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Las elecciones parlamentarias fueron realizadas en Noruega entre el 11 y 12 de septiembre de 1977. El Partido Laborista se posicionó como el partido más grande del Storting, tras obtener 76 de los 155 escaños.

Resultados

De los 7 escaños obtenidos por la lista conjunta, 5 quedaron para el Partido Demócrata Cristiano, 1 para el Partido de Centro, otro para el Høyre y el último para el Venstre.

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New horror movie, The Witch first caught my attention when it played at this year's Sundance Film Festival. Since it's premiere, it went on to gain some really positive reviews that are telling us that The Witch could be one of the best horror films of the year.
Back in 2007 writer/director Roger Eggers released a short film based on the classic Grimm Brothers fairy-tale, Hansel & Gretel. Now, 2015, he has went on to write a much darker take on the witch story.
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CELEBRATING ACHIEVEMENT GALA
By Denise Moore | October 25, 2016
BBA TO HONOR DR. JAMEL WRIGHT, DAWN & DAVE BOZEMAN, AND JANET & GEORGE DAVIS
ANNUAL BLACK BUSINESS ALLIANCE GALA SET FOR NOVEMBER 4TH
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The Black Business Alliance of Peoria's Annual 'Celebrating Achievement' Gala is set for
Friday November 4th, at The Gateway Building in downtown Peoria.
Comprised of more than 30 members, the BBA Peoria Chapter, is the owner of WPNV 106.3 FM Radio and the facilitator of monthly business meetings and workshops designed to spark business growth. Executive Director Denise Moore is the driving force behind the Minority Business Development Center, which is under construction in South Peoria. BBA members include business owners, entrepreneurs, angel investors, business professionals, and concerned citizens. The annual gala is the organization's major yearly fundraiser.
"We're at a stage where we can actually begin to take dramatic steps toward economic progress in the city", said BBA President Denise Moore. " We're putting major development projects on the landscape, we're changing the business narrative from negative to positive, and we're proving that we have what it takes to change things for the better."
This year's Gala honors five people, including (keynote speaker) Eureka College President,
Dr. Jamel Wright, Dawn and Dave Bozeman, and Janet and George Davis.
Our keynote speaker:
Dr. Jamel Wright...the first African-American and First Female President of Eureka College (the alma mater of former President Ronald Reagan). Dr. Wright is a visible, prominent and highly-respected professional and community member, locally and nationally. She is a skilled communicator, author and scholar whose training and expertise earned her an appointment to the Ferguson Commission's Citizen Law Enforcement Working Group on community policing, racial profiling, use of force, and mass demonstrations.
Dawn Bozeman...Dunlap School Board member and American Red Cross Tiffany Lady
Dave Bozeman...Caterpillar Vice President and Philanthropist
Janet and George Davis...Longtime business owners of Janet's Just For You and Style Show
"These individuals are visionaries, who have made tremendous contributions to our community and deserve to be recognized", says Moore.
The BBA Annual Gala is a fundraiser for the soon to be completed Minority Business Development, located at 2139 SW Adams. When completed, the MBDC will provide business education and technical assistance, administrative support for small businesses and contractors and also provide business office incubator space for entrepreneurs. The MBDC houses WPNV 106.3FM radio station, administrative offices, and is owned and operated by the BBA.
"This is an exciting time, full of opportunities", says Moore. "We finally have the components in place to begin a business renaissance throughout the region. The MBDC is the only organization in Peoria, providing the coordinated level of assistance specifically focused on the unique needs of ethnic minorities, women and veterans. "
"Celebrating achievement within the African-American community has become more important each day. Showing our support for those in the community that seek to lift us all up, rather than drag the community down signals to our youth that all is not as lost as what they see on television today. It is important to come out and demonstrate your support", says Moore.
At the Gala, attendees will be treated to a video presentation, tracking the progress of the Minority Business Development Center, to include a pictorial representation of African-American businesses in the Peoria area. The Celebrating Achievement Gala will be hosted by Denise and Garry Moore, and besides acknowledging the honorees, it will feature great food by Mama G's, decorations by Michelle Sanders, and musical entertainment by Marwin Spiller.
Tickets for the Black Business Alliance of Peoria's Annual 'Celebrating Achievement' Gala are $50 each and $500 for a table of 10. Our souvenir book will contain listings of area Black businesses and advertising opportunities are available. Both tickets and ads can be purchased from our website at www.bbapeoria.org/celebrating-achievement, Smo-King Pit BBQ locateed in Northwoods Mall and at Janet's Just For You boutique located on Sheridan or by calling 309-966-3989 extension 4.
The Black Business Alliance of Peoria's Annual 'Celebrating Achievement' Gala begins at 6pm on Friday November 4th, at The Gateway Building in downtown Peoria. For more information, you may call 309-966-3989 extension 4.
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Tabby Davoodi
A Child in the Islamic Republic
Last night, I attended a speech given by Tabby Davoodi, an Iranian Jew whose family escaped from the Islamic Republic in 1988 and who was invited to speak at the University of Illinois about the Iranian regime and her experiences growing up there before she and her family fled to America.
"I'm not here for any sort of advocacy," she explained at the outset of the speech. "I'm not here to make you pro-Iran or to make you anti-Iran. I'm just here to share some history and to tell a story."
Davoodi recounted many facts about the history of the country, starting with basic information about the Shah, and then moving on to the Islamic revolution.
"The Shah were actually very pro-Jew; they didn't want to start a brain drain," she told the audience. "But when the revolution started, a lot of people, a lot of Jews, could tell that something bad was coming, they started to get out."
Davoodi's family did not actually leave the country at that time, and Davoodi herself was born a few years after the successful conclusion of the revolution. She then went on to show the audience an old school photo of herself, complete with a Muslim headscarf, and recounted a story from her childhood education in Iran:
"At the end of the school day, every day, we were forced to chant, 'Death to Israel! Death to America!' Of course, I was only six years old, I didn't even know what Israel and America were, but I didn't want to wish death to anyone, so my sister and I actually staged a small rebellion. We decided to chant, 'Death to smarties!' instead. Smarties were a sort of knock-off candy, a cheap version of M&M's. Of course, the teachers eventually caught us, and the entire school was ushered into the auditorium. The principal said, 'Children, we've been getting reports that you've been questioning what your teachers are telling you.' I'd never heard the word 'questioning' uttered in such an ominous tone. I thought we had landed our family in prison, that we would go to jail but the principal then said, 'We want you to know that when you say "Death to America!" you're not actually wishing anyone death, you're wishing for death to the regime.' But when I thought about that, I wondered, 'Well if we're not wishing death to the American people, then who are we wishing death to? Who's actually doing the dying, if not the people?'"
From there, Davoodi went on to share some information about the Iranian regime, including the fact that Hezbollah, Hamas and Palestinian Jihad were all funded, trained and equipped by Iran, as are many of the insurgents who are fighting our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. She showed some pictures of Ahmadinejad hugging leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah, and said that they were basically all controlled by Iran. "One of the things my mother used to say when she put my sister and me to bed was, 'If you don't go to sleep, Hezbollah will get you.' So we all knew who was behind Hezbollah, that it wasn't the Lebanese people."
From there, she went on to the Iran-Iraq war, which went on for eight years and claimed millions of lives.
"One of the things that happened during the war," she explained, "was that the Iraqis laid down lots of mines. And of course, back in those days there was only one way to find a mine, by stepping on it. So the regime went out and took these young boys from impoverished areas. They brought them out to the fields, and they handed each of them a golden key. They were told, 'My sons, you see that field? Run out towards there, and when you've completed your mission, this key will open the gates of Heaven.'"
It was towards the conclusion of the war that Davoodi's family finally decided to flee the country. "Towards the end of the war, the Iraqis started to bomb Tehran, where we lived," she said. "It was Armageddon. The sky was on fire. And one night, we were outside our house, and my father grabbed me under one arm and my sister under the other, and my mother was behind us, and we just fled."
Once the personal part of her story as a subject of the regime had been concluded, she then moved on to describe some of the human rights violations of the regime, including the fact that women were stoned, and that the regime was/is the biggest executer of child-offenders in the world.
"I want you to think about what it means," she said, "what it says about a regime that feels this way about the value of human life. I want you to think about how such a regime will treat its citizens, will treat its neighbors. But I especially want you to think about how this will cause a regime to treat its enemies. If this is what it is willing to do to its friends, then what would it be willing to do to its enemies?"
She then went on to describe some of the activities that Ahmadinejad has been engaged in more recently, such as his denial of the Holocaust, his recent assertions before the UN that America perpetrated 9/11 to save the US economy and the "Zionist Regime," and his statement that, "A world without America and Israel is both possible and feasible."
"One of the most important things you can do is education," she told the audience. "If you educate yourself, if you educate others, than people will thank you. Our troops will thank you. The victims of these terrorist groups around the world will thank you. The Iranian people will thank you. And I will thank you."


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Acoustic Sciences Corporation's Art Noxon discusses the Tube Trap built Quick Sound Field.
Long room modes are controlled by front and back wall bass traps.
In the perception of sound, early reflections are corrolated with the direct signal by the listener. Comb coloration effects arise when there are too few specular, coherent reflections. Masking develops with random phase, incoherent reflections. An early arriving, statistically diffuse group, composed of coherent reflections with random time offsets produces excellent sound fusion. Essentially an acoustic presence effect, applications include digital sampling, instrument and vocal recording, and speech therapy for hearing impaired.
A clean, direct signal is the most common " signal of choice " in the recording world. The rationale is that any desired effect can always be added later with processing. Even the most primitive, one-man jingle shop has a tiny closet, its interior covered with sound absorptive foam or fiberglass. Inside the "box" is a basic vocal booth, a mic, windscreen and eventually, the talent.
An acoustic system has been developed to saturate the sound fusion (Haas effect) time period with a group of statistically diffuse coherent reflections. Three years ago, the design strategy, mechanical configurations and the acoustic signatures for this technique was introduced at the AES as a digital sampling booth. This acoustic conduction has since been coined QSF, which stands for "Quick Sound Field". Here is presented a follow up report covering some of the applications for this acoustic technique which have developed since its introduction.
An anechoic recording space may seem simple in concept but it is difficult in practice. Early reflections usually do exist - off of the script stand, paper, window, light fixtures, the floor and other patches of sound reflecting surface. A real-world vocal booth has any number of discrete reflections and resonance problems that add to and color the direct signal. A highly absorptive space that is somewhat acoustically dirty is most difficult for the engineer to mic and for talent to work in.
Mic placement is very sensitive to the coloration effects of discrete early reflections and resonance. The sound of the talent is colored by the effects of the mic position. Often, setting up means no more than choosing the best coloration effects. Since consistent sound of an audio track is very important to the engineer, dubs take an inordinate amount of time as the engineer fishes for mic and talent positions in the room, trying to recapture the coloration of the prior day's work.
A dead vocal booth provides little to no acoustic feedback for the talent. Talent suffers sensory deprivation while in the box. A monitor system is essential for talent to be able to adjust intonation in real time. Electronics and earphones are resorted to in the absence of a natural acoustic return. This then further contributes to isolation of the talent in that the direct sound path of their voice is also cut off. By the time traditional recording techniques have been applied, the only natural acoustic feedback left for talent is conduction through the jawbone.
Sensory deprivation and coloration effects found in a typical vocal booth limit its effectiveness. Time is a shortage commodity in the studio. Wasted time in any business, especially the recording studio is to be avoided. The typical vocal booth wastes studio time. Setting up a mic is a delicate time consuming balancing act - talent and mic position vs. room color. Retakes due to a lack of real time acoustic monitoring for the talent takes up additional studio time. A dub is very difficult to set up in order to recapture the original sound. And then, there is the post processing time spent in the effects rack trying to convert the track into a lifelike, naturally bright and open sound.
It is to be expected that the traditional vocal booth will eventually be redefined, steps taken to bolster its positive features and reduce the negative effects. One form of this is accomplished by putting to work the Haas effect in which early reflections are corrolated with the direct signal. By arranging for a diffuse group of coherent early reflections, the room coloration effects that appear when there are too few reflections are averaged out. Any low level discrete reflections that might remain are overwhelmed by the diffuse reflections. The diffusion must also be rapidly attenuated in order to not stretch into the echo effect time period, outside of 50 ms. Therefore, in addition to a strong diffusing function, this new class vocal booth must retain a very fast decay rate.
The generally recommended ETC for control rooms is a direct signal followed by an early time gap (ETG) due to a reflection-free zone. Outside of this is found a diffuse room ambience with an RT60 of about 1/5 to 1/2 second. The purpose of the ETG is to allow the engineer to hear local colorations of the signal at the mic. It is therefore 50 to 40 ms long, the time of the Haas or sound fusion effect.
The ETC for a voice over (VO) booth has to fit inside of the ETG of the control room. The VO Booth has to be at least 50 dB within the 55 ms ETG. The VO Booth RT60 ought to be on the order of 70 ms.
The only remaining detail is to establish the content of the decay envelope of the VO Booth. There are two phases to the very early reflections. Echolocation cues occur within the first 5 ms. Ambience and coloration effects occupy the balance of the time period.
The direct signal needs to have a 5 ms very early time gap (VETG). This allows time delay phase pan techniques to be used by the engineer. Beyond the echolocation time gap lies the rapidly decaying ambience signal.
If there are just a few discrete reflections, mic ambience is colored due to phase add and cancel effects. If there are no reflections, we have the dead room sound and no ambience. We could have many reflections at the mic. If they are orderly, as with a flutter echo, they would produce coloration. If disorderly, they would create colorless ambience. However, the quality of these reflections needs to be carefully specified.
The ear/brain system is a sound processor. But, so is a mic/spectrum analyzer. While they both recognize the spectral character of sound, there are important differences. The ear/brain acts as a correlation type signal detector. The very early reflections are correlated with the direct signal. By this process the early reflections are additive to and enhance the definition of the perceived signal. This is not news - it is the well known Haas, precedence, or sound fusion effect.
On the other hand, a correlation signal processor differentiates between two types of echo. The coherent reflection has a simple time delay offset but otherwise is a phase aligned representation of the direct signal. An incoherent reflection can also be time delayed but is a phase scrambled representation of the direct signal.
An envelope of statistically diffuse but coherent early reflections that lies within the 50 ms time window of the Haas effect comprises a near field ambience effect that adds to the quality of the direct signal. The composite signal has more top end, is brighter and more natural. It is a more open sound and with air. Statistically diffuse, Haas effect ambience is an acoustic enhancement technique that puts signal that the engineers prefer onto tape.
This class of vocal booth must retain a very fast decay rate and in addition develop a strong diffusion function. It typically has an RT-60 decay time of 80 to 100 ms and a diffusion rate of over 1000 reflections per second. The booth has absorbers and reflectors distributed over its entire interior surface. The component of direct sound that hits a reflector is backscattered, partially back towards the mic, partially into an absorptive strip and partially onto other reflectors. This process uses only specular and diffractive diffusion to maintain the coherent quality in its early reflections.
The mean free path in these small rooms is about 4 feet. The broadband absorption coefficient is about 50%. That means the expanding wave front loses about 5 dB every 4 ms. This pencils out to a 60 dB decay in 80 ms and to a 60 dB decay in 80 ms. The wall of such a vocal booth would likely have reflectors alternating with absorption on about 9 inch centers. A 5 foot wide wall would splinter a flat wave front into maybe 7 separately expanding reflections. This sound scattering process continues throughout the decay. The result is easily counted in the ETC and one to two separate reflections per millisecond is the diffusion pate. For all practical purposes, the mic receives a direct signal followed by 4 to 5 ms of no sound; then, as the first arrivals hit, so begins the controlled decay/diffusion process in the room.
A typical vocal booth has a window. In designer studios it would be tilted to not reflect signal into the mic. In a highly diffuse/absorptive room there should not be a large area of untreated reflection regardless of the angle. Current practice in these rooms sees tall, absorptive/reflective wall mounted acoustic units with narrow strips of wall space between. The free wall space between the acoustic control units can easily be glass or plexiglass strips which provides a mope open feeling in an otherwise small room. Visual openness contributes to mope comfort for the talent in long recording sessions.
The statistical populated envelope of very early, coherent reflections is essential to the stability of the acoustic space inside the booth. Engineers report a wide and smooth acoustic space. They even lose track of which mic is open and have to mark the faders. Usually, in a more traditional rooms an engineer simply hears which mic is where. In a statistically diffuse space, the mic position can be changed without changing the envelope. It is the envelope that is distinguishable and not its internal detail. Moving the mic only changes the fine structure as to which reflection arrives when and how strongly. This does not change the statistical envelope or the quality of sound. In a room 4 foot by 6 foot, there would be a 2 x 4 foot central area in which the sound remains uniform, regardless of mic or sound source location.
The floor plane is a large reflecting surface. It is left untreated, to be an acoustic mirror effectively doubling the height of the room. Ceiling treatment must be accordingly more severe to keep the vertical decay and diffusion rate up with that of the walls.
The Haas ambience effect can be approximated out in the open room or field - of course, not to the degree available in an iso booth format, but this QSF gobo setup boosts the signal to noise ratio at the mic by 5 to 7 dBA. This is accomplished by increasing the "direct" signal strength I to 2 dB while reducing the room noise by 4 to 5 dB.
This " gobo " is not the large, flat rug-covered plywood gobo of years past. The present method is to use a set of 7 to 9 sound control units, typically placed on 18" centers in a horseshoe pattern. The mic is located in the middle and the talent occupies the open heel end of the pattern. These Traps have two sides. The broadband absorptive side faces outward to intercept inbound room noise and reflections. The membrane reflective side, effective 400 Hz and above, faces inward to produce the statistical group of early coherent reflections. In this system, absorption is replaced by transmission. Sound is not absorbed between the reflectors. It is leaked out of the space. In either case controlled decay and diffusion take place.
Gain of the "direct" signal is accomplished by adding very early multiple reflections of the direct signal to the direct signal. This is completed within the first 50 ms of the sound fusion time period. Although sound fusion generally lasts 50 to 60 ms, a "smearing" accompanies the presence of strong, late high frequency reflections. This is undesirable for the recording engineer. The end of the sound fusion period marks the onset of echo detection. For lower frequencies the echo onset time is later and for highs, sooner than 50 ms.
In the QSF method of developing the statistical ambience, the comb filter effect associated with any individual reflection does not occur due to the large number of random time offset reflections. With 20 to 50 reflections occupying a time span of 20 to 25 ms, the comb filter effect that would arise with any one reflection is obscured by the averaging effect of the other reflections.
A good signal at the mic can be time delayed for stereo phase pan positioning. The echolocation process occurs within the first 5 ms following the direct signal. Because of the distance between the mic and the reflecting side of the gobo, no reflections arrive within the first 5 ms. The direct signal is well isolated for control in the mix.
Not only is the direct signal enhanced but the ambient noise floor is reduced at the mic by this technique. The backside of each Trap is broadband absorptive and facing outwards towards the room. Sound in the room is absorbed before it gets to the mic.
Sound that does penetrate the perimeter is weakened because the wavelet expands due to diffractive edge effects. Easily a 5 dBA noise level reduction is noted inside the gobo. There may be times when a stronger signal to room noise is required. The closer the Traps are to each other the less outside noise they will let in so the direct signal becomes stronger.
Noise in a room also originates with the talent. Sound does leak out between the traps. Some of this is attenuated by the absorptive half of the trap and the remainder expands rapidly due to edge diffraction effects. The sound leaked to the room is rapidly diffusing. The important feature is that a sound from such a gobo produces no flutter effect. Sound that does bounce off a wall is absorbed by the backside of the gobo traps. The system can also be used near walls with minimal impact.
Incidentally, another application of such a gobo system takes advantage of its reversibility. If all the Traps are rotated then the full bandwidth absorptive side faces the mic. This creates the traditional dead sounding vocal booth. By adjusting a pair of reflectors slightly inward, the interior diffusive top end can be brought up. This is best done in pairs to take advantage of diffusive multiple scattering available from facing reflecting surfaces.


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The Training Tool enables oil and gas companies to instruct and inform their staff, suppliers and contractors about the companies' responsibility to ensure respect for human rights in their operations. This 3rd edition includes training modules on labour issues, provision of security, and community engagement.
This document offers step-by-step guidance on how to implement the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in the operations of the oil and gas sector. Each section summarizes what the UN Guiding Principles entail and offers a range of examples of how to translate them into practice.
This guidance document is aimed to assist oil and gas companies in implementing a due diligence process for human rights. The guide firstly clarifies the meaning and business value of human rights due diligence processes and subsequently aims to support the development/improvement of due diligence processes for human rights. Lastly, the guide identifies further resources to support oil and gas companies in their management of potential human rights issues.
This guidance document provides an industry-specific framework for oil and gas companies to develop and enhance the quality and consistency of their sustainability reports. The document provides two types of assistance; first, it outlines 'how-to' steps which describe the process of reporting; second, it provides indicators of 'what' content may be included in reports on environmental, health and safety, and social and economic performance.


WELLINGTON, Florida, Dec. 1–The Exquis World Dressage Masters in Palm Beach that has kicked off the richest series of dressage competitions for the past two years has been canceled for 2011.
The €100,000 (US$130,000) CDI5* had been scheduled for the first week of February as the dressage centerpiece of the Winter Equestrian Festival at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center (PBIEC). Equestrian Sport Productions that owns and operates PBIEC disclosed the cancellation Tuesday night after release of the highlights of the 12-week WEF with $6.2 million (€4.78 million) in prize money for hunters and jumpers.
The World Dressage Masters Grand Prix Freestyle in PBIEC's main arena with its distinctive coral-colored world class footing under lights drew spectators from around the world to one of the most glamorous destinations on the global equestrian circuit.
During the two years of the WDM in Palm Beach–the only venue in the series outside Europe–it attracted nine-time World Cup champion Anky van Grunsven and European Championship team mate Edward Gal of The Netherlands, multiple Olympic gold medalist Isabell Werth of Germany as well as Steffen Peters of San Diego, California and Canada's Ashley Holzer.
Steffen Peters had made WDM in Palm Beach a focus of his winter campaigns with the WEG double-medalist Ravel in 2009 and 2010 and planned to do so in 2011.
The event was by invitation which became the most sought-after among North American dressage riders provided with an unprecedented opportunity for most of them to compete head-to-head at home against some of the world's top competitors.
For 2011, however, conflicts with the winter-long indoor World Cup qualifiers in Europe, changes in horse ownership and fitness of some horses hampered the ability of the European organizers to get commitments from the top combinations on the International Equestrian Federation (FEI) rankings.
Unlike jumpers that routinely compete on both sides of the Atlantic, European dressage horses typically only compete outside the continent in global championships such as Olympics, World Cups and the World Equestrian Games that have been held only once in the Americas, in Kentucky earlier this year.
It was unknown how the cancellation of the Palm Beach event would affect the rest of the WDM CDI5* events that in 2010 included Munich, Germany; Cannes, France; Falsterbo, Sweden, and Hickstead, England.
But scheduling conflicts among European competitions are known to have caused issues threatening the viability of some shows.
Interest has been expressed for a Brazilian competition.
Each of the events offers €100,000 prize money, most of it provided by Exquis and Moorlands of The Netherlands, who created the series to promote and develop Olympic level dressage.
Exquis is owned by Anthony Kies who sponsors high performance dressage riders Hans Peter Minderhoud of the Netherlands and Anne van Olst of Denmark, both Olympic medalists, and Dutch jumper rider Harrie Smolders. Moorlands, owned by Kees and Tosca Visser, is most famous for the ownership until recently of the superstar stallion Totilas.
Management is by Sportbizz, owned by John van der Laar and Camil Smeulders and based in 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands.
ESP paid for transportation and accommodation of horses, riders and grooms from Europe and California in 2009 and 2010 as well as the five judges. Those costs were more than $140,000 each year, all borne by ESP.
The Grand Prix carried prize money of €10,000, the Special €30,000 and the Freestyle €60,000 (US$13,000, $39,000 and $78,000).


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Yes they are with service and they will in between 7.30 AM to 9 PM.
What time does Autozone close on Sunday?
Their service is close after 9 PM.
Autozone are with service in between 7.30 AM to 9 PM throughout the day.
Above shown the list of Holidays in which Autozone is close.
Below are the list of Holidays in which Autozone store is on through the day.


Springsteen's Big Night in Toronto Has Lots of "Promise"
I hope Nicole Kidman wins the Oscar in 2011!!!! Great actress with a lot of class.
Very happy to hear Nicole Kidman and Rachel Weisz getting Oscar buzz and their movies getting praised. Their two of my favorite actresses.
Great news for both actresses. I hope Nicole and Diane are both nominated along with co-star Aaron Eckhart and the director of the film James Cameron Mitchell. This project would not have been made if not by Nicol's persistence, so I hope it receives the acclaim and box office success it deserves.
Sorry, don't mean to be a stickler, but I think Dianne Wiest would be going up for her fourth supporting actress nomination…She won two for Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway, and she was also nominated a third time in the same category for Parenthood…regardless, I LOVE both her and Nicole Kidman and I hope this gets a late year release!!


January 4, 1965. Sitting on a jet-propelled airplane. There is a pretty girl wearing a funny hat in the seat in front of me. The man next to me has a very ugly briefcase. Since airplanes are not particularly pleasant to the touch, at least on the inside, I look out the window. I notice that mountains look somewhat like the skin of a rhino from 24,000 feet up…I feel certain that a rhino's skin looks like mountains from 24 inches away so it all averages out nicely. I sneeze and there are several beads of spit on the window…everyone is aware of them.
The gods jiggle our great skybird, which doesn't bother me, but I notice the ever-present white waxed bag in the pocket on the back of the seat in front of me. It could come closer to making me sick than the gods…ugly thing.
We land smoothly, green gears galore.
I'm supposed to meet the Kingston Trio today and work with them on arrangements and recording some of my songs. That is good. I drive to Nick Reynolds' house in Sausalito. I meet his wife and kid. We have coffee in the morning while the kid tries to destroy their pet big white dog. Looking out of Nick's living room window, I decide to write a poem about it.
John Stewart arrives wearing pith helmet, green canvas coat with hammer-holder loops and Smokey-The-Bear buttons on it, ridiculous shoes, and the traditional shirt and pants. I do not even attempt to guess about his underwear.
We talk and drink extreme coffee.
"Same old problem," says Bob seriously.
"What same old problem?" I ask John secretly.
We settle down to work and rehearse for about five hours. I like being in the middle of their sound and I see what has made the Kingston Trio a success. They work hard!
At the studio we begin immediately – to have fun. It's like a three-ring circus. Frank Werber sits in the control booth controlling, laughing, and eating weird fruitcake. I don't remember how it happened, but somehow we came out with four good recordings. I only remember having a great time and Frank's beard full of weird fruitcake.
Ordinarily I wouldn't write this much on the back of a record cover, but ordinarily I wouldn't write on the back of a record cover. I write ordinarily poems.
Poet, song writer, brilliant instrumentalist and performer, Mason Williams is one of the exciting new "voices" of our times. Although his material has been recorded by many, our interpretation of it to date has been limited to "Them Poems." At this time we hope to rectify this oversight by presenting what we feel are three of his best works: Yes I Can Feel It, Three Song, and If I Had A Ship. Incidentally, Mason's first book, "Bicyclists Dismount," will soon be available to the public at large.


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Ozzy Osbourne and His Son Jack Research for Salt Mining in Utah
ByYunus Emre Özdiyar Posted on November 9, 2020
Ozzy Osbourne and His Son Jack going deep for salt mining in Utah. They visited the Mars Desert Research Station as part of their new 'Ozzy & Jacks World Detour' program.
BLACK SABBATH's legendary frontman Ozzy's return after his battle against Parkinson's disease. After that, he and his family's reunited for their Travel Channel series, The Osbournes Want to Believe, in August 2020. Now, also there is a new show 'Ozzy & Jacks World Detour' program that will premiere on AXS TV on November 12th, 2020. In this program, Ozzy and Jack are headed to Mars! Or at least the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, USA.
Ozzy Osbourne and his son Jack's new show on AXS TV's 'Ozzy & Jacks World Detour' statement:
"As the men traverse one of the most beautiful states in America, they must also endure the long drive to San Rafael Swell, where the research station is located. Along the way, the duo visit Jack's survival expert friend in hopes of learning skills for any sticky situation.
They also take time out from the road to spend the night in a native American teepee… complete with flat-screen TVs. But first, Jack takes Ozzy down into a salt mine to operate some heavy machinery and to lick the walls that are completely made up of salt."
Jack Osbourne also added on his latest interview with Rolling Stone:
"My dad just doesn't do TV. He won't do it." But he decided to pitch it since some of his earliest memories of his father are watching historical shows on TV. He was shocked to find out that his father was into it.
I was born in '48 and as a young kid, we used to play on bomb sites. For many years after World War II. I would watch films about it on TV and the insanity of it all just got me interested."
'Ozzy & Jack's World Detour' will air on AXS TV on Thursday, November 12th, 2020. You can watch the first trailer here! And previous episode sneak peek below!
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Home Illegal Guns Understanding the Issue with Illegal Guns
Illegal Guns
Ironically, the prevalence of illegal guns in America is, in a way, due to attempts to decrease the number of illegal guns in the market. Before American government had put into effect restrictions on purchasing guns and selling guns, most guns were unregistered and unmonitored, yes, but simultaneously there could not have been illegal guns, as there was nothing preventing anyone from purchasing a gun.
When the government attempted to regulate guns in an attempt to decrease crime, it inherently necessitated the creation of an illegal gun system, as criminals sought a way to continue to obtain weaponry while avoiding the American government.
In today's world, the primary problem of illegal guns is that they are very difficult to find and deal with. Illegal guns are most often guns which have been stolen, or passed around from owner to owner until they reach the hands of someone who cannot legally possess a gun. Most illegal guns actually have, as their point of origin, a fully legal gun store, which made a fully legal sale. The idea of a black market on which illegal guns are bought and sold is something of an exaggeration, at least within America; the primary source of illegal guns used in crime here is actually the legal gun market.
The issue is made even more complex when one takes into account the fact that each state in America has slightly different laws concerning the regulation of guns. Illegal guns in one state are perfectly legal in another, and this leads to the overall problem of illegal guns in America, as guns may be purchased in one state and transported to another, illegally.
According to a report from Mayors Against Illegal Guns, called The Movement of Illegal Guns in America, those states with lax gun laws are strong sources for those who would purchase guns and then transport them to other parts of the country illegally. In other words, the illegal gun trade takes advantage of America's variability in gun laws in order to purchase its soon-to-be illegal guns in a perfectly legal fashion.
The majority of gun crimes committed are crimes in which a gun is never fired, but is simply used as a threat, but simultaneously, a large portion of those juveniles found carrying illegal guns claim that they require the weapons in order to protect themselves from opposing gangs and other threats. This makes the presence of illegal guns in American society even more problematic, as it is possible that some of these illegal guns are, in fact, kept as means of protection in urban environments, where going without a gun at all is much more dangerous than possessing an illegal gun. Crimes are obviously committed using illegal guns, but it is unclear how many illegal guns are obtained specifically for the purpose of committing crimes.
The problem of illegal guns is at the root of the gun control debates in America, as the vast majority of dangerous and criminal gun uses involve illegal guns. But considering that the line between legal guns and illegal guns is a bit more blurred than one might expect, thanks to most illegal guns' origins as perfectly legal guns, the issue becomes all the more complicated.
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If my blog were a guy instead of bits & bytes, he would have been declared dead years ago.
Properly buried, with an extra 3 spadefuls of sand to make sure he doesn't come back.
It's not his fault, of course, it's mine, the blogger's fault.
by denying them the love and care that your blog needs to grow and become strong and healthy.
Maybe you, too, are guilty of letting a blog die or starve.
Factually this post is about how I'm bringing my own blog back to life. But the purpose of this post is to show how you, too, can re-boot your blog.
The 'reasons why' we should be blogging have been beaten to death elsewhere, I'm not repeating what has been said so many times. But it's worth noticing that blogging as a whole is seeing a revival in interest, especially blogging for business.
In the 2013 edition of SocialMediaExaminer's annual SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING INDUSTRY REPORT one of the major findings was that 66% of marketers plan on increasing blogging in 2013.
For marketers blogging is one of the pillars of inbound marketing, and – after the Panda and Penguin disasters – blogging is the #1 way to build an authority web site in your market.
After crunching some numbers I've estimated that there are more than 200,000,000 blogs on the internet.
The majority of those blogs is dead; unmaintained, hasn't been updated for years.
Fortunately a blog can be resurrected quite easily, and this article is the beginning of a real-time blogging case study how to revive InternetBusinessMastermind.com (short: ibmm) and turn it into something worth inhabiting the Blogosphere.
This is a long post, analyzing blog content and traffic from 2007 to 2013.
I will point out the "lessons learned" that you can apply to your own blog.
When I decided to put more work into ibmm and to turn it into something meaningful, 3 months ago, the natural first step was to take an inventory.
What's the current state of my blog?
What content is already there?
How have blog and blog content and blog traffic developed over years?
I registered the domain almost 7 years ago, on August 15 2006.
Imagine how huge the blog would be today if I had posted frequently!
5 posts per week would equal more than 1800 posts today.
And I would have gathered a tribe of frequent readers – something that can never happen if you post infrequently.
The reality when I started reviving ibmm a few weeks back was around 300 posts, lots of them very short and not what you'd call an 'evergreen' post.
Imagine how successful your site could be if you'd expand it consistently.
How has traffic evolved, and how was traffic related to what I did with the blog?
Here's a Google Analytics screenshot. I've added numbers, and below I'll explain what happened.
I registered the domain in 2006, but didn't start blogging until February 2007. What got me started was Yaro Starak's outstanding blogging course (unfortunately not available anymore, it's the best blogging course ever created).
BUT: I lacked consistency. Sometimes I would blog. Then I would stop for weeks, even months. It's no surprise a blog isn't getting anywhere this way.
The first slow rise in traffic (just right from arrow #1 in the pic) was a result of ca. 20 unique posts written within a few months.
Then I stopped blogging completely.
Lesson learned: If you build it, they will come. Although not many, at first. If you stop building it … well, of course, traffic will dwindle. Consistency is key.
When I created the blog I chose a well-developed blogging platform, Serendipity, despite my fears that it might not stay up to date as well as other platforms.
Serendipity lacked the developer community and the breadth of support (plugins/themes) that WordPress offers. That's especially true when you're looking for commercial or marketing related features.
So in 2008 I deleted my Serendipity blog, installed WordPress, and never looked back.
Lesson learned: Always chose the leading platform, no matter how impressive an outsider- or geek-platform might look. That's true not only for your blog, but for all the tools you need in business: autoresponders, sales software, video software etc.
This is also relevant when choosing a platform because it's free, for example a free autoresponder. If 'free' makes you choosing the inferior platform, you will almost always regret it later.
In 2012 I switched to a new WordPress theme and my traffic dropped 40% within days. See the 2 red lines at arrow #3.
At that time my traffic came almost exclusively from Google – and the drop in traffic resulted completely from a drop of visitors from Google.
Google hated my new blog theme!
I found out that the main difference between the 2 themes was that the old theme had links to all blog categories, while the new theme – in its default state- did not link to any category.
Lesson learned: The internal linking structure is crucial to search engine optimization. Make sure that your most important pages, posts, categories are linked to on each and every page of your blog.
A blog that doesn't provide a lot of internal linking turns your pages and posts into isolated islands and prevents Google from understanding your site structure.
You'll lose tons of traffic you could, otherwise, have.
Content 1. There's a significant short time spike in traffic around December 2008 / January 2009, right after the flat line of #2 where Analytics was missing.
This was shortly after creating my new WordPress blog. It correlates with a number of new, original posts that I wrote for my 'new' blog. I stopped posting end of February. Traffic drops to a steady level.
Content 2. Then there's another, tiny, spike around May and June. This, again, correlates with a few original posts.
Lesson learned: Original content drives traffic.
Content 3. Mid 2009 I started to consistently (for the first time) publish content, but it was not original content, and often it wasn't even exclusive to ibmm.
Guest posts from Willie Crawford and John Delavera weren't exclusive, they appeared on other sites, too. Today, however, lots of those other sites are gone, which turned the articles into exclusives.
And for those still available on several sites, I find that Google puts my blog on the first spot in search listings. Even Willie's articles on his own web site were omitted, while the copies of his articles on my blog remain on top.
This kills the SEO myth that being the first to post an article will keep your article on top of Google, compared to others who posted the same article later. Willie certainly posted his articles to his own sites first, before sending them to other publishers.
Another change to a new WordPress theme. This time the theme contains better internal linking, although still no links to the categories.
At arrow #4 we see an immediate traffic increase, although from a low traffic base it's not very much.
Lesson learned: An optimized blog theme and smart internal linking will increase your Google traffic.
Throughout 2009 most of my posts were the non-exclusive guest posts from Willie and John I mentioned above.
2010 and 2011 I posted more frequently, now with some semi-exclusive content.
What the heck is 'semi-exclusive' content?
Well they were about 100 posts that I created with edited excerpts from PLR e-books. The content was actually okay, and I just expanded them a bit to add my own thoughts.
As you can see in the chart traffic is slowly, very slowly, climbing in 2010 and it sees a stronger growth in 2011. The real visitor numbers are still painfully low, but the upwards trend is clear.
The end of the orange line #5 shows the final section of those edited PLR posts. Once they were all posted, the traffic remains almost the same despite no new posts going live.
Constant posting drives growing traffic. Even if the content is not unique.
When using duplicate content from other sites, being the first publisher does not help ranking this content long term. Being the last publisher does not hinder ranking them long term. The first one might be omitted by Google while copies remain in the index.
What once was non-exclusive, duplicate content has turned into almost-exclusive content simply by other sites going offline or burying their articles so deep in the archives that Google doesn't notice them anymore. Here persistance is key. Even if you do a crappy job, if you stay around long enough, you'll outlive the others.
After a long period of consistent weekly posting the traffic will remain static for some time even if you stop posting.
Between #5 and #6 traffic is constant. This was a phase of not-posting.
Now our case study is getting interesting!
April 2012 I started to auto-publish my posts from my Google Plus profile into a special g+ category on this blog. I have stopped doing this, but my traffic stats show an immediate increase in traffic. There's a small, but undeniable, upwards trend in visitors.
Apart from those automated g+ posts I've have created only 3 unique blog posts in 2012 and a handful of short news posts. These are posts that are truly unique. This is what you should aim to create if you want to build a great blog.
It's not published anywhere else.
The topic isn't one that's been beaten to death on thousands of blogs.
It's presented in unique point of view, based on the author's life experiences and interests. No one else could have written it exactly the same way.
They contain original images, illustrations, or infographics.
They make little known information or brand new information available.
It's also one of the most successful posts since 2007.
Only a few link bait posts and very few 'evergreen' posts had more traffic throughout the years.
This is not my own research but showcasing research 2 other authors have compiled.
While the part about Jeremiah Owyang's research was already widely known, the research of Christian Faller was almost unknown to the English speaking social media world. Like me, he's from Germany.
I've put them together in one interesting post covering research and findings about social media crisis over a long span of time.
This is my very unique view of affiliate reviews.
It's the type of post that no one else could have written in the exact same way. It's the type of post that separates true bloggers from copycats and me-too-bloggers.
This is not saying "it's a great post", it's only saying it's unique to my point of view and my experience.
Who else, for example, would have mixed the profane topic of affiliate reviews with high valued leadership teachings from Stephen M.R. Covey?
At #6 we can clearly see an upwards trend in traffic, from only 3 unique posts and some auto posting from Google Plus.
Then, at arrow #3, traffic drops due to the new WordPress theme, and then stays the same due to not posting new content until April 2013.
Truly unique posts drive significantly more traffic and get significantly more social media love.
Creating truly unique posts is a lot of work.
Google loves news-like articles (my automated Google plus posts), they seem to get preferential treatment.
#7 marks the time when I decided to put more work into ibmm. It's April 2013.
This is where my blogging case study truly begins.
In the upcoming weeks I will show you in detail what I'm doing, and I'll share the results I get in traffic, email subscribers, social media love, and more.
How to redefine my blog audience.
How to create epic blog posts.
How to use guest blogging in a good way.
How to increase social media shares.
How to build email subscriber lists.
How to use your blog for business.
If you, too, have a blog worth bringing back to life, go and check your stats. See what you've done when and what results you got from it.
Then we'll move on to make a new start and have your blog rise like Phoenix from the ashes.
Google Plus and Google Authorship are increasingly important for bloggers. I invite you to connect with me and 254 597 fellow bloggers on Google Plus.
We, Pauline Cabrera and Ralf Skirr [that's me], came up with a new concept of combining Google Plus' Shared Circles with a Google Plus Community for Bloggers.


'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai' is one of the most notable movies in the list of Bollywood's superhit films. After 20 years the application remained in the movie. Now, you are going to build its sequel. Soon announcement will be announced soon.
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai 'was produced by Karna's father Yash Johar. And managed by Karan himself. But the second episode will take over the responsibility, but somebody else will be in charge.
In 1998, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai was released. It starred Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol and Rani Mukherjee. Karan Johar debuted as a director in Bollywood with the wonderful story of three friends.
Before the announcement of the film, it was known that, in the new sequel, Shah Rukh-Kajal will be playing Tiger Shroff and Alia Bhatt. Thinking of getting Rani Mukherjee or Disha Patna in place. Although the matter has not yet been finalized.
Meanwhile, Karan Johar's production "Student of the Year Two" is waiting for release. Tiger Shroff, Ananya Punde and star Sutareya are starring in it.


This necklace features a sterling silver plated heart shaped charm, in the colours of the bisexual flag. The charm is 1.9cm wide.
The stainless steel necklace contains a single dog tag which is 30mm high (slightly smaller than a regular dog tag). On one side it has the rainbow pride colours embossed in enamel.
The reverse side is blank to allow you to have it engraved if you wish. It comes with a standard dog tag chain which is 45cm in length.
The stainless steel pendant is 42mm high x 10mm wide and comes on a standard dog tag chain with fastener. The chain length is 45cm. The rainbow pride colours have been embossed in enamel.
This necklace features a sterling silver plated heart shaped charm, in the colours of the transgender flag. The charm is 1.9cm wide.
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HomeLatest NewsPriceless Video Shows MSNBC React as They Realize Musk Could Do to Leftists in 2024 What Leftists Did to Us in 2020 – Unseat a President
Priceless Video Shows MSNBC React as They Realize Musk Could Do to Leftists in 2024 What Leftists Did to Us in 2020 – Unseat a President
April 26, 2022 Mark Miller Latest News 0
MSNBC Chief Legal Analyst Ari Melber's comments on Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter were pure, weapons-grade obliviousness mixed with a hefty portion of panicked realization.
In the 31-second clip below, Melber, consumed by fear, had no idea he was describing exactly what Twitter, Facebook, Google, YouTube and the legacy media have been doing to conservatives for years.
"You own all of Twitter or Facebook or what have you, you don't have to explain yourself," he told viewers. "You don't even have to be transparent. You could secretly ban one party's candidate or all of its candidates, all of its nominees. Or you could secretly turn down the reach of their stuff and turn up the reach of something else and the rest of us may not even find out about it until after the election.
"Elon Musk said this is all to help people because he is just a free speech, philosophically clear, open-minded helper."
MSNBC "talent" suddenly realizes the owners of Twitter can rig the entire site. This is amazing to watch. Does he not realize all of this was already done to Republicans? pic.twitter.com/Gmc0nVx2jF
Melber's lack of self-awareness was staggering. His tone is a mixture of sarcasm and accusation as he describes precisely how social media can influence the outcomes of elections. We can only assume that he knows how it's done because this is exactly what Twitter did to President Donald Trump in 2020.
If Twitter and Facebook had not worked to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story, Joe Biden may very well have lost the election. Polls have shown that, had they known of the scandals surrounding Biden and his family prior to casting their ballots, one in six voters would have voted differently.
The 2020 election results in the battleground states were narrow despite the Democratic Party's advantages — and the 2022 midterms and 2024 presidential election will be uphill battles even if they had retained control of Twitter. As the video plays, you can almost feel his horror and anxiety building.
Suddenly he's struck with the realization that Republicans could do to them what they've been doing to us for years.
After a decade of being fully in control of every major social media platform and most of the major networks and newspapers, his party has lost control of one social media company. Although we are delighted that a free speech enthusiast has bought Twitter, compared to the left's control of the rest of social media and most of the legacy media, they still retain the lion's share of institutional power.
Yet losing one small piece of their media oligopoly seems to fill them with terror. I read that as their knowing that America isn't nearly as far to the left as they pretend to think it is; otherwise why worry about losing one platform?
The left's apprehension over Musk's purchase of a social media platform that has long been dominated by the left is nothing short of extraordinary.
They've grown accustomed to the one-way street.
In his opening monologue on Monday night, Fox News' Tucker Carlson said: "Musk's purchase of Twitter is the single biggest political development since Donald Trump's election in 2016. It is certainly the most threatening challenge to the corrupt and incompetent leadership of this country."
They hate Musk because they can't control him, Carlson argued.
And Musk plans to allow people to speak freely. It's suddenly sinking in that the control over debate in America the left had begun to take for granted is about to be clawed back by the people.
A couple of weeks ago, Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal announced the stunning news that Musk had decided not to join the company's board of directors.
It took roughly a nanosecond for sheer panic to set in among the liberal elites.
They were acutely aware that he was likely setting himself up to make an even bigger move, one that might rob them of their greatest advantage: control of the news Americans are allowed to hear.
The next day, Max Boot, neocon columnist for The Washington Post, tweeted:
I am frightened by the impact on society and politics if Elon Musk acquires Twitter. He seems to believe that on social media anything goes. For democracy to survive, we need more content moderation, not less.
— Max Boot 🇺🇦 (@MaxBoot) April 14, 2022
Think about that statement. For democracy to survive, we need censorship.
It's not often the left admits who they really are. Melber told us the truth today.
We would be wise to listen.
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SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — This weekend women transitioning out of the military will have the opportunity to bring home an entirely new wardrobe.
The event is called Operation Dress Code and features thousands of items, including clothing, purses, and accessories.
"Sometimes transition can take a lifetime," said volunteer RanDee McLain, with Mental Health Systems.
Women can also get resume help, get professional headshots, and meet with employers.
Organizers say it's a reminder that when the uniform goes away, the sisterhood does not.
Walk-ins will be allowed but organizers suggest registering in advance.


MANILA, Philippines – (UPDATED) The Department of Science and Technology - Science Education Institute (DOST-SEI) released the full results of October 2018 DOST Scholarship exam for academic year AY 2019-2020 on Sunday, March 31, 2019 or more than five (5) months after the exam. The complete list of passers is available here as officially announced online.
The national qualifying examinations for DOST-SEI's two undergraduate scholarship programs, namely, the Republic Act 7687 or the Science and Technology Scholarship Act of 1994, and the Merit Scholarship Program were administered on Sunday, October 21, 2018 in various testing centers nationwide.
As announced, 9,852 out of 73,712 (13.37%) graduating high school students clinched a slot in the country's premier science scholarship programs.
The DOST scholarship program is open to graduating students of the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) strand and non–STEM students who belong to the upper top five percent of the graduating class who wish to pursue a college degree on Basic and Applied Sciences, Engineering, Science and Mathematics Teaching.


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Beheading Victims' Brother Prays For ISIS On Live TV [VIDEO]
Ivan Plis Reporter, Daily Caller News Foundation
February 19, 2015 1:59 PM ET
In a viral clip from Middle Eastern Christian television network SAT-7, a man identified as the brother of two Egyptians beheaded by ISIS has an astonishing message for the terrorists.
Calling into the program and speaking with host Fayez Maher, the man says his name is Beshir Kamel, brother to the Coptic beheading victims Bishoy, 25, and Samuel Kamel, 23. One of the first things he says is that "ISIS helped us strengthen our faith" by not editing the victims' appeals to Jesus Christ out of the infamous video. (RELATED: Who Were ISIS' Egyptian Christian Victims?)
To the host's amazement, he goes on to say that his home village of Al-Aor is "happy" to have "so many from our village die as martyrs." Citing the Gospel's injunction to "love our enemies and bless those who curse us," he says his mother told him she would invite ISIS fighters into her home and "ask God to open their eyes" if she met them on the street.
He then prays for the jihadis, asking God to help them "quit their ignorance and the wrong teachings that they were taught."
Copts in Egypt, together with other Christian communities in the Arab world, have had complicated relations with surrounding societies for centuries. Despite working to integrate themselves with their Muslim neighbors, they often face systemic discrimination and neglect at the hands of government and local extremists alike. Recent threats by terrorists have led many Arab countries' centuries-old Christian populations to dramatically decline, choosing the safety of expatriation to Europe and the Americas. (RELATED: Punk Rocker Rescues Ancient Christian Music)
SAT-7 is an nondenominational Christian satellite network that broadcasts in Arabic, Turkish and Persian. It is supported by a number of churches in the region, and has strict guidelines for "presenting the core messages of Christianity that all churches agree upon," and avoiding criticism of other faiths, including Islam. In this way, it avoids some of the controversies that can face Christian media in the Middle East, such as accusations of "sheep-stealing" by foreign Protestants from the local varieties of Orthodox and Catholic Christianity.
The original video of the Arabic broadcast, posted to Facebook by SAT-7, has attracted over 100,000 views. In recent days, an English-subtitled version has begun to spread among Christians in the West.
The Huffington Post has profiled a number of the beheading victims and their families, who were disproportionately working-class and found themselves migrating to Libya in pursuit of construction jobs and other menial labor.
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Governor Murphy to Deliver 2022 State of the State Address
Governor Phil Murphy's 2022 State of the State address will stream online and via social media on Tuesday, January 11, 2022, reaffirming his commitment to leading New Jersey through the COVID-19 public health crisis, improving the lives of middle-class families, and building a stronger and more resilient post-pandemic economy.
"Throughout the past year, New Jersey has proven its resiliency in the face of adversity. While still facing challenges brought by the pandemic, we have made undeniable progress for the working- and middle-class families who call New Jersey home," said Governor Murphy. "This year's State of the State address will focus on our ongoing commitment to education and economic opportunity, and making our state more affordable for families. Together, we will move forward on our path to building a stronger and fairer New Jersey."
Who/What: Governor Phil Murphy to Deliver 2022 State of the State Address
When: Tuesday, January 11, 2022 at 5:00 p.m.
Where: The 2022 State of the State will be pre-recorded and streamed on the Governor's official Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube pages, as well as via LiveU Matrix. It will also be broadcasted by News12 New Jersey and NJ Spotlight News on NJ PBS.
For existing LiveU Matrix users, a feed of this address will be available under your distribution channels as "Office_of_NJ_Governor". If you have technical questions or wish to be invited to the channel, contact matrix@liveU.tv or help@liveU.tv.


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In the early part of this year, Alice set off for the Masai Mara on a riding safari with renowned guide Tristan Voorspuy who has run Offbeat Safaris for over two decades. She reports here on what was one of the highlights of her African travels so far. After hearing many stories of Tristan's wildly exciting riding itineraries across Kenya's Masai Mara, I was just a little nervous about joining this trip. Would I, I wondered, be racing with game flat out across the plains, falling down holes, jumping massive bomas, and tumbling exhausted out of the saddle after riding for seven hours a day? Well, yes, some of that, but the way the whole trip was put together made it one of the best and most exciting things that I have ever done.
It's very rare that I don't enjoy an African trip but it's also very rare that I sob all the way back to the airport at the end which was the case this time. Tristan is a little eccentric, but he is one of the best guides I have ever been on safari with. Not only is his knowledge incredible but he really feels strongly about the fragile ecosystem in Kenya and his role is in the whole environment. He is passionate about horses and wildlife and I found his enthusiasm unbelievable after his 25 years in the business.
Each night on safari, you are based in a mobile camp that moves every two or three days. The tents are simple with camp beds and your own loo close by, and there are a couple of bucket showers which run at any time of day. Everything you need is provided but there are no unnecessary frills. The food was also very good – a huge breakfast then either salads or sandwiches for lunch and a big supper every night.
Daily activities are dictated by whether it is a moving day or a camp day. On the moving days you cover the distance to the next camp (30 or so miles). There are stops for wildlife along the way and plenty of long canters in open areas. Everyone has their own saddle bag to carry water and lunch and there is a long couple of hours' stop to eat and snooze under a shady tree, chosen for its good view or proximity to waterhole. The riding on these days is fairly easy going, but it's up to seven hours in the saddle.
By contrast, the camp based days provide lots of fun, exciting riding. We rode both morning and evening, with great game viewing and exhilarating riding with plenty of fast cantering and jumping – which is optional but good fun and mostly over fallen trees and ditches. The really entertaining thing about these camp based days is that every day was different, some days there was no riding in the afternoon and Tristan would organise picnics by the river or walks or village visits.
Each night there was a night drive and we saw masses. From horseback we saw giraffe, two lots of lions, elephants, hippos, buffalo, zebra, topi, hyena, Thompson and Grant's gazelle and impala. At other times we saw cheetah, serval, and crocodiles. The birding was also excellent. The horses are fit and tough and you need to be a competent rider and confident at all paces to get the most out of these trips. It isn't a trip I would recommend for inexperienced riders.
I had a chestnut mare called Mad, which didn't instill much confidence to begin with, but she was lovely to ride, would take her own line, go first through any rivers or woodland and had an honest jump. I think the reason I enjoyed myself so much was the true safari nature of the trip. I loved moving from place to place using horses as our means of transport, and although we explored the immediate areas around each camp with the horses, we also did so many normal safari activities to break up the riding. The walking, swimming and day and night game drives added to the huge variety which only made me look forward to the riding all the more. It was a really perfect balance.
Tristan is very good at what he does and a superb horseman. He's very good company, both completely politically incorrect and a bit eccentric which I found very refreshing. All in all, a superb trip which exceeded my expectations and for an experienced rider I would highly recommend it.


Today was another one of Haru's cheerleading events. Unlike the ones in the past, Haru was front and center. Additionally, this was her opportunity show of her tumbling skills -something her coach didn't allow her to do before. But now, I think Haru's coach is becoming confident in Haru's gymnastics ability as well as her ability cheer.
Her is the vid from that event.
A couple of weeks ago, our local vet had diagnosed Jenna with a possible spinal cord injury and possible Cushings syndrome. In order to find out for sure, the vet had suggested that we have her blood tested for Cushings and also have an MRI performed to assess the seriousness of the spinal cord injury. Unfortunately, being the tiny little shop this particular animal hospital is, we were sent to another hospital an the other side of town. This hospital had neuro-specialist to give us a more accurate assessment of the injury, instead of the guess work that the vets at this hospital do.Little did I know what kind of scavenger hunt this whole thing was going to be.
I was under the impression that we were being sent to a much bigger hospital with specialized equipment; perhaps a university specializing in veterinary medicine who use experimental methods and treatments to cure incurable diseases. Unfortunately, we were sent to another tiny mom and pop shop in the middle of town.
Despite the fact that we had made an appointment several weeks earlier, the office was packed and we had to wait a couple of hours just to see a vet. After the long wait in the crowded waiting room full of anxious owner, barking dogs, and nervous cats, we finally got in. The vet, a fairly young women probably in her late 20's or early 30's greeted us. She was wearing a white smock which was different from what the other women in the office were wearing, so we knew that she was the head vet. She already had Jenna's vital stats that the other hospital had transferred in front of her, so she understood the nature of the problem.
We all sat and listened nervously as the vet prepared Jenna's x-rays. As she pulled up the pictures, she began to explain that as expected, Jenna was had a herniated disc in her lower neck. She showed a cross section view her number 6 and 7 vertebrae, and it resembled a spiked hollowed out pipe with a small leek. The leek was where the disc had ruptured and where the cause of the problem was thought to be. I was concerned and relieved at the same time. I was relieved that we finally found where the problem was, but concerned that the problem may be pretty serious.
After the vet finished presenting the MRI pic of Jenna's neck, she pulled out another set of folders which contain what looked like ultrasound pictures, not so different from the ones you would see during pregnancy examinations. The pic was a very grainy and blurred shot of what looked like a lima bean. The vet explained that the picture was an ultrasound of Jenna's kidney. She pointed to a small white object on top of the kidney, and she explained that the white object is her adrenal gland. Normally, the adreneal gland doesn't show up too well on ultrasounds, so for it to be visible showed that it is larger than normal, which is a problem.
She went on to explain that when the adrenal gland is inflamed like this, its usually because there is a tumor somewhere -either in the pituitary gland (which is located in lower part of the brain) or within the adrenal gland itself. The tumor causes the over production of corticosteroids which is a condition called Cushings Syndrome. The biggest symptoms of Cushings is lethargy (extreme fatigue) and loss in muscle mass. In dogs, it can cause paralysis especially in the hind legs. The vet explained that it's really had to assess whether Jenna's paralysis and inability to walk was from the herniated disc in her lower neck, or if its the symptoms caused by the advanced stages of Cushings, or if there is another undiagnosed problem.
At this point, because of Jenna's age, and the uncertainty of the her ability to make a full recovery, the vet advised against Jenna having surgery to repair the ruptured disc. She also added that the injury is relatively small and it should without surgery if we keep her in a new brace for a few weeks. Since Cushings is also a factor, she also advised that Jenna undergo treatment through medication.
Again, I was a bit concerned over Jenna's recovery prospects., and the quality of life for Jenna. If she never walks again, will this impede her quality of life. The answer is no doubt "yes", but having said that, Jenna is 14 years old. She isn't and hasn't been as active as she had been when she was younger (even before the injury). So, even she was able to make a full recovery, Jenna will never run and jump around like she use to. Up until her paralysis, she spent most of the day just sleeping on the sofa -something she doesn't need legs to do. Her other past time was to eat -again something she does not need legs to do. My other criteria is pain; is she feeling pain? From what we can see, she is feeling very little or no pain. We can pick her up and mover her around, and she moves around the room by herself, which clearly indicates she doesn't feel pain. So as long as she is not feeling pain and she has a nice healthy appetite, I think its well worth letting her live until her time comes.
It was a somewhat difficult decision, and in the past I have passed judgement on pet owners who's would selfishly keep their pets, who clearly can not lead a normal life, alive. And I have always told myself that if any of my pets end up incapacitated to the point that their quality of life is greatly compromised, then that would be the point to do what is best for the pet and not the owner. But, in Jenna's case, she looks to be fine, has a insatiable appetite, and other the having the inability to walk, acts like she normally does. So as long this continues, I will continue to help her live as best as she can.


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Confirmed – Arsenal Edging Close To £15m Signing
Posted in Arsenal, English, English Premier League By By Far The Greatest TeamPosted on January 22, 2015 July 26, 2017
Arsene Wenger has confirmed to the media that talks to sign Villarreal defender Gabriel Paulista are progressing. The Frenchman revealed this during his weekly presser. He was asked by journalist to confirm if there were truths to the stories of a bid for the 24-year old, of which he answered:
"The talks are progressing quite well. I don't think there is need to say much more," he told Sky Sport on Thursday. "We are talking at the moment, whether we can find an agreement or not, I don't know."
When asked by journalists to confirm the exact amount of the player's release clause, Wenger had this to say:
"We are slowly progressing, but there is a chance. At the moment we are talking. The 20 million is euros, it's £15m to transform the amount.
"We are ready to pay the price we think right for a good player, no matter what the price is. If we think it's the right price we will pay."
It was quite unlike Wenger to open up on a transfer the way he did today, which indicates a remarkable departure from what we have always known the Frenchman for. He is not the one to give away information about a potential transfer, let alone disclosing the exact details in terms of fees. This could only mean Wenger is sure of a deal been completed for the player any time soon.
Today's press briefing also confirms various reports in the media on the Gunners' interest in the quick and strong defender. Hopefully this transfer will be sorted out before the window draws to a close in about 10 days from now.
The fee may not be the only huddle to signing Paulista as Arsenal may need to convince the Home Office to grant the Brazilian a Work Permit based on the status of a special talent. The 24-year old is an uncapped player at international level for Brazil, and that might work against him.
However, Arsenal may be able to successfully get a work permit for the player through an appeal something West Brom have done successful when they sign Brown Ideye of Nigeria from the Ukrainian league.
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February is winding down, but there are still two great events you can catch on campus to celebrate Black History Month.
On Wednesday, February 23, the Black Alumni, Administrators, Faculty, Student and Staff Organization (BAAFSSO) will sponsor the Shango Meeting at 2 p.m. in room 217 – GSUB. The Shango group is an organization on campus that promotes the healthy development and success of African American and Latino men attending the university. During this meeting, the group will openly and informally discuss various topics of interest. It's free to attend. For more information on the Shango meeting, please refer to their website: www.njcu.edu/baafsso/shango-group/.
Later in the day on Wednesday, starting at 6 p.m., check out the The Big Africa Soiree from 6:00 in the Multipurpose Room B in GSUB. The event is co-sponsored by the African Students Association and Iota Phi Theta. The event is $3 for students to attend and runs until 9:30 p.m.
Earlier in the month there were several other events that took place, including a Lobby Concert Series featuring the Marxman group. BAAFSSO also sponsored the Sounding Board Salon with Prof. Sonya Donaldson; later in the month she was also the featured speaker at Inside the Faculty Studio, held in the bookstore.