Sen. Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat, fired back. ''He should pick on someone his own size,'' he said.
"If the president can go to China at taxpayers' expense, these kids ought to be able to go on a privately paid trip to Cuba to play some baseball,'' Leahy said in a statement.
Diaz-Balart invited members of the pro-embargo Cuba Democracy Caucus to a meeting last month with officials from the State Department and the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control to talk about the issue.
Diaz-Balart noted that the media had ''sadly'' not asked him about the ''torture of 21-year-old dissident Yuselin Ferrera,'' whose case he took up on the House floor in June.
A spokesman for the Treasury Department declined comment on Diaz-Balart's concerns and said he could neither confirm nor deny that the team was issued a license to travel because the licenses are protected by the Trade Secrets Act.
The team is named after the northern peregrine falcon that migrates to Cuba each winter.
The trip was dreamed up by the team's head coach, Tim Levin, a nature writer who fell in love with Cuba on a 1993 assignment for Audubon magazine.
According to the team website, they'll stay at the Salesian Sisters' convent and school in Penalver, outside Havana.
Levin's son and about a dozen other kids will play at least 10 games against Cuban teams.


Create engagement every 3-5 minutes as studies show that participants mentally check out every 7 minutes.
Breaks, re-energizes participants. Display a timer that counts down from 10 min.
Storytelling, people remember stories more than plain facts.
Thinking, have participants do an activity that involves thinking and give them time to do it.
Tests, participants do best when they know an evaluation is coming up.
Multiple voices, especially a man and a woman's voice keep participants interested.
Humor, participants can hear your emotions so tell an appropriate joke to lighten the mood. Smile when speaking as it changes your voice.
Enjoy yourself, if you don't no one else will.
Questions usually fall in to four categories: technology, activity instructions, program logistics, and program content. The presenter should focus on the program content questions. All others should be taken care of through explicit instructions, prior trainings or other people specifically handling those other questions.
Many people don't know how to handle 0pen ended questions.
They don't know where to answer this type of question and generally do nothing.
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I intended to do this first thing this morning. It is already 3:50 p.m. Where did the day go? Let's see what my Spirit Guides have to share today? (My husband's three pound Chihuahua, Maveric is sitting on my lap "helping").
Spirit Guides: We want to talk today about being grounded and present in your body. The human experience was created to learn love from a physical perspective. If you are not grounded and present in your body, you cannot have the full benefits of the physical body experience. How much time do you spend day dreaming, or thinking about the past or future. If you are in the past or future, you cannot be in the present. Being in nature is the best way to ground yourself to this beautiful earth you live on. We have suggested to you Lexa to lean on a tree, since trees are so well grounded. She responded with, oh my, that would make me a tree hugger, like it is a bad thing. Being a "tree hugger" helps you be grounded more quickly than any other technique we know of. Spend some time in nature this weekend. Get your bare feet on the grass, earth or sand. Lay in the sun, your body will absorb much needed vitamins and you will raise your brains serotonin levels. Join the other tree huggers of the world and hug a tree, see just how quickly you feel a deeper connection to the earth and yourself, see just why being a tree hugger is a great thing.
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Common seals and grey seals are the two types of seals most commonly found in the Highlands of Scotland. The grey seal is the larger of the two species and breeds all around the British Isles. Grey seal numbers are increasing thanks to recent conservation efforts.
These animals often come ashore on remote islands and deserted beaches to give birth to their pups in the autumn, to moult over the spring period and at various other times of the year in between foraging trips.
Female grey seals will often give birth to only a single white coated pup, this pup will become self sufficient within three weeks when it is left to its own devices. 90% of the grey seals breed in Scotland, with the majority of this number being located in the Hebrides and around Orkney.
Grey seals can live for over 20 years and will only begin to breed from an age of 10 (or 5 in the case of females).
They feed mainly on fish that reside near the sea bed such as sandeels, whitefish, cod, haddock, whiting, ling, pollack, and flatfish.
Common seals are located around coasts all over the North Atlantic and the North Pacific with Britain holding almost 40% of the population of the European type of common seal. Common seals will often come ashore in more sheltered and secluded areas such as on sandbanks and in estuaries.
June and July of each year is when common seals birth their pups. Common seals diet varies with the seasons and depends on what is available from region to region, but typically features sandeels, whitefish, herring, sprat, flatfish, and octopus and squid.


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Who is Joe Neguse's wife Andrea Neguse?
Published: 16:47 ET, Feb 10 2021
Updated: 16:47 ET, Feb 10 2021
US Representative of Colorado Joe Neguse has been married to his wife Andrea Rael since 2015.
The couple have a daughter together, Natalie, who was born in August 2018.
Joe NeguseCredit: AP:Associated Press
Who is Joe Neguse?
Joseph Neguse was born on May 13, 1984, in Bakersfield, California.
Neguse has been the US Representative for Colorado's 2nd congressional district since 2019.
He is a member of the Democratic party.
Joe and his wife Andrea NeguseCredit: Twitter
Neguse is the US Representative for Colorado's 2nd congressional districtCredit: Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
Neguse is the first Eritrean-American elected to the United States Congress, and Colorado's first congressman of African descent.
Neguse is one of the House impeachment managers for Donald Trump's second impeachment trial.
Who is Joe Neguse's wife Andrea Neguse?
Andrea Jimenez Rael, 33, was born on March 19, 1981, in Broomfield, Colorado.
Andrea received a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Colorado.
While in college, she interned at the Boulder Daily Camera and Law Week/State Bill Colorado.
Joe and Andrea have a daughter together who was born in August 2018Credit: Twitter
Neguse is one of the House impeachment managers for Donald Trump's second impeachment trialCredit: AP:Associated Press
Her career in media began in 2010, as a blogger and citizen journalist.
She was previously the associate editor at The Huffington Post in Denver.
However, Andrea switched her focus from journalism into the tech world.
The 33-year-old was the lead developer at Spotzer, a digital marketing solutions company based in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
What did Joe Neguse say at Trump's impeachment trial?
In day two of Trump's impeachment trial, Neguse said Trump "summoned, assembled and incited" the mob.
"Senators, this clearly was not just one speech. It didn't just happen," Neguse said of Trump's January 6 remarks that incited a deadly attack on the US Capitol.
"It was part of a carefully planned, months-long effort with a very specific instruction: Show up on January 6th and get your people to fight the certification. He incited it. It was foreseeable."
In day two of Trump's impeachment trial, Joe Neguse said Trump 'summoned, assembled and incited' the mobCredit: Reuters
Neguse spoke for nearly 30 minutes on February 10, explaining the prosecutors' case.
"As you'll see during the course of this trial, that mob was summoned, assembled and incited by the former president of the United States, Donald Trump," Neguse alleged.
"And he did that because he wanted to stop the transfer of power, so that he could retain power."
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This is an opportunity as a result of strong business growth but comes with an established territory and ledger. The territory delineation is flexible at this stage but the ideal candidate would cover much of the South.
Nutritional experience, especially including farm feed formulation, will be helpful but the ability to sell to the trade will be most important. This is a business manager role and not a sales role alone.
You will need to have the capability to manage client accounts and grow their business steadily alongside the ability to identify opportunities, plan for growth in the region and manage margin are all important.
Candidates must be able to influence the decision makers in the trade in their area and also to support their customers.
Previous commercial experience in the UK feed or livestock industry is essential. A very competitive package will be offered reflecting experience and ability. It will include a good salary and a performance related bonus plus company car, phone and laptop.
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Wall remains of a Roman villa built in the first century BC. You can still see the remains of a large swimming pool oriented towards the sea on the Portoferraio bay, with an attached heating system and system for the exchange of water.
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Should I Choose a Traditional or Infrared Sauna? Why not get…both!?
We regularly run into customers who are shopping for a sauna, and quickly get mystified by choosing between a traditional steam model and an infrared model.
If I go on vacation, do I like the hot tropical destinations, or the dry desert spots?
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Do I want a sauna for respiratory reasons, muscle recovery, joint relief, relaxation…or all of the above?
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The Best High Interest Bank Current Accounts in 2016!
This entry was posted in Earn Money Save Money and tagged bank account on January 2, 2016 by MG.
Santander's 123 current account has been many peoples favourite choice for a current account over the past few years. The bank account offered great cash back and interest rates. Unfortunately, the people running Santander have decided to increase the monthly account fee from £2 to £5 effective this month. Whilst I do still believe Santander offers good value as seen by a recent post I did showing how much you need in the account to break even, it can no more said to be the outright best bank for your money.
In 2016, there is no outright favourite current account like Santander has been over the few past. If you are comfortable keeping your money in one place and want the least hassle, the Santander 123 current account may still be the best account for you.
But if you want the highest interest rate, and don't mind having multiple bank accounts, it would probably be best to split your money into several different bank accounts.
If you have £20,000 in a Santander 123 current account for instance which is the limit you get interest up to, you will receive £35 a month after tax.
Due to 20% tax, you earn 2.4% interest (3% * 0.8) which gets you £40 a month. Subtracting the monthly £5 fee you get £35.
On the other hand, if you put your £20,000 across the top tier of accounts – Nationwide FlexDirect Account and TSB Classic Plus Account at 5%, Lloyds current account at 4% and Bank of Scotland / Tesco current account at 3% (but with no fee as with Santander) you get £49.33 after tax. That's £14 extra a month!
By splitting your money across several accounts, you can get an extra £14 a month. If you really need the extra money, getting several bank accounts could be a good way to go.
Nationwide FlexDirect Account -5% interest on balances up to £2,500.
TSB Classic Plus Account – 5% interest on balances up to £2,000.
Lloyds current account – Earn interest on your whole balance up to £5,000. If your balance is between £1 to £1,999.99, you'll earn 1% interest, if your balance is between £2,000 to £3,999.99, you'll earn 2% interest and if your balance is between £4,000 to £5,000, you'll earn 4% interest.
Bank of Scotland – 3% interest on balances between £3,000 – £5,000.
Tesco current account – 3% Interest on balances up to £3,000.
Santander 123 current – 3% interest on balances up to £20,000.
(Please note that from April 6th 2016, the first £1000 of interest received is tax free).


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This past Sunday, we drove up to to the Oxfordshire Countryside to spend the day at Soho Farmhouse. Needless to say, it was love at first sight for me. I am going to preface this post by saying, I did not take nearly enough photos, which is really unusual, but trust me when I say, despite a lack of photos to show you, it was spectacular and so much so that I had to write about it. Normally when I think of a farmhouse in the country, I think of old and dirty mouse-ridden estates. The sort of place you need to hire someone like Adam's Pest Control. Soho was definitely different from those naive preconceptions!
Soho Farmhouse is like a luxury summer camp for adults. The gorgeous grounds span over 100 acres of the Oxfordshire Countryside and has 40 cabins, a seven bedroom cottage and a four bedroom cottage. It also has horse stables, a pool, a gym, a lake, a deli, two gorgeous barns, a few different restaurants, a spa, a boathouse, a farmyard, a garden, cinema, a cookhouse …yes the list goes on and on. It's an incredible retreat.
The Farmyard area was awesome – pool tables, foosball tables, plush couches, and a roaring fire. It's the ultimate hangout to kick back and relax with some drinks.
You can hop on some bikes and traipse around the countryside.
Be sure to visit the cheese room in the Farmhouse Deli!
Or catch a movie in Electric Cinema – how amazing is this movie theatre?
Take a walk through what is quite possibly the most beautiful barn in the world. (Hello dream wedding venue).
I'm enamoured with the barn – the huge wheel chandeliers, cream furniture and haystacks. It was charming, elegant and rustic.
And visit the horses in the stables. You can take horses out and ride them around the countryside for the day. I used to ride horses until I was a teenager and would still love to get back into it.
Soho Farmhouse is an exquisite retreat and an ideal place to switch off for a weekend. There isn't any cell phone service there, which really helps you relax and enjoy the moment. The atmosphere, service and food was excellent and there is so much to enjoy while you're there. I can't recommend it enough. If you're a Soho House member and haven't been yet – grab your wellies and make a reservation for a weekend away! Good news is, even if you're not a member, you can arrange a getaway. If you've been on the fence about joining Soho House, Soho Farmhouse will convince you. It's that beautiful.
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Industry perspective into culinary habits that will be big this year.
The UAE's culinary business is experiencing a growth spurt. It is almost as if the industry has somewhat entered its teens when we expected it take some more time. If reports are to be believed, about 20,000 F&B outlets are expected to 'shroom up by 2020. Such reports are not surprising. Think of UAE as your home kitchen. When more guests turn up, you just make some more food and serve your guests. The numbers of tourists flocking to the UAE sees a healthy year-on-year growth. Hotels are expanding their chains and restaurants. Eatery chains are opening newer outlets in newer malls that grow faster than the palm trees. Stand-alone eateries and food entrepreneurs see this as a growth opportunity to increase their capacity. And so, the country's kitchen, as it were, is expanding.
UAE is a hotspot of culinary conquests. It is the star attraction. Residents and tourists alike, love eating out and why not! When you can get food from the world in a span of 50 kilometres or thereabouts, food becomes the main attraction. Accessibility to the global palate is easier than getting a visa to go for a holiday. Think Argentinian to Japanese – and all that is available, in full authenticity.
All this has led to a large influx of global culinary masters. Whether starred or yearning to have the Bibendum's mark of excellence, they all make sure that they have a UAE presence. It could be argued, over some single-origin coffee and focaccia, that the usual map pegs are giving way to opening up in the glittering UAE. Georgio Locatelli, Gary Rhodes, Nobu, Gordon Ramsey, Atul Kochchar, Heinz Beck, Vikas Khanna, Yannick Alleno, Vineet Bhatia and Jamie Oliver are some names that reinforce the belief as high as the Burj that Dubai is quickly becoming a culinary epicentre.
In this Middle East Milan, the melange of such culinary brands helps hotels lure more and newer guests. Global chains are swimming the seas to set shop here like Joe's Crab Shack did when they opened their 131st store and the 1st overseas restaurant in the Dubai Mall a few months back. I see that the burgeoning food industry has also given rise to the new breed of food journalists or bloggers who are becoming a force to reckon with, Darth Vader notwithstanding. Adding in more gourmet force, digital platforms allow restaurants of all hues and pockets to list and get reviewed – all of this feeding into the big churning bowl of the culinary kingdom in the UAE.
With the last few years being spectacular in this respect, 2016 begins on a happy and hopeful note of newer food experiences and newer entrants into the market. This is an attempt to tap into the top 5 trends of this year.
Fine dine does not find favours with many, mainly because it is a starched and stiff affair. These days, people want to go to a restaurant, however posh, to have some good nosh, enjoy the ambience without having to worry about which service fork to use or if their cufflinks are secretly kissing the meat gravy.
Casual Smart Dining restaurants are a sub-niche between the fine dining restaurants and casual dining eateries. The cutlery remains classy while the ambience is slightly more relaxed. Many restaurants are working that extra mile to give value for the dirham spent in eating.
#2. STREET FOOD GOES CHIC Street food has a huge following. After all, it is food that is made for the working class. Look up the cultural history of food and you will see how a certain breed of eateries opened up across the globe that catered to middle class people. It is what is known as the Quick Service Restaurants. Easy to make food that could be consumed on the go became a rage. Restaurant grew in operations due to popularity and less wastage of resources. What is cooked is served and finished. But the hidden hurdle was that of unhealthy food. Deep fried, slathered with fat and preservative laden condiments didn't help the gastro gizzards of the consumers; not to mention processed meats.
But now, street food has been adopted by the high street. High end restaurants realise the popularity and taste profile of such dishes and have gladly given them a healthy make-over for the discerning diner to savour the taste and yet not compromise on health. Little wonder that Michelin-starred chef Vikas Khanna's one year old restaurant Junoon at the Shangri-La, Dubai serves up a street food brunch that showcases the length and breadth of Indian street food without the need to have antacids. The eggplant chat is a favourite of mine.
The very vibrant restaurant Nine7One at Oberoi Dubai has dished out the very popular Street Art Brunch that houses global favourites. You could be choosing your tacos one moment, and munching on fish and chips on the next. You could be negotiating your chopsticks over your favourite sushi or dipping into a bowl of Thai noodle soup with 'everything in it'.
If you prefer some theatrics with your food, then Tresind at Nassima Towers, Dubai is your destination where the shy executive chef Himanshu Saini serves Indian street food in a boisterous manner, replete with liquid nitrogen and chutney gels to suit your dormant artist.
If you are not the sorts to saunter into 5 star properties, then bespoke cafes like The Sum Of Us, snuck into Trade Centre or Tom and Serg, tucked away in Al Quoz could be your preferred haunt to have healthy options of simple and humble street foods. The way I see it, there is going to be more street food that will be elevated to high-wire status by many restaurants in the months to come.
Calling on the local Favreau. Just last year, local boy Jassim Najjar returned from the US. He was besotted with food trucks, "I'd just graduated and come back with this idea to have my own food truck. I fell in love with them while I was there – obsessed, actually." Jassim helped his overweight chef brother lose weight and they decided to put it out on the menu of their food truck called f!T!
Food trucks are no longer just a fancy idea and are a trend that is catching on in the region. Most food trucks started out serving just sandwiches and burgers for consumers on the move. Today, more complex dishes are being added. Gourmet food trucks are starting to appear as part of the evolution of the new culinary trend.
Meet the owners of GObai, the brainchild of Cara Davies, woman entrepreneur, and her business partner Kevin Vaz, who decided to transport some Goan street food flavours to the emirate. "Dubai is such a melting pot of flavours, so we couldn't help but give the food a Dubai twist, but it's essentially traditional Goan food," says Cara.
Dubai residents would have seen fancy and funked up food trucks in Emaar Boulevard, JLT Park, Kite Beach or Zabeel Park. Food trucks reach out to food lovers, with diners enjoying their favourite food sitting not in a brick and mortar restaurant but in the setting they choose to.
With the interest in food trucks, riding the high wave, companies are branching out into 360 degree B2B models where food entrepreneurs can get a truck from under a single roof – designed, fitted out, with licences procured as well.
Food trucks are now beginning to be seen in various events, be it the Art Fair at Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi or the brand new food truck brunch at the Emirates Golf Course, Dubai.
Moral of the story, this mobile model of food is going to catch on like wild-fire with food enthusiasts choosing to put in money in food trucks while restaurant chains see this as a popular model to reach out to patrons and potential customers.
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Here is a word that has garbed up as a super-hero in the dietary domain. Nutrient rich food items that are healthy (naturally) and sometimes help medical conditions are called Super Foods. Keeping in mind the first part, can also make a potato a member of this league. To demystify super foods, it is something that helps lose or control weight with some additional features like improving bodily functions. While I do feel that 'super foods' is as much a marketing gimmick as Valentine's Day, I do appreciate the goods that have come on to the table. I bet my last dirham coin that you would have heard of quinoa, blueberries, kale, goji berry, wheatgrass, chia seed and many more.
I see the rise of carefully put together ingredients that are carefully grown, keeping in mind the generally unhealthy standard of living that most of us have. So be it fresh salmon or eggs that give Omega 3, or exotic acai berries or seaweed for that matter, more and more restaurants are dishing out to the latest living demands.
I do not mind it at all, after all cocoa powder is also considered to be a super food!
Herve This may not be too happy knowing that molecular gastronomy is slowly making an exit. Known as the father of molecular gastronomy, Herve had visions of ending world hunger with chemical compounds becoming the ingredients of the future. While most of us may not understand the 'why' or 'what' behind molecular gastronomy, it is basically changing the physicality (and chemical composition) of food to manipulate taste and texture.
Here is the UAE, we have felt like being on the sets of the Terminator when liquid nitrogen was used to play around with hydration of ingredients. Undoubtedly there is more MG than gimmicky food presentations – it is the careful studying of food texture and presenting it in a form un-thought of. Mint chutney became globules, sorbets became spheres, savoury became mousse, condiments became edible dust and so on. Avant-garde restaurants experiment with the texture of food, replicating it to look like stones etc. It made the chef and artist and scientist.
My recent meeting with one of the most critically acclaimed chefs in Britain, Michelin star chef, who is successfully running Benaras in London and Rang Mahal in Dubai, Atul Kochhar echoes similar sentiments. "I am not sure consumers feel very excited having chemicals put in their food to replicate the taste. As it is the world is fighting a war against additives and harmful chemicals. Not sure, if they are keen to have a chemical powder that tastes like a curry or chocolate on their plate," feels Kochhar.


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Outside of the United States, the European Union, and Canada, some countries or communities may allow or even require people to make accommodation distinctions based on, for example, marital status, national origin, gender or sexual orientation, in violation of our general nondiscrimination philosophy. In these cases, we do not require hosts to violate local laws, nor to accept guests that could expose the hosts to a real and demonstrable risk of arrest, or physical harm to their persons or property. Hosts who live in such areas should set out any such restriction on their ability to host particular guests in their listing, so that prospective guests are aware of the issue and Airbnb can confirm the necessity for such an action. In communicating any such restrictions, we expect hosts to use clear, factual, non-derogatory terms. Slurs and insults have no place on our platform or in our community.
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The Nondiscrimination Policy applies to all parts of the Airbnb business. We recognize there are additional considerations that need to be made for varied offerings in the Airbnb Community. Here, we have included a few considerations that speak to those instances:
Gender Exemption:
Airbnb Experience hosts may offer a single gender experience if it is necessary to create a safe space (one that does not incite harm or danger and one that is not illegal), protect the safety and privacy of participants, and/or comply with legal or cultural requirements.
Accessibility / Disability / Reasonable Accommodations:
Due to the broad range of Experience offerings, Airbnb Experience hosts may need to inquire about guests' abilities to participate in certain physical activities or inquire about guests' accommodation needs to best prepare their Experiences. Additionally, we encourage Experience hosts to:
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Dirty carpeting makes your home's interior look drab, not to mention it's a breeding ground for smelly odors, fleas, dust mites, skin flakes, bacteria, mold, pollen, viruses, and more, which can potentially make you sick. Therefore, when selling your home, it is strongly recommended that you clean the carpet before selling it to pass on a more sanitized home that will make you proud. It is especially important if the majority of your home contains carpeting.
When it comes to cleaning your carpet, you can do it yourself; however, carpet cleaners provide many benefits over DIY carpet cleaning for superior results, which can help get your home sold faster.
To get your carpet clean, you could certainly rent a carpet cleaner machine and do it yourself. However, professional carpet cleaners are highly trained and skilled in various carpet cleaning techniques that will have your carpet looking like new in no time so you can rest assure it's done right.
They, move heavy furniture for you. Professional cleaners, they take the time and care to run heavy furniture pieces out of the way so they can clean the entire carpet and then put it all back once they're done, so you don't have to.
They use powerful machinery – Professional carpet cleaners use industrial strength machinery as opposed to the poorly made machines typically offered for rent that can make your carpet worse. They also get the water hot enough to effectively kill bacteria and germs as opposed to rented devices that do not.
hey provide the right cleaning solutions for your specific carpet type – When you hire professional carpet cleaners, it eliminates the need to purchase cleaning solutions on your own, which can be expensive. Not to mention, not all carpet shampoos are created equal. Some shampoos can damage the carpet. When washing a rug, you must use a cleaner that is specially formulated for your specific carpet type. Professional carpet cleaners have an inventory of cleaning solutions on hand and will select the right one for your specific carpet type for maximum results.
They pre-treat and remove stains – When you attempt to remove carpet stains yourself, you risk scrubbing them deeper into the carpet fibers or using the wrong products, which can further damage the carpet. Professional carpet cleaners have the right products to effectively pre-treat and remove stains, and they also know the right techniques to get rid of unwanted stains without damaging the carpet.
They have the time it takes to clean your carpet – Cleaning your carpet can take anywhere from a few hours to a few days, depending on the carpet as well as the amount of carpet you have, which you, yourself may find tiresome. However, it is a professional carpet cleaners job to devote their time to clean your carpet, and they can work around your schedule, so you're not inconvenienced.
They use the proper techniques – Professional carpet cleaners employ the right techniques that prevent your carpet from becoming too saturated with water and shampoo, and they also avoid placing the furniture back onto the carpet while it's still wet, which can damage your carpet.
They have the right equipment to dry the floor covering adequately. Professional carpet cleaners utilize fans and other professional equipment to increase the drying process so you can get back to showing your home as soon as possible.
They provide expert advice – Professional carpet cleaners have extensive knowledge concerning all types of flooring and can advise you on the best way to keep your freshly cleaned carpet, as well as your other flooring, free of stains, discoloration, and odors to prolong the life of your floors.
It Helps Ensure Your Carpeting Stands out Against the Comparables Reports to show that on average home buyers view up to 15 homes or more before finally settling on one, during which time they thoroughly examine the floors in comparison to similar properties on the market as one of the determining factors. Therefore, your carpeting needs to look clean and pristine to stand out against comparable homes with carpeting. Otherwise, if the carpet looks dirty and worn, or if it smells, it can deter potential buyers.
Professional carpet cleaners can ensure your carpet is free of all dirt and stains for exceptional carpet that helps display your home in its best light.
First, the cleaners will arrive at your home and take notes of any worn areas and stains as well as the type of carpeting you have.
They will then use a professional strength vacuum to loosen and remove any dirt particles from the carpet.
A preconditioning agent will then be applied to the carpet to help remove any stubborn dirt from the fibers.
The carpet will then be deep cleaned using one of many professional methods, such as steam cleaning, depending on the type of carpet you have.
Steam Cleaning Steam Cleaning Steam cleaning is one of the most effective cleaning methods used. No one steam cleans during this cleaning method. Instead, the carpet cleaner uses specially designed vacuum equipment, which includes a thin rod that sprays a stream of water onto the carpet. By ejecting hot water onto the rug, dirt is loosened immediately.
Then the water along with the dirt is suctioned into the vacuum, leaving the carpet practically dry. The carpet cleaner will then apply additional conditioning to the carpet for increased softness.
Though the initial cost of hiring professional carpet cleaners is typically higher than doing it yourself. Since clean carpet increases your chances of selling your home, once your home is sold it more than pays for itself. On the other hand, if you take the DIY route to save money, if your carpet isn't up to par, you could end up losing the sale, which can cost you more money.
The best carpet cleaning companies offer a satisfaction guarantee. They will come back free of charge to fix any issues. They will re-clean the areas in question if the job is not to your satisfaction. However, the restrictions vary from company to company, so be sure to inquire about the company's guarantee policy before you get started.
The cost of having your carpet cleaned differs based on various factors, such as the number of rooms, the square footage of your rooms, the type of carpet cleaning you require, whether you have stains, whether you have a staircase with carpeting, and whether your carpet needs deodorizing. We can provide you with an estimate per room and square foot to have your carpet professionally cleaned; however, our cleaner will need to visit your home and inspect the area or areas to be cleaned to provide you with a more accurate estimate.
In the end, having your carpet cleaned in addition to other upgrades made to your home can go a long way towards getting your home sold fast. If you reside in Northern Va and are looking to sell your home fast by having your carpet professionally cleaned, we can come to your home and ensure your carpet looks as presentable as possible, regardless to how long you've had it.
Contact a member of our team at (703) 914-2811, visit our website at Astrobrite Carpet Cleaning, or stop into our location at 3303 Prosperity Ave, Fairfax, VA 22031 to find out more about our services.


We will visit in the Cotswold Water Park noted for nightingales. We will hope to hear (and even perhaps see!) these thrilling songsters as well as many other spring arrivals.
Note : It is important to spend some of the time very quietly and still during this event.


Picking up this Magento multi-vendor project in trouble half-way through, we re-evaluated options for The Bootroom and provided an improved design and new capabilities. Looking forward to the launch!
Summary: Picking up this Magento multi-vendor store project in trouble half-way through, we re-evaluated options for The Bootroom and provided an improved design and new capabilities. Looking forward to the launch!
The Bootroom came to us in 2016 looking for an agency to provide Magento technical support. Taking on a half-finished project with a highly bespoke Magento solution using the WebKul Marketplace extension meant we had our work cut out.
WebKul had been selected to allow multiple vendors to sell luxurious footwear using The Bootroom store, but the client had lost confidence in their initial supplier. We revaluated the project, assessed the work still to be done and proposed several options. The client decided that the most cost effective option would be for us to continue with the current implementation and try to get the website working correctly. This has been a lengthy and challenging project, but we hope will be very rewarding when the website finally goes live. With a fresh new design, we have implemented a number of functional enhancements across the website.
The client has a stylish, fully responsive and far more effective solution – and it's not long now until the launch date!


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Battle for last IS enclave edges towards its end
March 21 2019 01:37 AM
Fighters with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) gather near the village of Baghouz in the countryside of the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, yesterday.
Reuters/Baghouz, Syria
The operation to take Islamic State's last enclave in eastern Syria looked close to an end yesterday, with no sign of clashes as US-backed fighters said they were combing the area for hidden militants.
Reuters reporters overlooking Baghouz from a hill on the bank of the Euphrates at the Iraqi border said the area was calm, and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militia searched for tunnels and landmines, an SDF official said.
The SDF on Tuesday captured an encampment where the militants had been mounting a last defence of the tiny enclave, pushing diehard fighters onto a sliver of land at the Euphrates riverside.
There was no immediate update from the SDF yesterday on the fate of these remaining militants.
A group of women and children were seen being evacuated from the Baghouz area.
Islamic State's defeat at Baghouz would end its territorial control over the third of Syria and Iraq it held in 2014 as it sought to carve out a huge caliphate in the region.
While it would represent a significant milestone in Syria's eight-year-old war and in the battle against Islamic State, the militant group remains a threat.
Some of the group's fighters remain holed up in the central Syrian desert and others have gone underground in Iraqi cities to wage an insurgent campaign to destabilise the government.
For the SDF, it would cap a four-year military campaign in which its fighters drove Islamic State from swathes of northeastern Syria with the help of a US-led coalition, taking the city of Raqqa after a months-long battle in 2017.
The group was also forced into retreat by numerous other local and foreign forces roused by its public displays of bloodletting and the attacks it plotted abroad. Its enclave at Baghouz was the last part of the massive territory it suddenly seized in 2014, straddling swathes of Iraq and Syria, where its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared a new caliphate.
His fate, along with other Islamic State leaders, is not known, though the United States has said it believes him to be in Iraq.The group's supporters in Baghouz faced months of siege, pounded by coalition air strikes. Over the past two months, some 60,000 people poured out of the shrinking IS territory.
About half of that number were civilians, the SDF has said, including some Islamic State victims such as enslaved women from Iraq's Yazidi religious community. The others were the group's supporters including about 5,000 fighters.
In recent days, as the enclave shrank, the SDF said hundreds more of them started to surrender, or were captured trying to escape. Most of those who left were moved to displacement camps in northeast Syria.
The fighters were detained, but the SDF has urged foreign countries to take back their citizens, causing a dilemma for some Western states who see them as a threat.
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Pirate the Cat Doing Great!
Agoura Hills Non-Profit Treating Dogs Rescued From La Tuna Fire Little Angels Project, a non-profit organization in Agoura Hills, is treating 19 dogs that were rescued from the La Tuna Fire. Kareen Wynter reports for the KTLA 5 News at 10 on September 6, 2017.


hasmin and mowgli halik. . HD Wallpaper and background images in the disney crossover club tagged: photo jasmine mowgli disney crossover.
I have actually seen these two paired up before in a youtube video. The video features the popular pop music hit- "Stacy's mom." Look for disney crossover\ Stacy's mom if you're interested. Note Also both characters were shown to be eager explorers in their original stories, so this pairing might just have potential!


Paws DOWN, this is the most heartwarming thing I've heard all week! Turns out that Fiona Apple cancelled her South American concert tour so she could stay home with her ill dog, Janet. Sister Sledge had it right. "We are family!"


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Photography was something I have enjoyed since my early twenties. Family and friends encouraged me to invest in some good quality equipment and to pursue wildlife photography as something other than a hobby.
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[[Bemix]] is a web-based media player. It supports multiple soundcards and various networked client types, allowing a group to use a centralized server to control several speakers. Commands are issued through URIs, where the resource portion of the address represents the command to be issued, while the query portion of the URI passes in parameters to the server. Multiple audio output devices are connected to a single computer (other configurations are also possible) defining an individual slave. Multiple slaves can join a single bemix server, allowing one server to manage audio playback on multiple devices on multiple computers.
[[Bemix]] is a web-based media player operating over standard HTTP. It supports multiple soundcards and various networked client types, allowing a group to use a centralized server to control several speakers. Commands are issued through URIs, where the resource portion of the address represents the command to be issued, while the query portion of the URI passes in parameters to the server. Multiple audio output devices are connected to a single computer (other configurations are also possible) defining an individual slave. Multiple slaves can join a single bemix server, allowing one server to manage audio playback on multiple devices on multiple computers.
=Overview=
The server acts as a central manager for any reasonable number of slaves that have joined with the server. The system supports multiple audio output devices on a single slave, and the server is capable of handling multiple slaves. Whenever a client wants to instruct a specific slave to perform a specific action, his request must be sent to the server, which then relays the request to the slave. Communication between the server and the slaves are governed by the bemix slave protocol.
=Philosophy and Design Goals=
The client-slave architecture is even more modularly designed, providing a variety of output formats for different types of clients. Currently html and plaintext 'client' output formats are planned, but as time permits an RDF output format is possible as well. Clients are designed to be either human or machine controlled. For instance, while a typical command-line client exists to allow users to manually send commands to the server, a computer-controlled alarm clock could easily be implemented which would instruct a specific client to play a specific playlist after a certain amount of time has elapsed. The server has no internal notion of an "alarm clock," but provided the bemix bot sends the appropriate URI to the server, the server will respond to the command with no knowledge of where it originates or how it is generated.
=Obtaining Source=
To obtain the source code for the most recent version of bemix, it may be checked out anonymously from the subversion repository at svn://bemix.mit.edu/home/crowell/REPOS/bemix/trunk. To contribute back to the project, please send an email to the developers' list bemixdev at mit dot edu for instructions.
=Bemix Server=
* ''bemix/bemixlib.py'' - a library that contains several Exceptions that are used by the server, as well as methods to generate and parse errors, and to produce plaintext 'client' results
* ''crowell/browser.py'' - a library that deals with getting directory contents and creating relative and absolute file paths
* ''crowell/dictlib.py'' - a library that contains a method to determine whether or not all of the required elements in a URI are valid
* ''crowell/dictlib.py'' - a library that contains a method to determine whether or not all of the required elements in a URI are present
==Configuration==
===Plaintext===
''output=client''
The plaintext 'client' format is a simple document consisting of a newline-delimited list of values. The order of the list is not guaranteed, but it can be assumed that all fields that are specified will be present in the document. All fields consist of a variable name represented as a string, followed by an '=' character, followed by the value of the variable. No spaces are present between the variable name, '=' character, and value, although space characters are permitted in the value (including a leading space character). Every value is terminated by a newline '\n' character, including the final line. If a list of values is to be returned, the value portion of the field is a comma-delimited string with no spaces inserted between individual values. There should be a comma at the end of the string as well, and the line should be terminated by a newline character. If a comma is needed as an individual value in a value string, it should be escaped as if it were to be included in a URI with the '%2C' escape sequence.
The only guaranteed field is the success field, which always takes on values of either 'true' or 'false'. A value of true indicates the operation was successfully carried out; a value of false indicates the operation could not be carried out for some reason. In the event of a failure, the comment and error my optionally be included to indicate the reason for the failure. If present, the value of comment is a human-readable string indicating the reason for the failure, steps to correct it, etc. If present, the error field is a machine-readable string indicating a reason for the failure. The list of legal error codes is interspersed within this document as part of the specification of each command.
''A sample plaintext error document:''
====Error Document====
When an error is reported by the server, it comes in the following form:
===HTML===
''output=html''
This output format is suitable for viewing in a web browser. It utilizes cascading style sheets (CSS) and HTML forms to generate webpages that can be used to monitor and control the bemix system. Currently this output format is incomplete and so is not available for use.
==Bemix Client Protocol==
All commands that are sent to the server by a bemix client are encoded in URIs with additional information contained in the query string. In the following documentation, all URIs are relative to the base server address (in our case http://bemix.mit.edu:9087/), and all URIs have an output=[html, client] element in their query string. An example URI that will instruct player 2 on slave 3 to begin playing the current playlist, and to report its status in the 'client' output format, is http://bemix.mit.edu:9087/play?output=client&slaveId=3&playerId=2. The commands that may be sent to the server include getting information about the slaves that are currently connected, creating a new playlist, and instructing a specific player to mute itself.
* '''invalid-playerId''' - the playerId that was specified is not valid
command=play
command=pause
command=stop
command=toggleStatus
command=next
command=previous
command=load
command=unload
command=seek
command=setVolume
====Adjust Volume====
''setVolume?slaveId=int&playerId=int&amount=int''
''adjustVolume?slaveId=int&playerId=int&amount=int''
* '''invalid-slaveId''' - the slaveId that was specified is not valid
command=adjustVolume
command=player
slaveId=int
playerId=int
===Playlist===
A playlist consists of a name and music files that are associated with it. The songs in a playlist are ordered with indices starting at 0. Before anything can be played, a playlist must be created and loaded onto a specific player. When a playlist is created it is assigned a unique and new id by the server which acts as the playlist's identifier for its entire life. When a playlist is deleted its id is not recycled, and can never be used again.
====Available Playlists====
''playlists''
command=playlists
''create?name=string''
command=create
Instructs the server to create a new playlist and returns the playlistId of the newly created playlist as playlistId. The newly generated playlistId must be unique and new (no other playlists have the same playlistId, and no playlists may have ever had the same playlistId, even those that have been deleted).
Instructs the server to create a new playlist and returns the playlistId of the newly created playlist as playlistId. The newly generated playlistId must be unique and new (no other playlists have the same playlistId, and no playlists may have ever had the same playlistId, even those that have been deleted). name is the name of the playlist that was just created.
====Delete====
* '''invalid-playlistId''' - the playlist that was specified is not valid
command=delete
* '''invalid-song''' - the song is not valid
command=add
song=string
Adds a specified song to the end of the indicated playlist. The song name should be relative to the rootDir defined by the server; i.e. the client should indicate the song relative to '/'. index indicates the position of the newly added song in the playlist.
Adds a specified song to the end of the indicated playlist. The song name should be relative to the rootDir defined by the server; i.e. the client should indicate the song relative to '/'. index indicates the position of the newly added song in the playlist. song is a string giving the relative path of the song that was added.
====Add Directory====
''addDir?playlistId=int&dir=string''
command=addDir
dir=string
Adds a specified directory to a playlist. Result is the same as using ''add'' once for each file in a directory.
====Remove Track====
* '''invalid-index''' - the index specified is not valid for the playlist
command=remove
Removes a specified song from a playlist. The song is referred to by its index in the playlist rather than by its name. song is the relative path of the song that was removed from the playlist.
====Playlist Contents====
command=playlist
* '''invalid-directory''' - the directory is not accessible by the server
command=browse
Instructs the server to list the contents of the directory specified by dir. This directory should be specified relative to the server's root music directory. dirN represents the complete relative path of a subdirectory of the directory. fileN represents the complete relative path of a file contained in the directory.
Instructs the server to list the contents of the directory specified by dir. This directory should be specified relative to the server's root music directory. dirN represents the complete relative path of a subdirectory of the directory. fileN represents the complete relative path of a file contained in the directory. dir (with no number afterwards) represents the directory whose contents are being displayed.
===Slaves===
A single bemix server can control multiple slaves that are connected to it. A slave is assigned a unique id when it registers with the server, and this id is used to represent the slave forever. A slave is guaranteed to have the same id whenever it is connected, even across sessions.
====Available Slaves====
''slaves''
command=slaves
* '''invalid-slaveId''' - the slaveId is not valid
command=slave
Bemix is a web-based media player operating over standard HTTP. It supports multiple soundcards and various networked client types, allowing a group to use a centralized server to control several speakers. Commands are issued through URIs, where the resource portion of the address represents the command to be issued, while the query portion of the URI passes in parameters to the server. Multiple audio output devices are connected to a single computer (other configurations are also possible) defining an individual slave. Multiple slaves can join a single bemix server, allowing one server to manage audio playback on multiple devices on multiple computers.
3 Obtaining Source
4.2.1.1 Error Document
4.3.2.5 Add Directory
Obtaining Source
Error Document
output=html
adjustVolume?slaveId=int&playerId=int&amount=int
Instructs the server to create a new playlist and returns the playlistId of the newly created playlist as playlistId. The newly generated playlistId must be unique and new (no other playlists have the same playlistId, and no playlists may have ever had the same playlistId, even those that have been deleted). name is the name of the playlist that was just created.
Adds a specified song to the end of the indicated playlist. The song name should be relative to the rootDir defined by the server; i.e. the client should indicate the song relative to '/'. index indicates the position of the newly added song in the playlist. song is a string giving the relative path of the song that was added.
Add Directory
addDir?playlistId=int&dir=string
Adds a specified directory to a playlist. Result is the same as using add once for each file in a directory.
Removes a specified song from a playlist. The song is referred to by its index in the playlist rather than by its name. song is the relative path of the song that was removed from the playlist.
Instructs the server to list the contents of the directory specified by dir. This directory should be specified relative to the server's root music directory. dirN represents the complete relative path of a subdirectory of the directory. fileN represents the complete relative path of a file contained in the directory. dir (with no number afterwards) represents the directory whose contents are being displayed.


There was a huge buzz in downtown Delaware the night of June 15. The town was crawling with over 200 people looking for great food from 12 restaurants during the inaugural Taste of Downtown Delaware, produced by the Delaware Rotary Club and benefiting the Delaware County Hunger Alliance and the Delaware Rotary Foundation.
And because of these 12 outstanding restaurants, we were able to raise nearly $6,000 for charity.
Thank you to Amato's Wood Fired Pizza, Backstretch Bar, Bun's Restaurant, Choffey's, Home Slices Bakery & Café, J. Gumbo's, OPA Grill & Tavern, Restoration Brew Worx, Roop Brothers Pub, Sarah Moore Community, Son of Thurman and Whit's Frozen Custard.
Delaware rocks, and the Delaware Rotary Club is very appreciative of our over 200 guests, event sponsors, participating restaurants and the community for supporting this new endeavor. See you next year!


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More Culture:
Philadelphia Orchestra prepares for first trip to Israel in almost 30 years
Music Director Yannick Nezet-Seguin and PA lawmakers called the visit an act of 'cultural diplomacy'
By Stephen Silver
PhillyVoice Contributor
Philadelphia Orchestra Travel
Will Figg/Philadelphia Orchestra/for PhillyVoice
Philadelphia Orchestra Music Director Yannick Nezet-Seguin, who prepares for his first visit to Israel as leader of the orchestra, speaks to members of the press earlier this month.
The Philadelphia Orchestra recently announced an historic international tour for this May and June, in which the orchestra will visit six cities in Europe, as well as three in Israel. The latter part of the trip, which coincides with the 70th anniversary of Israel's founding, will represent the orchestra's first visit to Israel since 1992 – the first visit to that country by any American orchestra since 1996 – and Music Director Yannick Nezet-Seguin's debut there.
The tour was officially announced during a press conference inside the Kimmel Center's Hamilton Garden, and the orchestra brought along representatives from various sponsors, as well as Rep. Brendan Boyle, the congressman representing Pennsylvania's 13th Congressional District. All spread the message that the upcoming tour will be more than a series of concerts, but rather an act of "cultural diplomacy."
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"I am almost 7 years now [as music director], and it never gets old for me, seeing different styles of music played by talented people," Nezet-Seguin said.
"One of the aspects of working with this storied orchestra that really makes me proud is this wonderful tradition of bringing the Philadelphia sound everywhere in the world. So this orchestra has a longstanding and very prestigious history of touring everywhere in the world."
The tour will take the orchestra to Brussels, Belgium (May 24), Luxembourg (May 25), Paris, France (May 26), Dusseldorf, Germany (May 27), Hamburg, Germany (May 28 and 29) and Vienna, Austria (May 31 and June 1), before they head to Israel, where they will make stops in Haifa (June 3), Tel Aviv (June 4) and Jerusalem (June 5.) They will be joined by pianists Helene Grimaud and Jean-Yves Thibaudet for selected dates on the tour, as well as organist Paul Jacobs.
While embarking to Europe and Israel, the orchestra will play selections by Schumann, Straus and Tchaikovsky, as well as work by Leonard Bernstein, in conjunction with both Bernstein's centennial and the composer's importance in Israel. Audiences back home will get to enjoy the performances too. The second Vienna concert and the Tel Aviv and Jerusalem performances will be simulcast on WRTI (90.1 FM), and hosted by Gregg Whiteside.
The Jewish Federation of Philadelphia helped bring about the Israel portion of the tour, which will also include meetings with musicians, students and government officials. As noted by Naomi Adler, president and CEO of the Federation, the organization also helped present Orchestra concerts with Israeli musicians in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of Israel in 1998, and the 60th in 2008.
The Israel leg of the tour will also include a "patron tour," which will be catered by the famed Israeli-born Philadelphia chef Michael Solomonov.
"My life's work is to help people in the United States and around the world experience the depth and distinct beauty of Israeli cuisine and I look forward to sharing an amazing culinary adventure with the guests on this trip," Solomonov said in a prepared statement.
Other sponsors of the tour include Jefferson Hospital, the Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau, The Neubauer Family Foundation, Constance Smukler and Team Pennsylvania.
Stephen Silver
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