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DEAG DEUTSCHE ENTERTAINMENT AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT (FRA:ERMK) DEAG Deutsche Entertainment Aktiengesellschaft: DEAG positions itself for further growth and appoints Stuart Galbraith and Oliver Hoppe as Divisional Board Members
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DEAG Deutsche Entertainment Aktiengesellschaft: DEAG positions itself for further growth and appoints Stuart Galbraith and Oliver Hoppe as Divisional Board Members
DEAG positions itself for further growth and appoints Stuart Galbraith and Oliver Hoppe as Divisional Board Members
Berlin, 14 September 2022 – DEAG Deutsche Entertainment Aktiengesellschaft ("DEAG") is strengthening its management team in response to its dynamic growth.
As "Executive Vice President Product and Innovation", Oliver Hoppe will be responsible for the further development of the overarching product acquisition and utilisation in the future.
As "Executive Vice President International Touring", Stuart Galbraith will drive the development of the Rock/Pop/Contemporary business within the DEAG Group and in DEAG's other national markets.
In addition to the already successful Divisional Board Members Jacqueline Zich (Executive Vice President Classics & Jazz & COO DEAG Classics AG) and Benedikt Alder (Executive Vice President Legal Affairs & Business Development), Oliver Hoppe and Stuart Galbraith will support DEAG's Executive Board with the further national and international expansion of DEAG's business activities. Their tasks will include the further expansion of the Live Entertainment business and the even stronger interlinking of the DEAG Group companies. This includes the development of new channels for the evaluation of content as well as the further harmonisation of various distribution channels. In addition, Oliver Hoppe and Stuart Galbraith will assist DEAG's Executive Board with the implementation of M&A projects and create further synergy effects in ticketing and artist acquisition.
Oliver Hoppe is Managing Director of the DEAG subsidiary Wizard Promotions Konzertagentur GmbH, the main tour and concert promoter within the DEAG Group in Germany. In recent years, the company has organised concerts by Iron Maiden, Bryan Ferry, Zucchero, Papa Roach, KISS, Böhse Onkelz and den Scorpions, among other artists. Wizard's portfolio also includes artists like 50 Cent, Limp Bizkit and Jamie Cullum.
Stuart Galbraith is CEO of the British Entertainment Group Kilimanjaro Holdings Ltd. The DEAG subsidiary has significantly expanded its event portfolio in recent years to include areas such as the Spoken Word, comedy and sports, and is now one of the largest live entertainment promoters in the UK. Both, Stuart Galbraith and Oliver Hoppe will remain active in their roles as CEO of Kilimanjaro Live and Managing Director of Wizard, respectively, and will continue to drive the companies' further growth.
DEAG was able to report a very strong operating performance for the first half of 2022. Compared to the first half of the pre-crisis year 2019, sales increased by 109 % from EUR 63.9 million to EUR 133.4 million. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation, EBITDA, increased from EUR 3.1 million to EUR 10.1 million (+226%), thus exceeding planning. For the full year 2022, DEAG expects an increase in revenues to over EUR 300 million and a further improvement in EBITDA. Further investments and acquisitions are at an advanced state of progress. The company is highly convinced that with the appointments of the two additional Divisional Board Members it is excellently positioned for further growth.
About DEAG
DEAG Deutsche Entertainment Aktiengesellschaft (DEAG) is a leading entertainment service company and provider of live entertainment in Europe. DEAG has been present with its Group companies at 15 locations in its core markets of Germany, the UK, Switzerland, Ireland and Denmark. As a live entertainment service provider with an integrated business model, DEAG has extensive expertise in the planning, organisation, marketing and promoting of events.
Founded in Berlin in 1978, DEAG's core businesses today include Rock/Pop, Classics & Jazz, Family Entertainment, Arts+Exhibitions and Ticketing. Family Entertainment and Arts+Exhibitions are the elementary building blocks for the further development of DEAG's own content.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, more than 5 million tickets were sold annually for over 4,000 events – a constantly growing share of which were sold via the Group's own e-commerce platforms "myticket" and "gigantic.com" for its own and third-party content.
Through its strong partner network, DEAG is excellently positioned in the market.
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now unless I am mistaken, it's supposed to get rid of all the line breaks inside that if statement, however when I actually test the game it still puts a line break before and after the the test inside the <<if>> statement. So it looks like this.
Before anyone suggest it, using the "\" method also does not work, it just seems to ignore it.
While not as nice-looking as SugarCube's markup, this should do what you want.
having tried them both out, I think I like the first suggestion. It's a shame I can't hide the bullet, but in that case I don't mind if there was something else there instead if you didn't qualify, like a non-link message that just reads "You need higher vitality for this option" or something to that effect. Thanks for the help, I hadn't even considered that the bullets were what was causing the issue.
Unfortunately, as a general rule, you cannot interleave markup, which is what you were attempting to do there. That's simply a limitation of the current parser.
Putting one of the list item markup (leading asterisk) within the <<if>> separates it from the rest of the list, so at best you were looking at two lists there. Beyond that, depending on how it's exposed within the <<if>>, the parser will decide that it's either a list item or plain text (i.e. just an asterisk).
There is no way in Sugarcube to 'hide' all the <<if>> in a large body as the parser cannot separate them then, as the OP has attempted both variants that have been recommended. (as have I and found no method that removes them from the displayed text) As <nobr> would conflict with the <<if>> statements that I have following.
Sorry, I am very new to this, but have searched the interwebz extensively and found no solution that is amenable at this time. drat. I love the Sugarcube!
And Mad Exile, thanks so much for all the background, input, replies and content!
It would seem so. I ended up just greying out options that you couldn't select, but it seems that if you want to use lists anyway, there is no way to hide the option. To clarify, the workaround that CHapel mentioned DOES work, but if you don't have an <<else>> text specified then you'll just have a floating bullet that doesn't seem to be attached to anything.
Obviously if you don't want to be all fancy like me and use a list then I'm almost positive that <<nobr>> and <<if>> statements will work perfectly fine together, it's the bulleted list that is messing everything up.
Thank you kindly for the reply and the suggestions. I will rethink how I want to make this work to fit within the confines of Sugarcubes capabilities. One shoe does not always fit all, nor does my limited concepts of what can be done! Cheers!
Is it possible to have a 'break' while using <<nobr>>?


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Exodus 3:9 And now the cry of the Israelites has reached Me, and I have seen how severely the Egyptians are oppressing them.
Look! The cry of the people of Israel has reached me, and I have seen how harshly the Egyptians abuse them.
My people have begged for my help, and I have seen how cruel the Egyptians are to them.
I have indeed heard the cry of my people, and I see how the Egyptians are oppressing them.
The Israelites' cry for help has come to Me, and I have also seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them.
Now, listen carefully! The cry of the Israelis has come to my attention about how severely the Egyptians have been oppressing them.
And now indeed the cry of the Israelites has come to me, and I have also seen how severely the Egyptians oppress them.
Now, look, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.
I have heard the cry of the people of Israel. I have seen how the Egyptians are oppressing them.
And now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto Me; moreover I have seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.
"And now, behold, the cry of the sons of Israel has come to Me; furthermore, I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians are oppressing them.
Therefore, behold, the cry of the sons of Israel has now come before me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.
Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.
Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come to me: and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.
And now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come to me, and I have seen the affliction with which the Egyptians afflict them.
"At this time tomorrow I will send you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you are to anoint him leader over My people Israel; he will deliver them from the hand of the Philistines. For I have looked upon My people, because their cry has come to Me."
Then Jehoahaz sought the favor of the LORD, and the LORD listened to him because He saw the oppression that the king of Aram had inflicted on Israel.
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Anthony has been serving Mass on and off for about two years, while Joe's been doing it for two and a half years.
Joe's little sister Kyoko (seen joshing around above), who turns five years old tomorrow, has been serving for several months. Other kids who normally serve more often also showed up, and Fr. McDonnell's not the kind to turn anyone away, so there turned out to be a total seven acolytes.
Also seen above is Gabriel, an extremely good-natured young man who always takes the younger kids under his wing.
Even though he's now taller and can see over the altar with ease, the shot above looks similar to this shot two years ago where he could just barely see over, because this time I was sitting when I took the shot, so the angle makes him look shorter.
Fr. McDonnell specifically asked me to take some pictures. I suppose it's hard for anyone to believe that I'm ever reticent to use the camera, but that's not what Mass is for, so when I do photograph during Mass, I do so with reserve.
The tallest boy is Gabriel's brother, the pair being half of a quartet of siblings who are all kind, good natured young men of such a high caliber that it's my aspiration for Anthony to turn out like them. If you can't be a kind and considerate person, no other successes in life really matter.
Joe's parents let him pick where he wanted to go to celebrate after Mass, and much to their consternation, he picked McDonald's. But it was his special day, so McDonald's it was. We tagged along.
The McDonald's near Kawaramachi and Sanjo Streets is three stories tall, but was still so crowded that we couldn't all sit together. It was the first time any of us had been in a McDonald's in a very long time, which made it a treat for the kids, and gastronomical distress for the adults. It'd been so long for me that I actually forgot to get the Happy Meal (with its all-important accompanying toy) for Anthony. But Anthony did get ice cream later on. My order of 14 ice-cream cones was somewhat of a shock to the kid behind the register, but with the help of Gabriel and his brothers, all the cones reached their intended recipients waiting up on the third floor.
We had already promised Anthony an ice-cream treat as celebration, and tagging along to Joe's lunch didn't count. Fumie wasn't feeling well this evening, so Anthony and I headed out for dinner and a big parfait. It was so big that Anthony couldn't even finish it, but being the loving Daddy that I am, I made the sacrifice to help him with it.
My wife and I are writing from Texas (fellow Catholics) and were wondering if the Catholic religion is as popular over there as it is here in the states. Sorry to assume that you are Catholic, but had to go with the suggestion of the pictures. If you are not, please accept our apologies.
Am surprised at the number of non-Asian children in the ceremony.
Also the variety of footwear worn by the participants.
fifty years is a long time in one location.
captured the good feelings of the day with your candid shots.
give me a new perspective on our mutual home.
Terrific shooting, Dad. The group shot with the Father seemingly laughing at the kids' antics really captures the moment.
We have just taken a look at the first holy communion shots, and they are wonferful. You really did a marvellous job.
Dear Jeffrey, thanks for the amazing photographs and diary of your son's maturity in his faith.
I was one of "Fr. Mac's" YBU teachers in Kyoto almost 30 years ago; that McDonald's you mention was there then & "ice coffee" was the amazing drink we missioners just loved!
Most of all, I want to tell you how wonderful it is to see Mac still doing what he did when I knew him…loving the people he's with fully. Fr. Mac was so kind and patient with the group of twenty-somethings I was part of during the 1981-1982 year. I thought we aged him considerably!
Should you see him sometime tell him that one of his teachers from the Tacoma, Washington area thinks so highly of him and is so grateful that he gave me a chance to be part of his mission. I'm an RN who went on to get a Masters in Transforming Spirituality then a doctorate in Educational Leadership from Seattle University. I'd like him to know that in some special way he made a difference in my life.
When you grew up did your family also go to Mass every Sunday? (I suppose so.) I also want my son to become kind and someone peaceful like my husband. And funny. BTW I really admired your kindness when we went to the BBQ and the car broke. You had the patience of an angel. Also sharing your knowledge on your blog is very kind of you. There are not many people like that.


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Watch: Winchester House movie with Helen Mirren has a new creepy trailer
By Karen D'Souza | kdsouza@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: October 24, 2017 at 10:14 am | UPDATED: October 27, 2017 at 5:31 pm
The Winchester Mystery House is ready for its close-up. San Jose's most famous haunted house is one of the stars of the new movie "Winchester: The House That Ghosts Built," for which CBS Films released a haunting new trailer today.
Directed by the Spierig Brothers, who are best known for "Jigsaw" and "Predestination," the spooky thriller stars Oscar winner Helen Mirren as the infamous Sarah Winchester. The troubled heiress to the Winchester rifle fortune, Sarah lived in a bizarre and gargantuan mansion with doors that lead nowhere and windows that open onto brick walls, that she never stopped building. She oversaw construction of a vast labyrinth of a house that went on perpetually, seven days a week for decades, with no end in sight. While Sarah was a famously private and eccentric person, the movie takes us inside her undying quest to build.
Was she running from the ghosts of those slain by the rifle that made her rich? Was she mad? The film suggests the she was building a prison, an asylum for legions of ghosts bent on vengeance.
Mirren has her own vision of the recluse, who may not have been as demented as is commonly believed.
"She was a fascinating woman," said the ever thoughtful Mirren, during a break in filming at the house earlier this year. "People say she was crazy. I don't think she was crazy at all, I think she was troubled, and I think she was like an artist. She wished to live on her own terms. The house is her work of art."
Certainly, over time, many a visitor has reported seeing apparitions lurking amid the maze of a mansion, which has no less than 10,000 windows, 2,000 doors, 47 fireplaces, 40 staircases, 13 bathrooms and nine kitchens.
Lights, camera, action at Winchester Mystery House
First peek at secret spaces inside Winchester Mystery House
The eagerly-anticipated ghost story, which also stars Sarah Snook and Jason Clarke, is set to waft into theaters on Feb. 2.
Karen D'Souza
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Pentagon, Pakistan No Longer Cooperating in Drone War? (Updated)
Author: Noah ShachtmanNoah Shachtman
This much we know: The U.S. military flew some of its drones over Pakistan, and shared the footage with their counterparts in the Pakistani armed forces. Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Senate as much today.
After that, things get... kind of confusing. Stick with me.
The* New York Times *ran a story in its Thursday edition, which said that U.S. Air Force Predator drones had flown a handful of demonstration missions for the Pakistanis. Then, suddenly and without explanation, the Pakistanis stopped asking for the unmanned aircraft's surveillance feeds. And so those flights stopped – while the CIA continued to operate its own, separate killer drone fleet.
During testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Mullen called the* New York Times* account an "accurate portrayal."
But the Times piece is a little odd. It doesn't appear to match up with what we already know about the drone flights. For example, the story says that in "mid-March," U.S. forces in Afghanistan flew a drone along the Pakistani border "to show the kind of imagery and communications information the Predator could provide." The American then piped the data down "to a border coordination center near the Khyber Pass operated by American, Pakistani and Afghan personnel."
Yet, by then, those personnel would have been extremely familiar with the drone's capabilities. Four months earlier, in November 2008, then-U.S. commander General David McKeirnan noted that "we have a Predator feed going down to the one border coordination center at Torkham Gate that's looked at by the Pak military." U.S. Air Force drones have also been allowed to make occasional sweeps into Pakistani airspace, with Islamabad's permission. So why would Islamabad need a demonstration of something it already knew?
Mullen also endorsed the* New York Times* reportage, about the Pakistani military's sudden and curious lack of interest in the drones – despite months' of public requests to the contrary, and despite Pakistan's president asking just this weekend for control of the aircraft on American T.V. "They haven't asked for any additional assistance along those lines over about the last 30 days," Mullen said. "We don't do any of this without their requests." He offered no explanation for the shift, or for the seeming disparity between the private sentiments and the public words.
Mullen did, however, call "completely inaccurate" a Los Angeles Times report suggesting that Pakistan's military had been given "significant control over routes, targets and decisions to fire weapons" by U.S. Air Force drones.
Like the unnamed officials quoted by the New York Times, Mullen may be squeamish about giving too much away to the Pakistani military and intelligence services. After all, those guys played footsie with the Taliban for decades. "Several years ago, American officials gave Pakistan advance word of planned Predator attacks, but stopped the practice after the information leaked to militants," the paper says.
For its part, the Obama administration has provided the Pakistanis with the surveillance information but has resisted sharing detailed information about how the drones operate. "This is technology we haven't given to our closest allies — the Brits or the Australians or NATO," said one senior American official who is working on Pakistan issues.
Now that part of the story makes some sense. At Creech Air Force Base in Nevada – the headquarters of the U.S. Air Force's robo-plane fleet – there are British pilots, remotely operating Reaper drones hat are flying missions overseas. But these Brits can't enter certain cockpits; the flights are top secret, no foreigners allowed.
UPDATE: Here's the full exchange, from yesterday's Senate Armed Services Committee hearing.
SEN. LEVIN: An article in The New York Times this morning, Secretary, asserted that the United States has provided Pakistan with notice of drone operations, but stopped doing that because the information is leaked to the targets of the operations. Can you comment on that?
ADM. MULLEN: Chairman, in fact, there's been articles over the last couple of days with respect to this. And where we are, we have evolved over time in support of the Pakistan military and opened up a border coordination, a joint coordination center, a few months ago, to support them in operations. And that continues – continues to evolve. And the specifics of this article, in terms of what we're actually providing, really are classified.
That said, we don't do any of this without their requests to assist and support them in their operations. And in fact, those operations have – those requests have ceased over the period of about the last month.
SEN. LEVIN: Have ceased?
ADM. MULLEN: From the – yes, sir, the specific requests that are mentioned in this article have – they haven't asked for any additional assistance along those lines over about the last 30 days.
SEN. LEVIN: All right. And have they received any control over our operations, as reported in the press, over our drone operations?
ADM. MULLEN: No, sir.
SEN. LEVIN: So those reports are inaccurate?
ADM. MULLEN: The report in the L.A. Times yesterday was very inaccurate.
SEN. LEVIN: And that report was that they have joint control –
ADM. MULLEN: Yes, sir. And that was completely inaccurate.
SEN. LEVIN: All right.
ADM. MULLEN: The report today was a much more accurate portrayal. But in terms of control, absolutely not. In terms of support and information, we certainly – they have asked for that, and where they've asked for that, we've supported them.
SEN. LEVIN: All right. I wish they'd tell their public about their support of our operations instead of attacking us for them, because that is one of the things that just creates propaganda fodder for the very people who are out to destroy us and them.
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Art History Grrrls
The Art of Trauma
May 19, 2016 avidog
Let's talk transgender turkey for a minute. Transgender women are women. If you disagree and/or your feminism doesn't include them, you kind of suck. That said…
"Jewish gay transgender woman artist" is not a phrase you hear much, or at all, in the art world. But, lucky for us, there is an awesome woman named Yishay Garbasz making art and busting through cis-hetero-patriarchal walls. Now that I've rolled out a long string of labels, I'd like to roll them back. Garbasz said in an interview in 2013, "I'm an artist. I'm not a trans-artist, I'm not a Jewish artist, just an artist. And I think that's important; a lot of people struggle with gender as something that shapes their life…There's a lot more to life than that. Society constrains a lot of people into very specific things, and if there wasn't a social ostracism they would have much bigger lives." And she's right. So, let's just talk about a bitchin' contemporary artist and her work.
Yishay Garbasz was born in 1970 in Israel; her parents were survivors of World War II and the Holocaust. She studied photography at Bard College in the early 2000s, though she also does installation art and performance pieces. She won the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship in 2004. In 2008, Garbasz moved to Berlin and has been based there ever since. She won Berlin Woman Filmmaker of the Year in 2010. Garbasz is interested in trauma. The memories of trauma, the sites of trauma, the passing along of trauma from person to person and place to person, the post-trauma experience. Her work also addresses identity and her life as a woman.
One of her earlier undertakings was begun in 2004 (ending in 2009) and involved Garbasz retracing her mother's steps through the Holocaust and photographing it. She went everywhere her mother was from 1942 through 1945: the Jewish ghetto her mother lived in as a girl, the concentrations camps, along the route of the death march her mother was forced to go on. All while lugging a large-format single-negative camera on a tripod. When speaking of "In My Mother's Footsteps," Garbasz said "my mother lost parts of her soul in those places and I had to go back and collect them." Garbasz also did a piece that centered on her branding her mother's concentration camp number into her arm and photographed it as the wound healed.
Documenting sites of trauma continued in her next project in which she traveled a variety of places including the DMZ between North and South Korea, the barriers running between Israel and Palestine, and the Peace Lines in Northern Ireland. She also traveled to and photographed Fukushima, Japan post-nuclear disaster. I think we can agree that if you want a guide for a sweet trauma-based vacation, Garbasz is your girl.
In 2008, Garbasz began "Becoming." She documented her transition through the gender-affirmation process by taking a nude picture of herself every week. The 28 pictures were then made into a life-size zoetrope and a flip book. After transitioning, Garbasz took her old testicles and exhibited them in a tank of formaldehyde. The piece was titled, "Eat Me Damien." Indeed. You can take your stupid preserved shark, Damien Hirst, and suck it.
Yishay Garbasz continues to travel and take photographs and exhibit around the world. If you get the chance to see her work, jump on that shit.
artart, art history, holocaust, jewish, photography, transgender, trauma, women artists, yishay garbasz
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Jordan Philson May 22, 2016 / 5:32 am
Oh, this is marvelous. A great, quick synopsis. I will certainly be doing more digging on this artist. Thanks so much for sharing!
avidog May 22, 2016 / 5:45 am


So this is my first blog post – a new venture for me.
Let me introduce myself. I'm Michaela, mum of 6, wife and teacher and I just love papercrafting. I started stamping about 20 years ago when I was young and had time on my hands. Not many years later I decided (oops, we decided – that's Mark and I) to start a family. Who would have thought that 6 wonderful children later I have a 'partially' grown up family. With 5 boys aged 21, 19, 14, 12, 7 and one young lady 15, I have finally found the 'time' to take up my hobby a little more seriously again.
Thanks to a wonderful student I taught 6 yrs ago, I came in contact with the most fantastic demonstrator – Debbie and so my obsession with cardmarking was rekindled! And…. I have finally decided to join Stampin' Up! myself.I recently went to my first demonstrators team meeting and meet a lovely group of enthusiasts, learnt a little about how this all works and then shared the creations that many had made since their last meeting.
I have always wanted to be part of a card challenge and Debbie's challenge for this month is to choose one of two layouts (below) and use any colour and current stamp set to complete this challenge. We were also able to select either a card or scrapbook page or both – if we wished.
Playing around I decided on the first design and rotated clockwise. I put my sentiment in the middle square, stamped my two images with a shadow technique, mounted them on the Blackberry Bliss and then realised I had used a retired stamp set. Oh well, I may as well finish it off. Using the Petite Petal stamps, shadow technique and punch, I embellished each with a pearl centre. The line of tiny flowers form my band across the card front.I have put the products used that are from the current 2014-2015 "Inspire, Create, Share" catalogue next to the completed card for you. Next blog I will put up the card with a current stamped image on it for you. I'll try a couple of different colour combinations too!
Available online through Stampin' Up!
My website is in its infancy, but you can order directly through me online.
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I've Been Liebster Award Nominated!
I was recently nominated to receive the Liebster Award by MC at Mom Makes Cents, her blog is one I felt right at home with right from the start. Mom Makes Cents is a mom blogging her way through debt elimination, and enjoying her family life along the way. I am so honored to have been considered for this nomination, and it was so unexpected! Thank you MC!
This award is designed to recognize small and relatively new blogs, those with less than 200 followers.
1. Say Thanks! Thank the person who nominated you for this awesome award and link back to their blog.
2. Show off your award! Write a post about receiving the award and place a button on your blog for all to see!
3. Answer Some Questions! Answer the questions your nominator posted for you. See below.
4. Nominate! Nominate 5-10 blogs that meet the criteria above, then notify them and give them a link back to your awards post with the nomination.
5. Create! Create your own questions about 5-10 for the bloggers who you have nominated. That's all there is too it! Have fun, be creative and share the love!
1. What made you decide to start your blog-venture?
I started TwoKidsAndABudget.com as a way to chronicle my families journey to debt freedom. But I also wanted to create a resource for families who are struggling with debt and trying to become debt free. I wanted my blog to be a reliable source of information that was easy to understand, and had lots of ideas that could also be easily implemented no matter a person's income.
My favorite movie hands down is Far And Away! It's an old movie from 1992, I was 13 the first time I saw it and I have loved it ever since.
3. IE, Firefox, Chrome or Safari?
This is a hard one because I use them all. I think they all have their pros and cons. If I had to choose my favorite it would probably be Chrome.
I'm a PC fan all the way. I love my Windows 8!
5. If money was no object – what is your dream job?
I am living my dream job. All I truly ever wanted to be was a stay-at-home-mom. If however I had to choose something outside the home it would have been a photographer for National Geographic.
6. If you were given a tax free $1 million dollars tomorrow – what would you do?
This is an easy one. 1. Pay off my debt, including our current home. 2. Donate our current home to Habitat For Humanity. 3. Buy a new home with CASH nothing fancy, but I do have one in mind. 4. Fully fund our kids college accounts. 5. Take my husband on a trip, someplace amazing. You have to have a little fun right? 6. Give $100,000.00 to start a scholarship for kids in our local school district. 6. Invest the rest!
This my sound cheese, but my husband. He goes to work, he voulenteers to work a lot of 12 hour days. Comes home and plays with the kids, then helps me around the house. He is supportive, he is kind and caring, and he never complains about….anything. He is a wonderful father, a wonderful husband, and a wonderful example for our sons.
8. What is the last movie you seen in the theater?
Does "The Big Red Tub" count? I read it to my sons every day, they love it and so do I!
10. If you were king/queen for a day – what change would you institute?
I would make saying the Pledge Of Allegiance before school started every day mandatory for all grades. The word "God" would be left in there.
As I am just starting in the world of public blogging (my mom blog has only been for family) I really don't know many new blogs or bloggers. However, I will keep a look out for those who I can pass on this wonderful award to!
Update: I have found someone who I think is going to be a great blogger and someone to watch. Her name is Melissa and she blogs over at Sunburnt Saver. One thing I really like about her blog is her "Weather Wednesdays" savings goal. Never heard of it? Well hop on over to her blog and check it out!
1 What do you hope to gain from writing your blog?
3. Are you a planner or are you spontaneous?
7. What is your favorite thing to do when you have "free time"?
8. If you could stay a certain age what would it be and why?
9. If you could meet anyone famous (dead or alive) who would it be and why?
10. If you could do anything you wanted for a day what would it be?
I wanted to take one more opportunity to say thank you to Mom Makes Cents for this awesome Liebster Award Nomination! I am vary honored that you thought me me!
Thanks! :o) I had a lot of fun answering your questions, and thank you agian for the nomination! Heaven is for Real was a wonderful movie! I would totally recommend you check it out once it is on DVD.


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Q: Debugging Futures and Iteratees in Play 2.2 I'm having some strange behavior in my Play 2.2 app and I'm not sure how to go about debugging it.  My code was running fine until I started using iteratees.
My actor creates an enumerator like below and sends it back to the caller:
val emailFeed = Concurrent.unicast[Message] (
          onStart = {
            pushee => {
              log.debug("Pushing 1")
              pushee.push(messages.apply(0))
              log.debug("Pushed 1")

            }
            },
          onComplete = {
            log.debug("Done with pushee")
          },
          onError = {
            (msg, in) => log.error(msg)
          }

the caller then consumes it by :
f.map { reply =>
        val emailFeed = reply.asInstanceOf[Enumerator[Message]]
        val iter =  Iteratee.fold[Message,String] ("") {
          (result, msg) =>   {
             Logger.debug("appending subj")
             result ++ msg.getSubject()
             Logger.debug(" subj appended")
             result
          }
        }
        val result: Future[String] = emailFeed |>>> iter
        Await.result(result, 10 minutes)

The problem is Await.result times out.  I have stepped through the iteratee code and see it being called.  There is only 1 chunk to process so it is quick.  I also see the enumerator and iteratee debug stmts in the console.  I just don't know why it doesn't complete:
[debug] application - Pushing 1
[debug] application - Pushed 1
[debug] application - appending subj
[debug] application -  subj appended

A: Apparently, there isn't much feedback in Play if you forget to end your enumerator properly.  You must call:
pushee.end

or
pushee.eofAndEnd

to trigger the enumerator to close and the Future to complete.

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The Gertboard™ is an add-on board that extends the use of Raspberry Pi to devices in the real world,/lamp control, and the sensing of voltages and currents. It also contains a host micro that can be programmed with code written and compiled for it, including motor on the Raspberry Pi. Learn more.


The Nic-L-Inn Wine Cellar on the Hudson is the latest culinary adventure with the Deluccia family, who have been in and around the Hudson Valley restaurant scene for decades. Nick's family owned the Dockside Harbor in Cold Spring in the 70's. He and his wife Lynnette (Nick, Lynn, Nic-L-Inn, get it?) ran the original Nic-L-Inn on Route 55 in Lagrange in the 80's, and opened my personal favorite – the Lynick House – in 1986. Thirty years ago. Ouch.
The Nic-L-Inn Wine Cellar on the Hudson dining room.
And now they are back, with first daughter Nicolette, and their latest offering, an American bistro. The choice of the new location on North Water Street (one mile north of River Station) was strategic. The restaurant looks out to the Walkway over the Hudson, and more importantly the Walkway's thousands of walkers look down directly on the restaurant. The new elevator and the Walkway entrance is a short walk from the restaurant's front door. A business plan was born.
The restaurant opened last year, and we have stopped in a number of times for dinner and the occasional special wine dinner that the Deluccia's offer. You can read about the initial visit and write-up here. Most recently the restaurant added two new players to their staff that many Hudson Valley diners will know. Bill Hurley was recently brought in as the dining room manager. Bill's culinary CV is long and storied, starting with a stint at the aforementioned Dockside Harbor with Nick's family. I first met Bill in the 1980's when he was the maitre d'hotel at the legendary Plumbush Inn in Cold Spring, where he presided over the dining room for over twenty years. (Rumor has it he is also the keeper of the Plumbush apple fritter recipe). In addition, Chris May, CIA alum and longtime executive chef at Baby Cakes in Arlington, is now stirring things up in the kitchen.
Low & Slow roasted pork belly.
The restaurant has a small bar and lounge area just inside the entrance, where you can sample the craft beer offerings and a good selection of wines by the glass. You can check out the wine list here. My one complaint about the wine list is that they do not list vintages. For a place that bills itself a wine bar, they really should. The bistro style menu is tightly focused – five entrees, five pastas, plus three blackboard specials at each service. In addition, diners can choose from a selection of cheeses from local creameries, or an Old World charcuterie board which adds cured meats, roasted vegetables, and olives.
On our last visit the kitchen had prepared a special appetizer – a savory lamb ragu stuffed pepper, topped with a spoon of creamy burrata – which was very nicely done. The pasta dishes are often the kitchen's best effort. The squid ink pasta is a dish that we can claim as our own here in the Hudson Valley. Squid ink pasta was originally introduced in the 1980's at John Novi's Depuy Canal House, and this adventurous "nouveau cuisine" contributed to his 4 stars from Craig Claiborne in the Times. This variation I believe has its origins in the kitchen at Panzur in Tivoli, whose sous chef was the original chef here at Nic L Inn. Linguini is tossed with a briny black sauce of seafood butter and shrimp, peppers, and parsley. It tastes better than it sounds. Trust me. More traditional pasta dishes include a hearty bolognese over whole wheat fettuccine, and my favorite – house made chicken sausage tossed with cavatelli pasta, broccoli rabe, sundried tomatoes, and ricotta.
Grilled swordfish steak, fregola salad, butternut squash purée.
The grilled swordfish steak I sampled last week is typical of the blackboard specials that you will find complementing the regular menu. Here the filet was plated on a purée of seasonal butternut, which was topped with a fregola salad. (Fregola is Sardinian pasta similar to couscous). It was all finished with a spritz of frisée, and very nicely done.
The new Nic-L-Inn is well worth a visit, especially if you are down near the waterfront in Poughkeepsie, or enjoying a stroll on the area's premier attraction – the Walkway over the Hudson.


No pun intended I swear ahaha.
But a few minutes ago I was complaining that the turkey sandwich I ate didn't do anything for my hunger so I opened my fridge wondering, "what the hell am I going to eat?!" I realized that I had my strawberry yogurt in the fridge still but that it was a few days off its best before, so I tasted it (very cautiously) and it tasted alright at first, then this terrible aftertaste (YUCK!) and after getting a second opinion form my dad it was off to the garbage for that, which was super upsetting because that it always my base for smoothies. Mostly because like I said in my last blog that I'm a strawberry-banana go-to-girl. So Dad offered his plain yogurt (which is every other case I think is gross) and look! it too was past its best before date haha. But we have a brand new plain Greek yogurt so I used that as my base and with no fresh fruit around put in a cup of strawberry-banana juice and two bananas. Mixed it all up and I must say it tastes pretty good! Its obviously a little strong on the banana but the strawberry in the juice pulls through enough to surprise you. My only complaint is that its not thick enough without the extra fruit and with the juice; but it will do!


This project aims to recover and dignify the wisdom that the Embera women preserve with their ancestral songs. A recovery and compilation of the ancestral songs or Truambis will be carried out in the 5 indigenous communities of Chigorodó, generating intergenerational training spaces among women, children and young people to make visible the importance of Embera women in their culture. The youth group and the seeds of communication of the Indigenous Cabildo de Chigorodó will be directly involved in the execution of the project, providing workshops on research of their own culture, cultural empowerment and audiovisual techniques so that they can obtain suitable tools that can be used in the field. With the material that is collected, a series of 4 audiovisual chapters will be made about the ancestral songs, a fiction or story, a sonoteca (a sound library) and several infographics about the life of the women singers. This material will be shared and delivered in the schools of the communities, sensitizing the teachers about the wisdom of the women and the importance of teaching the ancestral songs in indigenous schools and community spaces.


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Teleogryllus brachypterus är en insektsart som beskrevs av Lucien Chopard 1967. Teleogryllus brachypterus ingår i släktet Teleogryllus och familjen syrsor. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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Q: Is there a function, like componentWillUnmount, that will fire before the page is refreshed I want a function, to send a request to a server (don't care about response) before a user refreshes the page.
I've tried using the componentWillUnmount approach but the page refresh doesn't call this function. e.g.
import React, { useEffect } from 'react';

const ComponentExample => () => {
    useEffect(() => {
        return () => {
            // componentWillUnmount in functional component.
            // Anything in here is fired on component unmount.
            // Call my server to do some work
        }
    }, []) }

Does anyone have any ideas how to do this?

A: You could try listening for the window.beforeunload event.

The beforeunload event is fired when the window, the document and its
resources are about to be unloaded. The document is still visible and
the event is still cancelable at this point.

useEffect(() => {
  const unloadCallback = (event) => { ... };

  window.addEventListener("beforeunload", unloadCallback);
  return () => window.removeEventListener("beforeunload", unloadCallback);
}, []);

Note: This will respond to anything that causes the page to unload though.
Note 2:

However note that not all browsers support this method, and some
instead require the event handler to implement one of two legacy
methods:

*

*assigning a string to the event's returnValue property

*returning a string from the event handler.

A: You can do this, almost, by checking if the page has been refreshed.
Source: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigation_timing_API
Example:
if (window.performance) {
  console.info("window.performance is supported");
  console.info(performance.navigation.type);

  if (performance.navigation.type == performance.navigation.TYPE_RELOAD) {
    console.info( "This page is reloaded" );
  } else {
    console.info( "This page is not reloaded");
  }
}


New York City is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world, which means that travelers have the opportunity to make a significant, positive impact by choosing their activities wisely. While it can be overwhelming to sift your way through the seemingly-unending options the city has to offer, the good news is that planning your itinerary can be simple if you know where to start. And that's where Visit.org comes in.
Visit.org is the world's leading platform for social impact travel experiences hosted by do-good orgs. They offer thousands of activities around the world, which reinvest 100% of the host revenue into a good cause. And in NYC, they have dozens of unique, immersive workshops and tours, which support everything from environmental conservation, to education, to fighting poverty, and more.
Volunteer at a Recycling Center: Visit the Sure We Can recycling center to learn about canners, recycling, composting, and the impact of consumerism on the environment. After, be a part of the org's pollution-fighting cause by helping to sort cans by material, brand, and size. You'll also have a chance to learn about and participate in composting!
Make Cocktails for a Cause: Not your average cocktail-making class, this workshop led by social enterprise restaurant PS Kitchen will not only teach you how to make traditional cocktails and their history — but revenue from the experience also goes to a great cause. The org donates all profits to charity and employs 25% of its staff through those same charities. This means your visit helps break the cycle of poverty by providing marginalized New Yorkers with a sustainable livelihood.
Take a Holistic Cooking Class: Fun for those new to the kitchen as well as seasoned veterans, this cooking class teaches you how to make tasty, healthy food based on the Ayurveda tradition. Ayurveda is an ancient holistic medicinal approach that emphasizes balance. Not only will you learn a new form of cooking, but you will also help support the host org's cause to make holistic educational and social programming accessible to everyone.
Discover NYC Off the Beaten Path: Experience Alphabet City like never before! On this unique historical tour, you will learn about the East Village's radical roots. On top of supporting the host org's mission to reclaim urban spaces with greenery, you will get to visit and learn about legendary sites where the community faced off against gentrification and financial power. These include the park where both the Hare Krishna movement and Occupy Wall Street were born, Christodora House, Tompkins Square Park, and more. Custom tours are also available!
For even more NYC activities that give back to the community, check out Visit.org's New York page.


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Home Perspectives The Israelisation of America's war
The Israelisation of America's war
Marwan Bishara
In the wake of UN Security Council resolution 1402, which demanded Israeli withdrawal, US President George W Bush told Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to pull the Israeli army from recently occupied Palestinian territories — immediately. When Sharon paid no heed, US Secretary of State Colin Powell acted — not to change the situation on the ground, but to change the administration's rhetoric. He switched from demanding Israeli withdrawal to merely offering to negotiate such a withdrawal with President Arafat on Sharon's behalf. In so doing, Powell diminished his chances for manoeuvre and ensured his mission's utter failure from the very beginning.
For those of us in the rest of the world, Israel's war in the territories seems to be putting an international damp on America's war on terrorism. Not so in Washington.
Israel's failure to finish its war in Palestine in a clean and sterile fashion, leading instead to hundreds more dead and thousands injured, has forced the Bush administration back to the region to calm mounting European, Arab and international pressure. But after receiving this international quartet's support for his mission, Powell did anything but enforce the planned "immediate withdrawal" from recently occupied territories, let alone from previously occupied ones.
Israel, America's junior ally, said no to Powell's demands. Israel has, however, answered in the affirmative to Rumsfeld. The US Defence Secretary's alternative rhetoric, of "fighting terrorism," was heeded enthusiastically by Sharon.
Since 11 September, Washington's diplomacy has been defined by increasingly conservative politics and new regional strategy in the context of the war on terrorism and its "axes of evil." Violations of Palestinian human rights do not figure high on such agenda, but these violations are causing a regional and international uproar that is affecting the wider American strategy in the region, especially regarding Iraq. So why is it that everyone seems concerned about Powell's failure except the Bush administration itself?
The large degree of the Israelisation of America and the Americanisation of Israel in recent years — particularly since 11 September — went far beyond most observers' expectations. As the two countries' cultural affinity and military alliance converged to new strategic cult, the nightmare scenario is unravelling as the re-invasion of Palestine.
American diplomacy is defined by local politics and strategic goals. Successful Israeli lobby pressure on the administration through both houses of Congress has helped paralyse American mediation. The alliance between the fundamentalist (and at times Christian) Right and the hawkish Zionist trend has dominated Washington's politics since 11 September. Following the latest round of visits by the leaders of all these propaganda power houses in Washington to the White House, Bush's spokesman went so far as to declare Sharon as a man of peace! (Even in Israel itself, not even hawkish Israelis would go as far as associating Sharon directly with peace.)
More importantly, Secretary Rumsfeld and his powerful companions at the Pentagon and in the National Security Council, including Condaleezza Rice, do not care for diplomacy in the Middle East or even in the context of their own "war on terrorism." They see Sharon's war in the West Bank, dirty as it is, as a continuation of their own war on terrorism. The White House would like to see tranquillity in the eastern Mediterranean region, preferably by Israeli force or, if necessary, by American diplomacy. Note: they seek tranquillity, not peace or justice. A mere long term cease-fire is satisfactory for both Sharon and Washington for the time being.
Meanwhile, the Bush administration is keeping its eyes on Iraq and on finishing up the last touches on a new doctrine that will deal with all new threats facing America in the new century. This last point has been the focus of American policy in the region and around the world.
Before 11 September, the Pentagon had already defined America's new enemy as "asymmetrical." It was seen as mobile, trans-national, or sub-national. But now that the curtains have closed on the 20th century and its Cold-hot wars, a whole new era of asymmetric conflicts has begun in New York/Afghanistan and Israel/ Palestine, according to US military experts.
The last symmetrical war took place against the Iraqi army in Kuwait and Iraq. Today, regardless of the vast differences between the Taliban and Al-Qa'eda in Afghanistan and the PLO and Hamas in Palestine, the new generation of military experts in the United States are watching the convergence between the US and Israel military outlooks and doctrines in confronting their enemies. In the media both are referred to as the "war against terrorism," and in the Pentagon and military establishment both are part of the "era of asymmetric conflicts." So decision-makers in Washington are not making any distinction between the acts and the actors.
The asymmetric war scenario is one that certain American strategists have warned against in the last decade. When it came, it hit where it hurt most, the pride of America's might, the Pentagon and Wall Street. Now, as Washington tries to adapt to an evolving, globalised world, it has also been introducing a revolution in military affairs (RMA).
There were two distinct concepts in asymmetric conflict theory. The first was fourth generation warfare, stateless or asymmetric, to be fought by an opponent who might have a non-nation-state base, such as an ideology or religion. In February 2001, standing before a Senate committee on world threats, CIA director George Tenet said what struck him most forcefully was the accelerating pace of change in so many arenas that affect US national interests. To the US, asymmetry means Osama Bin Laden and other international terrorists, Mafiosi and drug dealers. But the idea also covers other non- state actors like those the US has already encountered in Somalia, Kosovo, Colombia and Lebanon in 1983, when a bomb killed 239 US Marines.
Those analysts who think the future will be asymmetrical propose a rethink of the usefulness of billion-dollar fighter planes and advanced frigates if two men and a boat could kill 17 men and damage the USS Cole ( as happened on 12 October 2000 in Aden).
The second concept has been the anti- missile defence shield, or "son of Star Wars," to protect America from incoming ballistic missiles carrying chemical, biological or nuclear weapons. The Bush administration, with Vice-President Dick Cheney and Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, has concentrated its efforts on this project — which, of course, has the added merit of subsidising the military- industrial complex. There was international condemnation of this return to policies of proliferation, so Bush explained that his shield was not intended against other nuclear powers, but against rogue states or, worse, groups capable of launching missiles against American soil or interests abroad.
Asymmetry must be distinguished from di-symmetry, which means a quantitative difference in firepower and force, a strong state against a weak one (such as the US against Iraq). The Pentagon says their mighty response is justified because the new enemies don't fight fair; their strategy, based in a globalised world, uses all possible sophisticated modern means: communication, transportation, information, psychological terror, international media and the Internet.
If you put together all the characteristics that the American strategists attribute to the new model asymmetric enemy, they really add up to a profile of Osama Bin Laden — who is, paradoxically, an ex-ally of theirs. If he didn't exist, of course, it would be necessary to invent him. As we all now know, he was groomed by the CIA in the 1980s, only to turn against his creators after the Gulf war.
What about the rogue or failed states? The US intervention in Somalia taught the US a hard lesson. When, in October 1993, Hussein Adeed humiliated the US, killing 17 American soldiers, the Clinton administration became convinced that it could not manage, let alone win, a war against militias not accountable to the conventions of a state.
Operation Just Cause in Panama in December 1989 was also an asymmetric war, even though it was the largest American operation since Vietnam. The same methods used by America around the convent where Noriega took refuge in order to force him to surrender are being used, as I write these words, in Bethlehem against Palestinians who took refuge in the Church of the Nativity.
Washington's new apparent target is non other than Saddam Hussein. The US PR machine is learning a lot from Arab reaction to what's happening in Palestine today in preparation for conducting its war to topple Saddam. If a new chaos emerged in Baghdad, the war around Ramallah and other Palestinian cities could also be a good information gathering ground for how to contain people or opposition in Iraq.
Learning from Israeli strategies against a "new" enemy has centred on the need for a new type of precision weaponry designed for maximum deadliness. Intelligence services must be reinforced with software reconnaissance and satellite spies, and also human spies.
Police work, including racial profiling, is recommended. The strategists want to spy on potential sources of support for the new enemy, including NGOs and charities, expatriate communities and Internet sites. (A US senator complained recently that the CIA was replacing the State Department in diplomacy). Today, Israel is teaching America new tactics to deal with these
threats. Itself, it is using them against a people under military occupation.
The US has also been working with Israel for a long time on Research and Development (R&D) projects including the Arrow anti-missile missile. Israel's fighting style, especially in the West Bank and Gaza, is of special interest to US experts, who detect asymmetry in Israel's wars.
Under the headline "How to Fight an Asymmetric War," General Wesley Clark, commander of NATO's forces in Kosovo, explained to Time magazine on 23 October 2000, only few days after the present Intifada broke out, that the Palestinians inside Israel (he had obviously not realised that the West Bank and Gaza are not in Israel) had learned how to resist Israel's non-lethal force. It was a tactic aimed at exploiting world sensitivities and forcing Israeli security forces to overreact.
"Occasionally non-lethal force was supplemented with armed men among the rock throwers or terror bombings. Responding with fighter planes, tanks and artillery was impossible; responding with troops on the ground risked casualties. No society is more reluctant than Israel to accept losses, so the country developed new equipment, forces and tactics. To secure its borders, Israel deployed more heavily armoured tanks and troop-carrying vehicles and procured Apache helicopters, unmanned aerial vehicles and very long- range optics. To protect itself internally, Israel issued its infantrymen with plastic bullets and riot-control gear. Special security forces were organised to help relieve the conventional Israeli units of responsibility for keeping order," said Clark.
Clark's admiration for Israel's skills is deeply worrying: this policy has led to perhaps 2000 Palestinian dead, and tens of thousands injured. And in the absence of an Israeli political or diplomatic option, other than Sharon's stalling for time like his mentor Yitzak Shamir, Israel's excessive use of force has not improved its security situation.
Anthony Cordesman, a leading defence analyst at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, suggested that Israel was forcing the Palestinian Authority to suppress Palestinians and curb democratic freedoms to attain stability. When the Intifada continued, he said, the Palestinians
had two options: "peace with violence" or war. Cordesman described a situation in which Israel would do the dirty work both for the PA and against it.
That is also asymmetric warfare. It means more social control, more assassinations and crippling of the economy. That's what happened in the last several weeks and months in Jenin as well as in Bethlehem and other towns and camps.
Listening to President Bush and Defence Secretary Rumsfeld, the US strategy might be heading towards Israeli-style asymmetric warfare, even though it failed in Palestine. This choice would be nothing short of a catastrophe.
The world's grey areas created by war, globalisation and impoverishment, are now seen as danger zones. Public institutions and development and democracy are more necessary in grey areas than are military interventions. Like in Palestine, independence and freedom from military occupation through political negotiations are the best — and perhaps the only — way out.
The new asymmetric enemy cannot be beaten by force, even less by technology, without a political project. In Palestine, the newly designated enemy is the Palestinian people with all their political organisations and most of their NGOs. In other words, Israel's new enemy is Palestinian civil society and its social and economic infrastructure. If this is the new conflict and the style of the new war, everybody must run for shelter. This is the new "permanent war" of the 21st century and no one is safe.
Marwan Bishara is a journalist and author.
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At TypeMetal's core is an innovative new editing engine, a year and a half in the making. Built atop WebKit's heavily field-tested parsing, layout, and rendering foundation, TypeMetal's editing functionality provides a suite of precise, fully undoable operations designed to work intuitively and give you full control down to the last element and character. Most remarkable of all, TypeMetal provides this degree of control while you work with fully rendered pages, not with HTML markup.
Developing TypeMetal has been a labor of love — a much-enjoyed challenge of building an app that I couldn't wait to use myself — and I'm thrilled to finally be able to release it to the world for others to use and enjoy.
In addition to the summary and 60-second intro video on the product page, you can browse TypeMetal's entire User Guide — the same in-app Help that comes with TypeMetal — online. One of the best parts of this project has been getting to write TypeMetal's User Guide … using TypeMetal!
Now that the wraps are off, I'll be posting here more often — offering tips and bits of conceptual background that will help you get to know TypeMetal and its capabilities, and learn how to leverage them to greatest advantage. I've also added a public support forum to the site. It's the place to go to get questions answered, report surprises, and send us feedback. And for quick questions, you can also reach us on Twitter @CoherenceLabs.
I truly hope TypeMetal will delight people. I'll be spending the next few weeks making sure its pioneering first users are happy with their purchase and any serious issues that arise get resolved quickly. From there out, I have many more great improvements in mind for the future. I am absolutely dedicated to making TypeMetal the best it can be, and an app people enjoy using. Stay tuned to our RSS feed — there's more to come soon!
Among TypeMetal's many noteworthy features, I'm especially proud of one of the most visible — its stunningly beautiful app and snippet set icons, which were designed by the extraordinarily talented artists at Ramotion.
For TypeMetal's app icon, I wanted to clearly convey its identity as an HTML editor, and more broadly as a writing tool, while also making clear that TypeMetal was designed for the Mac from the ground up. I'm delighted by the way the end result achieves that with elegant simplicity, while looking right at home on OS X.
Snippet sets are a key feature of TypeMetal, and I wanted them to get first-class treatment too. The icon for this file type needed to convey a sense of fun as well as utility. I wanted to give the feeling of a kit of parts from which to build things — something one would find a bit of delight in downloading, opening, exploring, and using to make neat stuff. The box-of-brackets metaphor that Ramotion came up with does so beautifully.
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An organist, a saxophonist and a drummer – the classic organ trio has been arousing special expectations to Jazz listeners since the glory days of Jimmy Smith, Groove Holmes and the McDuffs and McGriffs. The organist can spread out, the saxophonist can follow him and the drummer swings and provides the groove "in the pocket".
With their album "B-3 Vol.1" the Hanoverian Lutz "Hammond" Krajenski aka krajenski. on the B-3 organ, Ben Kraef from Berlin on the saxophone and Peter Gall from southern Germany on the drums break new ground even if the old path of the Hammond-infected Blue Note refinement always remains in view.
Kraef-Krajenski-Gall do their thing and that very consistently. They play with the different readings of the format with reflections from Jimmy Smith to Larry Young. They play with expectations and play around clichés with sophisticated twists and tongue-clicking rhythmic and harmonic treasures.
We owe this resurrection of the classic format "Hammondtrio" to three musicians who are gliding to revitalize jazz history. Lutz "Hammond" Krajenski – It is no coincidence that it has been nicknamed "Hammond" since the first career steps. His organ collection now includes 15 instruments; ascending trend. Not only is he a brilliant instrumentalist, he also made a name for himself as an arranger for his own big band as well as for other ensembles and artists. Clients included musicians such as Tom Jones, Randy Crwaford, Mousse T., Ulrich Tukur, Sarah Connor and Inga Rumpf. Krajenski became known to a wide audience primarily as an arranger, pianist and musical director for Roger Cicero.
His two fellow musicians on "B-3 Vol. 1" both studied in New York and belong to the crème de la crème of the German Jazz scene. The award-winning Berlin saxophonist Ben Kraef has played with greats such as Lalo Schiffrin, Archie Shepp, Phil Woods and John Abercrombie. His debut album "Berlin-New York" was released in 2010 by Act (with sidemen John Patitucci, Marcus Gilmore and Rainer Boehm). Drummer Peter Gall, on the other hand, has already shone alongside luminaries such as the Kurt Rosenwinkel Trio, the NDR Big Band, The New York Voices, Take 6, Web Web, Thomas Quasthoff, Nils Landgren, Max Herre, Joy Denalane and the Dieter Ilg Trio.
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There were a lot of negatives associated with the "Dual" sword skill, and they created problems that would arise during combat. This made Han Sen realize that creating a sword skill was no easy task.
But Han Sen had no other choice. Any new sword skill creation required vigorous combat testing, so he had to be patient and make a note of every flaw he noticed during battle, in order to rectify and improve later.
If there were any mistakes, he was free to make changes now, but if a problem arose during a real field of battle, the price for such a mistake would be paid in his own blood. Knowing this, Han Sen was in no rush.
Han Sen continued to improve over time as he tried to perfect the dual-blade sword skill. Today Han Sen had visited the shelter again. Li Xing Lun was there and found him, wearing a strange facial expression.
"Han Sen, I found a Humanoid sacred-blood fused transfigured beast soul." Li Xing Lun's tone of voice was also somewhat strange.
"Is its owner willing to trade?" Han Sen asked.
Li Xing Lun did not answer directly, instead saying, "Earlier, I sent out word that a friend was willing to swap a Berserk beast soul for a Humanoid beast soul. Although many people wanted to trade, and many people called me, Humanoid transfigured beast souls were too rare and no-one was willing or able to make a trade like that."
Li Xing Lun paused for a moment, then continued. "Yesterday, Blackgod contacted me. He said he wanted to use an Egregore soul to trade for your Berserk beast soul.
"Does he really have an Egregore soul?" Han Sen asked.
"Yes, I looked. It is a sacred-blood class Snow-Lady beast soul. The abilities of the Snow-Lady beast soul are quite special. It does not increase one's strength, just one's speed. It also has the ability to reduce one's temperature, but that seems rather useless to me. It would most likely just become a problem. I don't think it's worth trading a Berserk beast soul for a Snow-Lady beast soul. Plus, you had argued with Blackgod before," Li Xing Lun said severely.
"Did you say that it was me who wanted to trade?" Han Sen asked.
"No, I only said that it was a friend." Li Xing Lun shook his head as he spoke.
Han Sen thought for a moment about what to say, then said, "That's okay - feel free to tell him it's me who wants to trade. If he is willing, tell him to come here so we can complete the transaction."
Speed was what Han Sen needed most right now. The strongest aspect of the Twin Spirit's power was their speed. If he was able to match with their speed and break their sword skill, the battle would be much easier.
And combined with the beast soul's ability to lower the body's temperature, for Han Sen, there was an absence of negatives. The "Ice Skin" skill worked even better in a cold environment, so not only was it of no detriment to Han Sen, it was an outright benefit.
For others, this would have been a debilitating attribute, but Han Sen would be glad to receive it.
Besides, to find a Humanoid sacred-blood beast soul was extremely difficult in the ice fields. It was good to be able to trade a Snow-Lady beast soul, which was not too far from a Humanoid beast soul. Han Sen was satisfied at the proposal of this trade.
"You really want to make this trade with Blackgod?" Li Xing Lun asked. "You really have to consider this well. If you trade your Berserk beast soul with Blackgod, he may use it against you in the future."
Han Sen laughed. "Thank you for your concern," he said. "If I am willing to trade this with him, of course I am not afraid of his ownership of the beast soul."
"Okay, then. Did you bring the beast soul? Tell me about your situation and I will talk to Blackgod," Li Xing Lun smiled.
In the past few days, Han Sen had already raised the Inferno Bull into a Berserk beast soul. When he summoned it, it combined with his body to become a black-winged bull.
He told the specific attributes of the Inferno Bull to Li Xing Lun, all the while muttering, "It's a shame". A beast soul that was able to greatly increase one's strength and which provided the ability of flight was much stronger than the Snow-Lady of Blackgod; one which appeared to be inherently flawed.
The Snow-Lady beast soul, aside from being Humanoid and providing a passable speed boost, did not appear to be anything special. The ability to lower one's own temperature seemed pointless and stupid.
But Han Sen insisted on making the trade, so Li Xing Lun went off to talk with Blackgod.
Han Sen waited a day. On the second day he went to the shelter. Li Xing Lun was there and he had already spoken to Blackgod. Aside from the Snow-Lady, Li Xing Lun had managed to bargain for an additional two Mutant beast souls.
"Thank you, Brother Lun. But for those two Mutant beast souls, we should share them. Let's take one each." Han Sen said.
But Li Xing Lun did not want any, no matter what. He only told Han Sen that after the saving of the Starwheel Shelter, it was an honor to help.
It was time to trade with Blackgod. Blackgod had brought people with him to the Starwheel Shelter. He noticed that Han Sen's eyes were a little cold, but of this he made no mention.
After they both observed the beast souls they were to receive, they handed their own over to Li Xing Lun. Then Li Xing Lun completed the trade by handing the beast souls over to their new owners. The transaction was smooth and without incident.
Han Sen received the two Mutant beast souls and Snow-Lady beast soul. He looked them over to ensure no mistakes had been made, and while he was getting ready to bid Li Xing Lun farewell, Blackgod called to him.
Blackgod looked at Han Sen with disdain, and coldly said, "Han Sen, you dare gamble with me? Perhaps now we can settle our grudge."
"What do you want?" Han Sen furrowed his eyebrows in response.
"You and I engage in battle. Regardless of who wins or loses, our grudge can be settled." Blackgod looked at Han Sen and continued, "Of course, if you do lose, you must leave behind the Snow-Lady beast soul. If I lose, however, I can leave behind the Inferno Bull beast soul."
Li Xing Lun frowned and said, "Blackgod, we only want to exchange beast souls on this day. Nothing else."
"I am merely suggesting a solution to our grudge. It is entirely up to him if he wants to partake in my idea. If he does not dare to engage me in battle, that is fine," Blackgod said sternly.
"What if I do not wish to gamble?" Han Sen looked at Blackgod as he asked.
"If you do not wish to settle our prolonged dispute, then you will become my enemy. And I do not go soft on those I deem to be my enemy."
The few people who had accompanied Blackgod now summoned their beast souls.
"Blackgod, this is the Starwheel Shelter. This is not Blackgod Shelter." Li Xing Lun's eyes went cold, and he summoned a few leaders from the Starwheel Shelter to push back against Blackgod's people.
"Li Xing Lun, this is about me and Han Sen. This is none of your business." Blackgod furrowed his brow.
"I am the notary of the exchange; I do not care for your grudge with Han Sen, but in my Starwheel Shelter, none can lay a finger on him." Li Xing Lun's eyes were firm, hesitation and the desire to hold back entirely absent from them.
"Li Xing Lun, do you really want to offend me on the behalf of a person who doesn't even matter?" Blackgod looked at Li Xing Lun sternly.
"Han Sen saved me when the Starwheel Shelter was in crisis. He is my savior; no one can do him any harm before me." Li Xing Lun said these words directly.
Blackgod's emotion began to change, the atmosphere inside the Shelter growing tense. It was like a room that was packed to the brim with explosives, where the presence of a single spark would be enough to ignite the volatile atmosphere.
"It is okay to have a one-on-one, but the beast souls that we gamble must be held onto by Li Xing Lun." Han Sen said all of a sudden.
"That is no problem." Blackgod agreed to the terms, as he knew all about Li Xing Lun's identity. He knew he was not the sort to accept the beast souls and make a run for it.
There was also the fact that Blackgod's purpose there was not merely to win a beast soul - he wanted Han Sen's life.
Han Sen had stolen the Snake Fish King in the past and used a poison dagger to hurt him. This had almost taken Blackgod's life, and was the cause of the anger that he could never find it in himself to swallow.


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Who knew that Harlem rapper A$AP Rocky did his Bajan culinary homework before flippin' his verse on Rihanna's "Cockiness" remix?
Whether you've been to Barbados a few times, or are heading down for the first time with us this November—leaving the island without eating it's national dish of flying fish and cou-cou, is a bit of a crime. Because none of our contacts are able to agree on who makes the best (since they all think they, or their mom, does), we found the best recipe so that you can recreate the dish anytime you want via The Food Network. After shooting the link around, this recipe has been Bajan tested and approved, but you're on your own when it comes to finding a cou-cou stick but a wooden spoon may just do the trick.
note: Flying Fish, while awesome, is pretty much only found in and around Barbados so unless your local fish mongers imports, Tilapia is a good substitute.
Combine the water, okra, red pepper, salt, and hot sauce in a large saucepan. Bring to a boil and cook, stirring, until very thick.
Transfer half of the okra mixture to a bowl.
Add 2 tablespoons of the butter to the okra mixture in the saucepan, and reduce the heat to low. While stirring the mixture with a wooden spoon, sprinkle in the cornmeal a little at a time, and cook until thick.
Add the remaining okra mixture and 2 tablespoons butter and stir until smooth. Cover to keep warm.
Rub the flesh side of the fish with the Bajan seasoning and lime juice, and season with the salt, to taste. Roll each fish up tightly and secure with a toothpick.
Heat the butter in a large skillet with a tight-fitting lid, over medium heat. Add the onion, garlic, celery, and bay leaf and cook, stirring, until soft. Add the catsup, curry, mustard, and sugar and stir.
Add the water, stir to combine, and bring to a simmer.
Arrange the rolled fish in the skillet and cover with the bell peppers, tomato, herbs, and hot sauce. Cover and simmer until the fish is just cooked through, about 10 minutes. Season with salt, to taste.


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"Do we ask their names before we shoot them?" he inquired.
For her to inquire about the man so shamelessly bespoke a depth of attachment that Dish could barely imagine.
It was not likely she would ever inquire at all about him, even if he stepped out the door and vanished for a year.
Augustus's blue pigs had been purchased from the Raineys and were the first thing Maude thought to inquire about when Call rode up.
Tobe inquired after Jake, and they carefully refrained from mentioning that he was on the run from the law.
Roscoe attempted to inquire about July, but the soldiers made it clear that they had better things to do than keep a lookout for Arkansas sheriffs.
He was careful not to give his feelings away though—he never inquired about the herds, and if the subject of Call and McCrae came up he made it plain that he harbored a grudge against them and would not be sorry to see them come to grief.
He rode halfway out of town and then went back to the third saloon from the post office and inquired about the woman named Jennie.
He inquired for her at the bar, and the bartender, a skinny runt, said she was busy and asked if he wanted a whiskey.
"Yeah, but do you just ask?" he inquired.
There are no more uses of "inquire" in Lonesome Dove.