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A Right to Your Own Body -- And a Right to Defend that Right
Neither guns nor weed are within any delegated 'prohibition' purview of any government legitimately authorized by this US Constitution. It's that simple.
With hoplophobic hysteria (among other problems already, to be sure) having gleefully descended on the freshly Democratically-controlled NH legislature this term, the several state RKBA groups have been working overtime endeavoring to get their constituents out to relevant committee hearings and contacting their ostensible "representatives". Thus, I've expected that the public hearings for these bills would be well-enough attended and sufficiently reported that my own camera wasn't needed -- indeed, unnecessarily taking an SRO spot from someone else, who just might provide compelling testimony, too.
Plus there are the obscene parking problems in the State House's vicinity lately, even without high turnout, what with construction and the booted meters and garage spaces reserved for the Privileged Class as far as the eye can see. It shouldn't be too easy to instruct your servant government, after all...
But this day, 5/14/2019, is the typically far less well-attended Senate Judiciary Committee Executive Session to hash out and arrive at said committee's official mob-rule/damn-our-constricting-lawfully-delegated-authority recommendations to the full body on, among others, 4 of those gun bills (so there's still time to contact your Senator), all beginning at about the 9:20 mark:
HB109, "requiring background checks for commercial firearms sales", ("Ought To Pass" 3-2),
HB514, "imposing a waiting period between the purchase and delivery of a firearm", (OTP/As Amended 3-2),
HB564, "(New Title) relative to possession of firearms on school property", (OTP/A 3-2),
HB696, "establishing a protective order for vulnerable adults" (here are overviews on this one), (OTP/A 3-2).
So much head-smackingly self-assured cluelessness that cries out for addressing here, certainly -- not that it hasn't been addressed before, ad nauseam, to no effect. But I'll confine myself to arguably the most egregious: the empirically false, addle-pated conviction, at base, that criminals obey laws. And further that if the children can be assured that if the rights of (only, since they're the only ones who will comply, duh) law-abiding citizens may be violated (without Constitutional authority, needless to say), then the children will rest easy that they are somehow now made safer. That the children would buy that speaks mostly to their government-school education, seems to me. The "gun-free" school bill stops everyone but the individual it (says it) wants to stop -- and, indeed, assures him publicly of that fact. What could possibly go wrong...?
And if you haven't stopped the criminal -- and again, unauthorized statutes stopping the law-abiding by definition won't stop him -- then "feeling safe" is, at best, entirely illusory, is nothing at all but a potentially more deadly "false sense of security", because you've purged the killing zone of any effective defense against those whom your statute won't stop. The school shooter is still coming. Seriously, have you not been following the news? All you've accomplished is to reassure him that his victims will be unable to defend themselves. The belief that an individual who would shoot up a school will still heed your prohibition on peaceful carry is flat-out delusional.
But first, they 'Exec' HB399, "relative to annulment of arrests or convictions for possession of a certain quantity of marijuana" at about :40 (OTP/A 3-2) and HB481, "relative to the legalization and regulation of cannabis and making appropriations therefor" at about 6:45, ("re-refer to committee" 5-0 -- merely returning toward Constitutional constraints should get more study...!), legislative hearings for which may be viewed here and here (House) and here (Senate).
Consider. Both of these topics, guns and weed -- each of them (one explicitly, even) undelegated "prohibitions", functionally -- concern what, in a free society (hell, even in this one), should be jealously-guarded fundamentally-protected civil liberties: unilateral control of your own body, and the ability to effectively defend that right from those who, whether with or without a fancy hat, would presume to violate it.
How can the Constitution-averse Duopoly -- that assures you that it is government, and will be respected, even if ultimately it has to kill you to "earn" it (because make NO mistake, every statute is backed by a gun) -- so easily and recalcitrantly trade sides on them?
Does that seem right to you...?
From MPP New England Political Director Matt Simon, 6/14/2019, because it needs to go somewhere (and tell Sununu about the rest of your rights, too, while you've got him on the horn):
New Hampshire friends, as you may know, I have been trying to convince the state to allow patients to grow their own cannabis for more than a decade. In the fall of 2008, with support from MPP, I began meeting with patients all over the state and encouraging them to share their experiences to help educate policymakers. Since then, countless patients have testified at public hearings to explain why they need to be able to grow their own cannabis as an alternative to opioids and other potentially dangerous pharmaceuticals.
The House of Representatives has listened, voting to pass *eight* medical cannabis home cultivation bills (in 2009, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019.) Sadly, the only time the Senate agreed with the House was in 2012, and the bill was vetoed by then-Governor John Lynch (D).
It's good that we finally have a functional medical cannabis program and a few tightly regulated dispensaries, but many patients continue to suffer because they are unable to afford a regular supply of cannabis from the dispensaries. Since medical cannabis isn't covered by insurance, many patients simply can't afford it and are left with no choice but to continue taking opioids. Maintaining felony penalties against patients who cultivate cannabis for their own use is an insane, authoritarian policy, and it has no place in a state that has the temerity to call itself the "Live Free or Die" state.
I got into this intending to help *all* patients who could benefit from cannabis, and that is why I refuse to give up this fight.
This year, the Senate has once again listened to the needs of patients, and it has agreed with the House to allow limited home cultivation. HB 364 is on its way to the desk of Gov. Chris Sununu, who has not yet indicated whether he intends to sign it or veto it.
This morning, HB 364 even got an endorsement from Granite Grok, which bills itself as "the conservative voice of New England" and strongly opposes legalization for adults' use. And yet, because it is opposed by the police chiefs' association, the bill's fate remains uncertain.
On behalf of all the patients who have been asking for more than a decade, including many who have since passed away or moved to other states in disgust (note: home grow is now legal, not only for patients, but for all adults in all three neighboring states), I ask that you please take a moment to call Gov. Sununu's office (603-271-2121) and politely urge him to sign this critically important bill.
'Gun Control' Failed Again in Denver- mass murderers don't obey the law - 5/13/2019
Senate committee votes to delay marijuana legalization bill to 2020 - 5/14/2019
(It's never too soon to start honoring your oath, Senator Carson...)
Gun Restrictions Pass the NH Senate Along Party Lines - InDepthNH.orgInDepthNH.org - 5/23/2019
Senate Removes Barriers to Opportunity with Expungement Legislation - Americans for Prosperity - 5/30/2019
Legalizing Pot Bill Dead This Session, But Will Be Back - InDepthNH.org - 5/30/2019
Marijuana Legalization Bill Put On Hold in N.H. Senate | New Hampshire Public Radio - 5/31/2019
Governor Sununu Should Sign HB364: Allowing Cannabis Cultivation for Therapeutic Use - Granite Grok - 6/14/2019
Our Turn: Constitutional protections go up in smoke -- 7/8/2019 (perhaps titled misleadingly, particularly in this context, concerning HB696)
Labels: Civil Rights, Gun Rights, NH Government, Prohibition
Alan May 15, 2019 at 9:14 AM
look you should not be able to pass any laws that goes against the Constitution of the united states.an is not constitutional an should be voted on you scumbags.its against the Constitution.AN IS UNLAWFUL YOU ARE AN ASSHOLE AN NEED TO BE TAKING OUT OF OFFICE


Summary William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody poses on his horse "Duke" in a camp for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, possibly at Ambrose Park in Brooklyn, New York. He wears a buckskin coat with tassles adorning it and also wears a hat, possibly a Stetson, and thigh boots. The bridle on Duke is adorned with shells. A covered wagon is in the right background near several wood buidings.


I noticed that the word 'selfie' was selected as the word of the year 2013 by the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). In honour I decided I had to do the rarest of rare things an iPhoneography Selfie and am honoured that it has been featured with several others by New Era Museum.
Okay, so maybe selfie isn't the rarest of rare things after all. My Instagram steam is full of them. My profile isn't though, I don't like being the wrong side of the camera. I hate it in fact. I look at the image I see gazing back at me with no emotional attachment. All I can think of is the distress that I must inflict on others having to look at me. At least when you live inside your own face you don't have to look at it.
Maybe it's not all the people that love to post images of themselves that are vein, maybe it's me. It must be great to be comfortable with who you are and how you look. Maybe for me, the process of editing myself out of images by not taking them in the first place is much more vein.
If one day I invent perpetual motion and become famous this will probably be my most valuable iPhoneography. With the exception of the occasional profile image update you can count the number of selfies I've done on one finger.
SELFIE is named Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2013 ~ selfie noun, informal (also selfy; plural selfies) ~ a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website.
Read more at the OED.
I took the selfie as one of a series of family portraits so the timing was perfect. I haven't managed to convince my wife yet though but I'm working on her.
Thank you Alexander, really kind and I'm delighted you're finding my articles helpful.
Brilliant set of portraits Skip! Love seeing you too!
Fantastic website. I'm fairly new to iphoneography but in the 24 hours I have been looking at your site I have learnt loads.
Really like the family selfie's above and would like to go about doing the same with my family (perhaps these would look good on a wall).
What apps did use to create these?
Thank you Gavin, that's really great to read. I'm under a lot of pressure to get more printed – they look so much better than on screen so I would definitely go for it. All 3 were captured with ProCamera7 and then imported in to Oggl. The 'boys' were both Tinto Lens and BlacKeys XF Film. Rene was John S lens and must also have been BlacKeys XF film.
you center yourself and clear your head prior to writing. I have had a difficult time clearing my mind in getting my ideas out.
I have been doing this form photography for some years now and have actually started to make a proper go of it. I have launched a website and am looking around at what the others are up to – This is just BRILLIANT and I am hooked.
How did you do those portraits? Is that an APP?


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The Cat in the Hat and Other Dr. Seuss Favorites
著者: Dr. Seuss
ナレーター: Kelsey Grammer, John Cleese, John Lithgow, 、その他
再生時間: 1 時間 59 分
Eleven complete Dr. Seuss stories at a great price, featuring performances by John Cleese, Billy Crystal, Ted Danson, Kelsey Grammer, Dustin Hoffman, John Lithgow, and more!
ナレーター: Kelsey Grammer, John Cleese, John Lithgow, Billy Crystal, Dustin Hoffman, Walter Matthau, Ted Danson, Mercedes McCambridge
5 out of 5 stars 2件のカスタマーレビュー
価格: ¥ 1,900
Gertrude McFuzz & The Big Brag
ナレーター: John Lithgow
Gertrude McFuzz wishes she had two feathers....
Selected Shorts: A Touch of Magic
著者: Andrew Lam, Ray Bradbury, Haruki Murakami, 、その他
ナレーター: James Naughton, Stephen Colbert, John Lithgow, 、その他
By turns funny, moving, romantic and surreal, and filled with unexpected twists and turns, each of the tales on this lineup has a magical element.
著者: Andrew Lam, Ray Bradbury, Haruki Murakami, T. C. Boyle, Donald Barthelme, Kevin Brockmeier, Jonathan Safran Foer
ナレーター: James Naughton, Stephen Colbert, John Lithgow, Daniel Gerroll, Maria Tucci, Anthony Rapp, Jerry Zaks
Yertle the Turtle
再生時間: 7 分
A modern fable in humorous verse.
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Presents a Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo
著者: Marlon Bundo, Jill Twiss
ナレーター: Jim Parsons, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Jeff Garlin, 、その他
HBO's Emmy-winning Last Week Tonight with John Oliver presents the story of a Very Special boy bunny who falls in love with another boy bunny. Meet Marlon Bundo, a lonely bunny who lives with his Grampa, Mike Pence - the Vice President of the United States. But on this Very Special Day, Marlon's life is about to change forever....
ナレーター: Jim Parsons, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Jeff Garlin, Ellie Kemper, John Lithgow, Jack McBrayer, RuPaul
The Poets' Corner
The One-and-Only Poetry Book for the Whole Family
著者: John Lithgow
ナレーター: Morgan Freeman, Susan Sarandon, Helen Mirren, 、その他
John Lithgow has compiled an outstanding collection of memorable poems and has gathered his famous friends to read them. The wide variety of carefully selected poetry in this audiobook provides the perfect introduction to reel in those who are new to poetry, and for poetry lovers to experience beloved verses in a fresh, vivid way. Lithgow offers insightful and sometimes poignant commentary to accompany each poem. His essential criterion is that "each poem's light shines more brightly when read aloud".
ナレーター: Morgan Freeman, Susan Sarandon, Helen Mirren, Glenn Close, Gary Sinese, John Lithgow
And Other Things to Consider (Unabridged Selections)
著者: Jim Henson, The Muppets, Friends
ナレーター: John Lithgow, Whoopi Goldberg, Jerry Nelson
再生時間: 1 時間 5 分
There are few things that evoke such a universal feeling of warmth and humor as the work of Jim Henson. In his own words, as well as those of some of his best-known characters like Kermit the Frog and Ernie, we'll get a glimpse of the philosophy and humor that was so essential to Jim's creations. We'll also get a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the collaborative spirit of this gentle artistic genius from the people Jim knew, loved, and inspired.
An Actor's Education
再生時間: 10 時間 17 分
In this riveting and surprising personal history, John Lithgow shares a backstage view of his own struggle, crisis, and discovery, revealing the early life and career that took place out of the public eye. Above all Lithgow's memoir is a tribute to his most important influence: his father, Arthur Lithgow, who, as an actor, director, producer, and great lover of Shakespeare, brought theater to John's boyhood. From bedtime stories to Arthur's illustrious productions, performance and storytelling were constant and cherished parts of family life.
Stories by Heart
著者: John Lithgow, Ring Lardner, P. G. Wodehouse, 、その他
Tony, Emmy, and Golden Globe Award-winning actor John Lithgow (The Crown, Dexter, 3rd Rock from the Sun) brings his latest critically acclaimed Broadway performance to Audible. Stories by Heart celebrates the transcendent power of great literature and serves as a touching tribute to Lithgow's late father, actor and director Arthur Lithgow.
著者: John Lithgow, Ring Lardner, P. G. Wodehouse, W. W. Jacobs
著者: Michael Crichton
A brutal struggle in the cutthroat computer industry...a shattering psychological game of cat and mouse...a shocking accusation that threatens to derail a brilliant career...Michael Crichton is at his galvanizing best.
The World According to Mister Rogers
Important Things to Remember
著者: Fred Rogers
ナレーター: Tyne Daly, John Lithgow, Lily Tomlin, 、その他
"If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person." ( The World According to Mister Rogers)
ナレーター: Tyne Daly, John Lithgow, Lily Tomlin, Andre Watts
著者: David Henry Hwang
ナレーター: John Lithgow, B.D. Wong, David Dukes, 、その他
John Lithgow and B.D. Wong here recreate their original roles from the Tony Award-winning production. Inspired by an actual espionage scandal, a French diplomat discovers the startling truth about his Chinese mistress.
ナレーター: John Lithgow, B.D. Wong, David Dukes, Margaret Cho, full cast
The Poetry of Mister Rogers
著者: Fred Rogers, Luke Flowers
ナレーター: John Lithgow, Kate Mulgrew
For the first time ever, 75 beloved songs from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and The Children's Corner are collected in this charming treasury, sure to be cherished by generations of children as well as the millions of adults who grew up with Mister Rogers. The audiobook includes the iconic song "Won't You Be My Neighbor", music and lyrics by Fred Rogers.
Navigating Napa Valley Cabernets
ナレーター: Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, Nora Ephron, 、その他
ナレーター: Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, Nora Ephron, S. Epatha Merkerson, Jonathan Waxman
Dumpty
The Age of Trump in Verse
Award-winning actor and best-selling author John Lithgow wields a whip-smart, satirical pen in this poetic diatribe chronicling the last few abysmal years in politics. With lacerating wit, he takes listeners verse by verse through the history of Donald Trump's presidency, lampooning the likes of Betsy DeVos, Anthony Scaramucci, Scott Pruitt, Paul Manafort, Trump's doctors, and many others. Illustrated with Lithgow's never-before-seen line drawings, the poems collected in Dumpty draw inspiration from A. A. Milne, Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, Rodgers and Hammerstein, and many more.
Who Is Mark Twain?
著者: Mark Twain
"You had better shove this in the stove," Mark Twain said at the top of an 1865 letter to his brother, "for I don't want any absurd 'literary remains' and 'unpublished letters of Mark Twain' published after I am planted." He was joking, of course. But when Mark Twain died in 1910, he left behind the largest collection of personal papers created by any nineteenth-century American author.

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Q: Python Console with Logging I'm in the process of rewriting a server program, and I want to add into it a simple console input.
At the moment, it just serves data and prints out one or two lines for each thing it does, as a descriptive measure for anyone watching/debugging.
What I want is to have a "sticky" input bar that is always at the bottom, above which my debug prints appear, so that I can enter commands at any point while the program is printing. This would look a bit like:
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[88.88.88.88] Handling Connection on Port 11452
[12.12.12.12] Received Data
[44.44.44.44] Sending Disconnect Sequence
>>>Enter Data Here at Any Time

Ideally, this would be done without curses as this would complicate matters. I feel like I must be missing a simple solution.
Thanks in Advance,
Freddy.

A: If you're looking for a slightly higher-level library than curses, there are a few, like urwid (although of course they don't come with Python, and have to be installed).
If you really want to avoid a windowing library, I suppose you could run the server under screen, configured with an input bar and a rest-of-the-window, and give the server the two virtual TTYs instead of normal input… but that would be a lot more work, not less.
If you want to go lower level, you can always use termios, search termcap, and manually write control sequences to manually take care of scrolling everything but the last line, moving the input cursor, and so on. But that's going to be even more work.
And of course there's always the super-hacky possibility: For every output, and after every input, "redraw" the whole screen by spamming a few hundred blank lines, re-writing the output, and writing the input line. This will look terrible, and not work in a variety of edge cases, but it does avoid any kind of windowing.

However, I think there's a much better way to solve this problem.
You've already got a server. Why not just serve the console API on another "control" port (maybe just on localhost) instead of on the stdin/stdout/tty? That will work even if the server is, e.g., running as a daemon. And it means you can use your favorite fancy Telnet or similar client as a console, instead of having to write something from scratch.

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John McDonnell carefully outlines his plans to ruin the UK
Thanks comrades. That's how we will ruin the system and banktupt the country within 2 years. (picture credit commons wikimedia)
Labour Conference details future fiscal calamities, as well as other hellish outrages happening and to come.
by Scott Stryver
29 September 2017 05:18 29 September 2017 05:18
This Labour Conference has been so hideous I have felt sure someone would gently shake me and say "wake up, it's only a terrible dream." But no, as Basil Fawlty once said, "it seems we're stuck with it." The pantomime flowed even more freely than the champagne.
John Prescott, a man of the people is in the House of Lords an institution he has never hidden his loathing for. When he was questioned on Monday, we found him claiming that his £300/ day expenses barely covered his necessities. The total £42,150 tax-free expenses this year plus an estimated £55,000 worth of pensions may seem lavish to some poorer Labour supporters but don't tell John that.
Threats of violence and rampant anti Semitism
The approach to Brexit was so disjointed and farcical that they decided not to even vote on remaining in the single market. (Oh no they didn't, oh yes they did). Kier Starmer mentioned that they would reopen negotiations about any settlement anyway when they won power. Dear Lord! Their approach to the disgrace of Laura Kuenssberg the female political editor of the BBC having to be accompanied to Conference with a bodyguard, after death threats issued by Corbynistas from the lunatic left; ranged from disputing that any of the caring Labour people would voice such a threat, to claims that it was a political ploy by the BBC to demonise hardliners.
Insanity reigns.
The response to anti-Semitic rhetoric reached new lows with a delegate suggesting that free speech should allow for a debate. Holocaust yes or no? As low as possible? Morally perhaps so, but in terms of fiscally ruining the country, that was left to John Mcdonnell the Shadow Chancellor.
Details of how John will bankrupt the UK
McDonnell focused on his obsession; re-nationalising everything.
Rail, water, energy - even the Post Office was on his hit list. How much would all this cost? The figures are so huge as to be almost impossible to accurately calculate, but energy alone could cost up to 185 billion pounds according to a report by an investment banking group in 2015. Capital value of water? The regulator thinks 69 billion pounds and so on.
He saved his most damaging nonsense for PFI deals.
These are deals instigated by John Major's Conservative Government but utilised most widely by Blair's later Labour Government. As the public sector did not have the funds for all the building and development projects for schools, hospitals and a range of other necessary works, Governments asked for private investment. It is true that some of the deals, particularly with regards to ongoing maintenance, were poorly drawn up by government agents when they began, however, most of the holes have now been spotted and addressed.
This private money plugged a 60 billion pound black hole. Now McDonnell wants control back and he states that "a future Labour Government rather than the market," would set the levels of compensation. In that little phrase could lie the ruin the UK's fiscal reputation for decades to come.
It means that investors won't get the market price, they will risk being ripped off by a band of brigands posing as the UK government.
A day later McDonnell stated he is planning contingencies in case "They come for us." Of course, they will come for you and they have trillions in their pockets and the UK Government of Corbyn and McDonnell will be several (who knows how many) trillion in debt.
When these investments were made the UK was one of the safest places in the world to invest money. Only last week, Moody's, one of the big three ratings agencies downgraded our credit rating. This type of foolish talk will only encourage a further loss of confidence by investors. If this mad plan were ever to go ahead, rich investors would lose money and thus never invest in this country again.
Many of them would see this as proof of things to come and leave the UK.
Presently the top 10 percent of earners pay 59 percent of all income tax (up from 35 percent in 1976), according to a recent analysis by the Daily Telegraph. They also own many businesses that pay tax. These people can choose where to live and do business. How much income tax do Richard Branson or Lewis Hamilton etc pay to the UK? None. They live abroad as is their right. But not only the rich suffer. Every person who has placed money in a pension scheme risks the value of that money dropping and a shortfall in the money they were relying on having in their retirement.
As our credit rating drops so our debt becomes more expensive to finance. Remember we have almost 2 trillion pounds worth of debt presently. Add a couple of percentage points to that interest rate and you have billions more to pay simply to continue to finance it.
The only area McDonnell is nearly silent about is how he will pay for this ludicrous largess with public money. Dennis Skinner the Labour MP for Bolsover, however, is never silent. He was telling everyone that we borrow the money, tell that to anyone who asks! But who from? Not the rich as we explained above. Steal private money once and they will never trust you again and they have choices.
So once again, as in 1979 and 2010, Labour will ruin the UK and leave the rest of us to pick up the bill, if we can. Debt will cost us as much as it did Greece and it has ruined that country for the last decade.
Flirting with catastrophe
For Lord's sake let us stop flirting with this madness. The three leading Labour MP's, Corbyn, McDonnell, and Abbott have all gone on record as supporting Hugo Chavez and his socialist plans for Venezuela. Well, those plans have had time to influence that country now and it has gone from the jewel of South America to a wasteland of starving people and violence.
If Corbyn and McDonnell are elected no one can claim they were not warned.
Scott Stryver
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For the month August, Sandra Peoples and Carol Flory at Not Alone Ministry launched Special Needs Parent Appreciation Month. Plain moms and dads get a mere day to celebrate their talents as parents. Special needs parents deserve an entire month! It's fitting that they chose "back-to-school" month, undoubtedly the most stressful month of the year for most special needs families. If there is ever a time when we need a bit of extra appreciation, August is it! For all of those therapy appointments, for juggling a tight budget, for giving tirelessly to those who need it most, for the million ways in which you give and care – Well done!
Today I am sharing with my readers an excerpt from the introduction of my book, Special Needs Parenting: From Coping to Thriving.
I have hit the bottom of the tank today. We had our annual review at the school, and it's so hard to hear in concrete terms how delayed my son is. I know it. None of this information is new, but it's so hard to hear again. I worry about his future, let alone how we will afford all of his therapies today. Every single day there is so much to do that I feel I can barely keep up. The needs are unending, and I am not nearly enough.
Have you ever been that parent? I have. My experience isn't exactly the same as my friend's recent blog post, but it resonates in many ways. Challenging behaviors at school? Yes! Worry about my son's future? Yes! Endlessly running around to therapy appointments? Yes! A sense at times of being overwhelmed in day-to-day parenting? Yes! A view of the future shaded by anxiety? Yes!
Our journeys as special needs parents are as varied as the differences among our children. Each child is unique and precious in the sight of God, and there is no other exactly like our own. Yet there are common challenges and common experiences shared among us as special needs parents. As clergy, I have led a variety of parenting support groups for more than five years and it never ceases to amaze me that, regardless of how varied the diagnoses within each family, there are common cords that bind us together emotionally and spiritually. Throughout the years I have seen healing of deeply held emotional and spiritual wounds through coming together in a supportive, welcoming Christian community and working through our challenges together.
My journey toward writing Special Needs Parenting: From Coping to Thriving began years ago when members in my congregation asked me to lead a Bible study for special needs parents. I looked for a resource I could grab off a bookstore shelf that would address the emotional and spiritual concerns of the special needs parents and had limited success. I was in the midst my studies in a doctoral program at the time and I realized that I had found an area of tremendous need for resources within the church. This epiphany changed not only my academic focus, but the trajectory of my ministry.
Through my personal journey as a special needs mom, my experiences as clergy walking with families with special needs, and academic research into how best to build family resilience, I developed a seven-week study. Each chapter addresses a common challenge and offers a positive perspective grounded in scripture and practical tools that can be revisited again and again.
Whether parents read Special Needs Parenting: From Coping to Thriving as part of a small group study or read it individually, I pray this book provides both insights into a loving God and practical tools for the journey ahead. Encouraging special needs parents is at the heart of my calling in ministry, and I hope that the book will be a blessing.
Next week I will share a passage from chapter six, Building Healthy Relationships.
Special Needs Parenting: From Coping to Thriving is available at Huff Publishing and Amazon.


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TV maker laying off most workers, blaming Trump tariffs
President Donald Trump's tariffs against China are causing a South Carolina television maker to lay off nearly all of its employees because of the sudden increase in the price of components for its products.
Element TV Company will let 126 workers go, most of them on Oct. 5, leaving behind a skeleton crew of eight employees to watch the Fairfield County plant in hopes it can reopen in three to six months, the company said in a letter to state employment officials Monday.
The Element plant opened to huge fanfare about five years ago. Trump's current U.N. Ambassador, Nikki Haley, was South Carolina governor at the time. In August 2014, she did a live video feed from the plant beamed to a Walmart manufacturing summit, where she spoke about how to bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. by selling her state.
Tariffs could lead to more job losses in the state, especially in the auto industry. Swedish carmaker Volvo has said tariffs could prevent it from reaching its goal of 4,000 workers by 2021 at its just opened plant near Charleston. BMW has warned Trump administration officials that some if not many of its 10,000 workers at its plant near Spartanburg could have their jobs at risk if tariffs continue.


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Miasteczko Halloween (ang. The Nightmare Before Christmas) – film animowany Tima Burtona powstały w 1993 roku, reżyserem filmu był Henry Selick. Zdjęcia do filmu wykonał Pete Kozachik, muzykę Danny Elfman.

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Szare Miasteczko Halloween pełne jest potworów i umarlaków. Jack Skellington, Dyniowy Król jest już znudzony sławą najstraszniejszego upiora. Czuje, że rutyna nie daje mu się rozwinąć. Po kolejnym wielkim Halloween wyrusza przed siebie. W końcu trafia do nieznanego mu miejsca w lesie, gdzie znajduje szereg drzwi w pniach drzew. Nie zważając na ostrzeżenia swego psa Zero otwiera drzwi w kształcie świątecznej choinki i trafia do kolorowego Gwiazdkowego Miasteczka. Tymczasem Sally, która została stworzona przez doktora Finklesteina nie chce być już dłużej jego własnością, aby moc się wyrwać na miasto musi za każdym razem otruć swego stwórcę. Podoba się jej Jack, ale jest zbyt nieśmiała aby mu o tym powiedzieć. Nazajutrz wszyscy mieszkańcy Halloween poszukują Jacka. Ten jednak powraca i nakazuje zwołanie zebrania mieszkańców, na którym opowiada im o tym co zobaczył. Jednak potwory z jego miasta nie mogą zrozumieć co go tak naprawdę zafascynowało. W końcu Jack zwraca się do doktora, który właśnie zamknął niesforną Sally, o udzielenie pomocy we własnych eksperymentach nad istotą świąt. W końcu postanawia urządzić we własnym mieście Gwiazdkę. Zaniepokojona Sally ponownie ucieka od doktora i doświadcza strasznej wizji. Ostrzega Jacka przed organizowaniem świąt, ten jednak jest szczęśliwy tak bardzo, że nawet nie chce jej słuchać. Dla niego, rozwiązanie jego złego nastroju jest proste – musi porwać Świętego Mikołaja i przechwycić święta!

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Jack Skellington, czyli Jack Szkieleton, król Miasteczka Halloween, zafascynowany Świętami Bożego Narodzenia postanawia stworzyć własną wersję tego święta i przenieść jego bożonarodzeniową radość na cały świat. W tym celu porywa Świętego Mikołaja i sam wyręcza go w jego zadaniu rozdania prezentów, co powoduje jednak zamiast radości bożonarodzeniowy koszmar.

Wersja polska
Opracowanie wersji polskiej: START INTERNATIONAL POLSKA na zlecenie DISNEY CHARACTER VOICES INTERNATIONAL
Reżyseria: Marek Robaczewski
Dialogi polskie: Joanna Serafińska
Dźwięk i montaż: Michał Skarżyński
Kierownictwo produkcji: Paweł Araszkiewicz
Kierownictwo muzyczne: Marek Klimczuk
Teksty piosenek: Filip Łobodziński
Piosenki nagrano w: STUDIO BUFFO
Realizacja nagrań muzycznych: Jarosław Regulski
Opieka artystyczna: Michał Wojnarowski
Udział wzięli:
 Wojciech Paszkowski – Jack Szkieleton
 Joanna Węgrzynowska – Sally
 Krzysztof Kołbasiuk – Babojagołak
 Andrzej Chudy – Święty Mikołaj
 Mieczysław Morański – Dr Finkelstein
 Zbigniew Konopka – Burmistrz
 Tomasz Steciuk – Lok
 Jacek Wolszczak – Barył
 Beata Wyrąbkiewicz – Szok
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 Radosław Popłonikowski
 Paweł Szczesny
 Krzysztof Szczerbiński
 Joanna Borer-Dzięgiel
 Artur Kaczmarski
 Dariusz Błażejewski
 Marek Robaczewski
 Izabela Dąbrowska
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I think the best thing about even attempting to be a girlboss is the humility that you do nothing alone. You really cannot exist without a team; being a part of a team is probably the best thing about being an empowered girl in any aspect.
As always, the actress hits the nail on the head. While competition against others can certainly be a way to move forward in any industry, Barrymore serves a helpful reminder that women should stick together in order to stay empowered. After all, it is tempting to think that girl power means that you do everything yourself all the time. And there is nothing wrong with putting a priority on your own personal goals, but it is worth remembering that women all around you have their own goals as well. There is absolutely nothing wrong with lifting up another girl up or helping them out when they need it. If anything, that is really what girl power is all about — being part of a team that is full of girlbosses. And judging by some of Barrymore's past movie roles and her other career moves, it is clear that she embodies that idea of teamwork in her own life.
Charlie's Angels is definitely the first example that comes to mind. After all, Barrymore rallied alongside fellow strong women Lucy Liu and Cameron Diaz in the 2000 movie as an all-female group of martial arts-trained detectives fighting crime while still managing to look super stylish.
But it also cannot be forgotten that Barrymore was also featured more recently in the 2009 film Whip It, which showed her as part of an all female roller derby team. She told InStyle before the film came out, "I like teams — I like buddies. I don't understand women who are competitive, apart from positive forums like athletics. One person is a powerful thing, but a tribe is unstoppable." Not to mention, the film was her directorial debut! Talk about taking girlboss in the context of a team to the next level.
On top of that, she even had an empowering angle to her cosmetics line, with a focus on affordability for her wide range of eager customers. She said during Lucky magazine's Fashion and Beauty Blog Conference, "I wanted to give women department store quality at a mass retailer price. Women deserve that!"
At the end of the day, it's about people who bring out the best in you. You just want to be with people who you enjoy spending your time with, who like to get things done in the same manner as you.


Hi Friends, so this post may seem a little funny/crazy (hopefully more funny than crazy) but bare with me! I recently moved back to Cincinnati and I didn't really keep in touch with any high school friends, so I have a select amount of friends here but I have recently really been trying to expand my circle. Sooooo Bumble (a dating app where the girl must initiate the conversation) just recently released a new part of the app called Bumble BFF. The purpose of this app is so that girls can find other girls who are looking to make friends. Pretty genius if you ask me. Cincinnati can be extremely cliquey so this is a nice way to meet people who are also looking for friends.
First, you can swipe yes or no on a person based on 5 photos and a short bio. Not much but I try to give almost everyone a shot and then you or she has 24 hours to start a conversation. I try to strike up a conversation based on something that way in their bio (girl flirting is really difficult guys, no lie). And I try to talk to them for a few days. I have so far been on 3 "girl dates". And I gotta be honest guys, its gone pretty well.
It's pretty scary going into these almost blind dates thinking you'll have nothing to talk about. But I have been lucky matching with girls who are pretty outgoing which is nice. There is a ton to talk about with both being new to a city and there's a lot of comfort in that. My "dates" lasted a lot longer than I expected, and it was a nice way to break up my week.
I have been poked fun at a lot for trying this app by other people and I understand that it sound a little ridiculous but hey I'm just a girl in a big city trying to meet some fun girlfriends. And I gotta tell you I think its working. I figure if I can make about 2 friends from this app its worth it, 2 more than I had. And you also never know what kind of connections these people will have, maybe you aren't the biggest fan of one girl you meet but you love her friend? Sounds terrible but you would never have met her otherwise. I have met some really nice girls, some are meh which I can tell just from texting. That's why I try to get to know them a little before committing to a meeting. But honestly, I would really recommend this to anyone looking to expand their circle. Even if you don't make BFF's out of it, it's still something to get out of the house and break up your day or something to talk about with your current friends.
Anyways girls, you do you! Be outgoing, try to expand your circle, and don't let anyone tell you not to!


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We are at a point where we can use some professional help.


Adam Claridge-Chang, and his team from the A*STAR Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, have been studying the behavior of vinegar flies (Drosophila melanogaster). Optogenetics is an important experimental method that uses genes to express light-sensitive proteins to manipulate brain cells. "Optogenetics is a great tool," says Claridge-Chang, "but there is no clear path to go from optogenetics to therapeutics. It seems likely that future drugs will influence brain function through specific neurons that contain specific molecules. One promising class of molecules that could achieve this is venom peptides, which have evolved to target the nervous system."
To do this, Claridge-Chang collaborated with Mande Holford's group at Hunter College in the US. Holford previously worked on cone snails, but had noticed that another group of venomous sea snails, the terebrids, had attracted much less attention. Terebrid snails, identifiable by their elongated cone shells, are an untapped resource of potentially medicinal molecules. The researchers selected two peptides, Tv1 and Tsu1.1, from Terebra variegata and Terebra subulata venoms respectively, to investigate their physiological effects. Tv1 was the first terebrid peptide to be structurally characterized, yet its function remained unclear. However, a previous study in cells had suggested that Tv1 might play a role in pain moderation. "We were interested to see whether Tv1 affected pain perception in a whole animal model", says Holford, adding that Tsu1.1—a distinctly different molecule to Tv1—was chosen as a control peptide.
The researchers injected the peptides into vinegar flies and observed them in behavioral tests commonly used for modelling pain perception and obesity. "To our surprise, both Tv1 and Tsu1.1 showed bioactivity," says Holford, "and their activity was distinct". Injections of Tv1 made flies less likely to avoid dangerously high temperatures, suggesting their pain threshold was increased, and Tsu1.1 made flies eat more meals.
Several thousand flies were used during this study, and the results suggest that flies could be used to study the physiological effects of venom peptides on a large scale. "Screening in this way would not be possible using mice, which are much more expensive" says Claridge-Chang.
Venom-inspired drugs are already commercially available. "The biggest success story is exenatide, which is used to treat diabetes," says Claridge-Chang. "We expect that peptides, including venom peptides, will become a major biological drug category." The researchers hope that their technique will speed up the discovery of other potentially bioactive peptides that are hidden in the vaults of animal venom.


The Manumuskin is a designated US Department of Interior Wild and Scenic River from its mouth at the Maurice to its headwaters 12 miles upstream in Buena Vista. The river empties into the Maurice about 7 miles north of Delaware Bay, on its way flowing through four towns: Buena, Maurice River Township, Millville, and Vineland, and two counties: Cumberland and Atlantic. The entire watershed lies within the Kirkwood-Cohansey Aquifer formation.
At its tidal confluence with the Maurice is the historic village of Port Elizabeth in Maurice River Township. The river is steeped in colonial history as well as a rich prehistoric Native American heritage.
The Manumuskin drains a land area of approximately 29,971 acres or 47 square miles, only 5% of which has been urbanized and 64 % of which is forested. About 12% of the watershed has been cleared for agriculture. Barren land makes up 2 % and the remaining 17% is wetlands and water.
When the Wild and Scenic designation process began in 1985, the Manumuskin River was one of only two streams of the eighty sampled in the one-million-acre Pinelands National Reserve that was found to have pristine water quality (the other is the McDonald's branch in Lebanon State Forest). At that time more of the land was in private ownership. Today many of the acres along the stream have been preserved, and its full length is afforded protective zoning consistent with the Wild and Scenic River's land use plans. At that time no sewage plants discharged into its waters and no landfills or industrial discharges impacted the river. Because of conservation efforts and the Wild and Scenic Designation the same holds true today.
Land trust groups have chosen to preserve many of the acres within the watershed and along the river because of these historical aspects as well as the diversity of habitat and wildlife.
Many state rare, threatened, and endangered species are extant, such as corn, pine, and scarlet snakes, southern gray tree frog and pine barrens tree frog, barred owl, bald eagle, and red headed woodpecker. At least 32 of the Pinelands rare plant species are present here. There are also a minimum of 5 globally-rare plant species. One of special note is found in the tidal freshwater wetlands of the river: sensitive joint vetch. For more details on the natural and historic resources, see the Conservation Plan for the Manumuskin River.
Since the study process (1985) and final designation of the Manumuskin (1993), thousands of acres of property throughout the watershed have been protected by groups such as The Nature Conservancy, Natural Lands Trust, NJ Fish and Wildlife, and NJ Conservation Foundation. Many of these acres were added to the Peaslee Wildlife Management Area. As a result, today the Manumuskin remains a national treasure.


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A UN envoy has met members Syria's opposition Geneva as efforts began to salvage peace
talks by focusing on local ceasefires and prisoner swaps rather than a political deal.
Brought together for the first time in almost three years of war on Thursday, each delegation accused the other of atrocities and showed no sign of compromise.
Officials still hope they can salvage the process by starting with more modest, practical measures to ease the plight of millions of people on the ground, especially in areas cut off from international aid.
In the most dramatic moment of the conference, Assad's foreign minister accused opposition fighters of raping dead women, killing foetuses and eating human organs, drawing a rebuke from UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for using inflammatory language.
UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi met leaders of the Syrian opposition at a Geneva hotel to discuss the agenda for further talks on Friday.
"As expected, the sides came up with rather emotional rhetoric. They blamed one another," said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov of the talks on Thursday.
"For the first time in three years of bloody conflict ... the sides - for all their accusations -agreed to sit down at the negotiating table", he said.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, one of the staunchest backers of the opposition has said of the talks "Hope exists, but it's fragile. We must continue because the solution to this terrible Syrian conflict is political and needs us to continue discussions."
Ahmad Jarba, the president of the opposition Syrian National Coalition, says he believes the world now agrees that President Bashar al-Assad must leave power.
by Jassim.Kunji via YouTube 1/23/2014 8:46:48 PM
Syrian opposition faces roadblocks in Geneva talks
by Ted.Regencia via YouTube 1/24/2014 3:57:01 AM
Syria's government and representatives from the opposition are set to begin talks. United Nations mediator Lakhdar Brahimi is overseeing the negotiations in Geneva and will speak to both sides separately first.
by Riazat.Butt via YouTube 1/24/2014 8:48:01 AM
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#SecKerry : This week, we saw #Syria 's regime & the opposition sit in the same room for the first time since the war began.
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#SecKerry : Assad continues to kill & displace innocent SyrianS & in doing so has becomE world's greatest magnet for jihad and terror #Syria
Assad cannot be part of #Syria 's future - US Secretary of State @JohnKerry #wef14 #us wef.ch/54714
Brahimi: The discussions we had with the two parties are encouraging and we are looking forward to meet tomorrow and after tomorrow #Geneva2
#Brahimi : #Geneva conference is being held without any preconditions. aje.me/M4oFkJ #Syria
Brahimi: Both parties will be here tomorrow. Nobody is leaving on Saturday, nobody will be leaving on Sunday #Syria #Geneva2
Brahimi: I think we are alright and we are going to meet tomorrow, we will continue until the end of next week #Geneva2 #Syria
Brahimi: Syrian opposition and government delegations will meet in same room on Saturday. aje.me/1mCDBkQ #Syria
Brahimi: The situation in #Syria is bad and getting worse. The people who are here representing the gov and the opposition understand that
Brahimi: I hope the people who support either parties understand what's at stake and do their job in supporting the process #Syria #Geneva2
Brahimi: both parties has accepted the Geneva communique #Geneva2 #Syria
When asked about a possible release of detainees deal, Brahimi said we still haven't spoken about that. #Syria #Geneva2
Brahimi: We know that there are people in Syria who do not support this path (peace process). This is no secret #Syria #Geneva2
UN and Arab League mediator Lakhdar Brahimi has said a Syrian government delegation and the Western-backed opposition will meet together on Saturday "in the same room" and that they have accepted the principles of a 2012 communique that called for a transitional government.
Friday's announcement came after three days of indirect talks between two sides that have not met face-to-face during almost three years of fighting.
Steve Heydemann, of the US Institute of Peace talks to Al Jazeera about the possible outcome of the Syria negotiations in Geneva.
He said expectations about what is going to happen in Geneva are "very, very low."
Activists in Aleppo city have said that government forces have recaptured the neighbourhood of Karam Al Qasr in the eastern side of Aleppo city, after three days fighting, according to Al Jazeera sources.
Activists say that the government has increased attacks on the rebel-held areas in eastern Aleppo, and most attacks from the Syrian army are coming from Al Nerab military airbase, located next to Aleppo airport, after the military cleared the outskirts of both airports.
UN mediator Lakhdar Brahimi has said that humanitarian aid to the city of Homs had been discussed in talks with Syria's warring sides and that prisoners would be on Sunday's agenda.
"This afternoon we started to speak about humanitarian affairs and we discussed at length the situation in Homs and the old city of Homs," Brahimi said after meeting with delegations from the Syrian regime and opposition on the second day of peace talks in Geneva on Saturday
"We hope that ultimately some convoy of aid, goods, both food and non-food items and some medical supplies, will be allowed to go into the old city," Brahimi said, adding that he hoped this could happen as early as Sunday or Monday.
"Tomorrow morning we will discuss the issue of prisoners, people that have been kidnapped, and see if something can be done to secure the freedom of those - not all - but at least some of the people," Brahimi said.
"We haven't achieved much but we are continuing," Brahimi said, adding that he considered Saturday a "good beginning".
"The situation is extremely complex," Brahimi said. "We are moving not in steps, but even half steps."
Government helicopters has reportedly dropped barrel bombs on the Damascus suburb of Daraya.
Daraya has been under siege since November 2011 and is mostly under rebel control.
Al Jazeera cannot independently verify the footage.
Syrian peace talks focus on aid to Homs
Syrian delegations sit down to discuss humanitarian access, as government says opposition is not representative.
Scepticism over news allowing women and children to leave Homs
Al Jazeera's James Bays reports.
by Philippa Stewart via YouTube 1/27/2014 3:44:37 AM
'Project Syria - an Immersive Experience'
The World Economic Forum in Davos has commissioned an immersive journalism piece to try to tell the plight of children in Syria.
The piece uses new virtual reality technologies to put the audience 'on scene' and evoke the feeling of being there in the war in Syria.
[EPA]
Shelling in Zabadani continues today
Doubts over Syria Chemical Weapon deadline
Western governments are growing impatient with Syria's failure to follow up promptly on a first small shipment of chemical weapons and fear Damascus will miss a deadline to hand over all toxins by mid-2014.
Sources at the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which is jointly overseeing the destruction process with the United Nations, said the concerns have been raised during internal discussions, but have not yet been reported to the UN Security Council.
"It's starting to become a problem and they are at risk of being reported (to the United Nations) for non-compliance."
Basma Atassi reports from Geneva 2:
In 30 minutes new session of talks between the gov and the opposition, mediated by Brahimi, this time about the most contentious issue in the Geneva communique. The transitional governing body.
The Geneva communique calls for the establishment of a governing body to be formed by consent between the two parties.
The government officials have been telling us over and over that Assad will not leave power, that he will continue his constitutional term and even has the right to run for president again.
The government may suggest a "national unity government", so an expanded government with opposition figures headed by Assad.
The opposition say they will not accept Assad in power.
Presidential adviser Bouthaina Shaaba provided the following declaration statement to a journalist at the Geneva 2 talks:
A second shipment of chemical weapons materials has been removed from Syria under a deal to eliminate the country's arsenal, the joint UN mission overseeing the disarmament says. "Today, a further shipment of chemical weapons materials took place from the Syrian Arab Republic," the United Nations and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said in a statement on Monday. "The chemical materials were verified by Joint Mission personnel before being loaded in Lattakia port onto Danish and Norwegian cargo vessels for onward transportation." An earlier shipment was removed on January 7. [AFP]
The UN mediator for the Geneva 2 peace talks, Lakhdar Brahimi, was meeting with Syrian delegations on Monday and is expected to address the press shortly, at around 1630G.
Mediator Lakhdar Brahimi says there has been "too much" talking to the media by Syrian delegations, citing a need to respect the confidentiality of the Geneva 2 talks.
There isn't much to report, Brahimi tells a news conference. The humanitarian discussions "haven't produced much." Discussions are ongoing about how to get women and children out of Homs, but there has yet to be any decision on allowing access for a convoy of food and medical supplies.
Al Jazeera's James Bays asks about the tricky issue of a political transition, noting the two sides are deadlocked on the future role of President Assad. "Ideas, I'll take them with great pleasure," Brahimi says, to laughs from the assembled crowd.
Brahimi is asked about negotiations for an interim governing body, and whether these will be initiated amid Syria's ongoing deadly conflict. "Our hope is ending the war and building the new Syria," he responds.
Syrian children warm themselves around a fire in the besieged city of Homs on Monday. The United States has demanded that Syria allow aid into the "starving" city, as talks aimed at ending three years of civil war hit more trouble over the future of President Bashar al-Assad. [Reuters]
The United Nations food agency is ready to deliver a month of rations to the Old City of Homs in Syria for 2,500 people once it gets a green light from all sides, a World Food Programme (WFP) spokeswoman said on Tuesday.
"Once all parties on the ground allow the inter-agency convoy to proceed, WFP will deliver to the Old City 500 family rations and 500 bags of wheat flour, enough for 2,500 people for one month."
UN mediator Lakhdar Brahimi is addressing the media.
Asked why Tuesday's talks were cancelled, he responded: "It's my own decision to cancel, without any pressure from any of the two parties."
Russia and the US are working with us, and they are serious, Brahimi says. "They do want this conference to be a success and this aim to be achieved."
Asked whether the presence of Iran could help spur a solution, Brahimi responded: "We will seek to talk... with Iran in the future in order for Iran to play its role."
"When it comes to terrorism, yes we have talked about this in the room... and I'm sure that we will talk more before the end of the next three days," Brahimi says.
Russian and US experts have agreed to increase pressure on the Syrian government and opposition delegations to reach a compromise at talks in Geneva, the state-run RIA news agency cited a diplomatic source as saying on Wednesday:
"We agreed that we need to first of all strengthen cooperation with each other and increase pressure so that [the sides] more actively work together and seek a compromise."
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has appealed to the United States and Europe to not arm Syrian rebel groups, saying they have strong links to al-Qaeda in Iraq. Speaking on Wednesday at his weekly address, Maliki said: "I wish that the armament decision will not be taken because it is a conflicting stance - we support Iraq in fighting terrorism but we give weapons to the terrorists in Syria." [RTV]
A view of damage after what activists said was an air strike by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the Karam al-Nahas neighbourhood of Aleppo on Wednesday. [Reuters]
Some of the al-Qaeda militants going to fight in Syria have bases in neighbouring Turkey and can easily access Europe from the NATO member state, Israel's military intelligence chief said on Wednesday. Major-General Aviv Kochavi, presenting a map of the Middle East marked with areas of al-Qaeda presence, told a security conference al-Qaeda fighters from around the world entered Syria weekly, "but they do not stay" there. [Reuters]
The Syrian regime has agreed to dismantle its arsenal of chemical agents but may now have the ability to produce biological weapons, the US intelligence chief has told senators. "We judge that some elements of Syria's biological warfare program might have advanced beyond the research and development stage and might be capable of limited agent production, based on the duration of its longstanding program," James Clapper told the Senate Intelligence Committee in an annual threat assessment on Wednesday. [AFP]
Syrian President Bashar al Assad's adviser, Bouthaina Shaaba, has rejected the opposition's call for a transitional governing body in an interview with the Associated Press:
There's nothing in the world called transitional government. We don't mind a large government, a national unity government, but I think they invent the wrong term for our people and then they circulate it in the media.
IDFA 2013 | Trailer | Return to Homs
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A documentary, "Return to Homs", has won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize at the US Sundance Film Festival.
The film tracks the evolution of Syria's uprising from peaceful protests to a brutal war that has killed more than 130,000.
The documentary's producer, Talal Derki, followed two young Syrians, Abdel-Basset al-Sarout, a youth goalkeeper who became the city's most popular singer of protest songs, and Osama al-Homsi, a university student-turned-media activist.
Derki was born in Damascus in 1977, but decided to focus on Homs because it was a magnet for activists and protesters in the early days of the uprising that broke out in March 2011.
by Heather.Roy 1/30/2014 8:22:20 AM
People queuing up for soup in Yarmouk:
"We haven't eaten bread for 7 months ... we're starving, we don't have anything to eat ... we're the kids of Yarmouk who are starving."
The Syrian observatory for human rights say the 2nd batch of food aid has been delivered to Yarmouk camp in Damascus. The government has surrounded the camp for approximately 200 days and activists say 86 people have died as a result of the siege.
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More #Turkey "air attack" clarity. Military official website: "4 x F-16s were on patrol" above #Syria border. No mention of any strikes.
انتشال الجرحى والشهداء من تحت الأنقاض في حي قاضي عسكر إثر قصف الطيران الحربي على المنطقة
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Al Jazeera's Syria desk has reported that at least eight people died after airstrikes were carried out in the rebel stronghold of Qadi Askar in Aleppo, according to activists.
by Heather.Roy 1/30/2014 11:43:44 AM
Lebanese army seizes Syrian vehicle
Al Jazeera's Syria desk has reported that the Lebanese army has seized a vehicle at a checkpoint between the Syria-Lebanon border near the northeastern Lebanese town of Arsal.
Three men of unknown nationality were arrested after it was allegedly discovered that their car was full of arms and ammunition.
The Lebanese army has increased security along the country's border with Syria and has arrested a number of armed Syrians in recent weeks.
The neighbourhood of Qadi Askar in Aleppo and other rebel strongholds are repeatedly targeted with barrel bombs and airstrikes, according to Al Jazeera's Syria desk.


In Windows 8, C# will be used in writing applications or invoking Jupiter-based applications on the Jupiter platform.
Jupiter is a programming platform that Microsoft will use to leverage applications for both Windows 8 and Windows Phone in the near future. It is a new user interface library for Windows. Although different from Silverlight or WPF, it will be fully compatible with both, and will use IE 10's rendering engine. Using a XAML-based framework, it will provide access to Windows 8 elements, like sensors and networking. Jupiter apps will be packaged as AppX application types that could be common to both Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. The AppX format is universal, and can used to deploy native Win32 apps, framework-based apps (Silverlight, WPF), Web apps, and games.
AppX is a tight specification that describes how applications are packaged and installed, and was likely inspired by Silverlight's XAP files.
Although Windows 8 will change many components of applications like how they are written and distributed, AppX is only concerned with the deployment aspect of applications.
AppX packages require an XML manifest file named AppXManifest.xml. In this file, developers will have to specify many compulsory and optional attributes of their application, which is much more than the current requirements in Windows Phone 7.


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Child Psychiatrist: Toll on Children's Mental Health During Government Response to Pandemic Is 'Utterly Devastating'
Though children are least likely to experience severe illness from COVID-19, the level of mental health distress many are exhibiting during the government's response to the pandemic is "utterly devastating," child psychiatrist Dr. Mark McDonald said in a recent interview.
The Los Angeles-based clinician expressed his concern during a late November podcast for the Unity Project, an organization working to end COVID-19 vaccine mandates for healthy children in grades K-12.
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Parents Flood Wisconsin Private School Choice Enrollment, Crash State Website
It's the latest snapshot of just how many parents in Wisconsin want to explore educational options for their kids.
Tuesday was the first day for parents to enroll in the state's Private School Choice Program. By midday, the state's website crashed because of a flood of applications.
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Commentary: Keep on Truckin'
February 3, 2022 February 2, 2022 Wisconsin Daily Star Staff
Very odd things are happening in Canada, not the least of which is Prime Minister Justin Trudeau fleeing the capital city for security reasons, or so officials say. Canadians are a notoriously compliant, unquestioning, deferential lot. But this hasn't stopped thousands of them from gathering near the parliament buildings in Ottawa to effectively shut down the central part of the city.
The trigger for this unprecedented protest is a vaccine mandate for long-haul truckers, whose big rigs now line the streets, horns blaring between a variety of protest chants, some of which are more printable than others ("Truck Trudeau," and variations thereof, has been a common refrain). Last week, as the convoys moved toward and converged on the capital from the east, west, and south—numbers are disputed, but it seems certain they formed the longest convoys in history—it became clear that the list of grievances had grown to include just about everything associated with some of the most enduring, draconian, and nonsensical COVID restrictions in the world.
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FBI Director Says China Is Bigger Threat to U.S. Than Any Other Nation
On Monday, FBI Director Christopher Wray declared that the greatest foreign threat to the United States is the country of China, adding that the nation's recent escalation of tensions regarding the country of Taiwan are "more brazen" and "more damaging" than anything seen in recent history.
The New York Post reports that Wray made his remarks at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley, California. Just days before the start of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, Wray said that China poses a threat "to our economic security and to our freedoms: Our freedom of speech, of conscience, our freedom to elect and be served by our representatives without foreign meddling, our freedom to prosper when we toil and invent."
"I've spoken a lot about this threat since I became FBI director," Wray continued. "But I want to focus on it here tonight because in many ways it's reached a new level — more brazen, more damaging than ever before, and it's vital, vital, that all of us focus on that threat together."
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Attorney General Schmidt: Kansas Sees Large Spikes in Fentanyl Seizures, Drug Overdoses
Record amounts of fentanyl and other drugs are being seized in Kansas after they've made their way north from Mexico and the state's attorney general, Derek Schmidt, said he is trying to stop it. He joined a coalition of other Republican attorneys general at the Texas-Mexico border to see first-hand how the Biden administration's open border policies are contributing to crime in Kansas.
In one briefing with the Texas Department of Public Safety, the AGs learned that Texas state troopers alone had seized enough fentanyl last year to kill over 200 million people. They also arrested more than 10,000 illegal immigrants for committing state crimes, including for child trafficking and drug smuggling, seized over five tons of methamphetamine, and over $17 million in cash as part of Operation Lone Star, Texas' border security initiative.
While it's "good news that they're seizing more, there's no reason to think that there's less of it eluding seizure at the border because the border's wide open in large swaths," Schmidt told The Center Square. "I don't think it's a good news number. I think it's an indication of the increased volume coming across the border, not an indication of increased success in stopping it at the border."
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Tom Cotton Freezes Confirmation of DOJ Nominees over Failure to Address Antifa Riots
At least eight of Joe Biden's nominations for the Department of Justice have been placed on hold by Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), due to the Department's failure to answer Cotton's questions about its inaction over the Antifa and Black Lives Matter riots of 2020.
As reported by Fox News, Cotton's criticisms have focused specifically on the DOJ's failure to properly defend a federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon, which ended up under siege by far-left domestic terrorists on a daily basis throughout 2020 and even into 2021. Cotton has already sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland pointing out that, on top of letting the courthouse itself be attacked, the DOJ has not offered any legal assistance to several U.S. Marshals who have been sued for defending the courthouse against rioters.
"These courageous officers were attacked by left-wing street militants with weapons such as mortar fire, ball bearings, and blinding lasers," Cotton's letter reads in part. "A refusal to represent these Deputy Marshals would violate the Department's long-standing practice — not to mention its moral duty — to defend law-enforcement officers when they're sued for actions in the line of duty."
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Russia Cuts Off Key Gas Pipeline to Europe Amid Rising Tensions
The flow of natural gas through a key Russian-controlled pipeline suddenly stopped Wednesday as tensions continue to increase between Russia and the West.
The Yamal-Europe pipeline's liquified natural gas (LNG) flows, which are operated by Russian state-run firm Gazprom and have usually been pumped westward from Russia to Germany through Poland, were halted early Wednesday, European data showed, according to Reuters. The sudden stoppage reportedly represented a setback after leaders expected the pipeline to return to its normal flow pattern.
In December 2021, Gazprom slowed the pipeline's gas flows, which represent 10% of the region's supply, and the company reversed the flow direction from westward to eastward. The sudden reversal sent natural gas prices, which had already spiked amid a European energy crisis, even higher.
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U.S. to Send 3,000 Additional Troops to Europe Amid Tension at Ukraine Border
President Joe Biden plans to send another 3,000 troops to Europe amid continued tensions between Russia and Ukraine.
Biden is sending about 2,000 troops from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to Poland and Germany this week. The president is also moving about 1,000 soldiers based in Germany to Romania, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing administration officials.
"They are trained and equipped for a variety of missions during this period of elevated risk," a senior defense official told the Wall Street Journal.
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Commentary: Feds Spent over $550 Million to Add Cost-of-Living Adjustments—Even When They Weren't Necessary
February 3, 2022 February 2, 2022 RealClearWire
The federal government, like many private companies that have offices in different locations, has provisions to adjust employees' pay based on their location. It's called locality pay.
For example, an employee in San Francisco, Calif. has a significantly higher cost of living than an employee in Casper, Wyo. San Francisco's locality adjustment is an additional 41.44% of base pay.
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Postal Police Officers Association Chief: Government Defunded Postal Officers While Mail Crimes Soared
February 3, 2022 February 2, 2022 Peter D'Abrosca
"The Postal Inspection Service data revealed that mail theft reports soared by 600% over three years, from about 25,000 in 2017 to roughly 177,000 through August of 2020," Frank Albergo said. "But when asked to explain the apparent explosion in mail theft, the Inspection Service backtracked and said the figures might be inaccurate."
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Music Spotlight: Teddi and Bobby Cyrus
February 3, 2022 February 2, 2022 Bethany Bowman
NASHVILLE, Tennesee- Before you ask, yes, Bobby Cyrus is related to Billy Ray Cyrus. Bobby Cyrus is Billy Ray Cyrus' younger cousin. They both hail from the same region around Louisa, Kentucky where bluegrass music was a prominent part of their heritage. Their grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher and church music was an integral part of their upbringing.
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New Iowa Bill Would Allow Parents to Watch Kids' Classrooms
An Iowa representative introduced Tuesday a bill that would allow parents to watch live footage of their children in public school classrooms.
"I think we need to showcase the great work our teachers do," Rep. Norlin Mommsen, R-DeWitt, a farmer, told The Center Square in a phone interview Tuesday.
He said that through the COVID-19 pandemic, parents learned they wanted to be more involved, and this is a mechanism of facilitating parental involvement.
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Connecticut Slow in Job Growth, Won't Reach Pre-Pandemic Levels Until 2023
Although Connecticut will add 60,000 jobs this year, the state won't be back to pre-pandemic levels of employment until 2023, industry groups say.
"The inability to grow jobs at the national average or even at the top of the Northeast means that Connecticut's economy is going to continue to grow slower than the rest of the country and the Northeast," Chris DiPentima, president and CEO of the Connecticut Business and Industry Association, told The Center Square. "The slow job growth means that businesses are not meeting the customer demand that they have. Connecticut, in turn, is not realizing the state's total economic growth potential. Most businesses are hopeful that the state will put some policies in place to fuel growth and the jobs added each month will increase. This will help recover the jobs that we've lost before the end of this year."
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Commentary: Ilhan Omar Heads Down the Road to Islamofascism
I had a junior high social studies teacher who was fond of saying that if it reached its logical conclusion, liberalism would eventually become fascism. He was long dead before Ilhan Omar hit the scene, but he would be gratified to see his prediction in action.
Omar's Combating International Islamophobia Act passed the House of Representatives on a narrow party line vote recently. If it becomes law, it will mandate a new State Department bureaucracy to report on anti-Islamic activity as a human rights violation. English is Omar's second language, and the wording of the bill shows it. Its definition of Islamophobia is not precise. An example of the text includes "acts of physical violence against, or harassment of, Muslim people, and acts of violence against, or vandalism of, Muslim community institutions, including schools, mosques, and cemeteries, and instances of propaganda in government and nongovernment media that attempt to justify or promote racial hatred or incite acts of violence against Muslim people."
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Wisconsin Governor Evers Updates Process to Spend $4.5 Billion from Federal Government
February 3, 2022 February 2, 2022 Cooper Moran
Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers updated residents of the state on his latest efforts to spend more than $4 billion given to the state from coronavirus relief funds.
According to the governor, $1.3 billion has been directed to economic initiatives, roughly $1 billion for "community building," and more than $500 million for education and child care.
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Paleo – Page 2 – Sugar-free, raw, gluten-free or lactose-free recipes.
Why are so many of us (a vast majority of citizens, with the number continuing to climb) overweight? Perpetually lethargic? Why nowadays do our citizens have a laundry list of diseases and health problems, from cancer, to diabetes, health disease, high blood pressure, and more. When back during the early days of humans, diseases were rare to nonexistent. Why, especially Americans, are we all about fitness, getting "ripped" and perpetually dieting, yet as a collective whole our weight continues to climb and climb? Why, most of the time when people lose weight, do they eventually gain it all back and then some? Why do we eat huge meals and then find ourselves starving again just a few hours later?


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Colorado Pump House for Extreme Conditions
Easi-Set Buildings Jun 30, 2018
At 10,200 feet, the Two-Mile-High city of Leadville, Colo., is known for being a remote spot for outdoor adventures with 300 days of sunshine and ample snow. While residents and visitors can be found taking advantage of the 120 feet of snow that falls per year, Mountain West Precast, based in Brigham City, Utah, is manufacturing and installing precast concrete buildings to stand up to these extreme elements in hard-to-reach sites.
In November 2017, Mountain West Precast delivered its first Easi-Set Building since becoming an Easi-Set Buildings licensed producer in early 2017. The 12' x 20' gabled precast concrete building is a pump house that is part of a Leadville pump station overseen by the Environmental Protection Agency with subcontractor Environmental Restoration LLC. The project team was looking for a building that could be transported to an austere location and withstand significant snow loads better than traditional building materials. The customized precast concrete building was engineered to meet a 100 lbs/psf snow load.
The building was customized with an open floor to accommodate the well pump and block outs in the walls to allow for passage of the pipes. A 12" overhang was added to further protect the base of the building from harsh weather conditions. The building has Barnwood walls with a Cedarwood Brown color and a roof in Autumn Brown.
The entire install took four days, including the eight-hour drive to and from Brigham City. The crew endured a snowy ice-filled site and very cold temperatures.
"As a former resident of Colorado, I am very familiar with winter conditions in Leadville and knew that an Easi-Set Building was the very best building option for the EPA," says Stephanie Loud, owner of Mountain West Precast. "Our job at Mountain West was to convince Environmental Restoration and the EPA of that fact."
Discover more about Easi-Set Buildings and its network of licensed producers at www.easisetbuildings.com or by calling 800-547-4045.
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A local attraction - Galerie Thaddeus Ropac Salzburg, which is situated near this restaurant, is a part of the unique culture of the city. Vegetarian cuisine is a must-taste one at GUSTAV. Many people visit this place to taste good salads, pies and soup. You can share tasty French toasts with your friends and have a good time here. At this spot, clients may order great latte, smoothies or tea.
A number of reviewers have noticed that the staff is attentive here. Service at this restaurant is something one can call fabulous. Democratic prices are what you will pay for your meal. If you've never tried to eat and experience the sense of beauty at the same time, visit GUSTAV to find the pleasant atmosphere. On TripAdvisor, people say that this place deserves the 5 star rating.
Amazing Vegan breakfast and coffee last summer here !
Ahhh yes, GustaV. The V stand for Vegan and the Gusta for it tastes dingelingdong amazing. And it does. Prepare to take your tastebuds on a grande tour of inexplainable taste, exceptional smell and atmosphere. And it is allvegan - so no animal cruelty and no ghosts haunting your dreams at night. The friendly staff will agree and the many many people that go there every day and take up my seat too.


The National Council on Skin Cancer Prevention reminds you to enjoy the outdoors safely. They have named the Friday before Memorial Day Don't Fry Day.
In the same way we teach kids to wear bike helmets, we can also teach them to wear wide --brimmed hats.
Ultraviolet (UV) light from tanning beds and the sun causes skin cancer and wrinkling. If you want to look like you've been in the sun, use a sunless self--tanning product instead.
Wear protective clothing, such as a long--sleeved shirt, pants, a wide--brimmed hat, and sunglasses,where possible.
Generously apply sunscreen to all exposed skin using a Sun Protection Factor (SPF) of at least 30 that provides broad--spectrum protection from both UVA and UVB rays. Reapply every two hours, even on cloudy days, and after swimming or sweating.
The DBPR is responsible for licensing and regulating contractors in Florida. Read what they want consumers to know about swimming pool cleaning, repair and building. When is a license required for work on a pool? Find the answers here!
Governor Rick Scott recently signed House Bill 535, which includes important updates to sections 489.1401-143, F.S., permitting payments to injured residential consumers from the Florida Homeowners Recovery Fund for both Division I and Division II scopes of work.
Effective July 1, 2016, all licensed contractors, both Division I and Division II, must ensure that the Florida Homeowner Construction Recovery Fund Notice is contained in their residential contracts.
FSPA members should add this information into their contracts if its for over $2,500, effective July 1.
Click here to view important changes to the recovery fund by the CILB. These changes to into effect July 1, 2016.
Happy May everyone! You know what that means, National Water Safety Month! Florida loses more children under the age of five to drowning than any other state. According to the Florida Department of Health office of Injury Prevention, enough children to fill three to four preschool classrooms drown annually. The Florida Swimming Pool Association (FSPA) is joining thousands of organizations all over the world in educating the public on swimming pool safety.
Multiple preventative safety measures should be in place such as locks, alarms, barriers/ fences and certified safety covers. Barriers should be at least four feet tall and any gaps or openings should be too small for a child to crawl through or under. Other safety devices include door and window alarms, detection alarms around/ in the pool (there are several different types), personal immersion alarms for a child or pet, life rings and shepherd hooks.
Below are some additional safety tips.
When near the water, watch children with constant, undivided attention – put cell phones away!
Pool watcher badges and safety brochures are available at a low cost to members, call FSPA at 800-548-6774.
Click here to check out this year's Water Safety Month Proclamation from Governor Rick Scott!


Are you a Mac user? Have you been waiting to jailbreak your iOS device running iOS 8.4? Lucky for you, the 25PP team has released their own iOS 8.4 jailbreak tool for Mac.
Up until now, there wasn't a Mac version of the iOS 8.4 jailbreak tool available from TaiG. The iOS 8.4 jailbreak, originally developed by the TaiG team, was first released by 25PP.
TaiG accused and proved that 25PP had stolen their code and used it in their version of the iOS 8.4 jailbreak tool. Things have been quite after that, but not anymore.
Several users have been waiting and asking the TaiG team to release a Mac version of their iOS 8.4 jailbreak tool, but there has been no updates from the team yet. That's where 25PP comes in! They probably did steal the code, but at least they made their own Mac version.
We're not supporting any one here, so use the iOS 8.4 jailbreak tool for Mac from 25PP at your own risk. It does work without any errors and it will jailbreak your iOS 8.4 device.
You can download 25PP iOS 8.4 Jailbreak for Mac from our Downloads section.


I am looking for urgent professional assistance with our openstack environment. Does anyone provide this service on hourly basis.
Sorry, this is not the place for this kind of questions. Please look in other platforms expecific to jobs, freelancers and stuff like that. Going to close the question due not being a technical question/issue.


What is better Canterris or AdRoll? Getting the right Marketing Software product is as straightforward as contrasting the strong and low features and terms offered by Canterris and AdRoll. Here it's also possible to match their total scores: 6.0 for Canterris vs. 9.0 for AdRoll. Or you can check their general user satisfaction rating, 100% for Canterris vs. 97% for AdRoll.
We suggest that you spend some time to examine their differences and figure out which one is the better option for your organization. What's more remember to factor in your company's or industry's special circumstances, such as, a multilingual software for a global staff or a mobile platform to help you work away from your office.
Our experts made sure to review all popular Marketing Software solutions available on the market, but among them these three deserved our special attention: HubSpot Marketing, Pardot, HasOffers.
You can purchase Canterris in a variety of SMB and enterprise pricing plans. A free trial is also available.
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No Marketing Software will manate to cater to all the needs of a company. While key features of Canterris and AdRoll should matter you should also thoroughly analyze the integrations provided by each service. Very often your team will already be working with some other B2B software in your company and it's always wiser to choose software that integrate well with one another. With that approach you can ensure an effortless transfer of information between your teams and apps, which can considerably reduce time wasted on migrating between one solution and the other.


Converse was established in 1908 on the premise of being "independent enough not to follow every other company in every thing they do". Over a century later, this iconic American brand is every bit as unique as it was back then. Visionary and intensely style-conscious, Converse's products still retain a distinctiveness that harks back to the company's heritage.


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Trekking Sandakphu, April 20-23
At daybreak at 5am, we had beautiful views of Everest, Lhotse, Makalu and Kachenjunga, the world's four tallest mountains (With the exception of K2 in pakistan), all around or above 8500 meters.
Our trek up Sandakphu was four days and three nights. The first day was a 17m hike from Mane Bhanjang to Tumling at 2900 meters. The second 19km stretch took us to Mt. Sandakphu, West Bengal's tallest mountain at 3636 meters. This was not the first time I had seen these mountains, but it was by far the most amazing.
Along the way we stopped in cabins and had chow mein, momos (dumplings) and/or fried rice. The British built a rock and dirt road up to Sandakphu in the 19th century and it looks little repaired since then. It extends some 36 km up 1600 in elevation with numerous changes in elevation. We hiked that, and then down a forest of birch, rhododendron, and bamboo — traditional red panda habitat — on the third and fourth days to the town of Rimbik and then back to Darjeeling, where we were staying.
Each of the cabins had photos of white babies and cute sayings, that, or strange idyllic photoshopped posters of homes in the west, with gleaming corvettes in driveways, swans in lakes and houses covered in snow. Strange.
There is no electricity along the way but frequent way stations with squat toilets. Houses have no insulation, heat or water. Only solar electricity All is carried up by jeep. The days in April were warm but the nights frigid at high altitude. In all, the path we took saw us cross between Nepal and India four or five times. Each time we crossed into India the Indian army had us sign our names and take down our passport numbers in traditional Indian bureaucratic style. The Nepalis could care less. There were no Nepali army stations.
When we asked our guide where the Nepali army was, he said, "There is
no Nepali army."
Unlike much of India, in the hill country, there is a blending of
Buddhist and Hindu religions. Tibetan language signs and Nepali
intermix freely, so do monasteries sit near each other.


Heavenly® Spa by Westin has recently launched a new line of products, The Organic Pharmacy, with the presence of the Managing Director of The Organic Pharmacy Daniel White, the brand ambassador Laila Asid and a significant number of media and influencers.
The Organic Pharmacy is a health and beauty company, well-recognised for its natural and herbal products, founded in 2002 in London by a husband-wife team, Margo & Francesco Marrone. The foundation for the brand has been to choose the best botanical and toxin-free dermatological application for the skin and body, whilst combining expertise, formulation and science to deliver exceptional results. Today, they have a global presence in 28 countries worldwide including Qatar.
Heavenly Spa is located on the Mezzanine Floor at The Westin Doha Hotel & Spa. WestinWORKOUT Fitness Studio, Spa Facilities and Wet Area are open daily from 6 am–10 pm. For more information, email heavenlyspa.doha@westin.com or call +974 4492 1682.