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London is undoubtedly one of the world's finest cities. In addition to numerous monuments from its more glorious past, London is equally well-known for its pageantry and tradition. London has something for everyone - wide boulevards buzzing with excitement far into the night, quiet squares and explorable alleyways. Visit this famous city's parks, museums, galleries, monuments, abbeys and churches, skyscrapers and ruins, Georgian squares. Take in such events as the Ceremony of the Keys at the Tower, or the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace, or even one of the many theatrical productions. Some of the most exclusive shops are found along Oxford, Bond and Regent Streets. An old favorite and one of the world's premier institutions is Harrods - offering everything from Chanel suits and sliced salmon to caviar and even pets.
Glasgow is Scotland's biggest city and major tourist destination, possessing some of Britain's finest architecture and hosting a variety of cultural events and attractions.
Glasgow has been described as the finest surviving example of a great Victorian city. Of particular interest is George Square - lined by several buildings constructed in the Italian Renaissance style. Few buildings pre-date 18th century. The most prominent of these are Glasgow Cathedral, and Provand's Lordship, which is the city's oldest house (c. 1471) and now a museum. The cathedral, situated on high ground to the east of the city and dating in parts from 12th century, is an outstanding example of Gothic architecture. The city has numerous parks and ornamental open spaces, including the Botanic Garden and zoological gardens. Glasgow grew around a church built in the 6th century by St Kentigern, who converted Scots to Christianity. The commercial growth of the community dates from the union of Scotland and England in 1707 and the opening up of trade in the 18th century when Glasgow became a major port and shipbuilder.
Cornwall is in the far South West of England , with the Atlantic Ocean on one side and the English Channel on the other. Cornwall is one of Englands most popular tourist destinations and has a wealth of natural beauty, superb beaches wildlife culture, and history, as well as a strong seafaring tradition, unspoilt fishing villages , castles and beautiful countryside too.
Explore 2000 years of history in the street, buildings and museums that chronicle York's outstanding beauty and vibrant heritage. Witness the beauty of Yorkshire with ease. The city's night clubs, themed pubs and restaurant offer a variety of activities and York has major events for cultural events and conferences. Visit the famous York Minster, award-winning Jorvik Viking Centre, National Railway Museum, Yorkshire Museum and Castle Museum. York offers a unique shopping experience and a lesson in history. Shop Victorian in Swinegate Walk and be entertained by street performers in Coppergate.
Dominated by the ramparts of Edinburgh Castle, this picturesque city offers shopping on Princes Street, the grandeur of the Royal Mile, St. Giles Cathedral and historic Palace of Holyrood House, where Queen Mary lived and many Scottish kings were wed. Or venture across the moors to marvel at the scenic Highlands.
Through the valleys of South Wales, Cardiff, the Welsh capital, sits on this beautiful portion of Wales' coast. Cardiff is famous for its imposing Castle and the new Millennium stadium.
Windermere is England's largest natural Lake District fed by numerous rivers and for centuries aided transportation for heavy materials. Protected since 1951, its valleys, woodlands and lush green make this beautiful picturesque countryside an ideal area to experience the great outdoors. Surrounding Windermere are towns and villages where tourists can shop, eat and rest. Approximately one mile from the lake lays a railway station, Lakeside Pier and Aquarium of the Lakes where the world of wildlife and freshwater creatures are revealed. It's a destination spot for cruises, sailors, rowers and swimmers, but that doesn't mean adventure is limited! There is Treetop Trek Aerial, Climb 365 and High Adventure Balloon Flights for extreme adrenaline enthusiasts, family-friendly cycle fun, hound trailing, horseriding and even bird spotting. Windermere is a fun outdoor getaway for all ages!
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Ripe and juicy peaches make this the perfect summer dessert. Experiment with other types of fruit, for example apples and/or berries.
1/4 cup minimally processed sugar e.g., Turbinado, Succanat, dried cane juice, date sugar, etc.
Peel and slice peaches. To make peeling easier, drop whole peaches in to very hot water for 2 minutes. Peel should rub right off once removed from water.
In medium bowl combine peaches, cornstarch, maple syrup and lemon juice. Stir until combined and peaches are evenly coated.
Combine flour, oats, sugar, margarine, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, ginger and salt in small bowl. Stir until combined and crumbly.
Place peaches in 8x8 baking dish, lightly coated with cooking spray. Evenly distribute topping over peaches and bake 40 minutes until crust browned and peaches are bubbling.
Serve warm with a small scoop of non-dairy ice cream. Almond Dream Vanilla is pictured, and my favorite.
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This, to me, is the most compelling part of the entire project. After spending a year carefully selecting outfits that have a unifying theme (or motif, or scheme…), you begin to see a very versatile and harmonious collection of garments and accessories. A wardrobe, in fact!
Gorgeous! I would love to own this wardrobe! Amazing how it all comes together!
I'm in awe! I live it all!
The quality of the garments come through in these posts. Simple lines of clothing that are receptive to embellishment and the creative mind of the owner. What chapter is this in your book?
Wow! Never was there displayed better rationale for investing in an important Hermes scarf! What interests me especially about this post, Janice, is the way the colors are unexpectedly subtle for high summer–with color saved for November, when the wearer needs it most.
Very nice! Love it all!
It's surprising how a such that is predominately plain, with just a few lines of colour has generated such a wonderful set of outfits. I really like these sets and the scarf!
Thanks for all the hard work you devote to your blog. Although I rarely comment, I always enjoy your ideas and read your entry every day. Your current "scarf" suggestions are innovative and creative.
This is really stunning! It makes me want to get rid of everything I own and start all over!!
Janice, you are so talented! Thank you for sharing with us.
Amazing! I have some very similar piece but would have never put them together. I knew I did not need to buy ANYTHING but then I got stumped. I wonder how long it will take me to pick up a 10th of your skills?
Beautiful again! And more lovely soft grey. I looked at the cabled sweater and then I saw that it was cashmere and designer, so out of my price range… the search goes on.


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GEELONG's Danielle Foot took a step in the right direction when she competed in her first-ever senior meeting – the 2016 Shipwreck Coast 2-Day Open – on January 23-24 in Warrnambool.
The 16-year-old from Moriac was first overall in the Women's Expert class, finishing with four race wins, and finished in 12th-place overall (out of 22 other male riders) in the Senior B Lites class.
On her first senior racing experience, the current two-time national junior motocross champion said: "I had some really good races and learnt a few things for the future. It was really exciting.
"The first gate drop was pretty nerve racking, but all my nerves went away after that, and I was getting into the hang of things and getting used to racing against the bigger girls and guys," Danielle said.
On taking out the Women's Expert class, Danielle was thrilled. "It was a small class of competitors to begin with but it was still really good to win it being my first senior meeting. I can't wait for the Victorian Senior Motocross Championships where I will be competing in a much bigger class," she added.
"The whole weekend was a definite confidence booster, especially competing against the bigger boys in the B Lites class. To achieve a top five finish in the last race was a huge confidence booster and winning the Women's class outright definitely helped as well," Danielle remarked.
Danielle will have her work cut out for herself as she plans to compete in all four rounds of the coveted Victorian Senior Motocross Championships, all rounds of a yet-to-be-decided motocross regional competition, the Hattah Desert Race, possibly the Finke Desert Race, and the Australian Women's Motocross Championship to be contested in Coolum, Queensland on August 27-28.
"It's going to be a big year that's for sure. Being my first year in the senior ranks, I'm going to give competing overseas a bit of a miss, but I'm hopeful that next year I'll be able to get back over to the US and try it out on the 250cc bike," Danielle continued.
Ahead of the first round of the Victorian Senior Motocross Championships at Newborough on March 5-6, Danielle's routine will consist of intensive practice and a lot of gym sessions. "I need to be able to get used to the bike a bit more.
"During the holidays, I struggled to get used to it, but after this weekend I sort of got a handle on it now and I'd just like to be consistent with it and get back into the season," she added.
Danielle would like to thank Jades Oates of Oates MX, KTM Australia, Mototech Geelong, JC Suspension, Troy Lee Design, Pirelli, Will Max Graphics, Fist Handwear, Motul, and Johnny from Main Event Fitness, as well as her parents for all their amazing help.
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"Plateau stopped depending on federal allocation before Covid-19" – Government
Officials streamed the inauguration of new revenue officials live
Officials in Plateau State say they made "frantic efforts" to improve State revenue and reduce overdependence on federal allocation long before covid-19. The move followed global crash in crude oil prices, Plateau State Governor, Simon Lalong said, Thursday.
By looking "inwards", the State, according to Lalong raised its Internally Generated Revenue from about N600million monthly in 2015 to about N900million in 2019.
Part of strategies employed was the harmonization of revenue collection platforms by the State, the Governor said at the inauguration of Plateau State Revenue Council and the Governing Board of the Plateau State Internal Revenue Service in Jos.
In his words, "In line with my firm resolve to address this challenge and improve the revenue profile of our dear State, my administration engaged Compliance Professionals Plc. (CPP), a reputable tax consortium, to help steer the transformation of revenue administration across the State, including at Local Government levels.
"Our engagement with CPP led to an in-depth assessment of the current state of the IGR environment in Plateau State and the dissection of the 2017 Revenue Law which gave birth to the new Plateau State (Consolidated) Revenue Law, also known as the Revenue Law 2020, which I signed into law at the close of 2020. I want to once again appreciate the Rt. Hon. Speaker and Honourable Members of the State House of Assembly for their thorough and expeditious passage of the bill.
"This journey has led to the development and implementation of the plan to effectively transit from the current state to a harmonized internal revenue generation and collection system, thereby improving efficiency and effectiveness and significantly increasing bottom lines.
"As a result of this, a new and viable template called Plateau State Revenue Generation Project has been developed by the CPP. This is expected to be a game changer because it seeks to completely rethink the way and manner in which revenues in the state are generated and ultimately make Plateau an example for other States to emulate.
"A very vital part of the project approach and organization is the Harmonized Revenue Administration Process Redesign (HRAPR). This approach seeks to Implement the right revenue administration process across all MDAs and LGCs, and ultimately across all main revenue lines with priority on areas of high revenue capture. The main aim is to ensure that changes in this project are institutionalized.
"Consequently, the project is broken down into series of goals or waves. The First Focus Wave which covers the period of February to July 2021, recommends the Implementation of a New Administrative Structure and Revenue Council for the State. Today, we are here to usher in part of this new structure that will change the revenue profile of the State for good.
"One of the major objectives of the Revenue Law 2020 is to ensure effective and efficient revenue generation, by creating a New Organizational Structure for Plateau State Internal Revenue Service, revenue generating MDAs and Revenue Departments in all the 17 Local Government Areas. With this development, new Revenue Units are to be created to consolidate the efforts of employees of Plateau State Government particularly those in the revenue stream."
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Published: August 27th, 2012
- John Benito
At the 2007 meeting of WG14, the ISO working group for the C programming language, there was a general consensus that the committee should start working on the next revision of the C standard.
The committee saw there was much happening that can or does influence C directly. Examples are the evolution of C-like programming languages (C#, Java and C++), multi-thread programming, the rising threat to Internet security, the increased awareness of programming language vulnerabilities, and emphasis on safety-critical systems, to name just a few.
The work of the committee was in large part a balancing act. The committee has tried to improve portability while retaining the definition of certain features of C as machine-dependent. It attempted to incorporate valuable new ideas without disrupting the basic structure and fabric of the language. It tried to develop a clear and consistent language without invalidating existing programs. All of the goals were important, and each decision was weighed in the light of sometimes-contradictory requirements in an attempt to reach a workable compromise.
In specifying a standard language, the committee used several guiding principles, the most important of which are:
1. Existing code is important; existing implementations are not. A For example, there is a large body of C code of considerable commercial value. Every attempt has been made to ensure that the bulk of this code will be acceptable to any implementation conforming to the standard. The committee did not want to force most programmers to modify their C programs just to have them accepted by a conforming translator.
On the other hand, no single implementation was held up as the exemplar by which to define C; it is assumed that all existing implementations must change somewhat to conform to the standard.
2. C code can be portable. Although the C language was originally born with the Unix operating system on the DEC PDP-11, it has since been implemented on a wide variety of computers and operating systems. The committee has attempted to specify the language and the library to be as widely implementable as possible, while recognizing that a system must meet certain minimum criteria to be considered a viable host or target for the language.
3. C code can be non-portable. Although it strove to give programmers the opportunity to write truly portable programs, the committee did not want to force programmers into writing portably in order to preclude the use of C as a "high-level assembler." The ability to write machine-specific code is one of the strengths of C. It is this principle that largely motivates drawing the distinction between a strictly conforming program and a conforming program.
4. Avoid "quiet changes." Any change to widespread practices that alters the meaning of existing code causes problems. Changes that cause code to be so ill-formed as to require diagnostic messages are at least easy to detect. As much as seemed possible, the committee has avoided changes that quietly alter one valid program to another with different semantics, which cause a program to work differently without notice.
5. A standard is a treaty between implementer and programmer. Some numerical limits have been added to the standard to give both implementers and programmers a better understanding of what must be provided by an implementation, of what can be expected and depended upon to exist. These limits are presented as minimum maxima (for example, lower limits placed on the values of upper limits specified by an implementation) with the understanding that any implementer is at liberty to provide higher limits than the standard mandates. Any program that takes advantage of these more-tolerant limits is not strictly conforming, however, since other implementations are at liberty to enforce the mandated limits.
6. Keep the spirit of C. There are many facets of the spirit of C, but the essence is a community sentiment of the underlying principles upon which the C language is based. For the C11 revision, there is consensus to add a new facet—f—to the original list of facets. The new spirit of C can be summarized in phrases like:
(a) Trust the programmer.
(b) Don't prevent the programmer from doing what needs to be done. (c) Keep the language small and simple.
(d) Provide only one way to do an operation.
(e) Make it fast, even if it is not guaranteed to be portable.
(f) Make support for safety and security demonstrable.
(e) needs a little explanation. The potential for efficient code generation is one of the most important strengths of C. To help ensure that no code explosion occurs for what appears to be a very simple operation, many operations are defined to be how the target machine's hardware does it rather than by a general abstract rule. An example of this willingness to live with what the machine does can be seen in the rules that govern the widening of char objects for use in expressions: whether the values of char objects widen to signed or unsigned quantities typically depends on which byte operation is more efficient on the target machine.
One of the goals of the committee was to avoid interfering with the ability of translators to generate compact, efficient code. In several cases, the committee has introduced features to improve the possible efficiency of the generated code; for instance, floating point operations may be performed in single precision if both operands are float rather than double.
Additional principles include:
7. Support internationalization. During the initial standardization process, support for internationalization was something of an afterthought. Now that internationalization has proved to be an important topic, it should have equal visibility with other topics.
8. Codify existing practices to address evident deficiencies. Only those concepts that have some prior art should be accepted. Unless some proposed new feature addresses an evident deficiency that is actually felt by more than a few C programmers, no new inventions should be entertained.
9. Minimize incompatibilities with C90 (ISO/IEC 9899:1990). It should be possible for existing C implementations to gradually migrate to future conformance, rather than requiring a replacement of the environment. It should also be possible for the vast majority of existing conforming C programs to run unchanged.
10. Minimize incompatibilities with C++. The committee endorses the principle of maintaining the largest common subset clearly and from the outset. Such a principle should satisfy the requirement to maximize overlap of the languages while maintaining a distinction between them and allowing them to evolve separately.
Regarding our relationship with C++, the committee is content to let C++ be the "big" and ambitious language. While some features of C++ may well be embraced, it is not the committee's intention that C becomes C++; however, in areas such as the memory model, C will do whatever it takes to be compatible with C++.
11. Maintain conceptual simplicity. The committee prefers an economy of concepts that do the job. Members should identify the issues and prescribe the minimal amount of machinery that will solve them. The committee recognizes the importance of being able to describe and teach new concepts in a straightforward and concise manner.
Additional observations were added after the 2007 meeting:
12. "Trust the programmer," as a goal, is outdated with respect to the security and safety programming communities. While it should not be totally disregarded as a facet of the spirit of C, the C11 version of the C standard should take into account that programmers need the ability to check their work.
13. Unlike for C99, the consensus at the London meeting was that there should be no invention, without exception. Only those features that have a history and are in common use by a commercial implementation should be considered. Also there must be care to standardize these features in a way that would make the standard and the commercial implementation compatible.
14. Migration of an existing codebase is an issue. The ability to mix and match C89-, C99- and C11-based code is a feature that should be considered for each proposal.
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By Editorial Board April 18
TWICE SINCE 2011, President Obama has delivered major speeches citing the free flow of oil as a U.S. "core interest" in the Middle East. The prevention of mass atrocities has been a lower priority; in a 2013 address Mr. Obama said that it should be pursued only in conjunction with allies and without the use of U.S. military force.
It was therefore surprising to hear an apparent reversal by the president in an interview this month. "At this point, the U.S.'s core interests in the region are not oil," he told the New York Times. "Our core interests are that everybody is living in peace . . . that children are not having barrel bombs dropped on them, that massive displacements aren't taking place."
In making this rare reference to the ongoing crimes against humanity in Syria, Mr. Obama could have been referring to something very specific. On March 16, according to the State Department, the regime of Bashar al-Assad dropped barrel bombs on the town of Sarmin that reportedly contained chlorine. Six people, including three children, were killed. According to a report released Monday by Human Rights Watch, this was one of six barrel bomb attacks involving the suspected use of chlorine or other chemicals around the northern city of Idlib between March 16 and March 31.
Secretary of State John F. Kerry reacted strongly to the first strike, issuing a statement saying that the regime's use of chlorine would violate the Chemical Weapons Convention. "The international community cannot turn a blind eye to such barbarism," Mr. Kerry said. "We are looking very closely into this matter and considering next steps."
We'd like to hope that the words of the president and secretary of state suggest that the administration is reconsidering its refusal to take consequential action against the Assad regime, which continues to cross the red line once established by Mr. Obama by using chemical agents against civilians — and is the root source of the turmoil destroying both Syria and Iraq.
So far, unfortunately, turning "a blind eye" remains the best description of U.S. behavior. The administration is nominally pursuing a weak initiative to train 15,000 Syrian fighters over three years, with the help of regional allies. But the effort has been excruciatingly slow to get off the ground, in part because of the administration's insistence that the sole mission of the force must to fight the Islamic State.
A report issued last week by the Atlantic Council offered one way forward: converting the underpowered training mission into a project to build a 50,000-member "Syrian national stabilization force" capable of imposing order across the country. As Frederic Hof, a former State Department adviser on Syria, noted in presenting the study, just the announcement that the United States intended to build such a force could soften the diplomatic impasse that now makes a negotiated end to the Syrian war impossible.
Without question this would be a major undertaking: As a starting point it would require the creation of the northern Syrian safe zone that Mr. Obama has resisted for years. But it would offer a path to ending the Assad regime and its crimes. That makes it a more realistic course than the president's refusal to act — which won't protect core U.S. interests, or save a single child from a barrel bombing.
Valerie Amos: Who cares about Syria?
Maysaloon – ميسلون It's All "Unfortunate"
Welcome to the Middle East, where the only monsters are the ones you bring with you. In the primordial past, in a time before writing became prevalent, maybe our ancestors were trying to make sense of the world and so they created stories that had a beginning, a middle, and an end. They told their children that existence was a phenomenal struggle between good and evil, and ever since then we have been cursed to live that same story over and over. It's like we have something ingrained within us, and we want to believe. The dictators know that we want to believe, and they feed that story continuously. They give us stories about foreigners coming to kill us, stories about Jews dominating the world, stories about other tribes that can never be trusted no matter how long you have dealt with them. But the dictators are above these stories of good and evil. They stoke the fires, and the region burns long after they are gone.
When I talk to a liar – a person who supports the dictators – they tell me that we should stop looking at the dictator's actions as good and evil. They tell me that this is not a useful way of understanding things and that we should try to see things from their perspective. The question that begs itself, today as well as four years ago, is why? Why do we need to see things from the perspective of an Assad or a Mubarak or a Saddam or a Gaddafi? Is it so that we can understand that they are just acting out of fear? That they are forced to behave this way? Or maybe it is that they believe they are locked in a never ending struggle with the great enemy abroad? With imperialism or the Great Satan? If so, how is that different to just explaining things as a battle of good versus evil?
When I read through my list of news articles each day (reading is a strong word, I mostly skim through them nowadays), I group the stories into positive and negative: ISIS lose – good; regime loses – good; civilian casualties – bad. It's unconscious, because there are things that I care for more than others. I feel, internally, a great anger at the site of barrel bombs being dropped on Syrian towns and cities, as is the case when I watch the victims of the regime's chemical attacks. I want it to stop, I hope it'll stop. A part of me can't accept that something like this can go on without a judgment being called, without a punishment being meted out to the responsible party. I want there to be a hell for the dictators and their followers. I hope that a "good" side will win. I want the side that waves the green, white and black flag to win. I still believe they represent the best – albeit imperfect- hope for this wretched country and whatever is left of it. Does that mean I am locked into a narrative of good versus evil?
Fine, maybe I am. The dictator's apologist tells me, "Look, there you go again! You're talking in terms of good versus evil! We'll never get anywhere that way". And again I'm puzzled. What on earth does he want? What is it that the dictator's apologist is really asking of me? Does he want me to stop using the words, "Good" and "Evil"? Or does he want me to stop labelling the actions as good and evil? That's it, the latter. I think he wants me to stop judging the actions. Perhaps, and here I am thinking for them, they would like me to label these events that we hear trickling out of Syria as "unfortunate". The word unfortunate takes the sting out of describing the action. They want me to say unfortunate because fortune is a concept that is beholden to no man. That popular saying, "Fortune is a fickle mistress" and all that. It's basically that there are these winds of fortune that blow in the world, and sometimes they are what we desire, and other times they are not. And when they are not, the dictator's apologist reasons, then we should label them as unfortunate.
Therefore, it is "unfortunate' that the dictator had to listen to the advisors who told him that a firm hand was needed, and unfortunate that the dictator's men were told to fire at unarmed civilians or else they themselves would be shot. It is "unfortunate" that when shooting and tanks and artillery and aerial bombardment didn't work as effectively as they liked that somebody decided to load chemicals into a bomb and to fire these at civilian areas that had "unfortunately" decided they didn't want a dictator to rule them anymore. This is the neutral ground that the dictator's apologist wants us to meet on. The sting has to go, the victim's condition is "unfortunate" and perhaps something can be done about that later, much later. But for now, we don't need to point fingers. After all, one series of unfortunate events let to another series of unfortunate events, and since everybody has blood on their hands, then nobody must pass judgment.
This is the same logic a ten year old uses when they've been told off about something. The child will try to remove the blame by pointing the finger elsewhere, "Everybody else is doing it", or "he told me to do it". And that kind of argument has been used over and over, but not by children, but by dictators and by the people who follow them. These were grown men and women who did, what did you like to call it Mr Dictator apologist? "Unfortunate" things. They did unfortunate things over and over until somebody stopped them and put them in front of everybody and asked them why they did what they did. And over and over, they used the same arguments as guilty children. Isn't that curious? That dictators and the people who follow them cannot give a grown up, reasonable and rational answer to why they caused these "unfortunate" incidents to occur?
They could argue that if they did not do what they did, that others would have, that this is the way of the world. And I would say you are right, it is the way of the world. We cannot hope to change and eliminate all war, all greed, and all murder from our world. You could say that there is something in the human being, innate, that calls for this. That it has been this way since the time that Cain killed Abel. But then, I would ask of you, aren't you taking us back to the stories of good and evil? You have told me not to use the words good and evil, and yet you come back and tell me that all these bad things I spoke of are in our nature as humans. And would that not mean that all the good things in the world, like honesty, charity, and love, are also parts of human nature, and that the mixtures of these things are such that some people have more of one part and less of the other, and others the opposite? And if so, I ask of you, apologist to dictators, what do you think you are doing when you support a man who does the things that he does to stay in power? You've taken us around in a big circle and we are back to where we began, although we do have a clearer understanding of good and evil.
Evil is not something that exists abstract from human actions, it is our judgment on the actions of other human beings. We call earthquakes, diseases, and floods "unfortunate", we call the Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, and the Cambodian Genocide, "evil". They are evil because these things were thought up and acted upon by men and women – normal, average, even likeable, but they were men and women nonetheless, not monsters. Other people, not saints, not angels, pronounced judgment on the actions of these men and women to hold them accountable. The battle of good versus evil is not something metaphysical, it is not some abstract superstition that is being battled out in the heavens, but of this earth – of our flesh and blood. The "battle" of good versus evil is our struggle with what it means to be human, and the harder you try to escape it, the more embroiled in it you become.
You don't want me to use the word "evil" for certain actions because you won't be able to face yourself in the mirror. If you're going to be ugly you want the whole world to be ugly. If you can't have something you'll burn it before anybody else does. That is what it all boils down to, and that is why you're not a man, but a spoilt child that needs a good smacking. You and your dictator.
Fascinating story of Afghan cameleers in Australia
The town was home to Australia's first mosque, which was made of mud brick and built by the Afghan cameleers employed at Marree's inception.
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20150331-0300a.mp3
and wiki : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_(Australia)
http://www.australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/afghan-cameleers
On Ghassan Kanafani's 79th Birthday
BY MLYNXQUALEY on APRIL 9, 2015 • ( 0 )
The great Palestinian author Ghassan Kanafani was born on this day in 1936:
Kanafani was born in Akka to a prominent lawyer and started his studies at Les Frères, a French missionary school in Jaffa.
His life changed significantly when he was twelve: After his family's displacement to Beirut and then Syria in 1948, he continued his studies in Syria's public schools, where he got a UNRWA teaching certificate. He attended Damascus University, where he studied in the Arabic literature department until, according to a profile that ran in As-Safir, he was expelled for political reasons.
Initially, Kanafani worked as a teacher, leaving Damascus to work in Kuwait for five years as an Arts and PE teacher. Then, according to translator and scholar Roger Allen, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)'s George Habash helped persuade Kanafani to move to Beirut, where the author worked on the al-Horria newspaper, and later al-Moharrer and al-Anwar, before becoming the well-known editor-in-chief of the PFLP's weekly newspaper, al-Hadaf.
Even before he left to teach in Kuwait, Kanafani was writing and publishing stories. According to Kuwaiti writer Mai al-Nakib, Kanafani's "The Stolen Shirt" won the Kuwait Literary Prize in 1958, when Kanafani was just twenty-two. His Men in the Sun, one of his most popular and acclaimed works, was originally published in 1956, followed by All That's Left to You, Return to Haifa, and a number of other important works, including four collections of short stories.
When Kanafani was assassinated in Beirut on July 8, 1972, he was just 36.
"While it is true that his life was brief," Rasem al-Madhoon wrote in an essay translated by Nehad Khader, "it was also rich in the literature that he offered. A significant landmark of his literary, journalistic, and political journey was his preoccupation with the broader Palestinian national struggle and all of its demands; as was his persistence in penning short texts regularly. Ghassan's friends remember his regular visits to Farouq Cafe in central Damascus."
Kanafani's texts are still read, staged, discussed, debated, and incorporated into new works, as in Susan Abulhawa's Mornings in Jenin and the short film Qarar Mujaz, or A Brief Conclusion.
"The Stolen Shirt," trans. Michael Fares
"Jaffa: Land of Oranges," trans. Mona Anis and Hala Halim
Excerpts from Return to Haifa, trans. Barbara Harlow and Karen E. Riley
"Letter from Gaza," translator not listed.
Books in translation
Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories, translated by Kilpatrick
Palestine's Children: Returning to Haifa & Other Stories, translated by Harlow and Riley
All That's Left to You, translated by May Jayyusi and Jeremy Reed
About Kanafani:
"Ghassan Kanafani: The Symbol of the Palestinian Tragedy," by Rasem al-Madhoon, trans. Khader
"Remembering Ghassan Kanafani," by Elias Khoury, trans. Maia Tabet
"Returning to Haifa," Arab Arts Blog
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Ajoutée le 2 avr. 2015
I played a trick on my math class for April Fool's Day. In this one, I'm showing a "homework help" video that gets some trigonometry wrong. How embarrassing!


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Oh how I wish we were back strolling the hot and steamy streets of Venice. I know I complained the entire three days about how unbearable it was and how little the air moved, but if I could wiggle my nose and go back there right now I promise I wouldn't utter a single negative peep. I swear on my alcohol-free smoothie.
Finding a family friendly hotel in the tiny floating city that annually welcomes almost three million tourists was a bit of a challenge. After quite a bit of google searching and thumbing through my Rick Steves' guidebook and my DK Family Guide to Italy, one particular hotel kept showing up, the Hotel Flora.
With a few emails back and forth we reserved their quad room which slept four, some rooms have twin beds for the kiddos but ours had a pull out couch. Location is key in Venice and the Hotel Flora is just a short five minute walk from the busy San Marco vaporetto (subway on the water) stop. Managing luggage and kiddos over bridges and crowded sidewalks while not losing one or the other into the canal can be a major accomplishment.
Hotel Flora is a charmingly understated boutique hotel in the city that practically invented opulence. Tucked back behind the Bulgari boutique off one of the most stylish shopping promenades in the world, this 17th century palazzo has just 43 rooms and has been tastefully renovated.
Their ivy covered courtyard offers a quiet and calming place to retreat when the sights, smells, and hustle of the busy streets become overwhelming. Even the little C&Gs were happy to abandon the crowds of Piazza San Marco to stage their afternoon action figure battles in the corner of the small courtyard.
There's no on-site restaurant, but there is the more important on-site bar, complete with charming Venetian bartender. He'll happily offer up afternoon tea, local wines, or any of your favorite cocktails. For the kiddos they have plenty of fruit juices and Big C&Gs favorite, Aranciata. Wi-fi reception is best from the couches in the lounge, and you'll get a more reliable connection with a drink in your hand.
Breakfast is included with your stay and it's buffet style with all the usual Italian charcuterie, cheeses, and pastries alongside cereals, yogurts and fresh fruit. Bring it out to one of the courtyard cafe tables and an aproned waiter will be along to take your espresso, cappuccino, or kid friendly steamed milk or hot chocolate order.
Rooms at the Hotel Flora are very reasonably priced (ours was €250/$340 a night) in a city that overcharges for practically just breathing the air. Venice is truly unique, the natives know it and you will be overcharged for just about everything. But it's an enchanting magical city that can't be missed. Even Little C&G will agree.


• A former queen's promise to her former king. Medusa swore to find Black Bolt, and she has - but will she be in time to save him?
• Voiceless and betrayed, the former ruler of the Inhumans faces a darkness he thought he had put behind him. But he won't face it alone.
What an amazing ending. I was very hesitant to pick up the first issue, and now, a year later, I am sad to read the final issue of one of my favorite current series. Ahmed has become one of my favorite writers and I will be continuing to follow him, and Ward has once again proven why he is one of the most interesting artists in the industry today.
What a nice ending. Had my doubts about this series when it started but man was it worth the ride! Got misty eyed a few times, so kudos to Ahmed and Ward!!
This issue, as well as this run, made me love Crusher so dang much. And this issue doesn't stop that trend at all. Crusher has an opportunity to run off and leave all of this nonsense behind but makes the heroes choice and helps Black Bolt take down the Inhuman-Psychic-Vampire creature that recaptured Black Bolt and Blinky once and for all.
Lockjaw, who is truly one of my favorites as well and both of my little boys, gets to make an appearance to help save the day again, and we get a nice wrap up to the story with the reconnect between Medusa and what appears to be a changed Black Bolt.
Again, this issue, as well as the run, were fantastic. It ends with literally "The End" and since I do not like to read solicits in case I get spoiled, I don't know if the run is continuing. If it is; I'm all in! If not, this was a great run that anyone reading this should pick up in trade.
You get, in my opinion, two huge character changes in Crusher and Black Bolt that, if others continue to use them this way, will benefit the growth of these characters in the future. I left wanting more from Black Bolt, Lockjaw, and dare I say, a mini or maxi about Crusher! Pick up the trade!
Black Bolt overcomes the Jailer thanks to his loved ones and friends. The issue is deadly serious about that potentially-corny theme, and thank goodness it is. The art is beautiful, the friendships are touching. The logic is questionable at a few points, but there's never been a better demonstration of the fact that a truly great story can leap such gaps effortlessly. While this closes the series in a perfectly satisfying way, it's been such a glorious journey that ending it feels unavoidably sad.
A fitting end to an amazing series. Christian Ward's self described "weird" art was absolutely perfect for Black Bolt and the journey that Saladin Ahmed has taken us on. Should make for a great trade - i've already gotten all 12 issues out and am waiting for a quiet night to read through them in succession. Definitely a home run from Marvel and they should be given credit for thinking outside the box on this one with a very unconventional creative team.
I echo Bleeding Cool - Joshua Davison's blurb review but it wasn't as satisfyingly presented for me. So let's say -1 to his rating.


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The Young Turks 03.16.18
A portion of our Young Turks Main Show from March 16, 2018. For more go to http://www.tytnetwork.com/join.
Hour 1: Feds tosses out rule requiring financial advisors to act in customers' best interest. Pruitt huddled with coal exec who raised over $1M for Trump. Pence enters Inauguration, greets Steven Chancellor of White Stallion Energy. Zinke, Pruitt, and Mnuchin spending. Libertarian candidate proposes arming homeless. Dem challenges Maine GOP behind 'skinhead lesbian' remark.
Hour 2: Teens get 'corporate punshment' in AR for participating in Walkout. Penn professor: black students seldom graduate high in class. Prof on black law students. FL bridge collapse. Katy Perry kisses contestant.
Direct download: 180316__EC.mp3
Thu, 15 March 2018
TYT - 03.15.18: Kudlow, Germany Arrest Warrant, and Neo-Nazi Love Triangle
Walkout students go crazy at Sanders arrival. Bernie excitement at National Walkout Day. Mueller subpoenas Trump org. Kudlow economic adviser. Kudlow in 2011–Human toll in Japan worse than econ toll, good news. Senate Passes Bill To Deregulate Banks. Ana w/Bernie–Addresses the 16 Dems that voted for Bank deregulation. Germany looking to arrest Gina Haspel. Trump admits he lied at fundraising event. Trump admits he lied at fundraising event. Yale Experiment: turn conservatives into liberals.
Trump wants to execute drug dealers, w/ some exceptions + finalizes opioid plan. Tucker Carlson links immigration to infertility in American men. Tucker Carlson falling wages leads to infertility and out of wedlock births. Women dont want dudes who dont make good money. Neo-Nazi Love Triangle.
Wed, 14 March 2018
TYT - 03.14.18: National Student Walkout, Teacher Gun, Conor Lamb, and Bernie Troll Bots
Cenk & John. National Student Walkout and marches. Nancy Pelosi and Bernie Sanders both give speeches during the walkout.
A teacher accidentally discharged a firearm while teaching a public safety class, injuring one student at a Northern California school on Tuesday. Conor Lamb has beat Saccone in the Pennsylvania special election. Kilmead says Lamb won because of his attractiveness. DCCC troll bots against Bernie Sanders.
Direct download: 1803.14__EC.mp3
Tue, 13 March 2018
TYT - 03.13.18: Tillerson Gone, Pompeo In, Austin Bombings, and Schwarzenegger v Oil Companies
Cenk. After months of disputes with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, President Trump removed him Tuesday and nominated CIA Director Mike Pompeo to head the State Department. Hours after his boss, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, was ousted Steve Goldstein, the undersecretary of public affairs at the State Department, has been fired by the White House.
A 17-year-old victim in a series of deadly package bombs delivered to homes in Austin, Texas, was identified Tuesday as Draylen Mason, as a law enforcement source revealed the same person may have constructed the three devices. Mason, described by Austin Police Chief Brian Manley as an "outstanding young man who was going places with his life," was killed when a package on the porch of a Texas home exploded Monday morning. His mother is in stable condition. The name of a 75-year-old woman wounded in a second incident Monday has not been released. The bombings have shaken residents and cast suspicion on one of life's common occurrences: getting a package delivered to your doorstep. Schwarzenegger planning to sue oil companies.
TYT - 03.12.18: PA Special Election, Koch Candidate, and Betsy DeVos
Cenk. Dems leading in PA special election. Millions of dollars in outside spending have engulfed Tuesday's heated special election to fill Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district, and 86 percent has benefited the Republican candidate, state Rep. Rick Saccone. Providing a sizeable chunk of the money behind this election's spending is a very familiar conservative donor family that would like to keep a small-government conservative in the district: the billionaire Koch family.
Cenk & Ana. In a rare interview on Sunday night, DeVos revealed that she still has a poor grasp on these subjects. There were plenty of cringe-inducing moments during the 13-minute 60 Minutes segment, from DeVos opting not to say whether she thinks the number of false accusations of sexual assault is as high as the number of actual assaults, to her declaration that the federal government has "invested billions and billions and billions of dollars from the federal level, and we have seen zero results."
Fri, 9 March 2018
TYT - 03.09.18: Trump Firings, Child Marriage, and NRA
A portion of our Young Turks Main Show from March 9, 2018. For more go to http://www.tytnetwork.com/join.
Cenk, Ana, Jimmy Dore, & Brett Erlich. TRUMP goes full MAGA. Tennessee GOP kills bill to ban child marriage. NRA suing the state of Florida. Republicans return the anti-gay First Amendment Defense Act to Congress. North Korea updates. Prosecutors no longer need to prove a cop acted with intentional malice. NRA gives more than $7 million in grants to schools.
TYT - 03.08.18: Gary Cohn, Stormy Daniels, and Geek Squad
Cenk. Trump said his departing chief economic adviser Gary Cohn could someday return to his administration after making several hundred more million dollars. "He may be a globalist, but I still like him," Trump said of Cohn, who was sitting in the room and announced earlier this week he is resigning as director of the National Economic Council. "He is seriously a globalist, there is no question. But in his own way he's a nationalist because he loves our country." Sarah Huckabee Sanders reportedly made President Trump "upset" by revealing a bit too much during Wednesday's press briefing.
When answering questions about Trump's alleged affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels and the $130,000 payout she reportedly received, Sanders commented, "This case has already been won in arbitration." Cenk prediction: Tillerson leaving administration
Cenk & Ana. The FBI paid Best Buy Geek Squad employees as informants, rewarding them for flagging indecent material when people brought their computers in for repair. Mark Cuban is denying a 2011 allegation of sexual assault after a weekly alternative newspaper in Oregon published details of a case that prosecutors didn't pursue, saying they didn't believe there was evidence to support the claim.
Wed, 7 March 2018
TYT - 03.07.18: Texas Primaries, Ted Cruz, and Stormy Daniels
Cenk & John. The most striking thing about the much-hyped Texas primaries is how ordinary they actually were. That was the message from the Texas Tribune's Evan Smith, who has been following the state's politics for the better part of three decades, when I spoke with him by phone. At the end of the day, 1.5 million Republicans voted in the primary and 1 million Democrats did. Despite the blue Texas hype and anti-Trump national environment, Republicans held a 500,000-vote advantage once all the ballots were counted. "Democrats like to say Texas is not a red state, it's a nonvoting state. Fine. But the fact that it's a nonvoting state means that it's a red state," Smith, the Tribune's CEO, told me. "At the end of the day, yesterday was more or less a regular Texas election. More Republicans turned out than Democrats." Sen. Ted Cruz said Wednesday that his re-election campaign was "just having a sense of humor" when it released a radio ad teasing Rep. Beto O'Rourke, who won the Democratic primary, for going by Beto rather than his given name, Robert. "In terms of the jingle, some of it is just having a sense of humor," Cruz told CNN's "New Day." "We had some fun with it."
Cruz, meanwhile, goes by Ted instead of his given name -- Rafael Edward Cruz.
"You're absolutely right. My name is Rafael Edward Cruz," Cruz acknowledged. "I am the son of my father Rafael Cruz, an immigrant from Cuba who came to Texas with nothing."
Adult film star Stormy Daniels sued President Donald Trump on Tuesday, alleging that he never signed a nondisclosure agreement that his lawyer had arranged with her. Stephanie Clifford, known professionally as Stormy Daniels, signed both the agreement and a side letter agreement using her professional name on Oct. 28, 2016, just days before the 2016 presidential election. Cohen signed the document the same day. Both agreements are appended to the lawsuit as Exhibit 1 and Exhibit 2. The "hush agreement," as it's called in the suit, refers to Trump throughout as David Dennison, and Clifford as Peggy Peterson. In the side letter agreement, the true identity of DD is blacked out, but Clifford's attorney, Michael Avenatti, says the individual is Trump.
Tue, 6 March 2018
TYT - 03.06.18: Australia Strikes Back, Trump Elephants, and Amber Tamblyn
Cenk & Ana. Trump rebuffed claims Tuesday that his White House is in chaos amid reports of high-profile departures and discord within the top ranks of the West Wing.
"The new Fake News narrative is that there is CHAOS in the White House. Wrong! People will always come & go, and I want strong dialogue before making a final decision," Trump tweeted. "I still have some people that I want to change (always seeking perfection). There is no Chaos, only great Energy!" The Turnbull government admits it has no idea if Australia will be exempt from US president Donald Trump's tariffs on steel and aluminium imports, despite claiming last year that it would escape the levies. Ministers have warned that the tariffs could spark a trade war and lead to global recession, and say Australian officials are scrambling to learn the details of the plan. World stock markets tumbled on Friday after Trump announced he would next week impose tariffs of 25% on steel imports and 10% on imported aluminium, in an attempt to shield local manufacturers from global competition. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has quietly begun allowing more trophy hunting of African elephants, despite President Donald Trump's pledge last year to uphold a ban on importing parts of animals killed by big-game hunters.
Actress Amber Tamblyn faces backlash after Tweeting that Hasidic Jews in New York City are targeting her. Of six crash reports involving robot cars filed in California so far this year, two involved a human approaching the car and attacking it.
Mon, 5 March 2018
TYT - 03.03.18: Roy Moore, NEW Steele Dossier, and Sam Nunberg
Cenk. Former Alabama senate candidate Roy Moore is asking his supporters for $250,000 to help fund his legal expenses. A new New Yorker profile of Trump-Russia dossier author Christopher Steele reports on a lesser-known memo the former MI-6 spy allegedly discussed with special counsel Robert Mueller's investigators. According to the report, in late November 2016, Steele relayed information from his Russian sources that senior Kremlin officials had intervened to block Mitt Romney as President-elect Trump's choice for secretary of State. Reporter Jane Mayer writes that Moscow had asked Trump to appoint someone who would be willing to lift sanctions related to Ukraine and cooperate with Russia's involvement in Syria. Romney, long a vocal hawk on Russia, declined to comment for the report. The White House said the former GOP presidential nominee was never a first choice for the job, and declined to comment on "any communications that the Trump team may have had with Russia on the subject."
Former Trump aide refusing to testify and says Trump and Russia did not collude--saying Putin is too smart to collude with Trump. Says it would be funny if Mueller arrests him for not going over emails and says he is not going to go to jail.
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The City of Lawrence cares about our residents and wants to ensure conditions in their homes are safe and habitable. As of January 1, 2015, all residential rental properties are required to have a valid rental license and periodic inspections. As a tenant, we want you to know about the licensing program and how this program will affect you.
The Rental Licensing and Inspection Program requires interior and exterior inspections of dwelling units to ensure minimum code standards are met to protect the life, health, safety and the general welfare of occupants. You may contact the Code Enforcement Division at (785) 832-3345 to inquire if your dwelling unit has been inspected as part of the program. Dwelling units are inspected on a periodic schedule based on 10% of all dwelling units owned by a landlord therefore your dwelling unit may not be inspected during your tenancy.
In absence of a required inspection by the City, we recommend tenants work with their landlord to address maintenance issues that need to be corrected. If these issues remain, you can request an inspection of your dwelling unit at any time if you believe your dwelling unit is not maintained to meet the minimum property maintenance standards as set forth in the city's Property Maintenance Code.
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Will the city inspect my rental unit?
Yes, typically on a 3-year cycle. The city works with the landlord, property owner, or agent of the owner to schedule inspections when they are required. As the tenant, you will be asked to sign a consent form allowing the inspection. Your landlord may choose to be present while the city performs the inspection.
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Will the inspector make video recordings or take photographs during inspections?
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Yes, if it can be determined that the tenant is the cause of a Rental Program violation, a Notice of Violation may be issued to the tenant instead of to the owner.
What is an occupancy requirement?
Dwelling units located in (RS) Single-Dwelling Residential zoned districts are permitted to be occupied by a family unit that is related by blood, marriage or adoption or by no more than three-unrelated persons. All other dwelling units located in non-RS zoning districts are permitted to be occupied by a family unit that is related by blood, marriage or adoption or by no more than a group of four-unrelated persons.
Effective August 1, 2015, all detached dwelling units (houses) located in zoning districts other than Multi-Dwelling Residential (RM) will be permitted to be occupied by a family unit that is related by blood, marriage or adoption or by no more than three un-related persons.
Occupancy limits shall not apply to the following uses: Congregate Living, Dormitory, Fraternity or Sorority House, Group Home (General or Limited), Motel, Hotel, Extended Stay, and Bed and Breakfast.
What happens if my rental unit is found to have violations?
The city will issue their findings in writing to the property owner, landlord or owner's agent. Some violations may be able to be corrected on-site during the inspection. The owner will have a period of time, typically 30 days, to correct violations. If a noted violation poses an imminent threat to life, safety or health (such as an unvented gas appliance, dangerous electrical wiring or a collapsed/backed up sanitary sewer line), the city may require correction in less than 30 days.
Can I find out if my rental unit has been cited for violations?
Yes, your landlord is required to keep a record of rental licenses. You can contact the city at (785) 832-3345 to inquire about a specific property's licensing history.
What if I suspect there are violations in my rental unit during a year when an inspection is not due? Can I submit my concerns for inspection?
Yes, you can report a code concern or complaint at any time by emailing rentallicensing@lawrenceks.org or calling our office at (785) 832-3345.
Does my landlord have to post the rental license at each residence?
Licensees are not required to post copies of the license in dwelling units, on buildings or on residential property premises. However, the city requires that rental licenses be maintained by the owner/owner agent on the rental property premises, if possible, or at the licensee's principal place of business, and be made available, upon request, to any tenant of a dwelling unit or to a City code official.
Do I have to allow the inspection?
You have the right to refuse consent to inspect, however, if you do refuse consent, the city may seek an administrative search warrant or other lawful means by which to complete the inspection.
How will tenants be made aware of the Rental Licensing Inspection Program?
Each September the city will mail a postcard to each licensed dwelling unit. The postcard will provide residents of the dwelling general information about the Rental Licensing Program and relevant contact information for reporting to the city any suspected violations of the City Code.
Please contact the city staff either in-person, email or by phone. Planning and Development Services is located at 1 Riverfront Plaza, Suite 110 in downtown Lawrence. The main Rental Licensing phone number is (785) 832-3345 or email us at rentallicensing@lawrenceks.org.


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S.D. (P.G.) College, Panipat, a premier centre of higher learning, giving education up to the PG level with emphasis on all-round development of students, stands in the heart of the city at the G.T. Road. Its foundation stone was laid in 1968 by Ch. Bansi Lal, the then Chief Minister of Haryana, in the presence of Swami Gitanandji, the exponent of the holy Gita and the most authentic prophetic voice of Panipat. The college is governed by S.D. Education Society (Regd.) Panipat, which also runs six more educational institutions in the town, all having pre-eminent position in their respective spheres.
This college has carved out a niche on the educational map of Haryana because of its several strong points. We impart education on holistic pattern with a view to cater to the present day needs of students by preparing them for global challenges. A number of our former students are working abroad in various positions in all corners of the globe. The college has been consistently introducing need based new courses. Keeping in view that a large number of students from Panipat go to Delhi for Honours courses, the college was the first college to start B.Com. (Honours) in Kurukshetra University a few years back. The college has also obtained NOC from the State Govt. to start Honours courses in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics besides many other courses mentioned earlier. The college is also the first in Kurukshetra University to start M.Sc. (Physics) course and also one of few colleges offering M.Sc. (Chemistry).


Willberry is made from solid sterling silver and is suspended on a navy cord to form a bracelet and has a Hi Ho silver toggle which is easy to adjust - one size fits all.
The silver Willberry is is 15mm from the top of his ear to the bottom of his hoof x 10mm wide from hoof to hoof.
Thank you Hi Ho for working with us on the designs to help us create one of Hannah's visions.


Space Placements in INdustry (SPIN) scheme 2017 now open!
The Space Placements in INdustry scheme (SPIN) has been designed to provide an introductory link for those considering employment in the space sector and space sector organisations looking to find the most talented and enthusiastic people to ensure the future success of their businesses. The scheme is managed by the Institute for Environmental Analytics at the University of Reading and supported by the Satellite Applications Catapult and the UK Space Agency.
The value of practical experience in the workplace has long been recognised to offer benefits to the spintern, providing valuable experience of the work environment and the skills that are crucial to a successful career, and benefits to the sponsor or host organisation who can identify a project that might otherwise not be achievable, carried out with a fresh pair of eyes and perhaps a fresh perspective on their own organisation and possibly provide an informal extended interview of a potential employee.
Enquiries from potential host organisations who have a short-term project (typically of eight weeks duration) are invited, and who would like to offer individuals the opportunity to gain new skills and an insight into their business.
Applications from individuals are welcome from all disciplines who are enthusiastic to work in the Space sector and are keen to develop new skills, applying and building on the knowledge they've acquired in their studies to date.
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from __future__ import print_function

from twisted.internet import reactor
from twisted.web import server, resource
from twisted.internet.endpoints import serverFromString

import txtorcon

class Simple(resource.Resource):
    isLeaf = True

    def render_GET(self, request):
        return "<html>Hello, world! I'm a hidden service!</html>"

site = server.Site(Simple())

def setup_failed(arg):
    print("SETUP FAILED", arg)

def setup_complete(port):
    print("Hidden serivce:", port.getHost().onion_service)
    print("    locally at:", port.local_address)

def progress(percent, tag, message):
    bar = int(percent / 10)
    print('[%s%s] %s' % ('#' * bar, '.' * (10 - bar), message))

hs_endpoint1 = serverFromString(reactor, "onion:80")
hs_endpoint2 = serverFromString(reactor, "onion:80")

txtorcon.IProgressProvider(hs_endpoint1).add_progress_listener(progress)
txtorcon.IProgressProvider(hs_endpoint2).add_progress_listener(progress)

d1 = hs_endpoint1.listen(site)
d2 = hs_endpoint2.listen(site)

d1.addCallback(setup_complete).addErrback(setup_failed)
d2.addCallback(setup_complete).addErrback(setup_failed)

reactor.run()

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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Helena Brewers
Most wins in a season: 50 in 1992
Most losses in a season: 55 in 1998
The Helena Brewers, a minor league baseball team, played in the Pioneer League between 1987 and 2018.
1987 Helena Brewers Pioneer League 46 24 Roster Stats 27,020 772
1989 Helena Brewers Pioneer League 38 30 Roster Stats 39,645 1,166
Average attendance is based upon the number of actual home dates where known (most leagues from 1992 and later). Where the number of home dates is not known, the average is calculated using half the team's total games.
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According to this new study, babies grimace when their mother eats... cabbage!
Kale is well known for its many nutritional benefits. But for many of us, its taste can be difficult to appreciate. And it turns out adults aren't the only ones who think so.
Credit: Alice Dias Didzoleit / iStock
Indeed, a very serious study recently conducted at the University of Durham, England, and published in the prestigious specialized journal Psychological Science revealed that unborn babies grimaced when their mothers ingested this vegetable. 'A number of studies have suggested that babies can taste and smell in the womb, but these are based on results after birth, while our study is the first to see these reactions before birth" says Beyza Ustun, a postgraduate researcher in the Fetal and Neonatal Research Laboratory in the Department of Psychology at Durham University
The team of scientists carried out 3D ultrasounds of 100 pregnant women in order to analyze the reaction of babies to different foods eaten by their mothers. And the least we can say is that the observations were very different depending on the menu tasted by the mother. For example, after the participants ate carrots, the fetuses appeared to have delighted faces that almost looked like laughter. In contrast, fetuses appeared to wince in disgust when their mother ate kale. Experts believe that fetuses are able to experience these flavors by inhaling and swallowing amniotic fluid in the womb.
Credit: Prof. Jackie Blissett
An encouraging discovery
"It was really amazing to see the reaction of the babies kale or carrot flavors during scans and sharing those moments with their parents. We believe that this repeated exposure to flavors before birth could help establish food preferences after birth, which could be important when thinking about messages about healthy eating and the possibility of avoiding complications during weaning." added young researcher Beyza Ustun.
Source : Psychological Science


U.S. Naval Forces Africa (NAVAF), the forward-deployed naval component of U.S. Africa Command, serves to defend the American people and protect U.S. interests.
Sailors, Marines, ships and aircraft assigned to NAVAF are postured to support counter-terrorism operations, provide maritime security, and build capacity with our African partners to achieve an enhanced security environment. Air, surface, and subsurface assets combine to deter adversaries and bolster the U.S. military's command and control capabilities to execute operations.
Naval forces have unique sea-based and maritime air capabilities to deter and defeat transnational threats. These assets provide intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance in order to monitor violent extremist organizations. When directed, NAVAF stands ready to provide precision strike capability to address threats to the U.S.
Naval forces' adaptive flexibility creates an inherent capability for crisis response should the need arise to conduct a non-combatant evacuation or humanitarian assistance/disaster relief operations. The synergy provided by the Navy-Marine Corps team further enhances this ability to respond quickly to any crisis. The amphibious command ship, USS MOUNT WHITNEY (LCC 20), provides unmatched mobile command and control capability, and is permanently assigned as the flagship for U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa/U.S. Sixth Fleet. As demonstrated during Operation ODYSSEY DAWN, MOUNT WHITNEY provides a vital command and control platform to conduct Joint Task Force operations within the full spectrum of military options, from disaster relief to full-scale military operations.
NAVAF aims for cooperative solutions to security challenges in Africa and its surrounding waters. NAVAF works closely with its Europe, African, and South American partners to disrupt terrorist networks, deter illicit trafficking, and defeat piracy and maritime crime.
Strengthening capacity through objective-based training is a key component to addressing security challenges posed by violent extremist organizations. Through Express-series exercises, NAVAF works with partner nations to exchange tactics and techniques that facilitate a more responsive and vigilant maritime presence throughout the continent. African Partnership Station, the year-round, multi-national training initiative, helps build capability and expand capacity that help African nations develop solutions to African problems. Pan-Atlantic and European partners aid in the capacity building efforts, increasing capabilities of African navies and coast guards, in order to build maritime domain awareness and combat those who seek to disrupt the free flow of goods.
NAVAF's efforts truly scale the continent. The command is dedicated to working with African partners to address shared security concerns. The continual development of maritime skills and enhanced relationships with our African partners is crucial to defeating a range of transnational threats.


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Alibaba vs. Amazon And 'Special Days' – Who Wore It Better?
We recently passed the auspicious day of 11/11 – which is considered lucky by the Chinese and has become very lucky for Chinese giant Alibaba. It created a holiday called "Singles Day," which is basically an homage to self-gifting and an answer to Valentine's Day for couples. The day was absurdly successful but received very little notice in the U.S. media.
As usual when the holiday season is rolling around, the U.S. media is filled with stories about Amazon- this week it's all about the selection of "HQ2" which turned out to be 2 HQ2's, in exactly the locations Scott Galloway predicted last February (though he didn't see 2 HQ2's coming) – the places CEO Jeff Bezos has homes. I'm not going to get into my disappointment over that process today, instead I'd like to spend a little virtual ink comparing Amazon's specially created day "Prime Day" with Alibaba's specially created day, "Single's Day."
What can you say about a retailer that generates $1.5 billion in sales in the first minute 28 seconds of the sales day? Or revenue of $30 billion in 24 hours on a day that ultimately means... nothing? Me, I just said, wow.
How did Prime Day compare? Amazon announced that shoppers purchased more than 100 million items, and it gave lots of specifics about aggregate increases over last year, the number of people participating across the globe and the types of products that those shoppers bought.
According to Statista, Amazon raked in $4.19 billion in sales on Prime Day in 2019, a hefty increase over 2017. But when you compare it to Singles Day, well… it just doesn't sound like all that, does it?
Now, is there any significant difference between the two fake holidays? Prime Day happens at a time when retail traffic is generally pretty low – the middle of summer. And we're talking a global phenomenon. Singles Day is a Chinese phenomenon that has not yet been exported to other countries – I might call it "self-gifting day" if it came to America. Much more festive than honoring being single, and why limit oneself? What WOULD happen if Alibaba could get its act together outside of China? What would happen to Amazon?
I sense some cracks in Amazon's armor. Apparently, so does its CEO. Shortly before its 2 HQ2 announcement, Mr. Bezos addressed employees and argued that Amazon is not too big to fail. In fact, he said that one day Amazon WILL fail, and employees should stay hungry to postpone that inevitability. In fact, Mr. Bezos demonstrated some real self-awareness and even cited Sears as an example of a company that was the Amazon of its day and now is failing fast. This is true. Sears was, indeed, the Amazon of its time, and a series of unfortunate events have led it to its current somewhat tragic pass.
And so, Alibaba waits in the wings. In the US, we tend to have a very US-centric view of the world. We have been the world's biggest market, are the home of the world's most valuable brands, and it seemed for a long time that our hegemony would remain forever unchallenged. We look at the war between Amazon and Walmart waiting to declare a victor (honestly, with Walmart's revenues 4x Amazon's, is this even a debate?) Is Walmart too big to fail? How much headroom does Amazon really have, and will its fleet of airplanes help its retail operations become and remain profitable? I don't know the answers to many of these both existential and pragmatic questions.
What I do know is that $30 billion dollars in a single day is a lot of revenue. I also know that Alibaba's "New Retail" concept is helping terrestrial retailers modernize their operations even more than Amazon's Cloud Services (AWS) are helping retailers in this country.
I also know that Alibaba made a hash out of its original foray into the US, it's website 11main.com. That site was opened in 2014 and Alibaba shut it down in 2016. Do I think the company will make the same mistake again? I'm not sure. I do know that it has a LOT of headroom for growth even without coming to the US.
So, to quote Us Magazine, "Who wore it better?" Was the made-up holiday Singles Day more successful than made-up holiday Prime Day? Yes, it was. Alibaba wore it better. Is this a portent of things to come? I think it might be.
I strongly recommend all retailers subscribe to Alizila, Alibaba's daily newsletter. I have had more than a few gasps over the things the company is doing in China.
And that's why it's always fun to be a retail observer and sometimes influencer... you never know where the next success is coming from. But man, is it fun to watch!
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The New York City Ballet Presents A Classic Picture Book Collection
The Nutcracker; The Sleeping Beauty; Swan Lake
By New York City Ballet
Illustrated by Valeria Docampo
Boxed Set Hardcover
This enchanting collection of lavishly illustrated storybooks include three classic tales for the modern ballet lover, as told and reimagined by the New York City Ballet.
In the first holiday classic, based on the New York City Ballet production of George Balanchine's The Nutcracker, readers are invited to join Marie and her Nutcracker Prince on a magical journey. Then in the second tale, The Sleeping Beauty, little ones will get swept away to a beautiful kingdom where a princess falls into a deep sleep. And finally, in the third story, ballet lovers can dive into the dramatic and stunning story of Swan Lake.
This classic picture book collection includes:
New York City Ballet is one of the foremost dance companies in the world, with a roster of spectacular dancers and an unparalleled repertory. The company was founded in 1948 by George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirsten and it quickly became world known for its athletic and contemporary style. In 1964 New York City Ballet moved to its current home in Lincoln Center where it performs twenty-one weeks of each year. Widely acknowledged for its enduring contributions to dance, NYCB is committed to promoting creative excellence and nurturing a new generation of dancers and choreographers.
Valeria Docampo taught art and graphic design before dedicating herself to illustrating full-time. She resides in Lyon, France.
Publisher: Little Simon (December 2019)
Children's Fiction > Fairy Tales & Folklore > Single Title
Children's Fiction > Classics
Children's Fiction > Performing Arts > Dance
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