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Thomas von Essen Shops Around Book on His Climatic Term as Fire Chief
By NYO Staff • 11/26/01 12:00am
New York City Fire Commissioner Thomas Von Essen is shopping his memoirs. In a nine-page proposal submitted to book publishers on Nov. 16, the soon-to-be-former fire commissioner describes a book that will cover his career as a firefighter as well as his experience on Sept. 11.
"I propose to share for the first time my life story, including the minute-by-minute account of the events of September 11, the rescue effort that followed and the recovery that continues today," Mr. Von Essen writes. "I have maintained detailed notes, calendars and diaries of my career, particularly during the last few months, trying to sort out the horror and bravery, the awful depths and incredible heights."
But Mr. Von Essen's proposal comes at an awkward moment, submitted in the same week that soon-to-be-former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik did a blitzkrieg bop of the press to promote his own memoir, The Lost Son: A Life in Pursuit of Justice . Though praised for its heart-wrenching personal revelations, Mr. Kerik's book has faced criticism that it exploited Sept. 11 by rushing in a late chapter about the attacks and publishing 16 pages of police photographs taken at ground zero. (Said Mr. Kerik's publisher, Judith Regan: "The photos are available to the public, and he would have been remiss not to address one of the more important moments of his life. And anyone who criticizes his writing about that is an idiot.")
Mr. Von Essen himself is not unfamiliar with scorn from his own firefighters, especially during the past few weeks, after he supported Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's move to scale back firefighting personnel at ground zero. That conflict ended with the contingent of firefighters being restored to past numbers, but not before Mr. Von Essen briefly left the news conference weeping when a retired firefighter whose son is still buried at the site pleaded for more firefighters to aid the search.
Mr. Von Essen's agent, Rebecca Kurson–wife of writer Ken Kurson, the co-writer of Rudy Giuliani's upcoming books–said it was too early to comment on the memoir, and no closing date for the proposal has been set.
How big could Mr. Von Essen's book become? One editor who has seen the proposal thinks that despite Mr. Von Essen's heightened profile, finding an audience might be challenging. "He is a very sympathetic figure," says the editor. "But I don't see this as being a big book at all."
Mr. Kerik's book, meanwhile, is ranked No. 32 on Nov. 20 on the always fluctuating, mostly random and sometimes meaningless Amazon sales chart; it was No. 3,994 on BarnesandNoble.com.
Like Mr. Kerik's book, Mr. Von Essen's as-yet-unwritten memoir will span the length of his civil-service career. According to the proposal, Mr. Von Essen will write about his time at Ladder 42, as delegate and later president of the firefighter's union; about his battles against budget cuts; and about his appointment to the fire commissioner's job in 1996, which prompted substantial grumbling from rank-and-file colleagues.
"Some firefighters still see my switching sides from labor to management as a betrayal," Mr. Von Essen writes. "That's ridiculous. I would never go against my conscience, I'd never betray my men …. I've taken a lot of criticism from the union, and while it hurts, I don't back down."
The commissioner's memoir would join a legion of recently acquired titles that address the September events in some way: Gail Sheehy is following a group of bereaved families affected by the attacks for a future Random House book, for instance, while a photography book, In the Line of Duty: A Tribute to New York's Finest and Bravest (featuring forwards by Mr. Kerik and Mr. Von Essen), was just published by HarperCollins. Basic Books recently signed Observer city editor Terry Golway to write a history of the NYFD to be published late next year, and Dennis Smith, a former firefighter turned author, is writing Report from Ground Zero for Viking. Mr. Smith's book is due next month.
–P.J. Mark
Rod Dreher, the film critic turned conservative columnist at the New York Post , has taken his Ray Kerrison act across town. Picked to replace Mr. Kerrison after he retired in 1999, Mr. Dreher is joining National Review , where he'll write his column three times a week for National Review 's Web site as well as pieces for the magazine.
Reached for comment, Mr. Dreher told us he was making the move partly out of concern for the safety of his 2-year-old son. "One thing that affected this decision was the anthrax attacks at the Post ," said Mr. Dreher, who was on Cipro for a few days after a co-worker was found to be a victim of an anthrax attack. "What would I do if I got this stuff and my wife was left alone with our son?"
Mr. Dreher, whose last day was Nov. 16, plans to stay in Park Slope for now, but he said he was considering getting away and moving to the suburbs of Washington, D.C., some time next year.
But a Post source said that Mr. Dreher wasn't exactly a perfect fit with new editor Col Allan's depoliticized Post . His column was appearing less frequently; it ran on just 10 days this October, compared to 17 times in October last year. A spokesperson for the Post would not say whether Mr. Dreher's column would be replaced.
Speaking of National Review , William Buckley Jr. managed to work himself into a tizzy in the Nov. 19 issue about how pervasive porn is in modern life. Exhibit A in his case: the February issue of Esquire . Ticking off all the references to sex he found in its pages–the crotch-level photo of Bill Clinton on the cover, a mention of "backseat action" in a car review, a discussion of morning erections and the like–a titillated Mr. Buckley concluded, "Is the Esquire given over to erotomania unique? Of course not, but it isn't just one more girlie magazine. It is a sign of the times, the day of pervasive presence. Eros is crowding at us on all sides, as the erotic and pornographic merger."
So what does Esquire editor David Granger think of the charge he's putting out a porn mag?
"Oh, hell," Mr. Granger said. "Does this mean that I have to open up National Review –two copies of which arrive unbidden at my office every month–for the first time in my life?"
–Gabriel Snyder
Since 1999, Robert Lanham, a 30-year-old Web-site designer, has run a site called Free Williamsburg devoted to the très cool Brooklyn neighborhood. Last September, Mr. Lanham assigned a story to his friend Grant Moser about the music scene there, and Mr. Moser, in turn, wrote about a recently released compilation of Brooklyn bands– This Is Next Year –and profiled clubs in the hipster hamlet: Northsix, Galapagos, Warsaw and Luxx. The latter club, Mr. Moser said, "reminded me of a Coney Island bumper car ring. Reflective wallpaper, clear plastic tubing, lights and a smash of colors came from all directions."
The piece ran with the headline "A Scene Grows in Brooklyn," and Mr. Lanham forgot about it until two weeks ago, when he saw The Village Voice .
What Mr. Lanham found in the Nov. 13 edition of The Voice was a piece by writer Chris Parker. Mr. Parker wrote about the This Is Next Year compilation and described the edgy new atmosphere for bands in Williamsburg, focusing on Northsix and Warsaw and Luxx, which, Mr. Parker wrote, "has–with its crush of colors, reflective wallpaper, lights and tubing–been compared to a Coney Island bumper car ring." The headline for the piece? "A Scene Grows in Brooklyn."
Did The Voice rip off Free Williamsburg? "The framework for the article is pretty much the same," Mr. Lanham said. "It even had the same headline."
The following day, Mr. Lanham wrote a letter complaining about the matter and received a voice-mail message from a Voice staffer. Then Mr. Lanham sent another letter, charging them with copyright infringement and asking them to pull the piece from their Web site. After Mr. Lanham's first letter (which also appeared in the New York Press ) ran in the Nov. 20 edition of The Voice, Mr. Lanham spoke with Voice managing editor Doug Simmons. Mr. Lanham said that when they talked, Mr. Simmons cursed at him and was "unprofessional and rude."
For his part, Mr. Simmons, while admitting he grew curt with Mr. Lanham, considers the issue over. The Voice ran the letter and added a link to Free Williamsburg on its Web site. He also said that after conferring with the paper's legal counsel, any legal claim against the paper was "absolute bullshit."
"How did we damage him?" Mr. Simmons said. "By giving him a plug? Usually when we reply to a letter, it's a silly-sarcastic reply. No reply is good."
Mr. Simmons considers it this way: If you're going to talk about new music in Williamsburg, you have to write about these clubs and this CD. The Voice also had a longer piece with different sources.
"If I feel bad about anything, it's the bumper-car line," Mr. Simmons said. "We should have given him credit for that line. If the writer had just done that, none of this would have happened. It's a matter of simple attribution. But I see one line and a terrible headline from a tired editor. I bet 'A (Blank) Grows in Brooklyn' has appeared in The Village Voice a dozen times. It's clichéd and never should have run."
The tired editor responsible for that terrible headline is music editor Chuck Eddy. "It was a shitty headline," Mr. Eddy said. "It sucked when Free Williamsburg did it, and it sucked when we did it, too. "
Mr. Parker, for his part, said he came up with the story idea after attending a show at Northsix. It was only two weeks into his reporting, he said, that he saw the Free Williamsburg piece. "There's no copyright on trend stories," Mr. Parker said.
–Sridhar Pappu
If it's six months after a new editor in chief took over, it must be time for shake-ups. Wired editor Chris Anderson has announced a raft of changes for the tech-fetishist's magazine. Some veterans have been trimmed from the masthead, and a redesign is in the works.
Early on, the fluorescent-and-metallic-hued magazine built its reputation largely on its visual style–but nine years later, the title has become a bit more subdued, and the shock factor has also diminished as other magazines borrowed from its aesthetic devices.
"I don't think Wired 's visuals have the impact they had in the beginning," Mr. Anderson said. So he's bringing in Darrin Perry as creative director. Mr. Perry did much to shape the busy look of ESPN magazine. The redesign is targeted for the May issue.
"We love our logo, we love the stripes on our spine, and fluorescent will always be part of our palette," Mr. Anderson said, adding, "It was time for a new aesthetic."
Mr. Anderson is also planning to revamp the "editorial architecture" of the magazine. As of Nov. 16, he let go of several editors and writers: Senior editor Paul Boutin, section editor Paul Spinrad and senior writer Chip Bayers, who had been at the magazine since nearly its founding, were all pink-slipped. Also, senior editor Tom McNichol will give up his title, but will go on contract as a writer. Mr. Anderson is bringing on Mark Robinson, who was most recently at Industry Standard as senior editor.
–G.S.
It's bad enough that lovelorn reporters have to compete with lawyers and doctors. But competing with firefighters in today's New York? Forget it!
The other night, at an after-party following the Financial Follies–the annual song-dance-and-booze festival thrown by the New York Financial Writers' Association at the Marriott Marquis–a posse of firefighters arrived and quickly stole the thunder of the tuxedoed journalists on the prowl. "They're so hot," said one female business writer. Said a male colleague: "How do we have a chance with those guys around? It's unfair."
Last week, this column noted that Warner Bros. was unlikely to use a blurb from Time film critic and AOL Time Warner employee Richard Corliss in its ads for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone after Mr. Corliss pasted the film as "stodgy, humorless." But it was interesting to see that AOL T.W. did dig up some Harry Potter superlatives from a previous Time feature by Jess Cagle, who gushed that the movie had "eye-popping grandeur, dazzling special effects and sumptuous production values." And unlike Time , which whenever it writes about a corporate sibling dutifully notes that they are both owned by AOL Time Warner, the ads don't mention that Mr. Cagle and young Harry are on the same payroll.
Filed Under: Media, Brooklyn, Off the Record, Bernard Kerik, Doug Simmons, Robert Lanham
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I cannot believe I have been playing the piano since the 60s and I have never heard of Hanon until today. He was a French dude named Charles-Louis Hanon who wrote a book in 1873 called 'The Virtuoso Pianist' that is just what I have been looking for. It contains 60 exercises to strengthen your fingers. I have never been a very good pianist (in fact downright lousy) but I really love playing piano and it has been frustrating not having very good technique. I have played a lot of scales but never gotten very good at technique. These exercises look to be a lot better than playing scales.
No need to buy the book since all the exercises are online in both sheet music form and videos.
These exercises look to be a lot better than playing scales.


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The July 2016 edition of Texworld USA marks the 10th anniversary of the show and 10 years since Texworld USA partnered with Lenzing Innovation to produce the show. The twentieth edition of North America's largest sourcing event for apparel fabric buyers, research and product development specialist, designers, merchandisers and overseas sourcing professionals invites all in join them.
Held bi-annually, Texworld USA provides the opportunity to meet directly with a wide range of manufacturers from Asia, the Middle East, North America and from many other regions from around the globe to display a variety of apparel fabrics, trims and accessories for womenswear, menswear, juniors and childrens wear. More than 600 international exhibitors from 17 countries will participate in the show, which will feature three new country pavilions from Korea, Taiwan and Turkey.
Since the launch of Texworld USA ten years ago, Lenzing Innovation has been a vital supporter and partner in this event, said Dennis Smith, president, Messe Frankfurt North America. Through the impressive quality of textile mills exhibiting in the Lenzing Innovation Pavilion and a prestigious group of speakers recruited for the Lenzing Seminar Series, the North American team led by Tricia Carey has shown incredible loyalty and support for this sourcing platform.
The North American Digital Textile Conference also will take place alongside Texworld USA. This full-day event will feature expert panels and seminars focused on product development, sourcing and supply chain advantages of the digital process, and the key differences between digital and analog printing that buyer need to be aware of in specifying and sourcing.
Texworld USA will collocate with Apparel sourcing USA and the Home Textiles Sourcing Expo, which together create one of the largest sourcing destinations in the United States, according to Messe Frankfurt. Apparel sourcing USA expects more than 250 international exhibitors focused on finished apparel, contract manufacturing and private label development sourcing. The brand new Trend Café will highlight apparel trends and exhibitors' manufacturing capabilities. The show also will feature new country pavilions from Colombia and Pakistan.
The Home Textiles Sourcing Expo will welcome more than 150 exhibitors that specialize in textiles and soft finished goods for home applications. The show will feature new country pavilions from Turkey, Egypt, India and Pakistan; and host a trend forum and educational seminar. They are especially thrilled to welcome four country pavilions to the show floor, said Jennifer Bacon, show director – Texworld USA, Apparel sourcing USA, Home Textiles Sourcing Expo.
The shows are open from July 12 - 14, 2016, for three days of sourcing, seminars and networking at the Javits Convention Center, located at 655 West 34th Street.


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Q: codeigniter home page url I have a codeigniter folder that has my entire application with all the many pages of the site but maybe i dont understand the way to link the home page....
here is my problem, I have a folder named ci and the content is this format
   ~/Sites/ci$ ls -la
   total 56
drwxr-xr-x@ 18 tamer  staff    612 Apr  8 17:26 application
drwxr-xr-x  11 tamer  staff    374 Apr 11 09:46 css
drwxr-xr-x   6 tamer  staff    204 Mar 24 14:20 graphics
-rwxr-xr-x@  1 tamer  staff   6321 Apr  7 12:20 index.php
drwxr-xr-x  17 tamer  staff    578 Apr 11 09:54 js
-rwxr-xr-x@  1 tamer  staff   2496 Apr  7 12:20 license.txt
drwxr-xr-x@ 10 tamer  staff    340 Apr  7 12:20 system
drwxr-xr-x@ 16 tamer  staff    544 Apr  7 12:20 user_guide

As you can see the folder named ci has my application folder and if i put this on my server i will have to navigate to http;//mysite.com/ci which is not what i want. How do i make this work without having to use ci in the url

A: I'm not totally sure about this (so correct me if I'm wrong), but the way that Codeigniter allows you to use nice urls is by using the .htaccess file to do rewrite. So everything goes through the index.php file. So if this is true you could try to move the index.php and the .htaccess. Then you would just update the index.php to point to the application and system folder (ci/application and ci/system). You will then be able to access the site by visiting http://mysite.com.
Haven't actually tried this and I'm assuming your using a .htaccess file for rewriting. And that you are using Absolute Urls to your assets.

A: If you have access to apache configs then change the docroot of your virtal host to /ci. If not and you are on a shared hosting package then you will have to move all the files from /ci to / or change the rewrite rules in .htaccess.

A: Home or the root page is always
www.wxample.com/index.php/main controller name

If you have removed the index.php its simply
www.wxample.com/main controller name

Assets are relative to the application folder.  So if you have a view in the view folder and your CSS file is in the root of public html, then you would address the css file like this
link_tag("/css/style.css")

You home can also be expressed as base_url  (in URL helper) it.  This must be set up in your index.php file as http://www.mysite.com

A: You have to take everything out of the ci/ folder and place it on your domain's public_html/ directory inside the server, depending on what type of Apache setup you have. Almost always, it tends to be public_html/. So dump everything into that folder(including your index.php) and your site's home url should now be http://yoursite.com or .org or whatever.
On a Codeigniter specific note: if you want to make your site more secure. You could take it one step further and leave the Application and system files 1 directory up inside your root folder which will make it unreachable by browsers as they cannot index anything outside public_html. And then just place your index.php and your assets inside public_html and change your CI global variables to one directory above (../). There are a few tutorials and videos on how to do this, if you want. I can't seem to find the ones I know but I'm sure if you google it, it won't be long before you find them.
Again, this is more of a Codeigniter specific thing but you can do something similar with other MVC sites, depending on the setup, of course.

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Forget everything you've heard about university, here's an actually useful guide on how to get through what will be the best few years of your life.
Freshers' week is the best time to make friends, as everybody is feeling the same nerves. Just be yourself. Also, another way to break the ice is a massive night out! Go to your student union, to start off and see where the night takes you. Just try not to embarrass yourself too much, or you'll be forever known as the person who threw up on the bouncer and had to crawl back to halls because your heels were too high.
Yes, budgets are boring. But trust us on this, it's the only way to survive three years without having to sell your organs online so you can afford your weekly food shop. Work out how much you have to spend a week based on your student loan. It's also a good idea to have a separate bank account to put your loan in when it drops. This way you won't be tempted to tap that contactless card at the bar and spend all your rent money on prosecco (it can happen).
Need to know how to make a tenner last three days? Get the lowdown on student budgeting here.
I'll be honest – one of the best parts of uni is the regular student offers from Domino's pizza. Just remember that your body does occasionally need vitamins every now and then, especially if you're boozing your way through your degree.
Believe it or not, the internet isn't just for social media, you can pretty much google any recipe you want. Stock up on spices and herbs at the start of the year. These are the things that can initially cost a lot but make the plainest of meals taste like Jamie Oliver is your personal chef. Planning ahead will also save you time and money – less time cooking means more time getting ready to go out. Why not check out our student budget recipe guide by MOB Kitchen.
Essential hangover kit includes: sunglasses to hide those bags under your eyes because, girl, no amount of concealer can help you now. Water, and lots of it. Student unions normally do pretty good food for a cheap price: get to know it. Orange juice gets some vitamin C into your system, your body will thank you later. Comfy clothes are essential: baggy oversized sweatshirts, joggers and sliders to get you through the day. You can do it, babe.
Hopefully, you are blessed with fun flatmates. Chances are there will be at least one person that leaves post-it notes on the fridge reminding everybody about the cleaning rota with a million exclamation marks. Snore. Don't be THAT person. Have flat meetings, say what needs to be done, be nice. At the end of the day, it wouldn't really be uni without having to look at a mountain of dirty plates whilst you eat your smashed avo on toast in the morning.
This is your time to get your free s**t. You don't need 20 pens and 6 notepads, but you can't turn down a bit of free merch that will sit in your room, under your bed and won't be touched until you leave 3 years later. Not only this, but you can also check out all of the societies you can join. Maybe you're an undiscovered cheerleader. Give it a go, fall on your arse, laugh at yourself. There's always someone worse than you so don't worry.
There are loads of brands that employ student ambassadors. This is a great way to earn money at uni, work to your own time and get loads of freebies. Working at uni is a good way of having extra cash to spend on nights out, new clothes, or even to save so you can have the best summer possible. Go travel, see the world, or jet over to Ibiza for a week or two. You can do what you want in those eight weeks of freedom – make the most of it.
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Barry Wilner
Published: November 6, 2020, 11:20 AM
Updated: November 6, 2020, 1:47 PM
Tags: Mike Tomlin, Sports
Pinpointing the arrival of the coldest air behind the cold front
AP source: Tomlin, Steelers fined for improper mask wearing
Published: November 6, 2020, 11:20 AM Updated: November 6, 2020, 1:47 PM
FILE - In this Sunday, Nov. 1, 2020 file photo, Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin looks on during the second half of an NFL football game against the Baltimore Ravens in Baltimore. A person with knowledge of the matter told The Associated Press that Tomlin has been fined $100,000 and the club $250,000 because coaches improperly wore facial coverings last Sunday. The person said Friday, Nov. 6 that Tomlin and the Steelers were disciplined because members of the coaching staff were not wearing face coverings at all times on the sidelines. (AP Photo/Terrance Williams, File) (Terrance Williams, Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)
Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin was fined $100,000 and the club $250,000 because coaches improperly wore facial coverings last Sunday, a person with knowledge of the fines told The Associated Press on Friday.
The person, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the fines have not been announced, said Tomlin was among the coaches cited for "not wearing face coverings at all times on the sidelines" during the victory over the Baltimore Ravens.
The league has been clamping down on violators of sideline protocols designed to battle COVID-19. The NFL recently told its 32 teams to have all personnel wear masks in lockers rooms and on the sideline when not in the game. Players are required to wear masks during postgame contacts with opponents as well.
The Las Vegas Raiders and coach Jon Gruden this week were fined a total $650,000 and docked a sixth-round draft pick for repeated violations of the NFL's COVID-19 protocols. A person familiar with the punishment said Thursday the team was fined $500,000, Gruden docked $150,000, and the draft pick stripped because of how the team handled Trent Brown's positive coronavirus test last month. The team is expected to appeal.
The Raiders have been penalized several times this season for violating coronavirus protocols, with the punishments leading to a total of more than $1.2 million for the team, Gruden and players. They are the first to be penalized a draft pick following multiple violations.
AP Pro Football Writer Josh Dubow contributed.
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If you are an ardent yoga fan and spiritually inclined then you should know about sattvic yoga diet and its benefits. Being spiritually inclined will help one lead a life of peace and contentment, and the sattvic diet helps them to get closer to their spirituality. The sattvic diet is also popularly known as yogic diet and is rich in nutrition meant to help in stepping towards the next level of spirituality.
Yoga is commonly perceived to be an alternate way of life, and that's because it is completely different from the conventional western approach of life. The focus of Yoga in your life is to benefit you in all aspects, the mind, body as well as your soul. Food plays an important role in a yogi's life considering the targets that needs to be achieved. All these things are taken care by the sattvic diet.
Sattvic yoga diet: The Sattvic diet mainly comprises of simple, pure and light meal that helps you to achieve the purity required for your body and mind. Sattvic diet is often followed by people who want to lose weight too as it is very much helpful to lose weight.
A sattvic diet is basically light and easy on the stomach which means it is easily digestible.
A Sattvic diet helps to achieve clarity of mind and helps in perceiving thoughts better.
A sattvic diet induces a feeling of contentment in oneself.
A sattvic diet helps to induce love and compassion within self.
The Sattvic diet has to be preferably vegetarian although certain fish and non-veg foods are included now keeping certain health conditions in mind.
It should be easily digestible.
Make sure the food is not chemically treated at all. It should comprise of low fat as well as protein content.
It should have very less spice and flavoring. It is better to opt for organic food as that will be completely pure.
Vegetables, Cereals, Nuts and dried fruits, Honey, Milk and dairy products, Whole grains, Herbal teas, Clarified butter, Seeds, Whole meal bread and Eggs.
The yoga diet especially for weight loss follows Ayurveda. Ayurveda decides the diet as per 3 main doshas, which is Kapha (water), Vatta (air), and Pitta (fire). Each individual is said to be dominated by one of the doshas. So it is advisable to find out which dosha you belong to first and foremost. As per that you can plan your diet. People belonging to Vatta doshas require more whole grains in their diet. Kapha dosha requires food made with more of spices as well as ginger. Pitta dosh meanwhile have to include more of foods that have cooling effect on the body like raw salads and fruits. Therefore it is important to choose food that suits your body type, and then it will benefit you better overall.
Begin your day with a glass of warm water mixed with lime juice and honey.
Breakfast should comprise of a bowl full of fruit salad. Healthy mix of different fruits should be included. You can also include a bowl of cereals instead along with a glass of fresh milk.
For lunch, the diet should comprise of a big bowl full of salad consisting of blend of sprouts with lettuce with chopped raw carrots, tomatoes and boiled beetroot. You can mix it with fresh curd or add a dash of lemon juice over it.
Dinner can be same as lunch or you can go for tomato soup, a baked vegetable dish along with a light salad.
Various drinks can be had in between the meals but make sure it is green tea, coconut water, lemon juice without sugar or just plain water.
To shut the in-between meals hunger pangs, you can have fresh fruits.
Sattvic yoga diet is all about knowing your body type and choosing the right kind of balanced food. The sattvic diet long with yoga will not only help you in losing weight eventually but also help you in being healthy, strong and lively always.


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So winter has been and gone for now, but to end the winter season, I wanted to share another one of my favourite winter outfits. This is something I choose to wear when I am out shopping or for a meal.
It's a very girly combo and I normally keep my white jeans until summer but as I am wearing light clothes.. I decided to bring the white jeans out for the winter!!
This is one of my favourite cardi's. It is actually quite warm for a something that I use instead of a coat. I adore the fur on the neck and I love the grey colour of my cardi. What I am trying to say is, I think the cardi is really cute.
I would normally wear this crop top when I go for a meal or when I go out for drinks, but it's the perfect top to dress up or down.
Joni jeans from Topshop are my ultimate fav!!! I rarely wear any other jeans! They are unbelievably comfortable and even though they feel kind of stretchy, they fit perfectly!
Next Post Dolls of Essex!!!


New York: FSG, 1993. Hardcover. First edition. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. Basis for the movie of the same name. a lovely copy. He was chosen as one of the top 20 young writers in America by Granta magazine. This is the first book by Eugenides who won the Pulitzer Prize for his second novel, Middlesex.


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Activision Blizzard is currently valued at $72 billion
By Mollie Taylor published 21 January 21
Microtransactions and COVID-19 are key factors
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Activision Blizzard's total worth is now estimated to be around a whopping $72 billion (£52.5bn) with stock prices sitting at $95 a share—the highest it has been since 1984 (when there were many, many less shares in the company). As noted by The Wall Street Journal the company's share price has been on a steady rise since December 2020.
One factor in this increase is the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic boosting Activision's profits, with more people being at home and having more time to dedicate to gaming. The games industry as a whole has seen huge profits this year, with the UK industry surpassing £4 billion($5.6bn) for the first time in 2020.
Microtransactions have also proven to be mighty profitable for Activision Blizzard. It reported $1.2 billion in earnings from microtransactions during the last financial quarter, making up over half of its total revenue. The majority of microtransaction sales came from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Warzone, the combined success of which saw the COD playerbase on PC increase ten-fold last year.
Activision Blizzard has been on one heck of a run in recent times, with Warzone expanding Call of Duty's appeal hugely and a wide range of ongoing games that look to be in rude health. The company will announce its final earnings for the financial year on February 4, when we'll find out how the release of Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War has gone down.
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A fresh writer in the industry, Mollie has been taken under PC Gamer's RGB-laden wing, making sure she doesn't get up to too much mischief on the site. She's not quite sure what a Command & Conquer is, but she can rattle on for hours about all the obscure rhythm games and strange MMOs from the 2000s. She's been cooking up all manner of news, previews and features while she's been here, but especially enjoys when she gets to write about Final Fantasy, Persona, The Sims, and whatever other game she's currently hopelessly fixated on. There's a good chance she's boring another PC Gamer writer about her latest obsession as we speak.
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London's Khan says no red carpet for Trump
London Mayor Sadiq Khan discusses what he wants for the city from the U.K. government's Brexit negotiations and offers his views on U.S. President Donald Trump.
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Equatorial Guinea to close London embassy over sanctions on president's son
The London embassy will close after the UK sanctioned the son of Equatorial Guinea's president last week. Britain has barred the president's son from entry and frozen his assets.
Hundreds in London brave the rain for the Black Unity Bike Ride
Hundreds of people brave the rain in London to cycle 15 miles in the second annual Black Unity Bike Ride, an event that aims to "celebrate unity within the black community" and encourage more people of colour to cycle.
Gurkha veterans hold hunger strike in London over pension disparity
Nepalese Gurkha veterans hold a hunger strike outside 10 Downing Street, saying they are prepared to starve themselves to death in order to receive fair pensions from the UK government.
Extinction Rebellion targets central London in new protests
Thousands of climate change demonstrators thronged central London on Monday, as environmental activist group Extinction Rebellion held its latest round of protests, promising two weeks of disruption.
Coronavirus protesters storm ITN broadcaster HQ in London
Dozens of anti-lockdown protesters breached the offices of ITN broadcaster in London's Camden Town and made demands of journalists before the police forced them out.
Post-Brexit UK: No milkshakes and fewer chicken sandwiches
A lack of qualified drivers combined with tough visa regulations are slowing down the country's supply chains. Food retailers like McDonald's have been hit. The Christmas season could stretch things to the limit.
From camels to penguins, London zoo animals take to the scales at annual weigh-in
Tortoise callipers and camel scales are put to good use at ZSL London Zoo, which is holding its annual animal weigh-in. While keepers put on a show for the cameras, it is important that the zoo keeps up-to-date size and weight information on its animals to compare them with animals in the wild and in other zoos, as well as to have an indication of which animals are pregnant.
Arsenal's fast start secures win in Premier League's north London derby
Arsenal head coach Mikel Arteta praises his team and the impact of having fans in the stadium after his team struck three times inside 35 minutes to beat Tottenham 3-1 and move above their north London rivals in the Premier League table.
I want it all! Rock group Queen open London store
A pop-up store dedicated to Queen gets ready to open in London to mark the 50th anniversary of the legendary British rock band, which continues to perform despite the death of iconic singer Freddie Mercury in 1991. Called "Queen The Greatest", the store takes visitors back to the beginnings of the band formed in 1971 and whose hits are known the world over.
Bond fans enjoy first 'No Time to Die' screenings in London
Spectators leaving a 7am screening of the new James Bond 'No Time To Die' at a cinema on London's Leicester square share their enthusiasm about the film, which has finally hit movie theatres after a 18 months delay due to Covid-19.
Brexit: UK gives EU ultimatum over Northern Ireland protocol
The UK has given Brussels ten days to respond to its demands over customs checkpoints in the Irish Sea. The UK's Brexit minister has told the EU to rethink the terms of its trade accord.
London launches essential service buses to help homeless
London launches multi-function buses to provide 'vital services' to homeless people, such as doctor and dentist appointments as well as haircuts and showers.


December 2012… Wave X in 2016… the 2017 September solstice. Energetic milestones have come and gone and still there has been no toppling of the Cabal, no sweeping illumination of the globe, no instantaneous shift into a Golden Age, no rapture.
No doubt another all-or-nothing date will be announced soon on the basis of some major solar eruption or rare astrological alignment. Will this be the one? What you experience will depend on your level of engagement. Ascension is an active, not a passive, process.
It does—if you engage with it. Ascension gives you homework. Every day. Removing toxic influences from your life, no matter how close to you. Learning to value yourself and others. Refusing to participate in disempowering situations. Standing up to bullying. Adjusting to changes of behaviour and diet. Detoxing. When you listen to the subtle—and not so subtle—prods of the Ascension process then milestones like Wave X or the recent solstice deliver significant personal advancement.
Ascension is like climbing a mountain. You have to take a lot of steps up through the foothills before you even start mountain-climbing.
Personal—that's the key. Ascension happens one step at a time, to one individual at a time. Sweeping changes will occur when enough participants have taken enough steps when the long-term outcome couldn't be seen. It's like climbing a mountain, like the one in this beautiful picture of Mt Gran Paradiso in northwest Italy. You have to take a lot of steps up through the foothills before you even start mountain-climbing. Down there, among the trees, you can't even see the snow-clad summit. You take it on faith that it's up there and take your next step.
For some, active participation wavers when they hit core wounds and survival fears. This is where the trees thin out and we enter the icy upper slopes of Mt Ascension. Our ego sweeps in like a fog and blinds us to our own negative behaviours. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could teleport from here to the summit with its glorious view?
No. The process of Ascension teaches spiritual maturity. Skip the hardest lessons and what have you learned? It's the difference between getting a degree and buying one online. Both people have a certificate, but only one of them has learned anything.
Ascension is a course in study. You have to want the lessons in spiritual maturity that it bestows. You must be willing to pay the steep tuition fees it demands. If you do, you'll find that your world changes for the better even if others are still mired in chaos. So celebrate your own milestones. Relax and take a breather before carrying on. How's the view from where you are?
Image: Climbing Gran Paradiso by Matt Kowalczyk on Flickr. Cropped to 16:9.


The Pastoral Tutor is available to all graduates and undergraduates from Sun - Fri to talk over any concerns and is located in Y1, at the top of the wide external staircase behind the Mong Hall, and you may pop in when passing or make an appointment by email or phone, ext 38837. You can also contact Brett on 07795 580051, please call rather than text.
The Pastoral Advisor is available to all students, both ungraduates and postgraduates to discuss anything concerning wellbeing and mental health. Her office is located on the ground floor of Garden Court, room P11. To make an appointment, please enquire by email. Alternatively drop in during her office hours. Lucy is a qualified Art Psychotherapist and can see students for individual therapy, students are encouraged to self-refer but may be prompted to do so by their DoS or tutor. She also runs a weekly term-time Art Therapy group open to all students on a drop in basis. As well as working at Sidney Sussex, Lucy works in adult mental health and special needs education.
The college nurse holds surgeries from Monday to Friday in the Health Centre, which is located on the ground floor of Garden Court (opposite the entrance to the library), no appointments are necessary.
"I have experience in a wide range of medical and psychological conditions and can offer advice and support during your time at Cambridge. You are encouraged to visit me if you feel unwell or sustain an injury or have a problem which you wish to discuss."
If you need medical advice when the Health Centre is closed please contact your GP and for overnight and at weekends telephone NHS 111 Service. Minor ailments can be treated by your GP or by the out of hours emergency doctors' service, 24 hours a day.
In an extreme emergency the nearest casualty department is at Addenbrookes hospital. An extreme emergency is a condition such as a suspected broken bone, road accident, a severe wound that requires stitching, suspected heart attack or any other life-threatening condition.
Please remember that all Porters are First Aid trained and should be informed immediately in an emergency (01223 338800). Remember, the College Porters are here 24 hours a day and will know who to contact in unexpected circumstances.
In your own interest, the College strongly recommends that you register with a Cambridge doctor by the end of your first week in Cambridge. A list of Cambridge doctors and their addresses can be viewed in the Health Centre (P staircase).
GP Registration Form - Please complete this form as soon as you have registered with a GP and no later than the second week of Michaelmas Term.
The UKs biggest health website, NHS Choices provides a comprehensive health information service with thousands of articles, videos and tools, helping you to make the best choices about your health and lifestyle, but also about making the most of NHS and social care services in England.
NHS Student Healthcare Guide - A very useful guide for all students provided by the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commission Group.
Students who have had a serious allergic reaction should record this on their Health Questionnaire and will be seen by the college nurse to discuss their allergy. If you have an Epipen this should be carried AT ALL TIMES and you must be prepared to self-administer it if you feel a reaction coming on.
If you are allergic to any foodstuffs, you should inform the Catering Manager before booking yourself into a Formal Hall.
To find a Dentist in Cambridge, please use the NHS Choices website (listed above). Please note that the University Dental Service no longer exists and is now an ordinary dental practice which no longer specialises in students.
Designed to help you find the support services avaliable to Cambridge students.
The Student Counselling Service is available to all undergraduate students in residence and graduate students on the register. Further information can be obtained from the Student Counselling website including some general information including opening hours and how to book an appointment.
If you have been hospitalised following an emergency, let the Porters know, not least so that your Tutor, Directors of Studies and supervisors can be kept informed. Students should also inform the Porters when they return into residence after a stay in hospital or elsewhere - for fire safety reasons, the College would need to know that you are back, and your Tutor would prefer to avoid an unnecessary visit to the hospital if you are no longer there!
If possible, travelling in pairs or groups.
Keeping to main routes where other people are present.
Avoiding deserted or ill-lit areas.
Please also see the CUSU Safety and Welfare for further advice and contact details.
Head Porters have agreed that during open hours their Lodges can be used as a sanctuary should an individual feel threatened or unsafe, this essentially provides dozens of safe-points across the city.
Report any incidents asap to a Porters' Lodge day or night. This can be any Lodge.


In a group seminar, there are always at least two facilitators present.
A Shadow Work process starts when a facilitator asks, "What would you like to have happen?" You can then explain in your own words what you want for yourself. And if you're not sure what you want, the facilitator can listen carefully and help you determine what it is that you want.
In a group setting, Shadow Work processes only begin after a strong sense of safety and trust has been built among group members through carefully designed group exercises. Exposing parts of your shadow can feel risky. To work effectively with your shadows, you need a place where you can feel safe and trust others. Shadow Work provides you with such a place.
In a Shadow Work seminar you can share the path with others, who will help motivate you with acceptance and encouragement. You may want to learn from watching how others process their shadows. When you see others finding the courage hidden within their fear, or the power in their anger, you may be able to apply that learning directly to your own situation.
In the group, everyone withholds judgment and refrains from giving advice. This means that the participants can appreciate and learn from the different journeys we have each chosen. Feeling the depth and power of love in a truly safe and shame-free Shadow Work container is often an inspiring experience in and of itself.
Using the Shadow Work tools, the facilitator helps by reconstructing your issue, so that you can identify the shadow and view it objectively. The facilitators suggest perspectives about the shadow and can facilitate powerful techniques for re-integrating the energy that has been in shadow. The facilitator will ask for your choice at each step, so that what you want guides the process. No one is ever pressured to go beyond their own comfort level.
The core of every shadow contains a nugget of power and strength. Your shadows are like a gold mine of buried treasure, filled with unknown creative, useful energy. You have the opportunity to work on the issues buried in your shadow until you feel you can integrate the gold you find there.
For me, the workshop was powerful, moving and exciting. I do not find it easy to trust in myself or others, but I felt extremely well held by two highly skilled and experienced facilitators.
This Shadow Work seminar was beyond words. Since participating in this weekend, I feel I am moving through my life with grace and compassion instead of being critically conscious of every step.


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That quote is only a fraction of the most informative and inspirational advertisement I have seen lately for the Blackberry Passport. We don't carry these in store at Best Buy or at Best Buy Mobile. Can anyone tell me why these fell off in the first place? Have they really though? You will have to judge for yourself, after you consider a few things.
Making sense of their whole marketing strategy, maybe we can infer that Blackberry Passports are made for a specific type of consumer. Is it you and why? Does your job put you in high demand to see things differently, to respond with more accuracy, or to just be different than everyone else? You might want to own of these, if this sounds a tad bit like you.
Blackberry is clearly identifying a target market group, judging from the visuals in the video. First and foremost, congratulations are in order and secondly, I want this phone! The implication of the video advertisement is that Blackberry may not be worldwide but it is work wide, used and accepted by some professionals who matter.


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Kahne win masks serious issues at RPM
By Rick Havner
SONOMA, Calif. (AP) — It took eight winless seasons for Richard Petty to realize he was no longer NASCAR's best driver.
He spent the last decade once again ignoring the obvious, refusing to accept that his race team wasn't any good. No matter how bad things got at Petty Enterprises, The King always believed he had another trip to Victory Lane in his near future.
"I'm a hard-head. That's the reason I keep coming back," he said. "I drove and I won in '84, and then didn't win anymore. It finally dawned on me 'You're not good enough doing your job to win anymore race, so you'd better get out.' "
He did, after the 1992 season, transitioning into management at Petty Enterprises. There were three wins in the first nine seasons, but none since John Andretti drove the famed No. 43 to an April, 1999 victory at Martinsville Speedway.
In the long, lean decade that followed that last win, Petty refused to believe it was his last victory celebration.
"I'm a very optimistic person," he said. "Just because we didn't do it yesterday doesn't mean we can't do it today."
Petty did on Sunday, when Kasey Kahne took him to Victory Lane for the first time in 364 races by winning on the road course at Infineon Raceway.
It was a breakthrough victory for Richard Petty Motorsports, the team born in January from the merger between Gillett-Evernham Motorsports and Petty Enterprises. The four-car organization is a whole lot more Gillett than Petty, but The King is still the star of the show.
Clad in his cowboy hat and dark sunglasses, the fans surrounding Victory Lane cheered him as if Elvis himself had just crashed the party. Petty sipped some celebratory red wine and soaked up the moment he always believed was right around the corner.
"If we hadn't have won the race (Sunday), we would have went to New Hampshire, and in my mind, we would have won New Hampshire," he said.
Only the reality is, unless Kahne gets on some sort of hot streak, it may be some time before Petty gets another win.
Kahne's win proved that the No. 9 team is still a legitimate contender, he's still a great race car driver and RPM's employees are still working double-time to produce a competitive product.
But there's still a ton of larger issues looming over RPM, and Sunday's win was nothing more than a temporary distraction from the problems.
• The team has been funding AJ Allmendinger's ride largely out of pocket all season, and RPM has never promised to run that fourth car beyond the 26th race of the season. Allmendinger forfeited a large chunk of his race winnings this season to keep his seat, and sponsorship is desperately needed for RPM to maintain its four cars.
• Simmering issues with manufacturer Dodge reached a boiling point when parent company Chrysler entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, and Petty has said the checks are no longer in the mail. Both sides are believed to be trying to find an amicable split that would allow RPM to move to another manufacturer before the end of the year. The anticipation of Dodge not meeting its financial commitment led RPM to lay off nine employees earlier this month and slash salaries across the board.
• Because the relationship with Dodge is so shaky, there's no real incentive for RPM to spend any money developing the new engine that Kahne insists he needs to be competitive. He pushed for a new motor, and got one for two of the last four races. But RPM doesn't have enough motors in production for Kahne to get one full-time, or for the other three drivers to get one at all.
• Cash appears to be an issue as garage insiders have openly wondered whether majority owner George Gillett Jr. can meet several upcoming due dates on rather large payments, including a deposit for engines from a new manufacturer presumed to be Toyota.
On Saturday, Gillett reached a deal to sell the NHL's Montreal Canadiens, but any proceeds will likely go toward his loan on English Premier League soccer team Liverpool. The team's accountants recently warned that if Gillett and co-owner Tom Hicks can't refinance about $563 million in debt before July 24, they'll probably have to sell the club.
Since Gillett was the money man in the merger with Petty — remember, Petty Enterprises was on the brink of a collapse before partnering with GEM — many people are worried about the long-term health of RPM.
But Petty, a seven-time Cup winner and NASCAR's winningest driver, has played this game before. He's ducked and dodged every threat, and always stayed on his feet.
And he's far too cool to let anyone see him sweat. When Kahne was asked about the instability at RPM, The King chimed in with his own assessment.
"From the financial end, we'll definitely be there next week," he joked. "We've got enough money to do that."


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These tools usually provide backlink tracking, trend analysis, and keyword analysis features. Such features are used to "identify the best strategies to improve a website's search relevance." Some software also offers industry analysis, competitor data, and paid search optimization tools.
Moz is captained by SEO wiz Rand Fishkin and is fueled by TAGFEE, which stands for Transparent, Authentic, Generous, Fun, Empathetic and Exceptional. No wonder they got such raving reviews from users!
Overall, Moz received 60 five star ratings, 26 four-star ratings, one three-star rating, and one one-star rating. The software ranges in price from $99 to $599 a month.
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Overall, this product received 23 five-star ratings, nine four-star ratings and one two-star rating, giving it a total of four-and-a-half out of five stars. Pricing starts at $69.95 a month for a pro account, increases to $149.95 a month for a guru account, and tops at $549.95 for a business account.
If you're a fan of Brian Dean of Backlinko, you've probably heard of Ahrefs. This is the tool he uses to find out what his competitors are writing about and how he can outrank them (per his Skyscraper technique).
Ahrefs allows you to "start making data-backed marketing decisions based on hundreds of metrics that Ahrefs crawler collects all around the web." It also offers a social media and SEO tools suite with a backlink index that's updated every 15 minutes.
Users gave the tool 21 five-star ratings, six four-star ratings and only one one-star rating. Ahrefs offers a free account and paid plans range from $79 to $1,299 a month.
One review caught my eye by how detailed and precise it was. This one comes from Chris Redshaw, Director at Reef Digital Agency.
gShift didn't get as many user reviews as other tools did, but they ended up ranking well with 15 five-star reviews and four four-star reviews. If you're interested in trying out gShift, contact their sales team to see if you'd be a fit for gShift Lite or gShift Full.
No matter which SEO tool you end up choosing, it's a great way to take your business's inbound marketing efforts to the next level. Not only can you learn a lot about your online presence, you can uncover customer web behavior and see how you stack up against the competition.


How do you know when you ovulating? One way to keep track is through the study and monitoring of cervical mucus and/or basal body temperature to determine when ovulation occurs. Once you know your particular pattern, you can monitor every month to track your times of fertility. With this knowledge, you can time your "baby-making" sessions and then look for any early symptoms of pregnancy two weeks later. Of course, how often and when will be the best time to get pregnant may be different for different people depending on their unique personal circumstances.


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 Magnus Erikssons landslag stadfästs. Det är en lag, som ska gälla i hela riket och ersätter landskapslagarna. Den innehåller bland annat en konungabalk med bestämmelser för kungaval.
 Den allmänna stadslagen för Sveriges städer stadfästs. Landsbygden och städerna lyder alltså under olika lagar, något som kommer att kvarstå i Sverige fram till 1970-talet.
 Rådsaristokratin får övertaget i dragkampen om kungamakten i det att principen om valkungadöme fastslås och att garantier mot godtycke i maktutövningen införs.
 Rådmän i Visby skriver till Rostock och meddelar, att man låtit arrestera nio man, varav två präster, som ska ha gjort sig skyldiga till massförgiftning (pesten). Även judar skall, enligt rådmännen, vara skyldiga till sjukdomens utbrott, trots att det inte finns några judar i riket.
 Bottniska handelstvånget införs och innebär, att städerna vid Bottenviken, med undantag för Åbo, förbjuds att idka utlandshandel.

Födda
 23 januari – Vincentius Ferrer, spanskt helgon.
 27 juni – Manuel II Palaiologos, bysantinsk kejsare.
 10 december – Dmitrij Donskoj, storfurste av Moskva.
 Bonifatius IX, född Pietro Tomacelli, påve 1389–1404 (född detta år, 1355 eller 1356).
 Pierre d'Ailly, fransk teolog och filosof.
 Anabella Drummond, drottning av Skottland 1390–1401 (gift med Robert III) (född omkring detta år)
 Katherine Swynford, engelsk hovfunktionär.
 Leonor Telles, portugisisk drottning och regent.

Avlidna
 22 augusti – Filip VI, kung av Frankrike sedan 1328
 Magister Mathias, svensk teolog, Heliga Birgittas biktfader

Externa länkar

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BALTIMORE - The Rangers activated Keone Kela Thursday after a three-week stay on the disabled list.
It is only a matter of time before he gets save opportunities.
Kela is the rarity among pitchers: He was developed with the intent of making him a closer. The Rangers don't have a designated closer at the moment. ity among pitchers: He was developed with the intent of making him a closer.
"Before I ever got to my first spring training with this team, there was conversation about this kid at Double-A with a 98 mph fastball and swing-and-miss stuff," manager Jeff Banister said. "The first time I saw him, I saw that. He has the mentality. He wants to be in that spot. He was on that trajectory, working in that direction before he got hurt."
It's just that the Rangers won't use him immediately. Or at least not regularly. Due to the shoulder issue that sent him to the DL in the first place, Kela won't be available to pitch on consecutive nights for the time being. That keeps him from assuming the role.
Funky-throwing lefty Alex Claudio has gotten the two save chances the Rangers have had since Matt Bush was removed from the role. Claudio converted both saves. While he's not a typical closer he has been effective in a short stint and will continue to figure in what Banister calls a "rotation."
But Kela, 24, looms as the most likely permanent solution.
"He has all the elements, all the pitches and the mentality," Banister said. "Right now, it's about him getting back on the mound and us being conservative with him until the feel-good is there."
Said Kela: "[Closing] has always been something I've wanted to do. It's something that I aspire to be. I know what the ninth inning brings. It's all about getting that 27th out. But we all know that what we have to do is get the three outs in our innings. I'm ready to do my best wherever and whenever I'm asked to pitch."
In his last 22 innings prior to the DL assignment, Kela had a 1.23 EA and a 0.68 WHIP. He struck out 32 in that stretch and allowed opponents a .110 batting average.


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Is your inaction in social media killing your brand?
Most companies know they have some sort of operational or customer satisfaction skeletons in the closet, and fear a customer that has had a genuinely inadequate experience pointing out those shortcomings to an audience that is far larger than one.
Yet companies still remain on the sidelines. Either listening passively to the social media chatter about them, or ignoring the praise and criticism from their customers altogether.
At what point, however, does a refusal to participate begin to erode brand loyalty?
Many companies are looking inward and focusing on customer experience. In a down economy, paying greater attention to your current customers is a much more efficient sales and marketing strategy than trying to acquire new customers, many of whom are refusing to spend money regardless of discounting. There's been a lot of talk at industry conferences recently (including my own chatter) about using hyper-relevant lifecycle marketing – including exceptionally targeted email – to help retain customers. Augment this with a renewed interest in Web usability, and you have the ingredients for an online customer experience renaissance.
However, your customer experience is defined both by what you do, and by what you don't.
What does it say to your customers when you refuse to acknowledge them in social media? What does it say when you still don't have a Twitter account, Facebook page, blog, or any other mechanism for humanizing your brand? Your social media active customers could interpret your silence as lethargy, ignorance, disinterest in their opinions, or a general Amish-ness. None of which are sentiments you want associated with your brand.
Fundamentally, your competitors are setting the bar for you, and like an airline fare sale, the longer you wait to match it, the more damage you're doing. Speaking of airlines, how would you like to be Delta Airlines, playing social media catch-up to Southwest and Jet Blue, who have been widely applauded for their early, savvy adoption of social media outreach? As of this writing, Southwest has 13,493 Twitter followers (and more importantly, 1,418 Tweets). Delta has 1,401 followers and just 30 Tweets (and doesn't even have a customer Twitter profile background). USAirways isn't on Twitter at all.
I recognize that we're still in the early days of proactive social media outreach via brands. But, we're certainly not in the early days of customer service provision, and ultimately it's not going to matter whether you WANT to engage or whether you feel you're READY. Your competitors that have already adopted social media outreach are going to force you into the game.
It's always been so online. The early adopters set the rules and force the hands of the subsequent waves. I remember when Amazon (then highly influential regarding e-commerce usability) first added tabbed navigation to their site. Presto! Within the time it takes to make and consume a ham sandwich, every e-commerce site had tabs.
How did we decide search boxes are top right? How did we decide to use bread-crumb navigation? How did we decide to use distinct landing pages? How did we decide (recently) to embrace email pre-headers (content above the logo)? How did we decide that oysters were not rocks, would not kill you, and were actually pretty awesome? Somebody(ies) took the leap, and everybody else then nodded their heads and got in line.
The same is coming true in social media. Someday soon we won't be having a conversation about whether to get involved, and all discussions will revolve around efficiency and automation. Why? Because customers are going to gravitate to the companies that they believe care about their opinions.
Are you ready to break the silence?


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The magazine's anti-tilt follower guarantees smooth feeding while its bright red color helps shooters quickly identify an empty gun during a chamber check. Like USGI magazines, the follower indexes its first round to the left which helps maintain consistent training habits. Amend2 equips the front and rear spine of the magazine body with large, bold texturing which enhances positive manipulation during retrieval, reloading, and malfunction clearance.


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package gemlite.shell.codegen.util;

import gemlite.shell.codegen.tools.StringUtils;
import java.io.Serializable;
import java.lang.reflect.Method;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.LinkedHashSet;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Set;

class GeneratorStrategyWrapper extends AbstractGeneratorStrategy
{
  private final Map<Class<?>, Set<String>> reservedColumns = new HashMap<Class<?>, Set<String>>();
  final Generator generator;
  final GeneratorStrategy delegate;

  GeneratorStrategyWrapper(Generator generator, GeneratorStrategy delegate)
  {
    this.generator = generator;
    this.delegate = delegate;
  }

  @Override
  public String getTargetDirectory()
  {
    return delegate.getTargetDirectory();
  }

  @Override
  public void setTargetDirectory(String directory)
  {
    delegate.setTargetDirectory(directory);
  }

  @Override
  public String getTargetPackage()
  {
    return delegate.getTargetPackage();
  }

  @Override
  public void setTargetPackage(String packageName)
  {
    delegate.setTargetPackage(packageName);
  }

  @Override
  public void setInstanceFields(boolean instanceFields)
  {
    delegate.setInstanceFields(instanceFields);
  }

  @Override
  public boolean getInstanceFields()
  {
    return delegate.getInstanceFields();
  }

  @Override
  public String getJavaIdentifier(Definition definition)
  {
    if (definition instanceof SchemaDefinition && ((SchemaDefinition) definition).isDefaultSchema())
    {
      return "DEFAULT_SCHEMA";
    }
    String identifier = GenerationUtil.convertToJavaIdentifier(delegate.getJavaIdentifier(definition));
    if (definition instanceof ColumnDefinition)
    {
      TypedElementDefinition<?> e = (TypedElementDefinition<?>) definition;
      if (identifier.equals(getJavaIdentifier(e.getContainer())))
      {
        return identifier + "_";
      }
      if (identifier.equals(getJavaPackageName(e.getContainer()).replaceAll("\\..*", "")))
      {
        return identifier + "_";
      }
    }
    return identifier;
  }

  @Override
  public String getJavaSetterName(Definition definition, Mode mode)
  {
    return GenerationUtil.convertToJavaIdentifier(delegate.getJavaSetterName(definition, mode));
  }

  @Override
  public String getJavaGetterName(Definition definition, Mode mode)
  {
    return GenerationUtil.convertToJavaIdentifier(delegate.getJavaGetterName(definition, mode));
  }

  @Override
  public String getJavaMethodName(Definition definition, Mode mode)
  {
    String methodName;
    methodName = delegate.getJavaMethodName(definition, mode);
    methodName = overload(definition, mode, methodName);
    methodName = GenerationUtil.convertToJavaIdentifier(methodName);
    return methodName;
  }

  private String overload(Definition definition, Mode mode, String identifier)
  {
    if (!StringUtils.isBlank(definition.getOverload()))
    {
      identifier += getOverloadSuffix(definition, mode, definition.getOverload());
    }
    return identifier;
  }

  @SuppressWarnings("unused")
  private String disambiguateMethod11(Definition definition, String method)
  {
    Set<String> reserved = null;
    if (definition instanceof ColumnDefinition)
    {
      if (((ColumnDefinition) definition).getContainer().getPrimaryKey() != null)
      {
        reserved = null;
      }
      else
      {
        reserved = null;
      }
    }
    if (reserved != null)
    {
      if (reserved.contains(method))
      {
        return method + "_";
      }
      // If this is the setter, check if the getter needed disambiguation
      // This ensures that getters and setters have the same name
      if (method.startsWith("set"))
      {
        String base = method.substring(3);
        if (reserved.contains("get" + base) || reserved.contains("is" + base))
        {
          return method + "_";
        }
      }
    }
    return method;
  }

  @SuppressWarnings("unused")
  private Set<String> reservedColumns(Class<?> clazz)
  {
    if (clazz == null)
    {
      return Collections.emptySet();
    }
    Set<String> result = reservedColumns.get(clazz);
    if (result == null)
    {
      result = new HashSet<String>();
      reservedColumns.put(clazz, result);
      // Recurse up in class hierarchy
      result.addAll(reservedColumns(clazz.getSuperclass()));
      for (Class<?> c : clazz.getInterfaces())
      {
        result.addAll(reservedColumns(c));
      }
      for (Method m : clazz.getDeclaredMethods())
      {
        String name = m.getName();
        if (name.startsWith("get") && m.getParameterTypes().length == 0)
        {
          result.add(name);
        }
      }
    }
    return result;
  }

  @Override
  public String getJavaClassExtends(Definition definition, Mode mode)
  {
    // [#1243] Only POJO mode can accept super classes
    return delegate.getJavaClassExtends(definition, mode);
  }

  @Override
  public List<String> getJavaClassImplements(Definition definition, Mode mode)
  {
    // [#1243] All generation modes can accept interfaces
    Set<String> result = new LinkedHashSet<String>(delegate.getJavaClassImplements(definition, mode));
    // [#1528] Generated interfaces (implemented by RECORD and POJO) are
    // always Serializable
    if (mode == Mode.INTERFACE)
    {
      result.add(Serializable.class.getName());
    }
    // [#1528] POJOs only implement Serializable if they don't inherit
    // Serializable from INTERFACE already
    else if (mode == Mode.POJO && !generator.generateInterfaces())
    {
      // replace with annotation
      // result.add(Serializable.class.getName());
    }
    return new ArrayList<String>(result);
  }

  @Override
  public String getJavaClassName(Definition definition, Mode mode)
  {
    if (definition instanceof SchemaDefinition && ((SchemaDefinition) definition).isDefaultSchema())
    {
      return "DefaultSchema";
    }
    String className;
    className = delegate.getJavaClassName(definition, mode);
    className = overload(definition, mode, className);
    className = GenerationUtil.convertToJavaIdentifier(className);
    return className;
  }

  @Override
  public String getJavaPackageName(Definition definition, Mode mode)
  {
    String[] split = delegate.getJavaPackageName(definition, mode).split("\\.");
    for (int i = 0; i < split.length; i++)
    {
      split[i] = GenerationUtil.convertToJavaIdentifier(split[i]);
    }
    return StringUtils.join(split, ".");
  }

  @Override
  public String getJavaMemberName(Definition definition, Mode mode)
  {
    String identifier = GenerationUtil.convertToJavaIdentifier(delegate.getJavaMemberName(definition, mode));
    // [#2781] Disambiguate collisions with the leading package name
    if (identifier.equals(getJavaPackageName(definition, mode).replaceAll("\\..*", "")))
    {
      return identifier + "_";
    }
    return identifier;
  }

  @Override
  public String getOverloadSuffix(Definition definition, Mode mode, String overloadIndex)
  {
    return delegate.getOverloadSuffix(definition, mode, overloadIndex);
  }
}


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What we know so far about King Salman Center for Global Peace
Saudi Arabia and Malaysia announced the setting up of the Center during the recently concluded visit of Saudi Arabia's King Salman. (AP)
By staff writer, Al Arabiya English Thursday 02 March 2017
During the recently concluded visit of Saudi Arabia's King Salman to Malaysia, the two countries announced the establishment of a global center for peace to be based in Malaysia.
Following are the details related to the Center we know so far:
• The center will be called the "King Salman Center for Global Peace"
• It will be set up in collaboration between Intellectual Warfare Center at the Saudi Ministry of Defense, Center for Security and Defense at the Malaysian Ministry of Defense
• Other stakeholders of the Center will be Malaysian University of Islamic Sciences and Muslim World League.
• The Center will be launched within 90 days from the date of its announcement.
This article was first published in the Saudi Gazette on March 2, 2016.
GLOBAL CENTER FOR PEACE
King Salman accesses situation in region with Malaysia's defense minister
King Salman meets with Malaysia's Mufti
Saudi King Salman in Malaysia: We stand fully behind Islamic causes
Saudi Arabia, Malaysia sign four MoUs during King Salman visit


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