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Arms control advocates are decrying a new US Department of Defence announcement that it will be building and selling 1,300 cluster bombs to Saudi Arabia, worth some $641m.
The munitions at the heart of the sale are technically legal under recently strengthened US regulations aimed at reducing impact on civilian safety, but activists contend that battlefield evidence suggests the weapons actually exceed those regulations.
Opponents say the move runs counter to a strengthening push to outlaw the use of cluster bombs around the world while also contradicting recent votes by both the US and Saudi governments critical of the use of these munitions.
"Both the US and Saudi Arabia have recently condemned the use of cluster munitions by the government of Syria - that's ironic given this new sale, because a cluster munition is a cluster munition, no matter what kind it is," said Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association, a watchdog group here in Washington.
He was referring to the May 15 vote before the UN General Assembly in which both the United States and Saudi Arabia joined 105 other countries in strongly condemning Syria's use of cluster bombs.
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"To my knowledge, the sale of cluster munitions by the United States is infrequent today, so this sale is surprising in the sense that this is a very sophisticated, controversial system because these are cluster bombs," Kimball said.
"Further, that these weapons are used by Saudi Arabia is questionable from a military standpoint. These weapons have not been used by the US in over a decade, so it's hard to see why it's in our interest to sell these to Saudi Arabia."
"We are disappointed with the US decision to export cluster bombs to Saudi Arabia, as both countries acknowledge the negative humanitarian impact of these weapons on civilians.
Sarah Blakemore, director of the Cluster Munition Coalition
Cluster bombs are air-dropped munitions meant to open in mid-air and release hundreds of additional "bomblets", thus significantly expanding the potential damage inflicted in the attack. Yet for years global sentiment has coalesced against the use of cluster bombs due to the fact that some of the bomblets invariably fail to explode, resulting in lingering danger for civilians long after conflicts end.
As of 2011, 39 countries were dealing with the after-effects of cluster bomb use, according to the US Campaign to Ban Landmines, an advocacy group. The group says that list includes Saudi Arabia.
"Cluster munitions stand out as the weapon that poses the gravest dangers to civilians since antipersonnel mines, which were banned in 1997," the Campaign states on its website.
"Israel's massive use of the weapon in Lebanon in August 2006 resulted in more than 200 civilian casualties in the year following the ceasefire and served as the catalyst that propelled governments to secure a legally binding international instrument tackling cluster munitions."
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In 2007, 47 governments endorsed a binding agreement, the Convention on Cluster Munitions, to outlaw the production, use or even transfer of cluster bombs. Some 112 countries have now signed the convention, and 83 have ratified it.
In mid-September, more than 100 countries will meet in Zambia to discuss progress in implementing the accord.
Neither the United States nor Saudi Arabia has signed onto the convention, however, which means that the newly announced sale is legal. According to reports, the US has also continued to make irregular sales of cluster munitions to India, South Korea and Taiwan.
"Cluster munitions have been banned by more than half the world's nations, so any transfer goes against the international rejection of these weapons," Sarah Blakemore, director of the Cluster Munition Coalition, a London-based advocacy group, said in a statement.
"We are disappointed with the US decision to export cluster bombs to Saudi Arabia, as both countries acknowledge the negative humanitarian impact of these weapons on civilians. The US should acknowledge the treaty's ban on cluster munition exports and re-evaluate the criteria for its export moratorium so that no cluster munitions are transferred."
There are currently legislative moves afoot here that would severely limit the scope of potential US sales of cluster bombs, beyond an export ban signed into law in 2009. In mid-July, Senator Diane Feinstein, who introduced a related bill in the Senate in February, co-authored a letter to President Barack Obama urging him to halt the use of cluster munitions with high failure rates.
"Cluster munitions are indiscriminate, unreliable and pose an unacceptable danger to US forces and civilians alike. The US government's cluster munitions policy is outdated and should be immediately reviewed," the letter states.
The lawmakers call for an immediate halt of the use of cluster bombs with an unexploded rate higher than one percent, a failure rate that also forms the basis of the current export ban. In fact, that one percent limit will become military policy by 2018, though Feinstein and other lawmakers are hoping to expedite that deadline.
Yet even if the Feinstein bill were to become law, the weapons system being sold by the US to Saudi Arabia, known as the CBU-105, may still be legal. According to both the Defence Department and the weapon's creator, the Mississippi-based Textron Defense Systems, the system's failure rate is indeed less than one percent.
Proponents have hoped that this "safer" cluster bomb would be able to continue being used and sold, even in the context of the growing crackdown on these munitions. Indeed, the sales to India, South Korea and Taiwan were reportedly of CBU-105s.
No clean battlefield
Yet the Arms Control Association's Kimball says there is evidence to suggest that this number is higher. Such evidence comes from the last period in which this model of cluster bomb was used, back in 2003 in Iraq.
"Despite the [public relations] that has been put out regarding the low failure rate of this weapon, in the field its failure rates are much higher," he says. "This sale to Saudi Arabia should prompt even greater Congressional scrutiny about US cluster munitions policy, particularly the sale of these controversial weapons to other countries."
Researchers looking at the weapon's unexploded rate in 2003 in Iraq found that the weapon "clearly does not leave a clean battlefield".
"The percentage of submunitions which have failed is higher than 1%. Perhaps substantially so," Rae McGrath, a spokesperson on cluster munitions for the Handicap International Network, stated in a 2008 presentation on findings for this type of weapon.
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A healthy delicious Greek dish which utilizes orzo pasta along with all the trimmings. Recipe appears in my America's Best Cookbook and was contributed by the Charlie Daniel's Angels Cookbook.
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- 1 1⁄2 cups orzo pasta, uncooked
- 1 lb fresh broccoli
- 3 tablespoons pine nuts
- 1⁄4 olive oil
- 1⁄2 teaspoon dried crushed red pepper flakes
- 3⁄4 cup feta cheese, crumbled
- 1 (4 1/2 ounce) can ripe olives, drained and chopped
- 1⁄2 cup parmesan cheese
- 1⁄4 cup fresh basil, chopped
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Made as written, mmm, this is Excellent, Nancy! I was horrified to find as I started prep, that I had no feta cheese! Not knowing what to sub, I simply made it without ........ I will make this again with feta, but I've got to say, it's really really good even without it! super healthy too! very glad I tried this recipe, made for PRMR tag game, thank you Nancy!
This is really a wonderful combination of flavors. I love how nothing overshadows anything else. You do need to add an amount for the olive oil. I'm guessing you meant 1/4 tsp (I used more). I did steam the broccoli, and used the stems too after peeling away the tough outer skin.


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Women are claiming a new form of clairvoyance…engagement intuition! Steve thinks it's bunk and he'll prove it!
Our friends at Cosmo say that women can usually tell when their men are about to propose because of "engagement intuition". Or is it not intuition but it's your just your man acting different or weird? He made reservations at a restaurant that he would never ever take you to....that's not intuition. Or he wants to take you to an exotic location for a mini-vacation...and he's NEVER taken you to an exotic locale...that's not intuition. Did you have engagement intuition? Did you know the proposal was coming?
Steve says that when guys start doing things out of the ordinary such as dinners at fancy restaurants or acting all weird doesn't count as intuition. Scavenger hunts also do not count as intuition (so guys, don't do it)/ Slacker (estrogen shots aside), believes that women just know. Reasoning? Well they are women.
With the idea of a marriage proposal looming NOWHERE near my thought process, I'm going to have to agree with Steve on this one. If a guy is bad enough to give away his intentions...sorry ladies, but that doesn't count as intuition. Because (admit it!) many of you are surprised when the proposal happens. That or else you're very good actors (which I won't deny).
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I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at CarMax (Henderson, NV) in January 2013.
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|Welcome to LibWho-2.0! This documentation is for developers, it you're a user: just don't care. An Interface for a information's about an user Better event for who's Queuing of /who and SendWho() A much better who interface, with guarantee to be executed ' user.Class string - class user.Race string - race user.Level string - level user.Zone string - zone time number - the minutes how old the data was Remarks If you're only interested in this feature, then you don't have to read about :Who()...
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|Provides commands to search the chat history. /find <text> - Find lines containing <text> and scrolls to them. Repeat command to find additional occurrences of <text> /findall <text> - List all lines containing <text>
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|Supercharge your chat bubbles! NOTE: This is a standalone version of Prat's "bubbles" module. Prat specific features have been removed. If you use prat, you already have all these features and more. With this addon you can: 1) Change the Font of the bubbles to match the font of the chatframe, and size the font however you like 2) Change the outline of the chat bubbles to match the type of chat 3) Enable display of raid icons 4) Enable dynamic compression of the chat bubbles so they only...
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|A library with reusable code to detect failure at certain raid tasks. At last count there are 107 different "fails" that are tracked (updated for ToC/Icecrown courtesy of Maat/sztanpet/MysticalOS). Please note, this list is not always up-to-date. The Icecrown Citadel list includes: Fail_Rotface_OozeExplosion Fail_Rotface_StickyOoze Fail_Marrowgar_Whirlwind Fail_Marrowgar_Coldflame Fail_Marrowgar_SaberLash Fail_Festergut_VileGas Fail_Festergut_PungentBlight Fail_Deathwhisper_DeathNDecay...
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|Overview LibAlts provides an API to register and retrieve alternate identity information between addons. It maintains main-alt relationships. A given character can be defined as a main with one or more alts. Basic API :SetAlt(main, alt, source) - Associate a main name with an alt name. An optional source can be specified. If no source is specified, it is added the user-defined source. :GetAlts(main) - Get a list of alts for a given name. :GetMain(alt) - Get the main character associated with...
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|Lua language integration for IntelliJ IDEA Forum Thread: http://forums.wowace.com/showthread.php?t=18501 Features: Debugger (Experimental) Modules support (Experimental) LuaDoc Highlighting and Folding (Experimental) Lua SDK REPL Console (Experimental) Basic Completions Quick Documentation with Multiple documentation providers Resolving Globals in project and libraries Custom API Support including custom function signatures (Experimental) Function Information via Quickhelp Lua Standard...
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|Streamlines the biting process on Blood-Queen Lana'thel. This addon does the following: -Allows the person running the addon to make a priority list for Melee, Ranged, Healers and Tanks. -When a player gains Essence of the Blood Queen it will tell them who they need to bite next. -Properly handles the first bite of the fight, if a ranged gets the Esssence first, they will bite a melee, and vice versa. -Players will then be assigned to bite from their own role type. Ranged will bite Ranged and...
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|Auracle provides compact & customizable filtering, monitoring and grouping of buffs and debuffs. Overview Auracle's capabilities are organized roughly into "trackers", "windows" and "styles". The most important of these is the "tracker", each of which can monitor a list of multiple auras (either buffs or debuffs, but not both at the same time). When any of those (de)buffs are found, the tracker lights up (or changes visually in any number of other interesting and configurable ways). A...
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|LibOOP The LibOOP library provides basic object-oriented programming features in Lua (classes, objects, and simple inheritance). It is meant to offer a framework-independent, lighter-weight (but less featureful) alternative to AceOO-2. Documentation Getting Started API Discussion WoWAce Forum Thread
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|Version 0.31 Updated for 6.0. Added a Resolve Bar. The Estimate Bar now uses Resolve to calculate the Death Strike heal or Blood Shield value. Overview Blood Shield Tracker is an addon to track the value of the Death Knight Blood Shield. It can show bars for the following items: The current Blood Shield value (when Blood Shield is up). The estimated heal of a Death Strike or the Blood Shield value based on Resolve. The current Power Word:Shield value on the player. The total value of all...
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|Description Compact Runes is a re-write of DocsDebugRunes. It preserves the compact UI but adds additional features. Features It tracks the following items: Runes (shown horizontally or vertically) with an optional setting to show a numeric timer for each rune. Runic Power Diseases and time left. Necrotic Plague, if talented, replaces the standard disease bars. It displays the time left and stacks. Sudden Doom, Shadow Infusion, and Dark Transformation for Unholy Rime/Freezing Fog and Killing...
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|5.4 As a part of virtual realms, Blizzard changed the format of character names that include the server. Previously, the name and server were separated by a space, a dash, then a space. Now it will just be a dash. Character Notes could store notes for characters from other servers but it used the older format. When you first run version 2.2+ it should find and update any of these older "cross-server" names. Going forward, all names will use the newer format though. Description Character Notes...
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|Friend Notes enhances the default Blizzard notes for friends. It will display the friend notes: In unit tooltips In the chat window when a friend logs on In /who results in the chat window You can enable or disable the notes in those locations. You can also have the unit tooltips wrap to keep the tooltips narrow.
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|6.0 and Warlords of Draenor Due to the changes in the raid sizes, please verify your raid logging settings as they need to be updated. Overview AutoCombatLogger automatically enables or disables the combat log based on location. It's specifically tailored to control the logging based on the raid name and difficulty. Logging can be controlled for the following locations: Raid (Can be customized per raid, raid size, and difficulty) Instances Arenas (Can be customized per arena) Battleground...
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|Guild Search is a utility to help guild leaders and officers. It allows searching the guild roster, particularly the notes and officer notes. Many guilds will keep meaningful notes in those fields including the the player names for alts. It is very useful to be able to search a large guild roster to find characters. For example, with the recent rise in compromised accounts, if the right information is in the notes, it makes it easy to find all the alts of a player and demote them. It has...
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|6.0 and Warlords of Draenor The addon is updated for 6.0 but the Disease Strength feature has been removed. In 6.0+ Death Knight diseases will no longer snapshot their strength. They update dynamically so there is no need to track their strength. The Soul Reaper vs. Howling Blast functionality is also not needed now but it is still in the addon. You can disable it as Soul Reaper will always do more damage than Howling Blast. It will just show the Soul Reaper icon when appropriate. Overview DK...
|Jun 23, 2015
|Version 1.3 Blizzard removed guild experience so the features that reported on guild XP contributions have been removed. Overview Alts is an addon that allows you to setup main-alt relationships and have that information displayed in various areas. It uses the LibAlts library to share data with other addons. For a list of other addons using LibAlts, see here. Features Main/Alt information is displayed: When that character logs on When you do a /who on that character In unit tooltips From a...


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I am a beginner in CakePHP and am working on an existing CakePHP site.
Scenario: is whenever I try to access a page directly through URL, it lands on Login page.
For instance this is my register page. It has a submit button. When I click this submit button it lands on login page and sets the flash message to 'registered successfully'. I wouldn't want that. What I expected was a redirect to some other page.
register() function of the respective controller I found this code, which is responsible for the redirection to login page:
else {
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$redirect_url = Router::url(array(
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Mike Trout had four hits and drove in three runs in Los Angeles' 8-4 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Monday night but it was not enough to keep the Angels in the playoff chase. The Angels, with a high payroll and high expectations as the season started, were eliminated from the wild-card race after the Oakland Athletics' 4-3 victory over the Texas Rangers on Monday. The Angels, carrying the fourth-highest payroll in the majors, had signed first baseman Albert Pujols to a 10-year, $240 million deal during the offseason and then added left-hander C.J. Wilson for another $77.5 million. Those aggressive free-agent moves could earn the Angels (89-71) 90 victories but no postseason, even with one additional wild-card spot. Wilson (13-10) went 6 1-3 innings for the victory. He allowed six hits and two runs, striking out seven and walking five. Felix Hernandez (13-9), who did not win a game after Aug. 27 - going 0-4 with a 6.62 ERA - went 5 1-3 innings, allowing a season-high 12 hi...
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The Portal2 years ago News 0 comments
In which the tech tree is completed and the game can be completed... kinda.
OreSome is a 2D strategy game about ore -- exploring space for it, fighting aliens for it, blowing up planets with it. Build a network of frames and bots to defeat your enemies -- or just throw a sun at them. In a dying, decrepit universe full of foes, build up your forces and mine your way to the top of the food chain to explore further and further out into the void. By the time you're ready, you'll be powering light speed jump drives with stars, building Death Star style super weapons with black holes and in charge of the largest scale mining operation ever known to man -- all working for one of humanity's least scrupulous corporations -- and there's a lot of competition.
The week, we have a couple of new ship designs in the game. Graciously donated by community member sssuperguy, the can be found used by enemy corporations and as plans in the shipyard.
In addition, a number of long standing bugs and annoyances have been fixed up. The full list can be found below the images of the new ships. More bug fixes and efficiency improvements to come soon. With the tech tree complete, smoothness of gameplay is top priority.
Modular Destroyer
Added Sentinel, Modular Destroyer ships from sssuperguy
Added Improved auto mining AI
Added Slow frame auto healing
Balance Builder build range +50%
BaIance Increased builder hopper size
Balance Booster bot active ability cost -50%
Improved General efficiency
Improved Beam effects less likely to do odd 'flashes'
Improved Buffer bot heal effect more subtle
Improved AI's use of carrier frames
Improved Powered hardpoint effect more efficient and less distracting
Fixed Bombard frame crash on firing
Fixed Hopper frame into star crash
Fixed Gui crash bug issues
Fixed Bad planetoid loading - some sprites didn't appear, some physics objects were loaded incorrectly
Fixed Mission beacons sometimes led nowhere
Fixed Dropping ship plans now centre on cursor
Enjoy the new ships, curious androids. Most likely there's more where that came from.
In which the tech tree is completed and the game can be completed... kinda.
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Got the game at last, so far i`m puzzled even how to build/join things but looks fun!
An hour of gameplay without edits. Lagbursts and such btw because of a faulty HDD. My notebook with an i7 (sandy bridge), 6GB of RAM and a functional 7200RPM HDD runs the same savegame without any lags.
A hint for the dev: maybe make the savegame frequency configurable in the options menu? I'd like that for instance to be less frequent. But at some moments you wanna adjust it. And everyone else wants them at a different moment.
That's a really nice idea - happy to put it in.
Nice one adding it in!
nice :) It'd reduce annoyance of lags during autosaves while in combat.
Also, is it possible in any way to make the generation of new sectors be more graduately? Currently when you enter a new sector it lags between 1s (early game) and 10s (late game). Also, I noticed some severe lags on the CPU when a lot of NPC frames and bots are nearby. Could be areas to look into ;)
Also, one thing I must say: I heard many friends say it took too long to reach the 1000-research tier. I myself must say it is not so valid. I noticed that if you travel straight from the start to the unexplored areas, find yourself an area with a few pulsars and then kill a few monsters, you get enough stuff to build some brainer bots. After 4h of gameplay I was already almost at getting a refinery.
You kill the monsters without any techs by outmaneuvering them and letting them fly into stars or pulsars. Then you get science points and can grab any remaining materials. Am close to unlocking grav bombs now.
Those areas you mention are on the board for improvement. As to the research points, it's something I've thought about - it does take quite a while, but as you say, in the outer regions that drops right down. It may get reduced a bit at some point, though not until the solution is a bit more clear.
I think best is to decide that once the game is further in development. With that especially I refer to multiplayer and general balancing stuff.
Honestly I notice that in this game if you dare to take big risks (quick save often!) you get great rewards. Was great fun to use stars as defensive weapons against space monsters!
looks really neat, though the music sounds like it would be much better suited in a medieval game instead of a top-down space shooter. and the synths that were used were kinda poopy too :/
I would be happy to make you music if you'd like. message me if so.
I kinda thought the same for myself but I find them ok for now, although a change would be welcome in my mind.
well I'd be happy to do it for free d:
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Brilliant game! It feels like a crossover of 'Asteroids 3D' and 'Miner Wars 2081' and 'The Incredible Machine'. For a 2d strategy game, it has great graphics. The quests and places to go seem endless. The gameplay feels very arcade like and makes the adventures in space so much fun. I have only been playing for a few hours and I'm hooked. For me the only down side is it crashing, which is logicall considering it's an alpha version. I will add that for most computers it seems to be a stable game…
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Khirbat Serjilla Things to Do
Life in a "dead city"
Calling Serjilla a "dead city" is perhaps incorrect. Not only is it merely a village, but it is also inhabited. The attached photo shows the hanging laundry of a family of squatters who have taken refuge in one of its old houses. Given how lovely and intact these Byzantine mansions are, who could blame them? These squatters generally keep to...more
Serjilla's Byzantine Symbols
Serjilla's buildings are decorated with the typical circular Byzantine symbols of the 4th and 5th century AD. These symbols are found at other 'dead cities' of the region, and have survived in modified form in later Syrian architecture well into the 19th century. The attached photos show a few examples, some of which are based on religious crosses,...more
The Church
A church lies to the east of the Andron and probably dates from late 4th century. It has a triple nave in the interior, but has not survived well over the years. A section of the church lies in piles of stone.more
The Andron
One of Serjilla's most striking buildings, the Andron was a men's meeting place, a tavern of some sort. The building is located just east of the bathhouse and is astonishingly well preserved having lost nothing but its ceilings. The façade has a double portico with three columns on each floor, as seen in the photograph. The Andron dates from the...more
Eastern Mansion
East of the bath house, up a hill is Serjilla's best preserved mansion. The entire house is intact with the exception of its roof and floor. Though an arch that used to support the ceiling has survived in the interior. The attached photos show some details, including the beautiful stone carvings around the windows and door.more
Western Houses
Adjacent to Serjilla's modern car park, the first building on the right hand side as you enter the ruins is a house or villa. It is among a cluster of houses at the western end of the village. Although only its southern wall survived intact, the eastern facing façade still has its doors and decorations. Inside the house, an arch that used to...more
Built in a basin amid rocky, grassy hills, Serjilla has some of the best preserved buildings of any 'dead city' of north-western Syria. True to every guidebook's description, Serjilla is an eerie place that appears to have been abandoned only a short moment ago. The attached photos show some views of the village and its ruins.more
The Olive Press
In Byzantine times, this region depended largely on the production of olives and olive oil. Serjilla had an olive oil press where olive oil was produced. The attached photo shows details of the olive press. It is located north east of the bath house, up the hill.more
South-East Villa
The southeastern end of Serjilla has a small cluster of villas/mansions. The most striking is the one shown in the attached photo, which is similar in architecture as the Andron. Its façade has a double portico with four columns each, although part of the portico and some of the columns collapsed. This villa has been used in more recent times as...more
The Baths
Past the necropolis and down a curved downhill path one first comes across two well-preserved buildings (south-east of the necropolis). The building on the left hand side was the town's bathhouse. Built in 473 AD, it is one of the few in Syria to have survived intact from the Christian period. It is said that when this building was discovered by an...more
As you enter Serjilla, you will notice a few stone tombs on the left hand side. This is where the village's necropolis was located. The attached photo shows a sarcophagus with typical carved Byzantine symbols.more
Ruins of Serjilla
The only thing you need to do is let your mind roam and imagine what the citizens of this town did on a daily basis. Once yeilding grapes, olives, and other produce, Serjilla was once a pretty happening trade town. When trade routes shifted away, the town fell into a slump and its inhabitants abandoned it to pursue trade. Many of the large mosaics...more
Khirbat Serjilla Transportation
Riad Hotel
The only real way to get to Serjilla is by hired driver or rental. I seriously advise against renting a car in the Middle East because the driving is insane! I stayed at the Riad Hotel in Hama which provides hired drivers for day trips. My driver was Omar who spoke little English but really made my day with his friendly banter. Combine this with other locations suggested by the Riad staff.
Khirbat Serjilla Local Customs
Much to my surprise, I discovered that Serjilla is home not only to some spectacular ruins, but also to some (not so spectacular) animals. There were goats and chickens and such belonging to some locals who had turned parts of the city into a farm!
In this picture you can see they built new wall and put doors on, as a stable for the animals at night. The area around here is covered in goat turds.Related to:
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Khirbat Serjilla Off The Beaten Path
Al Barah
Located close and on the way to Serjilla, Al-Barah is said to be another large and extensive 'dead city'. It contains numerous mansions, churches and a monastery, spread across a large area and built among olive groves and orchards. One of its highlights is the existence of pyramidal tombs and also the fact that archeologists believe the landscape...more
Landscape Around Serjilla
The landscape around Serjilla is very striking... almost moon-like. It is made up essentially of white/grey rocks. These rocks are the same ones that were used in the construction of many of the dead cities. It is said that when the dead cities were inhabited, the land around Serjilla was much more fertile, but soil erosion over time led to the...more
On the way to Serjilla, as one turns off the main road, along the final stretch which ends in Serjilla itself, is another small 'dead city' called Boudeh. It is located roughly half way between Al-Barah and Serjilla. Boudeh is made up of only a small number of houses and my guidebook says it has the ruins of a pyramidal tomb. We did not stop in...more
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Days That I'll Remember: Spending Time with John Lennon and Yoko Onoby Jonathan Cott
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Jonathan Cott met John Lennon in 1968 and was friends with him and Yoko Ono until John's death in 1980. He has kept in touch with Yoko since that time, and is one of the small group of writers who understands her profoundly positive influence on Lennon. This deeply personal book recounts the course of those friendships over the decades and provides an intimate… See more details below
Jonathan Cott met John Lennon in 1968 and was friends with him and Yoko Ono until John's death in 1980. He has kept in touch with Yoko since that time, and is one of the small group of writers who understands her profoundly positive influence on Lennon. This deeply personal book recounts the course of those friendships over the decades and provides an intimate look at two of the most astonishing cultural figures of our time. And what Jonathan Cott has to say and tell will be found nowhere else.
Editorial Reviews
"Jonathan Cott is somebody we all know in our circle to be a quiet genius. Rolling Stone asked him to interview us a few times. This book is a collection of those interviews. Nothing more. Reading it, I thought 'Wow, we weren't bad at all.' Because most writers wanted to sensationalize us, thinking that if they didn't do that, it might be boring – and nobody would buy the book! So their 'interviews' usually came out nothing like what we were like.
I have never recommended any books about John and Yoko. But this book made me choke up. I heard John in my ears and felt him in my heart. This is a good book for Lennon fans. And I.. Well, I come out as the second banana (okay, okay!)
You will get an inkling of two people in love, sometimes making daring remarks, yet not forgetting to protect each other in the interviews.. In fact, this is really the way we were, folks! Have a good read. Yoko."— Yoko Ono
"This is a lovingly assembled and beautifully written collection of conversations, observations, and memories of music, friendship, and days gone by. It's good to be back again with John Lennon, his beloved Yoko Ono, and his trusted chronicler and friend Jonathan Cott."
— Martin Scorsese
"Jonathan Cott is in that rarified group of writers who have elevated the very idea of the interview. His conversations with the wise, the brilliant, and the necessary are treasures. He has that special ability to humanize people without destroying their magic. Here he's done it again with John and Yoko. Their humor, genius, eccentricities, and freely acknowledged flaws break through most of the clichés we have come to accept about them. Cott has done them and us a very great favor."
—Richard Gere
"Rangy and revealing interview/conversations between Rolling Stone journalist Cott (Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews, 2006, etc.) and John Lennon and Yoko Ono…. The pleasure is in hearing their voices, for it seems that the material is verbatim from recordings. It starts during that fraught period when the Beatles were breaking up but still producing game-changing music, and Lennon and Ono were coming in for much more than their share of grief: for their naïve and ludic ways, the experimental nature of their music, the dissolution of the band and the passing of a brilliant cultural moment. Cott engages with Ono's art, which could be challenging, and embraces its spirit of mindfulness and mirth while exploring how she managed to turn the vitriol spewed her way into a positive energy. But it is Lennon who commands the stage here, holding forth on the music he and Ono were making, bridling at the disservice of the press, explaining the bed-ins, the nude album cover, the deportation battles, the struggles with writing songs ("I always think there's nothing there, it's shit, it's not good, it's not coming out, it's garbage…") and the troubles of fame ("Do they want me and Yoko to kill ourselves onstage? What would make the little turds happy?"). Cott keeps the proceedings fluid and conversational…provides rare, raw and insightful comments from two colorful art personalities. Lennon and Ono as open and naked as on the cover of Two Virgins."
—Kirkus Reviews
"[A] picture of a warm, considerate artist who was generous with both his time and talents, who continued to gravitate toward work that resonated with him and his partner, rather than his bank account or even the public at large. Cott does a solid job of creating intimacy between Lennon and the reader, something fans of the much-missed musician will likely relish."— Publishers Weekly
VERDICT Recommended for admirers of Robert Hilburn's Cornflakes with John Lennon, not to mention the legion of Lennon fans who want something more personal than a standard biography.—Doug King, Univ. of South Carolina Lib., Columbia
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FRUGAL TRAVELER; Playing Tourist at Home in Brooklyn
By DAISANN McLANE
Published: May 13, 2001
ONE afternoon last summer I was sauntering home with a bag of vegetables when I saw something on my Brooklyn street corner that stopped me in my tracks: a red double-decker sightseeing bus and a throng of sunburned, backpack-toting tourists, chattering excitedly in some Scandinavian language.
Cameras flashed and whirred. What was this all about? Had Elvis (dead or alive) paid a visit to Flatbush Avenue while I wasn't looking? Everything looked normal: the dry cleaners, the variety store, the corner Jamaican bakery . . .
The bakery! Each of the cheerful tourists was munching on one of Christie's Jamaican-style patties. A snack, and on to the next stop (the nearby Brooklyn Museum, I figured).
The red bus is a fixture on summer weekends now, and I have adjusted, shrugging it off the way I imagine that locals do everywhere. But eventually I realized the tour bus had brought me something else -- an understanding of why I live where I do.
For a passionate explorer of the world's nooks and crannies, Brooklyn is perfect. It is the one place where I can walk out the door and feel totally at home, yet turn a corner and bump into something as interesting and surprising as if I were on the other side of the planet.
If it were to secede from New York City, the borough of Brooklyn, with 2.5 million people, would be the fourth most populous city in the United States. It certainly would compete for tourists with cities like San Francisco or New Orleans: it has historic neighborhoods, an abundance of great food, a trove of beautiful 19th- and early 20th-century houses, excellent museums, majestic green spaces, an ocean front and one world-class street party (the West Indian American Carnival Parade, which attracts an estimated two million visitors to Eastern Parkway every Labor Day). But the fact that Manhattan is just across the bridge has always lowered Brooklyn's profile, and its box office draw.
The sightseeing buses on Flatbush are one sign that the uneven balance between the two boroughs is changing, at least on the tourism front. The arrival of Manhattanites seeking lower rents in the last five years has encouraged a parallel influx of shop owners, restaurateurs, artists and cultural entrepreneurs.
As a 21-year resident, I join my neighbors in fretful conversation about how this latest wave of gentrification will affect our home turf. Yet I notice that these discussions increasingly take place over delicious meals in cafes and restaurants that were empty storefronts two years ago.
Over the course of several weeks in March and April, I took a few days to explore Brooklyn with my tourist cap on and discovered that sleeping, eating very well and enjoying its cultural attractions is a real New York deal; prices for lodging and restaurants run substantially less than in Manhattan. I was also pleased to discover that finding a reasonable place to stay overnight was not as difficult as I thought.
I knew that Brooklyn's largest hotel, the 376-room Marriott, was often heavily booked, and that a single or double there ran about $225 a night. Learning that another hotel chain, Comfort Inn, had taken over and refurbished a classic old hotel in Bay Ridge, I called, and was disappointed by its rate of $165 in April, for a single. I hoped to do better.
On the Internet, at a site operated by a nonprofit group, Brooklyn Information and Culture (www.brooklynx.org), I found a decent selection of neighborhood bed-and-breakfasts, mostly with rates from $79 to $135. I called around and soon discovered that almost all had a two-night minimum. With some arm-twisting, I was able to get the Awesome Bed-and-Breakfast, in downtown Brooklyn near Brooklyn Heights and the Metrotech center, to take me for one night if I paid an extra $30 over the single rate of $95 (with 8.25 percent tax, $135).
The Garden Green B & B, steps away from my apartment in Park Slope, offered a slightly lower surcharge (bringing one night with tax to $129.99). But the Baisley House B & B would not budge from its two-night minimum, and I really wanted to stay there, since it is in Carroll Gardens, a block away from a new Brooklyn ''restaurant row'' on Smith Street. So I booked two nights, at a rate of $102.84 a night, including tax. (B & B's with four rooms or fewer charge sales tax, but they are exempt from New York's hotel tax, which can add a hefty 13.25 percent plus $2 to a bill.)
It was drizzling and grim the evening I checked in at Baisley House, but when I walked in, I had to chuckle at the whimsical high-Victorian décor (a huge, ornately framed oil painting of Pope John XXIII graced the entryway, and the parlor was a riot of Egyptian Revival and copies of Greek statuary). My little single with a twin bed at the top of the stairs of the brownstone row house shared a small bathroom (toilet, shower, tiny tub) with two other guest rooms. I dropped my overnight bag in the room and headed out into the chilly night in search of supper.
Smith Street has become a magnet for innovative chef-restaurateurs; every time I visit, there seems to be a new kid on the block. This time, an attractive Italian cafe called Panino'teca 275 looked good. Prices were reasonable, and there was a pretty, dark bar filled with wine bottles. It was also almost empty (unusual for a Friday night on this popular strip). ''Probably because of the rain,'' said my friendly waitress, as I enjoyed little rounds of crunchy bread covered with a delicious cauliflower purée drizzled with truffle oil. An excellent meal of this bruschetta, and a large Italian version of a salade niçoise, with a glass of Primitivo red wine, came to $23.


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Nest Folders Inside of Folders in iOS 9
With every release of iOS, we seem to get a new way to nest folders inside of folders. With iOS 9, Youtuber videosdebarraquito shows that it's easier than ever. »
With every release of iOS, we seem to get a new way to nest folders inside of folders. With iOS 9, Youtuber videosdebarraquito shows that it's easier than ever. »
When you open up a new tab in Safari on iOS, you're usually shown your most frequently visited sites. If your mobile browsing is as weird and random as mine, this is usually a hodgepodge of web sites you don't actually visit that often. Thankfully you can turn it off. »
Since it came out, iOS has always had little pop-ups for every key you press on the keyboard. If, for whatever reason, this feature has always bothered you, then you'll be happy to know you can turn it off in iOS 9. »
For whatever reason, if you wanted to delete an alarm in iOS, you always had to tap Edit, then delete each alarm from there. Finally, in iOS 9, you can just swipe left to delete them. »
Once upon a time, iOS "just worked" out of the box. But over the years, Apple's introduced all kinds of features to iOS that most of us don't want to use. I've been an iOS user since the start, and for the first time recently decided to do a clean install instead of loading my settings from a backup. I forgot how many… »
Apple Music launched yesterday and with it came a whole new design in Music app. If you're not a fan, you can sort of get back the old look with a Settings toggle. »
When you're shooting video with your iPhone, it tends to constantly re-focus on images when you move in and out of areas. This causes a lot of blurriness and an overall junky look. To fix this problem, Cult of Mac suggests locking the exposure and focus. »
If you're on a long drive or just prefer to use speakerphone, it's a pain to set it every time you pick up a call. The iPhone's accessibility options let you set this as a default. »
It's the last minute, and you forgot to get someone a gift. No worries. Siri lets you buy an iTunes gift card just by asking. »
If you've ever found a random iPhone sitting around with a passcode, it doesn't seem like there's much you can do to return it. However, OS X Daily points out that you can simply ask Siri for help. »
Apple's Touch ID is great, when it works. If you're having some trouble with your iPhone recognizing your fingerprints, it's time you train it a little more. »
iOS 8: Information can be the critical difference between proper care and wasting time in an emergency. Apple's Health app in iOS 8 can display your emergency medical information and emergency contacts to better inform first responders or anyone else on the scene of a medical emergency. »
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If you like capitalizing random words when you're typing on iOS, WonderHowTo shows off a pretty simple way to do it on iOS 8. »
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iOS: Apple's Mail app doesn't allow you to send more than 5 photos at once on the iPhone. File management app Documents now relieves users of that struggle. »
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iOS makes it super easy to quickly find a friend on your contacts list when you're text messaging. Just start typing their name, select it when it pops up, and you're good to go. Unfortunately, over time, that contact list gets a little cluttered. The Sweet Setup shows how to clean it up. »


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Amanda Bynes Strange Tweets About Drake
Posted: 03/22/2013 - Amanda Bynes definitely didn't create the phrase "LOL," but she may have the distinct honor of coining a charming little idiom.
Posted: 03/22/2013 - Amanda Bynes definitely didn't create the phrase "LOL," but she may have the distinct honor of coining a charming little idiom.
Updated: 04/11/2013 - Jace was only 2 years old when this video was taken in 2009, but his presidential knowledge dates back hundreds of years, way before his time.
Updated: 03/22/2013 - An advance screening of the show and Q&A with the author is happening Friday night.
Posted: 03/22/2013 - Lawmakers on Thursday ordered the U.S. Postal Service to keep delivering first-class mail six days a week, potentially foiling a Postal Service plan to end Saturday deliveries to save money.
Posted: 03/22/2013 - If New York isn't trying hard to lure "The Tonight Show" back to Manhattan, it's doing a pretty good impression.
Posted: 03/22/2013 - Ka-ching! The cash register may be on its final sale.
Posted: 03/22/2013 - Bikini Season is here! If fighting the crowds to go running in circles at the REC just isn't your thing, and you feel like a hamster when you step on a treadmill: check out these great parks and go for a trail run instead.
Posted: 03/22/2013 - Authorities believe a homeowner's response to finding a snake in her yard may have led to the fire that destroyed her house Wednesday.
Posted: 03/22/2013 - Everyone has their grocery store of preference. My family has always favored HEB.
Posted: 03/22/2013 - Today, I'm going to stay unbiased and go over which players I think have the best chance to win, then we'll talk about some players that Vegas considers long-shots but I think have a realistic chance to win with great payouts.
Posted: 03/22/2013 - Six suspected illegal immigrants have been killed and nine hurt when a truck being pursued in South Texas crashed into a security barrier at Naval Air Station Kingsville.
Posted: 03/21/2013 - Pepsi is rolling out a new shape for its 20-ounce bottle for the first time in about 17 years.
Posted: 03/21/2013 - The chief executive of BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion says Apple's iPhone is outdated.
Posted: 03/21/2013 - The City of College Station's 2013 edition of the Starlight Music Series will provide three dates of free entertainment and special events this summer at the Wolf Pen Creek Amphitheater and festival grounds.
Updated: 04/11/2013 - Sorry Sweet Brown, but now there's 'KABOOYOW' lady.
Updated: 03/21/2013 - If you were hoping to pick up a cat-skin rug for your mancave through the Kiwi auction site Trade Me, it seems you're out of luck. The last one has just been sold to the highest bidder for NZ$955 (~USD$800).
Posted: 03/21/2013 - One of the Vatican's main Twitter accounts and the website of its communications office were running stories about Batman on Thursday with the headline "Holy Switcheroo!" - raising concerns they might have been hacked.
Posted: 03/21/2013 - Yoko Ono has taken up arms against gun violence with a raft of Twitter postings, including a photograph of blood-stained glasses apparently worn by John Lennon when he was shot and killed more than 30 years ago.
Posted: 03/21/2013 - Police in Decatur, Ala., arrested a naked man for indecent exposure outside a local high school on Monday. Although the suspect reportedly claimed divine inspiration for his antics, his actions were anything but righteous.
Posted: 03/21/2013 - A Taiwanese fugitive who knew no English has been arrested because police were curious about the word "Wanted" on his T-shirt.
Posted: 03/21/2013 - Ryan Gosling is feeling overexposed.
Posted: 03/21/2013 - Texas A&M dominates the SEC when it comes to social media, taking top overall honors for it's use of Twitter.
Posted: 03/21/2013 - It's a testament to how incredibly screwed up our justice system is ... Bobby Brown -- who was sentenced to 55 days in jail for his 3rd DUI -- just served a grand total of 9 HOURS in jail ... TMZ has learned.
Posted: 03/21/2013 - Google Inc's YouTube said 1 billion unique users were now visiting the video-sharing website every month, or nearly one out of every two people on the Internet.
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