It is a whole new start. A friend sent me an invitation and said that I might enjoy writing here. Here is some general information about me. I love to learn new things. I often try things that don't work out, still I believe that as soon as you stop trying new things, you stop living. I am not quite ready for that! Today I went to a meditation class. I thought it would be easy. Apparently clearing my mind is not something that is easy for me. I got distracted. The poor instructor kept saying "Are you breathing correctly?" Under my breath I said "any breathing is good. Let's not complain until I stop breathing. You can only say in through the nose and out through the mouth in your mind so many times without getting distracted! So I am open for advice, friendship and fun. If you know anything that will help me be better at this meditation thing I am ready to take your advice!
It is a whole new start. A friend sent me an invitation and said that I might enjoy writing here. Here is some general information about me. I love to learn new things. I often try things that don't work out, still I believe that as soon as you stop trying new things, you stop living. I am not quite ready for that!
Today I went to a meditation class. I thought it would be easy. Apparently clearing my mind is not something that is easy for me. I got distracted. The poor instructor kept saying "Are you breathing correctly?" Under my breath I said "any breathing is good. Let's not complain until I stop breathing. You can only say in through the nose and out through the mouth in your mind so many times without getting distracted!
So I am open for advice, friendship and fun. If you know anything that will help me be better at this meditation thing I am ready to take your advice!


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Santa's Helpers series: His numbers are legion, this Christmas figure and personality so familiar to young and old — merry, red-suited, white-bearded, bearing gifts, and ho-ho-hoing — but his intention
Santa's Helpers: Santa of the Long Leaf Pine
Cliff Snider — aka Cliff Kringle — just wants to be the best Santa he can be.
by Susan Stafford Kelly
Santa's Helpers series: His numbers are legion, this Christmas figure and personality so familiar to young and old — merry, red-suited, white-bearded, bearing gifts, and ho-ho-hoing — but his intention is single-minded and, for these North Carolina Santa Clauses, single-hearted. They know their actual identities don't matter, as long as they embody the true spirit of Christmas. Join us as we share the stories of eight North Carolina Santa's Helpers.
Cliff Snider, High Point
Be they Greek myths or Cherokee creation tales or Santa Claus beginnings, origin stories are important, and occasionally lifechanging. In 1962, when Cliff Snider was 15, his High Point Sunday school class was delivering toys to a mission. By his own admission, Snider was "the fattest kid in the class," so he put on a crummy wig and beard, and an old, rented, red corduroy Santa suit, and hefted a cut cedar tree over one shoulder. "Those kids didn't care; they felt like Santa had come to see them." Snider's father had died in a horrific car accident, and "it was like God tapped me on the shoulder and said, 'I know you have a broken heart, Cliff, but this is what I'm sending your way.' "
Snider, who went on to become a salesman with a Greensboro printing company, didn't go to professional Santa school until more than 30 years later, in 1995. Only 10 new students were accepted every year, and one of the requirements for entrance was an essay, a tradition instituted in 1937 by one of the original Macy's Santas, who believed that Santa Claus should be a man of character, not just someone who puts on a red suit. Snider was accepted, but once at school, he was intimidated by "some of the most beautiful Santas I'd ever seen." But when he received his diploma, another Santa told Snider, "Don't worry about anyone else, just be the best Santa that you can be in High Point. That's all you have to worry about."
"And that," Snider says, "is the best advice that he could have given me."
Today, Snider — or Cliff Kringle, as he's better known — still classifies himself as "heavy," but he admits that his weight fluctuates, so "if someone says Santa's looking thin, I know I need to eat." He keeps a year-round Santa beard and has eight Santa suits and two robes. One is trimmed in raccoon fur. Another is made from a crazy quilt sewn by his grandmother and greatgrandmother. And after the terrorist attacks of September 11, he added a patriotic-themed suit.
In 2012, Snider's peers nominated him for the Order of the Long Leaf Pine. To receive this distinguished honor requires an individual to have served his community and North Carolina through exemplary service. The grieving adolescent from so many decades ago has served God, and North Carolina, faithfully — and merrily, as well.
Next – Ron Campbell: Kringle at Law
Susan Stafford Kelly
Susan Stafford Kelly was raised in Rutherfordton. She attended UNC-Chapel Hill and earned a Master of Fine Arts from Warren Wilson College. She is the author of Carolina Classics, a collection of essays that have appeared in Our State, and five novels: How Close We Come, Even Now, The Last of Something, Now You Know, and By Accident. Susan has three grown children and lives in Greensboro with her husband, Sterling.
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Sweetpea Pantry make a variety of packet mixes with 3 of them being gluten free. We love a good brownie and their packet mix is slightly different to others, their mix is made from teff and flaxseed which gives its that extra dimension of taste when you bite into it.
They are also a little different because the mix is made from nothing artificial with no added sugar. A lot of packet mixes are packed with sugar and additives but this one is set apart from the rest by being made from natural ingredients. Plus it is high in fibre too!
The mix was super simple to make too, just add some eggs, honey or golden syrup and some margarine (or dairy free alternative),mix and whack in the oven. The smell was delicious as it was baking however don't remove from the tin straight after cooking, it will fall apart, as my over eager self found out!
Still warm it was lovely and moist, I did cook it longer for a more cakey consistency which I got round the edges but the middle was lovely soft, almost runny, it would have been amazing with some custard. I prefer it more cakey than really sticky so stuck more with the edges and honestly thought it tasted really good.
The texture of the flaxseed really came through in the cakiness with a slight, almost gritty texture, certainly wasn't an unpleasant grittiness though, it added a different dimension to the flavour and texture which you wouldn't get with any other packet mix.
Overall I really enjoyed this brownie, it is a mix I would certainly use again, brownie is a common sweet product when it comes to gluten free but this one was different from all others I have had, just that slight change in texture and flavour makes all the difference, it can easily make something that's usually boring, more interesting.


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Class of 1988 Reunion will be the weekend of October 10, 2008 which is Homecoming weekend at Beebe.
We finally have the final details for our reunion.
On Friday the 10th we've planned a tailgate party at the high school before the football game. There will be food and drinks provided & kids are welcome. We should be able to start around 5:00.
The cost for the reunion is $30 per person with no extra cost for children Friday night. The Wyndham requires payment several months before the reunion so we need payment from you as soon as possible. We have set up a account with Bank of the Ozarks in Little Rock to hold the money as people pay. There are two signers on the account and will be monitored online.
We will email a receipt when we get your check and you'll also have your returned check as proof of payment.
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Trump transition team turmoil may torpedo market rally Inventory investors guess on lobbyists and failed policiesPresident-elect Donald Trump is running probably the most incoherent presidential transition in reminiscence, and that ought to provide the stock market pause, writes Tim Mullaney.
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After 9 hours and 300 hands of final table action, Matt Juttelstad defeated Gigi Gagne heads-up to become the champion of the WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida. Gagne, who started the evening as the chip leader, made a valiant effort trying to become the first female poker player to win a WPT open title. Despite her initial lead, she faced a significant setback early on as she lost a big pot to Keith Ferrera as they went all-in on the flop with Gagne holding two-pair vs Ferrera's top pair. The turn brought bad news for Gagne as Ferrera spiked a bigger two pair and doubled up.
Ferrera would nonetheless be the first to exit the final table as he went all-in preflop with QJs against Juttelstad's 99. The board gave Ferrera a pair of jacks, but alas a river 9 giving Juttelstad a set meant Ferrera would bust out in 6th place. 100 hands later, Todd Jacobsen was the next to be eliminated with TT, losing out to Sharon Levin's A4s. Levin was shortly afterwards eliminated by Gagne.
The remaining three then tightened up with Uri Kadosh, Gagne and Juttelstad relatively even in chips. Kadosh would be the next to be knocked out as his resteal attempt from the big blind was called by Juttelstad on the button, who had raised with AJo. Kadosh was dominated as he flipped up J8o and the board did not help him as he exited in 3rd place, cashing out $105,463.
As heads up action began, Juttelstad had a sizeable advantage with about 7 million chips to Gagne's 2 million. Gagne finished as the runner-up as she pushed in the rest of her chips on the turn having made a wheel with T4o on a 2-3-5-A board, but the Ace turned out to be the worst possible turn card for her as Juttelstad turned over 64o for the flopped nut straight. As Mike Sexton put it in his live commentary, the Ace was the "dream card" for Juttelstad. Only a 6 on the river would have resulted in a split pot, but Juttelstad's hand held up to give him the title.
Juttelstad won $268,444 for his first live tournament title plus a $25,500 seat into the WPT Championship event at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. Although Gagne could not make history by winning this tournament, she has tied Kathy Liebert and J.J. Liu for the best finish for a woman in an open WPT Main Event.
Other notable players who cashed include Harrison Gimbel (9th: $17,258), Christian Harder (13th: $11,505), Raj Vorha (15th: $11,505), Noah Schwartz (18th, $10,067), and Darryl Fish (23rd: $8,629). There were 27 players who finished in the money who took their share of a $958,750 prize pool.


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Hello, all! I've been keeping up with my pledge for Me-Made-May'14; wearing, and drawing, and working on some sweater. You can see some of my sketches and sweater progress on Flickr. I think it's fun to check out the whole MMM'14 group and see what everyone is wearing.


Oakland and Alameda County will be paying more than $1 million and reform their crowding control policies to settle a lawsuit that was filled by 150 people who were arrested and held for hours after protesting the sentence given to the BART police officer who fatally shot Oscar Grant in 2009.
The federal class-action suit accused Oakland police of violating their own policies by failing to order demonstrators to disperse before arresting them on suspicion of unlawful assembly on November 5, 2010, in east of Lake Merritt. Rather than being cited and then being released for a misdemeanor offense, protesters said they were held in the sheriff's department busses for hours while handcuffed, leading some people to urinate on the floor or themselves. Demonstrators were also held overnight in crowded jail cells as the result of deputies being overwhelmed by the number of arrestees.
On Monday the tentative $1.0025 million settlement was announced which is expected to be finalized in September after approval by the individual plaintiffs. Alameda County has agreed to pay $175, 000. The deal will also require the agencies to adopt policies for the "expeditious citation and release" of those arrested for low-level misdemeanors.
Rachel Lederman, an attorney for the National Lawyers Guild in San Francisco filed the law suit that was recently settled. She hoped the agreement would allow for First Amendment expression in Oakland. Lederman said that officers have repeatedly violated department procedures that were adopted in 2004 after a rally against the Iraq War occurred outside the Port of Oakland. In the 2003 protest officers fired nonlethal projectiles at protestors including wooden bullets, grenades and beanbags.
Oakland police were criticized by a court-appointed independent monitor for their response to Occupy Oakland protest in fall 2011, where officers fired nonlethal munitions at demonstrators. Back in January 2012, 409 people were unlawfully arrested after law-enforcement officers surrounded them without a dispersal order outside the YMCA on Broadway in Oakland, which was a separate lawsuit filed by eight Occupy Oakland protestors that is still pending.
Police Chief Howard Jordan said he had ordered major reforms in how police should deal with large crowds such as having smaller groups of officers go into crowds to weed out protestors. Lederman said the settlement ensures federal court enforcement of the department's crowd-control policy for up to seven years.
Protestors were rallying together against the two-year sentence a Los Angeles judge handed down the day to former BART Officer Johannes Mehserle for fatally shooting Grant in 2009. The day of the arrest demonstrators tried to march to BART's Fruitvale Station, where Grant was killed, but were stopped by police officers. The plaintiffs have mentioned that police wrongfully arrested everyone present including legal observers.


As some of you know (from my Facebook posts), Madi and I are back at Phoenix Children's Hospital. We are going on our second night here, though it looks like we will be sprung tomorrow... woooo hoooo!
On Wednesday we had a normal day. Madi had a little dance recital and was glowing. She did so great! Conner had Karate and was given a red stripe on his white belt, and couldn't be more excited! We didn't know he was getting one and we are so proud of him! Ramya had a good day and was enjoying watching Conner and Madi and being with family. It was a wonderful day.... until dinner time came. About half way through her dinner, Madi stopped eating and started looking a little ashen. She started throwing up and told me her stomach hurt. Madi throws up during eating fairly often, so it was nothing new to us. She and Ramya were fighting over a little plastic bird earlier that evening, and Madi was crying and upset that Ramya wouldn't give her the little bird, so I figured the crying upset her little tummy and that was why she was throwing up. She stopped throwing up, but looked like she didn't feel well. She was talking to me normally, responding normally, but just didn't look quite right. She also didn't want her brownie, so that tells you something was very wrong ;). She started throwing up again, and just kept going. At first she didn't want out of her special tomato chair (she was sitting and eating next to me), but she kept throwing up, so I took her out, sat on the floor with her (so that if she threw up, we were still on the tile), and held her. I started noticing she was spacing out and looking off to the right. I told David something didn't look right and told him to get her rescue med. He went to get it, and by the time he got back, the repetitive twitching had started. I gave her one dose, and she started to come back a bit, but still wasn't looking quite right. We called 911 to have them come evaluate her. They came and asked a bunch of questions, started assessing her, and then the seizing started again. They watched her for a bit and were trying to get an IV in (thank God they were able to get it in her little foot. I'm so thankful she doesn't feel it there so it can't hurt her!!). I asked if I should give another dose of the rescue meds and they said yes, so I gave another. She seemed to come out of it a bit, but she had never seized twice in a row before, had never seized other than coming in or out of sleep before, and she had never not responded to the first dose of rescue meds before, so we loaded up in the ambulance to bring her in and have her evaluated. On the way to the hospital, she started seizing again. They gave her verset in her IV, and shortly after, she was completely knocked out, but wasn't seizing anymore. Because we had just checked her shunt on Friday, they didn't feel the need to do xrays and a CT scan again, but neurology wanted us to stay for another EEG and observation, so they admitted us.
The only thing they can see that may have caused Wednesday nights events is that Madi's urine sample from Friday had grown e-coli. This isn't surprising at all, since Madi is cathed 4 times a day and always has some bacteria in her system and e-coli is the most common and least concerning. She also has renal reflux, which compounds everything. She is on a prophylactic antibiotic because of it as well, to try and keep UTIs away. Usually, the urologist only worries if she is showing signs of a UTI. Her urine is clear, though, she's not throwing up unless she's seizing, she's had no fevers, I haven't seen her dumping white blood cells, there is no smell to her urine, her appetite is good, and she has no symptoms of a UTI. With the culture that grew, though, the numbers were higher than they like to see, even with it being unsymptomatic. They decided to treat the bacteria/UTI because if it is causing her seizure threshold to lower, then it's absolutely worth treating. I'm praying that is what was causing her body to go haywire and that, once treated, the seizures will stop. I told the neurologist that Madi had never seized during the day like that before, and never not responded to her medication like that before, and basically he said seizures can change and it's not unusual for things like this to happen.
Madi just got her second dose of IV antibiotics. They want to observe her through tonight, but think we will be able to go home tomorrow. They are upping her doses of daily and rescue seizure meds in hopes that the higher dose will help keep the seizures away as well. She was on a very conservative dose, and still has some more room to increase if we need.
Conner and Ramya both cried when Madi and I left via ambulance again. I feel sad that I have to be away from them. Between the India trip, the extra doctor's appointments, and the trip in last Friday, it's just been a lot for them and their little hearts. When I was talking to Ramya on the phone last night, she told me she was sad and wanted me to rock her. I made sure to tell her that daddy is really good at rocking too :). Today she and Conner came down to visit. The hospital is still on RSV restrictions, so they couldn't come up, but David and I switched spots so I could spend some time with them. It seemed to help (well, that and a pack of Scooby Do fruit snacks too ;)).
I'm exhausted from about 3 hours of sleep last night, and I'm feeling a little sad and nervous about what happened on Wednesday night. I'm trying to dwell on the positive, though, so I thought I'd post some things I am thankful for.
1) I am thankful for family who comes to help out. For my mom who helped with Conner and Madi today, and then came down to the hospital to visit with us. Also, for my sister-in-law who came to visit and brought Madi a cute little green tu-tu and green and pink monster stuffed animal.
5) For reasonably priced food at the hospital that tastes pretty good too. Also, of course, for the Starbucks here in the hospital!! I didn't eat anything or get coffee until about 2pm, when my mom came with my wallet, so that Starbucks was like mana from Heaven right about then :).
6) For amazing doctors that care about Madi and make sure to come check in with us, even when they don't "have to".
7) That the paramedics now know exactly where our house is and don't get lost any more ;).
8) For good friends who love us, pray for us, and even brighten our day with little gifts.
9) For facetime and Yahoo Instant Messenger, helping us feel more connected, even during our times away.
10) For my faith and hope in God, because no matter how hard things feel, I know everything will be ok. I may feel like things are out of control, but I rest assured knowing that God is always in control.
Tomorrow Ramya has a urology appointment at 1:00 at PCH for a urodynamics test and an appointment with the urologist. The hospital said they will most likely be able to get us out in time for her appointment, so the plan is for my mom to bring Ramya down and for Madi and I to go right over with her. It will be another busy day, but then we will be home again as a family, and most of Ramya's initial tests and appointments will be behind us for the time being. That is sweet music to this tired momma's ears!
Jamie, no one would ever know just seeing your family on Sundays just how complicated your life is. You do it so well! So glad to hear Madi is improving and you'll be home soon. Continued prayers for you all.


This pocketfold invitation was inspired by our art director, Ailbhe's own 'toile de Jouy' wedding invitation. Elizabeth told Ailbhe all the details of the couples dreamy love story which was then used as the base for her illustrations. Some of these included their first meeting when they were both studying in Donegal, exploring Knock and their love of Celtic Irish traditions.
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After the Human Rights Council's session that will review Ukraine's human rights record (streamed online from 9am at http://www.un.org/webcast/unhrc/) and just 4 days before the elections in Ukraine, this press conference will focus on the regime's persecution of Yulia Tymoshenko – leader of the Orange Revolution and the only woman to have risen to Prime Ministerial office in former Soviet states.
Her daughter Eugenia will describe – as a first hand witness – the brutal treatment of her mother. Geoffrey Robertson QC, formerly a « distinguished jurist » member of the UN's Internal Justice Council and first President of Sierra Leone war crimes court will explain how she was convicted by puppet judges after a show-trial. Sergei Vlasenko, her trial lawyer, will tell of the impossibility of fair trial in Ukraine's politicised courts and Amal Alamuddin, a former senior prosecutor for the UN-sponsored tribunal for Lebanon and a member of the UN's peace mission for Syria, will expose the prosecutorial malpractice in the cases against Ms Tymoshenko.
How can Ukraine be allowed to remain in the Council of Europe when it flouts the fundamentals of democracy ? After short addresses, questions will be invited and interviews may be arranged.


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This interdisciplinary course is designed for well-qualified graduates who wish to extend their interest in medieval studies. The flexible structure of the course allows students to construct their degree around their particular areas of interest, while acquiring both the technical expertise to investigate primary medieval documents and an insight into the complexities of medieval culture generally. Students will have the opportunity to be taught not only by Trinity staff but also by visiting lecturers from other internationally renowned institutions.
Research Methodology; Medieval Thought; Medieval Culture and Society; and a language chosen from the following: Latin (Elementary or Intermediate), Old English, Middle English, Old French, Old Irish. It may also be possible to arrange for students to take courses in other relevant languages, such as Italian.
Two options are also chosen, subject to availability. Currently, the modules include: Medieval Translation: Theory and Practice; Medieval Manuscripts; Medieval Sexualities and the Body; Old English Heroic Poetry; Late Medieval French Poetry; Arthurian Heroes and the Making of History; Dreamers and Mystics in Medieval Literature.


The packaging follows the standard Mezco One:12 box presentation look. The packaging is well done and keeps everything separated with a window box. Inside the package are multiple trays to hold the figure and all of its accessories it comes with.
If you like figures with great articulation and detail then Mezco is making the perfect figures for you. Punisher is highly detailed from top to bottom, and packs a lot of punch for its price. The body is well made and provides plenty of poses and looks for you to choose from. I personally love the screaming portrait he comes with as it looks identical to a lot of the comics I read as a kid. His skull armor is highly detailed, hands provide a lot of variation for holding weapons, and all of his parts can easily be swapped.
I love the Punisher, he is my favorite comic book character, and this figure lives up to the love I have for him. He has all of the distinct looks, an arsenal of weapons, and plenty of articulation to get every pose I am going for. I already have the Batman and many versions of Mezco's Judge Dredd, but Punisher has become my favorite Mezco figure to date.
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On Tuesday, Xi Jinping becomes the first Chinese leader to address the World Economic Forum in the swish Swiss Alpine resort of Davos. The thrust of his speech will be "inclusive globalization," Chinese officials have revealed, in a none-too-subtle reply to the neo-protectionism advocated by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, whose inauguration takes place in three days.
To recap, that's the leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) standing before 3,000 of the richest and most influential capitalists on earth to preach global free trade and combating climate change to the incoming leader of world's largest economy, whose insular campaign focused on import tariffs, withdrawing America from trade blocs like NAFTA and burning more coal.
But there is a subtler irony about Xi's appearance: China's record on free trade is actually pretty poor. Large sections of the Chinese economy are closed off to foreign trade, its leviathan state-owned enterprises (SOEs) enjoy such preferential treatment to render competition meaningless, and intellectual property theft is rife among Chinese firms. Moreover, the landscape for foreign investment is deteriorating, with larger subsidies for SOEs and draconian national-security rules, like last November's cybersecurity law, throwing up additional barriers for foreign firms. And all the while China demands — and largely gets — unfettered access into other nations' markets.
"I am all in favor of an adjustment of the U.S.-China economic platform," says Derek Scissors, chief economist of data-analytics firm China Beige Book International. "I don't think they are a good economic partner," he says of China.
All this has contributed to the swell of support for Trump, who has repeatedly accused China of being a currency manipulator and employing predatory trade practices. His campaign was predicated on the, albeit specious, claim that the U.S-China trade deficit — $367 billion in 2015, though falling — is costing America jobs. While few economists agree with this assessment, nor that lower GDP directly spurs higher unemployment, it's undeniable that the übernationalist Chinese leadership isn't playing very fair.
Of course, China's economy has its own problems. Exports shrank 6.1% to $209.4 billion in December compared with the same month the year before, according to customs data posted Friday — the eighth consecutive monthly fall. Trade in general is suffering, with combined imports and exports contracting 6.8% last year. "If you look at inventories, you look at new orders, you look at cash flow, we see clear evidence that China will not sustain [its current] performance," says Scissors.
But more pressing for China is its balance of payment woes. A lot of money is leaving the country, and although China can weather considerable gross capital outflow because it has by far the world's biggest trade surplus, once you start eating into that trade surplus then real dangers crop up.
Nevertheless, Trump's trade team is stacked with China hawks, including Peter Navarro, an economics professor and author of Death by China, and Robert Lighthizer, a deputy trade representative during the Reagan Administration and another advocate of tariffs on U.S. imports. The real estate mogul has also irked China by repeatedly questioning Taiwan's status and challenging its building of artificial islands in the South China Sea.
Trump's rise couldn't come at a worse time for Xi, with 2017 heralding the 19th five-yearly National Congress of the CCP. During this seminal political meeting more than half of the Politburo Standing Committee — the nation's apex political body — is expected to be replaced. The next generation of leaders will be anointed and the party's ideological direction redefined. An internecine trade war with the U.S. would be a black mark for Xi just when he needs to be squeaky clean to assert his authority to the maximum.
To avoid that, Xi can start by reforming some of the unfair practices in the Chinese economy, giving foreign firms a more level playing field. He can also encourage Chinese investment in the U.S. that brings about the kind of low-skilled manufacturing jobs that Trump vowed to bring home. Trump supporters may be misguided in thinking that curbing free trade will solve all their problems, but their concerns are still very real. Xi can safeguard his country's economy, thereby his own political ambitions, by making China a better country with which to do business.


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Man jailed for drugs offences had Class A drugs hidden in his underpants
Lee Marr, 29, of no fixed abode, was jailed for more than five years after pleading guilty to possession with intent to supply Class A drugs
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Lee Marr, 29, of no fixed abode, was jailed following a police operation in Crewe (Image: Cheshire Police)
A Liverpool man who hid £900 worth of Class A drugs in his underpants has been jailed for more than five years.
Lee Marr, 29, of no fixed abode, was jailed at Chester Crown Court on Thursday (August 30) after pleading guilty to possession with intent to supply Class A drugs.
Marr also pleaded guilty to possession of a Class B Drug (Cannabis) and was jailed for a total of five years and 219 days. He was also ordered to pay a £170 victims surcharge.
Marr was arrested on Tuesday, July 29 after officers from Crewe Local Policing Unit stopped a taxi in Willaston as part of a proactive operation targeting drug dealing.
When he was searched, Marr was found to have 90 wraps of heroin concealed in his underwear, with an estimated street value of £900.
Detective Constable Louise Crosbie said: "The detrimental impact of drugs is well known and removing those involved in drug dealing is of paramount importance.
"I hope that the sentence handed to Marr sends out a clear message to other potential criminals that the use and supply of illegal drugs will not be tolerated in Cheshire.
"While we have successfully taken Marr out of the drug dealing chain and his life-destroying illegal drugs have been taken off our streets, our fight against organised criminals continues. I urge anyone with any information about suspected drug related activity in their community to get in touch. You will be listened to and we will investigate the matter.
"You can report suspected drug dealing to us directly by calling 101 or giving us the details via https://cheshire.police.uk/contact/general-enquiries . Alternatively information can be given anonymously, via Crimestoppers, on 0800 555 111."
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In today's atmosphere, and entered the era of globalization in our country, it would be important if we take our eyes for a moment to areas that have potential for Indonesia tourism.
Islands such as Kai island, Turtle island, Takabonerate island, Bunaken island to island in Papua, Raja Ampat has great potential to become an object of tourism.
To introduce more about Ohoiew island that has a wonderful potential of tourism to the international community, and also intends to introduce the island through our activity ORARI IOTA – Ohoiew Island DXPedition 2012.
Ohoiew Island DXPedition 2012 is expected later that the island will be better known by foreign tourists through amateur radio. And will be a friendship between amateur radio through the exchange of QSL cards , so Kai Island will be better known.
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1 Januar Resubun YB9YZ Team Leader
2 Joppy DC Sihasale YB8XM Team Leader
3 Triadi PS YBØKVN Team Leader
4 Dadang Djufendi YBØTD Team Leader
5 Faisal Anwar YB1PR Secretary
6 Wisnu Widjaja YBØAZ/W1SNU Finance Manager
7 Suryadi Umar YBØJS Technic Manager
8 Ronny Latuperiza YB9WR Data Manager
9 Joz Sefriano YD1JZ Publicity
10 Gjelani Sutama YB1GJS QSL Manager
OPERATORS & TECHNICIANS
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1 Suryadi Umar YBØJS
2 Wisnu Widjaja YBØAZ/W1SNU
3 Prihandoyo YBØECT / KB3LWW
4 J o YCØLOW
5 Laily Dimyati YCØTSU
6 Eddy Kusuma YD1XUH
7 Joz Sefriano YD1JZ
8 Yoyon Suryana YB1CCF
9 Danu Ongkowiyono YD1GCL
10 Kasmuri Anwar YD1MRI
11 Gjelani Sutama YB1GJS
12 Rizal YD1ORZ
13 Joppy Sihasale YB8XM
14 Sadao Ito WK1S
Island Story (English)
Ohoieuw Island and Ngilngof Village, Minor Kei Archipelago, Southeast Moluccas
I. Resubun
The Unitary state of the Indonesian Republic (NKRI) is accurate name describing an island country. NKRI consists of thousand islands, tribes, languages and cultures. Ohoieuw island is a very small island which is located on Minor Kei Islands, Southeast Moluccas, and this island belongs to two villages: Ngilngof and Namar. This paper will describe two things. Firstly, this paper will focus on some features of Ngilngof village and afterwards it will deal with several features of this island.
Ngilngof Village
This village is located at the northwest coast of Minor Kei island. There are two interesting aspects of the village. Firstly, this village is precisely located at the coastal area of northwestern part of Minor Kei island. Its topography comprises sand at the beach, following the red soil which is overgrown with grass, shrub or coconut trees, then the black soil which is used as garden by local people. In the 1950's there were a lot of trophical rainforests, but now there is no more rainforest at the surrounding area due to the inhabitants' deforestation. Secondly, the local inhabitants are Austronesians who migrated to this island thousand years ago. On the 2010 they were around 1118 people. Migration wave came from two directions, namely: from the south and the north part of the island. The first wave had moved from Banda island, even from Bali island, via Leti island, Kisar island and Luan island and arrived at Kei island some hundred years ago; the second one had moved from Ternate island and Tidore island, via Seram island, Goram island, Teor island and Toyando island and then came to Kei islands in almost the same time. All of them were the Austronesian speakers and the bearers of Austronesian culture.
Ngilngof has a number of tourist objects which has been visited by domestic and foreign tourists. The first and foremost one is Ngurbloat beach which presented by Muller (The Moluccas, Singapore: Periplus Editions, 1991: 128-131) as the finest beach of the world, and it is nearly 5 km long. Beside that beach, there are two other beaches, i.e, the beach of Ngilngof village itself and the Yanroa beach which is reached in 5 minutes by foot. The second one is the Abel lake which is situated at the southeast of the village.There is no effort or plan to provide facilities for recreation or tourist purposes, for instance: to build swimming pool or fishing pond. The third object is two mountains or better said two hills: Kilyeuw and Kilmanut. These two hills are the highest points of the Kei island, except another hill called Masbait nearby to Gelanit village. They are very suitable for hiking. The fourth object is Hoat and Ded Te Idar. The Hoat is a bay located at the southeast part of the village. This bay can be used as a swimming area for those who want to swim. The Ded Te Idar is an underground path which is a very interesting place for those who want to look for an exciting object, particularly those who are collecting folklore. The last one is traditional art such drumming and dancing performance.
Ohoiew Island
As mentioned before that the Ohoiew island is a small coral island situated at the western part of the village. This is one of ten islands group at the western coastal area of the Minor Kei islands. Other islands are Ohoiwa, Ohoitir, Nukahai, Nai, Hoat, Lea, Amuut, Nuhura and Tangwain. This island, in the past, was a dwelling place as its name indicated: ohoi is a hamlet or a village and ew is unknown, at least for the author. More than hundred years ago the inhabitants left this island and moved to Ngilngof village and elsewhere. There is a legend as to how the islands have been divided among the the western coastal inhabitants of Minor Kei. From the unknown time, there was a canoe race for two old women. The winner of the race would possess these islands. The first women had reached the Ohoieuw island, while the second one was still at the shore of mainland (Minor Kei). The latter did not come out as the winner of the race. Then she thought that it was easy to claim the rest islands as her possessions just by shouting, so she did it. The rest islands, therefore, became her and her descendant property. The first old woman was believed as ancestor of the village Namar and Ngilngof's people, while the second one was the ancestor of village Debut and Dian's inhabitants.
With regard to village's property, there are more three small coral islands which belong to Ngilngof village, i.e Ngaf island, Ngodan island and Er island. These islands are not too far from Ohoiew island, at the northern part of Ohoiew island. These islands could be developed as tourist objects in the coming years.
Ohoiew as an atoll does not have enough fertile soil. On the ground people grow coconut trees, but they do not really care it due to the prize fluctuation of copra in the last few decades. Further, there are other vegetation as grass and trees. The mangrove can be found at some places of the eastern and western part of this island. In the surrounding sea people can find reefs and various kinds and sizes of fishes, shell-fishes, lobsters, cucumbers, even pearl-shells. They can be recommended as Eco-tourism objects for those who are going to enjoy diving and fishing. Local people used to catch fish by trapping, by poisoning, or by using nets or nylon line. They used to collect crabs and shell-fishes for their own consumption or even for selling. In the last few years, people paid more attention to grow seaweed which became a prospective commodity. As usual, there are various kinds of birds as kingfishers, seagulls. It is worth to mention that there is a kind of land-crab, called kartuhan (indigenous name). This animal used to eat coconut flesh, and of course very fat but delicious.
Climate of the island is a tropical one and it can be divided into two seasons: dry season and wet season. In short, the dry season begins from April to October and the wet season starts from December to March. There is usually a calm period from the beginning of October to the beginning of December. For those who are going to enjoy underwater scene, from October to December is a favorable time.
The Ohoiew island could also be recommended as a tourist object due to the following reasons. Firstly, this island is uninhabited, so that tourists can enjoy their freedom without any human disturbance. Secondly, sandy beach and clear seawater will provide a refreshing environment for those who are looking for solitude and for swimming or diving. Finally, there is also possible to communicate with the outside world by mobile phone.
The distance between this atoll from the village is not far. It takes only 10 minutes by longboat or speedboat. For those who want to visit this island, they can get on ships or airplanes to Tual and Langgur, and then take a taxi or a bus to the village Ngilngof.
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"Långt härifrån" är en sång skriven och framförd av Py Bäckman i Melodifestivalen 1992. Musiken skrev hon själv och texten tillsammans med Anders Olausson. Bidraget gick til andra omgången och slutade där på femte plats. Den låg sedan på Svensktoppen i nio veckor under perioden 25 april–23 augusti 1992, med andraplats som högsta placering.

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Before continuing with the next part of the Paranoia of Education series I will here walk an interim point wherein I will walk a process of Self-Forgiveness on what we've walked so far in the previous series about the Paranoia of Standardized Testing. Through self-forgiveness we are walking a process of taking responsibility for our own creation as the Paranoia of Education as it has become, for example as seen within and as the Paranoia of Standardized Testing in the current education system and the manifested consequences that has outflowed thereof.
This is also to walk the process of bringing the point of responsibility back to ourselves as citizens and inhabitants of this earth, whether we are teachers, parents, students or government officials involved with education – from having abdicated our responsibility towards the education system and separated ourselves from and as it, into blame and polarity as superiority/inferiority power/powerlessness – into a directive of changing the education systems into systems of common sense practicality, honoring life and placing forth the principle of giving as we would like to receive as a life that is best for all, taught from the first moment a child is born through the directive responsibility and examples of parents, teachers and citizens alike.
So what we will be walking here is thus the responsibility of all of us towards the education of humanity that we have accepted and allowed to become an institution of Paranoia, Fear, Failure and Abuse. In conjunction with the Self-Forgiveness we will be walking here, we will also walk a process of prescribing corrective statements wherein and from which we will prescribe and outline the commitments required for us to make to practically change the current education system.
What one can do as one is reading these statements is to read them out loud for oneself while reading and as such walk with in this process of letting go of the Paranoia embedded within the Education System and from there walk the process of establishing a new principle of Education that is based on the Principle of What is Best for All.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to accept market capitalism and its foundation within and as the principle of competition, fear and paranoia to become embedded within and in fact the directive principle of the current education system where education has become nothing but a factory from where organic robots are produced and manufactured from that which was once life coming into this world as innocent children only to serve money as a god within and as the religion of market capitalism using tools such as competition, fear and paranoia to ensure that every child is kept on track with the goal of the system to maximize profits for the few through the exploitation and abuse of the majority of people on earth.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to as the adults of this world involved within education, as parents, teachers and representatives of official capacity accept the starting-point of market capitalism to be the predominant principle that rules and governs all decisions made within the education system where I have accepted it as normal to submit the education system to standardized testing that serves to enhance the competition between countries, districts, schools, teachers and students with the single purpose of bringing down expenses and costs of education within the justification of claiming that such an application makes the education more 'efficient' when in fact the primary objective is to save as much money possible to ensure more profits for the purpose of maintaining market capitalism and its regiments as the predominant system on earth.
I see, realize and understand that standardized testing isn't the problem within the education system – because standardized testing is simply a method, a tool. As such, I see, realize and understand that what is required is not to stop standardized testing in schools, but to stop the paranoia that is embedded within the current usage of standardized testing – and in all areas of education as it current exists.
I see, realize and understand that the way we've implemented standardized testing into and as the education system the way it is currently being used to enhance competition and thereby justify the failure of some and the success of others – is unsustainable and unacceptable because the schools are in the pockets of the corporations and market capitalism in general, where standardized testing isn't used to actually support the students education but only to maximize profits and minimize costs with the excuse that it is making education more efficient when in fact education is rapidly becoming more and more useless.
I commit myself to show and share how the paranoia that is embedded within the current education system is based on the paranoia of market capitalism and its concurrent integration into all systems and parts of life on earth where it – as a representation of our interests and values (greed/fear/competition/paranoia) is contaminating every part of life on earth to the point where we're driving ourselves to the brink of destruction – instead of finding ways to co-exists that is best for all.
So therefore I commit myself to participate in and work for the implementation of a Basic Income/Equal Money System where education will no longer be under the (informally or formally) a corporate market capitalistic system that is founded upon the paranoia of fear of survival within the principle of competing with each other to survive as a religion with money as a god. Instead we are suggesting changing the starting-point of the system from fear/greed/paranoia and competition to a system of practical common sense as everyone giving to each that which each would like to have as that which is best for all. In such a system we can utilize tools as for example standardized testing in a completely different way – because the starting-point will be different and will be focused on supporting the child to develop themselves to their fullest potential – exactly as we would have wanted to be supported if we were in their shoes.
In conjunction with this blog series, I suggest to in connection with this blog-post to take a moment to read the following blog-post on Basic Income and Teaching where the points I've discussed here are further expanded upon.


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NSW govt told to urgently improve cyber security resilience
By Justin Hendry on Dec 13, 2019 12:02PM
Auditor reveals poor agency self-assessment results.
The NSW government has been told to improve its cyber security resilience for a second time in less than two years, after the majority of agencies reported low levels of maturity under the Essential Eight model.
An annual audit of the state's central agencies, released on Thursday, reveals the NSW public sector is struggling to meet new requirements under the government's new cyber security policy.
The policy, which came into effect in February, requires agencies to self-assess their maturity against the mitigation strategies – now considered the baseline for cyber security by the Australian Signals Directorate.
It was introduced in the wake of a 2018 audit that found agencies were lacking the capacity to detect and respond to cyber security indictments, as well as the absence of a government-wide capability to detect and respond to cyber security events.
Agencies are able to assess themselves under four levels of maturity: zero, one, two and three. Three of these levels are found on the Essential Eight, while 'maturity level zero' is limited to the NSW policy.
The policy also introduces a number of other requirements, including that agencies identify their most critical systems or 'crown jewels' and report them to the whole-of-government cyber security office, Cyber Security NSW.
But in the 10 months since the policy came into effect, the 62 assessments received by Cyber Security NSW highlights "limited progress in implementing the Essential Eight", the NSW auditor said.
"NSW Government agency self-assessment results show that the NSW Public Sector's cyber security resilience needs urgent attention," the audit [pdf] states.
Of the 62 assessments completed, the majority have reported low levels of maturity with all Essential Eight mitigation strategies for servers, which the auditor said "generally poses the greatest cyber security risk".
Areas of particular concern include application whitelisting and user application hardening, with 90 percent and 94 percent of assessments in these respective areas falling into the maturity level zero or one category.
The highest levels of maturity, on the other hand, were around daily backups (38 maturity level three and four assessments) and patch operating system (27 maturity level three and four assessments).
The auditor has called on Cyber Security NSW to work with agencies to "improve cyber security resilience as a matter of urgency".
It is now planning to conduct a 'cyber security and digital disruption' performance audit, which will be published in mid-2020.
The audit will examine how effectively agencies are identifying and managing their cyber security risks, including compliance with the cyber security policy.
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So travellers can run—or more realistically, walk briskly—between gates. This is just one of several clever design elements at Narita Airport's new low-cost terminal.
In the video below, you can see the terminal and hear designers talk about their innovative ways to save money (and still make a striking airport). Click on "CC" for English subtitles.
As Asahi News reports, this is the first new terminal at Narita Airport, which serves Tokyo, in twenty-two years.


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Pragmatic Institute's Annual Survey Spotlights Factors Affecting Compensation
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Jan. 30, 2014 – Not including bonuses, product managers and marketers earned an average of $100,000 to $120,000 a year in 2013, according to Pragmatic Institute's 14th Annual Product Management and Marketing Survey.
More than 1,800 respondents took part in this year's survey, which took a deep dive into what contributing factors bumped a salary up or down:
Live in the Northeast United States? Expect to make $12,400 more than your counterparts. If you live in Massachusetts, add an additional $4,000.
That comes close, but doesn't quite tie, with product professionals in California who can expect to earn $17,800 more than the average.
Female? Unfortunately, that means knocking $7,200 off annual compensation.
Spend more than 50 percent of the time on strategic activities and earn $13,600 more than average; less than 25 percent takes off $7,800 from the average.
Having direct reports means an additional $14,000, but that number doubles if there are more than four direct reports and triples if you have between seven and nine. Want to make the most? Move to Switzerland, which had the highest average salary at $138,000.
These are just some of the factors shown in Pragmatic Institute's 14th Annual Product Management and Marketing Survey, which also includes insights on the experience and responsibilities of product management and marketing professionals. The survey was conducted between November 22nd and December 18th, 2013 and can be downloaded at http://www.pragmaticmarketing.com/resources/annual-survey.
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What's the War About?
by David Finkel
This article is adapted from comments on the Solidarity e-mail list. It was written before Obama's speech on 9/10/13.
Against fierce public and political opposition, Team Obama is going all-out for a Congressional Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) to bomb Syria. The term they're using is "flood the zone," but it's looking more like a "Hail Mary pass." So what is this about? Several things. First, Obama's credibility and, by extension, that of the U.S. imperial dictat, is at stake (more on this later).
Second, there's an element of stupidity and bungling. Presidential stupidity is never a fundamental cause of imperial adventures and debacles, but it's a factor. Stupidity was a factor in 1979 when Jimmy Carter, apparently on his own, allowed the deposed Shah of Iran into the USA; it was a factor way back when JFK took the CIA's bait to invade Cuba (Bay of Pigs, 1961); it was a factor when George W. Bush dissolved the Iraqi army in 2003, bringing about state collapse and sectarian mayhem there.
Americans demonstrate against intervention in Syria.
Bungling is a factor now around responding to the chemical weapons attack, particularly the U.S. refusal to recognize what should be obvious: (i) that Russia, not the U.S. or some scrawny COW ("Coalition of the Willing"), is the real key to stopping the Syrian regime from using forbidden weapons, and (ii) that Moscow is understandably enraged by having been suckered on Libya. Cruise missiles and B-52 bombers will not deter the Syrian regime, but Russia can tell Assad that it will pull the plug if chemical weapons are used again, making his regime a liability rather than an asset for Moscow.
The Russian government, of course, is acting overwhelmingly in Russia's state interests. Russian intelligence must have already known what German intelligence has reported, that the chemical weapons attack was apparently carried out by a Syrian military unit but not authorized by Assad. This doesn't absolve the regime and its leadership from criminal responsibility, but the point here is that any signs of weakening of the regime's command and control over chemical weapons must be freaky-scary for the Russians, as it should be for everyone.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Both the "imperial credibility" and "stupidity" factors have a common root. It's an assumption going back decades (elaborated as the "Carter doctrine" but earlier too) that U.S. military might is the key to the "stability" of the Middle East. (Israel fits into this equation, obviously.) But while the U.S. is of course the overwhelming military power, its capability to control and determine events is decreasing. The decline of U.S. power was greatly accelerated, qualitatively so, by the Iraq disaster. But the instinct remains to "prove our resolve," which in turn contributes to the tendency to bungling and stupidity.
Another element is the U.S. political gridlock and the administration's indecisiveness, even policy incoherence, on Syria, which gives McCain and the neocons the opening to insert their own agenda to which Obama has made himself hostage. That agenda remains as it has been under Bush-Cheney, to push toward confrontation with Iran. If this results in the destruction of Obama's presidency, that's an added benefit from their point of view. And Israel is lining up with the neocons on going after Iran–the Israeli goal is not to overthrow Assad (whom they prefer to the existing alternatives) in Syria but to take down Iran, ultimately by force. This has not been the Obama administration's strategic goal, at least in the short term.
The contradiction facing Team Obama now, which makes it all the harder to convince the public or ram through the AUMF, is on the one hand that a strictly "limited" strike will be strategically ineffectual and only reinforce the (correct) perception of declining U.S. hegemony. On the other hand, a massive strike that changes the balance of forces in the Syrian conflict might (i) strengthen the fundamentalist and al-Qaeda types, (ii) enrage the Russians to the point where they don't give Assad the ultimatum to enforce the no-chemical-weapons ban; (iii) push the new Iranian government away from bargaining and even toward a rush for nuclear weapons.
Obama giving a speech about Syria.
It is fashionable among the pro-bombing punditry to ascribe the opposition of the U.S. public to "war-weary isolationism." This is patronizing and one-sided at best. Yes, there is war-weariness after the Iraq debacle and the Afghan quagmire, but there is also genuine horror over the chemical weapons attack (yes, the Syrian military did it) and a feeling that "something needs to be done." And indeed, something needs to be done, but Team Obama can't coherently explain what it intends to accomplish because it doesn't even know. And the continuing slow-motion social catastrophe in America and the budget gridlock certainly contributes to the mood of rejection.
This is not a war that the ruling class is particularly enthused over either. Imperial prestige does matter, and there is the potential for Congressional disapproval to cripple a presidency, there really isn't a clearly identifiable U.S. "national security" stake here–not oil, not a terrorist threat, not even a threat to Israel. If anything, bombing Syria could push Iran in a more dangerous direction and create the small, but not trivial possibility of setting off a regional catastrophe by miscalculation or accident.
The current farcical turn of events is a loss for the Syrian opposition, and a win for Assad.
Obama has shifted the discussion to the non-issue of the use or non-use of chemical weapons, and away from the real issue of the 100,000 Syrians slaughtered by Assad's gangster regime. In effect, the White House is giving Assad the green light to slaughter another 100,000 Syrians — on condition that he not use chemical weapons. Assad can readily assent to this ludicrous 'demand' since it doesn't touch the essence of the matter. If Assad goes along, Obama will save face, the Russians will be happy about their 'plan' being accepted, and Assad will fight on.
For the imperialists in the Kremlin and the White House, preventing a popular victory in Syria is paramount because such a victory could, potentially, in the very best case, lay the basis for a bourgeois-democratic, secular state. Such an outcome would invigorate democratic movements in the Middle East, especially where they've been hit hard, as in Egypt. This is the "regional catastrophe" satraps, despots, and religious fanatics, from Al-Qaida to Hezbollah, fear and hate the most. This is well understood by Achcar and Chomsky but by very few others on the left, particularly the crowd around Counterpunch.
One more point. David says there is "genuine horror" among the American people about the use of chemical weapons and a feeling that "something needs to be done." I doubt most Americans feel this way. To be blunt, most Americans have been poisoned by imperialist ideology, corrupted by its racism, its moral depravity, its devalorization of human life. Most Americans have been taught, and are ready to believe, that defending the "national interest" is the most moral thing in the world. No doubt, Obama's sudden appeal to morality is the vilest hypocrisy imaginable. But, because that appeal has not been sufficiently tied to the "national interest", most Americans have not been moved by it. Sad, but true. Socialists have their work cut out.
Michael Karadjis says:
David, that must eb one of the most clear-headed analysis of the current semi-war-drive I've seen in the left media. One thing I'd add is that, if as you suggest this was "carried out by a Syrian military unit but not authorized by Assad", thus revealing "signs of weakening of the regime's command and control over chemical weapons," then this also helps explain Israel's contradictory role in this. As you correclty note, Israel prefers Assad to the alternatives, and to the extent it sometimes sabre-rattles over the US not enforcing "red-lines," it is precisely the issue of example it has in mind, with regard to the Iran nuclear issue. But this time, unlike pretty much the whole of the last 2 years, Israel has appeared relatively hawkish, compared to previous behaviour. Given that Israeli leaders have stated countless times, with abundant clarity, that their greatest fear is not Assad controlling chemical weapons, but rather the danger that the fall of Assad could result in these weapons falling into the hands of "terrorists", meaning either Hezbollah but even more ominously the anti-Assad Sunni Jihadists, the idea that the regime's control may be fraying would indeed be a significant problem for Israel, that would require noone other than the US to try to fix (and must absolutely not be left to Saudi-backed elite FSA units based in Jordan). On the other hand, there is also enormous apprehension that the lack of any clear US strategy, and this has led to a sharp difference between a relatively dovish Israel and much more hawkish US Israeli lobby (again revealing the limits of "lobby theory"), as this article indicates: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/09/201391112411550354.html.


Motorcyclists who converge on Stratford every weekend could soon find themselves being moved to a new home.
District and county councillors have been looking at various options for building a new motorcycle park in the town.
The problem was first raised several years ago when concern was expressed at the number of bikers parking illegally in Waterside.
This was solved with the creation of an area where motorcycles could be parked in the street, following consultation with police and motorcycle representatives.
But the town has now become a victim of its own success, and demand has grown for spaces in the town centre.
Options about the possible location of a new home for the motorcyclists have been considered by Warwickshire County Council, and are due to be discussed next week by district councillors in Stratford.
A report complied by Paul Ogden at Stratford District Council said the scheme would only work if the correct was location was chosen, as the motorcyclists liked to be able to show off their machines to the public.
�The proposals would have a permanent and potentially detrimental impact on this approach to the town.
�It is the main pedestrian route from the main visitor car and coach parks, which together provide 1,260 car spaces and 70 coach spaces.
�The safety pf pedestrians and motorcyclists accessing and leaving the schemes remains of concern.
The report to the Avon Area Committee added that if the Unicorn Meadow car park option is followed � which would free up the largest amount of space � it could cost the council up to �25,000 a year in lost income.
Councillors are being asked to choose an option, suggest an alternative, or reject all the plans.


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The Sonos family of hi-fi speakers is expanding this week with the introduction of Playbase, its new TV and music speaker. Playbase is the first new hardware product from Sonos since the second-gen Play:5 was unveiled in September 2015 (and it uses the new touch-style buttons).
As rumored, Sonos Playbase will retail for $699 in the US (€799 EUR, $999 AUD, $899 CAD, £699 GBP) with versions available in both black and white finishes starting next month.
Playbase sits beneath TVs up to 75 pounds and has dimensions of 2.28 x 28.35 x 14.17 inches which makes it the thinnest Sonos speaker. Sonos already offers a hi-fi TV speaker with the $699 Playbar, and the new Playbase gives customers another form factor option for different setups. The company says nearly 7 in 10 TVs are not wall-mounted and the new Playbase was designed for those customers.
Sonos Playbase connects to TVs over the opticial audio cable and includes ten class-d digital amps plus "six midrange, three tweeters, and one woofer, all custom designed for the speaker's acoustic architecture" all in a single package.
Like the Playbar, Sonos says the Playbase features Dialogue Enhancement and Night Mode settings to improve TV audio. Playbase can also wirelessly connect with Sonos Sub and two Sonos Play:1 speakers to create a 5.1 surround sound experience.
Playbase works with Sonos Trueplay tuning, too, so you can fine-tune the audio for your exact setup. Playbase works with the 80+ music services that connect to Sonos including Apple Music and Spotify, so it can fill a living room with music even when the TV is off. Later this year, Sonos is introducing voice control over Amazon Alexa devices including Echo and Dot as well which Playbase will support.
Sonos says the new Playbase TV and music speaker will be available around the world starting April 4. Current Sonos owners can pre-order Playbase on Sonos.com. Stay tuned for a full review.
PLAYBASE slides the best of Sonos underneath your TV, delivering powerful home theater sound when the TV is on, and music all the time when it's off.
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Distance from Seattle–Tacoma International Airport to Midway International Airport is 1733 miles / 2789 kilometers / 1506 nautical miles.
Estimated flight time from Seattle–Tacoma International Airport (SEA) to Midway International Airport (MDW) is 3 hours 46 minutes.
The time difference between Seattle and Chicago is 2 hours. Chicago is 2 hours ahead of Seattle.
Flight map from Seattle to Chicago.
Seattle (SEA) → Chicago (MDW).