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Tung Choi means 'water spinach', which reflects this street's rural origins. Imagine that a street this choked with life and activity was once farmland!
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Markets for Leisure and Pleasure
Indulge in some of the world's most fascinating street scenes, where markets of every kind fashion Hong Kong's true living culture.
Markets for Leisure and Pleasure
To truly experience authentic local Chinese lifestyles, look no further than Yau Ma Tei and Mong Kok. Walking through this unique section of Hong Kong is a colourful and memorable experience at any time of the day or night. And there's plenty more than just sights and ambience to take away — you'll also love the great deals you can find on souvenirs, clothing, electronic goods and much more.
Once an old Chinese shophouse or tong lau, Lui Seng Chun is a heritage-listed pre-Second World War building featuring a verandah-type style of construction typical of the period. In 2008, Hong Kong Baptist University, with financial assistance from the government revitalised the building, transforming it into the Hong Kong Baptist University School of Chinese Medicine — Lui Seng Chun. It now includes an herbal tea shop on the ground floor as well as a display explaining the old Lui Seng Chun. The remainder of the building is dedicated to the practice of traditional Chinese medicine.
How to get there
MTR Prince Edward Station Exit C2. Walk along Prince Edward Road West to Lai Chi Kok Road. Proceed along Lai Chi Kok Road until you reach Lui Seng Chun.
The charming Chinese-style garden on Yuen Po Street includes some 70 songbird stalls as well as courtyards and moon gates. Look and listen, but please avoid physical contact with the birds. The colourful and aromatic Flower Market sells everything from Dutch tulips to exotic orchids, while the Goldfish Market on nearby Tung Choi Street is where you can find more than just those friendly little orange creatures: aquariums, corals and exotic fish also abound here.
How to get there
Walk along Lai Chi Kok Road to MTR Prince Edward Station Exit B1. Proceed along Prince Edward Road West to Yuen Po Street Bird Garden. Pass through the garden to the junction of Yuen Po Street and Flower Market Road. At the end of the road, get on Prince Edward Road West and walk along Tung Choi Street until you reach the Goldfish Market.
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You can get a glimpse of some of Mong Kok's history by checking out the local street signs, whose names are a colourful reminder of the bygone days of when this area was merely a rustic village. For example, around here there is Yuen Po Street (Vegetable Patch Street), Sai Yeung Choi Street (Watercress Street), Yuen Ngai Street (Horticulture Street), Fa Yuen Street (Flower Garden Street), Yim Po Fong Street (Bleaching Sheds Street), Pak Po Street (White Cloth Street), Hak Po Street (Black Cloth Street) and Yin Chong Street (Tobacco Factory Street).
Fa Yuen Street is the place to be if you want to find bargain-priced trendy fashion and casual wear for men, women and children.
How to get there
Walk along Tung Choi Street and turn left onto Bute Street. Then, turn right onto Fa Yuen Street.
Despite its misleading name that has stuck over the years, the Ladies' Market has something for all ages and genders, with bargain-priced items, including men's and women's clothing, knick knacks, watches and beauty products. Lined beside its street stalls are plenty of Hong Kong-style cafes ready to dish out local favourites.
How to get there
Walk along Fa Yuen Street to Mong Kok Road and then turn right and cross the road to reach another section of Tung Choi Street. Walk to Argyle Street and cross the road to reach the starting point of the Ladies' Market.
Built in 1930, the Yau Ma Tei Theatre is the only surviving pre-war cinema building in Hong Kong. The theatre closed down in 1998 and was listed as a historic building in the same year.
It has since reopened as a venue dedicated to Cantonese opera and features young up-and-coming performers. And, some of the shows come with English surtitles, so non-Cantonese speakers can also enjoy the action on stage.
After your visit to the theatre, don't miss the attractive red brick building on the opposite side of Shanghai Street, which houses the theatre's administration offices.
How to get there
Walk through the Ladies' Market to its end at Dundas Street. Turn right and walk to the junction of Shanghai Street and Waterloo Road.
Shanghai Street (Yau Ma Tei section) is one of Hong Kong's oldest thoroughfares and still has a number of preserved old Chinese shop-house buildings. It's also where you should head if you're looking to stock up your kitchen with that perfect accessory! Expect to find local staples, such as traditional thick chopping boards and bamboo steaming baskets used for dim sum.
How to get there
Continue along Shanghai Street.
Did you Know
In Chinese cooking, the humble chopping board is never far from the chef's elbow as it plays an integral role in the preparation of any dish. No one knows chopping boards better than Man Kee, which makes a huge chunk of the ones used in Hong Kong. Fashioned from sturdy woods, these traditional cutting boards make a great souvenir or gift.
China's most revered green stone is in abundance here, with around 400 registered stall owners ready to pitch jade amulets, ornaments, necklaces and trinkets. This is a fun place to browse and perhaps buy an inexpensive memento of your visit, but think twice about forking out for anything costly unless you are a jade expert. Nearby is 'Jade Street', located on Canton Road between Kansu Street and Jordan Road, and jade and gemstone testing is available at Jade Plaza. Take note of the huge jade stone at the junction of Canton Road and Jordan Road; this local landmark weighs three tons!
How to get there
Turn right at Kansu Street to the Jade Market.
Did you Know
Many Chinese people believe that jade can protect people from evil spirits and calm their emotions, which is why they often buy tiny jade bracelets for their babies.
Tin Hau temple is dedicated to the revered Goddess of the Sea, Tin Hau. Its location in the middle of urban Yau Ma Tei might seem odd, but long ago, before massive land reclamation in the area, it was actually positioned on the waterfront! While the water may have receded, people continue to worship Tin Hau here.
How to get there
Go back to Shanghai Street, then walk north to the junction of Shanghai and Public Square streets. Turn right and walk to the Tin Hau Temple.
This is where Hong Kong's famous night market begins to awake just as the surrounding city turns in for the night. You can find all manner of bargains here, including casual clothes and curios. You'll also often run into fortune tellers, Cantonese opera singers and professional Chinese chess players. Two new Chinese pai laus (archways) have been erected at the market's junctions with Jordan Road and Kansu Street.
How to get there
Walk up Temple Street, which is located across from the temple.


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If there's one thing that can unite TV viewers of all ages and backgrounds, it's a good cartoon.
The aptly named Cartoon Network is full of them, churning out superior animated efforts that draw a broad crowd. This success has led to a number of iOS game tie-ins, and even some completely original IP.
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Sylvia's surface perfection was however underlain by grave personal discontinuities, some of which doubtless had their origin in the death of her father (he was a college professor and an expert on bees) when she was eight. During the summer following her junior year at Smith, having returned from a stay in New York City where she had been a student ``guest editor'' at Mademoiselle Magazine, Sylvia nearly succeeded in killing herself by swallowing sleeping pills. She later described this experience in an autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar, published in 1963. After a period of recovery involving electroshock and psychotherapy Sylvia resumed her pursuit of academic and literary success, graduating from Smith summa cum laude in 1955 and winning a Fulbright scholarship to study at Cambridge, England.
In 1956 she married the English poet Ted Hughes , and in 1960, when she was 28, her first book, The Colossus, was published in England. The poems in this book---formally precise, well wrought---show clearly the dedication with which Sylvia had served her apprenticeship; yet they give only glimpses of what was to come in the poems she would begin writing early in 1961. She and Ted Hughes settled for a while in an English country village in Devon, but less than two years after the birth of their first child the marriage broke apart.
The winter of 1962-63, one of the coldest in centuries, found Sylvia living in a small London flat, now with two children, ill with flu and low on money. The hardness of her life seemed to increase her need to write, and she often worked between four and eight in the morning, before the children woke, sometimes finishing a poem a day. In these last poems it is as if some deeper, powerful self has grabbed control; death is given a cruel physical allure and psychic pain becomes almost tactile.
On February 11, 1963, Sylvia Plath killed herself with cooking gas at the age of 30. Two years later Ariel, a collection of some of her last poems, was published; this was followed by Crossing the Water and Winter Trees in 1971, and, in 1981, The Collected Poems appeared, edited by Ted Hughes.
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The issue: Future of Zoar
When it became apparent that the dam protecting the historic village of Zoar from the Tuscarawas River needed major repairs, the community's discussions with the federal government took an unexpected turn.
One of the three options that would be studied by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which maintains the dam, was breaching the 75-year-old structure, allowing it to do exactly what it was built to prevent: flood the village.
Unexpected — and unthinkable.
The possibility galvanized the village behind efforts to save Zoar, and it has paid off.
Officials of the Army Corps met with residents last week and told them that the worst-case scenario is off the table. There will be no destruction of Zoar.
We share the big sense of relief that followed the announcement, and we thank and congratulate all who went to bat for the community. They include village officials and residents; members of the Zoar Community Association, which manages the state memorial; Congressman Bob Gibbs and U.S. Sens. Sherrod Brown and Rob Portman; and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Mayor Larry Bell said after the good news was announced, "I have heard from people from around the country that historic Zoar Village is truly a national treasure that is worthy of preserving."
For the sake of current Zoar residents and future generations of residents and visitors, we are glad that the federal government heard and heeded this message.


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An oil tanker has brushed against a support beam of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
The Coast guard is on the scene. The big concern is the possibility of an oil leak, but right now there is no evidence of one.
It sounds like it was foggy, which is nothing new for the area, but could also have contributed to the accident.
In 2007 an oil tanker hit the bridge and spilled 53,000 gallons of oil. Obviously, they don't want something like that to happen again.
UPDATE: For now, it sounds like a crisis has been averted:
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Texas 'Gator Squad' spend their days capturing dangerous alligators
Rather them than us!
Rather them than us!
A daredevil duo from Texas are dedicating their lives to keeping alligators safe.
Known as the Gator Squad, former dental nurse Christy Kroboth and ex healthcare manager Chris Stephens spend their days capturing the giant reptiles.
But, unlike other similar services, the Gator Squad never exterminate animals and are committed to relocating the alligators they catch as well as educating the public on how to cope if they encounter one.
Christy explains, 'what sets Gator Squad apart from other alligator catchers in the United States is our platform for education, teaching people about these amazing animals.'
'We're not out there looking to make a couple extra bucks, we are more concerned with the alligators' safety and well-being and how can we teach people to leave these alligators alone.'
'Many people are afraid of alligators – they think alligators are going to eat their babies, they think alligators are going to eat their dogs – and I never had that experience growing up around alligators.'
Compared to self-confessed adrenaline junkie Chris, who is a trained army medic and keen skydiver, 31-year-old dental assistant Christy didn't seem like the obvious candidate for catching alligators! But she certainly pulls her weight – even managing to capture a 13ft beast called Godzilla.
She says, 'So the biggest alligator I ever caught we actually named him 'Godzilla'. He was 13 and a half foot – he was huge!'
Look who's coming for dinner!
You'll never guess what he lost
'A typical alligator catch on land should take around 20-30 minutes but this catch took 4 hours. Luckily we were at a home improvement store that let us use their forklift to pick the alligator up and put him in our truck because he ended up weighing over 900lb!'
But despite this impressive catch and their years of experience, Christy and Chris are well aware of just how dangerous their job can be.
Christy says, 'some of the more dangerous situations are in swimming pools when we actually enter the water and swim with these guys, or entering the big bodies of ponds or lakes that we have out here.'
'There's a lot of times Chris goes into the water and he's up to his shoulders and all I see is his head floating above the water and I'm trying to watch him, I'm trying to watch the alligator and make sure another one doesn't sneak up.'
On average, the Gator Squad capture and release over 100 alligators each year and have been called out to some very unusual locations, including an airport runway and a water park.
Christy explains, 'the oddest place I guess was in a cement factory in the poisoned water, where we had a poor gator about 5ft long that was living in water.'
'He had no life; green slime, nasty conditions but he had a food source because people were feeding him.'
Keep up the amazing work guys!
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Dec. 7, 1941.
�A day that will live in infamy.�
President Franklin Roosevelt
Seventy-two years later, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor is fading quickly from living memory. Few survivors remain, their national association disbanded after 70 anniversaries of the event that sealed the U.S. entry into World War II.
The Greatest Generation � men and women who fought across Europe, survived treks through harsh and humid jungles, served aboard ships and in airplanes � are dwindling to the final few. And eventually, their heroism and sacrifice will live only in history books.
For all World War II veterans, for those lost on that unimaginable day, for civilians who endured the atrocities of war and those who didn�t, we must remember Pearl Harbor.
Without warning, the attack came. When it was over, four American battleships had been sunk and three damaged. Only one in the harbor came through it all. The death toll: 2,402 U.S. service members, 57 civilians.
It was only the beginning.
Four years later, 416,000 Americans would be dead in the fighting, 60 million people worldwide including 6 million Jews and others exterminated in Hitler�s death camps.
We must remember Pearl Harbor for the immense loss of life, for the victory of freedom over tyranny, for the bravery of those who went into battle in times when technology did not bring their faces and their voices home in real time.
And we must remember Pearl Harbor for another reason.
With Japan as our enemy, the U.S. turned on vast numbers of patriotic Americans, solid citizens, only because of the way they looked.
In all, 110,000 Japanese Americans living in California were taken out of the homes and placed in relocation camps to live out the war.
President Roosevelt supported the action, even encouraged it. An enemy race, it was said. Security risks.
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover took the opposing view that these Americans of Japanese ancestry, most second generation born in the U.S., were loyal to cause and country. He was right.
It was a time when emotions trumped Constitutional rights, when America�s commitment to human rights was tested and when the country failed.
It was a mistake not to be repeated. And it is one more reason that we must remember Pearl Harbor and what it meant for all Americans.


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One day mom was cleaning juniors room and in the closet she found a bondage S&M magazine. This was highly upsetting for her. She hid the magazine until his father got home and showed it to him. He looked at it and handed it back to her with out a word. So she asked him, "What should we do about this?"
Dad looked at her and said, "Well I don't think you should spank him."
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NCIS Season 10 Report Card: firstname.lastname@example.com at .
Gibbs is about to kill someone; and the rest of his team has resigned. Perhaps this wasn't as dramatic a cliffhanger as the end of NCIS Season 9, but it still rates as fascinating. And at least Ducky isn't out on a beach somewhere dying, so there's that.
DOD Investigator Parsons isn't through with Gibbs yet either. And we have to wait until the fall to see how it all goes down. Looks like the writers have done a brilliant job at keeping us on the hook.
That said, it's time to take a look back at NCIS Season 10. Read on for more in this TV Fanatic Report Card...
Best episode: "Shiva" set the bar for the rest of the season. In it, we got to see a heartbroken and vengeful Ziva, and a strong and very silent and wise Tony. His serious behavior was such a departure from the norm that it stood out as exceptional.
I feel like the joker is a front that he always displays, possibly in an effort to ensure people don't get too close to him. Maybe the writers intended that for him, especially given what we learned about his apartment, how he keeps it, and the fact that he rarely lets anyone into it. With the death of Eli David, Tony seemed to drop all pretense and clownish behaviour and came to Ziva's side like the dependable and strong friend he always was. I think there's a genuine love there - not sure yet how romantic it is, but it seems to have started as a strong friendship that is now something north of "friend."
This, despite the episode Damned If You Do," where he found himself in a sort of friend zone with Ziva.
Anyway, the episode wasn't about romance: it was about him being the stand-up guy who would fight at her side, if need be, and support her in whatever way she needed. His line What can I do? What do you need? said it all.
Even bringing her back to his place, with no overtones of romance, was an excellent move. He instinctively knew she should talk with someone, and that it should be someone she could trust, someone she's known for a long time. And so he surprised her by bringing her friend Shmeil to his apartment as well.
Finally, his parting words to her at the airport completed the episode, when he said, in Hebrew You are not alone.
That was an excellent and moving episode.
Worst episode: This one was difficult to determine. The writing for NCIS all season has been consistently good, so it's hard to pick out one that was bad, never mind "worst". That said, I think maybe the weakest one would be "You Better Watch Out," featuring Tony's father.
We've seen their family dynamic before, so the story was somewhat of a repetition of that, as Tony Senior invaded Tony's space and then made out with the woman across the hall - in Tony's bed. Not only that, he did so while knowing full well his son doesn't bring any dates home, ever. Tony Junior explained to him that he considered his home a sanctuary and Senior just ignored that. I felt Tony's frustration, but as mentioned - it was a repetition of earlier father-son friction. Maybe with this episode over, NCIS can retire the "my dad was the worst guy" meme.
The other thing about this episode was that we were introduced to a fascinating character in the person of Special Agent Ashley Hunter, played so well by Danielle Bisutti. Her character was so curious and provocative - my one complaint was that we didn't see more of her, or learn more about her. I hope the writers bring her back, maybe even as a regular - her mystery would add to the series.
Best character: The team works so well together as an ensemble that it's hard to pick just one. Gibbs has always been Gibbs: silent, powerful, the alpha. Tony is the butt of jokes, but he too is strong, even though he isn't yet seen to be the leader that he is, except by Gibbs, who recognized and acknowledged it in a much earlier episode. Completing the alpha group would be Vance, who has always been somewhat abrasive, but is now more understanding and a heck of a lot more supportive than he ever has been.
Ziva has a strength to her as well, and even McGee has managed to stand up to bullies like Bodnar when needed. Palmer is a great guy who, like Tony, has been somewhat of a lovable clown. And Ducky is consistently dependable: there are very few surprises with him.
This leaves us with Abby.
She lights up every room into which she walks, and manages to coax a smile out of Gibbs on occasion - along with a loving peck on the cheek. The team relies on her high intelligence, curiosity and expertise for every case they take on; she knows this, yet it doesn't go to her head. You would expect such a person to be aloof but instead she is very approachable. I like the fact that she has a hard time even saying rough words of vengeance, even against such loathsome characters as DOD Investigator Richard Parsons. The peek we got into her childhood this season showed us that she was always like this: curious, caring and extremely intelligent. What's not to like? She gets my vote as the best character of the season.
Worst character: This one (unlike "worst episode') was a no-brainer. Richard Parsons is the villain we love to hate. Arrogant, self-important, and an outright hypocrite. He's the one guy that every person on the team had no problem despising. This speaks to the writing and to Colin Hanks' great acting abilities, as he played the guy to perfection: affable and funny at first, yet calculating, intelligent, manipulative and ultimately ruthless - the very characteristics of a successful sociopath.
The way in which he handled Ziva and Tony blew me away: his calculated move to interview her in the interrogation room, knowing full well Tony would watch from the observation room - and even planning it all out so that he'd "run into them" while they were near the rooms, was brilliant. He played Ziva so well too, raising the rhetoric and accusation level until Tony had no choice but to intervene.
And then doing it all as a ruse to distract from his real target - Gibbs. Masterful and repulsive. Watching him was like watching a disaster movie - it was almost impossible to look away. He was the best "worst character" ever, I think, precisely because he was such a snake. I doubt this is the last we'll see of him.
Biggest surprise: I think that would be the shooting of Eli David and Jackie Vance during Shabbat dinner at the Vance household in "Shabbat Shalom." Ziva was so angry at her father for killing a reporter that she was ready to bar him from her life. And that was just about to happen as she phoned Gibbs to let him know that her dad was the murderer, when the shooting went down. The episode was as stark as it was riveting.
Most predictable show feature: The clown brothers: Tony and Palmer.
In earlier seasons, Tony wasn't quite such an easy target yet lately that's all he's been. We know he has a quiet strength and that he would go to the wall for his friends. Yet week after week we rarely see any of it. I doubt the writers will ever have him give up that part of his personality but...maybe they could use the jokes a little less? It's truly enjoyable watching the silent sentinel do his thing.
Palmer's awkward comedic moments are a bit of a drag too. I think the writers need to flesh him out more. We saw more of his caring side in "Detour," as he refused to leave Ducky's side, even when ordered to do so.
The awkward clown moments have seen their day. Time for a new narrative.
Best line for the season: Tony has a lot of great lines. The man is a walking joke book - and I mean that in a good way. However, given the fact that it's so unusual for him to say anything that is acidly hilarious, the honor this time has to go to Ducky. When he received a snide question from Bodnar: And whose grandfather would you be?, he replied with a straight face Well that depends. Who's your grandmother? I literally laughed out loud at that one.
Hopes for Season 11: I really liked the notion of Gibbs being the sniper again. I don't know if it would mess up the show's formula too much but it would great to see him and the team engaging in more black ops scenarios.
The second thing that comes to mind is our need to resolve the Tony and Ziva thing once and for all. This season has resulted in what has to be the world's longest foreplay between them. Word is that the "friend zone" thing at the last episode wasn't the final word on their relationship. So okay - the viewers have tolerated the writers' need to play for a long time now. Time to either open the door right up, or slam it shut. Tony and Ziva need to kiss and make up (out) already.
Since Shabbat Shalom, I wondered if the writers would be able to maintain the high state of anxiety for the team; whether they would be able to meet the bar set by that episode, and they have shown that they not only can, but thrive on doing so. So my hope is that the momentum is maintained, and that they find a way to raise the stakes even higher for NCIS season 11. We have Vance who is single, Palmer and his wife who are adopting a baby, the team which has resigned, and Gibbs playing the sniper. There's a lot of material with which to work: I can't wait to see what happens next.
Now, over to you. What grade would YOU give NCIS Season 10?
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The scenes were flashed around the globe: lines of burnt-out Egyptian vehicles stretching across the desert, Syrian bunkers blown up and abandoned on the Golan Heights, Jordanian tanks smoldering on the roads to Hebron and Nablus, and the Israeli flag fluttering along the Suez Canal, atop Mount Hermon, and over the Temple Mount. In six short but intense days starting on June 5, 1967, Israeli forces had accomplished one of the greatest victories in military history, decimating the combined Arab armies and conquering territories more than three times the size of the Jewish state. Israel and the Middle East — one might even say the world — would never be the same.
For the Arab world, the impact of the Six-Day War was both far-reaching and profound. It sounded a death-knell for pan-Arabism, the secular nationalist movement that had dominated the region's politics for the previous 50 years. Egyptian President Gamal Abdul Nasser, the venerated embodiment of that idea, had been humiliated, as had the forces of Baathist Syria and Iraq. No longer would Nasser, or indeed any other pan-Arab leader, effectively demand Arab unity or command the allegiance of millions in the so-called Arab street.
In place of the discredited Arabism, modeled on modern European nationalist movements, arose a far more indigenous and long-standing idiom: Islamic extremism. The Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist organization founded in Egypt in 1929 and subsequently suppressed, traced its resurgence to the Six-Day War (or the June War, as Arabs insist on labeling it). The emergence of the Brotherhood's many offshoots, among them Islamic Jihad, Hamas, Hezbollah, and al Qaeda, also has roots in the events of June 1967.
For the Palestinians, especially, the war proved transformative. Prior to 1967, the Palestinians were deeply divided both geographically and organizationally. Terrorist groups such as Fatah, founded by Yasir Arafat in 1958 and responsible for a series of small-scale attacks against Israel in the mid-'60s, were miniscule and void of political influence. Inaugurated by Nasser in 1964, the Palestine Liberation Movement was widely regarded as an Egyptian propaganda tool. Most Palestinians, whether in the Egyptian-occupied Gaza or in the West Bank, which had been annexed by Jordan, looked to Nasser as the future liberator of Palestine.
All of that changed with the massive Arab defeat. Suddenly, the Palestinians realized that they could no longer look for salvation from any Arab state or Arab leader; that they could only rely on themselves. Consequently, a mere year after the war, the PLO emerged as an umbrella organization uniting most of the Palestinian factions, and a year after that, Arafat became the PLO's chairman. Palestinian national identity, meanwhile, was vastly strengthened by the physical reunification of the majority of the Palestinians for the first time since 1948. In Gaza and the West Bank, in Galilee and the Negev, the Palestinians were now linked under a single government: Israel's.
The war radically altered Arab and Palestinian politics, but the changes it brought to Israel were little short of seismic. Though the fact is largely forgotten today, the Israel Defense Forces fought that war with French, and not American, arms. The United States, even under the friendly presidencies of John Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, had refused to sell offensive weaponry to Israel and had even rejected an Israeli proposal for establishing military liaisons with the IDF.
Israel was dramatically reunited with its biblical homeland: Hebron, Jericho, Beth-El, Shiloh, and above all, Jerusalem.
American standoffishness ended, however, in June 1967, as Israeli Mirage fighters destroyed hundreds of the Arabs' made-in-the-USSR warplanes and as Israel ground forces smashed the Soviet-supplied armies of Egypt, Syria and Iraq. Once perceived by American policy-makers as a diplomatic liability, Israel now appeared in American eyes as a strategic powerhouse, the ultimate Cold War ally. Johnson proceeded to conclude a sale of advanced Patton tanks and Phantom jets to Israel. Out of the fire of 1967, the U.S.-Israeli alliance was forged.
More fundamental than the change in Israeli ties with the United States, however, was the transformation in Israel's self-conception. An overwhelmingly secular state prior to 1967, situated largely in the coastal area and the Negev, neither of which had been centers of ancient Jewish settlement, Israel was dramatically reunited with its biblical homeland: Hebron, Jericho, Beth-El, Shiloh, and above all, Jerusalem. The effect was to make Israel less Israeli and much more of a Jewish state. And in the absence of Arab peace partners, many Israelis could not resist the urge to settle these sacred areas.
The war also revolutionized Israel's connection with diaspora Jewish communities. American Jews in particular claimed that the war had enabled them to "walk with straight backs," and vastly strengthened their commitment to Israel. Diaspora contributions flooded the country and aliya skyrocketed.
The Six-Day War also had negative influences on Israel, to the degree that many Israeli writers today refer to the war as "the curse of 1967." The conquest of Gaza and the West Bank contributed to a dangerously delusional Israeli machismo and to the two mortally opposed movements — the right-wing Gush Emunim and Peace Now — that bitterly divided Israeli politics. The Yom Kippur War, the War of Attrition, the intifada, the terror war, the unending procession of UN resolutions condemning alleged Israeli abuses in the territories — all are outcomes of the events of June 1967.
Yet it would be mistake to allow the fallout of the Six-Day War to obscure its monumental benefits. Israel today has treaties with Egypt and Jordan thanks to its 1967 victory, and a relatively quiet border with Syria. The war gave rise to UN Resolution 242, which remains the building block of any Arab-Israeli negotiation, and to the peace process that continues to this day. And if the Palestinians now have an opportunity to achieve statehood in areas evacuated by Israel it is because of, not in spite of, the Six-Day War. Indeed, few events in history, whether in the Middle East or beyond, have had such massive ramifications, precipitating further rounds of bloodshed but also opening unprecedented opportunities for peace.
This article originally appeared in the Jewish Week.


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Union Square was recently the open air venue for a scene that was part urban agriculture, part art piece. It brought to mind the Shaker proverb: "Don't make anything unless it is both necessary and useful; but if it is both necessary and useful, don't hesitate to make it beautiful."
The exhibit was a wall of Woolly Pockets: flexible pouches, made in the U.S. and comprised of recycled materials, that house plants on vertical surfaces. An ordinary wall becomes a living thing; watching people walk around it, the verdant sculptures hooked people in. Tourists took photos. Some people took bites. It was easy to the beauty and the usefulness.
But my favorite part was in the necessity of this idea. For example, for those of us who just finished watching Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution, we learned that there's a problem in our schools: Students don't know where food comes from. At one point, Jamie held up an eggplant before a first grade class and no one could tell him what it was. Nor could they tell him that the French fry came from a potato.
The people behind Woolly Pockets understand this food illiteracy, so they also use their pieces to educate through vertical gardens. For $1,000, a school can start a fifty pocket garden, fully equipped with the soil, seed packets, planting and nutritional manuals. Their goal is to plant their unique form of gardening in 11,000 schools across the United States by 2011.
Perhaps we don't have to go back to the land at all. Maybe some of it can come in with us.


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Mexican Eats: Tripe Tacos at El Tenampa with JJ Goode
You'll find fewer taquerias at the North end of Sunset Park, or where ambitious real estate agents call South Slope. Up here there are more funeral halls, delis, and pizzerias than taquerias, but there is El Tenampa, a 4th Avenue grocery doing it all right.
I'm with JJ Goode, co-author of Truly Mexican, which he wrote with Roberto Santibañez, the chef of La Fonda in Park Slope and the new Fonda East Village. He knows his pasillas from his piquins, and though it's hard to hear over the TV yelling rapid-fire Spanish, we chat salsa ingredients, pig stomach, and the bushiness factor of the chef's efficacious mustache.
Roberto, JJ's Mexican muse, first took him to Tenampa when it was a tiny back-door bodega a couple blocks South. The owners and chef moved into a larger space, expanded their grocery, built a bigger kitchen, and added a large room for dine-in service. Now there's a full-on cornucopia of a condiment cart stacked with sliced radish, cucumber, pickled jalapenos, onion, limes, a perfectly chunky guacamole, and three salsas, including a garlicky dried red chile sauce that gets its tang from tomatillos.
"I don't know which stomach this is, but I love it," JJ says, nodding towards our plate of tripe tacos: cow rumen cooked into submission, chopped, and then seared on a plancha into a hash of tender chunks and crispy tubes. It's mild with the faintest livery funk. There are other interesting cuts: pork esophagus buche, beefy suadero, panza de chivo, and cabeza, all hacked to bits with a cleaver on a gnarled block of wood, then folded into bite-sized tortillas supple with lard.
There's a platter of two forest green poblano chiles rellenos ($12) with unyielding bricks of panela cheese. Tamales ($2.00) are especially moist; the Oaxaquenos have the smoky flavor of banana leaf. And the cemitas ($7.50) would seem like tortas in disguise (they're missing the traditional papalo and chipotle) if it weren't for the traditional rust-colored rolls, dotted with sesame seeds. However, instead of ripping the corners of your mouth with its shellacked crust, the sandwiches yields: the bread is excellently flaky, slightly sweet, and accommodating to the egg, chorizo, and avocado tucked inside. It's a perfect breakfast sandwich to power you past lunch.
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Primetime Ratings Report
For the week of September 29, 2008
(Week No. 2 National Live + 7 Day Program Ratings)
In the Live + 7 Day Stats, ABC's Week 2 Results Grow from First-Reported Numbers by 5% in Viewers, by 7% in Adults 18-49 and by 10% in Adults 18-34
On Average This Season, 5 of ABC's Series Grow by 1 Million Viewers or
More from the Initially Reported Numbers to the Finalized DVR Playback Results
Among Adults 18-49, All 8 of ABC's Scripted Series This Season Exhibit a
10% or Greater Increase from the Live + Same Day to Live + 7 Day Ratings
"Private Practice" Gains 1 Million Viewers and 15% in Adults 18-49 in the Final Stats
2008-09 WEEK No. 1 Live + 7 Day Ratings:
In the Live + 7 Day ratings for Week No. 2 of the 2008-09 TV Season, ABC's primetime averages increased from the initially-reported Live + Same Day numbers by +5% in Total Viewers (9.2 million to 9.7 million), by +7% in Adults 18-49 (2.8/8 to 3.0/8) and by +10% in Adults 18-34 (2.1/7 to 2.3/7). In the final DVR numbers, on a week where "Grey's Anatomy" was pre-empted for the Vice Presidential Debate, ABC took second for the week (w/o 9/29/08) in Viewers and Adults 18-49, while ranking No. 1 across among key Women demographics (W18-34/W18-49).
* Season to date, ABC series are among the most popularly recorded and played back. Like last season, ABC's "Grey's Anatomy" is once again TV's most-played-back show this season. On average, "Grey's Anatomy" stood as the biggest actual gainer from the originally reported premiere week numbers (Live + Same Day) to the finalized DVR playback numbers (Live + 7 Day), generating an additional +2.7 million viewers (18.5 million to 21.2 million). With a sharp jump in DVR penetration year to year (20% to 28%), "Grey's" DVR increase is up 29% from its average increase last season, when it gained +2.1 million viewers from Live + Same Day to the Live + 7 Day averages in originals (2007-08 = 18.0 million to 20.1 million). ABC has 5 series averaging a gain of 1 million viewers or more from their originally reported numbers to the final DVR playback numbers, including "Grey's Anatomy" (+2.7 million), "Desperate Housewives" (+1.3 million), "Boston Legal" (+1.0 million), "Private Practice" (+1.0 million) and "Brothers & Sisters" (+1.0 million).
* Among Adults 18-49, all 8 of ABC's scripted series during the first two weeks this season are registering ratings increases of +10% or more: "Grey's Anatomy" +18% (7.4 to 8.7), "Dirty Sexy Money" +17% (2.4 to 2.8), "Private Practice" +15% (3.3 to 3.8), "Ugly Betty" +14% (2.9 to 3.3), "Boston Legal" +14% (2.2 to 2.5), "Brothers & Sisters" +12% (4.2 to 4.7), "Desperate Housewives" +11% (6.5 to 7.0) and "Pushing Daisies" +10% (2.1 to 2.3).
A note about increasing DVR penetration and year-to-year rating comparisons: Year-to-year the level of DVR penetration in the Nielsen sample, which has jumped up to 28% currently, from 20% at the same point in 2007. More viewers are watching shows on their own timetables, which may not be reflected in the overnight next day numbers. The only truly valid year-to-year comparison would be one based on the Live + 7 Day metric, once those stats are released by Nielsen.
Source: Nielsen Media Research (National Live+7 Day Program Ratings), week of 9/29/08.


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Since I began granting one Christmas wish per day, there's been one product in particular that's been rather popular on your wishlists. Some chap in a panama hat with fluorescent eyes said it was rather good or something. Not much call for panama hats at the North Pole, you know. Still, if there's one thing I've learned travelling all around the globe every year it's that it takes all sorts!
To be precise, many of you have been wishing for Yamazaki Sherry Cask 2013, which was named World Whisky of the Year in Jim Murray's Whisky Bible 2015. Now, unlike myself, the author of this booklet isn't actually an omniscient supernatural being. (Even if many appear to treat it as if it really were a religious text.) A Sherried winter warmer though, eh? It does sound rather up my street…
Yamazaki Sherry Cask 2013 – 48.0%
World Whisky of the Year – Jim Murray's Whisky Bible 2015
The problem was, the chaps at Master of Malt who fulfil the #WhiskySanta wishes didn't have any of this particular rare single malt in stock! Luckily for them, if there were bottles out there, I naturally knew just where to find them (from a far away supplier, in case you were wondering – Master of Malt never sit on stock). It still wasn't easy mind, had to break my 'no flying during the rest of the year' rule and everything. Caused a right stir when Dunder and Blixem got a bit excited and caused a sonic boom over Kent. Dasher gave them a right earful, but you simply can't imagine the paperwork that's involved after an incident like that…
Never mind though, if I can make Christmas 2014 that little bit more special for just one boy or girl (of legal drinking age in their country of residence), then it's all worth it for Whisky Santa. Once the whisky was secured, it was then simply a case of waiting for one of these popular wishes to inevitably pop up as the winner on a particular day. Well that day is today! Congratulations @thektuck, your Christmas wish has been granted and Master of Malt are sending you a bottle of Yamazaki Sherry Cask 2013! (As it turned out, it was her 16th wish for a Yamazaki in November that was chosen! Keep the faith people!)
Basically this, but for a whisky-loving adult.
I also gave some of this popular whisky to the chaps from Drinks by the Dram to turn into 3cl samples, which means I have just enough to give away one dram per day to all of you who are still wishing for the Yamazaki Sherry Cask 2013 right up until midday (GMT) on 24th December! (Again, to be clear, it really is all gone after that.) So keep those #WhiskySanta wishes on Twitter and Facebook coming in for this, as well as all the wishes for full bottles and you may just get an early pressie yet!
Oh and @thektuck, it would be quite nice if you could put out a small measure of this special Yamazaki in a tasting glass by your fireplace (alongside a carrot and a mince pie) before you go to bed on Christmas Eve. There's a good girl.
Whisky Santa
P.S. A list of everybody whose wishes have been granted so far and what they wished for can be found at the bottom of my previous blog post.


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In Emily Diaz v. First Am. Home Buyers Protection Corp., No. 11-57239 (9th Cir. Oct. 4, 2013), the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that an offer of judgment (Rule 68) did not make a plaintiff's case moot. This is an important case because it provides guidance when considering when to file summary judgment when a Rule 68 offer has been made.
Rule 68 is when a party offers opposing party a judgment for full satisfaction that the opposing party could recover at trial. In this case, First American offered $7,019.32 plus costs. Diaz, the plaintiff, declined this offer. Thereby the issue was whether offering the money made the lawsuit moot.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals held that the First American's offer, even if it fully satisfied the plaintiff's claim, did not make the case moot. When reaching this conclusion the 9th Circuit cited Kagan's dissent in Healthcare Corp. v. Symczyk, 133 S.Ct. 1523, 1528-29 (2013).
'[A] case becomes moot only when it is impossible for a court to grant any effectual relief whatever to the prevailing party.' By those measures, an unaccepted offer of judgment cannot moot a case. When a plaintiff rejects such an offer – however good the terms – her interest in the lawsuit remains just what it was before. And so too does the court's ability to grant her relief. An unaccepted settlement offer – like any unaccepted contract offer – is a legal nullity, with no operative effect."
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4-20-12 PNC Park
The Pirates returned home to start a six game home stand. Looking at this stretch of 6 games, I expected to put up big numbers. First, all of the games except for Sunday would have 4:30 gate opening times, giving me more opportunities to snag baseballs. Second, the Penguins had a win or go home playoff game, and since seemingly everyone is a Penguins fan, most Pittsburghers were likely to attend that game or watch it on tv. Also, perennial top 3 mygameballs ballhawk Nick Pelescak will not be in attendance as he is attending a wedding out of the country. So, more BP, decreased competition = more balls. That wouldn't be the case though.
Also, imagine the look on my face when I was driving to work Friday morning and checked the weather for this homestand.
What a rough break. Hopefully the patterns chance. I'm really looking forward to Monday and Tuesday…
Wait, they got worse, now Pittsburgh may get 6 inches of snow Monday.
So, today was important because it was likely the only BP I would get for the entire home stand. There's no BP Sundays usually, Monday's game will get snowed/rained out, forcing a double header on Tuesday, which would eliminate BP, and Wednesday is a day game, so likely no BP.
Anyway, this is what happened for the first half hour:
And this:
And don't forget this:
Nothing happened! It was brutally slow. Andrew McCutchen and Rod Barajas, the two best righties for BP homers must've hit in the first group before the gates opened. I only had one chance for a home run, off the bat of Michael McKenry, but completely lost it in the sun and didn't end up close to it. If you come to BP at PNC Park, bring your shades. I had glasses and they still didn't help:
Bullpen coach Herbie Andrade must've felt bad for me, because he graciously threw me a ball as the Pirates ran off the field at the end of their BP at exactly 5:00.
I caught it here.
Then, there was a lull as the Cardinals didn't start hitting until 5:15-5:20. When they did, I used the glove trick in left field to snag ball #2.
When the rest of the park opened up, I headed over to center field and cleanly caught a Carlos Beltran home run on the fly here:
And a few minutes later caught another home run on the fly in the same row. The only difference is that this time I had to jump to make the catch:
On a side note, most of the Cardinals pitchers were being complete a-holes. I think they like playing the 'heel,' or bad guy. Jaime Garcia for example, snagged a ball near the warning track and acted like he was going to toss it up. He went back and forth pointing at two sections in center field to elicit noise so he could decide where to throw the ball. After getting the crowd to be rather noisy he approvingly shook his head yes, then turned and fired the ball in towards the field. On my way back over to left field, I heard one of the ushers mutter, "What a jerk!"
I spent the last 15 minutes of BP in left field. Look how crowded it was at the very end of batting practice:
Anyway, we decided it was too hot for Olivia and left before the first pitch (78 degrees and sunny was the game time weather conditions). We did come away with a few nice shirts though:
Here's today's baseballs:
2012 Stats:
Game: 4 Balls
Season: 44 Balls
Lifetime: 1,588 Balls


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Saturday, March 25, 2006
Picture this....and MaxinePosted by Bonnie S. Calhoun at 1:33 AM
I got this weekend special from my friend Ric, who also has a very profound look on life today. "Life is good. Life matters. Beats the alternative."
I may have used this one last fall, but it bears repeating!
Just in case you are having a rough day, here is a stress management technique recommended in all the latest psychological texts.
The funny thing is that it works!
1. Picture yourself near a stream.
2. Birds are softly chirping in the cool mountain air.
3. No one knows your secret place.
4. You are in total seclusion from the hectic place called the world.
5. The soothing sound of a gentle waterfall fills the air with a cascade of serenity.
6. The water is crystal clear.
7. You can easily make out the face of the person you are
holding underwater
8. See?.....You're smiling already.
5 Comments:
- Bernita said...6:30 AMAs long as it's not yourself...
- Anonymous said...9:49 AMthanks for the link, Bonnie.
I'm glad you enjoy these horrible jokes. My wonderful cousin, Charly, bombards my inbox with ten or so every single day. Wish I had known that was going to happen when I gave him my email....
I could always pass your email on to him???
- Joe said...1:08 PMAs always, Bonnie, that was a hit.
- Denise McDonald said...1:35 AMOh hello - I need that comic on my desk!
- Bonnie S. Calhoun said...1:57 AMRic...send him over, I'm lovin' them!
Dennie help yourself. If you want a larger version, let me know and I'll email it to you!


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Auto-Generate Parameterized Wiki Pages
This plugin automatically generates Wiki pages based on boilerplate Wiki markup with parameter placeholders and tables describing pages to create with argument lists on special 'boilerplate' Wiki pages.
Boilerplate Wiki markup is defined by placing it between special
[[BoilerplateStart]] and
[[BoilerplateEnd]] macros. Within such a boilerplate section, placeholders for parameter replacement can be described by
}}, where n is an integer greater than or equal to zero.
Boilerplate Wiki markup is hidden when the boilerplate page is rendered.
The pages to generate are defined by declaring how they should be generated in a Wiki table on the same page as the boilerplate Wiki markup:
= Noble Gases = This table describes the attributes of the noble, or inert, gases. ||'''Element Symbol''' ||'''Element Name''' ||'''Atomic Number''' || ||["He"] ||Helium ||2 || ||["Ne"] ||Neon ||10 || ||["Ar"] ||Argon ||18 || ||["Kr"] ||Krypton ||36 || ||["Xe"] ||Xenon ||54 || ||["Rn"] ||Radon ||86 || ||["Uuo"] ||Ununoctium ||118 || [[BoilerplateStart]] = {{0}} = The element {{1}} is a noble gas with an atomic number of {{2}}. Like all noble gases, it has a full complement of electrons in its outer valence. [[BoilerplateEnd]]
This would result in seven pages being generated, the first of which would look like this:
= He = The element Helium is a noble gas with an atomic number of 2. Like all noble gases, it has a full complement of electrons in its outer valence.
The first column must contain either the name of, or a MoinMoin-style free link to, the page to be generated. Subsequent columns contain text to be inserted into the Wiki page as described by the placeholders for parameter replacement in the boilerplate Wiki markup.
{{1}} will be replaced by the contents of the first column after the target page column,
{{2}} will be replaced by the contents of the second column after the target page column, etc.
{{0}} will be replaced by the name of the page extracted from the first column without the link markup if present. Table rows whose contents are bold are ignored, to allow headers.
When a Wiki page with boilerplate Wiki markup is created or its content is changed, the plugin searches the page for table rows. It takes the boilerplate Wiki markup, performs parameter replacements as described above, and saves the resulting text into a new or existing Wiki page whose name is extracted from the first column. If the page already exists and the desired text is identical to the current page contents, the page is not saved.
Aside from the boilerplate markup and the descriptive table, the boilerplate page itself can have any other arbitrary Wiki markup, which allows the boilerplate page to itself have documentary value. This is also the reason the boilerplate markup is not shown when the boilerplate page is rendered.
I have not tested it with Trac 0.11, but it will probably work there too.
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I'm trying to do a couple of things.
I'm mapping 8 hotcue buttons onto my launchpad, I have the actual buttons all mapped and ready to go!
Although there is something missing... Some visual feedback!
I've successfully mapped the LEDs for deck A. Unfortunately when I attempt to map deck B usage of the hotcues in deck B light up deck A's LEDs
I have them all switched to deck B and can't for the life of me figure out where the reference is coming from beyond them being set as "hotcue 1"
Any thoughts?
Also I'm trying to get a modifier to work in order to have a "shift" key to delete said hotcues, it works ok, but for some reason when I go to delete the hotcue, it also cues it.
I've been at this for hours now... Still can't figure it out... Has anyone else run into the same/similar problems?


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Housing inspection in the morning!
I wont pass; but, thats OK! Ive called the landlords to let them know whats not working!
But I got to stay up all night and clean
It's seriously horrifying! Im a man! And I rather not talk about it! I think the rug has been vacuumed once in one year! Or for week when I bought the vacuum cleaner; then I stopped! And didn't care!
Now I have to clean the place up again; all night long!
Ill be OK!
Have to oven off the oven; clean it up!
Clean the back area a bit; got to get rid of the weight set! Must get rid of it!
Got the old bed to get rid of as well!
Clear everything!
Front room used to houz my bikes; not I got to keep it clean for women company!
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(This post is an annual round-up, updated for 2018, of female athletes who are also great moms. Let us know in the comments who else you think should be included.)
Being a professional athlete is demanding but being a professional athlete and a mom? That's a whole other level of determination. Being pregnant dramatically transforms a woman's body so to come right back to the sport she left is an amazing feat on so many levels.
Women have been competing in the Olympics since 1900, but it wasn't until 1948 that mom athletes were truly embraced. That summer, 30-year-old Fanny Blankers-Koen, a Dutch track-and-fielder and mother of two, won four gold medals at the London Olympics. She earned the nickname the Flying Housewife and shattered the perception that moms couldn't compete in elite sporting events.
Soccer moms have long led the charge for elite female athletes returning to competitive sports while juggling motherhood. The U.S. Women's National Team has consistently featured mothers on its roster since 1994, when Joy Fawcett became the first "Soccer Mom" to give birth and continue playing at the highest levels of international soccer. Carla Overbeck and Danielle Fotopoulos also had kids while on the U.S. team, and Christie Rampone (mother of Riley and Reece) continues on the defensive line. Though retired from competitive play, Mia Hamm joined the Soccer Moms Club when she and husband Nomar Garciaparra welcomed twin daughters in 2007. Eight years ago, Brandi Chastain became mom to son Connor and seven years ago Julie Foudy, former captain of the US Women's soccer team, had a baby girl named Isabel. Long-time player Kristine Lilly returned to play after daughter Sidney was born and only retired from professional soccer at the beginning of 2011 before giving birth to another daughter.
Obviously, competitive women aren't waiting until their athletic careers are over to start families. And while the physical and emotional challenges of motherhood can be difficult, most athlete moms wouldn't have it any other way. WNBA player Lisa Leslie sat out a season with the Los Angeles Sparks to give birth to a daughter but she returned to the pro team for a year and had a great season before giving birth to baby #2 and retiring. Leslie's former teammate, MVP and Rookie of the Year Candace Parker is also a mom enjoying daughter Laila, a constant sideline companion, while playing in both the Euroleague and the WNBA. Other WNBA moms share their favorite Mother's Day memories on WNBA.com. But Parker and Leslie are far from the first WNBA stars to have their basketball careers impacted by pregnancy. In previous seasons, Sheryl Swoopes, Tina Thompson, Taj McWilliams-Franklin and others have missed time, and occasionally entire seasons, to focus on their families.
Beach volleyball player Kerri Walsh-Jennings incredibly won a gold medal at the London Olympics while pregnant and she, along with her husband, pro-volleyball star Casey Jennings, welcomed baby girl Scout Margery into the world on April 6, 2013. Scout joins older brothers Joey and Sundance and Kerri has publicly stated that she intends to compete at the Rio Games in 2016.
Jennie Finch and daughter Paisley (born January 2013)
Pitcher Jennie Finch and husband Casey Daigle have two sons, Ace and Diesel, and a baby girl, Paisley Faye, joined the family in early 2013. Finch competed with the Women's National Softball Team, ran the New York Marathon shortly after Diesel was born and until recently played for the Chicago Bandits. USSF Pride player Jessica Mendoza is also a mom. Her son Caleb was born in 2009 and the gold medal Olympian gave birth to another son, Cayden. Stacey Nuveman also played for United States National Team and now balances coaching softball with motherhood.
When the U.S. women's hockey team beat Finland to win the bronze medal at the 2006 Olympic Winter Games, forward Jenny Potter skated around the rink in celebration with her then 5-year-old daughter Madison in her arms. Potter's daughter was a fixture at the rink at an early age. A week after Madison was born in January 2001, Jenny was skating again. Three months later, she was back playing for the U.S. women's hockey team in the world championships. What's even more impressive is that Jenny did it all again. Just 83 days after delivering son Cullen, Potter helped the 2007 U.S. Women's National Team to a 9-0 victory over Kazakhstan in the opening game of the 2007 IIIHF Women's World Championship. As the only mom on the U.S. hockey team, she pulled off back-to-back hat tricks in the first two games of the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Tennis player Lindsay Davenport had an amazing comeback after giving birth to her son Jagger. Just three months after the birth of her first child, Davenport became an instant and almost shocking success winning a number of high profile tournaments. She recently gave birth to her second child. Kim Clisjters came out of retirement after her daughter Jada was born and famously won the U.S. Open as an unseeded player. Apparently, she adjusted Jada's daytime nap so she would be able to stay up at night to stay up and witness her mom's straight set victory.
On the long list of athlete moms is Gold medal-winning swimmer Dara Torres, who made an amazing comeback after her daughter Tessa was born. At the ripe age of 39, just three weeks after giving birth, Torres was back in the pool at the Masters Nationals where she broke a world record. She then wenton to qualify for her fifth Olympics. Fellow swimmer Summer Sanders who is married to three-time Olympic skier Erik Schlopy, has a daughter and a son and Amanda Beard, who has son named Blaise, gave birth to her second child – a daughter- last year.
Other images from the world of women's sports clearly show the tide has turned. Legendary Czech cross county skier Katerina Neumannova collapsed on her knees at the finish line after winning gold in the 30-kilometre race at the 2006 Turin Olympics, her poles askew as she hugged her two-year-old daughter, Lucie. Former Ironman world champion Lori Bowden placed second at Ironman Austria, just 10 months after giving birth to her son Tyson. And pro cyclist Sue Palmar-Komar, a 2002 Commonwealth Games silver medallist, at age 41, had a sibling for her seven-year-old daughter Trinity.
And who can forget Paula Radcliffe, arguably the greatest woman's distance runner of all time, who won the New York Marathon months after giving birth to daugher Isla. Kara Goucher is one of the latest marathon moms – having completed the Boston race last year six months after having her son.
Most of these working moms admit they can't do it alone. And while their spouses and families pitch in, they are also assisted by their leagues and teams. Potter said USA Hockey provides helpful financial assistance during Olympic years. And before the Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA) folded, the league mandated that home teams must provide child care for the mothers on visiting teams. The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) takes things to a whole new level. Since 1993, the LPGA has operated the LPGA Child Development Center, which travels to more than 25 tournaments per year. Bardine May, the Center's director, said the LPGA was motivated to provide child care so that its athletes didn't have to choose between playing the game and having a family.
Cross-country skier Kikkan Randall has been skiing since she was a year old. She made her Olympic debut at 19 at the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City, and later competed at the games in Turin, Vancouver and Sochi. In 2007, she became the first American woman to win a World Cup title in cross-country skiing. In April 2016, Randall and her husband, Jeff Ellis, welcomed their first child, a baby boy named Breck. And in 2018, she competed in her fifth Winter Olympics in South Korea, where she and American teammate Jessie Diggins won the United States' first ever cross-country skiing gold medal in women's team sprint.
There are many different kinds of mothers in this world. Working moms, homemakers, politicians, fashionistas, artists and advocates. Although it may not have been true a generation ago, many moms are competitive athletes as well. While all moms should be recognized on Mother's Day, we'd like to single out the very special moms who manage to balance their family and their career as an athlete.
Happy Mother's Day! Be sure to tell YOUR mom how much you appreciate her this Mother's Day.


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10 Easiest Image Resizer Tools to Resize Images Online for Free
Your company's photos are critical for earning customer trust and making more sales. In one study, 93% of consumers said that visual appearance is the most important deciding factor when they make a purchase. That's why it's important to make sure you use beautiful, high-quality photos that are the right size for your site and social media. If you don't have graphic design experience, don't worry. There are dozens of free tools to resize images online.
There are countless studies showing how important images can be on an ecommerce website. Good use of images can drive more traffic and revenue, while bad use of images can kill your sales. For example, BrickHouse Security boosted its conversion rates 100% just by adding photos to their search window:
Image credit: Shopify
In this article, we'll discuss 10 top tools to help you resize your images for free online. You can use these resources for product photography on your store listings, blog images, social media profile images and posts, and more.
Post Contents
- 10 Best Image Resizer Tools
- 1. Free Image Resizer: BeFunky
- 2. Bulk Image Resizer: B.I.R.M.E
- 3. Resize Image Online: Rszr
- 4. Resize Multiple Images: Online Image Resize
- 5. Resize Images for Social Media: Social Image Resizer Tool
- 6. Free Image Resizer: Simple Image Resizer
- 7. Resize Images For Social Media: Photo Resizer
- 8. Resize Multiple Images: I Love IMG
- 9. Free Image Resizer: ResizePixel
- 10. Bulk Image Resizer: Bulk Resize Photos
- Summary: Image Resizer Tools
- Want to Learn More?
10 Best Image Resizer Tools
1. Free Image Resizer: BeFunky
BeFunky is a great free image resize tool because it offers a lot of options. You can choose basic photo resizing and editing for free. If you want more options, you can upgrade your account for a monthly fee. This will get you access to options like photo filters and effects, touchups, frames, text, and more.
With the free option, you can resize your image by width or height, or by percentage scale. For example, if you know you need your photo to be 500 pixels wide, you can type that into the "Width" field. It will automatically choose the height so that the image isn't distorted.
If you want to choose width and height yourself, just uncheck the "Lock Aspect Ratio" box. Be careful, because this can make the photo quality worse when the ratio changes.
Best for: Quick and simple photo resizing.
2. Bulk Image Resizer: B.I.R.M.E
B.I.R.M.E. stands for "Batch Image Resizing Made Easy." This bulk image resizer has two versions: version 1 and version 2, which is newer. Both versions can help you resize several images at one time, instead of doing them one by one.
You can also add a border to each photo. Just choose how many pixels thick you want it to be.
One of the best features of B.I.R.M.E. is that you can preview the photos before you're done, so you know how they'll look. This can make the editing process faster and easier.
Best for: Resizing multiple images at the same time.
3. Resize Image Online: Rszr
This tool offers an option that many free image resizer tools don't offer. You can crop a certain part out of your image, and then resize it too. This can be helpful if there's too much white space around a product, or if you want to remove a person from the side of a photo.
You can also rotate the image to the right or left.
Note: to use this free image resizer, you need to enable a Flash Player in your browser. If you don't have one enabled already, Rszr will ask you automatically.
Best for: cropping, rotating, and resizing photos.
4. Resize Multiple Images: Online Image Resize
This simple image resizer tool is great if you find some online image resizers to be confusing or difficult to use. There's just one option: choose one or more photos, and then choose the width that you want all of them to be. The minimum is 16 pixels and the maximum is 1024.
Online Image Resize will automatically change all photos to be that width. Then you have the option to edit individual files by cropping, rotating, mirroring, or resizing more. When you're done, you can download them individually or all together in a ZIP file.
Best for: Simple image resizing.
5. Resize Images for Social Media: Social Image Resizer Tool
Social Image Resizer Tool is a brilliant tool for all your social media image needs. Once you upload your photo, there's a dropdown menu where you can choose what you want to use the photo for.
Options include:
- Facebook Cover Photos
- Cover and profile photos for LinkedIn, Twitter, and Google
- Pinterest and Instagram thumbnails and Lightbox images
- YouTube channel art and custom video thumbnails
- And many more
You just select the option you want, and the tool will let you crop and resize your image until it fits the dimensions of your choice.
Note: the maximum file size is 2 MB. If your original photo is larger, you may want to use a different resizer or compression tool first to make it under 2 MB, then use this tool to make it the right size for social media. Keep reading for more info about compressor tools.
Best for: Resizing images for social media.
6. Free Image Resizer: Simple Image Resizer
They weren't lying when they named it "Simple Image Resizer." You can select your image, choose if you want to resize based on dimensions (pixels) or percentage, choose the pixels or percentage number, and then click Resize.
Be careful with the dimensions option, because it doesn't offer the option to automatically keep the proportions. This might lead to a distorted or weird-looking final result.
You can only make a photo smaller, not larger. But it's important to note that making an image larger will cause the quality to be worse. So you should try to avoid this anyway.
Note: this tool also allows you to convert images from different file sizes. For example, JPG to PNG.
Best for: Simple image resizing and converting images into different file types.
7. Resize Images For Social Media: Photo Resizer
This tool is similar to Social Image Resizer Tool (#5 in this list), because it helps you resize images for certain social media uses like Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and Instagram. However, it has less options.
It also offers extra tools similar to Microsoft Paint. You can rotate or flip an image, as well as free draw on the photo or draw circles or rectangles. These can be helpful if you want to draw a visitor's attention to a certain part of a photo. You can also add text, like a caption or headline.
The Sharpen option in the Tools dropdown menu can help make a blurry image look clearer, which can help with image quality.
Best for: Resizing images for social media.
8. Resize Multiple Images: I Love IMG
Another tool to resize multiple images, I Love IMG makes the process easy. Upload all of your images at once, then choose if you want to resize by pixels or percentage.
The By Pixels option offers a helpful feature, which is a checkbox that says "Do Not Enlarge If Smaller." For example, say you want all photos to be 800 pixels wide. If some of your photos are 700 pixels wide, it won't make them bigger. This prevents them from becoming blurry and pixelated, so you have high quality images.
Best for: Resizing multiple images at the same time.
9. Free Image Resizer: ResizePixel
This is another simple and clear-cut tool that also lets you resize images. Choose the width and height in pixels, then choose if you want the final image to be compressed without losing the quality, or resize the image in kilobytes or megabytes. You can also choose to convert the files to JPG, PNG, GIF, WEBP, TIFF, BMP or just keep them the same.
Keep in mind that the automatic compression mode will reduce the image size without visible loss of quality. If you need more control over the file size you can reduce the image in kilobytes or megabytes. It is worth mentioning that image size is important because heavy images can slow down your website's loading time thus reducing the conversion rates.
Best for: Simple image resizing.
10. Bulk Image Resizer: Bulk Resize Photos
Bulk Resize is simple and easy to use. The menu is on the left side of the screen, and the screen will change based on your choice. Options include scale by percentage, longest side, width, height, and exact size.
Longest side means you can choose a set amount of pixels for the longest side of each photo. For example, say you choose 800 pixels. Photos that are landscape/horizontal will have a new width of 800 pixels. Photos that are portrait/vertical will have a height of 800.
This option is helpful if your photos aren't all the same layout.
Best for: Bulk image resizing.
How to Resize Image Without Losing Quality Online
When you use free image resizing tools, you might find that the quality of the image is worse. This can be seen when the photo becomes blurry, pixelated, or distorted. It's important to make sure that tool you use doesn't lower the image's quality. This can harm your store's performance.
Many of the free tools you can find online will make it a priority to keep high quality. This can be seen in some of the tools we discussed, which will ask you what quality you want your final image to be, on a scale of "low to high" or up to 100%.
For example, the free image resizer B.I.R.M.E. we discussed above has this "quality setting" option. You can choose up to 100%. We recommend this if the file isn't too big.
You can also find image compressor tools online to help resize image without losing quality online. For example, the free image resizer tools I Love IMG and Simple Image Resizer that we discussed above have the option to compress an image.
Optimizilla and Compressor.io are two other great online image compressor tools. Optimizilla lets you compress multiple images, while Compressor.io works one at a time.
How to Resize an Image in Photoshop
If you have Photoshop, it's an ideal way to resize an image. It's quick and easy, and you have more control over the process. Even if you don't have Photoshop, you can sign up for a 2-week free trial to see how to use Photoshop and if it's worth the investment for your company.
Here is a step-by-step tutorial on how to resize an image in Photoshop:
1.In the menu, click File → Open. Choose the image you want to resize.
2. In the menu, click Image → Image Size. If you have a certain width or height you want the photo to be, type in the number in the Width or Height box. Photoshop will then automatically choose the other number so that the image isn't distorted (like the other tools we discussed above).
In the dropdown box next to the Width and Height fields, you can also select Percent if you want to resize the image that way. For example, 80% or 150% of the original image's size. Click OK when you're done.
3.In the menu, click File → Save, and you're ready to go.
If you're interested in learning how to use Photoshop, we have a Photoshop Tutorial for Beginners.
Summary: Image Resizer Tools
To summarize, if you're looking for:
a simple image resizer tool, you can choose from: BeFunky, Online Image Resize, Simple Image Resizer, ResizePixel, Rszr
an image resizer tool for social media, you can choose from: Social Image Resizer Tool, Photo Resizer
resizing more than one image at the same time, you can choose from: B.I.R.M.E, I Love IMG, Bulk Resize Photos
While it's easy to overlook, making sure an image is the right size with high quality is one of the most important parts of your ecommerce store design and your other online activity, like social media. Quality photos create a positive impression of your company. In some cases, photos can be the difference between a new customer and someone who leaves your website immediately.
There are dozens of tools to resize image online, free of charge. Even if you have no experience, you can find a quick and simple image resizer that can do the job in a few clicks. If you have a higher level of skill, you can use a tool that has more custom options, or you can learn how to resize an image in Photoshop.
Get started today optimizing your photos and making your website beautiful and attractive to visitors.
Do you have a recommendation for a free image resizer or bulk image resizer that we didn't list in this article? We'd love to hear from you in the comments below.


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Via Puck Daddy, the video is terrible, but it represents the only proof that this actually happened. A college club goalie gave up a game-winning, 200-foot goal because he was off in the corner, just shooting the shit with some fans.
The absentminded netminder is Utah State's Keegan McHenry, who took to Twitter after the game and my god this is so sad:
"I am ashamed and disgusted with myself. With what happened and how I acted. I let myself and more importantly, my team down."
The tweet's gone now, possibly because the internet is not large enough to hold so much regret.


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John Lennon Missing Recordings Discovered and Released
LAS VEGAS, Dec. 3 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --
Recently some rare and unreleased John Lennon recordings were discovered in a vault. These recordings were
taped on August 19, 1980. They were done separately from the mysteriously missing video footage that was filmed
at what is believed to be John Lennon's last recording session with his band prior to his death. Even more
incredible, these recordings have never been released until now.
Twenty-nine years ago on December 08, 1980, The Beatles fans were stunned by four senseless shots fired into
the back of John Lennon. He was only 40 and had become one of the most influential musicians of all time. That
night the world stood still and silent for a moment.
These one of a kind Lennon recordings are available for preview at www.LennonTapes.com along with the story
about the evening these tapes were recorded.
To commemorate the 29th anniversary of John Lennon's death and with the Christmas season upon us, it feels
like the perfect time to get back into the Lennon spirit with these rare and precious recordings just in time to Give
Peace Another Chance this holiday season.
For the first time ever these newly discovered recordings are available for a pre-order purchase at
www.LennonTapes.com and at your request, the pre-order allows you to direct the email download on December
23rd to be sent to yourself or your friends as a Christmas gift. For only $10 US, this is one of the best gifts that you
can give this Christmas.
John had left The Beatles in 1970 and went on to record solo albums which all became classics. First came John
Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and then Imagine. The songs "Give Peace a Chance" and "Imagine" would create a
worldwide movement. Then came "Happy Xmas (War is Over)." In 1973, Lennon released "Mind Games"; in
September 1974, Walls and Bridges and the single "Whatever Gets You Thru the Night"; in 1975 "Rock 'n' Roll"
was released, on April 18th 1975 Lennon made his last TV appearance performing "Imagine"; in October 1975,
Lennon releases "Shaved Fish."
It was in August 1980 when Lennon entered the Hit Factory recording studios in New York City, where he
recorded the Double Fantasy album, and this tape was recorded the last night that he was ever in the studio with
his band.
Released in memory of John Lennon. We miss you.
SOURCE: Universal Society Network
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday the Arab League's acknowledgment that Israelis and Palestinians may have to swap land in any peace deal was "a very big step forward."
Arab states appeared to soften their 2002 peace plan on Monday when Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani, Qatar's prime minister and foreign minister, said the two sides could trade land rather than conform exactly to their 1967 borders.
His comment, made on behalf of an Arab League delegation, amounted to a concession to Israel. While it has been assumed for at least a decade that land swaps would be part of any peace deal, the Arab League had never explicitly embraced the idea.
"That is a very big step forward," Kerry told reporters at a news conference with Spain's foreign minister. "We're going to continue to march forward and try to bring people to the table despite the difficulties and the disappointments of the past."
Kerry has made no secret of his hope to revive peace talks, which broke down in 2010, but it remains unclear whether President Barack Obama will decide to back a major U.S. effort.
"This news is very positive," Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, a former foreign minister, told Israeli Army Radio on Tuesday. "It could allow the Palestinians to enter the room and make the needed compromises and it sends a message to the Israeli public that this is not just about us and the Palestinians.
Sheikh Hamad made his comments after Kerry met on Monday with him and the Bahraini, Egyptian and Jordanian foreign ministers as well as officials from Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, the Palestinian Authority and the Arab League.
The group sought to give a boost to the 2002 Arab League peace proposal that offered full Arab recognition of Israel if it gave up land seized in a 1967 war and accepted a "just solution" for Palestinian refugees.
"When I have been in Israel in recent days, a lot of people have asked me: What are the Arabs going to do? What is the Arab attitude towards peace at this point in time?" Kerry said.
"So the Arab community - and I think they should be thanked for this - saw fit to come here to the United States as a delegation of the Arab League to make it clear that they are relaunching the Arab Peace Initiative," he added.
Rejected by Israel when it was originally proposed at a Beirut summit in 2002, the plan has major obstacles to overcome.
Israel objects to key points, including a return to the exact 1967 borders, the inclusion of Arab East Jerusalem in a Palestinian state and the return of Palestinian refugees to what is now Israel.
The core issues that need to be settled in the more than six-decade dispute include borders, the fate of Palestinian refugees, the future of Jewish settlements on the West Bank and the status of Jerusalem.
(Reporting by Arshad Mohammed; Editing by Eric Beech)


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Inside Pudding Land is a fantastic match3 adventure in the style of Diamond Dash that turns you inside out! Do you feel that you are at the mercy of your emotions from time to time? While playing Inside Pudding Land these emotions take shape in the form of funny wiggling characters and you have the power to make them vanish at your fingertips. Just tap on a group of at least three emotions of the same type to make them vanish. If you manage to find even bigger groups you will not only receive extra points, but also cool boosters that for instance can clear a whole row at once.
Whether you are playing against the clock or if you have to solve the level with a given number of moves, once you enter one the more than thirty levels of Inside Pudding Land fun is guaranteed.
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In terms of output, Queensland University's pitch drop study — the world's oldest laboratory experiment — has been stunningly low. Only eight drops have emerged from the lump of pitch installed in the university's physics building foyer in 1927. Watching paint dry looks exhilarating by comparison.
But excitement is now rising over the experiment, which was set up to calculate the viscosity of the world's stickiest substance, pitch, which has been found to be at least 230 billion times more viscous than water. According to Professor John Mainstone, who has run the experiment since the 1960s, a ninth drop looks set to emerge from the pitch block in the very near future.
No one has actually seen a drop emerge, so it is getting quite nervy round here, said Mainstone.
The other eight drops happened while people had their backs turned. For the last drop, in 2000, we had a webcam trained on the experiment, but it broke down … in 1988, when the previous drop was about to emerge, I popped out for a coffee and missed it — via redwolf.newsvine.com