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Facebook has made yet another move to make their users happier about the ad content they see when they visit the popular site. In an announcement last week, Facebook stated that they will give users the ability to more directly control the ads they see. Facebook's ad preferences tool will let you see why an ad is on your News Feed, and allow you to decide whether you want to keep or remove interests based on the ad.
At the same time though, Facebook also announced that they will allow advertisers to target Facebook users based on the actions the users took on other sites across the web. This is a big move for Facebook, but it is already common practice for other types of display targeting.
How Do We Envision These Changes Playing Out?
For example, I have only recently become more interested in running and working out and I have been browsing websites for new tennis shoes, and reading reviews and blogs. However, I don't have 'running' listed as an interest on my Facebook profile, meaning Facebook would have little clue that this has become a preferred activity or interest of mine.
By having insight into my off-Facebook browsing though, a Facebook advertiser may now know to show me an ad for Nike shoes. When I see the ad, Facebook will highlight the fact that I can alter my profile to include 'running' as an interest.
Facebook is prime real estate and they have demographic and interest data that is already unmatched by any other website. With this off-Facebook targeting information, advertisers will have even more confidence in showing users relevant ads.
Ultimately, Facebook aims to generate as much information as possible about each user, even if that requires what some think of as an invasion of privacy: using off-Facebook data and habits to tailor ads on the social network. While that may concern some users, others may think that if Facebook isn't going to to eliminate or reduce the number of ads they see, the advertisements may as well be more relevant.
At least Facebook is now becoming transparent that they will be monitoring your website browsing to better place ads. A means to an end.


If dogs react to fast moving people, you running away will invoke the animal's instinct to chase after you. And you definitely cannot run faster than most dogs. Eventually the dog will catch up and you will get bit. Stay calm and confront the beats. Look the animal in the eye without fear and yell stop with authority.
If the dog was chasing you because you were either running or cycling. Stop and stand still. The dog may just loose interest in your and go about its merrily business. Then gently move on without creating any sporadic movement until you are at a safe distant from the dog.
You don't want to pore fuel into fire. Some aggressive dogs are not intimidated by negative gestures and this may influence the animal to attack to defend itself. Make fist and keep them up to your chest away from the dog to avoid dog biting your fingers.
Sum up some courage and tell the dog in a commanding voice to back off. If the dog senses fear in your stance and voice, it will not recognise your command. But once you say it with bravery and authority. The dog will likely back away.
If you have a bottle, stick or anything not useful. Throw it in the opposite direction you are going. The dog may end up leaving you to run at the object. At this point, it is time to make that quick getaway. If you have nothing in your hand, just pretend to pick something up and throw.
Don't be too dainty when calling for help. You are not at a tea party with the queen and calling the butler. You are being attacked by a dog. Call for help as loudly as possible.
If all the above fails or if you did not get a chance to exhibit them as the dog is immediately biting you, you will have to go ham like the dog and fight your way out of those bites. Use your fist to hit the dog in the head and throat. Avoid going directly at the mouth because the dog may just snap and grab hold of your hands. Do what you must to survive. If you can reach a stick, reach the stick and give the dog a few good walks to the side. You want to live but that doesn't mean you should kill the animal.
Ensure that vital areas such as your neck and groin (Especially males) are protected at all times. A dog's weapon is its teeth and to some extent it's claws. If you can subdue the dog's head by squeezing the neck and pressing the head to the floor using your hands or body, you can subdue the animal until it gives up or help arrives.
If possible, wash off the wound immediately with pure water. Run the wound under the pipe until the pain eases a bit.
First and most common sense thing to do is see a doctor and inform him of the happenings. You don't know what germs the animal may be carrying. You must ensure that the wounds are properly and professionally treated.
Report the incident to the right Authority. You may end up saving child's life. If there is negligence on the dog owner's side, you may have a good case to bring in court.
If you are attacked by a dog it doesn't mean that all dogs are dangerous and should be put away. Normally attacks are caused by misunderstanding on the dogs part or improper training of the animal. A dog which is always angry either has some underlining medical condition or was bred that way. Dogs have been good friends and companions for humans for a pretty long time and we know they are good and kind animals.


It is true that when it comes to men, most of them are more concerned about the contents of the wallet than the actual wallet itself. But a wallet provides an insight into a personality of a man. Similarly, a wallet that a female carries gives out subtle clues about her overall style and nature. Therefore, wallets must be chosen carefully. They must not only hold one's money and credit card, but they must also hold a style statement with special functional features. There is a very big variety in wallet types for both men and women. See below a brief description of each major type in this category and find out which you should be looking for to fulfill your needs and be in accordance to your overall visual style.
Made from lightweight materials such as rubber, vinyl or nylon, these wallets are sporty and come in variety of colors and styles. For sports lovers, Velcro and zipper closure for sporty wallets can be preferred. Men who love sports can choose nylon wallets that are waterproof and have mesh for separating compartments.
Men who have a gentleman's quality and prefer classy style can choose leather made high scale wallets. They may use zippers or snaps for closing the wallet. The recent fashion trend indicates that fashion savvy, classy males should opt for longer and more rectangular wallets. Bi-Fold and Tri-Fold wallets are also available. Make sure that they aren't too fat, unless of course they are loaded with cash. These wallets can be purchased in microfiber waterproof fabrics.
Classic style of wallets in colors such as grey, black or brown can be opted for men who want to be minimalist in their fashion sense. These wallets are simple and generally don't feature imprints or designs like classy wallets. But they still have an aura of sophistication, which gives them an edge over the others. Men's wallets must be chosen on the basis of number of compartments that they feature as men tend to keep their credit cards, visiting cards, money and family photographs all at one place.
Purse-like wallet with or without a handle, it generally features elaborate detailing on the front. By nature, these aren't the most comfortable models to carry around; but they definitely help to assemble a sophisticated and classic look.
Sturdy and simple wallet designed to hold coins. These are very compact and practical to carry around, as they can generally be fit into any of a purse's pockets.
Designed to hold unfolded currency and book of checks, mostly rectangular and feature more width. Much like clutch models, these aren't very practical to carry around; but in this case, they can be much more easily fit in a purse.
Can be folded like a classic men's wallet and fits in pants pocket. This model is intended for a more urban and practical approach, while still retaining a slim design to fit more easily and discretely into every fashion style.
Quite minimalistic, it is similar in design and size of a men's wallet. Like the Bi-Fold Wallet, it is slim, practical and urban. This has been a very popular choice among younger women.
Designed with hard casing and snaps shut. Like the name of the model suggests, this is a fitting choice for chic and formal events. Moreover, a very elegant and sober fashion composition is necessary to encompass these wallets.
A simple and practical solution for everyday use, this model is designed to carry ID and credit cards; this wallet only carries limited cash.
Women who don't like carrying wallet in hand can tight models like these around their wrist with a band. This is a very versatile and functional choice; depending on the chosen model, it can fit into both casual and formal looks.
Similar to a small electronic notebook, these wallets have organizers such as a diary, calculator and a pen. These are more business-oriented model and have to be used accordingly.
Such wallets have special sections where women can keep their photos, membership cards and security cards. Most of these wallets come in a variety of combinations. For instance, a clutch can have photo holder compartments or may come with features such as bi-fold or tri-fold. Wristlet wallets can be used as organizer wallet and checkbook wallets can have the feature of a clutch.
Through adequate research among online stores, you are guaranteed to find a model that has all the features you are looking for. Taking your time to check different stores, brands and model is very important and goes a long way in buying a good product. While choosing wallets for men and women make sure that the exterior design is taken into consideration. For those who have special affinity for a particular type of locking system, they must choose a wallet that features a particular lock. Wallet material, flexibility and colour must be picked accordingly too. And never forget: a wallet is a complement of your overall ensemble, but it will do you no good if it's only good looking. Make sure to pick a model that is going to be useful for you! Now, with this information in mind, you will most surely be able to use Shopbot's price comparison tools and make the perfect acquisition: a wallet that fits your look, your needs and your pocket – both physically and metaphorically. Happy shopping!


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Europe's Ongoing Ambivalence Towards Turkish EU Membership
By John Daly - Jul 15, 2011, 10:31 AM CDT
Amidst the European Union's many problems, from the tanking of the economies of a number of its poorer member states to trying to prop up the euro, an issue from its hoary past continues to gnaw at the fringes of its collective consciousness.
Is Turkey a part of Europe or not, and if it is, should it receive EU membership?
The issue has bedeviled EU-Turkish relations for decades, rooted as it is in centuries of mutual admiration, apprehension, and out and out fear.
The question however is one that should occupy the best and brightest minds in Brussels however, as its ultimate resolution will reverberate loudly throughout the Muslim world.
The discussions mirror in an odd way those involving Russia beginning in the early 18th century, when Tsar Peter the Great began to refashion the oriental state of Muscovy to something approaching his vision of what a proper European state should look like.
Determined to investigate things for himself, in 1697 he traveled "incognito" to Europe on an 18-month journey as "Peter Mikhailovich" attached to the "Grand Embassy" to see Europe for himself firsthand, though a six foot-eight inch delegation member to whom everyone deferred was probably a rather poor disguise.
Appalling his subjects by being the first Russian ruler to journey to the heretical West, Peter upon his return set about reordering his country with aplomb, and after the Russian capture of Paris at the end of the Napoleonic wars, much less the capture of Berlin in 1945, not too many people questioned Russia's geographical status as part of Europe, though the vast majority of its territory, east of the Ural mountains, remains in Asia.
Turkey occupies a role similar to Russia. Like the former Evil Empire, Turkey sits athwart two continents, though the bulk of its territory lies not in Europe, but its Anatolian heartland in Asia. Similarly like Russia, whose armies came within a hairsbreadth of capturing Berlin in 1762 before the sudden death in 1762 of Tsaritsa Elizabeth, Peter's daughter, in the late 17th century Ottoman armies twice besieged Vienna, and few Austrians today dunking their bellowed croissants into their kaffee mit schlag remember that legend has it that their favorite pastry's shape originated in the crescent moons emblazoned upon their besieger's flags.
Furthermore, the debris field of the ebb tide of the Ottoman advance into left its influence in the Balkans, where Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo and Serbia retain significant Muslim populations.
But it is perhaps the virility of the Ottoman Turkish advance into the heartlands of Eastern Europe that now sees the EU ambivalent about Turkish membership. Turkey first applied for associate membership in the European Economic Community in 1959, formally upgrading its request for EU membership in 1987.
Despite Ankara's interest however, the application has remained stalled, despite the fact that Turkey has made repeated changes to its political and economic systems to advance its case. In the interim, it has seen former Soviet republics and communist Eastern European states leapfrog ahead of it, as in 2004, the EU allowed the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia to join the Union, to be joined three years later by Romania and Bulgaria.
Speaking of imperial debris fields, in 2004 Cyprus also joined the EU, thirty years after Turkey felt compelled to invade the island to protect its Turkish minority.
And the divided and troubled island is at the heart of the issue of Turkish accession to the EU today. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said earlier this week that allowing the Republic Cyprus to assume the rotating EU presidency in July 2012 without a unification deal for the divided island would "freeze" relations between Turkey and the European bloc.
Davutoglu, a suave and sophisticated man highly regarded for his diplomatic skills, said, "We do not believe that Turkey and the EU can continue relations in a case where the Greek Cypriot side assumes the EU term presidency before a solution is found in Cyprus. I told (EU Commissioner Stefan) Fuele that we should therefore take measures (to solve the Cyprus issue) from now on."
European atavistic fears of an Ottoman redux takeover of Europe aside, the EU is facing three upcoming fundamental issues that Turkish membership could help solve.
The first is the rapid aging of Europe's population and the consequent lack of a future labor force to pay into social funds to provide for the relatively luxurious retirement benefits that Europeans have come to regard as their birthright. Access to Turkey's young and dynamic labor pool would be a solution to providing a workforce capable of sustaining the European welfare state.
Secondly, European energy needs are best met by a diversification of resources, and Turkey's geography makes it an ideal "energy corridor" for the hydrocarbon riches of Iran and Central Asia to flow westwards to European markets.
Last but not least is the fact that Europe is eventually going to need an interlocutor with the Muslim world, which not only occupies the south shore of the Mediterranean but a vast swath of territory from the Atlantic to Xinjiang. Turkey is not only a secular republic, but has been a democratic state for nearly 80 years, the sole Muslim state to have absorbed "Western" democratic values.
But European views of Turkey are not only colored by deep-rooted historical fears, which have been intensified since 9/11 by fears of Islam as a 'terrorist" culture, there is a fear that Turkish membership in the EU would lead to hordes of scarf wearing, baggy-trousered women and their offspring, not to mention their husbands, flooding into Europe by the millions, drowning native "European" culture.
Interestingly enough, similar terrors of labor migration were voiced in late 1991 following the implosion of the USSR. As a minor historical aside, one should remember that the EU now contains the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Romania and Bulgaria and their demographic shifts have yet to lead to "Europeans" seeing goulash and cabbage joints on every other street corner.
At the end of the day, in a world of globalization Europe is going to have to resolve the abovementioned issues, if for no other reason than to maintain its own-own standards of living. Classical antiquity defined Asia as beginning on the eastern shore of the Hellespont – Turkey now controls both sides of the passage.
Time to consider letting them in, for real.
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What a travesty of an article. The fears of Turkish accession are well-founded. It is a Middle Eastern country, not a European country, one still driven by a ferocious and primitive sense of nationalism that sees it still unable to acknowledge the genocides it committed against the Armenians and other Christians early in the 20th century.Turks who have immigrated to Europe already have not exactly distinguished themselves. The countries with large Turkish immigrant populations, Germany and Austria, are among those most fiercely opposed to Turkish accession.In Britain, Turks have the lowest employment and highest benefits-dependency levels of any immigrant group except Somalis. So forgive us if we're a little sceptical of how great the contribution of Turkey's 'young, dynamic' population will be to alleviating our pension shortfall. It is far more likely that they would simple add to the economic burden.
No Turkey in the EU, we have enough Turkish crimes and smuggling in our beautiful countries. The Turks have not assimilated in Germany and other places and demand their own schools, centers, and places in government. The Gulen Movement is trying to take over the economic and educational bases worldwide and sucking much money out of America and elsewhere.They are teaching African children Turkish and destroying the culture in over 100 countries, while the Schools in Turkey still perform internationally below standard. Bullying and bribing their way in every country....Turkey cannot be trusted and will never share the wealth with anyone. They want to restore the Caliphate and create a "Golden Generation" for the next Ottoman Empire.http://www.gulenschoolsworldwide.blogspot.comhttp://www.turkishinvitiations.weebly.com
Reading the two comments above gave me a feeling of surprise and sadness. As a Turkish immigrant living in Australia and carrying an Australian Citzenship i was dissappointed to read comments of opposition to Turkeys membership in the EU. Mind you i dont agree with the EU and dont agree that Turkey should even bother with it. Whilst some comments made are fare, they are nevertheless NOT more significant than nations that are EU members. Therefore lets drop the pathetic arguments of crime and unemployment and social wealfare. If you want to make a fare comment, then you should address modernism, progress, Human Rights, and Secularism, as to weather or not to concider Turkey in the EU. Sadly if Turkey followed in the direction of MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN THE EU WANTING TO BECOME UNITED WITH TURKEY. Sadly Turkeys leadership lost its vision and path since ATATURK, especially AFTER 1978 and under the governments of Demirel, Erbakan, Tansu Ciller, and worst being R.T.ERDOGAN
If Turkey is desperate to enter the EU, they can perhaps change places with Sweden. Sweden was dumb enough to come into that stupid organization, although fortunately not dumb enough to accept the Euron. If they had accepted the Euron, they would probably have all sorts of macroeconomic trouble now.I don't know much about Turkey, but that country has a lot going for it now. I hope that they have kept their compulsory military service which, as Napoleon pointed out, "is the real foundation of all of the habits of a country". The Swedes ended compulsory military service in order to get a few battalions of volunteers to send to stone age countries on the other side of the world.

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Hello! in this video I show you the easiest way to measure RPM of motor. All you need is tape and microphone! And Audacity.
yes, video is not available but, if i did understand, it s a clever way.
you should run the motor with the tape in the axis and partially hit the tape with something for some time (5-10 sec) recording the noise with some audio analyzer software.
then, in the software you just count how many noise spikes there are in a time space and adjust the math for one minute (ex. 100 spikes in 2 seconds = 3000 rpm).


In the last month I have seen three large, abandoned television sets dumped on the side of the road in town and up on Seventh Street, west of Fillmore. I recently found a business, PC Recycle, who will come to your home and haul E-Waste away, no charge. The gentleman's name is Robert Barrett and his number is 805-402-6864. If you have any televisions or computers you need to recycle, give him a call, or if you see any electronics dumped on the side of the road, make a call and he will come take it away.
California's Primary Election day, June 5th is rapidly approaching. The election process has been subverted by the unfortunate majority of politicians now in control of the State. Entirely due to the possibility that voters might see through the corrupt media and false advertising purchased by the constituents of the candidates for office, the current administration in California has rigged the primary to hopefully assure that only their candidates appear on the General election ballot. California's socialist leaning administration is only interested in the continuance of deceptive politicians demeaning the Federal government and driving residents into further poverty, subservience to laws in conflict with the U.S. Constitution as well as the duly elected President. Residing in the fear of the public sentiment rising further up against sanctuary policies as several cities and areas are voting against, these self-righteous imbeciles have vividly portrayed their open hostility to moral values, family values and most importantly biblical restraints or principles.
By dictionary terms legislation is the process of governing by rules of law and the forming of such by governing bodies. The operative words in this definition are 'governing bodies'. When the governing administration is controlled by evil influences the laws they institute are filled with hypocrisy and evil intentions. It is impossible to legislate against evil, deception and/or stupidity.
As an example of the hypocrisy fostered by evil and deception, Gavin Newsom the current Democratic Lieutenant Governor states he is for 'change'. The only change he hopes for is the name on the door below Governor. He refused to endorse and accept the voluntary maximum expenditure limit set for candidates for the Governor's office. He refused the opportunity to post a statement of his intentions in the voters guide but highly supported the limit of two candidates for Governor on the General election ballot which no longer will afford the voters the opportunity to choose an opposition candidate should the primary top two candidates receiving votes be from the same party. His statements to the public media outlets which are unceasingly communicated indicate no change from the current administration of deception. Openly he resists protecting our borders from 'illegal' entries. In other statements he reflects his opposition to the morality of biblical values. He has no stated interest in protecting the lives of legal citizens.
Both Mr. Newsom and Xavier Becerra, the candidate for Attorney General have readily accepted the endorsements of Governor Jerry Brown as well as Senator Kamala Harris which should cause any thinking person to consider casting their vote for any other candidate.
At the top of page 32 in the Official Voter Information Guide you will find the 2 candidate rule for the 2018 General election. There are 27 candidates for Governor which thins out the populace vote. There are only five Republican candidates. There are eleven Democratic and eleven listed as non-partisan or otherwise. Nearly all accepted the voluntary spending limit set for candidates running for Governor.
There are 32 candidates for U.S. Senator and Deane Feinstein is among them. Cast your vote wisely as she has for too long identified herself as a part of the establishment known in Washington as the 'Deep State'. Primarily this is the group who hope to take down America's status as a sovereign nation and cause it to become subservient to an international court of law and One World Government. That is the most obvious reason she is for removing firearms from the law abiding citizens, so they are unable to defend themselves. She also continues to voice her approval fro Obamacare which has proved to be a massive failure.


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Hineni (Here I am). Where are you?
A core tenet of Judaism is an emphasis on understanding what it means to be the "other." Woven throughout Jewish texts is a directive to remember what it means to be the stranger in a strange land. My husband and I take this principle seriously and have intentionally infused it into our parenting approach. We model, as best we can, what it means to have 'upstander' qualities. We expect our children to reach out and play with the lonely child sitting on the buddy bench at recess; we remind our kiddos to have menschlekeit behaviors; and we talk regularly about the power of using our voices to fight injustices so as to be part of the change our world needs so desperately. When there are marches in our town to raise awareness and demonstrate solidarity with the pain and unjust actions taken against the Black and Brown communities in our midst we engage and say, Hineni, 'Here I am'. We explain to our children what is happening in current events, we read the writings of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., we decorate our poster boards with words that highlight the power of humanity ("Together Beat Hate"), and we 'pray with our feet,' as Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel taught us.
When there is animosity directed toward LGBTQ+ community members we reach out with genuine concern and empathy. Once again, we say Hineni, 'Here I am'. We openly discuss that each individual is made in the image of G-d and that all human beings are unique and valuable irrespective of their gender and sexual orientation. This is what we do, what we believe.
We are keenly aware of the injustices that have flowed from decades and centuries of discrimination, inequalities, and marginalization. We educate ourselves about the history of abuses of power and hierarchies that exist in our society. We see the need to challenge presumptions that have been held and carefully and thoughtfully reconstruct the tapestry of this country that is predicated on a multicultural spirit and ethos.
For us, our Jewish particularism demands that we engage in a meaningful way with all humanity. Our universal actions are animated by our particularism and yet when we look behind us, to our right and to our left, we don't see our fellow human beings standing with us in solidarity as we once again are deemed to be targets.
We aren't seeing reciprocity from those same marginalized groups. I don't see the moral outrage for the indiscriminate attacks against Jews in this country. I'm talking about the outward clear denunciation of Jew hatred as my people are attacked for their identity. I'm talking about the assaults on sidewalks, where it feels like sport to pummel a Jew.
Where are the condemnations from community leaders, clergy, and elected officials when mobs and bullies call for the death of Jews in the streets of New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Toronto, and internationally in London, Brussels, and the list goes on? How is it possible that in our America in the 21st century a gang of Palestinians can drive around the streets of Los Angeles yelling, "Who is Jewish?" hunting for their Jewish prey similar to the Cossacks in Ukraine in 1919? When cries for igniting World War III against the Jews are hurled, why does this not cause an immediate ringing of the alarm bell? Where are the Palestinian American voices condemning these thug-like behaviors, shouting from the rooftops that this scaremongering utilizes Hamas-like tactics and has no place in today's society? Where are the supposed allies of marginalized communities? Why are they retreating, cowering, and silent? Where is the public display of support for Jews, the way it is expected that Jews "show up" and be present for the multiple identities and communal experiences within our civil framework? Why the double standard and hypocrisy?
The silence from our supposed allies is deafening. Not once have you asked how my children feel knowing that Jewish concerns are being ignored. Not once have you asked genuinely how you can help educate yourself and your community about Jews, Judaism, and Israel. Not once have you asked how it feels for Jews to question whether or not they need to "hide" their Jewish identity in public (and yes, I recognize that there is a privilege associated with the ability to cover up one's identity as it is not apparent merely by one's skin color). Not once have you expressed concerns about the vandalism against synagogues and Jewish neighborhoods, the swastikas spray-painted on campus quads, and the hate-filled slogans and memes in our social media feed. Your claims to be 'just anti-Zionist' are theoretical and naïve at best, and at worst, a guise for politically correct Jew hatred.
I'm not interested in the talking points spouted by too many who know too little, those who use hashtags and slacktivism as a means for their performative allyship. Why don't the ubiquitous lawn signs I see dotting every neighborhood include, "Never Again must Jews be vulnerable"? Why can't people hold complexity and nuance while recognizing that hate is callous no matter who it targets? Why can't the value of human dignity for all peoples be a north star for the myriad of social justice movements and not just for certain categories deemed politically correct? Why can't we lean into the hard work required to build bridges between communities, engage with differences respectfully, and build the muscle of compassion for peoples irrespective of their national home, the deity(ies) they worship, and the ethnic communities to which they feel a sense of belonging?
Are you surprised that I expect more? Are you shocked by my straightforward articulation? No more mincing words. No more hiding behind politically correct language as the obfuscation does nothing but permit you to evade the reality that is taking place.
So, I ask, where are you?


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How the people of Hungerford helped save the Tally Ho
PUBLISHED: 14:30 03 October 2014 | UPDATED: 15:33 07 November 2017
Photos by Maureen McLean
Just look at those hanging baskets. Clearly the Tally Ho! team have a lot of talents.
MAUREEN MCLEAN
When the Tally Ho! was threatened with redevelopement, locals and lifelong regulars sprung into action to ensure it stayed as a pub - and became an instant success story
This is how you know you are in a good pub. You walk in and Monty – the smiling barman – offers you the 'usual'. When it's only the second time you've ever visited, this is as warm a welcome as one could imagine.
The pub is the Tally Ho! at Hungerford Newtown, and, in case you need to know, in my case 'the usual' was one of those refreshing elderflower spritzer-style drinks us drivers now enjoy. But then The Tally Ho! is no ordinary pub. It's a community venture, owned by local residents who were determined to keep it as the heart of their village. Nor has it been an easy battle. In 2012 brewers Wadworth sold the premises for development. For a while it looked like the pub would disappear, to be replaced by homes, but a consortium of more than 60 potential shareholders and volunteers campaigned to take it over.
For some 250 years 'the Tally', known until the mid-20th century as The Oxford Arms, had been at centre of the community's life. During the 2nd World War villagers mixed with American and Canadian servicemen who decided it was the perfect English watering spot.
Backed by the local CAMRA (Campaign for Real Ale) branch and supported by MP Richard Benyon, they eventually prevailed and last autumn re-opened the premises.
Villager Paula Woof, now aTally Ho Community Pub Ltd director, recalls: "It wasn't just getting to own the pub – beyond raising the money there was a huge amount of work to do for it to be ready for opening – a major refit from top to bottom. And many of us had never had anything to do with running a pub before so it was a big learning curve."
Volunteers turned their hands to everything and anything that needed doing. They included Wally Hunt, known as 'Wally the woodman', who was born in the village and had his first ever alcoholic drink at the pub on VE Day.
Now 84, Wally and his wife Shirley are still regular visitors (perhaps Wally more than Shirley!) and he says: "None of us wanted to see it become a flats development. I was more than happy to invest. You come in here and might bump into people you haven't been in touch with for a while, or have a great lunch and chat. The kitchen team are brilliant – I've seen them serve up as many as 69 meals at a time.
"So many pubs are closing these days and it's nice to be part of one that beat the odds. People worked so hard to make this happen – and just look at it now!"
Wally's right – this is indeed a special place. Proper, tasty pub meals made with fresh seasonal veg (including from shareholders' garden plots) and meat from down the road. Look out for items like honeyed ham from the Benham Estate and home-made desserts. The specials often take the pub into the 'upper leagues' of pub grub, featuring the likes of mussels or black pudding in new recipes. There are beers on tap from local breweries and a little shop in the corner offering more local treats. During our visit the shop featured everything from bottles of West Berkshire Brewery bottles and jars of honey to eggs, marrows and squashes.
There's a cosy log fire when the temperature drops and outside a nice little patio garden for warm days, but pride of place goes to a banner declaring that you are at West Berkshire Campaign for Real Ale's Best Community Pub. It's a well deserved prize and we suggest you visit The Tally Ho! during a day out in beautiful countryside.
It's just half a mile from junction 14 of the M4 and open seven days a week, serving food lunchtimes and evenings. Book up for Sunday lunch – this is becoming a 'must-do' experience. See www.thetallyhohungerford.co.uk.


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RCW 49.60.010 Purpose of chapter. This chapter shall be known as the "law against discrimination". It is an exercise of the police power of the state for the protection of the public welfare, health, and peace of the people of this state, and in fulfillment of the provisions of the Constitution of this state concerning civil rights. The legislature hereby finds and declares that practices of discrimination against any of its inhabitants because of race, creed, color, national origin, families with children, sex, marital status, age, or the presence of any sensory, mental, or physical disability or the use of a trained dog guide or service animal by a disabled person are a matter of state concern, that such discrimination threatens not only the rights and proper privileges of its inhabitants but menaces the institutions and foundation of a free democratic state. A state agency is herein created with powers with respect to elimination and prevention of discrimination in employment, in credit and insurance transactions, in places of public resort, accommodation, or amusement, and in real property transactions because of race, creed, color, national origin, families with children, sex, marital status, age, or the presence of any sensory, mental, or physical disability or the use of a trained dog guide or service animal by a disabled person; and the commission established hereunder is hereby given general jurisdiction and power for such purposes.
[1997 c 271 § 1; 1995 c 259 § 1; 1993 c 510 § 1; 1985 c 185 § 1; 1973 1st ex.s. c 214 § 1; 1973 c 141 § 1; 1969 ex.s. c 167 § 1; 1957 c 37 § 1; 1949 c 183 § 1; Rem. Supp. 1949 § 7614-20.]
Effective date--1995 c 259: "This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and shall take effect July 1, 1995." [1995 c 259 § 7.]
Severability--1993 c 510: "If any provision of this act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances is not affected." [1993 c 510 § 26.]
Severability--1969 ex.s. c 167: "If any provision of this act, or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act, or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances is not affected." [1969 ex.s. c 167 § 10.]
Severability--1957 c 37: "If any provision of this act or the application of such provision to any person or circumstance shall be held invalid, the remainder of such act or the application of such provision to persons or circumstances other than those to which it is held invalid shall not be affected thereby." [1957 c 37 § 27.]
Severability--1949 c 183: "If any provision of this act or the application of such provision to any person or circumstance shall be held invalid, the remainder of such act or the application of such provision to persons or circumstances other than those to which it is held invalid shall not be affected thereby." [1949 c 183 § 13.]
Urban renewal law--Discrimination prohibited: RCW 35.81.170.


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A 13-year-old boy has been taken to hospital following a hit and run in Shepherd's Bush.
Detectives in Hammersmith and Fulham are appealing for witnesses after a light blue Ford Focus collided with a pedestrian on Bulwer Street, and the driver failed to stop at the scene.
The incident happened shortly after 1.40pm on Saturday October 17.
The London Ambulance Service and London's Air Ambulance attended.
The boy remains in hospital in a stable condition and his injuries are not believed to be life threatening, police said.
The car was found abandoned nearby.
An investigation is underway by detectives from the Serious Collision Investigation Unit.
Anyone who witnessed the collision, or saw the suspect(s) fleeing from the car, is asked to contact police on 020 8543 5157 or via 101.


A mix of ground anchovies, vinegar, spices and water, with a salty pungent flavor that goes a long way.
Comes in tubes in the canned fish section of the store.
Add to salad dressings, sauces and toppings for canapes.


I know this is a fantasy game and all, but technology kind of has a certain "structure" to it I guess you could say? I've been mulling a lot of potential designs over in my head and while yes, I could just submit them and see what comes of it and proceed from there. Engineers kind of buck the timeframe of the late 1700s in some aspects, (gyrocopters, clockwork automatons) and this is great. I'm just wondering what else is possible now? I'm not gonna start submitting designs for high-end race cars, and whatnot, but clearly Imperian is on the cusp of some sort of Industrial Revolution. There are elements in play here that feel like they imply the existence of other 'precursor' advances or if one were to be so inclined, would lead to the discovery of something farther up the tech tree.
I'm looking down a list of what was possible for us during that time and wondering what else we could do, I know we had a new update on what is and isn't accepted in designs from Alend, but most of the designs engineers specifically use go through different approval channels which aren't governed by the same rules as they're treated like free artifact designs.
I already had a design that flirted with anachronism, that of my tinderbox, but I regard that as a fluke as it was designed using parts of things that already existed in different ways in-world/in-universe, just assembled in an unconventional way.
In short, I'm asking "Where's the limit on this now, and can one know it without bumping into it the hard way, having gotten their hopes up only to have them dashed by it simply being too advanced for the time period?"
I'm curious about this too, especially as Engineer feels like it takes an unusual direction - Sure, we've seen steam power in the Merriwether contraptions, but not really in Engineer itself. This is doubly odd because of dragonflame tongues, which keep burning at a high heat for many years IC once made without being consumed. Despite having dragonflame available, Engineer is mostly clockwork-driven. Perhaps this is because metallurgy in Imperian is weird, owing to the old Katalyst event - All the fancy dwarven metals floating around making for long-lasting clockworks that are lighter than a steam equivalent. I doubt a steam-powered gyrocopter would fly in Imperian, for example! Though it may be technically possible.
It would be kind of weird if steam power didn't become a big thing, with the source of long-lasting super-hot fuel. Additional information regarding how Engineer impacts available materials for design submissions would be great, for stuff like rubber, metals to use, etc.


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Gilberto Alejandro Durán Díaz (El Paso, Cesar, 9 de febrer, 1919 - Montería, Còrdova, 15 de novembre, 1989), conegut com a Alejo Durán i anomenat el negre Alejo, va ser un acordioner, compositor i cantant colombià de vallenato. El 1968 va guanyar el concurs d'acordioners del primer Festival de la Llegenda Vallenata, convertint-se així en el primer Rei Vallenato.

Origen
Gilberto Alejandro Durán Díaz va néixer a Colòmbia, i era fill de Nàfer Donato Durán Mojica i Juana Francisca Díaz Villareal. Entre els seus germans figuren Luis Felipe Durán i el cantautor i acordioner Náfer Durán. El seu germà Luis Felipe va gravar un àlbum en 1949 sense gaire èxit.

Els seus ancestres provenen d'Antioquia amb Pío Durán, el seu besavi, qui era músic i interpretava el tiple, el seu fill Juan Bautista Durán Pretel i avi de Nàfer, també va ser músic, acordioner i gaiter.

El Paso és un poble situat entre els rius Cesar i Ariguaní, habitat des d'un principi per texans, agricultors i tocadors de tambor. De nen Alejandro deambulava per la sabana, treballant des dels deu anys a la finca Las Cabezas.

Carrera
Inicis
Quan tenia 23 anys, va començar a treballar com a ajudant de vaqueria en algunes finques del departament del Magdalena Grande. Allí Alejo descobreix en la veu dels texans, el to i els temes de les cançons rústiques tan aliens al que coneixia, deixant-lo captivat.

El 1943, als 26 anys, treu el vell acordió del seu oncle Octavio d'un bagul on comença a tocar-lo i fer-lo sonar d'acord amb el to de veu greu, ronca i semblant a la de la seva mare quan cantava tamboras al desembre.

Segons David Sánchez Juliao, Durán va aprendre a tocar la caixa, violina i guacharaca, l'acordió ja esmentat ho va aprendre quan ja era gran i va tenir entre els seus professors Octavio Mendoza conegut com "El negro Mendo" i Víctor Julio Silva, els germans Náfer i Luis Felipe van organitzar un grup musical i amenitzaven festes a la regió del sud de Bolívar. El seu primer disc el va gravar a Barranquilla amb els seus germans i van nomenar l'agrupació "El Conjunto de los Tres Durantes" que van gravar sota els segells discogràfics; Fuentes, Curro, Silver, C.B.S i Tropicaly. Durán va adquirir el sobrenom de "El Rei Negro del Acordeón" per part dels seus admiradors. La seva primera cançó va ser un són anomenat Las Cocas.

Durán va ser qui va extreure a l'acordió les notes més sonores i fortes, acompanyant-les amb el titubeig del cap que portava sempre embotit en un barret sabaner. La seva melodia monòtona, el seu estil pausat, la manera d'interpretar, les entonacions que sortien d'una sola filera de l'acordió, s'assemblaven als primers joglars que es van donar a la tasca de descobrir els secrets amagats dels primers instruments. La seva fama començava i llavors en El Paso ja se'n parlava, perquè els seus discos arribaven a la riba del riu.

Primer Festival de la Llegenda Vallenata
Al primer Festival de la Llegenda Vallenata (1968), organitzat al casal colonial d'Hernando Molina, es va realitzar enmig de l'escepticisme d'amics i amigues d'Alfonso López Michelsen i Consuelo Araújo Noguera, que no van creure que el certamen pogués assolir l'èxit que finalment va tenir. En una improvisada tarima de fusta es va dur a terme el Primer Concurs d'Acordioners en què en la final del qual van competir: Luis Enrique Martínez El Pollo Vallenato, Ovidio Granados Durán, Emiliano Zuleta Baquero i Alejandro Durán Díaz.

Un gran grup dels seus seguidors donava per descomptat que el Rei seria el vell Emiliano Zuleta, i sota aquest supòsit se'l van portar a celebrar anticipadament durant tota la tarda, de manera que a la nit, quan va arribar l'hora de la competència, Emiliano no va estar disponible entre els tres anomenats que se li van fer lloc perquè pugés a competir. Això va motivar la seva desqualificació i, asseguren alguns, li va aclarir el camí a Alejo Durán, que llavors no tenia el renom i la popularitat que després ho va fer famós.

Alejo va concursar amb la puya "Mi pedazo de acordeón", el són "Alicia Adorada", la merenga "Elvirita" i el passeig "La cachucha bacana". El segon lloc va ser per a Ovidio Granados i el tercer per a Luis Enrique Martínez. Van ser jurats: Rafael Escalona Martínez, Tobías Enrique Pumarejo, Gustavo Gutiérrez Cabello, Jaime Gutiérrez de Piñeres i Carlos H. Escobar.

Primer festival Rey de Reyes
El 1987, amb motiu de la vintena edició del Festival de la Llegenda Vallenata, es va resoldre l'organització d'una edició especial del festival la qual seria coneguda com a "Rey de Reyes". Hi participarien els acordioners que haguessin guanyat el festival anteriorment, amb la qual cosa s'esperava que s'oxigenés el festival de cara al públic. En aquest festival van participar joglars com Luis Enrique Martínez (rival de Durán al primer festival), Elberto López, Egidio Cuadrado, Raúl Martínez, Calixto Ochoa, Orángel Maestre, Nicolás "Colacho" Mendoza i Alejandro Durán, sent els quatre últims finalistes en aquella edició. Alfredo Gutiérrez no es va presentar al festival per al·legacions de tripijocs, opinió que era compartida per Alejo i Luis Enrique.

A la final del concurs, quan semblava segur guanyador i sent favorit absolut del públic, Alejo va equivocar l'execució dels baixos a la puja de la seva autoria "Pedazo de acordeón". Tot seguit, va aturar l'execució i, obrint els braços va dir al públic present a la plaça Alfonso López de Valledupar:  I va procedir a donar les explicacions del cas al jurat i a baixar-se de la tarima Francisco El Hombre. Posteriorment, davant de la insistència del públic, el jurat li va permetre acabar la seva actuació, però la corona va ser finalment per a Nicolás Mendoza enmig de protestes i trets d'escopeta.

Discografia

 1961 La ola del vallenato
 1964 Canto a sabanas
 1965 El rey del vallenato
 1965 Llévame
 1967 Cachucha bacana
 1968 Festival vallenato primer premio
 1968 Pedazo de acordeón
 1968 Trago gorriao
 1968 Triunfador del festival vallenato
 1969 Fuera de concurso
 1969 No fían ron
 1969 Rey negro del acordeón vallenato
 1969 Ron con limón
 1970 Alejandro Durán interpreta Escalona

 1970 El pajarito
 1970 Mi ramillete
 1970 Nuevamente
 1971 El tigre
 1971 Mas vallenatos
 1971 Sabor de fiesta
 1972 Alejandrito
 1972 El gran alejo
 1972 Rey negro del acordeón vallenato - Vol 8
 1972 Rey Negro en acordeón vallenato
 1973 1-Alejo 73
 1973 Nube viajera y otros éxitos
 1974 La luz - Rio crecido
 1975 A Santa Marta antigua
 1975 Alejo se muere de risa

 1975 El indio sinuano
 1976 El negro del acordeón
 1976 Mi dolor
 1977 El guayabo de alejo
 1977 El leñazo
 1978 Tu retrato
 1979 Maldito trago
 1980 Ya viene el vallenato
 1981 Alejandro Durán y su época de oro - Vol 2
 1982 Sabor vallenato
 1984 Mi estilo
 1985 Una voz Hecha Historia
 1986 De parranda con alejo
 1989 El maestro
 1989 Siempre

Llegat
Algunes de les seves composicions i interpretacions més destacades són Fidelina, Altos del Rosario, 039, El Mejoral, Guepajé, Pobrecito corazón, Los campanales, Este Pobre Corazón, El bautismo, El Compromiso, Los Lentes, La Puya Vallenata, Mi Folclor, Carmencita, Besito Cortao, A dónde estará Durán, El Adivino, A mi Pueblo, Qué tienen las mujeres, Las Viejas no me quieren y Ceja Encontrada. Hi canta les dones (Alicia Adorada -autoria de Juancho Polo València-, Evangelina, Elvirita, Reyita, Candy, Tast, Àngela, Cornelia, La Niña Guillo, Mayito i Cholita, entre d'altres), als amics, al paisatge i als costums de la seva terra.

En les seves interpretacions va usar interjeccions populars com "Oa!", "Hombe!", "Apa!", "Sabroooso!", i "Aaay!". On va cultivar tots els ritmes vallenatos, la puya ("Pedazo de Acordeón", entre d'altres), el passeig ("La cachucha bacana", entre d'altres), la merenga ("Maruja", entre d'altres), el son ("Joselina Daza", "Fidelina", entre d'altres) i la tambora ("La candela viva" Compositor: Heriberto Pretel).

L'any 2000, Caracol Televisión va estrenar una telenovel·la en homenatge al joglar anomenada Alejo, la búsqueda del amor..

Mort
Gilberto Alejandro Durán Díaz va morir el 15 de novembre de 1989 a Montería; dies enrere un infart de miocardi deteriorava la salut ja condicionada per la diabetis. Les seves restes reposen al cementiri Jardins d'Esperança de Planeta Rica.

Filmografia
 Alejo, la búsqueda del amor: telenovel·la basada en la vida d'Alejo Durán produïda per Caracol Televisión i protagonitzada per Moisés Angulo.

Honors
Una escultura al parc dels Joglars a Planeta Rica Córdoba. La rotonda Pedazo de acordeón de Valledupar, on convergeixen les carreres 9, 19 i el carrer 30, va ser nomenada en honor a la seva composició.   [[[11  El Festival Vallenato que es realitza anualment al municipi del Paso va ser anomenat Festival Pedazo de acordeón en honor a la composició. Una escola al municipi d'Altos del Rosario, Bolívar, porta el nom d'Alejandro Durán Díaz.

Congos d'Or
 Atorgat al estival de Orquestas del Carnaval de Barranquilla

Referències

 González Solano Víctor, Alejo Durán, el joglar immortal.

Enllaços externs

Músics colombians


The annual flushing of water mains and testing of fire hydrants began on Monday April 6, 2015 and will be concluded on June 5. The work will be scheduled from 8:00 A.M. to 3:00 P.M. We will be flushing the last of our flushing Routes (Route 9) beginning Saturday 5/30/15 and concluding on Friday, June 5, 2015. This will complete our flushing program for the year.
A list of streets included in Route 9 can be found by clicking the link below.
Please note that as a result of flushing, customers may experience periods of reduced pressure and/or discolored water. This is not harmful, however, sufficient clean water should be drawn for drinking, cooking and washing at the start of each day. We apologize for any inconvenience, however, this procedure is necessary to ensure proper operation of our fire hydrants, and to help reduce the incidence of water quality disruptions going forward.
Click here to view the week-by-week route schedule.


What is practical skepticism? Why is this important?
Your brother invested in a business to sell vitamins and herbs and wants you to join in. You could make a lot of money on these products and "they really work," he says. What do you do?
Your grandmother thinks her house is haunted and wishes to call in a paranormal investigation team she saw on the evening news broadcast. She wants to let them into her house at night to collect evidence to see if she has ghosts. What could go wrong?
Your sister-in-law decides that vaccinating her kids is dangerous and could cause autism because she hears horror stories from her friends who know people this has happened to. Their stories of potential harm scare her. Do you say nothing and assume there must be something to it?
Your spouse insists on shopping at an expensive grocery store in order to buy organic, anti-GMO, gluten-free food even though you are on a tight budget. Is it worth it?
Faced with an illness, do you choose the doctor-prescribed drugs or do you opt for alternative treatment advertised by practitioners to be safe, gentle and all natural?
Walking down the street, you are approached by a friendly woman who says she is psychic and feels you picked up a curse that is hurting your family. After noting that you've sadly been experiencing a string of "bad luck" you begin to think she might be right. What's the worst that could happen if you just give her a few bucks and some personal items to "cleanse"?
Many of your Facebook friends are passing along a story about a creepy sighting of a monstrous animal in your neighborhood and warnings to stay inside and keep a gun handy. Should you panic?
In every case, you should apply some practical skepticism and look a bit deeper into the claim instead of just going along with the original story. All the cases above should trigger a red flag because they go against the knowledge we already find reliable in the world and propose a magical or unusual outcome. If it sounds to good to be true, it probably is. If it sounds a bit too weird, you should think twice. Practical Skepticism will help you deal with these kinds of scenarios and similar, countless others.


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Foley on Microsoft
A United Microsoft: How Real Is It?
Mary Jo Foley on how Microsoft is trying to unite itself, and whether it's actually working.
By Mary Jo Foley
Inside Microsoft there's an effort to present a single technical and business image. The idea, which drives the partner- and marketing-focused One Microsoft program, is it's better for employees, customers and partners to do business with a unified company than a bunch of siloed units, each acting on its own behalf.
In the not-so-distant past, say a decade or so ago, Microsoft was anything but a single, cohesive entity.
Stories about different divisions -- or even different teams within the same division -- competing over strategies and products were legion. I can't count the number of times I asked one business unit about a technology set for launch by a sister group only to be met with a total lack of knowledge or even an outright denial that it existed.
Some 'Softies blamed the lack of cross-divisional cooperation on the U.S. Department of Justice antitrust oversight. In those days, maintaining a Chinese wall between divisions at the company was a must -- part of an attempt to show Microsoft wasn't a bullying monopoly abusing its power. But I believe the internal Microsoft infighting was more of a cultural impact than externally imposed.
These days, Chinese walls are no longer necessary. Now Microsoft's top brass is working to prove the wood is all behind one arrow. And it does seem that teams in the old days that would have nothing to do with one another are actually sharing people, insights and code where it makes sense.
One example is Metro, Microsoft's design philosophy/language at the heart of its proliferating set of tiled interfaces. The story the 'Softies tell about Metro is that one day, designers across key teams (Xbox, Zune, Windows Phone, Windows) spontaneously got together and decided they should work as a team to create a common look and feel.
Whether you buy in to that historical recounting, there's no denying that Microsoft is moving toward more compatible (or at least more common) development, deployment and maintenance stories and technologies.
The new Windows Runtime at the heart of Windows 8, known as WinRT, will probably be the crux of the Windows Phone development platform with the release of Windows Phone 8 later this year. There are rumors that the next Xbox (code-named "Durango," some say) could be based on more of a "real" Windows or MinWin core. I wouldn't be surprised to see consistent music/video services, app stores and "hub" interface models make their way across Windows Phone-based devices, Windows PCs and tablets, and the Xbox.
While the ultimate result of more unification is good for customers, partners, developers and the 'Softies themselves, there will be plenty of growing pains along the way. Partners and developers who've spent much of their careers learning the Microsoft .NET Framework, Silverlight, Windows Presentation Foundation, XNA and other Microsoft-endorsed technologies will have to learn a new set of tricks and technologies to function in the new One Microsoft world. That said, the road to unity is a long and winding one, as some Microsoft devs are quick to point out. For instance, Microsoft's new power brokers might go out of their way to avoid the "S" word, but Silverlight will continue to be a Microsoft-supported technology for 10 more years.
Bonus Links
Metro: It's Not Just an Interface; It's a Philosophy
What's on the Windows Phone 8 Feature List
Why Silverlight 6 Doesn't Really Matter
WinRT: Developers, Developers, Developers?
Mary Jo Foley is editor of the ZDNet "All About Microsoft" blog and has been covering Microsoft for about two decades. She's the author of "Microsoft 2.0" (John Wiley & Sons, 2008), which examines what's next for Microsoft in the post-Gates era.


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Diversity in Aquatics
DIA US Masters Team
DIA US Triathlon Team
IJARE
Jayson Jackson created this Ning Network.
Donate to Diversity in Aquatics
Neil Roos
Maia Dery
Leslie Andrews Booker
Frederick H. Evans
Dennis Dunn
Dr. Roni Glover
Krystal Lara is one of very few Latinas in her class at Stuyvesant High School, and in the pool. She's backstroking her way toward the Olympics.
Her Parents Thought Swimming Lessons Were a Good Idea
Nick Gabaldon day
Coach Stanley McIntosh - Community Builder
Good video about Coach Stanley McIntosh - Community Builder
http://www.wistv.com/story/28693175/midlands-swim-coach-named-latest-community-builder#.VSAbOaD4erI.email
Former Yale swimmer Siphiwe Baleka
Good video about former Yale swimmer Siphiwe Baleka
http://www.foxsports.com/video?vid=396080195760
A First, Second, and Third Place History Making Moment
American Red Cross Aquatics Examiner Opportunities Available Nationwide
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JOB ALERT! Aquatics Manager - Seattle Parks & Recreation
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AMERICAN RED CROSS JOB OPPORTUNITY
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Lifeguard Opportunities in Seattle!
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2016 Annual Convention!
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DAP Permanently part of U.S. Congressional Record
Co-Founder Shaun Anderson and Diversity in Aquatics become part of the permanent U.S. Congressional Record
Swim lessons help minority children break cycle
Posted by DAP News on May 11, 2012 at 10:30am
From CNN.com, by Lan Trinh:
Wanda Butts dropped the phone and screamed when she heard the news that her son was dead.
Josh had drowned while rafting on a lake with friends. The 16-year-old didn't know how to swim, and he wasn't wearing a life jacket.
"I couldn't believe it, I didn't want to believe it: that just like that, my son had drowned and he was gone," she said, recalling the 2006 tragedy.
Butts had worried about her son's safety when it came to street violence or driving, and she said she had always warned him of those dangers. But water accidents never crossed her mind.
"It did not occur to me that my son would drown because he didn't know water safety," she said. "Josh was never taught the basic life skill of learning how to swim."
Josh was not alone in the black community. According to USA Swimming, 70% of African-American children cannot swim, compared with nearly 60% for Hispanic children and 42% for white children. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, African-American children between the ages of 5 and 14 are three times more likely to drown than white children in the same age range.
As Butts tried to make sense of her son's tragedy, she realized she had passed her own inexperience to her son. Her father had witnessed a drowning when he was young and instilled in her a fear of water.
"So as a child, I never went around water," said Butts, 58. "I never went swimming. I didn't know anything about water or life jackets and water safety."
Because of this fear, Butts raised Josh without any exposure to water. But today, she is determined to prevent other mothers from doing the same. In 2007, she started the Josh Project, a nonprofit that provides low-cost swimming lessons for children in Toledo, Ohio.
"After losing my son, I wanted to do something to help other people, to help another mother not have to suffer the way I do every day from the loss of a child drowning," she said.
To date, the Josh Project has helped more than 1,000 children learn how to swim.
"All children are at risk of drowning, but the majority of the children that the Josh Project serves are minority children, who we have found are more at risk," Butts said.
Several cultural and historical factors can help explain why that is. One is the segregation of swimming pools during the 20th century, according to Jeff Wiltse, author of "Contested Waters: A Social History of Swimming Pools in America." Relatively few swimming pools were built to serve the black community back then, so much of a generation was denied the opportunity to swim, Wiltse told the BBC.
Also, if parents can't swim, their children are far less likely to learn how, according to a recent study conducted by the University of Memphis. The study, sponsored by USA Swimming, found that a fear of drowning and a fear of injury prevent many African-American parents from putting their children in swimming lessons. It also found that many avoid swimming for cosmetic reasons, such as the effect chlorinated water has on their hair. Do you know a hero? Nominations are open for 2012 CNN Heroes
For some families today, it's still tough to find an accessible pool.
"The public pools near our home have been closed in the past, and other places were not affordable," said Lisa Haynes, whose 14-year-old son, Joshua, is one of 60-plus students in the Josh Project this season.
The swimming lessons take place at a local high school over four Saturdays for a total cost of $10.
"I am less worried if (Joshua) is near water because he has the basics of how to swim," Haynes said. "And we're thankful for that."
Butts is doing much more, however, than just providing swimming lessons.
"She ups the awareness, and that is half the battle," said Shaun Anderson, a swimming coach who was so inspired by her story that he created a Josh Project swimming program at Norfolk State University in Virginia. "Once these communities learn how to swim, they will pass it down, which results in future generations that know how to swim."
Butts said she has two goals for the future: One is to change the drowning statistics of minority children, and the other is to have an aquatic center where the children can swim daily instead of just once a week.
"The joy on the faces of those children -- when they see that they can learn, once they get it -- they are so happy with themselves," she said. "And it's like all of them are my children. It's like I didn't lose my son." Want to get involved? Check out the Josh Project website atwww.joshproject.org and see how to help.
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Let's be honest here — being a college student is a financial struggle. Between paying tuition and Berkeley's ridiculously high rent and going out with friends, it's no wonder our bank accounts are left weeping at the end of the day. There are definitely strategies to limit the degree of emotional trauma your wallet goes through — here are just a handful of them!
With two new additions of boba shops near campus, it's not surprising that our already-existing addiction to boba has grown dramatically over the past month. Yifang Taiwan Fruit Tea has grown to be the new source of boba on campus and is located right across from Sproul Plaza. Five dollars might not seem like a lot, but if you're getting boba two to 10 times a day, it'll add up. Please contact your nearest boba addiction counselor to get help.
We know — how in the world can we say no to caffeine? It basically runs in our bloodstream, and we can't go a day without it. We're not saying "no" to all sources of caffeine but rather, to those bought at your favorite coffee shop or local convenience stores. Yes, that includes Yerba Mates! Invest in a nice coffee maker and save a few bucks a day by brewing your own coffee or tea! Or you can just sleep earlier and get rid of caffeine altogether.
Utilities can be quite pricey. To limit your use of water and electricity, try staying on campus as long as you can. Moffitt Library is open 24 hours from Mondays to Thursdays, and you can shower at the RSF to save on your utility bill. By the time you've finished "studying" at Moffitt and "working out" at the RSF, you won't even need to turn on a single light when you get home. Just hop in your bed and start another day of saving!
Coupons and discounts are everywhere — you just have to find them. Be sure to sign up for grocery club cards and websites such as Groupon and Honey to say "goodbye" to paying full price and "hello" to getting great deals for everything from clothing to fun trips out.
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New equipment for monitoring of wild species in Northern Velebit National Park
by	The Plitvice Times	5. February 2019.
The Rewilding Velebit team have provided equipment for the monitoring of wild species in the area of the National Park Northern Velebit. It is a continuation of successful and fruitful cooperation between Rewilding Velebit and Northern Velebit National Park based on a year-long cooperation agreement.
The present cooperation has been achieved in the field of education of elementary school children, raising their awareness of the natural values of Velebit as well as the biodiversity in the area. In the past year, it was also agreed to reconstruct traditional pounds in the Northern Velebit National Park area.
"Financing for the procurement of this equipment is also provided by the Rewilding Velebit project in close cooperation with Rewilding Europe and represent the realization of our common efforts to protect the original wild species in the NPNV area. The monitoring of the health status of wild species is one of the most important actions in their protection and we are therefore extremely pleased to contribute to the successful implementation of the NPNV efforts.
The data gained in this way will be used for scientific research on wild species, but also for the popularization of wilderness and original habitats of Velebit."said Davor Krmpotić, Rewilding Velebit Team leader.
Director of NPSV, Irena Glavičić Sertić, pleased said: "We recently organized a workshop called Chamois in Croatia: science for the conservation of the species in order to popularize the protection and conservation of the chamois, as well as to get acquainted with the research and professional work in the area. I have to say that this donation has been pleasantly surprise and will certainly enable us to have a better performance in our further work. With these infrared cameras, we will gather valuable information about wildlife monitoring. I hope we will continue our cooperation through the joint activities that connect us in order to gain new insight into the values of Velebit. "
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Bedford Blues are delighted to announce that ex-England international scrum half Lee Dickson is joining the club as a player/coach for the 2017/18 Championship season.
Dickson, 32, makes the move to Goldington Road having played 250 games for Northampton Saints since joining from Newcastle Falcons in 2008, with only Stephen Myler and Dylan Hartley having made more first team appearances for the Saints out of the current squad.
Speaking about the capture, Blues Director of Rugby Mike Rayer said: "To be able to sign a player of Lee's quality is a real coup for the club and everybody is excited to welcome him and his experience to Goldington Road.
"Lee could easily have stayed in the Premiership but he has a desire to progress in coaching while continuing to play and Bedford is the perfect place for him to do so. Not only does this give us a great option at number nine, but young players will learn so much from him very much like Will Chudley and Ali Price did under the tutelage of Nick Walshe a few seasons ago.
"I'm sure that the Bedford Blues faithful will be delighted with this signing which shows a clear intent from the club to push on in the Championship next season."
Dickson, who captained the Saints for the 2015/16 season, said: "The move came about because of my brother. I was thinking about what I wanted to do in the next couple of years, whether that was continue playing or having a look at other things and I was chatting with Karl who mentioned that Bedford would be the perfect fit for me.
"Karl spoke to Mike Rayer, I then had a chat and arranged to come down to talk things through and after an hour of being at the club I made my mind up.
"Northampton will always be in my heart as it is a club I've played for for nine years but this is professional rugby and you have to look to the future rather than the past. I'm looking forward to the next chapter of my life with Bedford Blues.
"Bedford play a great brand of rugby here which really suits me. We played against the Blues a few weeks ago and at times they ran us ragged so I'm really excited about being involved. There's a very talented backline at Bedford and I hope that I can pass on some of my experiences to these guys."


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Snooker: Watch Luca Brecel rack first career 147
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The Belgium Bullet makes the fifth snooker maximum of the 2017/18 snooker season.
by Chris Gaynor
27 March 2018 at 14:58 27 March 2018 at 14:58
BELGIUM'S Luca Brecel has racked his first career snooker147 in Coventry at the Ricoh Arena in the Championship League. Brecel, who has been struggling with form of late made the perfect 36 pots against four-time World Champion John Higgins. 147's have gone under the radar this season as last season there were a record number of 13. This season, Brecel follows Martin Gould, Liang Wenbo who made a 147 in the English Open, as well as Cao Yupeng and Kyren Wilson who made one in the International Championship. Maximums strangely enough seem to happen a lot in the Championship League as Mark Davis made two last season in the same non-ranking tournament.
It comes as players prepare for the penultimate ranking event before the World Championship, the China Open next month.
Key maximums
Brecel, is one of 46 players to have racked one 147 in the history of the game in the modern era. Steve Davis made the first televised 147 at the 1982 Lada Classic. Selby compiled the 100th 147 at the UK Championship and Brecel's latest addition is the 136th official maximum in the game. Ronnie O'Sullivan, who has just won his fifth ranking title of the season at the Ladbrokes Players Championship, holds the record of 13 career maximums.
How a Snooker 147 is made
A maximum consists of potting 15 reds with 15 blacks and all the colours in sequence, which consists of 36 perfect pots.
Ronnie O'Sullivan has made the fastest maximum in Snooker history of five mins and 20 seconds, Maximum prize money ranges now because of the "rolling prize" sequence now in snooker meaning that if a 147 is not made in a ranking tournament, the prize money rolls over.
In the ranking event for the China Open, the prize for a perfect break stands at £35,000.
Brecel, apparently gets just £500 for the Championship League highest break in Groups 1 - 7. In the winner's group of the Championship League, the highest break increases by £500 to £1000.
How many 146s have been made?
146 breaks are quite rare in snooker, but there's been according to the excellent stats site CueTracker, 19 146 breaks with Ronnie O'Sullivan making the most with three.
Masters Champion Mark Allen and Stephen Hendry have two 146s. In fact, 7 of the 15 players to have made the rare 146 have been World Champions.
The Championship League concludes this week with the winner also with a great chance to qualify for the Champion of Champions later on in the year. The League is in the second section of qualifying events that enable a player to go to the Ricoh later on as a Champion.
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Gold prices held most of yesterday's 1.0% jump against the Dollar and touched new 3-week highs for Euro investors on Tuesday, trading higher as crude oil rose and Saudi Arabia accused Iran of "direct military aggression" tantamount to a declaration of war.
Wall Street's S&P500 index of US stocks ended Monday with its 11th new record closing high in a month.
Crude oil spiked Tuesday to new 2.5-year highs, while Arabian stock markets fell hard — down over 3% — as news broke of further detentions and sanctions against senior Saudi figures by new crown prince Mohammed Bin Salman.
"We expected to some interest in gold following the close above $1280," says one Asian trading desk in a gold price note, "[but] Chinese selling appears to be capping the market."
"Stocks are at record highs, so you don't need gold," says George Gero at the wealth management division of Canada's RBC.
"Gold will turn around when equities start to correct."
Comex gold futures and options have over the last 6 weeks seen their longest streak of speculative liquidation since Donald Trump won the US presidency this time last year, according to positioning data compiled by US regulators the CFTC.
Touching $64 per barrel overnight, Brent crude oil today reached its most expensive value against gold bullion since July 2015 at 20 barrels per ounce.
"The involvement of Iran in supplying missiles to the [Yemen rebel] Houthis is a direct military aggression," the Saudi news agency last night quoted Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, adding that yesterday's missile launch "may [therefore] be considered an act of war against the Kingdom."
After a helicopter crash killed a senior Saudi prince yesterday, a Saudi Royal Court release today mourned without explanation the death of 44-year old Prince Aziz, youngest son of King Fahd, who had reportedly been arrested in Sunday's purge.
Asian stock markets rose and European equities held flat as bond yields edged lower.
Gold prices traded at $1277 per ounce and touched EUR1105 as the start of US trading approached.
"Brent crude is reclaiming the decadal trend line," says a technical note from analysts at French investment bank Societe Generale, "extending its up move [and] finally crossing beyond [that] upward trend line drawn since 1998."
This "breakout" has also seen bullish betting by speculative traders jump to a 6-year high, SocGen notes, supporting the new "upside momentum" in energy costs.
New data from China's central bank meantime said Tuesday that it failed to grow the country's national gold reserves for the 12th month in succession, even as total FX reserves rose for the 9th month running to reach $3.1 trillion.
No.2 gold consumer nation India has seen household demand for the metal fall 25% since last November's shock demonetization of larger bank notes, the Economic Times reports today, citing a trade association estimate.
Stockmarket-listed jewelry giant Titan Co, in contrast, expects its sales to show a 25% rise this financial year, driven by demonetization and other anti-black market measures hitting India's smaller, informal and traditional family-run artisan jewelers.


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package org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode;

import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Iterator;

import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem;
import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSTestUtil;
import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.MiniDFSCluster;
import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.MiniDFSCluster.DataNodeProperties;
import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.Block;
import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.NumberReplicas;

import junit.framework.TestCase;

/**
 * Test if live nodes count per node is correct
 * so NN makes right decision for under/over-replicated blocks
 */
public class TestNodeCount extends TestCase {
  public void testNodeCount() throws Exception {
    // start a mini dfs cluster of 2 nodes
    final Configuration conf = new Configuration();
    final short REPLICATION_FACTOR = (short)2;
    final MiniDFSCluster cluster =
      new MiniDFSCluster(conf, REPLICATION_FACTOR, true, null);
    try {
      final FSNamesystem namesystem = cluster.getNamesystem();
      final FileSystem fs = cluster.getFileSystem();

      // populate the cluster with a one block file
      final Path FILE_PATH = new Path("/testfile");
      DFSTestUtil.createFile(fs, FILE_PATH, 1L, REPLICATION_FACTOR, 1L);
      DFSTestUtil.waitReplication(fs, FILE_PATH, REPLICATION_FACTOR);
      Block block = DFSTestUtil.getFirstBlock(fs, FILE_PATH);

      // keep a copy of all datanode descriptor
      DatanodeDescriptor[] datanodes =
         namesystem.heartbeats.toArray(new DatanodeDescriptor[REPLICATION_FACTOR]);

      // start two new nodes
      cluster.startDataNodes(conf, 2, true, null, null);
      cluster.waitActive();

      // bring down first datanode
      DatanodeDescriptor datanode = datanodes[0];
      DataNodeProperties dnprop = cluster.stopDataNode(datanode.getName());
      // make sure that NN detects that the datanode is down
      synchronized (namesystem.heartbeats) {
        datanode.setLastUpdate(0); // mark it dead
        namesystem.heartbeatCheck();
      }
      // the block will be replicated
      DFSTestUtil.waitReplication(fs, FILE_PATH, REPLICATION_FACTOR);

      // restart the first datanode
      cluster.restartDataNode(dnprop);
      cluster.waitActive();

      // check if excessive replica is detected
      NumberReplicas num = null;
      do {
       synchronized (namesystem) {
         num = namesystem.blockManager.countNodes(block);
       }
      } while (num.excessReplicas() == 0);

      // find out a non-excess node
      Iterator<DatanodeDescriptor> iter = namesystem.blockManager.blocksMap.nodeIterator(block);
      DatanodeDescriptor nonExcessDN = null;
      while (iter.hasNext()) {
        DatanodeDescriptor dn = iter.next();
        Collection<Block> blocks = namesystem.blockManager.excessReplicateMap.get(dn.getStorageID());
        if (blocks == null || !blocks.contains(block) ) {
          nonExcessDN = dn;
          break;
        }
      }
      assertTrue(nonExcessDN!=null);

      // bring down non excessive datanode
      dnprop = cluster.stopDataNode(nonExcessDN.getName());
      // make sure that NN detects that the datanode is down
      synchronized (namesystem.heartbeats) {
        nonExcessDN.setLastUpdate(0); // mark it dead
        namesystem.heartbeatCheck();
      }

      // The block should be replicated
      do {
        num = namesystem.blockManager.countNodes(block);
      } while (num.liveReplicas() != REPLICATION_FACTOR);

      // restart the first datanode
      cluster.restartDataNode(dnprop);
      cluster.waitActive();

      // check if excessive replica is detected
      do {
       num = namesystem.blockManager.countNodes(block);
      } while (num.excessReplicas() != 2);
    } finally {
      cluster.shutdown();
    }
  }
}

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Q: deleting a record in linq to sql (vb.net) what is wrong with my code? I am getting the correct Employee Id in the VarEmpID variable. When I click on delete
It is giving me
Unable to cast object of type 'System.Data.Linq.DataQuery`1[my name space]' to type 'namespace'.
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    Protected Sub radGrid1_DeleteCommand(ByVal source As Object, ByVal e As  GridCommandEventArgs) Handles radGrid1.DeleteCommand

          Dim VarEmpId As String = (CType(e.Item, GridDataItem)).OwnerTableView.DataKeyValues(e.Item.ItemIndex)("EmpId").ToString()

          Using dc1 As New EmployeesDataClassesDataContext()

            Dim EmployeeEntry = (From p In dc1.Employees
            Where (p.EmpId = VarEmpId)
                                Select p)

            dc1.Employees.DeleteOnSubmit(EmployeeEntry)
            dc1.SubmitChanges()

            Dim queryResults = (From queryItem In EmployeeEntry Select queryItem).ToList()
            If queryResults.Any Then
                radGrid1.DataSource = queryResults
                radGrid1.DataBind()
            End If

        End Using

    End Sub

A: dc1.Employees.DeleteOnSubmit(EmployeeEntry)

That method expects an Employee instance.  Instead, you passed in an employee query.
Dim EmployeeEntry = ( query )

This is a query, not an entry.  Consider calling Enumerable.First to get the first result of the query, and then deleting that.

A: Modified added Dim EmployeeEntry = (From p In dc1.Employees Where (p.EmpId = VarEmpId) Select p).singleorDefault() After that commented out the queryresults part and binded data again it solved my problem. – SmilingLily

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Cort has announced the latest addition to its metal-focused KX series, the KX257B baritone seven-string.
Promising tones to please "the most discerning of metalheads", the KX257B packs a pair of EMG RetroActive Super 77 humbuckers, controlled via a three-way toggle and single volume and tone.
The guitar itself boasts a 27-inch baritone scale length for improved tuning stability in combination with a strings-through-body hardtail bridge, while the matte black-finished mahogany body is attached to a hard-maple neck with jatoba fingerboard.
The KX257B is available soon for an impressive $599. Head over to Cort Guitars for more info.


As the rest of Northern Colorado becomes more and more city-like, Johnstown and Milliken maintain the tranquility and beauty that are such vital parts of rural life.
School District RE-5J services Johnstown and Milliken, where there are two elementary schools, one middle school and one high school. The student to teacher ratio in School District RE-5J is 15:1 and the average ACT score is 21.3. Higher education options are ample in Northern Colorado, including the University of Northern Colorado, Aims Community College (both in Greeley) and Colorado State University and Front Range Community College (in Fort Collins).
Johnstown has seven public parks. It offers a variety of recreational opportunities for it's young residents, such as Little League football and youth league basketball and baseball. And, like the rest of the region, the proximity to the Rocky Mountains offers endless outdoor adventure activities including skiing, hiking, fishing and boating.
Being located near both Fort Collins and Greeley offers residents of Johnstown and Milliken the advantage of choice in health care. Banner Health's North Colorado Medical Center in Greeley and McKee Medical Center in Loveland and University of Colorado Health's Medical Center of the Rockies in Loveland and Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins are well-respected facilities.
Johnstown and neighboring Milliken are surrounded by abundant farmland, which provides the area's largest source of income. Hall-Irwin in Milliken is a full-service construction management firm, Uniscope in Johnstown is a producer of specialty agricultural products. However, given the low housing prices, bucolic and friendly setting, many settle here but commute to the larger surrounding communities such as Greeley, Loveland, Fort Collins or Denver for work.


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Man shot at SEPTA's Frankford Transportation Center
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Police said a man was shot at a SEPTA station in the city's Frankford section late Thursday.
It happened just before midnight at Frankford Avenue and Pratt Street where the buses are parked.
When officers arrived they found 12 spent shell casings but little else.
Victim speaks out after being attacked by mob of teens in Center City
"Police arrived on location they initially found a crime scene but initially did not find the victim," said Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small.
Police soon learned that a 19-year-old man walked into Frankford Hospital with multiple gunshot wounds.
He is listed in critical condition but is expected to survive.
Police are hoping that a number of cameras in the area will point them to the shooter.
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Sometimes things can get lost in translation. For example, watch what happens when this Swedish magician does a magic trick using a yellow "bandana". This guy is hilarious. While there's obviously a comedy aspect to his act, the trick itself is pretty good too. I'd love to see more from this guy.


Making Magazines explores practical and theoretical aspects of contemporary magazine culture. Students work in small groups to conceive, plan, write and design a small 'dummy' (prototype) magazine using InDesign software. The unit emphasises writing, editing and design rather than marketing, although students will learn the importance of producing a magazine for the commercial media landscape.


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One of the most successful live albums of all-time, 'Serious Hits… Live!' was released in 1990. It debuted at #2 as it commenced a three-month run in the Top 10 and soon reached 4 x Platinum status in recognition of 1.2 million domestic sales. The album was recorded at various stadium and arena shows throughout his seven-month Seriously, Live! World Tour. It includes performances of many of his huge hits including 'In The Air Tonight', 'You Can't Hurry Love', 'Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)', 'Easy Lover' (with Philip Bailey) and 'Another Day In Paradise'.
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