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We'll be renting a car for 5 or 6 weeks starting this September and thought we'd break up the trip into two parts and stay in a city (not Paris, though) for several days.
We're looking for a small to mid-sized city north of the Loire with a few days' worth of things to do that don't require a car. Since we're not really city people, we've never done much research on French cities unless it's to find a good restaurant. We usually stay in the countryside so would be looking for a quiet neighborhood to stay in.
Are there cities in the northern half of France that you find especially interesting to visit?
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We'll be renting a car for 5 or 6 weeks starting this September and thought we'd break up the trip into two parts and stay in a city (not Paris, though) for several days.
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Not north, but what about Lyon? http://www.en.lyon-france.com/
It is not "small" as in village, but it is smaller than Paris.
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Dijon is a very interesting place, and perfectly walkable, Burgundy villages to wander in your car. More or less north of the Loire. Well, east, really.
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Rennes is considered to be one of the most dynamic cities in France, particularly for its music scene. But frankly, I have rarely been there and cannot make a personal recommendation.
Being a "northeastern" person, I will most definitely recommend Nancy, Metz and Lille -- Lille being most certainly the busiest of the cities with a huge cultural life. Then again, Metz has the Centre Pompidou Metz which is amazing, and Nancy has the incredible art deco architecture...
Then again, Lens has the new Louvre, which is free, and then there are Valenciennes and Arras which have incredible Flemish central squares...
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Thanks for the two good suggestions.
In case I wasn't clear, for this part of the trip we won't have a car. We'll be relying on our feet or public transportation.
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The Burgundy Canal goes through Dijon and there are places to visit along it's towpath on foot, with local buses to return you to the city. Beaune is nearby by train.
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Kerouac, thank you. I'll look into Arras, Nancy, and Rennes.
Not sure about Metz and Lille.
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I found Nancy to be a real gem but I'd consider Reims for a couple of days - as lively as French cities get - weekdays till around 7-8 and Sat till 5 - then most are IME dead as doornails - Reims has several atrractions including of course its several famous Champagne Houses/caves to tour - each kind of difference IME.
Dijon is another city with lots to see but is not in northern France.
I spent a week in Chartres once - well waiting for a friend or I would not have and it wa just lovely lollygagging around the famous cathedral, seeing tourists come and go and a lively town center.
Rennes is unique in that it is capital of Brittany - and dits Celtic-origined people and I liked that.
Tours is to me a lively city as French cities go - lots of students and a Latin Quarter type restaurant and outdoor cafe ghetto in its center - easy day trips by train to Chenonceau/ Azay-le-Rideau and Chinon amongst others.
Not been to Arras but Amiens and I find northern northern French cities rather grim IME.
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"...I find northern northern French cities rather grim IME."
I haven't visited cities in the north because this was my impression, too, on a stay in Rouen years ago. But things may have changed since then so I defer to others with more recent experience.
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Not Rouen but the ones in the rust-belt and old insutrial area with slag heaps along the Belgian border I find rather grim - architecture too - maybe just me - Lille however would be an exception and OP may find a larger city offers more - Lille has a branch of the Louvre I think and if bored Bruges, Belgium is a short train trip away as is Brussels.
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I continue to prefer the northern cities to the southern cities of France, because the northern cities are full of activity every month of the year. The southern cities are totally dead in the winter months and overcrowded in the summer months.
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I'd shoot for Strasbourg...lovely old city with much to do and see. Want smaller? Then Colmar fits very well.
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Another vote for Rennes - one of our "top 5" cities in France (after Paris). Troyes is quite interesting also. Arras was raining & cold when we visited in early July - so we're returning for another visit this October. It was rainy/cold in Lille when we were there - the third week in July.
I'm assuming the OP was referring to the short section of the Loire river that goes through the famous chateaux region - and not the part of the Loire that then heads due south past Roanne, Lyon, & le Puy en Velay. We stayed in the Loire Departments 2 years ago - and there really aren't any active towns there. In fact, several waiters & such were asking us why we were there for 2 weeks. They don't get many American visitors (which is why we were there).
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Strasbourg yes is an exceptionally underpublicized gem IMO - easy day trips yes to Colmar and along the Route des vins alsace wine road hitting wineries and wine towns every few kms - or over to Germany - say to Baden-Baden one of Europe's oldest spa towns or Freibourg or the Black Forest or Mez or nancy or Basel, Switzerland - all very close by car or train.
Strabourg oui, oui, ouway!
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Actually, Strasbourg is super famous in Europe and therefore overcrowded most of the time. But I like it anyway.
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"The southern cities are totally dead in the winter months and overcrowded in the summer months."
It is rather the contrary. The locals take their holidays in summer like everybody else and don't stay in town. University towns like Toulouse, Bordeaux, Montpellier are certainly not completely dead in winter. Nice is busy all year round. So is Marseilles.
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Nice est mort dans l'hiver? Well I guess only retired folks flock there then so if you want to say it's kind of dead that is partially right but not really IME of being there thrice in January - rather be there than in say Orleans at that time of year.
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Oh, so neither of you has ever noticed all of the houses and apartments with closed shutters, the closed restaurants and all of the tourist attractions that are only open during the warm months?
I am a big fan of Marseille, a bit less of Nice, but I wouldn't say that either of them qualifies as a "small" city since Marseille is the 2nd largest city in the country and Nice is the 5th largest.
And I only mentioned Strasbourg after others did because it is the 7th largest city in France.
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"Oh, so neither of you has ever noticed all of the houses and apartments with closed shutters, the closed restaurants and all of the tourist attractions that are only open during the warm months?"
Hardly, except for the tourist attractions. Who would want to go on a day cruise on the Med in mid January anyway? Shutters are closed or half closed in the South to keep the heat out.
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So, have you come up with a small city to recommend north of the Loire? It appears not to be the case so far.
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I think of Dijon as a small city.
I might choose Angers, at least it's over in the same direction as the Loire and Rennes. It's a small city by my terms, it's smaller than Rennes, around 150K. In fact, it's smaller than Strasbourg and Reims, about like Dijon.
DK if it's lively, I'm not a good judge of that or what it means. I've been there and liked it and did things without a car, if that's what lively means.
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Kerouac : you were the one to mention southern cities, saying you preferred the northern ones. Are you the only one allowed to state your preferences?
It is the reverse for me, I prefer the South. This is why I won't recommend a place north of the Loire
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>>So, have you come up with a small city to recommend north of the Loire?<<
Who is "you"???
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Stu : I suppose it's me.
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I appreciate all the suggestions so far.
Working from a wikipedia list of French cities by population, I've come up with Nantes, Rennes, Angers, Dijon, Le Mans, Caen, Rouen, and Nancy, all above 100,000.
To me 100,000 is huge and I skipped down the list to the under-100k names, but we've been to some of these "smaller" places and I'm pretty sure they wouldn't hold our interest for too long. Of course if I find a few good restaurants, patisseries, and gardens my opinion would change.
Any love for Le Mans? Caen?
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Since Caen was totally pulverized during WW2, the only thing worthy of seeing (unless you love the architecture of 1950) is the Mémorial museum, but since you don't have a car it would be inconvenient because it is quite far from the center of town.
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However, in terms of 1950 architecture, Le Havre has been designated a UNESCO world heritage site due to its amazing postwar design.
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"To me 100,000 is huge and I skipped down the list to the under-100k names, but we've been to some of these "smaller" places and I'm pretty sure they wouldn't hold our interest for too long."
Defining terms is always helpful and you did use the word "city". Maybe "town" would have worked better. But then you mention "hold our interest" so where does that leave us, for those willing to try again?
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Caen got leveled during WWII and I've never read anything that would make me want to visit it - although we've stayed for 3 weeks in Gites that were within a day-trip from Caen. We've visited the Peace Museum, however.
The "old" section of Le Mans is very nice - but small. The "less old" area with all the shopping streets is rather "ordinary", IMO.
Of the cities you mentioned above, Dijon, Rouen, and Rennes are our favorites. If I had to pick only one - it would be Dijon. We've visited Angers several times for touring the Chateau, tapestry, and also dinner. It's OK - but we prefer the other three I mentioned. We've only visited Nancy once, as a day-trip from Alsace in about '02 - and liked it quite a bit. We're returning this coming Sept for 2 weeks, staying just outside of Nancy.
If you consider Dijon/Beaune to be north of the Loire, I would go there. Dijon doesn't seem like a large city to me. One of the things that I like about Dijon is all the civic activities they seem to have "going on" most weekends. It's a short train ride to Beaune from Dijon - which could turn into an all-day trip if you have lunch, wander around, and do some wine things.
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When I first visited Le Havre years ago I was appalled at how cheap it had appeared to be rebuilt - but kerouac has a much more recent view of it that seems supported by these images:
Caen I have been to recently and it also has been built in a nice modern style - I rather liked it.
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Continuing, travel style and interests are the slippery elements when we're asked to recommend places. I could stay indefinitely in a place of 1000 souls if there's a cafe or 2, groceries, paths to walk, a comfortable chair & light to read and a bus or train to go exploring on occasion. I don't seem to need much but if you do then knowing it and saying just what it is you do need is good. And maybe "huge" is what you really need, despite sentiments to the contrary. If you stay in a small place with a local bus to a city, you get both.
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a few days' worth of things to do that don't require a car
I think this is the killer in the original post. It makes me want to suggest Metz again because it is on the MétroLor commuter line with both Luxembourg and Nancy only 30 minutes away by cheap train ride. That way you would get 3 cities for the price of one -- without a car.
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"I could stay indefinitely in a place of 1000 souls if there's a cafe or 2, groceries, paths to walk, a comfortable chair & light to read and a bus or train to go exploring on occasion."
I absolutely love your description of your travel style! I also travel like this and generally don't know what to tell people about what I've "done" on my trips. Thanks for putting it so well. I'm tempted to use it (with attribution of course) as my Travel Quote . . .
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We enjoyed Bourges (about 70,000) a lot. Very walkable, good trains to Paris, some historic sites, and a spectacular cathedral. In fact, it reminded me a lot of an English cathedral city like Winchester. There is a university and lots of provincial government.
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Thanks, everybody. I knew some of you would be knowledgeable and have opinions about this. As I said, we usually don't spend much time in cities in France.
I was casting a wide net so we'd have a lot of choices.
The only thing the town or city must have is a major car rental place, and we can find those in lots of towns.
Now that we have a range of suggestions, we'll be able to narrow it down. But don't let me stop you if you have another good idea or two.
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We are travelling by train and staying in Amiens and Lille.
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why Northern France - TGV trains would take you in an hour or two to the Lyon area and Provence and guaranteeably better weather than in a northern France often rainy or cool and damp even in summer?
Why northern France - I much prefer to sit at outdoor cafes in nice weather and walk the human comedy go by - hard to do in northern France IME or dependably do so.
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"...generally don't know what to tell people about what I've "done" on my trips."
Swandav2000, that sounds very familiar. Good to hear you're out there.
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>>I much prefer to sit at outdoor cafes in nice weather and walk the human comedy go by - hard to do in northern France IME <<
I've sat at many cafes in Paris & watched the world go by. Even in December!!
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All of these pictures were taken in December. Note picture #2.
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Yes some Paris cafes even have heating outdoors - but it would be more enjoyable to me at least in warmer weather and December and winter can be surprisingly warm in northern France or can be dark dank and dull - but rarely really cold so you can sit outside in covered areas all year round - but to me better in sunny warmer weather.
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Angers and Nancy are two of my favorite French cities. Both have good local transport links. From Angers, it's an easy train ride to Nantes (just over 30 mins) and Saumur (30 mins), Le Mans (40 mins) and a pleasant 2 hour ride to Chenonceau (or rather, the village where the chateau is located). Of course, only part of Angers is "north of the Loire"
Nancy has good links to Metz and Strasbourg.
Of course, both cities have their own delights. Angers, with its imposing castle, lively historic district and pleasant gardens; Nancy with its gorgeous Place Stanislas (stunning just after dusk when the lights go on) and its Art Nouveau heritage.
Both are moderately prices with lots of good non-chain restaurants and pleasant cafes. IMO, Angers is the more attractive overall of the two, but both are good choices.
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Just for the sake of being different how about Compiègne north of Paris? It's a lovely and quite posh small city (population 42,000) and has a beautiful medieval downtown with lots of stores, restos, cafés etc. It has a royal château with a lovely park and huge grounds and several other museums and interesting places to visit nearby. The forest nearby is lovely for hiking and there is a paved bike trail (fairly flat) of 14km leading to the magnificent château of Pierrefonds, which can also easily be accessed by taxi.
There are bus connections (though sometimes limited) to Soissons, Senlis, Chantilly, and Crépy-en-Valois among other places and by train you can access Amiens, Noyon, Beauvais and Laon or even take one of the non-stop trains to Paris (40 minutes). For Laon it might be easier to bus to Soissons and then train from there to Laon.
Here's a link to a map of the bus network in the region:
The local transport website has an excellent English language version to plan your journeys and here is the link:
Here's a link to the map of the train network for Picardy:
I haven't looked into it but I'm sure Compiègne has major car rental agencies and there is lots to see and do within a 1 hour or so driving radius.
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WeisserTee, art nouveau buildings appeal to me, so Nancy is high on my list. My husband has a slight interest in going to Angers, but I think we saw all there was to see the time our VW was being inspected there. We were there for several days, not just for the VW checkup.
We liked Compiegne, but I had not thought of going there this time, FMT, so thanks. Lovely and posh sounds good to me.
I asked for cities north of the Loire because most of our travel will be in the Orne, Sarthe, and Mayenne. We don't want to drive very far south of that. In September the weather has usually been pretty comfortable in that area.
Stu, thanks for sharing the photos. You two have travel down to a fine art.
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I've made a number of reports about Nancy and one of them was devoted just to the art nouveau homes there. I have all of the photos of the art nouveau buildings in the business district, but I have not managed to consolidate them into a report yet.
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January 9, 2015
Now that you've seen it, what did you think? "But if you're Doc, it may all start to get a little peculiar after that…" Now in theaters is the latest from acclaimed filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson, an adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's novel Inherent Vice, starring Joaquin Phoenix as PI "Doc" Sportello. This stoner comedy/drama/mystery begins when Doc looks into the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend named Shasta, played by the effervescent Katherine Waterston. PTA's cast includes a bunch of other goofy characters: Josh Brolin as Bigfoot, Joanna Newsom as Sortilège, Benicio Del Toro as Smilax, even Owen Wilson, Jena Malone and Martin Short.. So how is it? One of PTA's best or did PTA get too high on his own supply? Once you've seen it, leave a comment with your thoughts on PTA's Inherent Vice.
Spoiler Warning: We strongly urge everyone to actually see the film before reading ahead, as there may be spoilers below. We also encourage all commenters to keep major spoilers from the film to a minimum, if possible. However, this is an open discussion from this point on! Beware of spoilers, don't ruin this movie!
To light this joint, I saw Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice back at the New York Film Festival (my full review) and enjoyed it, but found it way too incoherent and wacky to compliment. At least after first viewing. Honestly, I need to see it again, and again, and maybe that's the point of Paul Thomas Anderson's work - it's layered, it has more than what's on the surface, and there's so much going on that it's hard to understand upon one viewing. I admire so much of it because he is still a masterful filmmaker, and I think there's a very lax stoner-esque edge to it that is different than we've seen before. But that's a good thing. In my own opinion, it's not PTA's best work and I prefer his other films, but there is something special to it.
From our own Jeremy Kirk's review: "There is a ton to take in with Inherent Vice, so much that a single view isn't nearly enough. That's typically the case with PT Anderson, a filmmaker who is always trying for more than just simple storytelling. Inherent Vice is complex, at times confusing, and its triply atmosphere and general weirdness jam-packed into every scene, maybe every shot, makes for worthwhile dissection long after the movie is over. With humor and warmth Anderson delivers a detective caper with an abundance of layers and, yes, a little paranoia. But, like Doc Sportello himself, through aimlessness and, yet, an idea of clarity, Inherent Vice bounces its way to a grand, end-of-the-day victory." Go see it and tell us if you agree.
What did you think of Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice? Way too wacky or is it perfect?
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Hilary Duff denies rumours of Mike Comrie reconciliation
Actress/singer Hilary Duff has denied rumours she is back with her estranged husband Mike Comrie, insisting they are often pictured together because they are still great friends.
The Cheaper by the Dozen star split from the former ice hockey player in January (14) after three years of marriage. They have a two-year-old son, Luca, together. Duff has been pictured with Comrie on a number of occasions since the announcement, sparking speculation they were reconciling, but the actress now insists the former couple still meet up socially as they are close pals.
She tells E! News, "We're constantly seen together and people are like, 'What are they doing? Are they back together? Are they not?' We're really good friends and we have so much respect for each other and obviously Luca is our number one priority. "I think we got to a point where we were like, we really need to honour happiness and whatever that is and however we need to sort that out or work that out, we're doing that. We love each other so much and we love spending time together. So when you see us out it's not just for Luca, it's because we make plans and we hang out and we don't know what our future looks like right now but we're both doing really good and just figuring out what makes us happy."


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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's hopes of assuming greater powers suffered a major setback on Sunday when the ruling AK Party he founded failed to win an outright majority in a parliamentary election for the first time.
The AKP now faces what could be weeks of difficult coalition negotiations with reluctant opposition parties as it tries to form a stable government, or could seek to go it alone as a minority government ahead of an early election.
Following are some possible scenarios:
If it is to enter into a coalition, the AKP's most likely junior partner is the right-wing Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), with which it shares a certain degree of conservative and nationalist ideology.
MHP leader Devlet Bahceli, who has spoken out against Erdogan's ambitions to create a presidential system in Turkey, is likely to try to extract significant concessions in such an arrangement, including curbs on Erdogan's powers.
He warned on Sunday, as the election results came in, that Erdogan should "remain within his constitutional limits" or consider resigning. He also said Turkey should hold a new election if the AKP is unable to agree a coalition with parliament's two other opposition parties.
An AKP-MHP coalition could deal a blow to a peace process with Kurdish militants. MHP supporters oppose negotiations with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group.
AKP and MHP combined would nonetheless have more than 330 of parliament's 550 seats, enough to take the country to a referendum on a new constitution.
If Prime Minister and AKP leader Ahmet Davutoglu is unable to form a stable government, tradition in Turkey dictates that Erdogan could ask the next biggest party in parliament - the secularist Republican People's Party (CHP) - to try to do so.
However, there is no constitutional requirement for this, and it is far from certain that Erdogan, who has built a political career on opposition to the CHP, would go this route.
The CHP won around 132 seats, according to initial results.
It could team up in a coalition with the MHP and the pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP), which made it across the 10 percent threshold and entered parliament for the first time in Sunday's vote.
While it is unlikely that the MHP and HDP could set aside stark differences, Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc challenged the three opposition parties to try to form a coalition, saying the AKP was ready to step into the void if they failed.
The AKP could seek to form a minority government, with the support of enough opposition deputies for it to win a confidence vote in parliament.
The MHP is the most likely to support this move, but would again seek to extract concessions such as a guarantee of an early election. Analysts see little interest for the CHP or HDP in supporting such a move.
If no working coalition can be formed, or a minority government fails to win a confidence vote within 45 days, the constitution gives Erdogan the authority to call an early parliamentary election.
That election would have to be held 90 days later.
Reporting by Ece Toksabay and Jonny Hogg; Editing by Nick Tattersall and Ralph Boulton


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We're torn- here at Tech Hub, we work closely with our residents, introduce them to our network, and have a hand in building their business in a variety of ways. But when it comes time for companies that have outgrown coworking to leave, it's bittersweet.
One innovative team ready for their own space is Rhinohide, who moved into Tech Hub over a year ago.
CEO Marc Berryman found his time with Tech Hub valuable for personal and business growth.
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On leaving Tech Hub due to Rhinohide's expansion, Marc finds- "we have made some great friends here, which is the hardest part about leaving".
Read more on Rhinohide's journey, featured in Startup News.
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Published: Friday 20th February 2015 by The News Editor
Millions of viewers held their breath as the EastEnders murder mystery reached its conclusion, but one screamed so loudly during the tense episode that neighbours called the police.
The woman's shriek came before Bobby Beale, Lucy's half-brother, was unmasked as her murderer in a shock finale to one of the show's most hyped storylines.
Describing the incident on Twitter, Sergeant Richard Berns, of the Brownswood ward in Hackney, east London, assumed the scream rang out at the moment of revelation.
He wrote: "A woman screamed so loudly after the identity of Lucy Beale's killer was revealed [that] her neighbours called the police. All calm now …"
Fans responding to his tweet pointed out that in fact the true killer had not yet been unveiled.
There was a red herring moment during the episode which appeared to suggest that Jane Beale may have been responsible for Lucy's death.
One viewer wrote: "She will scream again soon after the 9.25pm twist. Good luck !"
Mr Berns said: "Then she screamed for nothing?"
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The voting for this year's Ennie Awards is now open to the public, and Green Ronin—publishers of A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying—are up for several awards!
Of note, the A Song of Ice and Fire Campaign Guide is up for three awards: Best Cover Art (this is by the amazing Michael Komarck), Best Setting, and the coveted Product of the Year. GR has a number of other products nominated, including their DC Adventures Hero's Handbook which is also competing in the Product of the Year category.
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Pakistan top the Test Ranking for the first time- Since the ICC Test Rankings have been introduced in 2003 Misbah-ul-Haq's side has become the 5th team after Australia, England, India and South Africa to top the rankings.
Pakistan has topped the MRF Tyres ICC Test team rankings for the first time on Monday wherein the wet outfield had hampered the Fourth Test Match between India and West Indies.
India failed to win the Fourth Test match against West Indies by a big margin. Pakistan's Test series against England resulted a 2-2 draw, whereas Sri Lanka VS Australia scored a 3-0.These circumstances helped Pakistan to achieve a remarkable top rank for the first time.Pakistan's endeavor to achieve the same was remarkable too.
"There is no greater feeling than to achieve the No. 1 ranking in the most traditional and purest format of the sport" was what the Pakistani skipper Misbah-ul-Haq, Pakistan's captain for past six years commented after the grand success.He shall also soon be given the ICC Test Championship Mace in order to mark and establish the top rank.For a country who hasn't played a Test since 2009 and has still made it to the top is definitely such a unique achievement.
"This is what cricketers want to achieve. No 1 ranking is a reward for something we had planned as a group a few years ago and have worked extremely hard to achieve it. To top the Test table is something to be very proud of." Misbah-ul-Haq continued.He also gave his heartiest compliments and thanked all the beings who supported in this process including the players,the support personnel,the management and all the loyal fans as well.
Misbah-ul-Haq mentions that the No 1 rank was not their destination but the part of their journey and states their long term objective to be competitive and continue to sustain the challenges by winning like the Pakistan teams of past years.


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Eleven Arrested in Organized Crime Sting ({{commentsTotal}})
Several law enforcement agencies conducted a joint operation on Monday, arresting eleven people who are allegedly part of a crime syndicate.
State Prosecutor Kati Reitsak said one of the eleven is Assar Paulus, titillated by the media as one of the leaders of organized crime in Estonia.
Õhtuleht said Paulus is number two only behind Nikolai Tarankov in the nation's organized crime hierarchy. Others arrested are also well-known to authorities.
Reitsak said the Central Criminal Police, a few prefectures, the Tax and Custom Board and the police special forces all took part in the operation, which was conducted in more than one location in Estonia.
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With a toddler and full time job I'm trying to simplify (no grinding fish to make gefilte fish when only two people eat it!). The menu looks like this so far:
appetizers: selection of pates, marinated olives
first course: matzoh ball soup, though I'm thinking about losing the soup course
second course: poached salmon with dill mustard sauce
main course: brisket, thyme roasted carrots, a tbd potato dish, and a tbd green vegetable
dessert: honey nut cake, macaroons
Okay so any tried and true crowd pleasers on your menu? Suggestions for a potato and a green veg are esp. appreciated as I'm not feeling to inspired this year. TIA


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From: "Ian Logan" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] CORRECTION mtDNA mutation T3398C - Is it good or bad ?
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:47:26 -0000
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Hello Pat
This is mitochondrial DNA - and it is not really a matter
of 'majority' and 'minority'.
But rather, the values as found in the Cambridge Reference Sequence (CRS)
and what is found in the sample.
By convention the CRS comes first - then the base number - then the test sample
So '3397' is 'A' and '3398' is 'T' in the CRS.
And the mutations will show as 'G' & 'C'
You say you have 'A' and 'T' - which are the CRS values.
Hi, Ian. Could you clarify please? I'm not sure how to read a
minority allele versus a majority allele for mitochondrial results.
In the mtDNA SNP reporting formats A3397G & T3398C, which base
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majority & 2nd base minority?). 23andMe reports both of these
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Filing says Enron, V&E 'joined at the hip'
Published 5:30 am, Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Plaintiffs' attorneys in the Enron shareholder lawsuit filed papers Tuesday saying Houston law firm Vinson & Elkins helped executives at the company conduct a massive accounting fraud that led to that firm's December 2001 bankruptcy and billions of dollars in investor losses.
V&E was no "mere scrivener, drafting, assembling and presumably even stapling closing documents," for Enron, "oblivious to the import and impact of what its most important and largest client was doing," the filing made in U.S. District Judge Melinda Harmon's court said.
Rather, V&E and Enron were "joined at the hip," with more than 600 firm lawyers having worked on hundreds of transactions over the years, according to the filing made by Bill Lerach, lead lawyer for the investors.
From 1997 to 2001, Enron was one of V&E's largest clients, paying $160 million in legal fees, the filing said.
"Given V&E's financial sophistication and specialization in structuring financial deals to achieve targeted financial and off-balance-sheet results, its constant, years-long involvement in Enron's bogus deals, it could not have been genuinely oblivious to the import and impact of Enron's financial manipulations," the filing said.
John Villa, an attorney with Williams & Connolly representing V&E, said he couldn't comment on the filing because he received it late Tuesday and had not read it in its entirety.
The firm has previously denied any wrongdoing in its Enron work and has said it "met its professional obligations in its representation of Enron."
Villa said earlier this week that the plaintiffs' attorneys are trying to distort the record in part by taking information out of context.
The 281-page brief, accompanied by more than a dozen boxes of exhibits and supporting documents, is aimed at convincing Harmon to reject the law firm's motion that it be removed from the suit.
A trial in the case is set for Oct. 16.
The filing details more than a dozen transactions V&E attorneys worked on, providing everything from tax advice to structured finance services. Through references to hundreds of internal e-mails, memos and voice mail messages, plaintiffs' attorneys tried to show the law firm was well aware of impropriety at the energy company and in many cases helped facilitate it.
Many of the referenced deals were central to prior Enron criminal cases.
The sale of a Brazilian power plant called Cuiaba came up in the trial of former executives Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling that ended in convictions last month.
In Tuesday's filing, plaintiffs' attorneys referred to voice mails where one V&E attorney told others he was surprised to learn Cuiaba was being bought by a partnership run by then-Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow with a guaranteed "13 and then 25 percent return in order to get stuff off the balance sheet," the attorney said. "Frankly, I don't approve."
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IMMIGRATION FIZZLES IN MID-TERMS -- Parties blame each other for future shutdown -- U.S. stages unsuccessful raid into Syria -- Kentucky's exhausting PR battle -- PRYOR TALKS ACA
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IMMIGRATION'S BIG FIZZLE – Prospects for congressional agreement on comprehensive immigration reform have been dashed for months. But surely the hot-button issue and the House's decision not to act on it's own reform package will drive the mid-term elections, right? Wrong. In a POLITICO package up this morning, Jake Sherman explains how immigration reform has dropped to a second-tier issue in one of the toughest House races in the country while Anna Palmer finds that billionaires' are largely holding their fire on immigration reform. Indeed, in recent months foreign policy and the domestic economy have superseded both immigration and Obamacare as the top political drama as we head toward the fall.
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Battleground Colorado -- Jake's dispatch from Aurora, Colo.: "It was supposed to be here, in these diverse Denver suburbs, that the nation's fiery immigration debate would dominate a competitive House race … But the immigration debate that's raging in Washington is almost an afterthought in the tight battle between Mike Coffman and Andrew Romanoff. Though they agree on almost nothing, Coffman, the incumbent Republican, and Romanoff, his Democratic challenger, scoff at the national narrative that the sixth congressional district will be won and lost on the issue of immigration reform … "The national narrative's wrong," said Floyd Ciruli, a independent pollster here and a longtime observer of Colorado politics. For most voters, he said, immigration is the sixth or seventh most important issue." http://politi.co/1qsCBkU
Big money on sidelines -- AP (not the news agency) checks in with the check-writing types to find little momentum among politics' big dollar ballers. "Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, billionaire Michael Bloomberg and Citigroup exec Carlos Gutierrez gave immigration reform firepower last year, when they lent their money or names to the cause. But roughly two months before Election Day, the three groups the business titans helped launch are all but silent on the campaign trail. None of the three have purchased airtime for ads on immigration reform this fall.." http://politi.co/VGaoyI
DRIVING THE DEMOCRATS' YEAR -- Shutdown, shutdown, shutdown: There were a few ways to read Manu's story about Sen. Mitch McConnell's plan to take a confrontational fiscal stance against the president if the GOP takes the majority this fall. But Democrats read Manu's opus one way: Republicans want to shut down the government. Indeed, as a Democratic aide indicated to Huddle at the top of the week, Democrats really, really, really want voters to remember last October when they go to the polls this year. But Republicans are already laying out a scenario that blames the Democrats are a shutdown. Somehow a future government shutdown is the other party's fault, even though it hasn't happened yet.
-- Here's a sampling from our inbox yesterday: DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz (with Manu's story attached): "We now have it confirmed – electing a Republican Senate majority would put us back on the road to another shutdown." Leader Nancy Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill (story attached): "Republicans in Congress have yet to learn from their temper tantrum that shut down the government for 16 days and cost the American economy $24 billion last year in October." DSCC fundraising email #1: "This morning, Mitch McConnell revealed that if Republicans take the Senate, he'll force President Obama to bend to his will by shutting down the government -- AGAIN!" DSCC fundraising email #2: "McConnell's plan? Give President Obama an ultimatum: either sign off on extreme policies like repealing Obamacare or shut down the government."
Nope, it's the Dems fault: Roll Call's Emma Dumain was up in Philly to catch up with Rep. Paul Ryan as he milks the release of his new book and preemptively reacts to Senate Democrats that are mulling attaching something like, say, the Ex-Im Bank to a spending bill next month. "We will pass a clean [continuing resolution], and if for some reason the Democrats don't take that, then they will clearly have shut the government down … it will be patently obvious … that they are playing politics with this, and trying to trigger a shutdown so they can blame us, but we're really blameless in this particular situation." http://bit.ly/1BFuB8O
BEHIND THE U.S. RAID INTO SYRIA – Secret operation unsuccessful: "U.S. Special Operations forces staged an unsuccessful operation this summer to rescue photojournalist James Foley and other Americans being held in Syria by Islamic State militants, according to senior Obama administration officials. The attempt, involving several dozen U.S. commandos, one of whom was injured in a fierce firefight with the militants, was the first known U.S. ground operation in Syria since the country's descent into civil war. It came after at least six European hostages freed by the militants this spring had been debriefed by U.S. intelligence." WaPo: http://wapo.st/1BChvJq
Why the W.H. disclosed the operation -- NSC spox Caitlin Hayden: "We never intended to disclose this operation … we only went public today when it was clear a number of media outlets were preparing to report on the operation and that we would have no choice but to acknowledge it."
ISIS wanted money for James Foley's release -- NYT scoopage: " ISIS ... pressed the United States to provide a multimillion-dollar ransom for his release, according to a representative of his family and a former hostage held alongside him. The United States — unlike several European countries that have funneled millions to the terror group to spare the lives of their citizens — refused to pay." http://nyti.ms/1oTcKqV
Crickets: These are the type of events that produce a multitude of congressional reaction stories from Hill reporters, but two factors are keeping the congressional Monday morning quarterbacking at bay. 1. Congress is on recess, limiting reporters' access to lawmakers prone to opine on the day's news. 2. This particular storyline is so sensitive that we don't have a single congressional press release in our inbox reacting to the failed Syria raid.
WELCOME TO THE HUDDLE, where Thursday thrills on August 21, 2014. I'm Burgess, your Huddle host this week for all the action (or lack thereof) on and off Capitol Hill. Please send tips to firstname.lastname@example.com and follow along with my Twitter antics @burgessev.
TODAY IN CONGRESS – Nada.
NEXT WEEK IN HUDDLE -- We'll be taking a break next week, so prepare yourself for a feeling of emptiness each weekday morning until early September. More on that tomorrow.
WASHINGTON COMES TO FERGUSON -- Eric Holder meets with community leaders, lawmakers: The attorney general was in Ferguson, Missouri, yesterday to address the city's unrest over the police shooting of Michael Brown. "Holder landed in the region about 11 a.m. His motorcade headed first to St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley in Ferguson. The attorney general met with about a dozen students and hugged one of them after the meeting. One of the students?, Molyric Welch, 27, a mass communications student, said Holder had told them that 'change is coming' … [later] he met with elected officials, including Nixon, U.S. Sens. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., and Roy Blunt, R-Mo., and U.S. Reps. William Lacy Clay, D-St. Louis, and Emanuel Cleaver, D-Kansas City." St. Louis Dispatch: http://bit.ly/1ogjVU2
Calm follows: Shout-out The Hill's Alex Bolton (A fellow Senate reporter and all-around nice guy) who's over in Ferguson. He writes that "Captain Ron Johnson of the Missouri Highway Patrol ... said Holder's visit gave people confidence that their demands for justice are making progress. 'I believe it lets this community know that their voices have been heard by the top law officer in the land,'" Holder said. http://bit.ly/1s3ywpq
BLUEGRASS BATTLE -- Grimes, McConnell preview debate: In a PR battle that's reviving Huddle's shudder-worthy memories of being on President Obama and Mitt Romney's campaign press lists in 2012, Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes and GOPer Mitch McConnell are lashing each other over and over and over. On Wednesday they squared off at a local farm forum and each campaign, unsurprisingly, saw the event differently. Grimes's campaign blasted out a release headlined "AP: 'Grimes set the tone' at Farm Bureau forum" and a handy-dandy list of "McConnell's Top Three Gaffes From KFB Forum." That was in response to a lengthy McConnell drop that bashed and fact-checked nearly everything Grimes said at the forum and a separate missive that highlighted POLITICO's story ( http://politi.co/1kX4yow) that concluded McConnell was more "polished." The battle spilled over into Thursday as both campaigns attacked each other (McConnell at 7:33 a.m., Grimes at 7:34 a.m.). What month is it again?
PRYOR KNOWLEDGE: Arkansas Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor is taking on Obamacare critic Tom Cotton head-on with a new ad. WSJ's Janet Hook writes that "Pryor discusses his own battle with cancer and appears for the first time in a campaign ad with his father, former Sen. and Gov. David Pryor, one of the state's most popular Democrats. Although the senator does not mention the Affordable Care Act by name, he touts his support for the law proudly after his father mentions that his son's insurance company didn't want to pay for treatment after he was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer in 1996." http://on.wsj.com/1lj7Z9A
Control the message: We asked the Pryor campaign in April about an ad that was buzzing around Democratic circles that featured Pryor's father, Obamacare and a personal health care story. We were told that information was incorrect. Um, OK.
NEVADA BROS: In part two of their joint interview on Nevada Newsmakers, Harry Reid and Dean Heller agreed on almost everything except for the battle for Nevada's Third District. The bipartisan pair harmonized that the Senate's immigration bill could pass the House and argued against a piecemeal approach and Reid lavished praise on Heller for breaking with the majority of Republicans on unemployment benefits and immigration (Key quote: "I don't mean to be a cheerleader for Heller here"). And Heller and Reid both said they support medical marijuana in the state but were far more reticent to bless legalization of marijuana for recreational use. The biggest split was their opinion of GOP Rep. Joe Heck and his run against Dem Erin Bilbray; Reid called Heck an "unmitigated disaster" while Heller said Heck has done "an incredible job for the state of Nevada." Watch it here and make sure not to forget the "historic nature" of the "historic" joint interview: http://bit.ly/1z611Fv
I'LL TAKE THE PUBLIC SCORN, MEDIUM RARE PLEASE – The NYT's Ashley Parker Senate Dining Room piece set D.C. tongues wagging (well, among the people that aren't on vacation) about whether or not personal relationships established by spending lots of time together can help Congress's work. A former top Republican aide who's been around the political block emailed Huddle to highlight how difficult it is for lawmakers to get all chummy -- and then get reelected. "The irony is that the things that could bring Members together are the very things the public hates. Senators with their exclusive dining room, drinking wine between votes. Members-only gym where they work out together or shoot hoops. Camaraderie yes, public scorn as well."
"And you say he's just a friend": Shane Goldmacher of NJ picks up on some news from the lunch Ashley observed. "One week after Sen. Mitch McConnell took the CEO of Delta Air Lines to breakfast in the exclusive Senate Dining Room last month, the airline executive and his wife wrote $10,000 worth of checks to help fund McConnell's political operation. The donations ... made Rick and Susan Anderson the largest contributors to McConnell's Bluegrass Committee in July. Delta Air Lines' PAC contributed another $2,500 within days of the breakfast. McConnell spokeswoman Allison Moore said no money was solicited over breakfast in the Capitol. 'Of course not,' she said. Asked if McConnell regularly takes donors to meals at the formal Senate Dining Room, she said, 'No, Richard Anderson is a friend.'" http://bit.ly/1ofeuVe
SCOOPLET -- JEB AD IN FL-26: Carlos Curbelo's aggressive congressional campaign to win the GOP nomination to take on Garcia has a new Jeb Bush-led video up this a.m. ahead of the state's Aug. 26 primary. http://bit.ly/1lj6xUF
GOOD NEWS NATS: Nationals 3, Diamondbacks 2. Nine in a row.
WEDNESDAY'S TRIVIA WINNER – It was a photo finish. Grant Dubler appeared to edge out Ben Kamisar by mere seconds in answering that Rep. David Price (D-N.C.) served as the staff director of a 1981 Democratic Party commission on presidential nominating rules.
TODAY'S TRIVIA – Dubler has today's question: "Fifty-five years ago today Hawaii became the 50th state to enter the union. Which current member of the Hawaii Congressional delegation went to law school just steps from her current D.C. office?" We're also going to require y'all to name the law school to increase the difficulty. The first person to correctly answer gets a mention in the next day's Huddle. Email me at email@example.com
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Willie J. Laws (The last prophet of the Funky Texas Blues)
Texas guitar slinger, songwriter, and vocalist Willie J Laws creates music that is a soulful mixture of South Texas Blues and classic R & B with some Funk blended in. Some of his greatest influences are many and varied. Here are just a few. Willie's family, jazz saxophonist Ronnie Laws and Flutist Hubert Laws, a distant relative Billy Preston was an influence as well as Jimmy Hendrix, Buddy Guy, Albert Collins, Eric Clapton, The Three Kings: Freddie, Albert and B.B, Etta James, Bobby Womack, Johnnie Taylor, Bobby Bland, Sylvester Stewart, Bootsy Collins, Larry Carlton and Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits. With the infusion of these diverse influences Willie has created his own sound, which will grab you from the inside out. "Think Robert Cray meets BB King, visiting Jimmy Hendrix".
A veteran performer, Willie J Laws engages and involves the audience with easy charm. To accompany him, Willie always uses the best performers. The Band performs with a solid foundation of pocket grooves. On bass is "The Duke" Malcolm Stuckey, a chameleon playing the funkiest of funk, r&b, rock, blues, jazz, you name it, and on Drums is the well known and outstanding, Ephraim Lowell, who played for years with Roomful of Blues.


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Soulfulness is a quality that cannot be imitated or artificially initiated, it has a distinctly bright glow and a deeply attractive undertow.
A soulful person is a potent sexy force to be reckoned with.
Soulfulness has a flavour so rich and deep like dark roasted coffee and thick cream, like wet earth and iron rich blood.
Soulfulness is mysterious forest green eyes and steady echoing want, it's humour found in tragedy, its poetry that induces tears, its a melody that takes you under, It's dirt under your fingernails and blue welts under your eyes and weary hope.
It's the erotic endurance of rising from the ashes repeatedly, a motherfucking phoenix of phenomenal perseverance.
The soul is made of deeper, grittier stuff than the spirit.
The spirit cannot be touched, it remains our purest unperfumed essence, where as the soul interfaces between the spiritual and the mundane.
Because the soul interacts with the mad world the soul is affected, it gets beaten up, bruised, and therefore -
Soulfulness is a quality that is developed, it evolves.
The soul is made of hardship and demons and battle scars.
The soul is weathered like an old sailor, sea washed stubble and calloused skin, like the sinewy braids of muscle on a lumberjacks arms.
It is forged from the repetitive struggle of the muggle world.
Like a soldier returning to battle again and again out on the front lines between the mundane and the magical, the lands that border the seen and the unseen.
The triumphant trooper that marches into battle day after day, despite the horrors he has seen, in spite of the wounds he carries, the tortures he has endured.
Soulfulness is the people like you and me facing the horrors of this life head on and still getting up the next day.
It's feeling apathy's weight as she blankets you in lead, anchoring you to the bed and still managing to move.
It's fear's suffocating anxiety that tornadoes through you and leaves you a crippled, crumbling mess and deciding not to reach for the meds this time.
It's the demons of depression dragging you down into their lair and yet with one hand in front of the other, rung by rickety rung, you scale that mildewy wall, up from the darkest abyss.
It's clutching at your chest, wailing on the floor as the waves of grief destroy you with their tsunami strength and picking yourself up, tear stained and shaking and vowing to make it through.
It's feeling life tear you apart with her bare fucking hands and still refusing to give up.
It's looking death in the eyes and saying I'm not scared.
Even though you are, even though it hurts like hell, even though you are riddled with doubts and caustic fears.
Soulfulness is built from your conviction that life is worth living, it is created from your commitment to something greater, to Truth, to Love. to Life.
Soulfulness is saying I am willing to die and die and die again, I am willing to be agonisingly obliterated, I am willing to dissolve in the acidic lava of pain and despair,
..If that is what it takes to know Truth.
Soulfulness is chanting I will, I can, I am - through gritted teeth and a struggling breath, dredging up every reserve of resilience possible to surrender into smithereens.
"I will I can I am."
Soulfulness is the collected wisdom you gathered from your adventures to the underworld, it is the accumulated worth of your plights and struggles, it is the beauty you can still behold despite the ugliness you have experienced, it's the decision to stay open and loving in the wastelands and trials, it's the flame of faith that you still carry even with burnt, withering hands.
And that is some sexy warrior bad ass shit!
It takes soulfulness to survive this crazy life. That strength and resilience cannot be found elsewhere.
And God do we all need more of it.
Your Bruised and Battered soul is deeply Sexy.
You've earned that arousing God force of your sullied soul, so shine it up and wear it with pride.
We are the Soulful Sailors, Soldiers and Sorceresses of Truth, war torn and bloodied.
May we all know and honour the full power of our soul force, deeper and deeper still.
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Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 914201
mutt: FTBFS in rawhide
Last modified: 2013-03-04 09:50:21 EST
Your package mutt failed to build from source in current rawhide.
Build logs:
root.log: http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/work/tasks/8977/4968977/root.log
build.log: http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/work/tasks/8977/4968977/build.log
state.log: http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/work/tasks/8977/4968977/state.log
NOTE: build logs are cleaned up after 1 week
For details on mass rebuild see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_19_Mass_Rebuild
It looks like debian has worked through this and submitted a patch upstream, though there hasn't been a new upstream release since then. The debian bug is: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=624085
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Here is a list of what we care about and what we are deliberately integrating into the Culture of The Commons.
It is a work in progress but we are purposefully building policies and practices that embrace these values and perspectives.
Being kind and seeking out win/win solutions
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Living as locally as possible - buying local, eating local, supporting local
Challenging our limiting beliefs about ourselves and others
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Sydney McLaughlin of Union Catholic High School in Scotch Plains, the youngest track and field Olympian in 44 years, will be honored by the Union County Baseball Association at the organization's 81st annual Hot Stove awards dinner on Sunday, February 12, beginning at 1:00 p.m., at The Gran Centurions in Clark, New Jersey.
Ms. McLaughlin is a senior at Union Catholic High School and she is one of the greatest high school track and field athletes in U.S. history. Before she competed at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro last summer, she broke the national indoor record in the 400 hurdles and was named the 2016 Gatorade National Female High School Athlete of the Year.
The Union County Baseball Association will present Sydney McLaughlin with its Joseph Lombardi Memorial Award for the Outstanding Female Athlete of Union County, an award the UCBA offers each year to the most deserving female scholastic athlete from a Union County high school.
Other scholastic athletes also will be honored at the afternoon ceremonies on Feb. 12, including:
The UCBA will induct three new members into the Union County Baseball Hall of Fame during the award ceremonies, including:
The Guest Speaker for the Hot Stove awards dinner will be Al Santorini, a graduate of Union High School, who pitched in six Major League seasons for the Atlanta Braves, the San Diego Padres, and the St. Louis Cardinals.
Sponsored by the Union County Baseball Association, in cooperation with the Union County Department of Parks and Recreation, the Hot Stove League awards dinner is the primary annual fund-raising effort for the Union County Youth Baseball Leagues. The summer and fall leagues have given more than 40,000 boys and girls an opportunity to participate in an organized baseball program for the past 69 years.
Tickets can be purchased online or by downloading and mailing the table reservation form to the Union County Baseball Association, Box 176, Fanwood, New Jersey 07023.
Journal ads can also be purchased online or by downloading and mailing the journal ad form.
For more information call Jim Iozzi, UCBA president, at 908-917-2523.


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