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Q: How to make android layout background transparent?
How to make RecyclerView item background transparent I need to show background image?
I tried 3 solutions given in Stack Overflow and not worked for me
1 : android:background="?android:attr/selectableItemBackground"

2 : android:background="@android:color/transparent"

3 : alpfha 0.4

udated i also tried
4: android:background="@null" (Answer from this post) and not working

full xml code

A: Try to give this on your item CardView
 app:cardBackgroundColor="@android:color/transparent"

A: Try this:
1)      In your manifest make that activity theme to Transparent-
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
package="com.androidhub4you.transparent.background"
android:versionCode="1"
android:versionName="1.0" >

<uses-sdk
    android:minSdkVersion="8"
    android:targetSdkVersion="18" />

<application
    android:allowBackup="true"
    android:icon="@drawable/logo"
    android:label="@string/app_name"
    android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >
    <activity
        android:name="com.androidhub4you.transparent.background.MainActivity"
        android:theme="@android:style/Theme.transparent"
        android:label="@string/app_name" >
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>
</application>

2)      Now your page will be 100% transparent, so if you need some background color then set opacity like-
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#80000000"
tools:context=".MainActivity" >

it helps you.

A: So for the layout you are inflating for the item you can use
android:background="@null"
You can also use developer options on your device to see layout bounds or check the view hierarchy to see which item is giving you problems

A: First add this style in styles.xml

then add this line in AndroidManifest.xml below the corresponding activity
android:theme="@style/Theme.Transparent"/>

hope it helps.

A: set all layout backgrouncolor= '#00000000' also to your Recycleview background color to achieve this view

A: set transparent color  in your view
#80000000


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Folks Out There Have a "Distaste of Western Civilization and Cultural Values"
by Edward S. Herman (US)
Edward S. Herman, Professor Emeritus of Finance at the Wharton School (Pennsylvania, US), reflects on the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.
One of the most durable features of the U.S. culture is the inability or refusal to recognize U.S. crimes. The media have long been calling for the Japanese and Germans to admit guilt, apologize, and pay reparations. But the idea that this country has committed huge crimes, and that current events such as the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks may be rooted in responses to those crimes, is close to inadmissible. Editorializing on the recent attacks ("The National Defense," Sept. 12), the New York Times does give a bit of weight to the end of the Cold War and consequent "resurgence of ethnic hatreds," but that the United States and other NATO powers contributed to that resurgence by their own actions (e.g., helping dismantle the Soviet Union and pressing Russian "reform"; positively encouraging Slovenian and Croatian exit from Yugoslavia and the breakup of that state, and without dealing with the problem of stranded minorities, etc.) is completely unrecognized.
The Times then goes on to blame terrorism on "religious fanaticism...the anger among those left behind by globalization," and the "distaste of Western civilization and cultural values" among the global dispossessed. The blinders and self-deception in such a statement are truly mind-boggling. As if corporate globalization, pushed by the U.S. government and its closest allies, with the help of the World Trade Organization, World Bank and IMF, had not unleashed a tremendous immiseration process on the Third World, with budget cuts and import devastation of artisans and small farmers. Many of these hundreds of millions of losers are quite aware of the role of the United States in this process. It is the U.S. public who by and large have been kept in the dark.
Vast numbers have also suffered from U.S. policies of supporting rightwing rule and state terrorism, in the interest of combating "nationalistic regimes maintained in large part by appeals to the masses" and threatening to respond to "an increasing popular demand for immediate improvement in the low living standards of the masses," as fearfully expressed in a 1954 National Security Council report, whose contents were never found to be "news fit to print." In connection with such policies, in the U.S. sphere of influence a dozen National Security States came into existence in the 1960s and 1970s, and as Noam Chomsky and I reported back in 1979, of 35 countries using torture on an administrative basis in the late 1970s, 26 were clients of the United States. The idea that many of those torture victims and their families, and the families of the thousands of "disappeared" in Latin America in the 1960s through the 1980s, may have harbored some ill-feelings toward the United States remains unthinkable to U.S. commentators.
During the Vietnam war the United States used its enormous military power to try to install in South Vietnam a minority government of U.S. choice, with its military operations based on the knowledge that the people there were the enemy. This country killed millions and left Vietnam (and the rest of Indochina) devastated. A Wall Street Journal report in 1997 estimated that perhaps 500,000 children in Vietnam suffer from serious birth defects resulting from the U.S. use of chemical weapons there. Here again there could be a great many people with well-grounded hostile feelings toward the United States.
The same is true of millions in southern Africa, where the United States supported Savimbi in Angola and carried out a policy of "constructive engagement" with apartheid South Africa as it carried out a huge cross-border terroristic operation against the frontline states in the 1970s and 1980s, with enormous casualties. U.S. support of "our kind of guy" Suharto as he killed and stole at home and in East Timor, and its long warm relation with Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos, also may have generated a great deal of hostility toward this country among the numerous victims.
Iranians may remember that the United States installed the Shah as an amenable dictator in 1953, trained his secret services in "methods of interrogation," and lauded him as he ran his regime of torture; and they surely remember that the United States supported Saddam Hussein all through the 1980s as he carried out his war with them, and turned a blind eye to his use of chemical weapons against the enemy state. Their civilian airliner 655 that was destroyed in 1988, killing 290 people, was downed by a U.S. warship engaged in helping Saddam Hussein fight his war with Iran. Many Iranians may know that the commander of that ship was given a Legion of Merit award in 1990 for his "outstanding service" (but readers of the New York Times would not know this as the paper has never mentioned this high level commendation).
The Iraqis then had their turn. Saddam moved from valued ally in the 1980s, whose use of "weapons of mass destruction" against Iran and the Iraqi Kurds caused no problem at all with his U.S. and British friends, to "another Hitler" upon his invasion of Kuwait in 1990. Suddenly his possession of "weapons of mass destruction" became an extremely urgent matter as the man had demonstrated an inability to follow orders. The war and "sanctions of mass destruction" that followed have killed more than a million Iraqis, and in the well-know words of Madeleine Albright, questioned on whether the death of 500,000 Iraqi children was justified by the U.S. policy ends, saying "it is worth it." No doubt this is so within Albright's system of "cultural values," but understandably many Iraqis will feel differently and may view the United States as the true "evil empire."
The unbending U.S. backing for Israel as that country has carried out a long-term policy of expropriating Palestinian land in a major ethnic cleansing process, has produced two intifadas-- uprisings reflecting the desperation of an oppressed people. But these uprisings and this fight for elementary rights have had no constructive consequences because the United States gives the ethnic cleanser arms, diplomatic protection, and carte blanche as regards policy.
All of these victims may well have a distaste for "Western civilization and cultural values," but that is because they recognize that these include the ruthless imposition of a neoliberal regime that serves Western transnational corporate interests, along with a willingness to use unlimited force to achieve Western ends. This is genuine imperialism, sometimes using economic coercion alone, sometimes supplementing it with violence, but with many millions--perhaps even billions--of people "unworthy victims." The Times editors do not recognize this, or at least do not admit it, because they are spokespersons for an imperialism that is riding high and whose principals are not prepared to change its policies. This bodes ill for the future. But it is of great importance right now to stress the fact that imperial terrorism inevitably produces retail terrorist responses; that the urgent need is the curbing of the causal force, which is the rampaging empire.

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The Mississippi Ordinance Plant, also known as the Mississippi Army Ammunition Plant is located in Hancock County, Mississippi at 30°23′48″N 89°36′31″W. The facility is part of a larger compound, the Stennis Space Center which serves as the National Space Technology Laboratories facility for NASA. The ammunition manufacturing portion of the area covers 4,337 acres (6.77 square miles) in a rural wooded area of the State. The ordinance manufacturing area is bordered to the east and west by Dummy Line Road and Mainline Road respectively. The northern border is marked by Leonard Kimble Road and the southern by Access Road. The Mississippi Ordinance Plant is located in the southern area of the State approximately 70 miles from the waters of Lake Borgne and the Gulf of Mexico and approximately 60 miles from the Louisiana Mississippi state line. The climate of the area is classified as subtropical humid and experiences year round warm weather. Occasional cold spells come through the area in winter months and despite being father inland it is still occasionally affected by tropical storms and hurricanes.
Construction of the Mississippi Ordinance Plant began in 1978 with the intention of being the first government owned contractor operated munitions plant in the United States and the first (and only) Army ammunition plant constructed after the Korean War conflict. It was to be the first integrated plant for production, assembly and packaging of artillery projectiles and propellants by combining a cargo metal part area, projectile metal parts area, load and assemble area and pack area all in one facility.
Construction was completed on schedule in 1983 and the facility was dedicated March 31, 1983. The facility was under 100% contractor control and employed a large group of civilian employees. In 2005 as part of the Base Realignment and Closure Commission recommendations the Mississippi Ordinance Plant to was slated to close in order to save the Department of Defense and estimated 32.4 million dollars. All functions of artillery munitions manufacturing would be moved to Rock Island Arsenal in Illinois. The facility was deactivated in March 4, 2009 and the area was taken back under control by NASA. At its closing the Mississippi Ordinance Plant was under the control of a subsidiary of Mason and Hanger-Silas Co, Mason Technologies, Inc.
The Primary mission of the Mississippi Ordinance Plant was full scale manufacturing of grenade-loaded 155mm Howitzer rounds with both armor piercing and anti personnel capabilities for the United States Army. The Facility combined four separate production lines in one area in order to transform raw material into usable munitions without having to incorporate additional outside resources. At its peak the Mississippi Ordinance Plant was capable of producing and packaging 120,000 rounds of M483Al 155mm Howitzer projectiles.
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U.S. Customs & Border Protection seized almost $400,000 USD that was part of a bulk cash smuggling incident in the middle of March at the Port of San Juan, in Puerto Rico.
The story is interesting because of its novelty. The amazing ability of CBP officers do detect when things are "off" is also on display in this story. Basically, a cargo ship was leaving Puerto Rico with two vehicles within it (and presumably, much more other cargo).
The vehicles were inspected, and inside was found 2 "excessively heavy" 55 gallon barrels of liquid paint. Inside the barrels were 72 packages of currency totaling $384,840 dollars.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officers seized over $390K concealed inside two vehicles in separate incidents last week in the Port of San Juan.
On Mar. 11, during the boarding process at the ferry M/V Maestro Universe, bound to the City of Santo Domingo, CBP officers inspected two (2) excessively heavy 55 gallon barrels of liquid paint, finding seventy-two (72) packages of unreported currency inside. The currency amounted to $384,840.
In another cardboard barrel, Officers found a vacuumed pack bag from a Lipton Ice Tea container with $10,000 in 100-dollar bills.
U.S. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) assumed custody of the seized currency for further investigation.
The story ends unusually, but not uncommonly, be explaining the travelers can transport more than $10,000 so long as they report the money. However, that warning doesn't seem to be a factor here — because it was a cargo ship, no one was traveling with the money such that they could have reported in that manner.
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Ghardaia, Algeria
The M'zab valley is located in the middle of the northern part of the Algerian Sahara, in a secluded area with defensive features. The site began to be urbanized at the beginning of the 11th century and consists of five ksour (sing., ksar; fortified settlements), namely: Al-Atteuf (meaning the detour) established in 1011, Bou Noura (the luminous) in 1046, Ghardaïa (inter-mountainous area) which is the main city and established in 1053, Beni Isguen (the middle people) in 1124, and Melika (the royal) in 1347.
This group of five small cities (pentapolis) is commonly cited as an example of original architecture and urbanism, adapted to semi-desert conditions, but above all based on religious, social and moral principles. Indeed, clear planning principles appear in these five ksour. First, they are all built on a rocky spurs, invulnerable to erosion. Second, they are all picturesquely situated on a side of a hill, crowned by a great mosque with a pyramid-shaped minaret. Also, unlike the classical pattern of Islamic cities, they all have souks which are far from the great mosque, and near the gates of the cities to control access to the ksour. In fact, until now, no foreigner is allowed to circulate in the city without a guide.
There are many cemeteries in the M'zab valley, because each fraction buries its dead in a place of its own. The tombs are anonymous and have no inscriptions. Only broken pieces of pottery allow families to distinguish the graves from each other. In addition, each cemetery has a prayer hall or area, to perform funeral prayers (Salat al-Janaza).
The palm groves of the M'zab were artificially set up by local inhabitants with palm trees that were brought from surrounding areas. That of Beni Isguen is defended upstream by a masonry dam reducing the violence of floods which are most certainly rare, but very violent when they occur.
In December 1982, the pentapolis of M'zab was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Since then, the proliferation of uncontrolled constructions and transformations led to the degradation of the ksour. As a regulatory measure, the Algerian government issued a decree on June 4, 2005, establishing a boundary for safeguarded area. In 2007, a safeguarding and enhancement plan was initiated by the Ministry of Culture and the Wilaya (province) of Ghardaïa.
--Amine Kasmi, 2018
Cataldi, Giancarlo, Rasid Abdelhamid, and Fabio Selva. "The Town of Ghardaïa in M'zab, Algeria: Between Tradition and Modernity", Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review 7 (2) (1996).
Delaval, Bernard. "Urban communities of the Algerian Sahara," Ekistics 38 (227) (1974).
Hadj Nacer, Brahim. "Les espaces religieux au M'zab." In Espaces maghrébins: Pratiques et enjeux, Proceedings of the colloquium held in Taghit, 23-26 November 1987. Algiers: ENAG, 1989.
Safeguarding and development of the M'Zab Valley and its five fortified ksour (El Atteuf, Bou Noura, Beni Isguen, Melika and Ghardaïa), Algeria. Accessed February 03, 2019.
https://whc.unesco.org/en/280/?id=768&&
Variant names
M'zab Valley
مزاب (Original)
11th c. CE
Ghardaia (place)
open/public space, urban design and development
public square, residential quarter, street
brick, lime, mortar, mud brick, palm leaf
International Day of the World Indigenous Peoples
World Heritage Sites, earthen architecture, oases
Amine Kasmi
Medrassen
Boumia, Algeria
3rd c. BCE
Tomb of the Christian Woman
Tipaza, Algeria
1st c. BCE
Jami' al-Kabir (Algiers)
Algiers, Algeria
ca. 1096/489 AH; ca. 1324/724 AH Minaret; ca. 1836/1252 AH Facade
Jami' al-Kabir (Tlemcen)
Tlemcen, Algeria
ca. 1082/474 AH, rebuilt 1136/530 AH, dome and minaret ca. 1236/633 AH
El Mechouar
1145/540 AH, late 13th-Early 14th c./7th-8th c. AH, modified, 2010/1431 AH, restoration
Mosquée de Mansourah
Mansura, Algeria
ca. 1302/702 AH, ca.1336/737 AH reconstruction
Complex of Sidi Bu Medyan
late 12th century/6th century AH qubba, 1339/740 AH mosque, Late 18th century/early 13th century AH restorations to the complex
Bab al-Bahr
Béjaïa, Algeria
Masjid Sayyidi 'Uqba
Sidi Okba, Algeria
686/284 AH
Mosque of Qal'a Beni Hammad
Qal'a Beni Hammad, Algeria
1007-1008/397-398 AH, 1062-1089/454-481 AH (modified), second quarter 12th/early 6th century AH (modified), 1974 (minaret renovated)
Djamaa al-Kabir (Constantine)
Construction 1135/530 AH, restoration 1766/1180 AH
Palais Ahmed Bey
1826-1835/1241-1250 AH
Qasba (Algiers)
c. 960; 1516-1592 construction of Ottoman fortress; 1610 construction of Hamma aqueduct; ca.1832-1913 demolition of lower Casbah; 1988-1993 restoration of Bastion 23 in Lower Casbah;
Dar Mustapha Pacha
Dar Bakri
1570-75/977-82 AH; Expansion 1789/1203 AH
Dar Aziza
16th c.
Jami' al-Jadid
1660/1070 AH
Zawiya Sidi Abd al-Rahman
Jami' Ketchaoua
1612/1021 AH; 1794/1208 AH Enlarged
Gare d'Oran
Oran, Algeria
Grande Poste d'Alger
Masjid Hassan el-Bacha
Madrasa al-Thaâlibyya
Jami' Sidi al-Houari
1792/1206 AH minaret
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Democrats just passed a multi-trillion bill in the name of COVID relief which was stuffed with all kinds of pork.
Now it looks like they're going to do the same thing with infrastructure.
They're tying up money the country doesn't even have for political purposes.
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Also in the plan, the sources said: $400 billion for home care for the elderly and the disabled, $300 billion for housing, $300 billion to revive U.S. manufacturing, and $400 billion in clean-energy credits…
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President Biden is preparing to go to the mat for four tax increases worth about $1.8 trillion to help pay for his infrastructure and social safety net plans, advisers tell @HansNichols . https://t.co/89uh3zGiu4
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Don't blame you for showing off your aubergine – it's a whopper! I still haven't even got any flowers.
It's my first successful attempt at growing aubergines, so I'm not sure what to expect. Where do the flowers grow from – near the stem?
Okay – so looks like mine are starting to produce flowers now. Thanks for the info.


Honestly, I wouldn't grade it. What profile did you use to shoot it?
Also, whats with this camera and racetracks?
My camera arrived today. Just had a brief play around now after work and I love the ergonomics and all around feel of the camera in my hand! The 18-55 is just as lovely.
Pretty dark now in the evening, but AF was accurate at f4 and 6400 ISO and having LINEAR manual focus in the settings is a godsend!
Screengrab from today's shoot at Trek with the X-T3. 35mm F2, Acros. If I can share actual video legally, I will. Cyclocross footage competition is simply the best I've seen since the first time I shot with the C100 5 or 6 years ago. Auto focus worked really well, not perfect, not canon PDAF, but really really good.
Nice shot, this is one of those rare cameras with genuine mojo.
Is that straight out of camera?
Did you try face detection & tracking?
@androidlad yep, it's all face tracking. Any other features I can review for you?
Does it work accurately '99% of the time'?
What lenses are you using for? Only the 35mm f/2?
Can you add some test samples?
Could you identify the lenses you used shot by shot? By the way, what shot with GH5s?
Thanks! I'd love to see a low light ISO test with noise reduction all the way down to -4. Judging from the JPEG performance, X-T3 could potentially retain excellent detail up to 6400.
GH5S: From 4.55 - 5.28.
Keep in mind when shooting with Eterna you need to crank up the DR setting if in high contrast conditions.... which I did not do... as I was not aware of this information at the time. This is not an issue in FLog. The GH5S was set to use VLogL, so it was capturing maximum dynamic range.
Yeah I understand, just curious about the higher rolling shutter in 50/60P compared to 25P, 16ms/9ms almost 2x. Did you notice that? I though higher framerate usually result in lower rolling shutter.
Whici DR mode did you use for the comprison? DR mode is now available in video mode like X-H1, Fuji quotes 12 stops DR with DR400 and Eterna.
It's def not below 10ms, I'd say that Fuji probably is telling the truth. And 24fps and 60fps is actually very similar in 4k. 60 is slightly less rolling shutter. 1080p slightly faster as well. And there was no difference between boosted mode and normal performance.
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NYPD seeks to bridge divide with communities of color, Commissioner Shea says
NEW YORK (WABC) -- Calls for police reform are reverberating across the nation. An outraged public is demanding change after the death of George Floyd under the knee of a police officer.
"This is a problem that's always smoldering, and this ignited it and this isn't just really about policing," NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said. "This has to do with historic racism. This has to do with opportunity."
Commissioner Shea is already in the process of enacting sweeping reforms. He's disbanding the department's controversial anti-crime unit, reassigning roughly 600 plain closed officers and operating under strict new guidelines including the timely release of body cam footage.
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"This isn't a broken police department. This is a police department that has been for reform for the last six years, shea said. "We've put into place many of these things already."
Some critics of the police are even calling for defunding entire departments.
Right now, the New York City Council is considering cutting one billion dollars from the NYPD's budget.
Shea says he is concerned with the impact on public safety.
"Public safety. Really, when I think of that, only one word comes to mind - catastrophic," he said.
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Shea fears such a massive cut could lead to unintended consequences.
"Is it less cops on the street? Is it people waiting longer when you call the police?" Shea asked. "Let's make sure that whatever we do, doesn't put us in a worse place."
Earlier this month with the mother of Eric Garner at his side, Governor Andrew Cuomo repealed section 50-a, which shielded disciplinary records of police officers from the public.
"The 50-a was a significant one. I think you've got to own your bad mistakes. You've got to move forward and I think it creates a tremendous opportunity to build trust," Shea said.
But that trust has been tested by some officers who are repeat offenders of questionable conduct. During the past five years, 381 officers have been subjects of lawsuits five times or more leading to huge payouts.
NYPD settlements reached nearly $230 million dollars in 2018 alone.
"I think it needs a deeper look," Shea said. "Is it an officer that is perhaps just making bad decisions and perhaps should not be an officer anymore? One of the reasons why you have disproportionate number of police officers involved in disproportionate complaints is the assignment. And what assignments are they? And are we putting them in a position where they're having the potential for these negative interactions?
"This is where we - and I mean me - have failed because we have had a risk management bureau for about five years now," Shea said.
Some of these repeat offenders showed up in neighborhoods like Brownsville, Brooklyn where last year former police commissioner James O'Neill admitted -- black and brown residents have reason to be leery of over-policing after years of 'stop and frisk.'
Despite community policing, some neighborhoods are lagging. Shea says opportunity exists to bridge the divides.
"We are here for you. Be a part of the solution with us. We have to work together. We have also forged tremendous relationships over time and that has taken a hit and that's something we constantly have to work with," shea said.
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Rachel - I love the series. I haven't tried her latest series. I need to do that! Thanks for stopping by!
Sassy Brit - Doesn't it look good? I can't wait to read it. :-) Thanks for visiting.
Sarah - I am glad to hear you liked No Humans Involved so much. I can't wait to finally dive in. Thank you for stopping by!
I would definitely read The Ice Maiden. I've read one book about Antarctica, present day setting, but it was very interesting. Certainly a historical book would be good. I've had Armstrong on my list for a while, just not sure when I'll get to her first book.
Charlie - Antarctica isn't a setting I have spent much time in, but it certainly interests me. I've actually bounced a round a bit with Armstrong's series. I do think reading them in order is best, but they can be read as stand alones as well. Thank you for visiting!
I think Deadly News sounds really good and that puppy is too cute for words. Also, The Ice Maiden is one I've had my eye on. I love books set in cold regions, Antarctica especially. Enjoy, Wendy!
Kay - Isn't that an adorable cover? I love cozy covers. :-) Thank you for stopping by, Kay!
I have an arc of Deadly News because PUPPY! No surprise there huh? That Armstrong series is one of the few I have finished so yep, I think you need to catch up. I loved it and it remains one of my faves. Althought I actually ended up liking her Cainsville books better. And hey, I forgot I'm current with them too!
Barb - No, I am not surprised you would want to read Deadly News too. :-) Such a cute puppy. I do want to catch up in Armstrong's series. I've really enjoyed it. I haven't tried her Cainsville books yet, but I want to. Thank you for visiting!
Ashley - I think so too. :-) Thank you for stopping by!
I'd give The Ice Maiden a try just for the "bound for Antarctica" thing. Why is that continent so fascinating?
Lark - I know I would likely never want to live there given the cold. I am not a cold person! But I do find it fascinating to read about. Thank you for visiting!
I am stuck in the middle of more than a few series. I have some that I really will need to go back to the beginning to even try to remember what was happening. I really want to read more from Kelley Armstrong!
Carole - Me too. I am in the middle of so many . . . And I keep starting new ones! Haha Thank you for stopping by!
The Ice Maiden and Girls of Paper and Fire sound fascinating! The sexual abuse warning for Girls of Paper and Fire gives me pause too - I'll probably have to wait for reviews to see how it's handled before deciding if it's for me.
Eustacia - I am glad for the warning at least, so I can at least mentally prepare. Thanks for visiting!
I remember when Dress Shop of Dreams came out! I wanted it so much but then completely forgot about it. Turns out I still want it!
Katherine - I was so excited when it first came out! And then . . . Too many appealing sounding books, Katherine. That is our problem. I hope we both love this one when we get to it. Thank you for stopping by!
Nicole - No, the cover definitely doesn't hurt. :-) I hope it turns out to be really good! Thank you for visiting!
I read only the first one but I am not really comfortable with magic and remain skeptical throughout! Sorry.
Mystica - No apologies necessary. We all like what we like. I love books involving magic and the supernatural so this one is right up my alley.
Girls of paper and fire sounds awesome!
Nicci - I think so too! Thanks for stopping by!
The Dress Shop of Dreams and Girls of paper and fire intrigue me. I'm not keen on the sexual abuse of it either. I love the cover of the Ice Maiden, but I'm not sure if I'd enjoy it or not.
Amy - At least we know ahead of time and so can be a bit prepared, right? Hopefully all these will be good! Thank you for visiting!
Girls of Paper and Fire sounds so interesting, I can't wait to check some of these out (even though my TBR is already insane)! Great pick!
Yomna - Thank you! My TBR is pretty insane as well.


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Barry Rogenmoser and his Medina Mustangs enter the league in D3. He shared how the Mustangs came to be and their goals as a first year BDSL club.
BDSL: Thanks for joining us today Barry. Your side joins the league as our eastern most club. What prompted you guys to joining the league and why did you choose BDSL over RDSL that is similarly distance wise for you guys?
MM: Medina has been trying to get a men's league together for a while now, but this year we had a lot more interest because of our under-19 team falling through. Because of this anomaly, we were able to take the older and more talented players from that team, and combine them with our local alumni. We ultimately chose the BDSL over the RDSL because it's closer. However, Steven Anderson and I really enjoyed our time in the BDSL playing with Aurora Arsenal, and we knew that our guys would be talented enough to be extremely competitive in any of the starting divisions.
BDSL: So it sounds like this group will be used to playing together? Do you thing that early chemistry will help you guys in your first season vs other new teams? What sort of expectation do you guys have for year 1?
MM: For the most part, we've all played together at some point in time, whether that was during high school, in summer leagues, or at alumni games. I don't think our chemistry will develop instantly, but I believe once we do get back into it, we will be a powerhouse squad. Because it may take some time, we are going to orchestrate some preseason practices to hit our stride early, but when we do hit that stride--look out...because we are gunning for a promotion in year one.
BDSL: With Promotion the goal, what sort of style should we expect to be seeing out of your side? Do you have a preferred style of play you'd like to be using or do you thing that you'll have to adjust that once you guys see how the rest of the division stacks up.
MM: I think we will have to make adjustments as the season progresses. Honestly, it depends on the fitness level of the team. Don't get me wrong, we like fitness...but we would rather be fitness whole beer in our mouths than running a half marathon.
BDSL: So long as they are enjoyed post game haha. If you had to choose to win the Wood Cup or the D3 championship, which would it be?
MM: Winning Wood Cup would be a great way to make a name for ourselves as a new club; plus, we would get hella bragging rights. However, I think we would benefit more as a team from winning the D3 championship. That way we have a fantastic season under our belt and we can naturally progress into the D2 scene.
BDSL: Roster wise who would you think are the players to look out for on your team? Is their one big standout?
MM: Honestly, we don't have any single standouts. Our whole roster is full of really solid team players. We picked the best few guys from each Medina graduating class; many of us played in college or currently play in college. I am thankful that we don't have to rely on one star player. You could randomly pick any 11 players from our roster and the team would be successful.
BDSL: Is there anything you'd like the league to consider adding changing or improving upon?
MM: I can't think of anything as of right now, but maybe when the season starts I'll find a reason to complain.
BDSL: Anything else you want to add that we didn't talk about?
MM: Not that I can think of at the moment. We are just very grateful for the BDSL providing us with a league to play in and we are really excited for the season to begin.


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First lady Michelle Obama has been the traditional bearer of the gifts, which have been donated annually by White House staffers. But this time she decided to bring a pair of extra hands to the Washington military base where the unwrapped toys are collected. They brought about 1,000 items.
"I'm the big elf," Obama said as he introduced himself. He thanked the Marine Corps for starting the annual toy drive in the 1940s. Since then, the Toys for Tots campaign has distributed more than 469 million toys to more than 216 million less fortunate children, Obama said.
"That's a lot of dollhouses, that's a lot of Ninja Turtles," he said.
Before the Obamas got to work sorting the toys into boxes according to age and whether a particular item was for a boy or a girl, Mrs. Obama joked that the president might have a hard time sorting the gifts, saying he doesn't do much shopping.
"We'll watch him closely to see if he can figure out which ones are girls, zero to two, or unisex," she said.
Obama said he was "positive" that the "Call of Duty" video game was perfect for girls, zero to two. "Isn't that right?" he asked Mrs. Obama.
The joke was lost on the first lady, who confessed: "I wasn't listening."


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King's Road or Kings Road (or sometimes the King's Road, especially when it was the King's private road until 1830, or as a colloquialism by middle/upper class London residents), is a major street stretching through Chelsea and Fulham, both in west London. It is associated with 1960s style and with fashion figures such as Mary Quant and Vivienne Westwood. Sir Oswald Mosley's Blackshirt movement had a barracks on the street in the 1930s.[1]
King's Road runs for just under 2 miles (3.2 km) through Chelsea, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, from Sloane Square in the east (on the border with Belgravia and Knightsbridge) and through the Chelsea Design Quarter (Moore Park Estate) on the border of Chelsea and Fulham. Shortly after crossing Stanley Bridge the road passes a slight kink at the junction with Waterford Road, where it then becomes New King's Road, continuing to Fulham High Street and Putney Bridge; its western end is in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham.
King's Road derives its name from its function as a private road used by King Charles II to travel to Kew. It remained a private royal road until 1830, but people with connections were able to use it. Some houses date from the early 18th century. No. 213 has a blue plaque to film director Sir Carol Reed, who lived there from 1948 until his death in 1976. Thomas Arne lived at No. 215 and is believed to have composed "Rule Britannia" there. Ellen Terry lived in the same house from 1904 to 1920, and also Peter Ustinov; the house is commemorated by a blue plaque also. Photographer Christina Broom was born in 1862 at No. 8.
The world's first artificial ice rink, the Glaciarium, opened just off King's Road in 1876, and later that year it relocated to a building on the street.
During the 1960s the street became a symbol of mod culture, evoking "an endless frieze of mini-skirted, booted, fair-haired angular angels", one magazine later wrote.[2] King's Road was home in that decade to the Chelsea Drugstore (originally a chemist with a stylised chrome-and-neon soda fountain upstairs, later a public house, and more recently a McDonald's), and in the 1970s to Malcolm McLaren's boutique Let It Rock, which was renamed SEX in 1974, and then Seditionaries in 1977. During the hippie and punk eras it was a centre for counterculture, but has since been gentrified. It serves as Chelsea's high street and has a reputation for being one of London's most fashionable shopping streets. Other celebrated boutiques included Granny Takes a Trip.
484 King's Road was the headquarters of Swan Song Records, owned by Led Zeppelin. The company was closed and the building vacated in 1983. King's Road was the site of the first UK branch of Starbucks, which opened in 1999.
535 King's Road was the headquarters of Cube Records, an independent record label of the late 1960s and early 1970s. The label folded in the mid-1970s, becoming part of Elektra Records. The building has since been demolished but the new building on the same site still houses a record company.
The road has been represented in popular culture on various occasions: "King's Road" is the title of a song by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers from the 1981 album Hard Promises and is name-checked in the song "Dick a Dum Dum (King's Road)" which was a hit for Des O'Connor in 1969. In Ian Fleming's novels, James Bond lives in a fashionable unnamed square just off King's Road.
In the 1960s radio series Round the Horne, in the 'Jules and Sandy' section, their establishment (named 'Bona...'), is often located in the King's Road (for example, Bona Books in series 4).
Pet Shop Boys met in an electronics shop on King's Road in August 1981.
Planning and transport
The eastern part of King's Road is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London.[3]
Buses 11, 19, 22, 49, 211, 319, 328, and C3 all go down King's Road, yet most of these turn off the street at one point or another. The 11 and the 22 are the only routes which run the entirety of King's Road, with the 22 being the only route that runs all the way from Sloane Square to the end of New King's Road in Fulham.
Rail and Tube
The western end of King's Road is close to Imperial Wharf railway station on the London Overground network, with connections to Willesden Junction and Clapham Junction. Southern also run direct rail services to Milton Keynes Central and East Croydon from this station. At the eastern end of the street is Sloane Square, and Fulham Broadway lies at the western end, on the boundary between Chelsea and Fulham. King's Road, and the area of Chelsea as a whole, is known for having poor links to the London Underground. Due to this, the route of Crossrail 2 is proposed to have an underground station in this area, called King's Road Chelsea.
Chelsea Harbour Pier is also within easy reach of the western end of King's Road, with river bus services provided by London River Services and Thames Executive Charters to Putney and Blackfriars. Further east, the same services are also provided at Cadogan Pier, only a few blocks south of King's Road near the Albert Bridge.
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^ My Life, Sir Oswald Mosley, Thomson Nelson & Sons ltd., 1970
^ Seebohm, Caroline (19 July 1971). "English Girls in New York: They Don't Go Home Again". New York. p. 34. Retrieved 2015.
^ Mayor of London (February 2008). "London Plan (Consolidated with Alterations since 2004)" (PDF). Greater London Authority. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 June 2010.
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Let's find out some new devices here.
I am so excited to see the new Huawei MediaPad M2 10.0 and yes it has finally been unveiled.
The official price is PHP 16,700.00 in pesos.
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Welcome to the Andrew Jackson Centre in Boneybefore.
Boneybefore was a small village outside Carrickfergus where a family by the name of Donaldson had a 40 acre farm making butter, cheese, selling milk. The thatched cottage, built in 1750, is where the Donaldson family lived until the 1970's when the last Donaldson passed away and Carrickfergus Borough Council bought it with a view to turning it into a museum. About 200 yards down the road where the blue plaque is, a family by the name of Jackson lived in a small two room cottage.
Andrew (Sr.) and Elizabeth Jackson lived in the small cottage with their sons, Hugh and Robert. With them living so close to the Donaldson's, we think they may have worked on their farm.
When visitors come in for a tour of The Cottage one of the first questions asked is "Was Andrew Jackson, the President of the U.S., born here?" The answer is always "No".
In 1760 the French invaded Carrickfergus and Andrew Dobbs, the mayor of Carrickfergus at the time, went to England to ask for help to get rid of them. The English obliged and did indeed rid Ireland of the French and for his patriotism Andrew Dobbs was given 200,000 acres in the Carolinas in America by the crown.
Dobbs needed people to work his land. so he took over 250,000 people from Ulster to the Carolinas for a new start and the Jackson family was willing to go. While there, the Jacksons cut down trees, made a log cabin and got the land ready for farming. Unfortunately Andrew, Sr. died of exhaustion, leaving his two sons and his wife who was eight months pregnant with Andrew.
Elizabeth had to give up the land and went to live with her sister, Jane Crawford. Andrew was born in the Waxhaus area, of what is now South Carolina in 1767 and, as he grew up, his mother would tell him stories of faraway Carrickfergus.
The War of Independence broke out in America, the Americans wanting to cut ties with the crown in England and at the age of 13 Andrew enlisted with his two brothers into the fledgling American army. At one point, Andrew was given as a slave to a British officer who ordered him to shine his boots. Andrew said "No" and was rewarded with a slash across the chest from the officer's sword. He carried the scar all his life and was the first of many scars and battle wounds would receive.
During the war for American independence, young Hugh died of heat exhaustion. Andrew and his brother Robert were later captured and put in a British prisoner of war camp where they contracted small pox. Their mother soon bought her way in to nurse them. Unfortunately Robert was too far gone and he passed away.
Andrew was bought out of the camp, something that could be done back then by those with money, by his mother. He got his health back, but his mother stayed in the hospital ships to nurse the sick where she died of cholera.
Andrew was alone now but fortunately he received £400, equivalent to about £40,000 today, from his paternal grandfather in Carrickfergus who had heard of his plight. After sowing a few wild oats, Andrew then invested the remainder of his money into becoming a lawyer. He then got into politics and became a senator, becoming very involved in the government.
He met and fell in love with Rachel Donelson who also had Ulster roots. They married, but unfortunately never had children.
Jackson was a great soldier, being called Old Hickory by his troops. He was staunch, hard and took no flack from anyone. He led his troops into battle against the British, and on to victory in New Orleans, in 1815. From that, he and Rachel adopted two young Creek Indian boys and one of her nephews.
Jackson decided to run for the presidency. He won the race for the Whitehouse in 1829 but sadly Rachel died of a heart attack six weeks before he was inaugurated.
Jackson was the 7th president, and the first to have been born in America, and when he stepped down after two terms he left America with a zero debt. One of his main strategies was closing banks that were taking extra interest for the banks owners.
Andrew Jackson retired to The Hermitage, his plantation in Tennessee, but died in 1845 at the age of 78 from lead poisoning - lead that came from the bullets in his body from the various battles he had been involved in.
The Andrew Jackson Centre is now decorated in the style of the time when his family lived that short distance away, before they moved to America. It, and the adjoining museum to the US Rangers, are still owned and operated by Carrickfergus Borough Council. Admission is free and opening hours can be found on their website.


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Valentino's trousers are made of black plain-weave wool-mohair. Crafted in Italy, this lightweight pair is tailored for a slim fit.
Flat front. Set-on waistband. Belt loops. Pick-stitching.
10.0" rise, 36.5" inseam, 13.5" leg opening (approximately).
84% wool, 16% mohair. Lining: 100% viscose. Pocketing: 100% cotton.


The Kinesiology program prepares students for careers in the fitness/wellness profession, as well as research-oriented careers. Prospective employers include health clubs, recreational facilities, hospital-based wellness programs, cardiac rehabilitation programs and sports medicine clinics. Many exercise science majors use interdisciplinary studies to prepare for working with special populations such as senior citizens or owning their own fitness business such as personal training.


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2) See how you can put this development in context that is not too obvious, but just obvious enough to let people know what you're thinking. The general theme of "bonuses at the top, while ..." could trigger some thoughts.
3) If you're stumped on ways to get started, you could look at extra info in the story from the Post's Dan Eggen, or for numerical guidance turn to FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver, or for historical allusions to Peggy Noonan. Or you could go the other way altogether and remind people that since the first rule of political coverage is "the story always changes," we should be preparing for "Race tightens" / "Campaign strategy kicks in" / "Bonus money well spent" stories next week.
4) Have fun. In the words of the ancients: Give a person a blog item, and you can distract him or her for ten seconds. Teach that person to write blog items, and you can add distractedness forever.