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Christie And King Angry Over Lack Of Aid For Sandy Victims
Last Wednesday, New Jersey governor Chris Christie held a press conference and charged the House of Representatives for not voting on the $60 billion disaster relief package for his state and the other ones hit by Hurricane Sandy:
There's only one group to blame for the continued suffering of these innocence victims: The House Majority and their Speaker, John Boehner.
This is not a Republican or Democratic issue. National disasters happen in red states and blue states, and states with Democratic Governors and Republican Governors.
We respond to innocent victims of natural disasters not as Republicans or Democrats but as Americans. Or at least we did until last night.
Last night, politics was placed before our oaths to serve our citizens. For me, it was disappointing and disgusting to watch.
In an interview for Fox News' "America's Newsroom", Rep. Peter King (R-NY) also slammed his own party members:
All we're saying is treat us the same everybody else has been treated. And why the Republican party has this bias against New York, bias against New Jersey, bias against the northeast? They wonder why they're becoming a minority party? Why we'll be the party of the permanent minority? What they did last night was so immoral, so disgraceful, so irresponsible. We're supposed to be the party of family values, and you have families starving, families suffering, families spread all over living in substandard housing. This was a disgrace.
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Human and Don't Forget Animal Welfare: More Mitzvah Storming
December 5, 2012 by Rabbi Goldie Milgram Leave a Comment
Hurricane Sandy Mitzvah Storming IV
1. Did you see Anat Hoffman's tag line in her outreach for support of victims of Hurricane Sandy. "We are family," she writes and cites Haaretz that "Israelis have followed no event in the United States as closely as Hurricane Sandy…and fact, New York City is the metropolitan area with the second largest Jewish population of any city after Tel Aviv." Perhaps you have also seen the organization that serves Holocaust survivors soliciting Hurricane relief funds targeted for them. Never did it occur to me to fund raise based on the Jewishness of those affected — we are a human family during emergencies.
Helping each other as equally as possible with eyes blind to difference, if not now, when? Many different religions are housing each others services right now in affected areas. Can we keep this a "simply human" situation, so many are still freezing in the dark and even still, without sufficient gasoline to relocate or forage for food?
Reports of houses of worship across every religion are now sharing sacred space throughout impacted regions, how inspiring is that? Candlelight b'nei mitzvah and first communions have abounded. While stories of religious leaders and youth groups going door to door have arrived in various movements' press releases — I see no reason for us to get extra credit, claim credit, or pat ourselves on the back. Mitzvot are done for their own sake, not ours. And, yes, many of us will help repair synagogues, in Judaism lives get attention first.
When some of those I asked to join me in a trip to work in a shelter or setting the tikkun olam (social action) committee into motion, some replies most resembled this: "We only give and volunteer locally." I felt very nonplussed and judgmental. It took awhile to process this with them. Such a response turns out to come primarily from "green thinking" that applies to every day living. Emergency funding and support has a very key strategic concept embedded – preventing emergency conditions from becoming chronic. Thinking local doesn't do it for large scale emergencies, it compounds the long-term burden on society big time.
This morning I was reading an emergency room physician's plea for people to be more aggressive about finding, taking in and insisting others get out of this cold wave– to prevent pneumonia and much more. The factors are pain and suffering, and costs of associated healthcare, and rehab of buildings that stay soggy rather than dry…I'm sure you get the point. Those who wrote us to volunteer to help with clean-up are in action in NJ as I write, I will again be with them today. They've asked for anonymity. Menschlichkeit is awesome.
Why were the tikkun olam committees in place throughout most Jewish organizations seemingly not pro-active rather than reactive? I'm sure many will be pondering this soon. The trauma of awaiting the storm is what I saw in the eyes of our Philly locals, it was so draining and some of our internet servers were ruined in lower Manhattan, underwater. So with compassion, we can move on to creating pro-active plans and assignments…for the next time. As my son who was evacuated from the Jersey shore put it: "We've had three storms this year already, the next time could be next week."
2. Overarching best ways to help for those who live at a distance are clarifying — first, donate blood, this need has become urgent. Injuries to rescue and repair workers are vast because of the extremely hazardous conditions. http://www.redcrossblood.org/m…
3. The the vastness of need for clothing is proving to require bulk funding for bulk purchase of goods. "Brooklyn Neighbors in Need Fund (a not-for-profit)"… asks that you…" donate money so we can buy the 600 pairs of underwear (socks, towels, belts, etc) we need for the Armory or John Jay." [shelters].
Per the Red Cross: "The cost to sort, package and distribute these types of donations to disaster victims is usually greater than the cost of purchasing the items locally, and it is logistically impossible to distribute a wide variety of individual items in a meaningful and equitable way during an emergency of this magnitude." Instead, make a financial gift via www.redcross.org, 1-800-RED-CROSS (1-800-733-2767) or text the word REDCROSS to 90999 to make a $10 donation.
4. Let's not overlook the crisis in animal welfare. The Humane Society of the United States and American Humane Society are seeking donations to help rescue stranded pets and help animals in shelters. In every affected state they are looking for volunteers due the vast numbers of displaced pets.
5. The Food Bank For New York City has different ways for you to get involved: You can donate by texting FBNYC to 50555.
6. Clean-up Teams. All clean-up volunteers that have contacted us have been put into action through the State of New Jersey volunteer coordination effort. When asked, these volunteers requested anonymity — what menschlichkeit, thank you! By all means now fly direct – opportunities abound to help in shelters, door-to-door, clean-up and more.
Some more links just supplied by my ever-mitzvah-centered colleague Rabbi Shawn Israel Zevit:
Masbia is providing food to shelters
Bend The Arc – Concentrating on the city of Newark
North Star Hurricane Relief Fund
Most federations and many denominations are running support campaigns as well through links on their websites.
7. Prayer.
May we be blessed with the ability to heal, help, vote, and plan wisely for the future.
Via Rabbi Rachel Barenblatt, a litany of prayers composed by Rabbi Samuel Barth and Rabbi David Ingber, folded together and expanded by The Rev. Peter Elvin, 2 November 2012:
*A Litany after the Hurricane*
Source of all Life, soothe hearts aching with pain and loss in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. Strengthen all responders, all relief workers, all friends and neighbors, to do their best to alleviate suffering, heal injury, and restore services upon which our daily lives are built. We lift up our eyes to the hills; from where is our help to come?
Our help comes from the LORD, the maker of heaven and earth.
Source of Compassion, you are close to all who are confused and bewildered in the wake of this shocking storm. Quicken their recognition of your
presence all around them. Free their ability to move through shock, to see and make their very best choices. Stir our resolve to support, encourage, donate, and pray. We lift up our eyes to the hills; from where is our help to come?
Source of Wisdom, move within all of our hearts and minds and wills to learn the most important questions to ask and answer. Instill your wisdom
in all who are responsible for public policy, for future preparedness, for re-building and for re-thinking, as the elements of your created order? wind and rain, tide and surge– disorder our old assumptions. We lift up our eyes to the hills; from where is our help to come?
Source of all Creativity, anoint our wisdom, our technology, our compassion, and our national will to rise from the watery grave of this storm and claim the new life your Spirit desires and our future requires. Inspire us to find flexible ways to cooperate across old boundaries, freeing energy and resources to move with your blessing. We lift up our eyes to the hills; from where is our help to come?
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Aid From Israel!.. to NY and NJ
November 13, 2012 by PJV Contributor Leave a Comment
Israel Flying Aid, the Israeli global humanitarian organization, which was first to land in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake, has been distributing large supplies of gas to hospitals, food, batteries and generators to Hurricane Sandy victims.
"We have many years of disaster relief experience," said Israel Flying Aid North American Operations Manager Moti Kahana. "Israel Flying Aid, in having Israelis on the ground here in New York and New Jersey, have made Israel the only foreign nation to provide humanitarian assistance to the US during this disaster. We are working in coordination with FEMA, local police, the American Red Cross and Jewish communities in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut."
Kahana said that most of the efforts had been donated by Israelis living in the US, and this enabled gas to be distributed to hospitals in New York and New Jersey.
Joel Leyden, an Israel Flying Aid Operations Specialist who was with the IFA in Haiti, has been working with the Greater Hartford Jewish Community to distribute both food and generators on Long Island.
"We had a convoy of food and generators move out of the Greater Hartford area early yesterday morning," said Leyden. "The food had been donated by Panera Bread and Dunkin Donuts in the Hartford, Manchester Connecticut area. This food was distributed to hurricane victims on the south shore of Long Island, the Nassau County Police, the Free-port Fire Department and the Red Cross Shelter which is set up at Nassau Community College."
Leyden said that when they spotted hundreds of people lined up at gas stations to pour gas into their containers, they would get out of their cars and feed these people as they waited. The donuts and bread created smiles and positive moods which replaced the trauma of suffering in the dark and cold, he said.
"We are so very proud to see you, to welcome you to New York," said Dr. Jason Mallin, who normally practices neurology at North Shore University Hospital but was now volunteering with the Nassau County Department of Health. "We read about Israel and the great work you did in Haiti. We have thousands here that need you. It's awesome that you are here!"
Michael Duarte, a Red Cross volunteer from California who was supervising the Long Island shelter, hugged the Israel Flying Aid team as they arrived.
"We had some bad press as a result of misunderstandings," said Duarte. People in Staten Island, New York were looking for us but due to a New York State law, we could not start operations until after three days. We are now operating at full capacity throughout New York City and this Red Cross shelter at Nassau Community College with over 900 clients. These people have lost their homes. Lost everything. We are here for them and so very pleased to receive your good help."
Duarte, who hadn't slept in three days, had coordinated a first class shelter and his staff could not have been more professional. Sleeping cots, Red Cross blankets, a cafeteria and even a play area for children had been carefully put into place. The fresh food from Israel Flying Aid was served as dinner that evening.
Super storm Hurricane Sandy, which was also referred to as Frankenstorm as it became one huge storm from three separate systems, slammed New York, New Jersey and the southern Connecticut shore with 100 mph winds. The devastation was historic as over 100 people perished, thousands of homes were destroyed and millions were left without electricity.
"As Israelis, we know how to react to such disasters," said Kahana. "We are trained in the military to be prepared and ready at a moment's notice. This edge is what enables us to go places where others don't and get the job done with little or no bureaucracy. We are proud to help the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut communities, people who have provided assistance to Israel throughout the years. What we critically need now is donations for our staff and volunteers to continue their life saving efforts as temperatures drop and people critically need generators and fuel for heat."
Israel Flying Aid, which is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that assists global communities after earthquakes and other natural and man made disasters, have saved lives in Japan, Haiti, Iraq, Turkey, South Sudan and the US after Hurricane Katrina.
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg: Vote for a leader on climate change
November 2, 2012 by PJV Contributor Leave a Comment
— by New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg
The devastation that Hurricane Sandy brought to New York City and much of the Northeast — in lost lives, lost homes and lost business — brought the stakes of Tuesday's presidential election into sharp relief.
The floods and fires that swept through our city left a path of destruction that will require years of recovery and rebuilding work. And in the short term, our subway system remains partially shut down, and many city residents and businesses still have no power. In just 14 months, two hurricanes have forced us to evacuate neighborhoods — something our city government had never done before. If this is a trend, it is simply not sustainable.
Our climate is changing. And while the increase in extreme weather we have experienced in New York City and around the world may or may not be the result of it, the risk that it might be — given this week's devastation — should compel all elected leaders to take immediate action.
Here in New York, our comprehensive sustainability plan — PlaNYC — has helped allow us to cut our carbon footprint by 16 percent in just five years, which is the equivalent of eliminating the carbon footprint of a city twice the size of Seattle. Through the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group — a partnership among many of the world's largest cities — local governments are taking action where national governments are not.
TPM2012: "The grassroots progressive group ClimateSilence.org is bringing Sandy into the presidential campaign in two of its most important battlegrounds — Ohio and Virginia — in the final stretch toward Election Day.
The group is running a TV ad on cable in key markets in both states built around a Romney quip in his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention that dismissed Obama's talk of climate change. While Romney speaks — and the sound of laughter from his Republican audience can be heard — footage from Sandy plays."
Leadership Needed
But we can't do it alone. We need leadership from the White House — and over the past four years, President Barack Obama has taken major steps to reduce our carbon consumption, including setting higher fuel-efficiency standards for cars and trucks. His administration also has adopted tighter controls on mercury emissions, which will help to close the dirtiest coal power plants (an effort I have supported through my philanthropy), which are estimated to kill 13,000 Americans a year.
Mitt Romney, too, has a history of tackling climate change. As governor of Massachusetts, he signed on to a regional cap- and-trade plan designed to reduce carbon emissions 10 percent below 1990 levels. "The benefits (of that plan) will be long- lasting and enormous — benefits to our health, our economy, our quality of life, our very landscape. These are actions we can and must take now, if we are to have 'no regrets' when we transfer our temporary stewardship of this Earth to the next generation," he wrote at the time.
He couldn't have been more right. But since then, he has reversed course, abandoning the very cap-and-trade program he once supported. This issue is too important. We need determined leadership at the national level to move the nation and the world forward.
I believe Mitt Romney is a good and decent man, and he would bring valuable business experience to the Oval Office. He understands that America was built on the promise of equal opportunity, not equal results. In the past he has also taken sensible positions on immigration, illegal guns, abortion rights and health care. But he has reversed course on all of them, and is even running against the health-care model he signed into law in Massachusetts.
If the 1994 or 2003 version of Mitt Romney were running for president, I may well have voted for him because, like so many other independents, I have found the past four years to be, in a word, disappointing.
In 2008, Obama ran as a pragmatic problem-solver and consensus-builder. But as president, he devoted little time and effort to developing and sustaining a coalition of centrists, which doomed hope for any real progress on illegal guns, immigration, tax reform, job creation and deficit reduction. And rather than uniting the country around a message of shared sacrifice, he engaged in partisan attacks and has embraced a divisive populist agenda focused more on redistributing income than creating it.
Important Victories
Nevertheless, the president has achieved some important victories on issues that will help define our future. His Race to the Top education program — much of which was opposed by the teachers' unions, a traditional Democratic Party constituency — has helped drive badly needed reform across the country, giving local districts leverage to strengthen accountability in the classroom and expand charter schools. His health-care law — for all its flaws — will provide insurance coverage to people who need it most and save lives.
When I step into the voting booth, I think about the world I want to leave my two daughters, and the values that are required to guide us there. The two parties' nominees for president offer different visions of where they want to lead America.
One believes a woman's right to choose should be protected for future generations; one does not. That difference, given the likelihood of Supreme Court vacancies, weighs heavily on my decision.
One recognizes marriage equality as consistent with America's march of freedom; one does not. I want our president to be on the right side of history.
One sees climate change as an urgent problem that threatens our planet; one does not. I want our president to place scientific evidence and risk management above electoral politics.
Of course, neither candidate has specified what hard decisions he will make to get our economy back on track while also balancing the budget. But in the end, what matters most isn't the shape of any particular proposal; it's the work that must be done to bring members of Congress together to achieve bipartisan solutions.
Presidents Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan both found success while their parties were out of power in Congress — and President Obama can, too. If he listens to people on both sides of the aisle, and builds the trust of moderates, he can fulfill the hope he inspired four years ago and lead our country toward a better future for my children and yours. And that's why I will be voting for him.
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Pres. Obama & Gov. Christie Survey Hurricane Damage
Remarks at Brigantine Marina after surveying damage from Hurricane Sandy
GOVERNOR CHRISTIE: Good afternoon, everybody. And thank you all for coming today. I want to thank the members who are here as well. And obviously, I want to thank the President.
We spent a significant afternoon together surveying the damage up and down the New Jersey coastline; we were on Marine One together to be able to show the President that personally. I had an opportunity to see it, and we had an opportunity to discuss it at length. And then, going over to the shelter here, being able to meet with folks to have them see the President and his concern, and the concern that all of us have for making sure that things get back to normal as quickly as possible.
We have lots of challenges. One of our challenges now is to get back to normalcy. And so the things we need to do is to make sure that we get power restored as quickly as possible; make sure that people have clean drinking water, and waste water treatment plants are working; hospitals are taken care of the way they need to; and that we get kids back to school.
And so, I discussed all those issues today with the President, and I'm pleased to report that he has sprung into action immediately to help get us those things while we were in the car riding together. So I want to thank him for that. He has worked incredibly closely with me since before the storm hit. I think this is our sixth conversation since the weekend, and it's been a great working relationship to make sure that we're doing the jobs that people elected us to do. And I cannot thank the President enough for his personal concern and compassion for our state and for the people of our state. And I heard it on the phone conversations with him, and I was able to witness it today personally.
And so we're going to continue to work. The state government is here. We're doing what we need to do. We're coordinating with FEMA, and I want to thank Administrator Fugate for being here and for the input he's already had in helping to make our operation even better. And we will move on from here.
What I said yesterday I really mean. I know there has got to be sorrow, and you see that and the President has seen that today in the eyes — the faces of a lot of the folks he's met. And that sorrow is appropriate; we've suffered some loss. Luckily, we haven't suffered that much loss of life and we thank God for that. But we have suffered losses, and this is the worst storm that I've seen in my lifetime in this state. But we cannot permit that sorrow to replace the resilience that I know all New Jerseyans have. And so we will get up and we'll get this thing rebuilt, and we'll put things back together, because that's what this state is all about and always has been all about.
And so for all of you who are here — and I met a bunch of you today at Brigantine who disregarded my admonition — (laughter) — to get the hell out of here — you're forgiven this time. You are forgiven this time, but not for much longer. We've got to make sure when all of you look around and you see all this destruction, that's fine — but you know what, all that stuff can be replaced. You look to your right and to your left, to your husband or wife, your son or your daughter — those are the things that can't be replaced. So I'm glad that we don't have that kind of loss of life to have to deal with.
So I want to thank him for being here today, for bringing his personal attention to it. And it's my honor to introduce to all of you the President of the United States. (Applause.)
Transcript of President's remarks follow the jump.
President Barack Obama: Thank you, everybody. Let me just make sure that I acknowledge the folks who are here, because they've played an important role in this.
First of all, your congressional delegation — Senator Bob Menendez, Senator Frank Lautenberg, Congressman Frank LoBiondo, Atlantic County Executive Dennis Levinson, and Brigantine Mayor Philip Guenther.
Obviously, this is a federal, state, and local effort. And the first thing I want to do is just to thank everybody who has been involved in the entire rescue and recovery process. At the top of my list, I have to say that Governor Christie throughout this process has been responsive; he has been aggressive in making sure that the state got out in front of this incredible storm. And I think the people of New Jersey recognize that he has put his heart and soul into making sure that the people of New Jersey bounce back even stronger than before. So I just want to thank him for his extraordinary leadership and partnership.
I want to thank the congressional delegation because part of the reason we're going to be able to respond quickly to all this is because they helped to make sure that FEMA financing was in place, and we're very appreciative of those efforts. And I want to thank Craig Fugate; sometimes people just think FEMA and they don't think the people behind them, but Craig lives and breathes this stuff, making sure that we're providing the help that people so desperately need in these situations.
I want to thank all the first responders who have been involved in this process — the linesmen, the firefighters, the folks who were in here shuttling out people who were supposed to "get the hell out" and didn't. You've helped to save a lot of lives and a lot of property. And one of the things that you learn in these tragedies is, the first responders — keep in mind their homes usually are underwater too, or their families have been affected in some way, and yet they make those personal sacrifices to help other people. So we really appreciate them.
I'm just going to make a couple of comments. Number one, and most important, our hearts go out to the families who have lost loved ones. It's true that because of some good preparation, the loss of life was kept lower than it might have been, but for those individual families, obviously their world has been torn apart. And we need to make sure that everybody who has lost a loved one knows they're in our thoughts and prayers — and I speak for the whole country there.
For those like the people I just had the chance to meet on this block and throughout New Jersey and throughout the region whose lives have been upended, my second message is we are here for you, and we will not forget; we will follow up to make sure that you get all the help that you need until you've rebuilt.
At this point, our main focus is on the states of New Jersey, which got hit harder than anybody; the state of New York, particularly lower Manhattan and Long Island. We are very concerned about some situations in Connecticut as well, and we're still monitoring West Virginia where there are heavy snows in some inaccessible areas. But for the most part, those four states are really bearing the brunt of this incredible storm.
What we've been able to do is to pre-position and stage commodities — water, power generators, ambulances in some cases, food, medical supplies, emergency supplies — and we have over 2,000 FEMA personnel that are on the ground right now. Their job, now that we're moving out of the search-and-rescue phase, is to make sure that they are going out and talking to individual communities so that people know exactly how they can get the help that they need.
We expedited our emergency declarations for the state of New Jersey and local counties that have been affected. What that means is, is that people can immediately start registering for emergency assistance. And one of the things I want to emphasize to the people of New Jersey and throughout the region: Now that you're safe, your family is safe, but you're trying to figure out where you're going to stay for the next couple of days, et cetera, it's very important that you know that there is help available to you right now, for example, to find rental housing or to be able to pay for some groceries. Over at the community center we saw a young woman who had a newborn, or I guess probably an eight-month old, still needs diapers and formula, and has run out. Those are the kinds of basic supplies and help that we can provide.
If you call 800-621-FEMA — 800-621-FEMA — or DisasterAssistance.gov — if you've got access to the Internet, you can go to DisasterAssistance.gov. What that allows you to do is to register right now so that you can immediately start receiving help. We want to make sure that you get everything that you need.
Just a couple of final points. Obviously, our biggest priority right now is getting power turned back on. We were very pleased that Newark got power yesterday; Jersey City is getting power we believe today. But there are still big chunks of the community, including this community right here, that don't have power. And so it's hard enough cleaning up debris and dealing with boats that have been upended and roads that are blocked; when people don't have power, though, obviously they're disabled in all sorts of ways and it's hard to get back to normal.
So yesterday, I had a chance to speak to the CEOs of the utilities from all across the country. And a lot of the states that were spared, that were not hard hit, or some states as far away as California, they have pledged to start getting equipment crews, et cetera, here into New Jersey and New York and Connecticut as quickly as possible.
And one of the things that we've been able to do — just to give you a sense of how this is an all-hands-deck approach — we're able to get C-17s and C-130s, military transport planes, potentially, to move assets, personnel to speed up the process of getting power up and running as soon as possible.
Our first priority is water filtration plants and some other critical infrastructure in the state; for that, we've got emergency generators. We've got a Navy ship that has some helicopters that can help to move assets around the state as well. And so we're going to be working with Governor Christie's office and local officials to identify what are those critical infrastructure, how can we get what's needed as quickly as possible.
Just a couple of other things that we're concerned about — one is, as power starts coming back on, we want to make sure that people can also get to work. Obviously, there are a lot of folks in Jersey who work in New York, in the city, and in other places where transportation may be hobbled. One of the things I mentioned to the Governor is the possibility of us using federal assets, military assets, as well as taking inventory of assets from around the country that can be brought in so that we can help people get to their work.
And Governor Christie also mentioned the importance of schools. The sooner we can get our kids back into school, the sooner they're back into a routine; that obviously helps the families and helps the kids as well.
So we're going to have a lot of work to do. I don't want anybody to feel that somehow this is all going to get cleaned up overnight. We want to make sure that people have realistic expectations.
But what I can promise you is that the federal government will be working as closely as possible with the state and local officials, and we will not quit until this is done. And the directive that I have given — and I said this yesterday, but I will repeat; and I think Craig and others who are working with me right now know I mean it — we are not going to tolerate red tape. We're not going to tolerate bureaucracy. And I've instituted a 15-minute rule, essentially, on my team: You return everybody's phone calls in 15 minutes, whether it's the mayors', the governors', county officials'. If they need something, we figure out a way to say yes.
As I was just gathering around, I had a chance to talk to some of the young people here who have been volunteering, going up and down the block cleaning up debris. And when we were over at the community center, there was a restaurant owner who, for the last 18 hours, had been cooking meals, just as his contribution to the recovery process. And some of the folks were saying the food was better than they got at home. (Laughter.) You had a 15-year-old young man whose mother was disabled, and he was making sure that she was okay, and taking on extraordinary responsibilities for himself but also for his mom.
And when you see folks like that respond with strength and resilience, when you see neighbors helping neighbors, then you're reminded about what America is all about. We go through tough times, but we bounce back. And the reason we bounce back is because we look out for one another and we don't leave anybody behind.
And so my commitment to the people on this block, the people in this community, and the people of this state is that that same spirit will carry over all the way through until our work is done. All right?
Thank you very much, everybody. (Applause.)
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Gov. Christie On Hurricane: 'President Deserves Great Credit'
October 31, 2012 by PJV Contributor Leave a Comment
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Mitzvah Storming During Hurricane Sandy
October 28, 2012 by Rabbi Goldie Milgram Leave a Comment
Mitzvah Storming Part 1
As we batten down the hatches in anticipation of Hurricane Sandy, there are many mitzvot to undertake for family and neighbors. Here are several that come quickly to mind that I haven't seen on the standard sites to help us prepare.
Call elderly neighbors and those who are disabled and/or unemployed, physically ill or emotionally fragile to ask if they need help bringing things in from outside, property and auto protection, make sure they secure sufficient food, water and batteries. You might bring them in to stay in a guestroom to reduce fear and isolation, ensure warmth and safety.
Are you the wrong person to be alone right now? Call friends, family and neighbors and arrange to stay with them. Bring provisions, flashlights and batteries to help out. Far better safe than sorry.
Make a regular check-in plan for while the storm rages, if electric goes out, keep these short and reassuring so as not to lose all your battery.
Now and during the storm, start collecting things to donate to those who will have had major losses, talk together about a family tzedakah plan for funds to donate as well.
No one to reach out to? E-mail me and our team at PJVoice will do our best to respond.
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Now the pup, who has over 12,000 followers on Instagram, has teamed up with 12 male models to create a sizzling charity calendar called Helmut & Hotties 2016. All proceeds from the sales of the calendar will be donated to Pugalug Pug Rescue to help Toronto pugs find new homes.
Adorable pugs. Shirtless hotties. Charity. Isn't that what Christmas is all about?
Those abs. That adorable scrunchy, confused face.
I don't know who I want to be more in this one, the pug or the model.
You can check out the amazing teasers for the calendar below, and go to the website to purchase your own.


MAKE has just announce a new contest it's running with NVIDIA called the Speak Visual Contest. This is perfect for computer modders since you can enter a PC mod, gamer station or PC hardware creation. Interestingly enough, it's also open to motion graphics and data visualization that uses a graphics card as well.
Top prize is a Digital Storm PC with some killer specs that's worth over two grand. Five runners up will win the BFG GeForce GTX 260 OC MAXCORE. Others will win copies of Building The Perfect PC 2nd Edition or Make Projects: Small Form Factor PCs from MAKE.
Even cooler, one of the ways to enter is to submit an Instructable with "modificationstation" as a tag. Below is the full list of ways to enter.
Flickr: tag your photos with "modificationstation" and also add it to the Make: Flickr photo pool.
YouTube, Vimeo, blip.tv: tag your videos with "modificationstation".
Submit your project link via the Make: Submit form.
Instructables, tag your project with "modificationstation".
You can also send links to your videos, photos or more to us via email.
Please do mention the last date also.
Aw man, if I even had an inkling that I could possibly win...I would spend some time on this......I just don't think I could though.
You won't win if you don't enter.
This would be something to spend some time on (to try to win), but I am afraid of just ending up not being able to accomplish what I need to in time....again.
How is that the Zeroth law?
Kiteman's Laws are numbered from zero, in the style of C (and thermodynamics).
C++ is a superset of C. See Kernighan & Ritchie, The C Programming Language vs. Stroustrup, The C++ Reference.
C as in the language or C as in Centigrade (Celsius, or whatever they call it nowadays)?
I was referring to C the programming language, where arrays are indexed beginning with zero. However, as Kiteman's pointed out below, his own inspiration was the laws of thermodynamics.
Understood. JScript does that too.
The numbering (and wording) is supposed to be a tribute to the laws of thermodynamics.
do we just have to modify a pc?
so glad I now have an excuse to deck out my old pc! can I go for the retro/steampunk look?
i have an idea but nothing that will win, sure look forward to the entries though !!
Must mod! I have the perfect idea!
My friend bought a computer with the strangest mods to the front, and possibly internally. It's quite bulky but the memory, sound card & graphics card that came with it is outstanding. Should I do a slide show featuring this?
Finally! A contest thats up my alley! I think the old scroll wheel needs some mods, I'm thinking LED's, keyboard controls and back/forward buttons. Watch this space.
If win u do, ize can hop 'cross the pond 2 uze?
Maybe its time i worked on those powermac softmods..
This contest was born for my modding skills!


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John Ryan (born 27 February 1968 in Dublin) is an Irish football manager and former player.

Playing career
He made his League of Ireland debut for St Patrick's Athletic on 4 September 1988 but soon joined Bray Wanderers on loan.

He played for Bray in two different spells 1988-1991 and 1998-2001 scoring 44 goals in 145 appearances.

Ryan is probably best known for the hat-trick he scored while playing with Bray in the 1990 FAI Cup final. It was the first FAI Cup Final to be played at Lansdowne Road in 1990. That year a crowd of over 30,000 saw Bray Wanderers defeat non-league club, St Francis F.C., 3-0. John Ryan won two FAI Cup winners medals, First Division title in 1999/2000 and two Leinster Senior Cup runners-up medals in 1988/89 & 1989/90.

John holds the club record at Bray Wanderers for most league goals in a season when he scored 16 goals in the 1989/90 season. He also shares the record of most goals scored in a season in all competitions: 20 goals. John set the record originally in the 1988–89 season before Kieran O'Brien equalled it in the 1995–96 season. John Ryan is Bray Wanderers fifth highest goalscorer of all time.

In February 1991 Ryan moved back to Pats where he stayed until August 1993 when he signed for Drogheda United. He was part of the Dundalk squad that won the 2002 FAI Cup.

Ryan signed for Kildare County as a player in April 2002. He became assistant manager to Eric Hannigan in 2003 having previously acted as caretaker manager for a single game after the departure of Dermot Keely and Gavin Dykes.

Managerial career
In 2004 Manager John Ryan was appointed coach to the Republic Of Ireland Eircom League Under-21 squad to compete in the Four Nations semi-professional tournament in Scotland. The side was managed by Bray Wanderers manager Pat Devlin. Frank O'Neill, Shelbourne's Under-21 manager was assistant manager. John Ryan was joined on the coaching staff by Stuart Ashton of Cork City.

Ryan decided to resign as Assistant Manager citing personal reasons in 2004 before being named as the club's new manager two weeks later with former teammate Barry O'Connor as assistant manager. He led Kildare County to 8th position in Division One in his first season in charge, their lowest finishing position to date. Kildare County finished in 7th under his management in 2006. He resigned as manager of Kildare with four games remaining in the 2008 season having been at the club from its very beginning in 2002.

John took over as Manager of LSL Side St Mochtas in December 2008 with Mochtas struggling in the 3rd Division, bottom when he took over alongside Martin Reilly.

Ryan is currently the forwards coach at Bray.

Honours
Team
FAI Cup: 3
 Bray Wanderers - 1990, 1999
 Dundalk F.C. - 2002
League of Ireland First Division: 1
 Bray Wanderers - 1999/2000

Personal
'''PFAI League of Ireland First Division Player of the Year:
 Bray Wanderers - 1989/1990

References

Republic of Ireland association footballers
League of Ireland players
League of Ireland managers
St Patrick's Athletic F.C. players
Bray Wanderers F.C. players
Drogheda United F.C. players
Bohemian F.C. players
Dundalk F.C. players
Kildare County F.C. players
Association football forwards
Living people
1968 births
Association footballers from County Dublin
Leinster Senior League (association football) managers
Kildare County F.C. managers
Republic of Ireland football managers

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Random Beauty… Butter Me Up for Winter!
It's that time of the year again. Cold air outside. Warm, central heating inside. Scratchy tights and long boots. These are all great things, but they can play havoc on your skin. My legs, in particular get very dry and itchy, and I need something really rich and nourishing to get them back to condition.
I've got loads of normal body moisturisers, but this year I was after something better. Something thicker and more effective, that didn't mean I ended up wasting half a bottle of liquid at a time. Laid Bare to the rescue (available from MyPure)!
Hopefully you can see from the image (sorry it's really hard to take a photo of white cream in a white tub) this really thick, dense cream. It's a gorgeous mix of organic shea butter, rosehip oil, avocado oil and essential oils, enriched with Vitamin C. It's the best body cream ever! I found that I need very little each time, as it goes a long way. It's thick and smooth, and glides on. I found it doesn't make my legs feel greasy or oily, and I can get dressed straight after applying it.
It's really helped my legs and they actually get less itchy now. I guess my body is holding on to some of the lovely moisture. I've also seen some marks and scars I've had on my legs for a while now start to reduce too.
Used for generations to heal and protect, Shea Butter is essentially a super-food for the skin. It's absolutely loaded with essential fats, fatty acids, phytosterols and vitamins. Queen Nefertiti wasn't crazy about it for nothing!
Extracted from the wild rose, and found in the southern part of Chile, this gorgeous oil contains a multitude of fatty acids. These provide a great treatment for dry and damaged skin. Rosehip oil is readily absorbed, so it won't make your skin oily.
We know that the good fats and vitamins in avocados make them great for us to eat. But did you know that the oil is wonderful for the skin, and one of the most healing oils out there? The key is in the antioxidants, which can sooth and heal sore and damaged skin. The Vitamin E can reduce inflammation and itching, as well as softening dry and cracked areas.
This gorgeous blend of oils and butter is also gently fragranced with the unique Laid Bare blend of jasmine, bergamot, patchouli, vertiver and ylang ylang. This blend is designed to promote relaxation and lift the mood. I must say, it's very effective, and a nice extra benefit when moisturising after a long day, or a warm shower.
What's your favourite way to keep moisturised during the winter? Do feel free to share your favourite natural lotions or oils.
Thanks for reading. Keep warm and keep smiling!
I was sent this product to try from MyPure. All opinions are my own.
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She butter and avocado sheet masks are my absolute fav for winter.


It is still hard to believe that Germany, a country known for its forward thinking ideas and openness to all walks of life, does not allow for gay marriages. As election season is getting underway for September, members of Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD) are coming to realize that their chances of pushing through a bill that would change all that, could be coming to a close.
Six months to draft and convince their conservative coalition partners — Christian Democratic Party (CDU) and the Christian Social Union (CSU) — seems like wishful thinking, but in reality the time they have is much shorter. Once parliament disbands in July, all of the attention will be focused on the political campaigns to either keep or take a seat in the new German government.
Leaders of the SPD are expected to meet with their CDU/CSU partners on Wednesday to push the issue of marriage equality, but with this year's election season expected to be a rough ride for incumbents, backing a gay marriage bill could be a conservative politicians worst move.
While the SPD may put in the effort, marriage equality is all but guaranteed to be a fight that will have to wait for 2018 and beyond.


What I love about Clemson, is yes it has changed, yes some of the old is gone, but the friendly family environment hasn't changed in 35 years since we won our first National Championship! It's a first class place from A to Z, proud to say I'm a Clemson Tiger, and happy to see this young man recognizes how special Clemson is as well! Good luck to you, look forward to your 3-5 years!


When we hear stories or tell our own story we connect, heal, and grow. Each of us is part of a bigger story – the story of God's love and work in the world. Now that you're here, our stories are connected. Do you long to connect, heal, grow?
We do and we're on a journey to make that happen. Join us. Glad you stopped by. Pull up a chair.


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The Iris Incident
By Amy Lanasa, Directed by Mark Medoff
Charles (Eric Young), and Iris (Katy Taylor)
Kitten Marie (Lila LeCuyer) and Lacey (Marcelle Bowman)
Charles (Eric Young) and Lacey (Marcelle Bowman)
Kitten Marie (Lila LeCuyer) and Iris (Katy Taylor)
Iris (Katy Taylor) and Charles (Eric Young)
Charles (Eric Young), Iris (Katy Taylor) and Maureen (Sam Muir)
Lacey (Marcelle Bowman), Kitten Marie (Lila LeCuyer), Iris (Katy Taylor) and Moss (Kagan Marks)
Left to Right: Kitten Marie (Lila LeCuyer),. Lacey (Marcelle Bowman), Charles (Eric Young), and Iris (Katy Taylor)
Sep 12-Sep 28, 2011
FRI AUG 12 19| 8:00 PM
SAT AUG 13,20| 8:00 PM
SUN AUG 21,28| 2:30 PM
THU AUG 25 | 7:00 PM
After caring for her father during a prolonged illness, a mourning Iris is forced to reconcile with a bizarre mother who abandoned her while dealing with the trials and tribulations that accompany her wacky friends and neighbors. But when she discovers that her safety net may not exist much longer, she must learn that sometimes you have to get away from all that you know in order to find out who you are.
Directed by Mark Medoff, himself a playwright and producer, and inspired by the late filmmaker, Mike Lawrence and iris tuber rescuer and theatre owner, Ceil Herman, The Iris Incident confirms Lanasa's ability to portray humor in dire situations as seen in her Buy One, Get Five Free, performed at the Black Box in 2009. This production marks the first collaboration between Medoff and Lanasa, although the two have known each other and worked together in other capacities for fourteen years.
The Iris Incident connects unlikely characters in the complexities of life and death, who are each dealing differently with change in the face of grief. Among the six characters is a champion thumb wrestler played by Medoff's grandson, a post-coma patient with aspirations of being an Ultimate Fighter, a pregnant teenage poet, and a maritime matchmaker who helps couples find love on the sea. Hilarity ensues as these disparate personalities each reveal their final to do lists bequeathed to them by Iris's late father.
Actors chosen for The Iris Incident are well known to area audiences and include Marcelle Bowman, Lila LeCuyer, Kagan Marks, Sam Muir, Katy Taylor and Eric Young. Peter Herman is the scenic and lighting designer.
Playwright's Note
I've never written a play the same way twice. Sometimes a story on the news will spark something. Other times I jolt awake in the middle of the night with a line of dialogue screaming through my head. (I'm looking for a leg!) The Iris Incident was born out of an experience I had as one of the people who took care of Mike Laurence in the last months before he died of cancer in 2007. Mike and I had worked together at CMI less than a semester when the final diagnosis came, but he was alone here, and I'm a firm believer that no one deserves to go through death alone. So, a few of us formed Team Mike, and we did our best to keep him as comfortable and healthy as possible during the last stage of his life. It's amazing how an experience can simultaneously be the best and worst thing you've ever endured. Late last summer, Ceil Herman told me the story about being willing to throw herself in front of a bulldozer in order to save the downtown irises from imminent construction destruction. It was an exceedingly funny image, and yet I understood that commitment to saving something. What she described was not unlike how I felt trying to save Mike. If there'd been a bulldozer involved, I might have tried to throw myself in front of it, too.
I am forever grateful to the Hermans, for believing in me and agreeing to produce this work before the first draft was even completed. I would not be where I am if Mark Medoff hadn't taken me under his wing over a decade ago and told me that if I could read a play, I could write one. I am also thankful for this extraordinary cast and the Medoff family, who spent countless hours reading early drafts to me around the dining room table, and giving notes that became the foundations of these characters. I am profoundly grateful to my parents, whose love and support make all things seem possible. I know they worry that everything they say could end up in a script some day, and I appreciate this doesn't prevent them from saying funny stuff. And lastly, a theatre experience is incomplete without the energy exchange with an audience, so thank you for being here. I hope you enjoy the show.
Kitten Marie
Watching the color return
'The Iris Incident' well thought out, directed
Some irises need a great deal of care, especially in certain soils and environments.
I speak from personal experience. When we lived in Phoenix, our side yard became a rainbow of color for a few glorious spring weeks each year, full of irises and daffodils with very little attention needed from us. When we moved to Las Cruces, we planted a variety of colored iris bulbs in our backyard, which "bleached" pure white no matter what we did. The color simply disappeared.
Iris McIntyre, the title character in the world premiere presentation of "The Iris Incident" by Amy Lanasa, currently playing at the Black Box Theatre, also needs a lot of care. Much like our Las Cruces irises, she has all the "color" spiritually drained from her after serving as the primary caregiver for her dying, demanding father for several years.
The caliber of the performances by a good ensemble cast, all of whom were "in the moment," thanks to the thoughtful, skilled direction of one of the jewels in Las Cruces' theater/ film crown, award-winning playwright director Mark Medoff, the pace is kept up, and the opening night's performance passed by all too quickly.
Now that her father has died, Iris must cope with his passing and the "baggage" that comes with it, not to mention a re-connection with her estranged mother who returns to participate in a memorial tribute to the husband she left so many years ago.
Iris does have a small quirky support system of friends who help her as best they can. There is a championship thumb wrestler, played with savvy, flair and a sense of humor by Medoff 's grandson Kagan Marks. There is a dysfunctional couple - a post coma patient whose erratic behavior requires the ongoing supervision of her over-qualified, under-employed lawyer husband. Marcelle Bowman and Eric Young expend a great deal of energy to make these challenging roles work.
The arrival on the scene of Iris' mother and her "assistant," a pregnant teen played convincingly by Lila LeCuyer, add some zip to the play.
I was most deeply touched by the performances of Sam Muir as Maureen, Iris' eccentric estranged mother, and Katy Taylor in the multi-faceted title role. The chemistry between these two skilled actresses is complex and special, and alone makes this play worth seeing.
This is a finely constructed play with flashes of humor, but an awful lot of burden and pain. Some scenes and relationships developed in the play may touch so close to many audience members and may make them squirm. This is one of the best roles good innovative theatre can provide.
As always, the simple, scenic and light design of Peter Herman is spot on.
By evening's end, however, thanks to a thoughtful resolution of the issues, I had the distinct feeling that the color was beginning to return to the emotionally drained and blanched Iris.
Lanasa's writing is clever and her well-thought-out character development and dialogue come at us at a rapid pace.
Much of this underlines the tempest of emotions which accompany coping with any loss.
In sum, "The Iris Incident" may have a nourishing future ahead of it, with the careful ongoing nurturing of its devoted caretakers, Amy Lanasa and Mark Medoff.
As always, special thanks goes to No Strings Theatre Company Producer Ceil Herman for her ability to scope out new plays and grow and harvest fine theater in our community.
"The Iris Incident" runs through Sunday, Aug. 28, at the Black Box Theatre, 430 N. Main St. Performances are at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays; at 2:30 p.m. Sundays, Aug. 21 and 28; and 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 25. Tickets are $10 regular admission, $9 for students and seniors over 65 and all seats on Thursdays are $7. For reservations, call 523-1223.


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The Canal and River Trust is holding its first Annual Meeting in Birmingham on Thursday 27th September 2012 at 2pm – 4pm. All customers of the Canal and River Trust, boat licence holders and users of the waterways can attend. To book your place, email annual.meeting@canalrivertrust.org.uk by 20th September and give the details requested below. You don't have to be a representative of an organisation. Places may be limited because of the size of the venue; if you turn up without booking a place, there will probably be space for you, but that's not certain.
Tony Hales CBE, Chairman requests the pleasure of your company on Thursday 27 September 2012 at the first Canal & River Trust Annual Public Meeting. The 2012 meeting will be a fairly informal affair, giving you the opportunity to discover more about our work and chat with a good mix of Trust representatives on a more one-to-one basis.
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For 30-year-old Ibtehal Al Shareef, mobility equals freedom. The schoolteacher-turned-photographer from Jeddah remembers the time when she had to depend on cabs or on her father or brother to ferry her to the workplace and back. She had got her driver's licence while the family lived in Dubai, but could not get behind the wheel in her home country because of a ban on women driving.
It was at the stroke of midnight on June 24, 2018, that the ban on women driving in Saudi Arabia came to an end. There was celebration and jubilation as scores of women burned rubber across major cities. The occasion even saw Princess Hayfa bint Abdullah Al Saud, daughter of the late king Abdullah, appear on the cover of Vogue magazine, in the driver's seat of a red convertible, glamourously attired in a fashionable abaya, complete with black leather gloves and high heels.
The driving ban was repealed through a royal decree in September 2017, and the first driver's licences were issued to women in the first week of June 2018, most of them in exchange for driving permits procured in other countries. The lifting of the driving ban is perhaps the biggest sign of the dramatic change that is currently under way in the kingdom in terms of empowerment of women. "It will bring more women into the work force. It will contribute to their feeling of independence and empower them," said Al Shareef.
It is almost like women were waiting for an opportunity to go out there and be free. For example, the existing driving schools are unable to cope with the demand from women who want to learn to drive. As per an estimate made by PricewaterhouseCoopers, by 2020, 30 lakh Saudi women would have got driver's licences. Recent years have seen changes, with an increasing number of women going for higher studies and taking up jobs. Women were allowed to contest and vote in municipal elections in 2015. In 2016, the powers of the religious police to stop, question or arrest people were taken away.
"All of my friends and my cousins are working or want to work. This is a big change from my mother's generation," said Haya Aldamigh, a resident of Riyadh, who works as a specialist in the ministry of media. Women can now watch sporting events at stadiums. In the past, they could get arrested for entering a stadium.
The first Saudi woman to get a pilot's licence, the first woman TV presenter, the first women appointees to sports federations, the first women's sports teams, the first woman to sing in a music festival and the first ever marathon race for women are some of the many firsts that have made headlines in the past one-and-a-half years. Government departments opened up senior-level positions for women for the first time.
The change in the Saudi society is most evident in men and women mingling in public spaces, with gender segregation not being enforced. This has made it possible for more women to join the work force. "A few years back, it would not have been possible for women to work in a newspaper. And this was primarily because of gender segregation," said Khalid A. Tashkandi, assistant editor-in-chief of the Saudi Gazette. He said 20 per cent of the editorial staff at the newspaper now comprised women.
Many restaurants, however, continue to have separate sections for women and families. And, this is primarily because of reasons of practicality. Hijab-wearing women need privacy, as they remove it while eating. There is also a women-driven demand for separate public services, such as banks or smoking rooms in airports.
At the societal level, women are now deciding what they want to study, where they want to work, who they want to marry and when they want to get married. "I am 28. And, of course, my parents want me to get married now, but the decision will be mine," said Alaa M. Al Ghamdi, who works as a public relations officer at the Organisation for Press and Publication in Jeddah.
Women now have better rights than before in the personal sphere. Divorced women are now entitled to financial aid from the government, and they will get custody of their children till their divorce cases are decided. This will mean that women will not have to endure abuse at the hands of their husbands in silence because they are financially dependent on them.
It is no longer mandatory for women to wear an abaya—a loose-fitting outerwear, normally black in colour—or a headscarf in public. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said in an interview in March 2018 that it should be left to the women to decide their clothing. "The laws are very clear and stipulated in the laws of sharia, that women wear decent, respectful clothing, like men. This, however, does not particularly specify a black abaya or a black head cover," he said.
An increasing number of women, especially college-going youngsters, are finding new, more fashionable ways of wearing the abaya, some not buttoning the front all the way down so that their stylish jeans and shoes are visible, or wearing it more like a cape or a long shrug.
Women are opting for designer abayas, which come in different colour combinations and are embellished with sequins and crystals. Keeping with the decision to allow women into stadia, fashion designer Eman Joharjy launched the sports abaya. Saudi Arabia had its first fashion week in April 2018, although drones and not models showcased the clothes on the ramp.
"Who wears these clothes? We wear them!" said Nouf. She showed a picture of herself on her phone, in which she was dressed in a trendy short dress and was unidentifiable, as against her traditional abaya-clad office look. "I do not wear the abaya when I am travelling out of Saudi Arabia. And, young women like me wear western wear when we are amongst family and friends," she said.
The young generation has a lot of international exposure, with many of them going abroad for higher studies. The explosive growth of social media and the revolution in the entertainment scene because of online media has made the youth aspire for similar circumstances back home. "We cannot impose the old rules on the new generation. The internet has changed their outlook. They have exposure to the whole world," said Tashkandi.
The fast-paced changes are being credited to the reformist agenda of MbS, who became crown prince in March 2016. He is said to have heeded the aspirations of the youth in drafting his Vision 2030, which aims at turning Saudi Arabia into a multi-faceted economy, which is not dependent solely on the oil sector. The government hopes to increase the participation of women workers from the current 22 per cent to 30 per cent by 2030. Refurbishing the country's image by ridding it of hardline Islamic practices is also an important aspect of Vision 2030.
Nawal Baksh, who is the country's first woman TV presenter, credited the changes to the policies of MbS. "The revolution that we are witnessing is because of Vision 2030, which is all about meeting the aspirations of the youth. Seventy per cent of the population is young. Our youth go all over the world to study, and when they come back, they should have jobs and a social milieu that they aspire for," said Baksh, director of family and society programmes for Riyadh Radio.
However, while Saudi Arabian women may now be enjoying new rights and freedoms, speaking out against injustices or being critical of the establishment is still not acceptable. This was evident as several women's rights activists, who had campaigned for the Saudi woman's right to drive, were arrested around the same time as women in the country were allowed to drive.
Manal Al Sharif, who was put behind bars in 2011 for defying the driving ban, and who is now living in Australia, said she wanted to visit Saudi Arabia but feared that she would be arrested. Al Sharif, 39, is the first Saudi woman cyber security expert and was one of the main campaigners for the Saudi woman's right to drive. She was forced to exit Twitter recently in the wake of a flurry of hate messages.
Also, the recent incident of Saudi teenager Rahaf Al Qanun getting asylum in Canada as she feared that her family might kill her or that she can be arrested puts the focus on the much criticised male guardianship law in the country. Under the law, women are required to seek consent from their male guardians, who can either be their father, uncle, husband, brother or even son for small and big decisions in their lives, including work, marriage, travel and even medical treatment. A woman can be arrested for parental disobedience. Exceptions can be made in this law by a royal decree. One such exception is the driver's licence, which no longer requires a guardian's permission.
The Saudi society, while displaying a readiness for change, also has to deal with conservative elements, who are not yet ready to accept the new developments. There have been several instances of cars belonging to women getting torched. A young man posted a video of himself issuing the threat of burning cars down. He was later arrested. Songs such as 'You will not drive' and 'No woman, no drive' came up on social media.
The conservative viewpoint has also been raised in the Shura Council, the consultative assembly of Saudi Arabia, which advises the government on law and policy. Last September, the council refused to approve a proposal to stop accusing women of parental disobedience.


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Here is a collection of some of the best Windows 10 screensavers that you should try.
Fliqlo is my favorite Windows 10 screensaver of 2018. It has such a clean and minimalistic look that goes great with the design of my room.
This is a screensaver from Nvidia. It's a nicely rendered 3D scene with lots of activity happening. It looks bright and vibrant and you can even enable the built-in FPS counter. Though, I'm not sure if I want a screensaver that stresses my GPU especially if I am not going to be activity at my desktop.
Aerial is a beautiful Windows 10 screensaver that displays aerial footage of mountain tops and nature. It's a port of the Apple TV equivalent screensaver just for Windows.
PolarClock is another basic screensaver that offers a minimalistic design. It's essentially a clock that combines, seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks and years.
Yes, this screensaver displays a fake BSOD. I definitely wouldn't use this because I would get a mini heart attack every time I look at my monitor.


This clip depicts the migration of rats to Europe and the role played by rats in the spread of the Bubonic Plague, or Black Death.
How did black rats first get to Europe?
How deadly was the plague in Europe?


I would like to take this opportunity to talk about the relationship between the artist, gallery/dealer and collector/patron. Not unlike a metaphorical ship sailing toward its destination, the participation of each member of the crew is needed for a successful passage. In this time of financial uncertainty each element needs to support the other. Large discounts help destroy an artists life long attempt to build reputation and future appraisal value. It also helps to drive galleries out of business and devalues private and public collections.
-Clifford Rainey, March 5, 2011.


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V. E. Schwab signs A Gathering of Shadows & Rae Carson signs Walk on Earth a Stranger, interviewed by Sam Sykes
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Four months have passed since the shadow stone fell into Kell's possession. Four months since his path crossed with Delilah Bard. Four months since Rhy was wounded and the Dane twins fell, and the stone was cast with Holland's dying body through the rift, and into Black London.
In many ways, things have almost returned to normal, though Rhy is more sober, and Kell is now plagued by his guilt. Restless, and having given up smuggling, Kell is visited by dreams of ominous magical events, waking only to think of Lila, who disappeared from the docks like she always meant to do. As Red London finalizes preparations for the Element Games-an extravagent international competition of magic, meant to entertain and keep healthy the ties between neighboring countries-a certain pirate ship draws closer, carrying old friends back into port.
But while Red London is caught up in the pageantry and thrills of the Games, another London is coming back to life, and those who were thought to be forever gone have returned. After all, a shadow that was gone in the night reappears in the morning, and so it seems Black London has risen again-and so to keep magic's balance, another London must fall.
The first book in a new trilogy from acclaimed New York Times–bestselling author Rae Carson. A young woman with the magical ability to sense the presence of gold must flee her home, taking her on a sweeping and dangerous journey across Gold Rush–era America. Walk on Earth a Stranger begins an epic saga from one of the finest writers of young adult literature.
Lee Westfall has a secret. She can sense the presence of gold in the world around her. Veins deep beneath the earth, pebbles in the river, nuggets dug up from the forest floor. The buzz of gold means warmth and life and home—until everything is ripped away by a man who wants to control her. Left with nothing, Lee disguises herself as a boy and takes to the trail across the country. Gold was discovered in California, and where else could such a magical girl find herself, find safety?
Rae Carson, author of the acclaimed Girl of Fire and Thorns series, dazzles with the first book in the Gold Seer Trilogy, introducing a strong heroine, a perilous road, a fantastical twist, and a slow-burning romance, as only she can.
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Real Madrid have told Manchester United they would need to pay €90m (£64m, $100.9m) to secure the services of Sergio Ramos after the La Liga giants rejected a €50m offer from the Premier League side to clinch the deal, according to Spanish newspaper AS.
It claims Real Madrid want United to break the world record fee for a centre-back set in 2014 by the sale of David Luiz, from Chelsea to Paris Saint-Germain, for around £40m, as reported by BBC Sport.
AS points out that having made a first formal bid of €50m for the defender earlier in June, Louis van Gaal's side can "go up to €70m" to secure the services of the 29-year-old centre-back. The Dutch boss has earmarked his signing as a top priority to fill the void left by the departures of Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Matic in 2014.
The Spain international has two years remaining on his contract at the Santiago Bernabeu and a release clause of €200m.
But AS reported on Sunday 21 June that he was ready to force his exit from Rafael Benitez's side after being locked in negotiations over a new deal for months.
The Spanish defender met with Real Madrid official Jose Angel Sanchez at the club's training ground on 24 June to express his intentions to leave the club while urging them to listen to offers as Manchester United are interested in securing his services.
AS claims Real Madrid are ready to fulfil Ramos's desires should United match their €90m demands.
The Spanish publication says club president Florentino Perez is keen to sell the centre-back to fund the move of his new Galactico – as he already did in previous summers by selling the likes of Mesut Ozil, Gonzalo Higuain and Angel di Maria to bring in Gareth Bale and James Rodriguez. This year, according to AS, Manchester City star Sergio Aguero would be the ace up his sleeve.


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I Thought About You
Sinatra Song of the Century #73
by Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Mercer
Steyn's Song of the Week Extra
https://www.steynonline.com/7223/i-thought-about-you
A critical part of the Sinatra sound in the Fifties and Sixties: Harry "Sweets" Edison.
Frank Sinatra and Nelson Riddle hit it off almost immediately at Capitol Records but one of their few arguments in those early days was about the backgrounds Frank was singing over. He didn't like it too complicated or "too busy" or "dense" when he was setting up a song - the mood, the story. "Don't write a concerto behind me," as he once snapped at Riddle. And the arranger learned quickly to save the fancy instrumental stuff for the fills between the lines - and in particular for the man who was the master of those fills, all the way from the early days at Capitol to Sinatra's "farewell" concert in 1971: Harry "Sweets" Edison. As Edison's fellow trumpeter Miles Davis put it:
Music is about style. Like if I were to play with Frank Sinatra, I would play the way he sings, or do something complementary to the way he sings. But I wouldn't go and play with Frank Sinatra at breakneck speed... The way you play behind a singer is like the way Harry 'Sweets' Edison did with Frank. When Frank stopped singing, then Harry played. A little before and a little afterwards, but not ever over him; you never play over a singer. You play between.
And no one "played between" like Harry "Sweets" Edison. He was born in Columbus, Ohio exactly a century ago - October 10th 1915. Officially. Unofficially, Edison thought the date might have been off by up to four years. But we're going to take advantage of his alleged hundredth birthday to spend a little time with Sweets and Sinatra this weekend. He and his trusty Harmon mute had one of the most instantly identifiable sounds in jazz and he brought that unmistakeable signature to the reborn Sinatra sound of the Fifties.
Young Harry's mother's name was Schultz, which, as he liked to say, doesn't sound like a black family, but in fact there were so many blacks called Schultz in her corner of Kentucky that they called it Schultztown. His dad was a Hopi Indian, who hightailed it out of there shortly after Harry was born. He had an uncle who was a coal miner but had an old banged-up cornet in the attic on which he'd once played Sousa marches. When Harry found it and dusted it off, uncle taught him to play scales on it. And then his ma brought home a Bessie Smith record with Louis Armstrong playing behind her. By 1938 Harry was a working musician and had found his way to the Count Basie band. An orchestra is a tough place for a guy who can't read music, and Edison wanted to quit. But Basie liked his sound, and told him not to make such a big deal about being unable to understand the piece of sheet music under his nose. "Play something," he advised him, "and, if you find a note you like, play it again tomorrow night." It proved good advice for over a decade.
Along the way he picked up the name Sweets. Some say Lester Young gave him the name because of his tone in the lower register; some say the ladies gave him the name because he was a charmer; others say he liked dessert. It was a good life until round about 1950, when Edison found himself holed up in a New Jersey hotel waiting for news of a new Basie gig and got word that the Count was working with a septet in Chicago, and figured that's it, the big band era's over. When money's short, smart musicians learn to get on with waitresses and barmaids and the like, because you never know when you might need a friendly face who'll cut you a good deal on a three-course meal and a couple of beers. And one such lady friend chanced to wind up in Los Angeles and ran into one of Nelson Riddle's regulars one day. "A friend of mine's a musician," she said.
"Oh, yeah?" he replied, feigning interest and assuming the guy taught the school band or the church chorus or some such.
"Yeah, he's looking for work. Harry Edison."
"Wait a minute. Harry Edison? The Harry Edison?"
Back at Capitol, Riddle and Sinatra were stunned. "Well, let's get him out here," said Frank.
Sweets arrived in Hollywood just as Frank and Nelson were inventing the new Sinatra style. You can hear it at birth on Swing Easy, the first of Frank's albums on which Riddle conducts his own arrangements (with the exception of "All Of Me", which is modified from an earlier George Siravo chart) and to which Edison makes a major contribution. I heard "Get Happy" on the radio the other day and ever since I've been singing that insistent Riddle-Edison riff that starts and finishes the record round the clock. It announces the new style: Take a song everyone's heard a zillion times (in this case mostly from the Judy Garland version in Summer Stock) and reconstruct it with vamps and counter-melodies that make the thing sound brand new. Sweets is great on that track, as he's great in almost any situation - among them "You Make Me Feel So Young", "We'll Be Together Again", "Angel Eyes", "Come Fly With Me", "Blues In The Night"... But I wanted to pick a song where his contribution is perhaps less ostentatious than "Get Happy" but which shows off, if you listen closely, how well he worked with Sinatra, and how attentive he was (as Miles Davis noticed) to Frank's vocal.
In 1956, a couple of years after Swing Easy, Riddle and Sinatra were working on what would be the great masterpiece of the early LP era, Songs For Swingin' Lovers. By now, Edison had a privileged position within the orchestra. He didn't sit with the rest of the trumpet section, but off to one side, at his own microphone. This was at a time, remember, when at KHJ Studios in Hollywood it was the practice to record sessions with just two mikes for the entire string section and two more for the brass (very different from today, when everyone's individually miked). In part, Edison sat off on his own because he still didn't read sheet music, so there was no point writing anything for him. But, at another level, Riddle didn't bother writing anything for him because he and Frank trusted him implicitly and so he had carte blanche to play what he wanted whenever he felt he had something to say. In fact, Sinatra paid for Edison to learn how to read music, but it's not clear, upon his completion of the course, that it made the slightest difference to how he approached his art. "If you hear a hole, Harry," Frank had told him, "fill it."
It wasn't quite that simple. A great studio musician is a great sight reader: You stick it in front of him and he plays the part. With Edison, that wasn't possible. "Nelson Riddle was the most patient man I've ever been with," he said. "I would get to a date a half-hour before, and he took time to show me how things would go." But it was worth the effort. Riddle understood the value of a star player who was sensitive to the vocals. "I think the muted trumpet," he explained, "can make a comment and yet not get in the way of the singer." And what's impressive is Sweets' ability to swing with just three or two or sometimes just the one note. "There's a lot of life to it," said Basie, "and he can swing his butt off, with a mute or not."
One of the songs on Swingin' Lovers is a ballad by Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Mercer, two writers who are very important to the Sinatra oeuvre, although not usually together. In 1939, Mercer had formed his own publishing house with a Warner Bros exec called Buddy Morris, and one of the talents they had their eye on was Van Heusen, a young composer who had not yet formed what would become his more or less permanent partnership with Johnny Burke. So one day Van Heusen comes to Mercer with a new tune. "He played me the melody," the lyricist recalled. "I didn't have any idea, but I had to go to Chicago that night. I think I was on the Benny Goodman program."
Mercer loved trains and he loved to write train songs. He would later write "On The Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe" and, of course, "Blues In The Night", in which the eponymous blues are basically "the lonesome whistle blowing cross the trestle". But the first of his great train songs was the only one actually to be written on a train. Mercer got on board the Chicago-bound Streamliner, and couldn't sleep. "The tune was running through my mind, and that's when I wrote the song. On the train, really going to Chicago." So he began:
I took a trip on a train
And I Thought About...
...the Jimmy Van Heusen tune I'm supposed to be writing a lyric for?
Well, no:
And I Thought About You
I passed a shadowy lane
And I Thought About You...
"The essence of lyric writing," said Mercer, is "to paint pictures". And he did:
Two or three cars
Parked under the stars
A winding stream
Moon shining down
On some little town...
The view from one insomniac lyricist's seat, as the Streamliner hurtles down the Burlington Route to Chicago. When the Mercer-Morris company published the sheet music, right there on the front, flying through the night, was the self-same Denver Zephyr on which the author had written his song.
Mercer professed himself to be very pleased with the lyric, except for what he considered a weak ending - with the lovesick singer looking out the window at the other track:
...the one going back to you
And what did I do?
I Thought About You.
Mercer thought the two "you"s were a bit undernourished: Technically, that's not a rhyme but an "identity". But nobody else seemed to mind. And that trip to Chicago for the Benny Goodman show paid off. It was Goodman's band, with a vocal by Mildred Bailey, who had the first hit with the song.
For Swingin' Lovers, Sinatra and Riddle had a go at the number and Frank was unhappy. So Nelson re-tooled the chart and they re-assembled a couple of weeks later. The result is almost a textbook example of what Sinatra and Riddle did for pop vocal arrangements in the mid-Fifties. It begins somewhat sparely and restrained, with Harry Klee, another musician Frank admired and kept close in those middle years (he was the flautist in those Royal Festival Hall sextet gigs that tuckered Sinatra out before the Great Songs From Great Britain sessions). Then Sweets Edison comes in to join Frank as the first chorus builds to a conclusion:
At ev'ry stop that we made
Oh, I Thought About You
And when I pulled down the shade
Then I really felt blue...
It's a great example of how beautifully Edison's commentative mute tracks Sinatra. He didn't have a huge amount of space, not compared to a jazz soloist in a small combo, but he accomplishes an awful lot with superb economy. Emotionally, he and Frank are telling the same story. To do it as well as Harry does, you have to know as well as the vocalist how he breathes and phrases. And then as the instrumental comes in, the singer drops out. But Sweets doesn't. The full band's blasting the melody, yet Edison's still doing the fills between the lines, just as he did with Sinatra. And it's a rather unusual second chorus. Van Heusen's tune is basically ABAB - and Riddle gives the A sections to the band, and the B sections to Frank. Or, if you prefer, instead of one 16-bar instrumental, there's two eight-bar instrumentals punctuated by eight bars of Sinatra in between. And Sweets is in there all the way, beep-beeping along, Nelson Riddle's "tempo of the heartbeat", distilled to its essence.
If you're a fellow musician, like Miles Davis, maybe you notice Edison. But, if you're the average 1956 record buyer, maybe you don't even notice it as a separate instrument, maybe you don't even know what a muted trumpet is. It's just part of that great sexy Sinatra sound that's better than any pop vocal arrangement you've heard before. Yet Edison's mute is unique, and indispensable - as Sinatra and Riddle well understood.
And so on at least one occasion did the LAPD. Edison was pulled over for running a stop light and told the police he was on his way to a Sinatra session.
"Yeah, sure," said the coppers. So he brought them along to Capitol, where Frank and Nelson were waiting with the band. And Edison arrives with the arresting officers:
He took a trip with a cop
And he thought about Frank...
"I had so much fun playing with Sinatra," recalled Sweets late in life. "It was a compliment to me for him to request me all the time." But, unlike many of his fellow singers, Frank understood very quickly in those early Riddle years that he was a better musician and a bigger star because of the talent surrounding him - Bill Miller's piano, George Roberts' bass trombone, Felix Slatkin's violin ...and Sweets Edison's trumpet mute.
In any other singer's career "I Thought About You" would have been a stand-out track. But in Sinatra's stellar catalogue it somehow fell by the wayside and never became one of those songs that he took on the road with him night after night. The last time I saw Frank in concert he had Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gormé as his opening act, and, just before the wrap-up, all three of them would do an epic Sinatra medley of a couple of dozen songs in which this number briefly surfaced as a gag for Steve:
I turned a trick on a train
And Frank would correct him: "Trip! Trip!" And I regret that that one word is as close as I ever came to hearing Sinatra sing "I Thought About You" live.
Actually, there is a very neat train trick in the song - Mercer's use of "k" sounds:
I peeped through the crack
And looked at the track
The one going back
To you...
That "crack"/"track"/"back" is very onomatopoeic: it's the sound a train makes crossing the tracks. Did Mercer write it that way consciously? Or because he was on a train when he was scribbling it down? Or was he just such a good lyricist that by that point such sensitivity to subject matter was instinctive to him? Who knows? I do notice, though, that a lot of singers and arrangers seem to be unaware of those cracking consonants and glide across them very legato. But not Riddle and Sinatra. With his new arranger, Frank learned to bounce those consonants off the band:
I peeped through the crackkk
And looked at that trackkk
The one going back to you
And what did I do?.
It's a rhetorical question, but Frank pauses and lets the band ponder it for a moment. A few months back, the Pundette picked this song as her Number 75 Sinatra hit, and I was tickled by this comment:
When I started listening to Sinatra about ten years ago most of the music was new to me, and all of it was new to my children. It was playing more or less non-stop in the kitchen and they responded by making wisecracks about the lyrics. After Frank asks, 'And what did I do?' they said things like, 'I'm sure he's going to tell us,' or 'Probably the same thing he did the first fifty times we heard this.' Ah, well. Youth is wasted on the the young and all that.
The cynical Pundettettes are only able to do that because of that big dramatic gap Sinatra and Riddle leave after the question, which accomplishes the neat trick of putting enough distance between "the one going back to you" and "I thought about you" that you no longer notice Mercer's "flawed" lack of rhyme. And after the final title line the band wraps things up with a tag that surely reminded Edison of his days with the Basie band.
At which point you realize that Frank et al have done something rather remarkable: A song that starts out as a dreamy laconic ballad has wound up a swingin' blast. This was something Sinatra and Riddle seemed to grasp in a way that few others at the time did - that, like a Streamliner headed to Chicago, a recording of a song has to go somewhere. And, with Harry "Sweets" Edison on board, this track is a most satisfying journey.
In our next Sinatra song, we'll explore what Sweets brought to Frank's ballads.
~There's more about Jimmy Van Heusen and Sinatra as told by Van Heusen's lyricist in our Sammy Cahn centenary podcast. You can read the stories behind more Sinatra songs in Mark Steyn's American Songbook, and Steyn's original 1998 obituary of Frank, "The Voice", can be found in the anthology Mark Steyn From Head To Toe. Personally autographed copies of both books are exclusively available from the SteynOnline bookstore.
~For an alternative Sinatra Hot 100, the Pundette is also counting down her Frank hit parade, and is up to Number 22, "Night And Day". But which version - ballad, swinger, sextet or disco? The Evil Blogger Lady celebrates one of the loveliest moments from young Frank's years with the Tommy Dorsey orchestra - "Trade Winds". Meanwhile, Bob Belvedere over at The Camp Of The Saints has more Sinatra and Riddle as he works his way through Frank's Top Ten Albums.
SINATRA CENTURY
at SteynOnline
1) IT WAS A VERY GOOD YEAR
2) THE SONG IS YOU
3) HOME ON THE RANGE
4) AFTER YOU'VE GONE
5) IT HAD TO BE YOU
6) THE ONE I LOVE (BELONGS TO SOMEBODY ELSE)
7) LOVE'S BEEN GOOD TO ME
8) STARDUST
9) MY FUNNY VALENTINE
10) WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED LOVE?
11) CHICAGO
12) THE CONTINENTAL
13) ALL OF ME
14) WHEN YOUR LOVER HAS GONE
15) NIGHT AND DAY
16) I WON'T DANCE
17) I'VE GOT YOU UNDER MY SKIN
18) SOUTH OF THE BORDER
19) EAST OF THE SUN (AND WEST OF THE MOON)
20) ON THE ROAD TO MANDALAY
21) A FOGGY DAY (IN LONDON TOWN)
22) I GET A KICK OUT OF YOU
23) I'M A FOOL TO WANT YOU
24) OUR LOVE
25) ALL OR NOTHING AT ALL
26) I'LL NEVER SMILE AGAIN
27) FOOLS RUSH IN
28) MY ONE AND ONLY LOVE
29) EVERYTHING HAPPENS TO ME
30) I'LL BE SEEING YOU
31) THE WAY YOU LOOK TONIGHT
32) I'LL BE AROUND
33) THE NEARNESS OF YOU
34) PENNIES FROM HEAVEN
35) BLUES IN THE NIGHT
36) GUESS I'LL HANG MY TEARS OUT TO DRY
37) NANCY (WITH THE LAUGHING FACE)
38) SOMETHIN' STUPID
39) YOU MAKE ME FEEL SO YOUNG
40) I GET ALONG WITHOUT YOU VERY WELL (EXCEPT SOMETIMES)
41) SOLILOQUY
42) THE COFFEE SONG
43) I CONCENTRATE ON YOU
44) HOW ABOUT YOU?
45) THE HOUSE I LIVE IN
46) LUCK BE A LADY
47) WE'LL BE TOGETHER AGAIN
48) (AH, THE APPLE TREES) WHEN THE WORLD WAS YOUNG
49) I HAVE DREAMED
50) WHY TRY TO CHANGE ME NOW?
51) I'VE GOT THE WORLD ON A STRING
52) YOUNG AT HEART
53) THE GAL THAT GOT AWAY
54) BAUBLES, BANGLES AND BEADS
55) IN THE WEE SMALL HOURS OF THE MORNING
56) LEARNIN' THE BLUES
57) THE TENDER TRAP
58) STARS FELL ON ALABAMA
59) WITCHCRAFT
60) EBB TIDE
61) COME FLY WITH ME
62) ANGEL EYES
63) JUST IN TIME
64) I COVER THE WATERFRONT
65) NICE 'N' EASY
66) OL' MACDONALD
67) FLY ME TO THE MOON
68) AUTUMN LEAVES
69) IT'S ALL RIGHT WITH ME
70) MOONLIGHT IN VERMONT
71) COME RAIN OR COME SHINE
72) WE'LL GATHER LILACS
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Stop Diabetes launches #IAMFAUJA Facebook app on October 16 - the date marks the 5th anniversary of baba Fauja singh's 100-year marathon run.
We ask for your support by overlaying the app on your Facebook profile for that day.
Please find the app link below and be sure to change your facebook profile picture this Sunday October 16 to show your support to this important health cause.
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Is Salt an Element or a Compound?
Salt is a compound, not an element. Table salt, for example, is sodium chloride, a chemical compound with the formula NaCl. It is made from two elements: sodium, or Na, and chlorine, or Cl.
Chemical compounds are chemical substances that are made of two or more different chemical elements. In the case of table salt, it is a compound because it is made from two different elements. Salts are ionic compounds that occur when an acid is neutralized by reacting with a base. Other types of salts besides common table salt are sodium bicarbonate, or NaHCO3, sodium hydrosulfide, or NaHS, sodium bisulfate,or NaHSO4, monosodium phosphate, or NaH2PO4, and disodium phosphate, or Na2HPO4.
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Skull and Bones gets lost at sea, will arrive at least a year late
The plundering will have to wait
Dan Grayson
16 May 2019, 7:08 am
Dan is the New Zealand editor of Gameplanet.
Astronug
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Those eagerly awaiting another foray into the pirate life will have to wait another year. During its recent earnings report, Ubisoft has announced that its upcoming pirate adventure Skull and Bones has been delayed to its next fiscal year. This means we likely won't be sailing the high seas until after the end of March 2020.
As for the reasoning behind the delay, Ubisoft hasn't elaborated. Considering how much we've already seen of the game, and how far along development appeared, a year-long delay could mean some significant changes for the game.
We're going to batten down the hatches and push back on the game's arrival—this is a challenging news for us all, but it's what's needed to make Skull & Bones as awesome as it can be!
Our focus remains on quality first and we're grateful for your undying support ☠⚔ pic.twitter.com/ZCt85tY3TG
— Skull & Bones (@skullnbonesgame) May 15, 2019
Also of note, the company announced that it has four triple-A games set to release this fiscal year. One of those is the recently announced Ghost Recon Breakpoint, with the remaining three titles being anyone's guess. My money is on the rumoured Watch Dogs set in London.
We won't have to wait long to find out as Ubisoft will likely announce the remaining releases for this year at the upcoming E3 Expo this June.
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