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If it rains here on Friday, this city is in trouble. Stung by the sniggering at an unremarkable American magic act that was the centerpiece of Shanghai's international art festival last year, the city's culture cadres have catapulted to the other extreme: they're planning the biggest performance of Verdi's ''Aida'' the world has ever seen.
The spectacle, which will include elephants, camels, lions, tigers, a panther, a boa constrictor and 1,650 People's Liberation Army soldiers dressed as Egyptian legionnaires, is meant to protect the city's international festival franchise, which Beijing threatened to take away after the debacle last year. But only one performance (rain date: Saturday) has been scheduled for the hugely ambitious open-air performance, and the skies were dark this week with the outer reaches of a Pacific typhoon.
''Please don't rain,'' pleaded the American impresario John Myers, glancing skyward as thunder rumbled over Shanghai. Mr. Myers, who sold Shanghai on the oversize ''Aida,'' was standing on the vast gray stage beneath a 100-foot high fiberglass pyramid bearing the bas relief face of the Sphinx at one end of Shanghai's new stadium.
The 80,000 empty stadium seats echoed with the agitated voice of his Croatian director, Kresimir Dolencic, as he tried to coax a motley crowd of singers, dancers and soldiers into position on the multilevel set. Because of bad weather, the 2,250-odd performers have had only intermittent rehearsals on the stage.
Shanghai's eagerness to prove itself equal to Beijing is part of an increasingly naked competition between the two cities. Shanghai is more tightly administered, with masterly urban planning and a sleek new skyline designed by some of the world's top architects, compared with Beijing's ugly jumble. Yet despite spending heavily on a Lincoln Center-style Grand Theater, a stunning museum and one of the world's largest libraries, Shanghai remains a cultural desert compared with the capital. It is still struggling to step out of Beijing's shadow and put itself on the map as a world-class city with class.Continue reading the main story
In 1998, Beijing staged a lavish production of Puccini's ''Turandot'' at the Forbidden City, China's former imperial palace, directed by the Chinese film director Zhang Yimou under the baton of Zubin Mehta. Shanghai is determined to outdo that show.
''We are expecting this production to have a big impact so that the world will understand that Shanghai is a place with a hundred flowers blossoming and a passion for culture from the outside world,'' said Ma Bomin, supervisor of Shanghai's culture bureau.
Ms. Ma is better known to opera fans as the woman who blocked a production of the kunju opera ''The Peony Pavilion'' from leaving Shanghai for New York, where it was to have been the centerpiece of the 1998 Lincoln Center Festival. Ms. Ma argued that the acclaimed production was ignorant and pornographic.
Huge productions of ''Aida'' have been staged around the world since Verdi's opera about doomed love between an Egyptian warrior and an Ethiopian slave girl was performed in 1987 at a 5,000-seat outdoor theater in front of the pyramids at Giza in Egypt. But the Shanghai show will be much bigger.
''They wanted something really big,'' said Mr. Myers, a former tenor who began producing large operas several years ago. When he asked for 700 or 800 soldiers for the ''Triumphal March,'' which marks the return of Radames from the battlefield, Shanghai said he could have more than 1,500.
''Everything I asked for, I got,'' he said, except for four elephants. The city could find only two that were sufficiently trained.
The Guinness World Records people have come around to count heads and measure the stage to verify the city's claim that the spectacle will be the world's biggest opera production. More than 45,000 tickets have been sold.
But everything depends on the weather. Because of the electricity for the lights and the orchestra's expensive violins, even a drizzle would spoil the show. Everyone in the production is counting on historical data that says there's a 97 percent chance it will be dry on Friday.
As Mr. Dolencic shouted increasingly frantic instructions, a sudden wind caught one of the car-size plastic foam sphinxes onstage and sent it crashing into the base of the pyramid. Before long rain was pelting the performers and technicians were pulling tarps over the big speakers that are meant to blast the opera to the $12 seats at the far end of the stadium.
If the performance happens, it will be a remarkable feat of administration and logistics. Four producers and two directors (the second, Liu Wenguo, is Chinese) are managing more than 3,000 people, including 300 acrobats, 250 chorus singers, 170 orchestra musicians, 70 adult ballet dancers and 60 juvenile ballet dancers, not to mention all those soldiers. The wardrobe department alone has 200 people.
The city's Communist Party officials asked for more red in the set. And because they were worried that a performance of more than two hours wouldn't hold the audience's attention, they wanted to cut out the opera's bedroom scene, or at least one of Aida's arias.
Mr. Myers managed to keep Verdi's score intact, but he added bits here and there. The ''Triumphal March'' will be played three times in succession, for example, to give all the soldiers time to march across the stage.
He added Chinese drums and a recording of wind to play during the set changes. And he added a mummy dance at the beginning of the opera's tomb scene. Most startlingly, he added surreal Egyptian gods played by eight basketball players in platform shoes and full-body, illuminated costumes.
And ''we've changed the ending a little bit because the Chinese don't like sad endings,'' Mr. Myers said.
Rather than simply being buried alive as Verdi intended, Aida and Radames will duck down a trap door and be replaced by two children representing their reincarnations. The two children will then disappear in a fog of theatrical smoke and two huge silk butterflies will appear, waving on long poles.
At the curtain call, thousands of tiny paper butterflies will drop like confetti from the roof that hangs over the stadium seats and lasers will slice through the darkness as skyrockets explode overhead.
If it doesn't rain, 50,000 people are expected to attend the performance, 7,000 of them having paid as much as $180 each for seats in the soccer field. Visibility will be poor, so the stadium has been fitted with five Jumbotrons, huge screens 13 feet square.
By Wednesday night, though, the rain was steady and Mr. Myers had lost his voice. A stream of cast members carried props on their heads like a line of foraging ants as they moved the dress rehearsal from the stadium to an indoor gymnasium nearby.
The tenor, Lando Bartolini, had arrived from Baltimore, where he played Radames last week, and except for problems cuing the military band that plays the ''Triumphal March,'' everything started out smoothly. Then the conductor, Alfredo Silipigni, grew white and tottered off to the men's room.
The production's bass was already down with the flu, and Mr. Silipigni's illness was a disturbing omen. The city has a fallback on Saturday, but after that the performers' schedules and other logistical problems make a performance unlikely. As Ms. Ma said, ''We're all worried.''Continue reading the main story


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Happy Eid Milad Un Nabi WhatsApp Status 12 Rabi Ul Awal Wishes Status,
Happy Eid Milad Un Nabi WhatsApp Status 12 Rabi Ul Awal Wishes Status mostly for the muslims of all over the world.This day all muslims celebrate the birth of Holy Prophet with respect and love.
Eid Milad-un-Nabi watches the birth commemoration of Prophet Mohammad SAW. It is praised on the twelfth day of Rabi' al-awwal, the third month in the Islamic logbook. It is for the most part celebrated by Muslims who take after the sufi and barelvi school of contemplations. On the day, Muslims hold parades and social affairs to praise the birthday of Prophet Mohammad. Parades incorporates lessons and melodies on Prophet Mohammad. Muslims wish each other Eid-e-Milad on this propitious day. Festivities likewise incorporate night-long supplications, walks and parades.
Eid Milad-un Nabi is the recognition of the birthday of the Islamic prophet Muhammad which is praised frequently on the twelfth day of Rabi' al-awwal, the third month in the Islamic timetable. The twelfth Day of Rabi' al-awwall is the most prominent date from a rundown of many dates that are accounted for as the birth date. Milad un-Nabi is a gazetted occasion in India and is otherwise called Nabi Day, Mohammad's Birthday or the Prophet's Birthday. Mawlid is praised in most dominatingly Islamic nations, and in different nations that have a huge Muslim populace, for example, India, the United Kingdom, Nepal, Sri Lanka, France, Germany, Italy, Russia and Canada. In some Arabian nations i.e., Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
Happy Eid Milad Un Nabi WhatsApp Status 12 Rabi Ul Awal Wishes Status
- Khushbu-e-Gulab hai Pasina RASOOL ka, Aap ko bhi ho Mubarak Mahina RASOOL ka" EID-e-MILAD-UN-NABI Mubarak Ho
- Mubarak Muka Allah Pak Ny Atah Farmaya, 1 Baar Fir Bandgi Ki Rah Py Chalya Adda Krna Apna Farz Tum Khuda Ke Liye Khushi Sy Bhari Ho Milad-un-Nabi Ap Ky Liye.
- Hr Ibtada Sy Pehlay Hr Inteha K Baad Zaat e- Nabi Bolud Hy Zaat-E-Khuda Ky Baad Dunya Me Ehtram K Qabil Han Jitny Log Main Sab Ko Manta Hoon Magar Mustafa Ke Baad 12 Rabi-U-L Awwal Mubrik Ho Appkoh Aur Appky Ghar Waloun Koh Bhi.
- Mubark Moaka Allah Ny Aatta Farmya, 1 Baar Fir Bandgi Ki Raah Py Chalya Adda Karna Apna Farz Tum Khuda Ky Liye Khushi Se Bhari Ho Milad-un-Nabi Aapke Liye.
- Aap Ko Jashan-e-Eid Mulad Un Nabi Mubarak Ho, Allah Ta'llah Hum Sab Ko Seedhi Rah Per Chalne Ki Taufeeq Ata Farmayein, RABI-UL-AWWAL Bhuhat Bhuhat Mubarak Ho, Remember me in your Prayers…
- Aap Ko Jashn e Eid Milad Un Nabi Mubarak Ho Allah Hum Sbko Sidhi Raah Pr Chalny Ki Tufiq Atta Farmyein.
- Rabi-ul-Awal Ka Din Aaya Hai Tazza Bahar Salallahu Alehi Waslam Prhty Hay Dar-o-Diwar Jashan-e-Eid Milad-un-Nabi Mubark Ho
- Nisar tayri chehl pehel per hazaron Eidain Rabi-ul-awal, Siwa-e-iblees k jhan main sabhe tou khushian mana rahay hain.
- Ki Muhammad Se Wafa Tu Ne Toh Ham Tere Hain, Ye Jahan Cheez Hai Kya Lo_O_Kalam Tere Hain.
- Maah-e-Rabiul Awwal Sharif Mubarak" Allah Kareem Is Mahine K Tufail ApKo Sehat Izzat Azmat Barkat Rehmat Rahat Naimat Aafiat Ata Farmaey. AMEEN.
Khushbu-e-Gulab hai Pasina RASOOL ka,
Aap ko bhi ho Mubarak Mahina RASOOL ka"
I convey my cordial & sincere greetings to U & Ur family on the occasion of Milad-Un-Nabi, the auspicious day on which Prophet Hazrat Mohammad Sahib made his descent on earth.
Holy Prophet, Hazrat Mohammad Sahib showed us
The path of Righteousness,
Brotherhood & Tolerance.
"Tumhari niyyat ki pemaish us waqt hoti hai
Jb tum kisi aisy shakhs k sath bhlai kro
Jo tum ko kuch bhi nahi de sakta."
Hazrat ALI R.A.
The Prophet's birthday is a moment to rededicate ourselves to the ideals for which he lived his life.
He gave us the message of compassion towards all fellow beings.
May His enlightened message, guide us on the path of Peace, Goodwill & Harmony.
Duniya ki her Fiza may ujala RASOOL ka,
Ye sarii kainaat hay Sadqa RASOOL ka,
Khushbo-e-Gulab hay pasina RASOOL ka,
Aap ko bhi ho Mubarak Mahina RASOOL ka…
**Sharif MUBARAKH**
Nisar tayri chehl pehel per hazaron Eidain Rabi-ul-awal,
Siwa-e-iblees k jhan main sabhe tou khushian mana rahay hain.
The beautiful word is ALLAH,
Most beautiful song is AZAN,
Best exercise is NAMAZ,
World perfect book is QURAN,
And You are so lucky if YOU are a MUSALMAN.
unia ki hr Fiza
mn ujala RASOOL (SALLALLAHO ALAIHI WASLLM) ka,
Ye sari kainat sdqa RASOOL (SALLALLAHO ALAIHI WASLLM) ka..
khshbo-e-gulab hy pasina RASOOL(SALLALLAHO ALAIHI WASLLM)ka,
Ho apko mubrik ye mhina RASOOL(SALLALLAHO ALAIHI WASLLM)ka..
the bautiful word is ALLAH,
Most bautiful song is AZAN,
Bst exercize is NAMAZ,
World perfect book is QURAN,
& you are so lucky if you are a MUSALMAN.


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Ahead of the release of her new album in March, Miss Li has this put out brand new single 'Aqualung' – the video for which was released today. The Swedish artist follows up 'Bonfire' with a HUGE, beat-driven ballad. The chorus is hair-stand-on-end good, and accentuated by a glorious post-chorus. Comparisons to Sia are unavoidable, but they are comparisons to Sia at her absolute best – so everyone wins here really.
You can find 'Aqualung' on our Best New Pop playlist.


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A LAST minute recipe change proved to be to the key to success for a catering student who took the honours in a prestigious inter-college competition.
Darlington College student Hannah Southern, from Catterick, completed her lamb dish in full for the very first time at the regional heat of the North East Inter-college Catering Competition, held at East Durham College.
The best end of lamb with offal garnish and a potato and vegetable accompaniment won high praise from lead judge, owner of Durham restaurant Oro, Marco Di Soro, who described the combination as stunning.
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It was enough to secure first place just ahead of fellow Darlington College student Lewis Welburn, a modern apprentice, of Reeth, who already works at the Michelin two-star restaurant the Raby Hunt, at Summerhouses, near Darlington.
Hannah, 18, of Catterick, is studying for a diploma in professional cookery and looks set to be offered an apprenticeship with the five star Rockliffe Hall Hotel, Hurworth.
She said: "I had two hours to prepare the main dish and I absolutely loved it. I was surprised and delighted to win."


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Carnival of Shadows Trailer (2015)
21 November 2015
Ernie Gehr's large-scale, multiscreen video installation CARNIVAL OF SHADOWS is simultaneously a reflection on early animation and genre cinema, a playful exercise in moving-image graphics, and an extension of the artists' interest in the abstraction, texture, and rhythms of visual material. Its source is an early-20th-century shadowgraph toy, which used "paper print films" in the form of sequential silhouette drawings that were brought to life as they passed before a stroboscopic screen. Gehr's silent, digital video adaptation transforms five original paper subjects, all issued in France c. 1900–05: At the Circus, Carnival in Nice, John Sellery's Tour of the World, Street Scenes, and Gulliver's Travels.
Watch the official Carnival of Shadows 2015 trailer in HD below or find more Carnival of Shadows videos on Vidimovie.


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Fraser Institute: Patent Pirates In Latin America
April 17, 1998
Latin American pharmaceutical manufacturers who pirate U.S. drug companies' patents were reportedly in vocal attendance at the Fourth Annual Business Forum of the Americas -- held last month in Costa Rica. They were said to be ably assisted by members of Ralph Nader's organization.
Experts say the issue of pirating is larger than pharmaceuticals alone. It involves establishing clear and enforced laws throughout Latin America to protect the intellectual property rights of U.S. and European companies. Pharmaceuticals, however, serve as a prime example.
- The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America estimates that U.S. drug firms lose between $900 million and $2 billion a year in revenues in Latin America -- where politically influential pirate drug manufacturers operate with few restraints.
- With lobbyists for Argentina's pirate drug industry squaring off against U.S. drug manufacturers at the forum, the trade communiqué produced there was so watered down that what was supposed to be a clear call for laws to protect intellectual property dissolved into a weak compromise.
- Assisting the pirates was American "consumer" activist James Packard Love -- head of Ralph Nader's Consumer Project on Technology -- who asserted that "patents are a tax on the poor and sick that allow drug companies to profit from inventions rightfully belonging to humanity."
- Love added that governments "must safeguard their citizens' health and pocketbook by stripping drug companies of that undeserved legal privilege called a patent."
Some astonished observers concluded that a new Nader strategy may be to transform patent rights from a legal issue into a political one -- which he might be in a better position to win among populists.
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DARK DOG MOTO TOUR PROPOSAL for 2013 1. What is the Dark Dog Moto Tour ? 2. Feedback of 2012 edition ? 3. Proposal for 2013 A French energy drink Implicated into Music Sports Power sports 300 000 visitors The world looonnngeest 2 wheels road race dedicated to amateurs Throughout France 3 600 km open to Motorcycles Sidecars 3 wheelers 125 cc open roads and circuits The main non professional event dedicated to motorcycling in France (created in 2002) What have we done ? Support 2 dealers by offering a special discount on 2 Spyder Work with our PR Agency to promote the 2 Spyder drivers Advertise into the official program A mix of regularity
and timed legs 220 competitors Famous Motorcycle Sponsors + What are the results ? Exhibit Spyder on the first weekend at the starting village One of the Can-Am Spyder won the 3 wheels category Several articles on web sites and blogs Positive Negative as a low level of investment never brought high returns Very positive feed back of spectators, competitors and Spyder drivers Same time of Paris Car Show
No TV broadcast as expected
Low involvement of lifestyle journalists
No one at BRP to follow the race and work with journalists Poor press coverage No negative impacts but results below our expectations Lack of support from BRP Feedback of drivers WHY HOW MUCH ? Actively participate and engage in the DDMT If we want to leverage the event we need a better
preparation and a higher commitment Good results are achievable Target specialized press Plenty of communication opportunities Another customer focus Regional media opportunities for dealers Demonstrate to the 300 000 spectators Spyder's KSP It's innovative ! New business opportunities Reinforce the community HOW Creating the
Can-Am Spyder Team 1 VIP 1 journalist 1 winner Creating a unique
Spyder community event Equivalent of a Raid Can-Am for on-road customers An alternative to the peaceful Spyder Riders days A real on-road safe adventure Be the event
Find partnerships and co brandings
Make people
talk about it VIP
chosen from our acquaintances. Journalist either vertical or horizontal press To be defined according to our target messages 1 Winner from a Spyder sweepstake into dealership Organize accommodation, meals, assistance, maintenance, clothes ... Define with dealers 3 tuning kits to upgrade owners' Spyder Dedicated to the other part of our customers Invite Spyder owners A dealer motivation tool PAC business for dealers and BRP Increase brand awareness Leads collection on site, trials and sales An event dedicated to motor sports enthusiasts [see the success of the track experience @ Celebration 2012] Reassuring perspective : I'm part of the motorcycle community ! Workshop opportunities Local involvement and local returns Positive emulation : dealer contest for a free inscription ? Increase loyalty PAC business opportunities = PAC kits , maintenance, preparation Unique brand involvement National (into dealership) sweepstake = dragging customers to dealerships Efficient and targeted leads collection Generate Social Media content / Testimonials Enroll a Can-Am Team built with partners and co-brandings, enable our customers to participate in the event and make talk about it ! WHEN WHO Marketing teams (ED & FR) Ketchum PR Agency Dark Dog Moto Tour organization Potential partners
Dealers Starting now discussions with the organization Next DDMT from the 28th of September to the 6th of October Starting now discussions with potential partners PAC demo truck : 6k€ Assistance : 18k€ Customers transport : 2k€ Clothes : 9k€ Staff accommodation : 3k€ Logistics : 4k€ Total : 47k€ maximum Public at large and families One press test conducted by the dealer (to be pushed with others media) Spyder proved to be competitive Real time demonstration of Spyder's qualities : impossible to contest Start now to pack a new Can-Am Spyder event Involve Press, VIP and Customers differently = Live the Spyder Experience New Spyder Event, not another episode of an already-known event (it's BRP) Spyder is the only topic to talk about ! (through trials for spectators) (sponsoring IXON?) 15 to 20 Spyder Drivers
Around 2800€ participation fees adjustable according to costs Communication costs : 7k€ Cost Revenues
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Infinite Glam Jewelry Set
You're just radiating fierce style in infinite directions with this pretty gold tone jewelry set. It features a charm necklace with a pave infinity symbol, plus matching solid gold tone stud earrings.
- Earrings are approx. 0.38 in. long x 0.19 in. wide
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I CAN'T OPEN IT SO SAD I'M JUST GONNA CRY :( and by the way I can't see the noon :(
Glarya k you are crazy you don't have blood and a mind
Inever saw anything but close stuff only
Checking out the moon right now!
Liked it!
Love it
My dear friends please don't download this app. It is better to use your camera instead
Not clear and thw microscope hard to focus
I sooooo cool yo, the moon looks like it's coming to us
I CAN'T OPEN IT SO SAD I'M JUST GONNA CRY :( and by the way I can't see the noon :(
Inever saw anything but close stuff only
همون زوم دوربین گوشیتون بهتره
Very useful Im looking for this app
IRS ok
It only does what my regular camera on my phone already does.....
Bad Robert
You can maybe look to the moon if you got a good phone
Hey I zoomed in on the moon why do I see light no moon dumnass
People must be taking pics of the Moon printed on books, hence, they r crisp clear.
Gloria K your a liar its very clear and cool you are horrible not the game you liar
The moon is not clear at all! Horrible app the pictures lie
It's nice, fun to play with
Very useful Im looking for this app
Allha is gave
Love it. Great work.
Its stupid i would rather buy a real telescope at amazon
Wow, I always thought my phone was zoomless, this is so cool!
Increase my phone functionality, thanks
Very handy utility. You can use zoom funcion whenever there's a need to. Very entertaining Telescope & Light app.
I didn't know my camera had that much zoom... that alone makes this app worth it!
Works quick. Better than camera because you can turn on flash in an instant instead of going through options
Nice app. looking forward few more good from the team..
Amazing app bro great effort
Best app, love it


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The Hummus High
Hummus is a creamy, thick spread made primarily from mashed chickpeas and a few other healthy ingredients that has become popular worldwide over the past couple of decades. It has long been enjoyed in Middle Eastern and North African countries and today in commonly eaten across North America and Europe too. It is very good for you and very tasty!
In fact, hummus is one of the most widely consumed Middle Eastern foods in the United States today; in 2008, over 15 million Americans reported that they eat hummus on a frequent basis! That's a lot of people getting to experience all of the health benefits of hummus!
Benefits of Hummus
Mediterranean and Middle Eastern populations have been consuming good-quality olive oil and tahini for thousands of years. This type of diet that is still eaten in these regions today (which also frequently includes other hummus ingredients like beans, lemon, and garlic) has been shown to be very anti-inflammatory, and we know that inflammation is the root cause of many chronic diseases.
Eating a diet similar to these healthy populations can help to lower cholesterol and triglycerides levels, to reduce symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis, and to lessen the chance of developing Alzheimer's disease, cancer, cardiovascular disease and diabetes.
So is hummus healthy? If you make homemade hummus with real ingredients or buy a quality store bought hummus then yes!
Beef Jerky
What the Native American tribes called "pemmican" was jerky meat added to either pounded dried organic product or creature fat. The Native Americans taught the pioneers how to cut and set up the meat into long strips and later imparted to them the whole jerky-production process and a few varieties of seasonings to make distinctive formulas. With this recently discovered learning and time-tried formula, the European pioneers ended up cooking and expending jerky like never before; it was totally the nibble of decision.
Beef Jerky achieved its height of ubiquity amid the venture into North America, where merchants and adventurers prized it as a vital wellspring of sustenance as they made a trip to new ranges with constrained openness to crisp nourishment and supplies along the way. The way that meat could be chased anyplace along the trails that the pilgrims were taking after
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Rate: $ 30 to $35 Per Day
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The sitting rooms and the balconies face the serene waters giving a panoramic view of the water and the hills surrounding it.
Day trips to other beautiful places of interest, such as Adams Peak – the most important mountain in Sri Lanka and the most popular hill climb, Emerald coast.
Hatton, 3 kms, is well developed with supermarkets , Railway Station , Hospital , Bars and Restaurants and Streets which are having proper control of city traffic Instead of wasting time and money in over populated Kandy, try this hill station.
Its only 3 hours from Colombo, Enjoy the Kithulgala river banks on your way to Castlereigh, taste the strawberry tea at "the tea cup" at Wattawalla, then settle for peace close to the lake, surrounded by tea plantations. For accommodation in Colombo, click on www.brama.lk or contact email@example.com or 0094777315001
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CITY life usually sacrifices the pleasure and health benefits of growing one's own produce, but some Minhang residents are finding ways of combining urbanization and gardening.
They are turning the front yards of villas or the balconies of apartments into small vegetable patches. It's surprising how much can be grown in a small space!
Jin Mingdi, director of the vegetable center at the Minhang Commission of Agriculture, is aiding that cause by providing gardening tips to "city farmers."
First, there's the problem of choosing suitable containers for balcony gardens.
"Since balconies are rather small spaces, it's best to choose flowerpots, plastic tubs, wooden cases or aluminum boxes," Jin said. "The containers must have drainage holes that should be a half-to-one centimeter wide and be distributed evenly on the bottom of the containers."
Drainage, she said, is critical. Plants with poor drainage will suffer root rot and wither. At the same time, the growing container needs to hold some moisture so that the plants don't dry out.
Stones or wire mesh placed in the bottom of the vessels can help protect against loss of soil through drainage holes while allowing excess water to escape.
Jin said it's possible to grow vegetables without ordinary potting soils. That practice uses cermacite sand, perlite or rock wool as the growing medium. These methods provide the means for plants to absorb water and nutrients, but they require careful fertilization.
Fertilizers are important in "city gardening," Jin said.
Organic compost is a cheap and easy way to provide plant nutrients. Kitchen waste such as fruit peels, lettuce leaves and even milk can be used. Jin advises that green matter be submerged in water for at least one week before use.
Compost is easy to make. First, block up the bottom of a container, then fill it with about two centimeters of soil. Put the food waste in and cover with another thin layer of soil. Build up the layers to the top of the pot, keep the pot wet and place it in a warm sport. Then just wait. The green material eventually breaks down into soil-like richness.
Fertilization should be applied sparingly. Too much is bad for plants. Jin suggests intervals of five to 10 days. A plant will tell you what it needs if you examine its leaves.
Using tap water for plants isn't always the best procedure. Jin said rainwater or the water used to wash rice is better for plants because both sources contain trace elements that plants need.
Gardens everywhere are prey to inspect pests, and the patio garden is no exception. Jin said there are homemade remedies that can solve the problem without the use of undesirable chemicals.
One solution is to collect insects that appear, such as the cabbage worm, army worm, cotton bollworm or cutworm, and mulch their bodies in a mixture of water and a little washing detergent. The solution can be sprayed on plants.
Another remedy is a solution of minced garlic and onion, which repels beetles, aphids and red spiders.
To prevent birds eating fruit from trees in villa gardens, bird netting can be used. Even plastic sheeting hung from bamboo poles can confuse birds.
What to grow in these small gardens?
"People should choose plants according to their growing environment," Jin said. "Don't be afraid to try different crops. One can plant tomatoes, amaranth, cucumbers, squash, beans and chillies."
Many vegetable varieties come in miniature hybrids ideal for patio planting.
On balconies, faster-growing crops such as radishes, lettuce, spinach and leafy Chinese vegetables are good choices, she said. Some can be harvested in as few as five weeks, and some will grow the year-around, if you have winter sun.
The best time to harvest is based on the color and texture of crops. Cucumbers and beans should be picked when they are young and tender. Tomatoes and chilli peppers need ripen to deep colors and hardness to get the best flavor.
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Talon is one of the best AD burst in the Game. He is great at bursting any carry down, but will have trouble killing tanks and staying in lane. I prefer laning Talon with a support on your side. The heal from your support will make sure you can stay in lane longer and outfarm your enemy. Talon is all about getting in and out of fights at the right time.
I take AD carry runes. I get armor pen quints and marks, flat armor seals, and attack speed glyphs or magiv resist per level glyphs. The armor pen marks and quints will allow you to kill most carries easily without a problem. The armor seals will gain you more sustain in lane. And magic resist for team fights and attack speed for farming. Trinty force is good item for talon cause it is a well rounded item for Talon.
I always prefer doran's blade than shield b/c the 10+ dmg and the life was, in my opinion, better than the shield. Mercury Treads would also be an option depending on the enemy team. If the enemy team is heavy in cc, I recommend that you get mercury treads instead of beserker greaves. Sheen will give you more dmg at harrassing and a bf sword will let you farm better like ad carries. I like gettin bloodthirster early for talon due to his incapability to sustain in lane without getting dmg. Which will constantly make you recall. Trinity force is good well-rounded item that is really good for Talon. Then I get a frozen mallet. Frozen mallet will proc your passive therefore increasing your basic dmg. I get youmu's ghostblade last to increase your dmg output and is a godo item to get in and out of battles.
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I master rake first because rake is your best move at harassing ur enemy. The best time to rake against an enemy is when they walked in to range. This will ensure that you land both times on the enemy. To maximize the dmg with rake, stand right behind the enemy. This will allow all 3 blades to hit ur enemy and increase the dmg. I get cutthroat next because of the damage amplification on ur target. Using rake and cutthroat will aplify ur dmg by a whole lot and make sure you do the most dmg you can do to ur enemy. I put 1 on noxian diplomacy on lvl 3 and get it last because you need the skill to reset ur attack timer. And get ult when ever its avalible.
Pros / Cons
-Really good at bursting down carries
-Generally fun champion to play
-Good at farming due to RAke
-Can be easily countered with armor.
-He is worth 6300 which is expansive
-Hard to time jumping in and out of teamfights.
Talon is a really good killer of carries, somewhat like Irelia. He is one of the best assassin I seen in the game. Talon is well balanced champ and anyone who calls him op is a dumass:)


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(Soundbite of "Jesu Joy of Man's Desire")
FLATOW: If you're a fan of '70s pop and rock and music of Emerson, Lake & Palmer, The Beatles and Yes, then you're probably familiar with the work of Robert Moog. He wasn't a band member, but the creator of the Moog synthesizer, the instrument that ushered in the era of electronic music. A physicist and electrical engineer, by training, Moog created the Moog III, the Minimoog, the Prodigy, the Liberation, the Polymoog, instruments that allowed musicians to create sounds even he never imagined. You're listening right now to "Jesu Joy of Man's Desire," written by Bach and performed here with a Moog synthesizer by the composer Walter Carlos, now known as Wendy. And he becomes a pop music star in his own right, taking a classical musical piece like the one you're listening to, "Jesu Man's of Desiring." Let's listen to some more of that.
(Soundbite of "Jesu Joy of Man's Desire")
FLATOW: Robert Moog died this week in North Carolina at the age of 71. And for the rest of the hour we're going to pay tribute to him and to his pop music legacy. If you'd like to talk about Robert Moog or the Moog synthesizer, give us a call. Our number: 1 (800) 989-8255, 1 (800) 989-TALK.
Let me introduce my guest. Lawrence Fritts is a professor of Composition and Theory and the director of the Electronic Music Studios at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. He joins us from his office.
Welcome to the program, Dr. Fritts.
Dr. LAWRENCE FRITTS (University of Iowa): Hi, Ira. Glad to be here.
FLATOW: He certainly was a pioneer. He changed the face of music, did he not?
Dr. FRITTS: Absolutely. Just listening to the Carlos piece a few seconds ago, I was reminded really what a shock it was in my teen-age years to hear "Switched-On Bach" and to hear what the Moog synthesizer was capable of. So, yes, it was a tremendously profound impact across music.
FLATOW: How did he start out? What got him on this line of work, moving in this direction?
Dr. FRITTS: He started out, amazingly enough, building theremins in high school. A theremin is a musical instrument that was invented in the 1920s by Leon Theremin in Russia, and it involves two antennas, moving your hands--the performer moves their hands in relation to those, and alters pitch and frequency and creates this wee-ee-oo, sort of "War of the Worlds" type of music.
FLATOW: Yeah, that spooky music you're always used to hearing.
Dr. FRITTS: Yeah.
FLATOW: Wee-oo!
Dr. FRITTS: That was it.
FLATOW: Yeah, yeah.
Dr. FRITTS: And so he figured out how to make these and starting building kits and reportedly sold more than a thousand kits to finance his college education.
FLATOW: And so then--where he moved on from then?
Dr. FRITTS: So then he moved on, developed the idea of taking an oscillator--an oscillator is an electrical device that produces a waveform and a frequency. And they've been around for quite some time. He took a bundle of oscillators, hooked them together and enabled the performer to control them with what we call a control voltage, so for the first time a keyboard player like Wendy Carlos is then able to change the pitch of the oscillator in real time to create a performance.
FLATOW: I understand you bumped into him in your career at some point.
Dr. FRITTS: This is the most amazing story. So Bob Moog is an engineer above all. So when I was a graduate student at the University of Chicago, he was there, working on a prototype for the composer John Eden, who I was studying with, a prototype of a multiple little--a touch-sensitive keyboard. And initial performance went well and everything was fine. But then over the next week, he and I were both working in the studios, I was working on my composition, and he was sitting across the hall with no pencil or paper, no tools; he just had this thing taken apart and he was just staring at it. First night, that's all he did, stared at it for four hours, and went home. Second night, I came in, he started at it for four hours and went home. Third night, was staring at it, came across to my office and asked for a hacksaw. He sawed off a 5/8ths-inch piece of metal, which I still have. So man of few words...
FLATOW: That was...
Dr. FRITTS: ...not a complicated set of notes and diagrams, you know, he just pure brain power.
FLATOW: I want to play that piece we started out with, "Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring," and I want to see if I can--Matt, can you get that up? Tell us as we listen to it how this demonstrates the capabilities of the Moog synthesizer.
Dr. FRITTS: If you listen very carefully, during the attack of each note, you'll hear a little `chiff,' the little `chi, chi' sound. That's a deliberate placement of the noise component; white noise, we call it. And that's an integral part of Carlos' synthesis technique is to introduce noise components at the very attack of a note. You'll also notice the little de-tuning that causes the oscillators to be a little out of tune and produces a great amount of richness, and it's sort of like an aural effect when you have three singers all slightly out of tune. And finally the listener should know that this wasn't recorded simultaneously. It was--this was a monophonic instrument, meaning it could only play one note at a time. So she was playing, literally, one line on a recorder and then backing it up and multitracking and playing along with it.
FLATOW: Wow.
(Soundbite of "Jesu Joy of Man's Desire")
Dr. FRITTS: Yeah, but to my ears, maybe those chiffs, those attacks, are maybe a little overexaggerated now from a 2005 standpoint as opposed to a 1968 standpoint.
(Soundbite of "Jesu Joy of Man's Desire")
FLATOW: Wow. I never realized that about playing the one note at a time.
Dr. FRITTS: Yeah.
FLATOW: So you really had to be a technician also, not just, you know, put your fingers on a keyboard.
Dr. FRITTS: That's right. Yeah. So you had to know something about the physics of sound, you had to know how oscillators worked. You had to know what the different characteristics were of waveforms. You would take a waveform that would have a certain wave like on an oscilloscope--I've seen many pictures where Bob is working with his synthesizer hooked up to an oscilloscope. And if you see a smooth wavy wave, that's a sine wave and that's a certain sound. Other waves are more angular. The more angular a wave is, the richer it is in frequency and harmonic content. So what the Moog synthesizer does is a technique called subtractive synthesis. You send the module of the oscillator into a filter, and then the filter extracts and suppresses different harmonics to produce a richer, maybe more--in some cases, more mellow sound.
FLATOW: Wow. 1 (800) 989-8255. Let's go to Mike in Ithaca. Hi, Mike.
MIKE (Caller): Hi, there. Yeah, hi, Ira. I wanted to comment that in 1968, I believe it was, possibly '69, I can't remember which, but as an undergraduate, I took a course called bionics in robots. And it was normally lectured by Dr. Block in theoretical applied mechanics at Cornell, but one lectures we had to go was one given by Robert Moog.
Dr. FRITTS: Fantastic.
MIKE: He was already quite famous, so he was only occasionally on the Cornell campus even though he was a professor here, so he only was here that one day. But "Switched-On Bach" had just came out, and when he saw the size of the audience, because a lot of people came, he dumbed down the lecture considerably because of the size of the--it was still interesting, but it wasn't the lecture we were supposed to get.
Dr. FRITTS: Right.
FLATOW: How did he react to his celebrity?
MIKE: I think what he did--it was sensitivity. In other words, he still wanted to convey information, both historical and scientific, but when he saw the size of the audience, he had to dumb it down, both in terms of choice of material and how he spoke about it. I saw Ed Wilson do that at a lecture once, too, actually, on sociobiology; when he saw the size of the audience, he just dumbed down his lecture considerably.
Dr. FRITTS: Yeah.
MIKE: Same kind of thing. It just shows great sensitivity, I guess, on the part of the lecturer.
FLATOW: Yeah.
Dr. FRITTS: Yeah.
FLATOW: Thanks for calling, Mike.
Dr. FRITTS: Thank you.
MIKE: But the lecture was great, too, you know.
FLATOW: Yeah.
MIKE: OK, thank you.
FLATOW: Nice reminiscing--yeah, thank you. 1 (800) 989-8255.
So did he go touring around, lecturing? Do you know?
Dr. FRITTS: I think he did somewhat. I met him as a graduate student, part of, you know...
FLATOW: Right.
Dr. FRITTS: ...what his gig was, was to do a lecture with that. He appeared to me to be a fairly uncomfortable lecturer. He didn't seem to have a lot of, you know, that pizzazz of a lecturer...
FLATOW: Right.
Dr. FRITTS: ...and the interaction with the audience. And so maybe that's why I remember more why he really seemed to be in his element as he was staring at the insides of his machine.
FLATOW: And he sold his company, right? He did not keep...
Dr. FRITTS: Yeah, this seems to be, you know, a relatively bitter part of his life. Sold his company in the early '70s, and then it's some--you know, of course, sold the name along with it, and I think in the last couple of years was able finally get the name back and was engaging in a limited production of some Minimoog types of synthesizers.
FLATOW: Yeah. 1 (800) 989-8255. Christopher in Key Vaca, Florida--hi, Christopher.
CHRISTOPHER (Caller): Hello there. I took a class with Robert Moog's wife in Asheville. I wanted to comment on it. They were preparing to go back to Japan. He was really revered in Japan, I understand. In what--he was recognized in this country nicely but over there they treated him pretty much almost as, you know, a god.
Dr. FRITTS: And he was. He was a god, yes.
CHRISTOPHER: In that respect, in early electronics stuff, he was just like their guru.
Dr. FRITTS: Yeah.
FLATOW: He was--some people have referred to him as the Einstein of music.
Dr. FRITTS: Yeah.
CHRISTOPHER: I'd have to agree there, yeah.
FLATOW: Yeah.
Dr. FRITTS: Yeah. Yeah.
CHRISTOPHER: Yeah.
Dr. FRITTS: Absolutely, it was an undeniable accomplishment.
FLATOW: Because it was so hard to do what he did knowing--you know, you had to have the right melding of the two sides of your brain, I imagine...
CHRISTOPHER: Right.
FLATOW: ...the technical side and the musical side.
Dr. FRITTS: Right.
CHRISTOPHER: Now I'd like to mention that even though, you know, Moog is the person that has the bulk of the credit for developing the voltage-controlled modular synthesizer, there was one being developed on the West Coast, literally, at the same time...
FLATOW: Oh, really?
CHRISTOPHER: ...by Don Buchla. And I've talked to Don and I said, `Gee, what's the timeline?' And Don Buchla told me that he and Bob had agreed at one point both to share credit for the simultaneous development of this, that they weren't able to figure out who actually did, you know, the final invention, or the final brainstorm, I guess. So for electronic musicians, the Buchla and the Moog are sort of equivalent synthesizers.
FLATOW: John in St. Louis. Hi, John.
JOHN (Caller): Hi. Yeah. Robert Moog was, as you say, a physicist, but he knew George Kelischek, a German violin maker, who was a musician, and I played along with him at the John C. Campbell Folk School, and Moog taught a class and my two sons built a rudimentary synthesizer under his direction. He was a very gentle and kind man.
Dr. FRITTS: Wow. That's a fantastic story.
FLATOW: That's a great story. Thanks for sharing that--yeah, go ahead.
JOHN: I also ran across his--when he sold to Gibson, I ran across his marketing supervisor who Gibson took on, but he had quit and he was now selling electronic equipment for identifying cattle for years because they weren't interested in the instrument, really. So it was a sad, sad thing when he sold it.
Dr. FRITTS: That's the--yeah, that's the story that I heard. I don't even know if it was Gibson, per se. I think it may have been Gibson's parent company called Norlin. And so I think Norlin is the sort of overriding corporate face, I think.
FLATOW: Thanks for calling, John. Our number: 1 (800) 989-8255. We're talking about the Moog synthesizer this hour on TALK OF THE NATION/SCIENCE FRIDAY from NPR News.
Talking with Lawrence Fritts of the University of Iowa in Iowa City. Did anybody really improve on it or--you know? What happened following that technology?
Dr. FRITTS: To my mind, the Moog sort of went downhill. After the initial period of the '60s in which they had these big suitcase-sized modular synthesizers, then they tried to sort of streamline it, make it smaller and more portable, then there's this thing called Minimoog, which became very popular with improvising jazz musicians and so forth. It was very small and portable but it had very minimal capabilities so to my mind, to my taste, nothing really touches, you know, the big classic modular synthesizers of the '60s.
FLATOW: See if we can get a call in quickly here. Hi, let's go to Chris in Minneapolis.
CHRIS (Caller): Ah, yes, I just wanted to make a comment. Basically, in the intro your mentioning bands from the '60s and you're playing Bach. And it just struck me that it might leave an impression upon listeners that this was music of the past. But there are wonderful bands that are still using this technology; Stereolab is one of them, but there are others, and it's not replaced--not been replaced by digital synthesizers.
FLATOW: Yeah.
Dr. FRITTS: Well, I can attest to that so in my Electronic Music Studios here we've just refurbished our Moog. One of the original Moog engineers named Mike Bucki has a company called Modusonics, and he repairs vintage Moogs and he even makes original modules to the original specifications. So, yeah, but certainly Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, a lot of bands are using these classic analog Moogs.
FLATOW: So the digital world has not overtaken it.
Dr. FRITTS: It has not. Don't know where we're going on that. We're trying to get both worlds to talk to each other right now, so that's our goal.
FLATOW: Do you play one, Chris?
CHRIS: No. I just love the music. I don't play.
FLATOW: All right. That's good enough. Thanks for calling.
CHRIS: Thank you.
FLATOW: So what do you think history will say about Bob Moog?
Dr. FRITTS: Well, it's the Stradivarius instrument of the 1960s. These things are going to have to be preserved. They have certain characteristics, you know, certain resonance frequencies, certain modes of playing and, you know, as time goes on and these instruments fall into disrepair, we're going to be losing the Stradivarius of the '60s.
FLATOW: Are there enough of them around to keep them alive?
Dr. FRITTS: Yes, I just talked to Mike Bucki of Modusonics yesterday.
FLATOW: Yeah.
Dr. FRITTS: He thinks that there are between 100 and 500 of the original modular synthesizers. And so he's busy, you know, soldering, you know, all these things back together as they come in and so hopefully it will keep them around for a few years.
FLATOW: And you have to keep teaching people how to use it.
Dr. FRITTS: Well, they teach themselves. So thanks to the Internet, they're able to see tutorials on this, on--your listeners might be interested on my Web site at the University of Iowa Electronic Music Studios, we have a classic set of Moog demonstrations done by Peter Todd Lewis in 1979. So type in Google, type in `Moog demo,' and we have a half-dozen or a dozen MP3 files that show the workings of Moog.
FLATOW: Easier than that, go to sciencefriday.com. We have a link for you...
Dr. FRITTS: Ah, great
FLATOW: ...up there already. I want to thank you, Lawrence, for taking time to talk with us.
Dr. FRITTS: My pleasure.
FLATOW: And happy music to you.
Dr. FRITTS: Same to you.
FLATOW: Lawrence Fritts is a professor of Composition and Theory and the director of the Electronic Music Studios at the University of Iowa in Iowa City.
FLATOW: And if you'd like the--you want to find those links that we talked about to the synthesizer, surf over to our Web site at sciencefriday.com. We have links to everything we've talked about today, and also we have a podcast there waiting for you if you want to take this show with you or other shows that we've played in the last few months. We're now podcasting SCIENCE FRIDAY. You can stick it on your iPod or other player and take it with you.
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So, today I picked up an internal terabyte hard drive for my server since the main drive was running out of space. Oh, there was 30G of space left to be sure, but that's cutting it close these days. So, at CompUSA, 1,000,000,000,000 bytes of storage was only $90. I remember picking up a one gig hard drive for several hundred dollars 15 years ago.
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- Rosie O'Donnel's weight, expressed in scientific notation, twice
- The complete count of how many times George W. Bush mangled the word "Nuclear"
- A detailed inventory of the late Senator Kennedy's liquor cabinet. Senator Kennedy was recently replaced by Republican Scott Brown.
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I'll be using it for MP3s (still working on getting all my CDs converted), family photos, and snapshots of my virtual servers.
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Today my desktop has 1 TB, my 2-year-old laptop has 500 GB, there's a 2 TB external drive in the file cabinet and a $32.00 16 GB flash drive on the neck chain with my ID badge.
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Donald Trump had a locker room chat with Billy Bush 11 years ago and made some remarks about sex. It was surreptitiously recorded. And released, by The Washington Post, on the Friday before his second debate with Hillary Clinton.
For starters, the mainstream media — where journalism now goes to die — has made this into a big deal. They talk about the 40 people in the Republican Party who have called for him to step aside as "key people."
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It's not a big deal, and most of those "key people" are sniveling suck-ups like Sens. Lindsey Graham and John McCain.
I'm guessing that 90 percent of the men in America have said the same or similar things, including the husband of Trump's opponent. But in Bubba's case it went well beyond words.
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In fact, President William Jefferson Clinton had sex acts performed on him in a room off the Oval Office by intern Monica Lewinsky and was impeached for lying about it. (I'm writing this for the benefit of those people who were not old enough to vote in 1998 and were educated by union teachers.) His wife, Trump's opponent, led the attacks on "bimbos" who seem to have littered Bill's public life.
So, anything that Hillary Clinton has to say about this is, shall we say, the pot calling the kettle black.
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Even though Bubba was ultimately not removed from office by the Senate, the bimbo eruptions left a stain on his presidency equivalent to the stain he left on Lewinsky's blue dress.
So, will the media frenzy derail the Trump campaign?
Unless, of course, Chuck Todd, John Dickerson and George Stephanopoulos have a lot more influence on the American voter than they have shown so far. Remember, it was these clowns and their colleagues who told us that Trump could never win the Republican nomination. Until he did. And now, there they go again.
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But what should really hack off that large group of voters who support Trump is the total lack of guts possessed by House and Senate candidates as well as other assorted alleged Republicans who somehow believe that Trump's decade-old conversation would hurt their election efforts.
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Take Nevada's Rep. Joe Heck, who is running for Senate.
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There are some of us who live in Nevada who had made up our minds that even though Heck is a less than perfect candidate — he's a RINO — we'll hold our noses and vote for him because we don't want to replace Harry Reid with Harry Reid in drag.
But after he "rescinded" his support for Trump, the thought occurs that maybe we can live without another senator from the tax-and-spend wing of the GOP. Not yet sure. The same applies to Nevada freshman Congressman Cresent Hardy. Maybe he should have had a serious primary challenge.
I've said this before in this space. If any of these clowns lose their election and cannot figure out why, they should look in the mirror.
Maybe the best outcome here is a Trump win and GOP losses in the Senate and House.
It couldn't be a worse outcome than what we have now.
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If you arent crazy for tradition, why not alter your Christmas dinner menu this year and see how much you could save whilst still eating a luxurious feast.
Turkey is expensive and even more so when they are in high demand, but think, do you only ever have it at Christmas and do you even really like it as much as other meats? The same goes for the rest of your Christmas dinner. You could enjoy a meal you wouldnt normally have at any other time of the year whilst saving money for extra gifts.
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