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This posting is a bit of a warning, as much as it is a blog of my views on a particular topic.
When I was an author prior to dabbling in publishing, I often speculated what motivated publishers in their contracts and general relationships with their authors. I often assumed a lot of negativity. From a naive point of view I considered many of the contractual elements as being rather complex and extreme.
Now, I know there are unscrupulous publishers out there, and some of them do hover among the establishment, but as a publisher I also can see the other side of the 'argument'. I will focus on this.
I can't, for legal reasons, go into details, but I can say that despite only being in business for just over a year, and publishing 11 titles by end of this year, we have had contractual disputes or disputes that ran counter to what we consider to be the spirit of contract. Since then, mind you, we have tightened our wording. In most of these cases, it was authors who changed views on what they wanted, and sought every means to make it happen (or planned to). I pondered on more than one occasion why these things happened.
Firstly, it might not have been totally cynical, but rather, an act of ignorance. I can sort of live with that reason, and in one case an author made corrective action and we are grateful for that. The other reason is selfishness. If an author thinks they made a mistake going with us, or that there is a way to reinterpret the contract so that the publishing regime is realigned with the author's new agenda, this is cynical. This is selfish. This is disloyal.
Disloyal. One use of the term is associated with a superior-inferior relationship, where the inferior doesn't obey. I don't mean this. I am talking about a small company that tries its hardest to support authors – to give them a leg up in the long ladder of a writing career, and expecting the authors to return this loyalty by sticking with us by contract and what it entails. If an author wants us to publish a title, we ask to have full rights to publish it – print, electronic, smoke signal, and worldwide. This is what our contract basically says. We expect no other copy of anything resembling the manuscript to exist on any publicly accessible source. etc etc. It is amazing, in the short life of our company, that we encountered something in this space on three occasions. Disloyalty.
Cynicism aside, we have an absolutely fantastic family in IFWG Publishing. And I mean family. A bunch of writers who are like a small, virtual community and where many of us participate in writing workshops and joke and kid around. it is a by-product of mutual respect and loyalty. Yes, I am affected enough by the negative side to write this blog, but I can also say that the good far outweighs the bad.
So I return to my original thoughts. Yes, as a publisher, working with a myriad of people, some of whom can be disloyal and even downright wacky, it is critical to protect my business. Yes, a contract has to be wordy and long. Yes, I have to be tough on first publishing rights. Yes, I do have to be literal at times. But I also believe I have to be loyal to you, the writer, as well, and prove I am no hypocrite.


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Within Vauxhall the FE range, based on the GM V72 Car Platform, had been introduced in February 1972 and was planned to be a "mid-range" model slotting under a proposed larger PD Cresta & Viscount model range. As we now know the PD project was cancelled and was done so after development of the FE was well under way and ended up with only a six month overlap after the cars launch with the PC Cresta & Viscount models which were withdrawn in August 1972, long after their respective sell by dates. Unfortunately, at least initially, the FE Victor / VX4/90 & Ventora were not particularly competitive. The car was gradually improved, particularly with the VX Series, although after 1976 when the Ventora was phased out Vauxhall no longer had a six cylinder car in their range for the first time since the 1920s. The problem of the lack of a true prestige top model was not lost or ignored by Vauxhall, there were many concepts such as the FE Viscount V8, killed by the fuel crisis, the Ventora SS V8 Concept proposed during the development of the FE range and the most serious proposal of all - the 2.5litre six cylinder stretched FE VX Series built by Panther. This is where the story of the Vauxhall Royale begins.
The Luton Design Department, under Wayne Cherry, identified three distinct alternatives for a top of the range Vauxhall flagship model. The first of these was the stretched FE, built by Panther in 1976 and based on a 1975 Design Concept, this would have comprised 2 model range starting with the six cylinder Opel 2.5litre CIH with a 2.8litre version as a performance option and all using the same body and trim level with a provisional name badge of Viscount. The one running prototype built was lavishly appointed and luxurious, it featured an imposing & attractive front end design that was immediately identifiable as a Vauxhall. The reason for not pursuing the project was that it was still based on a standard, albeit longer, FE VX Series chassis which had been developed to as good as it could get and was not felt to be competitive in the sector of the market that its prospective price would have placed it and Vauxhall were aiming for.
The second was to make use of the new V-6 Special platform being developed by Opel with a wholly Vauxhall designed body, a similar option was being considered lower down the range with the V-4 Platform based 5 door Hatchback Ventora Concept. A styling mock-up was built and followed a conventional 4 door saloon configuration and even a conventional front grille albeit aerodynamically slanted. The irony was that the Vauxhall Concept, which had been designed independently of Opel, ended up looking remarkably similar in profile. The Product Planning Committee had researched the prospective sales volumes likely and made the case for a unique Vauxhall design uneconomic and so the project was dropped.
The third option was to resort to an already tried and tested formula that had been set with the Chevette & Cavalier MK1, meaning to take an Opel design and modify the front & rear design and interior to create a distinctly recognisable Vauxhall style. Ironically, Opel were in a similar position to Vauxhall in that their replacement for the Diplomat & Admiral B, the Diplomat C, was well into its development when it was cancelled late in 1974 due to Opel's same worries about the likely demand for very large cars, especially with a V8 engine, in the wake of the fuel crisis. A planned Admiral / Diplomat B facelift, planned for 1974, had also previously been cancelled because of dwindling sales and meant the models were forced to plod on until August 1977 by which time, and like the PC Cresta & Viscount in 1972, they were well beyond their sell by date.
The original design brief for the Senator in 1975 was as a replacement for the Commodore B but with the demise of the Diplomat C project the Rekord E, which was already half way through its development, would be adapted with an extended front end to accommodate Opel's CIH 6 cylinder engine but retain the rest of the Rekord E bodywork from the windscreen back. The Senator was now moved up in size and designed to be distinct from the Commodore whilst still using as many components from the standard V Car platform as possible. Due to the continuing sophistication of competitive models in the prestige segment it was decided to develop a sophisticated independent rear suspension using Mini-Block springs for the first time on the new car, the platform was now designated V-6 Special. Great detail attention was paid to exterior aerodynamics and many hours were spent fine tuning the exterior in the Pininfarina wind tunnel. As no Commodore Coupe would be included in the new line up a 2 door Coupe version of the Senator was developed, the Monza, and prototypes of both were shown for the first time at the 1977 IAA but deliveries did not begin until May 1978.
Meanwhile at Vauxhall Cherry's Design team had modified the Senator with the dashboard from the upcoming Carlton but with additional instruments, a modified rear end which featured a brushed aluminium panel between the rear light units and a front end which used a different bonnet with traditional Vauxhall flutes, like the FE, and a black square slanted egg crate grille which gave a further link to the previous Ventora. Unfortunately the cost constraints were so restricted on both sides of the Channel that the unique bonnet and front end panel for the Royale were dropped and a straight forward grille change was the only front end change, the grille was also used by Holden for the first VB Commodore in Australia and Daewoo in South Korea for their version which was also called Royale. The Viscount name was dropped in favour of Royale because the name had been registered by United Biscuits for their new chocolate mint cream biscuit!
The Vauxhall Royale was first shown publically at the UK Motor Show in October 1978 and went on sale in November. Both Saloon & Coupe were badged as Royale unlike their Opel equivalents. The Carlton launched at the same time was UK built at Luton, however, all Royale models were imported fully built form the Opel plant in Russelsheim. The car was only offered with one trim level and the only extra cost option was air conditioning, a no cost option was a 4 speed manual gearbox instead of the standard 3 speed GM Automatic. Colour choice was restricted to 4, and only the 2.8S CIH 140bhp engine could be ordered except in Sweden where it was only sold with the 180bhp 3.0E fuel injected unit.

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los angeles web marketing" />The internet has changed the way we do virtually everything. From how we interact with friends and family to how we source for information. Millions of people each day go online for different purposes. Companies are catching up to this and are beginning to shift their marketing effort online, adopting effective web marketing strategies.
Web marketing, also called internet marketing or online marketing, is any advertising or marketing effort done online to promote the sale of goods or services. There are tremendous advantages of adopting Los Angeles web marketing strategies in the promotion of a business good or service. Compared to the traditional form of advertising and marketing, web marketing is far more affordable. In some cases, it cost nothing to set up an online account and start promoting a product while sometimes you can pay a small amount. Online marketing also guarantees a wide reach, as there are millions of people available online, and there is no limit to the number of people who can view your campaign. Other advantages include ease of usage, easy targeting, and high return on investment.
There are different forms of Los Angeles web marketing strategies available for businesses and individuals, below are five of them;
1) Social media marketing:
This is one of the most effective forms of Los Angeles web marketing strategies. In fact, social media marketing played an important part in the popularization of internet marketing. Social media marketing refers to any form of marketing done on any social media platform; Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google + etc.
Social media marketing does not only help promote a business's product or service, but it is a very effective method of connecting with customers and potential customers, building relationships, and getting feedback.
2) Email marketing:
When emails are sent to customers and potential customers for the purpose of doing business, it is termed email marketing. There are two types of emails used in email marketing.
Transactional emails are emails that arise as a result of a previous interaction or contact between a customer and business. They enhance the relationship between customer and business. Example of transactional emails are sales receipt email, password reset email, order confirmation email etc.
Direct emails are emails sent to customers without prior notice or contact. They are cold calls intended to motivate a customer or potential customer towards purchasing a good or adopting a service.
3) Content marketing:
Content marketing is an approach of marketing focused on creating insightful and valuable content for a defined audience. Content marketing is not actually a separate form of marketing but should be included in all other marketing strategies. Content marketing can be used for educating customers and not always based on selling.
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The process of making a website or link rank higher in natural or organic search engine result is termed Search Engine Optimization (SEO). SEO helps to make a website more visible in search result which in turn leads to greater traffic and higher conversion rate. SEO also helps to build a company's brand.
5) Search Engine Marketing and PPC:
Search Engine Marketing refers to any effort of improving traffic to a website by the means of paid ads on search engines. Google Adwords is the most popular platform for PPC promotion. These form of marketing gives website owners a very wide reach and they only pay when their ads are clicked.


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Biography:O.A.R. (aka Of a Revolution) converted from an Ohio State frat band to Billboard chartbuster and headliner at major venues across America. First, college reps hawked the band's two demo recordings to people and servers at universities. Then, word-of-mouth news spread about the band's roots rock and reggae-inflected upbeat songs. Before long, the band got thousands of hits daily on their website at www.ofarevolution.com.
O.A.R.'s third CD, Risen, was produced by John Alagia (Dave Matthews Band, Ben Folds Five) and recorded in summer 2000 at Water Music in Hoboken, NJ, and at Dumbo Studios in New York City for the group's independent label, Everfine Records. The CD debuted at number 11 on February 24, 2001, on the Top Internet Album Sales chart in Billboard.
O.A.R., likened to Dave Matthews Band, consists of lead singer/rhythm guitarist Marc Roberge, lead guitarist Richard On, saxist Jerry DePizzo, bassist Benj Gershman, and drummer Chris Culos.
O.A.R. formed in 1998 at Ohio State University. Roberge had known Culos since childhood in Rockville, MD, where he also became friends and played in local bands with On and Gershman. DePizzo, who hails from Youngstown, OH, met the others at Ohio State. O.A.R. first recorded The Wanderer independently as a demo in 1997. Many of the songs on O.A.R.'s debut disc were written while Roberge and Culos were living in Israel. During their stay in Israel, Roberge and Culos in 1996 and later Gershman in 1997 visited the Masada, where 900 people committed suicide rather than die at the hands of the ancient Romans. They also hiked to the Dead Sea.
Two years later, the switch from student band to headliner started with the arrival of their popular song, "That Was a Crazy Game of Poker." A lot of the lyrics for the band's songs came from Roberge's interest in literature, particularly Stephen King's novel The Stand.
The group went back into the recording studio for a second demo, which was released independently as Souls Aflame in 1999. Both The Wanderer and Souls Aflame were reissued in 2001 on Everfine Records.
With the success of Risen, Roberge began writing songs for a new CD in late 2001. To appease their dedicated fanbase, they released the live Any Time Now in the spring of 2002. The album went on to sell 100,000 copies. In Between Now And Then appeared in spring 2003. ~ Robert Hicks, All Music Guide
Written by Robert Hicks
Stories Of A Stranger
Stories Of A Stranger
34th And 8th
In Between Now And Then
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In Between Now And Then
Any Time Now
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"To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own." –Jack Kornfield
Yes, we are all guilty of holding on to situations that we know we should release from. Whether we are holding on to a grudge, holding on to memories from a relationship or holding on to a negative experience that replays in our minds.
You have to understand that holding on does not change anything. Holding on to a situation will only hold you back from creating a strong sense of self.
One of the most difficult things for most people to let go of are relationships. Often times, we will turn into someone completely different when we don't want to let go. We start to make poor choices, lie, or even bring negativity to not only yourself but the ones around you.
I remember holding on to a past relationship even after my heart was broken and the relationship was clearly over . I couldn't even recognize myself when I looked in the mirror. I was angry all the time, stressed out and took my frustrations out on my loved ones.
The moment I recognized i was holding on to this relationship that was over, I started to "DO THE SELF-WORK." First, I learned to accept that the relationship I thought I was suppose to be in forever is over. I began to move on and that is when my life started falling back into place for the good.
Although it can be difficult to let go of someone you've built a deep connection with, it is necessary to let go to live a great life.
The key to letting go is facing what has happened, accepting that you can't change it and then moving on.
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Highlights from the '91 Best and Worst of Honolulu List
Number of winners in HONOLULU's first "People's Choice Awards":
Place to Be Seen
Best: Restaurant Row
Worst: Hotel Street
"Since you yupsters voted for Restaurant Row in general … does that mean the Restaurant Row Burger King is as hip a place to be spotted as, say, the bar at The Black Orchid?"
Parking Lot
Best: Ala Moana Shopping Center (We presume this depends on whether you can find a space, see below.)
Worst: Ala Moana Shopping Center
Runner-up worst: Queen's Physicians' Office Building. Rumor has it that the traffic lanes in the new Queen's Physicians' parking lot are so narrow they seem designed to create a bumper crop of injured patients for the docs in the building.
Laws You Wish We Had
Winner: Ban fireworks
Runners-up: Ban guns, limit foreign investment, bring back the death penalty
"MOS Burgers won hands down as worst fast food and—according to one reader—worst food ever."
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Record number of tiger attacks attributed to loss of habitat
50 people killed last year, highest annual total in past 100 years
By Anisur Rahman, Correspondent Published: 00:00 August 1, 2010
Dhaka: Bangladesh earned a name for being the home of Royal Bengal Tigers along with neighbouring India but this year, the big cats killed the highest number of people this century, a phenomenon feared to be caused by loss of their habitats.
"We are witnessing a growing trend of deaths caused by tigers. Fifty people died last year, the highest number of deaths we recorded in the past 100 years, while the figure was 24 in 2007," forest conservator Tapan Dey told Gulf News.
He said the loss of big cat habitats and food sources in southwestern Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest which is the habitat of the last 440 Bengal Tigers, according to a 2004 survey.
Dey's comments came two days after Bangladesh joined the World Tiger Day celebrations promising effective steps to save the endangered big cats while it planned for an effective presence in the 13-nation Tiger Conservation Summit in St. Petersburg in September to plan out urgent measures to save the species.
"I will attribute the phenomenon (growing number of deaths) on human intrusion in Sundarbans . . . men are not good food for big cats but are easy prey, while the tigers are quickly losing their main food there because of poaching," chief executive of Bangladesh Wildlife Trust Professor Anwarul Islam told Gulf News.
Islam, also a senior professor of zoology department of the premier Dhaka University, said nearly 450,000 families live around the Sundarbans, a stretch of 6,017 square kilometres of forest "while their interactions with tigers are growing day by day causing the higher death rates."
He said the Trust recently carried out a survey on 800 families living around the Sundarbans. Nearly half of them admitted they had tasted the deer meats at last once in the past year.
"The survey reflects how the tigers are losing their main food source," he said. The last survey by the forest department and UN Development Programme (UNDP) in 2004 estimated the number to be around 440, while in Indian side of the Sundarbans the tiger population was around 270.


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(KTVX) — A second Utah Jazz player has tested positive for COVID-19, according to ESPN.
Donovan Mitchell has tested positive for the new coronavirus, ESPN reporter Adrian Wojnarowski said Thursday. Jazz teammate Rudy Gobert tested positive Wednesday, according to media reports.
The Jazz says they have tested all members of the team and only one additional player had a positive outcome. Wojnarowski identified the player as Mitchell.
"As a follow-up to yesterday's positive COVID-19 test, Oklahoma health officials tested all members of the Utah Jazz traveling party, confirming one additional positive outcome for a Jazz player," the Jazz said in a statement. "We are working closely with the CDC, Oklahoma and Utah state officials, and the NBA to monitor their health and determine the best path moving forward."
The NBA on Wednesday suspended its season "until further notice," saying it will use the time to "determine next steps for moving forward in regard to the coronavirus pandemic."


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Question by Davey !: How can i make a sign in function on my website?
Hey guys, i'm making a website for a friend, and he wants the website to have a part where you can sign up/ login. So a box that has username and password. Is there any tutorials out there to help me do it? is there an easy way to do this?
I don't know alot about html etc so a basic tutorial would be great,
Anything will be helpful, cheers!!
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Answer by drma
i suggest to use ready to use website software "script"
to code such a script like this at least you have to know HTML ,PHP & MySQL
hope i helped!
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What is a voucher code?
Career Disha Nepal has created Nepal's first and only career counseling tool that lets you know about which career is best for you according to your personality. To access this information, you have to get a voucher. A voucher code is a 10 digit unique code that you will need to check your result of the psychometric assessment.
What is psychometric assessment?
CDN Psychometric Assessment is a tool used to find career path based on one's interest and professional orientation. It is also called interest-based test. Youth can test their individual personality, professional interest, and vocational interest through the assessment. There are altogether three segments one has to give responses to according to their interest and how they react to different situations. The system then analyses the filled info and illustrates their individual personality profile and matching jobs. Along with the matching jobs, we provide info about educational qualification or training for each recommended professions.
How much does it cost?
The Psychometric Assessment is available in both Online and Offline format which starts at the minimal cost of Rs 200! Additionally, to accurately provide the required amount of guidance to the youth, CDN provides three distinct assessment packages: Assessment Slim, Assessment Basic and Assessment Deluxe.
How and where can I buy the psychometric assessment?
Individual having internet service can access the Psychometric Assessment from anywhere. This assessment is available in both languages English as well as Nepali. For the convenience of our distant clients, we also provide ESEWA service for payment of the products. Students from any part of Nepal who have access to ESEWA services or ESEWA agents can buy voucher codes like recharge cards, which has a unique code (10 characters) that would be used to get the result of the psychometric assessment.
There are three major options to buy voucher codes for CDN psychometric assessment.
- Buying directly through ESEWA's website. (https://esewa.com.np)
You need to have ESEWA account or anyone having ESEWA account to buy the voucher code.
- Go to https://esewa.com.np and type "Career Disha Nepal – Assessment Voucher". You will land to a page with the option to choose the package: Assessment Slim, Assessment Basic and Assessment Deluxe. Click here to directly go to this page.
- Choose the package you want to buy. (click here to learn more about the packages).
- Voucher Code for the assessment is then shown. Copy-paste the 10 digit "Card PIN no." to obtain your result from you student home https://assessment.careerdishanepal.org .
- Buying through CDN SHOP ( https://shop.careerdishanepal.org )
To allow the purchase of multiple access-codes online through ESEWA, Career Disha Nepal has provided an online shop for institutional and individual clients. CDN shop allows you to buy maximum of 10 voucher codes at a time. At the moment, you can buy Assessment Slim, Basic and Deluxe from the shop and pay for them as follows:
- Go to https://shop.careerdishanepal.org
- Choose the product you want to purchase
- After selecting the quantity of the product please click "Add to cart"
- When you are done adding the products, checkout from the shop. You will then be requested to enter your email address.
- Once the email address has been entered, you will be redirected to the ESEWA login page where you can pay through your eSewa account.
- Once paid, you will be redirected to the checkout page/success page with your voucher code information. (The purchase and voucher information will also be sent to your email address.)
After the completion of assessment, you will be asked to enter the voucher code in order to obtain your results. You can either enter the voucher code if you have already purchased one (directly from CDN Head office). If not, you can purchase it through ESEWA payment option, available at the CDN assessment page https://assessment.careerdishanepal.org .
- Complete the assessment
- The system requests for the voucher code
- Click on the products you would like
- You will be redirected to esewa.com.np to buy the code
- Purchase the code and once completed, your assessment result will automatically be ready to view.


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Avrohom Adler
Mischa Alexandrovich
Samuel Alman
Zvi Aroni
Reuben Berkovits
Shlomo Barondes
Avraham Moshe Bernstein
Abraham Birnbaum
Velvel Bogzester
Gershon Boyars
Leo Bryll
Berele Chagy
Francis Lyon Cohen
Philip Copperman
David M Davis
Moshe Leib Erblich
Kalman Fausner
Pinchas Faigenblum
Emanuel Feldinger
Emanuel Frankl
Aaron Fuchsman
Moshe Ganchoff
Aryeh Garbacz
Eliezer Gerovitch
Yechiel Gildin
Leib Glantz
Yitzchak Glickstein
Johnny Gluck
Jacob Gottlieb
Berl Gottlieb
Marcus Hast
Mordecai Hershman
Shlomo Hershman
Isaac Icht
Solomon Kashtan
Morris Katanka
Adolph Katchko
Ben-Zion Kapov-Kagan
Emanuel Kirschner
Solomon Koor
Moshe Korn
Usher Korn
Salomon Kupfer
David Kussevitsky
Jacob Kussevitsky
Moshe Kussevitsky
Simcha Kussevitsky
Zevulun Kwartin
David Levine
Louis Lewandowski
Yoel Dovid Lowenstein
Charles Lowy
Herman Mayerowitsch
Chaim Shmuel Milch
Yehudah Leib Miller
Pinchas Minkovsky
Julius Lazarus Mombach
Solomon Hirsh Morris
Benzion Moskovits
Harris Newman
David Nowakowsky
Moishe Oysher
Jan Peerce
Pierre Pinchik
Salomo Pinkasovitch
Moshe Preis
Shlomo Rawitz
Jacob Rivlis
Baruch Leib Rosowsky
David Roitman
Ephraim Fishel Rosenberg
Jack Rosenberg
Yossele Rosenblatt
Zeidel Rovner
Joseph Schmidt
Israel Schorr
Jacob Sherman
Joseph Shlisky
Lewis Shoot
Bezalel Shulsinger
Gershon Sirota
Boruch Smus
Solomon Stern
Salomon Sulzer
Richard Tucker
Samuel Vigoda
Leibele Waldman
Hirsch Weintraub
Yehoshua Wieder
Abba Yosef Weisgal
Elliott J. Yavneh
Zalmon Yavneh
Zavel Zilberts
Noach Zaludkowski
|This section contains a variety of biographies of Chazanim and Synagogue choir-masters from around the world.
Countless men have served the Jewish People as Chazan and became beloved to their congregants who come to admire them for their devotion to their holy calling.
As well as those who became famous, there were also those who toiled on behalf of their members, but whose name did not spread much beyond their own community. Many of them, had the opportunity arisen, might also have made wider names for themselves, but they were content to serve their their own community. I would like to celebrate the lives of these Chazanim too and provide a place where they may be remembered.
Many of the items here are taken from a series of articles that I originally wrote for the Daf Hashavua of the United Synagogue, London. Others are taken from the, now defunct magazine 'The Cantors' Review.' Those from the Cantors' Review are longer and more detailed.
I would like to include as many as possible, from all parts of the world.
If you would like to contribute to this list, please send your article to me, (firstname.lastname@example.com) together with a suitable photograph, if possible, and I will be very happy to add it.
If you can add anything that I've omitted from any of these articles, or correct any errors, I would be very pleased to hear from you.
I would also like to have a photograph of every person on the list. If you can supply me with one that's missing, or you have a better one that the one I've already uploaded, likewise I would appreciate hearing from you.
Rabbi Geoffrey L Shisler
Reproduced above is an historic photograph of Chazanim and Shul musicians from the mid 1930's. It was taken in the Ernest Schiff Hall of the Great Synagogue, Dukes Place.They are (with Synagogues served, where known):
Front row, left to right;
Rivlis (Great, Dukes' Place). Fuchsman (East London), Hoffman, Davis, Prince (St John's Wood), Alman (choirmaster), Mayerowitz (2nd Reader, Great, Duke's Place), Slavinsky (North London), Boyars (Hampstead), Adelman, Klein (Borough), Elfand (Brondesbury), Halter (Cannon Street Road).
Second row:
Tesler, Grundstein, Morgenstein, Isaacs, Shechter (Cricklewood), Morris (Brixton), Kibel (2nd Reader, New), Krezelman, Hersh, Freilich (Hampstead garden Suburb), Milch (Bethnal Green Great), Feder (Finsbury Park), Gotlieb (Montague Road).
Third row:
Rochman, Kezelman (Jubilee Street?), Smus, Davidson, Genzler, Palatnick, Frank, Levy, Grossman.
Back row:
Kremer, Lawrence and Marcus (accompanist)


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Tuesday evening saw something amazing happen. I finished a book.
That's right. I actually finished a draft of a WIP. For the first time in about 3 years, people! (To be fair, I did write a novella back in 2015 for a contest, but it's still been that long since I've finished anything.) I finished The Wolf Prince! I went back and check when I first started it and came up with May, 2014. Yeah, it took me that long to finish. Granted I have been a tad bit busy since then.
Here's some super detailed stats.
Word Count: ?? Prolly somewhere around 40-50K. I'll find out when I type it up.
Chapters: 33 + Epilogue.
Notebooks used: 3 (for some reason I used wide ruled, so it's really not as impressive as it sounds).
My love for this story: 10/10. I really love how it turned out. I think I actually included all the scenes I brainstormed for it, which is some sort of record. 😛 I can't wait to share it with y'all!
What's next? Letting it sit for the rest of April. My alpha readers (aka sisters) need to finish reading it so I can force them to tell me what they really thought.
And tonight I'll sit down with The Rise of Aredor and begin edits on it to prep for re-release this summer/fall!! I'll be putting aside the word count goal for the rest of April and giving myself a page count for editing purposes. I'm thinking about 20 pages a day to edit. I've already started on a bit of it, so I'm hoping it shouldn't take me very long. *crossing my fingers as I type this cause life has a funny way of laughing in the face of my goals*
Meanwhile – here's some snippets from The Wolf Prince!
Lars propped himself up on elbows as Killian slithered off the bed, warily eyeing her and the bucket.
"There had better be a good reason for this. It's probably treason to throw water at princes."
Rose almost emptied the bucket over him. "I think we're famous."
"We are princes," Lars reminded her.
The three companions were left standing in the sudden silence. The explosions of the sorcerer's power echoed a few more times before fading away. The noise of the forest gradually returned and they settled in to wait. For what, Killian was not entirely sure.
"It's…it's my fault." She stared at the bits of blood still staining her hands.
This wasn't a tussle for dominance. It was a fight for his life.
"Maybe, but that's more than you would have done for me a few weeks ago, admit it." He winked and a chuckle bubbled in her chest. She bumped his shoulder with her fist.
"Yes, lucky for you boys, you grew on me. A little like mold."
Jonas instead began asking after his health as if he was not nearing twenty-one years and standing next to him. Rose caught his eye roll and smothered a grin.
What do you think of the snippets? 🙂
Are you doing Camp NaNo? How are your awesome WIPs coming?


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Plot & ThemesHow difficult to spot villain? - Difficult, but some clues given Time/era of story: - 1980's-1999 What % of story relates directly to the mystery, not the subplot? - 90% Special suspect? - lover Murder of certain profession? - businessmen Kid or adult book? - Adult or Young Adult Book Crime Thriller - Yes Murder Mystery (killer unknown) - Yes General Crime (including known murderer) - Yes Who's the criminal enemy here? - finding a known killer
Main CharacterGender - Female Profession/status: - journalist Age: - 20's-30's
SettingUnited States - Yes City? - Yes
Writing StyleAccounts of torture and death? - very gorey descriptions deaths/dead bodies Amount of dialog - mostly dialog
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Less than a week after left tackle Nate Solder opted out of the season, the New York Giants extended the contract of third-year tackle Nick Gates.
The Giants announced Saturday that Gates had signed a two-year extension worth at least $6 million.
The Giants also confirmed they had signed placekicker Chandler Catanzaro. He reached an agreement with the team earlier this week after Aldrick Rosas was released in the wake of a hit-and-run accident in the offseason.
Gates started games at right guard and right tackle last season, He started 25 consecutive games at left tackle at Nebraska.
The Giants are expected to move first-round draft pick Andrew Thomas to left tackle to take over for Solder, who started every game the past two seasons. Gates, who played in all 16 games last season, and veteran Cam Fleming are expected to compete for the job at right tackle.
"We have faith in Nick Gates. ... Last year he made a lot of progress. We are excited about him," Giants general manager Dave Gettleman said before the draft.
Mike Remmers, who started most of last season at right tackle, signed with the Kansas City Chiefs in the offseason. Center Jon Halapio, who was hurt in the season finale last season, remains unsigned.
Gates joined the Giants as a rookie free agent in 2018 and spent that entire season on injured reserve after suffering a foot injury in the preseason.
A former Jet who has played six years in the NFL, Catanzaro did not play in the NFL last season. The 29-year-old has made 119 of 142 field goal attempts and 182 of 196 extra point tries. He has had touchbacks on 61 percent of his kickoffs.
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With some basic ingredients – including common yeast, a few test tubes, and notebooks – Dr. Maitreya Dunham's broader impacts project has not only created research experiences for high school students – the work has also yielded new findings on specific interactions between genes (epistasis) that influence yeast resistance to azoles. Azoles are a class of synthetic anti-fungal compounds that inhibit the growth of yeasts and fungi, including those that affect foods and health.
The student-run experiments are a component of a collaborative project between Dunham and co-investigator Dr. Paul Rowley ("Collaborative Research: Eukaryotic virus-host interaction and evolution in Saccharomyces yeasts" (NSF award #1817816)). The students grow common yeast (S. cerevisiae) in a media containing an azole known to inhibit yeast growth. Successive generations of the most successful yeast are transferred to media with increasingly greater levels of azole. Students track the progression and return the final yeast cultures to Dr. Dunham's lab for genetic sequencing. After the yeast's genomes are sequenced, Dunham and her team return the results to the school and students research the mutations as part of their classwork.
The research enables students to observe how mutations in specific genes interact, and how correlated mutations lead to different changes in azole resistance. When the interactions are not additive, but are either greater or less than expected, it's known as epistasis.
Pigmented yeast makes the research competitive and the experiments more visually exciting. In "yeast fights," students observe the growth of differently colored yeasts to track which strains are more drug resistant. The colored yeasts come from the lab of Dr. Jef Boeke, also an MCB-funded researcher, and are developed by research assistants "playing" with yeast in their spare time. Some high school students call these colonies their "yeast babies" and, Dunham says, the students are excited to learn what genetic mutations are present in the final yeast colony.
The project itself has evolved, enabling the experiments to persist despite school closings caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. yEvo.org includes a step-by-step protocol and a form for requesting more information on how to participate.
Other collaborators include Dr. Ryan Skophammer, a biology teacher at Westridge School for Girls in Pasadena, CA, who initiated the idea by asking Dunham for a "real" science project for his class; Dr. Bryce Taylor, a yeast geneticist in Dunham's lab who provides the genetic sequencing; and three undergraduate students. Rowley, the project's co-investigator, runs yEvo labs in schools local to him in Idaho. "I feel like this is what a real scientist does," wrote one student in response to a survey question. And indeed, it is just what real scientists do.


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The Rams dominated the Bucs in every facet of the game, shooting 54.8% on offense while forcing 24 steals on defense.
VCU outrebounded ETSU 51 to 23, lead by Troy Daniels and Treveon Graham with 10 a piece. It was Daniels' first career double double.
Graham finished second to Daniels in scoring posting 19 points in a team-high 25 minutes of play.
Juvonte Reddic (14) and Melvin Johnson (10) rounded out the list of double-digit scorers for VCU, with Johnson sniffing a double double as well, grabbing nine rebounds in his 21 minutes on the floor.
Daniel's 11 threes broke his own record set just a game ago when he hit nine against Fairleigh Dickinson. The senior guard is averaging 9 made threes and 28.3 points per game over his last three contests.
The Rams were especially impressive despite being without the services of their fourth leading scorer, Rob Brandenberg (10.7 ppg).
VCU moves to 11-3 on the season after winning their eighth straight contest since returning from the Bahamas.
The Rams winning streak has been by an average of 23.87 points per contest.
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Hailey is going to one of the top school's in the country. Well it's where all the rich kids go. She's the type of person who colors in the lines. She always follows the rules. She's always felt she needed to be perfect since her grandmother sat her down and told her that she needed to help her father out. Why? Her mother died when she was 12. Her mother was just crossing the street and a drunk driver killed her. She didn't even think to worry when her mother didn't pick her up and hours later she was found at school still. She never thought anything was wrong and couldn't explain it to others when she was asked. But, everything changed. So she knows everything that can kill you and the statistics of it which is pretty sad.
For almost four years she's been at this school and for almost all that time she's been with her boyfriend Tristan. The most popular guy in school. But then something happens and her world becomes upside down. Now everyone stops talking when she walks in the room and stare at her accusingly. She did something so wrong that not even her boyfriend will talk to her.
Wow. This book is not even remotely what I thought it would be like. First of all I didn't know they were this rich bunch of kids I'll be reading about. It is kind of thrown at you with the first page talking about this girl's area. I was like Okay! I was already writing up the review in my mind saying what a disappointment this book was. Talking about popularity. Blah. Blah. Blah. But wait! Then comes in Drew *sly grin* (Yes sly. I'm changing it up people!). He's pretty sarcastic and very amusing. He just made me like Hailey a lot more. The whole relationship was unexpected... maybe not for you now... whatever. You'll like him. And anyway the book summary suggests it so there!
Oh my goodness her father.... I wanted to smack him. I would totally zone out if one of my loved ones died too. I kind of understand but poor Hailey. This line really sums it up:
"What about us?" (The Dad) "Just that. There is no us anymore. I don't even know if you like me."
See? Sadness... Some other quotes I'm just going to put in here because they stood out to me, made me smile, and are awesome. This first one was talking about Karaoke.
"I'm not sure I should be singing at all. My throat's been a bit sore. I might be coming down with something." I held my hand to my throat and tried to look wan. Drew laughed. "Do not go into a life of crime. You suck at lying."
"Dozing,huh? You always snore like a truck driver when you snore?" "I wasn't snoring," I insisted. "Oh, I'm sorry. You weren't snoring. You were simply choking to death on a live ferret."
"There are two kinds of people in this world. People who are a part of what happens and people who sit back and watch other people make it happen. Life isn't supposed to be a spectator sport. It's supposed to be messy."
The last one I'm pretty sure I've heard before except maybe the messy part. Reading through the last quote I thought how much I was like Hailey. Playing it safe. Not living how I should be. Everyone's like that too. They don't seem to be aware of it. Well not everyone but most people. Anyways this book surprised me of how good it was. I'd so recommend it.


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The field is down to Virginia, Michigan State, Texas Tech, and Auburn. Virginia starts the week as the favorite for March Madness betting.
Virginia are relatively heavy favorites for NCAA championship betting, but they're followed closely by Michigan State. It's a jump to the third favorite in Texas Tech. Auburn sits at the longest odds of the remaining teams, so let's jump into why the teams are where they are.
Virginia +130
The lone #1 seed left, and the one that holds the dubious honor of being the first #1 seed ever knocked out in the first round. Nobody really trusts Virginia, but they've made the Final Four for the first time since 1984, so head coach Tony Bennett is onto something this season.
It took a lot of effort for Virginia to take out Purdue, and they only managed to take it to overtime with a buzzer beater to tie the game. It looks like this is the year that Virginia finally got over the hump after years of getting knocked out in the earlier rounds.
Always supremely talented and coached, the Cavaliers haven't been able to capitalize on their ability until this season. Now that they've excised the demons of UMBC, they're the best team going into the final weekend of play.
Michigan State +185
Did Michigan State beat Duke by a hair? Yes, but they still did it. This was after a dominant 17-point win over LSU, and double digit victories in the earlier rounds.
It's your typical Tom Izzo team: smart and disciplined. Cassius Winston just happens to also be a supreme talent, and that's the key that's pushing Michigan State to the verge of a national title. Izzo has always had some of the best coached teams in the nation, but now he's got the star player to push over the hump.
At +185, Michigan State is rightfully a favorite to win it all. Ignoring the #2 by their name, they simply are an excellent team. After all, there's a reason they won a very competitive Big Ten.
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Texas Tech +450
It's time to take the Red Raiders seriously. Most of us didn't, and the Red Raiders surprised everyone by waltzing into the Sweet 16 and demolishing a good Michigan team. For an encore, they beat Gonzaga by 6.
Texas Tech plays some of the staunchest defense you'll see in the tournament. Michigan, this year, averaged 69.9 points per game, and Tech held them to 44. Given how well the Red Raiders have been playing, +450 odds might seem a bit high for them, but they play a Michigan State team that took out Duke.
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The SEC usually has a representative in the Final Four. It's just usually Kentucky.
Auburn enters the Final Four for the first time in program history, riding a hot streak that started back on February 27 at Georgia. They've looked like the team of destiny so far, and might have had higher odds than Texas Tech if it wasn't for one thing: losing sophomore forward Chuma Okeke to an ACL.
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Attached is the Release Candidate of the vSphere 6.5 Security Configuration Guide. Yes, it's no longer called the "Hardening Guide" because only a subset of it is actual "hardening".
I'm about to post a blog article on this release at https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere that explains in more detail. This post is a landing spot for the guide so folks can download it. We have the GA version next week and at that time it will get uploaded to its regular home.
Please post your feedback here or as a reply to the blog. As I mentioned, I'm looking to have the GA version next Thursday (April 13th).
[Update 14 April 2017] The GA of the guide is now available at Security Hardening Guides - VMware Security
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HI Mike,
What were the basis for the security config guide, did you follow some directives, guidance ?
Thanks for the time
The guide has been around for around a decade and Pre-dates directives such as PCI. In fact, most PCI, HIPAA & DISA type directives use this guide as the basis for their requirements. This guide would be considered "vendor best practices" or something similar.
Applying guide settings but found a typo under heading Vulnerability Discussion for Guideline ID "VM.Enable-VGA-Only-Mode". The description is taken from the previous 3 settings "VM.disconnect-devices-serial" etc. IT starts "Ensure that no device is connected to a virtual machine if it is not required" but doesn't describe why VGA only should be used.
Thanks for catching this. I'll update the vulnerability discussion and it will come out in the next update of the guide.
The updated Vulnerability Discussion will be:
Many Server-class virtual machines need only a standard VGA console (typically a Unix/Linux server system). Enabling this setting removes additional unnecessary (for a server workload) functionality beyond disabling 3D.
Thanks again,
Post hardening, what NESSUS Audit Profiles are we running against the 6.5 architecture to ensure it is meeting compliance?
Hi Mike,
In vRops 6.7 I get the "ESXi.config-ntp - NTP firewall rule is not configured" alert because the firewall of the NTP service is set to allow "ALL".
vRops 6.7 security compliance "ESXi.config-ntp - NTP firewall rule is not configured"
Though I can't find a mention to this anywhere in the security guide. Do you have some extra info about it? What's recommended and what's not?
[edit] By the way in the SCG the default value of Security.AccountLockFailures is set to 10. The value in a fresh ESXi 6.5 install is 5.


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Today's news that Hedi Slimane has parted ways with Saint Laurent puts this year's most fraught speculation at an official end. The house confirmed Slimane's departure via press release, stating that, "at the end of a four-year mission, which has led to the complete repositioning of the brand, the Maison Yves Saint Laurent announces the departure of Hedi Slimane as its creative and image director."
François-Henri Pinault, chairman and CEO of Kering, added: "What Yves Saint Laurent has achieved over the past four years represents a unique chapter in the history of the house. I am very grateful to Hedi Slimane, and the whole Yves Saint Laurent team, for having set the path that the house has successfully embraced, and which will grant longevity to this legendary brand." The release notes that a new creative organization "will be communicated in due course."
Slimane hardly slipped away silently. Within the space of a month, his two very different shows—one, an L.A. happening at the Hollywood Palladium, the other, a total surprise, at the brand-new La Maison Yves Saint Laurent on the Left Bank in Paris on March 7—only went to further underline his controversial powers as a scene-maker, rule-breaker, and divider of opinions.
The L.A. event, staged in front of a vast cross-generational audience of fans from music, art, and Hollywood, mixed menswear with womenswear in high '70s glitter, leather, velvet, and midi-skirted glam-rock style, and then segued into the nearest fashion's ever got to a festival all-nighter with performances from Beck, Joan Jett, Allah-Las, and more. In Paris, it was almost opposite: an extreme, short-skirted, poufed, pinnacle-shouldered exaggeration of the early-'80s glamour of Yves Saint Laurent's haute couture. It was sent out in the hushed chandelier-lit surroundings of a maison—whose 18-month restoration had been kept a relative secret—before the astonished eyes of the few.
At the end, Slimane darted from behind a mirrored screen, kissed Pierre Bergé, Yves Saint Laurent's former partner, who was sitting in the front row, and it was over.
Where this leaves Slimane's immediate future is unknown. It seems likely he plans a break, retreating into the life he has kept private while living in L.A. What's certain is that he leaves Saint Laurent as an uncompromising revolutionizer and one of the most valuable star properties in fashion. Since taking over in 2012 as creative director of the brand then known at Yves Saint Laurent, the company's owner, Kering, empowered him to make over the house image and product root and branch, from the black-and-white rock-linked photography (his own) to the pointed tips of the black suede Chelsea boots he turned into a ragingly popular best seller.


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Extrahumans Short Story Collection – Now Available at Amazon!
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It's been a lousy few days. I've been sick–again! And it's stomach trouble, again!
As I groggily make my way through another sick day, though, I have some good news. The three Extrahumans short stories I wrote that were previously only available to people who had pre-ordered one of the three print books are now collected into a single ebook on Amazon!
When we did pre-orders for the print edition of Broken in November, 2011, my publisher suggested I write a short story as a reward, because we were doing them through Kickstarter. That made sense, so I wrote a story called "Jump Up Into the Sky," which is about Sky Ranger crashing into an old woman's garden. That story is supposed to serve as a bridge between Broken and Fly Into Fire, and it'll make way more sense if you read Broken first.
That worked well, so we did it again for the release of Fly Into Fire in January of 2012. This story is a prequel, set about fifteen years before Broken, and it features one of my favorite characters–Crimson Cadet! In this story the Law Enforcement Division, led by the Union's new Sky Ranger, has to track down a girl who supposedly has extrahuman powers, and Crimson Cadet has to face up to all the things about extrahuman life that make him uncomfortable.
In August, 2012, The Spark came out, and once again we decided to use a story as a Kickstarter reward. This time I chose a short I'd been thinking of turning into the beginning of the fourth Extrahumans novel. I decided not to do that, going in another direction to focus on Jill instead, but I liked this piece and what it said about Renna. It's set nearly 20 years after Renna leaves home, sometime after the events of The Spark, and it's about what happens when she goes home to be by her dying mother's side.
I hope you check these stories out! They're cheap, only $0.99, and free if you're an Amazon Prime subscriber.
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More relaxed activities include mini-golf, haycart rides, and nature walks through the nearby woodlands. Summer on the lake means boating, water skiing, swimming, and kayaking, while in the winter the lake turns into a gigantic ice-skating rink. Other cold weather activities include snow tubing and snowshoeing, while the excellent-value Ski Club Program provides access to the nearby Big Bear ski area. With such a range of outdoor adventures, guests will seldom want to venture inside, but when they do, they will find indoor pools, including a fun splash zone, bowling alleys, games rooms, and an indoor skating rink open throughout the year. Guestrooms with country-style décor cater up to six guests, while four- to six-bedroom cottages can accommodate larger families and groups. Best in Europe: Ikos Oceania Courtesy of Ikos Oceania Buy on Tripadvisor.com Overlooking a secluded, private stretch of white sand, Ikos Oceania is a luxurious beach resort that appeals to couples and adult travelers but also provides services that will appeal to younger guests. Down on the sands, activities include beach soccer, volleyball, badminton, tennis, kayaking, and paddleboarding. Elsewhere around the resort, guests can play tennis and basketball or ride mountain bikes through the olive groves in the surrounding countryside. Teens can also participate in Greek dance lessons, yoga classes, and karaoke sessions. Four outdoor pools offer swimming or lounging for the whole family, while an indoor pool offers respite from the sun. The Just4Teens club, run by a professional UK childcare provider, offers an extensive program of supervised activities such as water sports, soccer and tennis, cooking classes and spa sessions. Family suites can accommodate up to six guests and come with separate children's' bedrooms with their own showers, smart TVs, and stunning Mediterranean views. Best in the Maldives: LUX South Ari Atoll Courtesy of LUX South Ari Atoll Buy on Tripadvisor.com An intimate luxury resort spread out over a sandy coral atoll, the LUX South Ari Atoll offers families an idyllic island vacation in a secluded tropical paradise. Exploring the marine wonderland surrounding the island is a highlight of the resort; a PADI-certified dive center offers comprehensive training courses and excursions out onto the water where guests can swim with turtles, manta rays and, for a lucky few, whale sharks. Closer to shore there are abundant coral reefs for guests to snorkel through. There is also a huge range of water sports, with non-motorized equipment including stand-up paddleboards, Hobie cats, and windsurfing rigs; motorsports include jet skiing, water skiing, wakeboarding, and thrilling fly boards. Fishers can cast a line into the waters to catch their own delicious supper, and catamarans offer peaceful sunset cruises around the islands. The Studio 17 teens' club is run by specially-trained hotel staff and offers activities including beach sports, adventure tours of the island, and educational courses in local dance, language, and culture. The resort's private family villas offer plenty of space with outdoor terraces facing directly onto the beach. If you opt to stay in an overwater villa, there is a trade-off — teens will have to sleep on the sofa bed. Best in Asia: Anantara Golden Triangle Elephant Camp & Resort Courtesy of Anantara Golden Triangle Elephant Camp & Resort Buy on Tripadvisor.com Located in Chiang Rai, near the border of Myanmar and Laos, Anantara Golden Triangle Elephant Camp & Resort provides a fun, adventurous, and educational experience deep in the heart of Thailand's countryside. Interactions with elephants are central to the experience; guests accompany them on daily walks, dine alongside them over group picnics, and take sunset strolls with them to a scenic hilltop that looks out over all three countries. The resort ensures the elephants are treated with the utmost care and respect, so they do not offer elephant rides or other touristy gimmicks. Instead, the focus is on engaging with the gentle creatures in a personal, low impact manner and observing the enigmatic animals in as natural of a setting as possible. Outside of elephant excursions, the hotel also offers a range of other activities, including yoga sessions, riverboat rides, and Muay Thai kickboxing classes. A stunning infinity pool and Jacuzzi provide next-level jungle views. Accommodations include smaller country view suites that can accommodate parents with just one teen and family suites with space for up to six people. Best in Riviera Maya: Moon Palace Cancun Courtesy of Moon Palace Cancun Buy on Tripadvisor.com Facing a sandy beach and surrounded by green Yucatan forest, the Moon Palace is a sprawling mega-resort that offers a ton of activities both on- and offsite. The resort has several massive pool complexes, including a family pool with fun waterslides and the Flowrider surf simulator. On the water, guests can use kayaks and paddle boards or hire jet skis; on land, there are mini-golf courses, a beach volleyball court, tennis courts, and bikes for hire. Budding golfers can also tackle the greens and fairways of the world-class, 27-hole golf course at the back of the resort. The futuristic Wired games lounge contains air hockey and pool tables, arcade games such as racing consoles, dance master machines, and basketball toss, and a café serves snacks, ice-cream, and non-alcoholic beverages. Rooms and suites can accommodate families between four to six people and come with amenities including smart TVs and double whirlpool tubs. The resort also arranges a variety of excursion packages, conducting tours of natural and cultural sites such as ancient Mayan temples, colonial towns, coral reefs, and tranquil cenotes, which are natural pools sunk deep into limestone bedrock. Was this page helpful? Thanks for letting us know! Share Pin Email Tell us why! Submit Continue to 5 of 9 below. Continue to 9 of 9 below.


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Lambert Wickes to the American Commissioners, 4 July 1777
Lambert Wickes to the American Commissioners
ALS: American Philosophical Society
St. Mallo July 4th. 1777.
I wrote you the 28th. June Advising of my Safe arrival at this port, also informing of the success of our late Cruize and have now the pleasure to Acquaint you of the Safe Arrival of Captain Johnston in the Brig Lexington at Morlax. I have wrote him and desired if he is not well Situated there, to get a good Pilot and Come up here. I should be very Glad if you would let me know where you would chuse him to proceed to, As I may give him orders Accordingly. Also please let me know If I may begin and purchase Guns and Arm the Reprisal as fast as possible. I think you had best Sell the Dolphin or employ her as a Packet as She is by no Means fitt for a Cruizer, and only hinders us in Cruizing as She is not Able to Sail with us. I should be very glad to hear from you as soon as possible. I think there is little propect of doing any thing more on this Coast and am in hopes you will order Capt. Johnson and me to proceed for America together, As soon as I Can get ready and fitt for Sea If you think any thing more Advantagous Can be done for the United States by Cruizing in Europe I shall submit to your Determination with pleasure. The Commissary and Commedant of this port are well disposed to render us every service in their power and we have been very well received and treated by all the Merchants and principal people of this place. We Can get all the Guns and every thing Neccessary here for Compleating, Arming [and] fitting the Ship Reprisal on as reasonable terms as in any Port of France and am in hopes soon to receive your Instructions on this head. Please make my Compliments to Messrs. Carmichael and Capt. Hynson if at Parris. From Gentlemen Your most obedient and Humble Servant
Lambt. Wickes
Addressed: To / The Honble. Dr. Benja. Franklin / at / Parris
Notation: Capt Wicks. July 4th 1777


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Every week, we bring you the best shoppable fashion and lifestyle stories from our partner Lifestyle Mirror. Today, we're sharing Taylor Davies's look back on Oscars of days past.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Oct. 28, 2020 — BetterUp, the leader in mobile-based professional coaching today announced the launch of Coaching Circles, a group development journey that integrates evidence-based learning, peer coaching, and group discussions led by a BetterUp Coach. This new offering complements BetterUp's one-on-one coaching and helps organizations scale coaching to larger populations, increase social connection and trust, and build the skill sets needed to thrive through change.
Topics are highly relevant for today's workforce, including resilient leadership, giving and receiving feedback, peak productivity, and inclusive leadership. Groups of peers meet together, guided by their coach, to build skills and relationships, and to learn from one another.
"Company leaders are increasingly looking to coaching to support their workforce through extraordinary change and uncertainty." said Alexi Robichaux, CEO and Co-Founder of BetterUp. "Coaching Circles addresses two of the biggest needs employees and employers have right now by providing a scalable way for personalized development on timely topics and addressing the need for social connection."
Chevron Among Early Adopters of New Coaching Circles
Chevron is among the first companies to take part in the new offering. In June of this year, Chevron brought BetterUp in to provide structured support for 7,000 supervisors worldwide. Focusing on those in positions that could benefit most immediately, the first cohort began receiving one-on-one coaching through the platform while others joined coaching circles. The professional coaches created a space where managers could engage with topics like feedback or resilience and reflect on their experiences, practice new behaviors, and learn from each other. Over the course of several weekly sessions, the circles started to cement the deeper peer-to-peer relationships that really do link an engineer in Malaysia to an account manager in San Ramon, CA strengthening a bond of practice, learning, and community around the globe.
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Time to Hammer Holder
Thanks to Jim Tomes of Second Amendment Patriots, who sent around this Jeff Knox piece on the next steps needed to beat Obamite AG-nominee Eric Holder:
Block Holder - Act Today!
Just 2 items in this Alert:
1. Personal note and appeal from Jeff
2. Holder Confirmation Hearing scheduled for January 15!!
Happy New Year!!!
I hope you've enjoyed the holy days and gotten a bit of needed rest. As Mom commented yesterday when someone complained that their short vacation from work was not long enough: "Vacation? What's a vacation?" When you do the kind of work we do, it seems that there is no such thing as a day off. We did enjoy a nice family Christmas morning, (my 2-year old grandson really brought the Christmas spirit back to us this year) but by that afternoon she was busy processing mail from the last Hard Corps Report and trying to keep up with correspondence while I was working on new columns that were due and trying to build the coalition against the appointment of Eric Holder as Attorney General. It seems like there are always 5 or 6 other things that I need to be doing and I never can get around to all of them.
I want to thank those who have provided financial support recently. Your contributions are all that allow us to continue in the fight, and continuing in the fight is all we want to do – as long as we can do it effectively. Every dollar we receive from our friends and supporters makes a real difference to us and we appreciate each one. Unlike the Brady Bunch and the Violence Policy Center, The Firearms Coalition is solely supported by member contributions. We don't have billionaire sugar-daddies and don't receive grants from big "charitable" foundations. We rely on you. Contributors can rest assured that there are no exorbitant salaries being paid around here and no expensive junkets being taken. I'll just say that it's a good thing that I inherited my dad's Scottish penny-pincher gene or else it would be doubtful that we'd be able to keep going.
If you haven't made a contribution recently, now's a great time to do so; we've made special deals with some of our friends to allow us to offer your choice of the documentary DVD; In Search of the Second Amendment by Dave Hardy, the first book on the Heller decision; The Heller Case: Gun Rights Affirmed by Alan Korwin and David Kopel, or Steve Halbrooks latest book; The Founders' Second Amendment. With any contribution of $50 or more you can take your pick of the three titles. For a contribution of $120 or more you can have all three. Supplies are limited so don't wait. If we get a good response we will try to continue the offer, but there's no guarantee that we'll be able to so act now.
Sarah Brady is telling Congress and the new President that you don't care any more and that any gun control law at all is OK with you as long as it doesn't include an all out ban on possession of all guns. She even has a poll claiming to show that a majority of gunowners support stricter gun laws and she's using that to convince Congress to push forward with her restrictive wish list.
To battle this we need to pound Congress hard to let them know "We ain't dead yet!" That's why it's important that you act on the information below immediately!
Congress is planning to hit the ground running in a few days. The new Congress will be sworn in on January 6 and the Senate Judiciary Committee has set a date of January 15 for confirmation hearings on Barack Obama's pick for Attorney General, Eric Holder. Gunowners need to be pushing members of the committee very hard to delay and block the confirmation.
The Democrat members of the Judiciary Committee are all sworn enemies to the Second Amendment and are unlikely to be swayed at all by any firearms related arguments, but might hesitate to confirm based on Holders participation in the pardons of 16 Puerto Rican terrorists and billionaire financier and arms merchant Marc Rich. Any letters to Democrats should focus on those issues.
On the Republican side, Arlen Specter, the ranking Republican on the committee has never been a friend to gun rights, but he owes his reelection to NRA support and has expressed concern over the pardon issues. Among the other Republicans, most are relatively reliable votes, but only Coburn has routinely taken a leadership role on Second Amendment matters. All of them need to be pressed hard to do everything they can to block the appointment.
For more information about Eric Holder and why his appointment must be fought tooth and nail, go to our web site at www.FirearmsCoalition.org.
I would also encourage NRA members to send letters to Chris Cox at NRA urging him to fight the Holder appointment with everything he's got. Remind him that a good fight over Holder could preempt much of the anti gun legislation being planned and keep us from having to fight numerous other battles. Remember that Chris works for you just like the politicians do. It's up to you to keep him and NRA moving in the right direction. If you know any NRA Directors, it's a good idea to be lobbying them as well. This is the type of fight that NRA tends to choose not to fight because it's not a likely winner and they want to preserve political capitol for more urgent matters. That would be a mistake. A good fight now, even in a losing cause, sends the message that the gun lobby isn't dead yet and builds much more political capitol than it expends. If NRA refuses to take the lead in the fight to stop the Holder appointment, the fight will be a fizzle and the result will be to increase the impression that the gun lobby is impotent – emboldening our enemies and guaranteeing tougher battles in the future.
Here is the current roster for the Judiciary Committee:
Patrick J. Leahy
Chairman, D-Vermont
Edward M. Kennedy
Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
Herb Kohl
Dianne Feinstein
Russell D. Feingold
Charles E. Schumer
D-New York
Richard J. Durbin
Benjamin L. Cardin
Sheldon Whitehouse
D-Rhode Island
Arlen Specter
Ranking Member, R-Pennsylvania
Orrin G. Hatch
Charles E. Grassley
Jon Kyl
Jeff Sessions
Lindsey Graham
R-South Carolina
John Cornyn
Sam Brownback
Tom Coburn
Keep in mind that Biden will not be serving and Kennedy says he is going to resign from the committee (after 46 years.) That means that there will be two new Democrats added to the committee and so far there has been no indication of who they might be.
Right now the first priority is to hit the members of the Judiciary Committee asking them to delay, side-track, or outright kill the Holder nomination. The secondary priority is to hit the rest of the Senate. Anyone can lobby any Committee member so don't hesitate to send a note to each member. Short and to the point is best and I suggest making your point in the Subject line if you're sending e-mail.
Below is a sample, for e-mail or snail-mail, appropriate for almost any Republican:
Subject: Reject Holder Nomination
Dear Senator Specter;
I am writing to urge you to oppose the confirmation of Eric Holder as Attorney General of the United States. Please do everything in your power to block Holder's confirmation.
Mr. Holder has demonstrated extremely poor judgment, a lack of understanding of the Constitution, and a willingness to take questionable actions on behalf of the President. His appointment appears to be based more on political cronyism than on demonstrated skills and abilities.
As Deputy Attorney General under Janet Reno, Mr. Holder actively worked to suppress information about the Waco tragedy. Later he played a key roll in the Elian Gonzalez fiasco, not only acting as the administration spokesperson, but apparently participating in the decision-making process which resulted in a Federal SWAT team's pre-dawn raid to seize the child at gunpoint and forcibly return him to Castro's Cuba. Mr. Holder's actions in both of those cases demonstrated a serious lack of judgment, a willingness to engage in duplicitous and deceptive rhetoric, and disrespect for justice and the rule of law.
During his time in the AG's office and subsequently, Mr. Holder has consistently called for and endorsed stricter gun control laws and has espoused the theory that the Second Amendment does not protect an individual right. This theory was rejected by all 9 Justices of the Supreme Court. Such a fundamental misconstruction of an enumerated constitutional right demonstrates a serious lack of understanding of the meaning and intent of the Constitution and the philosophy upon which this nation is founded. It also demonstrates an unhealthy distrust of his fellow citizens. The nomination of Eric Holder is an insult to every American gun owner and Senate confirmation would add real injury to the insult.
At the close of the Clinton administration, Holder was instrumental in facilitating the presidential pardons of Marc Rich and 16 FALN terrorists. Holder's lack of judgment in these cases and his willingness to do President Clinton's bidding in these matters demonstrates a critical lack of personal integrity and backbone. Those pardons could scarcely be justified at the time and have since been shown to have been motivated by financial and political gain.
Eric Holder has proven that he does not have the understanding, judgment, or personal integrity to responsibly manage the extensive authority of the Attorney General's office. Members of the Senate are tasked with overseeing the appointment of senior executives and ensuring that the positions are filled with the very best qualified candidates available. Mr. Holder does not meet this standard and should not be confirmed. Past AG nominees have been blocked for inadvertently using undocumented workers as domestic workers in their homes. Mr. Holder's failings far exceed such errors.
I ask that you demonstrate your commitment to positive changes in Washington and your stated support for Second Amendment rights by doing everything in your power to block the confirmation of Eric Holder as Attorney General.
Please keep me apprised of your position and actions in this matter.
Jeff Knox
PO Box 3313
Manassas, VA 20108
I wrote a column to appear in Shotgun News on the subject of the Holder appointment, but if the Judiciary committee sticks to their planned schedule and no one places a "hold" on the nomination, the appointment could be confirmed before the magazine hits the newsstands. That makes it even more critical that everyone reading this take action today.
The first thing to do is to forward this Alert to everyone in your e-mail address book.
Next, modify the letter to make it your own, or just replace my name with your own and send a copy to each Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Their contact information can be found by clicking on their names at the following address:
Lastly, send a similar note, but more personalized, to both of your Senators urging them to reject the Holder appointment. I would also encourage you to send a similar message to President-Elect Obama by using the web form available at this site:
Please take action now and please do what you can to support our efforts financially. We can't do it without you.
Yours for the Second Amendment,
Jeff Knox
Director, The Firearms Coalition


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Launch Date: 1977-12-15
Launch Vehicle: Delta
Launch Site: Cape Canaveral, United States
Mass: 664.17 kg
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Inspired by the critically acclaimed film written and directed by Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro and reimagined by New York Times bestselling author Cornelia Funke, this haunting tale takes readers to a darkly magical and war-torn world filled with richly drawn characters like trickster fauns, murderous men, child-eating monsters, courageous rebels, and a long-lost princess hoping to be reunited with her family.
Perfect for fans of the movie and readers who are new to del Toro's visionary work, this atmospheric and absorbing novel is a portal to another universe where there is no wall between the real and the imagined. A daring, unforgettable collaboration between two brilliant storytellers.
Who else is a fan of the movie? Are you looking forward to reading the book? I love fairy tales and retellings so I have high hopes for this one, I'm always looking for recommendations though so please do let me know if there are any that you've read and loved.