[WASHINGTON, D.C.] – U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and 42 of her colleagues wrote to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) today pledging to block a House Republican-led effort to curtail the civil rights of Americans living with disabilities. Together, the group of 43 Senators is large enough to defeat the discriminatory ADA Education and Reform Act (H.R. 620), which civil rights icon Congressman John Lewis (D-GA) described as, "a bill that turns the clock backwards and strikes a devastating blow in the fight for civil rights." The legislation would isolate Americans living with disabilities as the only federally-protected class of citizens forced to rely on "education," rather than strong enforcement, to exercise their basic civil rights.
We are writing to express our strong opposition to H.R. 620 the ADA Education and Reform Act and any legislation that would repeal or weaken rights under title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which prohibits discrimination on the basis of a disability in certain places of public accommodation. As a civil rights law, title III of the ADA was modeled after title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, religion and national origin in certain places of public accommodation.
When supporters of the discriminatory H.R. 620 argue for its necessity by citing examples of alleged "minor" accessibility infractions, they miss the point that this bill undermines the rights of people with disabilities, rather than protects them. There is nothing minor about a combat Veteran with a disability having to suffer the indignity of being unable to independently access a restaurant in the country they were willing to defend abroad. There is nothing minor about a child with cerebral palsy being forced to suffer the humiliation of being unable to access a movie theater alongside her friends.
No American should be forced to endure discrimination for any length of time so that places of public accommodation may learn how to follow a seminal, bipartisan civil rights law that was enacted in 1990. Respectfully, we urge you to join us in supporting the rights of Americans with disabilities by making clear that H.R. 620, or similar legislation, will never receive a vote in the United States Senate during the 115th Congress.


I have a youtube channel where I give awful writing advice and lots of sarcasm. Mostly these videos are just an excuse for me to complain about tropes I don't like and cliches I keep seeing in certain genres. Needless to say, please do NOT follow any of my advice. There is a good chance that I am being sarcastic.
Seriously, why does every author feel the need to give writing advice?


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Almudena Muñoz Martínez (born November 4, 1968) is a former judo competitor from Spain who won the gold medal in women's 52 kg division at the 1992 Summer Olympics of Barcelona, Spain. Muñoz also competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States.

External links

 Spanish Olympic Committee
 Videos of Almudena Muñoz in action (judovision.org)

1968 births
Living people
Spanish female judoka
Olympic judoka of Spain
Judoka at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Judoka at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for Spain
Sportspeople from Valencia
Olympic medalists in judo
Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Spain
Mediterranean Games medalists in judo
Competitors at the 1997 Mediterranean Games
20th-century Spanish women
21st-century Spanish women

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Running Foxes is actively seeking investors/partners for the following prospects.
ROCROI EXPLORATION PROSPECT. LINCOLN COUNTY, COLORADO
Running Foxes Petroleum Inc. ("Running Foxes") is seeking an industry partner to participate in the development of the Rocroi Prospect, Lincoln County, Colorado which is a look alike to the Company's Arikaree Field Discover further north in the same county. The Rocroi Prospect is a 3D seismically defined structure with a bounding wrench fault. There is also a soil gas and iodine surface geochemical survey that indicates anomalous conditions overlying the 3D seismic target. This is also similar to the Company's field discovery at Arikaree Creek. The prospect is located in the southern Denver Basin. The primary targets is the Mississippian, Morrow, Cherokee "C", Cherokee "A and Marmaton. Estimated recoveries based on the 3D seismic survey is 5 to 10 MMBO at less than 7,200 feet.
The Company is seeking a 75% partner(s).
LEAVENWORTH DEVELOPMENT PROJECT. LEAVENWORTH COUNTY, KANSAS
Running Foxes Petroleum Inc. (RFPI) is developing the Leavenworth Project which is mainly gas is located in the central part of the Forest City Basin. The project targets coal bed methane and oil from 1,000 to 1,500 feet. The project has thirty miles + of pipeline and an existing tap. The project is presently producing 1 BOPD and 200 MCFGPD from 40 oil and gas wells. Gas is producing from Riverton Coal and McLouth sandstones and oil from McLouth sandstone. Gas is sold to a third party. Running Foxes Petroleum Inc. is has put in an additional oil well and injector to start at test waterflood. Production should increase oil production from 1 to 2 BOPD to ten or more BOPD. The McLouth sandstone is from 10 to 40 feet thick, one to two Darcy permeability and 17% to 26% porosity. Oil is 210 to 240 API gravity. The coal completed is generally the Riverton. Up to four benches from one to five feet thick plus several additional coals above. The Company has over 25 wells it is converting to CBM production. The Company will put in SWDs to handle the water production. The Company has its own service units, water trucks, etc. to keep costs down. Potential reserves from 5,000 to 85,000 BO per well. Potential reserves from 100 MMCF to 1 BCF per well. Expected increase in gas production from recompletion is expected to increase production by three to five fold.
Running Foxes Petroleum Inc. is seeking up to a 50% working interest partner (s).
LIVENGOOD FIELD DEVELOPMENT PROJECT. BROWN COUNTY, KANSAS.
Running Foxes Petroleum Inc. ("Running Foxes") is seeking an industry partner to participate in the development of the Livengood Field in Brown County, Kansas. The Livengood Field is located in the Forest City Basin near the Kansas-Nebraska border. The Livengood Field has previously produced over 200,000 barrels of oil from structurally-closed Hunton and Viola porosity zones. Running Foxes has 5,500 acres over the field, and revitalized the field with the drilling of six successful wells based upon subsurface and 3D seismic data. Running Foxes has also acquired a 7 square mile 3D survey over the known field, identified additional field development and extension locations that would not have been identified by subsurface geology, and found a satellite structure to the south that is prospective for development. The Livengood Field was originally discovered in 1944 with a well that commenced production at 85 BOPD and 25 BWPD from porosity at the top of the Devonian Hunton formation. The Hunton porosity is found at a drilling depth of approximately 2,580 feet. Subsequent development of the field included 25 wells drilled to the Hunton, of which 13 were successful producers; and, eight wells drilled to the Ordovician Viola formation, of which 4 were successful. The Viola porosity is found at a drilling depth of approximately 3,570 feet. Running Foxes will drill two development wells, both likely Hunton and Viola producers. The two locations offset the Gruber 3-3D which settled at 70 to 90 BOPD in its first year from the Hunton. There are seven locations remaining based on the 3D seismic plus two additional seismic features that could contain an additional six locations. There is potential of an additional 300 to 500 MBO to be found.
RUNAMUCK DEVELOPMENT PROJECT. ATCHISON COUNTY, MISSOURI
Running Foxes Petroleum Inc. ("Running Foxes") is seeking an industry partner to participate in the development of the Runamuck Field in Atchison County, Missouri. The Runamuck Field is located in the Forest City Basin in northwest Missouri. The Runamuck Field has produced over 200,000 barrels of oil from structurally-closed Hunton and Viola porosity zones. Running Foxes has 4,200 acres over the field, and revitalized the field and shot 2D seismic. Running Foxes has identified 10 additional locations that are structurally controlled and could not have been identified by subsurface geology alone. The Runamuck Field was originally discovered in 1986 with a well that commenced production at 125 BOPD and 25 BWPD from porosity at the top of the Ordovician Viola formation. The Viola porosity is found at a drilling depth of approximately 2,800 to 2,900 feet. Subsequent development of the field included 14 wells drilled to the Viola, of which 6 were successful producers. Five wells produce from the Viola and have yielded 2/3rd of the field's production with an average recovery of 45 MBO per well. One well, the Ball 2, completed in the Hunton yields 1/3rd of the field's production. The Hunton porosity is found at a drilling depth of approximately 2,400 to 2,500. Running Foxes has identified 10 additional locations all of which target both the Hunton and Viola formations based on subsurface geology, 2D seismic, iodine and magneto-tellurics. There is potential of an additional 500 to 750 MBO to be found.
The Company is seeking a 75% non-operating partner(s).
CISCO FIELD DEVELOPMENT PROJECT. GRAND COUNTY, UTAH
Running Foxes Petroleum Inc. ("Running Foxes") is seeking an industry partner to participate in reworking and development of the Cisco Field located on the Uncompaghre Uplift, Grand County, Utah. Presently 40 to 50 BOPD is shut-in. The Company wants to re-enter and re-work several wells. In addition, there is an additional 40 to 50 locations on the structure that comprises the Cisco Field. Depths are less than 2,500 feet and reserves vary from 15 to 90 MBO per location on 20 acres.
Interested? Contact RFP

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WSU attempting to secure bowl eligibility playing ASU
TREVOR JUNT, Evergreen deputy sports editor • November 10, 2022
WSU is one win away from being bowl eligible. They are hoping to secure this feat as they face the Arizona State Sun Devils on Saturday. The...
Cougs to battle Beavs in Corvallis
TREVOR JUNT, Evergreen deputy sports editor • October 12, 2022
WSU football is coming off a rough loss against No. 7 USC and will face Oregon State in a tough environment. Both teams are 1-2 in their last three games. WSU with losses to both ranked teams, No. 12...
Cougs wrap up football regular season
TOM ABBOTT, Evergreen sports editor • November 30, 2021
WSU football finished the regular season two games over .500 at 7-5 after a tumultuous coaching year. The Cougs started the season with formerhead coach Nick Rolovich who became the center of attention...
New defense with high expectations
KURIA POUNDS, Evergreen reporter • November 5, 2020
The defense for the Cougars has been suspect for the past few seasons, with the interior allowing plenty of rushing yards per game in 2018 and allowing 452.5 total yards of offense each game last season. This...


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Kapil Sharma along with his co-stars Monica Gill and Ishita Dutta launched the trailer of their upcoming film Firangi at an event in Mumbai on October 24, 2017. This will be the second film for comedian Kapil Sharma, who has earlier made his debut in Bollywood with the film, Kis Kisko Pyaaar Karoon.
The upcoming film is a period drama which has been set in the year 1920 and narrates the story of a village boy, played by Kapil Sharma, who lands the job of a cop under the British rule. The trailer has shown the lead actor Kapil, who has the ability to heal cramped backs with his kick. The character of Kapil then falls in love with a village girl, but her parents refuse the alliance saying they do not want to get their daughter married to a British slave.
Ishita Dutta will be seen playing the role of a village girl while Monica will be seen playing the role of a NRI girl. The film is directed by Rajiev Dhingra and produced by Kapil Sharma. Firangi has been shot in Rajasthan and Punjab and is ready to be released on November 24, 2017. Kapil Sharma released the motion poster of the film on October 12, 2017.
On the work front, The Kapil Sharma Show went off air due to health issues of the actor. The comedian has promised that he would be back with his show after a break.
Exclusive photos from the trailer launch event of Firangi!


If you have ever seen the film Office Space, you are familiar with the scene where the Bob's are interviewing Peter trying to find out how he contributes at work. In that scene he says, "I'd probably, say, in a given week, I probably do about fifteen minutes of real, actual work."
Did you laugh when he said that? I know I did, but it begged the question, how much work do I actually do in a day? If I do not know how long it took me to do something then am I really providing honest estimates?
total_number_of_developers/2? We practice pair programming. If your team doesn't then there is not one there to prevent you from slacking. You really are 50% productive.
total_days? Normally you have about 5 days in a week but you should not assume you will have 100% of your time available for working on production code or that your estimates where accurate. Calculate capacity using 70% of your work week (3.5 days instead of 5), that will allow plenty of room for incorrect estimates.
Compare your estimates to your actual completed work every iteration. Once you are able to determine how much work you are doing, what you can do is easier to calculate. This computation has been pretty accurate for me over the past few years. Give this a try and let me know how it works for you!


Target Teal is an org-net of interdependent facilitators. There are no owners, bosses or employees here. We are all entrepreneurs and autonomous. Each facilitator generates his or her own income through individual projects and in partnership with other members. We make decisions and manage our assets through the O2 social technology.
We are rebels and we don't sympathize with established social systems. We believe that they bring entropy and don't allow new forms to appear.
Sometimes we challenge organizational authorities in the quest for a total rewrite of the system. At other times we infect groups and contexts with new forms that build up over time.
We strive to be different and to do things that are antagonistic. We explore diverse possibilities and encourage experimentation.
Our purpose is to seed evolutionary social systems.
We are an organization because we share the same purpose.
Beyond serving directly our clients, all facilitators fulfill roles that support Target Teal's intangible and tangible assets.
We do not have secrets: all informations regarding projects and contracts are shared between the members.
We are a network because we are not incorporated in a single legal entity. Each facilitator has his own company that generates revenue.
We do not pay fees to anyone inside the network. We are not a franchise. We do not have an office or physical address.
Legally speaking, Target Teal is an unincorporated joint venture between individual companies. Our contract is available on Github. You can find it here (in Portuguese).
We do not have a traditional hiring process, where we review your resume and do a series of interviews. That does not suit us very much. That's why we created an extended network (in Slack), which today has more than 50 people who are interested in the same themes as us. The vast majority of our channels and folders in Drive are open to this extended network.


Joseph BOYER.Joseph married Adeline MANTHA.
Adeline MANTHA.Adeline married Joseph BOYER.
Jean B. VAILLEANCOURT.Jean married Delena FLEURY.
Delena FLEURY.Delena married Jean B. VAILLEANCOURT.
John DOPSON was born 1 about 1836 in Woolhampton, Berkshire, England. He died after 1880. He married 2 Lydia SCOTT in Jan 1858 in Eton, Buckingham, England.
Lydia SCOTT [Parents] was christened 1 on 10 Apr 1836 in Wooburn, Buckingham. She died after 1880. She married 2 John DOPSON in Jan 1858 in Eton, Buckingham, England.
F i Esther DOPSON was born 1 about 1860 in Burnham, Buckingham, England. She died after 1880.
William DOPSON [Parents] was born 1 about 1863 in Burnham, Buckingham, England. He died after 1880. He married 2, 3 Mary Ann HOBBS on 15 Feb 1890 in Wooburn, Buckingham, England.
Mary Ann HOBBS [Parents] was born 1, 2 in Oct 1869 in Wooburn, Buckingham, England. She was christened 3 on 31 Oct 1869 in Wooburn, Buckingham, England. She married 4, 5 William DOPSON on 15 Feb 1890 in Wooburn, Buckingham, England.
William Francis DOPSON [Parents] was born 1 in Oct 1897 in Kingston, Surrey, England. He died 2 in Jan 1969 in Hillingdon, Greater London, England. He married 3 Margaret Theresa MANN in Apr 1921 in Uxbridge, Middlesex, England.
Margaret Theresa MANN [Parents] was born 1 on 15 Jul 1889. She died 2 in Jul 1971 in Harrow, Greater London, England. She married 3 William Francis DOPSON in Apr 1921 in Uxbridge, Middlesex, England.
Thomas MANN [Parents] was born about 1876 in Harrow, Middlesex, England. He married Emma BENTLEY.
Emma BENTLEY [Parents] was born about 1873 in Brighton, Sussex, England. She married Thomas MANN.
William James HOBBS [Parents] was born 1 on 3 Feb 1831 in Wooburn, Buckingham, England. He was christened 2 on 6 Mar 1831 in Wooburn, Buckingham, England. He died after 1870. He married 3 Ann ALLNUTT in Oct 1853 in Wycombe, Buckingham, England.
Ann ALLNUTT [Parents] was born about 1831 in Wooburn, Buckingham, England. She died after 1870. She married 1 William James HOBBS in Oct 1853 in Wycombe, Buckingham, England.
F ii Agness HOBBS was born 1 about 1869 in Wooburn, Buckingham, England. She died after 1870.
M iii William HOBBS was born 1 about 1862 in Wooburn, Buckingham, England. He died after 1870.
George BENTLEY.George married Susannah BURTENSHAW.
Susannah BURTENSHAW was born about 1835. She married George BENTLEY.
William MANN [Parents] was born in 1836 in Harrow, Middlesex, England. He married Matilda CARPENTER.
Matilda CARPENTER was born about 1838. She married William MANN.
John MANN was born in 1807. He married Rebecca BISHOP.
Rebecca BISHOP was born about 1809. She married John MANN.


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Q: Managing font installation/removal on Windows using python After some researching I found out that I can install a truetype font for the current user by just making a new string value in HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts with NAME set to the font's name and DATA set to the font's path. Removing a font is also similar, first you remove the string value for the specified font and then delete the font file itself.
I tried to do it manually and it does work (both installing and removing a font). But recreating everything in python lands me into a problem. I'm able to install font using the above method but when I try to remove the font then windows tells me that the font file is currently being used by "System". My program is able to remove the registry value but fails to delete the font file.
My helper registry editor functions can be found at -> https://github.com/nk521/phonts/blob/07a4d6de5165d5c19861c2f28708c60d52f33df9/core/helpers/win.py
This function installs a font -> https://github.com/nk521/phonts/blob/07a4d6de5165d5c19861c2f28708c60d52f33df9/core/win.py#L15
This function deletes a font -> https://github.com/nk521/phonts/blob/07a4d6de5165d5c19861c2f28708c60d52f33df9/core/win.py#L35
This line will generate a PermissionError -> https://github.com/nk521/phonts/blob/07a4d6de5165d5c19861c2f28708c60d52f33df9/core/win.py#L41

A: On Windows, GDI may lock font files that have been used. You might not be able to delete the font file until that user session has ended. If you delete the registry entry, then the font won't get loaded into GDI in the next session. Try deleting the reg entry, then log off and back on, that might unlock the file; or if it has locked it in a different session, you might need to reboot.

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One of the most striking features of Cathedral of Santa Maria is its bell tower, known as Campanile. Around 20 meter height, the bell tower is made of sandstone, complemented with pyramidal spiral. It stands out among all the highlights of the city. The striking feature of the tower is its copper sphere with the cross, mounted on its top.
The bell tower or Campanile is accessible through the gothic doorway of the cathedral. Climb up the tower, to get the best view of the city from the top.
Monday to Friday: 10:30 am – 12:30 pm & 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm.
Monday to Tuesday & Thursday to Friday: 10:30 am -12:30 pm.
Monday to Friday: 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm.
November to May: On Request.
People normally club together Maria Pia Beach and Chiesa Di San Francesco while planning their visit to Campanile.


Dr. Sam is a native to Columbus, Ohio, graduating from OSU and then continuing her education at Life University in Atlanta, where she received her doctorate in chiropractic.
She has a passion for female hormonal health, including menstrual and menopausal health, along with function and fertility.
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I am currently planning and trying to get organized for our next vacation, and realized this blog is a year old and I have done nothing yet. So, before I plan more it is to reflect and look back at the beginning.
When Princess was 5 months old my hubby and I got a chance to go on the Disney Magic for a 7 night cruise during Halloween of 2008. We figured it sounded like fun and decided to go. We had never cruised during Halloween. We had never cruised with another couple. We had never cruised with an infant. How hard could any of those things be?
We were both very familiar with the Disney Magic. In fact we had just cruised on her in January for our babymoon.
So, we got Princess a passport and I started trying to figure out what I would need to pack. A costume of course! Clothes for every day. Dresses for dinner every night! Just the thought of how much fun I would have dressing her for the cruise got me excited.
I partnered with her pediatrician to make sure we would be okay taking her on the cruise, and she saw nothing wrong with it. Whew.
She was to young for sunscreen according to all the sunscreen rules and information I had, which said 6 months and older. I didn't plan on having her in the sun, but I wanted to make sure we were ok. The doctor said I could use is sparingly if I felt it was needed.
So, at 5 months old, we boarded the ship and Princess took her 1st cruise. She slept thru sail away.
I know many comment on how she won't ever remember the cruise and why bother taking her. For me, it was simple. It wasn't about what she would remember. It was about what I would remember. She may not remember her first few years, I know I don't remember mine, but I love the stories my parents tell me and I hope she will love looking thru pictures and enjoy the stories we share.
There are going to be so many firsts in her life, and if we can capture them and enjoy them and celebrate them as a family, isn't that what it is all about.
She may not remember meeting characters, but I will remember.
She may not remember her first visit to Castaway Cay, but that will always hold a special place in my heart.
Princess was a difficult sleeper and I wasn't sure she would sleep in the pack n play so I brought a portable bed hoping that would work. It didn't and she slept with us. Learned for future cruises not to bother with a portable bed.
I was concerned about sun and sand and what to do with her on the beach, so I bought and brought a sun cabana. No regrets on that purchase. Worked great for what we needed.
I booked her for a few hours in the nursery so we could do a Palo brunch. I was so nervous the whole time, but she was fine and she napped!! She napped so well that when we went to pick her up they didn't want to disturb her in the crib and told us to leave her. The 2 hours turned into 5. She sleeps well on a rocking ship!
She had just started eating "baby food" and the servers on the ship were great. Did we want applesauce? Blended anything? The chef would make it.
I overpacked in diapers, but no regrets there. I know they now have companies for ordering a lot of that and having it in your cabin when you arrive, but I don't like the charge. It took up a lot of room getting on the ship, but that meant lots of room for extra souvenirs getting of the ship.
The stateroom attendant was magical. Really! He was always there to open the door when I had her in my arms or when I was pushing the stroller. I rarely had to get my key. I felt bad that in return he constantly had to collect dirty diapers.
The servers in the dining room were always trying to make sure they had something she could eat and if she was in my lap, our server never thought twice about cutting up my meat so I could eat one handed.
Would I do it again in? Absolutely and I would recommend the experience to others. However, now the age is at least 6 months.


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Q: AWS Kinesis Lambda Scheduled Pull Invocation There seems to be no way to tell lambdas to pull records in a scheduled manner.
This means that my lambda function never gets invoked unless the size of records meets the batch specification.
I'd like to my lambda function to get invoked eagerly so that it can pull records after a specified time elapses as well.
Imagine that you are building a real time analytics service that do not fill the specified batch size for a long time during off-peaks.
Is there any workaround to pull records periodically?

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This means that my lambda function never gets invoked unless the size of records meets the batch specification.

That is not correct to my knowledge - can you provide the documentation that says so?
To my knowledge
AWS uses a daemon for polling the stream and check for new records. The daemon is what triggers the Lambda and it happens in one of the two cases:

*

*Batch size crossed the specified limit (the one configured in Lambda).

*Certain time had passed (don't know how much exactly) and current batch is not empty.

I had done a massive use of Kinesis and Lambda, I have configured the batch limit to 500 records (per invocation).
I have had invocations with less than 500 records, sometimes even ~20 records - this is a fact.


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package org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.rest.api.store.impl;

import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.core.api.APIStore;
import org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.core.exception.APIManagementException;
import org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.core.models.Tag;
import org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.rest.api.common.RestApiConstants;
import org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.rest.api.common.dto.ErrorDTO;
import org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.rest.api.common.util.RestApiUtil;
import org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.rest.api.store.NotFoundException;
import org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.rest.api.store.TagsApiService;
import org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.rest.api.store.dto.TagListDTO;
import org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.rest.api.store.mappings.TagMappingUtil;

import javax.ws.rs.core.Response;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import org.wso2.msf4j.Request;

/**
 * Implementation of Tags resource
 */
public class TagsApiServiceImpl extends TagsApiService {

    private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(TagsApiServiceImpl.class);

    /**
     * Retrieve tags of APIs
     *
     * @param limit       Maximum number of tags to return
     * @param offset      Starting position of the pagination
     * @param ifNoneMatch If-None-Match header value
     * @param request     msf4j request object
     * @return A list of qualifying tags as the response
     * @throws NotFoundException When the particular resource does not exist in the system
     */
    @Override
    public Response tagsGet(Integer limit, Integer offset, String ifNoneMatch, Request request)
            throws NotFoundException {
        TagListDTO tagListDTO = null;
        limit = limit != null ? limit : RestApiConstants.PAGINATION_LIMIT_DEFAULT;
        offset = offset != null ? offset : RestApiConstants.PAGINATION_OFFSET_DEFAULT;
        String username = RestApiUtil.getLoggedInUsername(request);
        try {
            APIStore apiStore = RestApiUtil.getConsumer(username);
            List<Tag> tagList = apiStore.getAllTags();
            tagListDTO = TagMappingUtil.fromTagListToDTO(tagList, limit, offset);
        } catch (APIManagementException e) {
            String errorMessage = "Error while retrieving tags";
            HashMap<String, String> paramList = new HashMap<String, String>();
            ErrorDTO errorDTO = RestApiUtil.getErrorDTO(e.getErrorHandler(), paramList);
            log.error(errorMessage, e);
            return Response.status(e.getErrorHandler().getHttpStatusCode()).entity(errorDTO).build();
        }
        return Response.ok().entity(tagListDTO).build();
    }
}

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You are at:Home»News»Music»Lincoln Center scraps major plans for Geffen Hall
Lincoln Center scraps major plans for Geffen Hall
By Clare Wiley on	 October 4, 2017 &nbspAnalysis	Music, News
Major plans for a USD500m renovation of Lincoln Center's David Geffen Hall have been scrapped.
It's a significant setback to what would have been one of the largest cultural building projects in the US.
The heads of Lincoln Center and the New York Phiharmonic announced the reversal and said they were looking for simpler ways to transform the theatre.
The most recent plan, which had been supported in 2015 with USD100m from entertainment mogul David Geffen, would have preserved the shell of the original 1962 building, creating a new concert hall inside it.
There were questions surrounding how the project would be funded and where the NYP would reside while construction work was ongoing.
According to The New York Times, Debora L Spar, the president of Lincoln Center, said: "There was a general sense that the project had just gotten too complicated."
In a joint interview with Deborah Borda, the president and chief executive of the Philharmonic, Spar highlighted the plan's requirement of considerable underground excavation and reconfiguration of the building's plumbing as major drawbacks.
Borda said the construction and design teams had recently revealed they could not guarantee work would be completed within two seasons.
Borda said: "This was news — this was a genuine surprise. For the Philharmonic, the issue of being out of the hall for three years was simply profound."


I know some of you have been bored with the series for the last week so I'll end it with this post. there are more photos from this set which were shot from the sheraton's rooftop in toronto for spacing magazine ,which I'll post later on.
the rooftop has no guardrails and the ledge you see here is very low so I kneeld down and shot this while putting my hand in the frame. I used the 10-22 EF-S lens at the widest end to get the most depth of field and focusing range.


I am so very thankful for ALL of our family.
My family has always been crazy-close & seriously each others' best friends. I wouldn't have it any other way! I'm thankful for the influence each family member has on my life. It's so obvious to me now how the Lord used them to mold me into me.
D's family is comprised of people with the greatest sense of humor ever. They are so fun to be around! I'm so thankful for their love & their support of D's calling & our ministry lifestyle.
I'm thankful that both families are built upon a foundation of faith.
I'm thankful for the commitment both of our parents have to their marriage & to their covenant with God.
I'm thankful that Jax & John are surrounded in love & know that all their family loves them.
I'm thankful for God's goodness, grace, & peace for all of my family as we've transitioned in the move.
Thank You precious Father for such wonderful family!


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Do You Think Your New Year's Resolution Has Failed? Try A Monday Re-Set!
Create an Employee Wellness Program for Enhanced Health and Savings
Top 5 Occupational Health Risks of Desk Jobs — and How To Combat Them
Improving Posture for Spine Health
Office Work: The Evolution of a Health Hazard and the Solution
Adult Scoliosis: Overcoming Pain and Keeping Your Spine Healthy
HR Managers' New Year's Resolutions for Employee Satisfaction
How Employers Can Help Support Wellness Resolutions in the New Year
Small, Incremental Changes: How to keep to your new year resolutions
Emmanuel Feranmi
Do you hate Mondays? Do you absolutely detest having to wake up after a weekend to face the sad fact that you're in yet another weekday? Well, if you do hate Mondays, you are most certainly not alone. There are a lot of people who feel the same way.
However, if you do hate Mondays so much, you may be losing out on a golden opportunity. How? Simple really. Sudies have found that Mondays are the best time to get started on a new routine. If you want to start a new healthy routine, researchers argue, perhaps you should look favourably towards Mondays.
Have you ever wondered why people use the hashtag "MondayMotivation"? Researchers at John Hopkins say that people who view Mondays as a day for fresh starts may just be on to something. Mondays may just be the fresh start that you're looking for.
So what does all this have to do with the new year and new year resolutions? Well, the first day of 2020 started on a Wednesday. So generally, Monday is the day that they deem it fit to kick-start their new year resolutions.
Now, get this: Around 85% of the new year resolutions that people make are health-related. People want to build up muscles, cut down weight, stop eating unhealthy food, and some even want to get more weight.
Unfortunately, about 80% of new year's resolutions fail in the first month.
You know it's true, I know it's true, we know it's true, and I've just written the numbers to back it up.
Is there a solution? Well, let's see.
Mondays can be your New Year
What? Absolutely wild idea— new year's Day comes about once a year while Mondays come about fifty-two times a year. Is this really a preposterous idea or a genius one?
I mean, taking Monday's like your New year in terms of resolutions means that if you fail in a week, you can always try again in a few days.
But that idea certainly didn't just spring up right now. Others have been thinking along these lines for a while.
The Monday Campaigns is a healthy Monday reset initiative that supports new year resolutions throughout the year. The program works exactly how you would imagine it to work— it provides weekly reminders for users to have healthy habits that can prevent health issues like diabetes, obesity, and other terrible health conditions.
How does the organisation do this? By providing "Monday cues", says Ron Hernandez, the managing director of the Monday Campaigns.
What sort of reminders do they get? Well, they are all different and could be recipes for meatless meals on some days and encouragement to exercise more. It could even be something as easy as reminding users to practice deep breathing for a short while in order to combat stress.
These weekly reminders or "Monday resets" are great, especially after weeks where health goals or new year resolutions have been unmet. This period of not actively working on goals, according to researchers, can lead to 20% of people giving up on their new year resolutions.
What about the people that the Monday Campaigns cater for? What do they think? Well, 73 per cent of the respondents that Hernandez noted showed that refreshing their new year resolutions every Monday has helped them to stick to these resolutions. They also said that the resets help them get back on track after a weekend of derailing. So basically, people prefer to have fifty-two chances to get their new year resolutions on track than having one.
Well, Why Mondays?
Why isn't the Monday Campaigns called the Tuesday Campaigns or the Friday Campaigns? Or the Sunday Campaigns?
Believe it, there's a statistics based answer for that. According to Google, searches on health-related issues peak after the weekend. It seems that people are more concerned about their health after the weekend (Gee, wonder why). People are more likely to be interested in starting new diets or taking positive health steps after a weekend. Basically, starting the week off with positive intentions jealous shape the remainder of the week.
According to Hernandez, it appears that Mondays are a cultural concept. Many people look at Mondays as new beginnings— while there are many who think Mondays are something to dread, there are others who look at Mondays as a new beginning.
There are a Lot of Organisations That Think Like The Monday Campaign And They Are Only Growing
The Monday Campaign doesn't work alone. There are other Monday focused organisations like the Kids Cook Monday, Meatless Monday, Caregiver Monday, Man-Up Monday and the DeStress Monday that work with the Monday Campaign.
Now, are Monday organisations like this telling us to say goodbye to new year resolutions and say welcome to "new week" resolutions? Certainly not. What they are saying, simply, is that you don't have to abandon your new year resolution after the first month or two of not meeting them.
You can always reset— you can always start again, and you have fifty-two chances in a year to start on a fresh slate.
That's actually amazing.


Patti Shock answers additional questions from the 04.13.16 F&B Budget Tips webinar.
Q1: I prefer having the food passed around by servers in order to save on my catering budget. Do you have a budget saving alternative?
A1: That is a budget saving alternative. You can put the inexpensive food (cheese cubes, chips, dips, veggie trays, etc.) on a table, then tray pass the expensive items (shrimp) by sending the servers out in timed waves to control consumption.
Q2: What do can a planner do when we return to the same property year after year and the menu hasn't changed?
A2: Have a conversation with the caterer and express your concerns. Ask to speak to the chef to come up with more creative ideas.
Q3: I'm more of a fan of stations than of a buffet line. What are your thoughts?
A3: Food stations are great for stand-up receptions where people mill around. For a seated meal, you would want a buffet because you don't want your guest to have to stand in multiple lines to fill their plate.
Q4: Do you have any tips on saving money with guarantees?
A4: Most guarantees are required 48 hours in advance of an event, unless you are in a location that only get weekly deliveries and may require a full week in advance. You can negotiate to give a guarantee 48 hours out, where they can add to, but not subtract from 24 hours in advance.
This allows you to include late ticket sales.
Q5: I struggle with how much food and how much variety to order for receptions. Is there a rule of thumb?
A5: Yes, my book, A Meeting Planner's Guide to Catered Events, includes all kinds of charts and graphs on how much to order depending on the number of attendees and also by demographics (for instance, a predominately male group will typically eat more than a mainly female group).
But, the best guide is your meeting history. A PowerPoint from a previous webinar, which is available to you, includes much of this info.
Q6: Doing an international conference we are not able to serve pork. Any thoughts on this one?
A6: Then, don't serve pork. You can serve chicken, beef, game or any other protein.
Q7: Can you speak to the difference of working with chefs in a hotel versus in a convention center where that service is typically outsourced?
A7: While convention center food service is contracted out, the exclusive contract food service company has a chef. For example, the LVCC has ARAMARK contracted for their food service.
And Aramark has a chef located on site.
Q8: For the Rubick's Cube setup, can that be used for larger groups of 150+ attendees?
A8: Yes, and you can put multiple round setups throughout the room.
Q9: How can as signature drink reduce your overall bar tab if it's an open bar?
A9: By using cheaper brands of liquor in the specialty drink. Also, if trays are passed, you can save on bar setup and bartender costs.
Q10: Can you do a combination of service in one dinner event, e.g. family style, preset or hand service? How can you ensure that each person gets their meals at the same time if plated?
A10: You can use several service styles during a meal. You can start out with butlered hors d'oeuvres, family-style salad, French service for the main course and a dessert buffet.
For more info or to view this webinar, please visit the Webinar Club page.


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Some people like to listen to stories, some people prefer to read them. We are for the people who like to listen to stories.
We give writers voice by reading their work out on our podcast. We don't mind where you are from, who you are, what you do, and what your political inclincations might be. We just want writing you want to be read out loud.
If you want to have your work featured, please see our submission guidelines below.
Please send your work to editor@otherpeoplesflowers.com. Please include the title of the work and your name in the email title.
Pieces should be no longer than 6,000 words.
Manuscripts should be double-spaced, 12pt font, preferably Times New Roman. Formats can be .doc, .docx, .pdf, or .odt. We actually prefer .odt.
Please also include a third person bio in your cover email.
We accept simultaneous submissions but please let us know if you're work is accepted elsewhere. In some cases, print or online publications have no problem with us maintaining the audio rights alongside their print copy, so we may be able to record your work regardless.
As for rights, we ask to be given the audio rights to your work only, and have no problem with a story we've recorded being submitted and published in a print or online publication. This is the same for reprints.
Please note that while we'd love to feature everyone's work, releasing things via a podcast is just not possible. We only have limited time to record.
We read everything, and will work with you to edit it if we want to record it.


The doulas of Birth Matters NW recognize that this journey from start to finish is a unique and intimate experience. The journey starts with pregnancy. From the time you discover you are pregnant, you make choices that balance your needs against the needs of someone else. As you navigate the early steps of that path you to find your voice as a parent. Because pregnancy leads inexorably towards birth which is when the real journey (and fun) of raising a child begins. We believe that these intense experiences are spaces between significant markers in personal growth. We believe that every family should be empowered with knowledge and care for the best possible experience. We are committed to a compassionate and nurturing relationship in order to explore the options available not only through childbirth, but beyond. With us your questions are answered, evidence based information and guidance provided so that this special time of transition can be treasured for the rest of your life. No matter if it is your first child or fourth, we are committed to supporting your family.
Mariah & Ildi support women delivering throughout the Puget Sound Area (From Everett and Lake Stevens south to Columbia City and Bellevue/Newcastle) for home births, birthing centers and all area hospitals. We are also members of the Swedish Doula Program.


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The Washington State Attorney General announced in a press release yesterday that it was suing a Redmond-based SEO company, Visible.net. According to the Complaint, Visible also does business under the name WebMarketingSource.com, Caputures.com, and Captures.com (that's not a typo). The AG also names the owner of the companies, Gilbert Walker, as a defendant in the case.The State of Washington has filed suit (.pdf) against a Redmond-based search engine optimization and Web services outfit that has done business under the names Visible.net, Captures.com and WebMarketingSource.com. --------------------------------
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Had David Hudson found the fabled Philosopher's Stone?
The Phoenix farmer was further astonished when he asked a local rabbi, "Have you ever heard of the white powder of gold ?" "Oh, yes," came the unexpected reply, "but to our knowledge no one has known how to make it since the destruction of the first temple [Solomon's Temple]. The white powder is the magic, which can be used for white magic or black magic."
By 2003, David Hudson had dropped from sight after promising audiences that he intended to manufacture his monatomic white powder for the benefit of all humanity. His disappearance from the public scene engendered much speculation. Had he just been a hoaxer who slinked back into the shadows before he was exposed? Or had the people who had so much to lose due to his discovery found a way to neutralize him? Or had he taken some of the amazing gold powder himself and shifted to another dimension?
Meanwhile, the connection between his gold powder and ancient legends caught the attention of a growing number of scholars and researchers.
British author Laurence Gardner, in a recent book entitled Lost Secrets of the Sacred Ark, noted that the oldest complete book in the world -- the Egyptian Book of the Dead – tells of the pharaohs ingesting "the bread of presence," also called "schefa food," while making the ritualistic journey to the afterlife. At each stage, the pharaoh would ask, "What is it?"
This has been compared to the Biblical account of Moses and the Israelites in the desert following the exodus from Egypt. To sustain themselves in the wilderness, Moses and his people ate a white, powdery substance they called "manna". This manna was ground into small cakes or boiled. In Hebrew, manna literally means "What is it?"
Gardner noted that it is of particular significance that, irrespective of all today's costly and extensive research in the area of these monatomic elements, the secrets of this mysterious powder were known many thousands of years ago. "They knew there were superconductors inherent in the human body," Gardner wrote. "They knew that both the physical body and the light body [the spirit or soul] had to be fed to increase hormonal production and the ultimate food for the latter was called shem-an-na by the Babylonians, mfkzt by the Egyptians and manna by the Israelites."
The story of the Exodus tells how Moses became angered upon his return from the mountain where he was given tablets by his God. It seems in his absence the Israelites had taken most of the gold in their possession and had melted it down to make a calf which they then worshipped.
Exodus 32:20 [New International] states, "And he [Moses] took the calf they had made and burned it in the fire; then he ground it to powder, scattered it on the water and made the Israelites drink it." Since swallowing molten metal would be lethal, obviously Moses, who had been well educated in Egyptian esoteric knowledge, knew the secret of making the high-spin monatomic gold powder.
Confirmation that such was the case came in 1904 when British archeologist Sir William Flinders Petrie discovered a large smelting facility on Mount Horeb, located in the southern end of the Sinai Peninsula. Some scholars believe that Horeb is the actual location of the mountain of Moses mentioned in the Bible.
It was on Horeb that Petrie discovered an enclosed temple composed of adjoining halls, shrines and chambers, all filled with carvings, pillars and stelae depicting Egyptian nobility and mentioning the mysterious mfkzt. Most surprisingly was the discovery of a metallurgist's crucible along with a considerable amount of pure white powder cleverly concealed under some flagstone. Unconcerned with the powder, Petrie allowed it to blow away in the Sinai winds.
Several engravings in this ancient temple depict various Egyptian rulers, among these Tuthmosis IV and Amenhotep III along with the god Hathor. In these carvings various persons are offering the king a conical loaf. Was this the legendary white powder known as mfkzt ?
The answer appears to be yes, as the figure offering the powder can be identified as an Egyptian treasurer named Sobekhotep, elsewhere described as the man who "brought the noble Precious Stone to his majesty."
This leads to the connection with Iraq. It is clear to many researchers and scholars today that the Egyptian civilization, far from being the world's first great culture as once popularly believed, was in fact a mere remnant of a much older and fascinating culture --- the Sumerians.
The world's deepest secrets all can be traced back to Sumer in Mesopotamia, the first known great civilization which was located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers at the headwaters of the Persian Gulf. In biblical times, it was called Chaldea or Shinar. Today, it is known as Iraq.
The Sumerian culture seemed to appear from nowhere more than 6,000 years ago and before it strangely vanished, it had greatly influenced life as far east as the Indus River, which flows from the Himalayas through Pakistan to the Arabian Sea, and the Nile of the later Egyptian kingdoms.
Virtually nothing was known about the Sumerians until about 150 years ago when archeologists, spurred on by the writings of Italian traveler Pietro della Valle in the early 1600s, began to dig into the strange mounds which dotted the countryside in southern Iraq. Beginning with the discovery of Sargon II's palace near modern-day Khorsabad by the Frenchman Paul Emile Botta in 1843, archeologists found buried cities, broken palaces, artifacts and thousands of clay tablets detailing every facet of Sumerian life. By the late 1800s, Sumerian had been recognized as an original language and was being translated. Despite today's knowledge, the general public still has been taught little about this first great human civilization which suddenly materialized in Mesopotamia.
It is fascinating to realize that it may be possible to know more about this 6,000-year-old civilization than we may ever know about the more recent Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. The explanation lies in the Sumerian cuneiform writing. Whereas the papyrus of other elder empires disintegrated over time or was destroyed by the fires of war, cuneiform was etched onto wet clay tablets with a stylus creating a wedge-shaped script. These tablets were then dried, baked and kept in large libraries. About 500,000 of these clay tablets have now been found and have provided modern researchers with invaluable knowledge of the Sumerians.
The knowledge of Sumeria was brought to Egypt by the Biblical Patriarch Abraham by means of cleverly coded knowledge found within the Torah and other old Hebraic texts such as the Sefer Yezirah (Book of Creation) and the Sefer HaZohar (Book of Light).
These books predate the Talmud, a compilation of older Jewish laws and traditions first written in the 5th century A. D. and were produced centuries before the time of Jesus. According to the Book of Light, "mysteries of wisdom" were given to Adam by God while still in the fabled Garden of Eden. These elder secrets were then passed on through Adam's sons to Noah on to Abraham long before the Hebrews existed as a distinct people. According to the Bible, Abraham was a Sumerian originating from Ur of Chaldea, the ancient term for Iraq.
Other Sumerians traveled frequently and widely and are thought to have brought their advanced technology of ship building and mapping to the early Phoenicians who settled along the eastern Mediterranean coast in what is now Lebanon.
Their knowledge of the heavens was both amazing and puzzling. "(T)he whole concept of spherical astronomy, including the 360-degree circle, the zenith, the horizon, the celestial axis, the poles, the ecliptic, the equinoxes, etc., all arose suddenly in Sumer," noted author Alan Alford. Sumerian knowledge of the movements of the sun and moon resulted in the world's first calendar, used for centuries afterward by the Semites, Egyptians and Greeks.
Few people realize that we owe not only our geometry but also our modern time-keeping systems to the Sumerian base 60 mathematical system. "The origin of 60 minutes in an hour and 60 seconds in a minute is not arbitrary, but designed around a sexagesimal (based on the number 60) system," Alford reported, adding that the modern zodiac was a Sumerian creation based on their 12 "gods". They used it to chart a great precessional cycle --- the division of the 360-degree view from the Earth's North Pole during its 12-month orbit around the sun into 12 equal parts --- or houses --- of 30 degrees each. Taking into account the slight wobble in Earth's orbit, movement through this complete cycle takes 25,920 years, an event known as the Platonian Year, named for the Greek scholar Plato who inspired future secret societies such as the Knights Templars, Illuminati and Cecil Rhodes' Round Tables.
"The uncomfortable question which the scientists have avoided is this: how could the Sumerians, whose civilization only lasted 2,000 years, possibly have observed and recorded a celestial cycle that took 25,920 years to complete? And why did their civilization begin in the middle of a zodiac period? Is this a clue that their astronomy was a legacy from the gods?" asked author Alford.
His question could be enlarged to ask how did the early primitive humans of almost 6,000 years ago suddenly transform from small packs of hunter-gatherers into a full-blown --- advanced even by today's standards --- civilization? Even the writers of The New Encyclopedia Britannica acknowledged that serious questions remain concerning the Sumerian histories and cautiously explained that such queries "are posed from the standpoint of 20th century civilization and are in part colored by ethical overtones, so that answers can only be relative."
Since we now have thousands of translated Sumerian tablets along with their inscribed cylinder seals, perhaps we should allow the Sumerians themselves to explain.
The answer is that they claimed everything they achieved came from their "gods".
"All the ancient peoples believed in gods who had descended to Earth from the heavens and who could at will soar heavenwards," explained Middle Eastern scholar Zecharia Sitchin in the prologue to the first book of a series detailing his translations and interpretations of Sumerian accounts of their origin and history. "But these tales were never given credibility, having been branded by scholars from the very beginning as myths."
Recognizing that even the most learned researcher before the turn of the 20th century could not possibly have begun to think in terms of concepts we accept as commonplace today, Sitchin reasoned, "Now that astronauts have landed on the Moon, and unmanned spacecraft explore other planets, it is no longer impossible to believe that a civilization on another planet more advanced than ours was capable of landing its astronauts on the planet Earth some time in the past."
It is most significant that the Sumerians never referred to the beings who brought them knowledge as "gods". This was a later interpretation by the Romans and Greeks, who fashioned their own "gods" after the earlier oral traditions.
The Sumerians called them the Anunnaki or Those Who Came to Earth from Heaven. It was the Anunnaki who presented the early humans with the knowledge of writing, farming, astrology and even politics. They too were most probably the source of knowledge concerning the miraculous white powdered gold.
Since some authorities believe that white powder gold can regenerate the human DNA, it is theorized that it might also provide a cure for diseases and even old age itself. If this is true, the Biblical stories of Methuselah living nearly 1,000 years may not be so far fetched as some believe.
Longevity , cures for AIDS and cancer, limitless free energy , faster-than-light space travel --- no wonder certain persons would go to any lengths to obtain, or conceal, such knowledge. As detailed in Jim Marrs' "underground bestseller" Rule by Secrecy, the United States has long been governed by men connected to secret societies such as the Council on Foreign Relations, The Trilateral Commission, the Bilderbergers, the Illuminati and the Freemasons. All of these groups can be traced back to even earlier societies, all with a particular interest in alchemy and the occult.
It may well have been this interest and knowledge that prompted certain U.S. leaders with secret society connections to desire sending troops into Iraq in 2003.
This desire may have been intensified after ABC News reported nearly 400 ancient Sumerian artifacts were discovered in Iraq in 1999 in the southern Iraqi town of Basmyiah, about 100 miles south of Baghdad. The Iraqi New Agency said the objects ranged from animal and human-shaped "toys" to cuneiform tablets and even "ancient weapons". At least one cylinder seal depicted a tall person thought to represent the ancient King Gilgamesh. The antiquities were dated to about 2500 B.C., said excavation team leader Riyadh al-Douri.
Archeologists made the discoveries in late 1999 and said the artifacts would be brought to the Iraqi Museum in Baghdad, which had been closed to the public since the Gulf War. Reportedly, other astonishing finds were being made during this time by both German and French archaeological team given permission to excavate by Saddam Hussein. It may be worth noting that Germany and France were the two nations most opposed to the U.S. invasion in 2003.
McGuire Gibson, with The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, had previously lamented the loss of ancient artifacts and writings because of the 1991Gulf War and subsequent embargo of Iraq.
"The aftermath of the war witnessed the looting and sometimes the burning of nine regional museums and the loss of more than 3,000 artifacts, only a few of which have been recovered," said Gibson. "The loss of the objects, although grave, was not as destructive as the change that the attacks on the museums will have on the future relationship of museums to the people of Iraq. It is unlikely that there will ever again be an effort at public education about archeology on the scale that was represented by those regional museums." He added that almost all archeological research in Iraq came to a halt because of the war and embargo.
In addition to the destruction of historical artifacts, such as the American bombs that struck the giant ziggurat at Ur and the losses due to construction by U.S. troops at Tell al-Lahm, economic conditions caused by the American embargo has caused an increase in the illegal trading of Iraqi artifacts.
It is most intriguing to some researchers to realize that Iraq, most probably the cradle of human civilization if not the starting point for all humans, is today just about the only place on the planet that the free people of America cannot visit.
Protest marches were reported in almost every major American city and a poll conducted for the New York Times and CNN in early 2003 showed half of those queried were uneasy at the prospect of war with Iraq.
None of this seemed to sway President George W. Bush who pronounced, "If the UN won't act, if Saddam won't disarm, we will lead a coalition to disarm him."
On March 20, 2003, Bush made good on these words by launching U.S. forces across Iraqi's borders.
Unlike previous military campaigns where armies captured key cities, then consolidated their forces before moving on to the next objective, US forces made a bee line for Baghdad, bypassing most of the country.
Once the capital was in American hands by late April 2003, at least 50,000 priceless artifacts and tablets were taken from the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad by looters. Evidence indicated that some of these looters were highly organized with an agenda of their own.
Despite prior attempts to alert American military officers of the danger of losing artifacts dating back 7,000 years, American authorities failed to prevent the wholesale looting of humankind's most ancient treasures.
"It was my impression that the Department of Defense had made provisions for the safeguarding of monuments and museums," lamented Maxwell Anderson, president of the Association of Art Museum Directors. Anderson was among a group that in January 2003 alerted Pentagon and State Department officials to the importance of these antiquities.
Furthermore, according to an Associated Press report, the thieves had keys to the museum and its vaults. Gibson said what appeared to be random looting actually was a carefully planned theft. "It looks as if part of the theft was a very, very deliberate, planned action," he said. "They were able to obtain keys from somewhere for the vaults and were able to take out the very important, the very best material. I have a suspicion it was organized outside the country. In fact, I'm pretty sure it was."
"I believe they were people who knew what they wanted," noted Dr. Dony George, head of the Baghdad National Museum. "They had passed by the gypsum copy of the Black Obelisk. This means that they must have been specialists. They did not touch the copies."
"Glass cutters not available in Iraq were found in the museum and a huge bronze bust weighing hundreds of pounds...would have required a fork lift to remove it indicate that well organized professional cultural thieves were mixed in with the mob," noted Christopher Bollyn of the American Free Press.
The fact that some display cases were empty without being broken indicated that some of the precious materials may have been taken out prior to the arrival of the looters.
"It was almost as if the perpetrators were waiting for Baghdad to fall to make their move," commented a writer for BusinessWeek. All this was confirmed by Col. Matthew Bogdanos in early 2004. Col. Bogdanos headed an investigation of the looting as deputy director for the Joint Interagency Coordination Group originally assigned to seek out weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. After gaining permission from General Tommy Franks, the group probed the museum looting.
In an interview published in the January/February issue of Archeology, Col. Bogdanos was asked what is still missing from the Iraqi National Museum. He replied, "You have the public gallery from which originally 40 exhibits were taken. We've recovered 11. Turning to the storage rooms, there were about 3,150 pieces taken from those, and that's almost certainly by random and indiscriminant looters. Of those, we've recovered 2,700. So there's about 400 of these pieces, excavated pieces, missing.
"The final group is from the basement. The basement is what we've been calling the inside job. And I will say it forever like a mantra: it is inconceivable to me that the basement was breached and the items stolen without an intimate insider's knowledge of the museum. From there about 10,000 pieces were taken. We've only recovered 650, approximately."
When the looting began on April 17, 2003, one Iraqi archaeologist summoned U.S. troops to protect the national museum. Five Marines accompanied the man to the museum and chased out some looters by firing shots over their heads. However, after about 30 minutes, the soldiers were ordered to withdraw and the looters soon returned.
"Not since the Taliban embarked on their orgy of destruction against the Buddhas of Bamiyan and the statutes in the museum of Kabul - perhaps not since World War II - have so many archaeological treasures been wantonly and systematically smashed to pieces," reported British newsman Robert Fisk, who toured the museum shortly after the incident.
The preventable looting prompted three members of the White House Cultural Property Advisory Committee to resign, disgusted that the alerted American military had failed to protect the Mesopotamian treasures. "This tragedy was not prevented, due to our nation's inaction," wrote committee chairman Martin E. Sullivan in his resignation letter.
It has been widely reported that Saddam Hussein believes himself to be the reincarnation of the King Nebuchadnezzar, who performed wondrous achievements in construction such as the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, in an attempt to communicate with ancient Mesopotamian gods from the heavens. Could the rush to war with Iraq have something to do with gaining control over recently-discovered knowledge, and perhaps even technology, which might undo modern monopolies in religion and science? By Brendan Georgeson
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Stephen Shellenberger is a multidisciplinary artist, a painter, a filmmaker, playwright and actor. He has exhibited his work in Canada, the United States and Europe. His work has been featured in magazines and can be found in both private and corporate collections around the globe.
Shellenberger is known for recycling items to make art. He likes to give new life to discarded item, because he feels that they bring their history to his art, making the work more expressive, more interesting.


Vounous…it sounds mystic…it is mystic, it is the story of the past of Cyprus. The island of Cyprus has always held a great importance for the people living around its circumference, only a stone throw away from the coasts in the north and the east and south, Assyrians, Phoenicians, Egyptians and Hitites took to their boats in those days of the Bronze Ages, landed, settled, were conquered, started trading, and finally left samples of their culture in the soil of Cyprus, in the caves of the Five Finger Mountains, the Kyrenia mountain range. They buried their dead and gave them goods to have a comfortable journey into the land of the dead.
These goods were one day found, perhaps by a farmer, a shepherd tending his sheep and sold for good money; it attracted the interest of foreign archaeologists and they came and dug them out and took most of it to their countries' museums. Thus the origin of Cyprus population could be defined but the places of origin were left empty.
With the help of other enthusiastic ceramists in Cyprus and abroad – altogether there will be about 80 of them joining in this year's symposium (about 15 from abroad) – Rauf Ersenal has the vision to re-establish the island's past in building a Bronze Age village with its village life and routine, creating copies of the household items, items that have been taken away from the island, from the places they have been found in originally. For months he went exploring the island to find clay in the valleys they could use to work with and they found beautiful soft clay, clay that was used in those early days.
The place is VOUNOUS, a Bronze Age necropolis near Catalköy, where tombs were found in the caves nearby. There he and his team have erected bamboo huts for the symposium to work in and a place for visitors to come and see them working. It is exciting. I went there the other day, shortly after I came back from Munich and I found some members of the team working on kilns of the three different Bronze Age periods, where the goods created by the artists are going to be fired. All procedures are in the old way. The clay will be worked in basins with the feet – I think – tools similar to those days will be used, meals will be cooked on clay ovens.
I will not tell you anymore, here is the programme Rauf Ersenal sent me.
The symposium will be held from 01 to 16 September and the artists will work from 11.00 – 19:00 hrs. The first 2-3 days the artists will get accustomed to the place but from then on visitors are welcome to witness the process, learn the various techniques and in two visitors' huts they will have the opportunity to do some work themselves. What an adventure.
However the official opening will be on September 07 at 19:00 hrs. Road signs will be put up to take the visitors coming from either Girne or from the east.
The project is supported by the Catalköy Belediye; Rauf Ersenal is the director of the project; Celal Dimililer vice director and Cumhur Deliceirmak and Senol Özdevrim are the art advisors.
I heard there are some surprises planned for the opening but I am not supposed to tell you. I will continue to report.
In the meantime you may, if you have internet, search for some more information on the Bronze Age periods in Cyprus, there are many interesting articles.


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White Sox select RHP Tyler Danish in second round of 2013 MLB draft
Florida high-school pitcher finished season with a 0.00 ERA
By Jim Margalus Jun 6, 2013, 10:53pm CDT
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The White Sox's first-round selection of Tim Anderson was almost too predictable.
The White Sox's second-round draft pick will you have you guessing well after it's over.
With the 55th pick, the Sox selected Tyler Danish, a right-handed high school pitcher out of Florida. Although the Sox typically don't select prep pitchers that high, that's not nearly the strangest thing about it.
For one, he's listed at 6'1", but reports say he's shorter.
The second thing, look at his delivery:
With a three-quarter arm slot and a short slide step, that's a really unusual throwing motion that screams a righty-killing reliever, not a starter. From MLB.com's scouting report:
Danish employs a funky, low three-quarters delivery, which adds deception and causes a lot of movement on his fastball. But it also raises red flags with scouts, who are concerned about his risk for injuries. Some compare Danish's arm action to Pat Neshek's, though Danish's stuff isn't of the same quality. Danish mixes his low-90s fastball with a slider that provides good contrast to hitters. His arm action means he is likely destined for the bullpen, where his stuff is good enough for high-leverage situations.
That doesn't sound like a 55th-overall pick. Sure enough, he isn't on MLB.com or Keith Law's Top 100.
However, there are signs of life from Baseball America, which said scouts rated Danish as the top prep pitcher in Florida -- during which he pitched 94 consecutive innings without allowing an earned run. BA softened that credential by noting that a pitcher of his build and delivery usually doesn't receive such an honor, which indicates a down year for the state, but it was enough to bump him up to No. 96:
His fastball comes in at 90-93 mph with heavy sink and late life, thanks in part to an arm slot comparable to that of big leaguer Jake Peavy. He produces a hard slurve from that slot and varies his arm slot with that and his changeup when necessary, showing a strong feel for his secondary stuff. The Florida recruit has a bit of a head whack in his delivery, which is smoother now but still has more effort than a typical starter.
Given the success of Peavy and Chris Sale, whose arm slot supposedly wasn't suitable for starting, it's possible that they see the combination of his deception and three-pitch feel and think they can sign a high-upside starter for under slot. Or maybe they realized that their farm system would've looked much better had they kept the last Florida high-school pitcher they drafted in the second round.
Danish is committed to Florida, so that complicates the picture, too. Since teams benefit from unorthodox budgeting in the new draft system, it's hard to evaluate an individual pick until the money is spent. The lack of enthusiasm about Danish relative to his draft position places emphasis on that patience.
While you're mulling this pick over, read up on his background:
He lost his dad in 2010, to cancer.
He lost him three years before that, too.
That was Dec. 7, 2007. Charlotte sat with her 13-year-old boy that day and cried while she broke the news. Her voice broke Wednesday while repeating the words …
"Dad's going to go to prison. He got a 10-year sentence. He's going to have to serve 81/2 years. But there's good news: He'll be coming home."
He never did.


WHO ARE THE ILFRACOMBE AND DISTRICT LIONS?
Ilfracombe and District Lions Club are ordinary men and women; the young and not so young; and the active and less active. The club was formed in 1974 and two of the founding charter members still active in the club!
For many years you will have found us at All Things Morris, Birdman, Rescue Day and Lights Switch On. One of the events that we are most proud of is our Swimarathon. The event returned to Ilfracombe in 2016 and we were delighted to welcome children, young people and adults from local schools and other organisation to Ilfracombe Swimming Pool for what turned out to be a really cracking day. Together we raised over £3,000 for local good causes and organisations.
We are always pleased to talk to potential new members that share our enthusiasm for having fun and raising money for people in need.


Welcome to Meagan's Place, a baby group where new mom's, from Calgary and Surrounding areas, and their babies can come and learn and share and connect.
This is an ongoing group that supports new moms in the first 6 months of being a new parent. Each session consists of 8 weeks of meetings. A minimum of 5 mommies are needed to create a group to support one another effectively. We would meet every Monday from 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm except for holidays, the classes are an hour and a half, 45 minutes will be a learning session with guest speakers that are experts at the topics shown below. The last 45 minutes will be a chance to share all your struggles and successes and to get support and suggestions from others in similar situations as you are.
Why Join a Mom and Baby Group?
Each Moms Club mom and baby group offers you a time to feel "normal", to gain confidence, to feel a part of something and to connect and make friendships with other moms. We often have dad's pop in too, which is always fun, and brings a whole different perspective for us to gain from. We try and have our classes as central as possible as we have mamas coming from all quadrants of the city and even outside the city.


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Jairo Palomino, né le  à Nechí (Colombie), est un footballeur colombien, évoluant au poste de défenseur central à l'Atlético Nacional. Au cours de sa carrière, il évolue à Envigado et à l'Al-Ahli SC ainsi qu'en équipe de Colombie.

Palomino ne marque aucun but lors de son unique sélection avec l'équipe de Colombie en 2009.

Biographie

Jairo Palomino commence sa carrière à Envigado. En 2008, il est transféré à l'Atlético Nacional. Avec ce club, il remporte le Tournoi d'ouverture du championnat de Colombie en 2011.

En 2011, Jairo Palomino quitte la Colombie et s'engage en faveur du club saoudien d'Al-Alhi Djeddah. Avec Al-Alhi, il atteint la finale de la Ligue des champions de l'AFC en 2012, finale perdue face au club coréen d'Ulsan Hyundai.

Jairo Palomino reçoit une sélection en équipe de Colombie le , lors d'un match amical face au Salvador. Titulaire, il dispute l'intégralité de la rencontre remportée 2-1 par la Colombie.

Carrière
 2006-2008 :  Envigado
 2008-2011 :  Atlético Nacional
 2011-2013 :  Al-Alhi SC
 2014- :  Atlético Nacional

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En équipe nationale
 1 sélection et 0 but avec l'équipe de Colombie en 2009

Avec l'Atlético Nacional
 Vainqueur du championnat de Colombie en 2011 (Tournoi d'ouverture)

Avec l'Al-Alhi SC
 Finaliste de la Ligue des champions de l'AFC en 2012

Notes et références

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Footballeur international colombien
Joueur d'Envigado
Joueur de l'Atlético Nacional
Joueur de l'Al-Ahli Djeddah
Naissance en août 1988
Naissance dans le département d'Antioquia


This past May, the Niels Bugge Cartoon Award created a contest called "Oceans are in our hands" in reference to the rising water levels due to climate change.
Artist Nickolay Lamm also created a montage of photo realistic interpretations showing how the rising tides will impact historical monuments across the nation. For each computer graphic he projects potential renderings for rising sea levels at five feet, twelve feet, and twenty-five feet. While sea level projections from the government are only at a 6.5 foot increase by 2100, the graphics are still astounding.
Both the comic and computer generated renderings about global warming's potential effect on our planet drive one point home: We need to take collective action to battle climate change before it is too late.
But how do we do this? Well, for starters, we need to become more informed. Check out Rising Tide, an international grassroots project dedicated to promoting community-based solutions to climate change. Their website addresses ways to battle climate inaction such as unmasking industry greenwash, confronting false solutions, resisting the expansion of the fossil fuel empire and more.
Check out the winning comics from the Bugge Cartoon Award below and Lamm's sea level projections here.
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I finally made it to a Westercon! It's been years since I've been to a general science-fiction/fantasy convention. The last one was WorldCon/LACon IV in 2006, but I was distracted by a summer cold and lots of DayQuil. Before that was the last Loscon I attended in 2002. So while I remembered how this sort of event is usually run, I wasn't sure what to expect.
Westercon is a fan-run convention that travels around the western United States and Canada, similar to WorldCon on a smaller scale. It's usually held during the Fourth of July weekend. This year it was held in Pasadena, California, and combined with the filk convention ConChord 23 to form WesterChord, Westerconchord, or simply Confirmation.
I've been to a couple of Westercons, but not anything you'd call recent. I remember attending one in San Diego and one in Anaheim, having a dinosaur-themed T-shirt from one year, and picking up a particular issue of The New Teen Titans in San Diego, so I think the two I attended were San Diego in 1986 and "Conosaurus" in Anaheim in 1989. Yes, it's been twenty years since my last Westercon!
I had no trouble finding the Pasadena Hilton, but getting inside was a little tricky. The entryway was under construction, so they were routing people through one of the ballrooms, which had been set up for some sort of banquet. (More about that later.) The hotel was vaguely familiar from my memories of Loscon in the 1980s, but has been remodeled to add a coffee shop and a restaurant in the middle of the conference center. The Starbucks was most welcome, though the con was good at making sure pitchers of water and plastic cups were available in each panel room and the main hall.
Since I was only there for the day, I didn't explore the area looking for restaurants or other activities. I just relied on Starbucks and the ad-hoc pizza, sandwich, pastry and salad counter that had been set up across the way.
Anyway, I found registration easily, but the onsite sign-up forms were on a table behind a planter. I wasn't the only one who walked straight past them.
It was a much smaller convention than I've become used to in years of attending the big comic-book events like Comic-Con International, WonderCon, and Wizard World. Even Long Beach Comic Con pulled in 6,300 people its first year, but I'd count the attendance here in the hundreds.
Attendees were also older than Comic-Con on average, mostly 50+ rather than mostly around 30. Certainly there were plenty of younger fans at Westercon, and there are plenty of older fans at Comic-Con, but there does seem to be a generation gap of sorts between the two types of conventions, at least in the southern California area. At least this con seemed more alive than the last few Loscons I attended — and a lot less bitter!
Maybe it's the literary focus. LASFS has always been very book-oriented, and there were a lot of writers among the con guests. One of the book dealers even had an entire shelf set aside for books by authors who were guests at the con.
The dealer's room was dominated by books. I spent a lot of time looking through the used books and old fanzines, though I walked away having bought only a couple of early Robert J. Sawyer novels. There was also a lot of music, with one booth focused entirely on filk, and a lot of jewelry.
Then there were the costumes, where I discovered a renaissance-style doublet inspired by the Flash. It was way out of my price range, and I'm not sure when I would actually wear it, but it was incredibly cool!
The art show had the usual collection of fantasy– and science-fiction–inspired drawings and paintings, with one wall fully taken up by jewelry & sculpture. I suppose that's typical, but with the size of the room, it ended up being a larger proportion than usual.
The panel rooms were extremely small, but there were a lot of different tracks of programming. That was in part because some of the panels were really talks by one person.
I ended up catching three panels over the course of the day. First up was "Blurring the Lines of Genre," focusing on cross-genre works like crime noire/dark fantasy. The panelists were Stephen Blackmoore, Seanan McGuire, Tim Powers and Marv Wolfman. Its stated topic was what makes some genres work well together and others not, but it quickly turned into a discussion of defining genres, and defining mainstream, and the differences between genre fiction and "MFA fiction" (i.e. fiction written by and for people pursuing or holding Masters of Fine Arts degrees). Tim Powers & Seanan McGuire are a lot of fun to listen to. Tim Powers has this dry wit, and Seanan McGuire tends to pull in crazy ideas from all over the place.
Powers' suggestion of pulling well-known movie titles (regardless of genre) out of a bucket and combining them sounds like it would make a great writing game. "It's Gone with the Wind meets Psycho!" Come to think of it, choosing good or funny combinations would make a good Twitter game.
Professional work is still personal…for someone else.
Yes, you should polish your work…but don't beat the life out of it.
I hit the last panel mainly out of curiosity: I wanted to know what Transreal SF was. The short answer is that it's a way of combining autobiographical concerns and science-fiction tropes, as coined by author Rudy Rucker. I arrived a couple of minutes late, which unfortunately gave me a bad first impression of him because he started the panel by reading from his 1983 Transrealist Manifesto [PDF], which came off as a bit pretentious, but once he finished and started just speaking, he seemed much more personable, and the rest of the talk was very interesting.
Some panels I would have liked to check out on other days covered topics on creating fantasy worlds, past visions of the future, and especially a discussion by Tim Powers and Harry Turtledove on historical fiction. Rudy Rucker also had a talk on Sunday on New Futures in Science-Fiction, which fortunately he's put up on his blog, so I haven't completely missed it.
Funny thing: without planning, I ended up attending panels with three of the four guests of honor!
Remember the under-construction entryway? By the time I left around 6:00, it had been finished and re-opened. There were several women and girls in formalwear — by which I mean modern formalwear (historical outfits, especially Victorian, Regency or Renaissance, would definitely have been there for the con) — standing around near the registration area. As soon as I noticed that the hand-drawn exit signs pointing into the ballroom were gone, I realized they must be here for whatever was going on in that ballroom. I wonder what they thought of the T-shirt crowd and the tables promoting lunar exploration?
This entry was posted in Conventions, Sci-Fi/Fantasy and tagged ConChord, Confirmation, Pasadena, Westercon, Westercon 63 on July 5, 2010 by Kelson.


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Gatwick Airport: New Spain travel and entry rules as Omicron COVID variant detected
People travelling between Spain and England will face new COVID measures after the Omicron variant was detected
Hannah RobertsReporter
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Spain announced changes to its travel rules last week (Image: AP Photo/Francisco Ubilla)
Spain announced new COVID measures for travellers last week (November 29) after the Omicron variant was detected.
On Tuesday (November 30) two cases of the variant were confirmed in Spain by the regional health department of Madrid.
England has also changed its rules for holidaymakers going to Spain, so those travelling between the countries will face further travel rules, BerkshireLive reports.
Read more: 11 destinations where Brits must quarantine in a hotel upon their return
In Catalonia, suspected cases of the Omicron variant were detected in two other people and they were asked to self-isolate.
Following the first case, the Spanish Health Ministry introduced a mandatory 10 day quarantine period for passengers arriving from South Africa, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, and Zimbabwe.
On Tuesday, the Spanish Health Ministry also recommended limiting the number of people at social gatherings and a growing number of regional governments are wanting to put in place the Europeans Union's Digital Covid certificate to help stop the virus from spreading.
What does this mean if I am travelling to Spain?
The Spanish Government reviews its list every seven days (Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto)
Brits travelling to Spain are still able to do so as the UK is not listed under the Spanish Government's risk countries.
However, the Spanish Government reviews its list every seven days so travellers are advised to check the website for the latest information.
Currently, when travelling to Spain from the UK, you will have to provide a certificate or document certifying you are fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
As of Wednesday, December 1, the country has also increased the restrictions on passengers, who will now need to prove they have had two doses of the vaccine.
If entering from a third country such as Australia, Canada, Argentina or China you will also need to provide documentation certifying that you have undertaken a Covid test within 72 hours prior to arrival in Spain, or an antigen test taken within 48 hours of arrival.
You may also present a medical certificate certifying that you have recovered from COVID-19 in the last six months prior to travel.
At the present time, it is not mandatory to present any form if the trip to Spain is by land.
From 4am on December 7, all people aged 12 and over must take a PCR or lateral flow test (LFD) before they travel to England from abroad.
The test must be taken within the two days before they travel to England and will apply to all travellers aged 12 and over, even if they are fully vaccinated.
All passengers arriving into England must also take a PCR test to be taken on or before their second day in the country.
Tests should be booked prior to travellers returning to the UK.
Sussex COVID: Hastings now one of UK's most infected areas alongside Mid Sussex and Lewes
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Xerjoff's Naxos is fashioned from the celebrated history of the ancient city of Sicily. With such a rich heritage, Fortune seemed to be a most appropriate name for our interpretation. Citrus sparkles like the glint in the eyes of those setting their glance upon the Mediterranean island for the first time. Lemon and bergamot, products of the island and mainland respectively, are to thank for their welcoming presence. Cinnamon and honey trail behind with their lavish sweetness to symbolize the warmth of the land. The composition closes with tobacco and vanilla that rest distinguished beneath their more volatile counterparts. We were certain that such a blend would make the perfect addition to our collection of Inspired Expressions. Exuding refinement and sophistication, Fortune will make a statement to be heeded and remembered. Be memorable.
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