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MONGOL – Chosen by Tengri
Origin: Canada
Genre: Epic Black Metal Folk Metal Melodic Death Metal
Canadian folk metallers Mongol from Devon, Alberta are back with their second full-length album "Chosen by Tengri". The band was formed in 2009 and despite their irrelevant origin, their music and concept is dedicated to the ancient nomadic empire of Mongolia! In 2012 they self-released their debut full-length album "The Altan Urug" leaving many promises for the future. Now, 2 years later, in July 2014, they return with a much more professional and multidimensional album!
There are many differences between the 2 works and compared to the debut album I see a huge improvement; actually I think there is a complete music redirection in "Chosen by Tengri". In the first album the band played technical and at times brutal death metal, adding various Mongolian folk tunes and instruments in the mix. This time though, not only they experiment with more styles, but the result is much more solid. They borrow elements from melodic death metal, epic black metal, folk metal, epic metal and Mongolian folk music, trying to create something new, instead of just combining these genres. The folk tunes and traditional acoustic instruments are less dominant now, while the overall atmosphere has a more epic Molgolian aura. The production is much better and everything sounds more natural and less distorted. Epic rhythmic guitars, melodic leads, technical riffs and solos, cooperate perfectly with epic, yet discreet synths and Mongolian traditional instruments. They add more depth and complexity in their orchestrations and at the same time everything sounds clearer and more balanced. The same goes for the vocals, where the brutal death metal growls of the past have been enriched with epic black metal screams, clean male vocals, traditional folk singing, epic choirs and few guest female vocals. "Chosen by Tengri" consists of 8 nice and diverse compositions and its total duration is over 43 minutes. All of their lyrics are in English, speaking about epic tales, myths and legends of ancient Mongolia.
"Chosen by Tengri" is a great epic folk blackened metal album with a traditional Mongolian touch, totally recommended to fans of the genre. Mongol don't focus only on this different "folk concept" though, but they try to compose good epic black death metal songs too. Everything seems more serious and professional compared to the debut, and if the band continues to improve this way, future can be bright for them! "Chosen by Tengri" is self-released by the band in a standard jewel-case edition with a 12-page booklet, illustrated by Jose Arias, including all the lyrics this time. In their official pages below, you can learn more about the band and listen to both of their albums.
Rating: (8,5/10)
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Top CSR Trends to Expect in 2022
Over the last two years, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation has worked tirelessly to support the business community as they continue to adapt and develop solutions to both new and persistent challenges facing employers, individuals, and families across the country. As we enter the third year of the pandemic, here are a few top CSR trends companies can look for.
Black-Owned Boutique Pivots in Creative Ways During COVID-19 Pandemic
The U.S. Chamber Foundation conducted a series of interviews featuring Coalition to Back Black Businesses (CBBB) grantees and their stories. We heard from Black small business owners on how the CBBB grant helped them, the impact of the pandemic on small businesses, and what Black business owners need during this challenging time.
Sara Napolitano Matz
Advancing Women's Economic Empowerment: A Global Effort
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Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of State was proud to serve as a strategic partner for the U.S.
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Inclusivity is Vital to Pandemic Recovery
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At the International Women's Day Forum, U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation's Carolyn Cawley and Synchrony's Margaret Keane discussed how businesses must create an inclusive recovery. Ensuring equal opportunity to succeed is essential as we rebuild our economy – and keeping women in the workforce is a key driver. The choices companies make today will impact our nation's progress toward closing the economic inequality gap for decades to come.
Dairy Nourishes Africa (DNA): Empowerment Through Partnership
Africa will lead the world in population growth by the end of the century, nearly doubling over the next 30 years. The rapid expansion complicates valiant efforts to eradicate poverty, combat hunger and malnutrition, and to cope with a changing climate and dramatic weather patterns. Dairy Nourishes Africa (DNA) is building a 15-20-year public-private partnership to address some of these challenges through the power of dairy and drive the accelerated transformation of African dairy industries.
Sydney Maanibe
Paving the Way to Gender Equity Through STEM Education
Shaping the future – and diversity – of the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) workforce starts with education today.
Beth Meyer
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#HerVisionforTomorrow: Q&A with Dr. Mekala Krishnan
In celebration of the U.S. Chamber Foundation's 11th Annual International Women's Day Forum on March 5, we're spotlighting inspiring women who are working to break barriers to pave a more equal, inclusive, and resilient future for women and girls around the world. Dr. Mekala Krishnan is a partner at the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI). In this role, she leads MGI's research on gender economics, inclusive growth, and economic development.
#HerVisionforTomorrow: Q&A with Shelly Bell
In celebration of Black History Month and the U.S. Chamber Foundation's 11th Annual International Women's Day Forum on March 5, we're spotlighting inspiring women who are working to break barriers to pave a more equal, inclusive, and resilient future for women and girls around the world. Shelly Bell is the founder and CEO of Black Girl Ventures, a nonprofit dedicated to creating access to capital for Black and Brown women entrepreneurs.
#HerVisionforTomorrow: Q&A with Alicia Hammond
In celebration of Black History Month and the U.S. Chamber Foundation's 11th Annual International Women's Day Forum on March 5, we're spotlighting inspiring women who are working to break barriers to pave a more equal, inclusive, and resilient future for women and girls around the world. Alicia Hammond is a Gender Specialist with the World Bank's Gender Group, where she serves as the lead on innovation and technology.

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M.C. Escher in Hermitage.
In co-operation with the Consulate-General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Dutch Days of Culture, the M.C. Escher Foundation organizes an important Escher exhibition in The State Hermitage Museum to celebrate the 300 year existence of St. Petersburg. The exhibition includes more than 80 original prints of the world-famous Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher. The exhibition will open on September 16th and runs through the end of November. It will be the first Escher exhibition in Russia, although his work is already well known given the fact that many of his popular works are published in Russian books and magazines.
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Eero Jarnefelt (1863-1937) and the family of the artists Klodt.
From September 8 till October 12, 2003 in Marble Palace. The exhibition is organized by the State Russian Museum, Helsinki Athenaeum museum, Eero Jarnefelt Society, and the Institute of Finland in St.Petersburg. It introduces the oeuvre of Eero Jarnefelt - one of the most prominent artists of "the Golden Age" in the history of Finnish art. The exposition comprises the works by Finnish and Russian artists Klodt interconnected not only by their oeuvre but also by their relative ties. Eero Jarnefelt's oeuvre is most diverse. He was a pioneer of Finnish graphic art, created altar paintings, made wall paintings on historical and mythological subjects. In the late works of the artist we find satirical portrayal of folk life, which is most uncommon for Finnish art.
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The exhibition of the icons of the Mother of God in Pskov
The exhibition "Holy Pokrov in Russia" will be opened in Mandative chamber of Pskov museum-reserve on 24 October at 4 p.m. The exposition will be devoted to the icons of the Mother of God, which were made from the end of VIII till the beginning of XX century. 27 icons from funds of Pskov reserve museum will be exhibit for the first time.
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Petersburg Autumn Photomarathon 2003
There is a Traditional the 4th Autumn Photomarathon in Petersburg during the October. It's a big festival of photography, which the sixth year is successively carried out in our city. This year a mainframe of festival is devoted to cinema. The official opening of festival on October, 4 at 16.00 in The Museum of Nonconformist art (the Art Center " Pushkinskaya 10 ", annex D, Ligovskiy 53).
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The exhibition "The antiquities of Kyrgyzstan"
The exhibition "The antiquities of Kyrgyzstan" is opened in the Armory of Moscow Kremlin museums. The exposition tells us about history of ancient people, who lived in the Tien Shan Mountains and valleys, and demonstrates us cultural artifacts and art of different epochs.
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Russians in Helsinki.
The State Museum of History of Saint Petersburg and Museum of Helsinki city invite you to an exhibition "Russians in Helsinki ". It is going to be opened till 12 October. The exhibits submitted at the exhibition from the Museum of Helsinki city: picturesque and graphic products, photos, archival materials, cards, subjects of a life - will tell about history of mutual relations of two states - Russia and Finland; about "Russian" history of the Finnish capital - Helsinki during the period from 1809 till 1917 - time when Finland was part of Russian empire.
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The painting and the graphics by Vera Phavorskaya and Ivan Chekmazov
The Ministry of culture of Russian Federation and the State Tretyakov Gallery present an exhibition "Vera Phavorskaya (1896-1977), Ivan Chekmazov (1901-1961). The painting, the graphics. From museums and private collections of Moscow. " The exhibition will take course till 19 October. This exhibition in Tretyakov Gallery for the first time represents the full-scale heritage of artists, including works 1910-s-1920-s years.
The State Tretyakov Gallery
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A collection of natural anomalies.
The State Darwin Museum invites you to visit the exhibition "Grimaces of nature", it is going to work till 9 November. The author of the exhibition Roman Kaliev is a taxidermist; he collects trophies of the chase, which represents nature anomalies - very rare developments. The majority of an anomalies submitted in this collection have appeared without direct or indirect intervention of a man, it is valid deviations from the norm, allowable and determined by the nature.
The State Darwin Museum
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The weapon and regalia of the Second World War.
The exhibition "The weapon and regalia of the Second World War: Soviet Union - Third Reich" was opened in the Yaroslavl state historic-architectural and art museum-reserve. It's going to be opened till 18 December. It's constructed on the basis of museum assembly and at participation of the Yaroslavl collector who has collected rich materials on history of armed forces, propagation, and a life of the Third Reich.
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The second museum forum "A State and an Art"
The Moscow government, the Committee on culture of Moscow city and the Museum of history of Moscow city lead The Moscow International museum forum "A State and an Art" since 15 October till 15 November in Moscow. The theme of this forum - "A state and a capital" - is of current interest because of huge geopolitical and social changes in our country, Europe and in the whole world on the border of XX and XXI centuries. During the Forum you will be able to visit a lot of exhibitions, concerts, presentations of new museum programs, master-classes, dramatized representations and other arrangements.
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The exhibition of works by D.M. Sharhovskiy.
The Ministry of culture of Russian Federation and the State Tretyakov Gallery present the exhibition "Dmitriy Sharhovskiy. The sculpture, monumental and decorative art and the graphics art." You can visit it till 26 October in Tretyakov Gallery.
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Cuba rejects new US policy, saying pressure will not work
Tuesday, 20 Jun, 2017
Protesters storm town hall as anger grows over London fire
She met with injured survivors in hospital on Friday, visiting Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, which is treating eight people. But the Conservative leader of the local council, Nick Paget-Brown, said he and others had been working hard.
Donald Trump on Twitter: agenda doing well despite 'withhunt'
Thursday, Trump griped he was receiving unfair treatment from investigators compared with his election opponent, Hillary Clinton. Rosenstein testified under oath this week that he would not fire Mueller without good cause and that none exists.
Zidane can stay at Real Madrid for life, says Perez
Cristiano Ronaldo stole the show during the UEFA Champions League final between Real Madrid and Juventus on Saturday. Ronaldo was delighted to see his son's fantastic football skills after a huge victory in the Champions League finals.
Carnage at US Open as world's top three sent packing
Fowler wasted no time in exploiting the conditions after teeing off on the 10th, rattling off four quick birdies to be four under. Fowler, who shared the 36-hole lead at the Masters in April, never came seriously close to bogey because he was never in trouble.
Admin revokes blocked program to protect immigrant parents
We will keep working to educate our community. "He still has four years to go", she said. "Like you're neither here nor there". Arizona has the seventh-largest number of DACA recipients in the country, with 51,000 approved to date, according to U.S.
Sen. Kamala Harris goes after Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions
But he did not cite any specific DOJ rules, although he continued to refer to an established set of policy as if it existed. Previously, members on The Hill were nearly always old, White, and male. "I was not interrupted", Mr Wyden said.
Two Australians confirmed dead in London Bridge terror attack
Melissa McMullan said authorities would not be able to formally identify him until a coroner's report was released. The son's employer, HSBC, has provided the services of a private detective to aide in the hunt for information.
UK Parliament opening date set, suggesting Tory deal reached
Downing Street sources told our correspondent talk of a delay in announcing a deal was "not coming from us". The leader of Britain's House of Commons says the state opening of Parliament will take place on June 21.
About $4 million raised for London fire victims
There have been demands for answers as to how the blaze was able to engulf the building, trapping many on the upper floors. Questions too over whether local authority cuts and a lack of fire prevention measures contributed to the disaster.
Portuguese radio says 25 people killed in forest fires
Costa tweeted his "deepest regret for the victims. and a word of encouragement and strength for all who help combat this scourge". It is not yet known what caused the fire , however Mr Costa said thunderstorms could have been one possible cause.
Congress seeks normalcy, heads back to work after shooting
Michael Phelps will be back in the water to race
Ohio Congressman played in baseball game to honor Scalise
India wary of mercurial Pakistan in Champions Trophy finale
Wife: Man who shot congressman wanted to work on tax policy
Sir John Major is 'concerned wary and dubious' over DUP confidence deal
Scalise on the mend, now in 'serious' condition
Former NBA player Dennis Rodman arrives in North Korea
DUP head: Talks with UK Conservatives going well
New York Times sues FBI to get notes of Comey-Trump talks
The Russian Foreign Ministry has criticized President Donald Trump's decision to freeze a detente with Cuba and his verbal attack on the Caribbean island's leaders.
"I'm trying to reverse the dynamic: I'm trying to create a Cuban business sector that now goes to the Cuban government and pressures them to create changes".
Rodriguez also criticized Trump's pledge to "empower the Cuban people to develop greater economic and political liberty".
The Trump Administration argues that very real human rights dilemmas in Cuba justify resuming embargo policies. Even the Cuban-American population largely favored Obama's rapprochement with Cuba, with 51% of Cuban-Americans supporting it.
Tourism travel will further be restricted to include only group travel for all non-academic visits. It is also likely that there will be more strict enforcement of OFAC regulations on returning travelers, particularly those traveling individually, and requests for proof of activities and expenditures. Jeff Flake, who recently helped reintroduce the Freedom for Americans to Travel to Cuba Act.
The Cuban Foreign Minister saw a silver lining in Mr Trump's announcement.
It is not entirely clear how broad these restrictions will be, as apparently current deals, such as Marriot's management of the Gaviota-owned Four Points Sheraton in Havana, will be allowed to continue.
"Unfortunately, progress under the new policy has not materialized". In the first four months of 2017, the US has exported over $83 million worth of goods and services to the island. Since Dec. 17, 2014, the Obama administration issued six rounds of regulatory changes that eased travel and trade restrictions on Cuba.
Louisiana leaders expected to grab most of the USA trade market with Cuba if restrictions were lifted-an expected $500 million to $600 million for Louisiana over the first five years, much of that in agriculture products like rice, soybeans and poultry. He's warned that returning to a "get tough" policy hurts everyday Cubans whose livelihoods are increasingly rooted in travel and tourism. Many came in under the self-directed "people to people" category, which Trump is eliminating. These results may explain why Donald Trump lost Miami-Dade County and the surrounding areas. Senator Marco Rubio, the Cuban-American Republican who represents Florida, traveled on Air Force One to the event with Trump, alongside Representative Mario Diaz-Balart, a Florida Republican who is the son of Cuban refugees.
Reinstating limits on U.S. citizens' and United States permanent residents' ability to travel to Cuba - President Trump's policy would revoke the individual people-to-people travel authorization issued by the Obama administration in March 2016.
And the three added: "Soon the Cuban people will be free". Be mindful that Cuba's pals are Venezuela, Russia and China.
The Cuban foreign minister said Trump's hope of separating the people from the military, who were simply "the people in uniform", was "infantile". With Cubans having increased access to information and entertainment sources from around the world, as well as more contact with worldwide visitors, there is a worry that any protests or widespread social anger would quickly overwhelm the regime's means of control.
As a part of the deal forged with Cuban President Raul Castro, Obama eased economic and trade restrictions that dated back to the USA embargo on Cuba that began in the 1960s.
The United States Tour Operators Association (USTOA) also expressed its dismay at Trump's decision.
Shakur was granted asylum by Fidel Castro after she escaped from the prison where she was serving a sentence for killing a New Jersey state trooper in 1973 during a gun battle after being stopped on the New Jersey Turnpike. "We will stop looking to topple regimes and overthrow governments". It appears from the numbers that Cuba presents a positive trade relationship for the U.S. dating back to 1992, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
President Trump said Friday that his new policy would be nothing short of "regime change" for Cuba. How many Americans will be put out of work by this foolish political stunt?
British PM vows to fight terror 'whoever is responsible'
Trump thrusts US, Cuba back toward hostile relations
US college student released by North Korea home, but in coma
Amazon-Whole Foods Marriage Could Disrupt Grocery Business (NASDAQ:AMZN)
US Open leaderboard crowded at the top
Protesters storm local town hall after deadly London fire
Would-be gunman launched into Trump tirade before shooting
Russian airstrike may have killed IS leader in Syria, says Defense Ministry
Britain-EU Brexit talks to start Monday as planned
House Republicans warned of prospect for 2018 midterm losses
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According to blink-182, Age Clearly Doesn't Matter
This past Sunday, blink-182 brought their Enema of The State 20th Anniversary tour to Toronto's Budweiser Stage. It was a perfect night along the water for a full show of nostalgia, blow up aliens and Travis Barker in a hamster ball.
Enema of the State, 1999
For support, blink-182 brought along Neck Deep from the UK and Canada's own Simple Plan. The boys from Montreal were given a full hour, and had fans so into the set, they probably could have done more. All the hits from your angsty childhood were on display, including Shut Up, Addicted and I'd Do Anything. From there, they dove into the pop-rock world they explored in the later 2000's with Jet Lag and Your Love Is A Lie. To conclude, the boys lead by front man Pierre Bouvier, ended with the smash hits I'm Just A Kid, and Perfect. And perfect the set was...
Once all the former punk canucks were warmed up, blink hit the stage and began performing their 1999, multi-platinum selling album Enema of the State. The album was played in full, and at first I thought this would be a little off setting. How could you possibly not have All The Small Things, as your encore? Their biggest hit was about 25 minutes into their set, but it worked.
After the full run through of Enema, the boys did an acoustic portion on the lawns, followed by a Travis Barker drum solo worthy of a Cirque du Soleil performance. The legendary drummer, was strapped into a giant hamster ball, where his kit did everything from rotations, turns and flips. His drumming perfection was paired with a Skrillex style backing track, which left fans both stunned, surprised and satisfied.
To conclude to band pulled out hits, I Miss You and First Date. Fans from all levels were jumping around as if they were a teenager back in 1999, and judging by the young age of some of the fans (including myself), it seems like blink have brought around a new generation of fans too. Having not been to a blink show during their prime, I can't compare back to their older days, however, the amount of energy and enthusiasm brought by the band was parallel to a modern day rock band filled with kids in their 20's. You could tell by the looks on their faces, that everything was left on stage. It's obvious these, now family men, are still loving what they do 20 years later.
blink-182 at Toronto's Budweiser Stage
Despite the recent health issues from Travis Barker, or ongoing rumours of reunions with original guitarist Tom DeLong, none of that seemed to show on stage. Blink brought their eh-game to Toronto on Sunday, and proved that not remembering your age, clearly doesn't matter.
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II. That Jonathan, who was heir to the crown, entered into covenant with him, God so ordering it, that David's way might be the clearer when his rival was his friend. 1. Jonathan conceived an extraordinary kindness and affection for him (v. 1): When he had made an end of speaking to Saul he fell perfectly in love with him. Whether it refers to his conference with Saul before the battle (ch. xvii. 34, 37), or to that after (v. 51), in which it is probable much more was said than is there set down, is uncertain. But, in both, David expressed himself with so much prudence, modesty, and piety, such a felicity of expression, with so much boldness and yet so much sweetness, and all this so natural and unaffected, and the more surprising because of the disadvantages of his education and appearance, that the soul of Jonathan was immediately knit unto the soul of David. Jonathan had formerly set upon a Philistine army with the same faith and bravery with which David had now attacked a Philistine giant; so that there was between them a very near resemblance of affections, dispositions, and counsels, which made their spirits unite to easily, so quickly, so closely, that they seemed but as one soul in two bodies. None had so much reason to dislike David as Jonathan had, because he was to put him by the crown, yet none regards him more. Those that are governed in their love by principles of wisdom and grace will not suffer their affections to be alienated by any secular regards or considerations: the greater thoughts will swallow up and overrule the less. 2. He testified his love to David by a generous present he made him, v. 4. He was uneasy at seeing so great a soul, though lodged in so fair a body, yet disguised in the mean and despicable dress of a poor shepherd, and therefore takes care to put him speedily into the habit of a courtier (for he gave him a robe) and of a soldier, for he gave him, instead of his staff and sling, a sword and bow, and, instead of his shepherd's scrip, a girdle, either a belt or a sash; and, which made the present much more obliging, they were the same that he himself had worn, and (as a presage of what would follow) he stripped himself of them to dress David in them. Saul's would not fit him, but Jonathan's did. Their bodies were of a size, a circumstance which well agreed with the suitableness of their minds. When Saul put these marks of honour on David he put them off again, because he would first earn them and then wear them; but, now that he had given proofs of the spirit of a prince and a soldier, he was not ashamed to wear the habits of a prince and a soldier. David is seen in Jonathan's clothes, that all may take notice he is a Jonathan's second self. Our Lord Jesus has thus shown his love to us, that he stripped himself to clothe us, emptied himself to enrich us; nay, he did more than Jonathan, he clothed himself with our rags, whereas Jonathan did not put on David's. 3. He endeavored to perpetuate this friendship. So entirely satisfied were they in each other, even at the first interview, that they made a covenant with each other, v. 3. Their mutual affection was sincere; and he that bears an honest mind startles not at assurances. True love desires to be constant. Those who love Christ as their own souls will be willing to join themselves to him in an everlasting covenant.
David Honoured by the People; Saul Troubled with an Evil Spirit.
David Marries Saul's Daughter; Saul's Jealousy of David.
I. See how Saul expressed his malice against David. 1. He was afraid of him, v. 12. Perhaps he pretended to be afraid that David would do himself mischief, to force his way to the crown. Those that design ill against others are commonly willing to have it thought that others design ill against them. But David's withdrawal (v. 11) was a plain evidence that he was far from such a thought. However, he really stood in awe of him, as Herod feared John, Mark vi. 20. Saul was sensible that he had lost the favourable presence of God himself, and that David had it, and for this reason he feared him. Note, Those are truly great and to be reverenced that have God with them. The more wisely David behaved himself the more Saul feared him, v. 15, and again v. 29. Men think the way to be feared is to hector and threaten, which makes them feared by fools only, but despised by the wise and good; whereas the way to be both feared and loved, feared by those to whom we would wish to be a terror and loved by those to whom we would wish to be a delight, is to behave ourselves wisely. Wisdom makes the face to shine and commands respect. 2. He removed him from court, and gave him a regiment in the country, v. 13. He made him captain over 1000, that he might be from under his eye, because he hated the sight of him; and that he might not secure the interest of the courtiers. Yet herein he did impolitely; for it gave David an opportunity of ingratiating himself with the people, who therefore loved him (v. 16) because he went out and came in before them, that is, he presided in the business of his country, civil as well as military, and have universal satisfaction. 3. He stirred him up to take all occasions of quarrelling with the Philistines and engaging them (v. 17), insinuating to him that hereby he would do good service to his prince (be thou valiant for me), and good service to his God (fight the Lord's battles), and a kindness to himself too, for hereby he would qualify himself for the honour he designed him, which was to marry his eldest daughter to him. This he had merited by killing Goliath, for it was promised by proclamation to him that should do that exploit (ch. xvii. 25); but David was so modest as not to demand it, and now, when Saul proposed it, it was with design of mischief to him, to make him venture upon hazardous attempts, saying in his heart, Let the hand of the Philistines be upon him, hoping that he would some time or other be the death of him; yet how could he expect this when he saw that God was with him? 4. He did what he could to provoke him to discontent and mutiny, by breaking his promise with him, and giving his daughter to another when the time came that she should have been given to him, v. 19. This was as great an affront as he could possibly put upon him, and touched him both in his honour and in his love. He therefore thought David's resentment of it would break out in some indecency or other, in word or deed, which might give him an advantage against him to take him off by the course of law. Thus evil men seek mischief. 5. When he was disappointed in his, he proffered him his other daughter (who it seems had a secret kindness for David, v. 20), but with this design, that she might be a snare to him, v. 21. (1.) Perhaps he hoped that she would, even after her marriage to David, take part with her father against her husband, and give him an opportunity of doing David an unkindness. However, (2.) The conditions of the marriage, he hoped, would be his destruction; for (so zealous will Saul seem against the Philistines) the conditions of the marriage must be that he killed 100 Philistines, and, as proofs that those he had slain were uncircumcised, he must bring in their foreskins cut off; this would be a just reproach upon the Philistines, who hated circumcision as it was an ordinance of God; and perhaps David, in doing this, would the more exasperate them against him, and make them seek to be revenged on him, which was the thing that Saul desired and designed, much more than to be avenged on the Philistines: For Saul thought to make David fall by the Philistines, v. 25. See here, [1.] What cheats bad men put upon themselves. Saul's conscience would not suffer him, except when the evil spirit was actually upon him, to aim at David's life himself, for even he could not but conceive a horror at the thought of murdering such an innocent and excellent person; but he thought that to expose him designedly to the Philistines had nothing bad in it (Let not my hand be upon him, but the hand of the Philistines), whereas that malicious design against him was as truly murder before God as if he had slain him with his own hands. [2.] What cheats they put upon the world. Saul pretended extraordinary kindness for David even when he aimed at his ruin, and was actually plotting it: Thou shalt be my son-in-law, says he (v. 21), notwithstanding he hated him implacably. Perhaps David refers to this when (Ps. lv. 21) he speaks of his enemy as one whose words were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart. It is probable that Saul's employing his servants to persuade David to enter into a treaty of a match with his daughter Michal (v. 22) arose from an apprehension that either his having cheated him about his elder daughter (v. 19) or the hardness of the terms he intended now to propose would make him decline it.
2. When it was proposed to him to be son-in-law to the king he once and again received the proposal with all possible modesty and humility. When Saul proposed his elder daughter to him (v. 18) he said, Who am I, and what is my life? When the courtier proposed the younger, he took no notice of the affront Saul had put upon him in disposing of the elder from him, but continued in the same mind (v. 23): Seemeth it a light thing to you to be a king's son-in-law, seeing that I am a poor man and lightly esteemed? He knew Michal loved him, and yet did not offer to improve his interest in her affections for the gaining of her without her father's consent, but waited till it was proposed to him. And then see, (1.) How highly he speaks of the honour offered him: To be son-in-law to the king. Though his king was but an upstart, in his original as mean as himself, in his management no better than he should be, yet, being a crowned head, he speaks of him and the royal family with all due respect. Note, Religion is so far from teaching us to be rude and unmannerly that it does not allow us to be so. We must render honour to whom honour is due. (2.) How humbly he speaks of himself: Who am I? This did not proceed from a mean, abject, sneaking spirit, for when there was occasion he made it appear that he had as high a sense of honour as most men; nor was it from his jealousy of Saul (though he had reason enough to fear a snake under the green grass), but from him true and deep humility: Who am I, a poor man, and lightly esteemed? David had as much reason as any man to value himself. He was of an ancient and honourable family of Judah, a comely person, a great statesman and soldier; his achievements were great, for he had won Goliath's head and Michal's heart. He knew himself destined by the divine counsels to the throne of Israel, and yet, Whom am I, and what is my life? Note, It well becomes us, however God has advanced us, always to have low thoughts of ourselves. He that humbleth himself shall be exalted. And, if David thus magnified the honour of being son-in-law to the king, how should we magnify the honour of being sons (not in law, but in gospel) to the King of kings! Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us! Who are we that we should be thus dignified?


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More good news:
Yesterday November 7th was the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinians. Young people gathered at 6 pm in many towns and villages on the WB to chant "Mawtini" (My Homeland) I'd say sort of in defiance of the Palestinian Authority since the official anthem as dictated by the PLO since 1996 has been warrior-like anthem named "Fida'i" that sang the glory of the fighters of the fedayeen resistance.
Mawtini was on the soft idealistic and romantic side about Palestinians aspiring for independence written in 1934 by Palestinian poet Ibrahim Tuqan. Yes , there were Palestinians around in 1934 aspiring for a state of their own and Mawtini became the de facto national anthem of Palestine until the PLO changed things.
Yesterday's chanting of "Mawtini" instead of the PLO's "Fida'i was a turning point for Palestinians.
Sadly in 2004 in Iraq under the American occupation, American Governor Paul Bremer decided all on his own that "Mawtini" would henceforth be the national anthem of Iraq, eliminating the current anthem "Ard Alforatain" that had been in use since 1961. Maybe the Palestinians are now claiming it back.
Mawtini with English subtitles:
On 'Netanyahu destroyed hope' — Erekat,
Donald, the outfit that did the hatchet job on Tarazi-Buto was the conservative London think tank "Adam Smith Institute" through one of its subs the "Negotiations Support Unit" (NSU) that funded the PA and that "helped" them out in their negotiations. The monies to the effort were actually paid by the British Government and funneled to the PA via the NSU of the Adam Smith Institute.
Abbas disbanded the negotiations unit when it was discovered that 3 of its employees had leaked the 1600 documents to Al-Jazeera. Excerpt from the same article in which Khaled Amayreh wrote:
"… The NSU is funded and effectively controlled by the Adam Smith Institute (ASI), a think-tank based in London which is vulnerable to pressure from pro- Israeli circles. For example, two years ago, the ASI forced the NSU to fire two highly-qualified Palestinian-American lawyers, Michael Tarazi and Diana Butto, for going too far in defending Palestinian rights, especially during TV debates with Israeli spokesmen. According to inside sources, one of the persons who pushed for firing the two Palestinian-American lawyers is Glenn Robinson, the author or co-author of the controversial RAND project "The Arc: A Formal Structure for a Palestinian State". Eventually, Tarazi and Butto were accused by pro-Israeli lobbyists, including some British MPs, of hindering the development of the Palestinian Ministry of Information and of not ensuring sufficient coordination with the PLO. Of course, these accusations were merely red herrings…."
For the full story, go to the Adam Smith Institute and from there in the article to the section "Palestinian Negotiating Unit" halfway down in the article.
http://powerbase.info/index.php/Adam_Smith_International
"Until big-money (corporate and personal) is removed from politics, we all (the world all) loses everything to corporate power" (Pabelmont)
Compare between the US and Canada electoral financing laws in how much a political candidate is allowed to receive in direct and indirect contributions and how he is limited in the amount he is allowed to spend on his campaign. Very hard to buy a rep in Canada with the low limits.
Quick question for Palestine watchers: which has resigned or threatened to resign and backtracked the most often, Erekat or Abbas?
When they fired the dynamic PR team of Michael Tarazzi and Diana Buto at the request of the Zionists it showed them up. The very fluent duo (he an American and she a Canadian) were constantly on American TV delivering the Palestinian message very efficiently for a change and giving a completely different and positive picture of Palestinians from the one that had been propagated by the Zionists, which cost them their jobs.
"Please Mr. Erekat go, with Abbas and families, to Paris, London and enjoy the luxury you have earned with your partnership with Zionism." (peeesss)
My gut feeling is telling me when the time for the greener pastures arrive, it will be somewhere in Connecticut.
Netanyahu wasn't alone in destroying hope, he had help from the inside. The only negotiations of note reported on the Palestinian side were those in which Erekat and his team made one concession after another. The Jazeera-leaked Palestine Papers 5 years ago showed the extent of what the Palestinian negotiators had given away. Erekat says one thing like in this BBC interview but his actions go in the opposite direction
According to Jazzera, the documents contain frank admissions in which Tzipi Livni says:
"Israel takes more land [so] that the Palestinian state will be impossible . . . the Israel policy is to take more and more land day after day and that at the end of the day we'll say that is impossible, we already have the land and we cannot create the state". She conceded that it had been the policy of the government for a really long time.
The Jazeera article went on to say:
"Saeb Erekat, an old-time Fatah operative, is in trouble because he is revealed to have offered the Israelis much of East Jerusalem. He is also said to have been convinced by the Israelis that the future Palestinian state would not have an army, air force or navy (i.e. it would lack sovereignty over its own territory and would only be an ersatz state). Even then, the Israelis kept demanding more and more."
From other Jazeera leaked papers, Erekat, he reportedly accepted to have a token number of returnees to Israel, some absurd number like 5,000 (from a pool of over 5 million refugees.) and that it would be spread over a period of several years.
At just about the time of the release of the Jazeera Papers, that caused him to resign for 20 minutes before returning to his job. Erekat and 6 other Palestinian leaders made an ad for Israeli TV for a campaign called "Partners to Peace)". Here's Erekat's contribution in which he apologizes to Israel for the Palestinians' failure to conclude a peace deal:
"Bra burning was a bad thing?" (Kris)
Of course not, Kris. I sarcastically used the term for its 60s symbolism of women's rights to describe my impression of this religious movement that I had never heard of until it was mentioned here and read about. A more up-to-date symbolism I should have perhaps used was the Femen (topless) movement that in early September disrupted a controversial conference near Paris on the role of Muslim women. It doesn't bother me if Moslem men and women pray together in the same room. I took off on a tangent with this sect about having covered Christian objects in a Christian church that had graciously let them use the church, that's all.
On Video: Two prominent Israelis envision replacing Dome of the Rock with Jewish temple,
"but they (the wives) continued being referred to by the people as "Jews" and "Christians" 15th Factually incorrect statement
(Zaid)
That should have been error number 16, Zaid, number 15 is already given out. The story about the horns on the horse was in jest; Mooser corrected me by saying that these were "palmate antlers" that act as stabilizers in thin high altitude air. Check out the link that Mooser posted of the flying horse and you'll see what this is all about. Relax an stop taking this discussion so seriously.
Wife Rayhana, number 8 may or may not have been one of the official wives. After a monogamous 25-year life with wife number 1 and she died, the prophet had a series of about 20 wives, concubines and slaves, some of which were married to him in name only but most of the official wives had been widows that he wanted to help out. Rayhana was probably floating somewhere among these groups, which may have caused the confusion. Rayhana bint Zaid ibn Amar was a captured Jewish slave of the Banu Qurayza Jewish tribe that the Prophet defeated in battle. Wiki sums up opinions on her by Ibn Ishaq, al-Tabari and Ibn Saad via European writers as follows:
"Her (Rayhana) first husband was one of the 600-900 Qurayza men whom Muhammad beheaded in April 627. He enslaved all the women and selected Rayhana for himself because she was the most beautiful. When she refused to marry him, he kept her as a concubine instead. "
As to the adoption story that I didn't really want to get into, back then there was a religious law that prevented a man from marrying his daughter-in-law, even if she became divorced from his son, which in this story happened to involve an actually adopted son. A new celestial revelation to the father-in-law told him to abolish adoption , which he did, and made it retroactive thereby annulling his adoption of the son. Thereafter, the adopted son was no longer a son of any kind by virtue of the retro-law and his wife was free to marry her former father-in-law and the 3 went forward with a good relationship. The adopted son's name was Zaid and the infatuating wife was Zeinab bint Jahsh that became wife number 7. And that's how adoption became a no-no.
This discussion bound to take a bad turn which none of us want, so we should end it.
"Islam indeed is iconoclastic" (W Jones)
Not all od Islam, W Jones, but only a minority. The West became aware of them with the Bamyan Buddhas and did nothing about them. They went on to destroy artifacts in Iraq and now in Syria. But they have also been working in the shadows for decades. In fact Wahhabi fundamentalists for years have been into the destroying of vestiges of ancient of Moslem centuries like the house where the prophet lived, his companions; homes tombs in Saudia and so on al on the premise it's to prevent the faithful from turning these places into objects of adoration
"And then you go on to slam them some more." (Mooser)
You're not a closet Mooooselim, are you?


"If u want to go fast, go alone, if u want to go far, go together." —African proverb.
These profound words stared up at me as I flipped through an old—and what I had mistaken for a blank—journal last night. As I looked at the old notes, the quote, my sense memory reminded me of the dynamic and emotional journey it was to write my way through that journal, and what poetry it had been to find that perfectly timed, poignant and profound proverb—an offering to make a decision for my life's trajectory.
I remember, distinctly, having holed up in my apartment during a fierce blizzard this past winter. I bundled up into my favorite cuddly sweats and spewed the outline of a story out onto the pages of that little journal. I had just suffered through a wretched break up with my ex, and—as often happens to many of us sentient beings—my emotions were coming—nay, pouring out through one of my preferred media of creativity. At first when I had sat down, I had thought I should've tried to funnel my story through the filter of a book, a narrative in which I had ultimate control over each character, each detail of the setting, of each scene, each morsel, component of the world that I had envisioned. But, the story was not meant for a reading audience. It was meant for a viewing audience. It was meant for the screen—or at least that was the message that I had been repeatedly receiving each time my hands moved closer to my keyboard.
However, I hesitated giving in to the impulse. Frankly, I was scared. I had never written a screenplay before, and this fear was paralyzing my hands, petrifying my confidence, and stifling the beautiful story that was banging on the door of my consciousness to escape. I knew the world of film and television was highly collaborative—as an actor, it was one of the most brilliant and exciting aspects of my chosen industry. There was truly no such thing as creating something then following it through to completion in a vacuum, by yourself. I had had a somewhat keen awareness of this from the vantage point of performance and production after a script had been printed and ready. However, I knew that I had no idea about all of the intricacies required to create one from scratch. I only knew that it was something I hadn't done before, and my fear was telling me to stick with what I knew. But creativity is a feisty muse, and often stubborn in how it likes to burst out of its host and romp in the world.
I decided to bite the bullet, to sideline my fear momentarily, and write a screenplay. Or at least what had looked like a screenplay…which may have just been a story in the Final Draft format of a script. The new challenge of being so economical with my words, of using those precious few words to convey tone, emotion, a world of personality as well as narrative so that my vision of this newly created world wouldn't be lost in the myriad of crew members and executive who could potentially collaborate on the project, was fiercely daunting—much more so than a short story or book. I had no idea what I was doing. However, once I had given permission to my creative genies to come out in the form of a screenplay, I finished it in ten days.
We have all had circumstances, ideas, projects, desires that we pursue, doggedly. We have all hung on tightly to said thoughts out of fear that someone may steal them, or butcher them, or take credit for them. We have all hung on tightly to our way of being, of doing, that we have always had out of fear that we won't achieve our desired result if we don't. There's a reason that "if you want something done right, do it yourself" is so common of an anthem.
This proverbial truth had resonated instantly, in the forefront of my mind, to the core of my soul, from the deep recesses of my heart. I wasn't at all ready to make a film on my own, to take those steps alone, I needed help.
And yes, there was a chance that my worst fears would happen, but I knew from having written my first book that until you have had a piece of writing dear to you redlined to high-hell, you cannot call yourself a professional writer. Until you have had a sentence, a paragraph, an entire chapter lopped off like an appendage, and you feel the painful amputation of your idea, your spirit-on-paper, you cannot yet call yourself a professional writer. But guess what? Acknowledging then surrendering to the fact that we cannot get to the incredible apex of each of our desires without asking for help, without raising our hands despite our fear, can open us up to better, more comprehensive, more intimate, brilliant, prismatic, multi-faceted ways of doing things that can only come through a vehicle of collaboration. In other words…we learn by asking for help. We discover new things through those that know more, that think differently, that approach the same thing from a totally different vantage point.
We were not meant to go through this life experience alone. period. And that means when you feel alone in your circumstance, when you feel lonely in a room full of people, when you feel afraid to be vulnerable, to share your idea, your thoughts, your voice…take a chance. Raise your hand and ask for help. We are all in this life experience together. We all have fears and insecurities and doubts and disasters and shame and the desire to succeed. We are all human.
Put your fear aside. Use that fear for its integral purpose; allow it to help you change. Change your circumstance, your patterned thoughts, your belief structure. Change your creativity, your job, your relationship. Use it to guide you into the quintessential human life experience—to foster relationships, to cultivate intimacy. Allow it to guide you into the best, most special, sacred aspect of being human; allow it to guide you onto the leading edge of creation.
And after an intense—and collaborative—editing process with an incredible and well-established producer in the industry, my screenplay has since turned into a television series that has begun to be packaged and pitched…I could not be more appreciative for the help.


Eine schöne Fehlermeldung habe ich Montag auf dem Flughafen von Auckland gesehen.
Leider konnte nich nicht draufklicken. Schade.
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HAPPILY IMPERFECT
The random burblings of an everyday geek
On January 20, 2018 By Gordon In Weekend Reading
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Fluid Dynamics: How a Wall of Lava Lamps Helps Encrypt 10% of the Internet
Computers have a real problem when it comes generating truly random numbers, which has led one web-critical cybersecurity firm to reference an array of lava lamps to create unique and unpredictable code.
Clever and pretty. Nothing like me then!
Attitude of Optimism
"In 2018, how about cultivating an attitude of optimism? Not as a judgement, or a reaction to the world around you, but as a choice, by which you navigate and affect the world around you."
Much needed in the wake of 2017.
Inside One of America's Last Pencil Factories
A pencil is a little wonder-wand: a stick of wood that traces the tiniest motions of your hand as it moves across a surface. I am using one now, making weird little loops and slashes to write these words. As a tool, it is admirably sensitive.
It's almost enough to make me go back to using a pencil… almost.
Apple and the Alexa Ecosystem
I recently read two interesting takes on the ever-growing Alexa ecosystem as it relates to Apple that made me think about the future of Siri and HomeKit.
The future is not connected. It never will be.
Uber's Secret Tool for Keeping the Cops in the Dark
In May 2015 about 10 investigators for the Quebec tax authority burst into Uber Technologies Inc.'s office in Montreal. The authorities believed Uber had violated tax laws and had a warrant to collect evidence. Managers on-site knew what to do, say people with knowledge of the event.
ANOTHER reason not to use Uber.
Salar de Uyuni is the World's Largest Natural Mirror
When you think about the most beautiful places in the world, you probably think of mountains or forests.
Gorgeous (nothing like m… etc etc)
An Open Letter to the Box of Loose Cables in My Closet
I know you're hurting. The distance is killing me too. Last night, I woke up in a cold sweat to the thought of not having immediate access to you.
Funny cos true.
'Why Am I So Lazy?'
Why am I so lazy? As long as I can remember, I've always done as little as possible to still get the job done, to still get the A, to get the extra credit and be the teacher's pet.
This is the view I have of myself. It's not the reality but persists. I am lazy.
The mystery of Jesus, the naked hippie dancer
For decades, William Jellett danced at gigs and festivals, and told people he was the Son of God. Then, it seemed, he disappeared. It was a Saturday evening, St Valentine's Day 1970, when William Jellett first thought he might be Jesus.
Fascinating, if long, story of a legend I knew nothing about.
British tourist missing in Israel may have Jerusalem syndrome
Israeli authorities are searching for a British man who is missing in the Negev desert amid fears that he could be suffering from Jerusalem syndrome, a psychiatric condition whose sufferers believe they are prophets or other biblical figures.
See previous link. Baader Meinhof at play?
John Humphrys' attitude to equal pay highlights the BBC's impartiality problem
Of the many things I have learned life is too short for – making your own puff pastry, monogamy, trying to have a proper drink in the interval at the theatre – top of my list is getting in a mobile-broadcast van outside my house in my nightie to be hooked up to the Today programme studio.
So much wrong with this. First things first though, why is that twat still employed by the BBC?
Kaveh Akbar Is Poetry's Biggest Cheerleader
Ever eavesdropped on two poets having a conversation at a coffee shop? Iranian-American poet Kaveh Akbar has created an online space that lets you do that without leaving your bed. How?
Not sure about the name, but this is pretty great.
Bad design in action: the false Hawaiian ballistic missile alert
The Honolulu Civil Beat has tweeted a screenshot of the interface that was used to send an real alert for a nonexistent incoming ballistic missile on Saturday morning.
Good. Grief.
Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble
The sequence of words is meaningless: a random array strung together by an algorithm let loose in an English dictionary. What makes them valuable is that they've been generated exclusively for me, by a software tool called MetaMask. In the lingo of cryptography, they're known as my seed phrase.
Finally a bitcoin article that helps me understand (some of) what it is all about.
David Byrne Launches the "Reasons to Be Cheerful" Web Site: A Compendium of News Meant to Remind Us That the World Isn't Actually Falling Apart
Whatever your ideological persuasion, our time has no doubt given you more than a few reasons to fear for the future of civilization, not least because bad news sells.
The Psychological & Neurological Disorders Experienced by Characters in Alice in Wonderland: A Neuroscience Reading of Lewis Carroll's Classic Tale
Most reputable doctors tend to refrain from diagnosing people they've never met or examined. Unfortunately, this circumspection doesn't obtain as often among lay folk. When we lob uninformed diagnoses at other people, we may do those with genuine mental health issues a serious disservice.
Might re-read the book now, will put a different spin on things.
The men and women who brought curry to Birmingham
Curry has become as much a staple of British cuisine as fish and chips or the roast dinner. An exhibition is celebrating some of the earliest curry houses in Birmingham, a city synonymous with the cuisine.
Who doesn't love a curry?
Podcast: Beautiful Anonymous
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Dogodki
 Filip II. Makedonski vdre v današnjo Grčijo in zavzame do tedaj neodvisna grška mesta; konec makedonsko-grške vojne.
 bitka pri Hajroneji
 ustanovitev Panhelenske zveze; razglasitev koinè eiréne.

Rojstva

Smrti
 Artakserks III., perzijski kralj in faraon Egipta (* 425 pr. n. št.)

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CHARLES SAATCHI AND NIGELLA LAWSON TO DIVORCE
It follows the publication of photographs which showed him with his hands around her throat at a London restaurant in June.
Mr Saatchi, 70, who accepted a police caution for assault, told the Mail on Sunday he had "clearly been a disappointment" to his wife.
He said it was a "heartbreaking" decision for him.
Mr Saatchi said the couple had "become estranged and drifted apart" over the past year.
"I am sorry to announce that Nigella Lawson and I are getting divorced," he told the newspaper.
'Disappointed'
"I feel that I have clearly been a disappointment to Nigella during the last year or so, and I am disappointed that she was advised to make no public comment to explain that I abhor violence of any kind against women, and have never abused her physically in any way."
"I am sorry that we had a row. I am sorry she was upset. I am even more sorry that this is the end of our marriage," he added.
The pictures of the couple at a restaurant in Mayfair, central London, showed Mr Saatchi grasping his wife's neck.
The images, which were first published in the Sunday People, provoked a public debate about domestic violence among the rich and famous.
Mr Saatchi dismissed the incident as "a playful tiff" but later accepted a police caution for assault, saying he had done so to stop the incident "hanging over" them.
Ms Lawson has made no comment since the incident.
Mr Saatchi, a former advertising executive, is a well known art collector and owner of the Saatchi Gallery.
He donated his Chelsea art gallery, including more than 200 works of art, to the British public in 2010.
He and Ms Lawson have been married since 2003.
She has two children, Cosima and Bruno, from her marriage to journalist John Diamond, who died in 2001.
Ms Lawson first began a restaurant column in The Spectator in 1985 and by the following year had become deputy literary editor of The Sunday Times.
She then went on to write the book How to Eat, followed by the award-winning book, How to be a Domestic Goddess.
Her television cookery programmes - including Nigella Bites and Nigella's Christmas Kitchen - have brought her international fame.
source: www.bbc.co.uk


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Obituary: Nancy Sinatra Snr
Frank Sinatra's long-suffering first wife and mother of three of his children
NANCY WITH THE LAUGHING FACE: Frank and Nancy Sinatra Snr leaving a Hollywood nightclub in October 1946. Photo: AP
July 22 2018 18:30 PM
Nancy Sinatra Snr, who has died aged 101, was Frank Sinatra's first wife and the mother of his three eldest children.
https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/obituary-nancy-sinatra-snr-37141852.html
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The daughter of a plasterer, she was born Nancy Barbato on March 25, 1917 into a large Italian-American family, and was 17 when she met the 19-year-old Sinatra in 1934 at the New Jersey holiday resort of Long Branch, where he was working as a lifeguard.
When they began dating, Sinatra's indomitable mother Dolly was initially suspicious but soon decided that a meek little girl from a devout Catholic family would not stand in the way of her son's ambitions.
When they got engaged, Sinatra was so broke he did not have the money to buy Nancy a ring, so he gave her his mother's. Yet even then Sinatra was indulging in the womanising that would eventually destroy his marriage.
In 1938 Dolly orchestrated a job for her son as a $15-a-week singing waiter at the Rustic Cabin in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, where in November Sinatra became involved in a dispute between Nancy and Toni Della Penta, another girl he was dating. When Toni tried to tear off Nancy's dress in a jealous rage, Sinatra told Toni he intended to marry Nancy because she was pregnant (untrue as it turned out).
Furious, the rejected girlfriend then went to the police claiming that Sinatra was refusing to honour a marriage proposal he had made to her before sleeping with her. Sinatra was arrested for seduction, his initial charge sheet stating that "on the second and ninth days of November 1938 at the Borough of Lodi" and "under promise of marriage" he "did then and there have sexual intercourse with the said complainant, who was a single female of good repute". When it emerged that Toni was married, Sinatra was arrested a second time and charged with adultery.
Both charges were eventually dropped and in 1939 Sinatra kept his word to Nancy by marrying her at Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic church in Jersey City, having, it was said, promised never to look at another woman again.
There were lean years after they married. Nancy made her own clothes and sewed her husband ties from old dresses. She would order spaghetti with tomato sauce because meat sauce was too expensive.
They had three children: Nancy, born in 1940; Frank Jr, born in 1944; and Tina, born in 1948. But within a year of their marriage, Frank was cheating on Nancy and by the time they moved to Los Angeles from New Jersey, he was becoming involved in numerous liaisons, shunning home comforts as he embarked on a jet-set life.
One of his relationships, with a showgirl called Dorothy Bunocelli, resulted in the birth of a daughter, born in 1943.
According to the memoirs of Tina Sinatra, Nancy was deeply hurt by her husband's infidelities, though the pair only separated after Sinatra's affair with Ava Gardner made world headlines in 1949.
In 1950 Nancy was granted a legal separation because of her husband's mental cruelty, though it was only in 1976, after Sinatra's marriage to his fourth wife, Barbara Marx, that he had his marriage to Nancy annulled by the Catholic Church. (A newspaper headline asked, "Did Frank Make the Vatican an Offer It Couldn't Refuse?").
Yet Nancy remained close to her ex-husband until his death in 1998. Indeed it was said that they saw more of each other after their marriage ended than they had before.
In an article in Vanity Fair in 2015, their granddaughter AJ Lambert recalled: "Throughout the many years after they split, my grandfather came to visit whenever his crazy life would allow it. I can remember times when she would be on the phone with her ex-husband, and the next thing I knew some eggplant was coming out of the freezer to thaw so that she could make him some sandwiches when he showed up."
When Sinatra died, though he left most of his assets to his widow Barbara, he gave a $250,000 cash bequest to Nancy and $200,000 apiece to the couple's three children, in addition to existing trust funds.
Nancy Sinatra never remarried, though she had offers. Once asked why, she replied sardonically: "After Sinatra?"
Nancy Sinatra Sr, who died on July 13, is survived by her two daughters. Her son, Frank Jr, died in 2016.
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Barber celebrates 25 years since setting up in Guisborough
By Brian Gleeson
A BARBER shop is celebrating 25 years since opening in Chaloner Street, Guisborough.
Jimmy Jones, originally from Billingham, used to work for a barbers in Middlesbrough, and decided to branch out and have his own business.
In December 1996, he took over Dave Emms' hairdressing business in Chaloner Street, which he still has, now known as Js Gents Hairdressing.
Since then, he has expanded and now employs four staff. Mr Jones lives in Norton and travels every working day to Guisborough, which he admits can be a bit trying.
Recalling his experiences over the 25 years, he said: "I guess some of the technology has changed dramatically and it's become more of an appointment business than a walk-in. There's very little cash around now. Styles are forever changing but that's not a bad thing. It's more credit cards, mobile phones, barbering apps, also some of the equipment we use now is a lot more cordless, wi-fi based equipment and the way people can access the internet to bring new styles."
He is happy with his business and added: "This a really nice area. We're not going to expand any more, we've got a happy medium where we've got a nice working environment. At present we're going to stay as we are. If there's a need for more, then we will do more. We've had up to seven staff in the past."


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Presumably for good. Until the development is complete and the new car parking area is opened.
Losing that many car parking places all in one go is not going to play well with the town centre.
I have seen some Twitter correspondence with EHDC on this subject and it advised that "Bircherley Green's owners proposed closing the car park before xmas but, after exchanges with East Herts Council, have delayed this to the New Year. We discussed with them the possibility of operating the car park but they advised that it must close for demolition works. They were unable to specify when these works happen or any certainty beyond a month at a time. It is impractical to operate this car park on a month-by-month basis accepting all the associated liabilities. We are aware that car park use had fallen significantly and that it is due to reopen when it has been refurbished. We are concerned about the closure of the car park and its impact on Hertford town." which clearly shows it is very proactive on behalf of traders and shoppers.