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Posted on April 7, 2018 by Tom Powers
A Song is Born
by URI AVNERY / 06 APR 2018
A FRIEND from overseas sent me the recording of a song. An Arab song, with a soft Arab melody, sung by an Arab girls' choir, accompanied by a flute.
Ahed / You are the promise and the glory / Standing as high as an olive tree / From the cradle to the present / Your honor will not be violated / Palestine has been planted in us / As a dock for every ship / We are the land and you are the water /
You are covered with blond hair / You are as pure as Jerusalem / You taught our generation how the forgotten people should revolt / They thought the Palestinians are afraid of them because they are wearing armor and holding a weapon? / Palestine has been planted in us / As a dock for every ship / Our nation must be united and resist for the freedom of Palestine and the prisoners /
Your blue eyes are a lighthouse / For a country that has every religion / You united the people far away and close / You ignited the spark in all our hearts / Your head is raised up high encouraging us / You ignited the light in our darkness /
Despite the softness of your hands / Your hands have shaken the world / Your hands returned the slap to the occupier / And returned esteem to the nation / Palestine has been planted in us / As a dock for every ship / We are the land and you are the water.
IF I were an adherent of the occupation, this song would frighten me very much.
Because the force of songs is much stronger than the force of weapons. A gun wears out, but a song lasts forever.
In the early days of the Israeli army, there was a slogan hanging in our mess: "An army that is singing is an army of victory!"
The present Palestinian generation has decided to lower its head and wait until the storm has passed. The coming Palestinian generation may act in a completely different way.
On the eve of my 15th birthday, I joined an underground (or "terrorist") group that fought against the British colonial regime. Almost eighty years later I remember just about every song of that time, word for word. Songs like "We are unknown soldiers without uniforms…" and many more. Afterwards I wrote an anthem for my company.
I am not a poet. Far from it. But I have written some songs in my time, including "Samson's Foxes", an anthem for my commando unit in the Israeli army. So I know the force of a song. Especially a song about the heroism of a 16 year old girl.
THE MOMENT I saw the scene of Ahed al-Tamimi boxing the face of an Israeli army captain, I knew that something important had happened.
The British politician Lord Acton famously wrote: "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." I would add: "Occupying another people tends to make you stupid, and a long occupation makes you utterly stupid."
In my youth, when I was already a member of the anti-British underground, I was working in the office of a British lawyer, many of whose clients were officials of the British administration. I often asked myself: "How can it be that such intelligent people can behave so stupidly?" They were nice people, who treated even a lowly clerk like me politely. But they had no alternative: the occupation compels the occupier to behave stupidly.
It works like this: in order to uphold an occupation regime for any length of time, the occupier must believe in the superiority of his race and in the inferiority of his subjects, who are seen as primitive creatures. Otherwise, what gives him the right to subject another people? That is exactly what has happened to us now.
THE MOMENT I saw the face-boxing scene on TV, I knew that something momentous had happened. The Palestinian people now have a national heroine. The Palestinian youth now have a model to emulate.
The Israeli public has got used to the occupation. They believe that this is a normal situation, that the occupation can go on forever. But the occupation is not a natural situation, and some day it will come to an end.
Ten thousand British ruled hundreds of millions of Indians, until a skinny man called Gandhi went to produce salt on the seashore, contrary to the law. The Indian youth arose, and British rule fell away like a leaf from a tree in autumn.
The same stupidity took hold of all the occupation enforcers who dealt with Ahed al-Tamimi. Army officers. Prosecutors, military judges.
If we were wise occupiers – an oxymoron – we would have sent Ahed home long ago. Expelled her by force from the prison. But we are still keeping her locked up. Her and her mother.
True, some days ago the army realized its own stupidity. With the help of Ahed's devoted (Jewish) advocate, Gabi Lasky, a "compromise" was worked out. Several charges were dropped and Ahed was sentenced to "only" eight months in prison.
She will be released in three more months. But that is too late: the picture of Ahed is already engraved in the mind of every Palestinian boy or girl. Ahed, the girl covered with blond hair, her blue eyes shining like a lighthouse. Ahed the saint. Ahed the savior.
The Palestinian Jeanne d'Arc, the national symbol.
THE STORY of Ahed al-Tamimi happened in the West Bank. But it resounded in the Gaza Strip, too.
For most Israelis, the Gaza Strip is something else. It is not occupied territory. It does not concern us.
But the situation of the Gaza Strip is even worse than straight occupation. The strip is completely surrounded. North and east is Israel, west is the sea, where the Israeli navy shoots at everything except for fishing boats close to the shore. The south belongs to Egypt, which behaves even worse than the Israelis and in close cooperation with them.
The situation in the Gaza Strip is as close to hell as one can get. Food at subsistence level, electricity for two to four hours a day, the water is polluted. Work is extremely scarce. Only the most severely ill are let out.
Why? It has to do with the demon that plagues the Israeli government: the demographic devil.
In historical Palestine, the land between the Mediterranean and the Jordan river, there now live about 13 million people, roughly half Jewish and half Arab, with a slight edge in favor of the Arabs. Numbers are uncertain, but roughly there are 3 million Arabs in the West Bank, 2 million in the Gaza Strip and 1.5 million Arab citizens in Israel. The Arab birthrate is higher than the Jewish average.
These numbers disturb the sleep of many Israeli officials, especially politicians. They look for means to change the balance. They once had the illusion that if the situation in Gaza got unbearable, people from Gaza would emigrate. But it did not happen. Palestinians have become very tenacious.
Then a new fashion came up: just ignore the bastards. Just imagine that the Gaza Strip has sunk into the sea, as one Israeli politician once prayed. No Strip. Two million Palestinians less.
But the Strip is there. True, Gaza is ruled by the Islamic Hamas party, while the West Bank is ruled by Abu Mazen's PLO, and the enmity between the two is vicious. But that happened in almost all liberation movements in history. In our case, the underground split between the Haganah ("Defense"), which belonged to the official Zionist leadership, and the Irgun ("Organization", short for National Military Organization). Then the Irgun split, and the even more extreme LEHI ("Fighters for the Freedom of Israel", called the "Stern Gang" by the British) was born. They all hated each other.
But among the people, there is no difference at all. They are all Palestinians. Ahed is the heroine of all of them. Perhaps her model played a role in what happened last week.
For some time, the Gaza Strip was quiet. Some kind of modus vivendi had even come into being between the Hamas government and the Israeli one. The Israelis congratulated themselves on their cleverness. And then it happened.
Suddenly, as if from nowhere, the population of Gaza stood up. Hamas organized them to assemble on Friday near the border fence, unarmed. A prolonged campaign of passive resistance was to start.
When I was asked what would happen, I said that the Israeli army would shoot to kill. Simple: Israelis don't know how to deal with passive resistance. They shoot in order to turn it into violent resistance. With that they know how to deal. With more violence.
AND THAT is exactly what happened last Friday, the first day of the campaign: snipers were posted along the line, with orders to shoot the "ringleaders" – anyone who stood out. 18 unarmed demonstrators were killed, almost a thousand were shot and wounded.
If anyone thought that the democratic world would stand up and condemn Israel, they were sadly wrong. Reactions were feeble, at most. What was revealed was the incredible hold the Israeli government and its Zionist organization has over the world's political establishments and communication outlets. With few exceptions the atrocious news was not published at all, or as minor items.
But this cannot go on for long. The Gaza protests will continue, especially on Fridays (the Muslim holy day), until May 15, the Naqba ("Catastrophe") Day, which commemorates the mass flight / expulsion of half the Palestinian people from their homes. Palestinian flags will fill screens around the globe.
Ahed will still be in prison.
The original piece (and years' worth of similar weekly commentaries) is found on-line HERE.
A word about the writer, Uri Avnery: His full bio can be found on-line HERE. The short version: Born in Germany into a middle-class family but largely self-educated, he "made aliya" (emigrated) to British Mandate Palestine in 1933. During his long and colorful life, which spans the entire history of the State of Israel (and much more), he has been a writer, essayist, publisher, photographer, member of the Knesset, and a strong and pointed peace activist.
Interestingly, he was once a member of the Irgun, the pre-state Zionist underground organization, however he came to differ strongly with their philosophy and violent tactics, and left. Politically, Avnery wound up on the Zionist-Israeli left — many would say, with some justification, the far left.
His storehouse of information and experiences — history (Jewish and otherwise), literature, the Bible, insider connections with regional leaders (Israeli and otherwise), etc., etc. — is vast and impressive. And, he is an excellent writer, always with something interesting to say as an authentic Jewish-Israeli voice.
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Dr. Greetchen Díaz is the Director of the Science Education Program and Community Partnerships of Ciencia Puerto Rico (CienciaPR). For more than 10 years, Greetchen was a volunteer, part of the administrative team of CienciaPR. At CienciaPR, she participated in numerous projects in science communication, science outreach, and science education. She is the founder and coordinator of CienciaPR's "Borinqueña," the bilingual blog for Hispanic and Puerto Rican Women in Science and Technology. Also, Greetchen is founder and coordinator of the photoblog "Ciencia a tu alrededor". In 2015, She was the coordinator of "Semillas de Triunfo" (Seeds of Succeed), the first STEM Ambassador Program for middle school girls in Puerto Rico.
Before joining CienciaPR's staff in 2017, Dr. Díaz was the Grants Program Director at the Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust. Greetchen was responsible for the implementation of the first local grants mechanism in Puerto Rico with initiatives such as the Science and Technology Research Grants, the Small Research Grants and the Researcher's Startup Funds. At the Trust, Dr. Díaz also coordinated the outreach activities that include the Research & innovation Meetups, the Forward Research & Innovation Summit and the Forward Grantees Symposium, among many others.
Greetchen is the President of the Puerto Rico Society of Microbiologists (PRSM), where she previously served as the PRSM's Board of Director's secretary, and ASM councilor. The PRSM is the local branch for the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), where Greetchen is currently a member of its Board of Directors.
Dr. Díaz completed a Bachelor and Master Degrees in Biology, at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez. Then, she earned her Ph.D. in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at The Ohio State University, where she studied intracellular protein trafficking using budding yeast as a model system. Her research described a requirement of the spindle pole body (yeast centrosome) for targeting/tethering peripheral proteins to the inner nuclear membrane. After earning her Ph.D., Greetchen started as a postdoctoral researcher at the Nebraska Center for Virology, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, where she got a NIH T32 Postdoctoral Fellowship to conduct studies in reproduction of human papilloma virus.
Dr. Díaz has received numerous awards and honors from various organizations such as CROEM Alumni, the University of Puerto Rico, The Ohio State University, ASM, SACNAS, and the Ford Foundation, among others. In 2017, Greetchen was recognized by the Senate of Puerto Rico for her professional achievements and her election to the ASM Board of Directors. Her work and projects has been featured on local and international media outlets, such as El Nuevo Día, el Vocero, Noticel, Metro, Caribbean Business, News in my Business, Diálogo, Voces del Sur, Periódico La Perla, Microbe, and Scientific American, among others.
Kara Levinson
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Kara received her B.S. in microbiology from Northern Arizona University, her M.P.H. in hospital and molecular epidemiology from the University of Michigan, and served as a CDC Emerging Infectious Diseases Fellow at the Iowa public health laboratory. She completed her Ph.D. in immunology and infectious disease at the New York State Department of Health, Wadsworth Center, where she studied vaccine development and host-pathogen interaction in Vibrio cholerae. After obtaining her Ph.D., she completed a CPEP fellowship in clinical microbiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Currently, she works for the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) as a Laboratory Leadership Service fellow, where her focus is on laboratory management and outbreak response at the New Hampshire public health laboratory.
Virginia Miller
Virginia Miller is a Professor in the Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina School of Medicine. Her laboratory uses Yersinia and Klebsiella as model systems to study bacterial pathogenesis.
Nina Salama
Fred Hutch's Dr. Nina Salama studies Helicobacter Pylori, a bacteria that is a major cause of stomach cancer. The Salama lab studies the gastric bacterial pathogen Helicobacter pylori, which infects half the world's population and can cause ulcers and gastric cancer.
nsalama@fredhutch.org
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Dr. Xavier is the Second Secretary (Primary Industries), Ministry for Primary Industries, Beijing, China.

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I am unable to find the app on the device as well as the App Store.

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John Robert Vaizey JP DL, High Sheriff 1877.
Or on a cross Azure quarter pierced of the field between four mascles Gules as many crosses crosslet fitchee Argent a canton of the second charged with two swords in saltire points upwards proper pommels and hilts of the first encircled by a double chain gold.
Or on a cross Azure quarter pierced of the field between four mascles Gules as many crosses crosslet fitchee Argent.
b. William Winchester b.1778 d.
Unfortunately the Arms of Henry Winchester are now being "sold" by at least one online heraldic bucket shop.
Vert three mermaids each holding in the dexter hand a mirror proper and in the sinister a comb Or.
** In 1808 one Edward Wollstonecraft was promoted from Ensign to Lieutenant in the Loyal London Volunteers (Militia).
John Yarker of Leyburn obtained a grant/confirmation by the College of Arms in respect of his grandfather Luke Yarker in 1758.
Gules on a chevron between three unicorns passant Or as many human hearts of the field.
Quarterly 1st & 4th Gules on a chevron between three unicorns passant Or as many human hearts of the field (for Yarker) 2nd & 3rd Argent a chevron Vert between three bugle horns Sable stringed Or (for Forster).
Quarterly 1st & 8th Argent three horse shoes Sable (for South) 2nd Gules on a bend Argent three swans proper (for Clarke) 3rd Argent a cross of lozenges Vert overall a bend chequy ermine and Azure (for Braddyll) 4th Or a lion passant Sable on a chief Sable a trefoil of the field (for Rishton) 5th Azure in chief two stars in point a crescent Or (For Dodding) 6th Or a fesse dancette between three crosses crosslet fitchee Gules (for Sandys) 7th Party per fess Gules and Azure a castle counterchanged (for Rawson).
Quarterly 1st & 4th Gules on a chevron between three unicorns passant Or as many human hearts of the field (for Yarker) 2nd & 3rd Azure six lioncels rampant Argent three two and one (for Leybourne).
Quarterly 1st & 4th Barry of ten Or and Sable overall a bend Gules (for Barker) 2nd Barry of twelve Argent and Azure overall three lions rampant Gules (for Woodburne) 3rd quarterly Argent and ermines in the first quarter a fleur-de-lis Gules (for Letham) and in a canton quarterly i &iv Sable on a fess engrailed Or between three squirrels sejeant Argent each holding a marigold slipped proper as many roundels barry of six Argent and Azure (for Smith) ii & iii Argent on a bend Azure three bucks' heads caboshed Or (for Stanley).
Note: From the family details below, it appears that the both the lines listed above, with their wives' escutcheons of pretence, have expired. However, the descendants of Joseph Yarkers siblings can use the Leybourne quarterings.
4.	Charles Braddyll Yarker b.1838 m.1891 (Arabella Robinson) d.1903 dsp?
Argent on a bend invected Gules between three Cornish choughs proper two cross crosslets of the first.
iv. Zoe Gwynedd b.1912 m.1939 (Lt.Col Brian Morton Forster Franks) d.1977 had issue.
v. Sonia b.1917 m1.1939 (Patrick William Butler Pole-Carew dis.1950) m2.1958 (Maj William Henry Cropley Luddington) had issue.
f. Maude Marian Quilter b.1868 m.1888 (Frederick Anthony Denny) had issue.
g. Norah Blanche Quilter b.1871 m1.1898 (Capt William G Pitt Miller) m2.1913 Capt Guy Noel Vivian) had issue.


An exclusive new trailer for Suicide Squad just premiered at the MTV Movie Awards, and it's incredibly vexing, as Harley Quinn would say, to be so close and yet so far away from the film's August 5 release.
The brand-new footage reveals why and how this band of bad guys got together. Led by lethal sharpshooter Deadshot (Will Smith) and the delightfully unhinged Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie), this squad of villains is assembled by the government to form a black ops task force that has very little chance of survival. However, the chance of them going balls-to-the-wall insane on every mission is incredibly high.
Mistah J, however, doesn't seemed phased by Bat's physical prowess.
Rounding out the gang of violent, hilarious and morally bankrupt hell-raisers are Boomerang (Jai Courtney), who's seen not-so-subtly flirting with the incredibly badass Katana (Karen Fukuhara). Seriously, Katana will f**k you up.
Speaking of Harley, everyone's favourite wacky troublemaker is still the best damn member of the Suicide Squad. She's even got her own theme song to prove it. She's so wonderfully vexing with her studded gun and baseball bat.
Plus, our girl knows when to hit the brakes on superheroing and grab a drink—with a fancy umbrella, no less! HQ has impeccable taste.


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Item 23658 - Gov. Baxter's residence on Mackworth Island, 1922
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Governor Percival P. Baxter's vacation home on Mackworth Island in Falmouth. This building later became part of the Baxter School for the Deaf.
Baxter (1876-1969) was governor of Maine from 1921-1925. He served in the Maine State Senate from 1909-1910 and again from 1919 to 1921. He served in the Maine House of Representatives from 1916-1919.
Title: Gov. Baxter's residence on Mackworth Island, 1922
Subject Date: 1922
Local Name: Mackworth Island
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Certipor é uma Autoridade de Registro portuguesa fundada em Fevereiro de 2000. Foi adquirida pela Multicert em Agosto de 2002.

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Presta serviços a particulares e a empresas. Para os particulares, existem certificados digitais de correio electrónico. Para as empresas, existem certificados digitais de correio electrónico e certificados digitais de servidores.

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The WSU Skagit County Shore Steward program is a WSU Extension program that helps shoreline community residents and businesses protect the Skagit watershed through property decisions. Each Shore Steward adopts up to 10 Guidelines for Shoreline living and receives free information from WSU Skagit County Extension to make those decisions. Shore Stewards protect the waters and wildlife of Puget Sound, one property at a time.
Recruit waterfront residents, farmers, parks, port districts, cities, and business to join the Shore Steward program, so they can learn to manage their land to preserve critical habitat for fish, wildlife, and birds.
The WSU Skagit County Extension would like to join the Skagit Watershed Council because we educate the public about best land practice on their properties to protect Puget Sound for future generations. WSU Shore Stewards program is a trusted source of information for Washington State and would be a good addition to the Skagit Watershed Council since one of the main focuses of the SWC is to empower the general public though information sharing. The Shore Steward program hopes to be a reliable partner that the public can trust to get science-based information about how to preserve our waterways.


Chapter 1 is now free to play!
Four bite-sized chapters follow the adventures of a crew of snails searching for a new homeworld. Each chapter takes between 20 and 90 minutes to play.
Solve puzzles using futuristic technology like LEDAR (Lettuce Detection and Ranging) and superconductors.
Chapter 2 25-35 min A Snail Of Two Worlds Stranded! How will they survive?
Chapter 3 35-50 min Lettuce Be Everything is turned on its head!
Chapter 4 80-100 min The Final Fondue The epic conclusion of the snails' saga!
Snail Trek brings the classic text parser adventure game into the future!
Chapters 2 and 4 feature multiple playable characters - switch characters to solve puzzles together.
'nough said. Don't underestimate them, though.


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Michael Lieberman looks over the newly constructed bookshelves at The Storefront at Olson Kundig Architects, 406 Occidental in Pioneer Square. His 9-year-old daughter, Simone, reads a copy of "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel." Wessel & Lieberman Booksellers will be giving away free books out of The Storefront beginning Jan. 10.
There were no Kindles or iPads when Wessel & Lieberman Booksellers first opened its doors at 208 First Ave. S. In fact, Amazon and eBay didn't exist.
Books, printed on paper, packed the shelves.
"Before the Internet took over and the dynamics of retailing on the Internet became apparent, there was this idea that the more books you have, the better," said co-owner Mark Wessel.
These days, there are still a lot of used books at the Pioneer Square store and thousands more in a storage unit in West Seattle. Some of them, hardback volumes that once sold for $15 to $45, wouldn't fetch a buck today.
Fortunately, they don't have to.
For the next month, the bookstore's owners are giving away these books — fiction, nonfiction, history, biography — from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Monday through Friday at The Storefront at Olson Kundig Architects, 406 Occidental.
"It didn't pay anymore for us to pursue to sell them; it didn't pay for us to keep them," said co-owner Michael Lieberman. "This was just the most creative way we could find to distribute them."
The project, called The Free Book Incident, kicks off Jan. 10, with an initial donation of 2,500 books. It's infused with Lieberman and Wessel's shared love for printed books and the community.
The shift to electronic books doesn't worry Lieberman, who spends most of his time on his website, bookpatrol.net, a blog and soon-to-be marketplace dedicated to discussions about physical books.
"The book is much more important to our culture and our way of being that I can't imagine it disappearing so fast," he said.
He's not alone. When the Seattle Public Libraries closed for a week's furlough last August, volunteers set up The Seattle People's Library outside of the Douglass-Truth Library. In neighborhoods around the city, residents have set up book exchanges and constructed little boxes called Little Free Libraries to share literature.
Through scheduled social events and a unique installation, The Free Book Incident takes sharing and social reading to another level. The bookstore has invited the Seattle Public Library, Wave Books, The Stranger and Springtide Press, among others, to hold readings and discussions at the event.
People working at the storefront will use social media to share what participants find in the stacks. Olson Kundig designed the space to be adjusted to the need.
Six Olson Kundig interns constructed moving bookshelves for the event. The 12-foot-by-8-foot structures will be secured to the floor but pivot depending on what the space requires.
The Free Book Incident is the latest in a series of community displays and events organized by Olson Kundig. In the past year, the firm turned the space into a mushroom farm, a record-listening space and a history display on Skid Road ("Olson Kundig to host 'Skid Road' installation." RC, July 18, 2012).
The Free Book Incident does more than solve the bookstore's overstock problem. It's a chance to recreate the sense of discovery that bookstores used to provide.
"A lot of it is about walking into a space and exploring and being open to the serendipity of it," Wessel said.
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Lygniodes endochrysa är en fjärilsart som beskrevs av Louis Beethoven Prout 1919. Lygniodes endochrysa ingår i släktet Lygniodes och familjen nattflyn. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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Are you ready to set sail into the future? Climb aboard HMS Boosh, hoist the perspex anchor, set the controls for the heart of the sun and come navigate the electrical seas with Cyborg Patrick and his Neon Barnacles. In this live Boosh presentation you will see Howard wrestle with the problems of the universe in tiny shorts, while Vince gets his hair extra big and flounces about, Bob Fossil's dance moves will turn you on then anger you over and over until you puke. You shall then weep with salty joy as Bollo and Naboo move about and say stuff in their own special way. The Boosh are mighty and sailing at you, strap your eyes onto your brain double tight, cos it's gonna get choppy like electric sushi.


As we sat down to eat, a group of business men and women were having their 5 a 7 by the bar and most other diners seemed to be quite a bit older than us which definitely set the tone as a more formal and mature vibing restaurant. With absolutely gorgeous interior design by Jean-Pierre Viau, the glass wine cellar really caught my eye at the center of the main dining area. Wine bottles artfully hang from long metal rods extending from top to the bottom (hidden from view), accompanied by a soft backdrop of luminescent circular bulbs making the thing was a wonder to look at. Do they really make the effort to grab the bottles from their respective nesting spots every time someone happens to order the specific wine and then replace them? Or are they all just for show? Anyhow, they look very cool.
Our waiter was courteous and well educated on the menu, starting off with some suggestions for the two newest cocktail inventions by the Toqué barmen. I chose the pineapple, gin and Russian sage cocktail while my friend had a St. Ambroise pale ale (sidenote: they don't have beer on tap). As a "welcome" dish, we were served a shooter of cod mousse, olive oil, tomatoes and chives which was a tempting prelude to the things to come. After contemplating ordering the tasting menu (every single one of the seven courses is a surprise! Leave it to the chef to pleasure your taste buds..), we decided to go with choosing directly a la carte. We had poached lobster with lemon butter, basil, apple cabbage and peperoncino oil and confit of char with maple syrup, iced beets, sesame and chanterelles to start. The presentation of every single dish that we ordered was 100% – no, scratch that. Make that 200% aka an A +++. Everything was gorgeous – we literally ate everything on the plate, scraping off any leftover sauce or juice. Yeah, it was that good. For our mains, we had the confit of chicken supreme with cocoa beans, bacon, onions and brandy sauce as well as piglet's loin with ravioli, garlic purée, beets, shallots and Dijon maple sauce. Mmmm hmm. Absolute heaven. The cut of the piglet was tender, a little fatty, with the skin just a touch crispy. Surrounded by fuschia colored beets, thin slices of radishes and a few raviolis, the plate looked like a visual taste of autumn. For dessert we had the lavender ice cream with basil jelly, dried olives and Pastis watermelon – everything tasted great together, but the lavender taste didn't come through all that much, at least to me. We also had the honey roasted peach that came with dried olives, caramel olives and peach sorbet. Mostly tasted great but not going to lie, the olive oil was kind of a strange addition as it wasn't really mixed in to the dessert, rather just poured into the inlets of the stylized dessert. A plate of very cute miniature macaroons – apple and white chocolate flavored – came along with the check. If you check out the photos, I think you will agree that everything put onto the table that night was beautiful. While Toqué is on the pricier side it is well worth it. I would suggest making reservations in advance if you're interested in checking it out.
Tags: Beets, Butter, Chanterelles, Char, Chicken, Confit, Dijon, Dinner, Fancy, French, Garlic, Lavender Ice Cream, Lobster, Loin, Olive Oil, Peach, Piglet, Roasted, Supreme, Toque, Vieux-Port.


This page lists all reports that for Poland only that do not involve other countries.
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We took the train ``City-Night-Line'' from Zurich (21.00h) to Berlin (10.00h. With some delay, ca.2 hours, due to railway personnel strikes, we arrived, alert in Berlin. In the sunshine we found the way out of the city at once. When we got to the border of Poland at Schwedt, it began to rain for two days with interruption. Fortunately we had tail wind until Masuren. We cycled via Stettin, the Baltic Sea coast along to Danzig, via Elblag and Olstyn to the Masuri sea-plateau until Gizycko. From there through central Poland via Bydgoszcz and Frankfurt/Oder back to Berlin. On the way back we fought against strong head wind. Because we cycled through so many forests, the heat (35ºC) in Masuren and wind on the way back, were not too big an obstacle.
Kilometerlange, schnurgerade und von mächtigen Bäumen mit ihren Blätterdächern gesäumte Alleen, unbekannte Vogelstimmen, Storchen-geklapper, endlose Felder und dichte Wälder - wo gibt es das alles noch?
Zum Glück gibt es auch in Europa noch solche Gegenden, wie wir bei einer Radtour in Polen feststellen konnten. Das ehemalige Pommern (Pomorze) ist unser Ziel, genauer gesagt das pommersche Binnenland - wegen seiner 1800 Seen auch Pommersche Seenplatte genannt (Pojezierce Pomorskie). Charakteristisch für dieses Gebiet sind Moränenhügel, Rinnen- und Gletscherseen, ausgedehnte Waldgebiete und dünne Besiedlung.
An extremely well-organized and informative report, with historical notes, a bibliography, useful links, in one word, The Works!
Onze route voerde door de noordelijke helft van Polen, globaal: Poznan - Torun - Kazubie Gdansk - Mazurische meren - Bialystok - Warschau (1400 km in drie weken).
This trip has actually started in ... a bookstore. The choice of Polish cycling - related literature is very poor, therefore about a year ago I was very happy to see [a book with trail descriptions in the Western Beskidy]. After reading some trails descriptions, backed by well - prepared maps, the idea was ready [...] Beskidy is the name for a few ranges of low - elevation mountains (or one can say - hills), generally covered by woods, located in southern Poland next to much better known Tatras and the borders with Czech and Slovakian Republics.
Have a look at this fantastic site and plan your first really exciting cycling holiday in amazing and surprising Poland. Here you will find practical information about roads, health and safety, money, threats and much more.


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Celebrating Our Investors
We are celebrating the commitment of North Carolina REALTORS® to the NC REALTORS® Political Action Committee. We are also celebrating all of the dedicated investors who made it possible for the NC REALTORS® Political Action Committee to raise over 1 million dollars in investments. We were able to achieve this milestone with over 30% of North Carolina REALTORS® participating.
Having a strong political action committee is foundational to NCR's advocacy efforts, it underscores the powerful advocacy voice of REALTORS® in North Carolina and what we can achieve by working together to reach our goals.
The strength of the REALTOR® voice in NC attributed to our legislative victories this year.
Advocacy efforts from the NCR lobbying team and six NC Council of State members, led by efforts from Treasurer Dale Folwell, resulted in the NC eviction moratorium which brought much needed relief for housing providers, who are mom and pop businesses who were struggling along with their tenants.
Efforts to protect landlords continued throughout the year. The lobbying team was able to negotiate substantial changes to the HOPE Program in HB110 to allow for landlords to submit a rental assistance application on behalf of the tenant, to cover the cost of reasonable accrued late fees due to a landlord, and to cover rent in arrears accrued after March 13, 2020. Amy Hedgecock, former PMD Chair, provided key testimony which led to the successful passage of HB110 at the General Assembly. It is currently awaiting action from Governor Cooper.
House bill 489 ensures roads intended for the Department of Transportation (DOT) adoption do not end up abandoned, leaving homeowners' safety and financial security in jeopardy. The DOT will be required to take over subdivision roads that meet the DOT's standards for acceptance into the state road maintenance system within 90 days of a request.
Successful passage of the Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act in the House with discussions ongoing in the Senate
No new taxes on RE or RE services.
NCR lobbyists successfully worked to ensure priority items were included in the state budget. View the NCR budget priority items.
Congratulations to NC REALTORS® for your passion, commitment to success, and tireless efforts to continue making the REALTOR® voice one of the most powerful ones in our state. As previously mentioned, this update will become exclusive to RPAC investors starting next year, and it will also be a quarterly update instead of a monthly one. If you would like more information about the NC REALTORS® Political Action Committee, please contact Kristin Nash.
Contributions to RPAC are not deductible for federal or state income tax purposes. Contributions are voluntary and are used for political purposes. Suggested amounts are merely guidelines and you may contribute more or less than the suggested amounts. The National Association of REALTORS® and its state and local associations will not favor or disadvantage any member because of the amount contributed or a decision not to contribute. You may refuse to contribute without reprisal. Your contribution is split between National RPAC and the State PAC in your state. NC RPAC supports the efforts of National RPAC and contributes a portion of its contributions to National RPAC. Contact your State Association or PAC for information about the percentages of your contribution provided to National RPAC and to the State PAC. The National RPAC portion is used to support federal candidates and is charged against your limits under 52 U.S.C. 30116. In-kind contributions/donations are not included for the purposes of the National RPAC State PAC split. NC law requires political committees to report the name, mailing address, job title or profession and name of employer or employee's specific field for each individual whose contributions aggregate is in excess of $50 in an election cycle. Contributions can only be accepted from individuals in the form of personal checks or credit cards. Contributions from corporations or business entities cannot be accepted. This solicitation was paid for by NC RPAC.


Bugs bunny is the most popular animated cartoon character of the Looney Tunes produced by Warner Bros. This grey-haired bunny is very witty, relaxed and has a passive personality. "Eh, what's up doc?" is the famous catchphrase of this carrot chewing mischievous bunny. Your kiddo would be thrilled to see a color sheet full of Bugs Bunny images.
Color the Bugs bunny in gray and white crayons for a more realistic look. The child's joy will intensify further if you join him to do the painting.


The world's rich-list got even richer this year and Oceania with its relatively low population density took its fair share of the pie. Of the 332 new billionaires this year, 9 were from Australia or New Zealand.
Around the world, billionaires' wealth enjoyed its greatest-ever increase in 2017, rising 19 percent to USD 8.9 trillion shared among 2,158 individuals, according to the 'Billionaires Insights 2018' study from UBS Global Wealth Management (UBS) and global professional services firm PwC.
The biggest wealth accumulation took place in China despite healthy growth in the Americas and Europe. Greater China experienced the largest surge in billionaires with China adding 57 newcomers to the list which was closely followed by South East Asia, were a total of 37 joined the club.
North America is still the greatest hub of ultra hight net worth individuals – with a total number of billionaires sitting at 631 – having added 32 this year. Whilst this may be higher than the 475 strong ultra-rich in China, it does represent a significant shift. Over the past few years the Chinese have dominated both North America and Europe in terms of wealth creation.
Combined, Asia Pacific or APAC is home to more of the world's rich-list than either the Americas (North, Central & South America as well as the Caribbean) or EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa).
"Asia's billionaires are young and relentless," said Ravi Raju, the Head of Asia Pacific Ultra High Net Worth at UBS Global Wealth Management. "They are constantly transforming their companies, developing new business models and shifting rapidly into new sectors.
Of the 332 new billionaires over the past year, 199 are entrepreneurs. This presents a picture of a new generation of wealth creation largely due to tech entrepreneurship. A trend that is influencing far beyond Silicone Valley.
Amongst the usual suspects on the list – including Gina Rinehart, Harry Triguboff and Anthony Pratt – is newcomer Mike Cannon-Brookes. Cannon-Brookes is one of Australia's richest individuals with an estimated $5 billion due to the successful initial public offering of his tech company Atlassian Inc. Just two years after Atlassian's IPO, the company has now topped $10 billion.
"We are experiencing a new wave of entrepreneurship worldwide, with billionaires at the vanguard of innovation. They are creating jobs and prosperity, but their impact goes beyond economics," said Josef Stadler, Head of Ultra High Net Worth at UBS Global Wealth Management.
"A new generation is emerging, and they see an opportunity to tackle some of the greatest environmental and societal challenges facing humankind," he continued. A local example of this is Cannon-Brookes recent investment into solar energy in Victoria and Queensland. The tech entrepreneur also announced earlier this week his plans to lobby the Australian government on energy policy with his new movement "Fair Dinkum Power".
Far overshadowing Oceania's recent gains however is China. "Over the last decade, Chinese billionaires have created some of the world's largest and most successful companies, raising living standards," said Ravi Raju.
It might sound almost impossible but back in 1997, China did not have one billionaire. Today they have 373 having brought an inexplicable amount of wealth to the country. What may be even more surprising is that an overwhelming majority of 97% are self made billionaires.
"Our report reveals how China is currently the leading country for entrepreneurs to create wealth. Nowhere else has the same combination of a huge population, technology innovation and government support," said Dr. Marcel Widrig, Partner and Private Wealth Leader at PwC.


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Q: How to search for value in a sequence in Python? I am very new to coding so please bear with me.  Basically I am writing a program that will ask for either a last name or id number, then search a .csv file for the word and return the entire column to which it belongs.  Below is what I have written if the user opts to search by the id.
method = input("Search by invoice id (id) or customer last name (lname)?: ")
    data = "data.csv"
    dataFile = open(data, "r")
    dataRows = dataFile.readlines()

if method == "id":
    term = input("Enter the id: ")
    for line in dataRows:
        row = line.strip()
        newRow = row.split('\n')
        if term == newRow[0]:
            print(newRow)
        else:
            print("No matches found.")

This is the csv file:

This is how it prints out after readlines():
['invoice id,first name,last name,part number,quantity,total']
['111,Jim,Morrison,27,1,50.25']
['222,Ray,Manzarek,25,2,64.46']
['333,John,Densmore,16,4,34.34']
['333,Robby,Krieger,32,2,34.34']
['555,Jim,Morrison,12,4,43.34']
['333,Jim,Morrison,35,2,34.76']
['888,John,Densmore,63,2,34.76']
['111,Robby,Krieger,21,1,64.45']
['458,Freddie,Mercury,32,4,45.23']
['111,Freddie,Mercury,21,1,46.2']
['234,Allie,McGuire,43,3,64.45']
['675,Allie,McGuire,32,4,45.23']
['359,Freddie,Mercury,423,2,34.34']

Since invoice ID is the first column, I thought it would be found by using if term ==newRow[0], but that's not working. Any tips? Thanks so much.

A: The simplest way to do this is using the csv module:
method = input('Search by invoice id (id) or customer last name (lname)?: ')
term = input('Enter the term: ')

found_row = None     # To store the row if a match is found

with open('data.csv', newline='') as csvfile:
    reader = csv.DictReader(csvfile)

    for row in reader:
        # Compare term with Invoice ID if chosen method is ID
        # else compare with Last Name
        if term == (row['invoice id'] if method == 'id' else row['last name']):
            found_row = row

if found_row:
    print(row)
else:
    print('No match found')

If you're allowing the user to search by ID or last name only, it's possible to simplify your input even further by asking them to enter 1 for ID and 2 for Last Name. This approach is inflexible but the advantage is that users are less likely to enter the method in wrong case. For example, you're comparing method == 'id' but the user might enter Id or ID. Might make your life a bit simpler.

A: If you don't want to use the csv module for this problem, then you should split your string on ",", not on "\n":
newRow = row.split(",")

This way, the first element of newRow will be the invoice id.


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If you were running monkey at some point, it probably changed the input method — it happens quite often. You can change the input method by long-pressing on an input field and choosing Input Method → Android Keyboard.
Download Play Store for Redmi Note 4, Redmi 4X: It is simple procedure where users need to install Google Installer app on their smartphone. Without much ado, follow the below steps to download Google Play Store on Redmi Note 4 and Redmi 4X.
Next, install the appropriate keyboard or IME. For multilingual support on Windows Vista, do the following with an administrator account: From the Control Panel, under Clock, Language, and Region , click Change keyboards or other input methods .


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The APPGAT is supported by MPs and Peers from across the political spectrum. The group is Chaired by Seema Malhotra MP (Lab), Co-chaired by Lord Low of Dalston CBE (crossbench), Lord Holmes of Richmond MBE (Con), and Matt Warman MP (Con).
Seema Malhotra MP was elected Labour and Co-Operative Member of Parliament for Feltham and Heston in December 2011, and she is a member of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Exiting the European Union.
Lord Chris Holmes of Richmond MBE is one of Britain's greatest Paralympians, amassing nine gold, five silver and one bronze medal across four Games, including a record haul of six golds at Barcelona 1992.
Lord Colin Low of Dalston CBE has been a lifelong campaigner for the rights of blind and disabled people, especially in the field of education.
Matt Warman is the Member of Parliament for Boston and Skegness, having campaigned on a commitment to improve communication between Westminster and the electorate.


A wonderful piece by Joan Didion. Still thinking about it days after reading it a second time.
← I wrote this on turning 60 for the Guardian.
The fact that you believe the "simpsonization" of men is justified and that men should accommodate a culture that holds them, at a purely personal and domestic level, as second-rate citizens, is the most profoundly, outrageously SEXIST thing I think I have ever encountered. So long as there are men like you in the numbers you currently are- men who are simply weak, and nothing much else- it will only get worse. The facts you have pointed out and which you yourself constitute, have served to underscore the utter hypocrisy of feminism and the pathetic, whipped state of men in western society today- a western society which has nothing attractive to offer a young muslim man say, in Saudi Arabia- to whom the empty rhetoric about equality found in feminism in particular and western societies in general, must strike him as just that, as he looks at the same facts about western civilization you have been discussing. I wonder to what extent the second class status of men and boys in western societies plays a part in fueling Islamic fundamentalism. Lastly, do you believe it would be correct and proper for sons to "lovingly mock" their mothers as you state you believe it's correct and proper for daughters to "lovingly mock" their fathers? Keep in mind the double-standard is that upon which any sexism is predicated.


Caribou - Our Love, Album Review incl track previews.
Caribou – Our Love, Album Review.
Caribou, aka Dan Snaith, has announced his newest album and the follow up LP to 2010's Swim. It's called: Our Love, and it will be released on October the 7th on Merge Records.
Secretly we can tell you, but please do not tell anybody else 😉 that we had an exclusive possibility to check out the whole album.
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On the album you can find 10 tracks including the already world wide known masterpiece Can't Do Without You.
There are collaborations on with Jessy Lanza and Owen Pallett.
If you are looking for an electronica album to listen to and that makes you feel like you are i love again, that makes you feel that you are walking in the rain but it's doesn't matter because the feeling is just great, if your are looking for that feeling when you are enjoying summer holiday's at the beach or at the pool side with friends, playing games, having fun, drinking cool drinks, and if you are want to feel like you are not the only one. than this is a must have for you!
Soulful / deep / melodic / atmospheric / soul touching vocals / and surrealistic percussions are some of the key words i would give this new album from Caribou – Our Love.
Check out the full press release from Merge Records on Caribou – Our Love here.


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During a public presentation before the Central Philadelphia Development Corporation, at late-entering Councilman Mark Squilla announced that the City of Philadelphia was pledging an additional $1 million to the project to turn the defunct, elevated rail line into a park.
With the City's money, the Center City District, which will handle construction of the park before then turning it over to the City, is within striking distance of the $8.6 million required for construction. Center City District is pursuing a $3.5 million grant from the Commonwealth's Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program. Perhaps not coincidentally, the City's extra $1 million, which is in addition to a previously pledged $1.8 million, plus funds from William Penn Foundation, the Knight Foundation and other private donors, adds up to about $3.5 million short of the necessary funds.
Councilman Squilla, who represents the area, also introduced a bill last month to approve the transfer of the elevated park to the City once the first phase is finished. Squilla said he was arriving directly from a meeting with Council President Darrell Clarke to confirm the added $1 million in funds.
The first phase project would cover just the so-called "SEPTA Spur" of the Reading Viaduct, which is a 0.8-acres portion of the viaduct curving from 13th Street southeast to Callowhill between 11th and 12th.
The entire viaduct, including a below grade and tunnel line that travels from Callowhill to Fairmount Park, is about 3 miles long. The entirety of that stretch is owned by SEPTA, which has cooperated with both the Center City District and the Friends of the Rail Park, a non-profit created to promote the rail-to-park conversion. The Friends of the Rail Park will also look to provide supplemental maintenance and programming at the park.
Another stretch of the elevated rail line is still owned by the corporate ancestor of the Reading Railroad Company, which is now based in California. Center City District CEO Paul Levy said that the CCD and the City had previously spoken to the company "3 or 4 years ago" and that they would be reaching out again to negotiate. At one point, Reading reportedly owed Philadelphia around $1.4 million in back taxes, although it is unclear whether that has been paid.
As PlanPhilly reported last week, the Art Commission gave final approval for the park's design. Levy said that the construction documents were all drafted, so it's just a matter of securing the final funds before construction bidding can begin, and shovels go in the ground soon after.
The Reading Viaduct Rail Park was inspired by New York City's High Line Park, and Adam Ganser, Vice President of the Friends of the High Line, spoke about New York's experience. There, the park was estimated in 2002 to cost $100 million and would accrue $262 million in economic benefits to NYC. Also a multiphase project, the first phase opened in 2009, a second in 2011 and a final phase in 2014.
An updated economic model revised the total cost upward to $150 million. The same study also upped total revenue to the city to $900 million.
High Line Park sees approximately 6.2 million visitors a year, putting it on par with the Metropolitan Museum of Art and beating the Museum of Modern Art, said Ganser, who credited the High Line with making Manhattan somehow more unaffordable.
You can view more renderings of the park here, and, c'mon, you know you want to.