The Lettuce Nudibranch, Tridachia crispata, also known as the Lettuce Sea Slug, is a well-equipped algae eater that gets energy from the photosynthetic algae it consumes. They will even take the chlorophyll from the algae and incorporate it into its own tissue. Its body is green and wavy very closely resembling a leaf of lettuce.
They are best housed in tanks with plenty of live rock and away from aggressive species. The Lettuce Nudibranch will cull your tank of unwanted algae while being a fascinating organism to watch. Unlike some other sea slugs, the Lettuce Nudibranch is non-aggressive and non-poisonous making it a risk-free addition to any tank.


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An investigative story exceeding 2,800 words on the CNN website reports on "serious gaps in the federal food safety net meant to protect American consumers of fresh produce, a system that results in few or no government inspections of farms and with only voluntary guidelines of how fresh produce can be kept safe." The piece details the 2011 listeriosis outbreak, which it says was "the most deadly food outbreak in the United States in nearly 100 years," although it "could have been prevented, according to numerous food safety experts and federal health officials." CNN highlights that while "the federal Food Safety Modernization Act became law last year, and the FDA is currently writing new regulations to increase food inspections and push for better audits," officials note that "farms might only be inspected once every seven to 10 years," and "consumer advocates doubt the new law is likely to solve all the problems in the system."
A new report on accidental deaths among U.S. children received extensive coverage, mostly from online sources. Most sources portrayed the findings as a step in the right direction, but also emphasized the fact that deaths among this population due to some factors, like prescription drug abuse, are on the rise. USA Today reported, "The number of children and teens who die from any kind of accidents has dropped nearly 30% from 2000 to 2009, mostly because of a decline in traffic deaths, says a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention." However, the gains are "offset by the sobering news that more than 9,000 young people still die annually from motor-vehicle accidents, fires, poisoning, drowning, falls and other unintentional injuries."
The Los Angeles Times "Booster Shots" blog reports that "agency officials fear it may be difficult to lower the rate further, however, because of sharp increases in two areas: a 91% increase in poisoning deaths among teenagers during the period -- primarily from prescription drug abuse -- and a 54% increase in suffocation deaths among infants." The report indicated that "for every accidental death, there were 25 hospitalizations and 925 visits to the emergency" department (ED). "Every 4 seconds, a child is treated for injury in an" ED.
If you were to apply for a car loan, a bank would review your repayment history, not whether you could parallel park without dinging another vehicle. But if you want insurance, a poor credit history could cost you dearly, even if you're a good driver or responsible homeowner.
Now, if you're wondering what credit history has to do with insurance premiums, you're not alone. Credit scoring isn't new, but it's taking on a troublingly larger role in determining insurance premiums for autos and homes.
A poor credit report, on average, now costs Texas consumers 42 percent more on home and auto policies, according to a Dallas Morning News analysis of insurance industry data published Sunday. In 2009, when the newspaper conducted the same analysis, the gap was 35 percent.
No one expects a reckless driver to pay the same premium as one with a spotless record. But creditworthiness shouldn't matter since insurance is paid upfront, not on credit like a car loan.
As a result, credit scoring for insurance hurts lower-income, minority policyholders and penalizes responsible people who have fallen on tough times. However, based on an industry-commissioned study, Texas insurers insist credit scoring accurately predicts a customer's insurance risk, allows companies to reward their better customers and ensure higher-risk customers pay their fair share.
How is a person with late payments on their record any more likely to be hit by another driver or sustain hailstorm damage to a roof? Have Texans suddenly become less diligent homeowners and drivers since 2009?
More likely is that otherwise good drivers and homeowners are bearing the brunt of credit scores damaged during the recent recession. In fact, a poor credit score is likely to have more of an impact on your premium than if you had filed a fire claim on your home or had an accident on your driving record.
Texas came close to banning credit scoring in 2003 but instead only prohibited insurers from penalizing consumers for a skimpy credit history or using unpaid medical bills in rate-setting decisions. Insurers tell their customers that they review credit scores but don't say what factor the scores play in determining a premium. Consumers should know this so they can pick an insurance company accordingly.
State lawmakers and regulators should take another look at the use of credit scoring in insurance.
Tornadoes have ripped through North Texas, destroying homes and upending thousands of lives. Here are some tips for families and policyholders when dealing with their insurance company.
Demand that your insurer hold up its end of the deal.
You have paid your hard-earned premiums for years, hoping you'll never have to use the insurance policy you purchased. But now that day has unfortunately come. Make sure that your for-profit insurance carrier honors all of its obligations and strictly follows the law during your time of need. There are laws on the books requiring carriers to treat policyholders fairly and pay promptly. If you have any question as to whether a carrier is dragging its heels, strong-arming, or low-balling you, seek legal advice.
Understand what you're signing. Ask questions until you understand.
Never sign any documents that release your legal claims unless it is truly your intent to do so. Do not deposit any checks from insurers that have "settlement" written anywhere on them unless you have all of the facts about the value of your loss and are completelysatisfied with the amount. Otherwise, you may inadvertently sell yourself short.
Take notes and document everything you can.
Try, at once, to make a list of your possessions. If at all possible and as soon as you can, obtain a repair estimate from a trusted local contractor to use as a guide in talking with the insurance company's adjuster. Keep receipts from emergency repairs and any costs you incur in temporary housing. This may be reimbursable under the "loss of use" portion of your homeowners' policy.
Keep a journal of all of your contact with or attempts to contact your insurance company. If they will not return your phone calls, fail to show at a scheduled appointment, or even if they are rude to you, write this down in a notebook. Log every conversation that you have with them. This could come in handy if you need to file a complaint or later need to talk to an attorney.
If your insurance company tells you that your policy does not cover the damage that occurred or you feel that the offer is too low, ask for proof. The burden is on them to point out the part of your policy that states what they are saying is correct.
When you are looking to rebuild, only use a contractor with good references and an established presence in the area. Make sure to call those references and don't be afraid to ask tough questions when checking the contractor out. Also, be sure to look into online consumer recommendation services to get reviews of contractors and other professionals. Ask the contractor in writing if he's ever been sued for shoddy construction or payment disputes. Price several contractors, aggressively negotiate terms and deadlines, and do not sign any contracts that are front-loaded or force you into arbitration, which strips you of your constitutional right to trial.


One more day of freedom and then it's back to the brown and grey of a Tennessee winter. It's funny that regardless of where I am it's the same sun rising there as it is in Tennessee, but it always looks different.
Today being my last full day before I head back to Tennessee it is scheduled to be a full one. We are headed south to the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument so I can collect an Arizona stamp for my Passport Stamp collection and then further south to Tucson, AZ and the Pima Air and Space Museum. Anyone who knows me knows that a vacation would not be a vacation without something to do with airplanes involved.
We headed out early, early by AGirl's standards since I had already been up for an hour, to miss the early morning Phoenix traffic and headed south on I-10. A little on the chilly side again, and my heated jacket liner once again did a great job of keeping the cool out. As was expected though, it didn't last and I started shedding layers pretty quickly.
An easy 56 mile run down the interstate and a couple of state highways brought us to the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument near Coolidge, AZ. These ruins are, "... an ancient Hohokam farming community and "Great House." Created as the nation's first archeological reserve in 1892, the site was declared a National Monument in 1918.
We didn't stick around very long because we've got a full day ahead. We just grabbed our stamps, a couple of "I Was There" photos and headed south toward I-10 again.
Another 78 mile run brought us to the Pima Air and Space Museum and the home of the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base at Tucson, AZ.
I've wanted to visit the "Boneyard", as the AMARG facility is known, for years because it is where old airplanes go to die, or, in some cases, be born again. In some ways it is a depressing facility since there are so many airplanes there that will never fly again, but on the other hand it is stimulating because it provides a viable source of parts for older aircraft to keep them flying. At any time there are over 4,000 aircraft sitting in the desert in preservation or being dismantled for parts. Once there is no longer a need for the parts of a particular type the remainder are destroyed and sold for scrap. To a pilot that is painful to accept because we hate to see any aircraft destroyed.
Visitors are not allowed to just walk through the AMARG facility since it is on an active US Air Force Base so we took the bus tour. The bus stopped at various places, especially down "Celebrity Row", but in other places it just kept rolling. I had to shoot photos through the glass of the window of a bouncing bus so don't be too surprised at the reflections that show up in some of the photos.
After the "Boneyard" tour we returned to the Pima Air and Space Museum where we were free to walk around and look at the exhibits. There are both indoor and outdoor exhibits, and I was surprised, and impressed, to note the level of care and maintenance that the outside exhibits were given. These aircraft were not covered in "Spraylat" like those in the Boneyard across the highway but rather were painted in their squadron colors. Given the blistering Tucson summer sun it impressed me that that they kept the aircraft in such a well-maintained condition. I guess having an aircraft maintenance group live across the highway helps a great deal but even so it is a lot of work to keep that many aircraft as well maintained as they do.
A year after this trip I got an email from a friend containing a link to a very well-written and highly-detailed web site containing many, many photographs from Davis-Monthan AFB entitled Monthan Memories. The site was written by Mr. Neil Aird and contains hundreds of black-and-white photographs, as well as a few color photos, taken back in the 60's of aircraft at Davis-Monthan. Mr. Aird not only shows photographs of individual aircraft but he shows the disposition of them as well.
About 2/3 of the way down the page I happened to notice an F-86 with the caption "53-1525 North American F-86H-10-NA Sabre USAF. To Pima Air & Space Museum". I remembered seeing an F-86 while I was there and sure enough it carries tail number 53-1525. Over forty years have elapsed between the time he took his photograph in 1966 to the time I took a photograph of the same aircraft in 2009. You can see the "Before" photograph on his web site at this link: Monthan Memories (I won't post the photograph here since I have not obtained his permission to do so, just search for the tail number 53-1525 and you'll find it) and mine is the third photograph in the fifth row above. If you scroll further through his web page there are a few other correlations with aircraft then and now as well.
I sent Mr.Aird an email along with a copy of my photograph and mentioned how strange it felt to see two photographs take of the same airframe but 40+ years apart. I got an email response from him effectively saying that he knew how I felt because he had already run across the photograph here when he happened across my web site.
Like I said, it's become a very small world!
The museum has vending machines scattered around outside, so we grabbed something cold to drink and chatted for a few minutes. The temperature was in the mid 80's and I tried to imagine what it would be like in the middle of summer when the temperature exceeds 110° and the sun is reflecting of the hard-packed sand. Even with all of AGirl's comments about how miserable it can be I don't think I could even begin to fathom that kind of heat. Tennessee is bad enough with our high humidity, but I think I'll leave the desert heat to those that live there.
One more stop today and then it's a blast back up I-10 to Phoenix. A 15 mile jaunt northeast brought us to the Saguaro National Park (it's pronounced "Su-wa-ro", and yes I know the letters don't match the pronunciation) east of Tucson for yet another National Park Passport Stamp.
Saguaro National Park is a preserve for the Giant Saguaro Cactus that has become a symbol of the Old West, and much of the "Modern" west. These cactii are only found in a small area of the world and this preserve contains a large percentage of them.
We headed back up I-10 to Phoenix and were treated to an absolutely glorious sunset all the way back. We stopped at a park in Phoenix to take a few photographs of it.
This was the most vivid sunset I've seen since I've been out here. Perhaps it was coincidental that it happened at the conclusion of my trip, perhaps not.


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Simulation games are now ruling the gaming world. This is especially true of mobile games as a lot of such games have come out since then. Thanks to the huge success of other simulation games, there are now a lot of such games on the market.
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Before Demonizing 'Crosshairs,' CNN Used Word To Refer To Target Palin And Bachmann
This pretty much sums it all up when it comes to blatant media hypocrisy and propaganda:
Before banning 'crosshairs,' CNN used it to refer to Palin, Bachmann
By: Byron York 01/19/11 8:08 AM
Chief Political Correspondent
CNN's John King is attracting a lot of notice — and some ridicule — in the blogosphere for his on-air apology after a guest used the word "crosshairs" during a report on Chicago politics Tuesday. (The guest, a former Chicago reporter, referred to two rivals of mayoral candidate Rahm Emanuel, saying Emanuel is "in both of their crosshairs.") "We were just having a discussion about the Chicago mayoral race," King told viewers. "My friend Andy Shaw…used the term 'in the crosshairs' in talking about the candidates out there. We're trying, we're trying to get away from that language. Andy is a good friend, he's covered politics for a long time, but we're trying to get away from using that kind of language. We won't always be perfect, so hold us accountable when we don't meet your standards."
King's statement comes after widespread discussion of whether Sarah Palin's now-infamous "crosshairs" map targeting vulnerable Democratic candidates in last November's elections somehow caused the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson January 8. There has been plenty of that kind of speculation on CNN, including on Tuesday, the day of John King's statement, when one brief discussion of Palin used the word "crosshairs" five times.
Now, King says, CNN is "trying to get away" from such terms, suggesting that in the wake of the Tucson shootings, such language should no longer be part of the public conversation. But if Palin is to blame for using crosshairs in her much-discussed map, then CNN, by its own use of the allegedly inflammatory term "crosshairs," might also share some blame for creating the atmosphere that led to the violence in Arizona. A look at transcripts of CNN programs in the month leading up to the shootings shows that the network was filled with references to "crosshairs" — and once even used the term to suggest the targeting of Palin herself. Some examples:
"Palin's moose-hunting episode on her reality show enraged People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, and now, she's square in the crosshairs of big time Hollywood producer, Aaron Sorkin," reported A.J. Hammer of CNN's Headline News on December 8.
"Companies like MasterCard are in the crosshairs for cutting ties with WikiLeaks," said CNN Kiran Chetry in a December 9 report.
"Thousands of people living in areas that are in the crosshairs have been told to evacuate," Chetry said in a December 21 report on flooding in California.
"He's in their crosshairs," said a guest in a December 21 CNN discussion of suspects in a missing-person case.
"This will be the first time your food will be actually in the crosshairs of the FDA," business reporter Christine Romans said on December 22.
"The U.S. commander in the East has Haqqani in his crosshairs," CNN's Barbara Starr reported on December 28, referring to an Afghan warlord.
"We know that health care reform is in the crosshairs again," CNN's Joe Johns reported on January 3.
Seven uses of "crosshairs" in just the month before the Tucson attacks, and just one of them referring to an actual wartime situation. And one reference to Sarah Palin herself as being in "crosshairs."
And not just Palin. On September 14, Mark Preston, CNN's senior political editor, referred to another controversial politician, Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann, as being "in the crosshairs." "Michelle Bachmann is raising lots of money, raising her national profile," Preston said on September 14. "She is in the crosshairs of Democrats as well."
It turns out Preston was back on CNN's air on Tuesday, discussing Palin's recent interview on Fox News. "We saw her on Fox News last night where she is a paid contributor," Preston said. "A kind of a friendly setting, but she defended herself from all the criticism that's been directed at her regarding a Web site that she had put out where she had used crosshairs over 20 Democratic candidates. Now a lot of people said that her rhetoric is inciting violence. She said that that is not true…"
"Crosshairs" again. Just for the record, CNN anchors, reporters and guests did absolutely nothing wrong with their use of the word in the last month and before. It would be impossible, at least for any reasonable person, to argue that the network's use of "crosshairs" in any of the various contexts it was used, was an incitement to violence by anyone, anywhere. But by announcing that "we're trying to get away" from "crosshairs" and other allegedly incendiary language, CNN is aligning itself with those who blame "rhetoric" for the killings. And by doing that — plus inviting the public to "hold us accountable" — CNN could open itself up to an examination of its own uses of the word and accusations that it helped create an environment that led to violence. Does that make any sense at all?
In the bizarro world of Democrats and their propaganda allies in the mainstream media, truth and moral consistency are the very first "targets" that are placed in the "crosshairs" and killed.
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Obama's Growing List of Man-Caused Disasters
I hoped I would find a more or less complete assemblage of all the attempted terror attacks on U.S. soil that we've experienced since Obama came to office promising to end terrorism with his sheer exalted wonderfulness.
It wasn't easy. List like this one are far and few between. I had to go back and stumble across a few names based on some attacks I remembered, and start entering search terms.
The media have clearly dropped the ball in keeping track of Obama's "success" in dealing with this very real threat.
Barack Obama refused to even use the word "terrorism," instead calling terrorist attacks "man-caused disasters." Whereas George Bush took terrorism seriously and went to war to take on those who would kill Americans wherever they were, Barack Obama decided that there was no war, and renamed it an "overseas contingency operation."
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Man-Caused Disasters Remained A Concern In 2009
Posted by: RFW @ 2:00 pm
Despite the hope and change brought along with a new administration, Americans discovered in 2009 that the threat of terrorism remained. There were several near disasters this last year along with a couple of actual man-caused disasters. While creating the following list I was surprised by the large number of arrests on American soil. I assume my surprise is due to the fact that the media generally forgets about these incidents within a very short period of time and does not make any attempt to report them as another piece of a larger puzzle.
– On May 20, 2009 three U.S. citizens (James Cromitie, David Williams, Onta Williams) and one Haitian (Laguerre Payen) from Newburgh, New York were arrested in a plot to blow up two synagogues in the Riverdale community of the Bronx. The men allegedly placed bombs wired to cell phones in three separate cars outside the Riverdale Temple and nearby Riverdale Jewish Center. It was also alleged that they planed to shoot down military planes operating out of Stewart Air National Guard Base. Both the car bombs and the missiles were actually fakes given to the plotters with the help of an informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. [It is also important to note that all three were black converts to Islam radicalized while in the prison system].
– On June 1, 2009 an assailant opened fire on a United States military recruiting office in Little Rock, Arkansas. Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, an American who had converted to Islam, was accused of killing Private William Long. According to law enforcement officials, Muhammad had conducted research on other targets, including military sites, government facilities and Jewish institutions throughout the country. [Note: a successful terror attack].
– On July 27, 2009 seven men were arrested in North Carolina and charged with plotting to wage "violent jihad" outside the United States. Daniel Patrick Boyd, who authorities allege was the ringleader of a group of men that trained in North Carolina, was later also charged with planning to attack the U.S. Marine base at Quantico, Virginia. Boyd and another man, Hysen Sherifi, were charged with conspiring to murder U.S. military personnel.
– On September 14, 2009 Law enforcement agents raided residences in New York City and later that day briefed members of Congress about their terrorism investigation. Authorities found 14 new black backpacks during the raids fueling concern the plan may have been to use them with suicide bombs. Najibullah Zazi and his father Mohammed Zazi were arrested five days later at Najibullah's home in Denver, Colorado. FBI agents also arrested Ahmad Wais Afzali in New York. Najibullah Zazi, linked by authorities to al Qaeda, was charged with conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction.
– On September 23, 2009 Michael Finton, a 29-year-old convert to Islam who went by the name Talib Islam, was arrested in an alleged plot to blow up a federal building in Illinois. Finton drove a van containing what he thought was explosive material and parked it directly in front of the northwest corner of the Paul Findley Federal Building, a courthouse in Illinois. He attempted to detonate it remotely but the explosive was actually harmless, supplied to Islam by the FBI.
– On September 24, 2009 Hosam Maher Husein Smadi was arrested after he placed and attempted to detonate what he believed to be a car bomb in the garage of the 60-story Fountain Place office tower in Dallas. The fake explosive was given to him by an undercover FBI agent.
– On October 21, 2009 Tarek Mehanna, a Boston area man who lived with his parents and wrote a blog about Islam, was arrested for conspiring to become a jihadist and kill Americans. His alleged plots – all failed – included the assassination of prominent politicians, attacking US troops in Iraq and shooting randomly in a unidentified shopping mall.
– On November 5, 2009 a gunman killed 14 people (including one unborn baby) and wounded 30 others at the Fort Hood military base located near Killeen, Texas. Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the only suspect in the crime, was radicalized by Muslim ideology. A muslim cleric said Hasan asked him in a December 2008 e-mail "whether killing American soldiers and officers is lawful or not" under Islamic law. [There's your second successful terrorist attack].
– On December 25, 2009 a Nigerian man named Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab allegedly tried to detonate the explosive PETN on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit. An apparent malfunction in the device and the quick reaction of passengers saved the airplane and 278 lives on board. After being taken into custody, Abdulmutallab told authorities he had been directed by al-Qaeda.
If the media were looking for a theme, as they always do this time of year, 2009 could be called the "Year of the Home Grown Terrorist" as six of those arrested (James Cromitie, Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, Daniel Patrick Boyd, Michael Finton, Tarek Mehanna, and Nidal Malik Hasan) were born right here in the United States.
When George Bush took office, there was absolutely no program in place to keep America safe. There were dozens of al Qaeda terrorist attacks against US targets, and Clinton did nothing nothing. The USS Cole was attacked by al Qaeda in Yemen in October 2000 during the waning days of the Clinton administration, with 17 American sailors killed, and Clinton swept it under the rug to create the illusion of a "clean slate."
And George Bush, naively "looking forward, not backward," attitude, failed to do anything to change our lack of protection under that terrible day seven months into his presidency.
Bush woke up fast. And with fury and determination unlike anything this country has seen since the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941, the Bush administration devised a successful system to keep this country safe.
Barack Obama, taking incredibly foolish attitude that terrorism was merely a crime that he could stop with what amounted to a personality cult based on his own wonderfulness, systematically dismantled many of the Bush protections even as he apologized for America's efforts to keep its citizens safe.
One of the most important things Bush did was to dismantle the wall that the Clinton administration erected preventing the CIA and the FBI from communicating with one another. Liberals want to maintain that the Clinton policy did not change the law, but merely clarified it. But the fact remains that the Clinton administration strengthened the communications barrier when he should have been encouraging intelligence-sharing between our security agencies.
We had a wall separating intelligence agencies into separate and disconnected fiefdoms prior to 9/11.
From the LA Times, April 14, 2004:
WASHINGTON — The scapegoat emerging from the Sept. 11 commission inquiry isn't an elected official or agency but an obscure government policy that came to be known as "the wall."
On Tuesday, as FBI, CIA and Justice Department officials continued to point the finger of blame at one another, they all seemed to agree that the wall was the overarching villain. Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft, for one, described it as "the single greatest structural cause for Sept. 11."
Bush took great measures to tear down that wall.
To Obama's great discredit, he picked Clinton Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder to become his Attorney General, after almost selecting Jamie Gorelick – Clinton's General Counsel – for the post. And both men were at the very top of the food chain in strengthening the wall between the FBI and the CIA.
In other words, Obama decided to surround himself with the men who – out of liberal notions antagonistic to a strong intelligence community – built/strengthened the wall.
Obama selected Leon Panetta, another Clinton political hack, and a man who had absolutely no intelligence experience to qualify for leadership, to run the CIA. And then he selected Janet Napolitano, again an unqualified selection with absolutely no intelligence experience whatsoever, to run Homeland Security.
Obama made political loyalty, rather than experience or ability, his criteria for choosing the officials most responsible for keeping this country safe. And from the very start of his administration, he has politicized intelligence. They have taken nothing but a demagogic politicized (and incompetent) approach since. And we are beginning to see the risks with national security these people are willing to take to demagogically blame everyone but themselves for their failures:
The White House, according to the source, is in full defensive spin mode. Other administration sources also say a flurry of memos were generated on December 26th, 27th, and 28th, which developed talking points about how Obama's decision to effectively shut down the Homeland Security Council (it was merged earlier this year into the National Security Council, run by National Security Adviser James Jones) had nothing to do with what Obama called a "catastrophic" failure on Christmas Day.
"This White House doesn't view the Northwest [Airlines] failure as one of national security, it's a political issue," says the White House source. "That's why Axelrod and Emanuel are driving the issue."
After Obama appointed Eric Holder to be Attorney General, the man who pardoned terrorists for Bill Clinton went right to work attacking the CIA who had helped catch those terrorists in the first place. Democrats and the Obama administration repeatedly demonized the CIA and just as repeatedly threatened to criminalize their efforts to keep us safe.
Thanks to Obama's demagoguery, the morale of the agency that is essential to our protection is depressed, sullen, and enraged:
[T]he CIA better change their mission to "CYA," because our government is not going to stand behind you."
Those concerns were echoed by a retired undercover operative who still works under contract for the agency (and asked to remain anonymous when discussing internal agency politics). Clandestine Service officers are both demoralized and angry at Obama's decisions to release the memos and ban future agency use of aggressive interrogation tactics, the former operative said. "It embarrasses our families. You just can't keep hitting us. Sooner or later we're going to stop going out and working." The official added that "a lot of offense was taken" among some Clandestine Service veterans when Obama declared that the interrogation practices the agency employed under Bush were wrong, even though the new Administration would not prosecute operatives for carrying them out.
Did you hear that? "Sooner or later we're going to stop going out and working." That's Obama's "change" for you: demonizing and even criminalizing the people who kept us safe. Forcing them to protect themselves rather than take risks protecting the country.
And you wonder why Obama's national security is falling apart now.
Obama made waterboarding the hallmark of his campaing to demonize Bush. Now "58% of U.S. voters say waterboarding and other aggressive interrogation techniques should be used to gain information from the terrorist who attempted to bomb an airliner on Christmas Day," and just 30% take Obama's side and oppose the use of such techniques.
Americans were stupid to join with Obama and oppose waterboarding a year ago. But Obama is far more stupid in his ideological commitment to prevent America from protecting itself.
The use of waterboarding led to the breakthroughs in intelligence that allowed us to dismantle al Qaeda.
Four former CIA directors loudly objected to Obama's release of CIA memos. Among other things, the release of those memos – again, for purely partisan political reasons – enabled al Qaeda to know exactly what US interrogators would and would not do and prepare for our new limited and hamstrung techniques.
Now we're left with, "Tell us what you know, or we're give you a polite but firmly-worded scolding."
And we wonder why our national security is breaking down.
We can see Obama's weakness and incompetence everywhere we turn. Obama has officially lost TWICE AS MANY American soldiers in Afghanistan as Bush did in 2008. And this after months of useless dithering that ultimately assured our enemies that we weren't going to have the fortitude to fight the good fight over the long haul.
Just the other day, eight CIA officers were killed by a suicide bomber inside the safety of a US military base in Afghanistan in yet another example of Obama's naive "terrorists can be our friends" policy. They were so busy trying to get the terrorist to change sides and love Big Brother Obama and so afraid of being "politically correct" or "profiling" that they didn't dare search him.
You might not see this pathetic episode as a microcosm for Obama's entire failed foreign policy and national security strategy, but you certainly can't maintain the assertion that what he's doing is working.
I started out providing a list of terrorists and attempted and successful terrorist attacks.
We could add Iran to that list. Because we're certainly going to see Iran and Iranian-trained terrorists rearing their ugly heads due to Obama's weakness soon. Every single day, with every new in-your-face step forward in their nuclear weapons program, amounts to a new terrorist attack upon the United States and Israel. For what it's worth, I have been predicting that Iran would obtain nuclear weapons under a Democrat presidency since May of 2008.
When Iran gets its nukes and the ballistic missiles to deliver them (and they are very close to both goals), the world will become a different place. They don't have to launch atomic Armageddon to use their nuclear weapons; all they have to do is block the Strait of Hormuz and drive up oil prices tenfold, or send out a wave of international terror attacks. Will we go to war with them, knowing that if we do they will destroy several of our cities and kill millions of our people?
In other words, we haven't even BEGUN to see the fruit of Obama's failures in his "man-caused disasters."
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Effect of shielding gas on the properties and microstructure of melted steel surface using a TIG torch
P. Munoz-Escalona, S. Mridha, T. N. Baker*
A surface engineering technique based on a tungsten inert gas (TIG) torch was used to melt single tracks on the surface of a microalloyed steel with a hardness of 150 HV. The influence of three shielding gases, argon, helium and nitrogen, on the microstructure and hardness of the re-solidified surfaces was analysed. In all melting techniques, the heat generated by the source is normally conducted to the substrate ahead of the torch and has been described as 'preheat'. This leads to a gradually higher substrate temperature, from the start to the finish of a melted surface track. The aim of this research was to analyse any inhomogeneities in the microstructure, due to 'preheat', which is rarely considered in the published literature. Three thermocouples were located along the melted track in order to record the temperature at three different points. An energy input of ~840 J/mm was used in each experiment, and the results show that the maximum temperature recorded by the last thermocouple, No three (subjected to the preheat), for argon, helium and nitrogen gas was 590, 1120 and 740 °C, respectively, where a difference of 150 and 200 °C was registered between the first and third thermocouples when using helium and nitrogen, respectively. The corresponding hardness values were 170, 162 and 225 HV, and the corresponding surface roughness values were 6, 12 and 25 ?m. A decrease by almost 60% in the roughness value was observed between the initial and last stage of the melted track, when using argon as shielding gas.
Advances in Materials and Processing Technologies
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Noble Gases Chemical Compounds
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Patricia Munoz de Escalona
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Munoz-Escalona, P., Mridha, S., & Baker, T. N. (2016). Effect of shielding gas on the properties and microstructure of melted steel surface using a TIG torch. Advances in Materials and Processing Technologies, 1, 435-443. https://doi.org/10.1080/2374068X.2015.1133789
Munoz-Escalona, P. ; Mridha, S. ; Baker, T. N. / Effect of shielding gas on the properties and microstructure of melted steel surface using a TIG torch. In: Advances in Materials and Processing Technologies. 2016 ; Vol. 1. pp. 435-443.
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Q: ElasticSearch and Kibana: compare value with aggregated value I'm wondering how to accomplish this requirement.
I have to compare value data with the average over the selected period or over another period.
I've collected millions of records in an index. These records contains the sellout amount day by day for different vendors, products, sectors and product families.
What I'd like to do is to analyse any single value with the average of the selected period of the average of the same periodo of a previous year. I'd like to use Kibana to show data to users.
How can I accomplish it?
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Film review of The Reports on Sarah and Saleem
This film review of "The Reports on Sarah and Saleem" appeared in the Australian Jewish News on 23 May 2019 (Melbourne edition) and 30 May 2019 (Sydney edition).
Directed by Muayad Alayan; written by Rami Alayan; starring Adeeb Safadi, Sivane Kretchner, Ishai Golan and Maisa Abd Elhadi
Following last year's premiere at the Jewish International Film Festival, "The Reports on Sarah and Saleem" opens this week in Australia, one of the few places in the world where the film is screening. This strong thriller-drama is a cracker, and deepens the range of films that show how the Israeli-Palestinian social, economic and political divide is often not a divide at all, but more of a porous and shifting blur.
This first feature from Palestinian director Muayad Alayan and his screenwriter brother Rami Alayan illustrates a tragic sequence of events arising from an illicit affair between Saleem (Adeeb Safadi), an East Jerusalem delivery driver, and Sarah (Sivane Kretchner), the owner of a West Jerusalem café. She's married to an up-and-coming army officer (Ishai Golan) – who is about to be transferred to the south – with whom she has a bright and articulate daughter, and he to an attractive pregnant woman (Maisa Abd Elhadi).
Their romance – one night a week, mostly in the back of Saleem's delivery van – is fuelled by the passionate risk-taking each one goes through. Sarah's family can afford a nanny/helper, but Saleem's struggles financially. That motivates Saleem to moonlight at night as a delivery person, no questions asked, dropping off "whatever people ask for".
One night Saleem is sent to Bethlehem for a delivery, and takes Sarah with him, convincing her to go out for drinks "because nobody knows us". Just speak English, he says, and everyone will assume you are a foreigner. An incident in a bar leads to Saleem's entanglement with Palestinian secret police, where he is forced to pretend that he was recruiting Sarah for espionage ("the reports") so that he can escape punishment and detention. Once the Israelis catch on, the plot becomes "thicker", and Sarah and Saleem are caught in a web of deceit, power and conflict.
The director/writer Alayan brothers both studied in the USA, and grew up in East Jerusalem, experiencing their teenage years during the second Intifada. They put to good use the adage of "write what you know". The experience of Palestinian life in East Jerusalem and the interactions between the characters are naturalistic with an unforced realism that imbues every scene with power. For comparison you would need to cast back to Martin Scorsese's early "Mean Streets"; the directing and editing is spare (although the film runs a full two hours), with a coiled energy getting ready to strike.
There are no "good guys" or "bad guys" in "The Reports on Sarah and Saleem". The film feels astonishingly straightforward and objective in its political approach to the characters and their situations. Many of the scenes are claustrophobic, but that's part of the film-making style. I would have liked more "back story" – more detail as to how Sarah and Saleem arrived at where they are – but the Alayan brothers take a European approach and just start the action. The result is a mature and accomplished narrative by film-makers who are likely go on to tell much bigger stories in the future.
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Monday Links: Live Nation, Brands & iPod Nanny's
By Jeff Balke on April 14, 2008 at 12:00 PM
Ooops, I missed last week. I'll try and make up for it in this week's Monday links.
The Rise of Live Nation
Last year the company's revenue jumped 13 per cent to $4.2bn, and it has a goldmine of a database of 25 million people who attend its concerts. That should jump dramatically next year as the company takes over control of ticket sales, currently outsourced to the highly profitable Ticketmaster, giving Live Nation another leg-up in his quest for global domination. The question, though, is whether the share price's downward trajectory can be reversed. With the big bucks being paid to Madonna and now Jay-Z, Mr Rapino is being applauded for betting on the right business model – but worried onlookers think he might be betting too much.
Interesting that this sounds an awful lot like Clear Channel for the record industry. Competition is good and Live Nation is built specifically for the giant artists like U2, Madonna and Jay-Z. The real test will be what they do with an emerging artist.
Popmatters Looks at the Summer Festivals
The post-modern music festival may be a re-packaging of some distant memory of an idyllic lifestyle, but beneath the overwhelming static lurks a concentrated dose of pure musical bliss. But how does one avoid the forced fodder and discover the special moments a summer's worth of festivals affords? Besides saving the hundreds of dollars it costs to attend, information is the key.
I posted last week about the summer festival season. This is a FANTASTIC overview of what is coming this summer.
Bands and Brands: Promoters Flock to Summer Tours
Part of the growth is driven by the evolution of the record industry. Many musicians, who have seen their income from recordings eviscerated by free downloads, are much more open to sponsorships, said William Chipps, IEG senior editor. "The tide has changed since even the '90s, when a lot of bands didn't want to be aligned with corporations. Now, I don't think any band would say no to a sponsorship. The same goes for concert promoters."
Lollapalooza, once the paragon of independent rock credibility, now thrives on corporate backing with AT&T, Bud Light and adidas leading the charge.
Speaking of festivals, Brandweek.com takes a look at how artists are allowing big business to partner with them to make some extra cash. Look, I can't begrudge someone from taking money if they don't change what they do or who they are to do it, but it sure does feel weird to see a giant AT&T sign above a band singing protest songs or whining about corporate greed.
It's the Money, Stupid
When the Associated Press did its (now annual) story about How the Music Industry Is Failing this past January, it tried to answer my question with one sentence: "The recording industry has experienced declines in CD album sales for years, in part because of the rise of online file-sharing, but also because consumers have spent more of their leisure dollars on other entertainment, like DVDs and video games." This is a rational explanation supported by the precipitous commercial rise in both idioms. (Video-game revenue has more than doubled since 2000, and DVD sales grew from $2.5 billion in 2000 to $23.4 billion last year.) The only problem is while CDs, DVDs, and video games are physically similar, and they're sold in the same outlet, the experiences they offer aren't logically connected. I don't see why not having to pay for a Band of Horses album would make a person any more likely to buy a copy of Knocked Up, as opposed to buying four gallons of gas or a pair of sunglasses or a turtle. I don't think young people swap out items in their "leisure" budget that explicitly. What seems more likely is that this extra $4.2 billion — unequally distributed among all the music fans who didn't pay for music in 2006 — entered the overall economy in lots of disparate ways. And while we'll never know exactly where all those bones disappeared, my specific theory is this: A lot of the money not spent on music in the twenty-first century is being used to pay off credit-card debt that was incurred during the nineties. In other words, not paying for In Rainbows today is helping people eliminate the balance they still owe for buying Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness when they were broke in 1995.
This is an infinitely fascinating look at the losses suffered by the music industry and it takes a completely different angle on why kids download music illegally. A must read.
Sony Being Sued for Copyright Infringement
French software developer PointDev has started litigation against Sony BMG for piracy of its software. The company became aware of the illegal use after a Sony employee called tech support and provided a pirated license code. The Business Software Alliance subsequently raided Sony's servers and found that 47 percent of the company's software was pirated.
Oh, the irony.
Digital Gluttony
On a message board for the group People With An Absurdly Large Music Collection on last.fm, a user with the handle AndretheDark boasts of his hoard of 30,281 songs. It would take him 94 days to listen to each one. With a catalogue of more than 75,000, Pale_Court has him beat. She writes that her music pile takes up 368 gigabytes of space, and counting.
In the era of hard drives measured in terabytes, anything less than 10,000 songs is modest. Eric Garland, CEO of BigChampagne, says larger hard drives are pushing the number of illegal downloads worldwide past the 15-billion-song mark, and some are gorging at the trough with insatiable appetites.
Seriously, 75,000 songs??? I'm not sure I've listened to 75,000 songs in my entire life and, come to think of it, I'm not even sure I'd WANT to.
Happy Birthday, MP3
Today, most of us take for granted that our MP3s won't wear out or skip. In fact, there's tons of antiquated annoyances we no longer worry about in the age of the MP3. For instance, when was the last time you had to special-order your music at a record store and wait a week or more for it to arrive? When was the last time you wanted to hear an album you know you own but couldn't locate in the mess of your apartment? As the music in our lives has evaporated into noncorporeal ones and zeros, the troubled memories of acquiring and maintaining a physical music collection are quickly fading into the past.
A nostalgic look back at how the MP3 has become part of our everyday and what that means for those of us who grew up in the era of records CD's.
The Death of the B-Side
The fate of those songs on a CD that will probably never make it to the top of the charts – the ones that aren't blared on radio stations or picked as iTunes' download of the day – are in question, said Paul Jones, clinical associate professor in the school of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Jones sees the move away from CDs and the increase in buying digital songs a la carte as positive.
"In the days of 45s, you had one song you liked and one you probably didn't. In the days of LPs, you had to buy 12 songs, five of which you probably never cared about. In the days of CDs, if they really pack them, you have 20 songs maybe. Of those, maybe you want five," Jones said.
Good stuff about how songs are lost because of the need to write hits in an era of singles.
A Look At Fan Remixes
Now that the Internet has removed those physical barriers, though, unofficial works can go aboveground. "Bodycage," as Chicago designer J. Tyler Helms calls his Arcade Fire video, has racked up more than 680,000 views on YouTube since he posted it there in February 2007–an awful lot of exposure that Merge Records didn't have to spend a penny for. The majors still routinely make the mistake of squelching fan-generated videos and remixes, but many other rights holders–especially indies like Merge–have seen the light. Fans who are so into a song that their urge to be creatively involved with it takes them past, say, learning to pick it out on acoustic guitar or videotaping themselves dancing to it are a precious resource, and no label with a lick of sense should treat them like pirates.
I've never paid much attention to fan re-mixes of songs or videos, but I'm sure bands love it even if record labels may have to learn to embrace it.
If You're Going to London, Here Are the Best Live Music Venues
Hammersmith Palais has passed away; the Electric Ballroom is threatened by plans to expand Camden Town underground station; and the Astoria's days are numbered.
It would appear, then, that London's live music venues are losing the war with developers. But dig deeper and you will find that the capital's music scene is in rude health. Mike Diver, editor of music site Drowned In Sound, says: "While we're looking at losing a couple of significantly sized venues, there's no shortage of replacements. Venues are enjoying rich profits and good attendances."
I have only been there once and never took in a live band (what, I was 14?), but nice to know where to go when and if I decide to return.
[Jobs] The iPod Nanny
It's a well-documented fact that a certain fashion designer has in excess of 100 iPods. It should therefore come as little surprise that said designer employs someone to look after them, in the manner of a librarian. Your initial gig, should you choose to pursue this career course, will be to upload your boss's CD collection on to the gadgets. Thereafter, your role will be to source new beats to keep your employer at the fore of sonic cool.
God, help the poor schlub dumb enough to take this gig.


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ASSA ABLOY announces integration of Aperio™ wireless technology with Keep™ SMS by Feenics
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New Haven, CT, October 13 – ASSA ABLOY, a global leader in door opening solutions, today announced the integration of their Aperio™ wireless lock technology with Keep™ from Feenics Inc., a cloud-based leader in security management solutions.
The Aperio integration offers Feenics customers an easy, affordable way to connect additional openings to their existing Keep™ systems. Aperio is a global wireless platform available across a broad range of locking hardware from ASSA ABLOY Group brands, offering the flexibility to address a variety of applications throughout any facility.
Keep™ is the first ever cloud-based access control platform that can operate as an on premise solution within the end user's private network, or in a hosted environment, using the same user interface for either application. In a hosted environment, Feenics has engineered Keep™ to run without servers or appliances on site, lowering the total cost of ownership for the end user and eliminating costly refreshes of servers and hardware. The feature-rich UI uses the proven, open field hardware of Mercury and HID and is fully scalable to meet the need of the end customer.
"The integration with ASSA ABLOY is a perfect complement to the value proposition of Keep™ in offering a robust solution that meets the needs of the customer yet reduces the total cost of ownership. In addition, Feenics and our partners can count on ASSA ABLOY for outstanding support, whether in the field or remotely. Great products along with great service is a winning combination," said Paul DiPeso, Executive Vice President of Feenics, Inc.
"We are excited to support Feenics' mission of lowering the total cost of ownership for their customers. The Aperio integration will allow customers to expand the utility of their Keep
system by expanding it to more openings and more applications throughout the facility. This is a truly cost-effective solution for comprehensive security," stated Martin Huddart, President Access and Egress Hardware Group, ASSA ABLOY Americas.
Aperio is a global wireless platform that allows you to expand your access control footprint – quickly, easily, and affordably. It uses wireless communication (IEEE 802.15.4) between the lock and an Aperio hub to provide real-time communication to the access control system, simplifying installation and reducing costs.
About ASSA ABLOY
ASSA ABLOY is a global leader in door opening solutions, dedicated to satisfying end-user demands for security, safety and convenience. www.intelligentopenings.com
About Feenics, Inc.
Keep™ by Feenics is one the industry's most secure, on premise or cloud-hosted, integrated access control and security management solutions. Featuring two-factor authentication, TLS encrypted field hardware and a secure SSL connection, Keep provides the end user powerful features, with an easy to navigate user interface (UI). As a hosted platform, Keep reduces the total cost of ownership (TCO) by eliminating servers and appliances, while the UI is accessible with a PC, tablet or smartphone, providing peace of mind with full disaster recovery and redundancy. Designed by a leading industry integrator and innovator specifically for the systems integration and value-added reseller markets, Keep's modular design scales linearly – from single sites to an enterprise environment. Keep monitors real-time events and pushes alarm or manual notifications out via email or SMS; locks down doors with a single click; and creates badges, all by using non-proprietary field hardware by HID and Mercury.


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Overgate adds three tenants
Retailers hopeful on Dundee prospects
Superdry, Stormfront and Paperchase have all agreed terms on units at the Overgate shopping centre.
Fashion retailer Superdry is the largest new tenant and has taken a 10-year lease on 4,694 square feet in the Dundee mall.
Computer reseller Stormfront, which specialises in Apple products, has moved into a 1,744 square feet unit with card firm Paperchase taking 1,914 square feet.
The Carphone Warehouse has also doubled the size of its store to 1,947 square feet.
Land Securities bought the Overgate in December last year for £141 million.
Jonny Buckle, portfolio manager Land Securities, said: "We are delighted with the new high quality tenants we have secured to date.
"Phase one of our asset management strategy, to fill the voids, has proved a great success and is nearly complete.
"Phase two of the strategy will commencein the autumn of this year, with a number of new top retailers already at the heads of terms stage which will add to the blend of the tenant mix."
Stuart Moncur, head of retail at Cushman and Wakefield in Scotland, represents Land Securities and said: "Dundee has one of the largest student populations in the UK with one in seven local residents being in higher education and this is reflected in the new retailers entering the scheme with Superdry, Stormfront, Paperchase all selling products appealing to that demographic.
"Having Superdry and Stormfront on the upper mall adds a completely new dimension to the tenant mix at that level and will be a magnet for other quality retailers."


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Jeffrey Lyons (born November 5, 1944) is an American television and film critic based in the New York metropolitan area.

Early life
Lyons was born in Manhattan, one of the four sons of Sylvia R. (Schoenberger) and Leonard Lyons, a newspaper columnist. His godfather was the playwright Sidney Kingsley and his godmother was the actress Madge Evans. As a teenager, he trained as a field goal kicker with the New York Giants for three seasons (1961–63) and studied bullfighting for seven summers in Spain with Antonio Ordonez, characterized by Ernest Hemingway (a mutual friend) as "the greatest matador of them all" in The Dangerous Summer.

He received his undergraduate degree in journalism from the University of Pennsylvania before earning a J.D. from the Syracuse University School of Law in 1969. During this period, he studied acting with Lee Strasberg at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute.

Career
Lyons began his professional career working on the city desk of The Jersey Journal, writing sports and obituaries. After publishing a story as an intern on the Metropolitan desk of The New York Times, he covered the two national political conventions of 1968 for WINS.

From 1970 to 1991, Lyons was the film critic for WPIX. Following the departure of Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel, he co-hosted the PBS movie review show Sneak Previews from 1982 to 1996. He also appeared on MSNBC's At the Movies from 2004 to 2006 with his son, fellow critic and television personality Ben Lyons. On American AM radio, he hosted a show, "The Lyons Den," on WCBS (AM) from 1975 to 1993; the title is taken from the New York Post column that his father wrote for 40 years. He joined WNBC in 1996 as the station's film and theatre critic. His last report on WNBC was on June 26, 2009. He reported during Live at Five and NewsChannel 4 newscasts. Lyons created and co-hosted the NBC syndicated movie review TV show Lyons & Bailes Reel Talk from 2005-09. He currently hosts a syndicated radio program called "LYONS DEN RADIO" and appears on several national TV shows talking movies.  In addition to his work as a critic, he has appeared as himself in The French Connection, Deathtrap, and the TV series Wiseguy.

Lyons is the author or co-author of seven books, including Jeffrey Lyons' 101 Great Movies for Kids. He and his brother Douglas have written several baseball trivia books, Out of Left Field, Curveballs and Screwballs, and Short Hops and Foul Tips. He's recently had two books published, Stories My Father Told Me: Notes From 'The Lyons Den''', about his father's iconic Broadway column, and Catching Heat'', co-authored with his brother Douglas and former Yankee Jim Leyritz, whose biography it is.  Jeffrey and Douglas Lyons have lectured at the Smithsonian Institution and at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York. Lyons has been a guest announcer, both as play-by-play and analyst, for the Boston Red Sox radio network and Red Sox games in Spanish.

Lyons has received two honorary degrees, from Hofstra University in 2000 and St. Mary's College in 2002. He also holds a Juris Doctor degree from Syracuse Law School.  Lyons' son is the television personality and movie critic Ben Lyons, who also uses the name "The Lyons Den" in his own work as a critic and correspondent first on the E! Channel's "E!News" for five seasons, and since March, 2012, is now on "EXTRA," the nationally syndicated program. Ben has appeared on "Good Morning, America","The Joy Behar Show","The Bonnie Hunt Show," CNN, SPIKE TV, guest hosts on ESPN Radio in Los Angeles and is the N.Y. Knicks' "Super Fan" in videos appearing on their website. Ben was recently named Director of Content and The Voice of the Fan for Derek Jeter's new "Players' Tribune" platform, and also hosts a weekly XM/Sirius radio show for the site. He's also an ESPN-LA radio anchor. Jeffrey did segments on upcoming films with his son on "EXTRA." He also appeared on some 20 editions of "Bookmark" on RLTV which continue to be seen in reruns.  In January, 2012, he returned to WCBS radio and national syndication with "LYONS DEN RADIO", reviewing five movies a week. In April, 2014, he won five New York Emmys for his work on "The Lineup" on Madison Square Garden TV (MSG), choosing the five best movies in eight sports over eight programs on a panel with Spike Lee, actors Robert Wuhl and Chazz Palmentieri, hosted by former Yankee Fran Healey.  He has since taped another series of shows on the best movies about New York again with Spike Lee, and actors John Leguziamo and Ed Burns.

In February, 2014, he signed a contract with Abbeville Press to write a sequel to "Stories My Father Told Me, Notes From The Lyons Den," called "What A Time It Was! More Notes From The Lyons Den," also about his father's era as a New York Broadway columnist. The book was published in September 2015.

Since 2015, Lyons has hosted, co-hosted or keynoted international film festivals in San Diego; Sedona, Arizona; Vero Beach, Florida; Aiken, South Carolina and The Bahamas.

Filmography

References

External links

1944 births
Living people
American film critics
20th-century American Jews
American television journalists
New York (state) television reporters
Journalists from New York City
American male journalists
21st-century American Jews

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Q: iframe refreshes main page I am currently using a iframe on my main web page.  When i click on a link in the iframe I would like it to display the content on the main web page.  Any thoughts?

A: Set the target="_parent" on the link.
Another way would be to put this into the page that represents the content of the IFRAME:
<base target="_parent" />

A: use target='_top' on the link in your iframe
My Link

This will result in the full window/tab of the browser being replaced with the content of the link.  You could also use _parent as the value of the target attribute.  That would result in the immediate parent of the iframe being replaced which may be what you want.  It's possible though for iframes to be nested, so if a.html contains b.html, which contains c.html, a _top link in c.html would replace the entire page (a.html), but a target of _parent would only replace b.html.

A: I haven't worked with iframes in ages, but I believe it's just


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Hum Tum Ko Nigahon Mein – Shreya Ghoshal
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Mashallah – Shreya Ghoshal
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Mashallah – Shreya Ghoshal Ek Tha Tiger (English: There was a Tiger) is an upcoming 2012 Bollywood romantic action thriller film starring Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif. Produced by Aditya Chopra and directed by Kabir Khan, the film marks the third collaboration of Kabir Khan with Yash Raj Films after Kabul Express (2006) and New York (2009). The film is scheduled for theatrical release on 15 August 2012. Masha Allah (Masha'Allah or simply Mashallah) literally means 'God has Willed it' and is used to express thankfulness for something good, while…
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Shreya Ghoshal – Mashallah Making of the song
Shreya Ghoshal – Mashallah Making of the song Shreya Ghoshal – Mashallah Making of the song – Ek Tha Tiger Synopsis: In the dark world of intelligence and espionage… all information is guarded in the name of national security… But some stories escape the fiercely guarded classified files… stories that become legends. This is one such story… a story that shook the very foundation of this dark world. In a government employees' neighbourhood in New Delhi, there lived a rugged, handsome and mysterious bachelor about whom his neighbours knew nothing.…
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Teri Meri – Shreya Ghoshal
January 19, 2013 December 26, 2020 admin
Teri Meri – Shreya Ghoshal The film's songs are composed by Himesh Reshammiya along with one song by Pritam Chakraborty while the lyrics are penned by Neelesh Misra and Shabbir Ahmed. The music rights were sold to T-Series for 60 million. The film score is composed by Sandeep Shirodkar. The melody of the song Teri Meri is inspired from the very old carols representing spiritual singing of Orthodox Romanian Church tradition, usually sung on Christmas Celebrations by many Orthodox Christians (which can be Romanian celebrities, such as Cleopatra Stratan in…
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