Ebadpress.com is passing themselves off as a SEO company. I had them do Optimization for my website which was doing better then than after they did their work. Now I have to pay another company to take their spamming, stuffing and irrelevant text off my website, so that will be another 5000.00. I have not complained about a company before and have been in business for many years, but e bad press take advantage of companies and are filled with excuses why their SEO work fails. They are not honest and do not have a money back guarantee like they state!
This is not a real client. A simple search found the same complaint against other reputation management companies (verbatim) only they change the company name.
All complaint sites hosting this guy's fraud are acting as a medium for slander.
This complaint posted on Complaintsboard pretty much sums up the problem. We were also a recipient of the fax from Bill Lawrence.
Here are other similar fraudulent complaints.
This appears to be the work of an offshore startup reputation management. Other reputation management companies victimized by this canned complaint, email us for more information.
A Telemarketer called an implied he was with Google. He told me that my business was rated as a top business with Google. I asked how the rating was done and he replied that Google goes by customer reviews, length of time in business, and web presence. I explained that couldn't be right because I've only been in business for 3 months and don't have any customers yet! He went on to say that Google does this automatically and businesses that have good ratings have a symbol next to their web site listing. As we talked, I looked it up and there was nothing by my business name. He then said that it must be on another search site by Google because they have lots of search sites. I eventually found out that this guy was calling from Local Splash, which wasn't mentioned until after about 20 minutes of conversation, and that he wanted to sell me guaranteed placement on the first page of Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc., for a monthly fee of $199 plus a $99 set up fee. As I understand it, you cannot pay for placement on Google or any other search site. When I told him I'd think about it and call him back, he talked to me like I was stupid for not grabbing this opportunity now because by tomorrow, I may not be on that top list from Google! Everything this guy said was total BS! This business in operating unethically, if not illegally!
Does Adwords work? Should I hire a manager? Can I just do it myself? These are all questions that can be answered with both a YES/NO, because it depends.
I have evaluated hundreds of small business, individual and corporate Adwords accounts and campaigns and I have found that yes, Adwords does work and it works well. I have also found that NO adwords does not work and is a complete waste of money, however the reason for that was because YES the company did manage it themselves, BUT they should have hired a manager. If you have the time to manage the account and can make adjustments in REAL TIME, then yes you should manage the account yourself, however, my question would be, if you have the time to manage the account yourself, don't you think you could use a few more clients? In that case you should still hand it over to a manager. Well, don't manager cost money that could otherwise be going towards more ads? Yes they do cost money, but within 10 minutes any good manager can show you how you are easily wasting 10 - 20% of your budget on words that would NEVER bring you a client.
Why bother with SEO? Check out the photo of estimated traffic to the number 1 spot!
A little reputation management doesn't hurt. I think even Disney has an F on the BBB????????? Really???
Internet now is indispensable. And because there are a lot of SEO companies vying for client's attention, a website owner must be careful when looking for quality and reliability. With so many SEO companies today offering marketing services, I could say that our business has found one of the best. I definitely DO NOT AGREE with all the negative comments here. FRUIT ENGINE has proven track record of successfully ranked websites and helped small, medium to large companies have their websites visible to billions of internet users. Try fruit engine and you will see the difference.
Nothing is fishy about the business. As a client for how many years now, FE has been the savior of our business. The company works in accordance with ethics and law. No credit card fraud is happening there; they just follow the right procedures for processing billing. I know these because of experience. I have been a client and I could say that the company does not deserves these complains and negative reviews. I just love how FE assisted me from web page design up to Search Engine optimization. I didn't know what to say more but I this is what I want to tell, that Fruit Engine delivered the quality and affordability I'm searching for. Surely, they'll be my number one pick among SEO companies.
I worked their before and had been out of work now because of studies. The individual who posted these biased or misleading reviews had been reprimanded several times and not doing his/her work. Clearly biased comments to fool readers. Think twice before reading his/her review. Stop making lies and be mature enough to tell the truth.
Clients who are plain bias and who have nothing to say well but to start flaming complaints board with their complete lies. Time for them to go to SEO School to fully understand what search engine is about.


Many people resolve to read through the Bible in one year's time. However, this task is formidable. With both the Old and New Testaments broken into daily portions and plotted out over the calendar year, the One-Year Bible Reading Calendar provides assistance in this endeavor. Rather than bind itself to any one Bible text, the Calendar instead uses hyperlinks to go to the proper reading for the day, so you can read the daily portion in your favorite Bible translation.


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The 1932 Monaco Grand Prix was a Grand Prix motor race held at the Circuit de Monaco on 17 April 1932. Tazio Nuvolari, driving for the works Alfa Romeo team, won the race by just 2.8 seconds from the privateer Alfa of Rudolf Caracciola, who, despite having a contract for 1932, was not yet part of the official works team. Caracciola might have had an opportunity to pass Nuvolari for the lead, after the Italian's car developed fuel pick-up issues, but he decided instead to remain behind the Alfa Romeo team leader. The 1931 Monaco Grand Prix runner-up Luigi Fagioli completed the podium in third for the Maserati team.

Entries

 — Divo drove the T53 during the practice sessions on Thursday and Friday, but switched to the T51 for Saturday practice and the race.

Practice
Official timing for practice sessions was introduced for this year.

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Friday

Saturday

Starting grid
Although practice laps had been officially timed, the grid was still determined by ballot. This was changed for the following year's race.

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Q: is there an available laravel validation rules for old password? is there an available validation rules that lets you compare the input field and the column in the database if they match
like they should match the user id and the session and the inputted password and the password in the database?

A: You're looking for exists rule:

The field under validation must exist on a given database table.

'form_field' => 'exists:table,column'

A: Stumbled upon this while I was looking for the same answer as well. This maybe a bit old, but as Christian mentioned in the comments, the solution by Alexey allows the user to use any existing password (even another user's) in the database as the current password. Hope this answer helps someone :)
So for Laravel 5.2 the below solution worked for me as mentioned in the documentation:
'old_password' => 'required|exists:users,password,usr_id,'.$user_id,

This maybe different in Laravel 5.3+, as the Laravel 5.3 documentation has the following validation for customizing the query. I haven't tried this, but it does not work for Laravel 5.2.
use Illuminate\Validation\Rule;

Validator::make($data, [
    'email' => [
        'required',
        Rule::exists('staff')->where(function ($query) {
            $query->where('account_id', 1);
        }),
    ],
]);

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Q: Installations: Could not process request. Application offline. (installations/app-offline) error with firebase I am getting an error when trying to run my application locally:

I am only getting this error in the chrome browser. I have tried different things, but I am not sure why it is Chrome specific.

A: I suspect this isn't a Firebase issue, but rather a Chrome one. My Chrome for Android the last day or two has been acting up and saying it's offline when it isn't, which I suspect is leading to navigator.onLine to be false. This would lead Firebase to throw this error, for example during auth token refresh: https://github.com/firebase/firebase-js-sdk/blob/7d916d905ba16816ac8ac7c8748c83831ff614ce/packages/installations/src/helpers/refresh-auth-token.ts#L60-L62
My app works fine on localhost on Chrome for Mac 87.0.4280.88, but is throwing this error on Chrome for Android 8.0.4280.101, Android 11.


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Stunning Cyanotypes of Sea Algae by the Self-Taught Victorian Botanist Anna Atkins, the First Woman Photographer and a Pioneer of Scientific Illustration
Portraits of Cultural Icons by 80 of the World's Top Illustrators
How Darwin's Photographic Studies of Human Emotions Changed Visual Culture
Dan Price, Revealed
What the 80's and great shoes have in common. Seriously.
By Maria Popova
We're big fans of Simple Shoes. That's how we first got introduced to illustration artist Dan Price, of Moonlight Chronicles fame, who does a lot of their artwork.
His distinctive, quirky style is a reflection of his undeniably eccentric personality — he dug himself a cave he calls Indian River Ranch, a sanctuary where can spend his life drawing. From this unusual homebase, he roams the world with little more than a bike, a sketchbook and a camera, which he uses to photograph his illustrations and send them over to Simple. (Meh, scanners are overrated.) His style is all about taking a child's perspective of the world. In short, the self-described hobo artist is quite a character — and one we really, really dig.
Although known mostly as an illustration artist, Dan spent the 80's as a photojournalist for a number of major publications. A rather talented one, we may add. He spent months living with his fascinating subjects, from isolated wagon-riding farmers to highly religious church communities, asking permission to photograph their intimate existence with unusual cameras like the Diana.
Which is why we were excited to come across this interview with Dan Price, where the elusive artist talks about his lesser-known photography career. Read it, get inspired, maybe even dig yourself a cave.
https://www.themarginalian.org/2008/10/22/dan-price-revealed/
www.themarginalian.org
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Online travel review and recommendation site TripAdvisor has acquired New York-based GateGuru, a mobile app that provides real-time flight and airport information, for an undisclosed amount. As part of the deal, the GateGuru team will continue to operate from New York City and will now report to Bryan Saltzburg, general manager (new initiatives), leader of the TripAdvisor flights product and now the head of SeatGuru brand (provides seat maps to travellers).
"GateGuru complements our existing flights products and we look forward to working with the GateGuru team as they continue to manage the GateGuru app and add functionality to TripAdvisor's mobile experience," said Steve Kaufer, co-founder and CEO of TripAdvisor.
Launched in December 2009, GateGuru is backed by angel investors like Chamath Palihapitiya, a Silicon Valley-based VC; Allen Morgan, former executive of Mayfield Fund, and Tom Glocer, ex-CEO of Thomson Reuters.
TripAdvisor provides travel reviews and recommendations, and claims to have more than 200 million unique monthly visitors. It features over 100 million reviews and opinions, covering more than 2.5 million accommodations, restaurants and attractions. The site is operational in 30 countries worldwide. Last year, the company also launched 'TripAdvisor Business Listings' for Indian hotel and restaurant owners to provide better exposure to them across all TripAdvisor sites and encourage more direct bookings.


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Welcome to Cocos-BCX
Chingas X November 28, 2021
Not your average Crypto Token
Unlike most CryptoCurrency projects, Cocos was a company long before entering in the Blockchain space. Cocos was founded in 2011 with the intent of making gaming easier across the board for developers and creators. Cocos has served more than 1.4 million developers from over 195 countries around the world. Cocos has built gaming engines that have been used in Xbox, Playstation, Andriod, Facebook, and iOS games.
In 2017, Cocos launched a Whitepaper that would lay out their vision of how Blockchain and Gaming could merge together in the future and set out to build upon what they already built and used for many years prior. One of Cocos main objectives now is the ability to build Dapps easily on the Cocos blockchain and have the ability to have in-game asset management allowing players of these games to fully interact with, use, transfer and sell their in-game assets. Cocos has come a long way since 2011 and they have built strong partnerships along the way, including monsters like Binance Labs, NGC, Loom, ONTology, and about a dozen more. Cocos is the real deal when it comes to Blockchain projects as they are a software company first that integrated their knowledge and technology to push Blockchain into places it has never been before.
What about the Price Action?
Cocos recently put in an 833% peak move in less than 2 days of trading. The massive move catapulted Cocos onto the scene and gave everyone a reason to revisit this token. As often is the case, after the big move, Cocos dropped 60% in just two days and is now consolidating.
Lucky for us – the consolidation pattern is a Bull Pennant and these come with Entries and Exits as well as Stop-Losses. The pattern works in a multi-leg fasion. By this, I mean that the first leg is considered the initial pump that went for 833%. That pump ends up being the Flag Pole and it's also used as the measured move after a confirmed break of the downward sloping resistance trend – or the top of the pennant.
This measured move is not percentage-based – rather – dollar-based. So Cocos had a $5.80 cent move to make the pole, we would target another leg of the same amount. This $5.80 move starts when Cocos breaks to the high side.
Bull Pennant or not, Cocos still has a lot of resistance sitting in front of it at the moment.
That resistance comes in the form of prior historical resistance, fibs, and current ATHs. If Cocos is able to break north out of the pennant, we could be looking at a 129% move to reach the measured move from the pattern and of course, re-enter price discovery.
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Unlike most CryptoCurrency projects, Cocos was a company long before entering in the Blockchain space. Cocos was founded in 2011 with the intent of making gaming easier across the board for developers and creators. Cocos has served more than 1.4 million developers from over 195 countries around the world. Cocos has built gaming engines that have been used in Xbox, Playstation, Andriod, Facebook, and iOS games. In 2017, Cocos launched a Whitepaper that would lay out their vision of how Blockchain and Gaming could merge together in the future and set out to build upon what they already built and used for many years prior. One of Cocos main objectives now is the ability to build Dapps easily on the Cocos blockchain and have the ability to have in-game asset management allowing players of these games to fully interact with, use, transfer and sell their in-game assets. Cocos has come a long way since 2011 and they have built strong partnerships along the way, including monsters like Binance Labs, NGC, Loom, ONTology, and about a dozen more. Cocos is the real deal when it comes to Blockchain projects as they are a software company first that integrated their knowledge and technology to push Blockchain into places it has never been before.
Cocos recently put in an 833% peak move in less than 2 days of trading. The massive move catapulted Cocos onto the scene and gave everyone a reason to revisit this token. As often is the case, after the big move, Cocos dropped 60% in just two days and is now consolidating. Lucky for us - the consolidation pattern is a Bull Pennant and these come with Entries and Exits as well as Stop-Losses. The pattern works in a multi-leg fasion. By this, I mean that the first leg is considered the initial pump that went for 833%. That pump ends up being the Flag Pole and it's also used as the measured move after a confirmed break of the downward sloping resistance trend - or the top of the pennant. This measured move is not percentage-based - rather - dollar-based. So Cocos had a $5.80 cent move to make the pole, we would target another leg of the same amount. This $5.80 move starts when Cocos breaks to the high side. Bull Pennant or not, Cocos still has a lot of resistance sitting in front of it at the moment. That resistance comes in the form of prior historical resistance, fibs, and current ATHs. If Cocos is able to break north out of the pennant, we could be looking at a 129% move to reach the measured move from the pattern and of course, re-enter price discovery. If you enjoyed this article, consider sharing with friends on Social Media. Lets grow the Community together!


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More Attractions in Vancouver, BC
Science World at TELUS World of Science
1455 Quebec St., Vancouver, BC V6A 3Z7 Phone: (604) 443-7440
AAA/Diana Beyer
Science World at TELUS World of Science, 1455 Quebec St., is housed in a geodesic dome and features hands-on exhibits and demonstrations that explain science and nature. Water, air and motion are some of the physical sciences explored in the Eureka! Gallery. The Wonder Gallery is geared toward young learners ages 0-5. Live, zany science demonstrations with audience participation take place daily in the Peter Brown Family Centre Stage. Watch films in the OMNIMAX Theatre, which projects nature and science films onto a dome screen that's 5 stories high and 27 metres (88 ft.) in diameter; or take a seat in the high-definition Science Theatre, which offers films and live shows.
Human performance and nature are the subjects of additional galleries. Learn about sustainable communities in Our World: BMO Sustainability Gallery, explore human life sciences in BodyWorks and discover the wonders of nature in Search: Sara Stern Gallery. A seasonal outdoor gallery lets visitors plant seeds and gather eggs from chickens.
Food is available. Time: Allow 2 hours minimum.
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Servius is een veel voorkomende Latijnse eigennaam, afgeleid van het woord servus, d.i. dienaar, slaaf.

De naam kan onder meer verwijzen naar een van volgende personen:
Servius Tullius, koning van Rome (6e eeuw v.Chr.?)
Servius Sulpicius Camerinus Cornutus, Romeins consul (5e eeuw v.Chr.)
Servius Sulpicius Rufus, Romeins consul en rechtsgeleerde (1e eeuw v.Chr.)
Servius Asinius Celer, Romeins consul (1e eeuw na Chr.)
Servius Sulpicius Galba, gedurende korte tijd Romeins keizer (1e eeuw na Chr.)
Servius (grammaticus), een laat-Romeinse grammaticus (4e eeuw na Chr.)

Zie ook
 Onder Gens Sulpicia

Praenomen


Frequent (therefore knowledgeable) guests, order the mushroom salad first and the chocolate soufflé last.
In between, even Poseidon would have been envious of the seafood variety and the creative ways by which any classical dish is transformed to classy and new. Fish with an attitude, calamari as you never tasted it before, lobster and crayfish with the sweet taste of the Aegean.
All this, feet away from the sea and the boats and the never-ending parade of beautiful people, on the street level walkway.


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Бохотниця Мефодій – бандурист. Народився у с. Шпанів. Був учасником об'єднаної чоловічої капели бандуристів у Львові (1938), мішаної – у м. Рівне (1939), керував хором «Просвіти» с. Шпанів неподалік Рівного.

Життєпис та творчий шлях
30 січня 1938 р. у складі об'єднаної чоловічої капели М. Бохотниця  брав участь у академії, присвяченої 20-річчю бою під Крутами. Серед бандуристів також були: Яків Бичківський, Степан Малюца, Юрій Сінгалевич, Федір Якимець, Кость Місевич, Дмитро Стопкевич.

Під час його виступу на шевченківському святі у Здолбунові слухачів приємно вразила майстерна гра інструментальних творів та м'який ліричний голос бандуриста, який виконав пісні «Про Почаївську Божу Матір», «Про Байду», уривки з «Гамалії» Шевченка («Ой, нема, нема» та «Вночі на могилі»). М. Бохотниця часто виступав у дуеті з дружиною-бандуристкою Валентиною.

Примітки

Джерела
 Жеплинський Б. М., Ковальчук Д. Б. Українські кобзарі, бандуристи, лірники. Енциклопедичний довідник. — Львів : Галицька видавнича спілка, 2011. — С. 27
 Євгеньєва М. В. Формування та розвиток бандурного мистецтва Тернопільщини  : дисертація на здобуття наук. ступеня канд. мистецтвознавства : спец. 17.00.03 – "Музичне мистецтво" / М. В. Євгеньєва.– Львів, 2017. – С. 64, 70, 90-91, 108, 253, 262.

Бандуристи


I've been watching a lot of X-Men this week. After the "okay" Last Stand and the "less than okay" Origins/Wolverine….
Well isn't this just a breath of fresh air!
Today's movie, nice and early because I have the day off, is the 2011 Matthew Vaughn directed X-Men: First Class.
While not technically a reboot, XMFC does give us a fresh look at the start of many of our beloved heroes and villians. Unlike Wolverine's first solo movie, this movie actually was pretty straight forward of it's timeline - starting in the 40s, but really taking place in the 60s. And it actually looked like the 60s.
One thing I noticed is that this movie basically retcons some stuff in X3, primarily the age of Dr. Moira MacTaggert, played this time by Rose Byrne. Where is X3 she was much younger than Patrick Stewart's Professor X, this time she's basically the same age as James McAvoy's Professor.
The other thing that almost threw me off was the age of Mystique, but one line cleared that all up - a method I had wished Origins/Wolverine had used from time to time….
My apologies to all the huge X-Men fans out there, but this probably was my favorite overall X-Men so far. I look forward to see what "The Wolverine" is all about and hope to see "Days of Future Past" soon, but so far this one is definitely the top of my list.
What can I say? I'm a sucker for a team forming - and training montages.
This movie is already 3 years old, most of the movies I am watching are old and you've probably read everything you can about them. So really, what can I bring that is new to the table?
Probably nothing - except I really really liked this movie. This is probably the top of the list so far in the 6 I've seen.
I feel like I've been watching a ton of movies so far (for me, seeing 6 movies in 6 days is a ton) and then I realize I'm only 20% of the way through my 30 movies.
And I'm psyched to keep going. I know 2 upcoming movies I am going to watch, and I've really started out with many of the movies I've been dying to see (okay, I wasn't dying to see Devil…) but I wonder what the hell I'll be watching on day 19? Day 25?
I can't wait! And I hope that they are as close to being as awesome as this movie was.
6 down. 24 to go!


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The release of referendum results for Southern Sudan's historic independence showing that 98.83 percent voted for secession means formal independence is scheduled for 9 July 2011, but key challenges still remain to be negotiated.
These issues, observers say, must now be hammered out by the two ruling parties - the north's National Congress Party (NCP) and the south's Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM).
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has asked the international community "to assist all Sudanese towards greater stability and development", while US President Barack Obama welcomed the "successful and inspiring referendum" but urged north and south to work quickly on post-referendum arrangements.
The often rocky relationship between the two parties has been eased by the swift acceptance of the results by President Omar al-Bashir, but observers note that progress on negotiations has so far has been slow, with the south accusing the north of dragging its heels. Some fear the north will now seek to extract a high price from the south for its separation.
Abyei - The contested border region was due to hold a separate referendum at the same time as the south, when its residents would decide whether to become part of the north or south. But progress on that vote remains in deadlock, with the largely northern-supported Misseriya community - who travel through the region annually to graze their cattle - demanding a right to vote. The largely southern-supported Dinka Ngok people reject that demand, and southerners say only permanent residents should be allowed to vote. The area's future is expected to be wrapped into the huge negotiations ahead, with the south demanding it be ceded directly to join the new nation.
Oil and water - A new deal must be agreed to renegotiate the current equal sharing of oil pumped in the south. The economies on both sides depend hugely on oil - forming 98 percent of the southern government budget. Oil reserves lie mainly in the south but all pipelines run north. For once, observers hope oil can provide a factor for peace, as for either to benefit, the future two states will be forced to cooperate post-secession.
In addition, negotiations will have to be agreed on the future sharing of Nile river water, an issue that neighbouring Egypt will be watching keenly, reluctant to see its share of the river cut.
Debt - Sudan's crippling debt, estimated at US$38 billion, remains a major concern. It is an emotional issue: the southerners say Khartoum spent the cash on arms during the 1983-2005 civil war. The north wants to obtain international debt forgiveness to allow fresh loans, but that would still take many years. Persuading the south to take on some of that will be hard, but the north hopes that the south could then expect to have it written off more easily.
Citizenship - Concern remains for the many Sudanese living in the border areas, as well as southerners and northerners based in the 'other' side of Sudan. Hundreds of thousands of southerners remain in Khartoum, but the north has so far appeared reluctant to accept any dual nationality status. The south would reportedly like people to be able to choose.
Borders - Sudan's giant north-south border remains un-demarcated, with progress slow on fixing the boundaries. Negotiations are based on colonial era maps as the border stood at Sudan's independence in 1956, but with the frontier crossing oil and mineral rich areas, the issue is contentious.
Returnees - More than 180,000 southerners have returned from the north in the past three months, adding pressure to communities already struggling to cope. Major humanitarian and development problems remain. According to Refugees International, 22,000 southerners are stranded in and around Khartoum still waiting for transportation to the south.
Conflict -The south proved the critics warning of war wrong: the voting period was peaceful. Acceptance of the result by the NCP has allayed fears of north-south conflict. However, tensions remain in the volatile south. Clashes in early February between armed factions in the south's oil rich Upper Nile state left over 50 dead, and showed the potential for violence. Southern Sudan has been accused of hosting Darfuri rebel leaders fighting Khartoum, while the north is accused of backing militias battling the southern army. Both deny the charges.
Economy - Sudan's economy is struggling, with high demands for foreign currency, rising inflation and a recent slide in the value of the Sudanese pound. Price hikes on basic goods are hitting the poorest the hardest, while Khartoum remains concerned about political unrest, following popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia. The two sides must also fix their currency, and decide whether a replacement for the Sudanese pound will be introduced. Rumours in early February that the north plans to scrap the pound saw its value plummet.
Ajal Kaba, "My hope is for education and a better life after te referendum"
Building a southern identity - Without a common northern enemy, many fear fractures within the south. Leaders must work to bring together often disparate groups, including opposition forces and those outside the mainstream SPLM movement.
Tackling corruption - Southern Sudan will rely on international donors to rebuild a land left in ruins by years of war. But it will have to ensure it strengthens its efforts to curb corruption to avoid losing wider support.
Darfur - The war-torn western region remains a major concern with conflict continuing. Khartoum has pulled out of peace talks and returned to fighting against the only rebels they signed an agreement with, the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) faction of Minni Minnawi. Some fear that the south's preparations to break away will embolden rebels to increase their demands from Khartoum.
Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile State - Key battlegrounds in the civil war, these two transitional areas are in the north, but have strong support for the south's ruling SPLM. Ongoing "popular consultations" set up as part of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) are intended to allow the people to shape their future. However, unlike the south and Abyei, they do not have a referendum that could allow them to join an independent south. Many of those there who fought with the south during the civil war could be bitterly disappointed if they feel abandoned in the north.


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Zinkarsenid ist eine anorganische chemische Verbindung des Zinks aus der Gruppe der Arsenide.

Gewinnung und Darstellung
Zinkarsenid kann durch Reaktion von Zink mit Arsen unter Stickstoff bei 700 °C gewonnen werden.

Eigenschaften
Zinkarsenid ist ein grauer Feststoff mit metallischer Leitfähigkeit. Durch Säuren erfolgt Zersetzung unter Arsenwasserstoff-Entwicklung.

Die Verbindung besitzt eine tetragonal innenzentrierte Kristallstruktur (a = 1178 pm, c = 2364 pm) mit der . Sie enthält drei kristallographisch verschiedene Zinkatome, die aber alle tetraedrisch von Arsenatomen koordiniert sind. Bei erhöhter Temperatur erfolgt Umwandlung in andere Strukturen. Die Verbindung ist ein II-V-Halbleiter.

Das bei sonst gleichen Bedingungen bei Arsen-Überschuss entstehende schwarzgraue Zinkdiarsenid ZnAs2 schmilzt bei 768 °C und besitzt eine monokline Kristallstruktur mit der Raumgruppe .

Verwendung
Zinkarsenid wird zur Dotierung und zur Herstellung von Arsenwasserstoff in der Halbleiterindustrie verwendet.

Einzelnachweise

Zinkverbindung
Arsenid
Beschränkter Stoff nach REACH-Anhang XVII, Eintrag 19
Beschränkter Stoff nach REACH-Anhang XVII, Eintrag 72
Beschränkter Stoff nach REACH-Anhang XVII, Eintrag 75


Facebook became a source of movie news Friday when director Peter Jackson, who is at the helm for upcoming feature films The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, used the social network to announce that two films will become three.
So, without further ado and on behalf of New Line Cinema, Warner Bros. Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Wingnut Films, and the entire cast and crew of The Hobbit films, I'd like to announce that two films will become three.
Readers: Would you be surprised to see more movie and entertainment news break on Facebook?


Some wear to the finish under the handle with the bare metal now showing through in one small spot (see photos).
The black handle turns freely as does the reel. There is a rim-mounted tension screw that is operational.
The reel has a short notched brass foot.
Spool face very clean and marked with the spool dismount instructions around the central hub screw.
There is some wear to the finish around the lower rim as to be expected but overall the reel has retained most of its finish.


Back Here Again ! | Food, People, Love And Stufff...!!
Welcome back white pearls.last post l read of your when you got married.Hope you will always have a pleasant life and success with your internet job.
Thank you so much for the wishes 🙂 Have a nice day !
life is a struggle and we find ways to cope and learn from it…welcome back to your original spot and have a wonderful week!
Here and there! As long as you are writing, its good. Bless you.
Haha yeah I guess I get bored very quickly ! Thanks for being here. Love you !
Sounds like maybe you went sane, Lala.
I'm sure you'll get an early start at being a crazy old lady soon.
Ah Thank you my lil friend 🙂 Hope you are doing well ! Love you.
Connection with Allah is a beautiful way..
Disconnection is not a way to feel beauty at core of being..
i can write all day and never give one allah's connection in my eyes..
is unmistakable in real life..
but of course ya know that as ya lived that light in yOur life too..
can now of past be now..
Yes..i will stay with you here too..
I've just read it! God be with you.
Oh thank you fellow 🙂 Good to see you here.
Still there and good to see you back Lala!
You call your followers friends then you know the meaning of a friend. They are like stars not always visible but always there.
How are you doing White Pearl!? 🙂 This was from so many months ago. Hope to read more from you. By the way, He always listens and remains the same… It is us who change, right? Well wishes!
Still here! I was just wondering, where can I read your other blog, and if it was possible for you to maybe double post…on this blog and the other.


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I saw this at the TED Conference and it took my breath away. No fancy computer tricks... this is animation done the old fashioned way... but God knows HOW it was done. Miraculous.
Damon is the co-creator and executive producer for the hit television series Lost. He has also written and produced Crossing Jordan, and wrote for Nash Bridges and Wasteland. Lindelof is also the writer of the comic book miniseries Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk for Marvel Comics and is serving as producer on the upcoming Star Trek feature film.
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Q: HTML/CSS - responsive background doesn't work only on Android - Chrome My responsive background works well on PC Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Opera. It works as well in Firefox on Android. But in Chrome on Android I'm getting something like this:

Do you have any idea how to fix it? I want it to be fullscreen on Android Chrome too. I've tried everything...
CSS and HTML code:

.background {
    background-image: url("images/bgsky2.jpg");
    background-size: cover;
    background-position: center center;
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    background-attachment: fixed;
    height: 100%;
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title></title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
</head>
<body class="background">

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A: This issue was reported meny years ago !
See this link will help :
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3301
And i remember this code helped me :
    html{
 height:100%;
 min-height:100%;
}
body{
 min-height:100%;
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A: Try this:
   html {
      background: url(images/bg.jpg) no-repeat center center fixed;
      -webkit-background-size: cover;
      -moz-background-size: cover;
      -o-background-size: cover;
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Mass Moral Motorcade on Manchin pressures WVa senator Manchin to oppose 'coward's filibuster,' protect expanded voting rights & back $15/hour
CHARLESTON, West Virginia — On the 100th anniversary of the uprising of the Battle of Blair Mountain, the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival and its partners demanded that Sen. Joe Manchin stand up for what's best for his state and country.
At the invitation of the West Virginia Poor People's Campaign, the national organization held a COVID-safe Mass Moral Motorcade on Manchin on Thursday. The motorcade began in Madison, West Virginia, and went to Charleston, led by a hearse and casket that symbolized Manchin's burying of bills to end the filibuster; restore the full 1965 Voting Rights Act; pass the full For the People Act and enact a federal minimum wage of $15 an hour.
A diverse group of speakers representing all people— workers, veterans, immigrants, faith leaders, and others— voiced the dire concerns of West Virginians and those standing with them across the country for living wages, ending the filibuster and voting rights.
Photo credit: Steve Pavey, Kairos Center
Martec Washington, a member of the West Virginia Poor People's Campaign, said to Sen. Manchin: "You are encouraging poverty. You are the reason why West Virginia is on the lowest of the low on the totem pole… You are the reason why people are dying. People are struggling and people are people choosing to end their lives every single day because they are struggling."
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, told Sen. Manchin to be honest with the people who voted for him.
"Tell the people of West Virginia that you were lying when you ran. Tell them that you don't care. Tell them that you don't really care about the poor. Be a man," Rev. Barber said. "Tell them that you don't care about voting rights. Be a man if that is who you are. Tell the people that you care more about your greedy friends who visit your household in D.C.
"But you've got one other option. Be a man and repent. Have the courage to repent. Say you were wrong. We'll forgive you if you tell us you got caught up for a moment. The money got to you. You sniffed some Koch. You forgot who you were. You forgot who your momma was. You forgot who your people were. Now you came back to your senses. Be a man and repent. "
Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, spoke to the importance of this historic moment saying, "It's the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Blair Mountain; this year is the 151st anniversary of the passage of the 15th amendment; and it's the 101st anniversary of the 19th amendment. And yet, in 2021, our democracy is in peril. Economic justice is being denied."
Rev. William Lipscombe, a tri-state chair of the West Virginia Poor People's Campaign, railed against Sen. Manchin's continued work with Republicans saying, "He hails himself on the record of reaching across the aisle. But how about reaching across the state of West Virginia? To those who have put you in office. How about raising us up, restoring us?."
Fellow West Virginia Poor People's Campaign tri-chair Pam Garrison followed up with a direct question to Sen. Manchin saying, "Are you my senator that I voted for or not? Which side are you on? Are you on the side of West Virginia and mountaineers that are always here or are you on the side of the Chamber of Commerce and the side of the corporations and oppressors and abusers?
Grammy-award winning country artist Willie Nelson joined the event via Zoom sharing solidarity with the campaign and voting rights with the statement, "The biggest gun we have is the ballot box… We need to vote."
Statements from other speakers:
Jean Evansmore: tri-chair of the West Virginia PPC:
"When you work three jobs just to feed your family and have a place to live, that is poverty. You didn't cause it, the system caused it."
Molly Linehan Belcher, teacher and member of the Catholic Committee of Appalachia:
"In 1963 the U.S. Catholic bishop stated definitively, and I quote 'no Catholic with a good Christian conscience can fail to recognize the rights of all citizens to vote.' Senator Manchin is a Catholic. Two years ago in an interfaith religious meeting with you, Pope Francis said everyone has a fundamental role to play in a single great creative project — to write a new page of history. A page full of hope, peace and reconciliation. I look forward to the day when we can be sure that everyone means everyone. "
June Spence, veteran and organizer Common Defense:
One hundred years ago in these hills, our ancestors fought for the right of labo, of a dignified work area and get paid an actual living wage and not work under common script. We are here demanding a livable wage again. Fifteen dollars is the bare minimum to survive in this country.. I have lived in poverty. … We need to remember the legacy of those brave miners that fought, literally fought against 27,000 federal troops."
Matt Kerner, MoveOn:
"Sen. Manchin has repeatedly said that he doesn't want to infringe on the filibuster so that he can preserve the dignity of the Senate. I'm not sure if you are aware , senator, but about half of the people in this state live in poverty. That means there are hundreds of thousands of children that are going to be going to bed hungry tonight because they are food insecure. Thousands of homeless children in West Virginia. … Every one of those children is going to go to bed hungry tonight is more important than the appearance of the Senate. Every kid that goes to school Monday morning not knowing where he is going to go to bed that night is more important than the dignity of the Senate."
Dean Anthony, Black Voters Matter:
"If you (Sen. Manchin) have any decency in yourself, you will end the filibuster right now. Voting rights and racism is not something that we negotiate across this country or any community. Right now it is your time to do right by the people. Do what is right by the community. Do what is right by everyone that got you in the place that you are.
Richard Ojeda:
"(It) is your job to elevate people above the poverty line. We're asking you and begging you and getting nothing in return… These people can't put food on the table for the children. We're asking you and we're asking you now. We're hoping that you are going to do the right thing."
Rev. Darick Biondi:
"That $15 an hour that might be unbelievable for a West Virginians that might be on for 10. You are worth it. You deserve a raise. If you think that 15 is not fair because you make 16, you deserve a raise too. You all deserve a raise."
Rev. Caitlin Cotter Coillberg:
"Sen. Manchin and senators and elected officials: I hope you are with us on the side of love, justice, and a better tomorrow for the people of West Virginia and all our nation. Together we can make sure that everyone has access to voting and that everyone's vote counts. That everyone is paid a fair wage for their labor. This is not about fighting each other. This is about fighting for each other. This is a fight for everybody."


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White Christmas Recipe
You just can't have a proper holiday season without eggnog. With that in mind, today we're featuring a Christmas cocktail called the White Christmas. This is an eggnog drink flavored with SoCo and Godiva white chocolate liqueur, topped with just a hint of nutmeg. If Bing Crosby were still alive, you know he'd be drinking this too.
1 oz Southern Comfort
½ oz Godiva white chocolate liqueur
4 oz eggnog
Prep Time: 1 minute
Total Time: 1 minute
In a small rocks glass, add Southern Comfort, chilled eggnog, and Godiva white chocolate liqueur and stir. Top with a pinch of nutmeg. Serve and enjoy.
The White Christmas cocktail is a variation on the eggnog and brandy theme, this time with Southern Comfort and Godiva liqueur. It's a satisfying holiday drink; I think the white chocolate adds another layer of richness to the drink. While I discovered different versions of this drink while doing research, this White Christmas recipe is the one I enjoy most.
Other White Christmas References
White Christmas was both a best selling song and movie, both featuring crooner Bing Crosby. The Iriving Berlin song first appeared in the 1942 movie, Holiday Inn, winning an Academy Award for Best Original Song. The song appeared again in the 1954 movie of the same name, starring Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen. The movie went on to be the biggest grossing movie of 1954. The song was re-released as a single, and went on to sell 8 million copies in the US, and a staggering 50 million copies worldwide, a record which still stands.
Easter Egg Cocktail Recipe
Tags: christmas drinks, eggnog, history, holiday drinks, Southern Comfort, white chocolate liqueur


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Need: With an aim to provide a standard in-store experience and to engage the audience inside the store, Digital Signage as a medium of engagement was chosen. h&g was in search of an easy to use software to broadcast promotions and informative videos to the displays across pan India. Most stores have 2 displays, one at the billing counter, that mainly showcases beauty product usage videos along with few promotions and one at the entrance facing outside, to entice the audience into the store. Hence, h&g expected top-notch system stability with user-based access control and easy grouping of displays to achieve their objective.
Evaluation: h&g evaluated 5 different digital signage software providers and thoroughly tested the signage platforms for a couple of weeks, before finalizing on Zeetaminds for POC (Proof Of Concept). After successful POC in an actual store, h&g chose Zeetaminds as it is cost-effective, easy to use with all essential features and the most robust among all the available options.
Implementation: Installation of the display was done by LG. Amkette ships the media box with preloaded Zeetaminds player software. This ensures a plug and play mechanism. The box once connected to the display via HDMI and provided with internet using LAN cable/wifi finishes the setup. The control goes to the CMS operator to control the display and schedule content from head office. Zeetaminds software coupled with Amkette media box and LG display ensured successful operation of the display network pan India without any issues since the implementation.


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Pub Talk: China Derby Hangover(s)…
This week 's regular pub-goers Bcheng and Shanghai Ultra reflect on not only the China Derby of the previous round, but also on a serious after-game drinking session which involved Grassroots kingpin Trevor, and a whole load of Shenhua and Guoan fans abusing each other in the same restaurant room. Bcheng gives his views on the match, whilst Shanghai Ultra takes aim at Mao Jianqing. The ACL is touched upon, Guangzhou Fuli are examined, and the lads mull over a fixture card that seems a bit bland after the previous week's huge derbies. Meanwhile, horrific video evidence of 's debauchery emerges after going viral on Weibo…
B: How are things in the pub Cammy?
S: I think they are a little hazy after some goings-on that took place in a Beijing restaurant last weekend – a certain matter we were both involved with.
B: After about 10 pm Friday night, the whole weekend is pretty much a haze.
S: I'm afraid the haze kicked in quite some time before that point for me, during one particular 14-hour overnight train journey the night before, to be exact.
B: Are you sure that isn't a coping mechanism to forget the goal scored by a certain, new Guoan hero?
S: Admittedly Mao Jianqing's winner was a sore one, but the hard seat journey was more traumatic.
B: Haha, man up, we've all been through it before. Drinking helps, though I think you already know that.
S: Well yeah the lads said last season they went to Nanchang on standing room only tickets – a 10 hour journey. That is hardcore.
B: I think any supporter who has crisscrossed the country has stories like this, the experience sucks but it had to be great bonding.
S: It certainly was. I want to ask – out of all the people out there on the net who might be listening in on this Pub Talk – how many of them would imagine that China is home to supporters of Chinese Super League clubs who go to such lengths to support their team?
B: Yeah, away trips here are such a fun experience (for the most part), it can be hard to put it in words sometimes. Then again, are these efforts to change the subject because you don't want to talk about the result of the match you were travelling to?
S: No, I'm happy to say it like it is – Shenhua were poor and deserved nothing, Beijing have a great support, and Mao Jianqing is an embarassment to himself.
B: I'm sorry, I think there was a typo in your sentence above, let me correct it for you, "and Judas Griffiths is an embarassment to himself."
S: On the contrary, if you compared Mao and Griffthis, the Aussie was the epitome of professionalism. He took the penalty and scored it, and grabbed the ball and ran back to the centre circle without celebrating infront of his old team's fans. Mao tossed his jersey 100 ft in the air and ran around like he had won the world cup. What a stupid prick.
B: Well, yes, I'll give you that, the Griff was composed when he scored and failed to celebrate the goal even though it was in front of the Shanghai supporters and far from the north stand. But I think a lot of that's due to the situation the goals were scored in; the Griff scored when his club was down by two whereas Mao scored the winner.
S: The bigger reason is the fact that Mao is an idiot and a waste of talent.
B: Sour grapes? I think the bigger reason is that your owner's an asshole and mistreated one of his growing young superstars causing that player a lifetime of hatred for the club of his youth. I can say I'm happy he's in the capital and have been impressed with him outside of the horrible miss against Brisbane.
S: What mistreatment?Some rumour that Zhu refused to help pay for medical treatment for Mao's mother? Regardless of Zhu being a dick or not, it's not his responsibility to pay such things, moreover, Mao's salary must be many times higher than the average worker, why couldn't he pay it himself?
B: As you probably know, health insurance is rare in China, when someone has a family medical emergency, they go to distant relatives, friends, even employers to borrow money, this is their idea of "health insurance". When a player, whose mother is very, very ill, goes to the team owner asking to borrow some money and is repeatedly told the owner has "no money", that's a little dodgy.
There are also, of course, rumors that Shenhua's coach and owner were badmouthing Mao to the national team coaches to add fuel to the fire.
S: Although I can understand why he might be annoyed for being denied a loan, and I'm sure Zhu isn't short of a penny, a lot of Shenhua fans are saying its not relevant. And its certainly not a reason to only bother playing well when its your hometown team you are up against.
B: I think a lot of Guoan fans are happy with how he's performed for us against teams other than Shenhua so far.
S: Infact, Mao has scored nine goals in the Chinese Super League since leaving Shenhua – FOUR of them have been score against Shenhua. So that basically says, he has the talent, but he can only motivate himself to fulfill his obvious talent when playing against Shenhua. That means he is lazy, unprofessional and selfish.
B: I'm confident he's going to put up decent numbers in Beijing. Whether its in a starting role or coming off the bench, so far Mao's been able to change the shape of things with his runs.
S: We will see. Personally despite the fact I think he's an idiot, I hope he can prove himself finally. But he has nothing to be proud of with his performances against Shenhua, it only shows how lacking he is the rest of the time, and lacking he is because he's not been near the national team for years and he's not going to Europe anytime soon, unless he somehow manages to keep his form up when playing teams not from his hometown.
B: I think Beijing can be confident they got an impact player, if he gets the playing time, he could really have a breakout year this season and since he's still only 25, it's far too early to write him off.
S: I hope not, Chinese football can't afford to write off anyone. So about last weekend, do you want to post a link to weibo and a certain trio of contributors making a spectacle of themselves?
B: I think if we were to do that, the video should be blurred out to protect the innocent.
S: Or the identities of the guilty….
B: True, I don't think there were any innocents.
S: Perhaps some of the many weibo users who were subjected to the disorderly shenanigans depicted in the video.
B: The video can be viewed at http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMzY4Mjg1NjMy.html but its not suitable for work or any situation where sober individuals are involved.
S: Heh-heh. We are taking Pub Talk to the next level. If only we had taken more time out and drank water, it would have been more civilized.
B: Most definitely! Alright, I'm not going to talk about the Maoxtravaganza on Friday any more, there were a couple of other matches worth discussing from the weekend, in particular, two different derbies.
S: Yes, I don't think anyone saw Evergrande's defeat coming, that shocked me.
B: Yeah, I figured they'd lose a lot earlier in the season this year, but didn't think their first loss would come at the hands of Fuli. Plus, that win makes Guoan's loss to them the week before look a lot less embarassing.
S: Sad but true. It also makes our pre-season predictions look a bit stronger. Early though it is.
B: I think we've seen that Guangzhou is fallible. The strategy is there, stop Conca and you stop Guangzhou. He's not only an important scorer, the ball flows through him in the midfield, if you can shut him down, they can be shut down. Saying "stop Conca" and actually doing it are two completely different things though. Few Chinese Super League teams have really been able to neutralize him.
S: I think Fuli were perhaps a bit lucky to get the victory, although Guangzhou got beaten again last night in the ACL, by the Thai champions, which is possibly a bigger surprise, especially considering they won their first game against the Korean champs Jeonbuk 5-1 away from home.
B: I think we may need to be questioning how good Jeonbuk is, as Kashiwa was able to crush them 5-1 as well. The Thai team is solid, I think far too many disrespected them based on the quality of the Thai national team, but Thai football is improving.
S: Thai football certainly is on the up, I've been reading good things about their league, I really hope local fans wil ditch their Man Ure jerseys of whatever other Premier$hip team they follow, and support their local league. At least that way something good could come out of Thai success in Asia if it was at Guangzhou's expense.
B: If they get out of this "group of death" that should help. Evergrande need to get back on track, fortunately for them, this weekend they get a break, hosting Henan.
S: Famous last words….
B: Haha, true, but on paper, this weekend really doesn't hold that much excitement, especially after the derbies of the previous week. That said, next week we have another set of really exciting matches. But let's save that for then, Shenhua host Fuli this weekend, thoughts?
S: Well Shenhua haven't looked too clever in their first two games, as predicted by everyone, the defence has been found wanting. So coming up against a team that beat the reigning champions and last year's runners up in their first two Chinese Super League games, probably isn't ideal for us.
B: True, but we'll finally get to see Fuli away from home.
S: At this rate, avoiding defeat is looking like an achievement for Shenhua. Then again, early days and all that, perhaps this might be the weekend when Shenhua get it together.
B: Guoan has an interesting match too this weekend, away at Hangzhou.
S: Hangzhou isn't a place Shenhua have a good record at. It will be interesting to see how their new Japanese manager does, but they lost quite badly in the other Yangtze Delta Derby last weekend, against Jiangsu, they didn't look good at all.
B: Yeah, they didn't look much better two weeks ago against Qingdao. I thought the new manager and improved foreigners could unite the team, but it seems like they are still struggling to find their way. If they can get a big crowd at Huanglong again, it might be tough, but I'm optimistic Guoan can get a result.
S: Well yeah, at least they haven't been forced out of their stadium again, as they were last year, stupidly.
B: As I said, kind of a dull week, but any other match catch your fancy?
S: Yeah after last week with so many derbies, this week's fixture card looks flat…I'll be interested to see how many fans Shanghai Shenxin get in their first game at home, especially considering they spanked Henan 4-0 away from home last week.
B: Attendance in that match will be interesting. For me, it's hard to look away from the Shenhua-Fuli match, but I think Jiangsu-Tianjin is kind of interesting, I want to see how for real this Jiangsu side is. I think despite the low temperatures, Liaoning-Changchun is always good for some sparks too.
S: Yeah that isn't quite a derby, but they're both from Dongbei so there will be some regional pride at stake. Jiangsu I'm also interested to see how they do – Jiang Jiajun scored with almost his first touch for them I think. Unfortunately for Shenhua, more former than current Shenhua players scored in the last round…
B: Well, drain your sorrows with this beer before we head out the pub.
S: Right. Shenhua are in need of a cheer. What's Guoan's chances this weekend do you think?
B: I think we'll come away with a point minimum, and maybe be able to poach all three.
S: Right. Well it will be a more sober weekend than the previous one for all concerned at , that is one prediction I'm happy to make.
B: Yeah, rest assured. I think beyond my weekly stop in this pub, I'm staying away from the drink for awhile.
S: Probably just as well – you were somewhat the worse for wear during the festivities, I'm happy to tell the readers that the enthusiasm we have for the online Pub very much extends to the real one too.
B: Yes, though we weren't able to get a picture of ourselves in our respective shirts in an actual pub. Then again I think our readers will probably appreciate not seeing my ugly mug.
S: Yes I've no desire to scare our readers with images of ourselves just yet.
B: Cheers my man, enjoy the weekend.
S: Cheers mate, until next week.
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The bard on tape: Delving into Anthony Burgess's Shakespeare lectures
Sam Jermy
They Wrote In English
The Foundation supports academic study into Anthony Burgess. In this guest blog post, PhD student Sam Jermy writes about his work on Burgess and Shakespeare, and his new research project with the Foundation.
Anthony Burgess was continually interested and engaged with the writing, world and life of William Shakespeare.
This creative engagement was sustained throughout his life, and it includes a major novel, a speculative biography, short stories, an unproduced TV series, a Hollywood musical and a variety of journalism, as well as a full ballet suite for orchestra.
Burgess also engaged with Shakespeare as a teacher and educator. He wrote at length about Shakespeare in his non-fiction literary histories, English Literature: A Survey for Students (1958, revised 1974) and They Wrote in English (1979). Before he became a full-time writer, Burgess had worked as a schoolmaster in Bamber Bridge, Banbury and Malaya, and in later years he gave guest lectures at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Princeton University, among other places.
While working as a visiting professor in 1973 at City College New York, Burgess gave a series of seventeen lectures about Shakespeare to a diverse student body. Recordings of this lecture series, originally reel-to-reel tapes and now digitised, are part of the extensive material on Burgess and Shakespeare held within the Burgess Foundation's archive. However, the lectures are not widely known as far as the public is concerned.
Our Shakespeare resource examines some of the ways in which Anthony Burgess thought about and wrote about one of his greatest inspirations.
That is, until now. This month I have started a research and cataloguing project with the Anthony Burgess Foundation, which takes the 1973 Shakespeare lectures as its focus. This research will involve cataloguing the collection to make the collection fully accessible to researchers for the first time, as well as creating new web pages, podcasts, and other materials to bring these lecture recordings to new audiences.
Outside of this project, I am currently completing my doctoral research at the University of Leeds on one of Shakespeare's contemporaries and collaborators, Thomas Middleton. Interestingly, Burgess borrows the name Beatrice-Joanna from Middleton's darkly-sexual tragedy The Changeling (1622) for the protagonist of his 1962 novel The Wanting Seed.
My project is all about Burgess's wide-ranging and fascinating engagement with Shakespeare and the Renaissance world in which he wrote. I am excited to see how this new material can illuminate how we think about the relationship between these two writers and dramatists.
By listening to and cataloguing these lectures as a series for the first time since they were delivered in 1973, this project will allow Burgess's teaching of Shakespeare at City College to be understood in the wider context of his life and work. Understanding these lecture recordings will make the collection more accessible to future researchers. The catalogue will describe the contents of these lectures at individual item level, as well as providing a narrative of the overall series.
The project will situate this material alongside the extensive holdings in the Burgess Foundation's archive relating to Shakespeare, including literary manuscripts, music scores, journalism, books in Burgess's private library and his published work on Shakespeare, Marlowe and the Elizabethan period. Delving into the lecture series will emphasise Burgess as a teacher of Shakespeare alongside his prolific creative output and will perhaps lead us to reconsider the role Shakespeare played in Burgess's own life and work.
While the Covid-19 lockdown in England does mean that some of the work we had planned to do within the Burgess archive is temporarily on hold, I'm looking forward to the extended time I will spend listening to Burgess on Shakespeare over the coming months of the project. His deep love and creative spark for Shakespeare is readily apparent, and I fully expect that his extensive knowledge of Elizabethan London will be matched by his desire to speculate on what Shakespeare's life would have been like.
Burgess is known to identify and model himself partly on Shakespeare. At the time of these lectures, Burgess would have also been a literary dramatist, completing a new adaptation of Edmund Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac as a Broadway musical. Even in the format of a lecture series delivered for students at university, it is hard not to imagine the kinds of overlaps and parallels that will be drawn by Burgess between himself and Shakespeare. As Burgess says in the opening lecture, 'I can only present myself to you as a man that has read Shakespeare, idolised Shakespeare, and tried to be influenced by him in my own craft of writing.'
An example of Burgess's engaging and entertaining lecturing style can be found in the current exhibition 'Anthony Burgess on Tape', which is well worth listening to.
Sam Jermy is a PhD Student at the University of Leeds. His research is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council through the White Rose College of the Arts and Humanities.


This final post is about the other decor elements that I haven't shared thus far. I had so much fun planning the decor for this party and though the wind tried to thwart those plans, it still came out as I imagined! What do you think?
I found instructions for the "cowpoke" banner here. It was a project I added at the last minute because I had almost everything on hand. I love it! I'm thinking it might reappear in a future cowgirl party.
I know I sound like a broken record talking about the wind. But it was really crazy! My inspiration for the backdrop of the table was this one. I made ruffled streamers and bought pom pom fringe to create that curtain look. But it was so windy that I knew it would never work. For now they sit in my garage. But I'm pretty sure I'll be able to use them in the future; something tells me I just might throw another party involving pink. The fans are a bit crazy due to...you guessed it...the wind.
To make the backdrop I found clip art of an elephant-- one I felt that I could replicate by hand-- online. I then drew the silhouette on a piece of poster board Once I had it just right, I cut it out and traced it onto large construction paper. I embellished it with a pom, scrapbook paper, pom pom fringe, and ric rac. I then mounted it on foam core and created a "frame" out of ruffled streamers (I found several tutorials on ruffled streamers but I liked this one the best). I made the tissue paper fans using these instructions (I made them a bit thicker by using a few sheets of tissue paper instead of 1). I purchased the more intricate fans (sources below).
I LOVED this idea. It came out so cute thanks to my sister-in-law's adorable sign.
Popcorn cupcake centerpiece. Oh and I'm in love with the elephant bookends up against the red and white box. SO cute!
The Ticket "cake" was one of my favorite elements!
I mounted Nadia's month by month photos on scrap paper and then strung them over the gift table.
Do the clothespins look familiar?! They are the same ones my mom colored and adorned with gems for Genevieve's first birthday party. My mama's a keeper for sure.
I love it when I can re-use party stuff!
Because I couldn't decide which month by month pictures to use, I used 2 sets. The ones above the gift table were full body shots and these (above) are some of my favorite close-ups from those shoots. I strung them in an empty frame with ribbon and plain 'ol clothespins. (That's the nice part about going a little bit "rustic" with a party--you can get away with using some natural items).
I had fun with the favor table.
Baby food jars + painted lids + scrapbook paper + twine and tickets, complete with a "Thank you for clowning around with me" favor tag.
C'mon, how cute is this?!
I loved this circus banner. Can I take credit for "designing" it even though my sister-in-law actually made it?!
Ignore us (because clearly it's not our greatest photo together) but you can see the banner better in this shot.
This wasn't what I originally planned to do for a centerpiece but it totally came together at the last minute. So cute and fun!
These bright colors just kill me! And a "look for less" tip--these came from iParty for $1.49. They weren't quite as perfect as Whirly Pops but unless you buy those in bulk those can be $3 or $4 a pop. I also spotted them at the Dollar Tree later for $1! (and resisted the temptation to buy 10 more).
I might have gone through a "balloons aren't cool phase." What was I thinking?!
They just make me so happy!
And lastly a big fat huge thank you to Jordan! She's an amazing photographer, sweet and generous friend, super creative, and totally witty. Check out her photography page here and her blog here.
Cowpoke banner: Instructions here. Burlap from Hobby Lobby (leftover from this party) and Handkerchiefs from Wal-Mart.
Hanging fans- Oriental Trading Company. (I LOVE these and you can't beat the value!).
Ferris Wheel Cupcake Holder: Zulily (You can also find it here).
Tickets for ticket cake: see this post for yellow. Pink from here.
Colored Clothespins: My mom colored these with a highlighter! She then stuck sticky gems on them. You can find tons of cute colored clothespins here or on etsy.
If you feel like a warmer clime in December, say like Texas, I would totally want you to plan my birthday party : ) You are awesome at this stuff!
Oh my....probably could've done without the picture at the end, but thanks for the shout out! :) You did such a fantastic job, as did you're SIL!!
Where did you find the hat boxes for the ticket cake??
I got them from a thrift store. You might be able to find them at Craft stores too- they'd just be more $ probably. Good luck and thanks for stopping by!


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Colorado's Perlmutter becomes 26th House Democrat not running for reelection this year
Rep. Ed Perlmutter of Colorado becomes 26th House Democrat to decline to run for reelection this year.,
Saying that "there comes a time when you pass the torch to the next generation of leaders," Democratic Rep. Ed Perlmutter of Colorado announced on Monday that he would retire from Congress at the end of his current term rather than run for reelection in November's midterms.
"I've never shied away from a challenge, but it's time for me to move on and explore other opportunities," Perlmutter, who first won election to Congress in 2006, said in his statement.
Rep. Ed Perlmutter, D-Colo., speaks during a House Rules Committee hearing on the impeachment against President Donald Trump, Dec. 17, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool, File)
SURGE IN HOUSE DEMOCRATIC RETIREMENTS AS 2021 COMES TO A CLOSE
Perlmutter becomes the 26th House Democrat this cycle to announce retirement or a bid for another office rather than run for reelection in November's midterms, when the party tries to defend its razor-thin majority in the House amid a rough political climate. The GOP needs a net gain of just five seats in the 435-member chamber next year to regain the House majority it lost to the Democrats in the 2018 midterms.
Republicans have history on their side — on average the party that wins the White House in a presidential election loses more than 25 House seats in the ensuing midterm election.
And last month's major setback for President Biden and congressional Democrats in their push to pass a sweeping social spending bill, along with the five-month downward spiral of the president's poll numbers, is also doing House Democrats no favors as try to keep the majority next November.
U.S. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) wait during votes at the first session of the 117th Congress in the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, Jan. 3, 2021. (Tasos Katopodis/Pool via REUTERS)
MCCARTHY LIKENS 2022 MIDTERMS TO '100-YEAR STORM'
Perlmutter represents a blue-leaning district that covers the northern and western suburbs of Denver. The district is being shifted slightly westward as part of the once-in-a-decade congressional redistricting, and is expected to become more competitive but still lean towards the Democrats.
Perlmutter is a member of the moderate New Democrat Coalition and chairs the Consumer Protection and Financial Institutions subcommittee of the Financial Services Committee. He also sits on the Science, Space and Technology Committee and the Rules Committee and is a member of the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress.
The 68-year-old Perlmutter served for eight years in Colorado's state Senate before winning election to Congress.
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Dekanat Niedzica – jeden z 45  dekanatów w rzymskokatolickiej archidiecezji krakowskiej.

Parafie
W skład dekanatu wchodzi 14 parafii i dwa rektoraty :

 parafia św. Michała Archanioła – Dębno
 parafia św. Jana Chrzciciela – Dursztyn
 parafia św. Stanisława – Frydman
 parafia Narodzenia NMP – Harklowa
parafia Wszystkich Świętych – Kacwin
 parafia MB Częstochowskiej – Kluszkowce
 parafia św. Marcina – Krempachy
 parafia św. Kwiryna – Łapsze Niżne
 parafia św. Apostołów Piotra i Pawła – Łapsze Wyżne
 parafia Przenajświętszej Trójcy – Łopuszna
 parafia św. Mikołaja – Maniowy
 parafia św. Bartłomieja Apostoła – Niedzica
 parafia św. Katarzyny – Nowa Biała
 parafia św. Stanisława – Sromowce Wyżne

 rektorat MB Fatimskiej – Czorsztyn
 rektorat Matki Bożej Różańcowej – Mizerna

Sąsiednie dekanaty
Białka Tatrzańska, Krościenko nad Dunajcem (diec. tarnowska), Łącko (diec. tarnowska), Nowy Targ

Przypisy

Niedzica