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This Little Mermaid Ballet Is a Beautiful Tribute to Hans Christian Andersen
As a result of the virus in Corona, a lot of live experiences that are no longer available to the public are being shared online for free. One such is experience is the lovely Finnish ballet of "The Little Mermaid" produced by Oopera Baletti. Last night, I had the pleasure of watching the show in its entirety and found that it is not only a unique retelling of the fairy tale, but also a beautiful tribute to the story's original author, Hans Christian Andersen. Andersen plays a unique role in this ballet in which he acts as a storyteller as well as a fairy godmother of sorts for the mermaid character. I loved the elegant way that the mermaid ballerinas were portrayed in the show as well as the brief nods to Andersen's other famous works.
Though most of the story is told through dance, there were some short Finnish narrations throughout the show that I was unable to understand, so it's possible that some of my interpretation is wrong. If I'm not mistaken, this ballet submits to the theory that Hans Christian Andersen wrote "The Little Mermaid" as a metaphor for his unrequited love toward another man. Andersen led a lonely life and loved many women and men, but none of them shared his romantic affections. The Oopera Balleti portrays this with a scene in which Andersen appears to pine for the prince during a ball and angers the other members of the royal court. Andersen attempts to drown himself in shame when the prince takes pity on him. Unfortunately, when he attempts to recover Anderson's belongings from the dock, the prince falls into the water where he is rescued by the mermaid. Hans and the mermaid visit the sea witch together to ask for a way to win the prince's heart. After Hans regales her with the stories of "The Ugly Duckling" and "The Little Match Girl," the witch gives them a magic potion, but Hans chooses not to take it in order to give the mermaid her best chance.
This version of "The Little Mermaid" draws some inspiration from the Swan Lake ballet. In the same way that the Black Swan character charmed the prince away from Odette, causing her death, this show has a character who I will refer to as the "black siren," who represents the princess from "The Little Mermaid" who marries the prince after he comes to believe that she was the one who rescued him from drowning. The black siren plays a larger role in this ballet than she did in the fairy tale and her wicked intentions are less ambiguous after she steals the magic potion from Hans Christian Andersen to charm the prince for herself. The potion is the same as the one that the mermaid drinks to become human but has no physical effect on the black siren, likely because she is already beautiful and has two legs.
Hans Christian Andersen makes every effort to break up the prince and the black siren to bring him back to the little mermaid, but his efforts end in failure. After the famous scene in which the mermaid refuses to kill the prince in order to rejoin her family in the sea, the sea witch appears and creates a massive storm before she stabs the mermaid in cold blood. Only then does the prince realize that she was the one who saved him. He mourns her death along with lots of human funeral-goers who had no real reason to mourn her because the only people who knew her lived in the sea. In his grievance, the prince is finally willing to accept Hans's advances, but Hans is too saddened by the death of the mermaid to accept him. There are no Daughters of the Air in this version, and it ends with Hans Christian Andersen looking out to sea at the famous Little Mermaid statue in Denmark.
My favorite aspect of this ballet by far was the aesthetic. The long flipper shoes that trailed with flowing chiffon combined with the graceful moments of the mermaid dancers created a much better illusion of mermaids than the heelies and spring tails that Disney used in their Broadway production. I also liked the minimalist glitter pasties that the mermaids wore on their upper halves that created the illusion of otherworldly fashion. Their long flowing blue and green hair added just the right touch. The elaborate throne that the sea witch sits in during her first appearance is also incredibly impressive. The dress that the black siren wore did a great job of expressing her personality with its glittering black flowers overlaying sheer flowing fabric. Many modern shows go overboard with the use of projection effects, and I think this one uses just the right amount of CGI without drawing attention away from the performers, especially during the storm at the end.
If you love "The Little Mermaid" as much as I do, you should definitely take advantage of this unique opportunity to watch Oopera Baletti's show online for free. I was impressed by how fluidly they incorporated Hans Christian Andersen and his motivations behind writing the story without getting too distracting. It was also great how they were able to pay homage to his other stories without interrupting the main plot. With the inclusion of Hans pining for the prince alongside the mermaid, this show truly drives home the theme of unrequited love from the original fairy tale. My biggest disappointment was that mermaid was murdered at the end instead of sacrificing herself for the prince and becoming a Daughter of the Air, something I expanded on in my own version. This ending diminished her sacrifice and freedom of choice.
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Ben Affleck starts off his day with an iced drink from Dunkin' Donuts!
The 46-year-old Triple Frontier actor – who recently split from Lindsay Shookus again – was spotted making his daily coffee run on Thursday morning (April 18) in Brentwood, Calif.
He donned a gray t-shirt and sweater underneath a darker gray coat, plus blue pants and matching sneakers.
Ben completed his look with a pair of reflective shades.
The day before, it was revealed that Ben donated $2,800 to Democratic presidential candidate California Sen. Kamala Harris, CBS News reports.
Don't miss Ben in his new drama film Torrance when it premieres on October 18!
The 1975 just gave an epic performance during weekend two of the 2019 Coachella Music Festival!
The group – Matt Healy, Adam Hann, Ross MacDonald and George Daniel – took the stage for the second time during the festival on Friday night (April 19) in Indio, Calif.
During the set, Matt went shirtless, showing off his tattoo collection.
The band most released A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships last November and are set to release another record later this year.
Also pictured inside: The 1975 performing at the KROQ HD Radio Sound Space Pop-Up earlier in the week at the Roxy in Los Angeles.
Pippa Middleton is opening up about her son Arthur for the first time!
The 35-year-old younger sister of Kate Middleton recently explained the the six-month-old is already loving the water!
"Starting my son Arthur swimming at four months old has given him confidence and enjoyment in water," she told Waitrose Kitchen magazine.
Since welcoming Arthur in October of 2018, Pippa has mostly kept a low profile.
Kacey Musgraves rocked another cool look for weekend two of the 2019 Coachella Music Festival!
The 30-year-old Grammy winning singer took the stage at the music fest on Friday evening (April 19) in Indio, Calif.
Kacey showed her festival style in a brown suede two piece set that included high waisted bottoms and floor length top.
She accessorized with clear heels and beautiful turquoise and silver jewelry.
Make sure to check out Kacey's orange fringe look from last weekend!
Amber Heard was all smiles on her way to some meetings!
The 32-year-old actress was spotted heading back to her car on Friday afternoon (April 19) in Los Angeles.
Amber looked business casual in a black blazer and button up top paired with ripped jeans and patent leather boots.
Earlier in the week, Amber showed off her boho side while meeting up with a friend for lunch.
It was her first outing since the details of her abuse allegations against ex-husband Johnny Depp surfaced in the media.


Help a JET alum promote a World Cultural Heritage area in Wakayama?
A request for help from Todd Van Horne, a JET alum. Please contact Todd directly at tvanhorne@gmail.com if there are ways you could help. Please contact the JETAANC Executive Committee at info@jetaanc.org if we can support you in some way in connection with Todd's request.
Due to the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in March, and the floods and landslides in Wakayama during the September typhoon, tourist numbers have fallen drastically. As part of our efforts to restore tourism to the Kumano area, our two directors are planning to visit America from March 11th to 19th to meet with travel agencies and potential customers, to directly convey the magnificence and safety of the Kumano area as a tour destination.
4. Introductions to anyone who might be interested in hosting our directors (two adult females) or providing driving services. We have a budget for compensating drivers.
6. Martial arts practice and interest groups, especially Qigong, as we currently offer an English Qigong walking tour.
8. Natural health practice and interest groups, including Japanese massage, hot spring cleansing, etc.
1. The deadline for our proposal is February 15th; we need to have five confirmed presentations scheduled by this time in order to proceed with our plan.
2. We are making the same request of other JETAA chapters on the west coast.
Again, thank you for your time and thoughts on our trip. We deeply appreciate any assistance or advice you can offer us in our preparation.


Daddy-O sports smart sunglasses and junior a snappy sailor cap for their official parking lot portrait. But this isn't just any 'ol parking lot. This is Eastland, the first freeway side shopping center ever built in SoCal. The year was 1957. Eastland was a utopian island of retail shops and suburban services surrounded by a sea of asphalt thoughtfully divided into 10,000 spaces. It's pure mid-century modern. And how about Clifton's space-age super signage? "Cafeteria" is handwritten like a title on a drive-in movie screen in a friendly font that epitomizes the stylistic mood of the era.
Trips to Eastland are among my earliest childhood memories. My family enjoyed many a fine meal at this very Clifton's. That's why even among the many thousands of images in my "Slibrary" Collection, this slide is a personal fave of mine.
I'm likely to include the Parking Lot Posers in my June 9 slide show performance, Architecture in Los Angeles, at Getty Center, celebrating SoCal's underrated and unsung mid-century modern and more! Currently all of the seats are spoken for but we are hoping to announce a second date soon!
Cheers to Space-Age Super Signage and YOU!
This mesmerizing masterpiece of mid-century modernity landed at the NE corner of La Brea and Sunset Boulevards in 1949. The sage green and buttery yellow color combo is simply delicious.


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Mozambique ran the third round of a polio outbreak response campaign July 7-10. The 65,000-worker effort sent vaccinators door to door and to crowded areas (including daycare centers, markets, churches and hospitals) to reach about 7 million children under age 5. The national campaign is part of a regional four-round vaccination drive launched earlier this year in response to a wild poliovirus outbreak in Malawi (Mozambique later declared its own outbreak after a case surfaced). Overall, the regional effort aims to administer over 80 million bivalent oral polio vaccine (bOPV) doses to more than 23 million children across five countries (Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe). In Tanzania, vaccinators are gathering data with Open Data Kit (ODK) mobile tools to help inform and implement upcoming phases. Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia are set to embark shortly on the third phases of their campaigns. All Africa; Xinhua; WHO; WHO
Kenya and Tanzania ran a cross-border mass drug administration exercise against trachoma July 12-16. The campaign aimed to administer antibiotics to over 1.3 million people in the pastoral Maa community living across the two East African countries. In Kenya, 576,091 people in Narok county and 358,574 people in Kajiado county were targeted. Meanwhile, 228,360 and 161,367 people were targeted in the Tanzanian counties of Ngorongoro and Longido, respectively. Kenyan Ministry of Health press release
Kenya kicked off a 10-day yellow fever vaccination campaign on July 23. A response to a 10-county outbreak confirmed earlier in the year, the effort targets 711,300 people ages 9 months to 60 years in Isiolo county (Merti and Garbatula sub-counties) and Garissa county (Balambala, Garissa and Lagdera sub-counties). Kenya Ministry of Health
Afghanistan launched a three-day polio vaccination campaign on July 25. Targeting 6.7 million children under age 5, the initiative encompasses 248 districts in the southern, southeastern, eastern, northern, western and central provinces, as well as in provinces and districts where campaigns aren't feasible during winter. To date, the country has launched six rounds of nationwide polio campaigns this year. Ariana News
Zimbabwe has vaccinated 72,044 children against measles in its Mutasa district in an outbreak response campaign dating to mid-May. The campaign has an overall target of 74,604 children ages 6 months to 15 years (regardless of vaccination status), and the health ministry has also announced an intensive door-to-door education campaign about measles. Manica Post; H. Metro; IFRC
Pakistan launched a vaccination campaign against measles July 19 in the Dera Ismail Khan district following reports of an outbreak in about a dozen children. The effort went house to house and vaccinated all targeted children in the Qayyum Nagar area of Malana union council. UrduPoint
Pakistan ran its second Sub-National Immunization Days (SNIDs) campaign of 2022 from June 27-July 1. The initiative reached over 12.3 million children under 5 in 68 districts across all four provinces. During the subnational effort, 100,000 Sehat Muhafiz healthcare workers went house to house to administer polio vaccines. On the second day of the drive, unidentified militants killed one member of a vaccination team in the North Waziristan district of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Government of Pakistan press release; Al Jazeera; EFE
Nigeria's Kano state kicked off a series of seasonal malaria chemoprevention campaigns on July 5. Set to run in four cycles of four days each from July to October, the exercise targets over 12 million children ages 3 months to 59 months across the state's 44 Local Government Areas. Kano also plans to distribute over 8 million long-lasting insecticide-treated nets between July and September. Meanwhile, Nigeria's Kaduna state distributed over 5.4 million treated nets through a door-to-door campaign July 7-18. Kano and Kaduna are among eight Nigerian states (including Anambra, Delta, Katsina, Niger, Taraba and Yobe) aiming to hand out a combined 34.8 million nets under a Global Fund-backed initiative. TNG; All Africa; Blueprint
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I often surprise my clients when I recommend they take a hot bath with Epsom salts to refresh their mind, body and spirit. It may sound crazy, but that $4 carton of salts you have stored in your cupboard may be just the ticket for a quick and inexpensive pick-me-up in times of trouble!
Epsom salts are a pure mineral compound of magnesium and sulfate, both of which are more easily absorbed through the skin than the stomach. Our magnesium levels have dropped significantly in the last century due to farming practices that have depleted magnesium from the soil and due to diets high in fat, sugar, salt, and protein… all of which cause magnesium insufficiency.
Replenishing your magnesium and sulfate levels can improve heart and circulatory health, improve use of insulin, reduce toxins (from medications and the environment), flush heavy metals, improve nerve function by electrolyte regulation, restore calcium levels, increase serotonin (lifts the mood and reduces stress), reduce inflammation and pain, improve absorption of nutrients, improve formation of brain tissue, and reduce migraine headaches.
So the next time you are feeling tired, toxic, depressed, achy, stressed or sick, simply dissolve 2-6 cups, depending on the severity of your symptoms, of Epsom salts in a hot bath. Soak for as long as you can tolerate it, re-warming the bath often and rehydrating the body as needed. After your soak you will likely enjoy a fresh perspective, a rejuvenated body, and a deeper connection to the spirit.
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Q: Windows command line: setting global variables to each other scenario further updated
Hi all:
I'm trying to set a global variable to another in windows command line batch language.  The syntax I've tried is as below:
:: these are global vars
SET varThree=%varOne%\something
SET varOne=
SET varTwo=2

:Section
SET varOne=%varTwo%
::more setting of varOne to other global variables
GOTO Section2

:Section2
echo %varThree%
GOTO cleanup

:cleanup
SET varThree=
SET varTwo=
SET varOne=

The value of varOne seems to be lost when it comes to echoing %varThree%.
I was wondering how can I set the above variable properly?
TIA.
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The cleanup section was there as a way to ensure the variables are being cleaned up upon exiting of the program.  When I removed it, it took the 2nd run in order for varOne to lose its state.  Likewise when I re-introduced it, it took the 2nd run for the state of varOne to come back.  Any ideas why is this happening?

A: You don't use the percent signs on the left side.
Also, you might want to read about delay-expanded variables (like !varTwo! instead of %varTwo%), since you might run into problems with incorrect expansions.
See this link about delayed expansions: Cmd.exe Documentation
Edit: You're also missing a "Set" on the left, so this:
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%varOne%=%varTwo%

Should really be:
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Set varOne=%varTwo%

A: Try:
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A: You are wrong in looking for a "post-compiling" syntax.
In your scenario
SET varThree=%varOne%\something

cause varThree set with "\something", because varOne is not defined yet.
Speaking about your scenario, you have to use
echo %varOne%%varThree%

in ":section2".

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I'm back! After a few years going back into the corporate fitness world (ugh!), I'm back doing what I love and running KariKardio!
I originally opened KariKario back in 2008 because I saw the need for a class only – group exercise studio that provided members a sense of community.
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I'm so excited that my new KariKardio location will boast a much larger range of classes!
With the help of my business partner Claudia Rands we are bringing back the community environment of KariKardio – we are not a gym.
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When I was a small child, there was an old woman I remember seeing when we visited my grandfather's house on the Southside of Chicago. She was extremely quiet, very tall (although slumped with age), with light brown skin and braided hair. My mother told me she was more than 100 years old.
It was not until I was a grown woman that I realized who "that woman" was… Rhody Leslie, my father's grandmother. She migrated to Chicago in 1939 to live with her sons, Tommie Joe and Robert (my grandfather), after her husband of 67 years died in Alabama. When she passed away in 1954, at age 104, I was three years old. Too young to ever have a conversation with her, I do not even remember attending her funeral. And, until I became an adult, I had no idea that Rhody had been enslaved – along with her husband and mother. Those in my family who knew her well say I remind them of her. A regal six feet tall, she smoked a pipe, swallowed an aspirin and downed a shot of whiskey each and every day.
In retrospect, I credit Rhody for inspiring me to become a genealogist.
My father left Alabama when he was a child (sometime around 1922). He seldom talked about his childhood and never went back to his birthplace on Ripley Street in Montgomery, Alabama. After years of prodding, he eventually gave me the key that unlocked the mysteries of our family origins. He told me that Rhody, her mother (Easter), and her husband (Tom), left slavery together from Lowndes County, Alabama.
For my entire adult life, I have been on a relentless quest to uncover every bit of information I can find about Rhody, Tom and Easter. I want to vicariously enter their lives… discover their personalities… witness the hardships they endured …. delve into the very essence of their beings. They were, after all, my great grandparents; blood of my blood. I have a compelling need to honor them by telling their story.
Rhoda could neither read nor write. She would thus have been unable to confirm or contest any of the notations in the sparse historical records that mention her name. On that note, it never ceases to amaze me how scrupulous record takers were in keeping (or not) documentation that confirms the existence of African Americans like Rhody. I can't help but believe they purposefully obscured the past so people like me would never be able to piece together the details of our holocaust.
These days, having gotten involved with Coming to the Table, I am frustrated because I cannot find a slaveholder descendant who is directly connected to my family. I have been all around the proverbial bush and my best result has been an unrelated white man in Tennessee whose ancestor was married to the niece of the man I believe enslaved Tom's mother. Then, there is the white Leslie descendant who submitted to a DNA test because I thought his ancestor was Tom's father (no prize). I suppose I should take solace in the discovery of several relatives who were raised as white and had no idea of their black blood — with whom I am now conjoined. But where is the "father lode"?!!
Pondering the thought that my personal connection to slavery ended less than 60 years ago, I remain viscerally and painfully chained to its blight. Being the one in my family who remembers, I am on a mission to make sure that no one else forgets.
Sharon Leslie Morgan is the founder of OurBlackAncestry.com, a website dedicated to African American family research. She is co-author of Gather at the Table: The Healing Journey of a Daughter of Slavery and a Son of the Slave Trade (Beacon Press, 2012). This blog expresses the views of the author and should not be attributed to Coming to the Table or any other associated activity.
Loved reading your post. Absolutely beautiful!
Ms Morgan- My name is David Clark Leslie. Currently, I live and work in Afghanistan, but my family is from South Carolina- I am an 11th or 12th generation South Carolinian. My family is from the entire breadth of the state- coming to SC from Barbados it appears roughly around 1700. One of my ancestors, Moses Leslie (born 1774 in Fairfield County SC), had three sons, two of which I believe, (Wilson Leslie born about 1803 in SC and Moses Jr born about 1805), migrated to Alabama in the early 1820's. Wilson Leslie had children born in Alabama by the mid- to late 1820's; I'm uncertain about Moses Jr. This branch of the Leslie's settled in Alabama and Mississippi. I might be able to help you with some of your search.
I won't mince words- the South Carolina plantation system was the basis for the agrarian society of the Deep South. It differed from the Virginia and Maryland tidewater greatly as, the South Carolina system was based identically off the Barbadian system, and even in the 17th and 18th century, the Barbadian plantation system was renowned for its harshness.
By the time of this message, you may have found the genealogy information you seek, but if I can assist in any way, please do not hesitate to contact me. Genealogy is my hobby, and I would be happy to help if I can.
Do you have DNA on the Leslie Project site with Familytree?
Sorry, should have checked closer, before writing. I'll write to you from that site.
Sharon- Clark Leslie here again in Kabul. I have restarted some of my genealogy search and there were multiple Leslie/Lesley men from my ilk that moved west…Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Texas. Your great grandfather was born about 1850, correct? Where in Alabama was he born? I had some incorrect research (in fact was my original thought, but talked myself out of it, then came across evidence that I was correct originally). My ilk came directly from Scotland in 1716 as a POW from the First Jacobite War, not from Barbados as I had thought. Although, I suspect they were relatives- in 1650 an Alexander Leslie came to Barbados as a rector of the Church, and my ancestor was named Alexander Leslie born in Scotland about 1690, both with origins in Aberdeenshire and Killiecrankie Scotland, but I digress. The Alexander in my ilk, had a great grandson named Thomas Leslie, who had 5 sons. Two remained in South Carolina, and three moved west, with some stopping in Alabama. Wilson Leslie in particular would have had four sons that were in Alabama and of the right age. Wilson's other brothers that moved west, Abel and Jacob, both had sons but they seemed to have moved further west, and I am unsure of their time in Alabama, if any. Need to check that. When I have more time (work on a State Department project here in Kabul, and its quarterly report time, so I need to get back at it), I will look more, particularly at Wilson Leslie's 4 sons as they were in Alabama about the correct time. Want to say Jefferson County Alabama for Wilson, but can not recall for sure. If you can remind me exactly where your great grandfather Tom Leslie lived, I will check the records I have access to and let you know.
Tom LESLIE (1845-1938) — Born @ Lowndes County, AL. I have only ever found three LESLIE males in Lowndes = Tom, Willie (born around the same time, both Mulatto) and James E. LESLIE (white blacksmith). Tom left slavery @ (Lowndes) > married 1871 @ Opelika (Lee) AL > died 1938 @ Montgomery AL.
See you have same address on that site. Write me from FamilytreeDNA. You do have 2 hits. The one with the surname Leslie, is at 12 markers. The gentleman only did a 12 marker test and as you go further with testing, you can lose that person. The other is Jill.
Reviewed the list. Did not see Jill.


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Q: Why would bolding the voltage symbol ⚡ display a decorative arrow ➫ instead (on the web, with system fonts)? This is kind of crazy… Here's a GIF of me bolding the voltage symbol in Atlassian Confluence's wiki editor:

It seems that bolding this symbol ⚡ results in the display of a completely different symbol (which looks like ➫) instead. I don't think it actually changes it, because copying the arrow and pasting it elsewhere shows the same old voltage symbol.
Confluence's font stack appears to be -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Noto Sans", Ubuntu, "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif.
What is producing this result? It seems like the kind of thing that could happen with a bad web font, but that's a system font stack.
It seems that Stack Overflow suffers the same exact problem:
Voltage symbol: ⚡
Voltage symbol, bolded: ⚡
And here's what I see:

I'm browsing with Safari on OS X High Sierra 10.13.6. Notably, I cannot replicate this in e.g. the Notes app, even though that uses the system font (San Francisco).
Using Chrome just shows these missing-character symbols instead:

And things look just fine in Firefox:

What gives?
Update (2018-08-03): I just checked in Safari Technical Preview (their dev/preview release, similar to Chrome Canary), and this bug is no longer reproducible. Good, that means I don't have to file a WebKit bug today.
Update (2018-09-05): I can no longer replicate in Safari  I suppose I am still curious what may have caused this bug, so I will leave the question open for any compelling theories or for an Apple engineer to confirm.


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Reds, Braves set postseason record for scoring futility
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Cincinnati Reds third baseman Eugenio Suarez (7) tosses his bat after drawing a walk to load the bases in 11th inning during Game 1 of a National League wild-card baseball series against the Atlanta Braves, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
Atlanta Braves relief pitcher Mark Melancon (36) works in the eighth inning during Game 1 of a National League wild-card baseball series between the Atlanta Braves and the Cincinnati Reds, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
Cincinnati Reds starting pitcher Trevor Bauer (27) leaves the game in the eighth against the Atlanta Braves during Game 1 of a National League wild-card baseball series, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
ATLANTA (AP) — The Cincinnati Reds and Atlanta Braves are playing the longest scoreless game in postseason history.
Wednesday's opening game of the NL wild-card series was the first in postseason history to be scoreless through 11 innings. The scoreless streak was extended through 12 innings.
The teams combined for a postseason record 35 strikeouts through 12 innings, and every batter that has come to the plate has struck out at least once after the Reds' Nick Castellanos became strikeout victim No. 36 leading off the 13th.
For the postseason, baseball has set aside the new extra-innings rule it instituted for the pandemic-delayed regular season. There is no designated runner at second base for extra innings.
The Reds left the bases loaded in the 11th when Mike Moustakas struck out to end the inning. Cincinnati wasted another scoring chance in the 12th when Tyler Matzek struck out pinch-hitter Freddy Galvis, leaving runners on first and third.
Trevor Bauer had 12 strikeouts through 7 2/3 innings for the Reds. Max Fried threw 7 innings, allowing six hits, for Atlanta.
https://www.wnewsj.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2020/09/web1_125553699-aad8d0bb69f347fe9f37ee38a138d3e3.jpgCincinnati Reds third baseman Eugenio Suarez (7) tosses his bat after drawing a walk to load the bases in 11th inning during Game 1 of a National League wild-card baseball series against the Atlanta Braves, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
https://www.wnewsj.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2020/09/web1_125553699-315b45bf3ae843e3bb1d93bfa44db4cf.jpgAtlanta Braves relief pitcher Mark Melancon (36) works in the eighth inning during Game 1 of a National League wild-card baseball series between the Atlanta Braves and the Cincinnati Reds, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
https://www.wnewsj.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2020/09/web1_125553699-72de00facb344a2f8c6db3be27346977.jpgCincinnati Reds starting pitcher Trevor Bauer (27) leaves the game in the eighth against the Atlanta Braves during Game 1 of a National League wild-card baseball series, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
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I've been making this exact chili chicken recipe for over 20 years. My first time having this fall recipe was back in the late summer of 1993. My coworkers made this at my bridal shower. Once eating it I knew it was a recipe my soon to be hubby would also love. We make it several times a year during the fall and winter months. It is easy to make and by now most people have heard of white chili and/or have made it. In case not, I'm sharing it with you.
1. Pre cook the chicken in 6 cups of water, seasoned with salt, pepper, celery salt or seeds or seasoning salt. Use 1/4 cup of any combination of the seasonings.
2. Simmer it on the stove for 45 min- 1 hour. Keep an eye on the water. Add to it as needed to keep water above the chicken. This will give you some chicken broth, too.
4. Once chicken is cooked and shredded, add in all the above ingredients in a large pot. Cook all together, simmering until it the celery and onions are soft. This usually take 1- 1 1/2 hours.
5. We always offer salsa, extra jalapeños and sour cream to be added in by each person. I never add anything in but my family mixes up their own favorites.
6. Serve with corn bread or a favorite crusty bread.
I always make a double batch so we have extra for leftovers & lunch.
To save money, I often use dry white northern beans. If I'm taking this route, they have to be presoaked and cooked until semi soft before adding in with all the other ingredients. Follow the directions and time needed for prep on bean bag on pre soaking and cooking.
If I'm tossing this in the crockpot, which I often do these days, I have the jar beans, uncooked chicken and add them and the rest of the ingredients in the crockpot to cook 6-8 hours. Right before I'm ready to serve, I pull out the chicken and shred. To save time, sometimes I cut the chicken into pieces and add to the crockpot and then I don't shred.
As with any recipe there are a zillion of ways to do it. Find what works best and be flexible to make changes that works best for you and for what ingredients you have on hand.
I have not tried white chili before. I will have to try making this for my family. New follower from Comment Love Friday.


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Is My Hair Saying the Wrong Thing?
Women who had highlighted, shorter hair were viewed as the most confident and outgoing. On the other hand, women with long, straight blond hair were said to be the most attractive, but narrow-minded. Women with medium-length hair with darker tones were viewed as intelligent, caring, and good natured.
Images of men were included in the study as well. Men who had short highlighted hair were viewed as confident, but self-centered. Those with medium-length hair, especially with a side part, were believed to be intelligent. Men with long hair were viewed as good natured, but careless and unpleasant.
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Dying for air
"I'll really try my best to stop it happening again," says Shirley, clearly blaming herself for her son Nazario's near death experience with pneumonia. But Shirley will struggle to keep her promise because no amount of effort on her behalf, or mothers like her, can compensate for the continued lack of government action in the fight against child pneumonia.
This is the Philippines, where 3 million children will contract pneumonia and 12,000 will die this year, according to UNICEF. But the same story is being played out in low and middle income countries all over the world where the most vulnerable children shoulder the burden of the 160 million cases of pneumonia and the almost one million deaths that are occurring every year.
Like most mothers raising children on very low incomes, Shirley didn't know much about the dangers of pneumonia before her son became ill. She did not know that pneumonia was the greatest threat to her son's survival; a far greater threat than malaria, HIV, diarrhea, and measles. She did not know that malnourished children are nine times more likely to die from pneumonia and that air pollution greatly increases the risk of infection. She did not know the telltale signs of fast breathing or chest indrawing, nor how quickly pneumonia could kill her child – within hours. And she did not know that 80% of pneumonia deaths are among children under two years of age, even though her son Nazario was right in the danger zone.
Shirley's lack of awareness about pneumonia is a reflection of the lack of attention governments and the global health community have been paying to the disease for decades. Despite knowing that pneumonia kills more children than any other disease, governments in low and middle income countries and international donors have been spending relatively little fighting it. Less than 2% of all development assistance for health is allocated to pneumonia and 80% of that is for vaccines, leaving little to reduce air pollution, address malnutrition, improve diagnosis and treatment, educate parents, and train healthcare providers, according to the IHME.
Not surprisingly, child pneumonia deaths are falling at a lower rate than deaths from other infections. Between 2010 and 2015 when child measles deaths fell by a stunning 85%, HIV/AIDs deaths by 61%, malaria deaths by 58%, and diarrhea deaths by 57%, child pneumonia deaths fell by 47%, according to UNICEF. There were even several countries that were able to reduce their child malaria and HIV/AIDS deaths by more than 60%, while child pneumonia deaths actually increased.
As a result of this underinvestment, pneumonia causes 16% of all under five deaths globally, with just five countries accounting for half of these deaths – India, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Ethiopia. In a sub-set of countries where conflict and crisis are ever present threats, pneumonia causes more than 20% of all child deaths – Somalia, South Sudan, Eritrea, Timor-Leste, Chad, Haiti, and Niger. In fact, more than half of all child pneumonia deaths now occur in settings deemed "fragile", according to the OECD.
The children most at risk of pneumonia are those exposed to dirty water, poor hygiene and sanitation, air pollution, overcrowding, and malnutrition. It is these children who are too often the last to receive the tools available to prevent, diagnose, and treat pneumonia. The powerful pneumonia-fighting vaccine – the pneumoccocal vaccine – reaches just 45% of children in the 15 countries where child pneumonia deaths are concentrated, according to IVAC. Across these same countries less than half of babies under six months old are exclusively breastfed, child stunting rates average 42% and outdoor air pollution is up to eight times the level defined as safe by the World Health Organization. In fact, some 2 billion children currently live in areas where the air is toxic – 300 million in areas exceeding international limits by at least six times. Of the almost one million child pneumonia deaths each year, more than half are directly related to air pollution, according to UNICEF.
This leaves the children most at risk of contracting pneumonia overly reliant on diagnostic tools and treatments that are either ineffective, not functioning, unavailable or too costly. Unlike malaria and HIV/AIDS, there is no rapid diagnostic test for pneumonia leaving health workers dependent on rudimentary devices like manual respiratory rate counters. Where effective diagnostic tools do exist (e.g. pulse oximeters that measure blood oxygen levels), they can be hard to find, along with the oxygen that can be the difference between life and death for a child that is struggling to breathe. Despite global fears of mounting antibiotic resistance, an estimated 450,000 children die every year because they do not receive an antibiotic, according to the Lancet.
If this complacency about child pneumonia continues, countries with high child mortality rates will struggle to achieve the global goal to end preventable child deaths by 2030. African governments especially need to prioritize child pneumonia as they have struggled to drive down child death rates compared to other regions. Further, rapid urbanization and industrial development in many towns and cities will increase already high air pollution rates and overcrowding, while women's rising participation in the formal labor force will keep breastfeeding rates low, absent specific policies such as paid maternity leave, employer-sponsored childcare, and worksite breastfeeding programs.
But there are lights on the horizon that show governments and the international community are moving to fill the glaring gaps in pneumonia control. The Clinton Global Initiative mobilized United for Oxygen – an alliance of 15 organizations in support of the Government of Ethiopia's new Medical Oxygen and Pulse Oximetry Scale Up Road Map, the first national plan of its kind and an impressive display of national leadership on an issue neglected by the United Nations and international development agencies. The organizations have pledged to, (a) increase the availability of pulse oximetry screening and oxygen therapy in health facilities, (b) train local staff in the use of the new technologies, (c) establish sustainable financing solutions for the procurement, installation and maintenance of the new equipment, and (d) prioritize pulse oximetry and oxygen access in the policies and guidelines of the Ethiopian health authorities and of the major international development agencies.
Improved access to pulse oximetry and oxygen has the potential to benefit the 3 million Ethiopian women who give birth each year and their newborns, as well as 20% of the estimated four million cases of child pneumonia. Each year 11,000 Ethiopian women die in pregnancy and childbirth, 60,000 babies die in the first month of life and 30,000 children die from pneumonia, according to UNICEF and WHO. Babies who are born preterm, or who contract sepsis or pneumonia early in life are particularly vulnerable, as are women and children in remote communities with little or no access to health services. Improved oxygen access could reduce maternal and newborn deaths by up to 35%, according to the Lancet.
If successful, the Ethiopian experience would become a best practice model for other governments who are struggling with high maternal, newborn and child mortality and low or no access to pulse oximetry and oxygen. In addition to reducing these deaths, improved oxygen access will also help reduce deaths from cardiac arrest, acute blood loss, pulmonary edema, trauma (e.g. road traffic accidents) and unsafe surgery.
United4Oxygen is also an excellent example of how development projects should be pursued in the new Sustainable Development Goals era. Start with an ambitious government plan in an area prioritized by the new global goals – in this case child mortality – and build a public-private partnership around its implementation. Then prioritize the assets the government brings to the table (financing, public health system, political leadership etc) and ask external partners to fill in the gaps in such a way that the overall health system is strengthened well beyond the life of the partnership.
This is not the only promising new initiative in child pneumonia. Every Breath Counts, an initiative by UNICEF, Save the Children and 34 more to support ten country governments to end preventable pneumonia deaths shows great promise, and Stop Pneumonia, an online repository of advocacy materials to support the growing movement to end preventable child pneumonia deaths is rallying organizations to join forces around World Pneumonia Day, held on November 12th each year. Companies are increasing their contributions beyond vaccines. Leading advertising agency McCann Health has released the first set of training videos to help health workers identify children with pneumonia and trigger faster and more accurate treatment in partnership with the Clinton Health Access Initiative and USAID.
*Members include Adara Development, Assist International, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, GE Foundation, the Global Development Incubator, Grand Challenges Canada, McCann Global Health, Masimo, PATH, Philips, the Pneumonia Innovations Network, Save the Children, UNICEF, and USAID.
10 JustActions you can take to advance the fight against child pneumonia
1. Watch Shirley and her son Nazario's harrowing story on "The Struggle to Breath" and share the link with five colleagues.
2. Visit www.stoppneumonia.org to learn how you can support World Pneumonia Day every year on November 12th.
3. Read the Pushing the Pace Report for a fresh take on how countries are progressing (or not) in the fight to end child pneumonia deaths and send to five colleagues in one of the countries where progress is slowest.
4. Read the new UNICEF report, "Clear the Air for All Children" and join the Every Breath Counts Coalition.
5. Watch the Pneumonia Innovations Team video and share with five technology innovators you know.
6. Learn how to recognize the symptoms of a child with pneumonia by watching the McCann Health videos and send to 5 health workers you know.
7. Support United for Oxygen using #United4Oxygen on all of your social media.
8. Write an article about what your organization is doing to end preventable child pneumonia deaths and post on your organization website.
9. Use the new media tools to start a petition (e.g. www.change.org), raise funds (e.g. www.kickstarter.com), or lobby elected officials (e.g. www.avaaz.org) to do more in the fight against the #1 infectious killer of children under 5.
10. Join the Pneumonia Innovations Team on LinkedIn and become part of a global movement of champions fighting child pneumonia.
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Today: Sarah accidentally made friends with a couple in her building and now is unsure of what to do, the soup guy and exchanging keys, and the fantastical Wendy Weiss joined us to talk about Tropical Summer, the Cold Call Queen, pool passes, stand-up comedy and her upcoming show, and more - she's great! Also today - shoes that order pizza, pretending to be a nurse, and a special type of brothel. Have a great night!
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Today: Sarah had something weird happen to her in her apartment building and looks for some advice, who would possibly know that was hers?, weird guy and the Country PI, if you find that in your salad don't eat it, it happened at a Walmart, get a job hugging baby goats, and Greg gives his completely 100% accurate description of "The Book of Mormon" (not really) - have a great day!


It's too bad. But it's happening. Partly because of a massive marketing campaign instigated by a multitude of environmental organisations (the "green mafia"), endorsed by several governmental bodies around the world, biofuels are taking an ever larger share of the huge energy market.
As of 2008, biofuels make up as much as 1.6% of oil products consumed globally. In five year's time biofuel production may have reached 3.5% of global demand, and there are ambitions to bring production up to 16 million bopd by 2050. In other words, the biofuel industry is growing tremendously fast, a lot faster than the conventional oil industry, and the biofuel lobby is getting invaluable support from the self proclaimed "environmentalists". One day they will wake up and realise that they have - contrary to what they say they are fighting for - contributed to the increased output of greenhouse gases. But by then it may be too late. It's too bad.
Fertile soil is now being used for making gasoline instead of growing food in countries like Brazil, Indonesia and the USA. Huge rain forests are being cut down and vast fields are cleared to make room for growing maize, sugar, soya beans and other agricultural products that can be converted to (heavily subsidised) hydrocarbons.
The result is more expensive food and, as it turns out, increased (!) release of CO2 to the atmosphere compared to conventional hydrocarbons. That is what I call an "inconvenient truth". Now it is also being termed "the great biofuel swindle".
The subject of biofuels was discussed at the recent 33rd International Geological Congress held in Oslo in August. Professor Marian Reatezki of the University of Luleå, Sweden, gave a very interesting keynote speech that ought to be read and understood by everybody concerned with our future energy mix. He clearly stated that "biofuel is not an appropriate solution" - and presented good arguments supporting his case.
"The current drive for biofuels cannot be justified, either on economic or environmental grounds," concluded Professor Marian Reatezki. We certainly agree, and the trouble is, the biofuel swindle is to a large extent sponsored by so-called environmentalists who have on their main agenda the liquidation of the oil industry. They will instead make an important contribution towards the liquidation of a sustainable future.
The modern oil industry is this year celebrating its 150th anniversary. The actual birthday is August 27. In the late afternoon of that Saturday in 1859, the drillbit hit a thin layer of sandstone that was saturated with oil.


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Dave Solo
No Use Trying
I have a friend who has been, at times, susceptible to the wiles of women who mean him absolutely no good. As far as I know, they have all had red hair, but it's taken him decades to make the connection.
He once came into my office to chat after a long absence, and I asked him how he was doing. He said things were good, so I risked another question… Are you seeing anyone?
"Oh, no," he replied. "It's just like Bob Marley said. 'No woman, no cry!'"
I told him I didn't think that's what Bob meant in that song, but he assured me otherwise. This song is dedicated to him. (He's now with a great lady who usually has blue hair. Progress.)
I heard this song as a Motown tune, and thanks to the saxophone stylings of Damien Hyde, vocals by Rod Johnson, the horn and vocal arrangement and pretty much everything else provided by Dave Roof, I think we nearly got there.
No Use Trying (single)
Talking Jack Kevorkian Blues
Better Than a Dream
Rainbow Tiger in the Rain
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Q: How can I run a delegated task for an offline host using Ansible? I have Ansible tasks for enabling and disabling Nagios checking for some hosts. They use "delegate_to" the Nagios server. However, I can't use them when the host in question is offline, because Ansible tries to SSH in and marks the task failed when it can't.
Since this task doesn't actually require contacting the host in any way, it seems there should be a way to have Ansible ignore the host and communicate only with the delegate. Is this possible?

A: As implied by some of the comments, it is likely that something else is causing the SSH connection error rather than the delegated task. When using delegte_to:, Ansible only connects via SSH to the machine indicated in the delegate clause (in cases other than localhost).
I would try the suggested disabling of facts (gather_facts: no) and also share the output of your failed playbook run(s). It could also be that there is a non-delegated task/role included in the playbook which is failing the play due to the target host being down.

A: You'll need to skip all the usual tasks of the unavailable host by using e.g. tags, disable fact gathering for it and it will work. Tested like this:
test_delegate.yml:
- hosts: unavailable.test
  gather_facts: false
  tasks:
    - command: /bin/stuff
    - ping:
      delegate_to: localhost
      tags: nagios

Result:
$ ansible-playbook -i unavailable.test, -tnagios test_delegate.yml

PLAY [unavailable.test] ********************************************************

TASK [ping] ********************************************************************
ok: [unavailable.test -> localhost]

PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************
unavailable.test           : ok=1    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=0

localhost here in the example stands for the reachable host, nagios in your case.


Fear is experienced in every day life. Sometimes we may be scared to take on a new opportunity, talk to new people or to simply say no. Fear is instilled in every one of us. It is the fear of not being good enough in front of others that may makes us hide who we really are. It is the fear of failing or letting go that may make us stagnant through our life without ever truly growing or changing. We may miss chances or stay in a failed relationship out of fear. It is fear in every day life that makes some of us not live life fully. It is when we aren't living life to the fullest that we often have regret later on.
However, fear is also what makes life so exciting and worth it. It is fear that allows each of us to learn more about ourselves and lead us to our life destinations. It is fear that can help bring us to where we are suppose to be. Fear can be discouraging but it is also uplifting. Because once you are able to get past what you are afraid of, nothing can stop you.


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Squeeze Page: Straight or Reversed?
Written by John W. Furst, has got 8 Comments.
Did you ever hear the term "Reversed Squeeze Page"? Not too long ago, I was asked, whether a squeeze page or a reverse squeeze page performs better for generating opt-ins for a promotional type of email newsletter.
Of course my answer was,
"It depends!"
But let me start slowly here, tell you a bit about the history of squeeze pages and why using them at all is a good idea.
Squeeze Page History
The traditional squeeze page is said to be invented by Eben Pagan, who has become a perfect role model for the typical Internet marketing success story. Eben's original idea was to tease Web visitors with valuable information, but not giving it to them directly. Eben was the first one who asked for an email address in exchange (or the first one, who became famous for it).
Purpose Of A Squeeze Page
The point is, online marketers have learned — as direct response marketers have learned before them — not everyone who reads a sales message or advertising for the first time will buy the promoted product right away. You cannot just let them leave. The modern squeeze page on the Web resembles the post card attached in magazine ads. It's the same mechanism. The advertiser or Web site owner promises something that is useful for the readers. They will get it in exchange for their contact information.
Back then, when Eben had introduced this direct response concept on the Web, it seemed quite revolutionary and bold, because everybody thought all the information on the Web were free to access. Breaking that believe, made Eben succeed with his product in the dating niche.
It is reported that it takes 7 visits to a vendor's Web site on average before a prospect buys the featured product. An email list generated from a squeeze page shall make sure that the prospects indeed are there, back on the site, again, and again,… till they buy or opt-out. An email list makes its owner more independent from paid sources of traffic to their Web site. (Let's be honest here, even so-called "free traffic" costs money, unless one values time with 0.00$ an hour.)
Especially new online marketers forget the real purpose of their email list very quickly after they have started it. They very often fall back into the believe that those people want to hear from them. The truth is, when they signed up, they wanted the cure for their problem, otherwise they wouldn't have signed up to the list. They only care about what you have to say, what you have to write as much as it helps them to solve their problems. That's copywriting 101, isn't it.
That said, it makes sense to trade valuable information that helps your visitors with their email address. This allows you to stay in touch. That's exactly what the original squeeze page does.
After talking about the background of squeeze pages a bit, let's look what a squeeze page is
The Traditional Squeeze Page
A single Web page that offers specific, valuable information to a certain group of people, like an ebook "How To Get Rid Of Back Pain Forever". It is important to drive targeted traffic to that landing page. In many cases this page will be the home page of a domain, like www.cureyourbackpainforever.com (That domain is actually a real one, parked at GoDaddy, not being used.)
The only 2 actions a visitor can follow are join the newsletter or leave.
The copy on a squeeze page shall be persuasive, create trust and highlight the benefits of opting in. Most marketers have started to incorporate audio and video messages to make the sale on their opt-in form. There is a strong call to action.
Some marketers even put opt-in forms in front of their sales letters. That means you cannot even buy the product before making the first step of giving away your email address.
Many people — consumers and business owners — feel that's going too far, they refrain from filling out such a from respectively refrain from using a traditional squeeze page on their sites. That brings us to the next step.
The Reverse Squeeze Page
It follows the same principle, but will allow the visitor to consume a chunk of free information, before they need to provide their email address. At the end of those messages, they will generally be told that there is much more free, valuable info in store for them, if they sign up.
Typically you would see it implemented like presenting a free report for download right away, or more recently a free video. At the end will be the call for action, "You like my info? Now, sign up to get more of it …".
The difference between the reversed squeeze page and to a normal sign-up form on a Web page or a Blog is that the possible actions for the visitor are still very limited in case of a reversed squeeze page. It's about signing up or not signing up.
What works better
As I said in the opening, "It depends!". You need to test it for your market, for your audience, for your traffic sources. That's the only way, you'll know.
You can always check what type of squeeze pages are common in your market and start out with that model, but you might find that squeeze pages are not so common outside the "Money Making Niche" at all. In that case just introduce them.
John W. Furst
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Born in Bridgeport, CT December 28th 1984, Paul Pontillo (Sinergyst)was influenced by the hip hop industry from an early age. Growing up as the Hip Hop genre was building its empire. He began writing poetry at an early age for school projects and every essay that he completed had rhymes that supported a storyline. At the age of 14 he realized his passion and talents as he put them to use by writing songs. At the age of 16 he began incorporating the written lyrics with instrumentals. His first song ever created was "The Night Life". The songs they created were very catchy and fun which soon developed into something bigger.
After the creation of "the struggle" Sinergyst was very busy and hard at work. He met a wonderful girl, Ashley, and together they brought a beautiful little girl, Kiersten, into this world. Paul realized that as his intensity for music grew that he would have to brand his image. Simple being known by Paul was not going to cut it. He knew that he wanted to stand apart from the cliché antics and stand for something bigger. With this he thought about what he contributed with his musicality. The answer was simple as he realized with every word written and vocal spit he produced Synergy. Therefore Sinergyst was his name, and not one that he chose but one that has chosen him.
With life moving fast and times getting tougher he said "All the more reason to step it up" (Sinergyst, 2009) as he developed the backbones to Fortified Records, LLC in 2009. With the help of the Daniel Dube, Chris Pristas, and Matt Mcguirk, the independent Record Label was born. Recording in the studio with his friends, working at the office, and performing at venues have transitioned him into a professional recording artist.
Sinergyst and Fortified Records went hard at work producing over 30 new songs for his debut album "The Catalyst", one of which is "The New Chapter", and "In The Zone" Ft. Multi Platinum Artists Bizzy Bone, and Jae Millz from YMCM (planned to be the album's single). This hit single generated a spark and buzz on the street and various websites including Myspace, Facebook, Soundclick, Tweetmysong, and Reverbnation. Highest position in SoundClick charts: # 1188 (1,544,937 songs currently listed in HipHop). The buzz surrounding Sinergyst is now becoming a roar!
Sinergyst released his debut album "The Catalyst" in Sept 2010 by Fortified Records, LLC and through J Distribution. "The Catalyst" is for sale in over 70 Best Buy locations and ONLINE EVERYWHERE!
Adding to this, Sinergyst has performed at many venues in the Tri State Area including Toads Place, The Webster Hall, MGM, The Warehouse, Night Clubs, Bars and many more local events. There is a tour in the works for 2013-2014 which will be called the "Rise Of The Sinners Tour" . Sinergyst has been featured on Magazines, Ezines, Radio Stations, Internet and Commercial, Local TV, and Blogs all around the world.
Sinergyst Has released 4 Mixtapes up to date including "The Struggle", "Life of a Sinner Vol1", "Rise of The Sinners", and "A Sinners Playground"
His Singles Include "Ride Tonight", "Law of Attraction Ft. Devon Brooke", and "King Me"
Sinergyst has debuted his latest video "King Me" on MTV JAMS and is currently on the MTV Website.
With the fresh new vocals and storylines behind the songs Sinergyst will have no problem joining the ranks of the hip hop industry.


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270 passengers have been evacuated and all traffic halted as bomb squads search the trains.
Two trains in cities near Stockholm, Sweden, were evacuated after police received a bomb threat on 9 February.
The national rail company SJ has been told to halt all trains heading to Gothenburg and Stockholm while a bomb squad searches the trains.
All passengers on the trains at the station in Gothenburg and Södertälje were evacuated at 1pm local time (12pm GMT). 270 passengers were on the trains, according to a spokesperson for operator MTR.
"The train stopped just as we were about to reach the central Gothenburg station," passenger Stina Anhede told Swedish Radio.
A police spokesperson told The Local: "All information we have is that at 1.10pm we got a threat and the train had to stop at Södertälje Syd. So all passengers had to leave the train and now technicians are looking at it."
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Out-Foxing Coyotes
With your hunting skills fine-tuned from deer season, hit the woods for a thrilling encounter with a predator.
Published Sep 18, 2007 8:26 PM
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Predator hunting is becoming more and more popular east of the Mississippi River. And the coyote is undoubtedly top dog here, nosing out the bobcat, fox and even the masked raccoon for that number-one ranking.
Also known as brush wolves, brush dogs, yellow-eyes and song dogs, Eastern coyotes average between 30 and 50 pounds, much larger than their Western cousins, with some northeast specimens reportedly tipping the scales at over 60 pounds. Coyotes stand 2 feet at the shoulder and stretch 3½ to 5 feet nose to tail. That tail, by the way, measures about 14 inches and is generally held in a horizontal position. You're lucky if you see one, though. Coyotes may be among the most popular animals to hunt, but they're also among the hardest.
When to Scout
Dawn and dusk are the best times to be afield looking and listening for coyotes. Their distinctive high-pitched yipping and howling helps individual coyotes stay in touch with other members of the pack. Single drawn-out howls are used to locate mates and help delineate territories; barking generally serves as an alarm signal.
Coyotes mark their territories with urine and fecal droppings. Their scat is cylindrical in shape, about a half inch in diameter and 3 to 5 inches in length. It often has lots of hair or fur woven into each dropping along with small bones, berry skins and seeds, depending on what the predator has been ingesting recently. Look for it along logging roads, open trails and edges of hay meadows.
Coyote tracks look like those of a medium-sized dog-four toes ahead of a triangular-shaped pad. Prints measure 2 to 2½ inches in length and 1½ to 2 inches in width. Their stride is about 14 inches. Coyotes are digitigrade, meaning they walk with only their toes touching the ground.
Calls and Decoys
Calling is the most challenging method of hunting coyotes. A plethora of books, videos, DVDs and Web sites can help steer a neophyte into the path of a song dog. Keep in mind that although coyotes are nearly color-blind, they have excellent hearing and their noses are second to none. Nonetheless, mouth-blown, hand-held and electronic calls are all effective, especially when you combine them with proven bowhunting and turkey hunting skills.
For example, full camouflage, although not necessary, is an asset. You want to break up your human outline, so set up against a solid backdrop and try to blend in with your immediate surroundings. This also helps disguise those involuntary movements we all seem to make.
[pagebreak] Your next order of business is to be scent-free. Combine carbon-based garments with a clean body, clean clothing and the liberal use of quality scent eliminators-and then play the wind. Call-shy coyotes will often circle downwind. Toss some fox, skunk or coyote scent bombs to the four winds to help confuse the critter long enough for you to shoot.
Finally, you must remain motionless. If you are set up on abandoned farmland, lay your shotgun on top of your knee. If you are calling across a frozen lake or a corn-stubble field, fit your rifle with a sturdy bipod and get into the prone position. If a coyote sees you move at the moment of truth, the game is over.
What vocalizations will lure a wary coyote? A single howl will help you locate a lone dog or a resident pack, and could tweak its sense of territory. And your version of a frantically yipping pup can sometimes bring an adult in for the rescue. Your rendition of fighting foxes or a flock of raucous crows might also fool a stubborn coyote. If you hear a series of high-pitched barks, however, it usually means he's on to you.
The traditional favorite call is a dying rabbit. It alone probably accounts for more coyotes meeting their demise than any other call. Rabbit decoys help; even your kid's stuffed critter can be of assistance, especially when the fake can bee controlled with a cord.
Other "tunes" will also work on call-wise coyotes, and especially when paired with a decoy. The putt-putt of a wild turkey, for example, will lure a hungry coyote to a painted plastic bird, as will the honking of a Canada goose when teamed with a spread of wind sock look-alikes. And don't overlook the possibilities of a fawn- in-distress call when paired with a spotted foam fawn. Again, movement in the decoy spread is often the key to grabbing a dog's attention.
What should you do if your coyote hangs up just out of range? Use a mouth-blown diaphragm or rubber band "squeaker" to finish the job. You might also want to rustle some leaves. The incoming coyote is expecting to find a struggle, and the sound can only add to the ruse.
Many states allow you to bait coyotes with beaver carcasses, dead farm animals or even road kills. Coyotes can also be run successfully with a pack of trained hounds. The former is easy on the legs. The latter? Well, you'd better be in shape. A running coyote can reach 40 mph.
The Coyoten Diet
Where does Canis latrans ("barking dog") live? Anywhere near a food source-and coyotes will eat almost anything. They've been known to chow down on chickens, domestic ducks, house cats, small dogs, raccoons, calves, lambs and carrion, but seem to depend on rabbits, hares, woodchucks, ground squirrels, mice, moles, small reptiles, ground-nesting birds, berries, fruits and various insects for their daily dose of nutrition. Coyotes also like to eat foxes. If a pack moves into the neighborhood, you can bet your last cartridge the fox population is in big trouble. They show no mercy in this regard. It really is a "dog-eat-dog" world.
But it's their appetite for whitetail fawns that makes coyotes a prime target for so many sportsmen. Coyotes like to eat newborn fawns, and will seek them out relentlessly in late spring and early summer. One farmer told me a pack of New York coyotes killed and ate nearly a dozen spotted fawns he had on his dairy farm last summer. This should be an incentive for hunters to control the predator population.
Use the Right Gun
Recommended firepower includes everything from the ubiquitous .22 Magnum right on up through the .22 Hornet, .222, .223, .22-250, .220 Swift, .243, .25/06 and even the .270. Vermont big-woods specialist Jeff Grab uses 140-grain Fail Safes in his .270 to minimize pelt damage.
If you're hunting in heavy cover for brush wolves, consider a slide-action or semi-automatic 12-gauge, either a 2 ¾- or a full 3½-inch magnum. When you've got dogs closing in on you for an easy kill, the shooting is fast and furious.


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Q: What is the best use case for an Observable Data Service? I've configured my application to use a data service at the root level. Most of the actions in my app take the form of actions on the data model, to which components respond. I'd like to have components subscribe to the data service and respond to the events that it emits, so that they can make changes based on this (i.e., object changes in model, component updates representation of that object). Should I be using an Observable Data Model with rxjs?

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John represents the injured party in civil litigation. The most common types of cases involve motor vehicle accidents and slip/trip and fall cases. John says, "If you are injured, you are almost always going to come out of the situation better with the help of an attorney. Attorneys usually make little decisions over a period of time that has a big cumulative effect." He is an EAGLE member of the Washington State Association for Justice, an organization that connects lawyers who focus on holding powerful wrongdoers accountable. Through this organization, John Groseclose has resources and a network of other attorneys around the state who support one another in achieving justice for you and others in the courtroom.
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A major Israeli pharmacy chain is shutting down after a serious security breach that compromised customer information and resulted in the theft of credit card information.
According to a report by Israeli media outlet The Jerusalem Report, the pharmacy in Tel-Aviv was shut down on Friday after it was found that a security company that was contracted to the pharmacy's management company, Sibnei, had gained access to the company's system, which is used to verify customers' identities and payment information.
Sibneia, a subsidiary of Israeli technology firm Cargill, was contracted by M&amps Pharmacy in 2010 to maintain and maintain its database of cardholders, according to the report.
However, according the report, Sipco, the company that is the company responsible for the database, was not authorized to handle this type of sensitive information.
Sibiei also has the rights to access customer accounts and data on its own.
The report said that while M&ams Pharmacy was notified of the breach in mid-May, the chain did not immediately notify its customers or notify the police until after the breach had been discovered.
The breach of the database is believed to have taken place during the summer, after the company learned that it was the first time the cardholder's card was stolen in its history.
The security breach is the latest in a string of security breaches affecting large multinational pharmaceutical companies.
In July, a report from The Times of Israel found that Israeli pharmaceuticals giant Eli Lilly had been compromised by the same security breach reported by The Jerusalem report.
In September, Israeli drugmaker Shire Pharmaceuticals was also affected by the breach.
Earlier this month, US-based drugmaker Eli Lilly announced that it would close its Tel Aviv headquarters and lay off a large number of employees.
The company also announced that all staff at its headquarters in Tel Beni would be relocated to Israel.
In March, Israeli cosmetics brand L'Oreal announced that its Tel-Zion headquarters would close in October.
The Tel Aviv pharmacy chain was reportedly hired by the company in 2010 as part of an effort to improve its security.
In April, the head of the security department at the Tel Aviv chain, Yael Rabin, was arrested after he and two other members of his security staff were arrested by Israeli police on suspicion of stealing sensitive financial information from the security company.
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This article appeared after my next visit to the birth of my son's nursery school (tenth in a row this year!). Every time I shocked and abundance of sweets, sweets, snacks ('Bamba' chips, 'and Beasley'…) beverages that children consume during the celebration of birthdays. And every time I find myself on that count the amount of sugar, salt, fat and various artificial additives, which eats a small child during one to two hours! If this were a one-time event – it is possible to understand and keep quiet! However, I perfectly understand that the majority of children continue to consume the same candy, gum, snacks and drinks at home and throughout weeks. What is so wrong in so tasty for all of us sweets? Have you ever tried once to read most of these components of sweets or snacks? If not – try it, it's very funny. You will find there are many things to first glance, does not correlate with the power of man – thickeners, stabilizers, antifoaming agent, emulsifying agents, regulators, Glazing agents. And I'm not talking about colors and flavors, flavor enhancers, which have become commonplace in the industrialized processed foods. However, the problem is that the human body was not created for the processing of these materials are alien to it, and so they accumulate in the body leads to deviations in the various body systems and diseases (from allergies to Alzheimer's disease). The consequences of even more serious when it comes to the child, since it receives a large portion of these substances, with respect to its low weight.
Nabor of dvadtsati produktov the power supply with osoboe znachenie for bodrosti, vynoslivosti, HEALTHY and strength nashego organizma. Nekotorye of kotoryh have takzhe lechebnoe and action. 1 Yabloki. Veschestva, soderzhaschiesya in yablokah in chastnosti quercetin, sposobny tormozit razvitie rakovyh kletok. Krome togo, quercetin obladaet protivovospalitelnym action and harm umenshaet tak nazyvaemyh svobodnyh radikalov. For normalnoy raboty zheludka yabloki tozhe nezamenimy: soderzhaschiesya they hinder kisloty razvitiyu gnilostnyh baktery, a pectin vyvodit harmful veschestva of organizma. 2 Hurma. Soderzhit 2 raza bolshe food and volokon poleznyh mikroelementov than yabloki.
It takzhe mnogo antioksidantov. Soderzhit proteins uglevody, organicheskie kisloty, tanning veschestva. Hurma bogata kaliem, kaltsiem, magniem, fosforom and zhelezom, a takzhe vitaminami A, C and P. Uspokaivaet nervous system, povyshaet rabotosposobnost, obladaet mochegonnym action, action in bakteritsidnym otnoshenii kishechnoy and sennoy palochki, zolotistogo stafilokokka. 3 Apelsin.
Soderzhit vitaminy A, B1, B2, PP and mikroelementy: magny, fosfor, natry, kaly, kaltsy, zhelezo. Osobenno mnogo in apelsine vitamina C. Preduprezhdaet serdechno-sosudistye zabolevaniya: ateroskleroz, stenokardiya, infarkt miokarda. Polezny at anemii or malokrovii, nesvarenii, scurvy, zaporah, potere appetita, slabosti. Dates 4. Polezny for zheludka and spleen, and heart rate at vylechivayut malokrovii, bessonnitsu. Polezno upotreblyat removal stressa at bolshom nervnom napryazhenii, kak obscheukreplyayuschee sredstvo at slabosti, a takzhe to improve Colors litsa and gladkosti kozhi. In finikah bolshoe kolichestvo uglevodov (44-88%) – naturalnye sahara, fat (0.2-0.5%), 15 and soley mineralov (copper, zhelezo, magny, zinc, marganets, kaly, fosfor, natry, aluminum, kadmy, kobalt, sera, bor, etc.). In finikah soderzhitsya 23 vida razlichnyh aminokislot, kotorye otsutstvuyut in takih fruktah kak yabloki, apelsiny, banany; vitaminy A, A1, C, B1, B2 and B6.
Based on lessons learned herbal medicine has developed several important rules of its available funds. Of course, the implementation of these rules may be necessary as a number of exception, thereby confirming the maxim that there is no rule without exceptions. 1. The first rule of herbal medicine requires treatment to begin 'simple', that is not potent plants. In fact, this is one of the specification basic rules of treatment at all.
Under this rule, such as stomach and intestinal disorders, assessed as suitable for herbal medicine before applying belladonna, should provide the patient with a daisy. Problem herbal study and indicate the specific implementation of this requirement. 2. The second rule – recommend the use of all plant, resp. preparations containing it are in substance.


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