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These 10 funny prayers to show thanks for your food can be used for Mother's Day, Father's Day, Christmas, Easter, Memorial Day, 4th of July, any holiday or non holiday meal. Say the prayers at breakfast, lunch, brunch, dinner or whenever appropriate. Show thanks in a fun way to brighten your day.
Red Hat is a fun hub with poems about... you guessed it, red hats. Wearing hats to club meetings, church services, outings, parties... can add such fun and style to your life and wardrobe. I know. I've done it and I do it. The power of the color red is amazing. Wear a red hat and enjoy the sparks.
There are so many great childhood memories I have about going to church with my mother and growing up in a Christian home. Christian Poems About Mom reflects only a small amount of that memory and a favorite The Mothers of the Ministers poem reminds me of my mothers work in the church.
Here you'll find several Christian Father's Day poems.


The official Tom Clancy's The Division Original Game Soundtrack was created and composed by Ola Strandh in cooperation with Massive Entertainment.
Ola Strandh already worked with Massive on the past games like World in Conflict, or Ground Control Ground Control II: Operation Exodus and had also been active in the field of film music.
For more information about his work and the music in The Division, check out The Division Insider episode: Behind the Music.
The soundtrack of The Division 2 can be found here.
The soundtrack is available on iTunes and Amazon while it consists of 18 tracks and has a total length of 1:18:24.
He is also responsible for the legendary atmosphere in the E3 2014 Take Back New York Trailer.
This is the OST for The Division's second major expansion Survival, which was again composed by Ola Strandh.
The soundtrack is available for purchase on iTunes and Amazon and consists of 12 tracks. Total length is 41:44. You could already start listening to it for free on YouTube, SoundCloud, or many other ways listed here.
Also in the The Division community there is the one or other talented composer, who share their soundtracks on different platforms. The following tracks have been created by fans for fans!


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Q: Extract sound file from electronic answering machine I have an AT&T Model 1738 digital answering machine and I want to record the sound from one of the messages. The speaker in the answering machine is low quality, so I do not want to just play the message and use a microphone because that would result in a low-quality recording.
I would rather collect the audio information from some point before it gets amplified and sent to the speaker. What would be the necessary equipment and general procedure to do this?

A: General procedure starts with a schematic. If you can't find one (likely) then you will have to 'reverse-engineer' it by tracing the wiring inside the device.
Necessary equipment equipment includes a screwdriver, continuity tester or multimeter, pencil and paper, and a good pair of eyes. Some basic electronics knowledge will also help.
Once you have a schematic you should be able to determine where the audio signal is produced and amplified, then you can try probing different points to find the best signal.
Or just take the signal directly from the speaker terminals - on the assumption that the electronic signal is relatively high quality and most of the degradation occurs inside the speaker itself. Even in this case a schematic is still useful, as it may help to determine what kind of interface is required.

A: Before you start reverse-engineering your answering machine, you need to realize that the recorded sound is pretty poor quality to begin with.
The telephone network itself bandlimits signals sent over it to a band from 300 to 3400 Hz. This allows the early phone network to provide uniform service quality over the analog loop from the central office to the customer using reasonable electronics for the early 20th century. Today it limits the bandwidth needed to transmit millions of calls over  the digitized phone network.
This band doesn't even capture the fundamental of a typical speaker's voice --- the system relies on human perception to reconstruct the voice sound from the strongly filtered version of it.
Your answering machine will have been this in mind, so it will use only a fairly crude ADC (maybe 8 bits, maybe less), and a low sampling rate (perhaps 8 kSa/s) to reduce costs. It will also have recorded whatever noise was on the line when your caller left their message.
So even if you find the analog signal being sent to the speaker, and re-digitize it with an ADC, you might not get much better sound than you had before.

A: They sometimes use Windbond recorder chips,  and low quality is reduced if signal is too low or high.
If you have an aux input that accepts 1V typ audio signals on a computer you can record it and playback by tapping into speaker wire pair.

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Семёно-Оленинское — деревня в Рязанском районе Рязанской области. Входит в Семёновское сельское поселение.

География
Находится в центральной части Рязанской области на расстоянии приблизительно 7 км на юго-запад по прямой от вокзала станции Рязань II.

История
На карте 1797 года деревня уже была отмечена. На карте 1850 года показана как поселение с 5 дворами. В 1859 году здесь (тогда территория Рязанского уезда Рязанской губернии) было учтено 11 дворов, в 1897 — 21. В последние годы в деревне заработал спортивно-развлекательный комплекс.

Население
Численность населения: 172 человека (1859 год), 31 (1897), 38 в 2002 году (русские 100 %), 49 в 2010.

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Населённые пункты Рязанского района  (Рязанская область)

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3d animation explainer video is the updated version of the animated explainer videos. In these videos, the animation is presenting in three-dimensionally. Compare to the other explainer videos, it is more distinct and helps to understand the topic thoroughly. As the three dimensional presentations, the audiences can make sense about the detailed description of the issues. The most appropriate field of these explainer videos is in product marketing.
In 3d explainer videos, the concept of three dimensions is used to explain the presentation thoroughly. According to the key-frame, the 3d animation explainer videos run at the range of thirty to sixty frames per sec. The vital reason for these videos acceptance is the characteristics to depict something as alive. As a portray of products, these videos are used to explain the exact information about the products commercially to the audiences.
2d animation is one of the popular formats of animation explainer videos production. But with the arrival of 3d animation explainer videos, it's losing the acceptance. Several differences are found between 2d animation and 3d animation explainer videos-
3d animation explainer videos are different in art style over 2d animation videos.
The animator needs to animate all of the sides of the product in 3d animation videos, though it is not need in 2d animation videos. It is more difficult in 3d animation videos than 2d.
3d animation videos are complicated in the operation of production than 2d animation videos.
3d animation videos have a specific field of utilization that is in the commercial sector. It is used in business purposes for product promotion. But 2d animation videos are not fit enough for this case.
In 3d animation, the three-dimensional presentation helps the audiences to engage comfortably with the illustration of the topic. Due to the involvement of both visual and auditory senses, the watchers can pick the information comfortably. The providing information also keeps in their mind as a long term memory. These videos also help the audiences to get a solution about their facing problem related to the usage of the products and are also able to know the speciality of offering outcomes. By the way, 3d animation explainer videos are submitting the exact information of a product, and the audiences accept the platform as a more authentic one.
Though it is a complicated operation to produce a 3d animation explainer video, you can find a lot of software that will help your job by making it easy. K-3D is one of the prominent software in 3d animation explainer videos production that is free in services and powerful software to do the 3d animation video creation. You need the help of a computer for editing the videos with this tool.
Apart from, Mango Animation Maker is the software that is best with its service. You can use this software as your animated explainer video making tool. It is identical on its features. It is easy in operation to compare to the other existing tools. It will give you some additional features like video editing, the addition of music etc.

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This exciting camp is for enthusiastic jazz musicians of all skill levels who want to focus on a creative approach to improvisation and ensemble playing. The first style of music to be classed as Jazz was called Dixieland and it was performed from around the turn of the century in the Southern states of America. It is essential nevertheless to understand that jazz isn't limited to tap dance and that other styles of dance fall under the rather large umbrella of 'jazz dance'.
BA Jazz is an exciting and practical course where you get to play all the music that you study in class. When making Jazz music composition one must continue to remember the essential element present in all true Jazz music which is improvisation. Jazz continued to expand and change, influenced by other types of music such as world music , avant garde classical music and rock and pop.
Jazz music is most distinguished from other musical forms for its reliance upon improvisation. The researchers of music state that the form of jazz music that can be regarded as an early form that evolved over time to the form of the current jazz is a form of jazz around 1915 to 1917.
This is done in combination with learning about jazz composition for small ensembles, and exploring the relationship between composition and performance in jazz. So many novice jazz players buy into the myth that jazz music is all about intellectualizing the concepts, theories, and chords that make up each facet of jazz music.
Bentuk-bentuk tersebut selain merambah pada jalurnya sendiri, juga berkembang menelusuri perjalanan musik jazz. That jazz developed uniquely in the United States, not in the Caribbean or in South America (or any other realm to which thousands of African blacks were also transported) is historically fascinating.


Is it possible to live completely waste free? In this multi-award winning, festival favourite, partners Jen and Grant go head to head in a competition to see who can swear off consumerism and produce the least garbage Their light-hearted competition is set against a darker examination of the problem waste. Even as Grant and Jen start to garner interest in their project, they struggle to find meaning in their minuscule influence on the large-scale environmental impacts of our "throw-away society". Described as An Inconvenient Truth meets Super Size Me, The Clean Bin Project features laugh out loud moments, stop motion animations, and unforgettable imagery. Captivating interviews with renowned artist, Chris Jordan and TED Lecturer Captain Charles Moore, make this film a fun and inspiring call to individual action that speaks to crowds of all ages.


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5.0 out of 5 starsIf you thought the first Cars film needed more chases, fights, and explosions, you'll love this!
Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2016
I'll stay out of the argument about what it's appropriate to show your kids, as I was only allowed to watch the Disney Channel as a kid and eagerly looked forward to staying with a babysitter so I could watch the "cool" cartoons the other kids liked to watch. I also happen to think that no one should show something to their kids just because it's by Disney/Pixar and rated G, but I digress.
I watched this film right after the first a few days ago, and I'm again impressed by it in absolutely every way. Pixar managed to keep the world and characters from the first film, and create a film with a COMPLETELY different theme and feel. For anyone who thought the first Cars film was too slow, there's more action in the first half hour of this film than the whole of the first Cars combined. The jokes, the camera-work, the visual fidelity (WAAAAY more color this time around), and the variety of characters and settings have all been cranked way up to 11. There isn't really much of a story aside from again one of friendship and finding your usefulness in a world you don't understand, and sticking by your friends, but that doesn't matter because there's so many thrills to be found.
From a design viewpoint this might be the greatest Pixar film ever, with more incredible gadgets and clever uses for them than any other Pixar film I've ever seen. Literally this film keeps your eyes glued to the screen just to see what crazy visual gag or feat you will see next.
Parents will want to tread lightly if they're showing this to a kid who should be playing with large building blocks and coloring books instead of watching TV, but just about everyone else who likes their cartoons action-packed and filled with motion, color, and cleverness with love this film.
And yes, there's some fridge-horror when you realize that every one of those cars that gets zapped, explodes, or is thrown into the sea is DEAD! ....Shudders....
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aconner
2.0 out of 5 starsNot a kids movie!
Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2019
NOT A KIDS MOVIE.
This "James Bond" themed movie is full of guns, violence, explosions, and killing. Yes they actually show (the reflection of) one of the "good guy" spies being tortured until he explodes while the head bad guy yells, "Kill Him!". Not exactly what I would call children's content.
My 2.5 year old LOVES Cars 1. He has tons of lightning McQueen toys and is always racing around "winning the race". We've watched Cars 3 a few times and it was pretty good. Today we decided to have a fun movie night and rent Cars 2 because somehow we'd never seen that one... now I know why. My son was so confused and scared through most of it. He kept telling me, "I wanna see a race. I wanna see tractors. This NOT Cars." :(
Needless to say we won't be watching this movie again.
A Billy T
4.0 out of 5 stars ENTERTAINING, BUT NOT GRIPPING
My son loved the first "Cars" movie. He liked this one, but it wasn't as engrossing as the first. Unlike the first films, the plot of "Cars 2" is more complicated, but ends up being somewhat convoluted. In its attempt to be fresh and combine elements of spy movies, crime/mystery movies, westerns, and comedic films, it jumps around a lot. He did like the fact that the racers came from a lot of different countries, and that became a springboard for exploration in geography and other cultures.
The Blu-Ray is great—on our HDTV, the film looks fantastic on our HDTV and sounds even better! We saw the film in the theater, and we can actually enjoy a fair bit of the "theater experience" at home. Our son doesn't watch the film as much as he did (he is getting older, after all), but I expect that we'll be able to enjoy the Blu-Ray with our younger nieces and nephews, and, eventually, our grandchildren.
Don Vito Corleone
4.0 out of 5 stars Not as good as previous Pixar productions but still solid entertainment
This movie was a complete surprise when they announce it. While I like the first Cars, I never knew of someone who wanted a sequel for the film. Anyway, Pixar released Cars 2 and while it may not be as good as previous Pixar efforts is still great entertainment.
The plot is fairly simple. Lightning McQueen is now a racing star and is challenged to race in the World Grand Prix. This race takes him and his best friend Mater to different locales such as Tokyo, Porto Corsa and London. Meanwhile, Mater is mistaken as an american spy by british spy Finn McMissile who is trying to stop a complot that is taking place in the race. Of course, Mater being Mater, a lot of funny moments appear but also action, adventure and of course racing. This film is a great action adventure but it fails in character development. My major qualm is that Pixar shift the leads by giving Mater the spotlight. While I like Mater, I like him better in small doses and having him being in the center of everything is somewhat exhausting. Another thing is that all the characters that we knew and love from the first film mostly appear in cameos. On the plus side, the pacing of the film is excellent, Finn McMissile is a great new character, the action sequences are breathtaking and of course the animation is stellar putting all the competitors to shame.
Cars 2 may be the weakest Pixar film to date but is still an enjoyable ride.
Cars 2 continues the excellent trend of Disney of releasing amazing transfers. Cars 2 looks absolutely spectacular in HD. Detail, clarity, contrast and colors are amazing and the picture is completely clean and immaculate. You will be amazed as how good the animation is in this transfer.
Likewise, the 7.1 DTS-HD MA is absolutely bombastic. Clarity and directionality are spot-on. Perfect sound.
Bonus Material:
This is a very disappointing part of the disc. This BD only comes with three bonus features:
An audio commentary by director John Lasseter that is always fun to hear.
The TS short Hawaiian Vacation that is great
A new Mater short called Air-Mater that is fun.
A DVD copy is also included
That's it, nothing more is included. If you want more bonus material you'll have to buy the five disc set that adds a BD 3D, a second BD with more bonus features and a Digital Copy. It's a shame that Disney is forcing us to buy a set that includes a disc most of the consumers don't care about or can't reproduce it. This makes me hate 3D a little more than I already do.
Cars 2 has some weaknesses but overall is still a solid effort from Pixar. It is not by any means TS3 but is still an enjoyable film. This BD features truly amazing video and sound but the bonus features are lacking. Still this comes Highly Recommended.
G. Schneider
4.0 out of 5 stars what's missing
With over 500 customer comments on this movie, no one will read this, but I'll write it anyway. First of all, the movie is brilliantly done. The animation is incredible and the acting is fine. The story is over-the-top, but that's fine. It's exciting and it keeps moving. My only caveat is that the version I got (used, through Amazon) is a bare-bones edition, with not one single bonus feature; not even a trailer. Disney has apparently released a plethora of editions of this -- including that ridiculous 11-disc one. Eleven? Come on! At least some of those various editions must have making-of documentaries, even though those are usually just puff-pieces. But I do like to see the actors in front of the mic, doing their lines. But that caveat aside, I quite enjoyed this film. Maybe I wouldn't if I were a kid, but those days are long gone. For me, as old as I am and as many movies as I've seen, this is a fun film. So there, all you one-star people!
Angie Kinneberg
4.0 out of 5 stars Cars 2
It is always hard for a sequal to outdue the original. And while this was no exception, I still think it was a pretty good movie. I can see why some people gave a less than fair rating for what they deemed inappropriate content for a G rated movie, but as stated in another review, the movie portrayed more of a James Bond like theme. There are parts where a car is "tortured" and then "killed" but I think it was done in a tasteful way - my kids didn't seem to think anything of it and I think that it is a thing that only the adults will really understand. The movie still has a few good morals to be learned about friendship and being who you are and not what people want you to be. Mater of course has his usual humor and funny quirps but also learns some things about himself, as the movie is centered more around Mater than Lightning McQueen. Overall I give it 4 stars for the good morals in the story as well as a good plot and story line. Would have liked to give it a 5 but it just didn't compare to the original Cars movie.
menelaosk
4.0 out of 5 stars Well... the children love this one
Unlike the original Cars movie, which is enjoyable at many different levels by multiple generations of audience, this is a film just for kids, and I do not mean 7 or 8-year olds. All the James Bond-like references to the "spy plot" are well over the heads of most 1st/2nd graders, but what can I say. It is true however that my children enjoy this film with all the racing (and the two bonus shorts) immensely. And the studios will undoubtedly make a ton or two of money with all the merchandising...all these new, pretty, shiny, colorful, race cars, not to mention all the "lemons". I have already gotten a new Santa list with prof Z in it... I for one found the "story" uninteresting, as it is sooo predictable. I must admit though, the visuals (especially in the bluray) can be seen with amazing clarity. The artwork and the soundstage/sonic performances are unmistakeably Pixar grade A, it is the story which is lacking here. Oh well can't win them all.
4.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining sequel.
Good sequel. Our son enjoys it and we do too. I will say that it's much darker than the original; even some cars dying.
I really appreciated that they decided not to bring back Doc Hudson, I assume out of respect for Paul Newman who died in between the first movie and this one. No one is a suitable substitute for Paul Newman, so I think they made the right choice here. The storyline is quite different with an espionage theme, and we're introduced to some great new characters including Finn McMissle, and Francesco Bernoulli.
Worth the $20 we paid for it, as our son watches it all the time, and we can easily tolerate it / get a kick out of it even after seeing it 50 times.
4.0 out of 5 stars Not as good as the first
It's a fun movie, my children really like it but for me, it kind of leaves out everything that was great about the first one... A lot of guns too which was surprising (I'm not anti-guns BTW) It wasn't bad, I just didn't walk out of the theater thinking "we're buying that when it comes out on DVD" We just rented it on Amazon but have no plans to do again soon or buy it...
But as for Amazon's instant play, I really prefer this instead of DVDs now. We recently purchased Despicable Me 2 and it's nice to be able to access it anywhere (laptop while away from home, on the Wii or a Sony player we have) It's nice to not lose DVDs or scratch them!
Cheyenne L. Miller
4.0 out of 5 stars Car and Cars 3 are better.
Real talk, Cars 2 is pretty weak. Cars is great, Cars 3 is fantastic, Cars 2 is just over the top ridiculous. Only bought it ho complete my collection.
4.0 out of 5 stars Has Some Violence
Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2019
Unlike Cars 1 and 3 this Cars 2 movie does have some violence. There are explosions, guns, gunfire and a car is killed. The story itself is fun and entertaining, I just don't like the added violence.
Rhaegar915
4.0 out of 5 stars Great movie, young boys love it!
Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2013
Great movie at a great price. Pixar Blue rays are extremely overpriced at stores like Walmart and Bestbuy. With Prime it shipped free and arrived super fast for a fraction of the cost. Not as good as the original Cars or the Toy Story Series but my 2 year old loves it. My only gripe, which is a very small one, is that it does not have a cardboard sleeve outside the Blue Ray box like my other Pixar Blue Rays. Just a small gripe. The reason I gave it 4 stars and not 5 is a rating on the movie itself.
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Not long ago, I was interviewed on the radio about whether I would prescribe cannabis, Dr Ellie Cannon writes. I explained that it was unlikely until we had the solid evidence base that it works, as we do with other drugs. The presenter shouted me down. After the Government's review of cannabis for medicinal purposes, rather than wait for sensible and clear-cut guidance, it is these types of attitude that I am afraid will set the agenda.


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Dr. Sarah Percy (Research Associate, Oxford Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War, Oxford University, United Kingdom)
Topic: "The Role of Private Security and Mercenaries in Conflict, from Africa to the Middle East."
Date: Thursday, 1 February, 2007 (rescheduled from 26 October 2006)
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Abstract: Since the late 1990s, private security companies (PSCs) have experienced explosive growth. During the first Gulf War, 1 in 50 American military personnel were private contractors; during the invasion of Iraq in 2003 that number was 1 in 10. PSCs provide a wide range of services, including services typically the preserve of the state, including interrogation, training, protection of individuals and installations, and the use of specific military technologies. Despite their sensitive role, PSCs are virtually unregulated. At the same time as PSCs have grown, traditional mercenaries have not gone away. From combat-oriented private companies like Executive Outcomes in Sierra Leone to the 2003 mercenary coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea, mercenaries provide both threats and opportunities for Africa. This paper outlines the nature of private security today, from mercenaries to PSCs, and the current regulatory environment, advocating that immediate steps should be taken to regulate both the PSC industry and the use of mercenaries, at the domestic and at the international levels.
Bio: Sarah Percy is a Research Associate in the Oxford Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War. She received a master's and doctorate in international relations from the University of Oxford (Balliol College). She also holds a BA (Hons) in political studies from Queen's University in Canada. Her research interests include mercenaries, private military companies and the privatization of force; the use of norms to regulate warfare; and the relationship between international law and international relations. More general areas of interest include international security and international relations theory. Before coming to Oxford, Sarah taught senior military officers at the UK Joint Services Staff and Command College, where she still provides lectures about the privatization of force. She is the author of a forthcoming Adelphi Paper, The Regulation of the Private Security Industry, and a book, The Norm Against Mercenaries, to be published by Oxford University Press in 2007.
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Gov. Brian Kemp's first State of the State address Thursday outlined his plan to boost teacher pay by $3,000 this year and push for a Medicaid waiver that could give the state more flexibility to use federal healthcare dollars.
State Democrats welcomed his bipartisan tone but were critical of a waiver program they derided as a half-measure. And they demanded full expansion of the Medicaid program, which Kemp and other Republican leaders have cast as too costly.
In the party's response, state Sen. Harold Jones II of Augusta also called for a community-based schooling system and proposed a program that will allow student loan borrowers more leeway to repay their loans over a 10-year period.
"Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to speak to you this evening. This week should be a week of pride for all our citizens. As we watch the seamless transfer of governance from one Administration to the next, we see the grand American experiment being validated.
I would like to thank former Governor Nathan Deal and his wife Sandra Deal for their service to our great State, and I extend congratulations to Governor Kemp on winning a hard fought campaign.
Today you had an opportunity to hear from our new governor. He spoke of a desire for us to rise above partisanship and work for a better future for all Georgians. It is true that only by working together can we address the unique challenges facing our state.
The governor spoke of Georgia's rank as the number one state to do business. As Georgians we should be proud of that designation, but we have to aim higher. We cannot be content to be number one for business while we are ranked 46th for health care.
Our healthcare challenge is a rural problem, an urban problem and suburban problem. It affects every Georgian in every corner of this state.
Many of our citizens do not have health insurance, and today far too many of our neighbors, friends and family members will struggle to choose between paying an emergency room bill or their light bill.
Without health insurance, people who are suffering from opioid dependence desperately want to get their life in order but cannot afford treatment.
Without health insurance, nurses, doctors, orderlies — and above all patients — worry that their hospital may be forced to close because of rising uninsured health care costs.
As a state, we have tried to fix this problem. We have used tax credits and incentives to spur investment as a way to cover health care costs. Yet people still remain uninsured and hospitals remain closed.
It is clear that nothing we've tried in the past will solve the problems we face today.
The answer lies with Medicaid expansion.
Medicaid expansion is the only answer that will provide the state a nine-to-one return on its financial investment.
Medicaid expansion is the answer for families who are struggling with whether to pay their light bill or their doctor bill.
Medicaid expansion is the answer for our hospitals: it allows them to keep their cost in line, their patients secure, and their workers employed.
Medicaid expansion will make Georgia healthier, but we shouldn't stop there. We should also aim to be number one in Education.
The governor reminded us that education was fully funded last year. But he failed to mention that for more than a decade, education has been underfunded. This lack of commitment to education cost our state over 9 billion dollars in education funds.
As we failed to engage in real education reform, class sizes increased, teacher pay stagnated, and teacher morale faltered.
So to be number one in education, we must go beyond our commitment to do the bare minimum. That is why Democrats are proposing a community school plan.
A community school plan offers a holistic approach to educating our children. Education is more than just teaching to a test.
Education is actively engaging parents, teachers, businesses, and community organizations to work closely with each school.
Education means that if a child is hungry they cannot learn. If extra nutrition services are needed we must provide it.
Education is helping a child whose parents work long hours by providing after school services.
Education is increasing health care services so that a sick child can get better and return to the classroom.
And education means that our teachers must be adequately compensated, and therefore we agree with the governor that they deserve a raise.
But let's go further. Let's help students beyond their high school diploma. Let's be the number one state in managing student debt.
College or technical school are essential to success in our new economy.
But far too many of young people cannot afford to go to college, and far too often those they do go are saddled with massive debt.
Democrats are proposing a program called "Pay it Forward, Pay it Back." This program will allow student loan borrowers to pay back their loans at a fixed amount over a 10 year period of time.
Georgia is one of only two states that does not provide a needs based financial aid plan. Income should never be a barrier to pursuing higher education.
Once our students enter the workforce, we should also ensure that they receive fair pay. Georgia should be the number one state for wages.
We must first raise our minimum wage. Democrats are proposing to raise the minimum wage to $15.00 per hour.
Raising the minimum wage will increase Georgians' income and help them fully participate in the economy. Raising the minimum wage will grow our state's economy: more people will have paychecks that provide a livable wage, therefore spending more money in our state and decreasing dependence on government programs. As the economy grows, businesses hire more people and wages go up for all Georgians.
Keeping our citizens safe should always be a top priority, and we support the Governor's efforts to reduce gang violence in our state.
It is essential that we do this while also continuing the critical work of criminal justice reform and protecting the civil liberties of our citizens.
Fear-mongering is not the way forward, nor are the harsh tactics of the drug war that decimated African American communities in recent years.
Now, as Democrats we understand we must work with Republicans to accomplish our goals. Although we seek bipartisan consensus there are some fundamental areas of our democracy we cannot compromise.
We cannot compromise on ensuring that the right to vote is protected and the election process remains fair. We cannot compromise on a woman's reproductive health choice and we will never punish persons for choosing who to love.
My fellow Georgians, these are just a few highlights on the Democratic legislative agenda.
Yes, we are faced with challenges but together we will meet them. Together we will become the number one state, not just for business but for people.
We will know we are the number one state not because magazines tell us we are, but because we see vibrant safe communities, healthy educated children, and above all an unbridled optimism for the future, always striving to aim higher.


President Mikhail S. Gorbachev won general approval today for his plan to remake the Soviet Government, but he suffered an embarrassing setback when the Congress of People's Deputies denied him important new enforcement powers.
The Congress, the nation's supreme constitutional authority, agreed to give the President more direct control over the legal machinery of the executive branch by making Cabinet ministers directly subordinate to him and by creating the post of Vice President.
The Soviet leader indicated that he would return with a compromise proposal on Wednesday, when the debate is to resume. The measures are constitutional amendments, which require two-thirds approval of the Congress.
Another central feature of Mr. Gorbachev's Government reorganization was also watered down today. The step, the establishment of a powerful Federation Council, was intended theoretically to help resolve the country's political stalemate by giving leaders of republics a voice in setting federal policy.
Also today, the chairman of the K.G.B., Vladimir A. Kryuchkov, told reporters that his scorching attack on Saturday on Western businessmen and economic advisers had been misunderstood.
In a clear attempt to soothe the indignation of Western governments, which said the speech smacked of the cold war, Mr. Kryuchkov called a news conference to stress the K.G.B.'s loyalty to Mr. Gorbachev and acceptance of East-West cooperation.
Today he said that his criticism was directed only at some outsiders who "indulge in interference" in Soviet domestic affairs and that those who understood the speech as reactionary "should read it more carefully."
"It would have been strange indeed if a speech by the chairman of the K.G.B. were met with unanimous applause and approval," he said with resignation.
"We are profoundly grateful for the help we are getting," Mr. Kryuchkov said when asked about Western economic ties. "I can name hundreds of companies whose good intentions are proven and to whom we are grateful. At the same time there are different firms, just as we have different joint ventures here, with whom I would strongly recommend you do not do business."
Asked about Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze, who announced his resignation last week with a warning of encroaching dictatorship, Mr. Kryuchkov said that the K.G.B. would defend the law against tyranny but that "extraordinary measures" might be needed to restore stability.
"I am quite confident that if, say, our President uses them, it will not mean a step backwards," he said. "It will just be establishing the order that everybody now misses."
Mr. Gorbachev's plan to revamp the Government seeks to break the paralysis of power that has resulted from republics and local governments countermanding orders coming from Moscow.
Some critics, including Mr. Gorbachev's chief political rival, President Boris N. Yeltsin of the Russian republic, said that the new version would put too much power in the hands of one man. Others, including Mr. Gorbachev's longtime Prime Minister, Nikolai I. Ryzhkov, call it a recipe for continued political stalemate.
In fact, Mr. Gorbachev already has enormous powers on paper, including the right given him by the Congress in March to impose presidential rule in trouble spots, suspending civil liberties and using troops.
And aides concede that the new Government structure will matter little if, as seems likely, many republics continue to go their own way.
Mr. Gorbachev's proposal seeeks to co-opt the republics into sharing the responsibility for federal law by making the Federation Council a major policy-making body with the right to review all important issues and act by a two-thirds majority.


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Westwood é uma vila localizada no condado de Norfolk no estado estadounidense de Massachusetts. No Censo de 2010 tinha uma população de 14.618 habitantes e uma densidade populacional de 505,42 pessoas por km².

Geografia
Westwood encontra-se localizado nas coordenadas . Segundo o Departamento do Censo dos Estados Unidos, Westwood tem uma superfície total de 28.92 km², da qual 28.18 km² correspondem a terra firme e (2.56%) 0.74 km² é água.

Demografia
Segundo o censo de 2010, tinha 14.618 pessoas residindo em Westwood. A densidade populacional era de 505,42 hab./km². Dos 14.618 habitantes, Westwood estava composto pelo 92.73% brancos, o 0.93% eram afroamericanos, o 0.03% eram amerindios, o 4.97% eram asiáticos, o 0% eram insulares do Pacífico, o 0.34% eram de outras raças e o 1.01% pertenciam a duas ou mais raças. Do total da população o 1.62% eram hispanos ou latinos de qualquer raça.

Vilas de Massachusetts
Localidades do condado de Norfolk (Massachusetts)


size 3-4 black and pink girls hoody from a smoke and pet from home.
Cute hoody. Full zip with pockets and contrasting zip and logo. Excellent condition and from a smoke free home.
Pretty purple converse hoody with contrasting white zip. Worn but still in excellent condition and from a smoke free home.


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Q: how do I set input from user to the value of an input? I'm trying to write a simple program to calculate the area of a triangle but I'm finding it hard to get input from user. I gave the input an id and set the value to the innerhtml of the input but it's giving me a default value of 1.

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
<title>Area Of A Triangle</title>

Calculate The Area Of A Triangle

Enter The Values

<input id="firstside"  type="text" />

<input id="secondside" type="text" />

<input id="thirdside" type="text" />

<button id="solve">Submit</button>

Answer Is :

A: When you read the innerHTML property, you serialize all the child nodes of the element to HTML and then get that as a string. Setting innerHTML does the same thing in reverse.
An input element doesn't (and can't) have any child nodes (<input>foo</input>) is invalid HTML).
Its current value is reflected through its value property.

A: Here is Jsbin I've created for you. I hope you would like it
https://jsbin.com/futotexeci/edit?html,output

Base <input type="number" min='0' id='base' class='form-control' />

Altitude <input type="number" min='0' id='altitude' class='form-control' />

Area <input type="number" min='0' id='area' class='form-control' disabled />

<button class='btn btn-primary' onclick='findArea()'>Calculate</button>

JS
function findArea(){
   var base = $('#base').val();
   var altitude = $('#altitude').val();
   var area = 1/2 * base * altitude;
   $('#area').val(area);
}

Stay happy and do some effort :)


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Reviews of The Attorney by Steve Martini
Summary | Excerpt | Reviews | Readalikes | Genres & Themes | Author Bio
by Steve Martini
Readers' Opinion:
Jan 2000, 429 pages
Paperback:
West, USA
1980s & '90s
A drug-addicted mother is pitted against her daughter's newly rich grandfather in a contentious custody case that leads to criminal accusations and ultimately murder.
"Riveting . . . a suspenseful tale, right up to the satisfying climax," wrote Publishers Weekly in praise of The Judge. "Legal thrillers don't get much better than this." Kirkus Reviews hailed Undue Influence as "the courtroom novel of the year." Now Martini delivers Paul Madriani's most challenging case yet: one pitting a drug-addicted mother against her daughter's newly rich grandfather in a contentious custody case that leads to criminal accusations and ultimately murder.
Having moved to San Diego to be closer to the woman in his life, Madriani takes on the case of Jonah Hale, an elderly man in terrible straits. As a result of their only child Jessica's longtime drug addiction, Jonah and his wife have been raising their eight-year-old granddaughter, Amanda. On the heels of Jonah's multimillion-dollar state lottery win, Jessica revives her interest in mothering. When Jonah won't deal--maternal rights for a mega-bucks payoff--Jessica plays dirty: she accuses the old man of having sexually abused her as a child and similarly abusing Amanda now.
Enter Zo Suade--a flamboyant, feminist activist with a penchant for making the objects of custody battles and their mother/plaintiffs "disappear." True to form, a week after Zo takes on Jessica's case, mother and daughter vanish. When Zo's body turns up, Jonah becomes the prime suspect. And Madriani is the man who can prove his innocence.
Filled with action in and out of court, rich in characters with motives obvious and subtle, The Attorney marks the much-anticipated return of Paul Madriani.
I can trace it back with precision to one of those fitful weeks in August, when the thermometer hit triple digits for the tenth day in a row. Even the humidity was high; unusual for Capital City. The air conditioner in my car had died and at six-fifteen, traffic on the Interstate was stalled behind an overturned truck-and-trailer rig filled with tomatoes on their way to the Campbell's plant. I would be late picking up Sarah from the sitter's.
Even with this as background, it was an impulsive move. Ten minutes after I got home, I called a realtor I knew and asked the fateful question: How much can I get for the house? Would you come by for an appraisal? The real estate market was heating up, like the weather, so in this respect my timing was good.
Sarah was out of school, in that awkward gap between fifth grade and middle school, and not looking forward to the switch. Her best friends-twin sisters her same age-were in the southern part of the state. I'...
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Although Martini's not as well known as Turow and Grisham, his string of best-selling legal thrillers has him poised to join the A list.... Tense courtroom drama, plenty of action, and a deviously twisted plot. Martini's hot streak continues.
Martini's prose shows marked improvement. Crisp dialogue and tart observations about legal maneuvering distinguish his courtroom scenes, and the new setting, San Diego, is colorfully rendered. It's a shame that the otherwise cleverly conceived plot falters in the homestretch with a poorly concealed twist that most readers will see coming well ahead of time.
agree with other reviews!
I thought it was just me, but the other reviewers saw it too...no explanation as to how the cigar got there, or why the fish scales were on the victim's clothes!! Up until then I enjoyed the book and it was very suspenseful.
neil jung
Unsatisfactory plot hole ruins good book
I read the book, enjoyed it, and whilst asleep my brain realised that there is a gaping hole in the plot. [.... details removed due to plot spoilers ....] This reminds me of Lady Don't Fall Backwards, the Hancock episode where he reads a novel to ... Read More
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I thought the book was suspenseful and good reading, until the last chapter when the mystery is revealed but unfortunately, not explained. As the first reviewer wrote, two key questions are completely left unanswered.....edited to remove plot ... Read More
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A young woman struggles to break free of her upper-class upbringing amid the whirlwind years of the sexual revolution.
When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.


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Q: How to write a text in a square drawn with tikz? I've used tikz to draw a digram like this:
$$\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw (0,0) -- (0.6,0) -- (0.6,0.6) -- (0,0.6) -- (0,0);
\draw (0.6,0) -- (1.2,0) -- (1.2,0.6) -- (0.6,0.6) -- (0.6,0);
\draw (1.2,0) -- (1.8,0) -- (1.8,0.6) -- (1.2,0.6) -- (1.2,0);
\draw (1.8,0) -- (2.4,0) -- (2.4,0.6) -- (1.8,0.6) -- (1.8,0);
\draw (0,-0.6) -- (0.6,-0.6) -- (0.6,0) -- (0,0) -- (0,-0.6);
\draw (0.6,-0.6) -- (1.2,-0.6) -- (1.2,0) -- (0.6,0) -- (0.6,-0.6);
\draw (1.2,-0.6) -- (1.8,-0.6) -- (1.8,0) -- (1.2,0) -- (1.2,-0.6);
\draw (0,-1.2) -- (0.6,-1.2) -- (0.6,-0.6) -- (0,-0.6) -- (0,-1.2);
\draw (0,-1.8) -- (0.6,-1.8) -- (0.6,-1.2) -- (0,-1.2) -- (0,-1.8);
\end{tikzpicture}$$

This gives me the following result:

But now I want to put a text in the center of each cell or square. I don't know how to do this. I tried the tricks in similar posts, but nothing has worked yet.

A: With use of matrix library:
\documentclass[margin=3mm, varwidth]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{matrix}

\begin{document}
\[
\begin{tikzpicture}
\matrix [matrix of nodes,
         nodes={draw, minimum size=1.4em, anchor=center},
         column sep=-\pgflinewidth, row sep=-\pgflinewidth]
{
 1 & 2 & 3 & 4   \\
 5 & 6 & 7 &     \\
 8 &   &   &     \\
 9 &   &   &     \\
};
\end{tikzpicture}
\]
\end{document}

A: You can use the positioning library to make things easier. Then position the nodes and use their label text. Note that you can probably only fit about 3 characters in a 6mm square, but you can easily adjust the size by changing minimum size.

Using -\pgflinewidth for the node distance will overlap the squares on their borders.
\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{positioning}

\begin{document}

\begin{tikzpicture}[every node/.style={draw, minimum size=6mm, inner sep=0}, node distance=-\pgflinewidth]
\node(a1){1};
\node[right=of a1](a2){2};
\node[right=of a2](a3){3};
\node[right=of a3](a4){4};
\node[below=of a1](b1){5};
\node[right=of b1](b2){6};
\node[right=of b2](b3){7};
\node[below=of b1](c1){8};
\node[below=of c1](d1){9};
\end{tikzpicture}

\end{document}


text:
package log

import (
	"bytes"
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"os"
	"sync"
	"time"
)

// Level.
type Level int

// Levels.
const (
	DEBUG Level = iota
	INFO
	NOTICE
	WARNING
	ERROR
	CRITICAL
	ALERT
	EMERGENCY
)

// Level map.
var levels = map[string]Level{
	"debug":     DEBUG,
	"info":      INFO,
	"notice":    NOTICE,
	"warning":   WARNING,
	"error":     ERROR,
	"critical":  CRITICAL,
	"alert":     ALERT,
	"emergency": EMERGENCY,
}

// Logger.
type Logger struct {
	Writer io.Writer
	Level  Level
	Prefix string
	sync.Mutex
}

// New logger which writes to `w` at the given `level`. Optionally
// provide a `prefix` for the logger.
func New(w io.Writer, level Level, prefix string) *Logger {
	l := &Logger{Writer: w, Level: level, Prefix: prefix}
	l.SetPrefix(prefix)
	l.SetLevelFromEnv("LOG_LEVEL")
	return l
}

// SetLevelFromEnv forces the log level based on the given
// environment variable `name` when present.
func (l *Logger) SetLevelFromEnv(name string) {
	if s := os.Getenv("LOG_LEVEL"); s != "" {
		l.SetLevel(levels[s])
	}
}

// SetPrefix changes the prefix to `str`.
func (l *Logger) SetPrefix(str string) {
	l.Lock()
	defer l.Unlock()

	if str != "" {
		str = " " + str + ":"
	}

	l.Prefix = str
}

// New logger which inherits the writer and level.
func (l *Logger) New(prefix string) *Logger {
	return New(l.Writer, l.Level, prefix)
}

// SetLevel changes the log `level`.
func (l *Logger) SetLevel(level Level) {
	l.Lock()
	defer l.Unlock()

	l.Level = level
}

// Write to the logger.
func (l *Logger) Write(b []byte) (n int, err error) {
	lines := bytes.Split(b, []byte("\n"))
	for _, line := range lines {
		l.Info("%s", string(line))
	}
	return len(b), nil
}

// SetLevelString changes the log `level` via string.
// This is especially useful for providing a command-line
// flag to your program to adjust the level.
//
// If the level string is invalid an error is returned.
func (l *Logger) SetLevelString(level string) error {
	l.Lock()
	defer l.Unlock()

	if val, ok := levels[level]; ok {
		l.Level = val
		return nil
	}

	return fmt.Errorf("%q is not a valid level", level)
}

// Log a message.
func (l *Logger) Log(lvl string, level Level, msg string, args ...interface{}) error {
	l.Lock()
	defer l.Unlock()

	if l.Level > level {
		return nil
	}

	ts := time.Now().Format("2006-01-02 15:04:05")
	f := fmt.Sprintf("%s [%s]%s %s\n", ts, lvl, l.Prefix, msg)
	_, err := fmt.Fprintf(l.Writer, f, args...)
	return err
}

// Debug log.
func (l *Logger) Debug(msg string, args ...interface{}) error {
	return l.Log("DEBUG", DEBUG, msg, args...)
}

// Info log.
func (l *Logger) Info(msg string, args ...interface{}) error {
	return l.Log("INFO", INFO, msg, args...)
}

// Notice log.
func (l *Logger) Notice(msg string, args ...interface{}) error {
	return l.Log("NOTICE", NOTICE, msg, args...)
}

// Warning log.
func (l *Logger) Warning(msg string, args ...interface{}) error {
	return l.Log("WARNING", WARNING, msg, args...)
}

// Error log.
func (l *Logger) Error(msg string, args ...interface{}) error {
	return l.Log("ERROR", ERROR, msg, args...)
}

// Critical log.
func (l *Logger) Critical(msg string, args ...interface{}) error {
	return l.Log("CRITICAL", CRITICAL, msg, args...)
}

// Alert log.
func (l *Logger) Alert(msg string, args ...interface{}) error {
	return l.Log("ALERT", ALERT, msg, args...)
}

// Emergency log.
func (l *Logger) Emergency(msg string, args ...interface{}) error {
	return l.Log("EMERGENCY", EMERGENCY, msg, args...)
}

// Fatalf is equivalent to Error() followed by a call to os.Exit(1).
func (l *Logger) Fatalf(msg string, args ...interface{}) {
	l.Check(fmt.Errorf(msg, args...))
}

// Check if there's an `err` and exit, useful for bootstrapping.
func (l *Logger) Check(err error) {
	if err != nil {
		Log.Error("exiting: %s", err.Error())
		os.Exit(1)
	}
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
Poetics Dictionary
Authorial Comments
Poetics Archive
McLuhan's Window. In praise of conservatism
This article attempts to functionally reconstruct the views expressed by Marshall McLuhan in his works, both from an epistemological and the methodological perspective. (...)
On acousmatism in poetry. Listening to the world in Szybki wiersz by Adam Zagajewski and Kontrapunkt by Stanisław Barańczak
Aleksandra Reimann-Czajkowska
The paper is about intermediality, focusing especially on relations between music and literature, connected by music in lyrical circumstances (Iwona Puchalska) in poetry. (...)
Till Lindemann's transmedial songs
Jakub Kosek
The article discusses Till Lindemann's multimedia and transmedia art. Functioning within and across ideological and subjective discourses, the songs of the German singer and songwriter are narratives that are often developed creatively across various media platforms, including cover art, music videos, or even short films. (...)
Mise en abyme in works by Pablopavo (Paweł Sołtys)
Krzysztof Gajda
The paper is devoted to the works of Pablopavo, a song artist for whom mise en abyme is an important means of expression. Although the term has been recognized in literature studies for decades, it has rarely been considered an important element of song lyrics. (...)
"Hee Haw:" Singing and performing song lyrics on Nick Cave and The Birthday Party's album The Birthday Party (1980)
Paweł Tański
This article attempts to interpret the performative aspects of Nick Cave's singing and song lyrics written in collaboration with the guitarist Rowland Stuart Howard (1959–2009), Mick Harvey, Vincent Eugene Craddock (also known as Gene Vincent) and William Douchette (also known as Bill Davis). (...)
Polish punk rock in English – sociophonetic aspects
Monika Konert-Panek
The paper analyzes the functioning of selected English phonetic features and inspirations related to them in Polish punk rock, and interprets the results in a broader stylistic and sociolinguistic context. (...)
"There are already three hundred thousand of us:" A self-referential look at fans and performers in Polish big-beat songs from the 1960s and early 1970s
Patryk Mamczur
The author focuses on Polish big-beat music from the 1960s and early 1970s. He analyzes the lyrics of selected songs from that period, pointing to their self-referential nature and explaining how big beat performers described their fans, themselves, and teenage music in their songs. (...)


text:
(function() {
'use strict';

/**
 * Initialization function that validates environment
 * requirements.
 */
angular
  .module('material.core', [ 'material.core.gestures', 'material.core.theming' ])
  .config( MdCoreConfigure );

function MdCoreConfigure($provide, $mdThemingProvider) {

  $provide.decorator('$$rAF', ["$delegate", rAFDecorator]);

  $mdThemingProvider.theme('default')
    .primaryPalette('ad-0070CC', {
      'default': '500', // by default use shade 400 from the pink palette for primary intentions
      'hue-1': '500', // use shade 100 for the md-hue-1 class
      'hue-2': '500', // use shade 100 for the md-hue-1 class
      'hue-3': '500' // use shade 100 for the md-hue-1 class
    })
    .accentPalette('ad-4c4c4c', {
      'default': '900' // by default use shade 400 from the pink palette for primary intentions
    })
    .warnPalette('ad-cc0000')
    .backgroundPalette('grey');
}

function rAFDecorator( $delegate ) {
  /**
   * Use this to throttle events that come in often.
   * The throttled function will always use the *last* invocation before the
   * coming frame.
   *
   * For example, window resize events that fire many times a second:
   * If we set to use an raf-throttled callback on window resize, then
   * our callback will only be fired once per frame, with the last resize
   * event that happened before that frame.
   *
   * @param {function} callback function to debounce
   */
  $delegate.throttle = function(cb) {
    var queueArgs, alreadyQueued, queueCb, context;
    return function debounced() {
      queueArgs = arguments;
      context = this;
      queueCb = cb;
      if (!alreadyQueued) {
        alreadyQueued = true;
        $delegate(function() {
          queueCb.apply(context, queueArgs);
          alreadyQueued = false;
        });
      }
    };
  };
  return $delegate;
}

})();


text:
Let Forever Be est un single du groupe anglais de musique électronique The Chemical Brothers tiré de leur troisième album studio, Surrender (1999). À l'instar d'un précédent single, Setting Sun (1996), Noel Gallagher, guitariste-compositeur du groupe de Britpop Oasis a  écrit, composé et chanté la piste.

Les effets de cymbale de la batterie dans la chanson comportent des similitudes avec ceux de Tomorrow Never Knows des Beatles.

Les deux faces-B sont des extraits de pistes de l'album Surrender, The Sky Diamond est un échantillon de la chanson Surrender, et Studio K de The Sunshine Underground.

La chanson apparaît dans une scène supprimée du film Eurotrip, dans laquelle les personnages principaux, des jumeaux, s'embrassent dans un bar, emportés par une ivresse érotique. La chanson s'entend également dans le film tourné en 2000 à Manchester Jimmy Grimble. Enfin, on retrouve la chanson au début d'un épisode nommé Triple Threat des Experts à Miami (2007, saison 5, épisode 18).

Let Forever Be est une des chansons les plus connues du groupe, et est le quatrième single du groupe a rentrer dans le top 10 des UK Singles Chart. La chanson a été aussi l'un de leurs plus grands hits aux États-Unis, où il a culminé à la  place sur le Billboard Hot 100 Tracks.

Liste des titres

 CD  CHEMSD9  ASW95999-2
 Let Forever Be – 3:56
 The Diamond Sky – 3:37
 Studio K – 5:48

 K7  CHEMSC9
 Let Forever Be – 3:56
 The Diamond Sky – 3:37

 Vinyle 12"  CHEMST9
 Let Forever Be – 3:56
 Let Forever Be (Démo) - 4:14
 The Diamond Sky – 3:37
 Studio K – 5:48

 CD  VJCP-12127
 Let Forever Be – 3:56
 Let Forever Be (Démo) - 4:14
 Studio K – 5:48

Single musical sorti en 1999
Chanson interprétée par les Chemical Brothers
Single numéro un au Royaume-Uni


To take the blame for something, often another's mistakes or misdeeds. Primarily heard in UK, Australia. My partner had been cooking the books for years, but because I was the CEO, I had to carry the can for our company's collapse. I'm the coach, and I called a bad play, so I deserve to carry the can for this loss.
COMMON If you carry the can, you are blamed for something bad that has happened even though you are not the only person responsible for it. It annoys me that I was the only one who carried the can for that defeat. Members of the Government clearly decided to let Lowe carry the can. Note: This was originally a military expression referring to the man chosen to fetch a container of beer for a group of soldiers.
The origin of this expression and the nature of the can involved are both uncertain, though the idiom appears to have started life as early 20th-century naval or military slang.
1998 Times Was this the same Mr Cook who danced on the Tories' graves for not carrying the can for errors of their officials?
(British English, informal) accept the responsibility or blame for something: The teachers who were criticized said that they would not carry the can for the faults in the school system. OPPOSITE: pass the buckThis may come from military slang. The person who carried the can was responsible for collecting a can containing beer for the whole group and bringing it back without spilling any.
We carry the cans on our heads for several miles," she says, her blue eyes faded with exhaustion.
I'd carry the cans upstream, dump them in and sprint back to the guns, then sink the cans as they passed.
It was party time again on our last night and they were so polite and friendly I nearly offered to help them carry the cans to the chalet so they could set up for the night.


You are already a secret admirer so why not take on the role? If your crush happens to be the romantic type from observation, you can decide to play into this role. Every romantic likes a secret admirer so do things like leaving them sweet messages when they aren't looking. The occasional gifts, letters or romantic gestures set the pace for where you are heading.
Don't look away quickly if you and your crush happen to pass by each other. Maintain eye contact with your crush from across the room until they break and ask you what exactly it is you want. Ensure you aren't creepy with this though because staring unnecessarily can be considered ill-mannered.
Instead of lurking in your fantasies of what could be, you could simply work up your courage and talk to them. At least with this, you will know if you stand a chance with them or not.


text:
package org.apache.reef.io.network.util;

import org.apache.reef.wake.ComparableIdentifier;
import org.apache.reef.wake.Identifier;
import org.apache.reef.wake.IdentifierFactory;
import org.junit.Test;

import java.util.List;

/**
 * Tests for REEF IO network utilities.
 */
public class UtilsTest {

  /**
   * Generic parseList test.
   */
  @Test
  public void testParseList() {
    final IdentifierFactory factory = new StringIdentifierFactory();

    final List<Identifier> list1 = Utils.parseList("1,2,3", factory);
    final List<ComparableIdentifier> list2 = Utils.parseList("1,2,3", factory);
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Student leader would like Kaler to embrace more shared governance with students
Alex Friedrich November 18, 2010, 2:59 PM Nov 18, 2010
President-elect Eric Kaler seems to have impressed a lot of people at the U, including students.
But Dan Garon, a senior who's the director of strategic communications for the Minnesota Student Association, expressed concern over Kaler's interpretation of "shared governance."
Students have long wanted a seat at the table when decisions are made, Garon said. They've wanted a voting member on a number of the decision-making committees at the U.
But at a 45-minute student meeting today with Kaler, the president-elect didn't seem to warm to the idea of making such student representation part of regent's law.
Garon told me:
"He didn't offer his full support for it. We're not asking for the moon. In Wisconsin, it's state law (to have such representation. But Dr. Kaler didn't see it as necessary."
Garon also noted the speed of Kaler's visit. But he called Kaler "a very qualified guy," and said the meeting "went very well. I'm very encouraged."
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Wonderful scenery, enough to make me consider going to Moldova this summer.
.... And that pretty much sums it up. The rest of the film is just plain boring. Nothing happens, no one talks, no one does anything remotely interesting. It's just dull. And tedious. And redundant. And boring. And dull.


The most wonderful and magical time of the year is here where little things bring us together. It's the time of the year where parents want to spoil their kids, but it might not be for the reasons we may think. Many of us have missed the excitement we felt on Christmas day as children or many of us simply love to showering our offspring with gifts helps us to recapture some of the magic of our own childhood !
Buying gifts is a great tradition where we show and express our love to loved ones, but it should not be the only possible tradition ? Surely we can create new ones. I think it is as important as gifts that family spends time together where family bonds gets richer and stronger. Along with gifts and presents we can create together some new activities or traditions based on fun and having quality time together.
We have set few traditions and activities since kids were small and still carry some of them, like we watch some Christmas tele together, we play few games ....others , we cook together or just chat and revive those old times..
After all Christmas is all about when you surrounded by the family, sharing memories and time together.
Just a couple of days ago while we were having dinner, daughter was watching 'Food unwrapped' programmer which she puts on record while she is away from home and whenever she comes home , she watches them. I like that program too, where three presenters uncovers the good, the bad and the ugly food secrets which are lurking in our kitchens, they presents food and science series that travels the world to lift the lid on what's really in the food we eat.
In the program they were discussing the theory into why biscuits dissolve during dunking. We absolutely enjoyed and learnt science behind it. So, after the program finished we were discussing which biscuits we like best dunked ? Personally I never dunk my biscuits ... daughter and husband came up with the same answer ' Ginger Nuts ' and they both said they love to have them and in about an hour daughter baked them. Gingerbread Man Cookies in all shapes were sprawled on every surface in the kitchen.
Delicious, wonderful and Chewy Gingerbread Cookies can be a lovely Christmassy edible gift !!
Heat sugar, butter and golden syrup in a pan.
Mix flour, soda and both ginger.
Slowly add sugar syrup in the flour and mix with the wooden spoon.
Once lightly cooled tip it on the surface and knead briefly until smooth.
Wrap in the clingfilm for 10 minutes and chill in the fridge.
Line tow baking trays with greasproof paper.
using cutters, cut out the cookies in desire shape.
Place on a lined baking tray leaving gap in between.
bake them 15-18 minutes or until golden.
Leave them on tray for another 10 minutes.
Once cooled decorate with eggfree writing icing.
Enjoy them with cuppa and your friends and family.
Cute cookies best for this winter season..


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Posted on 16th Aug 2008 by Harry Heuser
Why Carry a Torch for Joan When She Puts Her Career to It?
I have always been fortunate in having what is now conveniently termed a gaydar. Long before I knew what I could long for, long before I even dared longing, I simply knew or sensed what what was. What was what I was, that is. I looked into Raymond Burr's eyes or listened to disco divas like Hazell Dean and, somehow, I could relate. Not to whatever their lines or notes were, not to the label that may nor may not become attached to their names, but to the individual behind or beneath, to the one who agreed to perform what was deemed suitable for mass reproduction. Ours was, is—and, I suppose, has to be—a society of re-producers, a society that accepts those who do not reproduce only as long as they churn out plenty of product and generate heaps of dough.
For all my queer gifts, which somewhat fail me here in Britain, where every other male seems somehow gay to me (gay, I say, not desirable), I never developed a sense of camp. I resent camp. To me, it is an act of wilful misreading, and that is empowerment at too great an expense—somebody else's. You need to read the lines first before you can sneak between them, let alone get palimpsestic. After all, it is not that there has never been anything other to read, hear or see than the conventional, the traditional that then is mercilessly turned into—or, if you will, exposed as—travesty. There is always some code that permits you to identify—and identify with—a designated misfit or underdog, a guise for what you might feel yourself to be. Perhaps I am old-fashioned that way; but I do not insist on breaking something to pieces if it does not bend toward me.
I welcome melodramatic manipulation. I let it happen. It is an openness I bring to the popular arts, however cloaked in conventions and coded accordingly. How irritated was I when, during a screening of Douglas Sirk's Imitation of Life at New York's Public Theater, the audience started to snicker and swoon at the sight of Lana Turner's admittedly fabulous sunglasses. I was absorbed in the to me already familiar action. I recall my father, a Hemingway-gone stoic who would rather die an alcoholic (which he did) than admit to being vulnerable, reduced to tears at the conclusion of the movie. And I respected him for that. If you cannot get drawn in at least once, just withdraw. I see no use in intellectual exercises removed from any felt engagement with the arts.
Sometimes, though, no involvement can be forced, no manipulation willed. You are being pushed or taken aback too far to venture an approach. Last night, for instance, I caught up with Torch Song (1953) and could only gape in disbelief at the misfireworks before me. I very nearly felt guilty watching the carnage as Joan Crawford goes into her blackface "Two-Faced Woman" routine as if this wreck of a vehicle were another Band Wagon. It is the self-destructive act of a perfectionist too delusional to notice the damage this would mean to what was left of her career. However removed from any sense of reality, the story is remarkably close to the star's own Hollywood history, reflective of her state and status then, of her demise as a leading lady which this film, in turn, accelerated. All the while, though, Crawford failed to elicit my compassion; her earnest and joyless quest for perfection turns Torch Song into a stilted, lifeless performance.
Torch Song is not quite Trog; but for all its glossy production values, it is monstrously inept. Crawford's humorless performance is as uncomfortable to watch as the carefully choreographed moves of a dancer too focused on getting the steps right to notice the misstep of it all, too fixed on the floor to see where it is going. Torch Song is, at best, a rehearsal—a rehearsal of a swan song recorded in the act of drowning. If only there had been room for a tongue in Crawford's cheek, the dire melodrama leading up to the supposed triumph of "Two-Faced Woman" would not have been quite so jaw-droppingly awful. Even the film's reflexivity does not improve matters, since the entire production is self-delusional rather than self-conscious. Torch Song is all about Crawford, not All About Eve. It may be concerned with the staging of a show and the dropping of masks; but even what is going on behind the scenes is all cardboard and paste.
It seems to me that Torch Song came about twenty years too late for Crawford. I don't mean that she was too old for the part. Like Madonna, who turns fifty today, Crawford had an amazing figure on which rested the head of a business-hardened professional. To bowdlerize Sheridan, the trunk's modern, 'tho the head's antique. No, it isn't a question of Crawford's fitness, but of the datedness of the material, a grab bag of hand-me-downs it would be generous to describe as contrived. The only genuine article in the entire production is Marjorie Rambeau, who was both old and bold enough to play Crawford's mother, imbuing her few moments on the screen with a wit and restrained sentimentality reminiscent of parts that often went to Thelma Ritter.
Today, Torch Song is considered classic camp, a status not reflected in the tepid reception from Internet Movie Database voters. Being among them, and having rated some 160-odd pictures so far, I am puzzled as to how to judge this unspectacular if spectacularly misjudged production. I am almost beginning to envy Michael Wilding's character, a blind man to whom Crawford's Gypsy Madonna appeared as the remembered image of her promising and glorious past; but then I keep thinking: Joan, as flattered as you might have been by the invitation to work once more at the studio that made you a star, you should not have taken those steps like a blissfully oblivious Norma Desmond. You were never away from Hollywood long enough not to know your place there. If only you had slipped and cracked a smile for all those people out there, in the dark, I would have been happy to carry the torch.
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4 Replies to "Why Carry a Torch for Joan When She Puts Her Career to It?"
You suppose the difference between satire and burlesque is the difference between taking things to seriously and taking them too lightly? And if so, where would that leave Oscar Wilde?
broadcastellan says:
I suppose it is the difference between wit and humor, satire being the former and burlesque the latter. Wilde, clearly, is a practitioner of the former. Meanwhile, what I was trying to discuss here is not a form of writing but a manner of reading, not performance but reception. I do enjoy, say, the "camp" of John Waters. What bothers me is laughter derived from a lack of understanding, an overwriting of a performance that strikes us as dated or strange. We've got to give art a chance to speak to us before we can overmaster it with our own laughter.
I see. That explains why you\'re trying to be fair to something you found horrible.
That\'s pretty much it, yes. What\'s the point of poking fun at those who are already making fools of themselves? It does not follow that I cannot be a satirist. I only need to expose my own folly.
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A new traveling exhibition in recognition of the 150th anniversary of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad has arrived in Utah.
"The Race to Promontory: The Transcontinental Railroad and the America West" is at the Utah Museum of Fine Art through May 26.
It reunites for the first time in Utah the famous Golden (the last spike), Nevada Silver and the Arizona Spikes that were present at the "Meeting of the Rails".
All three spikes are on view through April 28 at the museum, and then at the Utah State Capitol May 8-12.
The completion of the railroad was celebrated as a national and international event, and it changed the country. Travel from New York to San Francisco was reduced from six months to just ten days, and at 10 percent of the cost.
On Wednesdays you can see the exhibit for just $5 dollars after 5pm and the first Wednesdays are FREE all day.
For more information please visit: umfa.utah.edu.


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PROPHECY UPDATE
PROPHECY RELATED NEWS AND COMMENTARY
Missile Spotted In 'Launch Position', U.S. And S. Korea Armed Forces Placed At 'Vital Alert' Watchcon 2
G8 foreign ministers including US Secretary of State John Kerry have held a second day of talks in London with the crisis on the Korean peninsula topping the agenda.
Kerry has already met with his Russian and Japanese counterparts to discuss the Korean crisis, in which US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel warned Pyongyang was ''skating very close to a dangerous line''.
The secretive communist state has threatened nuclear strikes against the United States and South Korea, and observers are expecting a missile launch at any time.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov of Russia, which maintains close ties to North Korea's key ally China, warned after talks with Kerry on Wednesday against exacerbating tensions with military manoeuvres.
U.S., S. Korea On Top Alert As North Missile Spotted In Launch Position
The United States and South Korean armed forces went on the highest level of alert - Watchcon 2 - Thursday, April 11, ready for multiple launches after at least one North Korean ballistic Musudan missile was sighted fueled and ready to launch at any moment on the country's eastern coast. With an estimated range of more 3,400 kilometers, it places US bases in Guam and the Okinawa islands within range as well as South Korea and Japan.
According to a senior US defense official in Washington, the floating SBX X-band radar is in position for tracking missiles fired by Pyongyang. South Korean officials, commenting on the apparent movement of several ballistic missiles on North Korea's east coast, report that this is an apparent attempt to confuse intelligence monitoring by the US, Japan and South Korea.
The US and Japan, which earlier deployed Patriot interceptors in Tokyo, have said that any missile would be intercepted if it showed signs of heading for the United States or Japan. But neither mentioned a US military target or the possibility of a missile flying over Japan to land in the Pacific Ocean.
South Koreans are for the first time showing signs of anxiety about a possible outbreak of war. People have started stocking food and parents were telling reporters Thursday that children are being kept home from school in case of a sudden war emergency.
Several Western intelligence sources attribute Pyongyang's saber-rattling to a power struggle ongoing in the top ranks of the North Korean military command between supporters of the young leader Kim Jong-Un and his opponents, who say he lacks the qualities befitting a commander-in-chief of the North Korean armed forces.
In his drive for military credibility, say those sources, the young leader is constantly photographed on visits to army units accompanied by a bevy of generals and soldiers and demonstratively testing their weapons and barking out operational orders.
In one television segment aired by North Korean state TV Wednesday, hundreds of North Korean soldiers were shown standing in their positions and then, upon catching sight of the president and party, rushing toward him in great excitement, although they didn't dare get too close.
Such staged scenes, say the sources, point up the North Korean president's weakness and uncertainty rather than his control and popularity in the army.
Those sources predict that Kim Jong-Un may feel compelled to assert himself by ordering a missile launch. Backing down at this point, a failed launch or a foreign interception would be a black mark against him and seriously undermine a leadership which is rooted in a ruthless personality cult. It might even lead to his ouster.
The Korean crisis heads the agenda of the G8 foreign ministers meeting in London Thursday.
Top Economic Advisers Forecast War And Unrest
We're already at war in numerous countries all over the world.
But top economic advisers warn that economic factors could lead to a new world war.
Kyle Bass writes:
Trillions of dollars of debts will be restructured and millions of financially prudent savers will lose large percentages of their real purchasing power at exactly the wrong time in their lives. Again, the world will not end, but the social fabric of the profligate nations will be stretched and in some cases torn. Sadly, looking back through economic history, all too often war is the manifestation of simple economic entropy played to its logical conclusion. We believe that war is an inevitable consequence of the current global economic situation.
Similarly, Larry Edelson wrote an email to subscribers entitled "What the "Cycles of War" are saying for 2013″, which states:
Since the 1980s, I've been studying the so-called "cycles of war" — the natural rhythms that predispose societies to descend into chaos, into hatred, into civil and even international war.
I'm certainly not the first person to examine these very distinctive patterns in history. There have been many before me, notably, Raymond Wheeler, who published the most authoritative chronicle of war ever, covering a period of 2,600 years of data.
However, there are very few people who are willing to even discuss the issue right now. And based on what I'm seeing, the implications could be absolutely huge in 2013.
Former Goldman Sachs technical analyst Charles Nenner – who has made some big accurate calls, and counts major hedge funds, banks, brokerage houses, and high net worth individuals as clients – saysthere will be "a major war starting at the end of 2012 to 2013", which will drive the Dow to 5,000.
Billionaire investor Jim Rogers notes:
A continuation of bailouts in Europe could ultimately spark another world war, says international investor Jim Rogers.
"Add debt, the situation gets worse, and eventually it just collapses. Then everybody is looking for scapegoats. Politicians blame foreigners, and we're in World War II or World War whatever."
Marc Faber says that the American government will start new wars in response to the economic crisis:
"The next thing the government will do to distract the attention of the people on bad economic conditions is they'll start a war somewhere."
"If the global economy doesn't recover, usually people go to war."
We're in the middle of a global currency war – i.e. a situation where nations all compete to devalue their currencies the most in order to boost exports. And Brazilian president-elect Rousseff said in 2010:
The last time there was a series of competitive devaluations … it ended in world war two.
Jim Rickards agrees:
Currency wars lead to trade wars, which often lead to hot wars. In 2009, Rickards participated in the Pentagon's first-ever "financial" war games. While expressing confidence in America's ability to defeat any other nation-state in battle, Rickards says the U.S. could get dragged into "asymmetric warfare," if currency wars lead to rising inflation and global economic uncertainty.
As does Jim Rogers:
Trade wars always lead to wars.
And given that many influential economists wrongly believe that war is good for the economy … many are overtly or quietly pushing for war.
Moreover, former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan said that the Iraq war was really about oil , and former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill says that Bush planned the Iraq war before 9/11. And seethisand this. If that war was for petroleum, other oil-rich countries might be invaded as well.
And the American policy of using the military to contain China's growing economic influence – and of considering economic rivalry to be a basis for war – are creating a tinderbox.
Finally, multi-billionaire investor Hugo Salinas Price says:
What happened to [Libya's] Mr. Gaddafi, many speculate the real reason he was ousted was that he was planning an all-African currency for conducting trade. The same thing happened to him that happened to Saddam because the US doesn't want any solid competing currency out there vs the dollar. You know Gaddafi was talking about a golddinar.
Indeed, senior CNBC editor John Carney noted:
Is this the first time a revolutionary group has created a central bank while it is still in the midst of fighting the entrenched political power? It certainly seems to indicate how extraordinarily powerful central bankers have become in our era.
Robert Wenzel of Economic Policy Journal thinks the central banking initiative reveals that foreign powers may have a strong influence over the rebels.
This suggests we have a bit more than a ragtag bunch of rebels running around and that there are some pretty sophisticated influences. "I have never before heard of a central bank being created in just a matter of weeks out of a popular uprising," Wenzel writes.
Pat Robertson Warns Of 'Terrible Suffering For U.S.' If Israel Loses Jerusalem
CBS "700 Club" host Pat Robertson has warned Secretary of State John Kerry that any peace agreement in the Middle East that results in Israel losing parts of Jerusalem will be calling on "God's wrath."
"I think this is headed for disaster for the United States," Robertson said on a video posted on April 9. The televangelist was responding to the latest news story concerning peace developments between Israel and Palestine, being moderated by Kerry.
"Each of them made very serious and well-considered, constructive suggestions with respect to what the road forward might look like," Kerry said while meeting Israel and Palestinian leaders this week in peace negotiations that are expected to last several months.
Hagel En Route To Israel As Iran Becomes More Defiant
US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel is scheduled to arrive in Israel on April 21 in what is seen locally as an "urgent" visit, just as Iran is becoming increasingly defiant in its nuclear program.
Hagel had promised to visit Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon after both were appointed to their new positions earlier this year. But the timing of the visit was "very surprising, certainly in its urgency," according to Army Radio.
The Iran nuclear threat is expected to be the main topic of discussion between Hagel and Ya'alon.
Iran on Tuesday marked its "National Nuclear Technology Day" by announcing the opening of two new uranium mines and a new plant capable of producing 60 tonnes of raw uranium (also known as "yellow cake") per year.
Days earlier, talks between international powers and Iran over its nuclear program broke down. European officials said Iran had submitted proposals that were already rejected during talks last year. This is unsurprising, as Israel has been warning for years that Iran is simply playing a stalling game until it can successfully test a nuclear weapon.
DHS Funded Course Ask Cops If They Will Confiscate Guns From Christians
Army Email Labels Christian Ministries As 'Domestic Hate Groups'
Soldiers For Secularism
Life Becomes Increasingly Unbearable In Hamas-Ruled Gaza
The Monstrous Abortion Trial That The MSM Doesn't Want You To Know About
Dictators Always Miscalculate
Posted by Scott at Thursday, April 11, 2013
Well N Korea,
You gonna light the fuse or let it burn your finger?
Stocks are again at records...
up again.....
every day, same old garbage.
at SOME POINT, this rally will
end, but when ??
bulls act like GREEDY JERKS...
makes me sick.
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Waterer said...
Saw an incredible presentation of a Congressional medal of honor given by the Pres in the East room today. Live on tv. It was AMAZING because it was a posthumous award to a very sacrificial Christian Priest who died ministering In Jesus to other prisoners in a pow camp in KOREA>O. told his whole story, very moving. I did wonder at the timing though. While the medal is 60 years late for it to be NOW with all that is going on seemed like something out of a novel.Still worth catching the speech on Father Kapaun. Really neat.
1/3 of our Air Force is grounded and we may being going to war. If the US gets hit it will be blamed on sequestration. If only the President had more power, so many lives could have been saved...
The Constitution just keeps getting in the way.
At least there was money in the budget for concerts at the White House.
Ok, that was my sarcasm for the week.
Ugh! DrWho, you are spot on!
Book: Signs of the Coming Christ
Because prophetic scriptures are found throughout the bible, it is obvious that a comprehensive, systematic approach would be useful, if not necessary, for the understanding of prophecy. Past prophecies have been fulfilled in a literal manner, as confirmed by the dating of these writings and historical records of confirmation. These past prophecies also serve as a model of how to interpret future prophecies. A literal view of prophecy clearly indicates a certain sequence of events will occur within a single generation, concluding with the Tribulation and Second Advent and these events will be obvious. The prophetic signs appear to be present in this generation and we believe these signs are revealed in the news from around the world.
Closing In On A Peace Plan?
Escalation In The Middle East
Evening Update: Red Lines Crossed? Conflicting Rep...
Iran Has Crossed "Red Line" While U.S. Warns Israe...
Sunday News And Commentary
Saturday: In The News
Israel: War Within Two Months?
U.S. Army Developing "Autonomous Chip" To Replace ...
UN Calls For New Mideast Peace Push In Wake Of Oba...
Evening Update: "Red Lines Crossed", "Time Running...
In The News: Chemical Weapons, Saudi Connections, ...
In The News: Israel Given A 'Green Light" On Iran?...
Evening Update: More Quakes, Missiles From Gaza, S...
Weekend Update: Earthquakes, Golan Instability, Th...
Evening Update: Rockets Fired From Gaza
Israel's 'Peace Partners': A Reminder Of Who They ...
Earthquakes, N. Korea, Terrorism, Pestilence: All ...
In The News: The Coming One World Religion?
Israel Population Hits 8 Million
Weekend News And Commentary
On The Brink:
Evening Update
Nations Prepare For Coming Wars
Netanyahu: 'We Won't Leave Our Fate In The Hands O...
Sunday: In The News
N. Korea Warns Foreign Embassies To Evacuate By Ap...
The Coming Financial Collapse And New World Order
Coming To America?
Evening Update: South Israel On Alert
In The News: BRICS Regimes Forge New World Bank, C...
Evening Update: "Explosive" Situation With North K...
In The News: All Signs Progressing Rapidly
Evening Update: UN Passes Arms Regulation. Israel ...
In The News: Game-Changers - Israeli Gas On-Line W...