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Sezon 2021/2022 Pucharu Ameryki Północnej w narciarstwie alpejskim rozpoczął się 18 listopada 2021 roku zawodami dla kobiet oraz 20 listopada 2021 zawodami mężczyzn. Ta edycja pucharu rozpoczęła się w Copper Mountain. Ostatnie zawody odbyły się 28 marca 2022 roku w ośrodku narciarskim Sugarloaf. Zorganizowano 27 startów dla mężczyzn i 26 dla kobiet.

Puchar Ameryki Północnej w narciarstwie alpejskim kobiet

Wśród kobiet pucharu Ameryki Północnej z sezonu 2019/2020 broni Amerykanka Keely Cashman. Tym razem zwyciężyła jej rodaczka Ava Sunshine Jemison.

W poszczególnych klasyfikacjach tryumfowały:
 zjazd:  Stefanie Fleckenstein
 slalom:  Lila Lapanja
 gigant:  Allie Resnick
 supergigant:  Candace Crawford
 superkombinacja:  Ava Sunshine Jemison

Puchar Ameryki Północnej w narciarstwie alpejskim mężczyzn

Wśród mężczyzn pucharu Ameryki Północnej z sezonu 2019/2020 broni Amerykanin Bridger Gile. Tym razem zwyciężył Kanadyjczyk Liam Wallace.

W poszczególnych klasyfikacjach tryumfowali:
 zjazd:  Jeffrey Read
 slalom:  Liam Wallace
 gigant:  Riley Seger
 supergigant:  Kyle Alexander
 superkombinacja:  Isaiah Nelson

Bibliografia

Puchar Ameryki Północnej w narciarstwie alpejskim 2021/2022


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Nolan White
Born: February 26, 1931 Died: October 20, 2002
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Not recognized by FIA. Was the wheel-driven land speed record at that time.
He was one of the few people to pilot a wheel-driven piston engined vehicle in an official sanctioned run in excess of 400 MPH. He was from San Diego, California. He was #1 SCTA Points Champion in 1961, '63 and '64.
He had just passed through the measured mile at 422 MPH driving his famous Autopower streamliner on the first of two required runs on Thursday when the harness securing his parachutes broke as it was released at the end of his run. He was going about 350 MPH and headed for the Interstate highway. He tried to steer the vehicle away from the highway, but hit a soft spot and rolled the car. The engines from his streamliner were ripped from the vehicle and found more than 100 feet from where it came to rest. Emergency crews had to cut White from the tangled frame of the car. He was rushed to an emergency center in Wendover and then airlifted to the University Hospital in Salt Lake City where he died Sunday.
White was holder of the land speed record for piston-driven cars at 413.156 MPH.
White, a veteran of more than 40 years of speedway racing on Bonneville, had sought to break Al Teague's FIA A/I/11 International record of 409.986 mph, set in 1991.
He achieved that goal in July, when he averaged 413.156 mph on the required two runs during the annual Bonneville Speed Week trials. He had a tire blow and he also lost his braking parachutes on that run, but managed to stop the car in some slushy salt.
He was back at the salt flats last week, hoping to better his own record, and was talking about making a 450 mph run.
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User:Ckoehler/About wiki.mozilla.org
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Comments on this document are now closed. Feedback has been incorporated and the new MozillaWiki:About is now live.
comments deadline 2014-05-26 14:00 UTC
contributors Christie Koehler, Lyre Calliope, Gordon Hemsley, Justin Crawford, Larissa Shapiro, Jennie Rose Halperin, Mark A. Hershberger, and Jason Crowe.
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To make comments: COMMENTS CLOSED See MozillaWiki:About for updated about page.
Preamble: The Wiki Working Group has formed to kick-start a revitalization of the wiki and to create a framework for empowering the entire Mozilla community to participate in and sustain this revitalization effort. A first step in this revitalization effort is this About page, which seeks to clarify the purpose, scope and governance of the Mozilla Wiki. Once adopted, this text will reside at About and serve as our guide for interacting and making decisions about wiki.mozilla.org.
We are actively seeking comments from our community until 26 May 2014. Those comments will be considered and incorporated and this page adopted into the wiki by 15 June 2014. In review this document, please consider the following questions as you review and make your comments:
what about the content does or does not make sense to you?
what about the content does or does not resonate with you?
to what extent does the content match your vision for wiki.mozilla.org?
to what extend can you support the purpose, scope and governance structured described?
2 What content is appropriate for the Wiki?
3 Is product documentation appropriate for the Mozilla Wiki?
4 Who own and maintains the Mozilla Wiki?
5 Where can I report issues with wiki.mozilla.org?
6 How is the Wiki a critical resource to the Mozilla Project?
This wiki (wiki.mozilla.org, AKA MozillaWiki or WikiMO) is the official public wiki of the Mozilla Project. It serves as the public memory for the Mozilla community, documenting its projects, planning, processes and teams. Additionally, the wiki seeks to facilitate lively community interaction that empowers contributors to coordinate activities, find support, and make their projects accessible to other contributors across Mozilla.
This wiki is a publicly available resource for those wanting to learn more about the Mozilla Project. It is not designed nor intended for end-users. If you're looking for user support for any of Mozilla's products, visit support.mozilla.org.
What content is appropriate for the Wiki?
Any content that is related to the on-going planning, coordination or other contribution activities of current or past Mozilla projects.
Any content pertaining to Mozilla's mission, strategy or history.
Any content that supports Mozilla's mission or community.
Any content related to the discussion of content on the wiki (e.g. Talk/Discussion pages).
Any content that is related to helping people use the Wiki.
Content appearing to be completely unrelated to Mozilla and not falling into any of the categories above may be deleted as spam or moved elsewhere.
Is product documentation appropriate for the Mozilla Wiki?
In general, no, product documentation is not appropriate for the Mozilla Wiki except when it is about the Mozilla Wiki itself.
There are two types of product documentation: end-user documentation and developer-focused documentation.
End-user documentation is written for users of Mozilla's products and explains how are products work and how to use them. In general, this type of content belongs on SUMO.
Developer-focused documentation is written for programmers and includes content such as technical reference information and building and debugging instructions. In general, this type of content belongs on MDN.
To summarize: MDN documents how to interact with code. The Mozilla wiki documents how to interact with teams. SUMO documents how to interact with Mozilla products (as an end-user).
Who own and maintains the Mozilla Wiki?
The wiki is owned and maintained by the Mozilla community.
Infrastructure for the wiki is provided by Mozilla Corp.
Governance issues are managed by the WikiMo module, a sub-module of Websites. Its current module owner is Christie Koehler and module peers are Lyre Calliope and Gordon Hemsley.
Technical Support is provided jointly by the community and MoCo staff.
Content is managed by the community. Information here is public and can be modified by anyone in the Mozilla community with sufficient interest and knowledge to improve it (and an account).
Where can I report issues with wiki.mozilla.org?
Technical issues should be reported via bugzilla. These include server or client-side errors, styling issues, problems with accounts or logging in, and feature requests.
Content issues should be addressed on the wiki itself using Talk/Discussion pages whenever possible.
General questions can be addressed to tools-wiki or #wiki on irc.mozilla.org.
How is the Wiki a critical resource to the Mozilla Project?
The Wiki provides the most comprehensive, overall picture of Mozilla's mission, strategy, and history. Information on the wiki tells the story of Mozilla and makes the organization navigable in a way that no other single resource does. The wiki, along with Bugzilla and our forums, form the core of Mozilla's long-term institutional record.
The Wiki is a significant entry point for contributors into the Mozilla project. It serves as a primary and massively scalable on-boarding tool because it provides the opportunity for self-serve contribution pathways across all areas of the project. The wiki enables self-motivated individuals to take advantage of contribution opportunities immediately. The better organized the wiki, the more people are able to take advantage of these opportunities.
Publicly available wikis, code repositories, and bug trackers are essential to our collaborative environment and connect our project to the greater open source eco-system. These tools are part of the established canon of open source organizational tools because they make the knowledge and tools required to participate immediately available to those who are interested. Experienced open source participants benefit from Mozilla providing these tools because it is what they are accustomed to, and those new to open source benefit because it prepares them for working with other projects in the open source ecosystem.
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This is is the first comment! Christie Koehler (ckoehler) (talk) 12:53, 7 May 2014 (PDT)
this is the first reply! Christie Koehler (ckoehler) (talk) 12:53, 7 May 2014 (PDT)
Add your comments and suggestions below. Please use this space to comment about this proposal specifically. If you have general comments about the wiki, use this page.
About Developer documentation: A lot of information on how to build and fix things are contained currently in the wiki and not the MDN. I'm faulty of that. Would you recommend that anything which is technically related and/or offer guidance on how to operate in the activity should be pushed to MDN. If yes it would be good to activate Inter wiki links to make it possible to benefit of redirections in between the two entities. For example in Web Compatibility how would we classify Guide and Updating. I'm not sure it will be easy to do. Maybe a different way to go about it is to encourage people to think about it when they create a new page.Karlcow (talk) 15:40, 9 May 2014 (PDT)
Good question. Both of the pages you link to seem fine for the Mozilla Wiki. Web Compatibility is a Mozilla project and those pages document how to contribute to it. As I'm responding to this, I'm realizing that the section distinguishing what content belongs on MDN and what belongs on Mozilla Wiki needs further work. Do others have a good way to describe the delineation between the technical information that should go on MDN vs Mozilla Wiki? Christie Koehler (ckoehler) (talk) 16:52, 9 May 2014 (PDT)
Developer documentation can be confusing to think about because it's both produced and consumed by developers. In short, product documentation goes on MDN; process documentation goes on the wiki. In open source, the source code is part of the product, so things like building and debugging instructions are product documentation. Process documentation includes things like product plans and roadmaps, team meeting notes, bugzilla workflows, etc. Another way to think about it: MDN documents how to interact with code; the wiki documents how to interact with teams. For Karl's examples, I'd say that the Guide is a process doc (people interaction) and the Updating doc is a product doc (code interaction) that would go under the Mozilla Build section on MDN. Jswisher (talk) 10:23, 14 May 2014 (PDT)
About WikiMo: The about page says currently "Governance issues are managed by the WikiMo module, a sub-module of Websites." but it doesn't explain what is WikiMo and the link goes to a table which is not really about Governance. Is there a more appropriate place on the wiki or elsewhere? Karlcow (talk) 15:46, 9 May 2014 (PDT)
David's comments: The only thing that I'd add to the scope is that I think it'd be good to apply a bit of a product/UX lens to the wiki as a community infrastructure, because I believe it will result in more use, more people caring and valuing it, and a general virtuous cycle. Wikis in my experience work if a) the content is well gardened (just like any "content" site), and b) people find authoring & editing to be a fun, pleasant, productive experience (just like any other authoring product). Just because we say it's where stuff "should be" isn't enough. To that end, I'll opine that:
performance of an editing tool is critical to its continued use — it's true for IDEs, it's true for word processors, and it's a place where wikis have traditionally been fairly weak, because of their dawn in the earliest age of CGI, etc. I have the impression that perf on wiki.m.o writes has gone up, and that's great, and we need to do more to improve perceived perf. As a thought-provoking point: editing an etherpad feels 100x faster to me (even if it's obviously different).
we need to encourage, train, and recognize & herald wiki gardeners. (Matt Thompson for example is doing a _stellar_ job of doing that and teaching others how to do that for Webmaker content).
-- Agreed, and already part of our discussions in the Wiki Working Group. Christie Koehler (ckoehler) (talk) 16:39, 9 May 2014 (PDT)
there's a lot about wikimedia which feels hasn't really kept up with our collective expectations around authoring environments. Case sensitivity of pages; wikimedia markup in general, clunky authoring environments, etc. There may be more configuration tweaks & add-ons that we could deploy, I'm not an expert there.
-- Some of this is due to technical debt due to neglect on our end and will get better with time as we bring things more up to date now that we have a dedicate resource working on the wiki. Christie Koehler (ckoehler) (talk) 16:39, 9 May 2014 (PDT)
the default skin is way better than it used to be and the pages are less painful to my eye anyway than before — we can still do more.
Indeed. We're planning to roll out an updated theme this year, one that is compatible with more recent version of MW.
having someone act as a product manager for wiki.m.o (and for example care and measure things like daily actives, etc. as a metric of utility of the wiki to the org) would be good — anyone can do that, and I and many others would be happy to coach that person on how to be a product manager with a soul if that coaching was desired.
-- As module owner, I'm also acting as product manager. Happy to have any mentoring you're willing to offer. Christie Koehler (ckoehler) (talk) 16:39, 9 May 2014 (PDT)
there are people with wiki.m.o superpowers, and we should figure out how to get those superpowers more evenly distributed. [and make it so that some of the things those folks can do don't require super-anything]
-- Indeed, part of the wiki-gardening too. Christie Koehler (ckoehler) (talk) 16:39, 9 May 2014 (PDT)
there's an obvious elephant-in-the-room about wiki.m.o vs. Mana and why we need two. That duality doesn't bug me too much, but I know it bugs others. Understanding the reason why people use one or the other feels like a good thing to get shared understanding of, even if not everyone will agree w/ the specific decisions.
-- There needs to be two separate wikis because MoCo needs a resource to store privileged information that can't be public. Mediawiki does that very poorly and recommends that people setup a separate wiki if there is truly privileged information that needs to be separate. We might be able to achieve the same thing if we switched to a confluence-only setup, but that would remove ownership from the Mozilla community, to which I think there are huge downsides. Christie Koehler (ckoehler) (talk) 16:39, 9 May 2014 (PDT)
DavidA (talk) 16:10, 9 May 2014 (PDT)
This is good feedback but not related to the about page. I think Christine wanted feedback about the About page Karlcow (talk) 16:12, 9 May 2014 (PDT)
This is true. I've answered DavidA's comments inline. If there aren't any objections, I'll move his comments and the associated responses to this Sandbox we have for collecting feedback. Christie Koehler (ckoehler) (talk) 16:39, 9 May 2014 (PDT)
DavidB's comments: Just one thing that occurred to me was around possibly needing to add an additional part to the section of who owns different parts of the wiki. There are some pages, like the main page, where the content isn't open for anyone to edit. I'm not entirely sure who can edit the main page or how I could become one of those people if I wanted to. It might be worth having a 'protected content' item to call that out.
Noted. I'll add something about protected pages. We don't yet have documentation on the process for becoming a user with administrative rights, nor have we audited our current user lists to see if they still make sense. Would you be okay moving forward with this policy while we are still figuring that out? Once we do, we can update it with a link to the appropriate information. Christie Koehler (ckoehler) (talk) 16:26, 9 May 2014 (PDT)
Gerv's comments: Firstly, thanks for taking this on. The wiki is a vital resource and it's great to see it getting love. Comments on this page:
The word "comprehensive" is in the purpose. That would suggest that the wiki needs to contain information about everything. The use of the term "encyclopaedia" also suggests this. I think that's actually an anti-goal, and I suspect you do too - we have better places for some info, like SUMO or MDN. It also seems to suggest that if the wiki is missing information on some topic, there is an obligation on someone to provide that information, to achieve comprehensiveness. I'm not sure that's true either.
An alternate take: I would define the purpose of the Mozilla wiki as: "A low-barrier-to-entry place for Mozillians to choose to store dynamic but long-term-relevant information about Mozilla products, initiatives and sub-projects."
"Dynamic" is its distinctive over www.mozilla.org. "long-term-relevant" is its distinctive over IRC or Etherpad. The wiki fits into an important niche between the permanance of one and the real-time collaborativeness of the other.
Gerv (talk) 05:51, 13 May 2014 (PDT)
-- I think Gerv's distinction is really spot on: dynamic(wikimo) vs static (mdn) but both long-term-relevant. This is very important because the line between documentation in general and documentation for (new) contributors for a specific team is really thin, IMO. So the criteria dynamic and long-term-relevant seem a good way to guide the user in deciding. (The two cents of a new contributor who fought a bit to navigate the mare magnum of mozilla's documentation on contributing :))
Madamezou (talk) 09:05, 18 May 2014 (PDT)
Joelle's comments: Does the About page need to be written in a specific tone or language? As a new contributor to WikiMo, the Purpose and How is the Wiki… statements still seem a bit opaque and removed. I wonder if we can incorporate the language used in Wiki Working Group meetings into this About. Last Wiki Working Group meeting the wiki was described as "the innards" of an organization. That term clarified a few questions I had about the scope of WikiMo. It implies what is already stated on the About page in a more inviting way: that the Wiki is a publicly available internal platform; that it makes public information neither designed nor intended for end-users. While I understand that "innards" might not connote the same meaning for some readers, can we consider a tone that is more inviting, yet pithy? Jo as Queeniebee (talk) 17:02, 13 May 2014 (PDT)
Tristan's comments:Very happy to see some effort put into the Wiki! I agree with its central role as a tool for participation and memory of the project along with Bugzilla. Nothing to add at this point but will do if anything comes up. Keep up the good work! Tnitot (talk) 02:58, 14 May 2014 (PDT)
Mitchell's comments: I echo the appreciation for taking on these topics. I have a couple of questions. First, I wonder if the two purposes are complementary or at odds with each other. One is to the encyclopedia reference, the other is to facilitate interaction. I can imagine both working well if there is very clear separation and wiki-care. There's probably some development of good practices and some sustaining grass-roots encouragement of a good separation of these two activities as well. You may well already have thoughts about this, so I'll stop here.
Secondly, it would also help me to get a clear picture of how the wiki relates to other workflows and results. Right now teams use a whole variety of tools to collaborate. I'll give a few examples here. The goal isn't to be picky; it's to give an idea of the kinds of questions I can see developing. If a team uses etherpads or google docs for example, how do we think about the relationship of that output to the wiki? If we have an official blog post, how does that relate to the wiki? A very specific example -- we just made statements about DRM and our products in the Mozilla blog. Would someone add something to wikiMO to point to that content? or copy it in the wiki? or is that kind of content outside the scope?
And on a related note, are you thinking people will maintain wikiMO as a resource, or more of asking Mozillians to use the wiki as a workplace to create the encyclopedia?
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Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow had no plans to be drawn into a military conflict over the civil war in Syria and that Washington and its allies would be repeating "past mistakes" if they intervened in Syria.
"The use of force without the approval of the United Nations Security Council is a very grave violation of international law," Lavrov told a news conference at which he discussed accusations by rebel forces that Syrian government forces have used chemical weapons.
Russia is Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's key ally and one of its main arms suppliers. It is also a veto-wielding member of the U.N. Security Council, where it has protected Damascus from three consecutive resolutions that were intended to put pressure on him to end violence.
For more than two years, Moscow has demanded that any change of government in Syria must be carried out via a political process in which Assad must be part, and that no talks on Damascus' future can be predicated on Assad's exit from power.
Lavrov said last Wednesday's alleged chemical attack, which U.N. chemical weapons experts began investigating on Monday, was probably the work of rebels who wanted to derail plans by Washington and Moscow to hold talks on Syria's future.
Expressing concern about statements suggesting NATO had the right to intervene after the chemical attack without securing the approval of the United Nations, Lavrov said the unapproved use of force would "sharply aggravate" the situation.
He urged the West not to go down the "dangerous path" it had taken several times before and added: "We have no plans to go to war with anyone."
"If anybody thinks that bombing and destroying the Syrian military infrastructure, and leaving the battlefield for the opponents of the regime to win, would end everything - that is an illusion," Lavrov said.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has said Russia and China would probably veto a Security Council vote to allow strikes against Syria. British Foreign Secretary William Hague, however, said it would still be possible to respond to a chemical weapon attack without the Security Council's backing.


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8 Times Andy Murray Called Out Sexism (And Secured Himself As A Feminist Hero)
The world could do with a lot more men like Murray.
By Brogan Driscoll, HuffPost UK
Andy Murray may have crashed out of Wimbledon in a shock quarter-final, but he still proved himself a hero in many people's eyes.
In a post-match press conference, the 30-year-old corrected a journalist for ignoring the women's game.
The journalist declared Sam Querrey as "the first American player to reach the semi-final of a Slam since 2009".
Not missing a beat, Murray cooly interrupted: "Male player."
His flawless takedown has been praised by many, including Serena Williams.
It isn't the first time the tennis star has used his platform to call out sexism in sport. Here are seven other moments where Murray has worn his feminist heart on his sleeve.
When he reminded John Inverdale about Venus and Serena Williams' career successes
John Inverdale: you're 1st person to win 2 Olympic tennis golds! Andy Murray: "Venus and Serena have won four each" pic.twitter.com/R1xU3PVulB
— Mary Mc Intyre (@Mc1988) August 15, 2016
Murray was quick to correct John Inverdale last year at Rio 2016, after the BBC presenter inferred he was the first person to win two Olympic gold medals.
The tennis player said: "I think Venus and Serena have won about four each."
When he called out sexism aimed at his coach, Amélie Mauresmo
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Writing in a blog for French publication L'Equipe, he said: "I knew that working alongside Amelie would set tongues wagging. The reason for this is that very few players before me have worked with a female coach.
"I realised it would create a feeling of suspicion, mistrust and perhaps even negativity. I didn't realise, however, that Amelie would find herself up against such criticism and prejudice.
"The staggering thing was that she was slated every time I lost, which is something my former coaches never ever experienced. It wasn't right."
When he publicly defended her coaching ability
Tony O'Brien / Reuters
Following his semi-final win at the 2015 Australian Open, Murray used his post-match interview to give his coach the credit she deserves.
"A lot of people criticised me for working with her and I think so far this week we have showed women can be very good coaches as well," he said.
"I would say it was a brave choice from her and hopefully I can repay her in a few days".
When he called for more women on centre court at Wimbledon
He said earlier this week: ″[They] need to maybe find a way of allowing for an equal split of the men's and women's matches across the tournament rather than just looking at one day. If there's better matches on the women's side than the men's side, you can flip it. If there's better matches on the men's side, then that has to go first, as well."
When he showed his support to get more women in sport
Xinhua News Agency via Getty Images
"I've actually become very passionate about getting more women in sport, giving women more opportunities," he said in an interview with Red Bulletin. "When I was younger, I wasn't thinking about stuff like that. But now I've seen it with my own eyes, it's quite amazing how few female coaches there are across any sport."
When he paid thanks the women in his family
Karwai Tang via Getty Images
"I came to tennis thanks to my mother. I always had a very close relationship with my grandmothers. I've always been surrounded by women," he said in the L'Equipe blog post. "I find it easier to talk to them. I find it easier to open up to them."
When he declared himself a feminist
Clive Brunskill via Getty Images
"Have I become a feminist? Well, if being a feminist is about fighting so that a woman is treated like a man then yes, I suppose I have," he wrote in the blog post.
Brogan Driscoll Life Editor of HuffPost UK, heading up commercial and media partnerships
MORE: Women sexism sport women in sport Serena Williams Tennis andy murray


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Ten Commandments Map and Summary information and Ten Commandments list as given by Moses.
The map tracks the route from Rahmeses to Pi Hachiroth on the Red Sea, then shows the Israelites crossing, while Pharoahs soldiers are swallowed up by the Sea. The route to Canaan then meanders for 8 years, until Moses reaches Mt Sinai and includes the scene of idolotry worship. The wanderings continue to year 33, where Kades and Moses' exodus is shown. The route then continues with a few other vignettes past the Dead Sea to Jordan in the 43rd year. Each of the years is represented by a named encampment. Large decorative cartouche. From Histoire du Vieux et du Nouveau Testament, first published in Amsterdam in 1725. Click Here
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And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn and encamp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, over against Baalzephon: before it shall ye encamp by the sea.
And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
The period of bondage given in Gen 15:13,14; Ex 12:40,41 and Gala 3:17 as 430 years has been interpreted to cover different periods. The common chronology makes it extend from the call of Abraham to the exodus, one-half of it, or 215 years, being spend in Egypt. Others make it to cover only the period of bondage spend in Egypt. St. Paul says in Ga 3:17 that from the covenant with (or call of) Abraham the giving of the law (less than a year after the exodus) was 430 years. But in Ge 15:13,14 it is said that they should be strangers in a strange land,a nd be afflicted 400 years, and nearly the same is said in Ex 12:40 But, in very truth, the children of Israel were strangers in a strange land from the time that Abraham left his home for the promised land, and during that whole period of 430 years to the exodus they were nowhere rulers in the land. So in Ex 12:40 it is said that the sojourning of the children of Israel who dwelt in Egypt was 430 years. But it does not say that the sojourning was all in Egypt, but this people who lived in Egypt had been sojourners for 430 years.
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Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
Proverbs. 2:17
which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
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Theodor Gerhard Lürman (* 7. Juli 1789 in Hamburg; † 20. Februar 1865 in Bremen) war ein deutscher Kaufmann und Ältermann.

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Seine Eltern waren Stephan Lürman (1764–1816) und Catharina Dorothea Nönchen, welche 1785 in Hamburg geheiratet haben. Im November 1811 heiratet er Dorothea Wilhelmine Friederike Frank (1791–1866). Er war Vater von zwei Söhnen und vier Töchtern.

1810 trat er in die Handelsfirma Stephan Lürman & Sohn, seines Vaters ein.

1822 ließ sich Lürman vom Architekten und Zimmermeister Jacob Ephraim Polzin auf dem Grundstück an der Contrescarpe Nr. 22 ein eingeschossiges Sommerhaus bauen. Dies wurde später aufgestockt und ist heute Sitz des Bremer Senators für Inneres.

Theodor Gerhard Lürman sammelte Gemälde niederländischen Meister des 17. Jahrhunderts und zeitgenössische deutscher Akademiemaler. Er war einer der ersten Mitglieder des 1823 gegründeten Bremer Kunstvereins. Aus dem Nachlass des Bremer Kaufmanns und Kunstsammlers Gerhard Christian Garlichs ersteigerte er Werke für den Ausbau seiner Sammlung. 1853 ließ er sich vom Architekten Lüder Rutenberg ein eigenes Galeriegebäude auf seinem Grundstück an der Contrescarpe, für seine schließlich 256 Werke umfassende Sammlung, errichten.

1830 wurde er zum Ältermann der Bremer Kaufleute und 1834 zum Präses des Collegium Seniorum (seit 1849 Handelskammer Bremen) gewählt.

Nach seinem Tod wurde das Grundstück an der Contrescarpe auf seine beiden Söhne vererbt.

An Theodor Gerhard Lürman und weitere Familienmitglieder erinnert ein denkmalgeschütztes Grabmal auf dem Riensberger Friedhof in Bremen (Grablage AA 43a).

Familie
Sein Vater Stephan Lürman (13. März 1764–29. Juni 1816) begründete die Bremer Linie der aus Iserlohn stammenden Kaufmannsfamilie. 1794 leistet er den Bremer Bürgereid und war als Kaufmann tätig. Ab 1800 vermittelte er schlesisches Leinen nach Amerika. Er war Namensgeber für den Ortsteil Stephanopel der Stadt Hemer in Nordrhein-Westfalen.

Sein Sohn Johannes Theodor Lürman (1816–1889) war Generalkonsul und führte das Unternehmen Stephan Lürman & Sohn fort. Mit dem Niedergang des Leinengeschäfts um die Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts wandte er sich stärker den Bank-, Wechsel- und Kommissionsgeschäften zu. Ab 1857 ließ er sich nördlich des Besitzes seines Vaters in Neuschönebeck einen Landsitz anlegen. Auf dem weitläufigen Gelände befinden sich heute die Lehnhofsiedlung und Teile des Friedehorstparks.

Sein Sohn Stephan August (1820–1903) war unter anderem Senator und Bürgermeister in Bremen.

Der Kaufmann und Bankier (Friedrich) Theodor Lürman (1847–1925) war ein Sohn von Johannes Theodor Lürman (1816–1889) und damit Enkel von Theodor Gerhard Lürman. 1889 wurde er zum Präses der Handelskammer Bremen gewählt. Er war Mitglied der 1892 eingerichteten Börsenenquetekommission. 1904 wurde ihm im Zusammenhang mit dem Konkurs des Bankhauses Stephan Lürman & Sohn betrügerischer Bankrott vorgeworfen. Dieser flüchtete daraufhin nach Griechenland. Wie sein Vater Johannes Theodor Lürman (1816–1889) und sein Großvater Theodor Gerhard Lürman (1789–1865) unterhielt auch er einen Sommersitz. 1888/89 ließ er sich vom Architekten Eduard Gildemeister das Landhaus Forsteck in Leuchtenburg errichten, welches nach dem Konkurs des Bankhauses an den Bremer Verleger Carl Eduard Schünemann verkauft wurde.

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It was good to get away from the keyboard for a couple days. I enjoyed everything about my trip to Ottawa, with the major highlight being a terrific brunch with one of my all time favourite readers, Wendy of Of(f) the Deep End. Despite sadly having to say goodbye to her animal friends very recently, she granted me the pleasure of meeting up to chat about all the many things we are both interested in. I felt like we found a certain harmony when sharing our perspectives. Thank you Wendy!
Even the long, pastoral bus ride there and back was enjoyable. My reading matter over those trips is currently percolating in my brain, as all of it caused me to reflect on Final Fashion the blog, what it is, what it is not, and the way it changes.
On the way to catch my bus to Ottawa, I passed through my old school. Outside the journalism school offices, there are stacks of The Ryerson Review of Journalism for the taking, so I took some. These are excellent magazines, in the genre of media analysis, a genre I have been really getting into since CBC Radio One started airing shows like O'Reilly on Advertising and Spin Cycles.
Reading the perspective of students writing about their industry seemed to reflect what I do on finalfashion.ca in a more autodidactive, unguided way. The articles are very well written, exhaustively researched, fascinating examples of the best work of bright young things. Reading about all the different things affecting the profession of journalists, from paper and presses to the uncomfortable technological transition that is transforming the fifth estate, was enlightening. I have more admiration and sympathy for the journalists that I read now, as well as better appreciation for the heritage of their profession, the elements of great journalism, and the structure of the industry. It seems that there are a great many overlaps with the fashion industry.
Sometimes I feel that as a blogger I am juxtaposed next to journalists, but I don't think that is a fair comparison. I do think I belong under that catch-all umbrella of "media" but the work I do is exhaustively researched but not documented, my audience is made up of individuals I know and not a demographic. I wear my amateur status on my sleeve.
Still, I am borrowing some values from journalism, more so the longer I blog. The act of writing out my thoughts is a constant process of seeking to articulate my ideas and communicate to effect. More and more I find myself thinking about writing, what makes a post a good or not. I pay attention to who is reading, what kind of response happens, whether what I am writing is of service, or not. As a blogger I get used to being lumped into a category of people who post indiscriminately without thinking. In actual practice, I think about my posts more than I want to admit.
Sometimes this gets me into trouble, because I post about what I think. Most notorious in recent memory was this post, where I took it upon myself to review a fashion show and competition, and disagreed with the judges about the choice of the winning collection. For this post, I'll call the winners QF because I think they are probably sick of seeing my site on their Google search results. Looking back, I do not disagree with anything I wrote, but then I was a bit ignorant about the ramifications of writing a really honest review. At the time, it never occurred to me that unlike Marc Jacobs, QF would certainly become aware of my impressions of their work. The scene is pretty tiny here. I got away with only one snarky comment but I thought I should have deserved a bit more challenging in the comment section – those who disagreed, for the most part, seemed to hesitate to own up to their own opinions even though I would have welcomed it. Certainly where all the real comment action happened at TorontoStreetFashion.com, the majority of the comments were anonymous.
"Those girls worked really hard," I was told and I believe it! Heck, they won the competition didn't they? Why would the opinion of an admitted amateur mean anything to anyone? The backlash I did receive was an interesting surprise to me and gave far more weight to my opinions and influence as a blogger than I think I really have. Because the ideas I offered for disagreeing with the choice of the winner was based on the designs themselves, of course it was subjective. I was asked who I thought I was to offer up my opinion. I was cautioned that I had to be careful about reviews, somehow. In the interest of improving, I have been thinking about how I could better approach reviews ever since the QF post.
This brings me back to my recent interest in collecting information about how great journalists and reviewers do their jobs. It seems that the rules are not clear cut. Which brings me back to that fascinating, fuzzy crux where fashion meets journalism. Some differences are so apparent. In hard journalism, accepting gifts is considered traitorous. In fashion journalism, not accepting gifts is considered to be foolish. In food reviews and book reviews, the best reviews seem to be considered to be the honest ones that communicate the reasons for the reviewer's conclusions. In fashion, it seems like the best reviews are simplistically considered the positive ones.
The perennial hue and cry of the Canadian fashion designer is that they are not sufficiently covered in the media. Somehow, Canadian designers think they deserve press even if they are not doing anything remarkable either in terms of great design or provocative ideas. When the fashion media obliges, far too often it is the kind of toothless, perfunctory boosterism that I have come to expect from fashion journalism in this country. No one knows about Canadian fashion designers or Canadian fashion journalism because we are timid. We are afraid to hurt feelings, take risks, or admit failure. This attitude makes us invisible to the world, and does not even catch the imagination of our own nation.
Far from feeling the responsibility to keep my big amateur mouth shut, the time spent reflecting on all these things makes me want to be more contrary, more provoking. Just as I am trying to constantly improve my own work, I would very much like to see the Canadian fashion industry in general improve. Canadians are notorious for being complacent. I may have to set a few fires.
While in Ottawa I went to Mags and Fags and I bought Worn fashion journal to read on the way home. I first heard of it recommended in a positive review by Nathalie Atkinson at the National Post. For the first time in a long time I found myself happy to spend money on a magazine. The girl at the store and I chatted about the launch party Worn had in Ottawa, and how the publisher drops off her magazines to the store in person.
Worn is published by Serah-Marie McMahon out of Montreal. When I first heard of it I was already impressed because creating an indie mag in Canada is a heroic endeavor for anyone. The challenge is so great it generally kills off the mediocre efforts in an issue or less. Worn is now on its fourth issue and is still being… worn.
Like many, I have daydreamed for a moment and imagined the impossible – a fashion magazine that would actually reflect what I want to read. I may even have considered making one at that point but succumbed to inertia on that count when I discovered blogging. Here I can aggregate the content I like readers-digest style, socially network, as well as indulge in some writing and image making, which I find pretty satisfying even though it is a voluntary, amateur pursuit.
So the other thought I had when I heard about Worn, was a kind of incredulity at launching a wood pulp publication for young people in this day and age. In an era where fashion mags for people 15-25 are on death row (RIP Jane and Fashion18), magazines are flailing to catch eyeballs of young people who get all the information nuggets they want off the internet for free. The barrier to entry for an paper publication is so high compared to starting a website that I couldn't help but wonder why smart young things are still launching such things.
Reading Worn reminded me why. There are things you can do in magazines that the internet does not replace. Large scale, beautiful images. The inventive page layouts reminded me of the famous British 'zines of the eighties, like i-D. Plus you can read it without wires, wireless, clicking, or expensive equipment. Worn makes it clear they understand and exploit all the great things about the medium.
The articles are all smart, personal, intriguing and curious. The writing in this magazine is top notch compared to most contemporary lifestyle journalism for people my age. Oddly enough, it suits my own quirky taste in articles very closely. It is almost like the magazine was made for me! There is a lot of illustration and some interesting collaborations between the magazine and various designers. The dialogue that emerges, a kind of call and response between the editor and the subject, rocks my world. Being somewhat peripheral, it is apparent to me that this magazine really truly reflects the downtown fashion scenes of both Montreal and Toronto without being narrow. It also manages to balance a bit of boosterism with a sense of creative challenge, which I think is a good angle.
Of course I had a few subjective reactions. The font snob in me hates the typewriter font. The Sonia Delauney article's layout was so… exhuberant… even though it was a good article, it was almost impossible to read, and didn't include any visuals of Delauney's work. That the communication is a little mixed is to be expected while the magazine finds its voice. Personally I love really creative layouts but I also believe a well designed magazine should be readable. As for the content, I love the historical articles and enjoyed the first persons. The book review and interview was terrific. I would also like to see more industry analysis specific to Canada as well as street style. I am really looking forward to checking out other issues.
This is the kind of thing I that is remarkable and ought to be brought to everyone's attention. When I read Worn, I get excited for all the awesome things that are possible.
I enjoyed meeting you in Ottawa and talking about fashion and your blog. I will be following it with interest. I am also curious about this new fashion magazine (Worn) and will be on the lookout for it to check it out.
Danielle, thanks very much for your kind words. I thoroughly enjoyed meeting you in person, and also found that our interests and points of view have remarkable similarities.
I'll email you a higher resolution copy of the picture.
I've read Worn since the first edition came out, it's a great magazine! When I read it for the first time I felt the same way, it was a magazine that understood what I like most about fashion.


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King of the Worlds
"If Kurt Vonnegut and Douglas Adams had a baby, it would look a lot like 'King of the Worlds.' With its tongue-in-cheek humor and intelligent allusions, this is the kind of fiction that playfully reassembles tropes and rejects all labels. It's a dark riot." - Mindy-Lynn Sanico, Honolulu Star-Advertiser
"King of the Worlds is an excellent sci-fi novel that combines the interiority of literary fiction from the 50s, 60s and 70s with the all-out weirdness of the golden age of science fiction." - Paul Constant, The Seattle Review of Books
Dylan had always wanted to live as many lives as he could--that was the appeal of being an actor. But at the end of a brief, bright stint as a Hollywood heartthrob, Dylan loses the lead in Titanic and exiles himself and his wife to a recently settled exoplanet called New Taiwan.
At first, life beyond Earth seems uncannily un-wondrous. Dylan teaches at an American prep school, raises a family with his high school sweetheart, and lives out his restlessness through literature. But then a box of old fan mail (and the hint of a galaxy-wide conspiracy) offers Dylan a chance to recapture the past. As he tries to balance this transdimensional midlife crisis against family life, Dylan encounters a cast of extraordinary characters: a supercomputer with aspirations of godhood, a Mormon-fundamentalist superfan, an old-school psychoanalyst, a sampling of his alternate selves, and, once again, the love of his lives.
King of the Worlds throws cosmology, technology, nineties pop culture, and religion into an existential blender for a mix that is by turns tragic and absurd, elegiac and filled with wonder.
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Jellyfish Dreams
"A Google search reveals more than 87 million results equating love in some way to a black hole, but no one has taken the concept quite as far as fiction writer M. Thomas Gammarino has in his imaginative Kindle Single Jellyfish Dreams. One day, Sam Rogers drops his bookmark while reading, bends down to retrieve it, and finds a black hole under his couch. Sam tries to make sense of it, but the black hole, as you might imagine, is not forthcoming. As word slips out, and scientists and religious fanatics swarm to the hole, Sam finds himself fleeing to the memories of a lost love, and to a bizarre conclusion: he must bring her back from the dead. Gammarino, author of Big in Japan: A Ghost Story, has woven a wonderfully strange tale that conjures up both the weirdest works of Philip K. Dick and the timeless love story of Orpheus and Eurydice." --Benjamin Moebius
"With Big in Japan, M. Thomas Gammarino seamlessly ties the world of rock to prose in a way that strikes me a beautiful and rare." --Art Edwards, The Rumpus
"Aggressively readable and luridly entertaining to an almost televisual degree." --Kevin TS Tang, KGB Bar Lit Magazine
While playing to lackluster crowds in their hometown of Philadelphia, progressive rock band Agenbite clings to the comforting half-truth that they're doing better in Japan. When their manager agrees to send them over on a shoestring tour, though, they're swiftly forced to give up their illusions and return stateside.
All but one of them, that is.
Brain Tedesco, the band's obsessive-compulsive nerve center, has fallen in love with a part-time sex worker - the first woman ever to have touched him - and his illusions have only just begun. What ensues is a gritty coming-of-age tale in which Brain, intent on achieving some kind of transcendence, paradoxically (or not so paradoxically) descends into the Hungry Ghost realm of Tokyo's underworld. He becomes, in effect, a gaki - the insatiable creature of Buddhist cosmology - and must learn how to live even as his outsize desires threaten to engulf him.
By turns compassionate and ruthless, erotic and grotesque, riotously serious and deadly funny, Big in Japan is a sparking, gut-wrenching, face-melting debut novel.


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What would you do if you were the first ever to do something? Would you feel like a pioneer? Maybe Mikayla Holmgren feels that way because she's the first young lady to have Down's syndrome and compete for Miss America. Isn't that remarkable? Perhaps Mikayla will write good kid's books to explain her experience.
Mikayla won two awards during the pageant. One was The Spirit of the USA award, while the other is the Director's Award. She received a standing ovation when her name was announced. What does Mikayla think?
Mikayla began dancing when she was six years old. She worked hard to convince her mom to let her try. Look what she's done since that day. Along with the pageant awards, Mikayla won The Minnesota Junior Miss Amazing Award.
Like Mikayla, I had obstacles to overcome and big dreams as well. While Mikayla wanted to become a model and pageant contest, I wanted to become a champion horseback rider, although my parents were told by a doctor, I wouldn't be able to walk. Fortunately, my dad didn't accept that. He and I set out to prove the doctor wrong. Just like Mikayla, I love children. That's why I write kid's books in hopes of inspiring children to reach for the stars. If you'd like an inspiring true story, check out the newest of my kid's books, My Life at Sweetbrier. I'd love to know what you think if you read it.
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Montana Grizzly sports broadcaster Mick Holien passes away
By Jack Ginsburg (KPAX)November 27, 2020
Mick Holien (KPAX image)
(KPAX) The former voice of the Montana Grizzlies, Mick Holien, has passed away.
Holien was a familiar sound over the radio as a Griz football or basketball fan for 31 memorable years. He had served as the voice of a generation, there for the lowest and highest points.
From the football team's first national title in 1995 to the men's basketball team upsetting Nevada in 2006, Holien had been there for it all.
"He absolutely lived and breathed Montana Grizzly sports and athletics," said Mick's coworker Scott Gurnsey. "He was one of the most passionate, well spoke, wore his heart on his sleeve guy that you could ever be around."
Gurnsey and Holien called Griz football games together for over 15 years.
"He made it so easy for just the laymen to listen to a game and understand it," said Gurnsey.
That's exactly what Holien was able to do. For 31 years he slowly grew tighter and tighter with the community as a familiar voice, but those who were able to meet Holien in person, know how special he was off the call as well.
"It didn't matter who you were, if you were a four-year-old little kid or an old-timer, he had time for you," said Gurnsey. "He was forever the MC at so many fundraisers and donation type deals.
"He loved doing that stuff, he never said no and was definitely tremendous in his philanthropy. Not so much with monetary things, but with giving his time to this cause and that cause, he was always there to lend a hand."
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Q: Is there a workaround for pinging a database every few minutes? So, I have a NodeJS MySql system, which pings the database every 10 Minutes (might set that to one Minute) to not lose the connection, but that is not the code quality I like to write.
So, now I am asking myself, if there is any way to avoid that.
I have no plan on what Pools are, or what they do. I've seen them in a few other posts but not looked in to them, is that the only option?Thanks in advance.

A: Yes, you should learn about connection pools - they are a good tool for managing a connection (or a bunch of them to support concurrency).
Connections - whether to databases or to any other remote systems - are unreliable. They can come and go, and you must not assume that a connection will live forever. Hosts can sometimes be restarted, network links can go down, or a firewall may choose to terminate your TCP session.
Of course, you could implement a "connection recycler" that maintains a single connection and replaces it with a fresh one whenever it's closed. However, that would be unproductive since a pool already does that - only it typically manages more than 1 instance under the hood. It's a good excercise for learning purposes in any case.
A pool has another advantage - it can scale according to load, creating and destroying connections as needed. This lets you put less load on the database when the application load is low.
As a closing remark, if you use query builders (knex.js), object-relational mappers (sequelize, TypeORM), or other types of tools that abstract database access, they'll typically use a pool under the hood, anyway - so understanding this important layer of infrastructure is beneficial in the long run.

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The Kings of Confusion
Sacramento's delicate balance between rebuilding and winning now has left many wondering what its plan actually is
by Zach Lowe on July 22, 2014
It was probably the most-asked question among team executives, agents, and coaches at the NBA summer league in Las Vegas earlier this month: "So, um, does anyone have any idea what the Sacramento Kings are doing?"
It even beat out annual stalwarts "Where are you staying?" and "Has being in Vegas for a week drained away all your faith in humanity and will to live, or just portions of them?"
The Kings were in the midst of two curious pursuits during the league's annual excursion in Vegas:
1. Letting Isaiah Thomas bolt for Phoenix without a fight, and replacing him with Darren Collison, an older and demonstrably worse player earning just $1.4 million less than Thomas on average over the next three seasons.
2. Renewing their flirtatious pursuit of Josh Smith, who just wrapped one of the most dispiriting individual seasons in recent league history. Smith is due $13.5 million in each of the next three seasons and has approximately zero trade value.
Even the most open-minded NBA folks were baffled. Those choices capped a tumultuous 15-month period that included an ownership change, the end of the murderous Maloof reign, agreement on a new arena deal, the hiring of both a new coach and a general manager, and an endless flurry of moves that turned over nearly the entire roster and left only murky evidence of any coherent team-building approach. Verbal Kint would struggle to weave a narrative from Sacramento's collage of transactions.
They acted at times like a rebuilding team determined to keep its cap sheet clean. Sacramento smartly passed on a pricey contract for Tyreke Evans, dealing him to New Orleans in a sign-and-trade that returned Greivis Vasquez — an elusive (for the Kings) pass-first point guard who earned about $9.5 million less last season than Evans did. They pawned off the last two seasons of Marcus Thornton's deal on the desperate Nets, receiving Jason Terry's cheaper contract in exchange.
But over the same period, the Kings flipped roles to the part of a hungry "win now" team willing to spend big on veteran players. They filled the cap space that Evans left behind by committing nearly $11 million last season combined to Carl Landry and Luc Richard Mbah a Moute, good soldiers who jumbled a frontcourt that was already overcrowded. They promptly sent Mbah a Moute to Minnesota for Derrick Williams, the sort of risk-free trade for a once-promising young player any rebuilding team should make — even if the deal added a bit of salary.
They followed the Williams move by acquiring Rudy Gay, an in-his-prime veteran on a laughably huge contract, persuading Gay to opt in for $19 million next season, and working as perhaps the only suitor in the league for Smith.1
That kind of ambiguity is not a sin in itself. Lots of teams have straddled two team-building strategies at once, with the post–Yao Ming/Tracy McGrady Rockets managing to simultaneously rebuild and remain competitive. But those Rockets had proven NBA players, strong ownership, and a smart general manager pushing the boundaries of league rules.
The Kings? They haven't hit .500 since 2005-06, their ownership situation was one of the worst in pro sports before Vivek Ranadivé rescued them, and their current GM, Pete D'Alessandro, came aboard last June only after the team had hired a new coach and made several crucial free-agency decisions.
The Kings swear there is a governing strategy, if you look at the trail of evidence just right. "There is a plan here," D'Alessandro says. "We are just thinking outside the box."
The questions surround the realistic end goal and the larger forces driving the team's strategy. The Kings are frank about their desire to be a competitive team with legitimate playoff hopes by the time they move into their (unbuilt) new arena in 2016. Rebuilding might be the smart long-term play, but it requires time that franchise higher-ups no longer think they have. "We have an arena coming in two years," D'Alessandro says. "The clock is ticking. We are going to do everything we can to be a competitive team when we get there. The fans have waited too long. They need to see something now. To put a bad product inside a gorgeous package doesn't make sense."
Being bad has at least supplied the Kings with lottery picks in Ben McLemore and Nik Stauskas as they work the tricky transition from doormat to "win-now" hopefuls. But the presence of those players symbolizes just how hard this is going to be. The Kings want to shift from 28-win lottery fodder to playoff contenders in just two years, and in a Western Conference so loaded, it took 49 wins just to snag the no. 8 seed last season. Good freaking luck.
"The West is tougher," D'Alessandro says. "But we can't lay down because of that. Just because we're in the superior conference doesn't mean we can use that as an excuse. It has been too much for our fans already."
The team's big-picture plan includes two main tenets, D'Alessandro says:
1. Give up nothing of long-term value in searching out available veterans. Sacramento traded four backup players for Gay. That they haven't yet acquired Smith suggests that the Kings are holding firm on offers that include only players in which they have little long-term interest — guys like Williams, Landry, and Jason Thompson. If Detroit demands McLemore, Stauskas, or a future pick, the Kings will hang up the phone.
The Kings post-Maloof haven't traded a future first-round pick or a quality young player. It's possible to go back through all of these moves one by one and start nodding: "Hey, they really didn't give up much!"
2. They are willing to take on good players with bad long-term contracts. That is something you won't hear many GMs admit, and it might end in disaster. But Sacramento has little history of drawing top-level free agents, meaning the Kings must use the trade market to nab big-name veterans.
"There are players that are being paid more than the league thinks they should be paid," D'Alessandro says. "We see those contracts as an opportunity. Our first question is, 'Do we like the player?' If we do, then can we use a contract the league doesn't look favorably on as an opportunity to make our team better?"
This strategy might carry a better bang for the buck as the salary cap rises, D'Alessandro and others say. Smith's $13.5 million looks like an albatross today, but if the cap is at $75 million two seasons from now, it will be proportionally less damaging.2
And Smith, like Gay before him, is a good player whose skills get lost amid all the screaming over his pricey contract. A player can, in fact, be good and overpaid at once. The Pistons shoehorned Smith into playing small forward last season, and to the surprise of no one, Smith responded by launching horrid jumpers and struggling to chase quicker wing guys on defense. Slot him back at power forward, and you have a plus passer who can lead the break and provide some rim protection next to DeMarcus Cousins.
Playing fast is part of Ranadivé's vision for "positionless basketball." The Kings want to run with guys who can fill multiple positions and execute lots of things from lots of different spots on the floor.
Gay can slide to power forward in small-ball lineups and shooting guard in ultra-big groups, and he can lead the break if he snares a rebound. Cousins loves to bring the ball up, and he can do damage in the half court passing from the elbow or smashing into dudes at the rim. Stauskas can handle the ball, and McLemore, should he improve, can play either wing position.
It sounds wonderful: keep your young guys and draft picks, work the trade market for the right veterans, and run-and-dunk your way to 45 wins in two years. Sacramento fans would be fired up about that, and even the "old guys" leading the way in this scenario — Gay and Smith, or some similar veteran — are still in their primes.
This doesn't account for opportunity cost, nor for the puzzling choice of Collison over Thomas. The Kings after passing on Evans could have gathered between $10 million and $20 million of cap space into each of the last two offseasons,3 and carried a lot of that space over into the actual NBA season. Cap space has never scored a basket, but it is a very useful roster-building tool.
The Jazz, Lakers, Celtics, Cavaliers, and others have used it to snag first-round picks as the price of acting as a dumping ground for unwanted salary, with the Lakers' trade for Jeremy Lin and a Houston first-rounder being the most recent such predatory move. Even teams in non-glamour markets can use cap space to lure second-tier free agents who become either productive players or trade chips — or both. The whole league would love to have Paul Millsap on a two-year, $20 million deal, and in just a few months we might look at Charlotte's three-year, $27 million deal for Lance Stephenson as one of the league's great bargains.
Free agency between maximum and minimum contracts generally produces the worst return on investment, but smart teams, even those outside destination markets, can find some gems. Cap space can have other uses, but the Kings have spent so much money in the last 16 months that swapping Thomas for Collison merely spared them from going over the luxury tax. A lottery team paying that much is rare outside of New York.
And that's the danger here: Sacramento could do pretty well at this "win now" course and peak with an expensive team that still isn't good enough to crack the top eight in the West.
The Kings will trumpet the fact that they could have max-level cap room a year from now — that all of this spending has done nothing to their future flexibility. But they vaporized their flexibility over the summers of 2013 and 2014, and they will do so again if they re-sign Gay at a big number or trade for another expensive veteran on a multiyear contract.
If their roster peaks as so-so in 2017, the Kings might have to veer back into rebuilding mode three or four years after they could have started the process properly around Cousins. And if the Kings wanted to invest in veterans whom the rest of the league considered overpaid, they could have simply kept Evans — a younger player they knew well.
Getting Thomas at Jodie Meeks money would seem to be something any team at any stage would want, but the Kings opted for Collison instead. Sacramento's choice appears to have come down to Collison's allegedly superior defense, particularly his ability to press full-court, and his willingness to accept a lesser role in the offense.
"Our focus is on pace," D'Alessandro says. "And in Darren Collison, we have a guy who really does play fast. He can be a very, very high-level defender."
The Kings' defense has been a catastrophe for a half-decade, and it ranked just 23rd in points allowed per possession last year under Mike Malone. Thomas is feisty and deceptively strong, but any player listed at 5-foot-9 is going to be a liability. He showed only so-so commitment to staying in a defensive stance, sometimes standing straight up instead of priming himself in a crouch, and he too often ran smack into picks.
And he does shoot and dribble a lot, a shaky fit on a team that has two other guys in Gay and Cousins who much enjoy doing both of those things. Thomas worked hard on his passing last season, but he still jacked nearly 16 shots per 36 minutes, more than Chris Paul (a prototype point guard) has ever attempted in a season. Only 11 guys attempted more pull-up jumpers per game last season, per NBA.com, and Thomas shot a paltry 31.8 percent on pull-up 3s — 42nd among 69 players who attempted at least one pull-up triple per game. Thomas is a pick-and-roll scorer at heart. He'll go over one pick, probe the defense, bring the ball back out, and ask for another pick. This has visibly annoyed Cousins at times.
Thomas dribbled the ball 496 times per 36 minutes, the fourth-largest number among all guards who logged at least 25 minutes per game, according to an analysis of SportVU visual-tracking data provided exclusively to Grantland. Thomas took an average of 5.7 dribbles every time he touched the ball, the second-highest number among all qualifying guards, trailing only D.J. Augustin, per the STATS LLC analysis.
Collison bounced it an average of only 3.9 times per touch and averaged nearly 200 fewer dribbles per 36 minutes, though playing a ton alongside Paul depressed those numbers.
Here's the thing: Thomas is actually, you know, good at scoring! He's a wizard at getting into the lane, and at using hesitation dribbles and canny fakes to create space for scoop shots. He has long been one of the league's best finishers at the basket, a remarkable thing considering how short he is, and he has a refined midrange game.
Thomas loves to take little floaters on the run, and he hit 42.2 percent of his shots from the portion of the paint outside the restricted area, per NBA.com — 24th among 97 guards who attempted at least 50 shots from that range.
He's an above-average midrange shooter, and he nailed 48 percent of his pull-up 2-point jumpers per NBA.com — a sizzling number.
Thomas could stand to pass more. His habit of asking for second and third picks bogged things down at times; Sacramento did not have much of a secondary offense, where the ball would swing from one side to the other in a continuous sequence of options. But part of that is on the coaching staff.
Thomas takes a couple of jumpers each night that you'd like to have back, and it's tough for a 5-foot-9 guard to fling skip passes to the opposite corner on the pick-and-roll. But he dished more dimes and recorded assists on a higher percentage of teammate baskets than Collison has in any season since his rookie year. Thomas and his teammates grew more familiar with each other as last season went on; the Kings' bigs seemed to have a better sense of how to synchronize their cuts with all of Thomas's funky fakes and in-and-out dribbles. They could have grown more together.
A Collison Course
Collison has never been Thomas's equal as a scorer or a passer. He's hesitant about penetrating the defense in the half court, and his inability to read the floor has frustrated coaches at just about every stop. Ask the Mavericks about him sometime.
Collison is a speed demon, but the Kings ranked about average in pace last season, and — get this — they played much faster with Thomas on the floor. The guy might pound the ball in the half court, but he loves to run, and he's always calling for the ball, body already leaning toward the other team's basket, when the Kings grab a defensive rebound.
The Kings with Thomas on the floor played at a faster pace than the Clippers did with Collison, regardless of whether Paul was also playing, per NBA.com.4
The Kings were at their best overall, period, with Thomas on the floor. They shot more 3s, earned more free throws, and actually outscored their opponents in Thomas's minutes — heady stuff for a team that finished 13th in the West. They were a .500 team when all three of Thomas, Gay, and Cousins were available, and they just let one of those three guys walk.
The Kings say they have numbers showing they will be better off with Collison in Thomas's place. It's just unclear what those numbers are, or what exactly they say, and the Kings justifiably won't share their private stash.
Some of their confidence likely stems from Gay's strong play in Sacto, and especially from Gay shooting 56 percent on post-ups as a King, per Synergy Sports — a huge jump from his numbers in Toronto, and a reminder that Gay was once a feared post player.
Gay can overpower smaller defenders, but he's not the sort of scorer who catches and goes in a flash. He likes to hold the ball, survey the defense, and take his time at work. That eats up the shot clock and makes for an awkward match with Thomas.
But it can also be awkward for Cousins, who often just steps to the opposite side of the lane and watches Gay chase buckets:
Gay's shot distribution didn't change all that much in Sacramento, though he did trade some isolations for pick-and-rolls and post-ups. But he mostly made a ton of tough buckets. If the Kings are counting on that to continue, they may be disappointed.
Sacramento might have the benefit of better spacing next season, thanks to Stauskas and (hopefully) some improvement from McLemore. More roster continuity should also help. But they'd have had all that on offense with Thomas, and there's very little evidence that Collison is a better defender. He's probably worse on balance.
Collison is taller than Thomas, but he's still undersize, and he has had unending trouble navigating screens on the ball. Toss Collison into a pick-and-roll, and he's liable to drift 10 feet under the pick, damn near vanishing from the play before scrambling to find his bearings.
The Kings know those limitations, but they think Collison can get better, and that his willingness to pick up full-court will set the tone for an improved defense. "When we got into our analytics of him as a defensive player — that's what really propelled him," D'Alessandro says. "We think you need someone who can pressure the ball, and then a shot-blocker at the rim. We've given our coach one of those tools."
Basketball people disagree often, and let's just say that a lot of people around the league disagree with choosing Collison over Thomas. Collison has certainly had his moments, including as a transition force for the Clippers in the playoffs last season, and he may well thrive in a new context.
Time to D Up
Defense is where the rubber will meet the road for Sacramento. We can focus on the point guard spot and all these transactions, but the Kings, at bottom, have been terrible for so long because they can't defend. Malone is a defense-first coach, and all the roster changes made it hard for the Kings to digest and implement his system.
Malone installed a pretty standard NBA defense in which his big men dropped back to contain opponent pick-and-rolls.
That strategy wasn't universal. Malone leveraged Thompson's quickness by having him leap out hard on the pick-and-roll, especially when the guy setting the pick was a good jump-shooter — like Serge Ibaka:
With two Kings containing the ball handler, one guy would slide in from the weak side, bump the big man rolling to the rim, and prevent an easy pass to that player. It was pretty standard NBA stuff; the Kings just couldn't execute it well.
Both Thomas and Ray McCallum got smothered in picks, forcing the Sacto big men to help more dramatically on opposing ball handlers, triggering fatal extra help rotations all over the floor.
The wing players on the weak side were often confused at the "how" and "when" of Malone's defense. Sometimes two weakside defenders would crash into a single player in the lane, leaving too many easy perimeter options:
Sometimes players just kind of wandered around aimlessly, unsure of how rotations had switched their assignments. We talk a lot about offensive spacing, but the Kings had bad defensive spacing — multiple guys standing right next to each other, effectively guarding the same player or chunk of territory. Watch Thompson and Quincy Acy lose track of which of them is responsible for Al Harrington spotting up around a pick-and-roll:
None of this was surprising, given the team's youth and the constant roster churn. Rookies struggle on defense, and McLemore predictably wasn't ready for NBA-level help-and-recover stuff. Travis Outlaw should never be allowed to defend wing players, and he only had to do so after trades left huge holes in Sacramento's roster.
Defensive chemistry — knowing where to go, and when, depending on which teammates are on the floor — is a real thing that requires lots of time to marinate. The Kings were bound to be bad defensively last season. This season is a big year in that regard. The quickest way to become competitive is to cobble together a league-average defense. It's hard to manufacture such a defense on this roster, but the Kings are out to prove all the naysayers wrong. Their long-suffering fans deserve it.
Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo reported on Monday that the Kings-Pistons trade talks had stalled, and that Stan Van Gundy had told Smith to expect to be a Piston when training camps open. But the talks were serious and could revive anytime.
To be clear, D'Alessandro wouldn't discuss Smith, since trade talks are confidential.
It could have been more or less, since extrapolating counterfactual scenarios is dicey. But they could have had a bundle of space in both summers had things gone differently.
The same is true for Collison and Blake Griffin. The way Griffin pushed last season, I had thought perhaps the Clips' numbers jumped when Collison and Griffin shared the floor. Nope.
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Breaking: ASUU reach agreement with FG
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what looks like an agreement was reached in the early hours of this morning in the negotiation meeting between representatives of ASSU and that of the federal Government of Nigeria which started 1:28 p.m on Thursday came to an end 2:15 a.m on Friday with the ASUU representatives promising to get back to the Federal government in one weeks time.
The striking university lecturers, ASUU, have agreed to consider the federal government's offer and suspend their strike.
The agreement comes after 12 hours, 30 minutes of a closed door meeting between ASUU and a government delegation in Abuja.
The leadership of ASUU, however, said though it accepted the proposal presented by the government, it will take the proposal to its members and get back to the government in a week.
Biodun Ogunyemi, the national president of ASUU, told journalists after the meeting that the union will come back after one week to take its final decisions.
"Now we have some concrete proposal that we will take back to our members for consideration," he said.
On his part, the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, said ASUU's demands have been addressed and the union will get back to the government in a week after consulting with its principals.
We all hope this meeting will put an end to the constant ASUU Federal government drama.
Details later…
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Swimming With Enormous Whale Sharks in Cancun, Mexico!
Saltwater sprays across my face as the small boat I'm on races away from Cancun's coast and out into the open ocean. Excitement builds as I wonder what this beautiful day has in store for the small group on board. I've joined one of the countless tours based out of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula that give seasonal whale shark swimming tours to eager tourists seeking a chance to swim with the world's largest fish! I was fortunate enough to swim with whale sharks previously in Belize; but they were hard to find and their presence was short lived.. this experience would turn out to be quite different!
When I arrived to live in Playa Del Carmen for several months I had no plans or knowledge of the whale shark tours that were offered. It didn't take long before I caught glance at the numerous billboards throughout the city promoting the tours, and you can't walk down the famous 5th Ave without a half dozen salesmen hyping up the tour. The whale sharks migrate through the area in large numbers that are unique to this region. It's literally the largest known gathering of whale sharks anywhere in the world.
After an hour+ long ride and roughing some decent sized swells we came upon what must have been 25 or more boats gathered around an area of 1 square mile. Large black fins began appearing all around us and I knew immediately we were in for an unforgettable time!
With a full boat of 10 people we took turns plunging into the shark filled waters two at a time (with the addition of a guide). We could immediately see enormous whale sharks swimming in every direction around us. Whale sharks are gentle giants, and it is impossible not to marvel at their amazing size and grace as they effortlessly glide through the water. These school bus sized fish aren't afraid and swim right by us; even bumping into me on a couple occasions.
The tours allowed for 15 minutes in the water at a time, rotating other tourists in and out. On this day the water was wavy and several of the passengers became sea sick, myself included – and I don't normally get sea sickness. Lucky for me those passengers stopped taking their turn allowing me more time in the water!
Before the tour ended we had been in the water and within a few feet of dozens of whale sharks. How could the experience get any better you might ask? How about a surprise visit from flying manta rays? Yes.. giant manta rays were propelling themselves into the air for our viewing pleasure! Some even swam by our boat and gave us a close up view!
On the way back to Cancun we ate lunch at the picture perfect (but slightly crowded) beach of Isla Mujeres. By the time the day had ended it put my previous experience in Belize to shame – this was literally a day that had made my dreams come true.
My experience had been so great the previous year that I went back to do it all over again this year! However I was quickly reminded that magical travel experiences can be hard to repeat.
With friends in tow I booked 2 days of whale shark tours on a private boat and spaced them out between the week in case of bad weather – We had done our best to insure a good sighting. However, when dealing with wild and open ocean you are never really in control.
This year the weather was great and ocean was much calmer. But unfortunately weather wasn't the only thing that could go wrong. The whale shark tours have become so popular that there were exponentially more boats out in the water this time with only a handful of sharks found each day. This meant there were hundreds of people on crowded boats jumping in the water to surround only a few whale sharks. Even though it was still impressive to see the gentle giants in the water it was hard not to notice how many people were crowding them. Nearly every shark we saw also had visible injuries to their dorsal fin or tail, likely from colliding with boats chasing after them.
As tour operators continue to offer unlimited capacity and allow so many boats out on the water with small numbers of sharks things will likely only go downhill for everyone involved. The experience you get will be much less enthralling when so many other people are swimming and kicking around you; and with all the boats jockeying for position it creates far more danger of an accidental injury to those snorkeling in the water.
And what about the poor whale sharks? The first time I went it didn't feel invasive, we were able to float in the water and enjoy the sharks swimming around us. This year the boats were chasing the sharks around leaving them nowhere to escape. With all the people it felt more like harassment than observing one of nature's most wondrous creatures.
There's still hope that local authorities realize the problem and take action before it's too late. First and foremost the whale sharks need to protection from injury and danger. With so much money at stake it's hard to imagine things won't get a lot worse before the get any better. Surprisingly, or unsurprisingly Mexico still has a better reputation than many other whale shark tour destinations.
When To Go? With a close proximity to the mega-touristy Cancun the tours are accessible and affordable from all over the region. The season begins as early as mid-May and runs all the way into September. For the best outcome plan to go during the low-season when there will be less tourists.
A wetsuit – Tour operators require you to wear a wetsuit or life jacket when in the water. You will float in the ocean either way and unless you can't swim a life jacket will only hinder your ability to swim next to the sharks. Be prepared to pay $10-25 per day for a rental wetsuit.
Biodegradable Sunscreen – The sun is strong and you'll be without shade for most of the day. Tour operators will require 'organic' sunscreen that doesn't pollute the water or potentially poison the sea life. It's wise to bring your own as sunscreen is quite pricey here.
Motion Sickness Pills – Sea sickness is a real downer and very likely. Try to avoid it by taking Dramamine before you go.
Where are the Tours? There are tours leaving from Isla Mujeres, Cancun, Playa del Carmen and Isla Holbox. Most of them all boat to the same spot (wherever the first spotters locate the whales each day).
A Guarantee? Check for a money back guarantee from the tour operator you chose. Many of them will guarantee you swim with whale sharks or offer a refund of some kind.
What's the Price? Tours range from $125.00 USD and up depending upon your need for transportation to the marina.


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Days after his 'farewell' here, Elton John adds another Milwaukee show
The long-running joke about farewell tours is they usually take some liberties with the word "farewell." Kiss played their first farewell tour way back in 2000, for instance, and they're currently in the middle of another one. But even by the squishy standards of farewell tours, this news is pretty head-turning: Days after taking what was billed as his final bow in Milwaukee, Elton John has announced that he'll be back for another show here.
The legendary singer-songwriter played a nearly three-hour sold-out show at Fiserv Forum on Saturday, and now the venue has announced he'll return for an encore on April 28 as his Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour continues.
Tickets go on sale to the general public at 10 a.m. Nov. 1 at eltonjohn.com. Prices have not yet been announced.
Elton John | Wikimedia Commons
Here's a description of the show from the press release:
Taking the audience on a magical journey through his career, the show features some of Elton's most beloved songs from his legendary catalogue including, "Bennie and the Jets," "Rocket Man," "Tiny Dancer," and "Philadelphia Freedom." Elton's music has taken him to many places, opened many doors and inspired many passions in his life. The audience will experience a rare glimpse into Elton's life and the deeply personal meaning behind some of his greatest hits, with mesmerizing, never-before-seen photos and videos shown throughout the show from his incredible 50-year career.
But, of course, fans who saw the concert on Saturday already knew that.


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Combating Mass Immigration/ Great Britain
15% of YES to Scottish Independence Votes were made by Foreigners, Marxist Ed Milliband Wants More Islamic MP's & British Muslim Brotherhood Says 'Labour Party Right Party for Islam' (with video)
G. Wolf Ed Milliband, Ed Milliband Rotherham, Labour Party Muslim, Milliband Marxist, Mlliband Communist	 September 25, 2014
"Our Islamic population, as well as that of our EU newcomers were imported as part of a scheme to weaken Britain's conservative indigenous culture, with cheap labour and people that vote left. This was in fact admitted by Labour minister Peter Mandelson last week when he stated for the record that the Labour party 'sent out search parties' to bring migrants here after losing the votes of the working class to Margaret Thatcher and now UKIP."
Veronika, who has family she left behind in South Africa (SA), was so angry when she wrote this, she got a little carried away.
This past week we covered a story on the Home Office's clampdown on South African immigration. Due to "how overstretched Britain is, immigration from commonwealth nations is at an all time low, and set to decrease further", we were told by our contact at the Home Office. In fact 96% of the South Africans (a large percentage of whom had historical connections to the UK) that had applied for entry into the UK in 2013 were rejected. Only 4% of all applicants from South Africa, were told there was place for them in Britain." Feel her pain and anger…
Hey working class Britons! I have a serious bone to pick with you.
Are you asking for another Rotherham?
Looking for Sharia law and for your kids to be force-fed Halal goat at primary school?
or to remain in the EU against your wishes?
Scottish nationalism? More like Marxist internationalism! Where are the Scots?
To allow smiling foreigners the right to try and dismantle the United Kingdom?
Do you want to witness "an EU tongue and Urdu (Pakistani) pass Welsh as Britain's second language?"
Well that's exactly what immigration expert Jack Sen has told us WILL happen by 2018 "unless we don't immediately leave the EU and place an immediate moratorium on non-western immigration."
"I don't have anything against anyone, however doesn't it makes sense for Welsh to remain the second most spoken language in Britain? For Britain to remain, well…..British?" Sen added during our conference call.
So why is this happening, you ask?
"Votes, globalisation and anti-British sentiment by the ruling elite." It is simple as that. Labour actually admitted as much a few weeks back.
Sandstrom says that "Our Islamic population, as well as that of our EU newcomers were imported as part of a scheme to weaken Britain's conservative indigenous culture, with cheap labour and people that vote left. This was in fact admitted by Jewish Labour minister Peter Mandelson last week when he stated for the record that the Labour party 'sent out search parties' to bring migrants here after losing the votes of the working class to Margaret Thatcher and now UKIP."
That's apparently why the British Muslim league has called Britain's Labour Party, the "right choice for the UK's Islamic population." (see video at bottom)
"The Left also has an aversion to the notion that Britain should sit at the head of anything-ie the Commonwealth. I ask; why play fourth fiddle to France, Germany and Poland in the EU when we can sit as rightful head of the glorious Commonwealth table, in front of the great nations of Australia, Canada, South Africa and New Zealand-culturally compatible nations we in fact spawned! Although our economic growth is greater than our EU neighbours, it is well behind the nations we have most in common with. Why? Because we simply can't trade with them as we'd like to, and are being crippled by EU bureaucracy….There's a reason black African migrants are literally dying to leave France for Britain."
Sen continues, "Wonder why you see so little New Zealand lamb in our supermarkets? You can thank our membership in the EU for that. The European Union all but prevents us from trading with the nations we have most in common with. Opting out of the EU doesn't mean we can't do business with Europe, just that we shouldn't have to subsidise Eastern & Southern European nations and let in millions of their migrants, just for the right to do so."
Sen is spot on!
Britain should have the right to choose who and who cannot gain entry into our nation by implementing a merit based immigration policy – similar to the one successfully implemented in Australia. Britain's inability to dictate its own immigration policy means we are unable to accept the doctors, nurses and engineers; often hailing from Commonwealth nations like SA, Australia and New Zealand that we need to successfully drive our economy. These people typically have the financial means to reside here without government assistance, and have as much to offer us, as we do them.
Quite remarkably, thousands of British nationals are struggling to bring their spouses and families over from Canada, Australia and South Africa, because of how overstretched we are as a nation. This is a grave injustice that UKIP will also do its utmost to rectify."
Sen also explained that Britain's increasing euro scepticism, is "why a large percentage of 'Scots' that voted to leave the UK were in fact either Islamic immigrants or EU migrants." Also sounds about right. Didn't think Scots, in spite of the good natured rivalry, hated us as much as Alex Salmond (Salomon) does.
It's also why Labour has shills/plants canvassing votes on foreign forums, prints out pamphlets in 23 languages (including Urdu, Arabic, Polish, Lithuanian, Russian and Swahili) and doesn't give a toss about it's once bread and butter – British white working class family anymore.
Yes, you heard that right. They courted the EU migrant vote as they have the Islamic vote.
Why would they do such a heinous thing?
The working class white British population along with successful non-Muslim immigrants are voting conservative and now most worrisome for the Lib Lab Con regime…..UKIP! This is also why Labour's Harriet Harman literally HATES South Africans and refers to Afrikaners as 'racist bastards'..
So if you want to continue to hand your nation to the immigrant population and OUR Marxist owners, continue to vote for commie Labour! Enjoy the video.
Before the misguided White Internationalists that visit our site rejoice, thinking this is a good thing, as it will keep the culturally incompatible people of Pakistan and Nigeria out of Europe – let me make one thing abundantly clear. People that apply for immigration into Britain from commonwealth nations, have to prove income, education, skill set and that they have the cash in hand to live in the UK without the assistance of government social benefits. They also need to be proficient in English, something our EU newcomers do not.
It might also stop foreign born people getting £55,000 in benefits a year.
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Rant by Veronika Andrejeva (Russian name, British heart and soul) with an interview with leading British immigration & Commonwealth expert and UKIP parliamentary candidate, J. Sen
Combating Mass Immigration /
British nationalist organisation targets evil Islamist and British Homosexualist Left-wing alliance
Great Britain /
How Multiculturalism and mass immigration ruined my native Birmingham and turned me into a British nationalist
‹ My Right as a Slightly Mixed Race Afrikaner (combined 4.2% black African lineage) to Black Economic Empowerment (BEE)	› SELFBESKIKKING VIR AFRIKANERS – AKKOORD VAN GENL. CONSTAND VILJOEN, 1994


As part of our next year, Cloughleigh Connect group have invited Mali & Trevor Ó Clochartaigh. They are from An Cheathrú Rua in Connemara and have been involved in marriage preparation at Esker Monastery, near Athenry, for the last eighteen years. They have five children, from six to twenty two years of age and know first hand the challenges and joys that family life can bring about. They will share some of their experience of living their Marriage Sacrament out in everyday ways and why family and faith are important in their everyday life. They will speak at the Masses in Cloughleigh next weekend Dec. 10th @ 8 & 11AM.


Unmalted oats are the key ingredient in brewing oatmeal stouts and adding a little 'something special' to homebrew recipes.
If I am making an extract kit, do I have to do a mash with these oats, or can I seep them with the grains?
BEST ANSWER: Steeping flaked grains will work fine as long as time is given for the steep. Just make sure that you give them a stir while steeping for good water/grain interaction.