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STEVEN FINN plays Harmonica blues in 1930s stylee, and he plays it well. "Hail to the Thief" could easily have come out around 1931 and given that a bunch of bankers have dragged us back to the thirties and the spineless politicians we have a right to expect to protect us from their folly let them, it's entirely up to date. It's good of its genre and that happens to be a genre I love. Go Steven!
MR LOVE AND JUSTICE is the name of a terrific novel by Colin McInnes. It's also a folk band from Swindon. Their song, "We, the Chartists" could easily be the theme tune for Storm the Charts. It has a slightly edgy refrain in which the singer's voice sounds like the first stonethrow of a riot. The guitars, fiddle and percussion are all controlled to produce a tapestry of excellence. Then there is an undertone of the Chartists' demands. Let it be so. An excellent track, well worthy of a number one.
SECOND SENSE play a quiet kind of rock music, that works very well with the singer's voice. I find "Playground" a little irritating despite the skill with which it is played. I can't say it's easy to put my finger on precisely what's wrong. If I had to say, I think I'd put it down to trying to do too many things at the same time. It's essentially a fairly simple song and the vocals are perhaps too complex for both the lyrics and the music.
LIPPY S has entered a piece of electronic pop called "Radiate". I was going to say that I didn't like her voice because it sounded too much like so many voices in R&B from the nineties and that took away from the rather trippy background track. But I listened to it and as the song progressed, it grew on me. Not one of my favourites but it is a good track all the same.
OPAL SKY are from Scotland and their "The Blue of You" could have been written by Nat King Cole himself, but it wasn't. The piano provides a constant beat while the drums syncopate, which I find delightful. The song starts fairly slowly and then comes to a crescendo in the middle. And the singer's voice... well, she could be Aretha one moment and Annie Lennox the next. I love this. I think it just made my top five.
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December 8, 2013 - On December 2nd, the South King County Bar Association (SKCBA) hosted its annual Holiday Party at Acme Bowl. HIP's very own Erik Olsen is the acting President of the SKCBA for the 2013-14 term and organized the event. Both the holiday party and the concurrent Seahawks' game were Monday night successes!


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Quick talk with Koena Mitra
Thursday, 22, November, 2007
Koena Mitra is one of the emerging actress in Bollywood. She has impressed one and all with her performance in Apna Sapna Money Money, Cash. She was a part of the hit item numbed in the movie Heyy Babyy.
Your name sounds sweet and beautiful. What does Koena mean?
First of all, thanks so much for the compliment. My mother"s name is Krishna, which is the name of a river. Koena is the tributary, which is born out of that river.
How do you stay fit?
It"s a combination of a good balanced diet accompanied by exercises. For me it"s walking, swimming or playing any kind of sport. Fitness is the best formula to look good and feel good.
Very few people are aware that you are a good make-up artist too. Do you do your own make-up?
I have been groomed under top make-up artists like Bharatji( From Bharat and Dorris) and that helped me to learn a lot about this art. I love applying 'kajal", which gives a glow to your eyes. But I still take my make up man to my shoots.
What"s your favourite perfume?
At the moment my favourite one is Narsico Rodriegz which I just got from Spain.
Your favourite car?
I like big jeeps and SUVs like Lexus.
Your favorite holiday destination?
I am not so much of a holiday person. I only travel while shooting. Recently I had a schedule in Spain. I liked Barcelona very much.
Your favourite actors and actresses?
Of course Bachchan sahab. I also like Salman a lot. Kajol is a good actress. Even Madhuri had done real memorable roles.


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George Best Remembered In Sierra Leone
August 16th, 2010
Fans tribute jerseys donated to school children
The George Best Foundation was contacted by Debi Topping, who was going to Sierra Leone to spend some time with her uncle Billy.
Billy, an avid football fan, was working for the United Nations and had initially gone for a six month contract.
He fell in love with Sierra Leone and in particular its people and six months drifted into almost six years.
Sierra Leone is a country which has been torn apart by years of civil war, and many of its people have been left without food, clothing and shelter. The children in particular have very little in their lives and with this in mind Debi packed as many of the football jerseys as humanly possible into her luggage.
Once again, the jerseys which had been left by the fans following George's death would not be wasted.Once she arrived in Sierra Leone, Debi couldn't wait to go to Cardiff preparatory School in Freetown where she was warmly welcomed by the staff and many excited children.
Sadly, the school has hundreds of pupils making it impossible to give each child a jersey. The teachers decided that the BEST solution was to keep the jerseys in the school and then use them on sports days and of course football days. At least this way, more children would have a chance to wear one, albeit for a very short time.
Debi said that it was day which she will never forget and the smiles on the children's faces were just fantastic. Once again George Best was being remembered thousands of miles away for his football.


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Powerful To-Do Lists
Learn why the to-do lists that most lawyers use don't work, and how you can create to-do lists that help you to get more of your most important work done every day.
Most lawyers make to-do lists of some kind. Unfortunately, the majority of these lists simply don't work. In fact, research indicates that 41 percent of the items on most people's to-do lists go undone, and nearly 90 percent of professionals regularly fail to complete at least one item on their to-do list.
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Former Chief Minister V Vaithilingam who is among the 15 legislators elected to the Assembly, is most likely to become Speaker of the new Assembly, according to sources close to him.
His supporters had already aired their anger over Vaithilingam not being inducted in the present Ministry.
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10 reasons single women lost, is largely due to selfishness, incorrect reality, misconceptions and denial they need Man as Creator YHWH God hath made and ordained.
Ask most women including Beyonce you need a man and they will say NO WAY! Even if married, and more, I am an independent woman. Really? So let's test this hypothesis, do you as an independent woman own:
- A shop or grocery store?
- A petrol or gas station
- A church?
- A hotel?
- A laundromat?
- A school?
- A night club?
- A wine bar?
- A mortgage company?
- A Bank?
If you don't own most or all of the above, how on planet Earth can you claim to be independent? Get the point? There is no such thing as being independent…and I feel this has been used by evil forces against good to DIVIDE male and female as in the Garden of Eden and now women are so independent they want to rubber or plastic strap, dress, act and sex like a Man why? Do you really believe as a woman you can act and sex like a man?
Women your single because you don't know Man.
Most women are single because they dont know man, don't try or want to know man. Most women just have their long list of do's and don'ts, that may include love my 7 kids, dog, cat and goldfish.
Have you ever seen women on dating websites including Jesus religious, denominational christianity followers, they now proudly exhibit false hair, teeth, boobs, snapchat rabbit ears mixed with Photoshop arms, legs and head. This makes you wonder are they taking this or these photos to attract a man, or a comedian of any sex?
Recently I spoke to a teen of 19 years old, who sadly stated most female teens his age rarely talk, they text a few words like 'yeah' or 'what' and dunno. I am left thinking what a world? So I told him by 40 your lucky to have true friends and a true wife or partner, so choose one good one young, you know your compatible with for life. Very few women understand a man or spiritual man within. Disagree? Watch video below…
Do YOU know what a Man thinks, needs and wants? Do you care?
How many women know what a true Man wants and needs? I believe in the Baby-boomer generation, we lived the last of the great romance, dating and lovers paradise. I remembe , anxiously going to every church event even other religions, or walking not driving, so I could see or meet a fine beautiful woman on the street. Nowadays, you could walk for miles and not see two fine women, as if, most are now indoors on social media, pornhub or independent with their church hat, web cam charging their entire street or neighbourhood Peep-Per-Charge – PPC.
You think I am kidding? Read this…Sex Work Via Webcam plus count the secret Escorts and sexting among teens etc. Even sex across religions & denominations goes all ways with no boundaries. Read…
Women your single because you will never know a Man unless you date, love, serve, trust, cooperate and appreciate at least one Man. You have to love divine definitions of love not your own:
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. – 1 Corinthians 13: 4-8
There are actually 4+ different types of love in the universe.
Try getting any human male or female, to read more than 50 words. I seriously think humans are being conned and 'duped' via combined social science and modern technologies to become cyborgs controlled by government, chat bots and technologies. Take a look at how much personal and business information you share daily just to tweet, post, selfie, video and social media? Are you in control of your life or apps and bots rule most?
The high-tide and waves are quickly rising over male and female and only those who understand male and female love, is willing to serve, cooperate and appreciate one another wins-win over all. In closing the world is rapidly changing into the movie ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK. Marriages, relationships, religions and denominations are being shaken to the core, because if you are not tested how can you have a testimony? Creator YHWH GOD wants to know you of heart, mind, soul and spirit how have you suffered for him? When did you stand for good over evil in your days and life? What does your database have filed within when Creator YHWH reads and judges your files as belief and character?
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The Pretenders is a dazzling tale of the Beautiful People- New York and Hollywood society at its most sizzling, in all the great locales, including their bedrooms. And it is the story of Harry Bell, who rose from humble beginnings to be one of the most successful showmen and entrepreneurs of all time, and Louise Felder, who made her way to the top of the heap being craftier than anybody.
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My name is Troy, I'm just a guy trying to make his way through this life best he can. I have two beautiful kids and 4 wonderful grandchildren. I am proud as a dad can be to see his children grow up to be great parents and have wonderful families. The grandchildren are such a joy to watch as they grow and discover life. Pictures of the family can be found on my Cross Family Album Site.
I am a Christian and I believe beyond a shadow of a doubt that the bible is in fact the infallible word of God. I believe that Christ died on the cross for all of us and that he rose again on the 3rd day and through that act he paid the price for my sin and that I am in fact forgiven and will join him in heaven one day. I have been saved by grace and it is the greatest gift one can receive, all you have to do is believe and ask him for forgiveness and he will give it.
I spent 27 years at Hewlett Packard working in IT, and am now on the hunt to find what I will do with the rest of my working years. I have a wealth of knowledge working in IT and just working with computers in general as I spend a lot of time on one every day. I have been building and working on my own website since 2001. I have learned many different software programs for building websites and enjoy playing and updating my site all the time.
My hobbies include, fishing with one of my long time friends Tom, we don't do it as often as we both like, but when we do, its always a joy. I enjoy playing cards with my friends Bruce & Sylvia and the lovable Judy. My other hobby is Photography, I love getting behind the camera and taking pictures of flowers, landscapes, birds and cars, really everything but people and pets for the most part. Im not the best photographer there is, but I do get a few good shots now and again. I have been slack the last few years in my photography, but I hope to do more.
One of my favorite quotes is "to the world you might be a person, but to a person you might just be the world"


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Abstract machine: An abstract machine, also called an abstract computer, is a theoretical model of a computer hardware or software system used in automata theory. Abstraction of computing processes is used in both the computer science and computer engineering disciplines and usually assumes discrete time paradigm.
- also known as 抽象機器
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The Deleuze and Guattari Dictionary (2013)
by Eugene B. Young
The abstract machine is that of the [penal] ...
Live Data Structures in Logic Programs (1993)
Derivation by Means of Abstract Interpretation by Anne Mulkers
The Warren Abstract Machine is a standard Prolog implementation technique. We briefly sketch the instruction set and the data areas that the instructions operate on. The data areas are the code area, containing the source program, the ...
VDM '91. Formal Software Development Methods. 4th International Symposium of VDM Europe, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, October 21-25, 1991. Proceedings (1991)
Volume 2: Tutorials by Soren Prehn, Hans Toetenel
Such an abstract machine is a mathematical model characterizing each possible operation in the system by its effect on a "state"; this model gives an operational characterization of the behavior of the machine. 5 Mathematical Modeling of ...
Introduction to Programming Languages (2013)
by Arvind Kumar Bansal
An abstract machine is a program that runs on the native machine and executes a standard instruction set that is independent of the host operating system and computer architecture. A Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is one such abstract machine ...
Reversible Computation (2016)
8th International Conference, RC 2016, Bologna, Italy, July 7-8, 2016, Proceedings by Simon Devitt, Ivan Lanese
A circuit-generating abstract machine is a tuple consisting of (1) a typing judgment p1 : bit,...,p n+k : bit ⊣ M : bitm ; (2) a partial circuit RC := ({1,...,n},C) where C is a list of gates; (3) a one-to-one linking function mapping the free variables pi of M ...
Critical Architecture (2007)
by Jane Rendell, Mark Dorrian, Jonathan Hill, Murray Fraser
An abstract machine is a theoretical, technological, social, and material construct; a collection of individuals, techniques, tools, and processes that perpetually transforms itself to produce social relations. A machine is nothing more than the ...
Encyclopedia of Machine Learning (2011)
by Claude Sammut, Geoffrey I. Webb
Figure 2 An abstract machine for a HAM that provides routines for leaving rooms to the West and North of the house in Fig. right Hypothesis Language. Figure . A decision tree and an equivalent. () respectively. TN,ass′ = Pr{st+N = s′st = s,at ...
A Dictionary of Computer Science (2016)
by Andrew Butterfield, Gerard Ekembe Ngondi, Anne Kerr
abstract machine A machine can be thought of as a collection of ...
Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology (2002)
Volume 45 - Supplement 30 by Allen Kent, James G. Williams
The abstract machine is connected to an infrastructure of a local area network. Using a multimedia database system that we have proposed earlier (7). the machine accesses multimedia resources on the fly and multimedia demonstrations are ...
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh ICT Dictionary = معجم طلال أبو غزالة لتقنية المعلومات و الإتصالات (2013)
by منصور الطوالبة
Abstract Machine آلة مُجرّدة: تصميم المعالج لا يقصد به التنفيذ بل يشكل نموذجا مرحليا لمعالجة لغة الآلة التجريدية. Abstract Machine Language لغة الآلة التجريدية: هي اللغة التي تستعمل التعليمات الأساسية للآلة ولا تعمل على أي نوع آخر من الآلات.
The Dictionary of Multimedia 1999 (2014)
Terms and Acronyms by Brad Hansen
abstract machine (n.) Software thatexecutes an intermediate language used in a compiler or interpreter. This processor is not intended to be implemented in hardware. It has an ...
Communications Standard Dictionary (2012)
by Martin H. Weik
See abstract machine; dictation machine; fiber-pulling machine; finitestate machine. machine code. 1. Any code that a machine, such as a computer or a communication system, can recognize, sense, read, or interpret. 2. A set of coded ...
Encyclopaedia of Mathematics (2013)
by Michiel Hazewinkel
The terms abstract machine and automaton are also used. Abstract machines are particular cases of ...
Encyclopedia of Linguistics (2013)
by Philipp Strazny
Such an abstract machine is capable of defining a language and has a number of useful computational properties. Note that the term language is used here to mean a formal language, which is a set of sequences of symbols, and not ...
Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing (2011)
by David Padua
Multithreading projects inspired by data flow concepts include the Threaded Abstract Machine [ ], and others described in [ ]. A recent revival of interest in applying dataflow principles in computer architecture has led to projects at University ...
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Thursday, October 26, 2017
Book Review: 'Seed Me' by Konn Lavery
Canadian author Konn Lavery is young and at this stage in his formidable career he is concentrating on writing horror and dark fantasy stories and novels. His series – MENTAL DAMNATION (a brain disease that causes horrific hallucinations, paranoia and schizophrenia) – has gained recognition and the second installment in that series reached the Edmonton Journal's top five selling fictional books list. Konn's day job is running his own graphic design and website development business under the title Reveal Design, and he melds these skills into the 'transmedia' hallmark of his written publications. And as a unique aspect of this novel Konn addresses the reader: 'I often throw in my thoughts and philosophies in the novels I write, keeping it disguised as fiction. Often stories are the best absorption of knowledge and wisdom. So read into this book as much or as little as you'd like.'
Konn's writing style is a richly colorful as his storyline. To wit, 'Eventually I spotted Skip at the tail end of the huddled people. He was easily noticeable as the only guy who had a mohawk; with no gel, it simply appeared as strands of long black hair parted to one side with a shaved undercut. Plus, Skip also wore a hoodie vest with a tank top. He was a little more punk rock than the rest of the crowd that night. I strolled over to him. He was chatting up a girl who could pass for a high school student. Thinking optimistically, though, I hoped she was just a freshman university hooligan out to party, not someone underage. Skip was probably nearing eight years on some of these girls, but like me, he was single. Unlike me, though, he was easily lured in by girls wearing skimpy outfits and fluttering their eyelashes.'
Konn's main character is Logan who narrates this memoir like tale, reduced in the synopsis as follows: 'WARNING: DO NOT CONSUME.
If you're reading this, then you did not take the above warning seriously. In that case, you're probably as stupid as me. I'm Logan, by the way. I didn't pay attention to any warning signs either. Being an unemployed deadbeat in Edmonton with no family and getting dumped by your girlfriend for her best friend can wear a guy down. All I had was my cokehead buddy, Skip, to cheer me up. Surprisingly, my precautionary tale was not caused by either Skip or the drugs. Let's just say a drunken make-out session with a pale girl by a dumpster, who was supposedly pronounced dead earlier in the evening, can leave you mentally jumbled up. A good motivator to figure this scenario out is having robed cultists stalk you, asking where the girl is. Is this an ill twist of fate? Did I bring this on myself? Is there a reason behind my misfortune? Is the moral to not make out with spooky girls behind dumpsters? Hell if I know...'
Strange – very strange - and very engrossing, especially for those readers who dote on sci-fi and fantasy. Konn Lavery has it down - a fast and fascinating read. Grady Harp, September 16
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Domestication of wild creatures provides defense and also eggs during the Tribal Stage of the game; the eggs can be eaten by herbivores, omnivores and carnivores. It costs fifteen food to feed a wild animal and thus domesticate it.
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If you advance to the next Tribal Stage with creatures that are not your own species in your pack, these creatures will become pets/domesticated animals in the Tribal Stage. These pets are much smaller than creatures domesticated in the Tribal Stage, but they provide eggs in the same way. If another tribe attacks your tribe, the domesticated animals will fight, the tougher animals (such as rogues that became pack members in the Creature Stage) take a huge toll on the enemy. Pets can also fight when they are left alone, though can't see animals stealing food. Like all pets, they can get mad. Make sure you don't leave any food behind. Do not use the Refreshing Storm, Flying Fish or Traps special abilities nearby. If your species attacks their species, they can become hostile to your tribe, but the pet will stay as a mad pet. They won't attack the other pets in their spot. If they have the red mad face, they cannot be befriended again. A scared face gives you another chance to ally with their species, though.
Occasionally the pets will get abducted by a passing UFO, usually 2, though other times it will be one and the second time the UFO will abduct a tribal member from another tribe. The simplest way to get around this is to domesticate 'replacement' animals. A tip: If you want food, keep a nearby nest of creatures for available domestication and even protection from other tribes (Beastmaster consequence ability, and hostility). Another tip is to domesticate three animals and, after a set amount of time, send one tribesman to gather eggs for a steady food income that can sustain you through the entire stage.
Pets will defend your tribal area. If an enemy tribe sends raiders to attack, and the raiders arrive near the pet pen, then your pets will attack the raiders. This can prove useful as Rogues can generally defeat tribesmen, or problematic if you want to socialize (you will have to use fireworks to get them to stop attacking so that you can socialize).


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When I saw this week's colors the first thing that came to my mind was...baby:) I just love these two colors together. So sweet. To create my plaid I used the Background Basics: Super Stripes from Papertrey Ink....LOVE this set!!! I stamped the elephant on the card and then on a separate piece of paper that I had already stamped the plaid on and fussy cut it out. It works good to stamp your pattern first. This allows you to stamp your image and line it up so you get the background pattern right where you want it.
Here you can see that I attached the panel the elephant is on to my card base with foam tape. The elephant was attached with my dots. For his ear I added adhesive at just the top and pulled up for a little extra fun touch.
Here are this week's colors:
Dynamic Duos and see what the rest of the design team has been up to.
Thanks for stopping by,
Stamps: Papertrey Ink Bitty Baby Blessings, Celebrations, Background Basics: Super Stripes & Communique Sentiments Mini
Inks: Stampin Up! So Saffron & Certainly Celery
Paper: Stampin Up! Certainly Celery
Other: Foam Tape and My Dots


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Matchday 32 of LaLiga Santander has reached its conclusion, and so it is time to look back at this week's LaLiga Fantasy MARCA Best XI, which brings together players from no fewer than nine different clubs.
Isco clinched the Player of the Matchday accolade, after racking up 18 fantasy points. The Real Madrid midfielder shone on his return to La Rosaleda against Malaga CF, notching a goal and providing an assist in a 2-1 win for Los Blancos.
Fernando Pacheco (11 fantasy points) gets the nod between the sticks, having once again impressed for D. Alaves, this time in the 1-0 win away to SD Eibar, picking up another clean sheet in the process.
The back three contains two Getafe CF representatives in the shape of Damian Suarez (15), who scored the only goal of the game against RCD Espanyol, and Dakonam Djene (14). Alaves centre-back Victor Laguardia (13) completes the rearguard and retains his place in the team, thanks to his latest solid defensive display.
The middle of the park is made up of five players that ooze class: FC Barcelona's Philippe Coutinho (15); Villarreal CF's Raba (17); Real Betis's Joaquin (15); and Real Sociedad's Mikel Oyarzabal (15). The deadly duo of Atletico Madrid's Angel Correa (16) and RC Deportivo's Adrian Lopez (13) lead the line.
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For more information, visit www.laligafantasymarca.comand join the LaLiga Fantasy MARCA community on the game's official Facebook page (currently only available in Spanish). Use the hashtag #YoJuegoAlFantasy to exchange views with other social media users and further liven up the action in the planet's top fantasy football experience.
Download the app for iOSor Android now.© LaLiga - Year 2018


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Wars Not Make One Great by Free Humanity for #DKEToys at #NYCC2016
DKE TOYS PRESS: "Famed street artist Free Humanity has hand customized each 3.75″ scale figure and added a paint bucket and roller. More importantly each card back has been hand stenciled, splattered and signed and numbered out of 50 pieces. This is the second and final edition in dark pink. The previous edition sold out earlier this year at SDCC. A Free Humanity stencil on a canvas would be at least 10 times as much money in a gallery. These will not last long. Wars Not Make One Great by Free Humanity $100 tax included."
WHO-IS: "Free Humanity Street Artist/Public Artist. Established 2009. Los Angeles. Free Humanity is an internationally recognized artist that has focused on political situations and notable figures who have had a positive impact on the world. Working his way from small street pieces to large scale murals all over the country. Free Humanity art can be seen on the streets of many cities world wide ranging from London, Paris, Mexico City, New York City, Miami, San Francisco, Los Angeles with his Signature Heart Style.
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Here's a flash for you: Panhandle residents from Perryton to Plainview have been talking about the weather the past few days.
OK, you knew that already. You likely already also know that some of the long-time residents of the region are talking about how the weather of late kinda-sorta resembles a long-ago event.
The Dust Bowl, yes?
Well, it's on the minds of many of us as we've watched the sky turn from blue to brown and as we've battled high wind and in some cases have had to wash mud drops off our vehicles as we're driving through the storm.
It hasn't been pretty around here. Think, though, of what it must have been like about 80 years ago.
The Great Depression had gripped the nation. Drought settled in over a huge region of the middle of the country. Then the wind started to blow … and blow … and blow some more.
The wind whipped up enormous storm clouds of top soil that was blown into the air, forming clouds so black that they blotted out the sun. The dirt blew into people's homes, their motor vehicles, and yes into their lungs. The very young and the very old died of what came to be known as "dust pneumonia," a condition that prevented them from taking breaths. Their lungs filled with fluid.
Farmers saw their land literally blow away. Livestock couldn't eat; they starved to death. Livelihoods were lost. People moved far away. Others, though, stayed behind. They persevered and fought their way back.
The Dust Bowl was the world's worst man-made ecological disaster. It was the creation of poor farming techniques begun at the turn of the 20th century. Farmers tilled up native grassland, cultivated it and planted crops on what nature had provided as a way to stop the soil from blowing away.
The rest, as they say, is history.
Famed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns recently produced "The Dust Bowl," telling the story of that terrible time through the eyes of those who lived through it. Panhandle PBS broadcast the documentary and it brought the misery home to many of those who are still around to recall it.
Many folks are talking once again about that time and remembering — or imagining — how it was for those who fought their way through the hardship.
Are we returning to a new Dust Bowl era? Probably not.
Then again …
Take a look at this site. It gives you a good idea of what happened here on the High Plains so very long ago. It also will remind you of just how tough our region's forebears had to be to survive.


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I published a short story in lulu, for free download for those of you interested. Please be interested. It's lousy being a writer that no one reads.
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In an all-important weekend, Harvard women's basketball will travel to Princeton, N.J., and Philadelphia, Penn., to take on the only other two teams in the Ivy League with just a single loss in a two-day battle for the top of the conference.
The Crimson (13-6, 5-1 Ivy League) is coming off an impressive home winning streak of six straight games. Harvard has yet to lose in Lavietes Pavilion, posting a perfect 10-0 record at home this season. The team's away record of 1-5, however tells a different story.
Nevertheless, Harvard will hit the road this weekend looking to take down Princeton (14-4, 4-1) and Penn (13-5, 4-1) for control of the conference.
"The home stretch has been great. It's really built our confidence," senior co-captain Kirby Porter said. "One of things we've been emphasizing this week is that we don't care where we're playing, our mentality home and away should be the same by taking that energy from home and replicating it."
The Crimson hopes to flip the script against the two squads. The Tigers have swept Harvard in conference play for three straight years, with the Crimson's last win over Princeton coming in January 2014. The Quakers have also swept Harvard three years in a row, and the Crimson has not won in Philadelphia in nearly six years, as its last successful trip to Penn came in February 2012.
This is not to say both rivalries have been completely one-sided, however. Harvard has taken the Tigers to overtime in each of the last two seasons, and the margin of victory between the two teams has not eclipsed 10 points since 2015.
The Quakers, on the other hand, have seen an average margin of victory against the Crimson of 19 points in the last four matchups between the two teams. Decisive victories have become the norm for Penn, as it boasts a whopping plus-12.6 scoring margin on the year.
While there is something to be said for history, Harvard doesn't seem to care.
"One of the strengths of this team is we don't care who [we're] playing," Porter said. "We have this mentality that we're going to keep doing what we're doing."
It is not easy to ignore the major implications of this weekend for all three squads. Each team sits atop the Ancient Eight with only one conference loss. Harvard is currently in first place by half a game, trailed closely by Princeton and Penn. The team that comes out of the weekend with the best record will be in the driver's seat for the second half of the conference season, as the Tigers and Quakers both also host Dartmouth (12-7, 4-2). The Big Green are nipping at the heels of the three leaders in a close fourth place.
Coach Kathy Delaney-Smith's group enters Friday's contest at Princeton in peak form. The Crimson's explosive offense has scored over 80 points in four straight games. Over the course of its dominant homestand, Harvard has averaged 82.5 points per game thanks to double-digit performances from six different players.
"I think that says so much about our team," Porter said. "It's been our identity all year, we don't care who's scoring, and on any given night anyone can be the top scorer or performer."
In the team's victory over Cornell, every single player saw the court—a further statement of the group mentality central to the Crimson's success. The contributors included freshman forward Jadyn Bush, who recorded her first career double-double that night. Bush saw extended playing time due to injuries causing sophomore forward Jeannie Boehm and junior guard Sydney Skinner to leave the game. Despite the thin bench, Harvard's offense did not slow down.
"Our team is pretty deep and no matter who's in the game," senior guard Taylor Rooks said. "We always show the same amount of intensity from the start of the jump to the end of the game."
Harvard's electric offense will encounter resistance this weekend in the form of the top two defenses in the Ivy League. Princeton allows the fewest points per game at 56.3, while Penn follows closely behind at 56.9. No other team in the conference allows fewer than 61 on an average night.
"This weekend might be slower," said Porter, referencing the defense-minded style of both upcoming opponents. "The key for us is staying on the same page on offense, not rushing our shots, and being confident in our shot selection."
Throughout the 2017-2018 campaign, the Crimson has been showcasing its offense talent, averaging 70.5 points per game this season. The versatile offense will face its toughest challenge yet in the stout defenses.
"It comes down to us playing our game and staying composed by playing within ourselves," Rooks said.
Whether defense or offense prevails, Harvard will be looking to reverse the trends of the past in order to take control of first place.
—Staff writer Joseph W. Minatel can be reached at email@example.com.
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A brutal rapist has been revealed as the brother of wife-killer Niall McDonald.
Alasdair McDonald from Aberdeen, is facing years in jail for raping a stranger in the city.
She suffered internal injuries which shocked even a police surgeon.
His brother infamously claimed at his trial that his wife died as a result of kinky sex using a whip.
Alasdair McDonald's frenzied attack on his victim has sickening echoes of his wife-killer brother's crime.
The 49-year-old was convicted this week of a sex attack which left his victim with the "worst internal injuries" a police surgeon had seen.
And 18 years ago, his older brother Niall's trial was told of similar horrifying injuries inflicted on his wife Mandy.
Both brothers also tried to dodge responsibility for their crimes.
Martial arts-trained Niall McDonald, then 35, tried to claim at first that Mandy had gone missing from their Aberdeen home.
Then when he finally led police to her battered body, he insisted she was a victim of a sex game gone wrong – a claim rejected by the jury who found him guilty of culpable homicide.
His younger brother tried to deny rape, although he admitted sexually assaulting his victim.
But on Monday, a jury – who were told he repeatedly struck his victim on the head and grabbed her nose to restrict her breathing – found him guilty.
McDonald, from Aberdeen, faces a lengthy jail term when he is sentenced at the High Court in Edinburgh next month.
Niall McDonald's trial in 2001 was told he had been using the handle of a bullwhip he kept by the bed as a sex toy before Mandy died when he squeezed her neck.
The High Court in Forfar heard lurid details of the McDonalds' sex life, with Mandy's distraught parents having to endure the unchallenged revelations.
Oil worker McDonald claimed that on the night Mandy died, he put his arm over her neck to heighten sexual pleasure.
This was sex that "narrow-minded people would call kinky", said McDonald's lawyer, Donald Findlay QC.
But post-mortem details revealed Mandy had injuries on her face, neck and private parts.
She died of asphyxia and rectal injuries so severe her bowel had been punctured – consistent with blunt instrument trauma.
The jury convicted McDonald of culpable homicide, rather than murder, after experts said vital forensic evidence had been destroyed as the body lay outside for six days.
But the conviction made clear that the jury weren't convinced by McDonald's claims that it was an accident.
Lord Penrose said he'd shown "total disregard and disrespect" for the 32-year-old mum of his two children.
Within weeks of killing Mandy, McDonald had replaced her with the 18-year-old daughter of a policeman.
He served just half of his seven-year jail sentence for the killing and cover-up – which was reduced by nine months after his release amid legal wrangles over delays.
Today he's in a relationship with another woman and living in Aberdeen. But his younger brother's crime has brought back echoes of his past.
The jury at the High Court in Glasgow heard how on January 28, 2016, Alasdair McDonald ambushed his victim – a stranger – in Aberdeen's Union Terrace Gardens and dragged her into bushes.
Judge Lord Arthurson told him after his conviction: "You have been convicted of an abhorrent sexual offence against a young woman who was a complete stranger to you."
The court heard that during the violent rape McDonald ripped off part of his victim's underwear. This was found some yards away with traces of McDonald's DNA.
After the rape McDonald was initially spoken to as a potential witness and told officers: "I saw a black man walking away."
An extensive trawl of CCTV in the city centre revealed McDonald was in the area at the time of the rape. And DNA analysis confirmed that he was the rapist.
A police surgeon who examined the victim said that she had suffered "the worst internal
injuries" he had ever seen.
Lord Arthurson ordered McDonald, a prisoner in Barlinnie, Glasgow, to be placed on the sex offenders' register.
Prosecutor Sheena Fraser said: "The accused has previous convictions, but they are not analogous.
"At the time of the offence, he was unemployed and on benefits and living in Aberdeen with his identical twin brother."
During the search for the Union Terrace Gardens rapist, a £5000 reward for information was offered by Crimestoppers.
McDonald showed no emotion as he was led away to the cells after the guilty verdict.
Inspector Sheila McDerment, who led the police inquiry, said: "Stranger attacks are extremely rare in Scotland, let alone the north-east.
"It made this a challenging and lengthy investigation involving significant resources from
Police Scotland's specialist crime division along with support from local officers."
She added that it took the "painstaking efforts" of all those involved to bring McDonald to justice.
The successful conclusion involved working with the victim, preserving the crime scene and gathering CCTV evidence to help nail the suspect.
McDerment said: "McDonald will now have to face the consequences of his brutal and terrible actions that night.
"I would like to mention the work carried out by our partners in the Scottish Police Authority laboratory using the latest DNA technology, which ultimately identified him as our accused.
"Above all, I want to thank the victim for the courage she has demonstrated throughout, firstly by coming forward to tell police what had happened and then by co-operating with us to reach this conclusion.
"I know that the verdict will never change what happened to her. However, I hope it can help her move forward with her life.
"Policing sexual crimes remains a key priority for Police Scotland.We are committed to improving the service we provide to victims, supporting and helping them to come forward to report what happened.
"Sexual crimes of any type will never be tolerated."


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SoYoung Artists
Allyson Payne
Allyson is a painter, illustrator and educator based in Toronto Canada, Allyson has worked with SoYoung for over 5 years, helping to develop many of the companies most iconic designs. Allyson's original paintings explore representations of the natural world; life cycles, strength versus vulnerability, and landscape in its most basic abstract form. She holds am MA from Harvard University in Fine Art.
Ali Sabet
Ali is a Tehran born, California based Painter, Illustrator and Award Winning Designer. His work has been showcased at various shows, galleries and museums including LACMA. Sabet is also the creator of the lifestyle character brand, Pixopop, and the Founder & Creative Director of the Branding Agency, Sabet Brands.
Katherine Diemert
Katherine is an illustrator, designer, and maker from Dundas, Ontario. Katherine grows and develops ideas into fresh illustrations, designs, and interactive projects for studios and businesses that are ambitious and unconventional. She uses a combination of analog and digital tools to create her work, mixing unique imagery with various media to create works that push the envelop, stand out in a crowd, and leap out of the box.
Surya Sajnani
Surya grew up in India, and graduated with a degree in Chemistry, Botany and Zoology before finding her passion in design. Surya has a wealth of experience in the industry and has trained with some of India's leading designers. Surya moved to the US in 2000, and founded Wee Gallery with her husband, Dave Pinto, after their first child was born in 2002. Surya's style is inspired by Indian Folk art and is characterized by bold strokes and graphic compositions. Wee Gallery products have won numerous awards, and are carried by museum shops and stores worldwide.


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In December 2012, Parmigiani opened a new atelier in Mayfair, London, one of the most fashionable areas of the city.The boutique is built around the watchmaker's bench.
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Do you like to decorate your rooms to increase beauty of rooms? If so, you should choose handcrafted wall hanging quilts for decorating the walls of your bedrooms, lounges, and living rooms. You can also make handcrafted hanging tapestries to accentuate the interior beauty of your bedroom. At the same time, if you find it difficult to buy well fitted fabric wall hanging quilts which can be used to decorate walls of rooms, you can try designing a quilt on your own.
To design handcrafted quilts for your wall hanging, you will have to arrange different types of tools and materials. You must gather scrap loose fabric, threads for stitching seams and texture of the fabric cloth, needle, batten, scissors, pins, and backing fabric sheets. You must abide by every step very carefully while designing hand crafted wall hanging tapestry/comforter. Generally, the standard size of a wall hanging quilt is around 27 inches by 27 inches. However, if you like to make a quilt for decorating walls independently, you can change the pattern and size of your comforter as per your wish.
At first, you need to wash fabric sheets so that there is no patch/dark spot on the top side of the quilt. The backing fabric is the plain cloth which insulates the backside of the comforter/quilt. You should stitch this plain backing fabric sheet properly to the piece of comforter for extra protection. It actually protects the surface of the quilt from dust, rust, dampness, and moisture. Secondly, you'll have to opt for rotary cutter/ batten for fixing woofs, and scissors.
Then with the help of rotary cutting machine, you can reshape scrape fabric by trimming edges and seam lines of the fabric sheets.
At third step, you will have to make arrangement for block designs. Usually a wall hanging tapestry is replete with 9 blocks in different sizes and colors. You will have to measure perfectly by outlining diagrams on the plain paper. Properly sizeable blocks need to be drawn accurately so that your wall hanging comforters/quilts will be made more attractive and presentable.
You should emboss the blocks on the texture of fabric cloth perfectly. The contour of the four square of the block should be stitched properly via needlework. Every block needs to be fixed to the surface of the fabric sheet in organized way. Block sewing needs to be done carefully to avoid improper block designing. You can also insert an extra seam or double platted fabric sheet in between top quilt sheet and backing fabric cloth. This will act as a fixture to tighten two joints in more accurate way. Borderline of the quilted blocks should be pinned properly and systematically.
After completing needlework, you will have to check whether there are any loose loop, scratch, defects, and unfitted loose fabric seam in the tapestry/quilt. If you find any loose thread or defect in the comforter, you will have to cut or trim that outgrowth which will spoil the aesthete of the wall hanging quilt.
Handcrafted wall hanging quilts are also found in online quilt shops. You can get cost-effective and attractive wall hanging tapestries in these quilt shops. Check the different sites to gather relevant information about the wall hanging quilts which will certainly enhance the overall aesthete of your bedroom, lounge, or living room.


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This girl, she keeps us positively rolling. I wish I could remember all of her "Sassisms," but the following list of phrases I've typed into my iPhone is a pretty clear indication that the chick is HIGH-larious.
Pearl, when we stop the car, I'll help you pick up your pretzels. For now, just stay calm.
Mommy, will you buy me a rock wall for my birthday? You try to remember and I'll try not.
MY question is, when are we going to Disney World or Africa?
Don't do your nose like that. It makes you look like a hog. Hog is another word for pig.
{While observing me watch The Voice, um, interactively.} Mama, are you talkin' to your show?!
When I see big rocks, they tell me to climb, climb, climb but I don't want to get hurt so I don't.
I want to do that thing where you get up on a stage and the prettiest one wins.
Is this ham good? Because it is.
Yeah, that's right. I got three sisters. Dontcha think I'm pretty busy? I'm preeeeetty busy.
{Response when asked her what Sweet Love was babbling about} I don't know, I don't speak Baby.


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Stairwell Closed for Construction
Q: We have a stairwell in our hospital that extends from the 8th floor to the 1st floor, where there is a door that discharges the occupants to the outdoors. We have construction in progress on the 2nd floor, which affects the stairwell and we have closed the stairwell at the 2nd floor level, however, we have allowed the stairwell to remain open from the 3rd floor to the 8th floor. Our safety officer thinks allowing people to travel from the 8th to the 3rd floors in a stairwell that is closed on the 2nd floor is not allowed, and wants to close the entire stairwell. This would be a hardship for our staff that wants to use the stairs rather than wait for an elevator. Do we have to close the stairwell entirely, or can we allow it to remain open on the upper floors?
A: Construction projects never make it easy on facility managers and safety officers, do they! My answer to your question is dependent on the precautions and alternative measures that you have implemented. First let me say that when working with something that is such an integral part of safety such as an exit stairwell, the most effective safety precautions should be taken. If it were my decision, I would agree with your safety officer and want to shut the entire stairwell down as the construction project has caused the path of egress to be obstructed. However, there is another option. If you implemented the appropriate Interim Life Safety Measures (ILSMs) and provided adequate signage on each floor declaring the stairwell is no longer an exit, explaining that it now terminates at the 3rd floor, and if you provided adequate signage explaining where the closest alternative exit is located, then you would be able to allow the stairwell to be used for communicating purposes to get from floor to floor, and it is no longer an exit. Any 'Exit' signs that direct the path of egress towards and into this stairwell would have to be covered or removed and the construction in progress would have to be separated from the occupants in the stairwell with appropriately rated materials. Other ILSMs would have to be considered as well, according to your hospital's policy. While this would not be my first choice, I agree that this modified use of the stairwell would be permitted by the NFPA 101 Life Safety Code (LSC), 2000 edition.


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In the spotlight
Dancers, actors, musicians, singers, playwrights and set designers walk our halls, sit in our classes and take to the stage in spectacular student performances. Our shows are open to the community; you can watch our gifted performers ply their trades in a series of student plays, concerts, dance ensembles and other showcases. Tickets are available online.


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RBI cuts rates, asks banks to follow
ICICI Bank's floating-rate loan customers will pay 50 basis points (100 basis points make 1 percentage point) less interest rate from Wednesday, as the country's second largest bank responded to the sixth policy rate cut in as many months by the Reserve Bank of India.india Updated: Apr 22, 2009 02:23 IST
ICICI Bank's floating-rate loan customers will pay 50 basis points (100 basis points make 1 percentage point) less interest rate from Wednesday, as the country's second largest bank responded to the sixth policy rate cut in as many months by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
In its monetary policy announcement on Tuesday, the RBI gave a harder push for banks to lower interest rates in synch with the steep lowering of policy rates. The interest rate cuts — on lending rates as well as on deposits — by ICICI Bank are expected to nudge all other banks to lower rates soon.
The RBI also presented gloomy, but unsurprising, economic growth projections. India's GDP will grow by 6 per cent in 2009-10, it said, while lowering the past year's projection to 6.5-6.7 per cent, from 8-8.5 per cent in April 2008 and 7.5-8 per cent in October 2008.
Lowering GDP growth projections in the middle of polls brought politics into the picture. "The RBI's decision to cut rates by 25 basis points is too little a measure to revive the economy," said BJP leader Yashwant Sinha. "They (government and RBI) have completely mismanaged the economy."
Corporate heads welcomed the move but remained cautious. "The credit policy is a welcome articulation of a growth-orientated policy stance," said Chanda Kochhar, joint managing director, ICICI Bank.
But "the slowdown is a matter of concern," said Venu Srinivasan, president, CII. "The reduction in interest rates will help growth," said Adi Godrej, chairman, Godrej Group.
Beginning Wednesday, asset-liability committees of banks are expected to take a call on reducing lending and deposit rates. "The RBI has given direction that lending rates should come down," said V. Santhanaraman, executive director, Bank of Baroda.
Banks have been complaining that their cost of funds has not fallen much as their deposit rates remained higher because the interest rates on government small-saving schemes — a high 8 per cent today — act as a floor.
But RBI governor D Subbarao said judging from the experience between 2004 and 2007, deposit rates could be lower and should come down. Between mid-September and Tuesday, the RBI cut the repo rate (rate at which commercial banks borrow from it) by 425 basis points to 4.75 per cent, and the reverse repo rate (rate that the RBI offers commercial banks when they park money with it) by 275 basis points to 3.25 per cent.
Interest rates on loans are expected to fall by another 150 basis points over the next six months. (With inputs from Shekhar Iyer in Delhi)
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Here are some large pictures of The Battle of Trebbia I fought solo this afternoon. I used ammended Command and Colors rules and the battle took about two hours to play. Rather than a blow by blow account, I'll give the pictures along with the cards played
Rome: Order 3 commands centre. Carthage: Order medium troops


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I had been thinking about this hike for a while, so I was very prepared. My pack was 14.1lbs without water and contained all of my regular day hike stuff, plus a hammock, emergency bivy, emergency tarp/blanket, extra socks, and a pant and shirt base layer. If i needed to stop and rest or just wanted to stay the night, my Spot messenger would have let my family know. Before any large adventures, I always make it a point to be sure I hydrate well the day before, which I did.
On Friday afternoon, I came home from work and had a nice steak dinner. After that, it was time for bed. my pack was already ready. I arrived at Lincoln Woods just after 2AM. I was crossing the bridge in the darkness at 2:30am. The air was heavy, damp, and a little misty. I was off to a good start with long strides and occasional jogging, but not too fast so not to run into any night time surprises on the trail. Its funny that I've hiked the Osseo Trail twice, but never in daylight. The Osseo Trail is a really nice ascent to the Franconia Ridge. I made it to the summit of Flume in two hours. It was pitch black, and I could only see the lights down in the notch without my headlamp. With my headlamp, I could see the fog hanging there. My sleeve-less shirt was already pretty wet from hiking through the fog as reached the ridge. With not much to see yet, I was quickly off to Liberty.
|Mt. Flume summit
|Mt. Liberty summit (did someone just build this cairn in last few weeks?)
|Little Haystack summit
|Franconia Ridge Trail about to leave Little Haystack
|From near the summit of Little Haystack
|Really white cloud looked like a moving glacier
|Lafayette for the 6th time
|Now starts the Garfield Ridge Trail (love how this one came out)
|Mt. Garfield summit and beyond surrounded in clouds
|Garfield Ridge Trail
|Garfield Ridge Trail
|Mt. Garfield summit
Next up was Galehead Hut and Galehead Mountain. I was now sort of between the clouds looking out into the PemiGalehead for the 5th time. Quickly, I was back at Galehead Hut, and re-filled completely without even taking my pack off. I was empty. Dreadfully, I continued jumping on the Twinway up to South Twin - no breaks here. I've always disliked this section of trail, but for some reason, it went by more quickly this time, and it wasn't as big of a deal. On South Twin, for the 5th time in five different months, it just wasn't making it out of the clouds yet.
|From North Twin summit view point
|Zealand summit!
|On West Bond summit - 4th time, 4th month
|The ridge from Bond to Bondcliff from West Bond
|Summit of Mt. Bond
|On my way to my last peak of the day - Bondcliff
|What a day!
|Bondcliff overlooking the Pemi Wilderness
|Bondcliff Trail
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text: Qatar world cup intends to ban public drinking controversial Reference News Network November 12 Daily Road West media said in Qatar won the right to host the 2022 World Cup, in addition to the hot weather, the fans are most concerned about is whether the time to watch a drink, this is a great enjoyment of fans. However, the Qatari authorities plan to maintain a ban on drinking in the streets and other public places, including stadiums, during the world cup. The authorities concerned once again sparked controversy, FIFA said the two sides have yet to deal with this problem. According to Spain's "national newspaper" website reported on November 10th, Qatar world cup organizing committee Hassan Savoy Dibben Zhou said: "drinking in the streets, squares and other public places will be banned, this is the final decision." FIFA Secretary General Fatima,, met with several Qatari officials on the 10. When asked about the matter after the meeting, Samura responded, said: we respect the customs and culture of qatar." However, she also said that the two sides have yet to discuss the issue of what kind of drinks will be sold in the stadium during the world cup, the final decision will take a long time to make. Reported that drinking alcoholic beverages in Qatar is not illegal, but in public places to drink alcohol and imported alcohol is prohibited. In addition, alcoholic beverages, in principle, only for non muslims to buy and drink. As a result, foreigners living in Qatar are allowed to buy alcoholic drinks. The hotel can also provide alcoholic beverages, although not all hotels do so. Savadi pointed out: "we oppose the sale of alcoholic beverages in the stadium and its surrounding." He also said that Qatar will not meet the country's fans to meet the laws of their own damage. Reported that the Qatari authorities also expressed its concerns about the relationship between alcohol and stadium violence. This summer, the European Cup, the British fans and Russian fans clashed in Marseille, France, which reinforces the idea of the Qatari authorities. Therefore, Savadi insisted that people can only drink away from the stadium. (compile Su Jiawei) source: Reference News Editor: Qu, SN117相关的主题文章:


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Reflexology and Tibetan Cranial for the Mind, Body and Spirit
I worked with Amy during the pregnancy of my first child. I had multiple sessions and each one was individualized to focus on areas of pain and discomfort I was experiencing. In addition to helping relieve some back pain during my second trimester, each session was extremely relaxing. I saw Amy 3 days after my due date had passed and I was ready to have my baby. She focused on all the reproductive locations and 3 hours later my water broke. That's a successful visit! I recommend Amy to anyone looking to focus on, or heal, their body. Amy has such a good spirit and her positive energy can be felt through her work. (Kim B.)
Thank you so much for a great reflexology session on my hands and feet. I slept for 12 hours and woke up feeling awesome!!! (Erika B.)
I have been receiving Reflexology treatments from Amy regularly for about a year now, and after each session I feel a deep relaxation, less stress and just an overall feeling of well being. Reflexology is now part of my overall health maintenance program. In fact, I find that I no longer need to see a Chiropractor. Amy is very intuitive with a keen sense of what the body needs to regain balance and optimal function. I feel a deep gratitude in being fortunate to have Amy as my Reflexologist. (Scott T.)
My first visits to Trifecta Reflexion were presented to me as a gift from my wife and what a gift they turned out to be! I highly recommend Amy Ito's reflexology treatments at Trifecta Reflexion. The facilities are clean and calm; very conducive for a soothing and relaxing session. Amy is both professional and intuitive in the treatment of her clients and in determining the best way to provide the relief that reflexology can bring. The sessions I had have been deeply relaxing and have contributed greatly to relieving chronic lower back pain as well as tightness in my neck and shoulder muscles that come from working in front of a computer all day. The feeling I get from a reflexology session with Amy is one of great relaxation and mental clarity. (Eric J.)
As a certified bodywork professional myself, I appreciate quality treatments with a highly skilled practitioner. Amy is exactly that. She is a wealth of knowledge in many areas, very professional and every session is deeply relaxing. Her attention to my body's needs is kindly addressed with intuition and insight and I would always recommend Amy for hand, foot and ear reflexology. (Anna T.)
I was told about reflexology by my massage therapist. I was having a couple of issues, my stomach and my feet. The first time I went in I did not even mention my stomach to Ms. Ito. She begins to work on my feet and before I know it my stomach starts to make noises. She asks me if my stomach had been bothering me and I tell her as a matter of fact yes it had. By the time I left my stomach was no longer bothering me, my feet were a lot less sore, my hands and eyes were not so tired (I work on the computer a lot) and I was a lot more relaxed. I recommend coming to see Amy Ito and I'm so glad my massage therapist recommended her to me. (Ruby R.)


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If you thought that "following companies on Twitter proved to be useful" was a myth – well, let me bust it for you. Let me confirm loud and clear with utmost confidence that following your favorite hotel in Las Vegas will be the best thing you've ever done with Twitter. If you travel to Vegas much, that is.
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Hotels rates constantly change. On the days where demand is low, the rates will drop and vise versa. The idea of running 24, 48, or 72 hour sale is to get YOU to book that day. It discourages you from mulling over when you should book because by tomorrow, that deal will no longer be there.
5. The Lion Habitat at MGM Grand
When you visit Las Vegas for the first time, it's hard to miss the golden lion that stands in front of MGM Grand, the world's 2nd biggest hotel. Not only has it served as MGM's mascot, but also as an icon of Las Vegas for many years.
Now, you can see live lions inside the MGM Grand. The habitat's boldly situated inside the casino floor. Which means, you can gamble AND glare at those deadly animals.
It's free for anyone to walk by and take a quick look between 10am – 7pm daily.
Many people are skeptic of this idea that booking flights with hotels save you money. I guess it's because you can't really see the breakdown of where the money's funneling into, but I assure you, regardless of ANY, and I mean ANY discounts the hotels may offer through different channels (i.e. "Deals" on their websites, travel agents, or even Twitter or Facebook special offers), bundling flights and hotels together into a "Package" will save you the most amount of money – every time.
1. Fountains of Bellagio
Whether you've been to Las Vegas or not, I'm sure you have seen the picture of this iconic photo of Bellagio. The man-made lake is big enough to fit The Titanic, and the fountain show that is carefully choreographed to some classing music such as "Viva Las Vegas" and "God Bless The USA" is an experience you won't forget. The best part? It's free for any pedestrians to see.
Show Times:
- Every 30 min from 3pm – 8pm
- Every 15 min from 8pm – midnight


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Last weekend was my first weekend at home, with power, since June. July was a very fun, but very busy month for me. It's really nice to be back home cooking - especially with all of the incredible tomatoes, corn, peaches, and melons - and I'm looking forward to a relaxing month of August. Paul (the husband) was just complaining that the summer is more than half-way over, and we still haven't had a single fruit pie or galette. Eever since I made Martha Stewart's summer fruit galette 3 summers ago, Paul has been in love. He was very happy when I told him that the week's TWD assignment was a fruit pie. I figured that while I had the oven on, I'd also catch up on the Semolina Bread, and make a Teriyaki Roasted Chicken (from Canal House Vol. 1) for dinner.
I was very happy with how both recipes came out. I really liked both the texture and flavor of the bread. It was great fresh, and I also thought it made good toast the next day. I was very frustrated while making the pie. I (stupidly) used my 9" cake pan with 2" sides, and it didn't work at all. The sides were too tall for the crust to hang over, and I could barely crimp it at all. Next time, I will just use my common sense and use my pie pan. Luckily, it didn't affect the taste at all, and we both loved the flavor of this pie.


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Opening Thoughts
The first thing you may notice is that there are TWO stories of creation! The first story is about God creating the earth, sky, sea, land, and their inhabitants in order over six days, and resting on the seventh day. The second story is about God creating the animals and, ultimately Eve (whose name means "mother of all living), to be Adam's helper (Adam's name means, in the words of Richard Swanson, "mud guy"). Most Sunday School curriculums just pick one, normally the first one, and that's probably a good plan, especially with young learners. If you've got older kids (middler schoolers, perhaps) it might be helpful to compare the two stories. Ask gentle questions about why there might be two stories and what is in common? The most faithful thing I draw from these two stories is that God is the loving artist behind all creation, no matter how everything is made, God made it.
Read it
- Full text at Oremus Bible Browser (NRSV)
Useful Resources for Understanding the Story
- Luther Seminary's Enter the Bible article on Genesis.
- The Text This Week's list of links for Genesis 1:1-2:4, 2:4-14, and 2:15-3:21.
- Worshipping With Children's suggestion on Trinity Sunday, Year A; Baptism of Our Lord, Year B; Lent 1, Year A; Proper 22, Year B
Make and Do
- Fold a regular piece of paper so there are seven sections (or eight and make the first rectangle a "title"). Draw the seven days of creation. Or make big numbers, 1-7, and color them in with what was created each day.
- Fold a paper in thirds. Draw an animal so that its head is in one rectangle, its body in the next one, and its hind end in a third. Then cut up the animals and exchange so everyone makes a new animal. Or, make three loops of paper, one with animal heads, one with animal bodies, one with animal tails. Thread them through another piece of paper with slits cut in it so you can make lots of different animals! Imagine the traits of the new animals you create. What does it eat, where does it live, what does it do?
- Use clay to make a landscape. Include hills, mountains, rivers, creeks, lakes, and the sea. What lives where? What grows where? Why?
- Make a bug home.
- Plant seeds.
- Make a peanut butter, birdseed, and pine cone bird feeder (make a few extras and pastor will deliver to shut ins!)
- Use a paper plate, blue paint, and green tissue paper to make a picture of the earth. Like this.
- Make a 3D picture of the land and sea with a ziplock bag and some dish soap (glitter is a bonus!).
- Make "hanimals."
- Make an ocean in a bottle.
- Describe animals by their less familiar characteristics and have the kids guess the animal you're describing.
- Play 20 Questions with various animals as the subject. Or, prepare index cards with animals on them, tape them to the kids' backs and have them walk around asking each other questions about the animal on their back until they can guess it.
- Make slips of paper with the names of animals, 2 different animals per round. Hand out the slips of paper, at "go" the kids must find their mate/group by only making that animal's sound. Add well known animals, considering adding real stinkers for the last round, just for fun, like a platypus.
- Play Scategories, using the days of creation as prompts (such as, something that is in the sky, something in the sea, something on the land, a plant, etc).
- Group Juggle – use a variety of stuffed animals. Stand in a circle. Have each person introduce him or herself. Say a person's name and gently toss an animal to them. They say, "Thank you, ___" and then say another person's name and toss it along until everyone has had a turn and it is back at the start. Repeat, always passing to the same person, this time, add more animals, until the whole group is juggling. Reverse the order for a challenge.
Other Ideas
- Consider reading a book like There Was An Old Man Who Painted the Sky
- Consider reading one of the stories in Does God Have a Big Toe, such as "Partners" or "Adam's Animals."
- Science: make a "cloud" by microwaving ivory soap.
- Tell the story using creation nesting balls. Or put an item representing each day of creation in easter eggs and open up as you tell about each day. Or bring in lots of stuffed animals and introduce them as "helpers" for Adams – weigh their pros and cons as helpers for a person.
- God made the sky coloring page; God made the land coloring page.
- A variety of creation coloring pages.
- Games and puzzles about the creation story.
- Cooking – rice crispie earth.
- Even more lesson links from mssscrafts.com


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From Ché (What You Call Your) Pasa
(Good blog, BTW)
(Good blog, BTW)
My interest is peaked, and my sensibilities tweaked, by this recent article posted at truthout.org by Paul Church and Ray Nowosielski, Ex-Army Officer Accuses CIA of Obstructing Pre-9/11 Intelligence-Gathering. Peaked:
Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer joins a growing list of government officials accusing former CIA director George Tenet of misleading federal bodies and sharing some degree of blame for the attacks. Shaffer also adds to a picture emerging of the CIA's Bin Laden unit as having actively prevented other areas of intelligence, law enforcement and defense from properly carrying out their counterterrorism functions in the run-up to September 2001...and
In the wake of the devastating African embassy bombings of 1998, which left more than 200 dead, US Special Operations Command (SOCOM)... brought together specialists from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)... the team's advanced data-mining software found connections between known terrorists and subjects with matching profiles. This highly classified project was code-named Able Danger...
...the collecting of information about al-Qaeda's cell structures was only meant to be a first step in a larger action to be taken using the data... The Able Danger project... was in fact fully integrated into a larger military effort to target and disrupt al-Qaeda...
Following the embassy attacks, the White House became concerned about a deficit of access by CIA into al-Qaeda... [at Richard] Clarke's behest, [George] Tenet, CIA director between 1997 and 2005, removed Michael Scheuer, the founder of its Bin Laden unit - also known as Alec Station. [Wikipedia entry redirects to "Bin Laden Issue Station," and states its formation as beginning in 1996]...(I'm liberally excerpting, of course - go read the whole thing for any needed assurance of context.)
...According to Shaffer, [CIA representative David] Rolph bluntly informed him the CIA would never cooperate with SOCOM on the matter, because if the military succeeded in prosecuting the options for going after the infrastructure of al-Qaeda, it would "steal the thunder" of Alec Station. Shaffer found the response peculiar, even for the notoriously turf-defensive agency.
"I spent a lot of time working in joint projects between Special Operations Command and CIA," Shaffer revealed. "So the fact that in this one area they would not cooperate was new, and it concerned me. But very often the CIA would just do things without regard to anyone else."
What if David Rolph, speaking on behalf of the agency's director when he met Shaffer in late 1999, had been more cooperative? What if Tenet had not pushed Congress to shut down the military's long-term asset with connections inside al-Qaeda? What if the CIA had worked with, instead of against, the military? We will never know.I am "tweaked" by the questions of this final paragraph, which (to me) frames the article in a way that accepts, as granted, that this was a case of careerism and petulance. I have a hard time swallowing this for two reasons - one, we are talking about pretty high-echelon and presumably sophisticated and serious people, for whom it is reasonable to expect would set aside such motives in matters as serious as this, and two, the CIA's (and military intelligence's) reputation for obfuscation and deceit, for elaborate cover stories as to operations and motives, and for illegal and morally reprehensible activities*.
A brief recap of the timeline: In 1996 the CIA opened a unit on bin Laden, in 1998 military intelligence got involved. In October of 1999, the contretemps - the "turf war" - between the two factions began. In other words, the CIA had more than a two-and-a-half year "lead" on the matter before being approached by SOCOM. This is leaving aside our long history with bin Laden during the Soviet-Afghanistan war, declarations and discoveries beginning in 1990 of his counter-American "sentiments," his State Department-linked connection to the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993, etc.
In the prologue to Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, governmental interest in bin Laden is characterized as rather skeptical of his capabilities:
The most frightening [Ed. apparently to "lone" CIA investigator David Coleman] aspect of this new threat, however, was the fact that almost no one took it seriously. It was too bizarre, too primitive and exotic... the defiant gestures of bin Laden and his followers seemed absurd and even pathetic...And yet, in this 1997 CNN report (video posted below),
[rough transcript] The State Department [read: CIA] links the 41-year-old bin Laden to Ramsey Yousef, alleged mastermind of the World Trade Center Bombing, New York; an attempted bombing of U.S. troops in 1992, Yemen; terrorist training camps in Sudan and Afghanistan; Islamic terrorist groups in Egypt and Algeria.This is 1997, and this does not sound "pathetic" to me. Perhaps it is only 9/11 hindsight, but then again we are talking about people who should be intimately acquainted with the capabilities of a man, and his men, who were set upon the Soviet Union on Afghanistan terrain with presumably the best training our shadow government had to offer.
So, with all due respect to Messrs. Church and Nowosielski, who after all are journalists and have an obligation to reasonable circumspection, my "framing" question would be:
Why did the CIA spurn the assets and cooperation of military intelligence, and claim it would "steal the thunder" of their operation? Who gets away with such an excuse at this level of government, and why? What "sunshine" did they fear would be brought upon their own investigation (activities?) in this matter, from an intelligence branch that, after all, almost certainly was intimately involved with the Soviet-Afghanistan war mujahideen project?
This CIA - I do not trust it. It is often clownish and incompetent, but it has a dark legacy of un-American activities in its chartered pursuit of American dominance.
"But very often the CIA would just do things without regard to anyone else."
Osama bin Laden Interview with CNN Peter Bergen and Peter Arnett - 1997
*To this, reference Albarelli's A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments and any number of authoritative books on Castro and the Kennedy assassination.


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Taking a Look at the Data Behind Kimco Realty Corporation (KIM)
- Author: Darren Santiago Мая 30, 2017,
Мая 30, 2017, 5:33
Technical analysts have little regard for the value of a company. The real estate investment trust reported $1.13 EPS for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.07 by $0.06.
Wells Fargo began new coverage on CoreSite Realty Corporation giving the company a " rating.
The company has been one of the biggest innovators in "REIT - Retail" employing approximately 551 full time employees. The stock decreased 0.80% or $0.82 on May 26, reaching $101.84. About 45,913 shares traded. Realty Income Corp's dividend payout ratio is now 230.00%. It has underperformed by 24.91% the S&P500.
Caisse De Depot Et Placement Du Quebec increased its stake in Nxp Semiconductors Nv (NXPI) by 298.7% based on its latest 2016Q4 regulatory filing with the SEC. (NYSE:T). Telemus Capital Limited Liability Company accumulated 0.31% or 53,197 shares. Its up 3.01% from 16.52M shares, reported previously. The SI to Cooper Tire & Rubr Company's float is 15.42%. The stock has relative volume of 0.59. They now have a United States dollars 80 price target on the stock. It is down 51.23% since May 29, 2016 and is uptrending. The firm has "Outperform" rating given on Thursday, February 11 by Oppenheimer. Bessemer Group Inc. now owns 2,674 shares of the real estate investment trust's stock worth $154,000 after buying an additional 2,649 shares in the last quarter. It also increased its holding in Sandy Spring Bancorp Inc. Community Bank & Trust Waco Texas boosted its stake in shares of Kimco Realty Corp by 1.4% in the first quarter.
Since March 20, 2017, it had 0 insider buys, and 8 insider sales for $4.62 million activity. 141,000 shares valued at $15.31M were sold by HOLLIDAY MARC on Wednesday, December 21. DiLiberto Matthew J. also sold $3.44M worth of SL Green Realty Corp (NYSE:SLG) shares. The stock, after opening at $18.37, hit $18.03 through the close by scoring -1.8%. Wunderlich downgraded Realty Income Corp (NYSE:O) on Tuesday, February 16 to "Sell" rating. British Columbia Investment Management Corp now owns 473,979 shares of the real estate investment trust's stock worth $10,470,000 after buying an additional 137,973 shares during the period. Kimco Rlty Corp now has $7.54B valuation. Zacks.com's news article titled: "SL Green's (SLG) Unit Reckson Signs Leases at The Summit" with publication date: May 26, 2017 was also an interesting one. 95,000 SL Green Realty Corp (NYSE:SLG) shares with value of $10.56M were sold by GREEN STEPHEN L. 6,000 SL Green Realty Corp (NYSE:SLG) shares with value of $643,500 were sold by LEVY JOHN S. The insider HATKOFF CRAIG M sold 2,800 shares worth $310,940. Municipal Employees Retirement System of MI now owns 5,838 shares of the real estate investment trust's stock worth $140,000 after buying an additional 100 shares during the last quarter. SLG's profit will be $163.55 million for 15.91 P/E if the $1.60 EPS becomes a reality.Читайте также: Egypt says air strikes destroy militant camps after attack on Christians
Investors sentiment increased to 1.26 in 2016 Q4. Its down 0.10, from 1.18 in 2016Q3. 55 funds opened positions while 176 raised stakes. About 13.73 million shares traded. Andra Ap holds 0.1% of its portfolio in Kimco Realty Corp (NYSE:KIM) for 142,800 shares. Rivulet Capital Llc owns 2.88 million shares or 10.16% of their U.S. portfolio. Avondale upgraded the shares of AZPN in report on Friday, January 27 to "Mkt Outperform" rating. Finally, World Asset Management Inc boosted its stake in shares of Kimco Realty Corp by 1.3% in the third quarter. (NYSE:GTY) is -0.27%, -4.54% over the last quarter, and 7.26% for the past six months. With 1.98 million shares average volume, it will take short sellers 9 days to cover their O's short positions. Susquehanna Llp invested in 29,686 shares or 0% of the stock. Over the past twelve months, SL Green Realty Corp. Amici Capital Llc sold 190,000 shares as Model N Inc (MODN)'s stock rose 14.81%. Piedmont Inv Advisors Ltd Llc has 0% invested in SL Green Realty Corp (NYSE:SLG). Quantbot Technologies LP acquired a new stake in shares of Kilroy Realty Corp during the first quarter worth approximately $150,000.
Kimco Realty Corporation is a self-administered real estate investment trust. Schwab Charles Investment Mgmt Inc holds 28,300 shares.
Shelton Cap Management holds 0.15% or 28,788 shares in its portfolio.
Among 2 analysts covering Getty Realty Corp. The scale runs from 1 to 5 with 1 recommending Strong Buy and 5 recommending a Strong Sell. AT&T Inc. had 41 analyst reports since July 27, 2015 according to SRatingsIntel. The firm earned "Hold" rating on Monday, August 31 by Zacks. The firm has "Market Perform" rating by JMP Securities given on Friday, June 17. Jefferies maintained the stock with "Buy" rating in Tuesday, August 23 report. As per Thursday, January 5, the company rating was downgraded by Jefferies. The firm has "Sell" rating given on Monday, September 26 by UBS. Currently, the stock has a 1 Year Price Target of $24.93. The company was upgraded on Thursday, October 22 by Bank of America.При любом использовании материалов сайта и дочерних проектов, гиперссылка на обязательна.
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