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The Stages of Siddharta's Journey to Self Enlightenment
Readers have been fascinated with Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha for decades. Written in 1951, Hesse's most famous novel provides the reader with a work of literature that, "presents a remarkable exploration of the deepest philosophical and spiritual dimensions of human existence" (Bennett n.p). Siddhartha takes place in India while the Buddha has first began his teachings. The book follows the life of a man by the name of Siddhartha, on his journey to reach enlightenment. The main theme in Siddhartha is reaching enlightenment without the guidance of a teacher or mentor. Siddhartha believes that he must learn from himself, and the guidance of another teacher will only distort his goals of reaching enlightenment. Siddhartha says that he must, "learn from myself, be a pupil of myself: I shall get to know, myself, the mystery of Siddhartha" (Hesse 36). On Siddhartha's journey to reach Nirvana, the highest level of peace in the Buddhist culture, he undergoes three stages all of which are critical in helping Siddhartha find peace within himself.
In the beginning, Siddhartha is having trouble finding peace and discovering the path to enlightenment. Siddhartha's interactions with his family, the samanas, and the Buddha help Siddhartha to realize that enlightenment cannot be achieved with the guidance of a teacher. In the very beginning, Siddhartha's father is the one who teaches Siddhartha about his culture and spirituality. Siddhartha is very young when he masters all his father's teachings and realizes that, "his father was to be admired, quiet and noble were his manners, pure his life, wise his words, delicate and noble thoughts lived behind its brow—but even he, who knew so much, did he live in bliss?" (Hesse 6). Siddhartha knows that ...
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Henrik Isben's A Doll's House
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Ritual Suicide- An Honorable Tradition
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Theme, Symbolism, and Irony in The Works of J. M. Barrie
Racial Injustice in A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry and Sonny's Blues, by James Baldwin
George Orwell's Animal Farm
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Joseph Conrad and The Modern Age
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Lies, Relationships, and Characters in Miller's The Crucible
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's Life, Narrator, and Criticism in The Great Gatsby
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The Naturalist Movement: The Monster, and The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
The Life and Work of Ray Bradbury
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October marked six months since the opening of the Main in Downtown Norfolk. The Main, a Hilton branded hotel owned and operated by Gold Key PHR, is making waves as the newest hotel and conference center in downtown. Already, TripAdvisor has named it number one hotel in downtown Norfolk. But what would it be like to spend a day as a conference attendee and overnight guest at the Main?
A huge bronze mermaid tail greets you as you walk through the revolving door at the front entrance. The lobby walls of the Main are adorned with works of contemporary art – large lavish sculptures and paintings that seem to change color as you walk around them. The lobbies act as an ever-changing gallery space for a genuinely unique experience. The gentle noise of the fountains sets the mood in the open-air lobby. The Main truly is a welcoming place.
Every day at the Main starts with breakfast at Varia, one of the many restaurants in the Main, but breakfast here is anything but routine. Featuring breakfast dishes such as the Crème Brule French Toast and Deviled Crab Benedict in addition to all your favorite breakfast treats, you're sure to find the perfect way to start your morning. In addition to breakfast, the modern-style Italian trattoria serves the finest lunch, dinner and tapas. You can even dine in a private room hidden behind a secret bookshelf door. If you're still not convinced by the freshly made pasta that's hand cut daily, surely the wine vending machine might sway you into giving this place a try.
Your conference kicks off its festivities in the Main's largest ballroom, appropriately named "The Main Ballroom." Over 18,000 square feet by itself, the Main Ballroom takes up almost the entirety of the fourth floor. Depending on its use, the Main Ballroom can host up to 2,000 people. Altogether, the Main offers around 50,000 square feet of multipurpose meeting space.
Lunch, catered by the Main, is served in the Granby ballroom, located on the third floor. The Main's Catering Services will accommodate any party from the smallest boardroom luncheon to an extravagant gala event. Breakout sessions followed into the smaller salon and board rooms and your conference concludes with a presentation in the Paul D. Fraim Center for Excellence – a stadium style classroom on the fourth floor. The conference is over for the day, but there's much more to explore at the Main.
Your stay wouldn't be complete without dinner at Saltine, the Main's seafood restaurant on the first floor. Saltine features fresh seafood, a locally-sourced menu, and an open-air concept. During mild weather, you'll find the glass garage-style doors open wide to allow the fresh breeze to flow through the restaurant. The menu at Saltine stays as fresh as the seafood – changing depending on what is in season. Enjoy a signature cocktail from the expert mixologists at the Apothecary Bar, dine from the comfort of a secluded booth, or soak in the sights and sounds of the city as you eat dinner on the outside patio.
A local craft beer at Grain follows dinner as the sun is setting over the Elizabeth River. With water views of the river and downtown views looking down Granby Street, Grain is the only rooftop beer garden in Downtown Norfolk. It boasts dozens of local craft beers on tap along with signature craft cocktails and a small bites menu. Grain offers live music several nights a week, and a DJ on the weekends. With a firepit, a free photo booth, and plenty of games to play, you're likely to stay for more than one drink.
You end your night by sinking into a deep sleep in your comfortable king-sized bed in a room that overlooks the river. The Main offers 300 guest rooms, including 11 luxury suites, all with unparalleled river and city views. However, the best thing about falling asleep about the Main is knowing that you get to do it all again tomorrow.


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Women and boys: Drawings by Herbert List 1940 to 1946
For the first time drawings by the important photographer Herbert List (1903-1975) are presented in an exhibition more than 60 years after their creation – a real discovery. They were created during the years of war. Being a self-aware homosexual and artist, List had already left Nazi Germany in 1936 when the persecution of homosexuals was suddenly brought into action in his hometown Hamburg, effecting his circle of friends. In France he was successful in his career as an art photographer. Like other gay artists he remained true to his homoerotic subject despite the menace. An independent artistic work was his reply to the pressure of defamation in Germany. Marcus Behmer and Werner Gilles also worked with gay themes as a political statement during Nazi-time. As always, but perhaps moreso because of the times, the supposed private sphere became a political issue. For years List was in contact with the English authors Auden, Isherwood, and Spender, who simultaneously followed this philosophy with their writing and who turned their private lifes into the objects of artistic work. List's photographs combine this topic with the metaphorical language of new objectivity or the avant-garde and discovered new modes of expression with regard to friendship.
After having been stranded in Greece at the beginning of the war, List met the two well-known Greek artists Ghika and Tsarouchis, who inspired him to turn to the medium of drawing. In the following years the medium drawing became as renowned as the photography. Reminiscences of the Paris art scene, where Ghika and Tsarouchis had studied too, memories of the French modernity of Picasso and Matisse, as well as of such surrealistic and neohumanistic artists as Christian Bérard, Paul Strecker or Pavel Tschelitschev, who became well-known through the Gallery Flechtheim in Germany before 1933, played a central role.
In March 1941 List compiled his first volume of drawings in Greece, which hardly would have been imaginable in Nazi-Germany. List describes a human counter-world compared with the Nazi-terror and killing that reigned in Germany. Grief, sorrow and melancholy, affection, intimacy, and devotion are his reactions to devastation. An intact universe of women is set against the world of war. This universe seems to be strictly separated from the world of young men. A special homosexual affection exists between both domains. These women move entirely free, without constraint. In part they are completely naked or half undressed and they proudly present their nakedness. Erotic tension and freedom are in the air. They are active women who have different relationships towards each other. They are not an object of men's desire, but they are independently acting subjects.
The drawings show neither the modern woman of the Weimar Era, nor film stars, nor the androgyne type, and nor the sportive Amazon, as they had been photographed by List in Hamburg before. They were neither pinups, as they had been produced in enormous amounts during the years of the war. On the contrary, they are very female beings with strong bodies, women in their own essence and corpulence with voluminous forms and with powerful presence and potency.
They remind one of mother goddesses and idols of fertility or of the works of Rubens and Picasso. List starts to describe an isolated world of women, which seems to be archaic. However, one also could think of harems and whorehouses. Only children, girls and boys are allowed to enter this world. The absence of men culminates in several drawings showing mourning widows. At this point reality penetrates List's world of images, reality that means war, death, loss, and mourning.
List absolutely designs an autonomous world of men in his works, but compared with his drawings of women they are fewer in number. The warrior type of man is not presented. His men are full of melancholy; they are no rulers or world conquerors. In no way do they correspond to the national-socialistic image of men which is full of toughness and coldness. Thus List has something in common with German artists like Gerhard Marcks, Hermann Blumenthal and Werner Gilles. List's men and boys show emotion. Couples, who have an obvious relationship are predominant. Friendship and erotic constellations seem to be subjects of priority. He almost exclusively depicts boys and young men. The traditions of the gay style of representation of the Weimar Republic become obvious here. Works of artists like Erich Godal, Otto Schoff and Renée Sintenis serve as example.
The presentation of families also conveys a peculiar erotic atmosphere as far as the adolescents are concerned. Thus the relationship between generations plays a more important role than that which exists between adults. Mostly they are mothers and sons, grand-mothers and grand-children, grand-fathers and girls, women and girls facing each other with erotic tension. Also they are mostly wilfully acting women. Grown up men shown as love partners are only rare, and if shown, they are patrons of prostitutes. In his drawings List unveils himself as an artist who describes in detail intimate worlds, psychological depths, and erotic tensions. That are less his own dreams and desires, as they are perceptions filtered through his psychological lens.
After his forced return to Germany in 1941 Herbert List continues the themes for his drawings that he first defined in Greece. However, inspired by another visit to Paris in May 1944, where he met yet again Jean Cocteau, Christian Bérard, and Pablo Picasso, List completed a second large collection of drawings. Stationed with the "Wehrmacht" in Norway as a drawer, he had time to go on with his own art during the last months of war.
For the first time, the Gay Museum exhibits amongst a small selection of important photographs roughly 100 drawings from List's private estate from the years 1940 to 1946. These works are set in contrast with examples of gay and lesbian artists like Lene Schneider-Kainer, Marcus Behmer, Renée Sintenis. Eduard Bargheer, Werner Gilles, Jean Cocteau,and Giannis Tsarouchis, also partially taken from List's former estate and signed with personal dedications to him.
Curator: Anton Stern

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The WHY and HOW to facilitate rather than present.
I was sitting in on a Corporate Development Day last week, watching one of the other speakers attempt to train the audience on how to improve their sales process. He was talking, telling a few stories, asking (and answering) questions and talking more.
And there and then it occurred to me that the speaker really didn't know the difference between presenting and facilitating.
So whilst Sales Training isn't my 'sweet-spot' (I leave that to my eminently more capable associate team) I do know a thing or two about great facilitation skills; after all I've been doing this for over 20 years! If you also know your stuff, you'll know that it's easy to stand in front of an audience and present information.
It is much more difficult to provide new information and skills, to help people understand the information or skill, to help them experience the information or skill, for them to then leave a session feeling that THEY learned something.
Resist the temptation to restate participants' comments and answers or to add your own thoughts to theirs.
When you restate what participants say, it tells them they don't need to listen to each other and that information must pass through you to be valid. It tells them you're the 'sage on the stage' and that your knowledge is more important than their experience.
Instead of repeating, restating, or adding to what participants say, turn it back to the room (see #2).
2. TURN IT BACK TO THE ROOM.
Let the participants repeat, add on, or clarify what others say.
People – especially adults – learn best when they share their experiences in the context of the content, and can actively engage with their peers. You will know they are learning when they ask additional questions and apply the learning to real work experiences by sharing with each other, not just with you.
Let Olivia know if you can't hear him. What he is saying is important for all of us.
Who has an example of what Jane is talking about?
Would anyone like to build on what Brian said?
Let's see if we've got what Molly's saying. Could someone restate what was said as it relates to you?
Instead of being the sole supplier of answers, turn back to the group for their insights.
It sends the message that what participants have to offer is important and valid. It also deepens thinking.
What do you think about his/her question?
Does anyone have an example of what Stephen said?
Who has something to add?
Let's turn that back to the group and see what they think about that idea.
Who'd like to share an insight?
People are naturally reflective so try to resist the temptation to talk if participants don't respond straight away.
A pause allows time for participants to process questions or concepts and to formulate responses. It also reinforces that you won't just give answers.
Instead of talking, wait at least six seconds for responses.
Deepen the discussion—and the learning.
5. ASK OPEN & INSIGHTFUL QUESTIONS.
Rather than adding more content or giving answers. This will help participants take their thinking deeper.
Real learning takes place when we dig deep. This means analysis and application – thinking about how things work together and making connections between content and 'real life'.
Does it always work that way? If not, why?
Why do you think Jane said that?
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greg gerig: Ben Carson Bites The Democrat Party's Bait
Ben Carson's March 4 "prison makes people gay" comment is already enshrined in political-gaffe infamy, right alongside the prolific output of our current Vice President. Though many fellow Republicans may disagree, I'm thankful that he's effectively removed himself from the running for the 2016 Presidency. He's undoubtedly a good man who means well, but his popularity, just like that of people like Ross Perot and Colin Powell, arose from a scant handful of appealing statements, not from a proven foundation of unequivocal Constitutionalist-Republican principle. Like Ross Perot and more recently Sarah Palin, he has always struck me as a political dilettante, not a solid Presidential contender in a time of undeniable crisis.
But in a sense Carson has done us a service - in illuminating a rather huge pitfall along the path to a Republican victory in 2016 (which I think is a virtual certainty - or ought to be.) That pitfall is "social conservatism" and the strategic suicide that is emphasizing religious governance in the middle of a Presidential campaign season.
Folks, there is a reason why the Democrat-Socialist Party, for the last year and a half, have been aggressively shoving the gay marriage issue to front-and-center of the political arena: They, unlike the feckless Republican "leadership," (not to mention outright traitors like Boehner and McConnell,) understand strategy. They know that with either Dolores Umbridge-Clinton or Chief Fake Eagle Warren as their 2016 candidate, they stand to lose in a landslide to make Mondale smile.
But they know something else: "Social conservative" issues are the Republican Party's single greatest weakness with potential voters, if only they can get Republicans to bury themselves in them.
The gay marriage issue is bait.
The Democrat-Socialists have shoved it to front-and-center because they know they have a handful of absolute zeros as their 2016 candidate pool, so they are hoping beyond hope that the Republicans will take that "social conservatism" bait and implode into a frenzy of the kind of religious moralizing which invariably wipes out vital support from "moderates," libertarians and Blue Dog Democrats, as well as huge swaths of Constitutional Republicans.
We have seen, time and time again, rank-and-file voters elect Republican majorities on the expectation that they will secure our national defense and bring leviathan government under control, only to see those Republican "leaders" immediately squander their mandate - immediately pushing to the back burner pressing, crisis-level issues like: government attacks on the Constitution and our most basic rights, criminal negligence on national defense, an out-of-control Orwellian regulatory state, and out-of-control spending and taxation - in favor of bizarre, tangential lurches into religion.
While America burns, they're busy fighting to preserve Ten Commandment steles at courthouses; while neo-fascists declare ownership of every American's body via a government takeover of medicine, they're swan-diving into the rhetorical quicksand of abortion; instead of establishing a separation of education and state - thereby privatizing both schools and curricula - they're busy pushing for prayer in schools... which they blithely allow to remain "public."
Yes, morality is a gaping void in contemporary America, particularly among its elected officious. But the last genuine Republican candidate, Ronald Reagan, was wise and Constitutionally-savvy enough to promote a powerful morality indirectly, by example - since the Constitution strictly proscribes religious legislation in any case. The result was the '80s decade - in which America positively glowed with a renewed moral purpose, a consequently-renewed sense of national self-respect, of civilized society, of enduring peace and prosperity.
But the minute politicians start talking about people's bedroom activities or about intractable, polarizing issues like abortion, Republicans lose. Period. The people who win in their stead are people who enact precisely the kinds of legislation that religious Republicans abhor most in any case. So three cheers for "sticking to your religious convictions," and a big fat zero for what you've achieved as a consequence, both for your own goals and for the country's vital issues alike.
If the Republicans take the Democrat-Socialist Party bait and plunge into religion in the runup to 2016, the Democrats' real-world Dolores Umbridge, lame a candidate as she is, will gain an advantage in the only way she can: by Republican default.
If the Republicans instead demonstrate moral character by example and remain laser-focused on those crisis-level issues - the shambles that is our national defense; the Orwellian nightmare that is Agenda 21 and the explosive growth of the regulatory state; the black hole that is the national debt; the de facto communist nationalization of the medical, banking and automotive sectors of our economy; the de facto drug-pushing that is the Democrats' attempt to addict scores of people to the welfare dole - the Republican ticket will trounce whatever corrupt clown the Demo-Socialist Party runs in '16, in a landslide to have her envying Walter Mondale's 1984 returns.
Personally, I'm looking forward to seeing the Cruz-West Administration inaugurated on January 20, 2017. Lobby for your religious issues then, if you think they have merit and pass Constitutional muster. Not now. The alternative is to watch a Clinton or Warren Administration take over in 2017. So essentially, what we have in the religious conservative "purist" mentality is identical to what we have in the Libertarian "purist" mentality touched upon on this blog previously - with the same consequence in the offing for embracing it.
We are at a fork in the road. We can take the Democrat bait and follow the path to instant defeat which Carson illustrated with his facepalm-inducing comment, or ignore the bait and keep hammering away at the multitude of pressing, do-or-die issues that must be dealt with. Which latter are also the policy issues that will bury the Democrat Party under a landslide defeat in 2016.
michael greer: londonistan
We have been so fortunate to have the American Freedom Alliance arrange for Melanie Phillips to speak to various groups this week. Melanie Phillips is a world renowned British journalist. She was the News Editor of the Guardian. Her weekly column appears in The Times and many other newspapers. She has a weekly radio show on the Voice of Israel and is a regular panelist on BBC Radio's "The Moral Maze".
She wrote the best selling book, "Londonistan" in 2006 and followed it with, "The World Turned Upside Down: the Global Battle over God, Truth and Power" with the forward written by Broadway and Hollywood screenwriter, David Mamet.
www.melaniephillips.com, www.facebook.com/MelanieLatest, www.voiceofisreal.com
Phillips began by talking about some of the recent Islamic terrorist activities. She spoke of attack in Copenhagen, as well as an attack on a synagogue. Since the attack in France on Charlie Hebdo people have been speaking out in support of free speech. Eighty world leaders joined arms and marched in Paris saying "Je Suis, Charlie". The people killed by a terrorist in Copenhagen were attending a meeting supporting free speech. Phillips pointed out these aren't just an attacks on free speech, they are attacks on religion. And, sadly, although the world leaders spoke about the importance of free speech, their countries wouldn't publish the Charlie Hebdo cartoons. Phillips said terrorism works.
Salman Rushdie, after writing. "Satanic Verses" had to go into hiding due to threats on his life. He received little support. Many Europeans blamed him for insulting Islam. The message taken is that if you insult Islam you're to blame for provoking them. The victims become the offenders.
The Egyptian President implored Imams to reform Islam, and Phillips explains there are many Muslims who believe Islam needs reform, but he isn't being supported by the leaders in the European Union or America. Since WWII European leaders have bent over backwards to make their governments secular. They consider all religions equally dreadful and morally equivalent. They believe nationalism and religion are the causes of wars. They believe if they reach out to enemies in friendship everything will be OK. However, compromise is seen as a sign of weakness by Islamists. If we don't show strength, it galvanizes Islamists and inspires more violence.
Secular governments fear upsetting Islamic States will cause unrest that will lead to a Holy War and they fear a holy war because they can't control it. Jews across Europe are in serious danger. They are being told the government can't protect them and because of that many of them are now fleeing Europe.
Phillips explained that if nationalism and religion were the causes of world wars boundaries between countries needed to be erased and they needed to immigrate people from other cultures. They believed if they mixed it all up people would all sing "Kumbaya" together. That is why they formed the European Union. The EU decides how many immigrants each country gets and from where. The countries have no say. But the result has not been what they expected. People are resentful of having their culture taken from them. They feel demoralized. Why vote if other countries can veto your vote? People feel there is an assault on their values not just on free speech and religion. There is a push back from natural born Europeans but when they protest, the police protect the Muslims not the natural citizens.
She explained how easy it is to radicalize English born Muslims. They are surrounded with sex, drugs and rock and roll and they like it. They participate in it but at the same time they are disgusted by it because it goes against Islam. Imams appeal to that self disgust.
Phillips spoke of her time at the Guardian, which she described as so far Left it was like the NY Times on speed. As she transitioned from Left to Right she said one of her colleagues told her the single most terrifying thing that could happen to her is that she turned into Melanie. She said the Left thinks because they are for the poor and less fortunate, they are "good" and whatever they do is "good" regardless of the consequences. And if they are "good" the Right has to be "bad" and everything they do is "bad".
The Q&A was quite interesting. There were a number of Muslims in the audience. One talked about insulting Islam. Phillips pointed out that Christianity and Judaism are insulted all the time with impunity. The difference is that Jews and Christians don't kill anyone for doing it.
She pointed out that in a recent poll 80% of Egyptian Muslims believe the appropriate punishment for leaving the religion is death. 20% of American Muslims support terrorism. And 40% to 60% of English Muslims believe Sharia should be the only law.
When asked what could be done to reverse what is happening, Phillips, explained more and more Muslims want reform and reform needs to happen. The Imams and Muslim leaders need to denounce ISIS, Hamas, Boka Haram, Al Qaeda and the like.
We also need to get out of the UN. There are 57 Muslim countries in the UN. They are the largest voting block. They want to make blasphemy a crime. When most of what comes out of the UN is a detriment to the Western countries, we need to stop supporting it.
michael greer: You Say ISIL, I Say ISIS
Have you ever wondered why the mainstream media use "ISIS" while the president uses "ISIL"? Last week, during an interview, a reporter said ISIS immediately after the president had said ISIL. Sometimes you hear reporters saying "ISIS or ISIL". When the president first started using ISIL, I expected the press to follow suit, but they haven't. What I find interesting is that no one from the press has asked the president why he keeps saying "ISIL". Perhaps they already know that which I find obvious.
"ISIS" stands for "Islamic State of Iraq and Syria" and "ISIL" stands for "Islamic State of Iraq and Levant". I had never heard of Levant before, had you? Most of us haven't, so, as long as the press isn't interested in explaining the difference between ISIS and ISIL, the low-information voters won't know the significance of the president using one over the other. The Levant is the eastern Mediterranean area that includes Cyprus, Jordan, Israel, Judea, Samaria, Lebanon, and Syria. (Here is the Wikipedia page on it, if you want to learn more details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_ancient_Levant.)
What the president is doing when he says ISIL is acknowledging the Islamic State's authority over this area. It seems to me that anyone who supports Israel or the other sovereign nations in the area would never acknowledge Islam's authority over any of their territory. And an Alinskyite such as President Obama would never give an enemy the respect of acknowledging their authority over anything. In my opinion, the president's use of ISIL reveals his true feelings. In fact, despite the president's words of support for Israel, his actions speak much louder. As does his use of the term ISIL.
Americans are a generous, accepting people, but our desire to make others feel welcome is at our own peril. I keep hearing some, especially the mainstream media, giving Islam the moral equivalence of Christianity. It is hard for me to say this, since I am not at all a fan of his, but Bill Maher really stated the difference as well as anyone when he pointed out to Charlie Rose that there are no Christians stoning homosexuals, and that if beheadings were happening at the Vatican, there would be more attention. Here is the YouTube link, if you want to watch it yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=TKDObUuPsRE.
People who tell you there are "moderate" Muslims are lying to you. The Qur'an is quite clear. The Qur'an doesn't have a New Testament, where Mohammed tells his followers to love their neighbors as themselves, and then dies for their sins. The Qur'an tells its followers that infidels must convert of die. PERIOD. The Qur'an says for them to prepare the "seeds of war" to terrorize the enemy (Qur'an 8:60). Qur'an 3:32 says that Allah does not love the unbeliever. Qur'an 48:29 says believers must be severe against unbelievers. Qur'an 5:33 says the punishment for those who do not follow Islam is death, crucifixion, severing of extremities, and imprisonment. Qur'an 9:5 says idolaters should be besieged, captured, and ambushed. If they convert, forgive them.Qur'an 9:29 says to fight those who do not believe (rather than those who attack you). Qur'an 9:111 says to strive against the unbelievers, and not be unyielding. It says their abode is hell. Qur'an 8:12: "Instill terror in the hearts of the unbelievers, smite them above their necks." Qur'an 47:4 says "Therefore, when ye meet the Unbelievers, strike off their heads... When ye have made wide slaughter among them, carefully tie up the remaining captives..." Qur'an 9:123 says "Murder those of the disbelievers and let them find harshness in you." Qur'an 2:191 says "Kill them wherever you find them and drive them out from wherever they drove you out." Qur'an 2:193 says "Fight them on until there is no more tumult and religion becomes that of Allah." Qur'an 8:17 says "It is not ye who slew them; it is God; when thou threwest a handful of dust, it was not thy act, but God's."
When people try to tell me that not all Muslims believe in terrorism or beheadings, I ask them to point out the ones who don't. There may be Muslims who are repulsed by the terrorism, but, in my opinion, they are willing to step aside and allow others to do it... Because they view it is a "necessary evil". Their Qur'an tells them so.
Michael greer: rule of law vs the archbishop
This morning I had breakfast with Archbishop Jose Gomez, at the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. The Archbishop was there to speak of his support for "Comprehensive Immigration Reform". I was invited to this breakfast by some of my friends from the Black American Leadership Alliance.
The Archbishop began by saying we area land of immigrants, all of us are immigrants, including himself. He said he was born in Monterrey, Mexico and has been a citizen for the last 20 years. He said we are also a country of laws and that there needs to be a compromise between the two. He spoke of the children of "undocumented citizens" not being held responsible for their parents' actions. He spoke of how the twelve million here illegally are being denied basic human rights. I wondered what basic human rights he thought they were being denied. We provide them with free healthcare, school for their children, fire and police protection. If they have a child born here, they get section 8 housing, aid to dependent children, WIC, discounts on utilities, instate tuition, etc, etc.
Basically, the Archbishop recited the same old Progressive reasons why we should grant amnesty to "undocumented citizens". Although he mentioned (several times) that he believed in the rule of law, he had no serious solution to address the numerous laws being broken by illegal aliens living and working in America. I also wondered how his public support of an obviously political issue didn't violate his tax exempt status. I suspect if any minister started speaking publicly against amnesty or Obamacare or the violations of our Constitution that are endangering our religious freedom, his church's tax-exempt status would be in jeopardy.
The title of the Archbishop's talk was "Immigration and the Next America". He said, "Immigration is about more than immigration. It's about renewing the soul of America". Apparently, he believes the "Next America" is a third world Latin American country. I believe the "soul" of America is the Constitution and the rule of law.
When Archbishop Gomez finished his speech and opened the floor to questions, I suspected this room of well dressed people would be in support of his opinion. But I was pleasantly surprised. There were, indeed, some people who voiced their support, but the majority of the questions were respectfully in opposition. One person asked how we'd stop further illegal immigration if we granted amnesty again. Dr. Baker, of our group, asked the Archbishop what he'd do about the Black communities who have such high unemployment due to illegal immigration, and reminded him that Blacks have been pushed out of their neighborhoods by illegal immigrants.
Another person reminded the Archbishop that unemployment was higher than at anytime since the Great Depression. Another asked where the Archbishop got the twelve million figure. He replied that he was quoting a newspaper.
I thanked the Archbishop for coming this morning, and then corrected him. I told him we are not all immigrants. I said Blacks didn't immigrate here, legally or illegally. They were brought to this country against their will, and are currently being harmed the most by illegal immigration. I thought we owed them jobs, before appeasing the illegal immigrants. I said California runs a $13 billion annual deficit, which is coincidently, the exact amount illegal immigration costs California taxpayers every year. I asked the Archbishop how he justified giving our most precious gift, Citizenship, to people who have demonstrated a disrespect for our laws, our culture, our language and our flag.
He gave me a standard Progressive reply about balancing compassion with the rule of law, but I didn't really hear much of it, because I couldn't believe I said all those things to an Archbishop. I have always been intimidated by people in positions of authority. Five years ago I would never have contradicted someone in his position. I've come a long way, Baby.
James Spencer, from our group had the last question. He reminded the Archbishop that the 1986 Amnesty bill was passed because we were promised there would never be another. There were only three million illegals then. He told the Archbishop he was a Catholic, raised in Catholic schools, and even attended the seminary for a few years. He said the Catholic Church also had laws. He said he, too, wanted a better life for his family, so maybe he should move into the Vatican. Everyone laughed. James said if he tried, they would stop him, because they have laws too. I thought that was a perfect end to the event.
michael greer: NO GOOD, VERY BAD YEAR
Thank God, this year is over. It wasn't 2013 for nothing.
How's that Obamacare working for ya? The Liberal media is touting the BIG news that 1 million people have signed up for Obamacare. One million. Woopee! But didn't they tell us 30, 40, 50 million (depending on who's reporting) had no insurance? Sooo, why haven't 30, 40, 50 million signed up? If their lives were so devastated, so unmanageable, so deprived without insurance that the government had to take over the entire healthcare system to make sure these poor sad people had insurance……why haven't they signed up? And yet 5 million people who had insurance have lost their insurance. Sooo, more people have lost their insurance under Obamacare than have signed up. That certainly is something to brag about.
We have a President who was named for the "Biggest Lie of the Year". A recent Congressional hearing found Obama was acting as an Imperial President. He says if Congress won't act, he will. He already ignored the fact that Congress voted down both Cap and Trade and the Dream Act and implemented them though Executive Order. The hearing concluded Obama was what the Constitution was designed to prevent, that he has committed at least ten impeachable offenses. Would he still be in office if he were an old, white Republican?
For the fifth year gas hovers around $4 a gallon and unemployment still high. Still no jobs and the few available are mostly part time. Where is the media on this? Crickets. Energy prices going up as coal plants are closed. Keystone pipeline still not being built even though it has passed all environmental regulations. In a country with more natural resources than we can use, we are still dependent on foreign oil bought from countries that hate us. Enriching them so they can fight us. Does that sound like an intelligent plan to you?
Have you noticed what Obama has done to the military? Purging senior military commanders. More than 200 senior commanders have been fired or forced to retire. Do you believe that many were incompetent? Two Generals and an Admiral were relieved of duty during the Benghazi attack. God is also being purged from the military. I can't think of people more in need of God than the military. Chaplains can't say Jesus Christ or God during military services. They can't have a Bible on their desks. They have to perform gay marriages even if they have a religious objection. No nativity scenes on bases. But worse is the change in the rules of engagement. Our soldiers can't shoot unless shot at. Nor can they shoot at any building they think may contain civilians. In the Middle East how do they tell who is a civilian and who isn't? The enemy knows this and takes full advantage of it. Why would we send our boys into combat if we didn't intend to WIN? The casualties under Obama doubled and I have no doubt it is because of these insane rules of engagement.
Common Core is being implemented in our schools. They are data mining and dumbing down our children. Propaganda and political correctness is more important than facts and critical thinking. Classics being replaced by technical manuals. Kids being expelled or suspended for pointing their fingers and saying Bang, bang. Six year old being suspended for kissing a little girl's hand. In some states kids can't bring lunches from home even with a doctor's note. We need to sign a permission slip for our kids to go on a field trip but not to get birth control or abortions. This is standardized government curricula, something we have never wanted.
And now the feelings of transexuals (less than 1% of the population) are more important than the feelings of all the rest of the children. Our school bathrooms and locker rooms must be open to transexuals and they must be allowed to play sports with the sex they identify with. I can't see a problem with that, can you?
The new year also beings the end of plastic bags and cheap light bulbs. Why are we allowing this nonsense? There is absolutely no reason to ban either. There is no global warming. We now have to pay $5 or more for one light bulb when we use to be able to buy 4 for a dollar. And plastic bags? Why? If you are talking about environmentally friendly, it takes seven truck loads of paper bags to replace one truck load of plastic bags. And are they banning the plastic bags for produce? No. Plastic bags are recyclable and reusable. I can carry more plastic bags than paper bags and fit more in my car. I'm not going to carry around "reusable" virus infected bags although this is their goal. I'm mad about this every time I go to the grocery store. This is government overreach and social engineering. Don't pretend for a second there is a valid reason to ban either.
With all the bad news there is a story that makes me very happy. There is a Russian ship stuck in ice at the antarctica. Attempts to free it have been unsuccessful. They are now sending a Chinese icebreaker with a helicopter to air lift the passengers and crew from the ship. Why does this make me happy? The ship is filled with environmentalists who were going to antarctica to verify global warming was melting the ice. LOL! What will it take for these frauds to stop trying to convince us that we are causing global warming? I'm going to enjoy hearing how they spin this one.
We have a big year ahead of us. It is an election year. We MUST take back the Senate and keep the House. We MUST. Obamacare just keeps getting worse and it will continue to. Winning should be easy but Boehner and Rove could grab defeat from the jaws of victory. We can't let that happen. Each and every one of us needs to commit to doing everything we can to win.
Greg gerig: the Left uses Religion to Sell Socialism
The Tea Party comprises a broad spectrum of people from among religious and atheistic worldviews alike, but the vast majority do espouse some form of religious belief as their code of ethics. In recent years we have seen - and will continue to see with increasing frequency - a new attempt by the collectivist Left to fuse and leverage Judeo-Christian religion to leftwing politics. The form this Religious Left strategy is taking can be heard in variations on the phrase "Jesus was a socialist," the totalitarian "green" movement's news-making phrase "WWJD - What Would Jesus Drive?" - and the like.
We need not agree on each other's choices of ethical systems to acknowledge the fact that one's code of ethics informs one's political ideology profoundly. The Leftists are starting to realize this. Their new strategy is to create a religious imperative for (they hope,) inducing religiously-inclined conservatives to embrace collectivist political policies, or at minimum to blunt conservatives' anti-government activism - out of guilt, confusion or both. They correctly believe that if they can leverage the moral code to which the broadest swath of their opposition subscribes - Judeo-Christianity - they can drive a wedge between those deeply-held religious beliefs and the political advocacy of core Constitutional Republicanism. The deeper philosophical debate aside (the issue of egoism vs. altruism as the proper foundation for human rights and liberty,) the neo-collectivists' religious arguments depend on a massive equivocation: Choice vs. compulsion. It is essential that Judeo-Christians and other religious-minded people within our ranks understand, expect, and have a ready answer to this leftwing strategy.
What brought this tactic into sharp focus is something a vestigial-left relative on Facebook linked with approval recently. It's an article titled "Hating the Poor but Loving Jesus?" from a leftwing group calling itself "Red Letter Christians": http://www.redletterchristians.org/hating-poor-loving-jesus/
The article's author, Craig Watts, begins with a harmless and valid point: He condemns a reflexive disdain for poor people based solely on their physical appearance. Well yes, the old phrase about "not judging a book by its cover" is a valid admonition against hasty and potentially unjust generalizations: people can be, and frequently are, far more complex than their circumstances and surface appearances may indicate.
But that's not Watts' message. It's only a plausible sounding lead-in to a breathtaking leap of logic: Our opposition to Marxian/Keynesian government welfare programs becomes... "hatred" for poor people themselves. (?) That is a massive, in-your-face intellectual fraud that any first-semester logic student could pin down blindfolded, one hand tied behind his back, and stone drunk - a combination of the classic ad hominem and straw man.
The author's strategy in the ad hominem of "hater" and the straw man of "your demand for an end to welfare is just hatred of poor people," is to instill shame in anyone who opposes welfare, and instill guilt via the implication of hypocrisy in anyone who opposes welfare and also espouses religious beliefs.
The intellectual fraud involved here is in the Left's attempt to erase the distinction between two opposites:
1. The entirely voluntary, personal choice to contribute to charities - whatever they may be and on whatever motives;
2. The government's current practice of forcing people, at gunpoint, to furnish money to fund elected officials' favorite charities.
The distinction they're hoping you don't see is the distinction between the polar opposites of freedom vs. force, of choice vs. compulsion. When government sticks a gun into your face and says, "We're taking the property you have earned so we can give it to our favorite charities," it is not an instance of you engaging in charitable giving. It is an instance of you complying with the law, on pain of criminal prosecution if you don't.
Similarly, if you're one of the people who approve of and vote for such programs, the only moral aspect of your action is negative: You are endorsing the coercive enslavement of yourself and others, at gunpoint. Which is of course: Ethically evil, in total. This point is something we can use on offense too - whenever we encounter a pro-socialist trying to wrap himself in virtue for advocating... charity at gunpoint. The ends have never justified the means, and never will. (This is particularly true when those "ends" do not "help the poor" in any case - something I will cover in a future post.)
And if "at gunpoint" sounds like hyperbole, ask yourself what would happen if you were to refuse to pay your taxes on a consistent basis over an extended period. Paraphrasing economist George Reisman: Eventually armed sheriff's deputies would show up at your door and escort you, under force of arms, to a courtroom - where you would appear before a judge who would have the power to fine you and/or lock you in a cage. That is the core substance of government-coerced "charity."
So to recap: The practice of government forcing you to contribute to something it calls "helping the poor," is entirely distinct from the personal choice to dig into your own wallet and give to a charity of your own choice, independently of government - or more to the point, independently of other people's money.
That is the distinction these new "religious socialists" are hoping you won't make. So make it.
From the perspective of America's Founding, all that Craig Watts' Red Letter Christians - and similar Religious Left groups - have given us are eloquent reaffirmations of the propriety of the separation of church and state.


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Top Ten Movies to Inspire Italian Wannabes
Posted December 19, 2008 by Sharon 4 Comments
Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck explore the Eternal City on a Vespa in "Roman Holiday."
Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck explore the Eternal City on a Vespa in "Roman Holiday."
Whether La Befana, the Christmas witch, or good old Santa Claus is doing the shopping, wannabe Italians will swoon for any of these DVDs in their stocking. Our Top Ten "Discover Your Inner Italian" movies, in chronological order, are . . .
Roman Holiday (1953) Beguiling postwar Rome is the real star of William Wyler's bittersweet masterpiece, although ingénue Audrey, in top gamine form, gives the Eternal City a run for star billing. She did receive the Oscar, after all.
Three Coins in a Fountain (1954) Three single American women in Rome: Each throws a coin into the Trevi to wish for the man of her dreams. As Sinatra crooned, "Which one will the fountain bless?"
Summertime (1955) Katharine Hepburn portrays a mature, lonely innocent in this poignant story of illicit love. Directed by David Lean with 1950s stalwart Rossano Brazzi as the married Venetian for whom Hepburn falls.
It Started in Naples (1960) Philadelphia lawyer Clark Gable discovers an orphaned nephew-whose aunt is Sophia Loren-when he visits Capri to settle the estate of his philandering brother. Gable instructing the kid on how to assemble an American hamburger is priceless. Before the final credits roll, Loren has Gable eating spaghetti out of her hand.
Come September (1961) Wealthy American industrialist Rock Hudson spends each September at his luxurious Portofino villa. But his compartmentalized life turns chaotic when longtime Italian girlfriend, the tempestuous Gina Lollobrigida, makes up her mind to get that band of gold.
A Little Romance (1979) Two adorable 13-year-olds, an American girl and a French boy, run away from Paris to Venice (abetted by adorable codger Laurence Olivier) to kiss under The Bridge of Sighs.
A Room with a View (1986) Each and every scene is perfection as British heroine Lucy Honeychurch, played by Helena Bonham Carter, blossoms in Tuscany. Daniel Day Lewis as Lucy's priggish fiancé and Maggie Smith as Lucy's "poor" cousin Charlotte head a stellar cast.
Only You (1994) Oscar winner Marisa Tomei and Robert Downey, Jr. get top billing but it's sidekick Bonnie Hunt who really "gets" the Italian ethos in this fun and frothy flick. With Tomei's character running around the country searching for her soulmate, we're treated to multiple gorgeous locales.
Stealing Beauty (1996) Italian auteur Bernardo Bertolucci creates a film about a lovely, sometimes awkward young woman, Liv Tyler, discovering her sexuality. If you don't want to be a 19-year-old in Tuscany after watching this flick, your heart is harder than Carrara marble.
Under the Tuscan Sun (2003) After likely paying big bucks for the film rights to the New York Times best-selling book, writer/director Audrey Wells pens pretty much a new story. Who cares? We get to gaze at Cortona and Positano for nearly two hours. The American heroine Frances doesn't win the Latin lover (she reigns with the first-runner-up American guy), but she does get a villa to-die-for!
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S. Belgin says
Beyond the Clouds (1995 film)
Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
Okay, so my suggestion is not set in Italy, but I think it should get consideration in the honorable mention category. "Big Night" takes place in New Jersey, but it is a delicious tale brimming with Italian food and other influences from the old country.
I confess I adore "Only You," even though it has a silly plot. Something about those Italian landscapes makes you truly believe in love at first sight. And Bonnie Hunt is indeed wonderful, as always.
And one more: Bread and Tulips (Pan e Tulipani) made in 2000 starring Lucia Maglietta. Similar to Under the Tuscan Sun, but much better..


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This program is compatible only with the PC CD/DVD-versions of the Civ4 basic version and the expansions 'Warlords' and 'Beyond the Sword'. If such an expansion is installed afterwards, the 'Blue Marble' program simply has to be started once again.
This program is compatible only with the PC CD/DVD-versions of the program.
NASA's Blue Marble project presents freely available photorealistic maps of our planet Earth. Since the seventies earth observation satellites have recorded data of our atmosphere, the oceans and the land surface to improve our understanding of the Earth as a system. These datasets are usually not publicly accessible and they are only available as scientific file types. Therefore the Blue Marble project produces high resolution maps in false-color and true-color formats from the scientific satellite data. This allows the user to become a discoverer and to investigate our planet from space. With these products we would like to stimulate the public interest for matters of the environment and also express the importance of unmanned satellite missions carried out by the NASA and other space organizations.
The Blue Marble "Next generation" is the latest product of the series, showing a cloudless Earth in 12 monthly variations: the beginning of spring, dry spells, snow cover changes, vegetation coloring and rainy seasons all are dynamic processes in our climate system. The monthly satellite maps are available under bluemarble.nasa.gov.
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This RASPUTINA poster is rare. It is a promo only available at ticket outlets and music stores to promote their concert. Warm-ups LARKIN GRIMM and THE CURIOUS MYSTERY are listed.
This poster is for their August 18, 2010 concert at Neumo's in Seattle, Washington. Size is approximately 11" by 14". It is in great condition for display, at least Mint/Near-Mint. It will be shipped rolled in a sturdy tube.


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Q: How to change a point to circle in a Graphics expresion Given the following line of code,
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the objective is to replace every Point as a Circle with a radius of 1/2 centered around the same coordinates. The question asks for this to be done using a ReplaceAll (aka Rule) function.
I know how to replace points with circles. Just add /. Point -> Circle to the end of that block. And it goes from plotted dots to circles.
But how do I change the radius to 1/2 using the Rule function? Because when I replace Point with Circle, it results in Circle of radius 1. The only way I could think was something like /. Point[{ _ , _ }] -> Circle[{ _ , _ }, 0.5], but that of course didn't work.
Any help is much appreciated!

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Click Image To Visit SiteWindows and other software programs store history about the different activities that you have performed on your computer and on the Internet. This information is stored in the system areas of your hard disk and the built-in Windows functions like 'Clear History' offer little protection as they can only partially delete this data. Anyone can take a look at your history and find out what you have been doing on your computer, and this raises serious privacy concerns.
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China to Trump — we didn't make up global warming
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By Karen Graham Nov 17, 2016 in Environment
Marrakech - At the UN climate talks in Marrakech, Morocco on Wednesday, China's Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin pointed out that China didn't invent climate change, contrary to what President-elect Trump tweeted in 2012.
Delegates to the COP22 Climate Conference being held in Morocco this week have President-elect Trump at the top of their agenda. They are questioning how a climate-denier as leader of the U.S. will shape the future of climate change policy.
Speaking at the conference on Wednesday, Zhenmin pointed out that if Mr. Trump looks at the history of climate change negotiations over the years leading up to the Paris Climate deal, he would see that Republican presidents were instrumental in launching negotiations.
"If you look at the history of climate change negotiations, actually it was initiated by the IPCC with the support of the Republicans during the Reagan and senior Bush administration during the late 1980s," he said, according to Bloomberg.
The Chinese Vice Minister was referring to a 2012 tweet by Donald Trump where he said global warming was invented by the Chinese to undermine American manufacturers.
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USA Today writes that during a January appearance on Fox and Friends, Trump claimed the 2012 tweet "was a joke," after Bernie Sanders brought up the tweet, but he added, "this is done for the benefit of China because China does not do anything to help climate change."
The Guardian says that Trump has dismissed global warming, tweeting: "Give me clean, beautiful and healthy air - not the same old climate change (global warming) bullshit! I am tired of hearing this nonsense," on January 29, 2014. This was just one of a flurry of tweets he wrote that month when the U.S. was in an extreme weather event.
The Guardian is reporting that at the Marrakech conference, Secretary of State John Kerry told delegates this week that "the overwhelming majority of the citizens of the U.S." know climate change is happening and are "determined to keep our commitments in Paris."
The skepticism and fears being played out in the U.S. over President-elect Trump and his ideas, threats and promises have spilled over into the international community as is being seen at the climate conference. World leaders have worked for years to reach the Paris Accord agreement that went into effect this year.
There is the very real fear that Trump, when he takes office in January, will toss the agreement in the trash, and that would be catastrophic, not only for the U.S. but for the people of the world. Our country is looked up to as a leader by other countries, and it is hard to imagine what would happen globally if Mr. Trump turns his back on the Paris Climate deal.
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Владимир Викторович Бусс (17 июля 1978) — российский футболист, нападающий; теннисный тренер.

Биография
Воспитанник тольяттинской СДЮШОР-4. В 1995 году в составе второй команды тольяттинской «Лады» провёл 22 игры, забил три мяча в первенстве третьей лиги. В 1996 году сыграл пять матчей за главную команду в высшей лиге (ещё один матч был аннулирован), забил один мяч — в ворота «Торпедо» (1:3). В 1997 году сыграл 18 матчей в первой лиге за «Ладу-Тольятти-ВАЗ»; во всех 23 играх выходил на замену или был заменён.

С 1997 года — на тренерской работе. В 2002 году окончил Тольяттинский государственный университет, педагог по физической культуре и спорту С сентября 2006 работает в теннисной СДЮСШОР № 6. В 2011 году был признан лучшим теннисным тренером Самарской области, а его ученица Татьяна Николаева — лучшим теннисистом (совместно с Дарьей Касаткиной)..

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Футболисты России
Игроки ФК «Лада-д»
Игроки ФК «Лада-Тольятти»
Выпускники Тольяттинского государственного университета

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Invoices are distributed by the beginning of December each year and are due and payable on or before January 1st.
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Thank you for your assistance in paying your fees promptly.
Privately owned boats may be used on the lake. No gas motors of any kind are permitted.
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The famous line in 2004's Starsky and Hutch was the tipping point in catching Vince Vaughn's villain. A distinction between these two may have led to his downfall, but we can see why it's one worth making.
These yachts belong to only the richest billionaires in the world – and we can understand why. Some of them cost north of $300 million – much more than most of us will see in our lifetimes.
Top Trending has highlighted some of the biggest yachts in the world, which are quite literally mental.
With helicopter pads, swimming pools, and everything else you can imagine – would there be a reason to leave it?
Watch the video for yourself and see what we mean! Would you want to live on one of these?
Jason is interested in some of the weirder stories that highlight the culture and societal norms. Is it a strange story? Jason has probably covered it!


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import com.github.jnthnclt.os.lab.base.BolBuffer;
import com.github.jnthnclt.os.lab.api.ValueStream;
import com.github.jnthnclt.os.lab.core.io.PointerReadableByteBufferFile;
import com.github.jnthnclt.os.lab.io.IAppendOnly;

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Top 10 Sexy High School DxD Characters
Sexy / Ecchi Anime [Genres]
High School DxDHigh School DxD [Anime Title]
If you're here, you've probably already seen at least one of High School DxD's three seasons and are thirsty for more. High School DxD is one of the best known and most popular ecchi harem anime about, and it's not hard to see why, with a cast of everything from cute lolis to the sexy, big chested Rias Gremory herself. This is of course all helped by the copious amount of lingerie and breasts featured throughout, along our good friend Issei's generous usage of Dress Break to get rid of those nasty annoyances known as clothes.
Everyone no doubt has their own opinions of which girl is sexiest, cutest, "best girl". But I'm here to see if I can offer a new perspective on things, and perhaps make you rethink your choice of waifu up until this point, or maybe just reaffirm what you were thinking all along.
10. Tsubaki Shinra
Student council vice president Tsubaki Shinra appears fairly often throughout the series to support her peerage, along with Issei's harem. With her incredibly straight, long black hair, Tsubaki is more of a traditional Japanese beauty than the other girls, which along with her calm demeanor is one of her biggest charm points.
Despite being a minor character, Tsubaki sees her fair of action, appearing in various outfits including bloomers and tennis gear, being attacked by living udon, and becoming one of the unfortunate victims of Issei's Dress Break attack. With all of that in mind, it feels right that she deserves a spot amongst the stars of the show, even if that spot is number ten.
9. Asia Argento
A member of Issei's original harem, Asia Argento is a nun-turned-devil and the Bishop in Rias Gramory's peerage. Often seen in her modest nun's outfit, Asia is the most unknowing of the female characters, with her understanding of all things ecchi lacking severely.
Despite her naivety Asia's inability to understand Issei's dirty mind leads to a number of great efforts on her part to garner his attention, more often than not by following Rias' example or even being told specifically what to do by the other girls. Unlike the other characters this often leads to a lack of clothing entirely, rather than the lingerie which is a standard for the series, making her one of the most frequently naked characters in High School DxD.
8. Irina Shidou
Next up is angel and Issei's childhood friend Irina Shidou, making her first appearance in the anime's second season High School DxD New. Up until her appearance, the show was suffering from a sever lack of twin tails, which as we all know is a terrible ailment to befall a harem anime.
Sporting a skin tight black playsuit, or "standard church battle attire", Irina's great figure being almost constantly on show is one her main appeal points. Unlike some of the other big breasted characters, she also has a surprisingly innocent personality, making ecchi situations seem even more perverse whenever she is involved.
7. Rossweisse
A newcomer in High School DxD BorN, Rossweisse somehow manages to compete with Asia Argento in terms of innocence, which is quite a feat in itself. Considered a "young lady", Roseweisse appears to be one of the oldest and most mature members of Issei's harem, though often her ultra-childish side comes out and her true age shows through, such as when she starts crying after being abandoned by Odin.
Roseweisse's slim figure and long hair help her fill the young office lady type role perfectly, and her battle gear is nicely designed so as to not cover the most important parts. Although a very cute character anyway, her modesty and naivety help to give her some very sexy moments throughout the series.
6. Grayfia Lucifuge
Strongest Queen and maid of the Gremory Clan, Grayfia Lucifuge is never seen without her maid outfit on, for which we are all very grateful. Although a cold and reserved character, it's all just part of Grayfia's charm, with her being the older, strict woman whose orders cannot be refused.
The maid outfit alone is one of Grayfia's greatest assets, especially considering it does such a great job of accentuating her incredible bust. Being one of the most mature characters also comes with a certain allure that the other girls just can't match.
5. Xenovia Quarta
Making her appearance along with Irina Shidou, Xenovia Quarta is a former member of the church and later a Knight and reincarnated devil within Rias Gremorie's peerage. One of the more serious (or seemingly serious) members of Issei's harem, Xenovia has a "whatever it takes to get the job done" attitude, which apparently includes trying to bear Issei's child.
Xenovia's outfit leaves nothing to the imagination, garbed in the same battle gear as Irina, which alone makes her an incredibly sexy character. Along with her "no holds barred" attitude towards getting it on with our fortunate protagonist, Xenovia is the tomboy that High School DxD needed.
4. Kuroka
The only true antagonist on the list, Kuroka is Koneko Toujou's black furred sister and makes her first appearance in BorN, attempting to steal Koneko away from the Gremory peerage. Kuroka is sly and seductive, with her voice and charm playing a large role in making her the sexy cat girl that she is.
Always seen in her loose fitting kimono, which shows us just enough skin without giving too much away, Kuroka has no trouble getting up close and personal with her enemies, making the best use of her significant "assets". On top of that, her cat ears and tail further increase the draw of her character, making her one of the hottest girls of the series.
3. Koneko Toujou
Here's one for the lolicons, cat spirit Koneko Toujou is the Rook of Rias Gremory's peerage, and one of the only loli type characters to so far appear in the anime adaptation. Even if flat chested girls aren't quite your thing, with the recent edition of her kitty ears and a tail, Koneko's appeal is hard to ignore.
Although not actively pursuing Issei for a majority of the anime, Koneko seems to spend a majority of the show with her clothing ripped to pieces, and owns a fantastic array of panties. What's more she doesn't appear to be that bothered about putting her clothes back on, which I'd say is a big plus.
2. Akeno Himejima
Akeno Himejima is High School DxD's older sister character, and she fits the role perfectly, babying Issei constantly and more often than not using her incredible bust to do so. Out of all the characters in the show Akeno is almost certainly the most assertive, beating even Rias with her constant advances and ability to create sexual situations out of thin air.
Rocking the shrine maiden look during battle, it's fantastic to watch Akeno getting off on the thrill of a fight as the obvious sadist that she is. Akeno's main appeal is the number of fetishes her character covers: older sister, senpai, shrine maiden, sadist, school girl, all in one character. She the complete package.
1. Rias Gremory
This end was inevitable, I'm not even sorry, Rias Gremory tops it as number one sexiest High School DxD character. Designed to be the ultimate waifu, Rias is sexy, cute, and will stop at nothing to make you hers. As the head of her peerage and of the Occult Research Club, Rias has no trouble ordering Issei and the others about, making her an excellent senpai type character.
Very much a woman in control, she has no qualms showing off her new lingerie or even getting completely naked and forcing herself onto our fortunate protagonist. What's more, her breasts themselves have now become a source of power in what is an unusual turn of events, making her the series' most highly sexualized character by far. And with that, there is no question that Rias Gremory Is High School DxD's sexiest female character.
Now being one of the longer running ecchi harem shows, High School DxD has amassed a significant number of hot, sexy characters, with more still to come if we're fortunate enough to receive another season. But with that comes a lot of competition, with newer characters having to carve out their own niche, and the newest harem members having to earn their place amongst the girls already much loved by fans.
So how does this list compare against your own, pretty much on point? Or could it not be more wrong? Let us know what your top sexiest High School DxD characters are in the comments below.
Author: Kristian
British guy doing student things in Tokyo. Slice-of-life and moe anime are my speciality, though I think something good can be found in almost every show. Outside of anime I spend most of my time feeding on DotA 2 or studying Japanese in a quest to one day watch cute girls without subtitles.
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I hired S&S Cleaning for a post-renovation cleaning of my mother's house. There was a lot of drywall work done, the house was very dusty, and it hadn't been properly cleaned in a while so I knew it would be a big job. Unfortunately, I couldn't hire my own regular cleaners because they don't work outside of Toronto, and my mom's house is in Mississauga. I spoke with Sophie at S&S and I accepted that their cost would be $40/hour and she'd send 2 cleaners. She estimated about 6 hours for the 2700 sq ft (including basement) house.
She encouraged me to go check on the cleaning towards to end of the 6 hours, but when I arrived at the house I was very surprised to see that after 6 hours with 2 cleaners, only the top floor of the house had been cleaned, whuch was the least dirtiest floor. Logic would indicate that this was now a 3-day job, as the main floor and the basement still needed to be done. At the time, the cleaners were working on removing the stuck-on shelf paper from the kitchen cupboards, which I found totally unnecessary.
1. Unnecessary things were done which cost extra time and money, like removing stuck-on shelf paper. 2. Way too much time was spent on one floor. I understand the need for quality cleaning, but there needs to be a balance so it doesn't suddenly become a multi-day job. 3. The cleaners didn't always put items and furniture back where they found them. 4. When we moved some furniture back, the floor was dirty underneath. 5. Some items weren't cleaned - the front door rug was just rolled up and put away without vacuuming, and the front of the bar fridge wasn't cleaned. 6. They don't accept credit cards, and personally I found Sophie to be very pushy when it comes to payment. When contractors invoice me, typically they're not expecting me to pay within hours of service being complete. If they want immediate payment, then accept credit cards.
Again, I have been very clear about this to Sophie. I appreciate her trying to work with me on this and she did offer to send someone back the next day to redo the areas, however I don't have time for that as the house is being staged for sale. I expected a complete job done on the day I hired them for and it wasn't done. As such, I would not use S&S again or recommend them to anyone.
First session was satisfactory. They seemed to rush. 2nd time was a complete failure. They completely missed cleaning 2 rooms. How does that happen?? The kitchen - dishes were hastily shoved in cupboards. No care given to putting things in their right place. I complained to Sophie. I sent her pictures. Her response was wholly inadequate. I sent her a list of mistakes. I asked how could they completely miss 2 rooms? Why were some lights left on all day? She said she would talk to her staff who apparently don't speak English well. Her only response was to send them back the next day - which didn't work for our schedule and still didn't answer our question as to why or how the rooms were missed. Our previous cleaners never missed a thing and always went thru and double checked their work. Not even close with Sophie's ppl. She offered to refund me the difference - I said sure that's fair. Lol until she sent me a transfer for $15?!?!? Let me see $180 for 3 hours.... $60/hr, so that should be $30 plus tax that I'd paid.
She expressed surprise saying I paid cash - NO and that $15 was enough for one room. I explained yet again it was TWO rooms missed. Apparently she doesn't make notes of their own screwups. I said just forget it - no need to bother me again. Extremely disappointed. Would never hire them again.
The ladies are very professional and also very friendly. They are willing to go above and beyond to make a customer happy!
We were charged $280 for a post-reno cleanup. It's actually pretty steep considering we live in a 740sqft 1 bedroom condo and have gotten cleaners to do a much better job for less, but I was willing to pay more because this was supposed to be a post reno cleaning, but unfortunately all I got was a basic and poorly rushed cleaning job.
I had emphasized that I wanted the walls cleaned because there was dust from the reno. I made this clear to the lady I spoke to the phone as well as the cleaners. I believed they only cleaned one wall, the other walls were still dusty which I've attached photos of my swifter for proof that they weren't touched.
I had asked for the outside windows to be cleaned, the lady on the phone said it can be done so long as I have a balcony, which I do. The cleaners told me they couldn't do it. That would be fine if only they had properly cleaned everything else.
I had asked them to clean the toaster oven. They did not.
The floors were still dusty and looks like they just mopped over it because I can see dirty mop streaks.
They dropped some plant soil on my couch, which is fine (accidents happen) but they didn't even vacuum it.
Overall it was a poor job. I paid more because I expected a more thorough cleaning of dust due to the renovations, but they neglected the main thing I had asked them to clean.
The carpet was vacuumed, but it also looked rushed because I could see hair on some parts of the floor.
The only other extras I had asked which they did properly was cleaning the refrigerator and bed sheets.
The lady did ask if I wanted the cleaners to come back, but at this point I had already cleaned the walls myself and it was pointless. Please do a professional cleaning the first time. I was told the cleaners had an appointment to go to so they were in a hurry to leave, but if you're going to rush the job then at least do the one thing I emphasized which was to clean the dust from the walls.
I am SOOO happy I called S&S. This was my 1st time with them, I called to get a 1 bedroom apartment cleaned after a tenant moved out. My cleaner was a friendly, kind lady who was serious about doing a good job (so nice to get someone without attitude). This was real cleaning, not pretending to clean. The filth behind the fridge and stove was scrubbed, attention to detail was great on cupboards, molding, lamps. It took longer than anticipated because of the amount to be done and she agreed to stay longer to get the job done, and get it done right.
This is the company I will call to arrange regular house cleaning in my home.
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We had 2 ladies come in to clean up our main floor after a complete renovation. They did amazing work!
I called S&S Cleaning Services Toronto and within 2 rings they answered my call. They were very friendly on the phone and answered all the questions that I had for them.
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Przygoda z piosenką (Une aventure avec la chanson) est un film polonais de Stanisław Bareja sorti en salles le .

Synopsis
Mariola, lauréate du prix du public du Festival national de chanson polonaise d'Opole veut faire carrière à Paris. Sous l'influence de son agent artistique qui lui promet de l'argent et grande célébrité, elle quitte la Pologne et y laisse Piotr, un compositeur amoureux d'elle. Une fois à Paris elle découvre que son agent est un escroc qui ne lui a organisé qu'une simple apparition dans une salle de spectacles. Mariola doit prendre une décision difficile, rentrer en Pologne ou essayer de décrocher un contrat important. Bientôt Piotr, qui a reçu une bourse d'études, arrive à Paris. Mariola lui cache sa situation et lui raconte des histoires sur sa carrière spectaculaire et son amitié avec une grande star, Suzanne Blanche. Ce n'est que par hasard que Piotr apprend la vérité sur les problèmes de sa copine. Malgré les malentendus et des conflits d'intérêts leur sentiment ne s'éteint pas et les amoureux décident de rentrer en Pologne.

Fiche technique
 Titre original :
 Réalisation : Stanisław Bareja
 Scénario : Jerzy Jurandot
 Musique : Adam Walaciński
 Photographie : Jan Janczewski
 Montage : Krystyna Rutkowska
 Décors : Roman Wołyniec
 Costumes : Ewa Kowalska
 Société de production : Zespół Filmowy Rytm
 Pays d'origine :
 Langues originales : polonais
 Genre : Comédie, Film musical
 Format : couleur  - son mono
 Durée : 93 minutes
 Dates de sortie :

Distribution
 Bohdan Łazuka – Piotr
 Zdzisław Maklakiewicz – Drybek
 Pola Raksa – Mariola Brońska
 Barbara Krafftówna – madame Michaud, la propriétaire du pensionnat
 Czesław Wołłejko – impresario Cox
 Urszula Modrzyńska – copine de Cox
 Irena Szewczyk – copine de Cox
 Ryszard Nawrocki – le compositeur Waldemar
 Irena Santor – Suzanne Blanche (Zuzanna Białko)
 Maciej Grzybowski – Michel

Notes et références

Liens externes

Film polonais sorti en 1969
Film se déroulant en Pologne
Comédie polonaise
Film se déroulant à Varsovie
Film tourné à Varsovie
Film tourné à Paris
Film se déroulant à Paris


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Q: Windows task scheduler not running a batch file that calls a python selenium script Desired Result
Hi, I am using a machine running windows 10 to automate a scraper that is written in python and uses selenium (with chrome driver). I want this to run every day at 3:00 am.
Best Attempt
It seems the best way to do this is to write a batch file test_bat.bat that runs the python script in its virtual environment. Here are the contents of test_bat.bat:
C:\Users\data_miner\PycharmProjects\SeleniumScraper\venv\Scripts\activate.bat && python C:\Users\data_miner\PycharmProjects\SeleniumScraper\ScraperWindows.py

I learned how to do this here. This works excellently when run by clicking on the .bat file icon directly.
Problem
However, when fired (whether by the trigger or manually) there is no effect other than a change of status from 'ready' to 'running' and the pictured rows in history:

Details
The Action that I created has the following values (instructions were followed from here):
Action: Start a program, Program/script: C:\data_miner\Desktop\test_batch.bat
("C:\data_miner\Desktop\test_batch.bat" is the path to the batch file)
A similar problem that I have read the solution for:
HERE: the solution to this problem was setting the "working directory" to the location of the bat file. I first assumed that by working directory, they meant the 'Start in (optional)' field in 'Actions', this didn't work. Secondly I tried adding a cd command to the first line of the batch file: cd C:\data_miner\Desktop this also made no difference.
Comments
I can provide the python scripts if appropriate but chose not to here as the script works fine when run from the bat. The problem is in the transition from opening the bat to getting task scheduler to open it.
How do I get this thing to work?


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NewsContinuing CoverageJames Skernivitz
18-year-old suspect in Cleveland police detective's death is being held on $3 million bond
Suspect in CLE police detective's death appears in court.
Posted at 7:30 AM, Sep 22, 2020
CLEVELAND — An 18-year-old accused of killing Cleveland police detective James Skernivitz and police informant Scott Dingess, appeared in court for his arraignment Tuesday.
David McDaniel Jr., 18, has been charged with four counts of aggravated murder, two counts of murder, two counts of aggravated robbery, two counts of felonious assault and one count of tampering with evidence, according to the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office.
McDaniel is being held on a $3 million cash surety bond.
His next court appearance is scheduled for Sept. 28 at 9:00 a.m. in the courtroom of Judge Deborah Turner.
Skernivitz, 53, was shot and killed around 10 p.m. in the 3200 block of West 65th Street on Sept. 3. Another person, later identified as Scott Dingess, 50, was also killed. Police said Dingess was a victim of the shooting and not a suspect.
RELATED: 18-year-old suspect indicted for death of Det. James Skernivitz, police informant


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I think my granddaughter favorite is ruby.
My favorite Nickelodeon character is Max from Max & Ruby!
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My favorite is Dora.My granddaughter lives Dora and we have quite a collection of DVD's.
My Grouper seems to be my grandson's favorite.
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My son likes Marshall from Paw Patrol!
There are actually 2, Max and Spongebob.
Me and my sons favorite is paw patrol.Thanks for the great giveaway.


Ismat Chughtai courted extreme controversy for her story, 'Lihaaf' in particular, which touches upon the themes of homosexuality.
New Delhi: Celebrated Urdu author Ismat Chughtai, known for her literary works exploring free speech, social liberation, and gender equality, was on Tuesday paid homage by search engine giant Google with a colourful doodle on her 107th birthday.
She began writing at an early age, inspired by her elder brother Mirza Azim Beg Chughtai, a novelist known for his playful humorous works. The author courted extreme controversy for her story, "Lihaaf" in particular, which touches upon the themes of homosexuality.
Narrated in the voice of a young girl, "Lihaf" was viewed as controversial given its portrayal of a relationship between an upper class woman and her servant. "This was also the case for another of her famous stories, "Gainda" (Marigold), which told the tale of a domestic worker who falls in love outside the caste system.
"Chughtai's character violated the rules prohibiting different castes from associating with one another, as well as the social custom forbidding widows from pursuing a second love," Google said in a blogpost.
Through her work she also talked about other sensitive topics such as middle-class gentility, partition, and class-conflict, among others. Her works included stories like "Kafir" (Infidel), "Mera Baccha" (My Child), "Jarein" (Roots), "Hindustan Chod Do" (Quit India), and "Kacche Dhaage" (Fragile Threads).
Widely translated into English and other languages, Chughtai also penned scripts for Bollywood movies and made her debut with the 1948 commercially successful drama film Ziddi. Later, she also tried her hand in direction and production with films like "Faraib" and "Sone ki Chidiya", respectively.