Here´s one more making of picture from the new "Lulu dress". If you have any questions about the dresses you can send me email: you.love.dresses@gmail.com.
Sometimes when I´m having a block and I just don´t know what to do with the dress I´ll start playing with the fabric. I know It might sound a bit funny.. but it usually helps me. I can easily just open my mind for new ideas with this method.


there was still some rabidly anti HA sentiment as recently as the '70's. I'm not talking about random indivduals who may have had bad experiences with HA, but the group mindset as a whole. But twenty years ago, heck even 30 years ago HAs were accepted. They were used at Schools for the Deaf, and even people who Sign, used them. Why are some extreme schools of thought making up extreme claims like hearing aids weren't accepted in the Deaf community?
There will always be people like that. But also, the parent may have misunderstood something. At any rate, why would anyone listen to something that may or may not have existed TWENTY years ago. There is no need to discuss outdated ideals and fuel a fire here.
And.. yes there were quite a few D/deaf at Gallaudet 30-35 years ago who were no fans of hearing aids at all. Many refused to wear them; had one friend who grew up oral...came to Gallaudet and pretty much refused to wear her aids again; they eventually went back to hearing aids as time went on and after leaving Gally. Doesn't surprise me that there'd be continuing opposition 15-20 years ago.
There's always going to be a small group who will be anti_____. Currently it's the CI but that seems to be slowly changing now.
And... why would anyone listen to some extreme schools of thought making up extreme claims like hearing aids weren't accepted in the Deaf community?
30 years ago HA's would squeal and squeal. In the middle of class. It may not sound like much now, but boy, did they know we had them then.
LOL!!! Oh yes I remember that!!!!


Not to be confused with Fairgrounds Park in Hagerstown, Maryland, US.
Fairground Park is a municipal park that opened in 1908 in St. Louis, Missouri. It was originally a privately owned facility, first used by the St. Louis Agricultural and Mechanical Association for the St. Louis Exposition from 1856 through 1902. However, the Civil War interrupted the annual fair when the Fairgrounds were used as a Union encampment known as Benton Barracks. The annual exposition ceased in 1902 as preparations for the 1904 World's Fair began.
The Fairgrounds originated in 1856 with the St. Louis Agricultural and Mechanical Association. In the early 1880s, the association fell upon hard times and was replaced with the St. Louis Fair and Jockey Club.
In 1901, Cap Tilles, Sam W. Adler, and Louis A. Cella, the principal owners of Delmar Racing Track, purchased the St. Louis Fairgrounds. Since 1892, the partnership had been purchasing race tracks across the St. Louis area, with Delmar Track becoming the main competitor to the St. Louis Fair and Jockey Club. By the turn of the century, the competition won out, with Tilles becoming President of the new association.
However, the revival of the Fairgrounds suffered another blow with the abolition of gambling on horse racing in Missouri in June 1905. Governor Joseph W. Folk was elected in 1904, running as an anti-gambling, progressive reformer. Folk signed the Anti-Breeders Act, directly leading to the permanent closure of the St. Louis Fairground Track.
In 1908, after protracted political debate, the abandoned 132-acre (0.53 km2) fairground was purchased from the association for park use by St. Louis for $700,000. The park was dedicated on October 9, 1909.
All of the former fair structures and zoo buildings were removed except the bear pits of the old zoo and the amphitheater. In 1912, the amphitheater was removed and replaced by the city's first municipal swimming pool, then said to be the world's largest. It was at this pool that Fairground Park riot occurred, which was a race riot that occurred in 1949 when the pool integrated African-Americans with Caucasian-Americans. The original pool was replaced by a new pool in 1958 as part of the 1955 bond issue program, which also provided lighted ball diamonds and hardsurface tennis courts.
At the corner of Grand Boulevard and Natural Bridge Avenue, the facade of the old bear pits still stands at the park's main entrance.
Fairground Park is located in North St. Louis. It is bordered by Grand Boulevard to the east, Natural Bridge Avenue on the south, Fair Street to the west, and Kossuth Street to the north.
The park is surrounded by four neighborhoods. They are Fairground to the northeast, O'Fallon to the northwest, Greater Ville to the southwest, and Vandeventer to the southeast.
^ Williams, Scott K. "Benton Barracks, Missouri". Archived from the original on November 3, 2012. Retrieved December 21, 2012.
^ a b c St. Louis Republic. "Fair Grounds to be Sold to Syndicate", March 15, 1901, Front Page. Retrieved Dec. 8, 2013.
^ "St. Louis Parks-Fairground Park". City of St. Louis. Retrieved December 21, 2012.
^ Carver 2002, p. 178.
^ The New York Times. "Folk Offers Soldiers To Stop Track Betting", June 19, 1905, p. 2. Retrieved Dec. 8, 2013.
^ The Washington Post. "Delmar Races Under New Law", March 18, 1901, p. 4. Retrieved Dec. 8, 2013.
^ Carver 2002, p. 179.
^ "Fairground Park - City of St. Louis Parks". City of St. Louis, MO: Official Website. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
^ University of Missouri—St. Louis. "St. Louis Bond Issue 1955 Voting Totals Election of May 26, 1955 (Special Election)". League of Women Voters Collection, Western Historic Manuscripts. Retrieved Dec. 8, 2013.
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Q: ARD Kernel - explanation The following text discusses that the ARD kernel is a regular gaussian kernel but one where $\Sigma$ is diagnonal and one where the $\sigma$'s go to infinity. It seems that the $\kappa$(x,x') would simply be 1 in that case? why would this be a useful kernel?

A: An ARD Kernel simply expresses each dimension as being independent from the others. As such $\Sigma$ is diagonal. They are not saying that $\sigma_j$ is $\infty$ they are simply saying that is that was the case then the $j^{th}$ dimension would be ignored. If every dimension was ignored then the kernel would be a constant as you suggest but this is a trivial case and you are right it would not be useful. If, however, there is a dimension that has useful information then you would optimise for $\sigma_j$ and find that it simply scales that dimension appropriately.

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Dish shares climb after analyst declares 'an opportune time to buy'
Published Mon, Aug 26 201910:44 AM EDT Updated Mon, Aug 26 20194:01 PM EDT
Jesse Pound@jesserpound
Dish rises after Raymond James upgraded the company to strong buy from market perform.
"We think it is an opportune time to buy DISH with the ... merger saga hopefully wrapping up in the next 6 months, and the ramping of 5G network deployments by U.S. carriers needing multiple spectrum bands," the analysts say.
As part of the merger agreement for T-Mobile and Sprint approved by the Department of Justice, Dish is set to buy prepaid mobile business assets and additional spectrum to become a wireless carrier.
A Dish Network Corp. field service specialist installs a satellite television system at a residence in Downey, California.
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Dish rose 3.9% on Monday after Raymond James upgraded the company to a strong buy, saying the stock is undervalued even if the proposed additions from the T-Mobile-Sprint merger don't materialize.
As part of the merger agreement for T-Mobile and Sprint approved by the Department of Justice, Dish is set to buy prepaid mobile business assets and additional spectrum to become a wireless carrier. The merger still faces a lawsuit from states.
Raymond James analysts Ric Prentiss and Chase Donovan estimated that there is a 15% chance Dish is forced to continue business as usual, but that its existing wireless spectrum assets and television business still warrant a higher stock price.
The analysts said there is a stronger chance that the lawsuit from the states results in additional benefits for the company.
"We think it is an opportune time to buy DISH with the ... merger saga hopefully wrapping up in the next 6 months, and the ramping of 5G network deployments by U.S. carriers needing multiple spectrum bands," the analysts wrote in a client note on Monday morning.
Dish, which has seen its television subscriber base shrink as cord-cutting has gained popularity, has been buying spectrum in recent years for a potential move into the wireless space.
The analysts upgraded the company from market perform and set a price target of $44 per share for the stock, more than 30% above where it opened on Monday morning. Shares of Dish are up more than 28% this year but are well below highs of $44.66 per share reached in July.
Not every analyst shares the Raymond James' view. MoffettNathanson downgraded Dish last month following the merger agreement.
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Q: C# Read stdout of child process asynchronously I am working with C# and having trouble understanding how to read stdout asynchronously from a child process. What I want to do is create a child process that executes an application and then present whatever is received from that process' stdout in a textbox. I need to see every output character from the child process immediately and can not wait for a line to complete, therefore I don't think that the Process.OutputDataReceived event suits my purpose. Can you tell me a sane way to accomplish this?
I have tried calling Process.StandardOutput.BaseStream.BeginRead() and passing a call-back function to it, but in this call-back function I receive an exception from Process.StandardOutput.BaseStream.EndRead().
My code looks like this (the child process is a script engine - abbreviated "SE" - for verifying the functionality of an external device. Scripts are executed in sequence and each script requires one instance of the SE application)
private bool startScript()
{
  // Starts the currently indexed script

  if (null != scriptList)
  {

    if (0 == scriptList.Count || scriptListIndexer == scriptList.Count)
    {
      // If indexer equals list count then there are no active scripts in
      // the list or the last active script in the list has just finished
      return false;                              // ## RETURN ##
    }
    if (ScriptExecutionState.RUNNING == scriptList[scriptListIndexer].executionState)
    {
      return false;                              // ## RETURN ##
    }

    if (0 == SE_Path.Length)
    {
      return false;                              // ## RETURN ##
    }

    SE_Process = new Process();
    SE_Process.StartInfo.FileName = SE_Path;
    SE_Process.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
    SE_Process.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
    SE_Process.StartInfo.RedirectStandardError = true;
    SE_Process.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
    SE_Process.EnableRaisingEvents = true;
    SE_Process.StartInfo.Arguments = scriptList[scriptListIndexer].getParameterString();

    // Subscribe to process exit event
    SE_Process.Exited += new EventHandler(SE_Process_Exited);

    try
    {
      if (SE_Process.Start())
      {
        // Do stuff
      }
      else
      {
        // Do stuff
      }
    }
    catch (Exception exc)
    {
      // Do stuff
    }

    // Assign 'read_SE_StdOut()' as call-back for the event of stdout-data from SE
    SE_Process.StandardOutput.BaseStream.BeginRead(SE_StdOutBuffer, 0, SE_BUFFERSIZE, read_SE_StdOut, null);

    return true;                                       // ## RETURN ##

  }
  else
  {
    return false;                                      // ## RETURN ##
  }
}

private void read_SE_StdOut(IAsyncResult result)
{
  try
  {
    int bytesRead = SE_Process.StandardOutput.BaseStream.EndRead(result);  // <-- Throws exceptions

    if (0 != bytesRead)
    {
      // Write the received data in output textbox
      ...
    }

    // Reset the callback
    SE_Process.StandardOutput.BaseStream.BeginRead(SE_StdOutBuffer, 0, SE_BUFFERSIZE,     read_SE_StdOut, null);
  }
  catch (Exception exc)
  {
    // Do stuff
  }
}

void SE_Process_Exited(object sender, EventArgs e)
{

  // Keep track of whether or not the next script shall be started
  bool continueSession = false;

  switch (SE_Process.ExitCode)
  {
    case 0: // PASS
    {
      // Do stuff
    }

    ...

  }

  SE_Process.Dispose(); // TODO: Is it necessary to dispose of the process?

  if (continueSession)
  {
    ts_incrementScriptListIndexer();

    if (scriptListIndexer == scriptList.Count)
    {
      // Last script has finished, reset the indexer and re-enable
      // 'scriptListView'
      ...
    }
    else
    {
      if (!startScript())
      {
        // Do stuff
      }
    }
  }
  else
  {
    ts_resetScriptListIndexer();
    threadSafeEnableScriptListView();
  }
}

What happens is that after one SE process finishes I get an exception of type InvalidOperationException that says

StandardOut has not been redirected or
  the process hasn't started yet.

from the call to SE_Process.StandardOutput.BaseStream.EndRead(). I do not understand why because I have set SE_Process.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput before start of every new process. It appears to me as if the stdout stream of an exited process calls my read_SE_StdOut() function after the process has been disposed, is that possible?
Thank you for reading!

A: The exception you get is normal.  One BeginRead() call can never succeed: the last one, just after the process terminates.  You'd normally avoid calling BeginRead() again if you know the process is completed so you don't get the exception.  However, you'd rarely know.  Just catch the exception.  Or use BeginOutputReadLine() instead, it will catch it for you.
I'm guessing that you also redirect stderr and that the tool uses it to output "X".  There is no way to keep output on both stderr and stdout synchronized after it is buffered and redirected.


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Q: Rock Paper Scissor Game Replay Part Bug = Even answer No as "N" returns to start I wanted to break out of the game when the replay() answer is no as "N" but typing "Y" or "N" seems like it does not make any difference.This is my first post and sorry for any mistakes. I cant post the whole code for some reason
thanks
def replay():

    replay_answer = input("do you want to play again?: ")
    while replay_answer != "Y" and replay_answer != "N":
        input("do you want to play again?: ")
        if replay_answer == "Y":
            return True
        if replay_answer == "N":
            return False`enter code here`
        break

while True:

    wincheck()
    replay()

A: Why did you think this would act as you wish? You do nothing with the returned result of replay()...
Try this instead for the last loop:
while True:
    wincheck()
    if not replay():
        break

And as mentioned by @khelwood remove the first break:
def replay():
    while True:
        replay_answer = input("do you want to play again?: ")
        if replay_answer == "Y":
            return True
        if replay_answer == "N":
            return False

A: Try this:
def replay() -> bool:
    replay_answer = ""
    while True:
       replay_answer = input("do you want to play again?: ")
        if replay_answer == "Y":
            return True
        if replay_answer == "N":
            return False
while True:
    wincheck()
    if not replay():
        break


April 28, 2014 by Trisha P.
The following post was written by Trisha P. who blogs at Stuff I Love Blog and is part of POPSUGAR Select Beauty.
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My favorite shades of Spring range between soft pastels, which remind me of fresh flowers, and neons, which remind me of the bright, warm glow of the sun.
This Spring, I plan on wearing a multitude of shades that inspire me to get outdoors and enjoy some fresh air. So sit back, kick up your feet, and enjoy checking out these amazing nail polishes!


TONY VANETTI: Two big wins by both teams on last-second shots. Louisville does it on the road, Kentucky tussled with LSU and wins it in the end. You've got to be pretty proud of those young Wildcats.
MATT JONES: Well, it was a big win for Kentucky in the way that they won. They were supposed to win by more than that, but for some reason when they play LSU, the Tigers become one of the best teams in the country. But it's the first time I've seen smiles on those guy's faces in a long time. The jubilation from that last-second shot, I hope it carries over for them. I don't think it's going to be a huge turnaround, but seeing something positive happen for them could be good for them.
TONY VANETTI: There were two interesting things on Cal's radio show – and hey, congratulations, Cal showed up for his radio show. He saying he has seven Marquis Teagues, and if he can get them to play like Marquis Teague at the end of the 2012 season, then they'll be pretty good. Does that disturb you? It's February, and he's saying you still have seven Marquis Teagues on your team.
JONES: And I'm glad you're sad about Cal not doing the radio show, which is listened to by dozens of listeners across the state. And I say this with all the love and respect, because Calipari is my guy: there comes a point during the season that I just sort of tune him out, and we've kind of reached that point. I think he's said all that can be said, but part of being the UK coach is that you have to talk so much and have to basically say all the words in the dictionary at some point. I don't know what the seven Marquis Teagues means or doesn't mean. What I do think matters is he believes that this team can compete with anybody this year, and I agree with that. College basketball as a whole is not strong this year, so they have a shot. Same thing with Louisville this year. I think they have a shot. Nobody is great. Louisville has lots of weaknesses, but Kentucky has lots of weaknesses, but there's nobody that has no weaknesses, so why not Kentucky and why not Louisville?
VANETTI: Yes, poor Cal, he has to talk about his team more than other coaches have to talk about their teams. Come on.
JONES: It doesn't really matter. The only people who care about whether Cal does his radio show are people on radio. And while I'm on radio, the only person I want to hear on radio is myself, so it doesn't matter if Cal is there or not.
VANETTI: All right, well, Louisville and Kentucky both have four games left in the season, and in my opinion they'll both go 3-1. Louisville will lose to SMU on the road but will beat Connecticut, Temple and Memphis. I think you guys will run the table and lose at Florida.
JONES: I think that's a fair assessment. I think that Kentucky as 3-1 should be fine. I think you might have a slight concern with the South Carolina game because it's a Thursday-Saturday and then they go on the road. In general, those teams have bad records. But they should be alright. With Louisville, I think they are more likely to lose to Memphis on the road than SMU, but they played them okay last time and it really doesn't matter. But judging Louisville is impossible. I don't know how good these teams are that they play. I'm not sure how good SMU is. I don't think Cincinnati is all that great. But I like what I've seen from Louisville in terms of defense, because their defense is better and that's what you want to hang your hat on. And then you have Russ Smith. Because if you have Russ Smith you always have a chance, because you have someone who will take that last shot at the end, and that was a big win for them – even though I was pulling hard for Cincinnati.
VANETTI: I was excited for Calipari, because apparently one of his new initiatives is that he is assigning a bench player to cheer for a person on the court while they are playing on the court.
JONES: I like that, I think it's very smart.
JONES: Look, we do the same things at Clear Channel. I'm assigned to make sure that Dave Jennings gets up and feels good about himself everyday, Terry Meiners is assigned to make sure you don't put in too much hair gel each day. I like that, it's the buddy system. We look out for each other.
VANETTI: And my job is to referee you and then individually everybody else in the building.
JONES: But there's the thing about Cal. He's got to figure out a way to motivate a group of people that have had a tough year. And you have to figure out something, but if it works, it works. But let's not act like Rick Pitino has not done something stupid. That stupid beard he's grown – that looks like the type of beard that a 95-year-old man would grow if he tried. It's the most ridiculous thing of all time. You must agree, Tony?
VANETTI: Well, no, not yet. I think he's like a young teenager. He needs it to grow in. But right now he's incapable of growing one. But I've seen pictures of you, Mr. Bangs, and you've had some interesting looks. But it does look like from the outside looking in that Rick Pitino is having fun coaching this team, but I'm not sure Cal is having the time of his life with his.
JONES: Or it looks like Pitino is having a midlife crisis. He has the tattoo. Now he has the beard. All he needs is the sports car and the bald spot which he would have if he didn't have hair plugs.
VANETTI: So you're 36 and acting 26, so your mid-life crisis will come sometime when you're 60?
JONES: Well, let's be clear: 35 and I act 25, because that's what I'm supposed to do to make people happy. But back to what I was saying. Pitino's beard is kind of funny, and I kind of like it, and I can see if I was on that team I would think it's good. But a part of me wants them to keep on winning, just to see how bad it will look. Because the scra ggliness is the story of the year. And by the way: as Oscar Combs said, "A man whose hair is that dark should not be growing a beard that white." I think we finally have proof that the guy dyes his hair.


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15 Monday
Pope: Theology begins with sincere dialogue, not 'conquering spirit'
Paris archbishop hits back in first post-fire Mass in Notre Dame
Vatican official praises Catholic media for coverage of sex abuse crisis
More French Catholics officially renouncing their faith
Franco Zeffirelli, enigmatic Catholic director of operas and film, dies
Church fights changes to Hong Kong's extradition law
Manila tour promotes closer Muslim-Christian ties
Vietnamese Catholics share Jesus' love with the poor
Cardinal Tagle Asks Students not to Bully
Christians face more persecution in Modi's India
In a remarkably frank and detailed speech, the Vatican official heading the department charged with reviewing clergy sexual abuse allegations told an assembly of Catholic journalists on June 19 that his investigators and the press "share the same goal, which is the protection of minors, and we have the same wish to leave the world a little better than how we found it." Msgr John Kennedy, who since 2017 has headed the discipline section for the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, described the personal toll on the 17 people in his office as they have reviewed an ever-growing tide of cases involving clergy sexual abuse or related crimes.
"I can honestly tell you that, when reading cases involving sexual abuse by clerics, you never get used to it, and you can feel your heart and soul hurting," Msgr Kennedy said. "There are times when I am poring over cases that I want to get up and scream, that I want to pack up my things and leave the office and not come back."


The fundamental duties were added on the recommendation of Swaran Singh Committee in the year 1976. This committee recommended for the inclusion of 8 fundamental duties, the amendment included 10 fundamental duties. The 10 Fundamental Duties were added to the Constitution in the year 1976 through 42nd amendment.
The Fundamental Duties are borrowed from erstwhile USSR (Russia). Now even Russia does not have them.
The 11th Fundamental Duty was added in the year 2002 through the 86th amendment of the Indian Constitution.
These duties are laid down in the Article 51A.
To promote harmony and the spirit of common brotherhood amongst all the people of India transcending religious, linguistic and regional or sectional diversities to renounce practices derogatory to the dignity of women.
To strive towards excellence in all spheres of individual and collective activity, so that the nation constantly rises to higher levels of and achievement.
Every parent or guardian is to provide opportunities for education to his/her child or ward between the age of 6 and 14.


Sami Al-Arian was targeted because he emerged as one of the most prominent and effective advocates for Palestinian rights that US officials had ever faced.
Four years ago, the US news media pronounced Iran's elections a fraud despite no hard evidence, and predicted a similar outcome again this year.
With compromise on Iranu2019s nuclear program within reach, Obama pulled back, fearing political fallout, resulting in a painful stalemate for the foreseeable future.


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Is Norway losing pride in the Nobel Peace Prize?
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t's interesting to use Google News to follow the press trail of a breaking story. I did just that with the recent news that there are 241 nominees for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize. Actually, I set out to trace the story back to the original Nobel Peace Prize Committee's press release – because there must have been a press release, right?
I can't find it. Perhaps the Peace Prize Committee make a verbal announcement which the news agencies pick up , but I'm surprised, 22 hours after the announcement that I still can't find the press release on the net.
I know it's about 22 hours since the announcement because Google very helpfully gives that information.
There, you see, 22 hours ago, the Associated Press (AP) broke the news internationally and KTUU in Alaska was the first to broadcast it.
My search was sparked off by seeing Swedish Radio International's report "Record number of Peace Prize nominees", which is about 19 hours old as I write. I was going to publish this link on Twitter (as I do from time to time) but thought it would be more fun to find the original English language announcement – or perhaps a report from Norway in English.
Well, as I say, I couldn't find the press release. Nor could I find anything in English from Norway. Unlike Swedish Radio, the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) doesn't offer an English language service, and none of the Internet-based English language news services from Norway that I've looked at (The Foreigner, The Norway Post, Norway News or News in English Norway) have anything yet to say. Still taken up with the Nordic Skiing Championships.
But in Norwegian though? Not much. As far as I can see NRK is ignoring the Peace Prize Committee. In the on-line newspapers, though, there is more interest. The first article Google finds is from the Norsk Telegrambyrå (Norwegian News Agency, NTB) and published in the Trønder-Avisa newspaper (from 22 hours ago) "241 nominasjoner til Nobels fredspris".
Before this news, the most recent Norwegian reference to the Peace Prize committee is in Aftenposten, published on 28th February: "The Peace Prize Costs Norwegian Business Life Dearly" (my translation of "Fredsprisen koster norsk næringsliv dyrt").
Can that explain why the Peace Prize seems more interesting to people outside Norway?
The Nobel Peace Prize nomination process explained on the Nobel Organisation's homepage: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/nomination/
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Far Flung: An anthology of stories, articles and poems - published in November 2020 - includes two of my short stories and a poem.
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The Poet magazine published my poem "September the Diva" as the first poem in its Winter: The Seasons edition. You can download a free copy as a PDF by following this link. Or buy a print copy from Amazon - a link from the same page.
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Jun 27, 2008 – VISTA, CA–(Marketwire – June 27, 2008) – Living Earth Crafts (www.livingearthcrafts.com) (LEC), an industry leader in spa treatment table innovations and designs, will debut its new Lounger Line at the International Esthetics, Cosmetics and Spa Conference in Las Vegas, NV, June 28-30, 2008. The Lounger Line, currently comprised of three tables, The Chill Lounge, The Lanikai Lounger and the Habana Lounger, capitalizes on the wait time guests sometimes experience between various spa treatments or down time spent in a hotel room.
The Chill Lounger and Lanikai Lounger were born from the desire of savvy spa directors and resorts owners to continue the relaxation process enjoyed by spa and resort clientele during their spa treatments as they progress from one treatment to another. Instead of a non-descript lounge area, guests waiting for a spa treatment are ushered into a fully adjustable, Strata™ memory cushion top to cradle them in luxury, while an activity console complete with a dimmable reading lamp, surge protected power outlets for iPods, televisions, or laptops is available for their added enjoyment. A notched granite service area is available on the Chill Lounger for food, drink, and other items. In addition to being a perfect personal relaxation space, both the Chill Lounger and the Lanikai are great for manicures, reflexology treatments, and acoustic resonance therapy, the latest innovation in spa treatments, thus providing additional services for clientele and ultimately revenue potentials for spa and resort owners.
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Catalans UK is the meeting point of all friends of Catalonia in Great Britain.
We are a non-profit organisation composed by a large number of members and supporters, mostly based in London.
We organise cultural and social events with the aim to encourage people to gather together, make new friends and keep up-to-date with what's happening in Catalonia, as well as to promote the Catalan language and culture in the United Kingdom amongst British people and Catalans living in this country.
Catalans UK is the Catalan expat group in Great Britain and is supported by the Government of Catalonia, the Generalitat. In September 2007, Catalans UK was recognised as a Catalan Community Abroad as per the pertinent Decree.
In 28th September, 2010, Catalans UK joined the International Federation of Catalan Entities (FIEC), becoming the 64th entity adhered to this Federation, which aims, amongst other objectives, to gather Catalan expat groups and other related associations based in the EU and the rest of Europe, America and all over the world.


50th-Anniversary Celebration. This event debuted a student from the school of Music student, Wilson Poffenberger. He was selected for this recital performance through an audition. All the pieces were accompanied by pianist Casey Gene Dierlam.
This was an event similar to other music performances, but it was also unlike the classical shows. The saxophone is a fun instrument that makes someone feel tense to whimsical.
Poffenberger played several pieces that demonstrated the range of the instrument, playing pieces that could be in a dramatic movie to pieces that sounded fitting within a studio Ghibli movie. I liked how he played wide range of genres and they were all enjoyable.
I find it interesting that is an annual event the Krannert Center has, and I find this to be commendable. The debut of a musician a part of the community is significant, and I think it is meaningful for the community to support their music and performance. This can be a motivation for students since it is a selective opportunity, and it will aid in them their musical journies.
Overall, this was a great event to bring together students, UIUC staff, and other members of the Champaign Urbana community. It was really fun and enjoyably for a Sunday afternoon.


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Munter or Münter is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 Alex Munter (born 1968), Canadian politician and journalist, CEO of the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario
 Cameron Munter (born 1954), US Ambassador to Pakistan
 Friedrich Münter (1761-1830), Danish bishop and scholar
 Gabriele Münter (1887-1962) German Expressionist artist
 Leilani Münter (born 1976), American race car driver and environmental activist
 Rosanna Munter (born 1987), Swedish singer
 Scott Munter (born 1980), American baseball pitcher
 Werner Munter (born 1941), Swiss mountain guide, author, and safety expert

See also
 Jared Mason, nicknamed "Munter", a fictional character in the television show Outrageous Fortune
 Münter hitch, a simple knot commonly used by climbers and cavers, invented by Werner Munter
 Carl Munters (1897-1989), Swedish inventor

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How many Halloween costumes have you bought so far and how many times have your children worn them? My guess is that they only wore it once. At least that's our case. This brown and orange fox hood pinafore dress is a perfect choice for both Halloween or any other day! Perfect for cold weather.


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Home World Iran makes arrests over accidental downing of Ukrainian passenger plane that killed...
Iran makes arrests over accidental downing of Ukrainian passenger plane that killed 176
The accidental downing of the Ukrainian passenger plane killed all 176 people on board just after takeoff from Tehran.
Iran's judiciary said on Tuesday that arrests have been made over the accidental downing of a Ukrainian passenger plane that killed all 176 people on board just after takeoff from Tehran.
The announcement came shortly after Iran's president called for a special court to be set up to probe last week's incident.
Judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili was quoted by Iranian state media saying that investigations have taken place and some individuals have been arrested. He did not say how many individuals have been detained or name them.
Iran, which initially dismissed allegations that a missile had brought down the jetliner, acknowledged – three days after Wednesday's downing and in the face of mounting evidence – that its Revolutionary Guard had shot down the Ukrainian plane by mistake.
President Hassan Rouhani said in a speech televised in Iran on Tuesday that this is "not an ordinary case. The entire world will be watching this court."
Rouhani called the incident a ""painful and unforgivable" mistake and promised that his administration would pursue the case "by all means."
"The responsibility falls on more than just one person," he said, adding that those found culpable ""should be punished."
"There are others, too, and I want that this issue is expressed honestly," he said, without elaborating.
Rouhani called the government's admission that Iranian forces shot down the plane the "first good step".
The plane, en route to the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, was carrying 167 passengers and nine crew members from several countries, including 82 Iranians, 57 Canadians – including many Iranians with dual citizenship – and 11 Ukrainians, according to officials. There were several children among the passengers, including an infant.
Iran shot down the plane when it was bracing for possible U.S. retaliation for a ballistic missile attack on two military bases housing U.S. troops in Iraq. No one was hurt in that attack, which was carried out to avenge the stunning killing of Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani in an American airstrike in Baghdad.
The shootdown and the lack of transparency around it has reignited anger in Iran at the country's leadership, with protesters taking to the streets in past days. Online videos appeared to show security forces firing live ammunition and tear gas to disperse protests in the streets.
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Blumenau EC is een Braziliaanse voetbalclub uit Blumenau in de staat Santa Catarina.

Geschiedenis
De club werd opgericht in 1919 als Brasil FC. In 1936 werd de naam Recreativo Brasil EC aangenomen. Nadat in 1944 volgens de wet de naam Brasil niet in de naam van een sportclub mocht staan werd de naam gewijzigd in Palmeiras EC. Op 19 juli 1980 werd dan de huidige naam aangenomen om de club en werd donkerrood opgenomen in de clubkleuren ter ere van Grêmio Esportivo Olímpico, een andere club uit de stad die twee keer het staatskampioenschap gewonnen had en in 1971 ontbonden werd.

In 1998 ging de club failliet. In 2003 keerde de club terug maar kreeg opnieuw met financiële problemen te kampen. In 2017 ging de club terug van start in de derde klasse en werd er meteen kampioen. Tijdens het seizoen 2019 werd de club uit de tweede klasse gezet nadat ze twee keer w/o gaven.

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Based on one of Hans Christian Andersen's most beloved stories and the classic animated film, Disney's The Little Mermaid is a hauntingly beautiful love story for the ages. With music by eight-time Academy Award winner, Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Glenn Slater and a compelling book by Doug Wright, this fishy fable will capture your heart with its irresistible songs, including "Under the Sea," "Kiss the Girl" and "Part of Your World."
Ariel, King Triton's youngest daughter, wishes to pursue the human Prince Eric in the world above, bargaining with the evil sea witch, Ursula, to trade her tail for legs. But the bargain is not what it seems, and Ariel needs the help of her colorful friends, Flounder the fish, Scuttle the seagull and Sebastian the crab to restore order under the sea.
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Auditions For The Little Mermaid
The Branson Regional Arts Council is holding open auditions for their February 2022 live musical theatre production of Disney's The Little Mermaid on December 16, 17 and 18, 2021 at the Historic Owen Theatre.
When: Thursday, Dec 16, Friday Dec 17, & Saturday Dec 18, 2021
Where: Historic Owen Theatre, 205 S. Commercial St., Branson, MO 65616
Time: 5:00 – 10:00 PM (sign up for a one-hour slot here)
What to Bring: 60 Second Singing Audition in the musical style of the show. Bring your own tracks (on your phone or player).
Also Bring: Printed headshot (if you have one) & Acting Resume (if you have one).
Clothing for Audition: Bring comfortable shoes you can dance in as well as a change of clothes you can move and dance in.
Dance Requirements: Jazz, Contemporary, Partnering and Tap
Scheduled auditions will be held in groups of ten per hour, with a dance call run through during the last 15 mins of each group.
For more information visit: https://bransonarts.org/open-auditions-for-disneys-little-mermaid-at-historic-owen-theatre/
November 17, 2021 /0 Comments/by Branson Regional Arts Council
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All Ages | The Branson Regional Arts Council proudly presents The Sound of Music. This Rodgers & Hammerstein classic is the world's most beloved musical. High-spirited Maria is dispatched to serve as governess for seven children of a widowed naval Captain. Her growing rapport with the youngsters, coupled with her generosity of spirit, captures his heart and they marry. Upon returning from their honeymoon they discover Austria has been invaded by the Nazis, and the family's narrow escape provides one of the most thrilling and inspirational finales ever presented in the theatre.
Advance reserved seats highly recommended at http://BransonArts.org/tix.
November 9, 2021 /0 Comments/by Branson Regional Arts Council
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2021 Annual BRAC Member Meeting
ANNUAL MEMBER MEETING AT THE HISTORIC OWEN THEATRE
The 2021 Annual Member Meeting will take place on Thursday, September 30, 2021 from 6:00pm until 6:30pm at the Historic Owen Theatre, and will provide an opportunity for elections of new board of directors as well announcements regarding several new, exciting events and theatrical performances slated for 2022.
Anyone wishing to stay after the meeting to attend a performance of Dolly Parton's 9 to 5 The Musical is asked to purchase their tickets in advance by calling the box office at 417-336-4255 or online at BransonArts.org/tix.
September 20, 2021 /0 Comments/by Branson Regional Arts Council
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New Artist Reception – Branson Convention Center
The general public is invited to attend a New Artist Reception at the Branson Convention Center Art Gallery on the 2nd Level Concourse in Downtown Branson.
This FREE Community Arts Event will be held on Friday, September 24, 2021 from 7-8pm.
This will be an evening of incredible artistry, as we introduce several new artists joining the Art Gallery Exhibition.
Several of the featured artists will be attending the reception to discuss their work, and members of the Branson Regional Arts Council Board will be there to answer any questions.
Refreshments and hors d'oeuvres will be available as well.
Bring yourself, or a group of friends and enjoy this FREE community event!
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Five Star Talent Competition Semi-Finals
The Five Star Talent Contest, presented by Ozarks Dynacom, is designed to encourage the region's top talent to let their light shine and invite area residents and visitors to discover the amazing talent of the Ozarks.
This is the first of two Semi-Final Competitions. A distinguished panel of judges will be on hand at the live, semifinal shows in Branson, MO and Harrison, AR to determine the final selections to move on to the final competition.
The Arts Councils' will receive all ticket proceeds from the live, Semi-Final Shows held at the Historic Owen Theatre and Historic Lyric Theatre respectively, and also share in the proceeds of the Final Championship Show.
For more information visit bransonarts.org/new-talent-contest-benefits-arts-in-the-ozarks/
September 2, 2021 /0 Comments/by Branson Regional Arts Council
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Carrie The Musical (Late Night)
PG-14 Rating – Mild Adult Themes
Carrie White is a teenage outcast who longs to fit in. At school, she's bullied by the popular crowd, and virtually invisible to everyone else. At home, she's dominated by her loving but cruelly controlling mother. What none of them know is that Carrie's just discovered she's got a special power, and if pushed too far, she's not afraid to use it.
Set in the present in the small New England town of Chamberlain, Maine, Carrie: The Musical features a book by Lawrence D. Cohen (screenwriter of the classic film), music by Academy Award winner Michael Gore (Fame, Terms of Endearment), and lyrics by Academy Award winner Dean Pitchford (Fame, Footloose).
NOTE: This musical production deals with mild-adult themes and may not be suitable for youth under age of 14. Subject matter includes bullying and mental illness issues, graphic images, strong language and may not be for everyone.
Winner! 1988 Theatre World Award for Best Broadway Debut (Linzi Hateley)
Winner! 2012 Off Broadway Alliance Award for Best Musical Revival
Winner! 2016 WhatsOnStage Award for Best Off-West End Production
Winner! 2018 Matilda Award for Best Musical (Brisbane Powerhouse)
September 2, 2021 /by Branson Regional Arts Council
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Three others I can think of: the 8-player Mega Bomberman thing (which we don't know if it's legit or not but it uses Chris Huelsbeck's sound driver...), US Populous II (but I can't find said ROM), and US Power Instinct (but where does the box art come from, or is Guardiana the only place that has it?). I'm not sure if that Wily Wars US boxart indicated a boxed release or was just for show... In addition to those questions, is there anything else I'm missing before I add them? - Andlabs 13:19, 10 July 2011 (CDT)
I think it's better to assume all ROMs are legitimate unless labeled as otherwise. Tracing back prototypes to the source of when they were first dumped will probably be impossible in a lot of cases. I have no doubt in my mind that the Mega Bomberman 8P demo is the real deal (it's a Factor 5 game... so is Mega Turrican).
Also Populous II US is easy to find as long as you remember you're looking for "wrath of the gods" -Black Squirrel 13:43, 10 July 2011 (CDT)
Huh. But am I missing any more unreleased-in-a-specific-region entries? Also http://web.archive.org/web/19970715055421/http://www.sega-europe.com/MEGADRIVE.HTML "Baku Baku" Not sure where this is supposed to go; maybe http://web.archive.org/web/19970715055421/http://www.sega-europe.com/* will give us a hint? - Andlabs 23:01, 21 August 2011 (CDT)
Mr. Andlabs, I don't think this game is unreleased... but I don't know what your source is.
There is a game called Goal! for the Amiga. It's made by Dino Dini, who has a history of making football games. I think it was set to come to the Mega Drive, but was souped up along the way, turning up as Dino Dini's Soccer. Wikipedia seems to think the Amiga and Mega Drive games are pretty different - I don't know if that's true.
Anyway Mean Machines Sega #26 calls the game "Dino Dini's Goal!" which I'm guessing was a working title. Thing is, none of these games were touched by Psygnosis - they were all published by Virgin. So maybe there's another football game called Goal!? (unless, as is more likely, its a misprint)
This sort of awkwardness isn't new - Kick Off 2 (also made by Dino Dini) became Super Kick Off on the MD. -Black Squirrel 13:52, 4 November 2012 (CST)
I didn't add that (Rotmostraedet did), though I guess that opens the question of whether or not a Goal! leftover is in Dino Dini's Soccer... As I mentioned, this page needs some clean-up; I intended on doing it once I found all of the games GDRI listed as unreleased (I should probably do that now). First to go is that color-coding thing, which in retrospect wasn't particularly a good idea (especially since there are a lot of these) - Andlabs 14:23, 4 November 2012 (CST)
these lists
I think this page (and the others like it) may have out-lived their purpose. As a centralised table of every unreleased game it's incomplete, and keeping it alive means twice as much maintenance.
It's much better as a tool for telling us which pages need to be made, but the end game should probably be to remove it, and refer to the category instead.
Any objections to me trimming this so that it only lists pages we haven't done/sources we haven't linked up to yet? -Black Squirrel (talk) 14:15, 16 January 2016 (CST)
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For lot of us, making a huge investment in terms of real estate is a big decision. I completely understand how we all save every single penny to buy our dream home or to make a secure investment that we could rely on in years to come. Even a slightest downfall in the market price of a single property can leave a great impact on all the real estate in a specific area and making sure that you're putting your eggs in the right basket is the only way to secure your hard-earned money.
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Born and raised in Fort Gibson, Oklahoma, Casey West has been running down the beaten path of country music for the last few years. Casey and his debut single "Stronger Than Cocaine", can be found on Facebook at Caseywestmusic, and on all music streaming platforms. Casey also just released his newest single "As A Crow Flies" out now on all platforms as well.
Growing up in small town Fort Gibson, Casey was involved in everything except music. It was his father (Greg West) that inspired him to finally, after 23 years, to pick up playing guitar. From there Casey went through a lot of hard life changes before he decided to start singing, which brought his guitar to the forefront of his career, followed by writing his first release, "Stronger Than Cocaine" in 2017, and followed by his second release "As A Crow Flies" in 2021.
Casey has been touring the US since late 2017, playing several hymns of his life in a country living culture. His first single is a story of a woman hell bent on making his life a living hell, and his newest single a song written for his son. With a country red dirt sound and lyrics that walk in truth, comes Casey West and his newest single "As A Crow Flies".
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"Collateral Damage" From America's De-Stabilizing, Endless, Post-911 "Wars on Terror". The Rebirth of Fascism
Drowned Syrian Toddlers
By Dr. Gary G. Kohls
Global Research, September 20, 2015
Region: Europe, Middle East & North Africa
Theme: History, Terrorism
"Show me bodies floating in water, play violins and show me skinny people looking sad. I still don't care." – Popular conservative Sun (a British daily newspaper) commenting on the homeless war refugees from war-torn Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, etc. who are fleeing their militarily de-stabilized and devastated countries after their homes and homelands had been reduced to bloody rubble by soldiers obeying orders from their commanders (including NATO and American "interventionism" in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, etc, etc).
Hopkins appears to be in good company. But she was probably just paraphrasing what she had been hearing from a multitude of ultra-nationalist xenophobic racists around the world have been saying. Many of them are revealing their true colors these days. There certainly seems to be an abundance of them among the 16 remaining Republican presidential candidates here in the US. It is instructive to note that the candidacy of Donald Trump has elicited the endorsement of fascist groups like Storm Front, the neo-Nazi group that appreciates his vehement, albeit delusional, anti-immigration agenda.
Fascism Keeps Rearing its Ugly Head (both in England, America and Around the World)
The spirit of the infamous British fascist leader, Oswald Mosely, seems to periodically raise its ugly head in England. Mosely, back in the 1920s, had been the youngest member of Britain's Conservative Party to be elected to Parliament. An admirer of Adolph Hitler, he started the British Union of Fascists (BUF) in the 1930s. That group gloried in their Black Shirt uniforms until the BUF was abolished when Great Britain declared war on Germany. However, celebrities like Hopkins, even though they will deny that they are fascists, are decidedly right-wing extremists that meet many of the characteristics of fascism. The latest incarnation of the BUF is the New British Union Party, and they are proud of it. Here is one of their recent posters:
Many nations around the world have had and are continuing to have within their borders fascist movements. Remember Vidkun Quisling who led the Nazi puppet government in Norway? And then recall Quisling's modern day incarnation, the mass murderer of innocent progressive-minded kids, Anders Behring Breivik and his fascist manifesto?
Look at the list of the hundreds of defunct, hibernating and/or active fascist movements around the world by googling "list of fascist movements by country". For much more on the 14 characteristics of fascism, which should be tested against the beliefs and actions of every political and economic leader, google "George W. Bush and the 14 characteristics of fascism".
American Fascism Through the Years
Of course, America has had its share of active and hibernating fascist movements, but our high school history textbooks have typically ignored that unpleasant part of our history. According to Wikipedia, there have been at least 31 very public fascist political parties in the US since 1920. The Southern Poverty Law Center has investigated hundreds and hundreds of fascist and racist sects that are currently active.
One of the largest was the Silver Legion of America, commonly known as the Silver Shirts (Brown and Black Shirt uniforms had been spoken for in Germany.). The Silver Shirts' political party was called the Christian Party, and founder William Dudley Pelley, son of a protestant minister, ran for president in 1936 against Roosevelt. Pelley, an avowed racist, anti-Semite and. ultranationalist hated FDR, as have most conservative groups ever since the 1930s. They hated him because of the New Deal, which saved middle and lower class Americans at the expense of the wealthy elite 1 %. The New Deal set back corrupt crony capitalism's agendas a couple of generations or so, and their spiritual progeny in the Republican Party are still fuming about it.
Pelley's Silver Shirts had initially been a secret group of right-wing extremists, but its existence was finally made public on April 30, 1933, the very day that German President Paul von Hindenberg finally yielded to the right-wing German political parties and Germany's ruling elites and appointed Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany.
Interestingly, the headquarters of the Silver Shirts was located in Asheville, North Carolina, which has evolved into a very politically progressive community. Pelley later moved his organization to Indiana, a historical hotbed of American right-wing extremism, including the Ku Klux Klan.
A few days after the Silver Shirts came up from the underground (early in May 1933), Nazi Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess gave German Nazi Party member (and legal immigrant) Heinz Spanknöbel authority to form a Nazi Party organization in America. Its national headquarters was in New York City, with a large contingent of Bund members active in Chicago. It was called the German American Bund, aka Friends of New Germany (FONG).
Interestingly – for those of us who live in the so-called progressive heartland of America – one of the Bund's American Nazi training camps was located in Grafton, Wisconsin. Grafton had previously been called Hamburg, reflecting the German heritage of many eastern Wisconsin communities such as Milwaukee, the beer capital of America. The infamous 1950s-era Republican Senator Joe McCarthy's hometown was nearby Appleton, Wisconsin, which still is, not surprisingly, the headquarters of the John Birch Society. JBS members dearly loved Tail-gunner Joe and his poisonous neo-fascist McCarthyism.
What Does PNAC Have to do With the Drowned Syrian Toddler?
There has been a massive amount of confusing and self-contradicting propaganda concerning the Middle East crises ever since the Cheney/Bush administration chose to invade the oil-rich, opium-rich and lithium-rich region shortly after 9/11/01. One of the important points that needs emphasis is that there is a tight connection (albeit not a straight line connection) between what guilty perps made happen on 9/11/01 and what happened to the drowned Syrian toddler pictured above.
9/11/01 is now well understood by scholars (and real investigative journalists) to have been a false flag operation, orchestrated by nefarious, as-yet unindicted persons and right-wing think tanks, groups that have been funded by billionaires and American-based trans-national corporations. Those entities have long-term business plans for domination of extractable resources, finances and territory anywhere on the globe.
Those plans had been clearly out-lined by arguably the right-wing's most important think tank, the Project for the New American Century (PNAC). PNAC's manifesto had already been proposed to (and rejected by) the Clinton administration in the 1990s, but it was accepted by the Cheney and Bush after many of its members (17 to be precise) officially joined the Cheney/Bush administration. America's military de-stabilization of the Middle East closely followed the propaganda-inspired false assumption that Middle Eastern foreigners, and not US government insiders, expertly planted the explosive charges in WTC Towers 1, 2 & 7 over weeks and months prior to their explosive pulverization into fine dust.
It is now established that the two jet planes caused only brief, self-extinguishing, low-temperature fires in towers 1 & 2, temperatures that were incapable of melting, much less suddenly transecting, all of the core steel columns in sequence. The only rational explanation for what happened that day is that computer-controlled demolitions dropped all three skyscrapers into their footprints on 9/11/01.
PNAC, the Real Conspiratorial Group that Needs to be Subpoenaed to Testify, Under Oath, About 9/11/01
PNAC was an outgrowth of the nefarious NeoConservative think tank, the American Enterprise Institute, which continues to promote the economic agendas of any number of anti-democratic, obscenely wealthy, multinational corporations that continue to pay the generous salaries of its high profile stable of "fellows".
Among other things, the purpose of PNAC was and still is to increase military spending, subvert the United Nations, ensure planetary domination by US corporate (and military) interests and spread (anti-democratic) capitalism around the world (through the barrel of a gun if necessary), thus enriching PNAC's corporate sponsors. Hidden from the public view was the precise identity of PNAC's paymasters, which surely must include this list of One Percenters: the multi-millionaire politicians, multimillionaire corporate lobbyists, multi-billionaire war-profiteers, multi-billionaire Wall Street executives, oath-taking militarists and the corporate-controlled media.
The original members of PNAC (a few of whom are pictured below) admitted that their goals of American military and economic domination would be difficult to implement "without a catastrophic catalyzing event such as 'a new Pearl Harbor'". Viola! After Bush was elected, PNAC member and Vice President Dick Cheney acquired immense power in the White House, as did Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz at the Pentagon. Within a year the desired "New Pearl Harbor" was successfully orchestrated.
The False Flag 9/11 Reichstag Fire – What Really Happened
The false flag events of 9/11/01 were the perfect Pearl Harbor, the perfect Reichstag Fire (google "The 9/11 Reichstag Fire – What Really Happened"), the perfect Krystallnacht. the perfect Operation Northwoods, the perfect Gulf of Tonkin Incident, etc, etc.
Operation Northwoods False Flag
Each of those "catalyzing events" have been proven to be false flag operations (or events that were allowed to happen). (NOTE: A false flag operation is a governmental conspiracy to "stage" a secret operation that pretends that their nation is being attacked by a targeted enemy in order to elicit public outrage and then claim that that enemy drew first blood and therefore deserves to be attacked "in retaliation". Considerable propaganda (especially in the "fog of war") needs to accompany the event for the Big Lie Bamboozle to work on naïve, ignorant, partisan or uber-patriotic citizens. )
A scary list of some of the nefarious, hard right-wing ruling class elites who signed on to the PNAC's statement of principles can be found by googling "Old American Century – PNAC". Following is a sobering photo of ten of them (including GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush). Those pictured were protected from testifying under oath by the 911 Commission, despite the fact that it was on their watch that America was led, by Big Lie propaganda, into the disastrous, perpetual "Wars on Terrorism".
Those wars of aggression and the subsequent – and inevitable – atrocities met the definition of international war crimes and crimes against humanity, but no prosecution has yet come to pass, even though the US lost both the Gulf Wars. And, of course the perpetual wars led directly or indirectly to the current war refugee crises in Europe and the Middle East, including the drowning of the innocent Syrian toddler, Aylan Kurdi and most of his family The PNAC perps need to take some responsibility for the loss of innocent lives.
Even this partial list of PNAC members should make American anti-fascists, anti-imperialists, and Occupy member's skin crawl. (Google "PNAC Archives – 911 Truth" for more about PNAC). Those lists include Condoleezza Rice, Dick Cheney, Jeb Bush, Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, Gary Bauer, John Bolton, Richard Perle, William Kristol (founder and chairman), James Wolsey, Elliot Abrams, Eliot Cohen, Dan Quayle, Donald Kagan, William J. Bennett, Scooter Libby, Vin Weber, Norman Podhoretz, Steve Forbes and others after the fraudulent election of 2000.
Despite their roles in leading America into the illegal and unconstitutional wars for oil (which have resulted in millions of innocent Muslim men, women and children dead, wounded, starving and homeless), none but Scooter Libby has spent any time in jail. Go figure.
The politicians, billionaire war-profiteers, Wall Street financiers, oath-taking militarists and the corporate-controlled media (that also must take some responsibility for the war refugee crisis) are composed of groups of conscienceless operatives from the infamous, chronically conspiratorial military/industrial/congressional/media complex, subgroups of which were certainly among the planners and/or orchestrators of the controlled demolitions of the three World Trade Center buildings.
There are a lot of traitorous elites who have been knowingly and secretly usurping American democracy by, post-911, helping to prevent truly independent investigations from happening. Those cunning manipulations have kept Americans from hearing the testimony about the multiple bomb explosions from eye-witnesses who were ready to reveal the obvious truth: that the official White House conspiracy theories about 9/11 were fraudulent. If real investigations would have been allowed to occur right away, the horrific slaughter of the innocents in the Middle East would have been averted – and the drowned Syrian toddler would be alive today.
The 9/11 Truth Movement's Assertions are not "Theories" Anymore
All the existing evidence that has been accrued over the past 14 years proves that there were any number of guilty people and groups, and most of them are hiding in plain sight, hopefully shaking in their boots for fear that a powerful grassroots movement will arise and effectively demand justice for their treasonous crimes. All the evidence of their treason has been accumulated, and it is court-of-law-worthy.
The prime suspects that need to be brought to justice as co-conspirators are surely some or all of the folks in the PNAC. So far, they have been protected from being subpoenaed to giving public testimony under oath. They have a lot to lose and therefore have been working hard to avoid indictment, trying to remain in positions of economic or (un-elected) political power. Many of many of them are still deeply involved in US foreign policy and domestic politics.
For any truthful, open-minded person with an IQ above 90 (and who also isn't an obedient, political hack with ulterior motivations to lie for their political party), understanding why 9/11 was a false flag operation is a no-brainer: All one has to do is study a couple of the powerful, unassailably truthful documentaries on YouTube (see below).
If real investigative journalists – who already knew something was fishy on 9/11/01 – had been allowed to do their jobs and question the unbelievable official theories, justice would have been done before the dogs of war were relesed. Even our co-opted and conflicted politicians might have been able to comprehend that the three WTC Towers 1, 2 & 7 could only have been brought down by pre-planted demolition charges.
And if a real search for the real culprits had been done – as promised by President.Bush – that investigation would have revealed that it is impossible for jet planes to bring down modern, non-flammable steel-reinforced skyscrapers. So, in conclusion, it was the demolitions – and not the "attacks" – that were responsible for the deaths of most of the 3000 civilians that would otherwise have been rescued shortly after the office fires self-extinguished. Planes hitting skyscrapers that were designed to withstand direct hits from Boeing 707s would not incite a nation to go to war – because the buildings would have been left standing. It was therefore necessary to destroy the incriminating evidence: perhaps of a drone plane or two, or the still missing black boxes, or the lack of passengers, etc. That all had to be rubbed out by the demolitions and the total destruction from 3 months-long red-hot smoldering fires from the heat producing incendiaries that were capable of melting steel, like thermite, thermate, military-grade nano-thermite or other high explosives.
So if justice had been done immediately after 9/11, neither Afghanistan nor Iraq would have been illegally invaded and immorally de-stabilized, and all those targeted Middle Eastern nations in the region, including Syria, would not have experienced the chaos of experiencing millions of Iraqi war refugees crossing over the border in the mass movements of internally and externally displaced civilian war refugees like the Syrian toddler.
Important Research Opportunities
Among the many fine documentaries on the subject that are capable of totally disproving the White House Big Lie, the one that has the best historical context is "Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup". In my opinion, the documentary with the best science behind it is "9/11: Explosive Evidence – Experts Speak Out" from Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth.
Real patriots, if they want to be on the right side of history, need to watch them both and then adjust their politics.
To do so will place in proper perspective the sufferings and deaths of the millions of war refugees like Alyan Kurdi, his sibling and his mother, all of whom drowned on the same day.
Dr Kohls is a retired physician who writes a weekly column for the Reader Weekly, an alternative newsweekly published in Duluth, Minnesota, USA. Many of his columns are archived at http://duluthreader.com/articles/categories/200_Duty_to_Warn.
Copyright © Dr. Gary G. Kohls, Global Research, 2015
Articles by: Dr. Gary G. Kohls


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The majors have always helped drive sales of both hard and soft goods, and when one considers the higher margins on the apparel side of the golf business (ummm, why do we think Nike is still in the golf apparel game but not the ball or club market?), scripting player's wardrobes helps drive consumers to the new cuts and colorways.
Besides, we appreciate the effort product marketers make to come up with the staging for these photo shoots, and the significant bump we see in our page views and unique visitors.
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Perversity of Religious Belief
Thursday, November 15, 2012 carvaka 1 comment
It is often asserted, even in the face of contrary evidence, by the believers of course, that the 'truly religious' people do not do any ham to others; that the terrorists are a misguided lot; that those who incite communal violence are in the grip of momentary passion; that the believers who commit human sacrifice and those who refuse to provide proper medical assistance to their nears and dears on religious ground are illiterate people; that these 'aberrations' cannot be used as a yardstick to measure the true nature of religion, which is essentially spiritual and hence benign, we are told.
Well, we reproduce a news item that shows, yet again, the darker side of religion. It shows, starkly, what grave harm people inspired by 'true faith' in religion do to others even in 'normal times'.
Indian woman dies after being refused abortion
(The Hindu, Chennai, November 15, 2012)
A woman of Indian origin has died after doctors in Ireland refused to perform an abortion, telling her that "this is a Catholic country", sparking widespread outrage and renewed calls for immediate reforms to the Irish law to allow termination if the life of the mother is at risk.
Savita Halappanavar (31), who was a dentist, was 17 weeks pregnant when she died from septicaemia, according to an autopsy carried out two days after her death on Oct 28. Her family said she asked several times for her termination as she had severe back pain and was miscarrying but doctors at University Hospital Galway refused on the grounds that abortion was illegal in Ireland.
Her husband Praveen Halappanavar said he was certain that his wife would have still been alive if the termination had been allowed.
It was her first pregnancy, he said, and she was "on top of the world" before she started suffering back pain. When the pain persisted, she asked her consultant if she could be "induced" but was told "no".
Savita Halappanavar
"They said unfortunately she can't because it's a Catholic country. Savita said to her [consultant] she is not Catholic, she is Hindu, and why impose the law on her. But she said, 'I'm sorry, unfortunately it's a Catholic country,' and it's the law that they can't abort when the foetus is [alive]," he said.
The hospital has launched an internal investigation in addition to a separate inquiry ordered by Ireland's Health Service Executive.
Mr. Halappanavar recalled that Savita "was so happy and everything was going well" until she was admitted to hospital with back pain.
"On the Saturday [Oct 20] night everything changed. She started experiencing back pain so we called the hospital, the university hospital... I got a call at about half [past] twelve on the Wednesday night that Savita's heart rate had really gone up and that they had moved her to ICU. "Things just kept on getting worse and on Friday they told me that she was critically ill." Savita died on Sunday.
Ireland Prime Minister Enda Kenny did not rule out an independent inquiry as pro-choice groups demanded immediate changes to the law.
"It would be very appropriate that we don't rule anything out here, but there are two reports and investigations going on at the moment," Mr. Kenny said.
Ireland's strict anti-abortion law means that women routinely go abroad for abortion. Earlier this year, the government set up an expert group to make recommendations in response to a judgment of the European Court of Human Rights judgment that Ireland had failed to implement existing rights to lawful abortion where a mother's life was at risk.
Left-wing MPs Clare Daly and Joan Collins, who had introduced a bill in Parliament earlier this year to allow an abortion in specific life-threatening circumstances, said that had their proposals been accepted, Savita would have been alive.
"A woman has died because Galway University Hospital refused to perform an abortion needed to prevent serious risk to her life.
"This is a situation we were told would never arise. An unviable foetus — the woman was having a miscarriage — was given priority over the woman's life, who unfortunately and predictably developed septicaemia and died," Ms Daly said.
We do not think that the medical fraternity who refused to extend the required medical facility to that unfortunate woman are 'bad people'; except for their religiosity they are 'good people'. It is their 'true faith' in religion inspired by their faith (not just 'as small as the mustard seed' as their holy book demands, but 'enough faith to move a mountain') in their compassionate god that prevented them from extending medical help that was well within their reach.
As Steven Weinberg said, "With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil—that takes religion".
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I'm pro-abortion and infanticide and what you might call "religious". I also consciously embrace evil. I wouldn't call myself a Satanist but I'm something like that. I personally hate everything in the realm of the created and want to destroy the universe. These religious people who want to be all good sicken me.
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It is a magic eight ball that falls into the almost-adolescent hands of Julia Raine, Douglas' precocious, impressionable and witty protagonist.
We keep on falling further behind the eight ball because competition is so fierce," he says.
The contract for the eight ball mills was awarded by the Guizhou Electric Power Bureau and the China Electric Power Technology Import and Export Corp.
A new pool hall and sports bar, the Eight Ball has 12 full-sized American pool tables and 10 plasma screens to ensure nobody need miss a goal, putt or finishing line.
His two eight ball overs proved commendably economical and there were some awkward pacy deliveries along with just a few wayward balls.
Albany: Tonight: Eight Ball Joe, rock band; Tomorrow: Disco karaoke 6- 9pm, Blind Alley, trio; Sunday: Side by Side, popular brother/sister duo; Wednesday: Jazz Salon Rouge.
We have a one-in-five chance that we'll have an average year, so we're a little behind the eight ball.
Three bands will be performing - top covers band Eight Ball Joe, The Rooters and Gatecrasher.
I was always behind the eight ball,'' said the dyslexic legal researcher for the Thousand Oaks law firm of Masry and Vititoe, who now speaks coast-to-coast on family, health and motivation.
In the first leg at Binley Road last night, Coventry won the toss and elected to bat first in the allotted 16 eight ball overs.
That way, if it gets put on at a later date, we aren't behind the eight ball,'' Dean said after the hearing.
While the girls, ages 6 through 10, felt like winners, the event's organizers were behind the fiscal eight ball, having raised only $1,600 of the $6,000 sponsorship goal to supplement an overall budget of $8,000.


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Review of Garth Fagan at Jacob's Pillow
June 19, 2008 performance reviewed by Connell McGrath
Garth Fagan returned to Jacob's Pillow this week after a hard-to-bear three year absence. His company performed Griot New York, a 1991 work originally commissioned by Brooklyn Academy of Music and others. Griot New York is a collaboration between Fagan and Wynton Marsalis, who wrote the original score, and with Martin Puryear, who designed the sets. Costumes were by Garth Fagan along with Martin Puryear. The score by Marsalis is extremely good, mainstream jazz. Fun to listen to and with a depth of musical complexity, mastery and feeling. The sets were a little funny, and it was a stretch to associate them with the dance in some cases. (Why the oversized melted spatula? what could it have meant?) Costumes were excellent. 2014 Jacob's Pillow schedule, Contact info. and links
The choreography, however, was uneven, though the great parts more than made up for the less successful. When Fagan focuses on rhythmic dance truly based on the music, he excels as usual. He brings his great gift for blending jazz, modern and African dance styles to bear on the project. He attempted in Griot to intersperse the bigger, faster and more successful passages — such as City Court Dance, Oracabessa Sea and High-Rise Riff — with slower passages. While these passages were original and somewhat interesting, they can't compare with the brilliance of his moral rhythmic work. It seemed as if he was reaching too far for depth and meaning. Also, he is rightly trying to balance a full evening length work with variety. Unfortunately, in 1991 he couldn't do this kind of work well.
The highlights of the evening were the three previously mentioned sections. City Court Dance starts Griot New York with a terrific up-tempo jazz beat and thrilling, original dance. He ends it in the same fashion with High-Rise Riff.
Garth Fagan is most famous for choreographing The Lion King on Broadway. It's what's always mentioned. While the constant refrain of Lion King gets old quickly, it points to Garth's true genius. He is best when he's mixing entertainment with his blend of modern-jazz-afro-caribbean dance. This in itself certainly provides enough meaning to his work, and he doesn't have to reach further.
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