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Trump says Democrats have 'become an anti-Israel party, an anti-Jewish party' after the latest fight over Rep. Ilhan Omar's comments
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Mar 8, 2019, 21:09 IST
U.S. President Trump departs for Alabama from the White House in Washington
President Donald Trump slammed the House of Representatives' passing a resolution condemning "all forms of hate" as "disgraceful."
Trump charged that "the Democrats have become an anti-Israel party" and "an anti-Jewish party."
The resolution initially focused on anti-Semitism in the wake of Rep. Ilhan Omar being accused of making anti-Semitic comments, but was broadened to include all forms of hate.
The resolution, which decried anti-Semitism and "all forms of hatred" - including racial discrimination, Islamophobia, and anti-Catholic bias - passed in the House by a vote of 407-23, with all the nay votes coming from Republicans who disapproved of taking the focus off of Omar's comments.
President Donald Trump slammed the House of Representatives' passing a resolution condemning "all forms of hate" in the wake of infighting within the Democratic caucus over Rep. Ilhan Omar's controversial statements on Israel, which were widely denounced as anti-Semitic.
"I thought yesterday's vote by the House was disgraceful because it's become - the Democrats have become an anti-Israel party," Trump told reporters shortly before boarding Air Force One on Friday morning.
"They've become an anti-Jewish party. And I thought that vote was a disgrace and so does everybody else if you get an honest answer," he continued.
While the resolution was initially tailored specifically to denounce anti-Semitism, Omar's allies in Congress, including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, and Pramila Jayapal accused Democratic leadership of unfairly singling out Omar.
The resolution, which decried anti-Semitism and "all forms of hatred" including racial discrimination, Islamophobia, and anti-Catholic bias passed in the House by a vote of 407-23-1, with all the nay votes coming from Republicans.
Read more: Rep. Ilhan Omar's comments about Israel are consuming Congress with Trump, Pelosi, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez all taking sides
Omar, a freshman congresswoman from Minnesota, found herself in hot water over a series of February tweets that claimed that congressional support for Israel was "all about the Benjamins, baby" (a reference to $100 dollar bills), and charging that some lawmakers were financially influenced by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
After apologizing and deleting those tweets, she faced a fresh round of scrutiny over a tweet claiming that pro-Israel lawmakers wanted members of Congress to "pledge allegiance to a foreign country," which many people decried as invoking anti-Semitic tropes of Jewish Americans being unpatriotic and primarily loyal to Israel.
Many of the Republicans who voted against the resolution criticized it for not zeroing-in specifically on anti-Semitism.
"Today's resolution vote was a sham put forward by Democrats to avoid condemning one of their own and denouncing vile anti-Semitism," GOP conference chair Liz Cheney said.
"While I stand wholeheartedly against discrimination outlined in this resolution, the language before the House today did not address the issue that is front and center."
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In telecommunications a link is a communication channel that connects two or more devices. This link may be an actual physical link or it may be a logical link that uses one or more physical links or shares a physical link with other telecommunications links.
Pertaining to GSM and cellular networks, the radio uplink is the transmission path from the mobile station (cell phone) to a base station (cell site). Traffic and signalling flowing within the BSS and NSS may also be identified as uplink and downlink.
Pertaining to radiocommunication service, a downlink (DL or D/L) is the portion of a feeder link used for the transmission of signals from a space radio station, space radio system or high altitude platform station to an earth station.
Pertaining to cellular networks, the radio downlink is the transmission path from a cell site to the cell phone. Traffic and signalling flowing within the base station subsystem (BSS) and network switching subsystem (NSS) may also be identified as uplink and downlink.
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On the new album "Field Day Rituals" the doom piano trio Splashgirl exceeds the high expectations that have been building up since the release of the group's album "Pressure" in 2011. That album was described as "an instant classic" by Uncut Magazine and "a triumphant artistic exercise" by Jazzwise, and won a place on a number of "year's best" lists. With its fourth album, "Field Day Rituals", the group is taking yet another giant step up and forward.
The album is detail-rich, dramatic, full of atmosphere and massive, despite the sometimes viscous and reserved quality of the music. The players themselves describe the music on the album as "lighter and more optimistic than on the previous album", although the soundscape remains so bass-heavy that the average kitchen radio will be under threat of extinction. Here Splashgirl refines its personal idiom, although at the same time the influences of post-rock, classical music and, not least, jazz are even more apparent this time around. The album was recorded in the course of two intense weeks at Avast Studio in Seattle, USA, together with engineer and producer Randall Dunn (Akron/Family, Black Mountain, Sun City Girls, Boris, Kinski, Sunn O))) and Earth). This recording marks the first time the trio has given a producer the authority to take decisions on behalf of the band. "We found that Randall evoked qualities in the music that we ourselves had overlooked. He has an impressively broad musical perspective, and heard the music from angles that were often totally new for us. He got us to play some of the music as though it were classical jazz, which we haven't done for a long time. Randall inspired us to take a favourable look at jazz again." Violist Eyvind Kang (Beck, John Zorn, Marc Ribot) plays on three tracks, and Timothy Mason's subtle modular synths are a welcome surprise in several places on the album.
2013 produced at least three truly great instrumental records – namely those by The Necks, Dawn of Midi and the Norwegian Trio Splashgirl, all operating on the jazz cusp but without the brassiness the genre usually implies. Significantly, Splashgirl´s fourth outing was produced by Randall Dunn, a man more at home with doom metal. Together they unite Splashgirl´s sombre piano and cinematic percussion with drones and bass thrums covered in pitch. But just when you´re settling in for the end of the world, tracks such as All the Vowels Missing pull the action back from the abyss, with Andreas Stensland Løwe´s piano anchoring Field Day Rituals in a very emotional place.
With Field Day Rituals, Splashgirl have almost imperceptibly slipped out of their comfort zone, yet they sound totally at ease as they expand their reach. That they do so without losing track of the intense piano/bass/drum compound which is at the core of their work is testament to their maturity as an ensemble.
A haunting collection of brooding and introspective soundscapes.
The whole album is in fact a masterclass in creating spaces and sparsely populating them, without the sonic landscape ever getting boring. Eyvind Kang, familiar from Bill Frisell's bands, is a guest on viola, and Timothy Mason adds some modular synth. For a band that apparently started out as a conventional jazz piano trio, it's remarkable stuff, and strikingly original. Check it out!
– The emergence of the doom jazz piano trio, anyone? That certainly seems to be what´s on the cards with Splashgirl´s fourth album on which production duites are taken up by the man behind the controls for monolithic recordings by the likes of Sunn O))), Earth and Boris – Randall Dunn(…)There is little light within the relentless gloaming shadows here, heightened by the emotively plaintive intruisions of Eyvind Kang´s viola on three tracks.
On the face of it this looks like a jazz album, because it features the classic instrumental combination of piano, double bass and drums, all played by three young Norwegian friends. The reality is a lot different, as this is closer to the sound of down tempo electronica than jazz, and Splashgirl use their instruments wisely and sparingly. The album is atmospheric from the off, and quite dark at times, with the piano taking the lead. The music is mainly slow, and sometimes resembles slowly moving chant (which might explain the album title). 'Dulcimer' shows how the subtle electronics can be used to really good effect, while 'Never Been Anywhere Before' goes the other way with a pretty punchy approach. Meanwhile 'Mass' gets some weird spectral sounds from the bass harmonics, as well as using a viola. It's the classic 'less is more' approach that works so well though, making a thoughtful and surprisingly rewarding listen, as a record to kick back to or to examine more closely.
Field Day Rituals arguably has a richer, thicker sound mix than other albums, something demonstrated on stand-out track Mass. Featuring Eyvind Kang on viola and a greater focus on bowed double bass it has a disquieting, slightly anguished eeriness that also manages to project an otherworldly, Middle Eastern feel. It takes the music outside of the realm of jazz into something more mysterious and hard to place.
Field Day Rituals is one of those works which you know is going to move you, from the first minute. Not that it beats its chest and shouts: Splashgirl´s modus operandi is to lure into submission with subtletly. They lay out their bleak, introspective Glass/Nyman feel (they´ve been referred to as "doom-piano") and you´re soon wrapped up in its wintry glow.
& Der Club of Gore fast noch etwas zu schnell und geradeaus (wo die Mühlheimer eher mega-ironisch brechen und sprechen), scheinen Splashgirl sich aber doch sehr gut in der slowest Ecke einzurichten.
Wenn sich eine Stimme erhöbe, sind Splashgirl an einigen Stellen beinahe Mark Hollis und seinen späten Talk Talk näher als dem Club of Gore. Wobei alle genannten Namen zusammen mit Splashgirl einen herrlichen Motto-Abend zu Dunkelheit und Langsamkeit gestalten könnten, muss nur noch ne Bar gefunden werden – oder ein Netzradio, denn eigentlich sollte diese Musik nicht in Gesellschaft, sondern absolut alleine gehört werden, vor dem Gerät, mit Drink(s), ohne zu wissen, ob auch nur irgendwer anderes ebenfalls zuhört. Einfach mal den Titelsong genießen, dann kommt erfreulich wenig Hoffnung oder Geselligkeit auf.
Sansat eftertänksamt spel med melodisk skönhet i harmoni. I inledande Long story likaväl som många av skivans nio spår. Samspelet är musikens styrka och vad jag fascineras av, parat med de vackra kompositionerna. Mass, The portal och Never been anywhere before, i ödesmättat avskalat spel, vilket man kan spåra i fler titlar. Den senare får dock tempo och engagemang till mer lättsammare innehåll en bit in. Spännande musik som engagerar lyssnandet och tjusar öronen.
Splashgirl er jazzens mørkemenn som stadig gir ut lysglimt av noen album.
En i utgangspunktet konvensjonell jazztriobesetning maler langsomme lydbilder i et enormt rom som av alle ting skaper assiosiasjoner til Brian Eno, cirka «Apollo».
«Field Day Rituals» vandrar dei vidare i eit slags «tungt», men også vakkert tonespråk som bandet har som varemerke. Det er framleis pianisten Andreas Stensland Løve, bassisten Jo Berger Myhre trommeslagaren Andreas Lønmo Knudsrød som på «Field Day Rituals» tek oss med inn i dette universet, der bratsjist Eyvind Kang og synth-traktør Timothy Mason er ekstra tonefølgje til det dei sjølve kallar doom-pianotrioen sin. Med det dei også kallar eit destillat av eit personleg uttrykk samstundes som påverknaden frå post-rock, klassisk musikk og ikkje minst jazz er tydelegare enn før.


It only takes a moment for workplace silliness to suddenly turn into something else — a true emergency. Modern businesses are generally safe, as long as they fully conform to the requirements of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. There are certain specialized businesses that should carefully protect their employees from toxic fumes or contact with dangerous chemicals, too. Here is a brief overview of what you'll need to keep in your commercial business first aid kit.
It's a fact, kitchen fires in the workplace are one of the leading causes of commercial property damage according to the National Fire Protection Association. More than 3,300 office properties experience a fire in an average year, causing over 40 civilian death and over $100 million in property damage. These staggering statistics are even worse because the majority of these fires could have been easily prevented with the proper oversight, precautions and training. Here are 7 quick tips that will help improve the fire safety in your office kitchen.
The smell of spring is in the air in California, but there could still be some chilly nights to come. Spring is a great time to review your fire protection equipment to be sure it's still covering all the contingencies that you need for your business. Commercial fires claim dozens of lives every year, and billions of dollars of damage to businesses — making it crucial to keep your fire protection up-to-date and tested. Here are some quick tips for prepping your fire protection systems this spring.
Fire drills are an important part of working in a commercial or office building, as they can keep you safe in the event of an emergency. Unfortunately, they are often ignored or treated as an annoyance instead of a life-saving mechanism. Humans have a tendency to think that "It won't happen to me", but the reality is that there are thousands of devastating fires that occur each year — many of which end in fatalities that could potentially have been prevented. These tips for organizing fire drills in the workplace will help people take their fire prevention steps seriously while staying organized and limiting confusion.
Is your California restaurant fully protected from all the potential hazards that are lurking within? You might be surprised to learn that someone running off without paying their bill is definitely not the worst problem you're likely to have. Instead, keeping your restaurant fully protected from the dangers of accidental fire top the list of calamities that you need to consider. See how you can keep your restaurant protected both now and in the future.
Freezing temperatures are not the only danger to pipes, as age can also take a toll on your sprinkler system. You are likely familiar with the challenges that homeowners have with their external water systems and hoses, but businesses are subject to the same problems — only on a much larger scale! Of course, the best option is to have a proactive fire protection partner regularly review your sprinkler and pipe system to ensure that everything is in solid working order. When your sprinkler pipes burst, there are several steps you'll need to take to reduce the possibility of damage to your location and physical assets.
When you're selecting a commercial fire alarm, the number of choices that you'll need to make can be dizzying. There are a wide range of fire alarm solutions on the market today, but the majority of these solutions are tied to simple concepts: audio alarms that are loud enough to get attention, and visual cues that can help break through the chaos that can be caused by a fire incident. Your fire protection partner will help you understand the nuanced differences in the systems that are available for your needs. Here's a high level overview showing why it's important to have both visual and audio elements covered in your fire protection system.
Do You Know How to Dispose of a Used Fire Extinguisher?
You want to be sure that your Northern California business stays fully protected from fires. That includes regular check-ups of your fire protection gear, including fire extinguishers. Nearly everything in life has an expiration date, and fire extinguishers are no different! They may reach the end of their useful life, begin losing efficacy or have been partially discharged, but can you safely dispose of them at your local waste control facility? Generally, the answer is no — but you can safely dispose of these used fire protection devices.


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The Hunger Games Movie Review
Reviewed by Nicole S. on Mar 24, 2012
Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson star as Katniss and Peeta in The Hunger Games, based on the bestselling novel by Suzanne Collins. Kidzworld has the movie review.
Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen Courtesy of Lions Gate Entertainment
To the nation of Panem, one male tribute and one female tribute between the ages of 12 and 18 must represent their district in the annual Hunger Games. A total of 24 for tributes are placed in an arena designed by the gamemakers, and only one comes out alive.
Katniss and Effie Trinket (Elizabeth Banks) Courtesy of Lions Gate Entertainment
The Tributes
When 12-year-old Primrose Everdeen is selected as the female tribute for District 12, her older sister Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) volunteers to take her place. She and the baker's son Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) are shipped off to the Capitol of Panem where they are wined, dined and decorated in the most elaborate costumes. For the people of the Capitol, it is just a sport, but for the tributes and their mentors, it is a game of strategy and survival.
Katniss and Rue Courtesy of Lions Gate Entertainment
Star-Crossed Lovers
With the help of their alcoholic mentor, Haymitch (Woody Harrelson), Katniss and Peeta win the hearts of viewers by representing themselves before and during the games as star-crossed lovers. But for one of them, showing their love for the other isn't just an act.
Katniss and Gale (Liam Hemsworth) Courtesy of Lions Gate Entertainment
The Hunger Games movie was very true to the books. Unfortunately, if you've read them, you might find yourself disappointed. You'll spend the majority of the film comparing the details to those in the story. Because the book was seen through the eyes of Katniss, the movie wasn't able to capture some of the important personal relationships. However, if you haven't read the books, or it's been a while since you've read them, you'll love the film and its elaborate, unique qualities.
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AMERICAN VALUES SURVEY: Majority of Americans Prefer Life Without Parole Over Death Penalty
A majority of Americans prefer life without parole to the death penalty, according to the 2015 American Values Survey by the Public Religion Research Institute. The poll of 2,695 Americans found that 52% preferred life without parole, while 47% preferred the death penalty. The poll found that respondents' views on capital punishment tracked their views about racial justice and differed greatly by race. 53% of all Americans agreed with the statement, "A black person is more likely than a white person to receive the death penalty for the same crime," while 45% disagreed. But 82% of blacks and 59% of Hispanics agreed with the statement, while fewer than half (45%) of whites agreed. Only 37% of those who saw racial disparities in the application of the death penalty supported capital punishment, while the death penalty drew support from 59% of those who disagreed that blacks were more likely than whites to receive death sentences. White Americans' views on this question differed greatly by social class, with 54% of college-educated whites saying blacks were more likely than whites to receive the death penalty and 58% of white working-class Americans saying this was not the case. Views about the perceived fairness of the death penalty also split sharply along partisan lines. 64% of Republicans disagreed with the statement on racial disparities, as compared to 28% of Democrats. Independents were evenly divided. Overall, about two-thirds (65%) of Democrats said they preferred life without parole, while 67% of Republicans said they preferred the death penalty.
("Survey|Anxiety, Nostalgia, and Mistrust: Findings from the 2015 American Values Survey," Public Religion Research Institute, November 17, 2015; Full Report; News Release.) See Public Opinion and Race.


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Man dies after 4-wheeler crash in south Mobile County
by: Carey Cox
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MOBILE COUNTY (WKRG) — A man died after crashing his 4-wheeler into an SUV in south Mobile County Saturday afternoon.
At about 5:34 p.m. on Saturday, July 11, ALEA Troopers responded to the crash on AL 193 and Drag Strip Lane in south Mobile county. Joshua Byars, 29, of Mobile, was riding a 2017 Honda Rancher 4-wheeler, and attempted to cross the road. Byars struck a 2011 GMC Sierra.
Byars was airlifted to University Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. No further information is available as troopers continue to investigate the crash.
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by Amber Grigley / Jan 14, 2021
MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) --- As many are anxiously waiting for the vaccine to be available to the general public, the City of Mobile is working to come up with a mass distribution plan.
The city and USA Health are planning to turn the Civic Center into a drive-through vaccination site.How it's set up now, this process should run smoothly. It'll be by appointment only, you will have to enter on the Clairborne Street entrance of the civic center, check at this gate, and from there you will find multiple stations inside to help with your vaccination.
MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) -- With Mardi Gras practically off the table, many Mobilians are still planning to honor the season by decorating their yards and homes. This is being called 'Yardi Gras'.
Now there is false information spreading on social media about there being a fee to participate. The picture below is the Facebook page called 'Official Mobile Al.' It's fake.
by Dana Winter / Jan 14, 2021
MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) -- The man accused of breaking into a woman's home on Christmas Day and sexually assaulting her had a bond hearing on Thursday, Jan. 14, but corrections staff report Todd Overstreet refused to come out of his cell.
The woman said she was in the right place at the right time. Now she just hopes Overstreet stays in jail.


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Edmonton Oilers, with young talent, no longer bringing knife to a gunfight
EDMONTON - After three woebegone seasons of futility, the Edmonton Oilers are no longer bringing a knife to a gunfight.
The Oilers open the abbreviated NHL season Sunday with high hopes centred around a core of young sharpshooters, notably the latest No. 1 overall draft pick, Nail Yakupov.
Rookie head coach Ralph Krueger says a fast start is critical, given the team has a killer 17-day, nine-game road trip in late February.
"It's going to be a good opportunity at the start with 10 home and seven road games to establish a good base," Krueger said.
"We feel good about the schedule."
Fans are also feeling very good about Yakupov, the bushy-browed Russian teenager with a sweet set of hands and a reputation as half puck wizard, half showboat.
For his part, the 19-year-old has kept his head down and his nose clean at training camp, sticking to pabulum bromides on working hard.
"We have a lot of skilled players and we will work pretty well this year," he told reporters.
Yakupov knows the heat is on after a so-so performance for his country at the recent world junior championships and controversy over comments in his native tongue that Canucks play "dirty."
In a testament to the Oilers' newfound skill level, Yakupov is not even slotted in on the first line.
That honour has gone to NHL sophomore and fellow teenager Ryan Nugent-Hopkins. The Burnaby, B.C., native—the first overall pick in 2011—centres the top line with 2010 overall No. 1 Taylor Hall on left wing and Jordan Eberle on the right.
The trio is expected to make up for its lack of size and experience with dynamite scoring potential.
All three played together in Oklahoma City for the Oilers farm team during the 113-day lockout.
Eberle led the way with 25 goals and 51 points in 34 games. This week he was named the Oilers' assistant captain.
Nugent-Hopkins is coming off a promising rookie season of 18 goals and 52 points in 62 games.
Hall was second in team scoring to Eberle with 27 goals in 61 games last season, and didn't start playing this year until November as he recuperated from shoulder surgery.
Yakupov is penciled in on the left wing with Sam Gagner at centre and veteran Ales Hemsky on the right.
Captain Shawn Horcoff is expected to centre the third line flanked by the redoubtable Ryan Smyth to his left and big-bodied Finn Teemu Hartikainen on the right.
Arguably the biggest off-season addition to the Oilers was defenceman Justin Schultz.
A 22-year-old free agent sought widely for his laser-beam breakout passes, Schultz snubbed other suitors last summer to sign with Edmonton.
The hope is that Schultz will ignite rushes with passes that in recent years have too often have forced Oiler forwards building up speed through the neutral zone to reach waaaay back for the puck or see it clink off the back of their skates.
Schultz was an American Hockey League star for Oklahoma City in the lockout, racking up 18 goals and 48 points and pushing Eberle for the scoring lead.
Krueger, however, says the six-foot-one, 163-pound Schultz will, like all rookie rearguards, learn that life at hockey's top rung is a grind.
"He's going to have some adjustments to make here. We're going to be patient with him and everybody needs to be patient with him," Krueger said.
"We're very confident he's going to become a top player, but he needs his time to deal with the game without the puck. It will be a lot more challenging here. The physical battles down low in our end will be a lot more difficult."
Joining Schultz on the top three defence pairings are veterans Ladislav Smid, Jeff Petry, Ryan Whitney, Nick Schultz and newly acquired Mark Fistric. Ther blue-line corps could turn out either strong or fragile, as it's vulnerable to a steep drop off if injuries mount.
In goal, 26-year old Devan Dubnyk takes over as the No. 1. He is expected to play two thirds of the 48 games with the rest going to the aging but still occasionally brilliant Nikolai Khabibulin.
Oddsmakers have the Oilers leaping up to the middle of the NHL standings, and the first playoff spot since 2006 looms.
If they fizzle, it will be because they lost a lot of 6-5 hockey games with fans walking out buzzing about two highlight reel goals.
Given the frozen wasteland of recent campaigns, Oiler fans can probably live with that.


Who chilled the electric car?
Electric cars have been touted as the wave of the future, but current owners say the kinks aren't quite worked out yet.
December 24, 2009, 12:39 p.m.
Electric cars have been touted as the wave of the future, a fuel-efficient and eco-friendly alternative to most gas-guzzlers on the road today.
But according to car owners and automakers, early generation electric cars have their quirks: limited range, especially in cold weather, and few recharging stations. Indeed, overshadowing the promise of electric cars is the question of whether consumers will go for vehicles that force "drivers to rethink their habits and expectations of convenience," The Washington Post reports.
The concerns are emerging just as the auto industry is posed for growth in its electric car sector. After years of hype and billions of dollars, auto companies say next year will see an influx of electric cars: Nissan's all-battery Leaf, General Motors' Chevy Volt and a commercial van by Ford. "I know we have to have an electric car," GM Chairman Edward E. Whitacre Jr. has said.
Giving a boost to the industry, the Obama administration has also handed out $2.4 billion to companies producing batteries and parts for electric cars.
Still, the only all-electric car currently designed for average divers is the BMW 500 Mini E, which leases for about $850 a month. But even at that price, the company itself describes the Mini E as a "test of technology" according to The Post.
Auto executives also say battery innovation is not far off. And others are working to expand charging stations: In conjunction with Nissan, a company called Ecotality plans to build 7,000 stations in five states with $100 million in federal funding.


Why not indulge in another 60 secs of pure unedited Feathers and Toast Behind the Scenes as you sip your lemonades and iced teas and whatnot. In this episode the inspiration behind the show is explained in precise detail, which is clearly something you all have been dying to know.
Hope this finds you well. Well darling the same cannot be said for me I'm afraid. I have been hauled out of shooting for the next few weeks in order to focus on pre production of season 2 of Feathers and Toast despite a trip yesterday to the hairdressers to enhance my red highlighted hair.
So darling, to be honest, my freckled nose is slightly out of whack as I like to be camera ready and miming my way to you on a weekly basis. One needs a 2 minute mime to cheer one up come rain or shine, I would have thought. But the powers that be have decided otherwise, and as I am only 5ft 3 in stature I cannot tackle them physically; one needs to be reasonable when sizing up the odds of winning such scuffles.
Hope this finds you sweltering happily somewhere and that lemonade is not too far off in your future. Just wanted to send you a 1 minute film of behind the scenes to explain what the show is all about and to give you a never before seen insight into Feathers and Toast HQ.
I hope this finds you surrounded by sunflowers and BBQs enjoying the long summer days and whatnot. While living it up in your summertime havens please take 2 minutes or so to watch an episode of my show which advises on how to have a debate without resorting to violence or CAPITAL letters, which, lets be honest, is pretty offensive even at the best of times, let alone when sweltering in the summertime heat-waves.


El Benny (Benny). Dir: Jorge Luis Sánchez.
Based on the life of Benny Moré, the film concentrates on a period in the early 1950s when Moré leaves the orchestra of Duany and starts his own 'Banda Gigante'. In a flashback we learn of his success in Mexico. Moré is caught in the events connected to Batista's coup in Cuba. Also, he tours Venezuela, where he suffers the machinations of a vengeful businessman. After collapsing and being hospitalised, Moré swears off alcohol. Some years later, he encounters his old band-mate Monchy, fallen on hard times.


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Q: When commiting with `--squash` option, how should I go about the commit message? I recently started using git commit --fixup and --squash options. I use --fixup option for, ehm, fixups. When I commit with --fixup option, commit message is constructed automatically. For example, when I commit
$ git commit -m '[#123] Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet'

then I do some minor editing
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will autogenerate commit message fixup! [#123] Lorem isum dolor sit amet. However, when I use --squash option instead, such as
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git will run text editor and ask me to write the commit message, but at the same time, it will generate and insert in the editor the default commit message squash! [#123] Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.
My question is: What is the best practice for writing --squash commit messages? With --fixup option, there is no confusion, because git will autogenerate the message and give me no choice of editing it. But with --squash option, git on autogenerates the message on one hand, but gives me the option of editing it on the other hand. The conundrum is, if I always just accept the autogenerated message squash! [#123] ..., what is the purpose of git giving me the opportunity to edit it, and what is the purpose of having --squash option in addition to --fixup if it does the same thing? I am afraid that if I edit the message in a wrong way, git will no longer recognize the commit as intended to be autosquashed to the original [#123] commit.

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Posted on June 14, 2011 by A.J. Foss
Dirk Nowitzki can now add the words "NBA champion" to his resume.
After 13 years in the NBA, Mavericks forward Dirk Nowitzki is finally a NBA champion.
But he is not the only great player to win a NBA title after years of heartbreak.
Here are the 10 greatest championship breakthroughs in NBA history.
This list is not solely based on the greatness of the player, but how many disappointments that player or players had to go through before getting that elusive championship.
With that said, here is the list:
10. Ray Allen, Kevin Garnett, and Paul Pierce, 2008 Boston Celtics
In the summer of 2007, the Boston Celtics traded for Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett to join mainstay Paul Pierce to lead the Boston Celtics back from the doldrums of the NBA.
"The Big Three" lead the Celtics on the greatest single-season turnaround in NBA history, as the Celtics won 66 games during the regular season after winning 24 games the previous season, and then advanced to the NBA Finals, where they defeated the Los Angeles Lakers in six games for the franchise's first NBA championship in 22 years and the first NBA title for Allen, Garnett, and Pierce.
9. Hakeem Olajuwon, 1994 Houston Rockets
"Hakeem the Dream" took his place among the great centers to play the game as he led the Houston Rockets to the NBA championship in 1994.
In a match-up of All-Star centers who had never won a NBA title, Olajuwon dominated Knicks center Patrick Ewing to win his first NBA title in his tenth NBA season.
"Hakeem the Dream" averaged 26.9 points, 9.1 rebounds, and 3.9 blocks per game in the seven games and made the game-saving play at the end of Game 6 in which he blocked John Starks' potential game-winning three-pointer in the final seconds, to preserve a Houston victory and force a Game 7, where he scored 25 points and grabbed 10 rebounds to clinch the title for the Rockets.
One year later, Olajuwon and the Rockets won the title again, this time giving Clyde Drexler his first NBA title after 12 NBA seasons. Read the rest of this entry →
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Category Basketball, Great Moments, NBA, NBA Playoffs, Sports History
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Posted on June 12, 2011 by Dean Hybl
Dirk Nowitzki and the Dallas Mavericks claimed their first NBA title.
Though most of the attention and focus was given to the Miami Heat and their "big three", the Dallas Mavericks and their superstar Dirk Nowitzki stole the show and the Larry O'Brien Trophy as the NBA Champions for the 2010-2011 season.
After losing two of the first three games of the series, the Mavericks won the last three games, including a 105-95 victory in game six on the Heat's home floor, to win the first title in team history.
Much will be written about the "collapse" of the Heat and disappointing fourth quarter performances of LeBron James in the final three games of the series. However, what is truly deserving of ink is the grit and determination of Nowitzki, Jason Kidd, Jason Terry and the Mavericks.
For the last decade the Mavericks have made a habit of posting a great regular season, only to fold in the playoffs. Over a 10 year span, they lost in the first round of the playoffs four times, the Western Conference semifinals four times, the Western Conference finals once and the NBA finals once. Read the rest of this entry →
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Category Basketball, NBA, NBA Playoffs, Sports History


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Jean-Marc Barr
Jean-Marc Barr is chiefly known as an actor. He studied at the University of California, Los Angeles, the Paris Conservatoire and the Sorbonne, completing his drama education at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. His collaboration with Danish director Lars von Trier put him on track to start directing his own works. He debuted in 1999 as a director, screenwriter and producer with the intimate love story LOVERS, made in harmony with the Dogma 95 Manifesto. This film became the first part of a freedom trilogy whose two subsequent parts – the drama TOO MUCH FLESH (2000) and the comedy BEING LIGHT (2001) – he co-directed with Pascal Arnold. He is best to known to U.S. audiences for his roles in THE BIG BLUE (1988), EUROPA (1991) and BREAKING THE WAVES (1996).
Jean-Marc Barr Facts
Birthday September 27, 1960 (61)
Sign Libra
Birthplace Bitburg, Germany
We Are the X
Le Grand Blue: The Big Blue
American Translation
And They Call it Summer
Dogville
Manderlay
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Bio courtesy Fox Searchlight for "Le Divorce" (10-Aug-2003)


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Governor Huey Long was so anxious to get to the White House that he built his own in Baton Rouge. An assassin's bullet cut short Long's ambitions, but his gaudy knock-off survives.
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana—On March 7, 1929, the Louisiana governor's mansion here was rendered to nothing more than a nub of a foundation in the dirt.
A building that had embodied the state's class and elegance for its aghast city elites, it was reduced to its ignominious condition by convicts from the state prison on orders of the grandiloquent new governor—Huey P. Long. Plundered of its riches (whereabouts still unknown), it was replaced by one of the greatest pieces of Ozymandian architecture in U.S. history.
Long's mansion has stood empty for more than half a century—the last governor moved out in 1963. But this physical embodiment of hubris, this temple of over-the-top excess, still draws crowds. People can't stop snooping in it and talking about it even now, much as they can't stop debating the pros and cons of the politician who commissioned the edifice in the first place. The subject of biographers too numerous to count, one Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, and even songwriter Randy Newman, Long is to this day acclaimed and reviled, sometimes even by the same people, with the same fervor he inspired almost a century ago. When it comes to Huey Long, the jury will always be out.
The mansion, on the other hand, is less a subject of debate and more an object of awe. Or just plain old disbelief. Even today it's hard to reckon with the unguarded, unzipped—hell, unhinged—ambition embodied in the mansion ordered up by the Kingfish. You can roll your eyes, you can snort with derision, but the one thing you cannot do when you drive out North Boulevard and stare at the mansion on the hill is turn away. You can't stop staring—and oh how Huey would love that! Because no one loved attention more, or did more to get it.
Why else would you design the governor's mansion in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to look exactly like the White House?
There are a number of White House replicas around the world. Suburban D.C. has at least three. Two are found in McLean, Virginia: one of them being 14,000 square feet and built by a Vietnamese immigrant owner who wanted an architectural "thank you" to the U.S., and the second is visible to all gawkers driving on Georgetown Pike and a stone's throw from the estate of former longtime Saudi Arabia Ambassador Bandar bin Sultan. The third can be found in Haymarket, Virginia, and is an architectural manifestation of a hot mess. Atlanta has one, too, featuring a copy of the Oval Office from the George W. Bush era. In Houston, former governor and oilman Ross Sterling built a limestone replica on the water in 1927 with 34 rooms inside a total of 20,689 square feet, which sold for $2.8 million this year. Dallas has a monstrosity replete with one of those weirdly ornate kitchens with overdone boiserie found in modern American McMansions. Those without taste are not limited to the U.S., as oligarchs in Iraq and China, among others, have built their own versions of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Nonetheless, Long's White House replica eclipses them all for sheer audacity and lubricious detail. And make no mistake, it was a replica of the White House. Were it not abundantly clear while standing in front of it, contemporary accounts make the connection explicit. The Times-Picayune and other outlets called it the "Louisiana White House" and his contemporary biographer Forrest Davis quotes Long as saying about the building's look, "I want to be used to the White House when I get there." (New Yorker writer A.J. Liebling tells a different version, wherein Huey "wanted a replica of the White House so he would know where the light switches were in the bathrooms when he got to be president.") Since a restoration completed in 1999, the mansion is managed by Preserve Louisiana, and has been open to the public for an entertaining (it is Louisiana politics, after all) and essential tour.
There has been so much written in the past year and a half about Huey Long, and stories about him are like going to a Pizza Hut lunchtime buffet as a kid—endless, tasty, but if you actually step back and think about them, it makes you gag. But to understand how a sitting governor of an impoverished state in the throes of the Great Depression built a White House replica you need to understand Long and read some of those stories.
Or perhaps nothing captures the ego of the man as well as how one day, while visiting New York City, standing in the shadow of the 102-story Empire State Building, Long bragged to those around him about the new state capitol he had built that stood 34 stories tall.
Long was born in Winn Parish, Louisiana, in 1893, a year in which the U.S. was sunk in an economic depressions while the state battled floods, drought, and a hurricane. The seventh child of nine, Long loved to wax about his humble beginnings; however, when he was 7 the railroad came to town and transformed it—as well as the fortunes of his family, which owned a lot of the land. While Long was not wealthy, his siblings would gripe in later years about how he exaggerated their economic situation. In The Story of Huey P. Long, historian Carleton Beals places Long within the contrarian political tradition of upstate Winn Parish, which had backed some of America's most colorful populists, including William Jennings Bryan, Carrie Nation, Eugene Debs, and Bill Haywood.
Huey spent his late teens and early twenties on the move—working as a traveling salesman, attending a handful of different universities, passing the bar after only a year of law school. He eventually opened a law practice in Shreveport, where he made a name for himself by suing corporations. He was married in 1913 and had three children, one of whom, Russell, spent nearly three decades in the U.S. Senate. Huey himself began his meteoric rise in 1918 when at 25 he won election to the state railroad commission after running on a platform that attacked Standard Oil and utility companies. He ran for governor in 1924 and lost. Four years later, again working from a populist playbook that set the working classes against the incumbent elites downstate (in Long's lexicon, "New Orleans" was always shorthand for inherited wealth and Catholicism), he won the general election with an astonishing 96.1 percent of the vote.
He cleaned out government agencies and commissions and packed those sinecures with loyalists. In his first year in office he threatened to withhold the state's payments on an existing loan if the state's bankers didn't issue new ones. He detached the National Guard to break up gambling and nightclubs, and to resolve political disputes. He pushed for a severance tax on Standard Oil.
Nothing could have been further from what Huey saw when he moved in.
Whether Huey genuinely wanted to be able to sleep in the mansion or just wanted a fancy new one remains an open question—a number of historians point out that before and after construction on the new mansion, Huey spent most of his time living in hotels. But what mattered was that Long wanted a new mansion. So he brought a building inspector to the old mansion, and the inspector duly concluded that the house was "dilapidated" and would need to be gut renovated. That was all Huey needed, and so he went to the state Board of Liquidators and got approval for $150,000 for a new governor's mansion.
But first the legislature had to approve the destruction of the old mansion. Long, writes Williams, knew his opponents would block the new mansion to spite him. So he didn't wait for the legislature to come back during its winter recess, and instead got "approval" via mail.
"Governor Long announced today that with one-third of the members of the Legislature yet to be heard from, all six of the propositions recently submitted to the members by the state board of liquidation had carried by majorities of the elected members in each house," bleated the Times-Picayune, which opposed Long at every turn. With what he considered a legitimate majority, Long went ahead with the destruction.
"It reminds me of the old man who keeps a boarding house," Long retorted, when confronted with the criticism that the house was good enough for the state's aristocratic governors. "When one guest complains that the towel is dirty, he says, 'people have been wiping on that towel for a month without complaining, I don't see what's the matter with you.'" And so Long was not content to merely flout the aristocratic society's grip on social norms—he annihilated it in a way that would portend what was to come.
One night in March 1929, Long called up the warden of the "Alcatraz of the South," Angola State Prison, and ordered him to send a number of convicts (reports range from 30 to 100) to Baton Rouge. Huey personally led the chain gang down from the Capitol to the mansion and watched them tear it down. "The job was done fast. The upper classes were horrified—the old house that had harbored great governors was gone and great traditions gone with it, torn down by jailbirds!" wrote Williams. The riches of the old mansion—the china, silverware, and antique furnishings—vanished. Later, reports historian Richard D. White in his recent biography Kingfish, the sergeant-at-arms of the House would testify that as far as the silver, it ended up engraved with "Huey P. Long" and was sent off to Shreveport.
It was a sign of how ruthless he would be.
Long summoned every scrap of that ruthlessness to fend off impeachment. Through backroom deals, parliamentary maneuvering, threats (he was accused of ordering a hit on a member of the Legislature), and chicanery (when one of Long's cronies introduced a motion to adjourn, opposing lawmakers claimed their push buttons had been tampered with to change their votes), Long emerged victorious. He then set about crushing any opposition that remained. He also became obsessed with the idea that he was an assassination target.
"He had all the appurtenances of frightened tyranny," wrote Carleton Beals in The Story of Huey P. Long. Whenever the Kingfish prepared to leave the hotel in Baton Rouge, he came down in an elevator full of armed men (Long himself was always armed) and brought out in a phalanx of men to the cars. Once in, he was driven with armed cars to the front and rear and "flanked by motorcycle cops." The New Yorker wryly noted in a 1935 Talk of the Town story that when Long changed his regular hotel in New York City from the Waldorf to the New Yorker, he doubled his number of bodyguards and made them dress the same. "Sometimes," it reported, "he would slip out on them and hide, and they'd have to scurry around and hunt for him." They all slept in his suite.
After surviving the impeachment attempt, Long managed to take time out of his rapid strangling of Louisiana to oversee the construction of the new mansion now underway.
Those specifications included a secret staircase from his office to the private residence so he could escape unwanted supplicants, and a master bathroom with only a stand-up shower because Long said he didn't want to "bathe in his own filth" or, according to another account, because he claimed that any man with enough time for a bath has too much time on his hands. Long's wife, Rose, on the other hand, was not involved. During its construction, she stayed in Shreveport, and later made New Orleans her home base. In all fairness to the mansion, the real culprit for Rose's distance was likely Huey Long's secretary, who was rumored to be his mistress. The giveaway might have been when he named her secretary of state for Louisiana and possibly had her ex-husband kidnapped and stashed on a remote island.
Nowhere is the mix of Long's questionable taste and his reported hands-on approach to the mansion as readily apparent as in the East Room. Sporting crystal chandeliers, built-in pier glass mirrors with gilded frames, a red marble terrazzo floor, and damask and velvet drapes, the ballroom is dominated by walls painted a neon shade of booger green. Long loved the color green, and he wanted the room to be "Louis XVI-style," which along with Louis XIV and XV, I've long seen as a heuristic for unimaginative straight men meaning "looks like a room in a palace." The house as a whole has the feel of such a man's idea of a well-appointed mansion, rather than being a fully realized one.
The East Room is just one of the 22 rooms that make up the mansion, which fills out to roughly 30,000 square feet in total, according to Preserve Louisiana. By comparison, the White House is approximately 55,000 square feet and has 132 rooms. The governor's mansion cost $150,000 to build, and an additional $22,000 was spent furnishing it. The three-story stuccoed white manse is fronted by four 30-feet-tall Corinthian columns. Inside the front door is a dramatic entrance hall with a black and white marble floor and a sensually curving staircase of Alabama marble and granite. To the left is the East Room, which also connects to the dining room, which was decorated with Zuber wallpaper showing scenes from around the Americas—but not Louisiana—and furnished with pieces from Chippendale and Duncan Phyfe. The East Room, the state dining room, and the oval shape of the entrance hall are the only real similarities between the White House interior and the inside of the Baton Rouge replica.
Upstairs there are seven bedrooms, each with a bathroom decorated with hand-painted tiles, as well as a sunroom and solarium (later glassed in) that at the time the mansion was built had unobstructed views of the Mississippi River. It was in the master bedroom that the St. Louis Times-Dispatch and Marquis Childs caught up with Long for one of the best in-person profiles of him ever recorded.
By the time Childs caught up with Long, the governor's career had gone national. In 1930, Long decided to run for the U.S. Senate, and beat the incumbent with 57.3 percent of the vote. But Long became a prisoner in his own state, unable to leave and take his Senate seat because his one-time ally and lieutenant governor, Paul Cyr, had turned into a bitter enemy because Long refused to pardon Thomas E. Dreher and Mrs. Ada Labouef in one of the decade's more sensational murders. If Long left the state, Cyr would assume his seat and begin unwinding Long's carefully crafted political kickback network. Long waited out the end of his term, and then hand-picked his friend Oscar K. Allen to succeed him as governor and become his puppet. Aptly named O.K. Allen, he was perfect for Long, as Allen was said to be willing to sign anything. One day, the joke went, a leaf blew in and he signed it.
In the first two years of the '30s, Long managed to get $5 million appropriated for a new state capitol, designed by the same architects as the mansion. The previous capitol, which is also a must-see in Baton Rouge, is a Gothic Revival misadventure built in 1847 that Mark Twain once roasted as coming from too much reading of Sir Walter Scott.
When Long finally took his seat in the Senate, he instantly became a lightning rod for his "Share Our Wealth" program, taking the Standard Oil recipe that worked so well for him back home and expanding it to include J.P. Morgan and other titans of finance and industry. He so infuriated his Senate colleagues that expulsion proceedings were commenced against him.
All the while, Long controlled Louisiana—he ordered bills shoved through the legislature, controlled the state's 24,000 public employees, and through them most of the state's businesses. He owned the state's attorney general, as well as the state supreme court. Only politicians in New Orleans dared defy him, although that didn't stop Long from using the state police force to intimidate some of them. Roosevelt even considered sending in troops to counter Long's use of the state police as an army, but decided against it.
To be sure, Long was popular for a reason. He built highways, bridges, schools, hospitals, and secured free textbooks for Louisiana schoolchildren. Without pressure from Long, it is unlikely FDR would have pushed so far to the left.
Long had been a key supporter of FDR in the 1932 election, but thereafter turned on him. On Labor Day of 1935 in Oklahoma City, just a few months after boasting that "[Roosevelt's] scared of me … I can outpromise him and he knows it," Long declared he was running for president as a third-party candidate.
"I guess so," said the ex-president.
While conspiracy theories abounded in the aftermath of the assassination, the generally accepted version of events has it that Long was assassinated by retired Baton Rouge doctor Carl Weiss. Weiss's father-in-law was a judge in the process of being gerrymandered by Long, who had also fired Weiss's uncle-in-law from a high school, and accused the family of having "coffee blood." The assassination happened as Long was returning to the governor's office suite from a session of the Louisiana House. As Long was speaking to his secretary, Weiss came from behind a marble pillar and shot Huey in the chest. Long's bodyguards then opened fire on Weiss, riddling his body with at least 30 bullets as Huey fled the scene.
The mansion's story does not end with Long's assassination. In fact, depending on which historian you consult, Huey may not even have been the mansion's most interesting occupant.
Earl Long was Huey's younger brother, and their relationship was tempestuous. But Earl, along with Huey's son Russell, the U.S. senator, would extend and, at least in Earl's case, enliven the family's political dynasty. Less dangerous than Huey, Earl was surely more colorful—he was institutionalized while governor, allegedly tried to kill his wife, and in his last night as governor reportedly threw a party for strippers at the mansion.
Earl's daily routine was quirky, noted Liebling. "When he gets the papers in the morning, he tears them open and goes straight to the hog quotations and the racing charts … After he makes his bets, the day's business can begin. First item is to turn to the supermarket ads. If he sees something in the ads that the price is right, he buys it regardless if he needs it at the moment or not." On hot Louisiana summer days, he would cool himself off by wiping his face with a handkerchief dipped in iced Coca-Cola.
Earl went from colorful to infamous in 1959 in one of the most extraordinary events in American political history when his wife had him committed to a mental hospital even while he was a sitting governor.
So, against his will and restrained by six men, Earl was shipped off to a hospital in Galveston, Texas. He remained there for 17 days and tried to adopt a 14-year-old fellow patient. He managed to get a court-ordered release by agreeing to treatment in New Orleans, escaped, was arrested by the Baton Rouge sheriff on his wife's orders, and put in a Louisiana state hospital. After eight days he called the state hospital board and had the people holding him in the hospital fired and replaced them with two men who declared him sane.
Probably due to a combination of Earl's madness as well as his flagrant affair with the stripper Blaze Starr (whose fur coat hangs in the mansion to this day), Blanche moved out of the executive mansion after Earl returned from the hospital. After being "dis-domiciled" by Blanche, as he put it, Earl became even more flagrant. When French President Charles de Gaulle visited New Orleans in 1960, Earl had the driver detour down Bourbon Street past the Sho-Bar where Blaze worked so she could get a glimpse of the French leader.
Not all of the mansion's colorful occupants were Longs. Two-term Gov. Jimmy Davis (he served both before and after Earl) also wrote "You Are My Sunshine," had no birth certificate, did not sleep in a bed until he was 9, and stabled his horse inside the mansion.
Davis was also the mansion's last occupant.
Since becoming a relic of political history, the mansion has been fortunate enough to be preserved and have undergone a multimillion-dollar restoration. This means, for now, Long's ego trip has yet to go the same way as Ozymandias' sculpture.
The mansion is open for guided tours Tuesday through Friday: 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. More info here.


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Stockaryd är en tätort i Sävsjö kommun i Jönköpings län och kyrkby i Stockaryds socken.

Historia
Stockaryd är uppvuxet kring skogs- och möbelindustri.

När södra stambanan blev klar 1864 blev bondbyn Stockaryd ett snabbt växande samhälle. Storhetstiden varade mellan cirka 1920 och 1980.

Befolkningsutveckling

Kommunikationer

Landsväg
Det finns fyra vägar till Stockaryd: en från Vrigstad, en från Sävsjö, en från Gamla Hjälmseryd och en från Rörvik. Länsväg F 761 på sträckan mellan Gamla Hjämseryd och Stockaryd har byggts om och fått en rakare sträckning för att lastbilarna med timmer ska få det enklare att ta sig till Stockarydsterminalen.

Järnväg
Södra stambanan passerar genom samhället. Krösatågen Jönköping - Nässjö - Alvesta - Växjö gör uppehåll vid Stockaryd station. Godstrafik på järnväg finns till Stockarydsterminalen.

Stockarydsterminalen

Den 27 augusti 2008 invigdes en ny terminal för järnvägstransport av timmer och andra råvaror som biobränsle, torv med mera.

I maj 2010 vann denna terminal Stora Logistik & Transportpriset.

Näringsliv
Stockaryd är centrum för svensk tillverkning av hyvelbänkar (Sjöbergs) från 1950-talet. Även pinnstolar tillverkades till fram på 80-talet. Industrin i Stockaryd präglas idag av hustillverkning och möbler. Willa Nordic tillverkar främst lite exklusivare villor och Lättbalken AB tillverkar takstolar. Forsbergs möbler stoppar och klär möbler och Magnussons Snickerifabrik tillverkar möbelstommar i massivt trä.

Natur
Naturen är typiskt småländsk med tall och gran, men i Stockaryds fall framför allt mossar.

Det finns en motionsgård som heter Tallbacken som drivs av IFK Stockaryd. I anslutning till den finns det en motionsslinga på 2,5 km, en på 5 km och en på 1 mil.

Evenemang
Varje år, sista söndagen i maj, hålls en Antik- och Samlarmarknad på marknadsplatsen i Stockaryds södra utkant. Det är en av södra Sveriges största marknader av det här slaget och lockar varje år tusentals besökare. På marknaden byts och säljs allt från prydnadssaker i porslin, till LP-skivor och möbler.

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Orter i Sävsjö kommun
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Maureen O'Carroll: A Musical Memoir of an Irish Immigrant Childhood vividly brings to life growing up in a large, quirky but ambitious, Irish immigrant family during the Depression and War time in Australia. This enchanting memoir is told through the eyes of the middle child of the ten O'Carroll children, mischievous Maureen, who went on to become an acclaimed cellist.
After years of periodic imprisonment in Ireland for their fight for independence, Maureen's parents immigrated to Sydney, Australia with their large family in 1930. The patriarch, John O'Carroll, sets up in the storefront of their Balmain terrace house a barbershop, The Anchor Hairdressing Salon, which becomes a hub of activity for the locals. Maureen's mother, May Gahan O'Carroll, an honored participant in the 1916 Irish Uprising, supplements the family's income with her fortune-telling gifts. Reversing the letters of her last name, she calls herself "Madame Llarraco".
Throughout this colorful memoir infused with Irish history, local politics, Catholicism and the humorous struggles of Depression-era life, music remains a vital theme. It is instrumental in the family rising above their hard circumstances to achieve a better life. Remarkably, all ten children were musicians.
This evocative memoir, written by the mother-daughter team of Maureen O'Carroll and Leora O'Carroll, is a beautiful, poignant and entertaining story of family, adaption and overcoming tough times to survive - and indeed thrive.
"This is more than a charming Irish memoir. The voice of a spirited young girl sets the perfect tone to deliver Irish history, the determination of a family to make their way into another country, and the importance of music."
"The duo's commendable, uncluttered style carries the narrative easily along, as they choose specifically poignant details, which make for engaging read."
I really enjoyed this. It is sensitively written and gives a wonderful insight into a special lady who I had the privilege of meeting. Thank you.
I really enjoyed reading this book, with its evocative rendering of the life of an immigrant Irish family in Australia. The portraits of the author's grandparents, who fought for Irish independence, were especially poignant. The book is such an enjoyable read that one wants to learn more about this family.
I was charmed by this lovely little book, reminiscent of Jill Ker-Conway's "Road from Coorain" and Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House on the Prairie, made all the lovelier by its musical background. I loved the era and the writing really took you there.
Thoroughly enjoyed reading about this family's journey from Ireland to Australia and on to today. A beautiful story of family and love and he music that binds us all together.
A beautiful memoir, both poignant and laugh out loud funny. Like peering through a keyhole back in time through the eyes of a child. I highly recommend this gem. You won't be able to put it down.
Easy read & beautifully captures a time gone passed.


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Latest: Nigerians react as Cameroonian Gendarmes Kill Scores of Nigerians in A'Ibom
Scores of Nigerians were feared killed and others missing following an alleged attacks by Cameroonian gendarmes on Abana, a fishing community on the fringes the Bakassi Peninsula.
The Village Head of Ifa Ikot Akpan in Uyo Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, Etteidung Edem Ebong, who confirmed the incident to journalists in Uyo, said the victims were mostly Akwa Ibom indigenes.
The monarch added that several others have been abducted and detained at the detention facility in Cameroon.
One of the fishermen, who escaped the incident and fled into his community in the coastal community of Uruan Local Government Area, Etebong Bassey, stated the unresolved problem of multiple taxations by Akwa Ibom and Cameroonian authorities triggered the fracas.
"As fishermen, we have been paying multiple taxes to different authorities for Akwa Ibom and Cameroon for several years now and the youths became angry and protested over the issue.
"So, the Gendarmes cash in on the protest and invaded the communities within the Shell Creek area," he explained.
According to him, those affected hailed from several Akwa Ibom communities, including Ifa Ikot Akpan, Ekpene Ibia, Ikot Akan, Ikot Otoinye, Nnaenine and Ikot Inyang, all in Uyo and Uruan LGAs.
According to him: "Three days ago, some fishermen who are indigenes of Uyo and Uruan LGAs, who visited home for a funeral ceremony were forced to return on their way back to Abana, when they got a distress call that their homes in Abana had been invaded and several people killed, some abducted and properties destroyed".
However, the monarch, who confirmed the development, appealed to the state and federal government for urgent intervention to rescue the missing victims.
"Yes, the victims returned with tales of woes in my palace here. They told me their settlements at Abana had been destroyed with over 40 of them killed, while several others were arrested on trump up allegations of starting the problem that degenerated into a full blown crisis.
"Therefore, I want to use this opportunity to kindly look into the crisis and communicate to appropriate authorities in the area to help release our people from captivity and save their lives as many of those affected are from my domain," Etteidung Ebong said.
However, Pastor Ekikere Umoh, the Chief Press Secretary (CPS) to Obong Moses Ekpo, the state's Deputy Governor, whose office is in-charge of boundary matters, said: "the office of the Deputy Governor has no business with communal wars".
The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Mr. Odiko Macdon, a Police Superintendent, could not respond to calls sent to his phone for his reaction on the matter.
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* Carl Thieme was one of many independent decorators in Saxony who did their job at home and brought many new impulses to the traditional porcelain art. He decided to manufacture his own white pieces and founded the today's Saxon Porcelain Manufactory in Potschappel. On September 17th 1872 he began with the production of decorative fancy wares and luxury porcelain.


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Вест Тауншип () — селище () в США, в окрузі Гантінгдон штату Пенсільванія. Населення — 571 особа (2010).

Демографія

Згідно з переписом 2010 року, у селищі мешкала 571 особа в 220 домогосподарствах у складі 163 родин. Було 300 помешкань

Расовий склад населення:

До двох чи більше рас належало 0,4 %. Частка іспаномовних становила 1,8 % від усіх жителів.

За віковим діапазоном населення розподілялося таким чином: 22,6 % — особи молодші 18 років, 62,7 % — особи у віці 18—64 років, 14,7 % — особи у віці 65 років та старші. Медіана віку мешканця становила 41,6 року. На 100 осіб жіночої статі у селищі припадало 98,3 чоловіків;  на 100 жінок у віці від 18 років та старших — 103,7 чоловіків також старших 18 років.

Середній дохід на одне домашнє господарство  становив  доларів США (медіана — ), а середній дохід на одну сім'ю —  долари (медіана — ). Медіана доходів становила  доларів для чоловіків та  доларів для жінок. За межею бідності перебувало 3,6 % осіб, у тому числі 3,5 % дітей у віці до 18 років та 10,1 % осіб у віці 65 років та старших.

Цивільне працевлаштоване населення становило 307 осіб. Основні галузі зайнятості: освіта, охорона здоров'я та соціальна допомога — 27,0 %, будівництво — 12,7 %, виробництво — 11,4 %.

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It has been a lovely month so far and I was treated to a long Bank Holiday break in the caravan. Its great just like a big dog kennel on wheels, there is nothing better than sitting at the front window watching the world go by. We had beautiful weather and managed two big walks on the Friday and Saturday before the sun was too hot to walk in and it was more sensible to sit in the shade.
On Sunday morning we got up early and had a wander around Stamford, as my Master wanted to do some sketching and there was also an art exhibition that was nice to wander around.
The Bank Holiday Monday forecast was hot and sunny, so again an early start was needed, our destination was only in the next village to an Open Day at "Rocks by Rail" It is a railway museum, workshop, cafe and railway track dedicated to the ironstone trains that operated from the quarry on the site many years ago. It is well worth a day out and if you are reading this months blog Mr David Wright, it was fab !
We had a ride on the Rutlander steam train and sampled delicious bacon rolls and cake in the cafe.
My Master was busy over the holiday writing his latest article for the Leisure Painter magazine.. such dedication I must tell his Editor Ingrid, you can see him hard at work in the caravan awning on the photo below.
Talking of Editors the Master has been very busy recently with his Search Press Editor Beth, finalising the last parts of the forthcoming oil pastel book. You may have read in previous blogs how excited I am to see this book when its released in December.
The very latest exciting news is that the book is also going to be published as a Chinese edition… I wonder how you say Freyja in Chinese !!
Well; I must sign off now, its time for a snooze, as I had a very energetic walk this morning with my new neighbour Olive, a chocolate labrador puppy.
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Enjoy the photos below of our holiday.


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Q: sorting csv python 2.7 I am trying to sort a csv file on column 3. python sorts the csv but for two rows. Really confused
here is the code i am using.
import csv
import operator
import numpy

sample = open('data.csv','rU')
csv1 = csv.reader(sample,delimiter=',')
sort=sorted(csv1,key=lambda x:x[3])
for eachline in sort:
    print eachline

and here is the o/p From the third row the O/P looks good. Any ideas ?
['6/23/02', 'Julian Jaynes', '618057072', '12.5']
['7/15/98', 'Timothy "The Parser" Campbell', '968411304', '18.99']
['10/4/04', 'Randel Helms', '879755725', '4.5']
['9/30/03', 'Scott Adams', '740721909', '4.95']
['10/4/04', 'Benjamin Radcliff', '804818088', '4.95']
['1/21/85', 'Douglas Adams', '345391802', '5.95']
['12/3/99', 'Richard Friedman', '60630353', '5.95']
['1/12/90', 'Douglas Hofstadter', '465026567', '9.95']
['9/19/01', 'Karen Armstrong', '345384563', '9.95']
['6/23/02', 'David Jones', '198504691', '9.95']
['REVIEW_DATE', 'AUTHOR', 'ISBN', 'DISCOUNTED_PRICE']

A: You are sorting strings, you need to use float(x[3])
sort=sorted(csv1,key=lambda x:float(x[3]))

If you want to sort by the third column it is x[2], casting to int:
sort=sorted(csv1,key=lambda x:int(x[2]))

You will also need to skip the header to avoid a ValueError:
csv1 = csv.reader(sample,delimiter=',')
header = next(csv1)
sort=sorted(csv1,key=lambda x:int(x[2]))

Python will compare the strings character by character putting "2"  after "12" unless you cast to int:
In [82]: "2" < "12"
Out[82]: False

In [83]: int("2") < int("12")
Out[83]: True


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Jaguar reveals the 2021 F-Type
One of the most beautiful cars on the road just got even better.
There was nothing wrong with the Jaguar F-Type in its current form but the company has managed to improve upon what is essentially a perfect design with the new 2021 model. Though it's technically a refresh, the updated front-end gives the coupe an all-new look with slimmer headlights, a wider grille, and a new clamshell hood. The rear is also revised with slimmer taillights inspired by the 'Chicane' light graphic from the all-electric I-PACE SUV.
Four, six, and eight-cylinder engine options will be available, including a new 5.0L, 575-hp supercharged V8 option in the F-Type R. The interior has also received a few nips and tucks here and there with an overall enhancement to the driver-focused cabin. These updates include monogram stitching on the seats and door trim and a new 12.3-inch instrument cluster that sits at the heart of their InControll Touch Pro Infotainment system. This is complemented by a 10-inch center display and it comes with both CarPlay and Android Auto standard.
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A Novel of the War on Terror
Synopsis – One Page (PDF)
Wilderness of Mirrors is a spy novel about a djinn-driven arms race that is the secret history behind many tumultuous historical events, from the Tian-ah-men Square massacre, to the Khmer Rouge, to modern day attacks like Operation Desert Storm, the War on Terror and 9-11. Sorcerous mathematician and CIA officer Peter Fisher pursues his lost love – Sū Lín, a Chinese intelligence officer – across decades of secret missions, until Fisher double-crosses his masters, and escapes at last with Sū Lín at last out of the conspiracy. The book is divided into four interlocked sections that weave memory, real history, and sorcerous intrigues into one story.
Peter Fisher is introduced in 2012 as a homeless vet without a memory. He is captured and interrogated by a Chinese faction. During his interrogation, he recalls his bizarre childhood, and his mother's experiments, as well as his introduction to occult espionage masters James Angleton and Robinson Gale. Peter escapes from the Chinese and is taken in by the Americans, who restore his memory and commission him to find his rogue mentor Robinson Gale.
Peter recalls his 2002 mission after 9-11. Peter traveled with his old colleague Mahmoud El-Amin, to find a buried entity in the Iraqi desert. During their journey, Mahmoud relates his family history and his earlier war-time activities in 1991 and in Prague after 9-11. Peter tells Mahmoud about the arcane plot behind the building of the World Trade Center in the 1970s. Peter also tells the truth about what his mother did to him, and how his mother died. In 2002, Peter makes a human sacrifice and frees an unearthly force from Sadam Hussein. This action starts the Iraq War. As Mahmoud dies, he warns Peter against these terrible actions.
The story then turns back to the 1970s-1980s, when Peter was a student at Yale. He met Sū Lín, a Chinese intelligence agent at Yale who became his lover. Peter is posted by the CIA to Hong Kong in the late 1980s, where he re-kindles a relationship with Sū Lín and she becomes a US double agent. Peter is then sent on a new mission to Tibet to subvert the Chinese from harnessing a supernatural power. Peter frees the entity in the Tibetan mountains, causing the Tian ah men Square massacre. During his subsequent incarceration, Peter surreptitiously communicates with Sū Lín. When he returns to the US in 2001, 9-11 occurs and Peter begins the mission prep that will lead him to the Iraq desert mission in 2002.
Now back in 2012, Peter regrets his earlier activities and wants to atone for his actions. He undertakes the assigned mission to find Robinson Gale because he believes by doing so, he can redeem Mahmoud's death and make it have meaning. He travels to Dubai, and locates Mahmoud's estranged father, who admits that he killed Gale. He also tells Peter the secrets of destroying these entities. Later, at the Pentagon, Peter discovers that the US just want to use their newfound power to destroy more lives. Peter secretly plans with Sū Lín to subvert the mission.
Peter is appointed head of a new sorcerous attack team. Peter discovers that the entity he freed in Iraq in 2002 is now hidden on the slopes of Mount Rainier in Washington. He guides his new team to a strike mission on the mountain. His team is destroyed. Peter is now forced by events to use the same risky formula that his mother used years ago. In the end, he surmounts his own dread and takes final action to destroy the malevolent entity. His action becomes thus a personal triumph over his own fear and his family history as well as a strategic victory. Peter then escapes to a new hidden life on a distant island with Sū Lín, happy and at peace at age 61.
EARLY ENDORSEMENTS
"Like a literary Rubik's Cube, puzzling and full of compellingly offbeat traps and escapes, Wilderness of Mirrors depicts a wide, strange world in which modern nations compete to harness and weaponize monsters, enslaving malevolent spirits using arcane mathematics and the death tolls of bloody wars. Ned Hayes writes with stunning empathy of a truly global cast of characters – an Arab professor of linguistics, and an aging female Chinese intelligence officer – who stumble through a landscape of political expedients toward a tempting yet horrific reality. Captivating."
– Nisi Shawl, Nebula-nominated author of Everfair
"Ned Hayes brings a deep well of knowledge to this story, and passion and seriousness in his approach. A powerful read!"
– Robert V.S. Redick, Author of Master Assassins and The Chathrand Voyage Quartet
"A considerable achievement… powerful and elegant… morally complex and challenging. Wilderness of Mirrors is about the events of 9-11 and the War on Terror, but of course it's also generally about many other topics… the novel provides a scathing critique of the CIA and the NSA and their roles in moving the country toward the precarious place it now occupies in international affairs."
– David Huddle, former military intelligence specialist and award-winning author of over 20 books including The Story of a Million Years and My Immaculate Assassin
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Children are a vital part of our church family and are invited to participate in all aspects of church life. For the youngest members of our church family, childcare is available Sunday mornings starting at 8:45 am for children up to age 3. Childcare is also available for special after church activities.
Our Nursery Attendants will meet you in Room 4 of our Education Wing. Nursery Attendants and their helpers minister to our youngest children with song, dance, snacks, outside play and fun inside activities. As part of our Safe Church program, all our childcare workers are trained and screened. Please check in upon entering Room 4 to register your child. Childcare is available for your child in Room 4 from 8:45 am until noon - givng you time to attend the adult Sunday school class and enjoy fellowship time after worship with a cup of coffee.
Childcare is often provided for events held at the church apart from worship times. Check the info for each event for notice about Childcare.