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World Health Day calls for action on Our Planet, Our Health
Public health, Environment, Pollution, Climate change
Publish Date: 7 April 2022
The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued an urgent call for accelerated action to preserve and protect health and mitigate climate change as part of an "Our planet, our health" campaign on World Health Day.
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WMO supports Global Methane Pledge as part of greenhouse gas emissions cuts
Greenhouse gases, Climate change
Publish Date: 12 November 2021
A new Global Methane Pledge announced at the United Nations Climate Change negotiations COP26 represents the first major international push to reduce emissions of a powerful but short-lived greenhouse gas.
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COP26: 10 New Insights in Climate Science and Global Carbon Budget
Climate change, Research, Greenhouse gases
Publish Date: 4 November 2021
The 10 New Insights in Climate Science, a synthesis of the most robust climate-related research findings available today, has been released by the WMO co-sponsored World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), Future Earth and the Earth League.
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Greenhouse Gas Bulletin: Another Year Another Record
Publish Date: 25 October 2021
The abundance of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere once again reached a new record last year, with the annual rate of increase above the 2011-2020 average. That trend has continued in 2021, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Greenhouse Gas Bulletin.
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Role of Amazon as carbon sink declines: Nature study
Environment, Climate change, Greenhouse gases
Publish Date: 20 July 2021
Amazonia hosts the Earth's largest tropical forests and has been shown to be an important carbon sink. This carbon sink seems to be in decline, however, as a result of factors such as deforestation and climate change, according to a new paper published in Nature.
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Northern hemisphere wildfire season flares up
Environment, Climate change, Pollution
Publish Date: 6 July 2021
The 2021 Boreal wildfire season in the Northern Hemisphere is heating up, with a large and increasing number of intense fires; most notably across northeastern Russia, western Canada and the western United States.
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Global methane assessment released
Climate change, Greenhouse gases, Environment
Publish Date: 7 May 2021
A Global Methane Assessment released by the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) shows that human-caused methane emissions can be reduced by up to 45 per cent this decade.
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WMO supports healthy, sustainable, resilient cities
Climate change, Urban development, Greenhouse gases, Disaster risk reduction
Publish Date: 20 January 2021
A preparatory webinar for the 16th Global Forum on Human Settlements was held on January 15, 2021. Its theme was "International Green Model City Initiative: Call for Stronger Actions Towards Healthy, Resilient, and Carbon-Neutral Cities."
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UNEP Emissions Gap report urges "green pandemic recovery"
Climate change, Environment, Greenhouse gases
Publish Date: 9 December 2020
A green pandemic recovery could cut up to 25 per cent off predicted 2030 greenhouse gas emissions and bring the world closer to meeting the 2°C goal of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, a new UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report finds.
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Carbon dioxide levels continue at record levels, despite COVID-19 lockdown
The industrial slowdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic has not curbed record levels of greenhouse gases which are trapping heat in the atmosphere, increasing temperatures and driving more extreme weather, ice melt, sea-level rise and ocean acidification, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).


"I don't think it's overly dramatic to say the future of Atlantic Canada is at stake," former N.B. Premier Frank McKenna told the crowd of business leaders and academics at PPF's Atlantic Summit in Fredericton. His concern over the dwindling population of the region is buoyed by optimism about recent action taken by the four provinces and the federal government.


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Háj (německy: Hainberg bei Asch) je nejvyšší vrch české části pahorkatiny Smrčiny, který se tyčí asi 1 km severovýchodně nad městem Aš v Ašském výběžku. Jeho vrchol má nadmořskou výšku 758 m a nachází se na něm Bismarckova rozhledna. Na východních svazích byl vybudován lyžařský areál s třemi vleky a několika kilometry běžeckých tratí.

Původně se jednalo o holý a nevzhledný kopec, na němž se ašští nadšenci v čele s Georgem Ungerem rozhodli vybudovat odpočinkovou zónu s lesním parkem. Pozemky město Aš zakoupilo v roce 1861 od Zedwitzů za 6000 zlatých, záměr se postupně dařilo naplnit a park se stal chloubou Ašska.

Rozhledna

První záměr postavit zde i rozhlednu se objevil v roce 1874, ale ani přes finanční podporu města Aše se během následujících dvaceti let nepodařilo získat dostatečné množství finančních prostředků.

Situace se však změnila v roce 1895 u příležitosti 80. narozenin prvního německého kancléře Otto von Bismarcka. V roce 1898 byl založen Výbor pro výstavbu rozhledny, jehož předsedou byl starosta Emil Schindler a na jehož činnosti se podíleli i členové dalších spolků (Německý a rakouský spolek alpinistů, spolek pěstitelů a zkrašlovatelů, Svaz Němců v Čechách). Členové výboru vyzvali občany Aše, aby přispěli na výstavbu rozhledny, která měla být pojmenována po uctívaném německém kancléři. Brzy se podařilo shromáždit dostatečné prostředky a byl osloven německý architekt Wilhelm Kreis, který byl označován jako otec Bismarckových sloupů a jehož návrh Bismarckova sloupu Götterdämmerung (Soumrak bohů) byl vyznamenán 1. cenou asociace německých studentů a až do roku 1911 byl použit celkem 47×.

Kreis předložil celkem dva návrhy, ale oba byly zamítnuty. Teprve třetí návrh, který se od tradičního pojetí Bismarckových sloupů lišil, byl jednomyslně schválen. Tento návrh získal v roce 1901 na umělecké výstavě v Drážďanech zlatou medaili. Stavbou byl v srpnu 1902 pověřen ašský stavební mistr Ernst Hausner, stavbyvedoucím byl polír Johannes Hörer ze Steinpöhl.

Stavba byla zahájena 22. září 1902, základní kámen byl položen 18. října téhož roku. Hrubá stavba byla dokončena v říjnu 1903 a první návštěvníci si mohli rozhlednu prohlédnout a vystoupat nahoru 25. prosince po zaplacení 10 haléřů. Rozhledna byla slavnostně otevřena 19. června 1904. Náklady na stavbu činily 58 967 rakouských korun a spotřebovalo se 666 m³ žulových kvádrů, 65 000 cihel, 58 vagónů vápna a tři vagóny cementu. Rozhledna je 34 m vysoká a její základna má čtvercový půdorys o rozměru 6,7 × 6,7 m.

V roce 1913 byl u vedlejšího vchodu umístěn bronzový reliéf Bismarcka od Albrechta Gerolda st., který byl spolu s ostatními zmínkami o Bismarckovi odstraněn po roce 1945. V roce 2004 byly vykáceny stromy, které bránily ve výhledu, a rozhledna opět začala plnit svoji funkci. Majitelem rozhledny je město Aš.

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Nothing Short of a Glorious Gun
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Cross-over & Western
Lenny Ringtail revives his Western hero character Mitch Mathis and puts him to good use as he, the SWAT Kats, Commander Feral, and Hard Drive team up with Moo and the cowboys to stop the Masked Bull and his partner from stealing oil. Crossover with Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa. (Oneshot – Complete)
SWAT Kats is a trademark of Hanna-Barbera and is a creation of Christian and Yvonne Tremblay. Wild West C.O.W.-Boys is a Ryan Brown creation.
This is attempting to meet my challenge of teaming the SWAT Kats with the Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa.
"Just about there, buddy," Chance announced to his best friend as he and the gang rode towards Moo Mesa.
There had been a call that the Masked Bull had been cooperating with one of the SWAT Kat enemies, and Marshal Moo Montana needed more information about the villain he wasn't used to seeing. Inspired by the earlier victory of putting Johnny Hemmingway to rest, Lenny Ringtail had dressed up as his Marshal Mitch Mathis character from his long-running Western, "Gunfighters of Carson City," and the SWAT Kats (though as mild-mannered Chance and Jake), Commander Feral, and Hard Drive had also dressed up in cowboy gear and were riding horses. Unlike the previous encounter, the Sergeant did not attend this mission (he was occupied with another duty, of which Lt. Felina Feral was helping him out).
"What's so special about this Masked Bull character anyway?" asked Jake.
"He's the enemy of Marshal Moo Montana and his posse," said Lenny, "and rumor has it someone's been helping him. If it's not Dr. Viper, I don't know who it is. It can't be Dark Kat because he's in solitary confinement for life, though I'm sure he's repented of his sins entirely by now. It can't be the Pastmaster because he's dead. It can't be Madkat because his spirit is in the ninth circle of hell right now, and it's obviously not you, Hard Drive, because you're with us."
"So, what does that narrow it down to?" Feral spoke up.
"That leaves Dr. Viper as the most reasonable option, and there's always the possibility Turmoil came back. I wouldn't be surprised if that twin brother of yours is the criminal, but I thought we had him locked up good." Lenny paused to clear his throat.
"That's preposterous. We are doing better about tightening security," said Feral. "But, he is the best at escaping when our backs are turned."
When the group reached Cowtown, Moo, Dakota, and Cowlorado, the C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa, were waiting for them just outside Miss Lily's Tumbleweed Saloon, where they were explaining to Miss Lily the story behind Lenny's character of Mitch Mathis.
"And, for the occasion," Cowlorado concluded, "you can see he's dressed like the marshal. So, it's a marshal-to-marshal cooperation. Nothing against you, Moo."
"None taken, Cowlorado," Moo replied. "I have a good feeling about this. Like the Code of the West says, 'Too many marshals may spoil the capture, but more than one guarantees a victory if the varmint will cooperate.'"
Chance and Jake were the first to get off their horses.
"Well, you cats were right darn quick to get here," Moo greeted. "Did you get the message?"
"We did, through the telegraph," Feral nodded. "I know your community prefers to live like 1870 all the time, and I don't blame you. Keep in mind we may unveil it at a moment's notice; that's Enforcer policy."
"I didn't forget that," Moo replied. "So, I see you brought the Marshal of Carson City with you. Or at least the actor famous for portraying him. I mean, we have no television up here, but we heard all about the legend of Mitch Mathis."
"Well, kudos to you, then," said Lenny with a smile as he dismounted his horse. "My real name is Lenny Ringtail, but I come across folks calling me 'Mitch' or 'Marshal' all the time. I've actually been able to put the character for real in capturing some wacko who tried to take over Megakat City, hoping to be able to revert its lifestyle back to the one you and this community are living."
"I may end up calling you 'Mitch,' then," said Moo.
"Yup," Dakota agreed.
"Same here," said Cowlorado. "Now then, the reason we called you is this: we weren't sure exactly who the Masked Bull is teaming up with, but they're stealing all the oil from the nearest gulch. It's getting dark, and we got no choice but to call it a day and pick up the trail in the morning. We just wanted to know something. Who is this, and what's his tactics?" The adventure-loving deputy handed a picture to Lenny, and Lenny took a good look at it.
"Hey! That's my twin!" Hard Drive exclaimed after looking at it. "Why did I anticipate that? He has been acting like a Wild West outlaw lately. He can't distinguish fantasy from reality, like that Don Quixote."
"The one that thought he was a 13th century knight fighting a dragon, or whoever it was?" asked Miss Lily.
"Yes," said Hard Drive, "but, remember, it was actually sheep he was charging. When Sancho tried to explain the truth, he claimed his enemy had escaped."
"What a psycho he must've been!" exclaimed Cowlamity Kate, who had just arrived.
"Exactly," said Moo. "Oh, Miss Kate! What brings you here tonight?"
"Uh, I wondered who you were talking to at first, but I figured it out, so no introductions are necessary. I also happened to catch sight of that varmint helping the Masked Bull. Moo, I witnessed you unmask him, but I think I better keep that a secret for now."
"Do that," said Jake. "If we want to know his real identity, we'll figure it out ourselves."
"Well, if Miss Kate's found sight of the varmints, we'd better up and at 'em, then!" Dakota spoke up. "I am!"
"Good idea, Dakota," said Moo. "I know it's late, but justice can't wait for no one. Come on, everybody! Let's rodeo!"
"Yippie-eye-oh-ky-ay!" everyone chimed in, with Cowlorado adding a "Yee-haw!" at the end.
The group rode towards the scene of the crime, with J.R., the Indian companion to the cowboys, joining the group halfway towards their destination. Moo updated J.R. on the situation and explained, "why Mitch Mathis has teamed up with a modern commanding police officer and his organization's head detective."
The Masked Bull had been using one of the wagons he stole from a wagon train to hide the barrels containing the stolen oil. Johnny Hemmingway, in his outlaw disguise (also implying a mask), was doing his best to help.
"Sure appreciate the opportunity," he said. "I haven't had a criminal act like this since that no-good marshal caught me, and I'm not talking about Moo Montana."
"I know," said the Masked Bull. "But, I appreciate your help as well; those lame brains Saddlesore and Boot Hill Buzzard are no use to me anymore. The worst of the two is Boot Hill, but you probably knew that."
"I did. Where do you want to take the oil?"
"Some place where we can sell it for a big profit. Soon we'll be rolling in it."
"The only place you'll be rolling in is where you deserve to be… behind bars!" Feral suddenly growled as our heroes came into view.
"Drat!" the Masked Bull snorted in disgust. "It's those no-good cowboys again!"
"Why can't I do anything right?" Hemmingway added. "It's getting so a kat can't earn a dishonest living no more!"
"I do want to thank you two," Lenny commented, using his Mitch Mathis voice. "Y'all saved us the trouble of arresting you in the swamp!"
"Looks like I'm going to have to exterminate you the hard way!" the Masked Bull bellowed, drawing his two pistols. Moo and Lenny drew their own ammo while Cowlorado and Jake took their respective lariats. Chance teamed up with Dakota in terms of brute strength. Feral and Hard Drive ran to the sidelines and waited to strike while the iron was hot.
It seemed the battle was going nowhere until J.R. was effectively able to shoot one of the Masked Bull's pistols right out of his hand, using a bow and arrow. While the Masked Bull struggled to find his pistol, he kept firing with the other one, but Moo's golden stars coming from his two guns cancelled the action.
Meanwhile, Hemmingway was having trouble of his own dealing with Lenny. "You got me once, Marshal, but you won't get me again!" he grunted in disgust. "Nobody dares think about capturing me and getting the glory for it!"
"Well, just call me nobody!" Lenny replied, again using his cowboy voice. Not knowing Hemmingway had already said it to the SWAT Kats, he added, "Didn't anybody ever tell you crime don't pay?"
"Actually, it doesn't pay well, but it pays a little bit, and you get stock options!" Hemmingway replied, attempting to make a joke.
"Play ball!" Chance yelled as he pitched a rock at Dakota, who was holding a large log.
Dakota swung at the rock and hit it spot on. The rock just barely missed the Masked Bull and Hemmingway, but it hit the wagon they were protecting. The wagon collapsed and out came the oil of the now-broken barrels.
"Well, there goes the big payday!" the Masked Bull grunted to himself. "Maybe I ought to abide by their advice and give up crime. Nothing I do is worth it."
"No, we can't give up!" Hemmingway exclaimed, hearing the remark.
"Oh, yes, you will," Moo and Feral replied in unison. "You're coming with us!"
Cowlorado promptly rounded up the Masked Bull and thrust him towards Moo, and Jake did likewise with Hemmingway.
"Hey, nice round-up!" Cowlorado smiled, turning to Jake. "You been practicing?"
"Little bit," said Jake. "I did that to him the last time we got him, but it was back home."
Moo fired some shorts to indicate to the people wondering what the ruckus was about that everything was all right.
When all was said and done, the Masked Bull was back in jail (Lonesome Gulch's jail, that is, as Cowtown never wanted to deal with him again after Moo's unmasking of him some time ago, revealing he was indeed Sheriff Terrorbull, as Puma had been claiming). Using one of J.R.'s tricks, Feral and Hard Drive launched Hemmingway back towards Megakat City "via air mail" as Feral put it. Having gotten a radio transmission from him, Felina and her co-pilot took the policy's precautions, grabbed him, and put him back where he belonged… in Alcatraz!
The next day, Mayor Bulloney took some time to congratulate the cowboys (again) and thanked Chance, Jake, and the gang for their help. Still using his Mitch Mathis voice, Lenny got acquainted with the folks of Cowtown, and later that day around lunchtime, finally a first time of his own of Miss Lily's famous homemade sarsaparilla, after making sure it wasn't alcoholic.
"I don't drink," he told Miss Lily. "I don't know why it's the norm for cowboys to drink."
"That's why this is homemade," said Miss Lily. "Glad you like it."
No Substitute for Victory By Tom Wilder
No Tolerance for Modernization By Tom Wilder
by Cherry Koivula
Thanks to an incident with the Pastmaster, T-Bone and Razor find they've switched bodies. Can they keep everyone from noticing? And, how will they get back to normal? A challenge response. See also Collin Blake's contribution.

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The International Monetary Fund Says Global Economic Growth Could Be at a Turning Point
by John Hinson April 19, 2017
by John Hinson April 19, 2017 0 comment
Maurice Obstfeldt, a writer at World Economic Outlook by IMF said that the world is witnessing a turning point.
The report, which was published, stated that the global growth for this year would be 3.5%. This is up from 3.1%, which was the prediction for 2017 in 2016.
The forecast of UK's economy is that it would expand by 2% this year, which is the strongest growth than any of the other major developed economies apart from United States.
This year's prediction for Britain is now just a little bit below what IMF had predicted a year back, the last complete forecast that the IMF did before the referendum of Brexit.
This earlier forecasted figure was 2.2%. The latest forecast reinforces that the performance of the economy of Britain's economy performance is not that affected by the referendum's aftermath and this was in contrary to the IMF's expectations and many other economists as well. But IMF still feels that the impact on the longer term on Britain could be adverse.
The tone of the report is kind of dominant and that is really sunnier as compared to the last time. For most of the time since the 2008 financial crisis, the IMF was worried that the world's economy wasn't generating momentum.
The deflation fears were also dispelled due to the rebound in the commodity prices. These fears of deflation or falling prices have been a danger in the developed world, especially as it can aggravate some economic weakness for the countries.
This year's forecast is clearly an improvement on the last year's 3.1% forecast.
Russia and Brazil, the two countries that suffered from the international and domestic political difficulties fallout, have forecasted to see a lot of growth this year even if it's not that strong.
The report has notes of the loss of the middle skilled jobs in the developed economies due to a lot of technological changes since the 1990s.
If you combine it with the recent economic crisis' slow recovery, a lot of people with lower incomes were affected leading to the growing disillusionment with the globalization concept, says the IMF.
Another warning by the report is that more protectionist policy actions could be triggered on immigration and trade.
The increased processes of fragmentation of production across the countries also aggravate the potential damage economically, according to the report.
This year's forecast for Britain has been revised up to 2% growth from the 1.6%, which was predicted in 2016. Apart from the US whose forecast of growth is 2.3%, Britain is the strongest in all the leading development in economies in terms of growth.
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World |How the AK-47 and AR-15 Evolved Into Rifles of Choice for Mass Shootings
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How the AK-47 and AR-15 Evolved Into Rifles of Choice for Mass Shootings
By C. J. CHIVERS and ATTILA FUTAKI UPDATED February 15, 2018
By C.J. Chivers with illustrations by Attila Futaki
How the AK-47 Redefined War
Time and again it's the same. A lone gunman or a small group of killers with rifles commits spectacular crimes that seize the attention of the world.
The list reaches back decades: the killing of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972; the school takeover in Beslan, Russia, in 2004; the attacks in Mumbai, India, in 2008; the mall assault in Nairobi, Kenya, in 2013; the killing of more than 100 people in Paris in 2015; the firing into a country music concert in Las Vegas in October 2017, which killed at least 58 people and wounded hundreds more in the most lethal mass shooting in modern American history; the premeditated Valentine's Day attack by a former student on a high school in Parkland, Fla.
Often the rifles are variants of the AK-47, the world's most abundant firearm, an affordable and simple-to-use assault rifle of Soviet lineage that allows a few people to kill scores and menace hundreds, and fight head-to-head against modern soldiers and police forces.
In recent years they have also been descendants of the AR-15, the American military's response to the Kalashnikov's spread. Semiautomatic versions of the AR-15 were used by sympathizers of the Islamic State in San Bernardino, Calif., in 2015, and by gunmen in school attacks; a Mini-14 and an MCX, rifles that fire the same cartridge as the AR-15 and compete with it for market share, were used in the mass shootings in Norway in 2011 and in Orlando, Fla., in June.
The authorities said the gunman in Las Vegas used semiautomatic AR-15s, including at least one modified with a so-called "bump stock" to rapidly increase its rate of fire and kill 59 people and wound hundreds more. The FBI said the man who killed 11 worshippers in a synagogue in Pittsburgh fired on them with an AR-15.
In the hands of terrorists, military-style rifles have repeatedly been used for swiftly killing on a large scale. How did the Kalashnikov — a disruptive technology that flooded the world almost three generations ago and still retains an outsize role in organized violence — become such a ready amplifier of evil and rage? In what ways did it drive the AR-15 and its competitors to such prominence, too?
A militant aimed an assault rifle during a siege in which dozens of people were killed at the Westgate mall in Nairobi, Kenya, in September 2013. Reuters
Gunmen armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles fled after attacking the offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris in January 2015. Reuters
A Cold War Product
The answers reach to the years immediately after World War II, when the Soviet Union was developing multiple weapons for multiple roles. As Soviet scientists worked on nuclear arms that would freeze borders in place under the fear of total war, teams of gunsmiths and engineers set out in a contest to design a conventional weapon — a rifle — that would combine the rapid-fire ferocity of machine guns with the portability of lighter-weight arms. The weapon was to be a conceptual copy of the sturmgewehr, which Nazi Germany had fielded late in the war.
In the evaluations and field trials that followed, Senior Sgt. Mikhail T. Kalashnikov, a wounded veteran of tank warfare on the Soviet Union's western front, was credited with developing a prototype for a medium-powered rifle capable, like the sturmgewehr, of both automatic and semiautomatic fire.
The AK-47, with an effective range beyond the length of a pair of football fields, was accepted in 1947. A few years later, a lighter and easier-to-manufacture update, the AKM, entered mass production in Russia, and was on its way to becoming the standard rifle for almost all Communist ground forces. The weapon soon left its mark.
Workers assembling Kalashnikov rifles in Izhevsk, Russia, where the weapons maker Kalashnikov Concern is based. Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Russian troops holding Kalashnikovs during a parade rehearsal near Moscow in April 2009. Oxana Onipko/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Unpacking Its Appeal
The Kalashnikov line was shorter and lighter than traditional rifles. It was inexpensive to manufacture, built for durability and reliable to an extraordinary degree. With few moving parts, and a design that made its disassembly and reassembly almost intuitive, its basics could be mastered by all manner of combatants — from traditionally instructed conscripts to almost wholly untrained guerrillas — in very little time.
The cartridges were smaller than traditional rifle cartridges, which meant that a fighter with a Kalashnikov could carry more ammunition, and be more deadly, than riflemen of previous eras. The rifle's medium-power cartridges also meant the weapon had little recoil, allowing trainees to learn marksmanship at standard combat ranges with relative ease. These qualities contributed to the weapon's popularity among those who carried it; in much of the world the Kalashnikov became the everyman's gun.
A disassembled AK-47. The ease with which the weapon can be taken apart and put back together added to its popularity. Royal Military College of Science
A member of a militia in the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic in eastern Ukraine brandished a Kalashnikov in August 2014. Sergei Ilnitsky/European Pressphoto Agency
The Global Spread of Kalashnikovs
The Kalashnikov's physical characteristics alone do not explain its prominence. It was the vast scale of rifle and ammunition manufacture in mammoth arms plants that drove the Kalashnikov to its status as one of the most immediately recognized products of the Communist era, one of the most readily identifiable objects in the world.
The maps show the many ways in which it spread. Production began in the Soviet Union in the 1940s before expanding to the vassal states of the Warsaw Pact and to China, North Korea, Yugoslavia and beyond. Tens of millions of the rifles were churned out in planned economies, whether they were needed or not. In the U.S.S.R., where Kalashnikovs were cast as tools of the Motherland's defense, they entered the civic fabric. Students trained with them in schools.
Ammunition plants were built in countries where the rifles were manufactured, ensuring ready supplies. More state forces adopted the weapons and began cartridge production, too. The rifle swept across much of the world. In the 1970s the Soviet Army introduced a new model, the AK-74, which fired a smaller, faster cartridge. Millions of older Kalashnikovs became officially obsolete, freeing them for global trade. Taken together, a series of industrial decisions in planned economies had created conditions for near ubiquity.
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The rifles and ammunition were also manufactured in the former countries of Czechoslovakia, East Germany and Yugoslavia, which are not shown here.
The spread changed modern warfare. As Communist governments passed Kalashnikovs to allies and proxies the rifles assumed an unexpected role: battlefield leveler.
Vietnam offered the breakout. Africa had been colonized by small detachments of European soldiers turning machine guns against larger local forces that lacked access to equivalent weapons. In Vietnam, much of that advantage was gone. Guerrillas armed with Kalashnikovs fought toe-to-toe against foot soldiers of a superpower. Modern expeditionary units, facing automatic fire from inexpensive rifles carried by peasants, had met their close-quarters match. Often their ambitions were checked.
The Kalashnikov's superiority to the American M-14 in jungle warfare in Vietnam spurred Robert S. McNamara, the defense secretary at the time, to push the Pentagon to hurry production of a new American assault rifle, the AR-15, which became known as the M-16. The decision would propel assault rifles to their current position as standard military firearms across the world.
A 14-year-old boy, a member of the hill tribes known as the Montagnards, held an AK-47 captured from communist forces during the war in Vietnam in August 1968. Henri Huet/Associated Press
In Terrorists' Hands
After its effectiveness was proved in Vietnam, the Kalashnikov assumed its indelible association as the terrorists' choice.
Hostage-takers with Kalashnikovs scaled an Olympic Village fence in Munich in 1972 and seized members of the Israeli team. The rifle had broken its leash. It was no longer a tool of the state, or Communist ideology. The era of Kalashnikov terrorism had begun, with the world watching live on TV.
Instruction in the rifle had by then become a staple of irregular warfare training, including in curriculums at Palestinian camps. Its spread continued to such a grand degree that the Kremlin's foes began procuring the weapons. American and Pakistani intelligence officers coached Islamic fighters on the particulars of Kalashnikov use in the war to expel Soviet forces from Afghanistan in the 1980s.
Originally intended to strengthen authoritarian states, the Kalashnikov had gained outlaw credibility, morphing to a symbol of revolt, blowback, crime and jihad.
A militant with the terrorist group that took members of the Israeli Olympic team hostage during the Munich Summer Games in 1972. All of the hostages were killed. Kurt Strumpf/Associated Press
Members of the Afghan mujahedeen in the 1980s. The fighter at the bottom right is holding a Kalashnikov. Associated Press
Anti-Soviet rebels, one of whom, at left, is equipped with a Kalashnikov, east of Kabul, in February 1980. Associated Press
A Rifle for All Ages
The Kalashnikov's simplicity, compact size and gentle recoil combine to make it uncannily well-suited for child soldiers.
In many wars commanders have provided the rifles to teenagers, and occasionally to combatants yet to reach their teenage years, who in spite of their small stature are able to manage the weapon and carry a large load of ammunition.
Kalashnikovs are primary firearms for entire formations of child soldiers, including Joseph Kony's notorious Lord's Resistance Army in Africa, and the weapon is routinely used by children who augment rebel or irregular forces in wars around the world.
The Islamic State, following the pattern, has made images of its child soldiers posing with Kalashnikovs part of its propaganda routine. They are not alone. Images of child soldiers with Kalashnikovs have been common in many conflicts for decades.
A boy from the Mursi tribe in southern Ethiopia with a Kalashnikov rifle in 2007. Pavel Wolberg/European Pressphoto Agency
Supporters of the Houthi rebels who are fighting the Yemeni government and a Saudi-led coalition gathered to protest against airstrikes in Sana, Yemen, in April 2015. Yahya Arhab/European Pressphoto Agency
A Palestinian girl held a Kalashinkov as fighters of Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, posed with weapons in Gaza City in August 2014. Wissam Nassar for The New York Times
The American Response
Prone to jamming, the M-16 had a rushed and disastrous introduction in the Vietnam War. But most of its early flaws were worked out, and it secured its place in American armories. From there, NATO defense standardization prompted European services to field their own assault rifles, spreading this class of weapons across the non-Communist world.
The Kalashnikov had fueled an unheralded arms race. By the 1980s the two lines of weapons — the AK-47 and the AR-15, and their many descendants and spinoffs — were a global pair.
Laws in the United States mostly limited civilian possession of AR-15s and their competitors to models that fire semiautomatically only. But as these variants gained popularity with veterans, gun-rights advocates, preppers and, occasionally, with criminals or terrorists, their place in crime grew — even as Kalashnikov production ebbed. Variants of the AR-15 were used in the mass killings in a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., and at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, and by sympathizers of the Islamic State in San Bernardino. An MCX, a recently introduced military-style rifle designed for the Special Forces but available in semiautomatic form for civilians, was used by the lone gunman who attacked a nightclub in Orlando in June.
The shooter in Las Vegas possessed civilian AR-15 models that had been retrofitted with inexpensive accessories, called bump stocks, that harness recoil to accelerate a semiautomatic rifle's rate of fire to rival those of automatic weapons.
Semiautomatic Kalashnikovs are also part of the mass-shooting routine. The gunman in the 1989 schoolyard shooting in Stockton, Calif., which killed five children and wounded dozens more, attacked his victims with a semiautomatic Chinese Kalashnikov. His crime was part of the impetus for bans on assault-style weapons at the state and national level. The Army veteran who killed five police officers in Dallas in 2016 used a semiautomatic Kalashnikov. It had been made at the original AK-47 plant in Russia to be legal in the West and appeal to hunting and sporting markets.
A law enforcement officer looked over evidence after a couple who sympathized with the Islamic State killed 14 people in a gun attack in San Bernardino, Calif., in December. Mario Anzuoni/Reuters
Smith & Wesson rifles civilian versions of the AR-15 for sale at a gun show in Loveland, Colo., in 2014. Luke Sharrett for The New York Times
Modern Conflicts
In the 1980s and 1990s, as Communism failed, the market economy welcomed Stalin's old goods. Successor governments continue to unload huge stockpiles, further flooding the world.
Among the principal movers of Kalashnikovs has been the Pentagon, which bought them by untold thousands for proxy forces in Afghanistan and Iraq. The Pentagon also distributed tens of thousands of M-16s and the shorter M-4 carbine based on the AR-15 design, to the same forces. Many of these forces failed, yielding their rifles to bazaars or foes, making ever more weapons available on unregulated markets and for dangerous hands.
Today the Kalashnikov and AR-15 variants remain the most commonly seen weapons on modern battlefields; their use is central to almost every war. They are a staple of insurgency and terrorism and all but fundamental to the grim routine of mass shootings. The Islamic State has killed far more people in Europe with bullets than with bombs, and controls territory in multiple countries in part through its military rifle stocks.
Governments have done little to stop the spread of this class of weapons. Often, as in the case of the United States, they have contributed to it. Acts of crime, terror and oppression with Kalashnikovs and AR-15 descendants, endured by civilians under withering fire, have been hard-wired into our times. There is no end in sight.
Syrian opposition fighters celebrated after a battle with government soldiers in Ras al-Ain, near the border with Turkey, in November 2012. Bulent Kilic/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Members of the Afghan National Army trained with American-issued M-16s in March at Camp Bastion in Helmand Province, under the supervision of American troops. Adam Ferguson for The New York Times
A Kurdish gunman raised his AK-47 in front of a burning house that had been occupied by Shiite militiamen during clashes in Tuz Khurmato, Iraq, in April. Goran Tomasevic/Reuters
C.J. Chivers is a reporter for The New York Times, a former Marine and the author of "The Gun," a history of the Kalashnikov line and its effects upon security and war. Follow him on Twitter.
Attila Futaki is a Hungarian cartoonist for the New York Times Best-Seller Percy Jackson graphic novels, "Severed" and "Conan."
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Mikhail Kalashnikov, Creator of AK-47, Dies at 94
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Q: Differences in LINQ vs Method expression Why the Linq expression IL results in omission of the Select projection whereas the corresponding method expression keeps the Select projection ?
I suppose these two pieces of code does the same.
 var a = from c in companies
                where c.Length >10
                select c;

//

var b = companies.Where(c => c.Length > 10).Select(c => c);

//IL - LINQ

IEnumerable<string> a = this.companies.
Where<string>(CS$<>9__CachedAnonymousMethodDelegate1);

//IL

   IEnumerable<string> b = this.companies.Where<string>
   (CS$<>9__CachedAnonymousMethodDelegate4).Select<string, string>
   (CS$<>9__CachedAnonymousMethodDelegate5);

Then why the difference in IL?
EDITED :
 then why
  var a = from c in companies
           select c;

result in SELECT projection even inside IL. it can also be omitted right ?

A: The C# compiler is clever and remove useless statement from Linq. Select c is useless so the compiler remove it. When you write Select(c=>c) the compiler can't say that's the instruction is useless because it' a function call and so it doesn't remove it.
If you remove it yourself IL become the same.
EDIT :
Linq is a "descriptive" language : you say what you want and the compiler transforms it well. You don't have any control on that transformation. The compiler try to optimize function call and don't use Select because you don't do projection so it's useless.
When you write Select(c => c) you call a function explicitely so the compiler won't remove it.
var a = from c in companies select c;
var a = c.Select(elt=>elt);

Select is usefull in this example. If you remove it a has the type of c; otherwise a is an IEnumerable

A: @mexianto is of course correct that this is a compiler optimization.
Note that this is explicitly called out in the language specification under "Degenerate Query expressions." Also note that the compiler is smart enough to not perform the optimization when doing so would return the original source object (the user might want to use a degenerate query to make it difficult for the client to mutate the source object, assuming that it is mutable).

7.16.2.3 Degenerate query expressions
A query expression of the form

from x in e select x

is translated into

( e ) . Select ( x => x )

[...] A degenerate query expression is one that
  trivially selects the elements of the source. A later phase of the
  translation removes degenerate queries introduced by other translation
  steps by replacing them with their source. It is important however to
  ensure that the result of a query expression is never the source
  object itself, as that would reveal the type and identity of the
  source to the client of the query. Therefore this step protects
  degenerate queries written directly in source code by explicitly
  calling Select on the source. It is then up to the implementers of
  Select and other query operators to ensure that these methods never
  return the source object itself.

A: In your second example, the call to Select is not redundant. If you would omit the Select call, the query would just return the original collection, whereas Select returns an IEnumerable.
In your first example, Where already returns an IEnumerable and the select clause doesn't do any work, so it is omitted.

A: Because in the query version there is no actual select projecting 'c' into something else, it is just passing on 'c' as-is. Which results in only a call to 'Where'.
In the second variation, you explicitly call 'Select' and thus do a projection. Yes, you are only returning the same objects, but the compiler will not see this.

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Dark Medieval Times ist das Debütalbum der norwegischen Metal-Band Satyricon. Es wurde 1994 veröffentlicht, nachdem die Band zuvor die beiden Demos All Evil und The Forest Is My Throne veröffentlicht hatte.

Entstehung
Das Album wurde vom Label Moonfog Productions des Sängers Satyr produziert. Alle Lieder wurden von Satyr komponiert. Hiervon ausgenommen ist die Einleitung des ersten Albumstücks Walk the Path of Sorrow, bei der es sich um einen Auszug aus dem 1988 veröffentlichten Album Death in the Blue Lake der norwegischen Experimental-Formation When handelt.

Stil und Inhalt
Satyr bezeichnet die Produktion als "scharf wie eine Rasierklinge". Er wollte mit ihr eine "kalte nordische Atmosphäre" erzeugen. Ein Rezensent ist der Ansicht, das Album profitiere, "wie viele Black-Metal-Alben", von der schlechten Produktion. Das Riffing erinnert an das von Mayhem und an mittelalterliche Melodien; es wird von akustischen Passagen unterbrochen und in diesen von einer Flöte begleitet, die "die passende Atmosphäre" erzeugt. Das Album beginnt mit einem Sample der Band When.

Der Gesang ist trotz der schlechten Produktion gut verständlich, das Schlagzeugspiel erscheint konfus. Der Stil wird als "sabbath-artig" beschrieben. Die Texte drehen sich um "Wälder, Schlösser, Schlösser im Wald, etc.", wie bei frühen Aufnahmen der Band üblich.

Rezeption
Jason Anderson von Allmusic findet, das Album dürfe "in keiner unheiligen Plattensammlung" fehlen. Laut tartareandesire.com sollte jeder "mit einem vagen Interesse für frühen Black Metal" Dark Medieval Times besitzen. Das Album wurde mit Darkthrones A Blaze in the Northern Sky, Mayhems De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas und Burzums Hvis lyset tar oss verglichen.

Titelliste
Walk the Path of Sorrow ('Den Pfad der Sorge gehen') – 8:18
Dark Medieval Times ('Dunkle mittelalterliche Zeiten') – 8:11
Skyggedans ('Schattentanz') – 3:55
Min hyllest til vinterland ('Mein Tribut an das Winterland') – 4:29
Into the Mighty Forest ('In den mächtigen Wald') – 6:18
The Dark Castle in the Deep Forest ('Das dunkle Schloss im tiefen Wald') – 6:22
Taakeslottet ('Das Nebelschloss') – 5:54

Einzelnachweise

Weblinks

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Album 1994
Satyricon-Album
Album (Folk)


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Dagenham & Redbridge versus Yeovil 20th November 2021
During the long days of lockdown, furlough and all the other associated problems linked to COVID, the Dagenham and Redbridge FC Community Trust went into total hibernation. On several occasions, it awoke as the restrictions were slightly eased allowing the Trust and its staff to engage with many local young children offering them an opportunity to get out of the house, run around and exercise, meet with, talk to and engage with other youngsters to simply have fun.
Those sessions, held at May and Bakers Sports Club provided unforgettable and heart-warming memories for all involved including not only the children, but also the coaches, soldiers, police officers and parents.
Just when things looked to be picking up the restrictions returned. Trust staff were unable to lead clubs in local schools for over a year, the regular Premier League Kicks programme did not fully return until over 12 months after it first stopped and hundreds of children in the Borough were denied the opportunity to exercise, develop skills and understanding, meet with friends and just have fun.
As the Trust Manager, I often wondered when we would return to any form of normality and get back out into the local area putting smiles on young faces. The turning point was probably Easter 2021 and since then Trust Staff have returned to working in schools where they teach PE, run lunchtime and after school clubs on a regular basis. The Premier League Kicks sessions have returned on a regular basis and the number of PL Kicks "Girls Only" sessions have grown significantly in recent months. This London United project, funded by the London Marathon Charitable Trust has been informed that further funding will be provided to all. The professional football club charitable organisations (CCOs) who make up London United will receive further funding to continue this provision up to July next year at the very least.
Approaches have been made to the Trust recently by the NHS, the Romford YMCA, The Future Youth Zone, the EFL Trust, several schools and a local Walking Football Club to deliver activities next year. Several people have shown interest in becoming trustees or join a new voluntary advisory group. Things are looking up as the Trust moves into 2022, moving onward and upward.
A big 'Thank You' to the Dagenham United Guard of Honour, all the teachers, parents, schoolchildren, local junior grassroots football club coaches and players for their fantastic support from the SD Samuels Stand last Monday. What an atmosphere you created, pity the result didn't match the effort and enthusiasm both on and off the pitch. We hope you all had a great evening and look forward to seeing you again soon.
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Only last week I took part in yet another online meeting. This one should have been 'Teams' but at last minute was changed to 'Zoom'. It was a feedback meeting about a recent survey which was set up for young girls who had taken part in activities run across London by all the professional football clubs during the last couple of years.
I'm not sure we were given much feedback during the 90 minute long session and I turned off when we went off into the first of several "Break up rooms' to answer poorly thought out questions in a too limited time window.
The first question asked us to imagine what our typical participant looked like. My mind immediately began to wander. Partly because I had no idea what any of our participants look like as I don't deliver the activity, and partly because I was taught a long time ago that nobody is average or typical.
I tend to watch too many BBC QI programmes, including repeats, and I believe I heard Stephen Fry tell a story recently about the 'Average Australian'. In 2015, someone undertook a survey to find the answer. They used the information from the latest census and came to the following conclusions"
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The Importance of Feedback
Posted By Kathleen Bolton On January 30, 2007 @ 8:00 am In CRAFT | Comments Disabled
So over at Flogging the Quill [1], Ray has fiendishly come up with another way to improve your fiction writing. He's devised the Flogometer [2] (TM), a forum where he posts the first two pages of your project. Part one, he rips your hook apart. Part two, he asks himself if he's compelled to turn the page and read further.
Sounds fun, no?
No. But that's what an editor or agent will do to your submission anyway. Ray's just preparing you for the meat grinder. But do you want to play?
Initially, I did not. I've been through the meat grinder more times than I can count on all my digits plus my cat's. But a writer can't afford to ignore feedback, however painful, and especially if it's coming from someone who actually knows what they're doing.
I submitted the first two pages of a WIP for the Flogometer. Yikes! Why did I open myself up to the public flogging?
Because I think it's important not only to be receptive to disinterested, professional feedback, but to share it with others. Blogging is a particularly good forum to do so. I've learned from the samples [3] Ray's already posted (Crap! I have an adverb in my submission. Be gentle, Ray), and it's fun to offer suggestions for improvement. Ray's a stickler for respectful, meaningful feedback, so no one's going to become a punching bag for venomous, cruddy insights like "this writing sucks."
My submission is #7 on the hit parade. If you do mosey over to Flogging, be aware that you'll be reading hardcore editing advice. I'll post my reactions to my Flogometer experience next week.
Happy writing, all.
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The former Kate Middleton was visiting a garden when a youngster asked her about the prying photographers.
The Duchess of Cambridge used a photo op Tuesday as an opportunity to praise a young girl.
The royal, formerly known as Kate Middleton, was hanging out with kids at the Sayers Croft Forest School and Wildlife Garden in London when one of them asked her about all the photographers snapping away.
"Why are they picturing you?" the little girl asked, according to People.
"They're picturing you 'cause you're special!" Kate responded in the Royal Family Channel clip below.
The casually dressed royal was attending her first big solo engagement since giving birth to Louis, her third child with Prince William, in April, Time reported.
Kate reportedly has a "penchant for gardening" and participated in a similar outing in November, E! News noted previously.


The deepest longings and desires for justice, transcendence, community, and beauty, can't be satisfied with financial and personal success.
Survey after survey and study after study proves happiness is not sustained and cultivated with the growth of wealth and/or success. Personal experience might prove the same.
Being made in the image of God means the pathway for true and lasting happiness is found in family, relationships, faith, and meaningful work.
You can't measure any of these metrics with a dollar sign.


Our client specified the size and use and we took it from there. The cabinet is made with book matched walnut burl, the legs, solid Black walnut. The cabinet pulls custom made from Cocobolo and sized according to their use. The interior is Swiss Pear wood. We make the brass knife hinges in the shop.
Fine Hand Made Custom Furniture and Modern Kitchen Cabinetry. Gainesville, FL.


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#ifndef SRC_COMPONENTS_APPLICATION_MANAGER_TEST_STATE_CONTROLLER_INCLUDE_STATISTICS_MANAGER_MOCK_H_
#define SRC_COMPONENTS_APPLICATION_MANAGER_TEST_STATE_CONTROLLER_INCLUDE_STATISTICS_MANAGER_MOCK_H_

#include <string>
#include "gmock/gmock.h"
#include "policy/usage_statistics/statistics_manager.h"

namespace test {
namespace components {
namespace state_controller_test {

namespace us = usage_statistics;

class StatisticsManagerMock : public us::StatisticsManager {
 public:
  MOCK_METHOD1(Increment, void (us::GlobalCounterId));
  MOCK_METHOD2(Increment, void (const std::string&, us::AppCounterId));
  MOCK_METHOD3(Set, void (const std::string&, us::AppInfoId, const std::string&));
  MOCK_METHOD3(Add, void (const std::string&, us::AppStopwatchId, int32_t));
};

}  // namespace state_controller_test
}
}

#endif  // SRC_COMPONENTS_APPLICATION_MANAGER_TEST_STATE_CONTROLLER_INCLUDE_STATISTICS_MANAGER_MOCK_H_

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Post-partum visit from Nancy today. Everybody is great! Xander weighed in at 6 lbs 12 oz - an appropriate 7 oz loss for his first couple of days (mostly meconium weight).
So far he seems like a pretty laid-back guy, although it's too soon to say anything definite about his temperament.
Griff holding Xander for the first time. Can you tell he's smitten?


But there is a secret here. The schlocky teriyaki counter has some big tanks full of live fish, Dungeness crabs, and other goodies. Behind the kitchen, there's a hidden tatami room. "And, that telltale sign that something Chowish is afoot—well-dressed, wealthy-looking Koreans tucking into a colorful, fresh-looking spread of food," says techbod.
When you're done with that, waiters take the sashimi away, deliver some kimchee, and make spicy fish soup. The soup is made from the skeleton of your fish, with some of the uneaten sashimi thrown in and cooked to perfect tenderness. The rest of the sashimi takes a quick trip through a tempura station and comes back to you fried and in a takeout container.
This is a family-run restaurant, decades old, with tons of regulars. And it's the only restaurant in the Channel Islands Harbor that has a license to circulate harbor water through its tanks. It's not the best water in the world, but it's better than the stale, disgusting water in most restaurant fish tanks.
The smallest version of the experience runs $50 and serves two people—and there are, of course, larger fish for larger groups.
Board Link: Fisherman's House, Channel Islands Harbor; Secret Dining Room–Anyone Ever Tried It?


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Q: Why a martingale should have limit at infinity? Problem: suppose $(M_t)_{t \geq 0}$ is right-continuous and a martingale with respect to a filtration $(\mathcal{F}_t)_{t \geq 0}$, i.e. for all $0 \leq s \leq t$ $\mathbb{E}[M_t | \mathcal{F}_s]=M_s$. Suppose also that $\sup\limits_{t \geq 0} \mathbb{E}[|M_t|] \leq c <+\infty$. Prove that $\{\exists \lim\limits_{t \to \infty}M_t \}$ has probability $1$.
Attempt: I think that should follow from the discrete time case. If we have a martingale $(M_n)_{n \in \mathbb{N}}$ bounded in $L^1$ then $\{\exists \lim\limits_{n \to \infty}M_n \}$. Thus I would like to make the statement above follow from the discrete time case. The problem is that something like:
$$\{ \not\exists \lim\limits_{t \to \infty}M_t \} \subset \bigcup\limits_{t_k \mbox{ increasing sequence}} \{ \not\exists \lim\limits_{k \to \infty}M_{t_k}\}$$
cannot be used because the set $\{(t_k)_{k \geq 1}\subset [0,+\infty) \mbox{ increasing sequence}\}$ is not countable.

A: For  $k \ge 0$, let $D_k:=\{n/2^k : n \in {\mathbb N}\}$ and let $D:=\cup_{k\ge 0} D_k$ be the set of positive dyadic rationals.
If a right continuous function $f$ satisfies
$\lim\limits_{t \to \infty, \,t \in D} f(t)=L$, then it follows that
$\lim\limits_{t \to \infty } f(t)=L$, since for any real $t$ there is a sequence of dyadic rationals that converge to $t$ from the right.
For each $k \ge 0$, the discrete Martingale convergence theorem implies that
$$P\{\exists \lim\limits_{t \to \infty, \,t \in D_k} M_t \}=1 \,.$$
All these limits must agree, because $D_k \subset D_{k+1}$ for each $k$,
so $$P\{\exists \lim\limits_{t \to \infty, \,t \in D} M_t \}=1 \,.$$
Edit: Actually, this requires further explanation. It is easy to see, using optional stopping, that $\{M_t\}$ is almost surely bounded. For any interval $[a,b]$, let $N_k=N_k[a,b]$ be  the  number  of upcrossings of $[a,b]$ by the martingale $\{M_{n/2^k}\}_{n \ge 1}$. Since the expectations of $N_k$ are uniformly bounded by $c/(b-a)$, the number of upcrossings of $[a,b]$ by $M_t, t \in D$ is also finite almost surely.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doob%27s_martingale_convergence_theorems
Putting everything together, we have
$$P\{\exists \lim\limits_{t \to \infty } M_t \}=1 \,.$$


We are creating Manhattan's FIRST Community Squash Center.
We have been blessed with a major donor who will match every donation up to $100,000.
To give your child the opportunity to experience a true squash environment in Manhattan.
To give a graduated college student a place they can afford to play and continue to play the game they love.
To have a vibrant and dedicated squash community on your doorstep in Manhattan for matches, league play & tournaments with no dress code, time restrictions, or exclusivity!
100% of the proceeds will be used to cover court construction costs and create the space you know we need.
We are excited to offer several wonderful gifts for you generous donation. …some gifts include a private session with Peter Nicol, tickets to our opening event, guest passes, our amazing t-shirt and so much more.
How much have we matched so far?
Matching donations up to $100,000.
Help us expand squash beyond the bastions of private clubs and into the arms of the general public. 100% of your generous donation will go to court construction or to subsidizing membership fees for those who need a helping hand. We need $3 million to open. We are raising the last $1 million here. Be part of the winning team.
There are a variety of ways that you can support Manhattan Squash (that's our nickname for those in the know). Here we'll focus on the biggest two. Becoming a Founding Member or providing Landmark Support.
Knowing that you have helped support the first new and publicly accessible squash facility built in Manhattan this century.
Priority and guaranteed access to Peter Nicol's world famous Junior training program: the Nicol Champions' Academy (NCA).
We are expecting to be able to offer lockers and laundry service which will be included in your membership. If you'd like to sign up, please do, it's on us.
A selection of the best swag we can find.
VIP tickets to our opening festivities.
A generous selection of guest passes so that you'll always be able to host your friends at your facility.
A tax deduction that will be equal to approximately half of the amount you donate.
Landmark support is just that. It's big. It'll last as long as we do. And it's a Landmark. Here are some options. Other custom opportunities also exist.
Help us by financing a court. You can name it after your best friend, your hero, your family, yourself, or you can be a ghost and just know that you've helped grow the sport of squash and make it more accessible to the general public. For more details, please contact us directly.


Posted on February 11, 2019 at 8:00:00 am by Rachel S.
Pub Trivia is becoming an increasingly popular group activity. It is a way for bars to boost their traffic on weeknights and a means for friends to come together over a pint of beer, a light mental challenge, and some guaranteed laughs. Several local Fort Wayne, Indiana bars have adopted regular trivia nights or sporadic trivia events.
Whether you're a fun-fact fiend or a passive consumer of media and culture, grab a partner or some friends, get to one of these Fort Wayne trivia hot spots and show us your smarts!
On Tuesdays and Wednesdays, trivia hosts from Geeks Who Drink make an appearance at bars around the city.
It's free for anyone to participate in their quiz – single or on a team of up to six.
Test your knowledge of pop culture, current events and other random topics! "Name that tune" style soundbites, bonus points and a chance for free beer are all on the agenda for a Geeks Who Drink trivia night.
Hop River Brewing Company, 7:00 p.m.
Team Trivia takes a different approach from traditional pub trivia as players use their smartphones to answer questions read by a live host. The stakes go up as contestants wager on the confidence of their answers and gamble points on their final answer- like in Jeopardy!
Tincture hosts appear at different locations in the city throughout the week. You can catch them at places like 07 Pub, Mad Anthony Brewing, and Granite City Food & Brewery. To see their full schedule click here.
Fort Wayne's NPR affiliate 89.1 WBOI teams up with popular cocktail bar HT2 to host a monthly trivia quiz. Craft cocktails, current events and cool prizes are all instore for this event on the last Thursday of each month. Seating is limited and sells out quickly! Participants can learn more about this event and reserve their spot here.
Rachel Stephens joined the Visit Fort Wayne team in November 2018. She is a Purdue Fort Wayne Alumni and all-around cheerleader for Northeast Indiana. On the weekends you can find Rachel writing at a local coffee shop, brunching downtown or walking her Yorkie puppy, Jasper.


> MAYORS 2007/U11 Flights: 2007/U11 Flights: All games have been scored and known disputes resolved. The 2007/U11 flights are now reconciled and advancements are correct pending any additional disputes.
G2007 Bracket P has a tie for 1st and 2nd that needs to be resolved by Kicks from the Mark for 1st of Bracket P and Wildcard #1.
> CHECK-IN: The listed Head Coach or Team Manager needs to go online and print 2 copies of the teams Match Roster for each game. There is a MANDATORY team check-in by a Team Administrator 1 hour prior to the first game only at the Venue Headquarters.The Players and the Coaches are checked in at the field by the referees just prior to the start of each game.


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The Canadian Efficiency Decoration (ED) was a Canadian military award given to officers of the Non-Permanent Active Militia, RCAF Auxiliary and Reserve who completed twenty years of meritorious military service. Similar  Efficiency Decorations were also awarded by other Commonwealth countries. A bar was issued for an additional 20 years of meritorious service. Approximately 3,700 medals were issued.

Time spent in war service counted double towards the 20 year requirement and time spent in the ranks counted as half.  The award was superseded by the Air Efficiency Award for members of the RCAF Auxiliary and Reserve in 1942.  Eligible members who entered the Canadian Forces before 1 September 1939 continued to be eligible for award of the Canadian Efficiency Decoration and bars to the decoration.  Members who had joined after that time were eligible for the Canadian Forces Decoration, which superseded the Canadian Efficiency Decoration, on its establishment in 1949.

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Military awards and decorations of Canada


Men who consumed the most vegetables were 34 per cent less likely to develop poor thinking skills than the men who consumed the least amount of vegetables.
The findings showed that men who ate larger amounts of fruits and vegetables 20 years earlier were less likely to develop thinking and memory problems, whether or not they kept eating larger amounts of fruits and vegetables later.
Men who drank orange juice every day were 47 per cent less likely to develop poor thinking skills than the men who drank less than one serving per month. This association was mainly observed for regular consumption of orange juice among the oldest men, the researchers found.
"One of the most important factors in this study is that we were able to research and track such a large group of men over a 20-year period of time, allowing for very telling results," said Changzheng Yuan from Harvard University's T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston.
"Our studies provide further evidence dietary choices can be important to maintain your brain health," Yuan added.
The study, published in the journal Neurology, looked at 27,842 men with an average age of 51 who were all health professionals.
A total of 55 per cent of the participants had good thinking and memory skills, 38 per cent had moderate skills, and seven per cent had poor thinking and memory skills.
However, the study does not show that eating fruits and vegetables and drinking orange juice reduces memory loss; it only shows a relationship between them, the researchers noted.


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Q: GCD as integral operator Kind of weird question, but is there something like an integral operator which returns $1$ if $\gcd(a, b) = 1$ and $0$ otherwise, meaning
$$
\int_{D} K(a, b, t) \, {\rm d}t = \begin{cases} 1 \qquad \gcd(a, b) = 1 \\ 0 \qquad {\rm else} \end{cases} \, .
$$
where $D$ is some appropriate integration domain and $K$ the kernel.
Hope it's clear.

A: Sounds like you've forgotten about the Kronecker delta. I love Lethe, mwahahahahha! Then $$\delta_1^{\gcd(a, b)} = 1$$ if $a$ and $b$ are coprime, and $$\delta_1^{\gcd(a, b)} = 0$$ otherwise.


Experience the 1920s at Aintree Racecourse this Christmas and join us for a roaring Great Gatsby evening.
On arrival you will be greeted with a cocktail before entering a world of gold, feathers and dazzling lights where you will be served a delicious three course meal. Then dance the night away with our live DJ who will keep the party going until the early hours…Gatsby style!
Free on-site parking. Free cloakroom.


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As members of the Amusement and Music Operators Association (AMOA), the NDA's founders saw the benefit that organized league play had on other sports and created the AMOA-National Dart Association to provide benefits to coin-operated vending companies and their players.
Early tasks for the NDA included creating standard rules of play, national tournaments, a player-founded publication and establishing an administrative office.
The NDA is now an international organization with members from eight countries. The NDA hosts the world's largest international soft-tip dart tournament competition in the world.
Over 46,000 players are sanctioned annually, participating in dart leagues run by our members in over 10,000 locations worldwide.
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The summer wedding season has been keeping us busy! It's far from over, but we have found the time to come up for air and quickly share a few projects we have had the pleasure of working on with Carla from Tucco Wedding & Events based in Marbella Spain. Four very different events, all set in the glorious wedding playground of Andalucia, Spain.
I do love what can be achieved with paper, but always like when we get a little free rein to use other materials in our work. And free rein we had, in fact it was openly encouraged by Carla and her bridal clients. So much so, a lovely run of projects, each using a different material and print method to add those little touches to the happy couples' day.
Mirrored menus were introduced to an old school elegant outdoor villa wedding, which also featured the most fantastical table centres and with chandeliers which appeared to be suspended from thin air.
A bit of rustic charm and an ode to the use of tiles throughout Andalucia were the perfect addition to this Cortijo Feria-inspired wedding. I was also very happy with our "Uncle here comes your 'Joy'" sign, a lovely play on the Bride's name.
Then to the beach and an Ancient Greek-inspired engagement, save the date shoot. We created our own piece of history with a real stone tablet announcing the date of the wedding to be.
Looking forward to seeing the photographers' images of all of the above! Thank you to Joseba Sandoval for sharing the image of the bridal couple with their 'Save the Date' tablet on the shoot.
Hi I'm getting married at the Cortijo de Los caballos the 1st of June with Rachel rose weddings, our stationary package is with your company how do I go about designing with you?


This leaf tea is grown in the Southern region of Ceylon. The conditions in this region, creates a dark leaf, which makes for a brisk and delightful brew.
Our premium Ruhana black tea from the revered tea-growing island, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), is a wonderful loose leaf breakfast tea choice. This leafy FBOP (Flowery Broken Orange Pekoe) grade tea is known for its stylish appearance and exceptionally clean taste. Its delicate yet brisk flavour is perfectly paired with a touch of honey or sugar. You may also wish to add a splash of milk per your preference.
Teas produced in the Ruhuna tea-growing district are black in colour, due to the combination of unique soil, hot weather and tea variety in the area. The Ruhuna district is located in South Ceylon (Sri Lanka), approximately 2,000 feet above sea level. The bright morning sunshine in this southern region creates exclusive conditions which gives a blackness to the tea leaves. This results in a strong and characterful brew.
Beautiful, thank you for providing this authentic tea.
Transported back to Sri Lanka!
Wonderfully clean and fresh tasting tea. I had bought some Ruhuna tea on holiday in Sri Lanka and so was delighted to find a source for it back in U.K. Delicious and refreshing.
I had to make this quite strong to get the caramel flavour, in short I've had better Ceylon tea.
This tea brings back wonderful memories of my recent holiday in Sri Lanka so thanks for that experience . The online buying of the tea was simple and painless with quick delivery so will definitely be using The Tea Makers services again.


Our theme for 2019-2020 is The Great Harvest. We will be exploring evangelism and being missionaries in our own communities as well as reaching those who may be marginalized outside of the walls of the local church. Our overarching scripture is Matthew 9:37 (NLT) He said to his disciples, "The harvest is great, but the workers are few.' Have you seen less workers in the local church and ministries? Are you ready to step up to help with the great harvest?
Our Annual Planning Guide (APG) contains materials for organizing your women's group, information on national and international projects, programs, organizational contacts, national events, ministry resources, missionary listings, and tips for planning the coming year. All current partners who are local and state coordinators automatically receive their Annual Planning Guide (APG) in the mail in the beginning of the year.
If you are not a current coordinator and would like to utilize this resource and start your own women's ministry group, please email frontdesk@wchog.org or call 1-866-778-0804.
"He said to his disciples, "The harvest is great, but the workers are few." (Matthew 9:37 NLT).


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The Room with The View: Marine Room marks 75 years in La Jolla
The Marine Room
(Kevin Dilliard)
By Ashley Mackin-Solomon
Overlooking the view that made it famous, about 150 guests of the La Jolla Historical Society gathered to listen to the history of The Marine Room in honor of its 75th anniversary, March 20.
As told by La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club/Marine Room president — and fourth generation manager — Bill Kellogg, the historical retrospective came during an invitation-only celebration at the landmark restaurant. Held in connection with La Jolla Historical Society, the event marks one of many historic anniversaries in town this year.
"Our mission at La Jolla Historical Society is to inspire and empower the community to make La Jolla's diverse past a meaningful part of contemporary life. … Part of our mission is historical preservation. This year, we are recognizing the 50th anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act, which was signed by President Johnson in 1966, and which lead to programs at the state and local level," said Heath Fox, executive director of La Jolla Historical Society. "So it is especially poetic that we are celebrating The Marine Room's 75th anniversary during the 50th anniversary year of National Historic Preservation Act. … One of our best friends at the Historical Society is Bill Kellogg, and his family history roots run deep in the history of this community."
La Jolla Historical Society executive director Heath Fox, La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club and Marine Room president Bill Kellogg and Marine Room executive chef Bernard Guillas
(Ashley Mackin)
Although The Marine Room opened officially in 1941, the developments that lead to it becoming the famed La Jolla Shores establishment it is today reach well ahead of that.
It was in 1927 that Kellogg's great-grandfather Frederick William Kellogg (known as F.W. Kellogg) decided to build the La Jolla Beach & Yacht Club. "That's right, they really thought they were going to sail yachts into the harbor," Kellogg joked. "In the La Jolla Historical Society archives, there is a picture of the bulldozers on the beach, digging out the channel."
But between an uncooperative ocean that filled in the trenching efforts within a year and the onset of the Great Depression (coupled with the fact that there were no roads into La Jolla Shores — just a railroad system) the La Jolla Beach & Yacht Club did not work out.
"Some ideas are great, others are just dreams," Kellogg said.
Refusing to give up, F.W. Kellogg and his wife, Florence Scripps Kellogg, shifted gears and developed the La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club. "In 1935, for some delusional reason, they decided to install four tennis courts in the middle of nowhere. Why they decided to do that was beyond me, but they did it," Kellogg said. The Beach & Tennis Club, Marine Room restaurant, and La Jolla Shores Hotel all are managed by the Kellogg family.
According to the La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club history, F.W. Kellogg never lived to see the opening of The Marine Room; he died on Sept. 4, 1940, while on a trans-Pacific cruise to Japan. The responsibility for managing the club fell to his son William Scripps Kellogg (known as W.S. Kellogg).
"W.S. Kellogg had this great vision of a restaurant that would be open year round, and he was pretty sad when the first winter came along and bashed in the restaurant's windows," Kellogg said. "So what they had to do in the winter is install these big brackets on the windows and board up the windows so you couldn't see anything, which defeated the purpose and ruined the ambiance. So for those few years, The Marine Room was not a great success."
But soon came the onset of World War II, and with it, the advent of bulletproof glass. "So what was an impossibility when they purchased the property became a possibility, not only for us, but for SeaWorld, as well," he said. "Contractors were able to install super thick windows and keep the restaurant open year round. In 1941, they had a grand opening."
But during the celebration, many of the guests found themselves outside. Not for an after-dinner stroll on the beach, but because it was too hot in the restaurant.
"My grandfather had some set beliefs, one of them was no air conditioning in La Jolla. So the grand opening had a whole bunch of people outside because it got to be too hot," Kellogg said. "In response to that, they created an unusual feature in the north dining room, and that was a movable roof. It was on rollers and would slide back on nice evenings. It was a pretty inventive way to handle the air conditioning, but it wasn't great when the winter storms hit."
He added, "I remember being a kid and watching them roll back the roof, it was a neat thing to see." Bill Kellogg's father, William Crowe Kellogg, took over management in 1973.
Just under 10 years into his management, an El Niño year hit in 1982, bringing storms so intense the surf came over the roof and into the restaurant.
"The bulletproof glass they installed was great, it held up! The problem was the rest of the building didn't," Kellogg said, and that for nine months after the flood, crews rebuilt the restaurant using materials that wouldn't corrode from saltwater, and increased the thickness of the windows — just in case. "If we were ever subject to a bomb attack, the safest place in La Jolla would be The Marine Room kitchen because those walls are 10 feet thick. But the other great thing that happened in 1983 when we reopened was, we installed air conditioning."
Since then, and now under Bill Kellogg's leadership, The Marine Room has maintained its reputation for fresh seafood and serene ambiance. "We've done our best to stay current … and I have Chef Bernard Guillas to thank for that. He and chef Ron Oliver have created an award winning cookbook, which is a testament to their skill and experience with cuisine around the world."
He added, "To me, this is a wonderful family treasure. I know that F.W. Kellogg would be pleased with how this is running today."
La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club/Marine Room president Bill Kellogg shares the history of The Marine Room in honor of its 75th anniversary.
Concluding the afternoon's festivities, Historical Society director Fox commented, "History is more than the sum of individual periods. History is a continuum, an ongoing narrative. Part poetry, part conjecture, but a continuum. And it's not just about the past, but a conversation that brings the past in dialogue with the present out of mutual concern for the future.
"History is made every day. And the decisions of this community become part of that poetry of La Jolla's historical narrative. There are many historical people who have helped write the story of La Jolla: F.W. Kellogg, Ellen Browning Scripps, Irving Gill, Ted Geisel, Jonas Salk, Roger Revelle, and many others. But they are not the most important people in this historic continuum, the most important people in the history of the community is you all. And the most important period of significance is now. Because it is you, now, that has a stake in writing the next chapter of La Jolla's history."
Ashley Mackin-Solomon


This Speckled Trout recipe is a family favorite. Growing up in South, Louisiana on the water my family has lots of opportunities to catch their Seafood to cook. Catching seafood from our backyards has been passed down from generation to generation. My husband and I continue the tradition of catching and cooking seafood with our little boy. But, what if this way of life that we have come to know and love after many generations are threaten by seafood becoming endangered or extinct.
The thought of not being able to enjoy seafood if it becomes endangered, either by catching seafood myself or purchasing it from a reputable, ethical, and sustainable source worries me. This is the reason I am excited to partner with Jessie from Life As A Strawberry to be part of the Sustainable Seafood Blog Project. The Sustainable Seafood Blog Project was started by Jessie to bring food bloggers and readers alike together in conversation about sustainability, and to provide resources for sustainable seafood.
Sustainability doesn't just mean to make sure we don't consume fish or seafood that's endangered or close to extinction it means more than that. Sustainable Seafood means to fish or farm seafood in ways that consider the vitality of fish and sea creatures, and the well-being of our oceans. The Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch offers a guide that recommends which seafood to avoid or buy; that's healthy and sustainable for the environment.
I hope you will take the time to visit the Sustainable Seafood Blog Project and learn more about this great project. Check out the resources shared on their site. And, you can learn more about the businesses and the bloggers that are partnering together to help bring awareness for those wanting to eat more sustainable. Make sure to check out the recipes of these great food bloggers that have partnered with the Sustainable Seafood Blog Project.
In honor of being a Sustainable Seafood Blog Project partner, I would love to share my recipe for Pan-Fried Speckled Trout with Creamy Crawfish. You can go here to see the recommendations from the Monterey Bay Aquarium for Speckled Trout.
1. Place fish on a sheet of wax paper or clean work surface. Next, sprinkle salt, pepper, and paprika onto both sides of each fish fillet making sure to rub the ingredients into the fish with your fingers.
2. Melt 1/2 stick butter in a medium to large frying pan. Pan fry 1 fillet of fish at a time in frying pan for 2 minutes on each side. Next, squeeze 1 tbsp. Lemon juice into a hot pan with fish letting the fish absorb the lemon juice. Remove fish from pan Repeat steps for the next fish fillet.
3. Melt 1 stick of butter in medium saucepan. Stir in minced garlic, green onions, and parsley. Saute for 3-4 minutes. Stir in crawfish tails let cook on low heat for 5 minutes (until crawfish is heated through). Add heavy whipping cream stir until the sauce is warm and thickens. Remove from heat. *Kim's note- if sauce, isn't thick enough add 1/2 teaspoon cornstarch and 1 tablespoon whipping cream together in a small bowl, then add to sauce mixture.
4. Place one fish fillet on each plate, optional squeeze fresh lemon on each fish, then top with the creamy crawfish sauce, and serve immediately. Great paired with pasta, fresh vegetables or a salad.
*If you live where crawfish is hard to find then omit this part of the recipe, and just pan-fry the trout. The fish tastes great served with or without the crawfish sauce.
Do you have a favorite sustainable seafood recipe? I would love for you to share it with me.
Crawfish are not as readily available near me (I think), but I am definitely making that trout sooner rather than later!
Hi Elizabeth so nice to meet you. I actually think you can order crawfish online from a place here in New Orleans. But, if you can't get Crawfish you should try the Trout its really good. Thank you for taking the time to visit.
This looks amazing! I can't wait to give it a go!
Thank you Bonnie! If you try this recipe I would love to know how you like it.
Everything about this screamed my hubby. He grew up trout fishing and we both love crawfish!
I was reading something recently that said if we would all branch out from always making our two favorite types of fish, the world wouldn't have such an overfishing problem–kind of simplifying I think but there maybe some truth there also.
This is brining me back to my college days at LSU. Boy, I miss it there! Crawfish are tough to source up here, but I might try substituting them for gulf shrimp instead, because those I can find! One year we flew in some life crawfish for my dad for Father's Day but they didn't hold up so well.. womp womp! I'm excited to be a part of SSBP with you and hopefully I can make it down to NOLA in June to meet everyone!
Sounds so good Kim!! Im a lover of all things fish!
I have never tried crawfish! I've also been looking for ways to cook trout. We have never cooked it here, especially with how cod is so readily available. I wonder if I sub out the crawfish for shrimp if it would be just as good! Great recipe Kim!
this looks so yummy, am so hungry now! thought i would spend some time blogging but I guess it will have to wait! lol!
Oh my goodness, this looks so incredibly delicious! I've never had anything like this but how can you go wrong with that delicious sauce? 🙂 Have a wonderful Easter!
Wow, this looks amazing. I am a fish lover, and can't wait to try this.
Sounds delish! I don't make a ton of fish because I don't have any great recipies. Thanks for this!
I love that it is crawfish season now! This recipe looks delicious, I will definitely be trying this!
Congratulations Kim on your partnership for such a wonderful cause. Even though I'm allergic to fish, this dish still look delicious!
Congrats Kim! This looks absolutely delicious. I LOVE seafood!
This fish sounds absolutely delicious! The combination of ingredients sounds great! I have to try it!
This looks so yummy! And I'm always looking for new seafood recipes to try.
Yum, yum, yum! Pinned also… looks delicious!!
I've got some live crawfish ordered – I'll be making this when they come in! I'm on the SSBP with you!
I'm from and living on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. So with that I use fresh caught trout and crawfish. Makes this dish so much more delicious when it's fresh. Loved the recipe.