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Wait! The stars are realigning. Scheduled to meet @Escher tomorrow afternoon in Royal Oak to close a deal on the La Scalas. Now I just need to turn the electronics into cash.
The stars didn't align for @Escher, so I now own these. As I told Escher, I'm not worried about getting back my "investment." First I'll clean the Crown amp and preamp to see what they can fetch on eBay. Then I'll try to move the La Scalas to their next custodian. First I'll try to find a buyer who wants them as they are to restore. Failing that, I might restore them as a summer project before selling them. "As is," finds all drivers work and they sound OK, despite antique AA networks. Please don't be shy about expressing an interest in the La Scalas or the electronics. I can always find other projects.
Upon further reflection, it seems to have been professionally made to look homemade; probably purchased at a truck stop. Another indication that he isn't the author is the absence of misspellings.
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Claude, Do you have the drivers? Is there a substitute? When will sawdust fly? Thanks for pointing me to Spiral reconing. Alan is reconing both woofers in my HIPs.
FWIW, I purchased a pair of The Sixes from @McBlueMeter. Deal with him in complete confidence.
I can imagine PayPal, come to think of it, I've used PayPal for such transactions. You're much more likely to be given a counterfeit Benjamin than a bogus PayPal transaction. FWIW, this gentleman seems honest. I've no serious concerns should we consummate a deal.
It disappeared more than three years ago. It was great while it lasted. I'm amazed it survived as long as it did. RIP.
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Summer of '22: Bumper May-June expected as travel bookings rise
The upcoming summer vacation is the Indian tourism sector's great big hope as travellers start making their plans.
Yaruqhullah Khan
March 28, 2022 / 10:49 AM IST
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India's tourism sector is counting on the upcoming May-June travel season to finally leave the pandemic blues behind, with people already starting to make their summer vacation plans.
Almost 84 percent of Indians plan to spend on leisure travel either domestically or internationally in the next four to six weeks, according to a survey by SurveyMonkey. About 35 percent of the respondents are considering travel overseas in the next few months and the remaining are looking to unwind at popular local destinations.
Airlines in India expect domestic traffic to recover to pre-pandemic levels from May – compared with the 85 percent mark hit so far – if another wave of Covid-19 infections does not hit the country. Hotels and the tourism sector are also eyeing a recovery after two years of disruptions.
According to Vipul Prakash, chief operating officer at MakeMyTrip, an online travel company, sentiment is rising every week and will hopefully surpass previously recorded numbers in the coming months.
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Prakash said his company has already achieved 100 percent recovery in the flight segment compared to pre-Covid levels and leisure travel bookings will continue to lead the recovery as the summer holiday season approaches.
Pradeep Shetty, joint secretary of the Federation of Hotel & Restaurant Associations of India, said there has been a gradual uptick in hotel bookings since March, and May and June are expected to be even better on account of the holiday season.
Travel demand is likely to increase by 150 percent on-year in hubs such as New Delhi and Mumbai, according to a report by RateGain Travel Technologies.
Holidaymakers domestically are eyeing popular hotspots Goa, Srinagar, Dehradun, Pondicherry, Mysore and Kochi for their planned vacations.
Search queries and bookings for May-June have so far risen about 200 percent and 40-70 percent, respectively, compared to January-March, according to data from MakeMyTrip, Yatra.com, Thomas Cook, EaseMyTrip, Ixigo and domestic airlines.
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"For the upcoming summer vacations, we are witnessing a 40 percent rise in bookings for Goa, Kashmir, Jaipur and Himachal. We are also witnessing a sharp growth in air ticket bookings to and from tier 2 and 3 cities," said Nishant Pitti, co-founder of EaseMyTrip.
Rajeev Kale, president & country head, holidays, MICE, Visa at Thomas Cook (India), said his company had witnessed a three-fold surge in demand for the May-June compared to March-April.
Demand for travel to places of worship like Shirdi, Vrindavan, Ajmer and Bodh Gaya is also rising. Online travel agencies expect spiritual travel to rise 60-80 percent during the summer vacations.
Daniel D'Souza, president & country head - holidays, SOTC Travel, said travellers are also looking at experiences such as cruises, biking trips, wellness and yoga retreats, ayurveda treatments, vegetarian special food tours and safaris at leading national reserves.
"Based on customer interest, we have witnessed multi-generational families taking that much needed holiday, especially during festivals and extended weekends at eclectic accommodations like villa stays, tea/coffee plantations, and eco-lodges," D'Souza said.
Indian travellers are eyeing popular overseas tourism hotspots that are closer to home such as Dubai, Sri Lanka, Thailand and the Maldives to unwind, data collected by tourism companies shows.
Major online travel agents and airlines say that search queries have risen 90-130 percent while bookings have increased by 20-30 percent compared to levels in March.
Search queries to Dubai, Thailand, the Maldives, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Singapore have doubled since the government announced earlier this month that international flights will be opened up from March 27.
"Current data patterns on the platform indicate that 96 percent of the searches are for the coming summer holiday season, with Dubai, Thailand, the Maldives, Sri Lanka, London, Paris and Amsterdam ranking high on the consideration list of international destinations," MakeMyTrip's Prakash said.
International tourism continued its recovery in January, with a much better performance compared to the weak start to 2021, according to the UN World Tourism Organization. However, the Russian invasion of Ukraine adds pressure to economic uncertainties, coupled with many Covid-related travel restrictions still in place, it said on March 25.
VFS Global, the world's largest outsourcing visa processing company, said applications for travel to Dubai, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Singapore and the Maldives have risen almost 30 percent in the past month from February.
According to Yatra.com, international travel queries have risen 130 percent in March from levels in February, while overseas bookings have risen close to 30 percent.
"Our travel queries have even surpassed pre-Covid levels in March as Indians are looking to travel to international destinations again after two years," an official from Yatra.com said.
EaseMyTrip said enquiries for destinations such as Dubai, the Maldives, Sri Lanka, the US and Australia have seen a strong jump between May and June.
"International destinations such as Dubai and Sri Lanka have been witnessing a surge in demand, not just for longer vacations, but for short-haul weekend trips as well," Pitti said.
Rise in luxury travel
Indian tourists are not only looking to vacation internationally but are also willing to spend more on travel with queries and bookings for premium hotels, private villas and eclectic stays rising significantly in the past month.
Demand for travel to places of worship like Shirdi, Vrindavan, Ajmer and Bodh Gaya is also rising
"Our customers are displaying a clear preference for private villas with a personal chef and concierge services, villas with a backyard, pool with a deck and more for luxury stays and relaxation – with multi-generational family or groups of friends," Kale said.
Data from Yatra.com shows that the average per person expenditure on booking a week-long holiday has risen by almost $200 (Rs 15,270), with customers booking luxury experiences like private accommodation, valet services and adventure experiences on their trips.
Booking patterns also indicate that travellers are choosing slow travel, leading to long stays when planning their first international trip after the pandemic.
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LAX Economy Lot E Opens; Lot C to Close on Monday
Keith Wilschetz, Deputy Executive Director, Operations and Emergency Management, Los Angeles World Airports, officially opened Economy Lot E at a news conference on Thursday morning.
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LAX ECONOMY LOT E OPENS;
LOT C TO CLOSE ON MONDAY
(Los Angeles, CA) Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) officially opened its new long-term parking option this morning at Economy Lot E, with an initial offering of approximately 2,000 parking spaces. Economy Lot E is located at 5455 W. 111th St., between Aviation and La Cienega boulevards.
"Access to affordable, reliable and hassle-free parking options is a must for many travelers, which is why we are excited to open Economy Lot E and provide a great new option for our airport guests," said Keith Wilschetz, Deputy Executive Director, Operations and Emergency Management, Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA). "As we enter into a new phase of our LAX modernization program, we will be making a number of changes to meet construction needs while at the same time staying focused on ensuring an exceptional guest experience."
Economy Lot E is located closer to the I-105 and I-405 freeways than the current long-term facility, Lot C, which will close on Monday, April 1. When fully opened later this spring, Economy Lot E will offer approximately 2,700 spaces.
Economy Lot E will feature free shuttle service to and from LAX, 24 hours a day. The ride between Lot E and the airport is expected to take 15 to 30 minutes, depending on traffic conditions.
The daily parking rate at Economy Lot E will be $12, the same price that parking at Lot C has been since 2009. Payment options will include cash, credit card, and mobile payments (Apple Pay, Google Wallet and Samsung Pay). Parking ambassadors will still be available to help customers who have issues such as lost tickets or discrepancies.
Guests who have parked in Lot C will have until April 19 to move their cars. They will be able to reach their vehicle on the Lot E shuttle buses by informing the driver that they are parked in Lot C. Vehicles left in Lot C after April 19 are subject to removal.
Later this spring, Lot C will be converted into lay-down space for construction activities and employee parking, which is also in heavy demand around the airport due to construction activities. In 2021, a 4,700 space parking structure is scheduled to open as part of the Landside Access Modernization Program (LAMP).
For more information on LAX's Economy Lot E and a link to frequently asked questions about the lot, please visit: https://www.flylax.com/EconomyLotE
Guests using Economy Lot E can snap a photo of a QR code at shuttle stops for access to a smartphone application that tracks the next arriving buses.
About Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)
LAX, the fourth-busiest airport in the world and second busiest in the United States, was named a top-10 U.S. airport by SKYTRAX. LAX served more than 87.5 million passengers in 2018 and offers an average of 700 daily nonstop flights to 109 cities in the U.S. and 1,281 weekly nonstop flights to 93 markets in 47 countries on 69 commercial airlines. LAX ranks 10th in the world in air cargo tonnage processed, with more than 2.4 million tons of air cargo. LAX handled 707,883 operations (landings and takeoffs) in 2018.
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LAX was honored as having the "Best Overall Customer Service Program" by Airports Council International-North America; named the "Best Airport for Breastfeeding Moms" by Mamava; selected for the Top 10 "Best of the U.S.'s Big Airports" (Wall Street Journal) and "Most Pet-Friendly Airports in the U.S. (Mental Floss); named the second-most improved airport in the U.S. by JD Power; received an "Innovation Award" from the L.A. Better Business Challenge for its Central Utility Plant; and named a "Business Leader in Air Quality" by the South Coast Air Quality Management District.
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We did JUST that earlier this week.
Our destination...J.W. Marriott San Antonio Hill Country Resort.
Tab's cousin and his family live in Austin (which is on the way to San Antonio for us), so we drove to their house Saturday afternoon, swam, ate delicious barbecue, and headed straight to the resort on Sunday morning.
These are half-excited/half-scary looking smiles. ha!
Sunday morning check out/check in was CHAOS!!
We got into our room early and enjoyed the bed for a moment. Does everyone do this or is it just my crazies?
We wasted NO time getting our swim suits on so we could get to the pool! This pool area did not disappoint. Think water slides, lazy river, and a beachy sand area.
We hung out in the pool area from about 11:30 to 7:30 and then we were WIPED out. There are three restaurants at the resort plus the pool bar/grill. We hit up one restaurant looking a MESS in our swim cover-ups and pool hair, but my food was DELICIOUS!!
We showered and got right into bed to watch some Olympics before we all crashed.
Monday morning we snagged some chairs one step away from the lazy river. These two fought the lazy river current all day hanging onto this wall.
I burned my forehead on Sunday and scored this hat in the gift shop. I'm so thankful I found this gem. I ALMOST walked out with a cowboy hat before I spotted it. hahaha!
Then I bumped into SHEAFFER!! Sheaffer and her family were there earlier this week as well. She didn't mention that I looked EXACTLY like Lady with that hat and crazy pool hair. hahaha! Do you see the resemblance?
Tuesday morning I enjoyed some quiet on the balcony.
We hit the pool early to get in a few more slides and trips around that lazy river before we headed home.
Tab and Bowen coming down the slide.
Bowen was too scared the first day to ride any of those, but he became a FAST fan!
One last bite to eat poolside before it was time to go.
*The food was GREAT! Everything I ate was yummy...at the pool or restaurants.
*The convenience of never leaving the resort. This getaway could have been called the vacation when Erika NEVER fixed her hair. We stayed at the pool ALL day and then would go straight to dinner.
*The big field where kiddos can play wiffle ball or run amuck. I loved all that extra space and so did the Slaughter kids.
Fun! We always do the same thing, but at Disney or the beach. The beauty of living in Central Florida ;) This summer flew by!
This is such a great idea! I love the idea of taking a vacation right before school starts and never having to leave the hotel/resort!
Yay!!! I love these pictures! What a fun getaway! And I second that this resort is amazing! Next time, leave the kids and bring Andrew and me ;).
We have wanted to stay here for years but never have! I'm so glad to see it's as fun as I've heard. I guess I'll be adding it to my list! Glad you guys had a fun time.
So funny you mentioned that spot because it's where we ate dinner both nights. Delicious!!
I looked a mess but it was super nice not to fix it. Ha!
Kara-your family would love it!!
Looks like the perfect getaway! I'm so glad y'all had fun!
Ok, how do you get into your room so early? Do you just ask ahead for early check in?
Glad you had a lovely time! !!
I called but they told me it was based on availability at check in. Maybe we got lucky?
Looks like such a fun getaway! The JWMarriott has definitely upped their water slide game. We went there many years ago, but they didn't have all the slides, just a pool. I think my tween/teens would love that!
What a fun mini-vacation! & that resort looks amazing!
What a fun little trip!!!
How fun. We lived in San Antonio for three years when my kiddos were your kiddos ages. ( now they are 26 25 23) I felt like every day was a vaca. Happy back to school.
Awww...my family and love this resort! My big boys love the slides and my little one love the sprayground-win/win. Did you have the biscuit and jalapeño strawberry jam at Cibolo Moon? Amazing!
I can hardly wait! We spent New Years Eve there but I haven't been during pool weather. My friend Holly and I have started this thing with our daughters now that they are 11 and for their bdays instead of parties we have a girls weekend. In March we did up Fort Worth and on Sunday we are heading to SA to the JW. We will venture downtown to the Riverwalk Sunday night but other than that I plan to be parked by the lazy river!
That place looks amazing! I would love to get to visit there.
I'm curious, is that resort all inclusive?
I've always wanted to check this place out!! Looks like a blast and the perfect getaway!


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PARK IN PROFILE: BIG4 Deniliquin Holiday Park, NSW
Where: Ochtertyre Street, Deniliquin.
Website: http://www.big4.com.au
10 words or less: river life, great bushwalking, friendly country atmosphere.
The lowdown: The trick here is you can either grab a Sydney campervan rental or Sydney car hire and do the 7-hour trek down south to reach BIG4 Deniliquin Holiday Park, or grab a Melbourne car rental and scoot down the Hume and onto the Northern Highway for a 4-hour journey north to reach the Riverina region hotspot. Deniliquin Holiday Park can be described as "resort style" accommodation set on the banks of the beautiful Edward River. The park has riverfront cabin or site accommodation, perfect for adventurous types looking to test their waterskiing skills or take the park's pontoon boat out to reel in that night's dinner. For those looking for something a little more laidback, the beach to beach walking track is a picturesque path from McLean Beach following the Edward River past towering red gum trees and sandy beaches finishing up at the Murray Valley Regional Park. There's more to discover within the park itself with a swim in the park's heated pool, a game of mini golf, giant jumping pillow, Go-Karts or a hit of tennis before settling in for an outdoor movie.
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AB 1983, as amended, Waldron. School safety: school district facilities and emergency practices: security assessment.
Existing law provides that school districts and county offices of education are responsible for the overall development of a comprehensive school safety plan for each of its schools, as provided. Existing law requires the schoolsite council of a school, except as provided for a small school district, to write and develop the comprehensive school safety plan relevant to the needs and resources of that particular school. Existing law requires the schoolsite council to consult with a representative from a law enforcement agency in the writing and development of the comprehensive school safety plan.
This bill would require each the governing board of a school district, a county board of education, and the governing body of a charter school, before the commencement of the 2019–20 school year, to contract with a local law enforcement agency to provide a full security assessment of the school district's facilities and emergency practices. practices of each school within its jurisdiction. By imposing additional requirements on governing boards of school districts, county boards of education, and governing bodies of charter schools, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would authorize the governing board of a school district, a county board of education, and the governing body of a charter school to elect not to disclose the contents of the full security assessment.
A (a) The governing board of a school district district, a county board of education, and the governing body of a charter school shall, before the commencement of the 2019–20 school year, contract with a local law enforcement agency to provide a full security assessment of the school district's facilities and emergency practices. practices of each school within its jurisdiction.
(b) The governing board of a school district, a county board of education, and the governing body of a charter school, in consultation with a local law enforcement agency, may elect not to disclose the contents of the full security assessment provided pursuant to subdivision (a).
(c) Nothing in this section precludes the governing board of a school district, a county board of education, or the governing body of a charter school from conferring in a closed session with law enforcement officials pursuant to Section 54957 of the Government Code to review and accept the full security assessment provided by those officials pursuant to subdivision (a). Any vote to accept the full security assessment shall be announced in open session following the closed session.


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We're gearing up for the second annual Photography, Expanded Symposium on October 18 at The New School. We hope you'll join us in hearing from representatives of The Guardian, TIME, Instagram, Purpose and many more on the future of editorial and digital strategies for human rights campaigns.
"On Friday, June 20 at the Paley Center for Media, Magnum Foundation hosted a free public panel discussion that was part of Photography, Expanded - an ongoing initiative designed to inspire documentary photographers to expand their storytelling beyond the still image.
The goal of the panel was to begin discussion about the power and challenge of open collaboration – between creative practitioners across disciplines, with NGOs and activists, with global communities fluent in social technologies, and with subjects in varying degrees of risk, transition, and need.
I was lucky enough to moderate an incredible group – Michael Premo, Nina Berman, Joslyn Barnes, Hank Willis Thomas and Pamela Yates. They represented the tribe of documentary filmmakers and photographers who do human rights and crisis work and have experienced drastic shifts in a web 3.0 world. As audiences increasingly expect connection, transparency, and the opportunity to take action when inspired by stories and works of visual art, how should filmmakers and photographers - and in fact any artist – recalibrate their practice to adjust to the new normal? Do we share a heightened responsibility to explicitly empower an audience beyond the image? What does this kind of collaboration look and feel like?
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US-based Everbridge scores Aussie emergency alert deal
The Massachusetts headquartered company has been awarded a multi-year contract to support the deployment of Australia's national early warning system.
By Asha Barbaschow | June 17, 2019 -- 22:42 GMT (15:42 PDT) | Topic: Mobility
Emergency notifications provider Everbridge has announced being awarded a contract to support the deployment of Australia's "next-generation" national early warning system.
The multi-year contract, Everbridge said, will see the Massachusetts-based company power Emergency Alert Australia, the country's national telephone warning system.
Emergency Alert Australia is one of many ways emergency services such as police, fire, and rescue can warn a community of a likely or actual emergency.
According to the company, it will work alongside Australia's major telecommunications providers to deploy the Everbridge Public Warning solution that is expected to provide nation-wide phone alerting.
"If residing within an area where a sudden, critical event occurs such as fire, extreme weather or a terror attack, residents and visitors to Australia will receive location-based SMS notifications on their mobile phones," the company said in a statement.
Notifications will also come through via smartphone mobile app notifications, as well as fixed line voice alerts.
See also: Severe weather and emergency policy (Tech Pro Research)
Scheduled to become operational in 2020, Everbridge said its public warning platform uses existing telecom infrastructure, with no opt-in required, to reach everyone within a geographic area.
Everbridge said that unlike the United States, which cannot have a nationwide population alerting system due to multiple telecom carriers and the fragmented nature of state and local law enforcement, Australia is able to enforce Everbridge alerts that span the entire country's population.
"Our Public Warning solution enables government organisations and public safety agencies to immediately connect with every person in an affected area during a critical event regardless of nationality, residency, or mobile telephone handset type," Everbridge CEO and chairman Jaime Ellertson said.
See also: 15 apps to help you prepare for, respond to, and recover from a natural disaster (TechRepublic)
"Australia has served as a model example for population-wide alerting and emergency preparedness over the past decade, and we are honoured to support them on the evolution of their national system."
The announcement comes days after Everbridge announced it was standing up an Australian presence, with former fire-fighter Scott Nicholas taking on the role of regional sales manager for Australia and New Zealand.
Emergency Warning Network confirms breach
Follows thousands of EWN customers receiving a bogus message via email, text, and landline late Saturday night.
Best practices for tracking mobile workers in emergency events (TechRepublic)
Everbridge's Meg Lovell shares best practice procedures for employers and their mobile tech workers during an emergency situation.
Telstra outage caused 1,400 Triple Zero calls to fail: ACMA
Telstra's May fibre outage meant 1,433 Triple Zero calls did not get through to the emergency services operator, the ACMA has revealed.
10 telcos failed to give data for emergency services purposes: ACMA
ACMA has also received a revision of the Telecommunications Consumer Protections Code from the telco industry, who are pushing for stricter requirements on credit assessments and selling practices.
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MOJ Moves Towards Implementing Whiplash Injury Claim Medical Panels
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has confirmed that it is to begin creating medical panels to investigate whiplash injury compensation claims by setting up a working group in February.
This group is expected to be made up of road traffic accident lawyers and insurers and representatives of the British Medical Association, Law Society and other related bodies. It will be expected to come up with a solution to the issue of implementing the medical panels by the end of July. In the future, medical panels will be charged with handling road traffic accident claims under £5,000.
Association of Personal Injury Lawyers Vice President John Spencer was at a meeting into these changes to personal injury law. He told Post that Justice Minister Shailesh Vara confirmed to attendees the personal injury claim limitation period would not be changed, and that the government would not force through changes to the small claims track limit. However, these limits could still change in the future and will be kept under a UK government review.
Mr Spencer added that the medical panels will be focused on road traffic accident whiplash claims worth up to £5,000, with a ministry civil servant present at the meeting confirming it will not go beyond these limits.
Medical panels for whiplash injury claims will therefore almost certainly be delivered in 2014.
Difficulties implementing whiplash injury compensation medical panels
A huge amount of manpower will be needed to establish these medical panels. Whiplash injury claims occur up and down the country, and claimants can be unfit to travel as a result of their injuries. The UK will therefore need to have thousands of accredited whiplash doctors if this personal injury law is to succeed.
The Insurance Times reports that it is already understood that the insurance industry will pay for these whiplash panels, and that taxpayers will not have to foot the bill. Paul Edwards, Head of Costs at commercial law firm Hill Dickinson, who was also at the meeting, told the publication that Shailesh Vara made this very clear.
However, it is still not decided if the medical panel's costs will be funded by a pot that the insurers pay for, if medical experts paying for accreditation will also possibly fund this pot, or if the losing defendant will have to pay the panel's costs.
Mr Edwards said that at the moment, the question of which medical professionals are capable of being on these whiplash injury claim panels is "wide open".
This forms part of the government's strategy to reduce the overall volume and cost of whiplash injury claims. Ministers argue that the number of whiplash injury claims is increasing and that this is significantly impacting people's motor vehicle premiums, although all of these claims are questionable, with figures suggesting whiplash could add just £6.30 to the average insurance policy and with the number of whiplash claims falling from 2,553 in December 2012 to reach just 1,485 in September 2013.


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Iraq imports stones for decoration with a fictional number
Dinar Daily :: DINAR/IRAQ -- NEWS -- GURUS and DISCUSSIONS :: IRAQ and DINAR -- ARTICLE BASED INFORMATION and DISCUSSIONS
by RamblerNash on Sun Jul 22, 2018 1:03 pm
{International: Euphrates News} Iraq imported in one year precious stones for decoration.
Iraq ranked second in Iran's exports of these stones.
The value of Iran's exports of ornamental stones reached 341 million dollars during the last Iranian year (end March 20, 2018), registering a rise of 94 percent compared with five years earlier.
According to statistics from the Iranian Customs Department, the value of the country's exports of ornamental stones amounted to about 176 million dollars six years ago, recording a rise of 10.89 percent compared to the previous year.
According to the customs department, the value of Iranian exports in this field reached 341 million dollars last year, registering a rise of 24.45 percent compared to the previous year, which amounted to 274 million dollars.
Iran ranks among the world's six largest producers of ornamental stones, but ranks among the world's top 20 exporters in terms of exports.
According to official statistics, China is the first importer of Iranian ornamental stones worth 170 million dollars, or 49.85 percent.
Iraq comes second with 73 million dollars and Turkey with 17 million dollars in third place, followed by India and Turkmenistan with 11 million dollars each, followed by other countries with a total of 59 million dollars, or 17.3 percent.
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The Australian Legal System Of Justice And The Legal Profession Essay
The Australian Legal System encompasses a distinct adversarial court system which serves to enforce the primacy of the rule of law through its hierarchical structure. It is built upon the continuously developing system of common law, perceived as 'the greatest achievement of Western Civilisation', enticing to uphold justice and ensure confidence in the judiciary. This report will discuss the validity of the statement through exploring the two tiers of justice, equal access to justice, and the legal profession.
Two Tiers of Justice
The two tiers of justice enable law to be effectively enforced in varied circumstances. The necessity for the rule of law to be administered in an "accessible, fair and efficient manner" is thus achieved, through case distribution between lower courts (trivial matters) and higher courts (indictable offences).
The difference in the administration of justice effectively lies within the varying nature of procedures. During the local court visit, numerous mentions (Parramatta local court) and AVO cases (Downing Centre) were scheduled for the same time with no specific time allocation. This illustrates the ideology of triviality, where local courts deal with majority of offenders. The fast paced, efficient procedures cater for this enormous demand, allowing greater access to legal administration.
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Community board member welcomes first child
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NEW ARRIVAL: Community board member Linda Chen and her husband Robin have welcomes their first child, Sebastian.
Linda Chen has a new outlook on life after giving birth to her first child, Sebastian.
The Fendalton-Waimairi-Harewood Community Board member and her husband Robin welcomed the baby boy on April 10 in what she described a "precious experience."
"Having a child has not only been a precious experience for me, as a woman, but it has also changed the way I see the world. I now see the world as a mother – the agendas and issues in our ward have become a lot more personal now."
Sebastian is also the first grandchild of both sides of the family, "so he is getting a lot of love and attention," said Mrs Chen.
The couple first met while at primary school at the former Kendal School in Harewood.
"We are really happy that we have ended up settling back at Harewood and that we will be raising Sebastian here. Both Robin and I have fond memories growing up in this area," she said.
Mrs Chen is the second community board member to welcome a child this term, with Jamie Gough's wife, Jasmine, giving birth to their first child in September. As a board member, issues in the ward are now more "critical" said Mrs Chen.
"The decisions we make today will affect people's families and our future generation so it is very crucial that we (board members) do not make rash decisions. We need to work closely with city council staff to forecast the consequences of our decisions in the long term, not just for the instant results."


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Mahan's Naval Strategy: China Learned It. Will America Forget It?
Seth Cropsey & Arthur Milik
The public debate over the federal budget often obscures the relation between our domestic and foreign interests. Such debates test democracy's prudence by forcing a choice between immediate and easily perceptible problems and the distant and often silent strategic interests underpinning policy. An enduring strategy that enables US political and military strength through commercial superiority hinges on naval power. We appear to have forgotten the vital and unique responsibilities assigned to a navy in a democratic society: how it preserves US commercial success and domestic material well-being andmost often ignoredhow a navy establishes the conditions that make liberal commerce on the seas possible.
Our greatest statesmen understand this connection. In particular, Alfred Thayer Mahan understood it. A naval officer and strategist whose 1890 book, The Influence of Sea Power upon History: 16601783, was a theoretical treatise as well as a history that argued for American national greatness through control of the seas, Mahan was in his time a strong influence on politicians such as Theodore Roosevelt and on a generation of foreign-policy theorists. Yet today, outside of a small circle of naval officersincluding Chinese officers who admire his idea that under the right circumstances sea power is the key to national greatnessMahan and his contribution to the American century has been largely forgotten. Notwithstanding, more than ninety percent of the world's trade is conducted by water, and the world's waterways are and will remain the most efficient means for transporting goods.
The two-thirds of a century since the end of World War II have encouraged us to take for granted that the oceans are safe for navigation. The US Navy has created a status quo that we now believe is natural, and we take for granted the origins of this liberal regime on the water. Should a competitor state arise to challenge America's influence on the oceans, the world's waterways are not likely to remain as friendly to liberal commerce as they have been since 1945. And the consequences to the American economy would be incalculableas they were to the Dutch when they vanished as an international force in the late eighteenth century due to the loss of dominant sea power.
As Mahan wrote, naval power often proves "more silent than the clash of arms"as influential as it is quiet. Yet the influence of sea power on commerce and national security is almost always pushed aside each time a nation feels domestic financial pressures. One reason this happens is that it is difficult to quantify sea power's strategic gains, despite its silent and oft overlooked aim of creating the conditions for stable commercial relations on the world's waterways. Contemporary economic methodology takes for granted the causes that make possible the operation of rational economic laws.
Furthermore, Mahan viewed sea power as the protector of democratic freedom. He saw three things: that Americans have a talent for creating wealth, that sea power is needed to increase that wealth by overseas trade, and that sea power assists in insinuating (on allies and enemies alike) political orders friendly to rational commerce. Like Alexander Hamilton, Mahan saw that expanding wealth would move the international system toward a commercial competition in which the US was likely to eventually gain and hold the upper hand. An additional benefit of successful commercial competition is being able to afford the most advanced military equipment, a strategy the US has continued to pursue. More than assuring the continuation of liberal commerce on the seas and securing freedom from domination by other states, sea power multiplies national power not through competition but through the soft political leverage attained through commercial development.
Nearly four years ago, the US Navy included among its important objectives humanitarian aid and disaster relief, traditional naval activities that are now receiving more attention as a core mission. More than twelve thousand sailors at a time served in support missions on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan during the height of those conflicts. But serious reductions in the fleet's combat ability as a result of budget cuts now threaten these missions and the overall long-term strategic value of the US military. Needs that look pressing at this or that moment can slowly replace strategy.
Mahan articulated a widely neglected subject in the debate on military strategy: sea power's special significance during times of peace. In his view, the virtue of a mobile maritime force was that it can be deployed and stationed anywhere, nearly at any time, and that its desired effect is primarily indirect and perceptible only over time.
Diverting the economic and military efforts of other statesoften persuading competitors or less powerful neighbors to develop in ways guided by our own strategic interestsis most cheaply and effectively achieved by sea power. Attempting the same broad effect with ground forces is rarely practicable or desirable because it leads to charges of imperialism and possible confrontation and tends to provoke costly (to both sides) resistance. Thus, more than any other military branch, the navy, during times of peace, serves as a preventative force that may reassure friends of support, help us gain friends, and dissuade states without navies from bothering to develop them.
Similarly, by clearing the sea-lanes of hostile navies, and protecting the waters with a friendly one, a good navy encourages allies to develop commercially by providing them the routes to enter into commercial markets. Both sides thus benefit, though sometimes disproportionately. For example, how many of the Four Asian TigersHong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwanwould have become as wealthy as they did if they had been overshadowed by a hegemonic and threatening naval power?
Mahan foresaw that naval strategy during peace is primarily guided by the following principles. First, rather than allowing competitors to develop their own merchant shipping fleet to support their foreign trade, a great nation preempts them by the projection of sea power. Mahan argues further that a thriving commercial shipping industry is the force that naturally produces a healthy navy, not a forcelike that of Kaiser Wilhelm or the Soviet Navythat exists by whim of a monarch or the command of an autocratic regime. This insight was not implemented by the US in its maritime policies toward China, which over the past decade has acquired several of the largest shipping companies in the world. The US bet on China during Washington's struggle with Moscow, and those who placed this betHenry Kissinger foremost among themhave not since reconsidered whether by seeking to offset one danger they helped to create another.
Secondly, Mahan contends that at certain times it may even be a good idea for a state to encourage its competitors to build a blue-water navy independent of a commercial fleet. Such a navy will likely have the appearance of strength, but will be short-lived and financially precariousbut all the more so if the rival simultaneously seeks to dominate on land and at sea. Looking back at the French-Dutch conflict of the seventeenth century for an example, Mahan argues that "the policy of France was constantly diverted, sometimes wisely and sometimes most foolishly, from the sea to projects of continental extension. These military efforts expended wealth: whereas a wise and consistent use of her geographical position [near the sea] would have added to it." If Mahan were alive today, he would note that, given its geographic deadlock with India to the southwest and Russia to the north, China will most likely pursue the way of the sea.
The more subtle strategy, the one best undertaken in peace, is to secure, slowly and almost imperceptibly, territories useful for commerce, territorial management, or as preparation for the possibility of determined commercial competition or armed conflict itself. As a theorist, Mahan would have nodded approvingly at China's efforts to develop the naval facilities and supporting bases in the Indo-Pacific region called the "string of pearls." He observes that, "in peace [naval strategy]?.?.?.?may gain its most decisive victories by occupying in a country, either by purchase or treaty, excellent positions which would perhaps hardly be got by war." Peace for Mahan is a breather, a time when architects of foreign policy look to the direct and indirect effects of far-flung sea power in a future when gun ports are once again opened.
Thus, without spending a lot of money on stationing garrisons abroad or maintaining military bases, a navy becomes an armed chess set whose global maneuverability equals its adaptability to use force, threaten to do so, or assist states in need. Moreover, restricting or limiting a strategic rival's access to global waters also indirectly controls their military development by forcing a choice between developing on the sea or on land. A contemporary example might be that of the Russian Federation. Even with a windfall from its oil and natural gas income, Russia cannot yet afford a competitive blue-water fleet. The United States' global naval power pressures Russia to maintain its continental forces, to invest in sustaining ground troops, arms, and equipment. Russia's strategic attention is directed toward energy monopoly and Central Asian territory rather than into US-dominated waters. The Russians are not competitors to the US on the sea because of American transoceanic sea power and Russia's own internal limitations.
Liberal commerce orders relations between states through the principle of interest. But Mahan questions whether international commerce is possible without the support of global sea power, or whether, in the absence of such power, only variations of disorder, war, and piracyor domination by a great despotic powerpersist on the seas. For Mahan, a good navy is the force that establishes the grounds for liberal trade on the sea and safeguards its continuation.
If states relate to one another through either alliance or competition, as Mahan believes they do, successful commercial states follow one of three tracks: they seek to turn other states into allies by guiding them toward democratic laws through commercial pressure or military influence, as the US did in Japan and Korea; or to control the world's waterways for the purpose of "managing" trade; or to send out colonies.
Manufacturing economies, as Mahan argues, rely on naval power to protect commerce. Service economiessuch as the US is becomingmay at first glance appear to rely less and less on sea power as the need to protect the ocean-borne import and export of raw materials and finished goods decreases. But service economies in fact depend even more on sea power because of the absence of a shipping fleet, and the inevitable arrival of foreign ones.
A large merchant fleet hasn't existed in the US since before the Civil War. But even for a nation that has replaced a manufacturing with a service economy and rented foreign hulls to carry its own goodsas the US hasthe ability to hold strategic choke points, along with other advantages of sea power, such as the ability to project power and command the seas, remains critical to the order on which freedom of navigation depends. The sea routes whose safety such states have become accustomed to are at risk from new forms of rule based on new interests and different ideas of international order. When the Royal Navy abandoned its forward presence in the Western Pacific to Japan in 1904, a new order established itself there.
The multidimensional character of Mahan's insights about sea power and the way it mirrors a changing international order helps explain the popularity he has enjoyed in China. The country's rapidly enlarging merchant fleet and developing manufacturing economy are linked to a rising naval fleet. Mahan would have seen at once that if, at the same time that the Chinese are focusing on maritime issues, the US combat fleet's prospects for long-term health are fading, international conflicts between the two powers will increase. Without dominant sea power, what are the choices? Land interventionthe costliest and most politically unpopular optionor a gradual decline into impotence. By cutting its naval budget, the US loses strategically, as well as commercially. And, again, our economists do not and cannot calculate the monetary losses of losing entire markets and the consequences of entering into antagonistic economic relations where competitors, not the market, set prices. The replacement of English with American naval power meant little since England and the US shared similar views of international order. The replacement of America's dominant position as a global sea power by, for example, China, would have much more serious consequencesnot just for us, but for our Asian and European allies who depend on the liberal order we have established.
Preserving command of the seas supports the United States' competitive advantage. It allows communication with the alliances that we hope to preserve. And it gives the US strategic options. If the debt crisis the US is trying to address is resolved at the expense of command of the seas, the cure to our financial woes will prove a Pyrrhic victory.
The world's waterways are of themselves neutral and without a preference for the state that governs them. Different states bring their own order of governing the seas, and the US brings with it liberal economics. It is difficult to imagine serious discussions of international maritime law, or treaties that establish a law of the seas, had the Soviet Union emerged victorious in the Cold War.
America's allies in the Pacific are currently being pressed more immediately by the Chinese than we are. They see, as Americans tend not to, that the US is in a long-term competition with China, and recognize, as we don't, that the Chinese desire slowly to push US sea power out of the international waters close to them. The only force standing in the way of such a transition, which would destroy a complex web of alliances for the US in the Pacific, is our current sea power.
Alfred Thayer Mahan offers the intellectual arguments that address what the US stands to lose economically and militarilyand all that China will gainif there is a profound shift of power in the Western Pacific. Commerce, he believes, plays to the natural advantage of an enterprising people who are largely free to act upon their judgment and enterprising spirit. But commercial advantage and our enterprising spirit relies equally on the ability to keep open the oceanic arteries through which commerce must be able to flow. This equation is set on its head when prosperity becomes an important instrument to justify single-party ruleas in China, where freedoms of commerce are restricted by the state's pressing requirement, for example, to employ millions; by an understanding of commercial freedom that is wholly separate from political freedom; and by a parallel view of sea power that sees the interruption of commerce as a personal threat to those who rule the state.
Mahan saw correctly that American greatness depends on dominant sea power. He understood the close connection between domestic prosperity and maritime preeminence. The acceptance of his ideas at the beginning of the twentieth century helped immeasurably in encouraging both, the condition of which is the only one in the memory of Americans alive today. But perpetual permanence is indeed the illusion of every age, as the possibility of a much diminished US Navy raised by ongoing budget negotiations should be a reminder.
Source URL: http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/article/mahan%E2%80%99s-naval-strategy-china-learned-it-will-america-forget-it
Seth Cropsey
Director, Center for American Seapower
Arthur Milik
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Compared to the annual conventions of ISNA, ICNA/MAS, the Caribbean Muslim Convention – "One Nation Under God: The American Muslim" – was at best a modest gathering of American and Canadian scholars and attendees of Caribbean background.
For nearly four decades there has been a near consensus among Muslims from the Caribbean that in order to succeed in their adopted homeland they had to shed as much of their cultural baggage as possible. This belief caused Muslims to treat core religious practices of their predecessors as an odious stench.
But in the last 15 years, as the children of first and second generation immigrants began to come of age in North America, the issue of cultural and intellectual continuity has become a subject of vital importance.
The engine of continuity for Muslims is the Islamic tradition. It is a living, breathing and thriving set of practices meant for people who are prepared to embrace change rather than resist it. Tradition is not to be confused with "traditionalism" which is best described as an ossified set of practices.
The word tradition comes from the Latin term "traditio" which means to hand down from one generation to another. In the Islamic context, it refers to the illustrious example of the Noble Prophet Muhammad, ﷺ may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him.
How we pray, for example, is an integral part of the Islamic religious tradition, in that it has been handed down from the Beloved Messenger of Allah, ﷺ peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, to our generation in an unbroken chain for over 1400 years.
When we pray, we do so like the Messenger of Allah ﷺ did, and we also ensure that our children and grandchildren, if taught properly, will likely follow in his footsteps. One can travel from the hundreds of islands that make up the Indonesian archipelago to the remote villages of Guyana and find Muslims men and women praying in almost identical ways. The continuity of the Prophetic tradition could only occur because Muslim scholars and ordinary people make incredible sacrifices to keep the tradition alive.
Continuity Or Discontinuance and Disruption?
Even in this relatively simple instruction, his "rahma" or mercy is abundantly manifest. Had he ﷺ said "pray as I pray" that would have been an impossibility for his ﷺ followers. The importance in the act of "seeing" commits us only to the Prophet's outward actions, not the impossible task of imitating his inner state.
No one will doubt that for nearly 200 years our parents and grandparents worked assiduously to hand down to us a copy of the Salah that is as authentic as any you might get in heart of Muslim majority countries. And for that we should be immensely grateful.
The five daily prayers is the heartbeat of the Muslim community in whatever region of God's earth believers happens to live. As parents we become alarmed when our children refuse to heed the call of prayer. Leaving off the prayer is a sin, no doubt, but a greater travesty is the severing of a bond that connects our generation to the very being of Prophet Muhammad, ﷺ may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him.
In one fell swoop we throw isnad to the wind and by doing so we unwittingly set the stage for an end to the edifice that has held the sacred tradition in place for hundreds of years. Only a spiritual vacuum is left and then the numbing noise of modernity with all its festering sores.
To the extent that this condition exists, I'd venture to say, we are in many ways responsible for creating it. And by 'we" I mean the first generation of Caribbean immigrants to North America who were responsible for introducing a toxic and alien idea that almost dismantled nearly 200 years of continuous practice of Islam in the Caribbean.
Perhaps this virus was given a warm welcome as a desperate response to an ossified set of religious practices, i.e. traditionalism – wearing a particular type of clothes to pray, insisting on wearing a topi, making dua' after the prayer to complete it, etc., but in the process we threw out the baby with the bathwater. We managed to discard isnad and with it the consensus of the great 'ulema, the madhahib (madhabs) and their Imams who sacrificed their lives to preserve and transmit the Islamic tradition.
Today, young men in Guyana and Trinidad insist they are following the Sunnah when they jam their heels against yours during salah. They say it prevents the devil from getting in-between brothers. Little do they know the devil is more at home between their thighs while they play footsie during the prayer.
When pressed for a hadith, a Prophetic tradition in either Arabic or English to justify their actions, they are stumped as they are with an endless stream authentic religious practices they flippantly label bid'a (religious innovation).
The result of this trend does not end with the salah, but it continues with the unraveling of the intellectual, ethical and spiritual traditions as well.
It is not surprising that in Trinidad and Tobago an estimated 170 men have left with their families to join the sadistic killers that call themselves the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Those who are still alive spend a great deal of time on social media recruiting and threatening violence on the vast majority of Muslims in Trinidad who condemn and refuse to join them. The feeble minority has labelled the majority "murtad" (apostates).
That's what happens when we unhinge ourselves from the living Islamic tradition. The consequences will most certainly return to haunt us.
As dismal as the situation is today among Muslims both in the Caribbean and in North America, the New York convention affirmed that service to humanity is how we follow in the footsteps of Allah's Beloved Messenger ﷺ , and it is the only way forward amidst the crisis of faith that seems to cast an ominous shadow over our lives.
Nazim holds a Master's Degree in Journalism from the University of Western Ontario and a B.A. Hons. in Political Science and History from York University. Between 1995 to 2005 Nazim pioneered a series of Rihlas and Deen Intensive programs in North America, Spain, Morocco and the first program in what eventually became a series of successful Rihlas to Mecca and Madina. He has been a regular contributor to Q-News International, Islamica Magazine and a number of other publications. He is an activist, a translator and interpreter of the message of Islam in the modern context, a khatib, a teacher, a mentor to many young Muslim men and women in the GTA and most of all a father and husband. Nazim has been named in The Muslim 500 – The World's Most Influential Muslims. Nazim was born in Guyana.
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It's crazy how the beauty industry is taking our social media by storm nowadays. There's the contour tutorial to look like a Kardashian, how to fill up your eyebrows and make it neat around the edges with a concealer, and how to plump up your lips with a lip-liner…you get the drill. But while many of us humans spend so much time to look beautiful and influence others with our beauty, we do not give much thought of what we put on our faces. Unfortunately, according to PETA, hundred thousands of animals are killed every year in lab testing.
What has been experimented on animals does not always mean the final product may be safe for us. So why risk your health when you can opt for all-natural ingredients used in products? Furthermore, it is non-toxic and suitable even for the most sensitive skin, with ingredients on the label you can easily identify.
2. Lab testing is conducted on rodents, dogs and cats.
Yes, believe it or not – not only mice, guinea pigs and bunnies are subjected to this unnecessary painful ordeal, but dogs and cats too. If you own a pet, you know you would never let anything harm your little best friend, what more to say animals out there.
Making the right choices in life helps to make you feel psychologically, physically and spiritually better. While we might not always be able to avoid such products all the time, there should be no excuse for us to be more compassionate towards the living nature and to make the right choices.
Cruelty-free products lead the way when it comes to combining values with beauty. Why say no to something that can help you make a global impact? Be a conscientious consumer and be aware of what lies in store for you. With that said, what are your thoughts on going cruelty-free? Leave your comments below.


This book is a relatively short novel (about 200 pages) about a mission to Europa. It is what I like to call "realistic science fiction". What I mean by that is I worked very hard to make the science plausible. Now to make it an interesting adventure I had to take creative license from time-to-time but I tried to keep it from being too far-fetched. The book goes into some detail about the space ships and artificial gravity without getting too heavy; in-case you are not that into these kinds of details. I loved the detail (and realism) in 2001 a Space Odyssey and used that as my yard-stick but kept it a little lighter.
If you like your science fiction more on the science and less on the fiction then I think you will enjoy this story. It has happy moments, intense moments, romantic moments, and sad moments. In the end I just hope it was entertaining.
I also found so much awesome sci-fi art out there I knew I just had to include some of it in my book, bucking the trend of not having illustrations in a book aimed for adults. I hope you enjoy that as well.


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Millionaires Press Biography
Posted on 1st September 1999 Posted in Article, Press Release
Musical history is littered with bands who have briefly blazed brightly, to sink prematurely into depressing mediocrity as they repeat themselves with ever-diminishing effect. The path JAMES have forged has taken the band in exactly the opposite direction. Endlessly inventive, always taking risks and never satisfied with the easy option, James have dug deep into the wellspring of their creativity and come up with 'MILLIONAIRES' – the most adventurous and rewarding album of their 16 year roller-coaster career.
That they were threatening to produce something special was signalled last year when the band raced to the top of the album charts with 'The Best of James'. Although the collection contained 14 of their (top forty) hits, significantly it was the two new songs, 'Destiny Calling' and 'Runaground', which caught the attention and suggested a band returning into peak form. Both, of course, became hit singles in their own right and heightened the anticipation for the next album.
"We were aware that last year's success had created an expectation of this record," says guitarist Saul Davies. "The songs were written just as that album was kicking off and it generated a lot of energy. I think we struck a really good balance between being commercial and being interesting and different". "But we made the new album on the back of a mixture of things," adds Tim Booth. "The optimism of last year did give the band a real lift. But there were a lot of problems and conflicts at the same time which hadn't been resolved. Those tensions are all there in the songs as well. I think this is the best album we have ever made." It is a bold claim given James' impressive track record since they began recording for the Manchester-based Factory Records back in 1983.
Championed by Morrissey as "the best band in the world", they toured with the Smiths, became Hacienda favourites and cult heroes and signed to Sire Records. Their debut album 'Stutter' in 1986 and 'Strip Mine' two years later established the basic guitar-driven James sound, and marked Tim out as a provocative lyricist and an emotive singer, but they found the label unsympathetic and unsupportive. By 1989 they were delighted to escape from Sire's clutches, even though it left them skint. "After seven years we were living on dole-level wages and radio wouldn't play us," Tim recalls. Many bands would have folded. Instead James volunteered as human guinea pigs in medical tests at a local hospital and used the cash to release 'One Man Clapping', a rather fine live album on their own label. Although it included an early version of 'Sit Down', the distributors Rough Trade told them it was "minority music with no commercial appeal" and let them go.
They then re-grouped later and added new members Saul Davies, Mark Hunter (keyboards) and David Baynton-Power (drums). They recorded an album of songs for Rough Trade who sold the record on to Fontana. It was released as 'Gold Mother' and was the breakthrough they had waited so long for, selling 350,000 in Britain alone while a reworked 'Sit Down' became one of the most memorable anthems of the nineties.
The Madchester scene was in full swing and, together with the Stone Roses and the Happy Mondays, James suddenly found themselves at its apex, hailed as the saviours of British rock music.
The sweepingly epic 'Seven' followed in 1992 and was only kept from the number one spot by Simply Red. The following year they secured the services of Brian Eno to produce the extraordinary'Laid' and it's experimental off-shoot 'Wah Wah'.
Spending increasing amounts of time in America (including playing Woodstock Two),'Laid' took off there too, selling 600,000 copies at a time when British bands were finding it particularly difficult to penetrate a grunge-fixated market. Then, at the highest point of their career, James almost fell apart.
One day in 1995 guitarist Larry Gott, the longest serving member apart from Tim and bassist Jim Glennie, decided to quit. So did manager Martine and, for good measure, the band learned that they owed a huge sum in back tax. Shell-shocked they took a break that as it stretched into its third year looked like becoming terminal. Booth went off to make a solo album with Angelo Badalamenti and no one seriously expected ever to hear from James again.
Yet adversity has always brought the best out of the band. With the addition of new guitarist Adrian Oxaal they eventually re-emerged in 1997 with the boldly melodic 'Whiplash'. Brimming with rejuvenated confidence, it went gold and gave the band one of it's biggest singles in 'She's a Star'. Last year's 'Best Of James' only served to confirm their resurgence and gave them their first number one album keeping "Titanic" from the top slot in Oscar week, going on to be the band's first double platinum album and sell out tour.
'Millionaires' finds Brian Eno back as co-producer and the band at a new creative peak with a set of sumptuous songs full of light and shade – accessible and yet complex, dense but somehow full of space. "Saul and I basically disagree when we are writing a song. There are a lot of contrasts and paradoxes. We have totally different philosophies to life and that gives us a certain creative tension. It's that fight between us which produces the best writing," says Tim. "James is a very intense group. There's usually one of us cracking up at any given time." The conflicting lifestyles on the surface appear irreconcilable. The band has strongly hedonistic impulses while Tim is these days famously sober and ascetic. But as Saul explains: "We're all trying to get to the same place in our different ways. I can write the music for a song like 'Someone's Got It In 4 Me' at six in the morning after I've been up for three days drinking litres of vodka. Tim gets there through his trance states and meditation. But we're both experimenting with removing ourselves from the normal humdrum day-to-day existence."
'Surprise' was written about a friend Tim thought was on the verge of suicide – although it could also be taken as an allegory for the band and a response to those who wrote them off. "Fred Astaire" is simply one of the best love songs the band has ever recorded. "I am completely and totally in love but I also have this English embarrassment that goes with it. That's what the song is about," says Tim. The slightly sinister 'If Anybody Hurts You' is a protective charm, he says. "There have been people who wished me harm and someone actually put a curse on me. The song is a shield."
Several of the songs emerged from jams, a traditional way of working for the band who like to trust first instincts. 'Hello' is an entirely intuitive song with an improvised lyric Tim professes not quite to understand. 'Vervacious' similarly started life as a jam before Sinead O'Connor was invited to lend some hypnotic vocals. Jamie Catto of Faithless helped out on 'Someone's Got It In 4 Me' and also on 'Afro Lover', an anti-war song with an almost religious intensity but a contrastingly upbeat arrangement. Eno's ineffable influence weaves its magic throughout the album's eleven songs. "On some things he had fixed ideas and on others he was prepared to roll with the flow".
"We derived enormous encouragement just from him being there." As for the title, Tim has a strong belief that words have certain properties of cause and effect. "The album should have been called "Love, Money and Revenge", because those are the themes. But when we made 'Laid', we got laid. When we made 'Whiplash', I got whiplash. This is the best album we have ever done so we settled on 'Millionaires'.
Well you can see the logic. And if there is any justice, it should prove to be yet another of James's self-fulfilling prophecies.
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package hudson.plugins.git.extensions.impl;

import hudson.plugins.git.ChangelogToBranchOptions;

import org.junit.Test;

import static org.hamcrest.MatcherAssert.assertThat;
import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.containsString;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertThrows;

public class ChangelogToBranchTest {
    @Test
    public void checkConstructorIllegalArgument() {
        ChangelogToBranchOptions nullOptions = null;
        IllegalArgumentException e = assertThrows(IllegalArgumentException.class,
                                                  () -> {
                                                      new ChangelogToBranch(nullOptions);
                                                  });
        assertThat(e.getMessage(), containsString("options may not be null"));
    }
}

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In keeping with ramping things up for April, I've decided to also do the 30 day shred.....I've never done this before but have see some amazing results from it.
I'm planning on doing this in conjunction with my current personal training plan, classes and running training! Surely one of those will work?
Anyway.....I PROMISE I will take some before photos although I think I might post them at the end of the shred.....Yes I know I'm rubbish but think before photos are turning into quite a big thing for me!
This week so far has not really started. I've been avoiding weight training due to hurting my knee last week, but decided last night to go for a 2K run with the boy. It wasn't a fast run and I was being seriously careful due to my knee, but it turned out to be OK and the boy is a fairly good trainer....he's only ten but I think I've found his future career!


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Class reunions: a time for memories--good, bad, and, as Virgil Flowers is about to find out, deadly. Virgil knows the town of Trippton, Minnesota, a little too well. A few years back, he investigated the corrupt - and as it turned out, homicidal - local school board, and now the town's back in view with more alarming news: A woman's been found dead, frozen in a block of ice. There's a possibility that it might be connected to a high school class of twenty years ago that has a mid-winter reunion coming up, and so, wrapping his coat a little tighter, Virgil begins to dig into twenty years' worth of traumas, feuds, and bad blood. In the process, one thing becomes increasingly clear to him. It's true what they say: high school is murder.
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