of slowly throughout the series coming back to real life, and of course it's important for her to eventually move on."
All of those men are, she noted with satisfaction, handsome.
"That was stipulated by you," executive producer Gareth Neame said, dryly.
He and several cast members including Dockery and Laura Carmichael, who plays Mary's sister, Edith, attended a Television Critics Association news conference Tuesday evening to promote the show.
Mary's husband, played by Dan Stevens, was killed in a car crash just after welcoming the couple's newborn son, George, in last season's finale.
The fourth season of "Downton Abbey," which follows the lives of the family and servants living in an English stately house, will include newcomers Paul Giamatti as an American relation and opera singer Kiri Te Kanawa.
The drama series, which started in 1912 and has been moving the calendar forward, is up to the early 1920s and reflects the world's increasing modernity. A fifth season is planned, Neame said, who suggested there could be more to come.
"The show is so popular around the world, it's beloved and it's in fine form," he said. But he said he couldn't envision following the characters as far as World War II.
Earlier, PBS said it is standing firm against airing "Downton Abbey" simultaneously with the drama's U.K. run that begins several months earlier.
Despite the spoilers that leak online from its British run, the period drama has been a ratings hit for public TV, PBS chief executive Paula Kerger told the TV critics' group.
"You kind of don't want to mess with that if it's working so well," Kerger said.
Word-of-mouth from the British airing helps create buzz and promotion in advance of its PBS run, she said.
The show begins its fourth season in Britain this fall, with PBS airing it starting Jan. 5.
Asked about rumors that the next season of "Sherlock" starring Benedict Cumberbatch might air at the same time in the U.S. and Britain, Kerger said the debut date has yet to be set.
The updated exploits of the Sherlock Holmes character has attracted the same "passion and enthusiasm" as "Downton," she said, so PBS is considering its scheduling very carefully.


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I'm looking for something like Composite unique indexes in Sharepoint 2010. I have found that I can make some field in list unique. But how to make unique index composed from two or more cols in list?
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THE KILLER of John Lennon, Mark David Chapman has had his sixth application for release postponed after his parole board requested more information.
The 55-year-old has served 29 years in Attica correctional facility in New York or second-degree murder, and has had five applications for parole denied so far.
The latest application hearing has been put off until 6 September as Chapman's parole board is seeking extra information to complete his record.
Chapman was convicted to serve a sentence of 20 years to life for the fatal shooting of musician John Lennon in 1980. He was also required to undergo psychiatric treatment, as he was believed to be suffering from a psychotic disorder.
Chapman is infamously linked to JD Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye, as he carried the book with him when he shot Lennon and read excerpts from it at this trial. He likened himself to the book's protagonist, Houlden Caulfield, and told police following his arrest:
"I'm sure the large part of me is Holden Caulfield, who is the main person in the book. The small part of me must be the Devil."
Chapman had showed signs of a mental illness and reported hearing voices before he shot Lennon; he had developed a series of obsessions centring on art, music, John Lennon, and The Catcher in the Rye.
Lennon's widow Yoko Ono, who was with him when he was shot, has repeatedly called on Chapman's parole board to deny his release. Ono has cited fears that she and her sons will be put in danger if her husband's killer walks free.
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A 53-year-old Dallas man has been indicted on smuggling charges in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
Carlos Delgado Rodriguez was indicted by a federal grand jury on May 14, 2014 and charged with smuggling dead hummingbirds from Mexico into the United States.
According to the indictment, from February 2013 through January 2014, Rodriguez is alleged to have unlawfully imported approximately 61 dead hummingbirds, of various varieties, into the United States for sale. The five-count indictment specifically alleges that the importation of dead hummingbirds violates the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA), the Lacey Act, the federal smuggling law, and Texas State Law.
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Don't Let Stars Keep Us Tangled Up is undeniably a dazzling full length debut album, as tinged with euphoria as it is with melancholy. Where the mini-album was dominated by images of light and darkness, …Stars… is obsessed with the ebb and flow of love and the eternal search for connection, its lyrics full of impressionistic and evocative images that linger in the mind as long as the heartfelt and unashamedly emotional music. Cortney Tidwell found the creative process draining and at times impossibly overwhelming, but listening to the finished article, all that is evoked is a stirring confidence and stylistic breadth.


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On Wednesday morning Israeli forces demolished six structures in the southern West Bank village of Umm al-Kheir, near Hebron, leaving 35 Palestinians homeless.
Umm al-Kheir residents told Ma'an News that bulldozers entered the village under military protection and demolished six homes made of tin, adding that houses in the village have been demolished for the eighth time.
"Thirty-five people have become homeless, while settlers on the illegal Karmel settlement are living a luxurious life only a few steps away from my home," local resident Suleiman al-Hathalin told Ma'an News.
"I had already become a refugee when I was displaced from my land in Arad [in 1948], and the occupation is now trying to displace me again," he said on the day his house was demolished.
Israel's Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) said the demolition measures were taken against "six illegal tin constructions which were built without the required permits."
The Umm al-Kheir community has faced the threat of displacement since the Karmel settlement, a religious community of around 70 families, was established in the 80's and later expanded onto villagers' land.
According to villagers and Israeli human rights organisations, Palestinian Bedouin residents in Umm al-Kheir are not allowed to connect to the electrical grid, and are not given building permits.
The village is located in Area C, under full Israeli military control, where Palestinian applications for building permits are rarely granted. As a result, nearly every structure is considered "illegal" by Israel and liable to be demolished.
The demolitions on Wednesday are part of one of the most extensive demolition campaign in the West Bank in recent years. According to UN figures, more than 650 Palestinians were left homeless in the last three months.
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what we got to buy in order to enter the raffle?Originally Posted by Gunco
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Oriental Jazz with a Touch of Classical Music
"We met as students in Damascus at the music institute. Later we all played for the Syrian Symphony Orchester and met on the side because we enjoyed experimenting and improvising." That's how the soprano Dima Orsho describes the origin of "Hewar".
The initiative to start the ensemble came from Kinan Azmeh and Issam Rafea. Kinan Azmeh studied clarinet in Damascus and is currently doing his doctorate in New York. He composed pieces for the ensemble together with lute player Issam Rafea, head of the Arab department at the Damascus Music Institute.
Western classical music, Arabic music and Jazz
In their compositions and improvisations, the musicians combine elements of western classical music with Arabic music and jazz influences. The result is a fascinating mixture. "What we create is not Arabic music, but it's not classical music either. It is a mixture of everything we like listening to and what we feel musically reflects our everyday lives", explains Kinan Azmeh.
"I've spent my life studying western classical music, but I live here, in Syria, where Arabic music is played everywhere. So of course it automatically flows into my improvisations."
Stylistic diversity
Classifying the music of "Hewar" is not easy, says Azmeh. Even listeners have different perceptions. "Some see it as jazz; other say, no, it's Arabic music no, classical music, no, avant-garde or modern twentieth-century music."
The stylistic range of the group can even be seen in its composition, the mixture of "western" and "oriental" instruments: clarinet (Kinan Azmeh) and lute (Issam Rafea), accompanied by percussion (Badi Rafea), drums (Simone Mreysh) and double bass (Khaled Omran).
"Understanding the nature of the music"
Dima Orsho, the band's singer, studied in Syria and in the Netherlands and is as comfortable with opera singing as with Arabic singing techniques. "Of course, each music genre has its own technique. But the important thing is to understand the nature of the music. Because underlying each style is a specific idea; once you grasp it, you can sing the music", explains the soprano. "In jazz, you are really free, in Arabic music, passionate. And in opera, you play a role!"
Whether contemplative or dance pieces – the repertoire of the ensemble is diverse and fascinates not only with the passion and playfulness of its improvisations. "Our original idea was one of a musical dialogue: that anyone can pick up relatively simple musical material in their own way and further develop their vocabulary", says Kinan Azmeh.
The musicians' preference for variations and improvisations derives not only from jazz, it is also characteristic of the Arabic music tradition.
At the end of March, "Hewar" performed its first concert in Germany in Cologne and was enthusiastically received by the public. The Syrian musicians had just returned from their first foreign tour in the USA. In June, a few performances are scheduled in Japan. Their first CD will soon be released.
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Kids Can Grow is a joint program of the Strafford County Master Gardeners and the Strafford County UNH Cooperative Extension 4-H Youth Development program. Participants are introduced to gardening through hands on, "learn by doing" experiences, home garden visits and mentoring from a UNH Cooperative Extension Master Gardener.
Our goal is to help youth become successful young gardeners! Youth must be between eight and 12 years old, but do not have to be already enrolled in 4-H. Garden beds must be located in Strafford County (materials provided). For an application and more information, contact Jillian Hall at (603) 516-8112.
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IBM, Good Technology and several other mobile device and app management software vendors today separately announced a variety of new or enhanced products.
The announcements primarily focus on providing tools and services to help IT shops manage the continuing flood of consumer smartphones and tablets inside corporate networks, as well as the corporate applications that run on them or can be accessed in the cloud.
The goal of the tools is to help companies increase worker productivity, improve customer service and in some cases create new sources of revenue.
Today's announcements include a mobile management partnership between Good Technology and Boxtone. Separately on Friday, IBM unveiled mobile app development tools.
The announcements are summarized below by vendor, with a related mobile cloud sharing announcement from Brainshark at the end.
Blue Coat
Blue Coat today unveiled a Mobile Device Security (MDS) service for iOS devices. The service, available this month, operates within the Blue Coat Cloud Service. MDS offers IT granular control of mobile apps as well as applications that run over mobile browsers to prevent inadvertent loss of sensitive data.
MDS is powered by Blue Coat's own Webpulse technology, which the company describes as a "collaborative defense in the cloud with 75 million users."
Webpulse is essentially a type of URL filter that helps prevent enterprise access to Web-based threats or content, such as porn. It takes advantage of what other users have found objectionable or in need of blocking. Pricing was not announced.
Good Technology
Good will partner with BoxTone to offer mobile device and application management. The Enterprise Mobility Management system will make it possible to more quickly and safely deploy large numbers of devices, according to a statement from Good.
The system will also offer security, management and monitoring for iOS, Android, Windows Phone and BlackBerry smartphones and tablets as well as the apps running on them.
IBM on Friday announced a new Mobile Development Lifecycle Solution to provide enterprises with tools to support rapid mobile app development across mobile platforms, allowing development teams to better collaborate. Based on initial uses, IBM said the development tools improve delivery time by 25%, reduce the cost of app development and reduce defects in apps by 20%. Pricing was not announced.
The Lifecycle tools resulted from combining IBM's Rational CLM with one of the products from recently-acquired Worklight.
IBM also announced a new service to help customers plan and strategize on mobile instrastructure deployments.
IBM announced a new Security Access Manager tool for mobile and cloud environments two weeks ago. It provides federated single sign-on, user authentication and risk scoring for remote access based on a user's location, device and access pattern to help stop users from inadvertently exposing sensitive corporate data to unsafe environments.
Zenprise announced an update of Zenprise MobileManager 8.0 with Zensuite to secure and manage content across email, apps and intranets. For example, Zenprise said the new product will let mobile users view encrypted attachments in email in a protected app to keep sensitive data from leaking out.
IT is also allowed to selectively wipe cached intranet data found on mobile devices. In other cases, the tool can be used to block users from removing data from a protected mobile app. Pricing was not announced.
Brainshark today announced an integration of its SlideShare product with EMC's Syncplicity for expanded access to PowerPoint presentations stored in the cloud and shareable on iPads and iPhones.
SlideShark is free in the App Store and has been integrated with Box and Dropbox as well as Google Drive.
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Examples of these goals include improving water quality in the Great Lakes (8 states), reducing the decline of the Ogallala Aquifer (8 states), and enhancing the habitat of keystone species like the greater sage grouse (11 states). Through landscape conservation initiatives, NRCS and its partners coordinate the delivery of assistance where it can have the most impact in these broad ranges.
Since establishing the initiatives under the 2008 Farm Bill, NRCS has used successes and lessons learned to enhance the delivery of landscape conservation initiatives. With tools like the Regional Conservation Partnership Program, the 2014 Farm Bill further emphasizes the focus on building effective partnerships and obtaining meaningful results for key natural resource concerns. With the support of new and revised Farm Bill programs, NRCS will continue to work with partners to improve outcomes through landscape conservation initiatives.
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Program Notes for Episode 28
From the news: Details on how members of the Dark Web could hijack YOUR domain if you use a popular email service.
From the news: ISACA Survey: Organizations fail to educate employees about risks from online shopping ; IBM Warning: Holidays To Bring Blizzard Of New Attacks on Consumers
Attention iPhone and iTouch users: You can now download this podcast directly to your device, and by-pass connecting it to a computer. Since this podcast is over 10mb, you can prep the download in 3G mode, but the download itself will need to happen in a Wi-Fi hotspot. If you listen to podcasts in your car, just make sure your WiFi signal can reach your car! Details on the Apple 2.2 upgrade at Ars Technica.
Conversation: Scott A. Kamber, a plaintiff's attorney with Kamber Edelson, talks with Samantha about the implications of a new lawsuit against Classmates.com for deceptive practices. (BTW, we tried to contact Classmates.com for a response…they did not respond).
Conversation: Julie Forte founder of the anti-phone spam web sites 800notes.com and WhoCallsMe.com talks with Ira about fighting back against these scammers. Reports phone spammers to The Internet Crime Complaint Center: IC3.


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Brookline, MA: Butterscotch Pudding and Brioche Rolls at Lineage Restaurant
A weekly profile on a favorite New England dish.
Besides cousin Mark Sewell's Maine lobsters and the exposed wood-fired oven, chef/owner Jeremy Sewell's Lineage Restaurant in Brookline's Coolidge Corner has two claims to fame: its butterscotch pudding and its brioche dinner rolls.
In terms of big-press recognition, the brioche rolls are predictably the less renowned of the two, but I'd argue they're at least as special as the dessert. They're plush, soft, deep golden brown, and lightly splashed with something (water?) that helps the coarse salt crystals stick and gives the crust a bit of sheen. The butter that comes with them is clean, rich, and unsalted, which is fine. You don't miss the seasoning with the salt on the bread. Bonus point: They arrive warm.
The rolls are so good that I asked Sewell about them a few years ago, and he said that they, as a staff, take them really seriously.
He told me a heartwarming, team-bonding anecdote about how once the brioche is made, everyone on staff gathers together to help to roll them out. Then during service, they warm the rolls to order. Each server plucks as many rolls as he or she needs for a table, places them on a metal sheet, and pushes them into the wood oven for a minute or two.
It's not a major undertaking, except that the fire is so intense; if you sit at the bar, you watch anyone who bends down toward the opening shield their face with their arms and then walk away squinting, the heat and smoke obviously stinging their eyes. I hope they know the customers think it's worth the trouble.
As for the pudding, it's got a cult-like following around Boston—and beyond. (Food and Wine ran the recipe in 2007.) The deep-ocher pudding is satiny and rich yet light-textured, not at all gloppy and stiff like the Jell-O stuff. The flavor is full-bodied and burns just a bit; it's obvious there's some scotch in that butterscotch. If there's a hint of graininess, it's almost completely obscured by the dollop of whipped cream and the crunchy candied pecans sprinkled over the top.
There's just one quibble I have about the recipe: the source of the butterscotch.
The flavor of butterscotch, as I understand, comes from a combination of butter and brown sugar. Some recipes also go a different direction and make a caramel to which butter and brown sugar are added. However, this recipe (penned by Sewell's wife and the restaurant's pastry chef, Lisa) relies on butterscotch chips I don't know why that bothers me and my stodgy, purist sensibilities a little; it shouldn't, because the pudding tastes terrific.
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Bacon-Wrapped Turkey: You Know You Want It
Why roast a turkey not wrapped in bacon when you can roast a turkey...wrapped in bacon? The prevalence of bacon-wrapped turkey photos shows that it is quite popular. Try out Chow's Bacon-Wrapped Turkey with Pear Cider Gravy recipe and watch the accompanying video to create porky turkey goodness in your own kitchen.
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My name is Elena and I live in Tuscany near the beautiful Florence; I incredibly love this region of Italy, it's a great place to stay! On this personal blog dedicated to Tuscany, TuscanyChic, you will find a lot of useful travel tips on Tuscany, in relation to traveling around the region, best destinations to visit, special accommodations, great restaurants, typical Tuscan recipes, and many other curiosities.
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In the event of pandemic lockdown all bookings are cancellable 7 days before the date of performance.
Comprising Tonbridge-based musicians.
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Reiki - Lower Holwell
Connect with Reik.i Reiki Training Courses
Corsham, Wiltshire, SN13 9AT
01249 714839
Jenny teaches the original Japanese Reiki taken from Mikao Usui's teachings and practice. Reiki Courses are held Jenny's home in a special room, creating [...]Distance: 21.24 miles.
Acupressure Massage
Sherborne, Dorset, DT9 6PE
01935 873588
Acupressure is a safe and effective way of treating many problems: from asthma, headaches, back pain, joint problems and skin disorders to anxiety, stress, [...]Distance: 7.2 miles.
Janeen Brendlor Reiki Master / Teacher
Sherborne, Dorset, DT9 4LZ
I trained as a Reiki master as I never cease to wonder at the incredible results that can be achieved. As a Reiki Master [...]Distance: 8.49 miles.
Mellulah Therapy & Retreats
Milton Abbas, Dorset, DT11 0BE
01258 880505
A warm welcome awaits you from Saira Francis who has been working with Complementary Therapies since 2004 and now lives and works at the [...]Distance: 9.1 miles.
The Life Whisperer
Yeovil, Somerset, BA22 9RN
Specialising in shamanic courses and retreats, drum workshops, reiki training and spiritual mentoring in Somerset, UK. I've been practising my craft since the dawn of [...]Distance: 9.3 miles.
Alessa Reiki
Evershot, Dorset
Grand Master Reiki Usui Shiki Ryoho Grand Master Karuna Reiki Master Osho Neo Reiki Senior Healer OmniHealing Energy Therapy. Start Today 🙂 Synchrotize System Therapy as well. Make choices [...]Distance: 9.8 miles.
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07817 504961
Reiki Healing treatments to reduce stress, promote relaxation and improve health. Reiki is a wonderful, gentle yet powerful treatment which has endless benefits and [...]Distance: 10.64 miles.
Mind & Body Blandford
Blandford Forum, Dorset
I am a mobile therapist based in Blandford, Dorset. I can visit client's in the comfort of their own home and hire out short [...]Distance: 11.25 miles.
Corinne Goodman-Reiki Master/Teacher
Blandford Forum, Dorset
Hello,I am a qualified Reiki Master and Teacher. I am a member of the UK Reiki Federation.Distance: 11.41 miles.
Julia Bradshaw Reiki Master
Shaftesbury, Dorset, SP7 8JU
Reiki is a Japanese healing system that translates as 'universal life-force'. This is the energy that exists all around us and within us. A [...]Distance: 11.42 miles.
In Touch Massage Reiki Master Practitioner
Shaftesbury, Dorset, sp7 9qj
In-Touch Massage - Your professional, top quality Masseuse , Reiki Master Practitioner and Reflexologist at Neal's Yard Remedies, Gillingham and at the Wincombe Centre, [...]Distance: 12.24 miles.
Sarah's Reiki Healing
Blandford Forum, Dorset, DT11 9PA
01258 458340
Reiki Hot stones massage Indian head massageDistance: 12.86 miles.
Healing Around The World – International Distant Healing
Castle Cary, Somerset
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I am primarily a Birth and Postnatal Doula but have been studying Usui Teate Reiki since 2003. I use reiki on myself, my family, [...]Distance: 14.21 miles.
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Somerton, Somerset, TA11 7EZ
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I am a Usui and Karuna Reiki Master and teacher with over 13 years experience. Daytime courses for reiki levels I and II are [...]Distance: 14.6 miles.
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Somerset Reiki : Reiki is a complementary therapy suitable for all ages. In the UK it is used in various contexts, including private practice, [...]Distance: 15.21 miles.
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Psychic Medium Steve Dorset is a Reiki Master Teacher who practices the traditional Usui Reiki system. In the comfort of your own home or [...]Distance: 15.55 miles.
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Grand Prize Package Featured Luxury Residence Located in
Trump International Hotel & Tower(R) Chicago
NEW YORK, N.Y. [For Release, December 16, 2011] HGTV designer Vern Yip will introduce the winner of a stunning high rise residence located on the 35th floor of Chicago's Trump International Hotel & Tower(R) during the HGTV Urban Oasis Giveaway 2011 on Thursday, December 29, at 8 p.m. ET/PT. Custom-designed by Yip, the 1,000-plus-square-foot, fully-furnished condominium was the centerpiece of the fall 2011 grand-prize package valued at more than $750,000.
During the television special, viewers will follow along with Yip as he surprises an emotional Debbie Robertson with the news that she won the new, contemporary residence with sweeping vistas of the Chicago skyline. Viewers won't want to miss a single minute of the special as Yip goes behind the scenes to reveal how the winner was selected and offers them a final look at the residence.
Yip, a favorite with viewers and currently a member of the judging panel on the top rated series HGTV Design Star, decorated the high-rise residence with an eclectic mix of period pieces and contemporary d�cor reflective of Chicago's heart and soul. The residence includes one bedroom, 1 1/2 baths, a gourmet kitchen and breathtaking views of the city's skyline, the Chicago River and Lake Michigan. It also includes access to the tower's five star services such as a spa, fitness center, pool, restaurant and 24-hour concierge.
Online users can continue to visit HGTV.com/urbanoasis for a blog with exclusive videos of the Chicago neighborhood and urban design ideas. A virtual tour and slideshow tours of the residence on the 35th floor of Trump Tower also are available online. Additional topics, including information on moving to an urban environment and small space living, are covered on HGTV's FrontDoor.com.
About HGTV Urban Oasis
The HGTV Urban Oasis Giveaway complements the network's annual HGTV Dream Home Giveaway and HGTV Green Home Giveaway, two of the most successful consumer promotions in cable TV history. The HGTV Urban Oasis Giveaway 2011 involved sponsorship from several national advertisers including: Cuisinart, KraftMaid Cabinetry, Sherwin-Williams, Shark, KOHLER, Budget Blinds, Chicago Office of Tourism and Culture, and Shaw Floors.
About HGTV
HGTV, America's leading home and lifestyle brand, is one of cable's top-rated networks and is distributed to more than 99 million U.S. households. HGTV's website, HGTV.com, is the nation's leading online home-and-garden destination that attracts an average of 4 million unique visitors per month. The HGTV HOME consumer products line currently includes exclusive offerings of paint, flooring, soft goods and other home-oriented products. The HGTV Magazine, a new home and lifestyle publication, is published in partnership with Hearst Magazines.
About FrontDoor.com
FrontDoor.com is an online real estate information service powered by HGTV, the No.1 source for home-related media content. The site currently offers more than 4 million listings of homes for sale. In addition to providing users with the latest real estate listings, FrontDoor.com houses expert HGTV advice and videos along with original Web series and a comprehensive library of features, tools, guides and information.
About Trump International Hotel & Tower
Designed by the noted architectural firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Trump International Hotel & Tower(R) Chicago is the tallest residential building in North America, offering 486 luxury residences located on floors 29 through 89, as well as 339 award-winning hotel condominiums on floors 14 to 27M. Residential condominiums include studios, one- to three-bedroom plans, and four- and five-bedroom penthouses and range in size from 580 to 14,000 square-feet. Homes showcase floor-to-ceiling windows that afford unparalleled views of the Chicago River, Lake Michigan and the city skyline, as well as gourmet kitchens, custom baths and state-of-the-art appliances. Residents experience world-class living in opulent surroundings and benefit from five-star amenities including Sixteen, a Michelin-rated fine dining restaurant; The Spa at Trump(R); Rebar, a chic cocktail lounge; The Terrace at Trump; and the River Walk, a 1.2-acre, three-level riverfront space. For more information, please visit www.trumpchicago.com or call (312) 644-0900.


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Q: How long do status updates, text, photos, et cetera, stay on Facebook?
I ask, because I want to use Facebook to create a historical timeline about an ancestor in my family so people can learn more about their heritage. I have Googled my question several times and all answers are confusing and mixed: some say everything stays on a FB page until you clean it off and others say Facebook deletes status updates and photos monthly.
This is an interesting way to use Facebook—to create a page for someone who is not currently living, and never lived during the time Facebook existed. (Typically, the question is the other way around: what to do with someone's existing Facebook account after they pass away?) And given the level of confusion constantly floating around about Facebook's data retention policies, it's no surprise that it might be hard to pinpoint exactly when (if ever) information gets deleted from the social network.
Luckily in this case, the answer is mostly straightforward. From Facebook's Data Use Policy:
We store data for as long as it is necessary to provide products and services to you and others, including those described above. Typically, information associated with your account will be kept until your account is deleted. For certain categories of data, we may also tell you about specific data retention practices.
Just to be sure, we reached out to Facebook to confirm this is indeed the policy for the above use case. The company confirmed that as long as you have not deleted the content yourself—or in the case of a message between two people, both people have not deleted it—the content should stay online indefinitely.
But as usual, there are some nuances to keep in mind about this policy. If you ever do want to delete the content, you should know that it's not likely to disappear instantly. As you may remember, we followed a thread for several years over how fast photos are deleted from Facebook's servers once you delete them from the site; as of late 2012, we verified that photos indeed appear to be removed within 30 days of deletion (our tests showed they were actually removed much faster).
It's not just about photos, though. As outlined in the same Data Use Policy referenced above, there are major differences between deactivating an account versus deleting an account, should you choose to eventually remove the account you created for your ancestor. Many Facebook users mistakenly think that deactivating their accounts equals deletion, but that is not so:
Deactivating your account puts your account on hold. Other users will no longer see your timeline, but we do not delete any of your information. Deactivating an account is the same as you telling us not to delete any information because you might want to reactivate your account at some point in the future. You can deactivate your account on your account settings page.
Your friends will still see you listed in their list of friends while your account is deactivated.
So when you deactivate your ancestor's account, it's not really going anywhere. The data is still there, lurking somewhere on Facebook's servers, even if the "friends" of that account can no longer see it.
Deletion, however, is another matter:
When you delete an account, it is permanently deleted from Facebook. It typically takes about one month to delete an account, but some information may remain in backup copies and logs for up to 90 days. You should only delete your account if you are sure you never want to reactivate it.
Certain information is needed to provide you with services, so we only delete this information after you delete your account. Some of the things you do on Facebook aren't stored in your account, like posting to a group or sending someone a message (where your friend may still have a message you sent, even after you delete your account). That information remains after you delete your account.
I often see Facebook users confusing these two things. They usually become alarmed when they've deactivated an account, only to have all the old information show up again when they go to "register" a new account. But if you actually go through with a real deletion, the information shouldn't be there past 90 days—and hopefully it will be gone sooner.


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Fall of the U.S.A. Concluded: The Big Money
If one uses a generous definition of "fall," I have squeaked in under the wire, finishing the U.S.A. trilogy just prior to the winter solstice. I hope a few of you are still keeping up, or have at least read enough to find something worthwhile in these bitter, beautiful books.
The tragedy at the heart of U.S.A., the death that gives it its heartbreaking force, is the death of yearning. Remember the introductory passage that Conor cited? The one about a wandering young man with "no job, no woman, no house, no city" but for whom "one bed is not enough, one job is not enough, one life is not enough?" If you stopped reading, do me a favor and open The Big Money to its final pages and read the section titled "Vag." See what's become of that bold, searching hunger. The rest of you, keep reading.
In my first post on the books, I suggested a few topics that I'd keep in mind while I read. I'll revisit them quickly to get myself caught up, then please carry on in the combox. Over the coming days, I'll go back through the dogeared pages and see what, if anything, is worth bringing up.
The Law
When and where does the force of law manifest in the action of the novels and in the lives of the characters?
Easy enough: law and justice are distant, corrupt, and serve their paymasters.
We hear about it a lot today, mostly in embarrassingly glib terms. Muslim kids go into one end of a madrassa, and radicals pour out the other end. But what actually happens to make some people and not others receptive to radical solutions and life missions? I've always thought that notions of manhood had a lot to do with it, and Dos Passos appears to agree.
Interestingly, the most sympathetic and earnest radical is Mary French. While her male comrades are always shoring up one another's commitment to the movement, Mary's sincere humanitarianism keeps her going without any help from others.
What's the Matter With Kansas?
To what extent do direct economic interests shape political orientation? Should they? The book presents solidarity as something ephemeral that takes constant energy input to avoid dissipation.
Like I mention above, the activists are always trying to instill solidarity among the oppressed, but getting their funds from wealthy liberals like Ada Cohn.
As we are discovering in the era of "food miles" and "too big to fail," scale is an under-theorized element of political economy that carries a lot of intuitive weight. To what extent does Dos Passos present scale as a normative dimension?
Meh. Next question.
Media and the Information Economy
Reading this in hindsight, where, if anywhere, do we see hints of the emerging "knowledge economy?"
This is Ivy Ledbetter Lee, the so-called founder of modern public relations and prototype for J. Ward Moorehouse. Like Moorehouse, Lee worked for heavy industry as a publicist and for the Red Cross during World War I.
The Moorehouse character, like Lee, starts doing publicity for the steel industry, and becomes famous for his efforts at "harmonizing" public opinion with corporate and government policy. As he hits his stride, Moorehouse rhapsodizes over American industry, describing it as:
a highpower locomotive on a great express train charging through the night of old individualistic methods. … What does a steam engine require? Cooperation, coordination of the inventor's brain, the promoter's brain that made the development of these highpower products possible … Coordination of capital, the storedup energy of the race in the form of credit intelligently directed … labor, the prosperous contented American working man to whom the unprecedented possibilities of capital collected in great corporations had given the full dinnerpail, cheap motor transport, insurance, short working hours … a measure of comfort and prosperity unequaled before or since in the tragic procession of recorded history or in the known regions of the habitable globe.
By the end of The Big Money, Moorehouse is, quite literally, selling quack medicine and lobbying against its regulation.
The novels track this process of dissolution at both the individual scale and the national, starting with a hungry industrial fervor that seems almost pagan (the Pequod comes to mind a few times), and ending in a sanitized, bureaucratic, alienating, and superficial world of institutions beyond any individual control. "The storedup energy of the race" is squandered, leaving nothing to yearn for, but everything to want.