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The Last Frontier For Gun Control: Washington Court Rules In Favor Of Seattle's "Gun Violence" Tax
Two years ago, the president of the Seattle City Council offered a rather ludicrous proposition. He wanted Seattle to place a new tax on the sale of firearms and ammunition within the city limits. Ammo would cost an additional 2-5 cents per round, and a firearm would cost an extra $25. But what was even more absurd than the tax itself, is what the money would be going toward. The tax was supposed to pay for gun violence prevention programs and research.
The way City Council President Tim Burgess explained it, this "gun violence" tax would help offset the costs the city pays to treat gunshot victims. Essentially, it was a tax levied on responsible law abiding gun owners, to pay for the actions of violent criminals.
Despite how utterly stupid that sounds, the proposal passed. However, it didn't have the desired effect. To the surprise of no one who actually understands the relationship between private firearm ownership and crime rates, the violent crime rate in Seattle has dramatically increased since the tax was put in place. It also brought in only a small fraction of the revenue that the city council was expecting. In short, the tax was a total failure.
So it's no surprise that the tax has faced a lawsuit over the fact that Washington has a law that prevents municipalities from regulating firearms. Unfortunately, the Washington Supreme Court recently ruled against the lawsuit on the grounds that taxes aren't the same as regulations, and cities are well within their right to levy sales taxes.
Regardless of whether the court's decision was right or wrong, it certainly sets a dangerous precedent. As an...
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"President Trump announces move to elevate Cyber Command"
- Thomas Gibbons-Neff in The Washington Post
The Washington Post reports President Trump has directed that Cyber Command will become its own unified military command – a move aimed to "strengthen cyberspace operations and bolster U.S. defenses." The President said on Friday that the "elevation of United States Cyber Command demonstrates our increased resolve against cyberspace threats and will help reassure our allies and partners and deter our adversaries."
In more good economic news, CNBC reports on yesterday's Labor Department announcement that "the number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits fell to near a six-month low last week," a further sign of strength in the nation's jobs market.
In The Washington Times, the Cornwall Alliance's E. Calvin Beisner praises President Trump's recent executive order on infrastructure, saying it "should save billions of dollars directly by streamlining and expediting the permitting process for infrastructure projects" and help spur "more and safer" infrastructure projects.
USA Today contributor and former Bush Defense Department official James S. Robbins writes that President Trump "was fully within a time-honored intellectual tradition when he denounced 'both sides' that were rioting in Charlottesville," saying "the proper response is not to condemn one group of radicals over another but to see all of them as a direct threat to constitutional government."
The New York Times reports alt-left group 'Antifa' is growing in numbers in their battle to fight white supremacists. The Times writes, "members of antifa have shown no qualms about using their fists, sticks or canisters of peppery spray to meet an array of right-wing antagonists whom they call a fascist threat to American democracy."
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Trump Just Endorsed Kelli Ward Over Arizona Senator Jeff Flake. Here Are 5 Things You Need To Know About Her.
President Trump has officially declared war on Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) by endorsing Dr. Kelli Ward, who is challenging Flake in a primary.
Here are five things you need to know about Ward:
1. Ward has continued to work in the field of medicine even as she served in the Arizona state legislature and while campaigning. According to her state senate biography, Ward attended the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine for medical school and founded Lakeview Family Health Care with Dr. Lorraine Byrd, her mother. Ward now works as a emergency care physician in Lake Havasu and Kingman.
2. Ward's voting record in the state legislature seems to be solidly conservative. Her Vote Smart profileshows Ward receiving a lifetime rating of 98% from the American Conservative Union (ACU), 100% from the Arizona Small Business Association, 86% from the National Rifle Association (NRA), and 83% from Americans for Prosperity. During her tenure in the Arizona state senate — 2012 to 2015 — she had 19 bills signed into law. Ward has credited her co-workers for introducing her to conservative talk radio — namely Rush Limbaugh — for her conservative beliefs.
3. Ward attempted to primary Sen. John McCain in 2016, to no avail. McCain won 51.2% of the vote, while Ward only received 39.9%. However, Ward claims she was outspent by a margin of 10 to 1 and noted that she "held McCain to his lowest historical primary total ever."
During the primary,
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In Misguided Response to Charlottesville, Apple Donates to Liberal Group That Endangers Conservatives
In trying to fight racism—a laudable goal—Apple CEO Tim Cook has made a huge mistake by choosing to donate $1 million to the Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization that smears some conservative groups as "hate groups."
"What occurred in Charlottesville has no place in our country. Hate is a cancer, and left unchecked it destroys everything in its path," Cook wrote in an email to Apple employees Wednesday announcing the donation, according to BuzzFeed.
Cook continued:
Apple will be making contributions of $1 million each to the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League. We will also match two-for-one our employees' donations to these and several other human rights groups, between now and September 30.
In the coming days, iTunes will offer users an easy way to join us in directly supporting the work of the SPLC.
But the Southern Poverty Law Center doesn't just blast neo-Nazis and white supremacist groups as "hate groups."
It also smears groups like Family Research Council and Alliance Defending Freedom, two socially conservative organizations that have bravely advocated...
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Black unemployment is down again under the Trump administration, according to a new report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics — and Al Sharpton is nowhere to be found to celebrate.
According to The Daily Caller, BLS stats show that from July of 2016 to July of 2017, the unemployment rate for black Americans has dropped one full percentage point. Last year, the rate was 8.4 percent. It fell to 7.4 percent.
And while part of that took place under the Obama administration, most of the gains came under the Trump administration. The rate has dropped from 8.0 percent this March to the 7.4 percent level now. That's the lowest rate among blacks since December of 2000 — some 17 years ago. And it's a lot lower than the 16.8 percent black unemployment rate Barack Obama saw at its worst level, back in March of 2010.
Liberals, needless to say, are hardly impressed. In the liberal leaning African-American cultural magazine The Root, even though they acknowledged that "unemployment levels in major cities like Cleveland, Baltimore and Chicago went down, which tends to indicate that black people in large population centers are finding work," the best they were able to afford the president is that he did "somehow accidentally, not on purpose, manage to do something good for black America."
Yes, even though the president made alleviating black unemployment a major part of his campaign, it's all accidental. (The piece, somewhat unsurprisingly for a liberal publication, lays all of the credit at the feet of...
Fighting Neo-Nazis and the Future of Free Expression
In the wake of Charlottesville, both GoDaddy and Google have refused to manage the domain registration for the Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi website that, in the words of the Southern Poverty Law Center, is "dedicated to spreading anti-Semitism, neo-Nazism, and white nationalism." Subsequently Cloudflare, whose service was used to protect the site from denial-of-service attacks, has also dropped them as a customer, with a telling quote from Cloudflare's CEO: "Literally, I woke up in a bad mood and decided someone shouldn't be allowed on the Internet. No one should have that power."
We agree. Even for free speech advocates, this situation is deeply fraught with emotional, logistical, and legal twists and turns. All fair-minded people must stand against the hateful violence and aggression that seems to be growing across our country. But we must also recognize that on the Internet, any tactic used now to silence neo-Nazis will soon be used against others, including people whose opinions we agree with. Those on the left face calls to characterize the Black Lives Matter movement as a hate group. In the Civil Rights Era cases that formed the basis of today's protections of freedom of speech, the NAACP's voice was the one attacked.
Protecting free speech is not something we do because we agree with all of the speech that gets protected. We do it because we believe that no one—not the government and not private commercial enterprises—should decide who...
Trump is right: The alt-left exists and the media ignores it
Now that most of the political juice has been squeezed out of the events in Charlottesville, Va., the country is preparing to move on from yet another ugly incident.
Just as after Ferguson, Baltimore, San Jose, Santa Barbara and Berkeley, the immediate reaction from the usual suspects went according to script. It was a shameful display by the media and the political class.
First, the political class sprinted to the closest microphone or TV camera they could find — at a speed that would impress Usain Bolt — in order to score points. Both sides of the political class exploited the opportunity to flaunt their racial sensitivity and moral superiority. Why do they feel the need to denounce hatred and violence every time one of these incidents occurs? Because if they don't, their opponents say their silence equates to tacit approval of what took place. It is a game of political "gotcha."
It is telling about the self-righteousness of the political class that they would sink so low for political gain as to use an incident where one young lady lost her life and others were injured. It is reprehensible. The incident amounted to hate versus hate.
The liberal media also forges these incidents into a club to bludgeon their political adversaries. Those adversaries include President Trump, conservatives and...
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Apparently, as long as violent leftists label their victims "fascists," they are free to set fires, smash windows and beat civilians bloody. No police officer will stop them. They have carte blanche to physically assault anyone they disapprove of, including Charles Murray, Heather Mac Donald, Ben Shapiro, me and Milo Yiannopoulos, as well as anyone who wanted to hear us speak.
Even far-left liberals like Evergreen State professor Bret Weinstein will be stripped of police protection solely because the mob called him a "racist."
If the liberal shock troops deem local Republicans "Nazis" — because some of them support the duly elected Republican president — Portland will cancel the annual Rose Festival parade rather than allow any Trump supporters to march.
They're all "fascists"! Ipso facto, the people cracking their skulls and smashing store windows are "anti-fascists," or as they call themselves, "antifa."
We have no way of knowing if the speakers at the Charlottesville "Unite the Right" rally last weekend were "Nazis," "white supremacists" or passionate Civil War buffs, inasmuch as they weren't allowed to speak. The Democratic governor shut the event down, despite a court order to let it proceed.
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Soros-Funded Groups AstroTurf DACA Protests at White House
Protests demanding an Obama-created amnesty program for young illegal aliens remain intact were sponsored George Soros-funded by open borders groups.
United We Dream and CASA, two Soros-funded pro-immigration groups, were behind the rally outside the White House where illegal aliens demanded the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program be kept in place by the President Trump Administration.
In 2010, Soros' Open Society Foundation gave United We Dream a total of $75,000. In 2015, the open borders organization CASA thanked Soros' Open Society Foundation for their funding and support.
At the protest, more than 25 open border activists were arrested by Metro Police outside of the White House, according to...
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Proof Leftists Want To Destroy America...
We Are Replacing Our Institutions with Something "Darker, More Rigidly Conformist"
The leftists will never stop. If you give them something they want, they will demand more and the road to oppression will continue without end. They want to destroy our free speech, our freedom of religion, our right to own guns, our Constitution, our military and police forces, our separation of powers, our two-party system, our history, our rule of law. Statues have little to do with what is going on right now.
The removal of confederate statues is only a path to destroy our institutions. It's an iconoclastic movement by the leftists no different from that of Mao, Lenin, the Taliban. This is not about the confederacy, it's Saul Alinsky-ites and leftists taking us down to gain power and control.
We can now see where it is headed and we had better speak up now. Why not build monuments to notable minorities like George Washington Carver and Harriet Tubman?
The Congressional Black Caucus on Capitol Hill want the confederate statues in the Capitol removed. "We will never solve America's race problem if we continue to honor traitors who fought against the United States in order to keep African-Americans in chains. By the way, thank god, they lost," Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Cedric Richmond (D-La.) told ABC News.
Unfortunately, the CBC is very far left and while they have a good point about statues representing these men, they are part of our history. That's almost besides the point. If it would stop at confederate statues in public places, it would be one thing, but it will not.
Lee is among the 10 Confederates whose statues remain in the Capitol, lionizing a slaveholding era and sparking calls this week from some House Democrats to rid the building of their likenesses.
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"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right." - George Orwell, 1984.
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Paying Protesters To Destabilize the U.S.
Wealthy leftists engage professional grievance hustlers to pay protesters to destabilize and destroy America. And people are standing by watching like a train wreck in slow motion, waiting for someone else to do something.
At anti-Trump protests during the election, protesters admitted they answered ads on Craigslist and were getting paid to protest Trump. The protests are largely paid for by George Soros, MoveOn.org, reclusive billionaire Jonathan Lewis, and pushed by David Brock at Media Matters for America. I've been writing about this for several years.
The Latest Faux Protests
Leftist Activists demanded Monday that the American Museum of Natural History in New York City take down its statue of 'racist' Theodore Roosevelt. Apparently "the statue is seen as an affront to all who pass it on entering the museum, but especially to African and Native Americans."
Marching around the museum in a fit of self-righteous rage, protesters carried signs that read "BLACK LIVES MATTER," "DECOLONIZE THIS MUSEUM," and "ABOLISH WHITE SUPREMACY," the Daily Wire reported.
"A stark embodiment of the white supremacy that Roosevelt himself espoused and promoted," pontificated the group of protesters in a statement.
Denying the History of the South
Leftist activists continue to demand that southern states take down statues of Confederate figures. Some argue that Confederate war monuments shouldn't be funded with taxpayer dollars. Others say these monuments are a part of American history, and whether it's positive or negative history, they should be treated as such. Leftists on the other hand, have instead determined that it's fine to...
This Nationwide Program Is Teaching Millions of Students to Become Leftist Snowflakes
Parents beware: A program called Challenge Day that applauds a culture of victimhood is planting the leftist agenda into young minds under the guise of anti-bullying education.
The program uses the power of peer pressure and groupthink to impress upon high school students the idea that everyone is a victim.
Challenge Day is no small initiative. According to the program's website, it has been held at more than 2,200 high schools nationwide and reached millions of students.
Challenge Day purports to teach tolerance and acceptance, yet nearly every member of its board of directors and Global Leadership Council is politically left of center.
Of the 17 members of Challenge Day's board of directors, 15 openly support leftist leaders and causes, and two have an unknown affiliation, according to Federal Election Commission records and personal social media accounts. Of their 22-person Global Leadership Council, 17 of the members support leftist leaders and causes.
This is an organization that preaches diversity but is not politically diverse itself.
The most concerning member of Challenge Day's global governing board? The former "green-jobs czar" under President Barack Obama, Van Jones.
While Jones was in jail after a mass arrest, according to the East Bay Express, he said, "I met all these young radical people of color—I mean really radical, communists and anarchists. And it was, like, 'This is what I need to be a part of.'"
When in high school, I myself participated in Challenge Day. At 16 years old, I was a junior at Grosse Pointe North High School, a public school outside Detroit.
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Black Teens Bludgeon White Man To Death With Hammers In Ferguson
Remember when this was huge news and President Obama was forced to disavow Black Lives Matter?
Neither do I.
Zemir Begic was a teenager when he and his family fled Bosnia in the aftermath of a bloody civil war. In America, he found work, friends and love before a pack of thugs beat him to death with hammers on a city street in St. Louis as his terrified fiancee watched early Sunday.
Begic, his wife of six months and a friend were surrounded by a group a teenagers who began banging on it with hammers, according to authorities and witnesses. When Begic stepped out of his car to confront them, the teens pounced on him, pummeling him with the hammers and leaving him fatally injured. He died hours later at St. Louis University Hospital.
"The last thing he did before he actually died was pull me out of the way and put himself in front of me, basically giving up his life for me," Begic's fiancee, Arijana Mujkanovic, told KSDK.
The attack occurred in southwest St. Louis, just 20 miles from Ferguson, where a police shooting of a black man and a grand jury's subsequent decision not to indict the officer sparked violent riots. Police have said the murder of Begic, 32, does not appear to be racially motivated, and have arrested three teens and were looking for one or possibly two more. The married immigrant was driving his car when the teens approached at a traffic light and began striking it with hammers, prompting him to get out and confront them, according to police.
The attack has left St. Louis's 70,000-member Bosnian community reeling and calling for more police protection.
"We come from Bosnia because we were getting killed and our homes and families were getting destroyed," Denisa Begic, his 23-year-old sister, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "Never in my life did I think he would get murdered."
On Monday evening, Robert Mitchell, 17, was charged as an adult with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the death, KMOV-TV reported. Mitchell turned himself in late Sunday after 15- and 16-year-old suspects were taken into custody. Despite the proximity to the racially-charged Ferguson incident, which has generated national headlines, police insist there is no...
Protesters attacked Charlottesville driver's car with baseball bat
So it looks to me like the city revoked the legal permit to assemble, the illegal assembly of leftists protesters was allowed to continue, this guy starts driving home, gets caught in the middle of violent protesters who begin attacking his car with weapons, and he panics and guns it, hitting a car from behind and killing the girl standing in between two cars taunting the second car.
They violently attack his car again after the accident, he again panics and he backs up out of there at high speed.
See video HERE
But I could be wrong...
The 3-Step Argument the Left Makes to Justify Violence Against Conservative Speakers
Free speech is under assault because of a three-step argument made by the advocates and justifiers of violence.
The first step is they say that the validity or invalidity of an argument can be judged solely by the ethnic, sexual, racial, or cultural identity of the person making the argument.
The second step is that they claim those who say otherwise are engaging in what they call "verbal violence," and the final step is they conclude that physical violence is sometimes justified in order to stop such verbal violence.
So let's examine each of these three steps in turn. First, the philosophy of intersectionality. This philosophy now dominates college campuses as well as a large segment, unfortunately, of today's Democratic Party and suggests that straight, white Americans are inherently the beneficiaries of white privilege and therefore cannot speak on certain policies, since they have not experienced what it's like to be black or Hispanic or gay or transgender or a woman.
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THE RESILIENCE OF THE UK PACKAGING MACHINERY INDUSTRY IS DEMONSTRATED BY A STEADY GROWTH TRAJECTORY, DESPITE THE CHALLENGES POSED BY BREXIT, DECLINING HIGH STREET SALES AND THE CONSUMER BACKLASH AGAINST PLASTIC.
This view that the packaging equipment industry is actually benefitting from Brexit is shared by others. David Jahn, director of Kent-based automation specialist Brillopak, notes that in the food and beverage industry, the issue of labour shortages has worsened since the UK voted to leave the EU, as pack house workers from Central and Eastern Europe return home. This has left companies no choice but to automate – a situation that plays into the hands of packaging machinery manufacturers.
Another packaging equipment supplier shrugging off suggestions of ill effects from Brexit is Bradford-based Advanced Dynamics, which experienced a 38% increase in sales of filling, capping, sleeving and labelling equipment this year. "Business survived 2008 when finance dried up and it will find a way through this," says MD Malcolm Little. Quantitative market data completes the picture of a stable industry in great shape. In its global packaging machinery report (www.technavio.com/report/global-packaging-machinery-market-analysis-share-2018), market research firm Technavio valued the packaging machinery market in the UK at US$920m (£730m) in 2017 and predicted that it will grow at a CAGR of 3.8% to reach US$1,108m (£880m) by 2022.
The relentless march of e-commerce is a major growth driver. The increase in online retail, coupled with demand for faster delivery (same day or next day), is fuelling the need for efficient logistics operations, which in turn is driving demand for packaging machinery, according to Technavio. The advent of the e-cigarette has created another lucrative opportunity. Advanced Dynamics describes this market as "buoyant", although Little suspects demand may have peaked. Whilst these emerging markets are providing dynamic new channels, the majority of packaging machinery manufacturers still rely on the food and beverage marketplace for 'bread and butter' business.
"Within the PPMA Group, we estimate that between 60-70% of packaging relates to the food and beverage industry; notwithstanding other household, pharmaceutical, chemical and construction goods," says Tim Paul, chairman of the PPMA Group of Associations. Notable investments in this sector during 2018 included Britvic's £100m in three new canning lines at its Rugby manufacturing site; Radnor Hills' £6m Krones line that will enable it to reduce the PET content of bottles; and Whitby Seafoods' third packaging line, incorporating tna's Robag bagging technology. There have also been numerous smaller investment projects, including: Fox's Biscuits' purchase of an Ilapak flow wrapper for its site in Kirkham, Lancashire; PG Amps' acquisition of a new Ulma thermoformer for packaging cold cooked meats; Endoline's end-ofline automation project at Marshfield Farm; and the sale of three Proseal GT1 tray sealers to North Yorkshire-based Heck Foods. Although a much smaller volume market than food and beverage, the pharmaceutical industry is another key target market. In 2017, it accounted for almost 10% of the packaging machinery market in the UK, according to Technavio.
The Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD), aimed at reducing the number of counterfeit medicines infiltrating the legal pharmaceutical supply chain within Europe, is a powerful motivator for both machinery innovation and investments. Since it came into force in 2016, pharmaceutical manufacturers have had to make physical modifications to their packaging lines to enable the production of serialised packs. These included a raft of FMD-ready innovations, mainly in coding and labelling. Examples of new introductions from 2018 include Herma UK's Herma 500 tamper evident labelling system and Mettler Toledo PCE's labelling/verification system.
Looking forward, it is clear that anti-plastic sentiment is gaining momentum. Although brand owners and retailers are exploring greener material types, such as biodegradable films, it is currently business as usual for packaging machinery manufacturers.
In the meantime, concerns around plastic packaging could be having a negative impact on the industry's image. In June 2018, Bosch announced that it was putting its Packaging Technology business up for sale; there is no evidence of any takers, as yet. Talking to BakeryandSnacks in July 2018, Nick Mockett, head of Packaging M&A at Moorgate Capital, suggested that "appetite may be dampened by the current hysteria about plastic".
Bosch Packaging Technology is a sizeable entity, generating revenues in the region of €1.3bn and employing a workforce of 6000 across 15 countries, so developments in this space will be followed with interest by the industry.
In 2018, Cheshire tray sealing specialist Proseal was the recipient of a Queen's Award for International Trade, in recognition of its continuous growth over the last six years.
This accolade coincided with the company's 20th anniversary and followed a period of strong sales growth in both its home and export markets, increasing its employee headcount to 438 worldwide.
The company enjoys strong business in mainland European countries such as the Netherlands, Ireland, Germany, and Spain, and has developed new markets in Southeast Asia, China, Turkey, North Africa, South Africa, and South America.
Representatives of Proseal, receiving a Queen's Award for International Trade in 2018.


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Q: file uploads and sessions while load balancing using nginx and php5-fpm We have two webservers running with nginx + php5-fpm configuration (native php sessions on a memdisk)
The webservers are using different subdomains and load-balancing is somehow satisfied.
Now we want to use the same domain address for these servers and even newer ones with the exact same configuration.
Installing an nginx in front of these web servers does not sound as a good idea since there are many file uploads to these web servers and the datatraffic passing through the loadbalancer for each upload would cause unnecessary traffic. Round robin DNS solution needs sessions shared in memcache, redis or db. This is also what we do not like because we keep too much data in sessions and very fine with it in our memdisks on local.
Are there any other configurations that fit to our needs?

A: The data will need to go through some networking appliance or other. This can be an application loadbalancer like Nginx, a software network loadbalancer like LVS, a hardware loadbalancer or, if DNS roundrobin is used, you still need to route the traffic through a switch.
If you are not satisfied with the performance of Nginx, check out LVS or consider buying a hardware loadbalancer. We saw really good performance through LVS (Linux Virtual Server) at the webhosting company where I used to work, so there's still much you can do with software.
Do some research. Set up an Nginx or LVS loadbalancer and benchmark it. Imitate your usual traffic patterns and check how it performs.

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Hochzeit ist das fünfte Studioalbum der Potsdamer Mittelalterrock-Band Subway to Sally. Es erschien 1999 bei BMG/Ariola.

Musikstil
Die Gitarren klingen im Vergleich zum Vorgängeralbum Bannkreis lauter und verzerrter; wo sich vorher die Gitarren noch eher mit den mittelalterlichen Instrumenten ergänzten, wechseln diese sich nun des Öfteren ab. Oboe, Dudelsack und andere Instrumente treten weit in den Hintergrund. Allerdings verzichtet das Album nicht gänzlich auf alte Stilelemente der Band. Das Lied Minne kommt vollkommen ohne Gitarren aus (Gesang, Oboe, Drehleier, Mandoline, Violine, Pauke und Trumscheit). Auf der anderen Seite wird bei Das Opfer und Henkersbraut ganz auf die mittelalterlichen Instrumente verzichtet.

Titelliste

 Böses Erwachen – 3:46
 Die Rose im Wasser – 4:27
 Henkersbraut – 5:06
 Sabbat – 5:22
 Minne – 3:00
 Tag der Rache – 4:03
 Das Opfer – 3:45
 Ohne Liebe – 4:21
 Aufstand – 5:18
 Müde – 5:12

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Die Texte Bodenskis sind auf diesem Album weniger kryptisch und verschlüsselt, aber immer noch sehr metaphorisch. Themen, die in der einen oder anderen Weise die Band immer begleitet haben, sind Kritik an der Kirche, Liebe und Leidenschaft sowie mittelalterliche Bräuche.

Böses Erwachen stellt die Versprechungen der Bibel sowie der Kreuzzüge an den Pranger, lockt Ungläubige oder Unwissende ins Verderben ("[...] greif nach der Schlange, längst ist all ihr Gift versiegt [...]")

Die Rose im Wasser ist die poetisch dargestellte Geschichte einer Frau, die aus einer verletzten Liebe ins Wasser ging, die so groß war, dass die Natur um sie herum mit und um sie trauert. Motiv und Teile des Textes wurden dabei Georg Heym's Gedicht Ophelia I entlehnt. Im Refrain heißt es "Der Liebsten die Roten (Rosen), die Weißen den Toten" – hierin könnte man schon einen Hinweis auf das nächste Studioalbum der Band, Herzblut sehen. Dieses ist schließlich in Rot und Weiß gehalten. Laut Mitproduzent Ingo Hampf ist Die Rose im Wasser eines der kompositorisch schwierigsten Stücke, das die Band je geschrieben hat.

Henkersbraut beschreibt eine Zusammenkunft des Volkes zur Hinrichtung einer Frau, die wegen der Tötung ihres ungeborenen Kindes geächtet wurde. Die an sich grausame Akt der Hinrichtung wird im Lied ironisch als Fest bzw. Hochzeit bezeichnet. Der Refrain fußt textlich auf dem ursprünglich aus Ostpreußen stammenden Kirchenlied "Macht hoch die Tür".

Sabbat beschreibt einen rituellen Liebes- oder Hochzeitsakt. Es ist somit, was den Bezug zum Albumtitel betrifft, das zentrale Lied der Platte.

Minne stellt ein Liebeslied dar, das sich an den mittelalterlichen Minnesang anlehnt.

Tag der Rache beschreibt die Apokalypse und beschwört den Kampfgeist und Überlebenswillen.

Das Opfer ist die klagende, flehende Bitte des Folterknechts an seinen Meister, ihn für sein Mitleid gegenüber dem Opfer nicht zu bestrafen, in dem Wissen, dass dies nichts nützen wird.

Ohne Liebe beschreibt in Bildern den seelischen Verfall, der durch die Verwechslung von Leidenschaft mit Liebe einem Mädchen widerfährt. Zunächst noch ein Fieber, das den Körper beim ersten Mal erfasst, und Kälte "vom Scheitel bis zum Zeh", nachdem der Fünfte kam und ging, und sie wieder nur ohne Liebe verführt hat.

Aufstand nimmt das sprichwörtliche Bild vom Wolf im Schafspelz auf, um den Hirten anzuklagen, der die Herde zum Stillhalten bewegen will und sie aufs nächste Leben vertröstet – eine metaphorische Anklage an die Kirche, die keinen Schutz vor den Gefahren dieser Zeit mehr bieten kann. Aufstand ist das einzige Subway-to-Sally-Lied, bei dem Schlagzeuger David Pätsch als Komponist mitgewirkt hat. Dementsprechend hat das Stück auch ein langgezogenes Outro mit viel Schlagzeugeinsatz.

Müde ist als einziges Stück des Albums melancholisch und sanft gehalten. Darin wird der Glaube in einer trostlosen Welt abgelehnt. Musikalisch ähnelt es der Rose im Wasser: leise, zarte Gitarrenpickings während der Strophen, voller Instrumenteneinsatz bei den Refrains.

Illustration
Das Layout des Albumcovers erfährt mit Hochzeit erstmals eine grundlegende Änderung, weg von gewohnten Bahnen. Erstmals erscheint kein in irgendeiner Art gehörntes Wesen auf dem Cover, sondern ein nackter Frauentorso in Rückansicht, der in ein Skelett übergeht und vor einem rot-schwarzen, wolkenverhangenen Himmel schwebt. Erstmals ist auch das Bandlogo verändert worden: der typische Schriftzug mit den verbundenen Buchstaben W und A in Subway und S und A in Sally besteht zwar weiterhin, allerdings ist der Schriftzug nun schlanker und wirkt wie auf grobes Papyrus gedruckt, ausgerissen. Des Weiteren hat das "O" bei to einen Punkt in der Mitte. Diese Schreibweise wird noch auf den nächsten beiden Alben, Schrei! und Herzblut, beibehalten. Auf den Fotos im Beiheft sind die Musiker mit wenig schwarzem Leder bekleidet und von Kerzenleuchtern beschienen, oder sie erscheinen zwischen Mauerresten einer Burg. Das Woman-to-Bones-Motiv erscheint erneut auf der Rückseite des Albums, wo es über Eric Fishs Hand zu schweben scheint, der es staunend betrachtet.

Einzelnachweise

Subway-to-Sally-Album
Album (Mittelalter-Rock)
Album 1999

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If you are deaf or hard of hearing or have a speech impairment, you can apply for a grant to pay for help at job interviews. This is called the Job Interview Interpreter Grant (JIIG) and it pays for an interpreter to go to the interview with you.
If you start a new job, you can also use a JIIG to pay for an interpreter to help you during the induction period.
What does the interpreter do?
An interpreter can help you deal with questions and say what you want to say in an interview. Using sign language or other means, they can make sure both you and the interviewer understand clearly what is said.
Interpreters do not join in the conversation. They will not add anything to what you or the interviewers say, or leave anything out. They treat all information given during the interview as confidential.
Who can apply for a JIIG?
Please note: a JIIG can be used only to pay for an interpreter in a job interview or an induction with a private-sector employer. You must not use it for any other purpose.
You can apply for a JIIG for as many interviews as you like.
If you are going to an interview or induction with a private-sector employer, you are responsible for finding your own interpreter. This can be a friend, a member of your family, a professionally qualified sign language interpreter or other interpreter.
The Sign Language Interpreting Service can help you find a professional interpreter.
They may let you choose an interpreter who will either go in person to your interview or help with it remotely. Remote interpreting services use a live video link such as Skype. See 'Where to apply' below for contact details.
If you are going to an interview or induction with a public-sector employer, you should ask the employer to make sure an interpreter will be there in person or remotely. Public-sector organisations have a duty to arrange and pay for interpretation services on request.
Book your interpreter as far ahead as possible. This will give you and the interpreter time to discuss what to expect and to prepare things you will need (for example, a presentation).
Send your interpreter a copy of your CV before the interview.
Make sure you are both familiar with any special words and phrases that may be used during the interview.
Contact the employer before the interview to tell them the name of your interpreter and check all the arrangements.
At the interview, you should look at and speak directly to the person who is deaf or hard of hearing (the interviewee), not the interpreter.
Never ask the interpreter to 'tell them…' as this would be considered disrespectful and rude.
Arrange for the interpreter to stand or sit near those speaking. The person who is deaf or hard of hearing should have a clear view of both you and the interpreter. If you will be moving around during the session, or if there will be more than one interviewer, you should sort out the seating arrangements beforehand with the interviewee and the interpreter.
Remember that the interpreter will be a few words behind the speaker. Give them enough time to finish before you continue so that the interviewee can ask questions or join in the discussion.
The interpreter or the interviewee may ask you to slow down or repeat a word or sentence for clarification. Likewise, be sure to ask them to repeat anything you find unclear.
Speak normally to someone who is deaf or hard of hearing or has a speech impairment. Speaking loudly does not help, and is especially pointless if an interpreter is there. Allow the interviewee to complete their sentences.
People with language or speech impairments often have different speech patterns, so you will need to listen carefully. If you find something unclear, ask questions and repeat what they said to make sure you understand.
The Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection (DEASP) will pay the interpreter a fee for a half-day session (up to three hours). The rate ranges from €95 to €205, depending on the duration and the interpreter's qualifications.
DEASP will also pay the interpreter's travel costs – either the cost of their fare on public transport or a rate of €0.25 per km where no public transport is available.
Contact your local Intreo Centre or Social Welfare Branch Office to get a JIIG Application Form Section 1 and a JIIG Application Form Section 2. You can also download these forms on welfare.ie.
Complete as much of the forms as possible before the job interview or induction. Ask the staff in your local Intreo Centre or Social Welfare Branch Office for help with the forms if necessary.
If possible, get your JIIG Application Form Section 2 signed by a DEASP case officer before the interview or induction. If this is not possible, call the case officer to get their verbal agreement to the grant.
Take your application form to the interview. Ask the employer and interpreter to sign and stamp it.
Return the signed and stamped application form to your local Intreo Centre or Social Welfare Branch Office. The payment will go directly to the interpreter or the interpreting service they work for.
For more details, see the guidelines on the Job Interview Interpreter Grant (pdf) on welfare.ie.
To get a JIIG Application Form Section 1 and a JIIG Application Form Section 2, contact your local Intreo Centre or Social Welfare Branch Office, or download the forms from the DEASP website.
The Department of Education and Skills operates a Visiting Teacher Service for deaf children and children with visual impairments.


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Cadillac to launch five new models targeting young drivers
Cadillac said Monday that it planned to launch four new models and one face-lifted model in Korea this year -- mostly sports utility vehicles -- to position itself as a young, dynamic brand for young generation.The American automotive brand owned by General Motors said in a press release that it would introduce three new models and one face-lifted model in the first half of this year, including a large-size sports utility vehicle XT6 and its bestselling SUV model XT5's facelift version. Th
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[Behind the Wheel] GV80 packs in high-tech driving experience, with some unfamiliar functions
Hyundai Motor's luxury brand Genesis unveiled its first sport utility vehicle GV80 last week, with a goal of selling 24,000 units in South Korea this year. The model will be launched in North America this summer.The Korea Herald had an opportunity to test drive GV80 in Ilsan, Gyeonggi Province, on the day of its launch on Wednesday. Genesis' first vehicle based on a rear-wheel-drive platform -- runs on a six-cylinder diesel engine -- which exerts a maximum torque of 60 kilogram-meter
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Mahindra set to inject W230b into SsangYong Motor: sources
Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. looks set to inject fresh cash into its cash-strapped South Korean unit SsangYong Motor Co. in a move to seek help from SsangYong's main creditor bank, industry sources said Friday. Mahindra & Mahindra Managing Director Pawan Goenka said the Indian carmaker will make a 230 billion-won ($198 million) investment after obtaining approval from its board during his meetings with SsangYong's labor union and Lee Dong-gull, chairman of the state-run Korea Development Ban
Hyundai Motor chief Chung Euisun underlines decarbonizing transportation
Chung Euisun, executive vice chairman of Hyundai Motor Group, said decarbonizing transportation will support the Hydrogen Council's vision of building a hydrogen-powered societyAccording to the company on Friday, Chung, who co-chairs the council, said in an interview that it is the responsibility of Hyundai Motor to extend beyond vehicles and invest in the hydrogen supply chain."As an innovator and pioneer in hydrogen-powered mobility, Hyundai Motor Group is willingly taking the resp
Chevrolet rolls out Trailblazer as new core SUV model
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Hyundai Motor Group to invest W129b in UK EV startup Arrival
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Qatar Airways introduces Qsuite on flights from Incheon
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Top Mahindra exec visits Korea to seek support for SsangYong Motor
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January 1, 2021 Marks Increases in Import Duty
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Effective January 1, 2021 the Generalized System of Preferences renewal, China 301 tariff exclusions and the Miscellaneous Tariff Bill suspensions are due to expire. This will have a tremendous effect on how customs brokers process and clear imports at the start of the year.
Generalized System of Preferences Expiration
Beginning January 1, merchandise that had been previously treated as duty-free from approximately 120 beneficiary countries will require duties be paid by importers. The GSP is the largest and oldest US trade preference program, established by the Trade Act of 1974 to promote economic development by eliminating duties on thousands of products when imported from a beneficiary country or territory.
While the program will most likely be renewed in 2021 and become retroactive back to 1/1/21, CBP is expected to flag GSP-eligible imports and receive duties until the program is renewed.
Section 301 Exclusions
Hundreds of the Section 301 China tariff exclusions will expire on 1/1/21. This will require importers to pay 25% or 7.5% trade tariffs on merchandise from China. There are exceptions with exclusions extended until March and April of 2021 for 32-list 1 exclusions and 8- list 1 exclusions.
Miscellaneous Tariff Bill Expiration
Temporary duty suspensions under the Harmonized Tariff Schedule heading 9902 will expire on 1/1/21. This will require importers to pay normal duty rates. The Miscellaneous Tariff Bill (MTB) is a law that temporarily reduces or suspends the import tariffs paid on particular products imported into the United States. Reinstatement of these temporary duty provisions in 2021 will most likely not be retroactive.
Mohawk Global is working to get clients' entries submitted before the end of the year and to lock in vessel arrival dates as entry dates where they occur in 2020. Importers should review their end of year arrivals that are impacted and ensure that they are properly filed to avoid the increases scheduled currently for Jan 1, 2021. If you have further questions, speak with your Mohawk Global representative.
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The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN), a nonprofit organization, has commended the Federal Government on the increase of excise duty on tobacco products in the newly- approved amendment of excise duty rates on tobacco and alcohol.
Under the new dispensation, in addition to the existing 20 per cent ad-valorem rate, each stick of cigarette will attract N1 specific rate (N20 per pack of 20 sticks) in 2018, N2 specific rate per stick (N40 per pack of 20 sticks) in 2019 and N2.90k specific rate per stick (N58 per pack of 20 sticks) in 2020.
Kemi Adeosun, Minister of Finance, said the approval was given by President Muhammadu Buhari, and would take effect from Monday, June 4, 2018 after a 90-day (three months) grace period to all local manufacturers before the commencement of the new excise duty regime.
Adeosun said the review of the excise duty rates for tobacco and alcohol was necessitated by the need to raise the government's fiscal revenues and reduce the health hazards associated with tobacco-related diseases and alcohol abuse.
When implemented Nigeria's cumulative specific excise duty rate for tobacco is 23.2 per cent of the price of the most sold brand, lower than what operates in Algeria, South Africa and The Gambia which have 38.14 per cent, 36.52 per and 30 per cent respectively.
Although ERA/FoEN described the decision to increase excise duty on tobacco as praise-worthy, it urged the government to match the rates in Nigeria with that of other countries across Africa if the aims are to be achieved in record time.
Oluwafemi noted that while the rates are a good start, they still fall short of the more aggressive but very effective recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Article 6 of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) which is 70% excise on tobacco products.
He highlighted the fact that survey after survey, including the Africa Tobacco Control Alliance Single Sticks Report and the Big Tobacco Tiny Targets Nigeria Report released last year, exposed the tobacco industry as targeting kids through the situation of points of sale near schools and other strategic locations they frequent to attract them to smoking.
"Considering the looming tobacco menace in Nigeria, it is necessary to take stringent measures to halt the deliberate marketing of tobacco products to kids. The new excise duty on tobacco products is a good start but the government can certainly do more," Oluwafemi said.


A quick five-minute walk from Centraal Station (click on our "locations"page for the map) and across the street from the legendary Barney's Coffeeshop, Barney's Uptown is a great place for either drinks at the bar or full meal table service.
Regardless of the weather, there's no better place to relax with your favourite beverage and a smoke than Barney's Farm. On sunny days, a table at our corner patio is a great spot to enjoy an icy draft beer while taking in the colourful passing scene that makes Amsterdam so unique. When the temperature drops, the cosy inside booths are perfect for planning your day over a tasty, healthy meal and a drink or two.
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This was given to me a few years ago by my grandfather. It was given to him originally by a groundskeeper that worked for Ebbets Field, which was in Brooklyn, New York, where my grandfather's originally from. They moved to Florida in the early '60s and it sat in a sock in a box in a closet for the past 50 years.
Here you can see that it's dated June 23 of 1859. And what it is, is when they played games, they would commemorate their games and celebrate that they played a game by stamping it as such. But here's what makes this ball interesting. The Brooklyn Atlantics were the first champions of organized baseball, the first champions of an organized league-- the National Association of Baseball Players. If baseball has roots, here it is. This is it.
The Brooklyn Atlantics, no association with the Dodgers at all. They began in, I believe, 1855 and they were done in the 1870s. So this is a pre-Civil War heirloom; it's a treasure.
I daresay this is the oldest sports piece the ANTIQUES ROADSHOW has ever had.
It's got some condition defects, and that's to be expected. Finding a baseball from the early part of the 20th century is hard enough, let alone one 50 years before that.
It's handmade, it was hand-stitched. We see that the ball is stamped with a "29" at the end of "Atlantic." We really don't know what that refers to. We also see here that it shows "Time" and what appears to be "15." It's difficult to place that in any kind of context. What's significant here is the date. The way to preserve this is definitely not to keep it in a sock. Put it in a ball case, store it away somewhere dark and dry.
At auction, this ball has a value of $20,000-plus.
Were I to insure it, I'd go with $30,000.
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Dr. Yoram Solomon, Trust & Innovation Expert
Dr. Yoram Solomon has published 16 books, 22 patents, and was one of the creators of Wi-Fi and USB 3.0 technologies, for which he was dubbed "TI's Great Innovator." Dr. Solomon was named by Innovation Excellence as one of the Top 40 Innovation Bloggers, and by Thinkers 360 as one of the top 20 Global Thought Leaders and Influencers on Culture. He was a columnist at Inc. Magazine, Innovation Excellence, and other publications, where he published more than 300 articles.
Dr. Solomon holds a PhD in Organization and Management from Capella University, an MBA from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, an LLB from the Tel-Aviv University Law School, and an Associate Degree in Electrical Engineering from Ort Singalovski College. He completed the executive Marketing Management Program at Stanford University and the Developing the Strategic Leader program at the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) in Colorado Springs. Dr. Solomon is certified by CCL to administer the KEYS and SKILLSCOPE assessments and is an authorized provider of school board training by the Texas Education Agency.
He has founded several startups and sold a startup company in Silicon Valley. He has held various positions from General Manager of a $100m business unit in a Fortune 200 company to a Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Innovation, and to CEO.
Dr. Solomon is an adjunct professor of entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship at Southern Methodist University, and formerly at the University of Texas at Dallas.
A National Speakers Association Professional Speaker, he spoke in several different national and regional conferences, including the Human Resources Southwest Annual Conference, the Association for Strategic Planning National Conference, CDX Annual Conference, Meeting Planner International (MPI) Annual conference, and many more, to audiences in excess of 2,000, both in-person and virtually.
Yoram was the host of the first TEDxPlano in 2014, and spoke at TEDxOakLawn in 2018 and TEDxPlanoSeniorHS in 2022. His customers include a wide range of Fortune 500 companies as well as startups, for-profit, non-profit, and government organizations, in a broad spectrum of industries from technology to retail, healthcare, defense, and education. He served companies such as AT&T, Dannon, Amway, Texas Instruments, Medical City, and many more, who described his keynotes and workshops as transformative.
In 2015, he was elected to the Plano Independent School District Board of Trustees. Yoram served in the IDF 35th Airborne Paratrooper brigade and as a USAF CAP pilot and Aerospace Education Officer.
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Newfoundland was shaped by the Sea. Fishing, boating, whale watching, sea kayaking, not to mention iceberg hunting. So many things to do for those waterborne types. Limited cod fishing is now open during the summer months, and many rivers offer fly-fishing.
Fishing, boating, whale watching, sea kayaking, not to mention iceberg hunting. So many things to do for those waterborne types. Limited cod fishing is now open during the summer months, and many rivers offer fly-fishing. Or maybe a local will take you into the gullies with the traditional bamboo pole. Iceberg treks in a tin motorboat are exhilarating. You can even try SCUBA diving with icebergs and whales. Or maybe just watching and taking pictures at sea is your ideal way to spend time on the water. Coastal hiking cannot go unmentioned here. Newfoundland has 22 species of whales, including the minke, sperm, pothead, blue, orca, and the world's largest population of humpbacks.
The province is a paddling paradise offering sea kayaking among towering cliffs, icebergs and whales as close as a fifteen minute drive of downtown St. John's. If your interests run to white water kayaking, there is an abundance of rivers offering moving water venues from Class 2 teaching to Class 5 rapids that will challenge the most experienced paddlers.
Tour boats launch out of many ports that will take you up close to ecological reserves and known whale-watching areas. Choose between a large tour boat, an inflatable Zodiak, or maybe a newfound friend will take you for a spin in his vintage dory. Some will take you to abandoned communities. And yes, you can even swim. These water-based activities are located in all of the areas around our coastal homes.


One of the more common questions that punters ask has to do with partner friendly bookies. This is especially true among the matched betting community. That's because those who know about the benefits of matched betting may also want to get in on the opportunity. You'll see this, in particular, when it comes to spouses and others who share the same residence. Without a doubt, matched betting is one of the best ways to make money online. If a betting partnership is developed, then you have a perfect opportunity for the entire household to do rather well.
First of all, when you think about it, most online bookies have a rather strange rule. Let's say you and your spouse walked into a betting shop and you each wanted to place a bet. There would be absolutely no problem. As a matter of fact, your entire household could place separate bets, provided they were of legal age!
But if you wanted to try that with an online bookmaker, then it can become a different story. Many bookies won't even allow a second account with the same address. And, if they do, they probably won't allow unrestricted access to their promotions. These promotions include free bets and their welcome offers.
First of all, you want to consider that not everything is set in stone. You'd be surprised to know that exceptions to the rules exist. Even if it's written only one household individual may sign up, you can still give them a call. Just ask them politely and they may just allow your request. However, if you already know that you'll want to include another person, check the Terms and Conditions before signing up. Also, you'll want to check with the support team, as well. That's because rules can change at any time and an update might not have been posted yet.
Now, I do want to reiterate that many bookmakers can allow more than one account per address. The difference will be that they just won't allow those extra accounts to have access to their bonuses. Also, be aware of the difference between multiple users and multiple accounts. A bookmaker may allow multiple users from the same address. However, one user having multiple accounts is definitely not allowed. If you, yourself, get caught having multiple accounts with the same bookie, you'll most definitely be banned!
In any case, suppose you want to sign up with a bookmaker that another household member has an account with. If this is so, contact the support team via Live Chat first. Ask them if you, too, can have access to their bonuses. Surprisingly, it can often be the case in which they say 'yes'.
With all that said, let's move on to partner friendly bookies. These are bookies who have a complete partner friendly policy. These are the types of bookmakers that are perfect for those who participate in matched betting. Also, consider it as an extra bonus if a partner friendly bookmaker offers a good welcome bonus.
One of the more noted online bookmakers is SkyBet.com. If you take a look at their website, one of the first things you'll notice is variety. Sky Bet offers an excellent range of different betting markets that are available in the UK. Since they have ties to the Sky Sports TV Channels, they provide the range of sports coverage those channels offer. On their website, check out the list of sports betting options on the left side of the screen. It's quite impressive. Their biggest focus is on horseracing and football.
Next up, we have bwin.com. With bwin, you have over 90 sports that are covered with over 30,000 bets made daily. That's a staggering number of bets that are offered for you to choose from! Besides being partner friendly, they tend to offer the average sports betting odds. This pretty much keeps them in the same ballpark as other bookmakers.
NetBet.com is owned and operated by NetBet Enterprises Limited. Of course, one of the enticing aspects of any bookmaker company is the number of games that are offered. Over the years, NetBet has managed to establish a solid reputation in the online sports betting industry. Since 2001, they have focused on offering a wide variety of sports betting options. Today, they provide access to over 25 sports betting markets. In addition, a number of their options are available on mobile betting platforms.
BetBright.com is one of the newer bookmakers and it's owned by Dedsert (Ireland) Limited. Right now, they don't offer the wide range of betting markets that the more established bookies offer. But on the plus side, they are known for not sending out tons of emails on a constant basis. Although they are known mostly for their casino, their sports betting services aren't bad at all.
Their main focus is on football and horse racing, the two main sports betting venues in the UK. Not only are these covered pretty well, but they also cover all of the other major sports. These include; cricket, tennis, golf and the major North American sports.
Genting Bet is part of the Genting Group, which is one of the most popular betting companies in Asia. Its sports betting and casino channels have recently made their way into the UK market. As such, they are rapidly increasing in popularity.
Basically, they offer a simplified sports book to UK punters who are looking for a fair price. If you're looking for a bookmaker without fancy graphics or constant chat, then these guys might be for you. This simplistic approach has proven to be essential to their growing popularity. In addition, they have a partner friendly policy.
While I've gone into bookmakers with full partner friendly bookies policies, we should also consider "semi-partner friendly" bookies. Of course, while many bookies won't allow multiple accounts from the same address, there are some that do. However, they will allow only one account to benefit from their bonus offerings. But, remember, these policies are not always set in stone. It's worth it to check out these bookies, since they may make exceptions to their normal policies. This is especially true if they are feeling the competition from other bookmakers.
If you look in their terms and conditions Betfair states that only one person, per household can join. However, there is some evidence that they actually don't apply this policy. It's been reported that a chat with their Live Support confirmed they will accept multiple accounts from the same address. But each account must have its own personal banking account details.
In addition, in order to qualify for the welcome offer, it was advised to just register normally. Meaning that one of the (promo) codes should be applied, to identify which offer to apply to the new account.
So, you can see, one of the considerations with matched betting is to determine if the bookie is partner friendly. This can be a major point in households with more than one bettor. The other major point is that not all terms and conditions are unavoidable. Don't be afraid to contact Live Chat and see if multiple accounts can receive their bonuses. If you already have an account with a (potentially) non-partner friendly bookie, maybe the rules can be bent a bit. This is great if someone in your household has seen the advantages of matched betting and wants to try it. All-in-all, it can be worth a LOT of money for your betting household!


I am Jean-Philippe. As a blind user, I have known and used Debian since 2004. I mainly contributed to accessibility team, as a tester and bug reporter. I also help Debian to have stands at FOSDEM (I did it four or five times) and in various French events. I attended Debconf Heidelberg. I am about starting to contribute more regularly to translation into French of Debian. I also maintained some packages (edbrowse, speech-tools, festival), even if I do not follow that due to low technical skills.
Now I use testing to ensure stable release will be acceptable for end-user of the desktop version of Debian. I contribute via Hypra to the project, paying for persons to package tools such as Compiz, speech-dispatcher and other accessibility tools, where I contribute upstream as well (in MATE in particular).
As a member of Debian-France organization, I would like to be able to help it better as a Secretary. Also would be interested in get more involved in the translation process.


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ON-CAMERA AUDITION BASICS
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Erin Roberts is an actor, teacher, and coach, transplanted from New York City, most recently appearing on stage at The Minneapolis Fringe Festival, and winning the 2018 "Audience Pick Award" for her one woman show My 4 Bodies, and was voted "Favorite Supporting Actor" in the New York International Fringe Festival. Film and television credits include ESPN's The Bronx Is Burning, Law and Order SVU, The Good Wife, Investigation Discovery's Never Say Goodbye, Lady Dynamite, The Royal Tenenbaums, Celebrity, MLB Fan Cave's "Boston Ink," and the webseries FEM:101, now streaming exclusively on seekatv.com. She has several commercials running, and has done numerous print campaigns, live events, and works as the on field correspondent for the Saint Paul Saints. Erin has a Bachelor of Arts in Directing from Smith College, a Masters of Fine Arts in Acting from Penn State University, studied with The National Theatre Institute, The Royal Shakespeare Company, and is a member of The Guthrie Theatre's Actor's Workout. She has taught various acting, voice and movement classes at Penn State, Queens College, has been a guest artist at Remedios Creative, AMDA, Northern Stage Company, Improbable Fiction, Invisible City Theatre Company, Laguardia High School for the Performing Arts. Learn more about Erin at www.erin-roberts.com
Kyle Skye brings a fresh perspective and unorthodox approach to the on-camera acting industry. Kyle earned a degree in Political Science from the University of Minnesota, also playing football for the Minnesota Gophers. With a unique work ethic, energy, and charisma, Kyle has a proven skill set that has allowed him to become one of the most sought after talents in the current Twin-Cities market. With an expertise in teleprompter technique, having worked as a lead on-camera spokesperson for Best Buy since 2012, Kyle has also worked consistently as a lead on-camera and voice over talent for many other corporations, such as, Target, US Bank, Boston Scientific, 3M, General Mills, and more. Also a Producer/Singer/Songwriter, Kyle has recently released his debut album "Mint" available on all digital streaming services. Kyle's professional teaching experience stems from his time working for Apple, where he was one of four experienced professionals chosen to pioneer an elite position developing a technical curriculum, and educating internal and external customers on creative skills. Learn more about Kyle at www.KyleSkye.com
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Gaza Strip Internal Unrest News Report
Unknown gunmen blow up a hair salon in northern Gaza
Palestinian media sources said Thursday that unknown gunmen blew up late last night a hair salon in the city of Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip. Witnesses said that unknown gunmen placed an explosive device at the shop's front door and detonated it from a distance. The explosion at the shop caused damage to nearby stores, but no injuries were reported. The Gaza Strip has recently seen a series of explosions of shops and cafes, at a time when the Palestinian interior minister has launched a security plan in order to contain internal unrest throughout the coastal region.
Unknown gunmen destroy a shop in northern Gaza Strip
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Spicy and crisp, a delicious combination of flavours and textures.
Energy 286 k cal; Carbohydrate 16 g of which sugars 6 g; Protein 20 g; Fat 16 g of which saturates 6 g.
Preheat the grill and put a kettle of water on to boil.
Heat the oil in a frying pan or large wok, add the garlic and chilli, stir in the broccoli and cauliflower florets, sprinkle with salt and pepper and add 150 ml/ 5 fl oz of boiling water.
Cover the pan and cook over a high heat for 4 – 5 minutes, or until they are tender. Stir or toss them half-way through cooking.
Mix the Gruyére and Parmesan cheeses with the breadcrumbs.
Stir the capers and peppercorns into the vegetables. Transfer to a shallow flameproof dish, sprinkle with the cheese and breadcrumb mixture and place under the grill until the cheese melts and turns golden.


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Sugar Land Regional Airport  is a city-owned public-use airport located in Sugar Land, Texas (USA),  southwest of the central business district of Houston.

Founded privately in the early 1950s as Hull Field, it was renamed in 1990, as Sugar Land Municipal Airport when acquired by the city. As of 2009 it is the fourth-largest airport within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area and serves as a "reliever" of traffic to this airport. It handles approximately 200 aircraft operations per day during typical years, which include corporate business jet and turboprop flights.

The airport today serves the area's general aviation (GA) aircraft, serving corporate, governmental, and private clientele.  It opened a new  Terminal in 2006 with a  GA complex, including 99 T-hangars in six buildings.

The City of Sugar Land maintains Cullinan Park, which occupies  of land directly north and west of the Sugar Land Regional Airport, blocking expansion. The airport is surrounded by Sugar Land homes, and there is a highway and rail road track directly south of the airport, which also block its expansion. The former Central Unit, a Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison for males, was closed in 2011. It occupied land zoned for airport expansion.

History

Dr. Donald "Doc" Hull was an oral surgeon who established a dental program for the Texas Department of Corrections in the early 1950s. Hull, who commuted across Southeast Texas to provide dental care to prisoners, originally operated aircraft to South Houston Airport and Sam Houston Airport. As it expanded, the City of Houston forced those airports to close. The former Sam Houston Airport was annexed as part of Houston's extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ) and became the Westbury area.

Hull decided to develop a regional airport more distant from Houston but to serve the area. In 1952, Hull landed his biplane in a field near Sugar Land. Afterward, with a loan from a friend, Hull purchased the property and developed a small airport.

The City of Sugar Land purchased Hull Field on December 18, 1990, and renamed the airport as "Sugar Land Municipal Airport." The City of Sugar Land opened an NFCT (non-federal control tower) that it funds and operates. This control tower manages traffic within  of Sugar Land Airport from 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. daily.

Past airline service

Several commuter airlines operated scheduled passenger service into Sugar Land Regional over the years.  In the fall of 1979, Commutair was flying a "cross-town" shuttle service between the airport and Houston Intercontinental Airport (IAH), with de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter twin turboprop aircraft operating up to twelve round-trip flights a day.

The Commutair service was replaced by Metro Airlines during the 1980s.  In the summer of 1983, Metro, operating as an independent air carrier, was flying up to nine round trips a day between Sugar Land and Houston Intercontinental with Twin Otter aircraft.  By early 1985, Metro Airlines had entered into a codesharing agreement with Eastern Air Lines and was flying Twin Otter aircraft as Eastern Express between the airport and IAH with up to eleven round trip flights a day.

In 1993, Austin-based Conquest Airlines announced it would begin intrastate flights from the airport to Austin (Mueller Airport), Dallas Love Field (DAL), and San Antonio. By 1994, Conquest had dropped flights to San Antonio but was still operating nonstops to Austin and Dallas. In 1995, the airline was operating three nonstop flights a day to Austin with Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner (Metro III model) propjets. By 1996, Conquest was no longer serving Sugar Land Regional.

The airport does not have any scheduled passenger airline flights at the present time.

Current name

Sugar Land Regional Airport received its current name in October 2002.  The airfield was formerly known as Sugar Land Municipal Airport and Hull Field. It is the fourth-largest airport in Greater Houston as of 2009, receiving annual usage from private planes of more than 100 Fortune 500 companies. TXP, Inc. released a report identifying the airport as "foremost general reliever airport in the southwest sector" and "a catalyst for corporate commerce in the Greater Houston market including the Westchase District, Uptown, and Greenway Plaza."

The airport is the fourth-largest in the Houston area, serving as a reliever for William P. Hobby Airport. As of 2010, Sugar Land Regional is the third-busiest airport in Greater Houston by number of aircraft operations.

Facilities and aircraft

Sugar Land Regional Airport covers an area of  and contains one concrete paved runway designated 17/35 which measures 8,000 x 100 ft (2,438 x 30 m). For the 12-month period ending July 28, 2005, the airport had 90,758 aircraft operations, an average of 248 per day: 95% general aviation, 5% air taxi and less than 1% military. In August 2017, there were 139 aircraft based at this airport: 84 single-engine, 18 multi-engine, 34 jet and 3 helicopter.

The airport includes the former Stanford Aviation hangar, described by Mimi Swartz of Texas Monthly as "impeccably landscaped." Flights from the terminal went to Antigua.

US Customs and Border Protection has a small facility at the airport.

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References

External links

 Sugar Land Regional Airport
 The Economic Impact of Sugar Land Regional Airport

Sugar Land, Texas
Airports in Greater Houston
Transportation in Fort Bend County, Texas
Buildings and structures in Fort Bend County, Texas
Airports established in 1952
1952 establishments in Texas


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