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Sony Ericsson reveals handsets for TwitBookers
Walkman, Tweet man
Sony Ericsson has unveiled a pair of handsets today, the Mix Walkman and txt pro, both aimed at social networkers.
The company boosted its MP3-phone series with the Sony Ericsson Mix Walkman, which features a 3in touchscreen display and heaps of musical tools. There's a karaoke function which EQs-out vocals, as well as that annoying 'Zappin' key - a feature common to Sony's MP3 players that skips through short clips of each song. Does anyone actually find that useful?
The Sony Ericsson txt pro also features a 3in touchscreen, but is more geared up for Tweet fiends and Facecrackers, with the inclusion of a slide-out Qwerty keyboard.
The Sony Ericsson Mix Walkman and Sony Ericsson txt pro will hit shelves sometime this autumn. Outlay is yet to be confirmed, but considering neither of these has 3G, they'll probably be priced modestly. ®
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The Benefits of Zone Pressure Diagnostics
A version of this article appears in the Spring 2018 issue of Home Energy Magazine.
March 22, 2018
Weatherization and home performance contractors have been using zone pressure diagnostic (ZPD) testing since the 1990s to better diagnose, and ultimately improve, the airtightness of homes. Though our understanding of ZPD testing has come a long way, the dynamics of ZPD testing can still be challenging or even intimidating for some field staff. Interpreting test results and knowing how to use the results are two common challenges. The good news is that if you can operate a blower door, you can conduct a ZPD test. Calculating the amount of air leakage through zones like an attic or an attached garage can involve daunting mathematics. Luckily, online tools are available to complete these calculations for us. With the right tools and a plan in place, pressure and flow readings can be collected quickly and accurately, making ZPD testing a valuable tool to facilitate high-quality retrofit upgrades.
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It seems the jerks who run the weather-control satellites have decided to keep it cold and miserable down here on earth, and that means a lot more winter driving. We've talked a lot about what's best to do in winter, so now let's find out the worst things you could do on a wintry road.
Bad-winter weather driving is already pretty challenging, so I think a good, awful thing to do would be to crank that challenge up. Like how about hosing down your rear tires so they freeze up nice and slick and turning any car into an exciting frosty driftmobile? That seems like a wonderfully terrible idea.
So, what awful things can you Chilly Williams think up?


text: This Stand & Waste Collector from Rotatrim stands on the floor and supports a Technical T950 Trimmer at a useful working height. The trimmer easily slots into the stand for use without any drilling and it has a retractable PVC collector bag for catching waste. Additionally, it has adjustable feet for use on uneven floors.


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Top Honors
Baseball America, the national baseball publication and website, has named the Phillies the Organization of the Year for 2009. The announcement came yesterday at the Winter Meetings in Indianapolis, IN.
When the last decade ended, the Phillies were coming off six straight losing seasons and 732 wins for the 10-year period. But, their minor league system had young prospects that would work their way to the majors, Pat Burrell, Jimmy Rollins, Ryan Madson, Brett Myers, Carlos Ruiz.
Joining them this decade were Cole Hamels, J. A. Happ, Ryan Howard, Kyle Kendrick and Chase Utley. When the decade ended the Phillies had 850 wins for the 10-year-period, three consecutive NL East titles and back-to-back trips to the World Series. All were firsts in franchise history.
While credit starts with those in authority at the top of the Baseball Administration Department, the unsung heroes are some 80 people toiling in the trenches: scouts, managers, coaches, instructors, athletic trainers and conditioning coaches.
While I haven't seen a chart of past winners, I do recall the Phillies winning the award in 1969. Things were bleak at that time but the farm system had the likes of Larry Bowa, Denny Doyle, Greg Luzinski, Bob Boone, Rick Wise and John Vukovich on the way to the majors.
The 1970-1980s era turned out to be a great one. We are living one even greater.
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Why tree pruning matters
Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone?
-Joni Mitchell
I have a fruit tree. She was beautiful.
Like every other house on my block, my house has one tree smack in the center of the front yard (at least each tree is a different variety). Mine is a flowering crabapple, and she is the center of my land, my small domain. A bedecked, bee-dazzling beauty in spring. A shady screen from the sun in summer. In fall, a source of food and shelter for the winged and the bushy-tailed.
Oh, she was gorgeous this year. In bloom, she was deep, deep fuchsia-red. She was buxom and bountiful and generous and female to the core.
She was overgrown.
I knew it before the storm. I'd gotten the tree people called. They came out two weeks ago and assessed her and estimated the job at $285 (I winced). But they didn't want to come and do the pruning until late November or December, when the tree would be truly dormant. The weekend before the freeze, I thought I might pru ne some pruning of the smaller branches, the ones I could reach, but I pulled tomato plants and cut broccoli raab and obsessed about roses instead. Because that's how I thought of last weekend's coming storm: a freeze. Then perhaps a really deep freeze. I scoffed at the predicted possible accumulation. "Snowpocalypse Nah," I tweeted. I stayed down in Denver to avoid commuting during the coming storm. But I didn't think of it as a tree killer. I worried, but mostly about my roses, and about whether the soil would go into permafreeze with my $75 worth of bulbs from High Country still on order, and whether my co-workers would help me use up the huge bag of broccoli raab.
I am home now, three days post-snow, to find that weather has pruned my tree for me.
I unload the car in the dark. Passing cars actually slow down to view the damage. I imagine they are paying some kind of respects. My neighbors have seen the blood and sweat I've lavished on my modest little plot, and have seen how slowly I've had to do it.
In a few hours it will be light. The damage may look better or it may look worse. The sprinkler people will come to do their belated blowout. My neighbor will come with a chain saw. Another friend who knows from trees might come. He might tell me that she will live, that she'll be beautiful and abundant again. But right now at 5 a.m. on a dark Saturday morning, I think that only the poets can comfort me, and I paw through my shelves of books, each shelf a section of the lives I've lived, to find Pulitzer Prize-winner Mary Oliver, who writes luminous poems about nature and its secrets, its wounds and its metaphors, in poems like "Blackwater Woods," in American Primitive (Atlantic-Little, Brown, 1976).
"…To live in this world
you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go."


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Important Conference Call
Well, if the Phillies are going to win their eighth straight series, today's game is a must win. I know, I know, that isn't a brilliant deduction. Everyone can figure that out after the Cubs and Phillies split the first two games.
Who would have thought that Michael Martinez would have 11 RBI this month? He came through once again Tuesday night. Another three-rookie show: Martinez, Stutes and Bastardo. Add Worley and Brown as two more rookies who are having an impact.
While what happens in Wrigley Field today obviously helps shape the season.
Back in Citizens Bank Park, there's a conference call this morning that may also have an impact on the shape of the season. Ruben Amaro Jr. conducts his weekly conference call with his staff, advisors, special assistants and pro scouts.
You know they are not talking about bowling or the British Open or the weather.
Improving the ballclub on the field is an on-going process which intensifies at this time of the year, mainly because of the July 31 trade deadline. The Phillies are just one of many teams working on potential trades.
Between now and then numerous websites will be flooded with numerous rumors. Some rumors have validity, others are a writer's dream and others potentially are started by player agents. Everybody seems to get in the act. For the media, it is a game as to who can break a story first.
Other pro sports also have trade deadlines but none have the major news importance as baseball.
Stay tuned.


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I learnt some SQL in university, and would like to continue to practice by setting up my own SQL server, creating a database and running some queries.
I have Visual Studio 2010, and would like to use C# as the programming language.
Please could someone advise how I should go about setting up a server, creating a database, and then accessing it using C#?


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It has become somewhat of a joke, it's not even about who has done more but what would look better!! Seriously, how did I not notice they gave it to Obama....for what???
Edit: strengthening relations between peoples?? Aw come on, I mean I know he's trying but he's not out there doing awesome shazazzle!!


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Starting this Thursday, swing by Beauty & Fragrance on One, to scope out this season's beguiling beauty trends.
Shoppers will receive a mustard, green or navy ostrich-imprint tote filled with delicious deluxe samples with their $100 beauty purchase.
You also can enjoy $50 off a $250 sunglass purchase, which means you are really only spending $200 (and that new Diane von Furstenberg iPhone case is calling your name.)
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GREENVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A man armed with a shotgun shot one person outside a North Carolina law firm Friday, darted across a busy street and wounded three others outside a Wal-Mart before officers subdued him, police said.
Officers confronted the man outside the store and caught up with him behind a nearby Toys "R'' Us. He fired at them and they shot multiple rounds back, hitting the gunman, said Greenville Police Chief Hassan Aden. The suspect was expected to survive as well as the four others he's accused of shooting, Aden said.
Greg Siegel, a project manager at an Internet service provider near the shopping center, told the Greenville Daily Reflector he saw from his office window the gunman fleeing police. He said the man was dressed all in black and shot at police while he ran away.
"When the officers returned fire, I saw him get hit at least three times," Siegel said. "At least two hit him in the left leg. I couldn't tell where else he was hit, maybe it was in the left shoulder, but it spun him around and knocked him down."
The gunman's first target was seated in his car outside the Kellum Law Firm on the city's south side, Aden said at a news conference. The firm's main office in New Bern declined comment. Kellum has nine personal injury offices in the eastern part of the state.
The suspect crossed five lanes of traffic after the Kellum shooting and injured the three others before he was caught, Aden said. Police are still trying to determine the shooter's identity and motive. He is in police custody at a local hospital, Aden said.
The victims are all in operating rooms at local hospitals, Aden said. He didn't give specifics on their conditions or their names and ages.
The shooter was using a "pistol-grip shotgun" with an unknown number of rounds, Aden said. He had a bag filled with ammunition, Aden said.
"He had enough to really do some significant damage," the chief said.
Early media reports said the gunman entered the Wal-Mart, but police later confirmed that the shooting took place outside.
"The gunman never entered our store. It was in the parking lot," Wal-Mart Stores Inc. spokeswoman Dianna Gee said. "All customers and associates are safe."
The store has provided surveillance video to police to help their investigation, Gee said. The store never closed, she said.
Aden said police are still sifting through video footage of the scene in the city, which is about 85 miles east of Raleigh.


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My work on a TPF grant to improve documentation and test coverage of the Parrot Embedd API is going well. I have added extensive examples of Parrot function and type signatures, as well beginning to increase test coverage of this subsystem.
I am working in the leto/embed_grant branch on Github, which has already been merged to master just before the release of Parrot 2.11.0.
My first merge of this topic branch included about 15 commits, which are about 2/3rds documentation and 1/3rd tests. I clarified some points about edge cases of Parrot function signatures, such as void input and void output, which is the emtpy string concatenated to both sides of an arrow ->, and gave an expanded description of what Pi means (PMC, invocant). Many examples of diverse kinds of function signatures were also added.
I gave the first user-visible documentation for many constants in the Embed subsystem, such as debug flags when creating interpreter objects and inline descriptions of different runcores that can be used with interpreter objects.
The tests that I added include the first coverage of returning Float PMCs and numeric constants from our embedding subsytem, as well as additional coverage for returning a ResizablePMCArray consisting of Numeric PMCs. I also added tests for creating multiple interpreter objects and added a TODO test for Trac Ticket 1880.
I also fixed a bug in the Parrot test suite, where tests in t/src were not skipped properly if src/parrot_config.o did not exist.
Most of this work was done between Thanksgiving and holiday travel, so I expect that development pace will pick up in the next few days. Currently, one of four inchstones has been achieved, and I will concentrate on raising the code coverage of extend_vtable.c in the next two weeks.
I would like to thank The Perl Foundation, and Karen Pauley in particular, for funding this very important grant to the Parrot and Rakudo Perl 6 communities.


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his is a more general question and not tied to a specific version of RHQ (but may become part of a future version of RHQ and/or RHQ-alerts).
Do you feel it would make sense to provide alert templates inside the plugin (descriptor) to allow the plugin writer to pre-define alert definitions for certain resource types / metrics? Plugin-writers know best what alert definitions and conditions make sense and should get the power to pre-define them.
This idea would probably work best with some relative metrics like disk is 90% full as opposed to absolute values that probably depend a lot more on concrete customer scenarios (e.g. heap usage over 64MB may be good for small installations, but not for large ones).
In the future with RHQ-alerts, it should also be possible to compare two metrics with each other, which will allow to say "if metric(disk usage) > 90% of metric(disk capacity) then ...".
I've scribbled the idea down in the Wintermute page on the RHQ wiki.
If you think this is useful, please respond here or on the wiki page. Best is if you could add a specific example.


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Trump helps Qaeda/ISIS in Yemen more blindly than Obama
By Nasser Arrabyee, 02/03/2017
US President Donald Trump has helped Yemen Qaeda/ISIS by his failed commandos raid on one of its strongholds in Al Bayda south east of the country late January.
Recruitment now is more, support from inside and outside is more. Support with money and weapons from Saudi Arabia in particular is more than ever before.
The Qaeda/ISIS leaders in Riyadh are angry because they did not do enough to protect their men in Yemen although they receive support from Saudi regime and Trump administration as Yemen "legitimate" government.
Although, 7 members,at least, of this government are designated by US Treasury Department as global terrorists.
The Qaeda/ISIS operatives, felt maybe, that those leaders in Saudi capital Riyadh "stabbed them at the back". And the leaders themselves in Riyadh might have felt that Trump and Saudi regime "stabbed them at the back!" as well!.
The boss of the men killed in the raid (Qaeda/ISIS operatives&leaders) is Naif Al Qaisy who has been directing Qaeda/ISIS operations against Houthis for about two years now from Riyadh.
Al Qaisy is the ruler of Albayda State ( as called by Qaeda/ISIS).
Earlier last year, Saudi-backed exiled president Hadi appointed Mr Al Qaisy as the governor of Albayda, making it easier for him to send money and weapons from Riyadh.
Mr Abdul Wahab Al Humaikani, is from Albayda also but another tribe. From Riyadh, he is overseeing the Qaeda/ISIS operations against Houthis. Al Humaikani is one of the 7 members of Yemen exiled government despite the fact that they are global terrorists blacklisted by US Treasury Department.
Shortly after the Trump failed commando raid, two officials at least from Yemen exiled government confirmed that Trump made a big mistake by killing their men.
General Muhsen Khusruf, from Hadi army, said in media statements that the men killed had been a part of the "legitimate" government, a part of the "resistance" against Houthis.
"Sheik Abdul Raof Al Dhahab, was the leader of resistance, he was fighting with us against Houthis and we were in full coordination with him and his men," said Khusruf in reference to the Qaeda/ISIS leader killed the raid.
Mohammed Abdul Majid Al Zandani, son of one of the 7 blacklisted, also from posted in his face book that the men killed by the Trump raid were a part of the "ligitimate" army supported by Saudi to Houthis.
These statements, among others, were contradictory to some Saudi statements that men killed were Qaeda. The Saudi media in English would say Qaeda, and the in Arabic would say legitimate army or "resistance" referring to same men.
Trump failed by sending his men to death, and destroying his advanced helicopters and weapons. He could have asked his Saudi ally to hand over the men, better than risking commandos life.
More related stories below.
Obama was seen to support his enemy, Qaeda/ISIS by supporting Saudi Wahabi regime, the spirit of these terrorist groups.
Qaeda/ISIS is the big winner from US-backed Saudi aggression on Yemen. Not only because of exploiting the chaos to further expand and recruit but also it received direct and indirect support (weapons and money) from Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates and United States.
At least 7 members of the government of the exiled President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi are designated by US Treasury Department as global terrorists and commanders of Qaeda/ISIS.
Naif Al Qaisy, Hassan Abkar, Abdul Wahab Humaikani, Abdul Majid Al Zandani,Said Saleh Al Omgi, Mohammed Saleh Al Omgy, and Abdullah Al Ahdal.
Some of these men are senior officials and holding posts in the Saudi-backed government of Yemen, the so-called internationally recognized government based in Riyadh and some of them are field commanders fighting in Yemen with Saudi forces against Houthis.
Naif Al Qaisy,for instance, was appointed by Hadi last year as a governor of Al Baidha, one of the Qaeda/ISIS strongholds north east Sanaa.
Mr Al Qaisy now receives political and financial support as a senior member of the so-called internationally recognized government.
He sends money and weapons from Saudi Arabia to his Qaeda/ISIS followers in Baidha where Anwar Al Awlaki got married to his second wife before being killed by US drone in September 2011.
Hassan Abkar, is the commander of Qaeda/ISIS operations in Al Jawf and Mareb east of the country. Mr Abkar is also chief of Islah party in Al Jawf. Islah party is the Yemen brotherhood party and it's siding publicly with Saudi Arabia against Houthis and their allies.
Mr Abkar is one of close confidants of general Ali Mussen, who was imposed by Saudi regime as vice president ( Hadi deputy) exiled in Riyadh now, despite the fact that he had links with Qaeda during a long history that goes back to 1980s when he recruited most of those Yemenis who went to Afghanistan to fight Soviet Union.
The third example is Abdul Wahab Al Humaikani, secretary general of Al Rashad, Yemen Salafi party, whose all leaders are now based in Saudi Arabia and their followers are fighting in the ground with Saudi forces against Houhtis in both Yemen and Saudi territories occupied by Houthis as Najran, Jaizan and Asir in south of KSA.
Mr Al Humaikani was assigned by Hadi to go for "peace talks" with Houthis in Geneva where he met and shook hands with former UN secretary General Ban Ki-Moon who only later knew from news reports that he had shaken hands with a global terrorist.
He is also a graduate from Al Eyman university owned and run by Abdul Majid Al Zandani, the spiritual leader of Osama Bin Laden.
Al Zandani is a senior advisor of both president Hadi and vice president general Muhsen.From Riyadh, he finances and directs his followers who really are Qaeda/ISIS but camouflaged under different nice names such Ansar Al Shariah, resistance, Salafis, brotherhood etc.
For instance, in Taiz city, central of the country, on January 25th, 2017, Qaeda/ISIS has become the only authority that govern the city, which is the capital of the most populous province in Yemen with 5 million of the 30 million population. The Salaf Jihadist leader, Abu Al Abbas, Qaeda/ISIS operative, is the ruler of Taiz city now. His declared name is the commander of Abu Al Abbas battalions.
The two-year old US-backed Saudi aggression and blockade caused a disastrous humanitarian situation in the poorest Arab country of Yemen. The Yemenis now look at US administration as the killer of Yemen with Saudi hands.
More than 60,000 civilians were killed asleep in houses, schools, hospitals, factories, farms etc, according to local right groups.
More than 3 millions displaced from their houses or became completely homeless. More than 20 millions of the country's 30 million population are food insecure.
The UN talks about 10,000 killed and about 40,000 injured,and these are figures that have not been updated since almost one year. When I asked Yemen UN chief Mr Jamie McGoldrick last week here in Sanaa why they did not update their figures he said: We do not have documents, and more than 55 % of the country's health facilities are not functioning any more after being destroyed.
Furthermore, local groups have even higher figures although recognize that documenting is extremely difficult under such barbaric aggression of Saudis who keep trying their best to cover up their war crimes.
"From our active volunteers working all over the country in rural and urban&suburban areas, we have documents showing that 500,000 Yemenis died because of aggression over the last two years," said Abdullah Allaw,chairman of local human rights observatory,(www.medfhr.org).
"They died of diseases and malnutrition, and they would not have died if it hadn't been for the Saudi aggression and blockade."
About one million government employees did not receive salaries for six months now. Which means the total number of those who depend on government salaries are about 7 millions ( 1 supports 7 on average ).
The central bank has been dismantled by the Saudi-backed President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi, in an attempt to further strangle the people under blockade and bombings.
Because of the blockade, the Yemenis can not receive food, nor medicine nor fuels easily. More than 90% of food is imported, and 100 % of the medicines are imported from abroad.
The essential needs of the middle class people are met only by 10 % at most. Which means those who used to buy food for 100 US$ per day, for example, now they buy only for 10 dollars per day for the same members of the family.
" Our food and other essential things we buy now are 90 % less than those before this war," said Raghad Ahmed, who supports six children from her and her husband salaries. "We have not received salaries for 6 months now, we do not have any other income, our savings near zero, despite the fact that we have only 2 meals per day, and 90 % less than we used to."
All lower class and majority of the middle class in the capital Sanaa can not buy water any more. They receive water only from local charities that installed water tanks in almost every neighborhood in the city and other main cities. Trucks laden with water come every day to fill the tanks and the residents then take their need of water during the 24 hours.
"If these good doers did not bring us this water, we would have died now of thirst, we can not buy water, it's too expensive now, and the earnings of my husband is spent for the rent of house and very few of it for the food," said Um Ibrahim, mother of five, whose husband is a construction worker on daily basis.
The 13-year old Ibrahim and his father Ahmed stay 24 hours in the site of a new building (still being built) to support their family. Ibrahim helps his father by watching the site and equipments when workers are not there.
"The war killed us all, my kids don't go to school anymore, I need Ibrahim help me here and other kids can not go without money," said Ahmed as he descended from a truck laden with raw rocks nearby his modest house in southern outskirt of Sanaa.
All electricity stations were destroyed by airstrikes at the first weeks of the US-backed Saudi aggression that started on March 26th, 2015.
In addition to all these sufferings because of aggression and blockade, the closure of Sanaa airport and other small airports caused a new kind of painful suffering. More than 25,000 Yemenis are stranded outside Yemen after they had finished medical treatments from serious diseases. Even more numbers of Yemenis now want to go abroad for treatments but they can not because the airports are closed.
"The closure of Sanaa airport is an unprecedented war crime, it is a flagrant violation of all international laws, humanitarian laws, human rights laws," said Minister of Transportation Zakaria Al Shami, who appealed to UN on January 25, 2017 for taking its responsibility for reopening the Sanaa international airport and other Yemeni airports.
"Tens of thousands of Yemenis can not go abroad for medical treatments or any other civil purposes, and many more can not even come back home. This made the humanitarian and health situation even worse and worse."
The Saudi flagrant violations of international law caused increasing demands from international human right groups that inquiry should be conducted by a neutral committee especially after hard evidence was obtained by some groups such amnesty international and human rights watch that some crimes amount to war crimes.
Saudi Arabia repeatedly refused international enquiry into war crimes and other major violations of international law such as using the internationally prohibited cluster bombs.
When cluster bombs first dropped over residential areas in the heart of the capital Sanaa early 2016, the UN officials based in Sanaa saw the remnants of such banned weapons and helped Yemenis in drawing the attention to such crimes.
Sanaa-based head of UN Higher Commissioner for Human Rights Office, George Al Zalaf, was declared as grata non persona by Riyadh-based exiled government of Yemen after he had reported that his staff saw the remnants of cluster bombs dropped over residential areas of Sanaa.
Anti-American Sentiment
Yemenis know that most of the Saudi weapons are US-made like Abrams tanks, Bradley vehicle and cluster bombs, not to mention the F16 and F15 fighter jets that fly around the clock over their heads.
So, hatred and Anti-American sentiment is in rise. Almost every Yemeni hates US leaders because of their support to Saudi aggression on their country. Those who lost dears by Saudi airstrikes on their houses or schools, weddings or funerals, they show hatred to US more than their hatred to Saudi. They all believe that Saudis would not have dared to come fight them without American support and consent.
So activists organized a nation-wide campaign under ( US kills Yemenis people) with all kinds of media taking part until now.
Huge posters in the streets of the main cities read ( America kills Yemeni people. The State-run Tvs, radios and papers have daily shows with the Hashtag ( America kills Yemeni people)
"We made this campaign because the Saudi war was declared against us from Washington not from Riyadh, " Said Mohammed Haidra, the chief of the campaign.
"I and all my sons would go and fight Saudis, killers of our people, and I would call every Yemeni to take gun and go defend our country," said Mohammed Rubaid Wed January 25, 2017 to thousands of people who gathered in Sanaa to commemorate his brother Judge Yahya Rubaid who was killed by Saudi airstrike asleep in his house with his wife and all 7 sons and daughters on January 25th, 2016.
"We must defend ourselves from such crimes and such Saudi tyranny and brutality that exceeds any brutality over history," he added.
The judge Rubaid was trying in absentia the Saudi-backed exiled President Hadi for major treason charges when he was killed with his whole family by airstrike that leveled his 3-floor house in northern outskirt of Sanaa.
Defiance and steadfastness
" Congratulation dad, for your wedding today, we gonna do the same, promise you," said the 12-year Mohammed while having the last look to his father's dead body before being buried in his village of Sanhan eastern Sanaa. His father,Hassan Al Mulassi, is seen as one of the most respected heroes who led courageous operations inside territories of Najran for about 16 months continuously before he was killed by an airstrikes last September inside Saudi teritories.
"Thanks goodnesst, I am still alive, give me my gun, and let me go to borders for retaliation," said Saleh Al Bukhaiti, from under rubbles of his house. The 62-year old Al Bukhaiti miraculously survived after Saudi airstrikes destroyed his house killing all his family members in Hada district 100 south of Sanaa.
"My son is a bridegroom today," said mother of Saleh as she ululated threw flowers on the coffin of her 22-son who was killed in South Saudi of Jaizan earlier this month while fighting Saudi forces. Two older brothers of Saleh had been earlier killed in the same place.
The father, Ahmed Mohammed, still wants the remaining three to go to the battle.
"I am honored by God to have three of sons martyrs, my remaining three sons are now preparing to fight this barbaric enemy, I myself will go, we will not kneel down but to Allah," said the father to reporters in funeral of his third son killed here in the martyrs cemetery in southern outskirt of Sanaa.
United Tribesmen
The US-backed Saudi aggression united Yemeni tribesmen and made them put aside all their differences and focus on foreign enemy.
Everyday, you see graduation new trained fighters joining the battles.
The tribes boast of declaring the number of fighters they send to battle fields. The rich tribal leaders and businessmen also support army with generous caravans of food and money collected from men and women who can not go fight but want to participate.
"We support army with food, money, weapons, fighters and everything we can," said farmer Ali Hussein, from Bani Hushaish as he donated two cars laden with raisins and nuts to fighters this week.
"We will never kneel down to such criminals," said Mr Hussein as hundreds of similar farmers (to donate) came to a huge square eastern Sanaa where donations in kind and cash are collected by special committees.


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Jeb Bush is doing television interviews this week to promote his new book "Immigration Wars: Forging an American Solution." Appearing on "The Today Show" Monday morning, Bush said he "won't rule out" a presidential run in 2016.
The former two-term Florida governor has criticized his party and has urged GOP leaders to embrace reform and improve outreach to minority and immigrant voters. But rather than a pathway to citizenship, Bush, along with many other Republicans, is pushing for a path to legal permanent residency for many of the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S.
Their proposal would limit the family preference system that now allows the brothers, sisters and parents of legal residents to emigrate. Instead, they would expand visas available to entrepreneurs, to high-skilled workers with advanced math and science degrees, and to low-skilled workers needed to fill agricultural and other jobs. They would also give states the power to increase enforcement of federal laws and to limit or cut social services for illegal immigrants.
When asked if he would run in 2016, Bush said "that's way off in the future. I have a voice. I want to share my beliefs about how the conservative moment and the Republican Party can regain its footing, because we've lost our way." When host Matt Lauer pressed the issue and asked whether he would rule out a run, Bush replied "I won't. But I won't declare it today either."
On Tuesday Bush will do an interview with CNN's Jake Trapper, then at the end of the week he'll head to Florida for the Republican National Committee's quarterly finance meetings.
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2008 Dufour 485 Grand Large
- Description
- View Full Specifications
- Year:
- 2008
- Length:
- 48'
- Engine/Fuel Type:
- Single / diesel
- Located In:
- Fajardo , Puerto Rico
- Hull Material:
- Fiberglass
- 1674-3613517
- Current Price:
The Dufour 485 GL offers fast, safe and easy cruising with full electric set up she can be easily managed by a couple.
STORMBREAKER is a well equipped 2008 and she really is one of a kind having been fully outfitted for a double handed ocean cruising.
Please contact JIM VEIGA at (787) 889-1978
Additional Specs, Equipment and Information:
Keel: Other
Hull Shape: Monohull
LOA: 48 ft 3 in
Beam: 15 ft 4 in
LWL: 42 ft 7 in
Maximum Draft: 6 ft 2 in
Ballast: 8377 lbs
Dry Weight: 33290 lbs
Total Power: 75 HP
Engine 1:
Engine/Fuel Type: Diesel
Drive Type: Sail drive
Engine Power: 75 HP
Fresh Water Tanks: (155 Gallons)
Fuel Tanks: (66 Gallons)
Number of double berths: 3
Number of heads: 3
Manufacturer Provided Description
Dufour Grand?Large presents the admiral range which blends the art and pleasure of navigation. The DUFOUR 525 sets the tone with its luxury, strong character and rare elegance. The DUFOUR 485 also attains the summit of perfection. Our flagship vessels attract those in search of excellence, who are ready to set off on long cruises in absolute comfort. Without doubt, the spirit of Michel Dufour, a visionary in the nautical world, is present in these unique craft, built for pure pleasure, exhilaration and enjoyment. The Dufour 485 Grand'large, considered to be the "little sister" of the 525, is to be modern, with straightforward lines and a strong and appealing design characteristic for Dufour Yachts.
Additional Description
- Self-draining cockpit, with floor in non-slip polyester.
- Large size cockpit benches with teak trim.
- Very convenient, safe cockpit coamings with winch areas in teak.
- Large fixed cockpit table fitted with a teak tray and stainless fiddles with hinged leaves: easy movement and lots of seating around the table.
- A cubby-hole behind helm console.
- For keeping ropes tidy, the cockpit has a rope tub at the entrance to the companionway.
- Sliding Plexiglass® companionway hatch.
- Companionway sprayhood (3 brackets) in
- Dufour Yachts? colors built in to the coach-roof and fitted with leathercovered stainless handrails.
- Navigation instrument location above companionway.
- Gas cylinder locker.
- Cockpit lighting via dedicated spotlight built in under boom.
Additional Description
- Saloon with U-shaped banquette seat to port and long banquette seat to starboard. A central settee allows 2 extra guests to sit at the table.
- 2 low units acting as arms for the starboard banquette offer extra stowage.
- Fitted unit against forward bulkhead.
- Stowage in port banquette, accessible by lowering the back.
- Fixed saloon table: 1.2 m × 0.9 m.
- Aluminum table legs.
- Cubby-holes and closed stowage units running along the side of the hull, behind the banquette backs.
- Hull liner in wood.
- Ceiling lights and bulkhead lights.
- T60 opening deck hatch.
- 1 ventilator.
- 2 hull ports.
- 2 layout versions:
- 3 or 4 cabins
- 3 or 4 heads
- Floors are made of Moabi (Wenge floors are available - see pricelist).
- Interior woodwork is in first-grade moabi and Wenge.
- Beadings, trims and cubby-hole door surrounds are in solid wood.
- Ventilation louvers are fitted at the top of cupboard doors.
- Interior lighting via numerous ceiling lights and reading lamps.
- All cushions have easily-removed covers.
Additional Description
- Engine starter battery (12 V / 135 Ah)
- 2 service batteries (12 V / 2 × 135 Ah)
- The set of batteries is fitted with a relay.
- Service batteries stowed beneath floor at foot of companionway.
- 300 W inverter incorporating a socket for a laptop computer.
- High-output 120 Ah alternator.
- Electrical equipment:
- Electrical distribution panel with 21 functions on 12 V and
- 6 functions on 220 V, including:
- Voltmeter for service battery and engine (220 V and 12 V).
- Ammeter for consumption.
- Electrical water level gauges.
- Electrical fuel gauges.
- The 12 V electrical circuit is protected by circuit-breakers.
- The 220 V circuit has dual protection, via one thermal-magnetic circuit-breaker per function, and an overall 30 mA differential circuit-breaker on the distribution panel.
- 40 Ah battery charger.
- Shore supply socket forward of sun platform.
- Deck flood light.
- LED cockpit lighting on end of boom.
- 220 V power sockets in all parts of the yacht ? 2 in forward cabin(s), at chart table, one per aft cabin, in galley.
- Chrome-finish halogen ceiling lights.
- Chrome-finish reading lamps.
- Pre-equipment for optional cable installation.
- Navigation lights:
- LED navigation lights port and starboard on bow pulpit.
- LED stern light on stern pushpit.
- Steaming and LED anchor lights on mast.
Additional Description
- Corian® worktop with wooden fiddle round it.
- Double sink with synthetic resin cover doubling as a chopping-board.
- Waste bin below sink.
- Under-sink storage and cutlery drawer.
- Sliding storage bins.
- Stowage cubby holes along side of hull.
- Gimbal-mounted stainless ?Bretagne
- Evolution? 3-burner gas cooker with grill/oven, with stainless fiddle and anchor-point for safety strap.
- Bottle stowage.
- System for securing crockery in dedicated unit fitted with pegs.
- 1 opening ports in coach-roof side.
- Ceiling lights and spotlight.
- 100 l top-opening 12 V-operated cool-box.
- 50 l freezer available as an option.
- 50 l front-opening 12 V refrigerator.
Additional Description
- Engine installation: Volvo 75 hp engine with Sail-drive transmission.
- 110 hp Volvo engine with prop shaft transmission and folding propeller also available as an option.
- Carefully-designed foam soundproofing.
- Engine compartment ventilation via 100 mm ducts leading to transom (invisible ventilation openings).
- Engine sump.
- Engine control lever and engine control panel built into aft sun platform, aft of the port helm position.
- Rev counter and hour meter.
- Fixed three-bladed prop.
- 250 liter rotomoulded fuel tank beneath aft bunks, with electric fuel gauge remoted to chart table.
- Fuel filter with water separator, plus sea-water filter, anti-siphon valve.
- Engine compartment light.
Additional Description
- The sandwich design of the hull makes for very good thermal and acoustic insulation.
- The lamination of the network of ribs reinforces the hull?s solidity and in this way makes allows very good spreading of the forces from the keel and rigging.
- The inner molding liner with its perfect surface finish produces additional stowage space under the floors and makes for easier cleaning.
- Prevention of osmosis on hull with the use of a NPG gelcoat.
Additional Description
- The deck is produced by infusion for an optimum rigidity/ lightness ratio along with excellent thermal and acoustic insulation, and has an inner moulding liner for a perfect finish.
- All working and traffic areas have a ?diamond-point? nonslip surface.
- Localized monolithic reinforcing areas are included under deck fittings (winches, tracks, chain-plates, cleats).
- To increase the boat?s durability, Dufour?s team of engineers have opted to minimize wooden structural inserts beneath deck fittings.
Helm Station
- 2 leather-sleeved stainless steering wheels, 1066 mm in diameter.
- The steering wheels are easily controllable from a seated position on the helmsman?s side bench seats.
- Transmission system via chain and cranks connected to the rudder quadrant.
- The rudder blade is semi-elliptical in shape ? taking advantage of the latest research in hydrodynamics ? and filled with very high density closed-cell epoxy foam to avoid any ingress of water.
- The solid stainless rudder stock is mounted on selfaligning bearings for greater precision and lightness of the helm whatever the wind conditions.
- Stainless steel emergency tiller
- Access deck-plate for emergency tiller.
- Crockery set: Design square monogrammed diner service for 10 person.
- GPS Inmarsat D+
- This system will enable the Dufour 525 grand?large owner to remotely locate his yacht from Internet in real time, and be informed of any intrusion on board.
The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.
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College freshman do's, don'ts
What students say they wish they knew their freshman year
Fall semester is about to begin and college freshman are preparing for their first year. You may feel prepared, but a UCLA study found nearly 28% of college students feel overwhelmed by all their new responsibilities.
You've picked out all your classes, found a place to live, and said bye to mom and dad, so what next?
One college student says, "Usually they have something where you can find really discounted used textbooks, I think that's the best way to go about it."
Freshmen are often told to buy textbooks from the campus bookstore, but it could cost them. Think about renting or using websites like www.chegg.com where textbooks can be found for half the price of those on campus.
It's also never too early to start internships or find a part-time job.
"Education's only going to take you so far, you need to have the experience on your resume," explains another student.
Finally, get to know your professors, even before you start the class.
First year students should also keep track of past credits from high school and not rely on advisers. Advisers often see many students, so if you don't monitor what classes you do and don't need yourself, you could end up taking a class unnecessarily.
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ARLINGTON, Texas — At the nine-minute mark in a national championship game in which it had become difficult for either team to score, at a crucial juncture when it appeared Kentucky had all the momentum, UConn's second-most important player took a fluke-ish and potentially historically bad step.
As guard Ryan Boatright called timeout and winced in pain after turning his left ankle, it appeared for a brief moment that the Huskies' chances to hold off Kentucky would be severely compromised.
BOX SCORE: UConn 60, Kentucky 54
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"Absolutely that was a tough couple of seconds for us," forward Niels Giffey said. "But I kind of knew Boatright, he's a fighter. He wouldn't miss out on the last 7 or 8 minutes of this game. Just the type of guy he is, he's such a fighter and tough-minded person."
Fortunately for UConn, Boatright didn't miss even a minute down the stretch and finished off a 14-point, 4-rebound, 3-assist, 3-steal performance that helped the Huskies win the title.
In addition to helping hold Kentucky guards Andrew and Aaron Harrison scoreless for the final 15 minutes of the game, Boatright also hit one of the biggest shots, drilling a step-back jumper from 15 feet that gave UConn a 56-50 lead with 4:13 remaining.
ANALYSIS: Five factors that decided the game
"It was hurting, but we worked too hard and put in too much work," Boatright said. "I wasn't going to get a little ankle sprain with 9 minutes to go in a national championship keep me from being out there to fight with my brothers."
As the remarkable transformation of UConn from third-place team in the American Athletic Conference to national champions gets analyzed in the coming months, much of the focus will be on Boatright.
Though always a key piece playing alongside Shabazz Napier, the 6-foot, 168-pound guard from Chicago became a defensive terror in the NCAA Tournament and played consistently on offense. For the six tournament games, he averaged 13.7 points, shot 46% from the field and made 24-of-28 fouls shots.
He also had the responsibility of guarding some elite point guards in Florida's Scottie Wilbekin, Michigan State's Gary Harris and Kentucky's Andrew Harrison and played the best defense of his career.
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"When he got into the other point guard like he did against Florida and like he did against us, they have a big advantage," Kentucky coach John Calipari said.
As it turned out, foul trouble was much more problematic for Boatright than the ankle injury.
ARMOUR: March Madness is over, now what?
MORE ARMOUR: It was UConn's title all along- only they knew it
When he was whistled for his second foul with 4:19 left in the first half, UConn had a 33-20 lead. Coach Kevin Ollie sat Boatright for the rest of the half, and Kentucky was able to close within 35-31 heading into the locker room.
So when Boatright turned the ankle with UConn's lead down to 48-45, it could have been a disaster. But he knew it would take more than a sore ankle to keep him out.
"I just tied my shoe tighter," Boatright said. "That's all you can do when you roll an ankle, just put more pressure on where you rolled it at. The adrenaline and me having so much pride and wanting to be out there just took over. I'm sure once all this wears off it won't feel good."
USA TODAY Sports' Nicole Auerbach examines what champion UConn, Florida, Kentucky, and Wisconsin will have to do next year to make deep NCAA tournament runs.


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It's one of the oldest fiscal tricks around, and even though it is profoundly irresponsible, public officials continue to pursue it.
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa wants to use the half-cent sales tax increase passed by the county voters in 2008 to fix the city's roads. What's wrong with that? Nothing, except the tax is designed to last for 30 years, and Villaraigosa wants to use the expected funds from the remaining 27 years to fix L.A. streets over the next two years.
Clearly, L.A. needs the road repairs. Just as clearly, the proposal would put tens of thousands of people to work. So, what could be so bad?
The tax is designed to fix roads as necessary over a 30-year period. If the money is used in the near term only, however, what happens to other needs as they arise? Does this mean that the voters will be asked to pass another sales tax increase in two years, as they continue to pay the 2008 tax? The numbers don't add up.
You would think that elected officials and the voters would know better, but "fix-now, pay forever" economics is a staple of California politics -- and its bipartisan.
Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the voters enacted much the same deception in 2004 with the passage of Proposition 57, a $15 billion bond paid back out-of-state revenues over the next nine years to balance the 2004 state budget. What Schwarzenegger asked the voters to do in 2004 is similar to the way that Villaraigosa wants to spend public funds now.
Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown and the Legislature behaved similarly last summer when they enacted a budget that included $4 billion of funny money (anticipated revenues) that will not materialize.
That means drastic cuts in January 2012.
The simple reality is that state and local governments lack the funds to do what must be done. Knowing that there is nothing more to cut without public outrage, they're devising all kinds of ways to juggle budgets now even at our peril in the future.
The candid action step is to tell the voters directly that new taxes must be raised as the price for providing basic services and programs for our citizens. Somehow, most politicians can't bring themselves to make that plea in fear of losing their jobs for telling the truth.
It's a bit ironic that the only policy areas where elected officials have "stood up" to funding realities have been with public employee health care plans and pensions. That's because government workers are easy pickings for a public that is overwrought with our sick economy. It also draws attention away from the real problem: inadequate revenues.
If government officials want to accelerate work on our current problems, they need to accelerate methods of revenue collection. Living today based on tomorrow's possible revenues never works.
Haven't we learned that yet?
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 795 diseños de 153 diseñadores freelance.
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We are re-naming to Models Health as we feel it is a clean and fresh name that better conveys the content of our site.
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Hiding Data within Object-Oriented Programming
This is the seventh installment in a series of articles about fundamental object-oriented (OO) concepts. The material presented in these articles is based on material from the second edition of my book, The Object-Oriented Thought Process, 2nd edition. The Object-Oriented Thought Process is intended for anyone who needs to understand the basic object-oriented concepts before jumping into the code. Click here to start at the beginning of the series.
Now that we have covered the conceptual basics of classes and objects, we can start to explore specific concepts in more detail. Remember that there are three criteria that are applied to object-oriented languages: They have to implement encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism. Of course, these are not the only important terms, but they are a great place to start a discussion.
Checking Account Example
Recall that in the previous article, we created a class diagram that is represented in the following UML diagram; see Figure 1.
Figure 1: UML Diagram for Checking Account Class
This class is designed to illustrate the concept of encapsulation. This class encapsulates both the data (attributes) and methods (behaviors). Encapsulation is a fundamental concept of object-oriented design—all objects contain both attributes and behavior. The UML class diagram is composed of only three parts: the class name, the attributes, and the behaviors. This class diagram maps directly to the code in Listing 1.
class CheckingAccount { private double balance = 0; public void setBalance(double bal) { balance = bal; }; public double getBalance(){ return balance; }; }
Listing 1: CheckingAccount.java
This direct mapping from class diagram to code (and back) is another important issue when designing classes. This mapping not only helps with the design of the class, but also with the maintenance of the class. Multiple class diagrams are used to design an object-oriented system and make up what is termed an object model. Object models will be discussed at length in later articles.
Once a system is complete, the documentation pertaining to the design is obviously very important. The deployment of a new application marks the beginning of the maintenance phase, which will continue for the lifetime of the application and contain many, many bug fixes, updates, and enhancements to the system. While the object-model is a great design tool, it is also a great maintenance tool.
However, as with all documentation, an object model that is not updated as the application changes is at best useless, and at worst misleading. Anyone who has used flowcharts knows exactly what the problem is. For example, consider an application that is deployed with flow charts included in the final documentation. If a bug is identified and fixed in the code, unless the change in logic is retrofitted to the flow chart, the flow chart is out of date and does not represent the current application. In the future, when another programmer, or perhaps even the original programmer, revisits the documentation, it can be misleading. This may lead to a major problem. The same problem can occur when classes change and the class diagram is not updated properly to reflect the changes.
Why have we taken this interlude about updating documentation at this point? Because there now are tools to manage much of the documentation process and I believe that anyone wanting to learn object-oriented design must integrate the knowledge of these tools into their thought process as early as possible. In short, the process of creating class diagrams and mapping them directly to code (and back) is tracked, and somewhat controlled, by software tools. In future articles, we will get into much more detail about the tools themselves. Right now, just be aware that the class diagrams and the code are tightly coupled.
Note: Some of the products that can help with the process are Rational Rose, owned by IBM and Visio, owned by Microsoft.
Data HidingReturning to the actual CheckingAccount example, we can see that while the class contains both attributes and behavior, not all of the class is accessible to other class. For example, consider again the balance attribute. Note that balance is defined as private.
private double balance = 0;
We proved in the last article that attempting to access this attribute directly from an application would produce an error. The application that produces this error is shown in Listing 2.
class Encapsulation { public static void main(String args[]) { System.out.println("Starting myEncapsulation..."); CheckingAccount myAccount = new CheckingAccount(); myAccount.balance = 40.00; System.out.println("Balance = " + myAccount.getBalance()); } }
Listing 2: Encapsulation.java
The offending line is the where this main application attempts to set balance directly.
myAccount.balance = 40.00;
This line violates the rule of data hiding. As we saw in last month's article, the compiler does not allow this; however, it fails to set balance to 40 only because the access was declared as private. It is interesting to note that the Java language, just as C++, C#, and other languages, allows for the attribute to be declared as public. In this case, the main application would indeed be allowed to directly set the value of balance. This then would break the object-oriented concept of data hiding and would not be considered a proper object-oriented design.
This is one area where the importance of the design comes in. If you abide by the rule that all attributes are private, all attributes of an object are hidden, thus the term data hiding. This is so important because the compiler now can enforce the data hiding rule. If you declare all of a class's attributes as private, a rogue developer cannot directly access the attributes from an application. Basically, you get this protection checking for free.
Whereas the class's attributes are hidden, the methods in this example are designated as public.
public void setBalance(double bal) { balance = bal; }; public double getBalance(){ return balance; };
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A retail hub of some of the best stores in Buffalo, Hertel is known for its many restaurants and bars, extensive vintage antique offerings and bohemian fashions. Start at Mes Que, the place to watch football (soccer) in Buffalo, grab a taco at Lloyd Taco Factory and end with a sweet treat at Lake Effect Ice Cream.
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Ice skate at Rotary Rink, an outdoor ice rink at Fountain Plaza in downtown Buffalo. It's one of the best winter scenes in Buffalo: The snow's falling, people are smiling and having a great time, and you can see the lights all around from the buildings downtown.
Go sledding at Chestnut Ridge, located in the Buffalo suburb of Orchard Park. Chestnut Ridge's sledding hill is one of the best around!
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Niagara Falls is a fun place to go with friends, and it's also a great place to take your family. On the U.S. side of the falls, visit Niagara Falls State Park, home to more than 400 acres of lush landscape and protected wildlife. The Hard Rock Café and Top of the Falls Restaurant are nearby, and downtown Niagara Falls has plenty of good local restaurants. For a great history lesson, spend some time at Old Fort Niagara, where the U.S. fought to control the Great Lakes region of North America.
Or cross the border into Canada, and after you see a different view of the falls, be sure to visit culturally elegant Niagara-on-the-Lake, home to great theater, food, shopping and wineries
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Led by world-renowned conductor JoAnn Falleta, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra performs traditional and contemporary classical music at Kleinhans Music Hall, a National Historic landmark, and at outdoor venues around the region during warmer months.
Buffalo is home to some of the greatest American architecture of the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries. This isn't our assertion — it's from The New York Times! Get ready to experience multiple works by Frank Lloyd Wright, as well as Louis Sullivan's ornate Guaranty Building. You can also take advantage of a number of free and low-cost walking tours of some of the city's best-known places.
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Buffalo's Olmsted Parks System is a local treasure that was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, who also designed New York City's famed Central Park. The crown jewel is Delaware Park, where you can set up a picnic lunch or take a leisurely walk along a route that passes the Buffalo Zoo. In the summer, the park is home to outdoor theater with Shakespeare in Delaware Park.
Next-door to Delaware Park is the world-renowned collection of modern art at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, and the best of Western New York's art scene at the Burchfield-Penney Art Center. Then you can head over to the Buffalo History Museum and marvel at the beautiful Japanese garden and Mirror Lake.


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