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I Told You So, Sadly
I really, really resisted writing this. The tone, invariably, would be predictable, dreary even. I Told You Sos are boring, bringing little satisfaction to even the teller, this teller.
But Toronto's mayor, John Tory, had a terrible, terrible week last week. Like, amazingly bad, exuding a willful, stubborn defiance of good judgment, an eager willingness to swipe aside anything that ran contrary to his rigid, preconceived notions.
At his Executive Committee meeting on Tuesday, Mayor Tory plugged his ears and refused to listen to City Manager Peter Wallace lay out all the reasons to consider new and increased revenues. Did you say, Find more efficiencies? Sell off city owned assets? That's what I thought you said.
(NOW magazine's Jonathan Goldsbie does an excellent job recreating the Tory-Wallace exchange.)
Also at his Executive Committee meeting on Tuesday, Mayor Tory punted the ward boundary review debate off into the fall, threatening the timeline that would see any changes in place for the 2018 municipal election. He pooh-poohed 3 years of work and public and stakeholder consultation that wound up recommending the addition of only 3 new wards, simply shook his head and shrugged his shoulders with a blithe We Don't Need More Politicians down here at City Hall. Consult some more. Come back with the mayor's preferred choice of 44 wards.
(David Hains in Torontoist explains why this is a particularly boneheaded and short-sighted direction the mayor seems determined to take.)
Fine. Fuck it. Whatever. None of this should come as any sort of surprise. John Tory is performing his duties as mayor pretty much as underwhelmingly as I expected.
And then his week got even worse.
That's when the Toronto Police Services carried out its ill-advised raids of illegal pot dispensaries throughout the city, a course of action Mayor Tory seems to have encouraged in a letter he wrote 2 weeks earlier to the Municipal Licensing and Standards executive director. While this was happening, the mayor decided, not at all coincidentally I'm sure, to go plant some flowers while taking a crap on the head of a city council colleague and staff in the process. "Awful. A cheap stunt," Metro's Matt Elliott tweeted.
Isn't this the kind of bullshit grandstanding we were supposed to have left behind in not electing a Ford mayor of Toronto? This isn't Mayberry RFD. We live in a city of more than 2.5 million people with far bigger problems than a weedy street garden plot. It is not the mayor's job to get involved in this kind of penny ante, day-to-day type of customer service.
If Mayor Tory really wanted to help the situation, speed the process up, maybe he should stop insisting on below-the-rate of inflation property tax increases and demanding across the board budget cuts to the departments that would take the lead on matters like this. Or he'd realize that in one of the fastest growing wards in the city where this neglected street garden plot was, the little things sometimes get missed and, in fact, we could use a few more councillor office's at City Hall. If, you know, the mayor was interested in anything other than photo ops and playing political games.
After his sad sack performance this week, it dawned on me why, in the end, I believed electing John Tory mayor would be worse than Doug Ford. If Doug Ford had won, I think we would've remained on guard, prepared to fight the inevitable civic assault he'd attempt to carry out. With John Tory's victory, we collectively stood down, many of us believing that whatever else, we'd elected a reasonable, competent candidate who might not do much but wouldn't inflict too much damage.
Nearly 18 months into his tenure as mayor of Toronto, John Tory has proven to be anything but reasonable or competent. He has no ideas. He possesses an utter lack of imagination. His urban views are amber encased in the 20th-century, the mid-20th-century, no less. The only thing he's proven adept at so far is avoiding our 21st-century challenges.
Let's not mistake regular press conferences and media availability for dynamism. The boldness of this administration is inversely proportional to the number of times it claims to be bold. As the world moves on, continues forward, simply running on the spot still leaves us further behind. This isn't a holding pattern we're experiencing in Toronto. It's just quiet regression that seems acceptable only after the noisy havoc of the Ford years. Little of that damage is being undone. The messenger has changed. The message remains firmly in place.
The frustrating thing about all this is that Mayor Tory has been given plenty of cover to adapt and rework his positions. A case has been made to consider new approaches to revenue generation, to civic governance, to the redesign of our streets and how we get around this city. The opportunities have been presented for the progressive side of John Tory to step forward, the red carpet rolled out for CivicAction John Tory to make his way into the spotlight, that side of the candidate voters were assured would figure prominently if elected.
"Progressive" John Tory has gone AWOL, if there was every such a thing as a "progressive" John Tory. I don't want to say, I told you so but… I told you so. We'll all probably be better off going forward if we stop pretending, and hoping for that side of the man and his administration to emerge. It was never really a thing anyway despite our insistence to believe otherwise.
— resignedly submitted by Cityslikr
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Just A Phone Call Away
"I don't know what I can really do but—"
Let me stop you right there, Mayor Ford.
There's nothing you can do by taking residents' phone calls at home that couldn't be better accomplished if you simply directed their concerns to the appropriate city department.
That's not entirely true.
By encouraging taxpayers – to use the mayor's vernacular – to call him any time of day, at his home or office, if they have a problem they need fixed, Mayor Ford succeeds only in burnishing his looking out for the little guy image. The municipal politics Energizer Bunny, tirelessly working for you, the taxpayers of Toronto, one complaint at a time. He'd wear a superhero cape but it keeps getting caught in his car door.
This point has been made countless times about the mayor but I think it bears repeating in light of his non-performance performance during last week's snow storm. Stuck in a snow drift? Call DA-MAYOR.
Pick a comparable situation.
Your GE fridge goes on the fritz. Who you gonna call? Company CEO and Chairman Jack Welch? Hey, Jack! Your company's fridge is a piece of shit. What are you going to do about it?
Well, that would be dumb and inefficient on a couple fronts. Jack Welch hasn't been with the company for over ten years now, plus… plus, you want your fridge fixed, you call a repairman or the store that sold it to you directly. That's just common sense and the shortest distance between point A and point B.
Now I get how, back in the day, as city councillor, it seemed sensible to residents of Ward 2 to call Rob Ford if they were having problems with city related issues. Their garbage didn't get picked up? Call Rob. A tree limb crashed down into their yard? Call Rob. A mysterious pile of dirt? Call Rob.
Of course, it isn't the most efficient use of city resources. 53, 660 residents in 18, 140 homes covering a distance 32 square kilometres, all tended to by one person. Representation is not about making house calls. It only gives the impression of solid constituency work, one complaint at a time.
Better to strengthen the services the city delivers and its ability to deal with individual situations when they arise rather than relying on singular feats of councillor crusading. But that runs contrary to the small government, libertarian impulses of Rob Ford where tax dollars are robbery and city staff are wayward children not able to compete in the private sector. Taxpayer problems he personally handles provide proof of the failure of government.
It also provided his fledgling mayoral campaign with a tantalizing voter base to ignite with righteous indignation. "He [deputy campaign manager, Nick Kouvalis] took the tens of thousands of phone numbers Mr. Ford had scrawled down over the years as a councillor and stuffed in bankers' boxes," the Globe and Mail's Kelly Grant wrote in October 2010 before the election, "and had them entered into a database." Pissed off at City Hall? Rob is too. Remember when he came out and fixed that leak in your kitchen sink? Join Ford Nation!
Now nominally in charge of more than 2.5 million people, the mayor has brought that personal touch citywide as if battling the forces of Mother Nature is as simple as one finger speed dialling.
"We're trying to do the best we can and if there is severe problems call us. People can call me at home if they want it is 233-6934 – that's my direct number at home," the mayor said in a radio interview on Friday.
Severe problems? Call the mayor. He'll pass along the message to somebody who might be able to actually do something about it.
That's much more efficient during the biggest snow storm to hit the city in five years than say, Mayor Ford declaring a snow emergency that would've enabled plowing to be done more quickly by banning car parking along transit routes. A collective response that must just be too activist for the mayor, too reliant on the notion of the great good. How can he maintain and update a voter's list ahead of the 2014 campaign if he simply utilizes the powers he's been given as mayor without fielding taxpayers' phone calls?
Mayor Ford and his supporters may look to his hands-on, 24/7 access as proof of some catch-phrasey concept of 'improved customer service' but, in reality and in a pinch, it contributes significantly less to the smooth running of the city than it does to the self-aggrandizement of one person, and one person only. Mayor Rob Ford.
— non-superfanly submitted by Cityslikr
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The University of Central Missouri's Cybersecurity program is a leader both in the State of Missouri and the nation. Our Cybersecurity program is one of the only two ABET accredited programs in Missouri, and one of only a handful of accredited Cybersecurity programs in the nation. Achievement of ABET accreditation is an indicator that our program exhibits the level of quality demanded by industry and that we are able to produce graduates that are workforce ready.
The program curricula provide foundational and hands-on training in technical, systems, human, organizational, and societal aspects of cybersecurity. The programs includes courses like cryptography, secure programming, network security, web applications security, cyber-physical systems security, information assurance, ethical hacking, usable security, and computer forensics. The curricula are designed according to the National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense (CAE-CDE) Education Program Knowledge Units jointly sponsored by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). We provide an unmatched education to students in the region, and we're proud of it. With the demand for qualified technical personnel far exceeding the available supply, the opportunities awaiting Cybersecurity graduates are nearly limitless.
Our Secure Software Development track is for students who are interested in designing and writing software with security built-in from scratch. The students would learn finding vulnerabilities in code and fixing them before hackers exploit these vulnerabilities. This track requires strong programming skills and is more focused towards building next generation of secure software. The students in this track would typically work towards getting CSSLP, GSSP, and Security+ certifications.
During a Senate hearing in March 2013, the nation's top intelligence officials warned that cyber attacks and digital spying are the top threats to national security, eclipsing terrorism. As a matter of fact, Missouri ranks 5th in the U.S. in the number of cybersecurity breaches according to the St. Louis Business Journal.


Author(s): Westra, D. ; Kurvers, R.A.; Heuvel, L.P.W.J. van den ; Wurzner, R.; Hoppenreijs, E.P.A.H. ; Flier, M. van der ; Kar, N.C.A.J. van de ; Warris, A.
The complement system plays an important role in both the innate and adaptive immune system. Patients with inherited complement deficiencies have an increased risk of systemic bacterial infections. Deficiencies of the terminal complement pathway are especially associated with invasive meningococcal disease. Here, we report a case of a boy that presented with arthritis and recurrent bacterial and viral infections. Extensive analyses revealed decreased complement activity of both classical and alternative pathway, indicating a deficiency of C3 or one of the factors of the terminal complement pathway. Mutational analysis of the C6 gene identified two compound heterozygous mutations. An unknown missense aberration was found that involves the loss of a cysteine, possibly affecting the 3D structure of the protein. Furthermore, a known splice site variation was identified that results in a 14% shorter protein, due to transcription of amino acids that are normally intronic until a stop codon is reached (exon-intron boundary defect). It is known that the protein with this latter aberration is still functionally active when present with other C6 mutations and therefore, the consequences of the combination of the identified variations have been studied. Quantitative ELISAs showed that at least one allele produced a circulating C6 molecule that can be incorporated in the membrane attack complex, likely the truncated protein. In the present case we observed relapsing bacterial and viral infections, but no meningococcal disease. The reduced complement activity can be explained by the identified genetic variations in C6, as recombinant C6 supplementation corrected complement function in vitro.


Animal shelter staff members often find themselves caring for (and rehoming) many animals besides cats and dogs.
I adopted a male cockatoo from an animal shelter in February 2007. His name was Charlie, and he had obviously been neglected physically, emotionally, and socially.


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Q: using jsTree with MVC .net I have an MVC project and im trying to call a method in the controllers object but the method isnt being called, here is the code.
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    data: {
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        async: true,
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        data : "{}"
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A: Since you're requesting data, try a GET request - not post!
method: "POST"

Then you can return your JSON result and parse in js.

A: I basically copied this from their site (have a look at the last sample (PHP & mySQL demo + event order)), and got it up and running. Modified the pasted sample a bit.
   $(function () {
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            .jstree({
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But isnt this your problem perhaps... $("#divJsTreeDemo").tree({

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So a few days ago, Xiaomi which i personally consider as the OnePlus of the Chinese and India, you know delivering great flagship specs at an unbelievably cut down price. So Xiaomi in their good spirits launched a trio of their new flagship phones a few days ago, i think that should be maybe 3 - 4 days ago if not more or less. So these three devices are the new Xiaomi Mi 8, Xiaomi Mi 8 SE, and finally the Xiaomi Mi 8 Explorer.
So out of these three new flagship smart phones, there is one that really took all the attention away from others, like it was only it that was launched on that day, which is the Mi 8 Explorer. Reason is very simple, because it comes with lots of new features, a notch that was used to do something meaningful for the first time on android phones, and finally and the most biggest reason is its transparent body back.. Cool right? see some photos below.
So the Xiaomi Mi 8 series are the latest and best phones that Xiaomi has produced so far, and how many of you noticed that they skipped the number 7 down to 8,that is instead of calling the phones the Xiaomi Mi 7 after the last Mi 6, they chose to call them the 8. Reason is that these devices are used to celebrate their 8th Anniversary, that is eight years into the smart phone industry.
So in terms of specs, these smart phones come with really great and impressive specs that might completely steal the show from the likes of the Samsung Galaxy S9 and even make them the best smart phones of 2018.
So first of all, speaking of the Mi 8 Explorer, we are looking at a living beast with a Snapdragon 845 Chipset (pretty normal for all 2018 flagships), a beastly 8GB of RAM, and a beefy 128GB of inbuilt storage which is not expandable (normal with Xiaomi phones), then on the screen side of things, we are looking at 6.21 Inches Full HD+ Super AMOLED display with a fingerprint reader hidden underneath it (in-display fingerprint reader).
And then where things really gets juicy is at the top of the display, so the new Xiaomi Mi 8 Explorer came with a notch, and as it is normal, this is not the first android phone to come with a notch, neither is it gonna be the last, but the interesting thing is that, this is actually the first android phone to make something meaningful out of the notch.
And then for cameras, now this is where the show begins. At the back we have a dual 12MP + 12MP lenses, each with an F1.8 and F2.4 aperture respectively.
Then at the front is an even more futuristic 20MP shooter that works more like that of the Apple iPhone X, remember that everything about Xiaomi is even inspired by the iPhone X.
So with Xiaomi's Mi 8 Explorer 20MP front facing camera, you'd get an iPhone X like Animoji creator, and a new feature called Studio Lighting, more like still Apple's own iPhone X Portrait Lighting.. Here are some photos below.
Xiaomi's Own Animoji Looks Very Much Like The Apple's iPhone X Own.
And then finally for battery and pricing, the Xiaomi Mi 8 Explorer ships with a not too impressive on paper 3000mAh power battery.. And for pricing, first of all the Xiaomi Mi 8 which is the standard variant between the trio will go for about $420, while the much more lower Mi 8 SE will come down at a price of $280, and then the explorer edition which is the best of them all should be climbing the $580 ladder.
So that is it for the Mi 8 series guys, tell us if you liked these smart phones, and if you were asked to make a choice between this Xiaomi's new Mi 8 especially the Explorer edition and Apple's Own iPhone X, which one will it be? So let us know what y'all think in the comments box below. And don't forget to share this sweet article, and subscribe to our newsletter.. Bye and have a nice Sunday.


A U.S. Air Force captain controls a Predator drone aircraft from the "cockpit" room at Kandahar Air Field in Afghanistan.
A United States Air Force pilot guides his aircraft through dark skies above the Pakistani region of Waziristan. He's not, however, in a cockpit, or even anywhere near the Middle East. He's sitting in a desk chair thousands of miles away at Hancock Field Air National Guard Base outside of Syracuse, New York. In front of the pilot is an array of computer screens displaying maps, video feeds and gauges, which he intently examines while manipulating a joystick and throttle control. While this setup looks like a gamer's paradise, the task is much more sober: remotely killing suspected militants using unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs) — popularly known as drones.
The pilot watches as five men walk into a small hut made of mud and bricks. As the last one walks through the door, the operator gives the order to fire, and with a push of a button a laser-guided missile drops from the drone and slices through the night.
Meanwhile in the hut, the men are unaware they're being watched. Still, they know drones can strike without warning, so they're a bit anxious as they discuss a plan to bomb polling places during the elections in neighboring Afghanistan. Suddenly, a hissing noise breaks the silence of the evening. Instinctively the men dive for cover, but to no avail; the missile blows the roof off of the hut and shatters all the windows. All five men perish from burns, flying shrapnel and the impact's crushing blast.
This is how drone strikes are supposed to work: The bad guys are identified after careful monitoring and killed with no collateral damage. But if you watch the news much, you know this isn't always the case. Sometimes civilians are hit by accident, enraging entire communities and turning them against the United States. Their government, reacting to the outcry, vows to oppose the drone program. But without the drones, who's going to kill the militants? Clearly, this is an issue that raises incredibly complex questions with few clear answers.
So how did we get to this point? When did drone strikes start? Who uses them? How do drones work? How do they choose targets? Why are people so upset about drone strikes? Those questions do have answers, and we'll explore them in our in-depth look at how drone strikes work.


The city's front line against filth: street, sewer and water workers on the afternoon shift, ready to clean Vancouver's streets, National Yard, 2.30 p.m., Feb. 23.
One of the unsung triumphs of the 2010 Games has been the ability of city workers to keep streets clean when more than 100,000 people a day are crowding the downtown core.
The city's media outlets began to acknowledge the achievement Saturday, when Globe and Mail columnist Christie Blatchford contrasted the "river of vomit" she saw on her way home with the clean streets she experienced on the way back to work in the morning.
The clean-up work continues 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The afternoon shift is made up of about 180 city workers drawn from sewer, water and streets departments, who are ferried to locations around the downtown core to bag and stack garbage, which is accumulating at twice the regular rates.
Between 10 and midnight, an equally-large graveyard shift hits the streets to pick up the stockpiled litter while water trucks flush downtown lanes. The engineering department's achievements occur under cover of darkness, but the results are obvious to all when the sun rises.
If street clean-up was an Olympic event, these folks would be gold medalists.
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ONE: When Greenpeace hung a 70' "RESIST" banner from a crane behind the WH
TWO: When people started showing up for civic engagement. Like at Jason Chaffetz's disastrous Town Hall. Like people calling and writing their reps in the house and senate.
THREE: When people flooded airports nationwide by the thousands to protest 45's illegal detention of passengers, and his dangerous travel ban.
FOUR: When Sally Yates' instructed the Justice Department not to defend 45's immigration-related executive order in court.
FIVE: When American Muslims declared that "Every person deserves to rest in peace" and raised money to rebuild a Jewish cemetery which had been vandalized by antisemites.
SIX: When 45's dismal and falling numbers showed us that folks are starting to wake up to the terrible nonsense happening in the White House.
SEVEN: When seventeen House Republicans, many major U. S. corporations, and even Defense Secretary Mattis voiced concern about 45's plans to undermine national actions to address the reality of climate change.
EIGHT: When the news started rolling in that the Women's March had drawn millions worldwide, and would be counted as the largest single day protest in US history.
NINE: When the cast of Hamilton addressed words of resistance to Mike Pence during a curtain call of the history-making Broadway show.
TEN: When people put their money where their values are with record donations to organizations like Meals on Wheels, the ACLU, and Planned Parenthood (made in the name of Mike Pence).

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Cool Summer Drinks–Healthy and Easy!
You can see I had to drink some of them! And I ate a few grapes, too!
This morning I whipped up these babies–perfect for some hot summer afternoons!
I am not much of a juice drinker–I love my ice water–but for these I will make an exception. Pure ingredients, healthy, fresh–Absolutely no guilt here!
I made these delicious drinks with just a blender, so let's get started.
Score a cucumber lengthwise with a fork. This will give your decorative slices a finished look. Then cut 12 thin slices of cucumber for garnish.
Peel and chop the rest of the cucumbers, place in your blender, along with the chopped fresh rosemary.
Puree until there are no chunks and the rosemary is well incorporated. You'll need to stop the blender and scrape down the sides.
Pour the puree into a fine-mesh strainer which has been set over a bowl.
Push the solids a bit to get the juice into the bowl. If you like a very clear juice, use cheesecloth. I like more solids, so I pushed quite a bit through the strainer.
Squeeze the limes until you have 1/2 cup, then add the lime juice, the water, and the agave syrup to the cucumber/rosemary juice.
Taste and add more agave if you'd like.
Fill four glasses half-way with ice, then pour 1/4 of juice into each glass. Garnish with cucumber slices and a spring of rosemary.
Make your own soda with healthy ingredients? Yes!
Wash and stem the grapes, and then puree in a blender until fine. Pour the puree into a strainer, which has been placed over a medium bowl. Press on the solids to extract the juice.
Add the lemon juice and the honey, and stir well until the honey is well incorporated.
Add the sparkling water, and mix. Pour the mixture into four, ice-filled glasses, and garnish with a small bunch of grapes.
Drink Some Fruits and Vegetables Today!
Have a great summer, and enjoy these delicious, healthy, and easy drinks!


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Deze lijst van voetbalinterlands is een overzicht van alle officiële voetbalwedstrijden tussen de nationale teams van Guinee en Kaapverdië. De landen hebben tot op heden zeven keer tegen elkaar gespeeld. De eerste ontmoeting, een vriendschappelijke wedstrijd, vond plaats op 10 februari 1984 in Freetown (Liberia). Het laatste duel, eveneens een vriendschappelijke wedstrijd, werd gespeeld in Albufeira (Portugal) op 10 oktober 2020.

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Southern California's Coachella festival is, arguably, the big daddy of all the music festivals in terms of spotlighting what's hip and happening. Not too many country artists play this particular fest (they get their own independent turn with the Stagecoach festival, immediately following Coachella's two April weekends), but red-hot recent Grammy winner Kacey Musgraves made the cut.
As it turns out, perhaps this audience wasn't quite ready for a proper country set. Musgraves got the crowd whipped up on Friday afternoon (Apr. 12) of Weekend 1, with some of her tunes from the multi-award-winning Golden Hour. However, things got a little crazy when she attempted to play around with a country callout.
"When I say 'yee,' you say 'haw,'" she instructed the audience. The fans managed to do this twice, then somehow flubbed and skipped ahead a "haw."
Musgraves got salty immediately: "I didn't say f---kin' 'yee,'" she informed them.
We're betting Musgraves was teasing more than angry, as she posted a video of the moment to her social media with the simple caption "I didn't say--." She also shared a variety of photos from her set, showing off her fringed red mini-dress, disco-ball'd set, and the sunny Indio weather.
Musgraves unfortunately will not be sticking around for an appearance at Stagecoach (which takes place Apr. 26-28, also at Indio's Empire Polo Club). That particular festival is leaning heavily on the male artist side of things, with headliners Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean and Sam Hunt taking the spotlight over the weekend.


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Visiting the city of Bath, England and want a Stonehenge Tour?
Posted in Stonehenge Guided Tours from Bath, tagged Avebury Stone Circle, Cotswolds Village, Lacock, magna carta, Salisbury Cathedral, stonehenge tours, Tours from Bath, Transfer, Transport, World Heritage Sites on February 6, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Historical tours of Stonehenge and Avebury Stone Circle with expert guides. Collection by private car or mini bus from your Bath hotel. Ideal for families and groups.
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Popular tour itineraries:
Explore the World Heritage Site of Avebury Stone Circle.
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A Stone's Throw From Stonehenge Lies a Massive New Mystery
Posted in Stonehenge Discovery, tagged durrington walls, Histories, Histouries, Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project, stonehenge tours, UK Private Tours, visit wiltshire, Woodhenge on October 13, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Located in Wiltshire, England, Stonehenge is one of the world's most iconic man-made landmarks. Tourists flock to the raised stones to ponder their origins and meaning. Are these the marks of an alien burial site? Were ancient sacrificial rituals conducted here? How were these stones raised before the advent of modern technology? Stonehenge baffles tourists (and historians) to this day as it sits isolated in the middle of the English countryside.
Recently, a group of archaeologists from the Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project uncovered the extensive remains of a 90-stone structure less than two miles from Stonehenge. Using remote sensing technologies, the archaeologists were able to detect the presence of the massive stone monument, which is currently buried under a bank of grass. Though the archaeologists aren't entirely sure when the monument was built, they are able to place its construction as contemporary to Stonehenge itself, some time between 2,000 and 3,000 BC.
This new discovery means Stonehenge is not isolated and may in fact be relatively small in comparison to its newfound neighbor. Scientists and archaeologists alike are scrambling to figure out the significance of the new monument and where it figures into the history of the area.
Luckily for them, the new monument is surprisingly well-preserved, and excavation of the stones could lead to specimens more easily researchable than Stonehenge. If full excavation occurs, the monument would form a half moon that dwarfs its sister site. Preemptive hypotheses suggest the new stones might've been used for ancient calendar purposes, as a sacred space for religious acts, or as the wall of an arena.
In a statement released to the press by the Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project, Paul Garwood, Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Birmingham, reflected on the project's game-changing discovery, "The extraordinary scale, detail and novelty of the evidence produced by the Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project is changing fundamentally our understanding of Stonehenge and the world around it. Everything written previously about the Stonehenge landscape and the ancient monuments within it will need to be re-written."
Regardless of what scientists uncover, this story will be an important one to watch unfold. And in the near future, the discovery might also be a can't-miss addition to the English travel itinerary.
By: Fiona Moriarty, Hipmunk (HUFFINGTON POST)
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Technology reveals ancient city at Old Sarum (near Salisbury) without digging.
Posted in Old Sarum Guided Tours, tagged archaeological tours, Edward Rutherford, Neolithic, Old Sarum Castle, Salisbury Cathedral, stonehenge tours, Tours from Bath on December 4, 2014| Leave a Comment »
British archaeologists have created a map of a medieval settlement using state-of-the-art scanning techniques without having to dig in to the ground.
Relying on magnetometry, ground-penetrating radar and electric resistive tomography, the team from the University of Southampton uncovered the footprint of a town located at the Old Sarum archaeological site near Salisbury, Wiltshire.
Non-invasive survey methods such as ground penetrating radar have helped archeologist to create a detailed map of Old Sarum without any digging [Credit: Scriniary]
"Archaeologists and historians have known for centuries that there was a medieval city at Old Sarum, but until now there has been no proper plan of the site," said Kristian Strutt, director of archaeological prospection services at the University of Southampton.
"Our survey shows where individual buildings are located and from this we can piece together a detailed picture of the urban plan within the city walls."
Old Sarum is believed to have been one of the oldest settlements in England. Located about ten miles from the iconic Stonehenge monument, the site was inhabited as early as the Iron Age and bears some evidence of the presence of Roman soldiers in the early centuries AD.
In the recent survey, the archaeologists focused on the area around the inner and outer baileys of what was once a fortification. They discovered foundations of multiple large buildings concentrated along the southern edge of the outer defensive wall, which probably used to serve military purposes.
Some of the structures are believed to date back to the 11th century, about the time when the Salisbury (New Sarum) cathedral was built.
The researchers also found a large open area behind the big buildings, residential areas in the south-east and south-west quadrants of the outer bailey and evidence of deposits indicating industrial features, such as kilns or furnaces as well as signs of quarrying after the 1300s.
"Our research so far has shown how the entire outer bailey of the monument was heavily built up in the Middle Ages, representing a substantial urban centre," Strutt said. "Results have given us compelling evidence as to the nature of some of the structures," he said, adding that additional non-intrusive work will have to be carried out to further expand the knowledge about the site."
The medieval city is believed to had been inhabited for at least three centuries but was eventually abandoned as the importance of the neighbouring Salisbury grew.
"The use of modern, non-invasive surveying is a great start to further research at Old Sarum," said Heather Sebire, property curator at English Heritage, which is managing the site.
"From this work we can surmise much about the site's past and, whilst we can't conclusively date the findings, it adds a new layer to Old Sarum's story."
The team hopes to perform the next phase of non-invasive surveying in Easter 2015.
The research was conducted as part of the Old Sarum and Stratford-Sub-Castle Archaeological Survey Project, directed by Kristian Strutt and fellow Southampton archaeologists Timothy Sly and Dominic Barker.
Similar technology was recently deployed by archaeologists and scientists from Birmingham University and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Vienna to survey the landscape around Stonehenge. The results from there revealed that Stonehenge did not sit alone within its Neolithic landscape.
Full article by by Tereza Pultarova: http://eandt.theiet.org/news/2014/dec/old-sarum-non-invasive-archeology.cfm
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Bath Christmas Market: 27th November – 14th December 2014
Posted in Private Tours of Bath, tagged Castle Combe, Christmas Markets, Christmas Tours, Local Tourist Guides, Private tours of Bath, Salisbury Cathedral, stonehenge tours, The Cotswolds, The Roman Baths, Visit Avebury on October 4, 2014| Leave a Comment »
The Bath Christmas Market offers 18 days of magical festive shopping, as the areas between the stunning Bath Abbey and the renowned Roman Baths are transformed into a Christmas shopping wonderland. Right in the heart of Bath's main shopping district, more than 170 traditional wooden chalets line the streets; each one offering handmade and beautiful gifts from Christmas decorations and food to toys and festive tipples; everything you need for the perfect Christmas.
Once in Bath this Christmas, you'll find that there is a lot to explore and experience beyond the market too. The city centre is a shopper's haven, plus there are many festive experiences for all the family to enjoy. It's simply a question of what to do first: ice-skating in the crisp winter air, bathing in the warm spa water overlooking the twinkling city or enjoying a mulled wine in the Après Ski Bar. More family fun can be found at the beautiful Victorian Carousel in Stall Street, perfect for creating unforgettable festive memories.
Visit the Christmas market website here
Why not combine a visit to Bath with a private guided tour to nearby Stonehenge and Wiltshire. You could always take the train from London and enjoy the Christmas market, The Roman Baths and City and then join a guided private tour through ancient Wiltshire and then be dropped off for Salisbury Cathedral and Christmas market for your return to London via train from Salisbury.
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The sweeping landscape of high chalk downs is a fitting backdrop to the great stone circles of Avebury and Stonehenge. From the intimacy of villages such as Castle Combe and Lacock, there are the stately homes of Longleat, Stourhead and Wilton, not to mention Salisbury Cathedral and more.
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Stonehenge Man: not just a pretty face
Posted in Wessex Tours, tagged British prehistory, english heritage, Neolithic people, Stonehenge Man, stonehenge tours on January 4, 2014| Leave a Comment »
TOURISTS entering English Heritage's new £27 million visitor centre at Stonehenge will quickly confront its most spectacular exhibit – a man who was born 500 years before the earliest stone monument appeared at the site.
Stonehenge Man would have fitted in very well on a film set (Image: English Heritage)
He may have a touch of Hollywood about him, but this "Stonehenge Man" was once real. His face has been reconstructed from a 5500-year-old skeleton found in the area. Local protest groups continue to press for him to be reburied, but forensic analysis has allowed scientists to create the most lifelike model yet of an individual from British prehistory. Their work reveals how he lived and ate, and may even shed light on the origins of Stonehenge itself.
The well-preserved skeleton was discovered in an elaborate tomb in the 1860s, providing a rare example of the anatomy of Neolithic people. His face has been brought to life by Swedish sculptor Oscar Nilsson, using information from bone and tooth analyses. The length of the man's bones, the skeleton's weight and his age – estimated at between 25 and 40 years old – were used to determine the thickness of the skin on his face and muscle definition.
Nilsson used a vinyl copy of the skull, made by Andrew Wilson at the University of Bradford, UK, as a base for his clay reconstruction of muscles, guided by markers denoting the fleshiness of the face. He created moulded silicon skin and added pigment before punching in the hair.
Ridges on the skull reveal that this man was muscular – which is not surprising given the Neolithic lifestyle. He had highly masculine features, such as a well-defined chin and jawbone. "I had to give him a beard – there were no razors then," says Nilsson.
Human skeletal biologist Simon Mays from the University of Southampton, UK, was unable to deduce the cause of death from the skeleton and he speculates that Stonehenge Man died of an infectious disease that killed too quickly to leave a trace on bones. Mays did, however, find two leg wounds: a deep muscle injury and a bony projection.
Tooth analysis by Alistair Pike, also at the University of Southampton, was particularly revealing. Pike extracted a section of enamel, then removed particles from different stages of the tooth's growth. A mass spectrometer revealed the ratio of two forms, or isotopes, of strontium at the different stages, which can indicate where his drinking water came from when matched to an area's geology.
Teeth take about four years to form, so it is possible to track the movements of an individual during that time. Stonehenge Man seems to have travelled as a child. He was born in an area of old geology, thought to be somewhere in Wales, and moved to an area matching Stonehenge when about 3 years old. If he came from Wales, says Pike, there could be a connection to the movement of bluestones, the oldest stones at Stonehenge. "The two communities may have been connected for centuries," he says.
The man's teeth show little wear for his age, suggesting a soft diet by prehistoric standards. The carbon isotopes in the teeth vary according to the types of plants eaten, and with the amount of nitrogen, which comes from meat in the diet. His carbon pattern shows he ate more meat than his contemporaries, possibly in stews. This and the elaborate burial suggest he was an important man in the community.
Unfortunately, the man's teeth were unusually clean. "If we had been able to analyse his tartar, we could have identified species he was eating by sequencing proteins in trapped fragments, while bacteria could have revealed the health of his gut," says Pike.
The team did not have enough time before the visitor centre opened to do DNA analysis of Stonehenge Man's colouring, but this would have been difficult anyway because handling over the years has contaminated the skeleton's DNA. They guessed at hazel eyes and dark brown hair, with a hint of ginger, to reflect probable Celtic origins.
If this model of the handsome Stonehenge Man is true to life, then he would not look out of place today. "He could be sitting next to you on the subway," says Nilsson.
by Sandrine Ceurstemont
Details in The New Scientist:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24811-stonehenge-man-not-just-a-pretty-face.html#.Usfc6pCYbIV
Stonehenge facts…….
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Stonehenge, the most famous of our English megalithic monuments, has excited the attention of the historian and the legend-lover since early times. According to some of the medieval historians it was erected by Aurelius Ambrosius to the memory of a number of British chiefs whom Hengist and his Saxons treacherously murdered in A.D. 462. Others add that Ambrosius himself was buried there. Giraldus Cambrensis, who wrote in the twelfth century, mingles these accounts with myth. He says, "There was in Ireland, in ancient times, a pile of stones worthy of admiration called the Giants' Dance, because giants from the remotest part of Africa brought them to Ireland, and in the plains of Kildare, not far from the castle of Naas, miraculously set them up. These stones (according to the British history) Aurelius Ambrosius, King of the Britons, procured Merlin by supernatural means to bring from Ireland to Britain."
This ancient enigma keeps everyone inquiring what truth lies in those huge stones and luckily you have come upon a site that will help you realize everything about Stonehenge.
You have wound upon an educational articles not as old as Stonehenge, but sure one of the oldest and very likely the first covering all faces of this mystical monolithic construction.
From the present ruined state of Stonehenge it is not possible to state with certainty what was the original arrangement, but it is probable that it was approximately as follows (see the following picture):
There was an outer circle of about thirty worked upright stones of square section (picture 2). On each pair of these rested a horizontal block, but only five now remain in position. These 'lintels' probably formed a continuous architrave (Pl. I). The diameter of this outer circle is about 97½ feet, inner measurement. The stones used are sarsens or blocks of sandstone, such as are to be found lying about in many parts of the district round Stonehenge.
Picture 2. Plan of Stonehenge in 1901. (After Archæologia.) The dotted stones are of porphyritic diabase.
Well within this circle stood the five huge trilithons (a-e), arranged in the form of a horseshoe with its open side to the north-east. Each trilithon, as the name implies, consists of three stones, two of which are uprights, the third being laid horizontally across the top. The height of the trilithons varies from 16 to 21½ feet, the lowest being the two that stand at the open end of the horseshoe, and the highest that which is at the apex. Here again all the stones are sarsens and all are carefully worked. On the top end of each upright of the trilithons is an accurately cut tenon which dovetails into two mortices cut one at each end of the lower surface of the horizontal block. Each upright of the outer circle had a double tenon, and the lintels, besides being morticed to take these tenons, were also dovetailed each into its two neighbours.
Within the horseshoe and close up to it stand the famous blue-stones, now twelve in number, but originally perhaps more. These stones are not so high as the trilithons, the tallest reaching only 7½ feet. They are nearly all of porphyritic diabase. It has often been asserted that these blue-stones must have been brought to Stonehenge from a distance, as they do not occur anywhere in the district. Some have suggested that they came from Wales or Cornwall, or even by sea from Ireland. Now, the recent excavations have shown that the blue-stones were brought to Stonehenge in a rough state, and that all the trimming was done on the spot where they were erected. It seems unlikely that if they had been brought from a distance the rough trimming should not have been done on the spot where they were found, in order to decrease their weight for transport. It is therefore possible that the stones were erratic blocks found near Stonehenge.
Within the horseshoe, and near its apex, lies the famous "Altar Stone" (A), a block measuring about 16 feet by 4. Between the horseshoe and the outer circle another circle of diabase stones is sometimes said to have existed, but very little of it now remains.
The whole building is surrounded by a rampart of earth several feet high, forming a circle about 300 feet in diameter. An avenue still 1200 feet in length, bordered by two walls of earth, leads up to the rampart from the north-east. On the axis of this avenue and nearly at its extremity stands the upright stone known as the Friar's Heel.
In 1901, in the course of repairing the central trilithon, careful excavations were carried out over a small area at Stonehenge. More than a hundred stone implements were found, of which the majority were flint axes, probably used for dressing the softer of the sandstone blocks, and also for excavating the chalk into which the uprights were set. About thirty hammer-stones suitable for holding in the hand were found. These were doubtless used for dressing the surface of the blocks. Most remarkable of all were the 'mauls,' large boulders weighing from 36 to 64 pounds, used for smashing blocks and also for removing large chips from the surfaces. Several antlers of deer were found, one of which had been worn down by use as a pickaxe.
More Overmuch nine hundred stone rings subsist in the British Isles. Of these, Stonehenge is the most best known.
The megalithic monuments of Britain and Europe pre-history those of the oriental Mediterranean, Egyptian, Mycenaean and Greek civilization.
The Druids had nothing to do with the building of the stone rings. Druids are known to have taken their ritual activities generally in sacred forest woodlet.
Nicholas – Stonehenge and Salisbury Tour Guide
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Social science journal starts at QC
By Erica Finocchio on April 13, 2016
Students now have an opportunity to submit research papers to a new, online academic journal called Social Science Quarterly.
Editor-in-Chief Madel Beaudouin, a senior majoring in political economics, created this academic journal.
"I started this journal because undergraduate students need to get their academic work published," Beaudouin said. "This is a response to how competitive graduate school is."
The journal released its Volume 1, Issue 1 on March 1.
Students need to submit a paper that is under 2,000 words. Papers do not need to focus on research as interviews and analyses are also accepted.
Two issues come out per semester. The editors on the board decide what stories to choose based on how well they have conducted research on their project. Sara Dorfman, a senior majoring in history, is one editor in the journal who likes the organization's structure.
"Being able to work collaboratively with like-minded people has been an amazing experience. I am free to work on projects pertaining to my personal research interests while simultaneously building a portfolio of peer-reviewed work," she said.
There are five senior editors and three junior editors. They decide on six research submissions for the journal.
The journal's academic advisers are Thomas Ort, Julie George, Alexander Riechl and Jorge Alves. All except Ort are political science professors. Ort is a professor in the history department.
One article featured in the journal was a question-and-answer piece on Rebecca Shareah Taleghani, a professor of Middle Eastern studies and Arabic at Queens College. Yasmin Eissaw, a junior majoring in political science and Middle Eastern studies, wrote the piece.
Eissaw also enjoyed working not only with other editors, but also something that she likes doing—research.
"Working on the journal has been one of the best academic experiences here at Queens College," Eissawi said. "I was able to incorporate my research interests into dynamic projects and work with amazing people who share the same ambitious goals."
The deadline for the next journal submission is May 1, 2016. New journals are available in June. To read Social Science Quarterly, visit www.qcquarterly.com.
Update: The name of the journal is Social Science Journal, not QC Quarterly.
Erica Finocchio
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"Az eladóknak sok almájuk van."
Translation:The sellers have many apples.
Up until this point the standard translation used by this course for "elado" was "sales clerk" and here it has been changed to "seller".
And it looks much better now! That's the word I'd rather use in English.


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Q: "Must declare the scalar variable @Idx" when using a Dapper query on SQL server via OleDb This code works when the connection is made to an accdb database:
Dim customer = connection.Query(Of Klantgegevens)("Select Actief,Onderhoudscontract From Klantgegevens Where Klantnummer=@Idx", New With {.Idx = customerId}).SingleOrDefault

But the code below gives the error about the Idx parameter when the connection is made to a SQL server database that has a table with the same structure:
Dim customer = connection.Query(Of Klantgegevens)("Select Actief,Onderhoudscontract From [dbo.Klantgegevens] Where Klantnummer=@Idx", New With {.Idx = customerId}).SingleOrDefault

What is going wrong here? I had hoped that by using Dapper I would be able to write database agnostic code. But it seems that is not the case!

A: If you are using an ODBC/OLEDB connection, then my first suggestion would be: move to SqlClient (SqlConnection). Everything should work fine with SqlConnection.
If you can't do that for some reason - i.e. you're stuck with a provider that doesn't have good support for named parameters - then you might need to tell dapper to use pseudo-positional parameters. Instead of @Idx, use ?Idx?. Dapper interprets this as an instruction to replace ?Idx? with the positional placeholder (simply: ?), using the value from the member Idx.
This is also a good fix for talking to accdb, which has very atypical parameter usage for an ADO.NET provider: it allows named parameter tokens, but all the tokens all replaced with ?, and given values from the positions of the added parameters (not via their names).


"This dynamic illustration is from the long-awaited Marvel Comics retrospective art book, Marvelocity, by Alex Ross and writer Chip Kidd. Included in the book are more than 50 never-been-published sketches, paintings, photographs, working models, preparatory art, and a 14-panel portfolio gallery of Marvel's most beloved characters! With each depiction Ross brings the Marvel Universe to life like never before and offers up a triumphant celebration of these iconic characters: Spider-Man, Iron Man, Captain America, Black Panther, the Avengers, Doctor Strange, Ms Marvel, Guardians of the Galaxy, X-Men and more!
"Marvelocity: Captain America"is part of a series of prints featuring artwork from the new Marvelocitybook. The first 4 images include Captain America, Spider-Man, Iron Man, and Doctor Strange. Editions 1-50 and AP/PPs 1-15 are reserved as matched sets. Each print is signed by Alex Ross.
Size (Unframed): 17" x 22"


I have a modest collection of salt and pepper shakers that I have been collecting for a few years. As I write this it seems funny that I have a salt and pepper collection. It all started at a consignment shop right down the road. I went there looking for a nightstand for Bryan and I found a beautiful set of brass owls on a branch. I could not say no, these owls were so cute sitting on their perch. So, it started and there was no stopping me. A word to future collectors have a price limit and do not go over that amount.
After a couple of years adding to my s-n-p shaker collection, I started running out of space and I was getting ready to move in with Bryan. So, my collection had to be packed away until I had a way of displaying these beauties.
Enter Mom and a glorious weekend of antiquing at our local honey holes. Bryan and I decided to take Mom on an outing to one of our favorite spots and asked for her help. I asked her to keep her eyes open for anything that could be used to display my collection, and boy did she come through for me. Tucked way in the corner of booth filled with things way out of my price range she found an old kitchen spice rack. This spice rack totally fit the bill, however, it was in less than desirable condition. Since it had been a kitchen spice rack , probably above a stove, it was super sticky and gross with old grease. The back board was broken and the paint was caked on so badly I could move it with my fingernail,eek.
I couldn't wait to get this gross thing with tons of potential home. We started a week later with Mom and Dad in tow. Mom and I scrapped and sanded the rack within an inch of its life. After scrapping three layers of clumpy, sticky and smelly paint something wonderful emerged, a blank slate. After cleaning up the rack Mom and I set to work on painting. We decided to paint the rack a retro, subtle, can go with everything color, creamy whitish yellow. It actually exceeded my expectations and turned out better than I thought it would.
Now I can display my funky shaker collection with pride in one place, the kitchen.
Enjoy and remember to spice things up when looking for new pieces.


A disgruntled Westchester commuter who took the Penn Central railroad to court for breach of contract has won a $1,40 judgment, covering the cost of his ticket, as well as an additional $12 in costs.
"We're just looking for clean, timely service," said the commuter, David Goldrich of Harrison. He said yesterday that he decided to file the suit a few months ago after his ride to the city—normally 47 minutes—took a total of 88 minutes.
Mr. Goldrich, a 33‐year‐old lawyer who is program direc tor for the Practicing Law In stitute here and has commuted for five years, said he won his case last Friday before Judge Dennis Donovan in the Justice of the Peace Court in Harrison.
The judgment was awarded on the basis of his prima facie case after the railroad failed to appear to defend against his action, based on its failure to provide the service for which Mr. Goldrich had paid.
The judgment against the railroad, which includes provi sion for payment of interest from the date of judgment, was filed yesterday with the County Clerk of Westchester in White Plains. Mr. Goldrich said he had arranged for the local sher iff to serve papers for execu tion of the judgment on the railroad.
A spokesman for the railroad in New York said yesterday he was unaware of the court case and had no comment on it.


Every year Tim Cook and Charitybuzz partner to auction off a lunch meeting with the Apple CEO for charity, and this year there's a new perk for the highest bidder: a ticket to Apple Park. The campaign is valued at $100,000 to raise money for the RFK Human Rights group, and this year the meeting will take place at Apple's brand new campus.
Bidding starts today with the first bid starting at $10,000. The campaign will run for two weeks through Tuesday, May 16 at 3pm ET when the highest bidder at the time will be awarded two tickets for lunch with Tim Cook at Apple's new headquarters.
This year's auction is the first to promise lunch at Apple's new campus, Apple Park, which Apple says started opening to some employees in April. The latest drone footage from over the weekend showed continuing progress around the new campus too.
You can start your bidding on the latest Charitybuzz auction for your own Tim Cook meeting here.


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Watch little deer rescued from Hurricane Sandy waves
By JohnThomas Didymus Oct 30, 2012 in Environment
Monmouth Beach - A deer was rescued from the surging waves as Hurricane Sandy loomed with dark menacing clouds at a Monmouth County beach in New Jersey. The animal was caught on camera struggling against the wild breaking surf to reach dry land.
An NBC 4 New York camera crew happened to be filming the surf when they noticed the animal struggling in it.
According to Buzz Feed, a rogue wave probably knocked the deer off the rocky ledge into the water. The high rocky barrier prevented it from climbing out of the water back to the beach.
The video shows the poor confused animal struggling against the surging waves. Wtvr.com reports bystanders shouted and waved hands in frantic effort to direct the deer away from the rocks toward the sandy beach ahead.
Deer rescued from Sandy waves
The animal was lucky. The waves washed it toward the sand where animal control officials rescued it.
Joe Schaedel, who describes himself as an animal lover, said: "I didn't want him to get in the rocks, so I was just trying to force him out, scare him almost. He was very confused, scared by everything. I'd hate to see a young deer like that get killed in the rocks."
According to NBC 4 New York, the animal suffered a broken leg. Animal Control and Humane Society (ACHS) officials tranquilized the deer and are nursing it back to health.
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Jemasa, Jammasa or Al Jammasa (; ; ) a Euphrates Arab tribal Federation that was centered around the Lower Khabur region. The 17th century Cammasa/Jemasa district in Eyalet of Raqqa was named after the tribe then dominant at that region.

Kurdish Chiefdom
In the 16th century the Emirate of Cammasa was under the rule of a Kurdish prince, until 1628 when it was transferred to direct Ottoman rule from Urfa then the new capital of the new Eyalet of Raqqa

See also
Diyar Mudar
Kurdish chiefdoms

References

Khabur (Euphrates)
Euphrates
Upper Mesopotamia
Bedouin groups


Max Motors Wellington Family Speedway is the premier motor racing venue in New Zealand's capital city – Wellington. Situated just north of Upper Hutt on SH2, the Te Marua facility has been synonymous with high revving bumper-to-bumper excitement for years.
Why not make a night of it with your family or workmates this season?
For those looking to be entertained by fast paced, thrilling and sometimes brutal motor racing action, Te Marua holds it all. From the high speed Super Saloons and Modifieds to the hard-hitting Stockcars, the madness of Sidecars right through to the close quarter racing of the Streetstocks and Escorts. With onsite catering from the great staff at Baxters, delivering, hot food and coffee, as well as sweets and cold refreshments, you're set for a night of heart racing action.
Please note: the telephone is only manned on race nights, however outside of these times it will have next meeting details and any cancellation details as soon as they are known.