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"Blessed Are the Powerless"
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Matthew 5:1-12 and 38-48
Here is just one of the many things I have learned from almost two years of pastoring an instant-sanctuary church, some 692 days of walking with a faithful, strong, courageous, and utterly vulnerable Guatemalan man facing deportation and living in a church, apart from his wife and four children:
Powerlessness is exhausting.
It will wear you out.
It is stressful.
It defines everything.
Powerlessness will chew you up and spit you out and then, when you're down on your knees, it will come back for what little is left of you.
Just when you think you're making a little headway against it, it will pull you up up by the roots and toss you back and forth as if you are nothing more than a rag doll.
It will leave you gasping for breath and grasping at straws.
Some days will feel like a roller coaster ride, others like a train wreck.
Fear and desperation will never be far away; the temptation to despair will be constant; anger and bitterness will nag you to feed them.
Of course, you don't have to be Lucio Perez or his wife or his children to know these things about powerlessness. You don't have to be one of the other 40 or so immigrants living in sanctuary or one of 11 million undocumented immigrants living in this country or one of the thousands of migrant parents and children who have been separated by our government at the border or held like cattle in detention centers or one of countless millions of refugees hoping to find some place that will welcome you. You don't even have to be black or brown or unemployed or without a job or a home. You don't have to be a resident of the Bahamas who knows what it is to be a speck of nothing in the eye of a hurricane. You needn't be powerless against alcohol or opioids, cigarettes or heroin.
No, powerlessness comes in all shapes and sizes to everyone who is mortal. You may feel powerless amidst the design flaws of your kitchen, powerless against the annoying habits (and heart-stealing love) of your partner, powerless against climate change, powerless in the face of the random but utterly reliable reality of gun violence, powerless to ignore the outrageous tweets from the White House, powerless against the ravages of disease and the onward march of aging. You may feel powerless in the face of the non-stop demands of your job or the constant clamoring of your kids. You may feel powerless to do anything about racism and inequality and all manner of injustice.
Even though most of us here live lives of considerable privilege, we all have experienced at least the feeling of powerlessness, and in the face of death all of us will know it.
But here's another thing about powerlessness: According to Jesus, it can also bring happiness. According to Jesus, people without power are blessed. People who feel hopeless are happy and blessed. According to Jesus, people who rail against injustice and hunger and thirst for what is right are happy and blessed. According to Jesus, people who make peace are happy and blessed. According to Jesus, people who are made to suffer for their faith or their solidarity are happy and blessed.
We have heard these phrases so many times that we've lost all appreciation for their apparent absurdity, their absolute radicalness.
As Richard Rohr has said, it's funny how the people who are forever demanding to post the Ten Commandments on government property have never sought to display the Beatitudes on courthouse lawns. Because Jesus' "blessed (or happy) are" statements are meant to empower. They are a reflection of kin-dom values that bring down the powerful and lift up the lowly. They are revolutionary—or at least they would be if we lived as if they were true.
According to Jesus and many who've come after him, including Gandhi and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., there is power even in our perceived powerlessness—the strength of community, the power of resistance, the victory of nonviolence, the peace and transformation of ourselves and the world when we choose to love our enemies.
All these things are hard to do, but we have been given the power of the Holy Spirit.
I am speaking today of powerlessness and power because I experience it and feel it every. single. day. in walking with Lucio and his family through the random and convoluted layers of our immigration system and the intentional cruelty of current policies—and because Lucio's situation has arrived at yet another critical moment. I am speaking of nonviolent resistance—turning the other cheek and walking the extra mile and loving our enemies and all that—because I had extended conversations last week with an earnest, justice-seeking young person who seemed to think that confronting so-called "straight pride" marchers in Boston with angry crowds who refused to cooperate with police should have been effective. I am speaking of enemy-love and peacemaking because sometimes it is really hard to hold immigration officials, white supremacists, NRA leaders, and our narcissistic president in the light of God's love.
All that, and because the anniversary of 9/11 is upon us once again.
because God chooses to live with them.
because God chose to become just like them.
because God gives them the Spirit of power.
Blessed are the perceived powerless—
because they know they need something and someone beyond themselves.
because they form community: in churches and synagogues and mosques and sanghas, in unions and movements and collective action, in 12-step groups and grief-support groups and LGBTQ pride marches, in the public square and the voting booth, in families by blood and families by choice, and, yes, even online.
Blessed are those who choose enemy-
love and nonviolence— because they will experience a transformation of their own hearts, they will kindle a revolution of the spirit, and they will discover the power of choosing how to respond to all that wounds and oppresses and dehumanizes and disempowers.
What if the key to our own healing is locked in our enemy's heart? What if the hope of justice requires working with the other side? What if the path to empowerment and change is made by recognizing our need for one another? What if we could find peace and hope and happiness even in our powerlessness by claiming the blessedness of it? By realizing that God is with us in it and wants to make a way out of it?
Blessed are the peacemakers—and those who keep trying to make peace and justice even when it feels like it will never come, even when the odds are against it, even when others call them fools.
Walter Wink said "faith requires marching into the waters before they part."
And Jesus said the faithful will be happy and blessed even when the waters don't part.
Six hundred ninety-two days is a very long time for someone to live in a church basement, apart from his family, never knowing how this will end, ever trusting that God is in control. It is hard in ways that those of us with citizenship who sleep in our own beds and come and go wherever we want at times of our own choosing will never fully understand. It is a powerlessness we do not share, but in offering sanctuary and working for justice and walking with Lucio and his family, we choose to surrender some of our comfort, some of our control, some of resources, and some our prior understanding of the way the world works.
And in so doing we have spawned a new community, we have discovered the dignity of the powerless, we have stretched ourselves, we have seen Christ in one another, we have tested our faith and our strength, and we are working on loving our enemies.
And sometimes—occasionally, at least—we know that we are blessed to be a part of it all. Sometimes we feel happy even amid the real possibility of loss and grief. Sometimes we discover that we have other kinds of power.
Yesterday afternoon was one of those times.
Because Tony, Lucio's second-born and oldest U.S.-born child, was turning 17, a few sanctuary folks helped organize a party for Tony and the family. Family members came from as far away as Delaware. Friends came from Springfield. And Lucio's mother, whom he had not seen in 22 years, was here from Guatemala. Lucio's tiny Mamá, who gave birth to 13 children, was reunited with five of them. Lucio's oldest child was reunited with the woman who raised him for much of his life, and his three U.S.-citizen children met their paternal grandmother for the first time.
Tears flowed. Hands reached out and held tight. Smiles radiated. Dora, Lucio's wife, looked happier and more at ease than I've ever seen her. Grace filled the room. Every moment was bursting with never-before, maybe-never-again poignancy.
And every single one of us was blessed and happy. In the glory of the moment. In the bonds of family and faith. In a community of love and hope. With a peace that passed all understanding. With a power that comes from God.
We continue to work and pray that doors will open and waters will part. And some days we feel hopeless. We continue to work and pray that walls will come down and families will be reunited. And most days we feel tired, and some days we feel powerless.
But blessed are the powerless. Blessed are those who know Jesus walks with them. Blessed are those who choose nonviolence and prayer over hatred and bitterness.
Blessed are Lucio and his family, and blessed are we.


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Cecil Bertram White
Born 15th July 1891 – Died 16th August 1916
24th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers
Cecil Bertram White was born in Ayot St. Peter on the 15th July 1891, the second son of James and Emily (née Perris) White. His father was the coachman at Ayot Bury for Mrs Holdsworth who later came to live at Lemsford House. By 1911 the family had moved to North Road, Lemsford. Cecil worked as a tailor, ran for Hertfordshire and in 1910 was Captain of the Lemsford Football Team. He was engaged to be married to Grace Wren, the sister of Christopher Wren. She died on the 22nd September 1918 aged 29, reputedly of a broken heart.
On the 6th November 1915, aged 24, Cecil enlisted at Great Scotland Yard, London and joined the 30th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers, also known as the City of London Regiment. By the time of his death he had transferred to the 24th Battalion (known as the 2nd Sportsman's). His Army Small Book describes him as being 5ft 3 ins tall, with fair complexion, grey eyes and brown hair.
After being wounded twice Cecil returned to the front and took part in the Battle of the Somme. Private 4335 Cecil White of the 24th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers died on Wednesday August 16th 1916 aged 25 and is buried in grave B 9, Carnoy Military Cemetery, Somme, France. Captain Finnie of the 4th Fusiliers in a letter to Cecil's parents wrote: "You have already been informed that your son was sniped on the 16th August. His equipment, along with many other sets, was blown to pieces, after it had been taken off his body. Your son was buried by men of his own company. He was a splendid soldier and liked by all in the company. He died doing his duty, a thing I know you will be proud to hear. His comrades sympathise with you in your great loss". ( Bishop's Hatfield Parish Magazine, Lemsford News April 1917).
Cecil White of the 24th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers died on Wednesday August 16th 1916 aged 25 and is buried in grave B 9, Carnoy Military Cemetery, Somme, France.

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Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 1 Sambalpur, Odisha
Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 1 Sambalpur was established in the year 1965. KV No. 1 Sambalpur is one of the popular KV schools run by Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) under the Ministry Of Human Resource Development (MHRD). Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 1 Sambalpur is situated in Near Industrial Estate, Baraipali P.O. Baraipali, Odisha-768006. KV No. 1 Sambalpur is a Co-educational school equipped with proper facilities and well-maintained infrastructure for the students and teachers which develops a better environment conducive to learning. Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 1 Sambalpur falls under KVS Bhubaneswar Region.
1. Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 1 Sambalpur, Odisha
2. Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 1 Sambalpur at a Glance
3. More about KV No. 1 Sambalpur
3.1. Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 1 Sambalpur Admission 2020-21
3.4. KV No. 1 Sambalpur Recruitment 2020-21
4. HOW TO REACH KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA NO. 1 SAMBALPUR
5. FAQ's related to Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 1 Sambalpur
5.1. How do I contact Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 1 Sambalpur?
5.2. Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 1 Sambalpur falls under which KVS Region?
5.3. Is Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 1 Sambalpur Co-ed school?
5.4. How can I get admission in KV No. 1 Sambalpur?
5.5. How do I pay KV No. 1 Sambalpur fees online / offline?
5.6. Is KV No. 1 Sambalpur is English medium or Hindi Medium?
Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 1 Sambalpur at a Glance
Before discussing KV No. 1 Sambalpur, Let us have an overview of the school mentioned below:
Name of the School Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 1 Sambalpur
Popular Name KV No. 1 Sambalpur
Location Baraipali, Odisha
District and State Baraipali, Odisha
Contact Number +91-663-2521029
Official Website https://no1sambalpur.kvs.ac.in/
Complete Address Near Industrial Estate, Baraipali P.O. Baraipali, Odisha-768006.
More about KV No. 1 Sambalpur
Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 1 Sambalpur is affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and follows all the Guidelines and Rules prescribed by CBSE. It aims to set up excellence and speed in the field of school education and to promote and initiate experiments and innovations in the field of education in collaboration with other bodies like the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) etc. Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 1 Sambalpur is a Bilingual school. Students of KV No. 1 Sambalpur take the AISSE (class X) and AISSCE (class XII) Exam in the month of March every year.
Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 1 Sambalpur admits the wards of the employees of Defence Personnel, Central Government organizations, Central Government Autonomous Bodies, and state government offices. Its objective is to educate the children of the Indian Defence Services personnel, Para-Military Personnel, Central Government employees who are often posted to remote locations. Children from the private sectors also can be admitted subject to the availability of vacancies.
KV NO. 1 SAMBALPUR ANNOUNCEMENTS
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Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 1 Sambalpur Admission 2020-21
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Let's Check out the Complete Fee Structure of Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 1 Sambalpur.
Online Fee Payment of Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 1 Sambalpur
The entire fee of Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 1 Sambalpur is collected by Union Bank of India. The KVS fees are generally collected on a quarterly basis i.e. January, April, July, and October. You can avail of both online and offline payment methods for KV online fee payment.
Generate Fee Challan of Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 1 Sambalpur
The students, studying in Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 1 Sambalpur can pay their fees through the KVS Fee Challan. You can pay the KVS school fees through deposit of cash or Union Bank Cheques at any of the Union Bank branches in India. But, firstly you have to generate the KV Fee Challan form.
It was indeed heart-warming to note the outstanding performance of the students of KV NO. 1 SAMBALPUR in Board examinations.
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KV No. 1 Sambalpur Recruitment 2020-21
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HOW TO REACH KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA NO. 1 SAMBALPUR
FAQ's related to Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 1 Sambalpur
How do I contact Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 1 Sambalpur?
The contact details of Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 1 Sambalpur are given below:
Address:- Near Industrial Estate, Baraipali P.O. Baraipali, Odisha-768006.
Email:- [email protected], [email protected]
Official website:- https://no1sambalpur.kvs.ac.in/
Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 1 Sambalpur falls under which KVS Region?
Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 1 Sambalpur falls under KVS Bhubaneswar Region.
Is Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 1 Sambalpur Co-ed school?
Yes, KV No. 1 Sambalpur is a Co-ed school.
How can I get admission in KV No. 1 Sambalpur?
Generally, in the month of February KVS releases the KVS admission guidelines to the public. Online Registration for Admission to Class I in KV No. 1 Sambalpur will starts in the last week of February and for Class II and above from the second week of April. Interested candidates can apply through online and offline mode of application.
How do I pay KV No. 1 Sambalpur fees online / offline?
The Entire fees of Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 1 Sambalpur is collected by Union Bank of India. You can avail of both online and offline payment methods for KV online fee payment. You can pay the KV No. 1 Sambalpur fees through various modes of payment system i.e. Online Payment, Payment through Mobile Banking, Payment through PoS. For the offline method, You can pay the KV No. 1 Sambalpur school fees through deposit of cash or Union Bank Cheques at any of the Union Bank branches in India. But, firstly you have to generate the KVS Fee Challan form.
Is KV No. 1 Sambalpur is English medium or Hindi Medium?
Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 1 Sambalpur is a Bilingual school affiliated to CBSE. Both English and Hindi are used as the medium of instruction. Officially Kendriya Vidyalaya's are an English medium but the medium of teaching also varies from region to region.
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Großhofen osztrák község Alsó-Ausztria Gänserndorfi járásában. 2020 januárjában 110 lakosa volt, amivel a legkisebb a tartomány önkormányzatai közül.

Elhelyezkedése

Großhofen a tartomány Weinviertel régiójában fekszik a Morva-mező középső részén. Területének 94%-a áll mezőgazdasági művelés alatt, erdeje nincs. Az önkormányzat egyetlen települést és katasztrális községet foglal magába.

A környező önkormányzatok: északkeletre Markgrafneusiedl, keletre Glinzendorf, délre Groß-Enzersdorf, nyugatra Raasdorf, északnyugatra Parbasdorf.

Története
Großhofent 1316-ban említik először.

1938-ban egy fogadóst, egy cipészt és egy, termékeit közvetlenül árusító földművest számláltak össze a községben. Az Anschlusst követő közigazgatási reform során Großhofent integrálták Nagy-Bécs újonnan létrehozott 22. kerületébe, de a második világháború után visszanyerte önállóságát.

Lakosság
A großhofeni önkormányzat területén 2020 januárjában 110 fő élt. A lakosságszám 1991 óta gyarapodó tendenciát mutat. 2018-ban az ittlakók 72,4%-a volt osztrák állampolgár; a külföldiek közül 1% a régi (2004 előtti), 21,4% az új EU-tagállamokból érkezett. 1% a volt Jugoszlávia (Szlovénia és Horvátország nélkül) vagy Törökország, 4,1% egyéb országok polgára volt. 2001-ben a lakosok 79,3%-a római katolikusnak, 1,1% evangélikusnak, 6,5% pedig felekezeten kívülinek vallotta magát. Ugyanekkor a legnagyobb nemzetiségi csoportot a német (75%) mellett a horvátok alkották 16,3%-kal.

A népesség változása:

Látnivalók
a Szt. Lőrinc-kápolna

Források
30822 – Großhofen Statistik Austria

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Jegyzetek

Alsó-Ausztria települései

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Showing results by author "Frank Cottrell-Boyce" in Arts & Entertainment
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One Chord Wonders: Parallel Lines
By: Frank Cottrell Boyce
Narrated by: Doon Mackichan, Sian Reeves, Rosie Cavaliero, and others
One of a series of plays by British screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce looking at the punk generation three decades on, with each play telling a different, but connected, story. In Parallel Lines, Julie is a singer in an ageing Blondie tribute band. An invitation to the reunion of the audience at an Adverts gig in 1977 brings some skeletons dancing from the cupboard. Starring Doon Mackichan as Julie, with Sian Reeves, Rosie Cavaliero, Ivan Kaye, Paul Viragh, Joseph Tremain, Sarah Bedi, John Rowe and Ben Crowe.
Narrated by: Doon Mackichan, Sian Reeves, Rosie Cavaliero, Ivan Kaye, Paul Viragh, Joseph Tremain, Sarah Bedi, John Rowe, Ben Crowe


Red Tractor founder awarded CBE in New Year Honours list David Clarke, a founding member of Red Tractor Assurance, has been honoured with a CBE in the Queen's New Year Honours.
During his tenure Red Tractor grew from nothing to the UK's leading assurance scheme with 46,000 farm businesses in membership and £14bn of food bearing the Red Tractor logo. The post was the final piece of a 50-year career spanning food and farming which saw him established as one of the UK's leading authorities on food assurance.
Armed with a small budget and a handful of staff, Mr Clarke grew Red Tractor to a business built on transparency, honesty and reliability. He overcame government bureaucracy, industry politics and major media events such as the horsemeat scandal while convincing farmers, processors and retailers of the value of the Red Tractor logo.


KARACHI- In light of the Independence Day, a flag hoisting ceremony was held at Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS), Ojha Campus.
The ceremony was attended by Pro Vice Chancellors Dr. Mohammad Masoor, Prof Dr. Khawar Saeed Jamali, Prof Dr. Zarnaz Wahid, Registrar Prof Dr. Aman Ullah, Prof Dr. Zeba Haq, Prof Dr. Shuja Farrukh, Prof Dr. Shaheen Sharafat, Prof Dr. Nisar Rao, senior faculty members along with a large number of students.
He also added that, the younger generation should strive to make Pakistan a more progressive state, in the field of education, as per Quaid-e-Azam's vision.
Prof Masroor added that, 14th August is not only a date to cherish but, it is also a day to revive the promise of loyalty to our ancestors and their sacrifices, and make Pakistan a prosperous nation.
Prof Dr. Zarnaz Wahid referred the students of Pakistan as the assets of the country, who will be responsible for the uprise.
Students and faculty members displayed their spirit and patriotism by singing national songs and chanting patriotic slogans. Different institutes of Dow University of Health Sciences also performed skits and tableaus on the event, which were widely appreciated by the audiences.


For a chance to be featured on the Becoming Istanbul database, enter the Becoming Istanbul "What Makes a City?" photography contest. Capture the people and places best embodying the city as it relates to your own experiences and daily life. These can be the places you pass every day on your way to school, the store where your family buys groceries, or the café where you meet your friends, for example. The only criterion is the image in some way defines your relationship with İstanbul.
E-mail your images to yorumlama@saltonline.org. Entrants must be high school students living in İstanbul. Include your name, age, high school and a short description about your image.
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Watched Overlord (2018)
Watched Overlord (2018) https://t.co/rvURsXy8Th
— Darrin Nightingale (@less_beauty) March 31, 2019
A post shared by Darrin Nightingale (@mrmrsnightingale) on Mar 31, 2019 at 12:06pm PDT
Watching The Duke of Burgundy (2014)
Watching The Duke of Burgundy (2014) https://t.co/a7gVKAQI76
Watched Apostle (2018)
Watched Apostle (2018) https://t.co/QKEEAVJlEH
Now This: We can shrink greenhouse gas emissions by 49% if we all went vegan
We can shrink greenhouse gas emissions by 49% if we all went vegan pic.twitter.com/EY85URQppJ
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) March 30, 2019
The Guardian: Sam Levin: 'Bias deep inside the code': the problem with AI 'ethics' in Silicon Valley
'Bias deep inside the code': the problem with AI 'ethics' in Silicon Valley https://t.co/x2HLMuuEbE
— The Guardian (@guardian) March 29, 2019
There's a lot to think about in Mr Levin's article. Most interestingly that there was no such thing as "neutral" AI.
The idea that you can do AI or technical ethics without a point of view is silly … The bias is deep inside the code.
It's obvious but until it's called out, you're not looking for it. And if you're not looking for it, things will continue unchecked. It occurs to me that bias is our attempt to replicate the world in our image. It's a survival mechanism, a hangover from our primal past. It's interesting that in the discourse around these issues, people are being asked to evolve. But even those excluded because of bias, have their own bias. Surely the point is not to exclude all bias. That's like trying to exclude oxygen from water. If you exclude oxygen, it's not water. So logically we must, to be unbiased, include all of the biases.
Evolve Politics: Tom D. Rogers: General Election will be called if Theresa May's Brexit deal is voted down for third time on Friday
Downing Street: General Election will be called if Theresa May's Brexit deal is voted down for third time on Friday https://t.co/nubTwJWClT
— Evolve Politics (@evolvepolitics) March 28, 2019
Is the threat of a general election an attempt to scare reluctant Tories into complying? Is Theresa May making the same calculation she made before she called the last general election, and trying to out flank Labour?
Politics.co.uk: Ian Dunt: The obscene moral spectacle of Theresa May's resignation
The obscene moral spectacle of Theresa May's resignation https://t.co/QIguMq2Tmw
— politics.co.uk (@Politics_co_uk) March 27, 2019
Mr Dunt offers a great analysis of psychopaths making deals. "They are shaking hands with knives held behind their back." He is right when he says "not one person in this rabble believes a single thing they are saying. It is a godawful mixture of religious zeal, personal ambition and tribal lunacy." And demonstrates what Mr Zimmer asserts in his article the "Tory elite has continued toying with the lives of millions across the continent in a boorish parlour game that demonstrates yet again the blatant disregard held by the UK ruling class towards working people." No good will come from this.
Left Foot Forward: Gabi Zimmer: The Tory elite is toying with the lives of millions across the continent
European Left president: "Britain should scrap Brexit and revoke Article 50″https://t.co/14aqcjrlfy
— Left Foot Forward (@LeftFootFwd) March 28, 2019
The key point to note, and the circle that will never be squared, is the Good Friday Agreement. An internationally recognised peace agreement that is dependant on the United Kingdom being part of the European Union. The Tory elite will be responsible for the troubles that come.
Variety: Dave McNary: Jim Jarmusch's Bill Murray Zombie Movie to Hit Theaters in June
Jim Jarmusch's Bill Murray zombie movie to hit theaters in June https://t.co/np5y8naOHj pic.twitter.com/Oamdp69yB5
— Variety (@Variety) March 27, 2019
There's going to be a Jim Jarmusch zombie film. Can't wait.


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Огневка — река в России, протекает в Воротынском районе Нижегородской области. Устье реки находится в 1,6 км по левому берегу реки Сура. Длина реки составляет 22 км, площадь бассейна — 77,7 км².

Исток реки у посёлка Красные Языки в 7 км к югу от Воротынца. Река течёт на северо-восток, протекает село Огнёв-Майдан, посёлки Красный Восток и Юрты. В среднем течении русло реки зарегулировано и соединено каналом с Чугункой. Впадает в Суру напротив Васильсурска.

Данные водного реестра
По данным государственного водного реестра России относится к Верхневолжскому бассейновому округу, водохозяйственный участок реки — Сура от устья реки Алатырь и до устья, речной подбассейн реки — Сура. Речной бассейн реки — (Верхняя) Волга до Куйбышевского водохранилища (без бассейна Оки).

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Oh dear. I used to laugh at Terry Wogan when he referred to it as Dysentry. I never took to this programme and when Joan Collins appeared there was definitely no way i was going to be tuning in. (I met her at a wedding and she was the rudest person I have ever come across, she seemed to forget the day was not about her, that put me off her) but I digress.
Dallas was Dallas and after the first series I became bored of JR and Bobby etc. I saw a couple of Dynasty but it was not for me. I thought it too over the top. Even when Rock Hudson joined (he was dreadfully ill at this time) he was my heart throb, I still couldn't watch it.
I could see the appeal though.
My friend tells me I am a t.v. snob, that may well be true, but I maintain that tv entertainment is like food, a very personal choice.
I loved your review though.
I'm not going to say definitely watch it, because I'm not totally sure myself two episodes in. I did, however, whilst researching discover that on Amazon it is possible to buy a box set with every episode- a vast number of discs. It's a little pricey (though good value when you consider what you are getting). I just might treat myself to an early Christmas gift! Thanks for the comment!


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The Daily Jot
THIS JUST IN! CONDI LOOKS FORWARD TO THE SHOWCASE SHOWDOWN!
BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIX MIX -- DC.
HENRY WAXMAN, CHAIR OF THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT, BELIEVES THE PEN IS MIGHTER THAN THE SWORD. HE ALSO BELIEVES THE PEN IS THE ONLY TOOL AVAILABLE.
AFTER WEEKS AND WEEKS OF HAVING HIS LEGAL REQUESTS FOR DOCUMENTATION IGNORED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE AND ANGER CONDI RICE, AND WITH THE NEWS THAT THE BLACKWATER MERCENARY WHO SHOT DEAD A BODYGUARD OF IRAQ'S VICE PRESIDENT WAS NOT ONLY WHISKED OUT OF IRAQ BY BLACKWATER AND THE STATE DEPARTMENT BUT WAS ALSO BACK IN IRAQ WEEKS LATER WORKING FOR ANOTHER U.S. CONTRACTOR THE STATE DEPARTMENT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE SUPERVISING, WAXMAN HAS PENNED YET ANOTHER LETTER TO CONDI AND WARNED OF A LOOMING SHOWDOWN.
REACHED FOR COMMENT BY THESE REPORTERS, SECRETARY RICE RESPONDED, "HE'S THREATENING A SHOWDOWN? WELL BRING IT ON! I ALWAYS LOVED THE PRICE IS RIGHT AND MY FAVORITE PART WAS THE SHOWCASE SHOWDOWN!"
REPRESENTATIVE WAXMAN'S OFFICE ADVISED THESE REPORTERS THAT WAXMAN WAS "COMPOSING HIS RESPONSE."
FROM THE TCI WIRE:
Starting with war resistance. In June 2006, Ehren Watada became the first officer to publicly refuse to deploy to the Iraq War. As Aaron Glantz (The War Comes Home) notes Ehren Watada's second court-martial is scheduled to begin this coming Tuesday. And if it takes place and the prosecution is trailing, Judge Toilet (aka John Head) can call another "do over." Glantz reported on the first court-martial each day of the court-martial (as well as on the Sunday rally of support that preceded the court-martial) and you can click here for some of that audio. Truthout also covered the court-martial daily and they announce: "Truthout will be covering the court-martial from Fort Lewis, Washington, beginning Monday." Their coverage last time provided both video and text reports. Mike Barber (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) reports on yesterday's events, "U.S. District Court Judge Benjamin Settle on Thursday afternoon heard arguments from Watada's lawyers and a lawyer from the U.S. Attorney's Office about whether he has jurisdiction in the case.
Settle held the hearing after Watada's defense attorneys, Jim Lobsenz and Ken Kagen, sought an emergency halt to next Tuesday's court-martial. They said they were compelled to go to federal court after receiving no word from the military justice system's highest appellate court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, concerning Watada's challenge to his court-martial." AP reports that a decision by Settle may come down today; however, Michael Gilbert (Washington's The News Tribune) reports, "A federal judge indicated he won't likely decide whether to halt Lt. Ehren Watada's second court-martial until Tuesday morning, when the proceeding is scheduled to begin in an Army courtroom at Fort Lewis." Meanwhile, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer editorializes "Watada Court-Martial: Let him go:"However the defense appeals turn out, we think there is a case for letting Watada leave the Army without further ado. That could be taken as a statement of higher-level confidence, a choice to focus on the larger military mission that President Bush and Gen. David Petraeus insist is making new progress. At a minimum, many of those who oppose the Iraq war would welcome the leniency for someone they view as a person of conscience."
In Canada this week, war resister Robin Long was arrested this week. Charlie Smith (Vancouver's Straight) reports that when twenty-year-old war resister Brad McCall attempted
to enter Canada on September 19, 2007, he was arrested "and driven to a jail in Surrey" with McCall telling him, "I don't know what kind of police officer he was. He put me in handcuffs in front of all these people that were watching that were trying to get into Canada also" and McCall aksed the Canadian Border Services Agency, "I told them, 'Why are you playing the part of the hound dog for the U.S. army?' They didn't know what to say. They just started stuttering and mumbling." Brad McCall did make it into Canada and is staying with Colleen Fuller in Vancouver. As is very common in stories of war resisters going to Canada "over the Internet". McCall also speaks of hearing about atrocities/war crimes in Iraq as participants bragged about the actions. Robin Long also cited that in his interview for CBC Television. McCall explains he was interested in CO status but when he raised the issued with "his commander and sergeants," the dismissed it which has happened repeatedly with many war resisters. Aiden Delgado and Camilo Mejia are among those who can share their struggles to receive CO status -- Delgado was one of the few to be successful in his attempt. Robert Zabala has the distinction of being awarded CO status by the US civilian court system. Agustin Aguayo attempted the process both within the US military and within the civilian court system.
Another who attempted CO status is Kevin Benderman. Monica Benderman, Kevin's wife, addressed Congress in May of 2006 noting, "My husband violated no regulations. His command violated many. The command's flagrant disregard for military regulations and laws of humanity sent my husband to jail as a prisoner of conscience. Times have changed -- and so has conscientious objection. What has not changed is the Constitution, the oath our volunteer soldiers take to defend it, and every American citizen's right to freedom of choice. This conscientious objection goes beyond religious teaching. It is not dramatic. There is no epiphany. There is reality. Death is final, whether it is your own or you cause the death of another. No amount of field training can make up for the sights, sounds, tastes, and smells of a real battlefield, and no amount of threats, intimidation, and abuse from a command can change a soldier's mind when the cold, hard truth of an immoral, unethical justification for war is couple with real-life sensations." Monica, and not Kevin, addressed Congress because Kevin was still serving the sentence on the kangaroo court hearing he was subjected to when he attempted to be granted CO status by following every detail by the book with no margin for error. But the US military brass doesn't like to issue CO status and they were willing to manuever and lie in their attempts at retribution towards Kevin Benderman. The laughable charge of "desertion" (which has no basis in reality) was shot down (he was acquitted of that ludicrous charge) but the brass was successful with other charges (trumped up charges) and that goes to how they control the court-martials, how they refuse to allow evidence to be entered and arguments to be made in an arrangement that's already stacked against the individual. (For instance, in Ehren Watada's trial, Judge Toilet was known to report to his superiors who, presumably, gave him orders throughout the February court-martial. In a civilian court, a judge reporting to a 'superior' and taking advice from one would be grounds for an aquittal.) Kevin and Monica Benderman fought the brass and continued fighting when others might have given up. Letters from Fort Lewis Brig: A Matter of Conscience is the new book, out this week from The Lyons Press (US $24.95), in which they tell his story. Letters from Fort Lewis Brig: A Matter of Conscience is also the fourth book by a war resister of the Iraq War to be published this year. The other three are Aidan Delgado's The Sutras Of Abu Ghraib: Notes From A Conscientious Objector In Iraq, Camilo Mejia's Road from Ar Ramadi: The Private Rebellion of Staff Sergeant Mejia and Joshua Key's The Deserter's Tale. Early on as the brass was targeting her husband, Monica Benderman visited bookstores attempting to learn more about CO status and similar topics and she couldn't find anything. The four books rectify that and join Peter Laufer's
compelling Mission Rejected: U.S. Soldiers Who Say No to Iraq which covers the stories of variety of war resisters and was released in 2006. In an ideal world, bookstores across the country would stock all five and no Monica Benderman, in search of information, would ever be greeted with "We don't carry anything like that." Kevin and Monica Benderman have done their part to make sure it doesn't happen. Again, Letters from Fort Lewis Brig by Kevin Benderman with Monica Benderman was released this week, is available at bookstores and online and it'll be the focus of a book discussion at The Third Estate Sunday Review this weekend.
There is a growing movement of resistance within the US military which includes James Stepp, Matthew Lowell, Derek Hess, Diedra Cobb, Brad McCall, Justin Cliburn, Timothy Richard, Robert Weiss, Phil McDowell, Steve Yoczik, Ross Spears, Zamesha Dominique, Chrisopther Scott Magaoay, Jared Hood, James Burmeister, Eli Israel, Joshua Key, Ehren Watada, Terri Johnson, Carla Gomez, Luke Kamunen, Leif Kamunen, Leo Kamunen, Camilo Mejia, Kimberly Rivera, Dean Walcott, Linjamin Mull, Agustin Aguayo, Justin Colby, Marc Train, Abdullah Webster, Robert Zabala, Darrell Anderson, Kyle Snyder, Corey Glass, Jeremy Hinzman, Kevin Lee, Mark Wilkerson, Patrick Hart, Ricky Clousing, Ivan Brobeck, Aidan Delgado, Pablo Paredes, Carl Webb, Stephen Funk, Blake LeMoine, Clifton Hicks, David Sanders, Dan Felushko, Brandon Hughey, Clifford Cornell, Joshua Despain, Joshua Casteel, Katherine Jashinski, Dale Bartell, Chris Teske, Matt Lowell, Jimmy Massey, Chris Capps, Tim Richard, Hart Viges, Michael Blake, Christopher Mogwai, Christian Kjar, Kyle Huwer, Wilfredo Torres, Michael Sudbury, Ghanim Khalil, Vincent La Volpa, DeShawn Reed and Kevin Benderman. In total, forty-one US war resisters in Canada have applied for asylum.
Information on war resistance within the military can be found at The Objector, The G.I. Rights Hotline [(877) 447-4487], Iraq Veterans Against the War and the War Resisters Support Campaign. Courage to Resist offers information on all public war resisters. Tom Joad maintains a list of known war resisters.
Canada's in the news not only for the arrest of war resisters these days but also for their oil deal. In a curious press release that proclaims "THIS PRESS RELEASE IS NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION TO THE UNITED STATES NEWSWIRE SERVICE OR FOR DISSEMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES" at the top, Canada's Heritage Oil Corporation declares (to "Business Editors") that they are "pleased to announce that it has executed a Production Sharing Contract with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) over Miran Block in the south-west of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and that Heritage will be operating as a 50/50 partner with the KRG to create a 20,000 barrel per day oil refinery in the vincinity of the license area. . . . Heritage will join the existing and increasing presence of international oil exploration, development and production companies operating in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. . . . Heritage will commence geological work immediately, having established its local office in Erbil in 2005, and aims to commence a high-impact exploration drilling program in 2008." Last month a deadly clash took place on Lake Albert between "Congolese troops and the Ugandan army" which Heritage Oil has denied any part in despite media reports. Andy Rowell (Oil Change) notes that the Kurdish government has "announced four new oil exploration deals with international energy companies. The news is likely to upset the central government in Baghdad and the US." In addition, this week Canada refused entry to CODEPINK's Media Benjamin and retired US State Dept and army colonel Ann Wright. Today, Amy Goodman (Democracy Now!) interviewed Wright:
AMY GOODMAN: So, Ann, you were turned back at the border. You go back to Washington, D.C. You meet with Canadian officials at the embassy. What did they tell you?
ANN WRIGHT: Well, they told us that any time that the FBI puts people on this NCIC list, they just accept it at face value, that they don't really investigate things. And we kept saying, "Well, you ought to, because a lot of these things appear to be going onto this list because of political intimidation," because, indeed, the list itself for the database says that people like foreign fugitives, people on the ten most-wanted list or 100 most-wanted list, people that are part of violent gangs and terrorist organizations, are supposed to go on that NCIC list. It didn't seem like that we were a part of -- we haven't done anything to be on the list. And since this thing is just now -- we are the first ones that we know of that have been formally stopped from going into Canada. In fact, it happened to me in August, when I went up to Canada to participate in the Security and Prosperity Partnership. I had to buy my way in, $200 for a three-day temporary resident permit. "If I'm so dangerous, why would they even give me that permit?" I asked the immigration officer in the Canadian embassy.
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THIS JUST IN! COWARD DEAN SPITS ON FLORIDA!
THE STATE OF FLORIDA HAD THE GUTS TO SAY "ONE PERSON, ONE VOTE" DOES NOT MEAN IOWA AND NEW HAMPSHIRE GET TO GO FIRST EVERY PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. THE STATE OF FLORIDA MOVED UP THEIR PRIMARY AND HOWARD DEAN WHO LOST HIS VOICE, HIS SPINE AND HIS COMMON SENSE DECIDED THAT SINCE HE SOLD OUT EVERY DAMN SUPPORTER HE HAD IN 2004 WHEN HE CAMPAIGNED FOR PRESIDENT, SINCE HE WAS TOO MUCH OF A DAMN COWARD TO CALL FOR AN END TO THE ILLEGAL WAR TODAY, THE BEST THING TO DO WAS TO TRY TO PENALIZE FLORIDA BY STRIPPING THEM OF THEIR RIGHTS BY BARRING THE 210 FLORIDA DELEGATES FROM THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION NEXT YEAR.
EACH PRESIDENTIAL CYCLE, NEW HAMSPHIRE AND IOWA GET TO KICK THINGS OFF DESPITE THE WIDE SPREAD FRAUD IN IOWA AND DESPITE THAT THE UNION CONTAINS 50 STATES AND NOT 2. THE PREDOMINATELY WHITE STATES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE AND IOWA DO NOT REFLECT THE FABRIC OF THE NATION AND POSSIBLY THAT'S WHY DEMOCRATS REPEATEDLY LOSE ELECTIONS -- 1980, 1984, 1988, 2000 AND 2004?
EACH PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IOWA AND NEW HAMPSHIRE GET TO MEET ALL THE CANDIDATES FACE TO FACE. THEY GET TO TALK TO THEM IN SMALL SETTINGS. BY THE TIME THE PRIMARIES ROLL AROUND FOR THE REST OF THE STATES, MOST RESIDENTS ARE "LUCKY" IF THEY SEE A TELEVISION COMMERCIAL.
LIAR DEAN, COWARD DEAN, HOWARD ONCE AGAINST THE ILLEGAL WAR DEAN BECAME THE CHAIR OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY WITH THE MOTTO TO CAMPAIGN IN EVERY STATE. BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE FIRST PRIMARIES ALWAYS GO TO IOWA AND NEW HAMPSHIRE.
LONG AGO, THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY SHOULD HAVE BEGUN ADDRESSING THIS BY OFFERING A ROTATION OF THE PRIMARIES EACH ELECTION CYCLE. INSTEAD, IT HAS BEEN AS IF EACH SUMMER OLYMPICS GOES TO CHINA AND EACH WINTER OLYMPICS GOES TO SWITZERLAND. IF THE OLYMPIC PLANNING COMMITTEE GRASPS THAT FAIRNESS MEANS ROTATION, IT'S A SIGN OF HOW IGNORANT OUR POLITICAL CLASS IS THAT THEY THINK ALWAYS SHOVING NEW HAMPSHIRE AND IOWA'S CHOICES DOWN THE THROATS OF THE OTHER 48 STATES FAIR, THAT ALWAYS ALLOWING EVERY OTHER STATE TO SIT IT OUT. POOR HAWAII CAN'T EVEN COUNT ON A DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE VISITNG THEIR STATE AFTER THE PRIMARY.
IT'S NOT FAIR. IT'S NOT RIGHT. THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL PARTY IS EMBRACING CORRUPTION AND CRONYISM BY REFUSING TO RECOGNIZE THAT THERE ARE 50 STATES AND NOT JUST TWO.
SENATOR BILL NELSON STANDS UP NOT JUST FOR FLORIA BUT FOR ALL 50 STATES BY SUING THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL PARTY OVER THEIR ATTEMPTS TO PUNISH THE STATE OF FLORIDA FOR MOVING UP THEIR PRIMARY.
DNC CHAIR COWARD DEAN LOST HIS VOICE ON THE ILLEGAL WAR AND MAKES A MOCKERY OUT OF HIS CLAIM TO PUT CAMPAIGNS INTO EACH STATE.
Starting with war resisters. On Tuesday came the news that US war resister Robin Long, who self-checked out and went to Canada, had been arrested in Canada the day prior. Today Dharm Makwana (24 Hours Vancouver) reports, "Robin Long, an American army deserter, was released from Canada Border Services' custody yesterday after an anti-war activist posted a $5,000 cash bond" -- posted by Bob Ages of the War Resisters Support Campaign. The Canadian Press gives the detail of Robin Long's public statement, "A handcuffed Long told reporters at a detention review hearing that he left the U.S. Army two years ago and came to Canada because he felt it was a safe refuge. Immigration officials will conduct a pre-removal risk assessment of Long before deciding whether he will be deported to the U.S." Robin Long has been released from jail, he is not 'free.' Courage to Resist makes it clear: "He still faces a pre-removal risk assessment which could lead to deportation at a later time so the fight is not over yet." Canada's CBC notes that during that "risk" assessment, Long "will live at a home in Delta while reporting to the department [Citizenship and Immigration Canada] once a month." In a TV interview with CBC, Long noted, "It feels good to be out. The fresh air feels really good. . . . When I got arrested and was sitting in the detention cell in Nelson, I was pretty sure I was going home right away. I was pretty sure I would be deported. The way that the immigration officer made it sound, I would be deported Friday. That's not quite what happened and I'm very thankful for that." What happened was Canadians got active and mobilized. Organizations such as the War Resisters Support Campaign and the Canadian Peace Alliance, the New Democratic Party of Canada political party (click here for release in English, here for release in French) and individuals worked very hard and worked very quickly, raising awareness, getting the word out and ensuring that whatever happened would not happen in silence or shielded from the public. The Prince George Citizen reports that Long has to report to the Canada Border Service Agency monthly and quote his attorney Warren Puddicombe stating the monitoring is due to the belief "that if he were removed to the U.S. he might not report voluntarily." John Colebourn (The Province) covers the arrest and adds perspective, "In November, the Supreme Court of Canada will decide whether to hear the cases of U.S. war resisters Jeremy Hinzman and Brandon Hughey. The decision is expected to have an impact on all war resisters now seeking sanctuary in Canada." Referring to that decision, Long told CBC television, "Hopefully something will happen within the next couple of months with the [Canadian] government and maybe some kind of legal action will let us stay here other than the refugee protection."
Other perspective was offered by Rod Mickleburgh (Canada's Globe and Mail) who points out, "His detention on Monday follows the bizarre apprehension earlier this year of Kyle Snyder, another war resister staying in Nelson, who was taken off to jail in the middle of a winter's night, wearing just a toque, a robe and his boxers. Nelson police have refused to say on whose request they detained Mr. Snyder, or why they knocked on his door at 4 a.m. They released him three hours later, after learning that he was legally in Canada as a visitor." The arrest of Kyle Snyder came on the orders of the US and -- though Nelson police seem to have trouble grasping this -- the US cannot order around the police of Canada. After Snyder was arrested, the department and its head, Dan Maluta, repeatedly altered their story on what happened and happened. It was very similar to the way the visit to Winnie Ng's home repeatedly changed. Following the publication of Joshua Key's The Deserter's Tale, the US military decided to enter Canada. Accompanied by a Canadian police officer, two members of the US military began searching for Key. The trio went to Winnie Ng's home (she had housed Joshua and Brandi Key along with their children early on when they moved to Canada) and presented themselves -- all three -- as Canadian police as they began questioning her. Ng told her story and was dismissed. She was ridiculed by the police and the US military denied it. But the story didn't go away and finally -- bit by bit -- it was learned that a Canadian police officer did escort two members of the US military around in their search for Key. Everything Winnie Ng said happened, happened. She stuck to her story and her story -- subsquently -- was proven accurate. Which is why the latest sop tossed out by Dan Maluta is greeted with skepticsm and Manluta is under investigation for his actions in Snyder's arrest. In the US media, only Gregory Levey (Salon) covered these earlier instances.
Long explains his reasons for resisting to CBC TV, "Because I feel the war in Iraq is an illegal war of aggression and its an indiscriminate killing of the Arab people and I believe it's all for lies and the wrong reasons so I couldn't with good conscience take part in that conflict. . . . When I joined the army, I thought the war in Iraq was a good thing. I was lied to by my president. I -- The reasons that were given, I thought were valid but just because I joined the army didn't mean I abdicated my ability to evolve intellectually and morally and what I saw in the independent media and even in mainstream media changed my view of what was going on over there. And based on what I learned, I made a decision to desert."
Courage to Resist notes that this isn't over:
We need to keep up the pressure on Canadian politicians for a political solution to the plight of US war resisters. Canada should make a provision for them all to be allowed to stay.
It is urgent that everyone who supports the right of US war resisters to stay in Canada immediately contact Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Minister of Citizenship & Immigration Diane Finley and Leader of the Liberal Party Stéphane Dion and request that they make a provision to allow U.S. war resisters to stay in Canada.
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Long's reasons aren't unique and as the realities of the lies the war was sold and the realities of the lies still being used to sell the illegal war are unmasked, more decide to resist. Jonah House and Dorothy Day Catholic Worker have issued a petition calling (link goes to Courage to Resist cross-posting) for those serving to "Refuse to fight! Refuse to kill! You are being ordered to war in the footsteps of veterans, who, more than 10 years ago, were sent to fight the first Gulf War. Many of those vets returned with severe and unacknowledge illnesses. Many gave birth to severely deformed children. All were abandoned by the Veterans Administration. You are being ordered to war by a nation whose self-acknowledged posture is that of world domination, mastery, control. This nation can have no moral justification for war."
Ehren Watada is another war resister. In June of 2006, he became the first officer to publicly refuse to deploy to the Iraq War. He cited the illegal nature of the war and his concern that, as an officer, serving would also mean putting those serving under him at risk of war crimes. Prior to going public, Watada spent months working with the military brass on a solution. They gave the impression that is what they wanted but that obviously wasn't the case because not only did they shoot down alternatives (such as Watada serving in Afghanistan), they appeared to be attempting to run the clock out. As Watada's deployment date loomed ever closer, he went public. In August 2006, he faced the Article 32 hearing. In February of this year, Judge Toilet (aka John Head) presided over the court-martial of Watada; however, it didn't go the way the military would have liked with the prosecution's case falling apart on the second day. On the third day, Judge Toilet suddenly declared a problem with a stipulation (which he had seen before the court-martial began, which he had signed off on). He attempted to convince Watada that he (Ehren) now disagreed with the stipulation. Watada stated he didn't disagree. Judge Toilet then tossed out mistrial to the prosecution who didn't immediately grasp the lifeline they were being handed. Once they did, it was all, "Yes, Judge Toilet! We move for a mistrail!" Over defense objection, Judge Toilet declared a mistrial in his attempt to hand the prosecution a "do over." However, that's not how the legal system works in the United States and military courts are as bound by the Constitution as every other court. As Marjorie Cohn (president of the National Lawyers Guild) has noted, double-jeopardy had already attached. Double-jeopardy forbids a defendant being tried more than once for the same offense. Since double-jeopardy had attached, Judge Toilet calling a mistrial (over defense objection) means that the military blew their chances at court-martialing Watada. That's the brief summary thus far. On Tuesday, Watada is scheduled -- Constitution be damnend and shredded apparently -- to face a second court-martial.
Hal Bernton (Seattle Times) reports, "In an unusual appeal to civilian courts, attorneys for 1st Lt. Ehren Watada have asked a federal judge in Seattle to block a military court-martial scheduled to start Tuesday at Fort Lewis. Watada faces up to six years in prison on charges of failure to deploy to Iraq and four counts of conduct unbecoming an officer."
Bernton notes that in August (one year after the Article 32 hearing) the Army Court of Criminal Appeals rejected the defense claims and that the matter now lies with the Court of Appeal for the Armed Forces. Watada's attorneys have maintained that the best chance is with that court due to its makeup. Currently defense is waiting to hear on the latest round of appeals. Christian Hill (The Olympian) reports, "Their request is pending before the nation's top military court, the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. Worried a decision won't arrive before the court-martial begins, they filed a request Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Seattle seeking a judge's order to stop the trial." Mike Barber (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) reports that the attorneys Kenneth Kagan and Jim Lobsenz (Carney Badley Spellman) are requestin "an emergency stay in a Seattle federal court because the Appeals Court for the Armed Forces has not ruled and the trial date is quickly approaching" and "Among other remedies, Watada's lawyers have asked the federal court in Seattle 'to issue a writ of habeas corpus releasing (Watada) from all restraint imposed by the pending court-martial charges, and declaring any trial on such charges to be barred and prohibited by the double-jeopardy clause of the Fifth Amendment'." Barber notes that Watada's service contract long ago expired and the military is extending it solely for the court-martial.
Turning to peace news, Andy Sullivan (Reuters) kind of reported on the peace movement yesterday. As Elaine and I noted last night, from the small (United for Peace and Justice has a national cooridnator named Leslie Cagan not "Kagan") to the large (the number of people attending rallies), Sullivan was short on facts. Often the case when you have a 'trend story' to sell. Sullivan's trend was that divisions in the peace movement (which do exist) are resulting in lower turnout (which is not fact). To 'prove' his 'trend,' he had to fudge the facts. Noting that UPFJ held a rally last January with at least 100,000 attending, Sullivan then moved to last month's ANSWER rally which he insisted was attended by only "10,000" people. Those of us present know that is not accurate (we also know A.N.S.W.E.R. was one coalition sponsor for the rally but Sullivan can't be bothered with that because his sub-trend -- his trend within a trend -- is exploring ANSWER's history) and press accounts also reported 100,000 present. To make his trend work, Sullivan has to eliminate 90,000 people. Divisions do exist and that's certainly worth exploring but no honest exploration can take place when a reporter doesn't know the estimated attendance (in this case, heavily reported estimates). In other peace news, on a recent trip to Canada, Ann Wright was stopped at the border and only allowed to enter after much hassle. Wright is retired US State Dept and a retired Col. in the US military. Yesterday, Wright and CODEPINK's Medea Benjamin attempted to enter Canada "crossing near Buffalo to attend a conference sponsored by a Canadian peace coalition in Toronto." As CODEPINK notes, "At the Buaffalo-Niagara Falls Bridge they were detained, questioned and denied entry. . . . The women were questioned at Canadian customs about their participation in anti-war efforts and informed that they had an FBI file indicating they had been arrested in acts of non-violent civil disobedience." Benjamin explains, "In my case, the border guard pulled up a file showing that I had been arrested at the US Mission to the UN where, on International Women's Day, a group of us had tried to deliver a peace petition signed by 152,000 women around the world. For this, the Canadians labeled me a criminal and refused to allow me in the country." Wright declares, "The FBI's placing of peace activists on an international criminal database is blatant political intimidation of US citizens opposed to Bush administration policies. The Canadian government should certainly not accept this FBI database as the criteria for entering the country." The delivery of the petition Benjamin is speaking of also saw Missy Comley Beattie, Patti Ackerman and Cindy Sheehan arrested for the 'crime' of intent to use freed speech. At Common Dreams, Sheehan writes of the Imagine Peace project Yoko Ono has started to honor her late husband John Lennon, "Peace will only happen when every member of humanity is guaranteed prosperity, health and security which will not happen when we here in the US can't even get off our asses to protest a war that is four and a half years and hundreds of thousands of bodies old, now. We can imagine peace all we want but until each and everyone of us is willing to sacrifice some of our prosperity (because we have already had our security robbed from us by the rotten Republicans and complicit corporate Democrats) true peace -- not just the absence of war -- will be as elusive as a morsel of truth or modicum of courage coming out of Washington, DC. Voluntary sacrifice is truly a revolutionary concept here in the United States of America. So you say you want a revolution? Imagine that." Carolyn Jones (San Francisco Chronicle) reports that a marine recruiting station in Berkeley (sandwiched between UC Berkeley and Berkeley High) is now the site for weekly protests each Wednesday by CODEPINK and Grandmothers Against the War that began last week when the low profile recruiting station was discovered.
Heads up on PBS' Bill Moyers Journal (this Friday in most markets, check local listings -- and it's a listen, watch and read online after the episode airs) when Moyers explores the group Christians United for Israel and also speaks to Rabbi Michael Lerner and Dr. Timothy Weber on the topic of? Should the US strike Iran. A YouTube preview is up and, at the program's website, essays on the topic will be posted as well. Again, the hour long show begins airing on most PBS markets on Friday (check local listings -- and at the website, you can also locate the airtime for your local PBS station). Also Friday on most PBS markets, NOW with David Brancaccio airs their latest half hour installment and this week interview Michael Apted about his owngoing documentary where he tracks a group of British people every seven years, energy conversation will be addressed with a report on Decorah, Iowa and Ken Burns will be interviewed about his latest documentary The War. On October 12th, NOW with David Brancaccio will air a one hour program, "Child Brides: Stolen Lives" documenting "the heartbreaking global phenomenon of forced child marriage, and the hope behind breaking the cycle of poverty and despair it causes." They've created an e-Card you can send to friends and family or to yourself to provide a heads up to the broadcast (and there is no cost to send the e-Card).
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WHEN REACHED FOR A COMMENT BARACK "BAMBI" OBAMA TOLD THESE REPORTERS HE WASN'T OVERLY CONCERNED, "SAMMY POWER IS PLANNING A TRUMPED UP 'HUMAN RIGHTS' SCANDAL THAT WE WILL USE AS A COVER TO ADVOCATE AN AIR STRIKE ON SENATOR CLINTON'S CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS."
WHEN ASKED ABOUT THE LEGAL AND MORAL ASPECTS OF STRIKING A CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS -- PRESUMABLY STAFFED WITH INNOCENTS -- BAMBI REFUSED TO COMMENT AND INSISTED HE HAD TO GO BECAUSE IT WAS NAP TIME AND HENRY KISSINGER HAD JUST ARRIVED TO READ HIM THE LITTLE WAR HAWK WHO COULD.
BAMBI HUNG UP BEFORE WE COULD ASK HIM ABOUT HIS LOYAL DONOR WHO IS UNDER FEDERAL INDICTMENT. A STORY MUCH OF THE PRESS APPEARS TO HAVE FORGOTTEN.
Starting with war resistance. Yesterday, NDP (New Democratic Party of Canada) announced their support for war resister Robin Long arrested in Nelson British Columbia citing Olivia Chow (iimigration critic) and parliament member Alex Atamanenko (click here for release in English, here for release in French). The War Resisters Support Campaign also issued a statement of support. Today a support rally was held in Toronto. Timothy Schafer (Vancouver Sun) reported yesterday on Long's arrest "on Baker Street by police on a nation-wide warrant" according to Klaus Offermann who visited the jail to protest and tells Schafer that, "The city of Nelson is arrest-central for war resistors in Canada" -- referencing the February 23rd arrest of Kyle Snyder (hauled off in his boxers at the request of the US military). Today, Schafer (at Canada's Globe and Mail) cotinues covering the story and notes the cover story just issued by police chief Dan Maluta: Robin Long was smoking pot in public with four other people and that's why he was arrested! Of course the reality from eye witnesses is different and of course three others weren't arrested with Long. But it's more of the lies the Nelson city police have become famous for. Did that announced investigation in Maluta and the department ever get completed? Yes, it was signed to one of Maluta's personal friends, which should only mean the white wash moved even faster than usual. The cover story comes out after last night's strong show of support for Robin Long at the police station. Now LIAR Maluta said what about the arrest of Kyle Snyder? Oh, that's right, he repeated lies non-stop and that's why an investigation was required because it got so bad there was no doubt he was lying.
While Long is under attack in Canada, in the US Ehren Watada is scheduled to face court-martial number two next week -- despite the very clear Constitutional provision against double-jeopardy. Gregg K. Kakesako (Honolulu Star-Bulletin) reports that the court-martial is scheduled to begin next Tuesday, that Watada will be represented by Ken Kagan and James Lobsenz, that Watada service contract ended in December 2006 but the US military elected to extend it and that, "The Army has refiled four charges against Watada, including one count of missing a deployment and two counts of conduct unbecoming of an officer. Those counts cover statements Watada made criticizing the Iraq war and President Bush. Conviction on all counts could mean nearly eight years in prison and a dishonorable discharge." AP's brief story is only six sentences long. It will pop up everywhere which is why the factual mistakes in it are all the more glaring. Ehren Watada is the first officer to publicly refuse to deploy to the Iraq War. He will also be the first officer in which double-jeopardy is tossed out, in which the Constitution is completely shredded, if the second court-martial goes through. The more war resisters there are, the more nervous the military brass gets.
Turning to the topic of Blackwater, John M. Broder (New York Times) and Peter Spiegel (Los Angeles Times) got into a nasty slap fight today as both used their papers to argue, "No! I love Erik Prince more!" Broder apparently sat through yesterday's House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform fantasizing about Erik Prince (Blackwater CEO) instead of paying attention (maybe he's turned on by the crook of a neck?). Spiegel saw him as really, really cool and not suffering from the big head at all, but, like, a guy you can really, really talk to! which is why he referred to Prince answering "questions politely" -- in what world is repeatedly rolling your eyes, smirking and turning your head in disgust "polite"? Desperate to proclaim (in his very best Melrose Place manner), "Paws off, Petey, I saw Prince first," Broder raves over Prince's attire ("trim") and "blond hair" with "a fresh cut."
In the real world, Jeremy Scahill offered his evaluation of yesterday's hearing to Amy Goodman (Democracy Now!):
JEREMY SCAHILL: When Erik Prince stepped into the room, he was mobbed by photographers, and he came in, not with an army of armed mercenaries, but with an army of lawyers and advisers. And one of the people with him was Barbara Comstock, who's a well-known Republican operative and a crisis management consultant. Blackwater had the first and second rows basically empty behind Mr. Prince, with the exception of his team of advisers and his consiglieri, and an unidentified man on several occasions during the course of the hearing himself interrupted the hearings and asked Henry Waxman to be able to consult with Prince. And then, what would result from that is that Erik Prince would turn around, and his advisers and lawyers would pile around him like a sports team plotting out their next play. It was very dramatic.
And I think that the issue here is that the Democrats really, I feel, dropped the ball on many of the most important issues surrounding Blackwater. Yes, there were some important questions raised. But for the most part, they steered away from some of the most devastating and violent incidents involving the company. The ambush at Fallujah in March of 2004, for instance, wasn't addressed at all, except in passing. And there were a number of family members of the four Blackwater operatives who were killed in that incident. That's a crucial one for the Congress to investigate, not only because of the allegations that Blackwater sent those four men into Fallujah in unarmored vehicles, short two men, and without heavy weapons, but because of the enormous price that Iraqi civilians paid for the deaths of those four corporate employees, the Bush administration ordering the leveling of Fallujah and, of course, the inflammation of the Iraqi resistance. There are a number of other incidents that never came up in the hearing.
I think that what needs to happen is that Erik Prince needs to become a more frequent visitor to Capitol Hill than his industry lobbyists have been over the past several years, and his visits should always begin with his right hand raised and cameras in front of him.
In other news of violence, Robert Parry (Consortium News) explores the death squads Bully Boy has created for Iraq and Afghanistan. These are the "kill teams," the "bait and kill teams," the teams war resister James Burmeister went public on last June and the mainstream media 'discovered' last week. Parry writes, "The ugly image of Americans killing unarmed Iraqis also helps explain the growing hostility of Iraqis toward the presence of U.S. troops. While the Bush administration has touted the supposed improved security created by the 'surge' of additional U.S. troops into Iraq, a major poll found Iraqis increasingly object to the American occupation." On a related note, Steve Negus (Financial Times of London) reports: "US military officials in Baghdad on Wednesday defended their support of local anti-insurgent volunteer organisations, the day after the country's largest political bloc attacked the programme as an 'adventure' and accused participants of kidnap and murder. The controversy over the scheme, which is a centrepiece of the US military's new strategy in Iraq, has flared as these local alliances against al-Qaeda spread from their point of origin in the western province of al-Anbar to other Sunni and even some Shia parts of Iraq."
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Q: Synchronous XMLHttpRequest when loading charts.js in to a div Currently I have a menu down the left hand side of the page and when you click the navigation it loads the page using the following:
if (this.id == "view-charts") {
    $("#rightContainer").load("view-charts.php");
    $(this).addClass("current");
}

This is working fine for every page, except for this current page with charts.js whenever this page is loaded I get the following error:

Synchronous XMLHttpRequest on the main thread is deprecated because of
  its detrimental effects to the end user's experience. For more help,
  check https://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/. jquery.min.js:6

Furthermore, if I simply php include the page in to the parent page, it gives out the same error.

A: To avoid this warning, do not use:
async: false
in any of your $.ajax() calls. This is the only feature of XMLHttpRequest that's deprecated.
The default is async: true, so if you never use this option at all, your code should be safe if the feature is ever really removed (it probably won't be -- it may be removed from the standards, but I'll bet browsers will continue to support it for many years).

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Friends in Toronto asked us whether there were any buildings at all left standing.
Today's mass media competition makes that battle look quaint. In the relentless search for clicks, profit-focused media companies are racing to the bottom as fast as they can get there.
Can we do anything about this? Should we care?
I think the answer to both questions is yes. We should care about an influential industry that creates and amplifies fear, on deadline, distracts us and festers, like a fast-growing tumor, diminishing the healthy tissue around it.
We get what we click on.
Alas, we also get what others click on. And society does a poor job of marketing productive media to itself. We're consuming more media than ever before, but I'm not sure the mass media is making us much smarter, braver or more willing to take action.
When one million committed people start engaging with a media channel, that channel gains in profit and influence. That's all it takes. The power to change what gets broadcast is in our hands, which might be a good thing. I'm sure that the junk is going to get ever worse. The question is: will people who care click often enough for the good stuff to get even better?


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Exciting 2020 Ford Bronco features
By CF White
The 2020 Ford Bronco adds some new twists to an old favorite
-Ford has reintroduced the Bronco for the 2020 model year. It will be the first time the Ford Bronco has been produced since 1996.
-The Ford Bronco is being reintroduced as a direct competitor for the Jeep series of products, particularly the Wrangler.
-Many of the features offered on the Ford Bronco are similar to those offered on the Jeep series of products.
The Ford Bronco is back after a 24-year absence. What a time to be alive! The 2020 Ford Bronco brings back some of the classic boxy styling of the Bronco we all loved, but it also introduces new high-tech features.
It's slated to be mid-sized with 2 rows of seating, including split rear seating to extend the cargo compartment. Currently, it's believed to be offering a 4 and 6-cylinder engine with a 10-speed automatic transmission. The 2020 Ford Bronco is expected to offer 5 trim levels, the Bronco, XLT, Limited, Platinum and Raptor off-road. It is expected to be priced starting at the low $30,000 range.
Body-on-frame platform
The 2020 Ford Bronco will be the only Ford SUV with a body-on-frame platform. The others are built on a uni-body frame. For an SUV, the benefit of this is in the handling and feel of the off-road ride.
A body-on-frame platform involves a separate body mounted on a rigid chassis that contains the powertrain. The body-on-frame platform relies on heavy steel rails, which resists twisting, unlike a unibody vehicle. It significantly increases the weight of the Bronco, but also means that will be quite suitable for towing and aggressive off-roading.
The 2020 Ford Bronco brings back some of the classic boxy styling of the Bronco we all loved, but it also introduces new high-tech features.
Rival for Jeep
Ford has made clear that the Bronco is intended as a Jeep rival.This means that some of the features are taken directly from the Jeep Wrangler and similar Jeep models, but 'Fordized'. This includes a flatbed truck version, removable tops and doors, and also a smaller 2 door version.
Flatbed Truck Version– Positioning the 2020 Bronco as a rival for the Jeep Wrangler and Jeep line of products also means that Ford has considered offering a flatbed version of the Bronco to rival the Jeep Gladiator. Unfortunately, confirmed details of the Bronco and pictures are being held under tight wrap so we can only speculate at this point. Based on mock-ups of the Bronco released so far, this should be quite the interesting harkening back to the days of the Land Rover Defender.
Removable top and doors– The 2020 Ford Bronco is rumored to also feature removable doors and top. Unfortunately, we haven't been able to get our hands on any photos confirming this.
Baby Bronco– A smaller, 2-door version of the Bronco, called a Baby Bronco, will also be available. It has been speculated that because the 2020 Bronco will be geared towards the luxury off-roading crowd the Baby Bronco will be offered as a smaller, cheaper version of that.
Release date up in the air
There have been many guesses about the potential release date of the Ford Bronco, as it's now November of 2019, and we have yet to see a lot of information about it. It was estimated that it would be a late-2019 release. It's not yet listed on Ford's website along with the other 2020s available for late 2019 so a late-2019 release date is looking less and less likely. Considering the buildup for the return of the Bronco after 24 years, it may be best to take that extra time and work out any kinks.
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Joseph Thomas(I)
Joseph Thomas was born on 3 August 1945 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He is known for RoboCop 3 (1993), The Spectacular Now (2013) and Sweet Home Alabama (2002). He has been married to Beverly Jean Shifflett since 31 December 1965. They have three children.
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He specializes in the design, construction, and evangelism of plug-in APIs and other extension mechanisms for opening up enterprise applications to third-party developers. Prior to working at Atlassian, he held software engineering positions at Blackboard, Learning Objects, and Salesforce.com.
In his most recent project at Atlassian, Tim serves as a tech lead for the Atlassian Gadgets project, which uses technology adopted from the OpenSocial effort for enterprise application integration. In this capacity, he has worked with other members of the OpenSocial community to help refine this open specification, originally intended for use by social networks, into something useful for development teams and other business users.


Story or how interesting subject for later filmed?
Hafiz: What is certain is done by filmmakers everywhere is the same, namely cultural activism. The point is the context being discussed are discrepancies between the relationship of humans with other humans, or one culture with another culture. So, in making the film, we are always faced to choose want to stand in the mananya. And I chose to stand in the area as I said before. If you watch the films Godard or [Abbas] Kiarostami, definitely there will always be discrepancies and in their films there is always a http://intansrirahayu1998.blogspot.co.id/ conflict created by the community. That's my story and friends Forum Lenteng select. Suppose we want to talk about love that is a trend in our film industry, then love how this relates to the socio-political context. We could wake up from that standpoint.
In Rangkas Tales, for example, is told in a small town there is a bunch of lads who play punk metal music as "metal one finger" (metal but religious). From there look of its cultural history is also out of sync. But it's also dangerous, often people actually search for it yourself unsynchronized, making it so exoticism. I reject that. We do not want mengobjektifikasi a problem.
FI: What about the issue of financing the films produced Lenteng Forum?
Hafiz: Until now the cost is still of personal pocket. Here we do not have a good producer in terms of finding money to finance our films, in contrast to Edwin for example, that has a reliable producer. So the Forum Lenteng as a community that I wake up is one way for us to survive. There is an attitude of loyalty together. When we make Rangkas Tale, by chance we got the savings of the rest of the production of other projects.
Then now we are making three documentaries, which I think is quite large in scope. One of the documentary project capital for friends only way to Lombok, bring a camera, live there for a month, and document anything about interest to them. Roughly that's how we made the movie, you could say we did it as a labor of love. Even if we are looking for sponsors, a bit difficult, because the works were created Forum Lenteng not have issues that can make people interested to finance it. The risk is also all kinds. Not sold, for example. But that should not make us to stop working.
Friends of my film makers out there who always say that they have aspirations to make films that do not follow industry. Idealist. But again behind the reason, "Yes we must earn money first, Fiz. Must be rich first and then make weird." Logic does not enter into my thinking, because ultimately they make money not want to create something based on passion. In my opinion, if you want to make something, create it with all the resources that you have and believe it because it is a choice.
FI: In the form of whether the involvement of the Ford Foundation in Rangkas Fables?
Hafiz: Tales Rangkas is a film which is produced from one of the empowerment project Lenteng Forum, namely akumassa. There are some community empowerment assisted us in some areas outside Jakarta, and has been running for almost four years. Because it has been running long enough, there must be upgrading, or increase their capacity. Of which have only wear a video camera, I now take HD cameras. I said to them: "You are using the camera, and do the movie." Be Tale Rangkas. When asked about the involvement of the Ford Foundation, they do not provide special funds, but they are one part that supports our empowerment projects already underway. Our own budget for Rangkas Tales around Rp. 5,000,000. That was just for incidentals friends to Rangkasbitung.
FI: Where Lenteng Forum distribute its films?
Hafiz: In this case we are different from the others. Because the initial mission Lenteng Forum is activism and education, we are targeting how the general public can access our works freely and be distributed again themselves, either through the Internet or hand-to-hand. Incidentally we have a fairly extensive network in some of the world's film festivals. So every production Forum Lenteng sure we send there. Although it does not make the selection, at least they got our work in its database. Massroom films such as Project 2003, which consists of nine short films, which are compiled in the form of an omnibus. In 2011, the film yesterday was still around at several film festivals abroad. We can report.
We can not expect the distribution method like an established industry in terms of capital, and I am sure his films Lenteng Forum would not sell to buy. So there are things we need to know that movies that are like works of activism Lenteng Forum will not get into a box-office or cinema network, but it can become a kind of filter or counterweight to industrial and alternative fun spectacle for the crowds.


AD&D designed this large scale addition & remodel in 2012.
and a beautifully executed master bathroom; you have to see to believe.
to create a seamless integration between the two.
The addition of two main exterior elements also aid in this process.
as well as creating the double gable over the second floor to balance the existing one on the original house.
You will note that the arched entryway at the base of the stairs was the front door of the original house.
Everything in the enclosed vaulted foyer was originally outdoor space.
By enclosing this area, and removing some of the rafters, AD&D's design was able to create the necessary stairwell opening to the second floor addition.
to what could have been a boring utilitarian stairwell.
and the client's choice of interior furnishings is truly stunning.
the layout, the claw-foot tub, or the giant shower!
The Walk in closet has too many beautiful details to count.
It leaves nothing to be desired.


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APRIL 2018, BERKELEY HEIGHTS
AxtriaTM Wins the Tristate 2018 Corporate Culture Award by CEO Report
Berkeley Heights, New Jersey – April 27, 2018
CEO Report named Axtria a winner of the Tristate 2018 Corporate Culture Awards for fostering a creative, collaborative, and successful workplace culture. The award is a testimony to Axtria's transparent and nimble culture, and strong employee engagement policies. Policies that endeavor to connect with millennials and guide Axtria to emerge as one of the best companies to work for among new-age firms.
This year, 24 companies in the Tristate region were recognized for championing a positive, productive culture, and working closely with their employees to develop successful practices.
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EVE's very own crafting system.
Blueprints come in two varieties: originals (Blueprint Originals or BPO) with unlimited runs, which as well as producing items can also be used to make copies (Blueprint Copy or BPC), which is a copy of the original blueprint with only a limited number of runs - e.g. you can manufacture 100 items and then the BPC is destroyed.
Single-run BPCs are also used for Invention, which is the only way to create blueprints for T2 (Tech II) items.
You can buy them in a lot of stations - tradehubs like Jita and Amarr have almost everything for sale - and many blueprints are put up for Contract sale, often in a bulk buy with lots of different blueprints. You can also find blueprints, including very rare ones, in exploration site loot drops.
See this page in the wiki where free BPCs are offered for newbros who want to explore manufacturing.
T2 blueprints (for building advanced items) are "invented" by using up a single-run T1 blueprint and some other specific materials. Invention is not a sure thing; there is a percentage chance that you will fail to create the T2 blueprint each time you try, although you can increase your odds by using special items.
Once you have a blueprint and some materials (usually this will be minerals which you obtain from mining, but some items such as rigs use other materials), you need to find somewhere to manufacture. Not all stations are suitable. Some have features that give you bonuses to manufacturing; some stations will let you build but not do invention. You can use the map to find stations nearby that offer the right facilities.
Do your research! Use sites like Adam4EVE to check the price of goods in Jita compared to Fountain. Make a spreadsheet of the cost of materials (you can even use macros to link a Google Docs spreadsheet to the eve-central API). Figure out what items will sell for a decent profit, but will also sell relatively quickly (use the market graph tab on the Market window to see data on daily purchases and moving average prices over time).
Doctrine ships and modules will always sell! Pick a frigate you like to fly and start building the modules, then consult the spreadsheet gods to decide whether it is wiser to buy the hull or build it. Start with maybe ten and either fly them yourself or put them on contract.
Get the required materials for it.
Head to a station that can manufacture stuff.
Manufacturing is the process by where you have a blueprint, the required materials, and a station capable of manufacturing; to create nearly any item in game. It's EVE's version of crafting, just much more of a pain than most other MMO's.