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: 2010 Domaine Henri Gouges Nuits-St-Georges 1er Cru "Clos des Porrets"
2010 Domaine Henri Gouges Nuits-St-Georges 1er Cru "Clos des Porrets"
SKU #1435555 93 points John Gilman
The 2010 Clos des Porrets is a stunning wine in the making, soaring from the glass in a complex and sappy blend of red and black cherries, stony minerality, espresso, gamebirds, woodsmoke and a lovely topnote of violets. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and sappy at the core, with brilliant soil inflection, firm, well-integrated tannins, excellent focus and balance and tangy acids perking up the very long, pure and properly reserved finish. A great vintage of Clos des Porrets. 93+ (12/2011)
91-93 points Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2010 Nuits St. Georges Clos des Porrets Saint-Georges is the first wine in this lineup that shows the structure of the vintage. Freshly cut flowers, minerals, graphite and black cherries are woven into a textured fabric of notable class. I especially like its energy and drive. A precise, finely-chiseled finish rounds things out nicely. (AG) (12/2011)
91-93 points Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar
Good full red. Redcurrant, raspberry, crushed stone and smoky minerality on the rather serious nose. At once silky and tangy in the mouth, with raspberry and stone flavors dominating. A step up in breadth and dimension from the foregoing wines, offering lovely inner-mouth perfume. Very representative of the south side of the village: 'never with explosive fruit early,' notes Gouges. Has the firm tannin/acid structure to age. This large Clos comprises 3.8 hectares of vines. (ST) (1/2012)
92 points Wine Spectator
Needs air to reveal the black cherry, violet, mineral and spice notes. Rich and tannic, yet balanced overall and long on the finish. (BS, Web-2013)
90-92 points Allen Meadows - Burghound
Reduction dominates the nose. By contrast to the funky nose, there is a lovely inner mouth perfume to the precise, intense and vibrant middle weight plus flavors that possess good volume. There is admirable persistence on the quite firm finish that is at once pure and actually rather refined, which is not always the case with this wine. Worth a look. (1/2012)
JG: 93
RP: 91 - 93
ST: 91 - 93
BH: 90 - 92
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- One of France's most legendary grapes and the grape that earned Burgundy its reputation. The parent of varietals like Pinot Gris/Grigio and Pinot Blanc, Pinot Noir is blue to violet to indigo in color with relatively thin skins, and it is said to have been cultivated in France for more than 2,000 years. At its best, Pinot Noir creates elegant wines that are filled with primary red fruit aromas and flavors while young, revealing with an array of secondary characteristics like earth, smoke, violet, truffle and game with age. The varietal is also known, perhaps better than any, for its ability to translate terroir, or a sense of place. While the best Pinot Noir still comes from Burgundy, it is being produced with increasing success in cooler climates around the world. In France, it is part of the trifecta of grapes that can go into Champagne, and it is also grown in Alsace, Irancy, Jura, Savoie, Lorraine and Sancerre. Outside of France it is produced under the names Pinot Nero and Blauburgunder in Italy's mountainous regions, as Spätburgunder in Germany and as Blauburgunder in Austria. In the US, Pinot Noir has found suitable growing conditions in the cooler parts of California, including Carneros, the Russian River Valley, the Anderson Valley, the Sonoma Coast, Monterey County, the Santa Lucia Highlands and Santa Barbara County, as well as in Oregon's Willamette Valley. In recent years, New Zealand has demonstrated its ability to interpret this hard-to-grow varietal, with successful bottlings coming from careful and attentive growers in Central Otago, Martinborough and Canterbury. Chile is also an up-and-coming region for Pinot Noir, creating fresh, fruit-forward, early-drinking and affordable Pinots from the coastal Casablanca Valley and the Limari Valley.
- When it comes to wine, France stands alone. No other country can beat it in terms of quality and diversity. And while many of its Region, Bordeaux, Burgundy and Champagne most obviously, produce wine as rare, as sought-after and nearly as expensive as gold, there are just as many obscurities and values to be had from little known appellations throughout the country. To learn everything there is to know about French wine would take a lifetime. To understand and appreciate French wine, one only has to begin tasting them.
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- The province of eastern France, famous for its red wines produced from Pinot Noir and its whites produced from Chardonnay. (Small of amounts of Gamay and Aligoté are still grown, although these have to be labeled differently.) The most famous part of the region is known as the Côte d'Or (the Golden Slope). It is divided into the Côte de Beaune, south of the town of Beaune (famous principally for its whites), and the Côte de Nuits, North of Beaune (home of the most famous reds). In addition, the Côte Chalonnaise and the Mâconnais are important wine growing regions, although historically a clear level (or more) below the Côte d'Or. Also include by some are the regions of Chablis and Auxerrois, farther north.
Specific Appellation:
Nuits Saint Georges
- A long, narrow appellation, and the southernmost commune of importance in the Côtes de Nuits. Nuits St. Georges tend to be sturdy, muscular wines, which are tannic in their youth. There are no Grands Cru in the town, but several Premier Cru vineyards. The wines from the north side of the village, towards Vosne-Romanée are distinctly different in character than those from the southern vineyards. The vineyards traditionally among the best are in the South, including Cailles, Vaucrains, St. Georges, and Argillières. These vineyards are on deep brown limestone. The northern vineyards, on the other side of the river Meuzin, have more in common with those of Vosne Romanée. The vineyards are composed of pebbles and limestone, and the wines have more of the finesse and elegance of Vosne, but with the structure of Nuits St. Georges.
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Q: What is the most efficient way of storing and querying for hastags in a MYSQL database I am in the process of structuring my MYSQL table, I am building a platform with Laravel where a user is able to upload an image that includes a description. This description will include hashtags.
Now I am wondering what the most efficient approach might be to storing the description and searching it.
Initially I thought of storing the description as as whole within a single text column and doing a simple search after indexing the column. This would allow the user to search by hashtags and general words.
I then wondered if it would be more efficient to extract the hashtag and store it in its own table against the photos ID. This idea would work well if it was only able to search by tags but you can also search by regular words as well.
Can anyone confirm what the best approach might be or even suggest another.
Thanks

A: How you store the data depends on how you want to access the data.
If you only want to ever see the descriptions and hash tags, then you can put them into a single unindexed field and fetch them when for each image.
From what you speify, you seem to want a descriptions column that is searchable as text.  This may be sufficient for your purposes.
However, if you want to be able to ask questions specifically about hash tags such as:

*

*What hash tags are in the database and how many?

*What hash tags are on a specific image or set of images?

*What hash tags do two images have in common?

*What hash tags "contain" other hash tags (i.e. #cat and #catamaran)?

Then you will want a separate table of hash tags.  My recommendation would be to combine the two.  Something like:
create table images (
    imageId int auto_increment primary key,
    description text,
    createdAt datetime,
    createdBy varchar(255),
    fulltext (description)
);

create table imageHashtags as (
    imageHashtagId auto_increment primary key,
    imageId int not null,
    hashtag varchar(255),
    constraint fk_imagehashtags_imageid foreign key (imageid) references images(imageid),
    index (hashtag)
);

You might conceivably want a reference table for the hashtags themselves, so they are not duplicated in the table.  There is not enough information to know if that is a good approach.

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Expected college after getting general rank 5840,gl 1885,bc 1651,bcgl 421 in MBA entrance of UPTU?
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Eligibility for MBA admission at JSS after getting 2571 rank in UPTU, 684 in BC, 892 in GL and 176 in BCGL?
List of colleges accepting 382 general rank in UPTU MBA?
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A long translation that gets cut off is a "text overrun" because the text has overrun the space needed to display it. German translations tend to be 150% the length of English. First thing you can do is build your app so that all your text fields are at least 150% the width of the existing English words. With that one step, odds are most translations will have ample room. Secondly, if you and your translators are using the El Loco* web interface, text overruns are highlighted to translators as they enter translations. They can immediately shorten their translations to fit the display space. The developer gets a list of phrases that are close enough to the length limit and is alerted to view them in the actual app. Being alerted to text overruns, instead of hunting for them, saves a ton of time.
He probably meant to say "Right to Left". Displaying Right to Left languages is typically handled by the operating system, so that's easier than easy. Yes, there are languages that display vertically, but a Left to Right display of them is just as readable as English written vertically. And a vertical language displayed horizontally is much easier to comprehend than a language you cannot read at all.
Translators normally just get a list of strings to translate, and yes, without context, doing a correct translation is difficult. Determining context from an El Loco editable web browser version of the app screens is amazingly easy. Viewing the strings in context is a solved problem.
Almost anyone who knows a language well enough to do translations is also going to be aware of anything offensive to the culture using that language. That is what testers are for. They should view the translations in the app, point out potential issues, and suggest alternatives. You're never going to figure this out all by yourself; you have to have others look at your app. Just make sure you have someone from each language to test your app.
OK, I agree with Oliver on this. Localization of native iOS and Mac apps is well known and works great. Android has it figured out too. Apps built with Unity 3D or PhoneGap, not so easy. Some programming software just doesn't have a standard way to support localization.
Unicode is pretty much everywhere now. UTF8 is the standard web format for Unicode and it just works. Most development environments support Unicode, because all major OSes support it. Dealing with Unicode is easy if you avoid systems that have not moved into the 21st century.
Certainly, machines are not good translators (yet). Humans are poor translators if they don't have visual context. With visual context and instant feedback on text overruns, almost anyone who is a native speaker can provide a quality translation for an app.
This is especially true when the translator can quickly ask the developer to clarify something that even the context doesn't answer. For example, "Is 'Display' a noun or a verb?" When the question concerns the string on the screen in the language, which both the developer and the translator can see together quickly, accurate translation is much easier. It's way easier to get an app translated when all the non-programming stuff that programmers used to have to do is automated. Automation eliminates entire classes of work and potential sources for error. Makes app localization easy.
I'm the CEO of El Loco. Our goal is to automate iOS app localization to eliminate or drastically minimize the possibility for errors. We work with all translators, including PhraseApp. Without El Loco, all the "dang hard" stuff is true. With El Loco, localization is insanely easy. It doesn't have to be "dang hard" any more.


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Home » News » Philanthropy New York Elects New Board Members and Announces 2019 -2020 Executive Committee
Philanthropy New York Elects New Board Members and Announces 2019 -2020 Executive Committee
Philanthropy New York welcomes three new members to it's Board of Directors and announces the 2019-2020 Executive Committee.
The newly elected Board members are Rosanna Aybar, Neill Coleman and Laura Packer.
Rosanna Aybar is the Vice President, Finance and Administration for the William T. Grant Foundation. She regularly interacts with Board members and investment managers to preserve and grow the endowment and meet all regulatory and tax requirements. She also is responsible for coordinating infrastructure processes as diverse as budgeting, accounting, investments, human resources, facilities, and information technology.
Neill Coleman currently serves as Chief Philanthropy Officer at Trinity Church Wall Street, leading the Grants Mission Investing team. Trinity is a growing and inclusive Episcopal parish that awards over $10
million a year in grants in New York City and globally. Neill oversees Trinity's philanthropic initiatives, focusing on affordable housing, racial justice and building leadership and financial capacity. Neill serves as President of the Board of the Stonewall Community Foundation, the only public foundation focused on the needs of New York's LGBTQ community.
Laura Packer is the Executive Director of the Howard Gilman Foundation. Prior to that time, Laura served for thirteen years as the Arts Program Director for the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the largest private funder of the arts in New Jersey.
Philanthropy New York's 2019 Board of Directors:
Kyung Yoon, Board Chair
President, Korean American Community Foundation
Pam Foster, Vice Chair
Chief Operating Officer, Co-Impact
Patricia Swann, Vice Chair
Senior Program Officer, The New York Community Trust
Jeanne Haws, Treasurer
Chief Operating Officer, Wellspring Philanthropic Fund
Charles Buice, Secretary
President, Tiger Foundation
Kenneth Austin, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, The Wallace Foundation
Diahann Billings-Burford, Trustee, Robert Sterling Clark Foundation
Eric Eckholdt, Executive Director, Credit Suisse Americas Foundation
Pamela Foster, Chief Operating Officer, Co-Impact
Amy Freitag, Executive Director, The J.M. Kaplan Fund
Yancy Rubén Garrido, Senior Program Officer, The Clark Foundation
Jacqueline Jones, President and CEO, Foundation for Child Development
Jason McGill, Co-Executive Director, Arcus Foundation
Maria Mottola, Executive Director, New York Foundation
Ana Oliveira, President & CEO, The New York Women's Foundation
Leticia Peguero, Vice President of Programs, The Nathan Cummings Foundation
David Sandman, President and CEO, New York State Health Foundation
Teresa Younger, President and CEO, Ms. Foundation for Women
Philanthropy New York
Joining Forces for Equity
Philanthropy New York along with the Connecticut Council for Philanthropy, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, Maryland Philanthropy Network,... more »
Philanthropy New York Welcomes Two New Public Policy Fellows, Shamira Lukomwa and Kimberly Roberts
Philanthropy New York (PNY) is excited to welcome our new public policy fellows, Shamira Lukomwa and Kimberly Roberts. more »
President's Message: PNY at 40
Philanthropy New York looks ahead after celebrating 40 successful years of partnership and learning. more »
Philanthropy New York Welcomes New Office and Conference Manager, Angela Romualdez
Angela comes to Philanthropy New York with a demonstrated history of working in the arts and cultural sector, most recently at Bonhams auctioneers. more »
Philanthropy New York Welcomes New Vice President of Policy & Collaboration, Rico Blancaflor
Philanthropy New York is delighted to announce our new Vice President of Policy & Collaboration, Rico Blancaflor. more »

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In this paper, we present a new method for High Dynamic Range (HDR) reconstruction based on a set of multiple photographs with different exposure times. While most existing techniques take a deterministic approach by assuming that the acquired low dynamic range (LDR) images are noise-free, we explicitly model the photon arrival process by assuming sensor data corrupted by Poisson noise. Taking the noise characteristics of the sensor data into account leads to a more robust way to estimate the non-parametric camera response function (CRF) compared to existing techniques. To further improve the HDR reconstruction, we adopt the split-Bregman framework and use Total Variation for regularization. Experimental results on real camera images and ground-truth data show the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
Goossens, Bart, Hiep Luong, Jan Aelterman, Aleksandra Pizurica, and Wilfried Philips. 2011. "Reconstruction of High Dynamic Range Images with Poisson Noise Modeling and Integrated Denoising." In IEEE International Conference on Image Processing ICIP, 3429–3432. Piscataway, NJ, USA: IEEE.
Goossens, B., Luong, H., Aelterman, J., Pizurica, A., & Philips, W. (2011). Reconstruction of high dynamic range images with poisson noise modeling and integrated denoising. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing ICIP (pp. 3429–3432). Presented at the 18th IEEE International conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2011), Piscataway, NJ, USA: IEEE.
Goossens B, Luong H, Aelterman J, Pizurica A, Philips W. Reconstruction of high dynamic range images with poisson noise modeling and integrated denoising. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing ICIP. Piscataway, NJ, USA: IEEE; 2011. p. 3429–32.
Goossens, Bart, Hiep Luong, Jan Aelterman, et al. "Reconstruction of High Dynamic Range Images with Poisson Noise Modeling and Integrated Denoising." IEEE International Conference on Image Processing ICIP. Piscataway, NJ, USA: IEEE, 2011. 3429–3432. Print.


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WPMNews.com – The United States Senate asked President Donald Trump to ascertain whether the Saudi crown prince, Prince Mohammed bin Salman, was instrumental in the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
For this reason, Trump was encouraged to hold a second investigation specifically aimed at the prince so he could "determine whether foreigners are responsible for extrajudicial killings, torture, or other serious violations".
The request was made by Senator Bob Menendez and Senator Bob Corker as leaders of the Democratic and Republican factions in the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee in a letter.
Under the Magnitsky Global Human Rights Accountability Act, the request must be responded to within 120 days. Meanwhile, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham predicts bipartisan support in the US Congress in imposing sanctions on Saudi Arabia, "including members of the royal family".
Through an official statement, Trump said the Saudi crown prince was "very likely" to know of Khashoggi's murder. But then he added, "maybe yes, maybe not".
He also said the CIA intelligence agency had not confirmed "100%" of the Khashoggi murder case. Trump said this place is very dangerous, while flattering Saudi Arabia as a US ally in the face of Iran.
Saudi Arabia has spends "billions of dollars for leading the battle against terrorism" while Iran has "kills many Americans and innocent people in the Middle East". Trump emphasizes the importance of Saudi investment and the purchase of weapons from the US.
"If we foolishly cancel this contract, Russia and China will be very large beneficiaries," he added. Despite acknowledging the "terrible" murder of Jamal Khashoggi, Trump stated "we might never know about all the facts" about his death.


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Baha'i celebrates special 100
Representatives of the global Baha'i community of 187 countries, including Jamaica, and 2,100 tribal communities, are now assembled at the Baha'i World Centre in Haifa, Israel, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the ascension of Abdu'l-Bahá.
This global commemoration will be observed by individual countries with numerous events including official presentations and messages, tributes, and artistic works.
Two Jamaicans — Stacey Mitchell and Denise Tulloch — are in Israel for the activities.
In commemoration of this signal moment, the Jamaican Baha'i community will host a number of activities throughout the island, particularly in Montego Bay, Yallahs, Kitson Town, and Kingston.
Today, the National Baha'i Centre at 208 Mountain View Avenue, and the Centre in Yallahs will be the venues for special programmes which will include the unveiling of a commemorative mural at the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Jamaica on Mountain View Avenue.
Abdu'l-Bahá is one of the central figures of the faith and was designated by Baha'u'llah, founder of the Baha'i Faith, as the centre of the covenant and exemplar of the spiritual verities of the faith. Through a life of sacrifice, exile, persecution, he set the spiritual and administrative structures for an encompassing global religion.
Abdu'l-Bahá was also responsible for instituting the central governing structures of the Baha'i faith which have firmly secured its unity.
The Baha'i faith, which has now spread across the globe, is largely due to his tireless foundational work, sacrifice and suffering. It remains the only religion that has no denominations, no clergy.
Former Governor General Sir Howard Cooke had issued a proclamation declaring National Baha'i Day on July 7, 2003.
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Congratulations to the Kamala Harris - The First Black Democratic Women Nominated as Vice President of a Major Party
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(BBR) - Former Vice President Joe Biden named Sen. Kamala Harris to be his running mate this fall.
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Hillary Clinton with Jimmy Fallon
Posted in Appearances, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, tagged Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Jimmy Fallon on March 5, 2020| 8 Comments »
#ICYMI: Hillary Clinton with Jimmy Fallon and Miley Cyrus
Posted in Appearances, Book Tour, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Uncategorized, What Happened, tagged Appearances, Book Tour, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Interviews, Jimmy Fallon, Memoir, Miley Cyrus, The Tonight Show, What Happened on October 5, 2017| 5 Comments »
Hillary Clinton joined Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show last night for the first time since the campaign season when he hosted both her and her opponent, the well-known TV figure.
It was highly emotional from the moment Fallon brought on female staffers who wanted to write Thank You Notes (a staple on the show, but normally on Fridays) to Hillary. Miley Cyrus, guest co-host for the week, was the last in line and brought me to tears. Then Hillary wrote her own thank you note. It was touching, real. Unless you are a total dolt, you knew, watching this, what we have lost. But you also gained hope in what comes next because it is these young women and all they represented last night.
Fallon has taken a lot of flack for being too hospitable to Trump back in the general election. Perhaps this absolves him. I am not sure. But Hillary certainly knows him and knows he has two little girls. I had the impression that her advice to him, back when we were all so young and hopeful, to read to them, sing to them, talk to them, made more of an impression on him than DJT's hair.
It's too late now for Jimmy to rethink being even-handed or maybe even too playful and carefree when we were faced with a deadly serious choice. Did Jimmy redeem himself? I think Hillary allowed it. But I also think that the reason she was a guest this week was because Miley was co-host. When Hillary was on SNL, Miley was the guest musician.
The general impression was that a gang of women set Jimmy back on track. For him it may be too little too late, but for them it was their night in history. Powerful.
After Hillary's appearance, Miley sang Nancy Sinatra's These Boots Are Made For Walkin' dedicated to Hillary, and we all tweeted Nancy and said "YES!"
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Miley Cyrus, Hillary Clinton Guest On "Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon"
Update: Wednesday's "Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" featured Miley Cyrus, who was appearing as part of her "Miley Week" residency on the show.
It also featured a visit from Hillary Clinton.
One segment brought the two women together.
The segment involved Cyrus and writers from "The Tonight Show" penning "Thank You Notes" to Clinton.
Clinton also appeared for an interview on the episode, while Cyrus participated in two performances — "Islands In The Stream" and "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'."
A video of the "Thank You Notes" segment follows. Additional videos will be posted upon availability. Photos from the taping are also embedded.
THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON — Episode 0751 — Pictured: (l-r) Hillary Rodham Clinton during an interview with host Jimmy Fallon on October 4, 2017 — (Photo by: Andrew Lipovsky/NBC)
THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON — Episode 0751 — Pictured: (l-r) Hillary Rodham Clinton with Tonight Show Writer Becky Krause during "Thank You Notes" October 4, 2017 — (Photo by: Andrew Lipovsky/NBC)
THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON — Episode 0751 — Pictured: (l-r) Hillary Rodham Clinton with Miley Cyrus during "Thank You Notes" on October 4, 2017 — (Photo by: Andrew Lipovsky/NBC)
THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON — Episode 0751 — Pictured: (l-r) Host Jimmy Fallon, Miley Cyrus and Hillary Rodham Clinton during "Thank You Notes" on October 4, 2017 — (Photo by: Andrew Lipovsky/NBC)
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This edges on snarky a little but is worth a look. We could have done without that "sniff."
Miley Cyrus Sobs After Thanking Hillary Clinton For Being Her 'Inspiration' & 'Role Model'
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Miley Cyrus' 'Tonight Show' residency continues, and boy did it get emotional on Oct. 4. The 'Malibu' singer met her idol Hillary Clinton and broke down in tears of admiration while asking for a hug.
Miley Cyrus, 24, really wore her heart on her sleeve on the Oct. 4 episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.While she's been the musical guest all week long, her political hero, Hillary Clinton, 69, was the only other guest on the show so Miley finally got to meet her and it was epic! The singer turned up at the end of host Jimmy Fallon's "Thank you notes" sketch with the former Secretary of State. After a number of young female staff writers came on and "wrote" cards of praise thanking the former Democratic presidential nominee for being such an inspiration, Miley came on last and almost immediately burst into tears upon being in Hillary's presence.
"Thank you Hillary…(sniff)…Clinton for being a constant beacon of strength, hope and determination for me an millions of other young women. You've been a role model and an inspiration and a voice of reason in uncertain times. I could go on and on but I'd like to get right to the point. Can I give you a hug?" she said while weeping. Hillary was SO touched and of course she let Miley give her a great big hug.
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Hillary Clinton on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon
Posted in 2016 Election, Appearances, Campaign Events, Clinton/Kaine 2016, Democratic Party, Hillary 2016, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton 2016, Hillary For America, Hillary for President, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Uncategorized, tagged 2016 election, Appearances, campaign events, Clinton/Kaine 2016, Hillary 2016, Hillary For America, Jimmy Fallon, The Tonight Show on September 20, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Hillary taped a visit with Jimmy Fallon on Friday (i.e. before the terrorist attacks of the weekend). The show aired Monday night.
Jimmy greeted her with a surgical mask and hand sanitizer.
Jimmy found a bag left behind in Hillary's dressing room by Donald Trump on his visit last week.
The contents were a framed picture of Putin, a CD, and a bag of softballs.
Hillary told Jimmy she played softball on the "Good 'n' Plenty" team. She pitched and played outfield. I also played outfield. I always took Hillary for a shortstop. Seems to me she can be wherever she needs to be – wherever the ball is coming down.
They discussed serious campaign issues and there were lighter moments with letters from kids which you can find at Hillary's Tumblr.
For Hillary Clinton the Endorsements Come Tumbling In
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I once read that Hillary Clinton excels at Tetris. Since I also am very good at that game, I have always wanted to challenge her to a face-off, but she just doesn't have that kind of time, and, following her, neither do I. It is appropriate, nevertheless, that this week the Democratic Party has behaved like a game of Tetris with the tiles tumbling in fast and furiously.
Earlier in the week (I can't believe this is all in the same week), contacted by Associated Press, enough uncommitted special delegates decided to commit to Hillary on the eve of the last Super Tuesday of the primary season giving her the clinch even before the polls opened. The next day Hillary dominated in four of the six states.
President Obama wasted no time in jumping on the Hillary bus, endorsing her today shortly after meeting privately with Senator Sanders. Whether the timing was planned or coincidental, former presidential candidate Martin O'Malley also came out with a strong endorsement today.
Clinton finally gets the endorsement of … Martin O'Malley
Cooper Allen, USA TODAY
Hillary Clinton and Martin O'Malley at an Oct. 13, 2015, Democratic debate in Las Vegas. (Photo: FREDERIC J. BROWN, AFP/Getty Images)
Hillary Clinton on Thursday at last secured the endorsement she'd long sought — and she also won the backing of Martin O'Malley.
It's not clear if it was by design or he was just a victim of unfortunate timing, but not long after President Obama announced his support of Clinton as the presumptive Democratic Party nominee, O'Malley said that he, too, was backing his former 2016 rival, in an endorsement that will unquestionably be overshadowed.
In a series of tweets, O'Malley said "for the future of the country, I am committing my energies to the election of Secretary Clinton as the next president."
Thank you, Governor O'Malley!
According to MSNBC, Elizabeth Warren, a powerhouse and darling of the left will endorse Hillary tonight on the Rachel Maddow Show.
Elizabeth Warren to Endorse Clinton on Rachel Maddow Show
by Carrie Dann
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a hero to liberal progressives ideologically aligned with Bernie Sanders' anti-Wall Street rhetoric, will endorse presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton Thursday night on MSNBC's the Rachel Maddow Show.
The endorsement will come during an exclusive live interview beginning at 9 p.m.
Warren's announcement comes the same day President Barack Obama formally backed Clinton in a video lauding her qualifications for the job.
"I'm supporting Hillary Clinton because she's a fighter, a fighter with guts" —@SenWarren https://t.co/ia0cfYnD3k
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) June 10, 2016
Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton
Trump "doesn't care who gets hurt as long as he makes a profit off it. That cannot be the person who leads the United States" —@SenWarren
Elizabeth Warren endorses Hillary Clinton
© AP Photo/Nick Wass Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., gestures to the crowd after she spoke at the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy 2016 National Convention, Thursday, June 9, 2016, in… It's official: Elizabeth Warren is backing Hillary Clinton's presidential bid.
"I'm ready," she said Thursday on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show. "I am ready to get in this fight and work my heart out for Hillary Clinton to become the next president of the United States and to make sure that Donald Trump never gets anyplace close to the White House."
Shortly before Warren's appearance, Joe Biden awarded Hillary his endorsement.
Joe Biden Endorses Hillary Clinton For President
"God willing, it'll be Secretary Clinton."
Nick Visser Reporter, The Huffington Post
Vice President Joe Biden also criticized Donald Trump during a speech at the American Constitution Society convention on Thursday.
Vice President Joe Biden endorsed presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton for president on Thursday, hours after President Barack Obama publicly declared his support for Clinton.
"In my view, God willing, it'll be Secretary Clinton," Biden said, referring to the next president, during an address at the American Constitution Society convention in Washington.
Hillary also earned the endorsement of the Letter Carriers Union, the Utility Workers Union, and the Electrical Workers Union.
Hillary Clinton Statement on National Association of Letter Carriers Endorsement
Today, following the endorsement of the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) and their 290,000 members, Hillary Clinton issued the following statement:
"I am honored to have earned the endorsement of the National Association of Letter Carriers.
"The Postal Service is consistently ranked as the most trusted government agency, and the brothers and sisters of NALC are one reason why. Since our nation's founding, efficient and effective mail service has connected families and enabled commerce. Today, more than 160 billion pieces of mail travel through the postal system each year—many of them in the hands of a Letter Carrier.
"As President, I will stand with the Letter Carriers to protect workers' fundamental rights to organize, to bargain collectively, to be safe on the job, and to retire with dignity and security. And I will work with the Letter Carriers to build a bright future for the postal system and postal workers in the 21st century. I know that the postal system is still a vital lifeline for American communities from coast to coast, and recognize the Letter Carriers' vital role in building the American middle class.
"Above all, workers deserve a seat at the table and a champion in the White House. Because when workers are strong, families are strong—and when families are strong, America is strong."
"On virtually every issue, Secretary Clinton stands with working Americans and their families." —@steelworkers https://t.co/pFwAhESAq5
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) June 9, 2016
#IBEW endorses @HillaryClinton for president https://t.co/ym9ScF4hrJ #1u
— IBEW (@IBEW) June 8, 2016
The Democratic Party is unifying behind Hillary very quickly while the Republicans remain in disarray over remarks by Donald Trump and the image he projects as "leader" of the party. Apparently the remarks are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to potential problems posed by the presumptive nominee of the GOP who likes to cite in unspecific numbers the "many" people, "hundreds" of people who support his unfiltered comments and positions.
USA TODAY exclusive: Hundreds allege Donald Trump doesn't pay his bills
Steve Reilly, USA TODAY June 9, 2016
Donald Trump casts himself as a protector of workers and jobs, but a USA TODAY NETWORK investigation found hundreds of people – carpenters, dishwashers, painters, even his own lawyers – who say he didn't pay them for their work.
Back in October, after the first debate, I said this: " I was proud of my party watching this debate and proudest of my candidate, Hillary Clinton, who did a superlative job." I am proud again today..
Look for President Obama tonight on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. The segment was recorded yesterday, before the big endorsement today.
Hillary Clinton Returns to Tonight with Jimmy Fallon
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Hillary revisited Jimmy Fallon at the Tonight Show. She said Donald Trump is a lot more obsessed with her than she is with him. Fun visit. If you missed it, you can catch it at the Tonight Show website.
Need a good laugh after watching #GOPdebate? Catch Hillary on @fallontonight next! pic.twitter.com/4PkBMfU5qo
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) January 15, 2016
About the erstwhile Republican frontrunner.
.@jimmyfallon asked: Does Trump intimidate you? Hillary: "No." https://t.co/Qa4SIMvtxS
Job interview for POTUS
.@jimmyfallon interviewed Hillary for the job of president. https://t.co/0NQesmpuMj pic.twitter.com/Z3Qbq3XB6C
Jimmy took over Hillary's Snapchat for a bit.
In this photo provided by NBC, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, left, and host Jimmy Fallon take a Snapchat during a taping of "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016, in New York. The Tonight Show airs weeknights 11:35 p.m. – 12:35 a.m. ET/PT. (Douglas Gorenstein/NBC via AP)
This photo provided by NBC shows, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, left, in an interview with host Jimmy Fallon during taping of "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016, in New York. The Tonight Show airs weeknights 11:35 p.m. – 12:35 a.m. ET/PT. (Douglas Gorenstein/NBC via AP)
Hillary is such a good sport and so down to earth. This was a lot of fun, but serious too.
Hillary Clinton on TV This Week
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In addition to her appearance with Ellen DeGeneres later today, Hillary has a few other TV appearances lined up for this week.
Tuesday, January 12 and January 13:
Clinton, Biden to sit for CNN interviews
By Eric Bradner, CNN
Washington (CNN) Hillary Clinton will sit down for an interview with CNN's Alisyn Camerota that will air Tuesday just before President Barack Obama delivers his final State of the Union address.
Excerpts from the interview will air at 7 p.m. on Tuesday on CNN's "Erin Burnett OutFront," and the full interview will air on Wednesday during "New Day."
Wednesday, January 13:
Hillary Clinton Gives a Grandmother's Perspective on Running for POTUS: 'I Want to Make Sure That the World Is Okay' for Baby Charlotte
Randy Holmes/ABC
By Tierney McAfee
TV host Amanda de Cadenet tells PEOPLE that when she sat down with Clinton on her talk show The Conversation for an interview airing Jan. 13 at 10 p.m. ET on Lifetime, she had one objective: to get to know Clinton not as a politician, but as a woman.
How does a presidential candidate spend a night with friends? Find out on @TheConversation with @amandadecadenet. https://t.co/Jxusu23ym5
In case you missed it, you can see the full interview here >>>>
Thursday, January 14, Hillary will return to MSNBC for another interview with Rachel Maddow
and then Jimmy Fallon once more.
Finally, On Friday, January 15, Hillary is scheduled to visit Morning Joe.
7th Annual Hillary Clinton Year in Review: Installment IX September 2015
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The State Department was releasing emails, Republicans on the Select Committee were in full attack mode, and the first campaign stop, after an interview with Andrea Mitchell, was San Juan, Puerto Rico. The topic was health care.
On the 20th anniversary of her Beijing speech, Hillary launched her Women for Hillary initiative in Portsmouth NH and received Jeanne Shaheen's endorsement.
Newton, IA September 6.
Labor Day in Cedar Rapids and Hampton
At Brookings, Hillary spoke about the Iran agreement. Uncorrected transcript >>>>>
Rallying with Women For Hillary in Columbus Ohio
Bricklayers endorsed her.
At the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
The Clintons reunited with the old friends and neighbors at the Foundry United Methodist Church.
Rallying with the Women for Hillary grassroots at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls and Hillary received another important endorsement.
UA Endorses Hillary Clinton for President
Jimmy Fallon and his special guest
At the Union Diner in Laconia NH
On The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
At the University of New Hampshire, Durham with Maggie Hassan
At the New Hampshire Democratic Convention
On Face the Nation
In Baton Rouge speaking about health care
Hillary returned to Little Rock Arkansas
The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America endorsed her and she said she opposes the Keystone XL pipeline at an event in Iowa.
Hillary was the inaugural guest on Meet the Press Daily.
The true intent of the Select Committee on Benghazi slipped out.
As if we didn't know!
How could anyone possibly say Hillary Clinton lacks stamina ?
Here are the archives for September 2015 >>>>
#JSYK Hillary Clinton's Upcoming TV Appearances
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She may not be campaigning this week, but that will not keep Hillary Clinton off the TV screen. Her appearance with Fallon will re-air tonight. It is a must-see. Thursday, C-SPAN will cover her long-awaited testimony before the House Select Committee on Benghazi.
Hillary Clinton Testimony at House Select Committee on Benghazi
Hillary Clinton testifies before the House Select Committee on Benghazi, which is investigating the events surrounding the 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate there, in which Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three others died.
This program has not yet aired
Airing LIVE Thursday, Oct 22 10:00am EDT on C-SPAN3
Friday evening, Hillary will join Rachel Maddow.
ICYMI: Fiorina with Fallon was not all Songs to Snickers the Persnickety Pup
Posted in 2016 Election, Appearances, Democratic Party, Hard Choices, Hillary 2016, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton 2016, Hillary For America, Hillary for President, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Republican Party, Uncategorized, tagged 2016 election, APEC, Carly Fiorina, Hillary Clinton, Hillary For America, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Jimmy Fallon, Republican Party, Secretary of State, The Tonight Show, Vladimir Putin on September 23, 2015| 1 Comment »
Monday night, Carly Fiorina was Jimmy Fallon's guest on the Tonight Show. She was personable, which I did not expect. She was entertaining – especially when she sang at the end. If you go to the Tonight Show website you can see the cherry-picked clips wherein Carly Fiorina actually seems … what's the word I am looking for? Likable?
The clips show far from the whole story though. They are the highlights and ignore the deep, dark, scary stuff she sandwiched into the middle while fast-talking like Rosalind Russell in a 1930's movie about a … well … a female CEO.
To see these comments, you have to access the full episode and fast forward to Fiorina's segment. It involves sitting through a lot of commercials. I am sorry. Nothing you can do about those. There is no "skip ad" option.
She began with language Hillary's people identify with and agree with. Faith is good. There was something sweet from her mother about God's gifts to you and your gift to God being fulfilling the use of your God-given gifts. This stemmed, of course, from Ben Carson's recent remarks. She absolutely disagrees with Carson, because, of course, all faith is good. The Pope is also good, but Democrats are bad and fail to agree with him on the sanctity of life.
Carly met Vladimir Putin once at APEC. Let's take this one in two parts.
APEC: Apparently Fiorina wants to push this one APEC speech as her official foreign policy experience. She repeats endlessly her mantra about Hillary Clinton's tenure at the State department being all about air miles. If you do a search on this blog for APEC this is where the search takes you.
Search Results for 'APEC'
Note that first entry, the most recent. Republicans like to send up choruses of "Where was Hillary when Benghazi was under attack?" In fact, she had just flown in from APEC in Vladivostok at the end of an extensive and exhausting trip and many conferences. It was never unusual for Secretary Clinton to go straight to C Street from the plane. She flew in late and was at the office the next morning, just for the record.
Also for the record, can Carly Fiorina name other international conferences where she has addressed and rubbed elbows with world leaders?
Now for Putin with whom Carly shared a few minutes in the green room before a speech once. I am picturing him now trying to remember ever encountering her. She says he can be charming and funny. Hillary knows that. She also knows he can be stubborn and dismissive of women. Dealing with that dismissiveness requires knowing that it exists.
On this particular trip, Hillary was not scheduled to meet with Putin about the Iran sanctions. Uh – yes, parenthetically. Hillary worked hard for years to get those sanctions. She had flown in from a St. Patrick's Day full of meetings with a host of Irish officials, stopped over at Shannon for refueling and greeted returning troops also there refueling. As of the 18th, no meeting with Putin was on the agenda. Then this.
Breaking: Hillary WILL Meet With Putin After All
… Several advance press releases and schedules made a point of the fact that she would not be meeting with Putin.
Then this. It was not the first time she was not scheduled to meet with him and managed to wrangle him into a pow-wow. The bonus was that she got results. Sometimes I think that Hillary does things to be able to say that she gave it her best effort. Hillary's best efforts get excellent results. Putin liked to leave Hillary to Lavrov and Medvedev, but she knew when she needed to sit with him, and she got those meetings and got results.
Fiorina says she would not speak to him at all. That would suit him just fine. There is something to be gained from a one-on-one with him as Hillary Clinton knows.
Hillary Clint, on Gets Putin To Budge – A Little
Let me be clear, this is not about the sanctions themselves with which you may agree or disagree. It is about Hillary Clinton. Yesterday I said that I thought Putin would be impervious to her persuasive powers given that he appears to be very dedicated to the manufacture of nuclear energy as an export business for Russia. Well, if this report is accurate, I, one of the die-hard Hillary Hold-Outs (yes, a Hi-Ho) am now *hanging head in shame* for having doubted that she could get Putin to concede – even if it is a little. Note to self: Never again underestimate Hillary Rodham Clinton's ability to argue a good case.
Secretary Clinton Remarks With Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin Before Their Meeting
Well, here we have the transcript of Secretary Clinton's remarks with Putin. Actually, I fail to see where he "bombarded" her (as I saw it characterized in the press). He called her "Your Excellency." 🙂 Even if he had "bombarded" her, she is used to it and knows that it is not personal. She knows her job.
Remarks With Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin Before Their Meeting
Carly warned that we should not forget that he is a KGB guy. Yes, Hillary has already made that eminently clear. That was no news to us.
Hillary Clinton's 'Hard Choices' Retrospective Part Four Chapter 11 Russia: Reset and Regression
Hillary Clinton's 'Hard Choices' Retrospective Part Six: The Future We Want Chapter 21 Climate Change: We're All In This Together
Or, what the heck! Just go here>>>>>
Then came Carly Fiorina as Napoleon. Only taller … and female. This is the part the Tonight Show web editors figured you did not need to see and can see only if you painstakingly go through the video and consume all the commercials. Sorry.
Rather than speak to Putin, here is what Mme. President Fiorina would do. I am not sure you will see this elsewhere.
Immediately start rebuilding the 6th fleet;
Rebuild the missile defense program in Poland;
Conduct regular military exercises in the Baltics;
Put 1000 more troops in Germany;
Lead in Syria as, she said we should have three years ago and Obama and Clinton have not.
I take strong exception to that last allegation! Look here >>>>>
Time to Revisit Hillary Clinton on Syria
I also wonder where those extra 1000 troops will be coming from. Fallon did not ask. His job was to keep things light.
That is what is between the sweetbread of Carly's Mom's faithful advice in the beginning of the segment and the song for Snickers to a 1950s rock tune at the end. Note to Carly Fiorina: The Cold War is over. Note to Republicans in general, the 1950s are over.
Other candidates are making the late night rounds. Bernie Sanders was on with Colbert, and the night Fiorina was with Fallon, Ted Cruz was with Colbert. Meh.
All the Republicans are working from the same talking points memo about Hillary except Fiorina who has her own Hillary attack system.
We have our own Hillary defense system. Carly Fiorina may be the Republican female candidate whom they are pitting against Hillary Clinton. The comparison ends at female. Fiorina likes to tell people she began as a secretary. She lacks Hillary's brand of secretarial experience, however, by thousands of air miles, summits, conferences, treaties, strategic plans, MOUs, and handshakes. In no way does she measure up.
****EDITED TO ADD****
Well he is up to something, Carly, and I seriously doubt that not speaking to him is the wisest foreign policy. Grow up. Stop singing your mom's Bill Haley and the Comets songs, or whatever that was. Not speak to him? What is wrong with you? Oh, wait! I know! You shouldn't be running for president. It is that simple. Well you can if you want to but you are #WrongForAmerica.
Putin Said to Plan Islamic State Strikes With or Without U.S.
Bloomberg) — President Vladimir Putin, determined to strengthen Russia's only military outpost in the Middle East, is preparing to launch unilateral airstrikes against Islamic State from inside Syria if the U.S. rejects his proposal to join forces, two people familiar with the matter said.
Putin's preferred course of action, though, is for America and its allies to agree to coordinate their campaign against the terrorist group with Russia, Iran and the Syrian army, which the Obama administration has so far resisted, according to a person close to the Kremlin and an adviser to the Defense Ministry in Moscow.
U.S. 'Receptive'
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Wednesday the U.S. has become more "receptive" to Moscow's position. The U.S. has tempered two planks of its Syrian policy — that Assad must step down immediately and that it won't negotiate with his government, according to comments made by Secretary of State John Kerry on Sept. 17.
The next day, the U.S. and Russian defense chiefs held direct talks for the first time since the conflict in Ukraine started. They agreed to continue dialog to prevent clashes between their forces in Syria.
Read more >>>>>
Hillary Gets Laughs on Fallon – So Do GOP Candidates on CNN
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Highlights from the hours of mind-numbing "serious" GOP debate.
Jeb Bush said he'd put UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on the $10. Were there no U.S. women available? #GOPDebate pic.twitter.com/ZAguSwINJf
— AJ+ (@ajplus) September 17, 2015
The only reaction to @JebBush suggesting Margaret Thatcher be on 10 dollar bill pic.twitter.com/T8WeQoG5fo
— Lis Smith (@Lis_Smith) September 17, 2015
FTR Jeb also said his brother kept us safe. That went over well on Twitter.
Jeb Bush Verified account @JebBush
"When it comes to my brother, there's one thing I know for sure. He kept us safe." – Jeb
As if 9/11 did not happen on His brother's watch.
Marco Rubio thinks Ronald Reagan defeated Communism
Robot J. McCarthy @RedScareBot
In Soviet Russia… RT @still4hill: @marcorubio Reagan did not bring down Communism. Communism brought down Communism. It self-destructed.
Rubio also said China is constructing islands in the South China Sea.
Still4Hill @Still4Hill
Rubio complaining about synthetic islands in So. China Sea. Why did Republicans refuse to ratify LOST? #GOPDebate
Finally, it was time for Jimmy Fallon and his special guest for whom he reprieved his performance as The Donald.
#GOPdebate pic.twitter.com/XIWFXiqfqR
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 17, 2015
In this image released by NBC, Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, appears with host Jimmy Fallon during a taping of "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015, in New York. (Douglas Gorenstein/NBC via AP)
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In this image released by NBC, host Jimmy Fallon, portraying Donald Trump, left, and Hillary Rodham Clinton appear during a skit titled, "Trump calls Hillary" during a taping of "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015, in New York. (Douglas Gorenstein/NBC via AP)
A good time was had by all!


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Dorian Yates Blood & Guts Ultimate Edition
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Dorian Yates Blood & Guts The DVD - 15th Anniversary Edition - 2 DVD Set
This is the NEW and ULTIMATE VERSION of DORIAN YATES BLOOD & GUTS DVD. The 2 DVD set. (Check out the awesome preview clip below.)
*** In Celebration of this updated version of the 15th Anniversary Edition of this DVD - May 2011.
We have added an extra 4 minutes to the total running time with 2 new scenes, and updated the PHOTO GALLERY & BIO with some new material. We also updated the DVD cover as well!
The 2 new scenes are Dorian's Guest Posing at the 1993 EFBB British Championships and scenes of Dorian at the 2010 Mr. Olympia 45 Years Reunion.
Disc #1 is 89 mins and Disc #2 now runs for 128 mins for a TRT of 217 mins.
We have added around two and a half hours of NEW MATERIAL to present all of the life time footage that we could find featuring the fabulous career of 6 time Mr Olympia, DORIAN YATES. Much of this was shot by us during Dorian's career and includes our last interview with him in 2002 at the Olympia Expo.
The contest footage covers his career from his first British victory in 1986, to his Olympia appearances (thanks to the generosity of Andy Olson of Magna Media) to many of his Grand Prix victories to guest posing and more.
Not to be missed are the 25 minutes of wonderful, interesting and funny out- takes, thanks to Mark Dugdale and cameraman Joel Barham, from their shooting with Dorian recently at the Temple Gym in Birmingham. This footage was shot whilst filming Mark's latest DVD "A week in the Dungeon", available from Mark Dugdale as well as from GMV.
After we scoured our video archive for most this new material we then went back through our photo files from all the contests that we or our photographers have covered during Dorian's career. This has turned up a number of fabulous, previously unseen photos which have been scanned and added to the huge PHOTO GALLERY. It now contains around 150 photos covering every aspect of Dorian's career from training in the gym to the stage to private and informal shots. Our thanks to Dorian, Lee Dickens and all who contributed photos. We hope that you will enjoy what is now the Ultimate Edition of the Ultimate video record of the career of the Ultimate Mr Olympia - DORIAN YATES.
* This contains the original 64 minutes, BLOOD & GUTS DVD. Witness the intensity and determination as we follow the near 300lb multi Mr. Olympia winner DORIAN YATES through a genuine 'no holds barred' hardcore workout. See the weights used and feel the supreme effort that has moulded Dorian Yates into the world's most massive bodybuilder.
* 25 minutes of DUGDALE OUT-TAKES where you see informal footage of Dorian at the gym, hear him coaching Mark, hear his comments on others in the industry, see Dorian coaching the massive ZACK KHAN (a top British amateur on the brink of qualifying for his Pro Card). You also see Kevin Horton who shot the original gym workout explaining why most of it was presented in B&W. Plus much more. * Approximately 150 photos in the PHOTO GALLERY.
Running Time of Disc 1: 89 mins.
This all new second BLOOD & GUTS disc is packed with the posing highlights of Dorian's career, plus several interviews. Apart from the Olympia highlights, the other footage was primarily shot by GMV's Wayne Gallasch and is from his personal archive.
Contents of this disc are as follows:
1986 EFBB BRITISH CHAMPIONSHIPS
1991 MR OLYMPIA
1992 GERMAN GRAND PRIX GUEST POSING
1992 FIBO GUEST POSING
1994 ENGLISH GRAND PRIX
1994 EFBB BRITISH CHAMPIONSHIPS GUEST POSING
1995 FIBO GUEST POSING & INTERVIEW
1998 FIBO INTERVIEW
2002 OLYMPIA EXPO INTERVIEW
Running Time of Disc 2: 124 mins.
DORIAN YATES BRIEF BIO:
Born in Hurley, Staffordshire, near Birmingham, England, Dorian Yates commenced working out in 1983. The man dubbed "The Shadow" (by FLEX Editor-in-Chief Peter McGough) shone a new light of awareness onto training methods with his brief but very high-intensity workouts. After some important victories in England – 1985 Novice Championships and 1986 and 1988 British Championships – Yates visited New York for the 1990 Night of Champions and, in his pro debut, he took second place to Mohamed Benaziza. He vowed that next year he would return to win this contest. He did!
In 1991, Yates was the runner-up at the Olympia to Lee Haney, who won his eighth record-setting Olympia and then retired. From 1992 through 1997, Yates dominated the sport's highest title with 6 Sandows in a row. In 1994, he overcame a torn biceps to win the crown. In 1997, his most valiant victory came when he tore a triceps three weeks prior to the contest, but still battled on to victory. Due to the injury, Yates was forced to retire at the peak of his career, with a pro record of 15 wins and two second-place finishes. Being a six-time Mr Olympia should say it all, especially when you consider the freakiness with which he redefined all the parameters of bodybuilding. He is truly a legend of the sport and to many people, the greatest bodybuilder of all time!
Dorian still runs his famous Temple Gym in Birmingham and also now has his own line of supplements.
ABOUT DORIAN YATES:
Born: April 19, 1962
Birthplace: Hurley, Staffordshire, England.
Competition Weight: 265 lbs
MAJOR TITLES WON:
1991 IFBB Night of Champions
1991 IFBB English Grand Prix
1992 IFBB Mr Olympia
1994 IFBB Spanish Grand Prix
1994 IFBB German Grand Prix
1995 IFBB Iron Man Pro Invitational
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1995 Mr.Olympia Historic DVD
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Asrafia Jame Masjid (, ), previously known as the Mosque of Ahladi Bibi, is a mosque located in the urban neighbourhood of Amlapara, in the city of Narayanganj, Bangladesh. It was built during the British Raj colonial period, dating back to the 1890s.

History

The Asrafia Jame Masjid is one of the oldest mosques in the Narayanganj District. On 20 April 1898, a Bengali Muslim zamindar by the name of Rahim Bakhsh Haji (1857-1935)  and his  wife talukdar Ahladi Bibi officially purchased Zamindari Portion from Harendra Kumar Roy Chowdhury, the Zamindar of Baliati. Later, Haji and his wife decided to donate a portion of land in Amlapara to serve as a charitable endowment and a place of worship. The mosque was named after the wife as "Ahladi Bibir Masjid". Over time, the name changed to Asrafia Jame Masjid. The mosque has been found recorded in the British map (C S Parcha).

After renovations in 2002, the mosque lost much of its past heritage, architectural style and decorative style. At present, there is nothing remaining from the original mosque except the dome, mihrab and minaret.

Architectural elements and style
Although the mosque was constructed in the colonial period, the structure followed the style of Mughal architecture. It was built as an extremely tall single-storied mosque with great emphasis on the vertical qualities.  There are small four domes in the four sides of the roof. A mihrab is located in the western wall, stood from the base of the ground floor to one-third of the height of the first floor. It contains the Shahada written in Arabic calligraphy with glass and stone-flowing Mughal styles. The mihrab's design is made of pieces of glass and stones of five colours; blue, green, yellow (light matte), brown and white. The architecture of the mosque is defined by a combination of embellishments and proportional adjustment among elements such as arches, domes, mihrab etc.

References

External links

 Ancient Mosque in Bangladesh, Daily Inqilab, 9 July 2015

Mosques in Bangladesh
Mosques completed in 1890
Narayanganj District
Mughal mosques
Bengal Presidency

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De Zein-o-Din karavanserai is gelegen bij de stad Yazd in Iran. De karavanserai dateert uit de 16 eeuw en is gelegen aan de oude zijderoute. Het is een van de 999 soortgelijke herbergen die werden gebouwd tijdens het bewind van Sjah Abbas I om faciliteiten te bieden aan reizigers. Hiervan was Zein-o-Din een van de twee karavanserais die gebouwd waren met ronde torens. Na de renovatie diende zij als herberg. Een soortgelijk gebouwde karavanserai in de buurt van Isfahan ligt in puin.

Bouwwerk in Iran


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Around The World In 80 Ways (1987)
"Around The World In 80 Ways" (1987) (Stephen MacLean)
1987 / 91mins. / English Language/ Color / Australia
Picture Quality: A
they all grew younger
This bouncy and silly comedy from Australia has as its basic plot an old man in a nursing home, put there while his younger wife goes on a round-the-world trip. They decide to give him his trip abroad without leaving the house - using inventive settings, props and imitations to give him a taste of Hawaii, Las Vegas, Rome, and Tokyo.
Top billed is the lovely Philip Quast (these days I'm glad to say mainly working on stage in the UK, where he's recently been Emile in South Pacific and Miles Glorioso in A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum), as black sheep son Wally, who really carries this film with his attempts at being an Hawaiian dancer, Elvis, a Vegas cutie, an airline pilot, and a Geisha girl. He's worth the price of renting this movie alone.
Kelly Dingwall plays the horny younger brother, Eddy, lusting after the nurse Ophelia (played with a spark by Gosia Dobrowolska), giving a boost to their flirty attempts to hijack 'the trip'. Allan Penney, as dad Roly, does well in a complex role where he 'sees the light'; while we follow mum Mavis (Diana Davidson) and wig-wearing neighbour Moffatt (Rob Steele) on their real world tour. Guess who has the better time?


Published: Oct. 29, 2015 at 07:51 p.m.
We've just about reached the midway point of the NFL season, but for fantasy enthusiasts, the race to the playoffs is on. That means you're taking stock of which players are rising and which ones are falling. As always, the Fantasy Stock Watch is here to help and offer our take on which players are adding or subtracting value.
Tight end continues to be the most vexing position in all of fantasy football. Just when we think we've found a player we can cling to -- like Charles Clay -- someone like Chris Gragg comes into our lives and makes us rethink everything we thought we knew. Now we wait to see if this is the new way of things in Buffalo or if the Bills just got a good rate of exchange with Gragg in London. Regardless, we're back to the waiver wire looking for tight end help once again.
We've been here before. Because of an unfortunate injury to Arian Foster, Alfred Blue is once again in the spotlight. There's a solid chance that Houston goes with a committee system that gives touches to Chris Polk, but Blue is going to be the lead back in this rotation. Neither rusher is going to match Foster's production, but if you're needing running back help then you might want to start here.
Orleans Darkwa led the team in carries last week and scored New York's only offensive touchdown. Let me say that again. Orleans. Darkwa. If that isn't a harbinger of doom for Jennings' fantasy prospects, I don't know what is. Big Blue's three-headed running back monster has now grown another head which just means one more mouth to feed. If you haven't run screaming from this backfield situation, now's a pretty good time.
Johnson's hot start to the season has been one of the biggest stories of the NFL (and fantasy) football season. Bruce Arians has remained true to his word that he is going to use a workhorse back and the veteran has taken the role and run with it ... literally. Don't believe me? Go see who is the NFL's second-leading rusher. I'll wait. Got it? Okay, well this week's matchup against a horrid Browns run defense makes an already good RB start a great RB start.
Carlos Hyde has become what he feared -- a two-down back in a bad offense. Because of the dearth of rushers on the waiver wire, it's hard to drop a guy who starts every week and leads his team in carries. But you're not playign him every week. The tough part is that the 49ers might not have a lot of positive matchups left for the rest of the season. Hyde's value is sinking like a cement-covered stone.
Charcandrick West's last three weeks has been a study in patience -- or lack thereof. After a lackluster first week as Kansas City's starter, he was dropped in nearly all fantasy leagues. After he exploded in his second week, the race was once again on to add him. We've been over this before ... West isn't going to replace Arian Foster's production, but he is a starting running back in the NFL receiving the bulk of his team's carries. That alone makes him worth a roster spot.
Remember a few weeks ago when Willie Snead was the hottest thing going in New Orleans and the talk of fantasy football? Man, those were good times. In the past two weeks, Snead has a combined seven catches for 70 yards. It's encouraging that he gets to face a porous Giants secondary this week, but this Saints passing game is just too inconsistent for fantasy managers to rely on week-in and week-out.
It took a while for Floyd to get going, but in the past two weeks he's made a fantasy impact with a couple of touchdowns. It's been disappointing to watch him go from being a No. 1 option a couple of seasons ago to now being the No. 3 receiver in Arizona. The upside is that Floyd plays in one of the league's more potent passing games and is starting to see red zone targets. His overall target number could increase if John Brown doesn't play in Week 8.
Why do bad things happen to good running backs? I wish I had an answer for you, Alfred Morris. You deserve better. Unfortunately your head coach seems to have a grudge against you. Did you hand out peanut butter cups to his kids last Halloween? I'm searching for answers. Until I find them, I have to downgrade your fantasy value. I'm not happy about it, but it's what I've gotta do. I'm sorry, Alfred.
At least it's not all doom and gloom in our nation's capital. Since returning from injury, Jordan Reed has reassumed his place atop the Washington passing pecking order. As the team waits for DeSean Jackson to return from injury (who knows when that will be?) Reed is likely to remain the apple of Kirk Cousins' eye. You like that? You like that?!


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The Book of Fatal Errors (The Feylawn Chronicles #1) (Hardcover)
By Dashka Slater
(40 JR. FICTION)
Award-winning author Dashka Slater spins a tale of friendship, magic, and eternal life in The Book of Fatal Errors, an evocative and witty middle-grade fantasy.
Rufus doesn't just make mistakes – he makes fatal errors. Clumsy and awkward, he feels entrapped by his teasing classmates and their constant laughter. But now it is summer. Rufus is free. He roams the wildlands of his grandfather's mysterious homestead, blissfully unaware of the danger up ahead.
And there is much danger. Rufus and his snooty cousin Abigail soon become entangled in the tantalizing world of the feylings, mischievous fairly-like creatures desperate to find their way home. In helping the feylings, Rufus tumbles down a dark path rich with age-old secrets and difficult truths. Any move he makes might be his final fatal error.
Or perhaps, his most spectacular beginning.
Dashka Slater is the New York Times-bestselling author of The 57 Bus, which won the Stonewall Book Award and was a YALSA nonfiction finalist. Her fiction includes The Book of Fatal Errors which was an Amazon Best book of the Month, the picture book Escargot, which won the Wanda Gag Book Award; Baby Shoes; The Antlered Ship, which was a Junior Library Guild Selection and received four starred reviews; and Dangerously Ever After. She is also an award-winning journalist whose articles have appeared in Newsweek, Salon, The New York Times Magazine, and Mother Jones. She lives in California. dashkaslater.com
"Amusing scenes balance weightier ones in this appealing chapter book, the first of two volumes planned for the Feylawn Chronicles series." —Booklist
"This is an exciting, fast-paced middle-grade fantasy . . . A delightful read for anyone who loves magic." —Kirkus Reviews
"Sassy feylings and other rambunctious magical creatures make the tale feel fresh . . . Rufus's self-confidence grows with every chapter, and realistic tension between his family members works itself out in a satisfactory, but not simplistic, way." —The Horn Book
"Slater has created a fun, emotionally driven fairy story. VERDICT An excellent readalike for "The Spiderwick Chronicles." –School Library Journal
"With a dash of imagination and a heap of adventure, Slater's middle grade fantasy debut, starring 12-year-old biracial cousins Rufus and Abigail, is certain to appeal to readers of varying ages . . . the growth and maturation Abigail and Rufus undergo together is elegantly addressed in an occasionally dark plot." –Publishers Weekly
"A seamless combination of fantasy and mystery wrapped around a classical coming-of-age narrative, Dashka Slater's The Book of Fatal Errors grabs the readers hand from the first page and tugs them along at a breakneck pace through twist after twist." –Bookpage
"A brilliant story teller, Slater has filled The Book of Fatal Errors with unexpected twists, an engaging mystery and endearing characters, both human and magical. Oh, I do hope for a sequel!" –Kiss the Book Blogspot
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Publication Date: July 7th, 2020
Series: The Feylawn Chronicles
Juvenile Fiction / Fantasy & Magic


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The Menace of Hezbollah
In a speech during Sunday Mass on August 8, 2021 the Maronite Patriarch of Lebanon, Bechara Boutros Al-Rahi called on the Lebanese army to prevent the launching of missiles from Lebanese territory, not for the sake of Israel's safety, but for the safety of Lebanon, and said that UN Security Council Resolution 1701 of August 11, 2006 must be strictly implemented. Lebanon is currently a country in political, economic, social turmoil. Rahi stressed it was unacceptable that a party decides peace and war outside the decision of legality. He was calling on the army to confront Hezbollah. It is true, he said, that Lebanon has not signed a peace with Israel, but it is also true that Lebanon has not declared war with it, and is officially committed to the 1949 truce. The dilemma is that Hezbollah is the strongest military and political force in Lebanon. Its supporters refuted the patriarch's comments, calling him "the patron of surrender." It had defied Rahi by escalating hostilities against the state of Israel.
Rahi was referring to the incidents on August 6, 2021, when 19 rockets were fired from southern Lebanon into northern Israel, after three rockets had been launched against Israel two days earlier. The Israeli Iron Dome had intercepted 10 of the rockets, while six had fallen in open areas, and three inside Lebanon. It was the sixth attack on Israel in recent months, and the first in which Hezbollah admitted responsibility. The IDF responded by firing 40 artillery shells at open areas in southern Lebanon, and then by airstrikes targeting the Hezbollah launch site and the road on which the terrorists had traveled.
The Hezbollah attack is a warning sign of possibly more deadly military problems in the future. Hezbollah, like Israel, has significantly increased and upgraded its military capabilities. With the help of Iran, It has more than 150,000 rockets and missiles and many can reach any place in Israel, including ballistic missiles with a range of 700 kilometers. Hezbollah's action violates UN Security Council Resolutions. UNSC Resolution 1559 adopted in 2004 called for all Lebanese militias to disband and disarm. UNSC Resolution 1701 of August 11, 2006, bringing about a cease fire of all hostilities between Lebanon and Israel, prohibited all armed military other than those of the state of Lebanon from operating anywhere in all of the country. But Hezbollah did not pull its forces out of south Lebanon, though it did agree to disarm its forces south of the Kitani river.
Founded in 1982 by Muslim clerics and Iran, the objective of Hezbollah was to fight against American and Israeli imperialism and the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon. A second objective was to gather all Muslims into a ummah, linked by the doctrinal and religious connection of Islam. It then added a militant political movement with an effective political party, an extensive social service network, TV station, and a budget that comes from Iran.
Hezbollah personnel were trained and organized by a force of 1500 Iran revolutionary guards. A number of Shi'a groups were assimilated into the organization, accepting the ideology expounded by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, "obedience to one leader, wise and just, adherence to Wilayat al-Faqih, and continuing the Islamic revolution made victorious by God in Iran." Though it has made changes, Hezbollah still adheres to its original ideological orientation. But it is unusual since it is both a Shiite movement and a militant group, and a political organization, virtually a state within the state. This has led to characterization of an organization with two wings, one military and the other political, a distinction that has been rejected by Hezbollah's leaders, Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah and deputy Naim Qassem. They see Hezbollah as "a political party, a resistance party, and the party of striving in the path of God Almighty."
The Hezbollah militia has about 10,000 active fighters and 20,000 reserves, and a larger arsenal of artillery than most nations possess. On August 12, 2021, the Alma Center in Israel reported Hezbollah had built an extensive network of tunnels, whose cumulative length of hundreds of kilometers, connect entire regions of the country to one another. Some tunnels are able to allow pick-up trucks with rocket launchers to fire, leave, and remerge at a different location. One tunnel stretches 45 kilometers south of Beirut. The tunnel project results from cooperation between North Korea and Iran, which paid for the project, and Hezbollah.
Hezbollah, the world's most heavily armed non-state actor, is a ruthless body. It has clashed with rival Shite militias such as the Amal movement in 2005. Its affiliate, Salim Jamil Ayyash, in 2005, assassinated the former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri, by a large truck bomb on Beirut's waterfront. Yet the main enemy is Israel, starting in 1978, when Israel occupied Southern Lebanon and invaded Beirut in 1982. Elimination of the State of Israel is its primary goal. Using tactics of suicide bombing, assassination, capturing Israeli soldiers, murders, and hijacking, it has attacked Jewish and Israeli targets abroad.
Hezbollah was responsible for the 1994 car bombings of a Jewish community center in Argentina, which killed 85, and the bombings of the Israeli Embassy in London. Even after Israeli withdrawal from Southern Lebanon, Hezbollah continued its attack in the disputed Shebaa farms border area. In 2006 thousands of rockets were launched from Lebanon into Israel, and the 34 day war resulted in the deaths of 165 Israeli soldiers and civilians. The EU in 2013 listed the Hezbollah military wing as a terrorist organization.
In spite of its denials, Hezbollah is also antisemitic. It has vilified Jews as enemies of mankind, conspiritorial, with plans to enslave the Arabs and undermine Islam. It accused Jews of deliberately infecting HIV and other diseases into Arabs in the Middle East. It engages in Holocaust denial.
Hezbollah since 2011 has been an ally of the Assad regime in the Syrian civil war, recruiting Shi'ite and other fighters to help Assad, sending more than 7,000 militants, and Syria in return facilitates the supply of weapons from Iran to Hezbollah. In 2013, Hezbollah joined Iran and Russia in supporting the Assad government against Sunni rebels. They have been crucial in the survival of the Assad regime.
Iran views Hezbollah as a vehicle to extend its influence in Lebanon and the Levant, and supplies it with funds and weapons of increasing magnitude, advanced anti-tank rockets, long range survey to survey missiles, anti-ship missiles, and precision guided munitions that can strike within a few meters of the intended target.
On behalf of Iran, Hezbollah targeted in the 1980s officials of the Shah regime working in Europe, and attacked France for its support of Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war, fighting against the U.S. and multinational forces. In battles in Iraq, militias, AAH and KHA supported by Hezbollah killed hundreds of U.S. servicemen. For critical battles in Syria,
Hezbollah recruited Shi'ite and other fighters to support the Assad regime.
In addition, Hezbollah created unit 3800 in 2003 to train and assist Iraq Shi'ite militias fighting against U.S. and multinational forces in Iraq.
Hezbollah is important in the life of Lebanon, a country troubled by factionalism and horse-trading, and a sectarian power sharing system. It controls part of Beirut's port, airport , border crossings for smuggling. With its allies, it commands the biggest bloc in the Lebanese parliament.
The Hezbollah attack was praised by Palestinians, especially Hamas, who said that the rocket attack emphasized Hezbollah's natural right to respond to aggression until the liberation of the Holy Sites and Islamic lands. In contrast, the U.S. State Department condemned the rocket attack and called on the Lebanese government urgently to prevent such attacks. Hezbollah has been linked to two bombings in 1983, against the U.S. Embassy and the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, events that killed hundreds of Americans.
About the Israeli air raid response, the U.S. has repeated Israel has the right to defend itself. At the same time, the U.S. announced the fatal drone attack which killed two crew men on the merchant tanker, Mercer Street, off the coast of Oman on July 30, 2021 was committed by an unmanned aerial vehicle loaded with a military grade explosive that was produced in Iran.
The Hezbollah rocket aggression was fanned by Iran's activities. It is an indication that Iranian aggression has increased throughout the Middle East. Iran's new president Ebrahim Raisi, who is nicknamed the "hangman of Tehran" because of his brutality in 1988 is likely to continue that aggression.
The U.S. and Israel both recognize that Iran is a clear danger to regional stability and world peace, and that Hezbollah is one of its main instruments. Since 2010, the U.S. has provided more than $4 billion in foreign assistance to Lebanon. Though Lebanon is struggling with an economic crisis and coping with Covid-19, the issue confronting Washington is whether it should continue that funding in view of the aggression of Hezbollah.
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