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Name: Tom Michael Steele
Pen Name: Tom Steele
Genre: Fiction History Mystery Romance
Born: 1944 in Moline, Illinois
-- Website -- http://www.tomsteeleauthor.blogspot.com
-- Tom Michael Steele on WorldCat -- http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=tom+michael+steele
E-Mail: -- tmsteele@hotmail.com
I was born and raised in the Quad-Cities. I graduated from Rock Island High School, Augustana College, and the University of Illinois. I served in Vietnam from 1968-1969. I am a retired high school teacher. I taught at Geneseo High School for 31 years, and I was the chairman of the social studies department. During my teaching career, I was recognized with the PTA ''Educator of the Year Award'', a ''Western Illinois Master Teacher Award'', an ''Illinois State Board of Education Award of Excellence'', a ''USA Today Teacher Team Award'', and the ''U. S. State Department's American Councils Excellence in Teaching Award''. I have written three books, all centered in Illinois: Henry County, Wicker Park - Chicago, and Bishop Hill. My current historical novel is about Erik Jansson, the founder of the Bishop Hill Swedish settlement.
Tom Steele is a retired high school teacher. During his career in education, Tom's teaching abilities were recognized with the following honors: the ''PTA Educator of the Year Award'', the ''Western Illinois Master Teacher Award'', the ''Illinois Board of Education's Award of Excellence'', the ''Channel One Teacher Award'', a ''USA Today Teacher Team Award'', the ''American Councils Excellence in Teaching Award'', the ''U.S. State Department Russian-American Art Exchange Award'', a ''University of Chicago Most Inspirational Teacher Award'', and four ''Western Illinois University's Most Inspirational Teacher Awards''. Tom served as a Staff Sergeant in Cu Chi, Vietnam and is the recipient of two Army Commendation Medals and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry. He resides in Illinois with his wife, Linda and their three children. Tom is the author of ''Muddy Water: Romance and Murder in Henry County'', ''Perish: Murder in Wicker Park'', and ''The Pied Piper of Sweden''.
Speaking Engagement Availability (Yes) I have spoken eight times concerning my novels - 2 Illinois Retired Teachers Association meetings, 1 Orion Public Library Book Club, 1 Geneseo Public Library Book Talk, 4 times to high school writing classes. I have also been interviewed on 2 radio programs, and I have had two newspaper articles written about my novels. I can be contacted at [mailto:tmsteele@hotmail.com tmsteele@hotmail.com] or 309-441-5548 (home phone). '''Currently, I am scheduled to speak at ''' * at the Bishop Hill Gathering of Authors on October 24, 2009 * at Carl Sandburg College on The Piped Piper of Sweden on February 6, 2010
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In March, I introduced a new series where I will be featuring other women with different body types & talking about how to dress for your shape (here). The response was overwhelmingly positive & I cannot thank you all enough for the wonderful comments & suggestions. I'm excited to introduce you to two new women today who are friends of mine – I purposely selected them because they both have a different body type than I do and I knew they would be perfect for this feature. After last month's post, the majority of you wrote in stating that the item you have the hardest time finding is great-fitting pants. And I can't say that I'm surprised because it's the garment I have the least of in my wardrobe for the very same reason. So today we are highlighting 3 different styles of pants that we found from LOFT, sharing why they work for our shapes and what to look for when you're out searching for your perfect pair.
Jennifer is a work-from-home mom of two with a thriving Beachbody Coaching business. She is 5'5″ with a curvy shape and told me that her problem with pants is that they either fit in the waist and are too tight through the hips or she has to size up for the hips, which inevitably makes the waist too large. Because of this, I knew we would need to search for a fit that was labeled "Curvy". The Julie pants at LOFT are specifically designed for women with this type of body shape and they fit Jennifer perfectly. She did go down one from her usual size because the fabric stretches a bit with wear.
Other pants she tried on & loved were these relaxed chinos (which she purchased in a size 10). And a pair she liked on the hanger but didn't work on her body type were these trousers, which would best fit someone with a straight up & down figure. Other brands with curvy pant offerings are Talbots (here & here), The Limited & White House Black Market. Styling tip: If you are larger on bottom than on top, wearing a brightly colored blouse like Jennifer's helps draw the eye up and visually balances out your proportions.
Sheri is a mom of four who also teaches preschool part-time. She is 5′ 2″ with a petite figure and also has a hard time with pants because she is short-waisted & if the cut isn't exactly right, they end up overwhelming her small frame. She wanted a durable pair that she could move around easily in that would be appropriate while teaching & on the weekend with her family. These classic chinos only have a slight give to them, so they are a more structured fabric than Jennifer's pants & won't stretch as much with wear – she loved the kick crop shape, which give them a modern update. Sheri bought her usual size, but if you want a more tailored fit, we recommend sizing down.
Other styles she tried on that fit her well were these cropped pants & these classic trousers. Because I'm not petite, I haven't paid much attention to that section of stores in the past, but shopping with Sheri made me realize how frustrating it is! We went into 3 different stores that are known for having petite lines & even then, the selection of clothes to choose from was very small. Other retailers with good options for petites are J. Crew, Ann Taylor & Banana Republic – just keep in mind that in many cases, there will be far more options online, so you may need to order that way and return any items that don't work to your local store.
I'm just over 5'8″ and, even though I'm pear-shaped, there is only a small difference in inches between my low waist and my hips, which means that a straight cut actually fits me best. The Marisa pants at LOFT are specifically designed for women with hips that are proportionate to their waist. Other pants that are cut similarly and fit me well are the J. Crew Martie Pants & the Banana Republic Sloan-Fit Pants (here & here). Once you find a pair of pants that fits you perfectly, take careful measurements of the waist to hip ratio, the inseam and the rise. This will help serve as a guide in the future so you can find more options that work for you & it's especially helpful when you're ordering online & can't try on before you buy.
A note on pockets: I very rarely purchase pants with side pockets because I'm curvier and they tend to pucker and bunch in an unflattering way. The pants I'm wearing here actually do have pockets that are sewn shut – normally you would snip that thread after buying them, but I chose to keep them as is so they wouldn't create a problem for me. If you do buy pants with pockets that you don't want open, you can have your tailor remove them completely to eliminate any bulkiness they may create and sew the seam shut for you (or do it yourself if you're handy with a sewing machine).
make sure that everyone gets represented in this series!


text: == Scenario == === Keywords === Attribution, peacetime cyber espionage, diplomatic and consular law, prohibition of intervention, sovereignty, privacy === Facts === '''[F1]''' State A discovers that an email server and several other servers belonging to its Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) have been infiltrated. (The MFA system is a closed system located in the territory of State A, with missions staff using VPN connection to access it.) Initially, the attackers are not identified. Investigation shows that the attackers gained access to the email server by obtaining passwords of several consular officers at State A's missions abroad through spear phishing and fake log-on websites ('''incident 1'''). '''[F2]''' After gaining access, the intruders escalated account privileges and moved laterally through the network, which includes servers located both within State A's territory and on diplomatic and consular premises abroad. Within a few days, they gained access to additional MFA network servers and services provided in various countries abroad. They had access to data of various MFA personnel including senior officials for several months ('''incident 2'''). '''[F3]''' A large amount (over 10 GB) of unclassified data on MFA servers was exfiltrated, even though it is not immediately clear what precise data was affected by the incident ('''incident 3'''). No data was destroyed or encrypted and no MFA services were affected during the attack. '''[F4]''' Nobody claims responsibility for the attack immediately after the MFA's discovery of the incident and publication of the fact that it has occurred. However, a few days later, emails, procurement documents, and internal memos belonging to the MFA of State A are published on the internet ('''incident 4'''). '''[F5]''' Multiple evidence points to State B: *Technical investigation revealed the malware used by attackers in this case. The same malicious code was employed in the past during multiple campaigns by an entity affiliated with a military unit of State B. One of those campaigns was targeted against State C's MFA. *Earlier on, head of an allied intelligence service in State C had publicly accused State B of a cyber espionage campaign conducted by the state military unit against State C's MFA. *The attackers used tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) very similar to those observed in other attacks publicly attributed to State B by multiple countries including State A allies. Mimicking TTPs is much more difficult than tampering with other technical elements. *Judging by the nature and content of the compromised data and by persons who were apparently of particular interest to the attackers, State A cybersecurity authority indicated State B as a logical and the most probable perpetrator of the attack against the MFA. *State A intelligence service sources confirmed that State B institutions possessed information that was based on State A MFA's internal data that was not in the public domain. '''[F6]''' Both State A and State B are parties to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (VCDR)<ref>[http://legal.un.org/ilc/texts/instruments/english/conventions/9_1_1961.pdf Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations] (adopted 18 April 1961, entered into force 24 April 1964), 500 UNTS 95.</ref> and the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (VCCR).<ref>[http://legal.un.org/ilc/texts/instruments/english/conventions/9_2_1963.pdf Vienna Convention on Consular Relations] (adopted 24 April 1963, entered into force 19 March 1967), 596 UNTS 261.</ref> === Examples === * [[SuperMicro supply chain breach (since 2010)]] * [[Office of Personnel Management data breach (2015)]] * APT-29 attacks on ministries (2016-2017) * Chinese infiltration into EU parliamentary proceedings (2018) * [[SolarWinds (2020)]]

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Cilla In The '60s is a budget compilation album which chronologically showcases some of Cilla's most essential recordings from the swinging sixties. This digitally remastered collection include chart hits, classic album cuts plus a recently unearthed Italian language version of "Surround Yourself With Sorrow". The CD's booklet contains rare photographs and detailed sleeve notes.


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Uncultured
The soundtrack to your pandemic
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If it sounds too depressing, try side B. Or, better yet, make your own mixtape.
Welcome to Uncultured, shown in early trials to be 67% effective against just finding something to re-binge on Netflix.
We'll get to the mixtape in a minute, but if for some reason you just can't wait, skip to the bottom of this post.
In the meantime, this is the cover.
Now here come the liner notes.
Making a mixtape shouldn't be stressful.
Just throw a few tracks together on your streaming platform of choice, click "share" and you're done, right?
That's what I had in mind when I put out the call to readers a few weeks back asking for the songs that they've kept coming back to over this last, long year. What music speaks to the moment for you? And what songs are the antidote to the trauma and monotony of 2020 and early 2021?
People have very different responses to those questions. And very different ideas of what music should be featured on an ultimate pandemic playlist. Who knew?
One friend on Facebook responds with some very on-the-nose titles, including "Mad World," "Road to Nowhere," "History Repeating" and "Your Racist Friend."
Another rings in some classic rock titles that have no discernable connection at all, such as "Eyes Without a Face" by Billy Idol, Simple Minds' "Don't You Forget About Me" and Elton John's John Lennon tribute "Empty Garden." Though they all speak to a certain loss or alienation.
Still another offers up the nu-metal anthem "Bodies" by Drowning Pool.
Not the sort of song that plays well with mixtape neighbours like Dolly Parton and David Byrne.
I also enlisted contributions from other members of the Toronto letterati. Friends of the letter, Get Wit Quick's Ben Errett and At the End of the Day's Hannah Sung, serve up Anderson .Paak's "Lockdown" and The Weeknd's "Starboy," respectively.
"I was into his Super Bowl halftime show," says Sung of the Weeknd, "and it was an awesome montage of just 100% hits."
Rapper Cadence Weapon, aka Rollie Pemberton, who peddles his own eclectic tastes over here, has a new track from an upcoming album called "SENNA (feat. Jacques Greene)."
"It's inspired by the legendary F1 race car driver Ayrton Senna," Pemberton explains. "There was a documentary about him that came out in 2010 that really resonated with me. It's about taking the road less travelled."
The track lands on Feb. 19. In the meantime he offers "my anthem for 2021 so far: 'Back Together Again' by Jean & Trevor, a lovers rock reggae cover of the original by Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway."
"I hope to blast it at top volume DJing somewhere like the Garrison when it's all safe for us to be back together again."
Finally, to flesh out the playlist, I turned to previous Uncultured guests, Ben Rayner and Nobu Adilman.
Ben has several playlists of his own, most of which start in a dark place and take you somewhere darker, but I managed to salvage a few gems.
I asked Nobu for a couple picks. He ended up sending me an album's worth and put them in a Spotify playlist of his own. It's a well-observed list, but some tracks are so obscure, the artists themselves may never have heard them.
While I want this mixtape to be a collaborative affair, I take my responsibilities as a curator seriously. The mix needs to contain songs I'd be happy to listen and relisten to, so a lot of suggestions didn't quite make the cut — or I'd make modifications. If I considered a song too overplayed for the mix, I'd replace it with a deeper cut or a cover version.
Thought mixtape was a figure of speech?
The final product — three hours, 45 songs — wallows in misery, anger and futility for the first half, then takes a joyful turn in the second, beginning with "I Don't Feel Like Dancin'" by Scissor Sisters. Have a listen:
Thanks to everyone who contributed to the discussion, even if the actual tracks didn't make the final edit. Got some better candidates? Hit me up in the comments. This is, like everything else, a work in progress.
Like what you see here? If you miss culture as much as I do, please tell your friends. An easy way to share is by clicking this link in your inbox, which will generate a handy pre-written message that you can forward to anyone who might enjoy joining the Uncultured club. As a token of thanks, claim some free swag by clicking here.
If you're not the sharing kind (or even if you are), you can always buy me a coffee.
© 2023 Ariel Teplitsky


Filmtracks: Re: i need a little help.
Re: i need a little help.
• Date: Monday, March 27, 2006, at 12:57 a.m.
kelsie - Thursday, March 23, 2006, at 11:58 a.m.
Josh Philippi - Thursday, May 25, 2006, at 11:24 p.m.
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Refugee crisis looms across Southern Iraq
The UN food agency has warned of a looming refugee crisis across the relatively peaceful southern regions of Iraq. The World Food Program (WFP) said on Tuesday the humanitarian situation in the governorates of Najaf,
India: Cash reward for inter-caste marriages
31 Jan BBC
An Indian state is trying to promote inter-caste marriages by offering a cash incentive, it's reported. The government in Uttar Pradesh, northern India, is offering newlyweds 50,000 rupees ($810; £530) and throwing in a medal and certificate too, the Times of India reports.
EU's Moscovici wants Greece in euroAthens
Greece belongs in the eurozone and the single currency depends on there being no "Grexit", the EU economic and financial affairs commissioner says. Pierre Moscovici told the BBC's Hardtalk "we will do everything" to prevent Greece leaving the eurozone.But he said the Greek government had to respect previous commitments.


After engaging in a recent rash of attacks in retaliation for the takedown of file-sharing site Megaupload, the Anonymous denial of service "cannons" have been firing considerably fewer shells of late.
While Anonymous group members managed to take down Interpol's website on February 28 (largely by using a Web version of their "Low Orbit Ion Cannon" denial of service tool) and have defaced a number of vulnerable sites (including, most recently, sites belonging to Panda Security), threats to take down bigger targets have failed to materialize. What some believed to be the group's boldest plan yet—an effort to bring down the Internet's entire Domain Name System (DNS)—is now being called a "troll" by members of the group.
But this doesn't mean the threat of more targeted denial of service attacks based on DNS attacks have gone away. Disappointed with the current denial of service tools at their disposal, members of Anonymous are working to develop a next-generation attack tool that will, among other options, use DNS itself as a weapon.
The scale and stealthiness of the technique, called DNS amplification, is its main draw for Anonymous. DNS amplification hijacks an integral part of the Internet's global address book, turning a relatively small stream of requests from attacking machines into a torrent of data sent to the target machines, potentially delivering network traffic of tens or hundreds of gigabytes per second without revealing the source of the attack. It does so by using a vulnerability in the DNS service that's been known since at least 2002.
The DNS system is organized hierarchically. At the top of the hierarchy are the "root" nameservers. These contain information on where to find the nameservers responsible for the next level down in the hierarchy, the nameservers for things like ".com" and ".org" and ".uk." In turn, those nameservers contain information about the next level of the hierarchy, so the ".com" nameserver provides information on where to find the "arstechnica" nameserver. The "arstechnica" nameserver is then able to provide the actual mapping from a descriptive name to a numerical IP address.
Doing a DNS lookup requires accessing all these different levels of the hierarchy. There are two ways that a DNS resolver (the piece of software that looks up DNS entries, which can either be a standalone thing on a client machine, or a part of a DNS server) can work: an iterative mode and a recursive mode. In the iterative mode, the resolver first queries the root nameservers for the top-level domain's nameservers, then queries the top-level domain's nameservers for the second level domain's nameservers, and so on and so forth. The resolver contacts the different nameservers directly, one by one, until it has either found the answer it needs or given up because the answer doesn't exist.
In recursive mode, the resolver's job is much simpler: it asks one DNS server for the whole name, then leaves it to the server to perform all the necessary requests (either recursive or iterative) on its behalf.
How DNS recursion is supposed to work, in three easy steps.
There is also extensive caching by all the servers involved; many requests are serviced by using information stores in the cache rather than having to query other servers each time a machine wants to know how to find "google.com," for instance.
Typically, the DNS resolvers built into client operating systems ask nameservers (usually the ones provided by ISPs) to perform recursive queries on their behalf. The lookups then performed by these servers to fulfill the requests are typically iterative.
Here's where the problem arises. The response to a DNS query can be considerably larger than the query itself. In the best (or worst) case, a query of just a few dozen bytes can ask for every name within a domain and receive hundreds or thousands of bytes in response. Every request sent to a DNS server has a source address—an IP address to which the reply should be sent—but these source addresses can be spoofed. That is, a request can be sent from one IP address but the DNS server will think it was sent by a different address.
Using these two things—recursive lookups that return large amounts of data to small queries, and spoofed source addresses—attacks can be made. The attacker first finds a server that is configured to enable recursive lookups. He then sends a large number of requests to the server, spoofing the source address so that the server thinks that the victim machine is making the request. Each of these requests is chosen so that it generates a large response, much larger than the queries themselves. The server will then send these large responses to the victim machine, inundating it with traffic. The disparity between the request size and the response is why these attacks are known as "amplification" attacks.
While consensus is that publicly accessible DNS servers should have recursion disabled, precisely to avoid this kind of problem, the reality is that not all do. Given enough servers that enable recursion, large quantities of traffic can be produced from relatively modest numbers of queries.
A paper (PDF) presented at the 2006 DefCon security conference by Baylor University's Randal Vaughan and Israeli security consultant Gadi Evron documented a series of DNS amplification attacks in late 2005 and early 2006—including one on Internet service provider Sharktech that achieved volumes of packets "as high as 10Gbps and used as many as 140,000 exploited name servers." Depending on the number and network capacity of servers targeted, it's reasonable to assume a coordinated attack by Anonymous could generate several times that volume.
As Vaughan and Evron wrote, "A DNS query consisting of a 60 byte request can be answered with responses of over 4000 bytes, amplifying the response packet by a factor of 60."
In a variant of the attack described by SecureWorks' Don Jackson, the query simply asks the server for a "root hint": the addresses of the name servers for the "." domain, the home of the Internet's root DNS servers. Because there are a large number of root name servers, and because the implementation of DNS-SEC has added certificate data to root server responses, the data returned for each request is about 20 times larger than the query packet.
A comparison of the payloads of a DNS "root hint" query and its response. Not all data shown.
Since it's possible to hide the source of an attack with UDP through forged headers, and because it requires relatively little bandwidth from the attack side, DNS amplification has some obvious benefits to groups like Anonymous. While attackers can't use the Tor anonymizing network (Tor doesn't transfer UDP traffic), they can use various VPNs to add another layer of security.
Aside from the mass of data a DNS amplification attack can create, an attacker gets other benefits from the technique. DNS amplification relies on UDP, a "connectionless" protocol under which packets get sent to a destination without any sort of "handshake" or even a guarantee it will be received. Because there's no sort of negotiation (and because DNS data isn't something usually filtered by application firewalls or other systems), this isn't a simple attack to prevent.


Welcome all 3–6 year olds to storytelling in the bookshop with David. Storytelling is free and there's no need to sign up, just show up at the shop and join the fun.
Raymond E. Feist, the legendary author of the Riftwar trilogy, is visiting the bookshop to present his new book King of Ashes, first in the new Firemane Saga. In conversation with Steven Savile, followed by Q&A and a signing.
Free but ticketed event – get your free ticket at the bookshop today. Limited number of seats.
Where are the Irish Women Writers? Here they come!
Guest speaker Daniel Ogden looks at the complex worlds of dystopias and utopias with examples from modern and classic literature.
Tuesday 13th March at 19.00. Tea and cake served.
Tickets 60 kr. Limited number of seats, please buy your ticket in advance.
» Feel free to share this facebook-event with your friends!
Best bookshop in the world?
It was just announced that we're one of three finalists for Bookstore of the Year 2018 – an award handed out annually by the London Bookfair and the UK Publishers Association for the very best bookshop outside the UK. That's a fairly big chunk of the world!
Winner announced on April 10th at a ceremony at the London Book Fair.


Hunter Douglas — St. Simons Island's oldest full service paint store.
Nothing establishes the mood of a room quite like Hunter Douglas window fashions. Inspired by a passion for design and innovation, Hunter Douglas continuously challenges the boundaries of conventional window fashion, transforming a naked window into a statement of beauty.
Quality and style has earned Hunter Douglas the enviable position as the worldwide leader in custom-made window fashions. Adelaide's Paint decorating staff has been trained by Hunter Douglas in measuring, custom treatments, and features. Our on-staff designers are ready to assist you in professionally outfitting your home in style with Hunter Douglas window fashions.


Education in Visual Arts is one of the major initiatives of the World School of Design along with Architecture and Design. We have already announced four new post-graduate courses in Contemporary Art Practice, Art & Design History, Curatorial Practices in Arts, Fashion Art and graduate courses in Creative Painting and Photography from the academic year 2017. As a prelude to this we are setting up an art gallery of Contemporary Art in the School of Visual Arts. The "Unexplored Spaces" is a curatorial art camp project of the World School of Design in which young and established artists belonging to various parts of the country who are settled in Delhi will be coming together for the exchange of ideas and creative expressions. This National art Camp is curated by Prof. Ajaya Kumar, Dean - School of Visual Arts, World School of Design and Prof. Abhimanue, College of Arts, Delhi.
ABHIJIT SAIKIA was born in Guwahati, Assam and graduated with a specialization in painting from Govt. College of Art and Crafts, Guwahati in 20012. Abhijit had pursued his Post graduation in painting from the College of Art, Delhi. A participant of several shows since his student days, Abhijit's paintings are about his concerns on human existence within time and space.
ADITI AGGARWAL was born and brought up in New Delhi. A Post Graduate in painting from the College of Art, Delhi Aditi reinvents the monochromic lucidity of color and superimposes the dexterity of drawing on canvas or paper on which she builds up clusters of images.
BHUVANESH KUMAR was born in 1986 in Bangalore and had his Graduation in painting from the Kent School of Art, Bangalore. Bhuvanesh had his post Graduation from the College of Art, Delhi. A participant of various exhibitions in the country since 2005, Bhuvanesh Kumar's paintings evoke the conditions of the alien individual in suspended spaces.
BIRENDER KUMAR YADAV was born in Ballia, Uttar Pradesh and graduated in painting from Banaras Hindu University and Post Graduation from the College of Art, Delhi. As a painter who engages direct visual statements on social situations, Birender Kumar articulates the images of tools and machineries which are familiar in our environment.
CHETNAA was born in 1981 and brought up in Delhi. A post Graduate in Painting from the College of Art, Delhi Chetnaa's recent works are in pen and ink in black and white. The pre-occupation of an optical vision stretches her towards the forms of pure abstraction.
ABHISHEK NARAYAN VERMA was born in Bihar and graduated in Painting from College of Art Delhi. He later had pursued his post graduation in Printmaking from Faculty of Fine Arts, MS University of Baroda. Abhishek works in mix media in which he incorporates images from the popular media and graphics.
SHIVANI BHALLA is a post graduate in painting from Faculty of Fine Arts, MS University, Baroda. She has been a visiting faculty at the College of Art, Delhi in 2009-10 and Assistant Professor in Painting at Govt. College of Art, Chandigarh from 2011-16. Shivani's recent works are in acrylics on paper which represent a very simple and naive world with wit and humor.
UDAY SINGH is a postgraduate in Painting from the College of Art, Delhi. He lives and works in New Delhi. Uday's recent paintings are about a deteriorated world of vestiges where the images of both human and non-human forms co- exist.
ANNI KUMARI is a post graduate in Painting from the College of Art, Delhi. She has the credit of active participation in various national residencies and workshops on art. In her recent works Anni kumari creates exceptionally different spaces of optical illusion on round canvases.
ANJUM CHATURVEDI was born in Barelli, Utter Pradesh and pursued her graduate studies in painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts, MS University, Baroda where she took her post graduation in Graphic Arts in 1990. Her recent paintings carry a world of personal narratives in visual simplicity and ornamentation which invites the viewer to walk into multiple spaces.
He has a BFA and MFA in Painting from Jamia Milia Islamia. He has participated in various exhibitions and art camps in different cities of India. He has several awards in painting to his credit. He has served as guest faculty at different art institutions and had taught at Design and Innovation Academy, NOIDA for three years.
ABHIMANUE VG was born in Trissur, Kerela and graduated in philosophy before he had chosen his studies in Painting.He had his graduation and Post Graduation in Painting from Faculty of Fine arts, MS University, Baroda in the year.1979-1985. Abhimanue joined the Delhi College of Art in the department of Painting in 1991 and is the Associate Professor heading the Post Graduate section in Painting.His recent works are pure color fields which break into passages of abstract sagas.
A Post Graduate in Painting from Faculty of Fine Arts, MS University, Baroda, Ajaya Kumar was born in Kollam, Kerala. Participated in various exhibitions in the country and abroad, Ajaya Kumar is also a multi-lingual writer. He is presently the Dean, Visual Arts at the World School of Design. The images of his recent paintings combine sequential texts and scribbles which interpret regional and universal histories and narratives.


noun Astronomy Any of numerous small solar system bodies that revolve around the sun, with orbits lying chiefly between Mars and Jupiter and characteristic diameters roughly between one and several hundred kilometers.
Having a flower like that of an aster.
noun One of the small planets, 280 or more in number, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter: more accurately called planetoids. See planetoid.
noun One of the Asteroidea; a starfish, in a wide sense.
noun A starlike body; esp. one of the numerous small planets whose orbits lie between those of Mars and Jupiter; -- called also planetoids and minor planets.
From Greek asteroeidēs, starlike : astēr, star; see ster-3 in Indo-European roots + -oeidēs, -oid.
From Ancient Greek ἀστεροειδής, from Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astēr, "star") + εἶδος (eidos, "form").
* And the only thing that can stop this asteroid is your liberal arts degree.
The explanation for the 'asteroid' is a rather interesting SF-nal idea, but Roberts doesn't really go anywhere with it, he leaves it hanging.
A large asteroid is on a collision course with Earth.
What†™ s the trajectory of the asteroid? " "Tracking stations report that the asteroid is heading out of the ecliptic.
What if we go back to the GOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLDDDDD standard, but the asteroid is made of GOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLD?
That means no posting here for a day or two (unless something important happens like NASA announces an asteroid is heading toward earth).
Do we know when the next asteroid is going to hit?
An asteroid is going to come whizzing by, as the Bad Astronomer points out.
Real Science: New radar observations have revealed that a near-Earth asteroid is actually three rocks.
CNN would poll the public opinion by asking the question "Do you fear that Obama's plan to blow up the asteroid is too expensive and might not work?"
"But all this is, in our opinion, very unnecessary, while it is indicative of a jealousy with regard to fame, unworthy of him who has discovered whole words. And, after all, the new term is by no means appropriate. An asteroid is, from its derivation, "a body resembling fixed stars:" newly-found heavenly bodies have no one circumstance in common with those luminaries. "


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export type AnybarStatus =
	| 'white'
	| 'red'
	| 'orange'
	| 'yellow'
	| 'green'
	| 'cyan'
	| 'blue'
	| 'purple'
	| 'black'
	| 'question'
	| 'exclamation'
	| 'quit'
	| 'filled'
	| 'hollow';

export interface Options {
	/**
	The port to communicate with the AnyBar app.

	@default 1738
	*/
	readonly port?: number;
}

/**
Control the [AnyBar app](https://github.com/tonsky/AnyBar).

@param status - The [name](https://github.com/tonsky/AnyBar#usage) of the color dot you want the AnyBar app to display.
@returns Returns a promise, but the AnyBar app doesn't send back a reply, so really the only point of waiting for the promise to resolve is in case of an obscure DNS error.

@example
```
import anybar from 'anybar';

anybar('purple');
// The Anybar app menu bar icon turned purple
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Received a tip off from a friend this morning about a book sale hosted by Marshall Cavendish this morning and I immediately made a beeline for it since it is not too far from home. Unlike other clearance sales I'd been to where the books are individually priced and tagged, the books at this year's MC Sale 2015 is sold by the cartons! Yes, you'd heard me right. Buy a cardboard carton at the door for just 20 dollars and pack it up as much as you can carry! Bizarre it may sound, this is absolutely true! What caught my eye was the array of cookbooks available for grabs at the sale. Despite being under the weather, and still recuperating from my HK trip, I must make a trip down and indeed I did!
The Marshall Cavendish Book Sale runs from 28 May (today) for 4 days until next Monday. The banner says up to 95% off and I must say I was in total disbelief when I read it on the way from the bus stop to the building. But just barely an hour later after I walked out, got on a cab, reached home and packed the books I'd hoarded and did my math…. it's true… 95% sale indeed…. OMFG….
Here are some in-situ shots of the sale, taken by my friend 丽爱 who was there earlier than me. I was too busy grabbing books as soon as I got into the event hall that I forgotten all about it. Thanks 丽爱 for the usage of the shots! As you can see, the books are quite mish mash. No, they are not categorised in accordance to genre whatsoever. At least not from what I saw when I got there just before noon. There are a good selection of non-fiction books, most notably the cookbooks which has been spread out across the whole floor space, albeit unwittingly to prevent the cookbook lovers from congregating all at one tight corner, elbow to elbow fighting against each other for the last copy of some popular titles. It takes quite a bit of treasure hunting to find what one wants but all the more to the fun I guess! I was told that some titles fairly quickly, like Cecilia Tan's "Penang Nyonya Cookbook". I missed getting a copy but thankfully, managed to secure one from 丽爱!The children books were totally grabbed up in less than 2 hours as I saw none when I was there.
Yes, here's what the cartons for sale at the counter look like. They go for 20 bucks a piece and you can pack 'em up with any books you want, apart from the periplus minibook titles which are on sale near the door which are sold separately.
Some folks came well prepared, with the entire family entourage, trolleys et al, with 4 large cartons filled with books worth waaaaaaaaay over the 80 bucks paid for. So how did I do? Well, I think I did pretty well, despite being slightly late. Really to see my carton of books?
So what did I bring home? Let's take a look!
First are titles from Chef Wan, Chef Zam and Chef Ismail… renowned celebrity chefs from just across the causeway.
A surprise find! Mrs Leong Yee Soo's titles from her book set, albeit incomplete but still a wonderful find! And there is "Classic Peranakan Cooking", a tie-in published in conjunction with the very popular "Trail of the Phoenix" series featuring Baba Kenny Chan. The photos are set in original antique Nyonyaware, on loan by Katong Antique House and it is always a pleasure to view photos for inspiration, not to mention try out the recipes.
Spreading outwards to the nearby regions, there is a good selection of cookbooks from other parts of Asia. The cuisine which I know least and thus most curious about is Burmese cuisine featured in "A Taste of Shan". Other titles feature cuisines from Korea, Thailand and Japan.
The selection of titles from Chinese cuisine comes strongly from those by Jeremy Leung and Sam Leong. Chef Jeremy Leung (梁子庚) is a Hong Kong-born, Singaporean chef who ventured and made it big in China, best known for his take on "new Shanghai cuisine" as well as his appearances in Masterchef China. Sam Leong needs no introduction in the local culinary scene, having penned several cookbooks, made TV appearances numerous times, not to mention helming his own restaurant and cooking school, with his wife, Forest Leong.
Then comes some cookbooks on more "generic" Asian cuisine, by Lee Geok Boi and Slyvia Tan, the latter said to be the most prolific cookbook author in Singapore to date.
Going slightly westwards, we have cookbooks from India, Iran and finally Turkey which stretches the entire Asia Continent from the far east (Japan) to the exotic west.
Apart from one lonely French title, a few other cookbooks available are non-regional cuisine specific but still worth getting I think.
More cookbooks to look at yes! I'd like the books from Yasa Boga, especially those on Indonesian cuisine and desserts so I was pleasantly surprised to find their range of cookbooks at the sale as well.
Possibly the only bread book at the whole sale. There weren't copies displayed but all still packed within their cartons. By a fine stroke of good luck, I happened to read this title on the carton and got curious enough to open it. Got extra copies to giveaway to friends.
Apart from cookbooks, there is also a good selection of other non-fiction titles available. Beautiful coffee-table books for a lazy afternoon's browsing alongside a good pot of tea with some scones perhaps.
This is my stash of cookbooks garnered from the sale.
And this is the tower of "non-cookbooks", mostly related to the sights and sounds of our region, from old postcards of Siam, to Images of Penang. I'd picked up multiple copies of certain titles for friends whom I knew would be interested in them but could not make it for the sale. Let's hope they would like them!
So if you have the weekend free, it my be worthwhile to drop by and take your pick of your favorite titles. Who knows what interesting books you might find!!!
This entry was posted on May 29, 2015 by Alan (travellingfoodies). It was filed under General and was tagged with big box sale, cookbooks, marshall cavendish book sale, pansing.


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Frostpoint VR Is 60% Off On Steam This Week
Here's a chance to check out Inxile's latest VR effort on the cheap – Frostpoint VR: Proving Grounds is 60% off for the next week.
You can pick the game up on Steam for just $9.99 right now. It's a dramatic sale for a game that only launched at the beginning of December and no doubt part of an effort to get more players into lobbies.
Frostpoint VR Sale Now On
A low player base was one of our big concerns about Frostpoint when it launched. The multiplayer shooter isn't especially inventive but its arcade-style combat might've appealed to a few more people if it were easy to find games consistently.
The game pits two teams of 10 each against each other in battles to capture points on a map. An alien race also runs around levels, attacking players on both sides. A standard team deathmatch option is thrown in for good measure too and, if you had a team together, there is the opportunity for some genuinely strategic plays.
Ultimately, though, we weren't super enthusiastic about the game, awarding it 2/5 stars in our review. We pondered where it might've gone wrong, saying: "Did Microsoft's 2018 acquisition of Inxile scupper plans for something wholly more ambitious? Or is Frostpoint's barebones set of options and unremarkable gameplay really the result of three years of work from a very talented studio? We may never know the answer, but the result leaves a lot to be desired."
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I have had this fascination for black roses since a long time now. My dream to photograph fully bloomed dark black roses with lovely whorls of glossy black petals has led me to a lot of florists and nurseries often getting vague stares from its owners, finally the elusive black rose got me knee deep in the realms of earth. I decided to grow my own. I have since then convinced myself that black roses are a myth and the closest i can get to it is by photoshopping really dark red ones. I got cuttings of what I thought was really dark red roses and read all about it on the net. The first few cuttings gave me red roses but the color was softer. But after a change in the fertiliser (and perhaps the sunlight), the first batch of roses that have come out are brilliantly dark red….. almost black. These are the first rushes of the buds on stem photoshopped into monochrome. I am hoping that they don't lose color after they have bloomed fully. Keeping my fingers crossed.
I might not have got the black rose but I am happy with this one. Plus the dark red color is simply awesome. I cant stop looking at it.
I love that sort of beauty that you can't pull your eyes away from.
Lovely and I like your tale to go with the picture.
how gorgeous. love the clarity of the rose.
I'm growing to love flowers in black and white – so much to see that seems 'hidden' when the color is the first thing we see. This is so interesting – thanks for linking up!
Thank you for sharing your images at http://image-in-ing.blogspot.com/2014/07/wish-i-were-there1.html. I hope to see you there each week!
Beautiful bud, about to unfurl.
Nice shot, you can really see the shape and form in b&w.


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Matchbox Twenty Releases 'More Than You Think You Are'
Tue Nov 19,10:57 AM ET
(11/19/02, 10 a.m. ET) -- Matchbox Twenty releases its new album, More Than You Think You Are, on Tuesday (November 19). The album, the band's third, features the single, "Disease."
Rob Thomas (news) told LAUNCH he compared More Than You Think You Are against Matchbox Twenty's multiplatinum albums Yourself Or Someone Like You and Mad Season.
"Right when it was done we did it against all of it. This record is louder. There's a processed sound to the last two records, not in a bad way. That was just the kind of band that we were and the records that we were making. On this one, there's more of an organic sound," he said.
Thomas also shared what the band was trying to achieve with More Than You Think You Are. "You know, the guitar goes right rarrrrr! Right in your ear. All the records that we listened to, that's what they sound like. If we write a slow song... All the slow songs that we love are like the Jayhawks or the Wilco slow stuff, the great steel guitar. Rock now isn't rock 'n' roll. It's heavy and it's loud and its hard, but it's not rock 'n' roll. Rock 'n' roll to us was Tom Petty (news) and Fleetwood Mac and even old Elton John (news), all that stuff. So we wanted to get back sonically to that sound. We wanted the record to sound like all the records we grew up with."
Matchbox Twenty was scheduled to appear on The Late Show With David Letterman (news - Y! TV) on Monday night (November 18), the band is set for Late Night With Conan O'Brien (news - Y! TV) Friday (November 23), and Last Call With Carson Daly November 29.
-- Darren Davis, New York


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Letter | Cuts in homeless funding decried
By Jennifer Hancock
It was a sad day in our community on Monday, May 2, when the Coalition for the Homeless revealed that funding from the federal agency Housing and Urban Development (HUD) was dramatically reduced for our city's programs serving homeless individuals and families.
The impact is felt across our community as nearly $1.2 million worth of services were cut including our organization, Volunteers of America Mid-States, which will lose $187,350. This funding is allocated for case management and critical supportive services for children and their parents accessing emergency housing at our Louisville Family Housing Services. This is particularly troubling as we operate the only program in the community that provides accredited, comprehensive residential and behavioral health services for homeless children and their parents.
This decision is aligned with HUD's strategy to move resources into permanent housing programs across the country. While the successes of permanent housing programs are noteworthy and needed in this community, not all families qualify for these services. Additionally, the Louisville Metro area has a severe shortage of affordable housing, and emergency shelter and transitional housing are still very much needed particularly for homeless children and their parents.
Like all agencies impacted by this loss, we are examining our options and evaluating the opportunity to engage our compassionate community in keeping this critical program available to those who need our services. Last year, we served 272 individuals, including 171 children, and returned 85 percent of the families we served to live in their own affordable housing. Today, we are serving 24 families, including 39 children. The Coalition for the Homeless, which manages the program placement system, has 36 families in the queue waiting to get into a program like Volunteers of America.
What happens to our community's homeless children if our program is not available? I do not have a vision for that because it is too devastating to contemplate.
The vision I hold is of Marcus Stubbs, the embodiment of the impact of our program. Marcus was a senior at Waggener High School when he and his family became homeless. After six months in our program, he and his family were ready to live independently in our community and have done so ever since. Today Marcus is a senior at Western Kentucky University preparing to study in South Africa this summer. He is why we do what we do.
Until there are no homeless children in our community we must take action. Today 39 children and their parents are counting on us.
Jennifer Hancock


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Venture Capital and Private Equity Initiatives in Singapore
Date Published: 1 May 2014
Authors and Contributors: Ken Chia and Benjamin Mui.
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The Early Stage Venture Fund ("ESVF") is an initiative of the National Framework for Innovation and Enterprise ("NFIE") and is administered by the National Research Foundation ("NRF") from the Prime Minister's Office, Singapore. The ESVF assists venture capital ("VC") funds investing in Singapore-based early-stage high-tech companies. To qualify for the ESVF, the manager of a VC fund must have a Capital Markets Services licence, issued by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, or be a registered Fund Management Company. The NRF selects approved VC funds by evaluating factors such as the VC fund's investment mandate and focus, the profile of their management team and their ability to raise funding. One round of the ESVF was completed in 2008 and a second-round was launched in September 2013. In each round, the NRF invests $10-$15 million in each approved VC fund, with the VC fund expected to raise the same amount on a matching basis from its own investors. The VC fund has the option to buy out NRF's share within five years by paying back the capital with five per cent interest.
The SPRING Start-up Enterprise Development Scheme ("SPRING SEEDS") and the Business Angel Scheme ("BAS") are initiatives by SPRING Singapore. Both schemes are managed by SPRING SEEDS Capital Pte Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of SPRING Singapore which provides equity co-financing for private equity ("PE") funds investing in private limited Singapore-based companies, whose core activities are in Singapore and who have strong international market potential. The investee company must be less than five years old and must have substantial innovative and intellectual content in its products, services or applications. The PE investor must have a minimum paid-up capital of $500,000, be prepared to invest at least $75,000 into each business, and must possess the management experience, business contacts or technical expertise to contribute to the start-up's growth. If the deal is approved by the SPRING SEEDS investment panel, SPRING SEEDS Capital Pte Ltd will match any sum invested by the PE fund into the investee company up to $1 million and will take equity stakes in the company in proportion to its investment. An additional $1 million may be available in a later round subject to the investee company's performance and progress.
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With years of experience overseeing private equity transactions (acting for both private equity investors and companies seeking to raise funds), our lawyers have an acute sense of the interests of both sides and are adept at managing investor relations. This ability to put themselves in the shoes of each party enables our lawyers to identify overlapping interests and pre-empt potential areas of conflict on issues such as the management of the company and the degree of investor protection.
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A university's careers service is one of its most important attributes. I say this for a number of reasons: firstly, we know how valuable an institution's graduate employment statistics can be; it's a measure that parents and students are interested in and it impacts the widely recognised league tables and the TEF Award. More importantly though, it's vital that universities assist students in the search for employment, whether that be to narrow the attainment gap, broaden career horizons or build capacity and employability skills.
At Middlesex University, we felt that we could do this more effectively, so four years ago we set-up a new employability service and launched MDXworks (then known simply as the Online Employability Programme). In 2012, the year before the new service was launched, the careers service helped 1,000 of the University's students. Last year, the service was used by over 10,000 students and graduates. So, what's changed?
It's important to understand the issues. 19,000 students study at our London campus with almost a third coming from overseas. 140 different nationalities are represented and of those students from the UK the vast majority are from London, one of the most ethnically diverse communities in the world. Our students can face challenges; many are time poor as they work while studying and have family caring responsibilities; for many, English is not their first language and for some they are attending university without the support and encouragement of a family. A lack of awareness of the opportunities that are open to them is also a factor, particularly for those students who are the first in their family to attend university and who may have entered via the less traditional route of a Higher National Diploma or Diploma.
Our students can face challenges; many are time poor as they work while studying and have family caring responsibilities; for many, English is not their first language and for some they are attending university without the support and encouragement of a family.
We therefore had to find a way to reach these students and engage them in the support available. Many had unique individual circumstances that, if they were to be overcome, required tailored support. A one-size-fits-all approach was never going to work.
To successfully meet the needs of students, we also had to bear in mind the restraints of being a University with an inner-city campus; space was a key consideration, as was the need to provide multiple and flexible mechanisms through which students could access support.
Cue MDXworks: a service that offers employability support on campus and online. The service gives both students and the employability team a choice as to which contact method is more convenient and more appropriate for the student. For students who wish to continue with – or even just begin – face-to-face meetings, the option is still there. The employability drop-in desk remains open and the team hold workshops around key employability skills. The University also hosts student recruitment agency Unitemps on site, giving students access to part-time jobs and employability advice in the same space.
MDXworks online offers students personalised employment support throughout the whole recruitment cycle, from CV to application to interview. The provision also offers enterprise support for start-ups, online skills assessments, a targeted jobs board and specialist LinkedIn support. Working collaboratively we have been able to achieve this through external partner, Exemplas.
Operating on behalf of the University, Exemplas' Employability advisers offer individual webcam, email and telephone support to students throughout the year, including during holiday periods. Exemplas hold relationships with Middlesex's employer partners, managing the individual accounts and offering tailored recruitment support for each employer. This approach has enabled the University to build effective and meaningful employer relationships.
MDXworks online offers students personalised employment support throughout the whole recruitment cycle, from CV to application to interview.
Collaborating with an external partner is really what has enabled us to make this service such a success. Our partnership with Exemplas has given us immediate and timely access to a flexible and experienced resource pool that enables us to meet peaks and troughs in demand across the range of services offered. Rather than adding an extra dimension to the employability service, Exemplas has provided the backbone for it.
The benefits of this blended approach – both online and physical – are many. Not only does it address our space, volume and resource challenges but, given the online world is one that students have grown up in and are accustomed to, using the online service is simply second nature to students, not to mention more convenient. This is evidenced in the statistics, with 85% of the 1:1 employability support provided by MDXworks online. Not only is the online offering more convenient, it also opens the door for students who, for whatever reason, would be less likely to make use of the Employability Service on campus. As outlined earlier, it is helpful for students who may not have English as their first language and who would be more comfortable using online support at their own speed; it is helpful for students with caring responsibilities and who need to spend as little time away from home as possible; and it is helpful for students who lack the confidence to discuss their circumstances face to face. Whatever the situation for the student MDXworks online enables the University to interact with its students and to provide students with support that may well make a difference to their employment outcome.
All our programmes have an emphasis on skills development, support digital literacy and provide access to professional work experience.
Also key to the service's success are specialist 'Employability Business Partners', whose role it is to collaborate with academic colleagues in faculties to promote employability at subject and programme level. All our programmes have an emphasis on skills development, support digital literacy and provide access to professional work experience. Essential skills for operating effectively in the modern workforce are core to each course to ensure Middlesex graduates are equipped to work in a VUCA world. The team have also put in place tactical support relevant to particular courses, for example students on arts and creative industry courses will attend workshops designed to support them into self-employment and to manage a portfolio career.
Despite the success of the model, we are aware that there are still students who do not realise that we can support them. To counter this, MDXworks includes a customer relationship management (CRM) tracking system – another benefit of our partnership with Exemplas – which allows the employability team to see which students have not interacted, and proactively contact them. This enables the team to identify trends in particular groups of students who are not interacting but would welcome support.
As MDXworks enters its fifth academic year in September, we're incredibly proud of the work that has already taken place. The service has helped thousands of students and I have no doubt that it will continue to do so. However there is always more that can be done, so we will continue to look at new and innovative ways of both engaging with and supporting our graduates as they seek to enter the world of work.
Could the TEF be a disservice to the sector?


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Hamas leaders have reacted to Abbas's threat to call early elections by declaring that they have nothing to fear at the ballot boxes.
Hamas leaders have reacted to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's threat to call early legislative and presidential elections by declaring that they have nothing to fear at the ballot boxes. Abbas, according to his top aides, is seriously considering the possibility of holding new elections as soon as March 2007. Hamas, which ran in the January 2006 parliamentary election for the first time, says it is so confident that its members will win a second vote that it is also now studying the possibility of contesting the presidential election. But Hamas has made it known that it will participate in new elections only if the movement receives assurances that the vote will be conducted in a free and democratic atmosphere. The main reason why Hamas is not afraid to run in another election is because Abbas's rival Fatah party has failed to reform itself and get rid of those officials who were voted out because of their role in financial corruption and abuse of power. Ever since Fatah lost the election about one year ago, its leaders have been too busy searching for ways to return to power at any cost. Instead of embarking on a process of internal reform, Fatah representatives devoted most of their time and efforts trying to undermine and discredit Hamas in the Palestinian public's eyes. In addition, Fatah remains as divided as ever as its leaders and members continue to fight over money and power. The traditional power struggle between the young guard and the old guard in Fatah is still raging as Abbas and his veteran allies continue to resist demands to hold internal elections. Ironically, Hamas's presence in power has provided an excuse for Abbas and the Fatah's old guard to continue with their policy of blocking attempts to reform and inject fresh blood into the party's leadership. The [Fatah-dominated] PLO Executive Committee and the Fatah Central Committee are still in the hands of former cronies of Yasser Arafat. Besides the historic rivalry between the old guard and the young guard, Fatah is also currently witnessing a severe power struggle between some of its top figures. When Abbas recently tried to convene the Fatah Central Committee in Jordan, he was forced to call off the planned meeting due to sharp differences between him and estranged Fatah leader Farouk Kaddoumi. Kaddoumi, who is based in Tunis, has been accused by Abbas loyalists of seeking to stage a mutiny inside Fatah against Abbas and his supporters. In recent weeks, Kaddoumi, who has since been effectively stripped of all his powers, has even gone a step further by forging an "unholy alliance" with Abbas's biggest enemy - Syria-based Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal. Kaddoumi and Mashaal, according to Abbas confidants, are now involved in a secret scheme to establish a "new" PLO with the help of Syria and Iran. Over the past few months, the Palestinian arena has witnessed the comeback of former Fatah officials, operatives and warlords who were largely responsible for their party's defeat in the parliamentary election. These figures, voted out because of their role in financial embezzlement and bad governance, are now projecting themselves as the ultimate "saviors" of the Palestinians. What is absurd is that the international community, including Washington, is once again ready to embrace them. Given the current divisions and squabbling in Fatah, it is highly unlikely that the party will be able to change dramatically before the next vote. In fact, it is almost evident that the same Fatah candidates who ran in the last election will once again seek the confidence of Palestinian voters. As one senior Fatah operative said, "If we run with the same list and faces, this time we will lose even more votes. The Palestinians are not stupid enough to vote for those who failed them for many years." True, Palestinians have paid a very heavy price ever since Hamas came to power. Financial sanctions have only worsened the conditions of Palestinians and increased their bitterness and frustration. But this does not necessarily mean that the majority of Palestinians are angry with Hamas. Many Palestinians, especially in the Gaza Strip, continue to support Hamas because they believe in the movement's ideology. As far as they are concerned, if the Hamas-led government fails to deliver, it will be because of external pressure and not the result of financial corruption and mismanagement. In its next pre-election campaign, Hamas is certain to win the sympathy of many Palestinians by merely depicting itself as the victim of a US-led conspiracy involving Abbas and Fatah.


We know the third generation Moto E is coming, we just haven't heard anything concrete about specs or an actual release date. Fortunately, a new leak is shedding some light on all of those questions.
If you thought that image looks similar to the Moto G Play, you'd be right. The Moto E is apparently lifting its design from one of the newer Moto G devices, complete with a five-inch display and rounded aesthetic. It's slightly thicker, though, so you'd be able to tell the difference between the two if you had both in hand.
The new Moto E will sport a 720p 5-inch screen and will run a relatively clean Android 6.0, and it will have an 8-megapixel rear camera, 5-megapixel front camera, LTE support, 8 GB of internal storage with expandable memory, and a MediaTek processor. The CPU will be a step down from the Snapdragon 410 in the Moto G, but that's to be expected with a lower model of phone.
The Moto E is also set for an August release date, which is actually pretty close. It's slated to launch at just £100 which will be a bit cheaper than the £130 price tag of the Moto G.


If you're still trying hard to decrease belly fat rid even after following the aforementioned diet protocol, you might have an issue with overeating like so many different individuals do. If you're ready to burn off belly fat and earn lifestyle changes that will allow you to keep a healthy weight, the belly fat diet program can provide help. Also, should you be questioning how to eliminate belly fat for men, I'll suggest some great resources you're able to look up.
Extra fat is liable for a plethora of health issues, and belly fat rid is among the most dangerous types. The most precise method to find out how much visceral fat you have is to receive a CT scan or MRI. It is also called organ fat or intra-abdominal fat and it's one of the primary reasons why you must learn how to lose belly fat.
The perfect way to eliminate belly fat is to select your foods wisely and do some physical exercise daily. In addition, it's belly fat! Quite simply, female belly fat is a problem of stress above all else.
The foods that you eat and base your diet plan on will be the deciding factor whether you drop belly fat. Just as important, high-protein diets are proven to be the best method of attacking belly fat rid on wikihow. A healthful and balanced diet in conjunction with fast fat burning exercises at home or gym is the ideal way to lower weight permanently but most of us are confused about the quantity and time of exercise that ought to be done together with the 1200 cal diet so as to promote nutritious weight reduction.
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You must always stick to whole foods to help your weight reduction. Such foods are very tempting, and it's tough to resist them. Most surprisingly, it's a low-calorie and zeroes cholesterol food that is likely to make your dishes and salads delightful even if you're on a diet program.
The key isn't to prevent food except to eat healthier food every 3-4 hours so that you don't go crazy and wind up binging on Whoppers and Big Macs. You don't wish to be using refined foods since they are no good for you. The exact first food that you should have in your diet plan if you would like to shed belly fat is salmon.
Not only does this help you to get rid of weight but additionally, it will help to clean your digestive system and also it will assist with the correct digestion of your food, thus the burning of your body fat. In the face of all of the pricey weight reduction programs, it's still feasible to shed weight without needing to resort to all the fad diets, supplements and drastic measures like liposuction that may do more damage than good in the very long run. While eating fruit is healthy, it needs to be minimized for a while when you would like to drop weight.
Both are really worth avoiding in case you need to drop weight. Prepare a delicious part of cottage cheese mixed with a couple of wholesome herbs if you want to drop weight during your beauty sleep. A potent way to slim down is to create nutritious eating automatically. Others might be driven to eliminate weight to attain an appearance they consider more attractive. Enjoying fresh celery juice in front of a meal can even help you shed weight.
If losing weight is your target, then adding protein is perhaps the one most efficient change you can do in order to your diet. Intentional weight loss is often called slimming. Unintentional weight loss can happen due to an inadequately nutritious diet relative to an individual's energy needs (generally referred to as malnutrition). For athletes trying to improve the performance or maybe to meet required weight classification for participation in a sport, it's not unusual to look for extra weight loss even if they're already at their perfect body weight.


Whether mere possession of a short-barreled shotgun should be treated as a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act?
Of interest to federal practitioners, this case will resolve a split between federal circuits about the answer to the question presented, which arises under the "residual clause" of the ACCA, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1) and (e)(2)(b)—a provision that "has eluded stable construction," United States v. Jones, 689 F.3d 696, 699 (7th Cir. 2012). Two circuits—including the 8th Circuit, as in this case—have answered the question "yes"; four others have answered "no." One of those four is our own circuit, which held in United States v. Miller, 721 F.3d 435 (7th Cir. 2013), that conviction under § 941.28(2) for possession of a short-barreled shotgun was not a violent felony.
Miller reached this conclusion under the Court's interpretations of the residual clause in Sykes v. United States, 131 S. Ct. 2267 (2011), Begay v. United States, 553 U.S. 137 (2008), and James v. United States, 550 U.S. 192 (2007). Under those cases the analysis boils down to whether the risk posed by the possession of a short-barreled shotgun constitutes a serious risk of injury to another, using the ACCA's enumerated violent felonies (burglary, arson, extortion, or crimes involving the use of explosives) as guides to evaluate that risk. The court held the risk of physical injury to another presented by the mere possession of a short-barreled shotgun is not in the same league as the risks presented by the offenses of burglary, arson, extortion, or crimes involving the use of explosives. Miller, 721 F.3d at 438-39, 440. The Eighth Circuit does find mere possession of such a weapon just as risky as the enumerated offenses. If the Court affirms the Eighth Circuit's approach, it will change the law in our circuit.
While the question presented appears narrow, recall that the ACCA has been in the sights of at least one Justice who believe it is unconstitutionally vague. Sykes, 131 S. Ct. at 2284-89 (Scalia, J., dissenting); James, 550 U.S. at 215-31 (Scalia, J., dissenting). The Court's membership hasn't changed much since Sykes and James, so Justice Scalia's position is probably still the minority one; thus, it seems unlikely this case will be a vehicle for striking down the law.


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Lou (or Lou45 as he went by on here) was a pretty good friend of mine. My parents bought me my first military rifle from his shop as a Christmas gift 15 years ago. I went on to buy many more from him until his untimely passing 2 years ago. Everyone here who knew him, knew that he was one hell of a character and I certainly think the firearms community in Maryland took a huge hit now that he's gone.
Lou had an extensive collection of many nice M1911's and other U.S military arms, AR's, Swedish Mausers, and of course his Johnson's. I won't go into any of the details of how or where they ended up, but I came into contact with the individual who now owns most of Lou's stuff. He was looking to sell a few select pieces of Lou's collection, and I was more than happy to oblige in buying them.
I picked up several very nice pieces and I will cherish them as much as he did for many years to come. I might make more detailed threads on a couple of the items, but here's an overview of what I managed to take home with me.
2. Swedish M94/14 Carbine. All matching with an original sling. I've never seen a nicer one anywhere.
3. 1957 Dated Romanian SKS. Still packed in cosmoline.
4. Romanian M44 Carbine. All matching and in beautiful shape.
5. Finnish B-Barrel M1891. Very nice minty condition.
6. 1917 Dated Webley Mark VI. All matching, un-shaved and no import/export marks.
Lou's M1903A4 Sniper Rifle! This was the one that he had on display in his shop for so long. It even has his "not for sale, display only" tags still on it!
I also got an M1903A4 thanks to Dan inviting me along to the sale. I got my first military rifle as well from Lou when I bought an M91/30 in 2011 at the Silverado show in PG.
I'll post more pictures if Dan does a thread for the A4s, but while I got mine first, he got the nicer one. As you can see from the "corrected" tag above, these were overlooked and sold off as A3s.
I'm glad you got these, I know you'll take good care of them.


I know of no better demonstration of how to lead negotiation than Patchworks Films movie The Tricycle Solution. I also know of no better demonstration of a democratic learning community than this year-long film shot at Rocky Mountain Nursery School, a parent participation program in San Francisco CA. The marvelous teacher, Effie Kuriloff, died of breast cancer in 2004, not long after this film was made. You can get it at Patchwork Films. I did buy it immediately and have shown it many times — always experiencing a quiet joy from a peek at the best that humans can be for each other.
Essentially you see children in disputes over a favorite tricycle with candid hitting and tears. Effie stopped the action, made an announcement to the entire group, and sat on the tricycle until the children decided among themselves what to do. Eventually they did. That trust in children has remained an example to not only the children and families at the school but also everyone who is fortunate enough to glimpse it via film. A bit more information is available here.
I am a firm believer that a free play time for children indoors or outdoors is actually a free play time for children. It is time for the adults to watch and document, generally letting the children be free, free to have disputes, free to make friends and lose friends and regain friends, and live the life of a child during childhood. If adults see a problem that necessitates an immediate solution, it may be time to stop everything and call a community meeting. Free time changes into group time with an adult leader.
I recorded an example of a community meeting at Green Tree here in Seattle. This cleanup time was awful, so awful I was reluctant to even videotape it. Trust me: it was a lot worse than the bits I couldn't avoid catching on screen. This is the only videotape I know where a master teacher, Holly Kolher, leads a meeting to solve a problem that is a community responsibility.
Meetings generally occur at scheduled times of the day, but if needed they can be called at any time.
They did. They dumped everything out and began throwing the beanbags at each other, at the windows, and even lobbing them out of the area where the children were working at tables. This was a perfect opportunity to call a community meeting.
I wasn't so concerned about them throwing them at each other, figuring that anybody brave enough to venture in there, could probably handle it. But the noisy throws at the windows and lobs into the table area presented problems for the classroom. I sat everyone down and described the problems. I could not allow them to toss them out of the area where other children, who were not playing bean bags, would not be paying attention to flying objects. The windows were insulated safety glass, so I said these wouldn't break, although generally glass windows can break.
With everyone's input the problem becomes clear. We had a bit of discussion, which unfortunately I did not record, so I cannot share their words. It's best if the children describe the problem, with minor input from the adult.
The children readily decided not to throw the beanbags at the windows, at each other, or into another area of the classroom. No prompting needed. I think they had done that already and knew it wasn't all that interesting anyway. The goal for step two on the agenda is to elicit the children's ideas, not ones from the adult, so they learn to do this on their own in the future. I have, however, told them stories of what other children had done in cases like this after waiting through silence when no solutions were forthcoming.
This was easy this time.
It was absolutely amazing! Two arcade games began at opposite ends of the area. The children made up rules and negotiated problems, cooperatively, positively, and creatively. I was thrilled.


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In the future, all of our cars and their associated components will be Lego-based. We'll have an entire generation of engineers raised on Legos who grew to develop amazing skills like master builder Sheepo, whose latest project is a working Shelby GT500 made of 3,500 Lego parts.
Despite being just one eighth the size of the real thing, this hopped-up Lego Mustang is actually more sophisticated than some actual cars I have owned. The folks at Mustangs Daily have the scoop on Sheepo's latest creation.
Sheepo says it has five different motors which operate various moving parts including the fake V8 piston engine, the steering, the sequential gearbox and four-wheel disc brakes.
Beyond the mechanical stuff, the Lego GT500 also boasts a complete set of bodywork with opening doors, trunk and hood — the front seats even fold down to give the little Lego people access to the back. It's even got a suspension which imitates the real-life GT500, meaning McPherson front struts and a 4-link rear live axle.
It even has a gear indicator between its seats. How about that?
It's an amazing achievement by this Lego master, and by no means his first. Because he has excellent and rather Jalop-tastic taste in cars, he's also built a Lego Caterham Seven, a Lego Land Rover Defender, and a Lego classic Mini Cooper.
Best use of Legos ever? I'm gonna go with yes.


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Q: Import Data from SQL into Excel and then auto refresh using PYTHON I have an excel workbook with 14 sheets for data and more 8 tabs for the report views.
Objective: To be able to populate all the 14 sheets of data from 14 different SQL tables and hide them. Then auto refresh the pivot views in the                        next 8 tabs
Challenge: I am using pyodbc and pandas to import data from SQL but I am unable to unhide the hidden 14 data tabs and delete the old data and then paste the new data and then again hide the data sheets.
Also, I am unable to automatically refresh the pivots in the other tabs without having to manually click refresh.
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Cricket: UoM enters semi-finals
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Who is the greatest All-Rounder ?
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Service Organisations Cup cricket tourney from tomorrow
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Budding cricketer of city
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Talented Cricketer: Goutham Sagar
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Dr. (Capt.) K. Thimmappiah Memorial Cricket Tournament: Manan Vohra, Jiwanjot shine for Punjab
Centuries by opener Manan Vohra (130, 15x4s, 2x6s) and Jiwanjot Singh (119, 14x4s) and their valuable 233-run second wicket partnership helped Punjab CA to post a total of 408 for nine decl. in 111 overs in their second innings and set a target of 286-run to win for Kerala, on the third-day of their four-day…
KSCA Mysuru Zonal League 2017: K. M. Sharath shines for Mysore CC
A match haul of eight for 95 (three for 41 & five for 54) by left-arm spinner K.M. Sharath helped Mysore CC to register a big innings and 15 runs win over Sri Krishna Rajendra SC in the KSCA Mysore Zone 1st Division two-day league match played at the JSS-SJCE Ground here recently. The scores…
Cricket fever grips Mysuru officials
By S.N. Venkatnag Sobers It is a known fact that cricket is a religion in India. There is hardly a person who wouldn't have played cricket, though not professionally, at least in grounds as children. Currently, the cricket buffs are keen on watching the Indian Eves playing at the ongoing World Cup in England. But…
Talented Cricketer: Kishan Bedare
Cricket is a very popular game in our country and many youngsters have taken up cricket as their career. Mysuru also has its share of producing talented cricketers who have gone on to represent the State and the country. City's talented cricketer Kishan S. Bedare, has come up with some sterling performance with the willow…
India 'A' teams for South Africa tour announced
Karun Nair and Manish Pandey have been named as skippers of India A's unofficial Test and one-day teams respectively, for the upcoming tour of South Africa. India A will play a one-day tri-series involving Australia A and South Africa A followed by two four-day matches against the hosts. The tour starts with the first one-dayer…