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Enjoy an eye-opening adventure with China: The Big One! Spend 28 days discovering the wonders of China, from imperial Beijing, the Terracotta Warriors in Xian to experiencing a Yangtze River Cruise, the buzzing delights of Shanghai to name just a few!
Fly overnight to Beijing, China's historical capital. Depending on your time of arrival the rest of the day is at leisure.
Stroll across Tiananmen Square and into the sprawling magnificence of the Forbidden City. Next visit Dazhalanxijie Street where there's time to wander the Hutongs; these narrow alleys offer a glimpse of old Beijing. Later, there's free time to explore.
This particularly scenic section of the wall is reached by boat and boasts spectacular views from the top. Spend the evening at leisure exploring colourful Wangfujing night market, or take an optional (at your own expense) Peking Duck dinner.
Take a relaxed day exploring the beautifully designed grounds of the Summer Palace including the Long Walk and the Marble Boat. Spend time strolling around pretty Kunming Lake and walk up wooded Longevity Hill.
Visit the Temple of Heaven and mingle with the locals as they start their day with tai chi, dancing and cards in a flurry of sociable activity. Take the overnight train to Xian.
Housed in three immense hangars, the ranks of the Terracotta Army stand sentinel in their subterranean necropolis, constructed to protect China's first Emperor. Gaze over the ranks of warriors and horses, while you are introduced to these lifelike soldiers' fascinating story. Visit the Xian Art Ceramics and Lacquer Exhibition. Take a walking tour of the Muslim Quarter and sample freshly cooked snacks. With the evening free, why not enjoy a cold beer in Defu Lane.
Start your day with a gentle cycle ride that will take you the nine miles around the wall and past many smiling locals. This afternoon visit the Little Wild Goose Pagoda.
Fly to Guilin. This afternoon is at leisure – you may wish to stroll around Zhengyang Street.
Take an optional full-day hike from Ping An to Dazhai, in the stunning rice terraces of Longji. Walk past small hamlets and picture-postcard views of the terraces which cover the landscape in intricate patterns. Otherwise, spend more time in Guilin.
Take a gentle cruise along the Li River to Yangshuo. Lined with dramatic, sci-fi style limestone cliffs, the serenity of life on the riverbanks is a wonderful sight. Take a walk through this idyllic wonderland and get an insight into life here. There's an option to hike to the top of Xianggong Hill for epic sunset views.
Start the day with a relaxing yet invigorating session of tai chi, taking time with a master to learn this ancient martial art. You may wish to join an optional bamboo rafting trip (at your own expense) along the Yu Long River for one last, tranquil jaunt in Yangshuo.
Transfer to Guilin and visit the Reed Flute Cave. Fly to Kunming and visit Green Lake Park then take the rest of the day at leisure.
Meander through the formations of the UNESCO-listed Stone Forest, where towering limestone pillars stand treelike in a fascinating illusion of woodland. Listen to the local legends used to explain this mysterious wonder.
Fly to Dali and spend the rest of the day immersed in the atmosphere of the fascinating old quarter and lively market. Stroll along Foreigners' Street and explore the many dining options here.
Enjoy a cruise on the highly spiritual Erhai Lake and visit the Three Pagodas. This afternoon there is an option to cycle from Dali Ancient Town to Xizhou Ancient Town. On arrival, take a walking tour and admire the traditional Bai style architecture before returning to Dali.
Drive to Shaxi Ancient Town, nestled deep in the Himalayan foothills. Learn about the fascinating minority peoples that reside in the area and enjoy a local lunch. In the afternoon, continue to Lijiang and spend the evening wandering the street food stalls.
A magnificent mountain massif, Jade Dragon incorporates several peaks, the tallest of which soars to 5,500 metres. Take a chairlift to one of the gorgeous high meadows and enjoy amazing vistas. Visit the minority Baisha Naxi Village and admire the fascinating Baisha Frescoes.
Today's optional mini-trek to Tiger Leaping Gorge takes you through dramatic cliffs and down into the gorge itself. If you don't join the trek, the day is at leisure in Lijiang.
Fly to Chengdu and walk around People's Park. See beautiful golden koi, locals dancing and practising tai chi, visit a local teahouse and Matchmaker's Corner. Visit Wide and Narrow Alleys, and enjoy an optional hot pot dinner and face changing the show.
Visit Chengdu's renowned panda base and see these charming creatures up close. Visit the Shu Brocade Museum and Wuhou Temple. The rest of the day is at leisure.
Drive to Chongqing. Enjoy free time in the old town of Ciqikou then board your Yangtze Cruise vessel, home for the next three nights.
A cruise down the Yangtze reveals some of the world's most dramatic scenery.
Wake up to the buzz of Shanghai, and take a breakfast walking tour through traditional streets. Visit the Yu Yuan Gardens, the Old Town and the Silk Museum.
Join the optional day tour to delightful Suzhou, or spend more time at leisure in Shanghai. Your final farewell to China will be a cruise down the Huangpu River, serenaded by the neon lights of Pudong.


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Through the investigation, conception and construction of virtual "altered states" you will acquire the techniques required to develop your ideas from the early stages of preparatory work to the deployment phase, bearing in mind that technical skills matter less than the search for smart and imaginative solutions. Game fabrication should be envisaged as a mental layout where elements have to be structured and organized in a way that they are not perceived as being intrusive, unless, of course, you want them to be.
Some of the topics that will be covered include: "mastering planning and research", "Strategies of representations", "the finding of a graphic style", "creating meshes and textures for game engines", "building nature in Unity", "realistic vs. non realistic approaches", "sound design", "navigation and interaction", "document.write("Hello World!")", "targeting different platforms", "having fun" - while it's not exactly technical, it's a fundamental notion that should not be lost, especially when speaking of games.
The most important tools will be a pencil, a piece of paper and your brain.


US fighter jets have reportedly intercepted two Russian bombers flying near the Alaskan coast.
While US military officials have described the incident as "nothing out of the ordinary", some politicians have been quick to accuse the Russians of "trying to show their teeth".
The long-range TU-95 Bear bombers were detected some 160km from Kodiak Island when they flew into the Alaskan Air Defence Identification Zone yesterday, prompting the deployment of two F-22 Raptors.
Illinois Republican congressman Adam Kinzinger accused the Russians of being deliberately provocative with the manoeuvre.
"This was a show of force by the Russians to show us that they are still here," he told CNN.
"(It was) an attempt to come up as close as they could to our international borders to see what our reaction would be."
His comments echo recent statements made by US President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who have both described US-Russo relations as being at an all-time low.
But the US military has been more staid in its response, saying that the "incursion" is "nothing out of the ordinary".
"(It's) not dissimilar from what we've seen in the past with respect to Russian long-range aviation," the Pentagon said.
In 2015 long-range bombers were intercepted off the coast of California at the same time that Russian President Vladimir Putin phoned Barack Obama to wish him a happy Independence Day, according to Fox.
"Good morning, American pilots. We are here to greet you on your Fourth of July Independence Day."
On this latest occasion there was no contact between the two sides.


Zaraa man kii khevadiyaan khol, sainyaa tore dvaare khade song is from Kohinoor (1960) and it is sung by Mohammad Rafi.It stars Dilip Kumar, Meena Kumari, Jeevan and Kumkum in leading roles. This song is penned by Shakeel and composed by Naushad. It is produced by Dr V N Sinha. This song was released on 01 Jan 1960.


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"Fred Claus" star Vince Vaughn at the Hollywood premiere.
Vince Vaughn at the surprise screening of "Fighting With My Family" during the 2019 Sundance Film Festival.
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Vince Vaughn at the 41st Annual Academy Of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Vince Vaughn at the premiere of "Old School" in Hollywood.
Vince Vaughn at the UK premiere of "The Break-up" in London.
Vince Vaughn at a special screening of "The Break-Up" in Hamburg, Germany.
Vince Vaughn at the 33rd Annual People's Choice Awards in Los Angeles.
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Um. "Bask in the glory of me"?
You try phrasing it without snark – it's harder than it looks.
Is that a worthy aim, one you'd want friends to pursue with you? How about if they're flush and you're broke?
Or would you prefer they had goals such as: be compassionate, be funny, be interesting, be supportive, be a good listener, be flexible, be inclusive? Or just, be good company? Be forgiving, too, is a good one when you need it.
Of course your friends care about you, so when they ask you what's new, sure, share that you're moving next month or off to Spain tomorrow, with an emphasis on experiences, not acquisitions. And emphasis on others, since caring for friends above purchases inoculates you against THAT-ness.
When you're excited about something, OK, be joyful; if you can't be human then you can't be friends. Feigned nonchalance is tantamount to rubbing it in anyway.
But unless you're a gifted storyteller, your travels and success stories are fascinating to precisely one population: the people who participate in them. If that. Otherwise you're bragging.
So make that your conversational GPS: Is this interesting to anyone but me? Friends actually help steer you to the answer, by prodding you with questions – or not.
You're cruising now, but you don't get the last word on how long that lasts, and your luck and hard work might drop you at an age when all the things you thought you could count on go to (unprintable).


I come from an artistic family...but we all really do! My mother sewed and my father was an award-winning jeweler. I have a sister who also makes jewelry. I am happiest when I am designing jewelry at my workbench, hammering aluminum on the carport, sewing a new scarf design, or working with the kiln in my studio.
Jewelry is fun. It should bring a smile to your face when you put it on or when others see it. Each piece should be unique, and one-of-kind, just like you! My earrings, bracelets, and necklaces are made from many different materials including pearls, semi-precious stones, fused glass, glass beads, copper, iron, aluminum, plastic, wood, and what ever else might catch my eye.
I love color and movement in my pieces and many items incorporate one or the other or even better - both. Some of my art pieces even have sound when the mobile glass beads meet each other.
I am blessed to be able to create jewelry and scarves in both Arizona and Colorado, two beautiful Great West states that always inspire artists. I have a studio in Cornville, AZ, that is open by appointment and would love to show you my workspace and make something special for you.


JB Hi-Fi CEO Richard Uechtritz said there was no reason his chain of stores couldn't improve on a record performance in calendar 2009.
"We are all very happy with our performance over Christmas, it was a bit of a slippery slide at times but it all ended up very good and positive for us," he said.
Top of the Australian box office that day was Avatar.
Richard Uechtritz retired from his position just one month after making these comments and was replaced by his long-serving COO Terry Smart.
Ian Brown stayed on as the boss of the BSR Group until Graeme Cunningham took over in late 2010. Cunningham has since rebranded the store network as Betta Home Living.


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Uttarakhand fire: Affected areas down by over 70 pc, says NDRF
Latest Satellite Imageries Of Uttarakhand Have Reported That The Forest Fire Has Gone Out In Over 70 Per Cent Of The Affected Areas, Even As The NDRF Has Deployed Over 130 Personnel To Tackle The Massive Blaze.
"We have been informed that fresh images from satellite has shown that the effective area under fire in Uttarakhand has come down to 110-115 locations from the earlier about 427.
"It is expected that these figures will be brought down to 50-60 in the next few days by the combined forces fighting to douse the jungle fire," NDRF Director General O P Singh told PTI.
He said the images from the sky were taken on April 29-30 and this has now given hope to all the agencies combating the fire that it will be contained soon.
The Director General said the NDRF men are also working to save animals who could have been trapped in the blazing fire.
A squad of over 135 personnel of this special force are deployed in Uttarakhand as part of multiple firefighting teams to combat the raging fire in the jungles of Uttarakhand that have destroyed about 2,269 hectares of jungles in several districts and claimed at least seven lives till now.
The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) teams have spread out in 13 affected areas of three districts of Pauri Garhwal, Almora and Chamoli with fire fighting equipment to tackle the massive blaze.
"Our teams are working in 13 sectors in coordination with the officials and personnel of the state fire and forest department. The teams have been instructed to adopt the conventional method of cutting the fire line and containing the fire.
"We are using fire beaters and green bushes to cut the fire from spreading. About 135 personnel as part of multiple teams are working in Uttarakhand at present," Singh said.
He said in Chamoli the NDRF is working in Pakhi and Gopeshwar areas, while in Almora the teams are working in areas like Binsar, Someshwar, Bikisen, Siplakhet and Dhauladevi.
Each team is covering an area of 8-10 sq km, he said, adding, additional NDRF teams have been kept on standby at its camp in Ghaziabad.
The force also saved a house from getting engulfed in the fire in the hilly jungle area of Mehlchori in Pauri district in which a family of four members lived.
Singh said he is in constant touch with his team leaders working in the state.
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HomeLifestyleSportsFive Non-Baseball Reasons to Check Out a Jays Game
Five Non-Baseball Reasons to Check Out a Jays Game
July 29, 2012 Joel Levy Sports
This year began like any other for the Toronto Blue Jays. Heaps of Toronto's finest (over 50, 000) marched into the Rogers Centre on April 9th for the home opener, fresh from having once again talked themselves into believing in a young Blue Jays roster.
Yes, they were young, which in sports is a euphemism for inexperienced, but they didn't lack promise. Jose Bautista was one year removed from a near-MVP season, while Ricky Romero was finally establishing himself as the reliable "ace" in the Jays rotation. There was buzz about Brett Lawrie, who was coming off of a promising 2 month end of the season stretch, and about the 2nd Wild Card spot, which meant the Jays could conceivably make the playoffs by finishing 3rd in the AL East.
Expectations within the organization were so high that the Jays even decided to splurge on new uniforms – throwbacks to the pre-lockout days of glory.
Photo courtesy of Peter J. Thompson-National Post.
Nothing gets the city of Toronto to buy into sports figures faster than a little nostalgic fashion (see Terrence Ross' draft night bowtie), so the seats were set to be packed.
I could tell you that Toronto is now only 3 games back of that Wild Card spot, but that would be misleading, because even though they're so close to the playoffs, everybody else is too. The Angels, A's, Orioles, White Sox, and Rays are all ahead of Toronto, and the Red Sox and Indians aren't far off.
Since the Jays playoffs hopes are looking dimmer than the lighting on this season of Breaking Bad, and because the declining health of Toronto's young roster seems to be perpetually holding them back, nearly all baseball incentives for going to a game have vanished. For that reason, I'm here to offer you 5 NON-Baseball related perks that make heading down to the Rogers Centre for a Jays game an awesome idea:
1. Eating and Drinking
A baseball game is like an outdoor BBQ, which is why most of the fun comes from extra-baseball activities. There's music in the air, vendors selling cotton candy in the aisles, and action all around. The downside of it being just like a fair is that the Rogers Centre charges about 4 times as much as they should for refreshments. The upside of this is that everything tastes 4 times better. You've never had a juicier Shopsy's hot dog with all the fixings, or tasted a Keith's that was quite as cold. Is it because you were stuck in the middle of your aisle in between 20 Jays fans that seemed unwilling to budge until the 7th inning stretch? Is it because you're dehydrated from a lack of shade, and the food that you tried to sneak in was taken away at the entrance? Yes. Yes it is. But look how much fun this fan is having on his birthday!
So go ahead and drink some icees and high five each other when Ricky Romero strikes out the 7th batter of the day, securing you and every other fan in the building a free slice of pizza. Seriously, have you ever chanted "Pizza! Pizza!" with hundreds of other people? There is nothing more altruistic.
The game doesn't only provide you with an opportunity to cheer for food, but also to listen to old Black Eyed Peas hits from 2004. It takes about 5-6 years for a popular song to make it into the rotation of the Rogers Centre, and this awkward phenomenon has led to fans and players alike being pumped up by "Let's Get It Started" again. Personally, I can't wait for the release of the Rogers Centre's greatest hits of 2012, featuring new releases such as "1, 2 Step" and "Everytime We Touch", whose top YouTube comment states: "I love this song because of its fast pace". Us too, "CV1797", us too.
I've always thought that given the chance to pick my own walk-up music, I would go with something ridiculous like a Hilary Duff song, but these guys seem to take it pretty seriously. Did Lyle Overbay once get pumped up by "Jeremy"? I guess so.
3. Unruly fans
Baseball fans can be pretty awesome, mainly because they can be pretty drunk. I remember going to a game when I was 14 years old and hearing someone hurl insults at Melvin Mora of the Orioles for being friends with Rafael Palmeiro during his steroid scandal. The exchange would go something like this:
FAN: "Hey Mora, where's your best friend, Rafael Palmeiro?"
MORA: Looking downtrodden and frustrated.
(the same fan also belted out the classic: "Hey Ump, get off your knees, you're blowing the game", which at the time I thought was one of the funniest things I had ever heard.)
Palmeiro actually wore EAR PLUGS that night because the Toronto fans were booing so loudly! A big part of going to a baseball game is being able to yell things at the umpire while being heard by hundreds of people – or listening to the disgruntled screams of others. These are the people who argue balls and strikes from their 500 level, left-field sideline seats. There could not be a worse vantage point from which to debate the legitimacy of a strike, and that's what makes baseball fans so fantastic.
4. Jumbotron
In high school, some friends of mine would repeatedly make getting on the jumbotron the only goal of their Blue Jays game experience. This phenomenon seems to be the end-game for a large portion of attending fans these days, and the validation that they receive when their unsuspecting faces are plastered all over a giant screen in front of thousands of people is indescribable. With that one moment, they've had enough fun to last them an entire seasons worth of games.
They are the storm chasers of the baseball world, spending the rest of their fan existence searching for that one rush of adrenaline. Granted, instead of high-tech meteorological instruments, they carry signs that used to read awesome things like: "Dios Mios, Rios" or "Hit It Far, Millar". This year, however, has mainly featured sexual innuendos made towards Brett Lawrie or JP Arencibia, the best of which being:
5. Baseball players
Baseball players are not the super-serious athletes that you may find in the NBA or NFL. Since they're sitting for a large part of the game, they spend a lot of time having fun with each other. It isn't hard to notice Jose Bautista subtly distracting the 1st baseman with his Latin charms, or JP exchanging some quick thoughts with the batter.
A more than honourable mention for his in between play behaviour is our very own Brett Lawrie, whose terrifying passion is displayed pretty much as often as you're willing to look at him. Specifically watch out for him tossing his gloves all over the field after a disappointing at bat and then sulking by the 3rd base waiting for Kelly Johnson to deliver his glove. Here is a precious moment of passion from Brett Lawrie earlier this season – Brett Lawrie – Phonies (Threw It On The Ground)
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I am dedicating this post to a very dear friend, Erika McDonald who can light up a whole room with her beautiful smile. Erika is a very dear friend and has brought me a little gold treasure all the way from her trip back home to Sweden for the summer holidays---chanterelle mushrooms.
Erika has mentioned it has been one of the best years for mushrooms in Sweden because of all of the rain.
I have tried many of chanterelle mushrooms and none as so very sweet and aromatic as the ones from Sweden. It is not a requirement that you go foraging for your own wild chanterelle mushrooms in the forests of Sweden to have this delicious dish, but that if given the opportunity, you should definitely go (and go with a mushroom expert as there are many dangerous look a likes out there). Alternatively, you can use fresh or dried chanterelle mushrooms that you can find at your local market.
You are just going to love this chanterelle mushroom risotto as it super creamy, slightly sweet and earthy from the chanterelle mushrooms and is one of those super comforting dishes that not only feed the body, but feeds the soul. Each bite is like getting a cozy hug from your mom. The Autumn weather is right around the corner and the days are going to start to get shorter and the nights will start to get cooler and a bowl of chanterelle mushroom risotto will warm you right up.
You know what is even better? I made some quick and easy Chicken Skewers on the inside grill and served them with the creamy Chanterelle Mushroom Risotto and it was out of this world. I would take a cube of the savoury grilled chicken and dip into the creamy chanterelle mushroom risotto and oh my goodness that is so good. It is not required but it really was the best darn combination I have ever had. Chanterelle Mushroom Risotto is gluten-free and can easily be made diary free just by leaving out the parmesan cheese as it is so good, you won't even miss it.
Of course these little chanterelle mushrooms needed to be a highlight of a dish. There is nothing like the slow stirring of your creamy risotto to bring some romance into your cooking. There is something very sensual about watching my old wooden spoon slowly stir into the arborio rice to incorporate the wine and chicken broth. It really is a labor of love. I can't be bothered to check the kids homework, answer any Bam's Kitchen questions as for these 30 minute of time it is all about me and the food. I am doing Mindful Food Meditation.
If you have not heard about Mindful Food Meditation, then let me get you turned on to this new craze. Mindful Food Meditation involves you use cooking, baking and sautéing to decompress and remove your life worries away. I know all of you have been doing this for ages but have never really thought about the positive influences of cooking for your family.
Mindful Food Meditation is way cheaper than expensive "therapy". Feeling stressed? Knead and bake some bread! Feeling stressed? Pulverize your spices with your mortar and pestle. Feeling stressed? Slowly stir your risotto. Feeling Stressed? Pound a chicken breast flat. You get the idea! Have you ever noticed that Foodies (Yep that is you guys) are some of the nicest people you know? You see when we get frustrated about work, school or such we don't take it out on our team mates, family or friends we just beat the "@#$%" out of a chicken breast and life goes on as normal as can be. See, don't you feel better already?
So let's get on with our Mindful Food Meditation... As you will need a little white wine for the risotto, I pour myself a glass or 2, during the stirring process and listen to music. 30 delightful minutes of Mindful Food Therapy....stirring... deep breathing...letting the day stresses just melt away... Before you know it, dinner is done. I am totally stress free as I have practiced Mindful Food Meditation, maybe the wine helped a little bit too, and I have a delicious dinner awaiting my family. Life is Good!
1Add the hot water to submerge the dried chanterelle mushrooms and let step for about 15 minutes until softened. (Do NOT drain all of that precious chanterelle liquid as you are going to use that later on in the risotto chicken stock) Drain chanterelles and roughly chop.
4Add the arborio rice and mix and stir until the rice until it is coated well with the olive oil and then add the white wine and turn down your heat to a medium heat and continue to stir the rice slowly and gently until about 75 percent of the wine has been absorbed. Now start adding one ladle of hot chicken stock at a time into your rice and slowly stirring over a medium simmer while allowing the liquid to absorb. When about 80 perfect of the chicken stock has been absorbed add another ladle of chicken stock and continue stirring. (Drink more wine and enjoy this Mindful Food Meditation moment) Repeat this process until the rice is aldente. Depending on how high your heat is and how hot your chicken stock is this can take between 30-40 minutes. If you make just one serving it might only take 20 minutes and if you increase this from 2 to 4 servings it can take more like 45 minutes to reach aldente. Do not overcook. You want your rice to be a little firm but very creamy and not dry. If you over cook your risotto, it will turn mushy like congee and that is not the effect we are going for here.
5Add thyme, parsley, peas and stir. Add grated parmesan cheese (if not dairy sensitive) and season with salt and pepper to taste and finish off you last stir with a dab of butter (optional).
6Serve your delicious Chanterelle Mushroom Risotto as a main dish or as a side with grilled chicken skewers and enjoy.


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Ça plane pour moi - over 40 years old and still kick-ass
OK, technically it was a song from the late seventies. But it was one of the songs I can remember from my 80's childhood, so pardon me if I consider it an 80s classic.
Many of you may know that it was a somekind of a hoax: Plastic Bertrand didn't actually sing it. It was his producer Lou Deprijck - aka Lou and The Hollywood Bananas - who did. As a lot of money was concerned they even went to court about it and in 2010 it was scientifically proven: it was Lou's voice on the record.
What you may not know is that even Metallica covered the song. Say what? Yep.
Not bad at all for a song with completely bullshit lyrics, written by some stoned guy, that starts of with a cat swallowing its own tongue after drinking whisky. She should have picked a good gin instead...
The song was also featured in a Kellogg's ad in 2020 that is still running. Alive and kicking after 40 years!
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"How do celebs have flawless skin?" "How do celebs manage to look like million dollars every time they step out?" – these are some common thoughts and questions that ring in our minds often. The answer is not always makeup and the lame "glow from within that reflects on the face" cliche. There are expert hands and beauty treatments behind celeb skin. Most of the celebs opt for expensive facials once or twice a month to remain youthful and radiant. We researched the 10 most expensive and uncommon facials that celebs pamper themselves with. There's no mundane gold or pearl facial for them, you see!
2. Vampire facial: This might sound scary again, and it is actually! Kim Kardashian is famous for her reality show and then this vampire facial. The uniqueness of vampire facial lies in the fact that the ingredient for the treatment is derived from one's own blood. A substance called "platelet rich fibrin matrix" is extracted from one's own blood and then applied on to the face for anti-ageing benefits. This facial acts as a facial filler like botox and other collagen injections. Game for vampire facial?
3. Bird poop facial: Want to know who made the bird poop facial famous? Victoria Beckham! The world wants to know the secret behind Victoria Beckham's youthfulness, and bird poop facial is one of them. And you cannot collect poop off any random bird! This facial makes use of nightingale poop that is found the jungles of Japan. This poop is then dried under UV light and mixed with rice bran and other ingredients and applied on the face. This facial refreshes skin, exfoliating the skin deeply, and clearing up all grime, dirt, and dead skin cells. The bird poo also contains guanine which is a compound which is also found in pearls, so that's what explains the amazing effects clients claim they experience.
4. Caviar facial: It's an exotic and luxurious facial treatment that firms and smooths the skin and imparts it a youthful glow. This facial makes use of caviar (fish eggs) which is loaded with proteins, vitamins, and powerful antioxidants. This facial improves the skin texture, smoothes, firms and tightens the facial skin providing it a youthful appearance. Apparently, Angelina Jolie loves this facial from France.
5. Sheep placenta facial: This is another beauty secret from Victoria Beckham's stable. Eva Longoria is another celebrity who doesn't mind smothering her face with sheep placenta extract. This facial makes use of placenta cells collected from sheep after delivery. Sheep placenta is thought to be rich in proteins, nutrients, vitamins and is believed to be a super effective anti-ageing treatment. It helps in tissue recovery and in boosting collagen formation.
6. Oxygen facial: Rihanna manages to look like a million dollars every time she gets clicked with a lot of help from a bevy of beauty treatments including oxygen facial. This facial smoothes, firms, tightens, and plumps out sagging skin. Oxygen is infused into the skin at high pressure along with anti-ageing serum and this therapy leaves the skin hydrated, moisturized, smooth and plumped up.
7. Diamond and ruby facial: Mila Kunis indugles in this unbelievably expensive facial which makes use of real rubies and diamond peel that exfoliates, tightens, firms, and provides anti-ageing effect to the skin.
8. Raindrop facial: Angelia Jolie's beauty has mesmerized the people world over! For a change, we are not talking about her fuller lips. She treats her skin to a treatment called "raindrop facial," in which the skin is prepped with microdermabrasion. Then, a laser which feels like warm raindrops is applied on the skin followed by lavender acid exfoliation and gentle wave lights.
Kim's face with that facial completely freaked me out. Rest are so unique facials. I would like to try diamond and ruby facial though. 😀 Which one would you try Jomol if given the choice?


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Q: How to use Entypo icons I have installed Entypo package using NuGet. I got Icons.xaml file that contains Canvas'es. How to use it in the XAML code?
File looks like:
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Websites of the week: Ménestrel and Spolia
Ménestrel
was one of the first European Medieval Metasites, back at the turn of the century: Admin first met it in 2000, partly c/o contacts between the Princeton Charrette Project and the Médiéviste et l'Ordinateur. Alas, it became perhaps a teensy bit passé, and disappeared for a while. It is now back in action: bigger and better than ever before, with a significant and substantial team of what can only be described as heavy-hitters. Revamped, restructured, with entire sub-teams devoted to specific aspects of Medieval Studies; and partners with Reti Medievali. If there were a "virtual football" game of Medieval and Renaissance metasites, this is The Big League: the Sorbonne & Poitiers libraries, Centre d'études supérieures de civilisation médiévale – Poitiers/CNRS, Centre de recherches archéologiques et historiques anciennes et médiévales – Caen, Centre de recherches historiques CNRS/EHESS, Central European University – Budapest, École nationale des chartes, IRHT, Laboratoire de médiévistique occidentale de Paris – CNRS/Université Paris 1-Sorbonne, Université Catholique de Louvain, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Université de Nancy 2. Was well worth the wait.
Spolia
First met c/o Pécia. The attached Journal aside, good online resources, and One To Watch. I shall hand over to The Horse's Mouth a.k.a. WELCOME TO SPOLIA (and, incidentally, quite the most careful, elegant, and fine Englishing I have ever yet seen on an Italian academic resource):
This site intends to provide constantly updated specialised information on the studies and research on the Middle Ages. SPOLIA was devised by a group of scholars connected with the University of Rome "La Sapienza". Nowadays scholars of many universities collaborate with this project (University of Cassino, University of Lecce, University of Bologna, University of Padova, University of Zürich etc.).
The title SPOLIA hints at the twofold suggestion that the word has in its first meaning and in the almost technical meaning it has acquired in archaeological studies.
Literally, spolia are the spoils taken from enemies during wars. We consider similar to these the artistic, literary and historical material from the medieval past, as booty which has been rescued from the clutches of Time, the enemy of memory. These documents of an era must be presented objectively and with scientific attention within the historical period in which they were produced.
In archaeology, the term spolia is frequently used to indicate "recycled objects". These fragments of ancient monuments are inserted into architectural contexts that are different from the original, and used in the construction of new buildings. This "recycling" operation, which is typical of medieval building techniques, is often accompanied by a re-reading of the SPOLIUM which, in its new context, also takes on a new meaning.
In our opinion, the tradition/innovation dialectic, which is at the origin of the composition of artistic and literary works, is similar. Quotations, allusions and the other forms of intertextuality measure the links with contemporaries and predecessors, reinterpreting the testimonies through their position in a new semantic space.
The operation carried out by criticism is also similar, as it arrives at different readings by placing documents of the past in different contexts within different critical theories.
The term spolia includes therefore the three aspects that we would like to underline in the presentation of the materials: historical documents above all, artistic works devised by the tradition/innovation dialectic, and objects of critical reflection.
and further (ABOUT THE PROJECT):
SPOLIA was devised by a group of scholars who are working at different university research projects.
The site intends to provide updated information on medieval studies, but does not claim to be complete, as this would be very difficult even for a bulletin dealing exclusively with bibliographical information.
On the contrary, the contributions is characterized by their peculiarity, as reflections in the margins of the individual collaborators' research, and is strictly specialized. In this way we hope to give prominence to information which is normally less valued. We present mainly
reports from conventions and conferences (very often before the publication of the documents of the conventions)
book and article reviews and abstracts of dissertations.
articles which have already been published in books or journals
original contributions.
As it appears from the index, the site is divided into sections and subsections, each with a different director who will treat the spaces as open containers to host the activities of various collaborators, in order to guarantee a wealth of information as well as its continuity.
Every communication, while privileging the infomative aspect, will be accompanied by a brief critical note, to help readers better understand whether the materials presented are interesting to them and to permit an exchange of ideas on the themes proposed.
Moreover, by selecting the documents according their importance and representativeness (although our collaborators' judgement is a matter of opinion), we hope to assist the user, who, while on the Internet, is often submerged by a volume of information which is difficult to digest because it is disorganised and particularly vast.
We do not want to collect data in large amounts but to offer reasons for contact and discussion, useful for the development of the research.
Suggestions, questions and contributions to the realisation of the projects are welcome.
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Q: Gallery Model with Picture and Comments in MVC3 I've just learnt how to upload pictures and bring them in view Model.
Now I'm trying to Add comments to the pictures. That means a picture can have more comments.
So I created 2 Tables, called "Gallery" and "Comment". They are related by 'One to Many'..
My model looks like that..

public class GalleryEntries
    {
        public List Entries { get; set; }
    }

    public class GalleryEntry
    {
        public Gallery GalleryImage { get; set; }
        public List Comments { get; set; }
    }

And the controller looks so..

GalleryDataContext GalleryDB = new GalleryDataContext();

        public ActionResult Index()
        {
            GalleryEntries model = new GalleryEntries();
            GalleryEntries galleryentries = new GalleryEntries();

            foreach (Gallery gallery in GalleryDB.Galleries)
            {
                GalleryEntry galleryentry = new GalleryEntry();
                galleryentry.Comments = GalleryDB.Comments.Where(c => c.BildID == gallery.ImageID).ToList();
                galleryentry.GalleryImage = gallery;
                galleryentries.Entries.Add(galleryentry);
            }

            return View(model);
        }

But it doesn't work. :(
It displays "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" at the line where  "galleryentries.Entries.Add(galleryentry)  stands.. How can I solve this problem?

A: I think the problem is that you don't initialize the GalleryEntries.Entries property anywhere ... so you're attempting to add galleryentry to a List that does not exist yet, hence the NullReferenceException.
You could initialize Entries in the constructor:
public class GalleryEntries
{
    public IList<GalleryEntry> Entries { get; set; }

    public GalleryEntries() {
        Entries = new List<GalleryEntry>();
    }
}


The word "tsunami" is from the Japanese words tsu (harbour) and nami (wave). Tsunamis are large wave events resulting from a significant displacement of water. These are caused by occurrences such as underwater earthquakes, underwater landslides, land based landslides, a major oceanic volcanic eruption and less commonly, a meteorite oceanic landing.
While Richmond is an island community, we are not at significant risk of a tsunami. A 2005 study commissioned by the City of Richmond and the Corporation of Delta was prepared by Dr. John Clague and Dr. Ian Hutchinson of the Simon Fraser University (SFU). The study found no evidence that a significant tsunami has impacted the Fraser River delta, from any source, in the last 4000 years. This is despite the fact that during this period geologists believe there were numerous mega-earthquakes (magnitude 8+ on the Richter Scale) along the Cascadia subduction zone lying west of Vancouver island.
The reason Pacific generated tsunamis do not impact the Fraser River delta is because Vancouver Island lies between the two, which creates a kind of breakwater or natural protective barrier that absorbs the major impact of a tsunami. To prove this theory, scientists have computer modelled Pacific Ocean tsunami waves (generated close to Vancouver Island) as they move down the Juan de Fuca Strait, into the Georgia Strait and finally to the western delta shore. The model predicted that during this journey wave energy would dissipate so much that any wave reaching the western delta shore would be less than 0.5m high.
The evidence that no significant tsunami has impacted the delta area in the last 4000 years is further supported by the 2003 study Numerical Modeling of Tsunamis Generated by Hypothetical Landslides in the Strait of Georgia, BC. This study modelled hypothetical underwater landslides between Roberts Bank and the Fraser River delta. It found that, while a significant landslide could generate an 18m high wave at Galiano Island, the local shoreward moving wave from a major slide would be only 2m high. This, in part, is due to the submerged banks ability to deflect wave energy away from the shoreline. The study also suggested that if a 2m high wave occurred its energy, and therefore its ability to flood land, would be dissipated by the Fraser River Delta's wide tidal flats. It is therefore believed that any wave generated by an underwater landslide at Sturgeon Bank would not pose a significant flood risk to the City. This is due to the waves relatively small height potential, the 6 km wide tidal flats that a wave would have to cross to reach the City dike and the fact that the City's dike stands approximately 3.5m above mean sea level.
Hypothetical tsunamis generated from other sources, such as land based landslides and underwater earthquakes in the Georgia Strait, have not been extensively studied. However, as there is no evidence that significant tsunamis have occurred in the past 4000 years, the City considers it highly unlikely that such sources could trigger a significant tsunami.
For a summary of the 2005 study conducted by SFU, please follow the link: Tsunami Hazard at the Fraser River Delta, BC.
In the event of a Tsunami in the Pacific Basin, the Province will alert local governments and broadcast warnings over local radio stations. In response to this, some local governments in high risk areas, such as on the west coast of Vancouver Island, may initiate emergency evacuation procedures. Due to the insignificant risk to Richmond, the City has no plans to instigate an emergency evacuation for a tsunami.
If following an incident evacuation of the community is necessary, the routes used will be based on an assessment of the damage at the time of the emergency. Evacuation instructions including safe routes would be broadcast over the radio, so we recommend that you include a battery operated radio as part of your emergency supplies.
Disaster Response Routes have been designated throughout Richmond and the Lower Mainland as routes for first responders. Fire, police, ambulance and public works crews will require quick access to emergency sites to help rescue victims, fight fires, secure the emergency scene, distribute supplies and critical resources and transport the injured to the hospitals. Residents are asked to stay off these routes when activated unless directed otherwise by emergency personnel.
As with any potential disaster individuals, families and businesses need to be prepared to survive on their own for a minimum of 72 hours and up to 7 days. To help you prepare, the Emergency Preparedness section of the City's website offers tips on what emergency supplies you should have, how to develop a family emergency plan and how to protect yourself during earthquakes and other natural hazards.
During an emergency, the City may establish a reception centre to assist evacuees in areas affected by the emergency. A reception centre is any safe gathering place, such as a community centre, church or hotel conference room where individuals may obtain information and receive assistance. Services such as family reunification, food, clothing, emergency first aid and lodging arrangements are typically performed at Reception Centres by City of Richmond staff and volunteers. For more information please refer to the Reception Centres section of the website.


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Today is the start of Crumpet's Laid-Back 31 Day Challenge. I've been wanting to do one of these for a while, but I didn't know if I'd be able to stick it out with new nail art every day for a month. The laid back challenge requires just 2 manicures per week. Along with the Pokemon challenge I'm doing that will make 3 each week through the end of April. I'm going to try my hardest to stay on schedule. Wish me luck!
I had a hard time deciding what to do until I had the idea to use the colors on top of my bare nails without a solid base. I just started doodling with a small brush and some dotting tools and this was the result.
The thumb is my favorite design. It was the last nail I did and I almost regret not repainting all the others to match. It looks especially striking from a distance. You'll have to take my word though since all my pictures are close ups.
I used Wet n Wild, Black Creme and Finger Paints, Paper Mache. It's all topped off with a coat of Seche Vite.
Since today's theme is black and white, and since my kitty chose this particular photo shoot to wreck up my light box I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to introduce you. This is Styx the cat. He's a one year old kitten at heart who thinks every box he encounters belongs to him. I got off easy with this little rip in the tissue at the top of my light box. Given the opportunity he would surely maul it into submission one mouthful of cardboard at a time.
Here's what's in store for the next few months. Check back to see what I come up with and check out the links below to see what the other ladies are doing.
wow! i love this mani and i see a lot more bloggers chose to do the laid back version of the challenge. lol good luck!


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Cordyline is a genus of about 24 species of woody monocotyledonous flowering plants in family Asparagaceae, subfamily Lomandroideae. The subfamily has previously been treated as a separate family Laxmanniaceae, or Lomandraceae. Other authors have placed the genus in the Agavaceae (now Agavoideae). Cordyline is native to the western Pacific Ocean region, from New Zealand, eastern Australia, southeastern Asia and Polynesia, with one species found in southeastern South America.

The name Cordyline comes from the Greek word kordyle, meaning "club," a reference to the enlarged underground stems or rhizomes.

Species
, the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families accepted 24 species:
 Cordyline angustissima K.Schum. – New Guinea
 Cordyline australis (G.Forst.) Endl. (Cabbage Tree) – New Zealand
 Cordyline banksii Hook.f. (syn. C. diffusa Colenso.) – New Zealand
 Cordyline cannifolia R.Br. – Australia: N.E. Northern Territory, N.E. Queensland
 Cordyline casanovae Linden ex André – Vanuatu
 Cordyline congesta (Sweet) Steud. (syn. C. dracaenoides Kunth) – Australia: S.E. Queensland to N.E. New South Wales
 Cordyline diffusa Colenso. (syn. C. banksii Hook.f.) – New Zealand
 Cordyline forbesii Rendle – Papua New Guinea
 Cordyline fruticosa (L.) A.Chev. – Papuasia to W. Pacific
 Cordyline indivisa (G.Forst.) Endl. (mountain cabbage tree) – New Zealand (syn. Cordyline hectori, Cordyline hookeri)
 Cordyline lateralis Lauterb. – New Guinea
 Cordyline ledermannii K.Krause – New Guinea
 Cordyline manners-suttoniae F.Muell. – Australia: N.E. Queensland
 Cordyline mauritiana (Lam.) J.F.Macbr. – Mascarenes
 Cordyline minutiflora Ridl. – New Guinea
 Cordyline murchisoniae F.Muell. (syn. C. haageana  K.Koch) – Australia: E. Queensland
 Cordyline neocaledonica (Baker) B.D.Jacks. – New Caledonia
 Cordyline obtecta (Graham) Baker – Norfolk Island, N. New Zealand North Island
 Cordyline petiolaris (Domin) Pedley – Australia: S.E. Queensland to N.E. New South Wales
 Cordyline pumilio Hook.f. – New Zealand North Island
 Cordyline racemosa Ridl. – New Guinea
 Cordyline rubra Otto & A.Dietr. – Australia: S.E. Queensland to N.E. New South Wales
 Cordyline schlechteri Lauterb. – New Guinea
 Cordyline sellowiana Kunth – Bolivia to Brazil and N. Argentina
 Cordyline stricta (Sims) Endl. – Australia: S.E. Queensland to N.E. New South Wales

Formerly placed here
Dracaena aletriformis (Haw.) Bos (as C. rumphii Hook.)
Dracaena elliptica Thunb. & Dalm. (as C. maculata (Roxb.) Planch. and C. sieboldii Planch.)
Dracaena fragrans (L.) Ker Gawl. (as C. fragrans (L.) Planch.)

Cultivation and uses
Members of the group are often grown as ornamental plants - notably C. australis and C. fruticosa. Many species have been used as a foodstuff and medicine,  for additional details on these and other uses see the article on C. australis. The rhizome was roasted in an hāngi (earth oven) by Māori to extract sugar.

In the highlands of Papua New Guinea. leaves of Cordyline and other plants are tied to sticks to mark taboo areas where pandanus language must be spoken during karuka harvest.

References

Asparagaceae genera
Taxa named by Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773)

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Our featured photo today is St. James Gate Brewery by Stephen Wallace. Founded at this location in 1759, the original lease agreement negotiated by Arthur Guinness was for 9,000 years at just £45 per annum. Guinness have since purchased the property outright. Stephen represents this famous location well in his composition. The Guinness storehouse exhibition is open to the public and its a great opportunity to learn more about the history of this 250 year old business. Guinness remains the biggest global brewer of stout worldwide.
Stephen's images are available from €20. You can browse his beautiful gallery here.


Located in Planos, Villa Oliveto provides accommodations with a private pool and private parking. This property has a terrace. The villa features 3 bedrooms, a kitchen with a dishwasher and an oven, a washing machine, and a bathroom. A TV with satellite channels is available. Guests can relax in the garden at the property. Zakynthos is 5 miles from Villa Oliveto, while Laganas is 9 miles from the property. The nearest airport is Dionysios Solomos Airport, 7 miles from the accommodation.


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CONMEBOL President Napout resigns following arrest
By Dan Palmer
The President of South America's football governing body has resigned following his arrest for alleged corruption last week.
Juan Angel Napout has stepped down from his position from CONMEBOL after being among 16 officials arrested in Zurich following a request by authorities in the United States.
The 57-year-old Paraguayan, who is accused of bribery and racketeering, is also a vice-president of world governing body FIFA and is currently banned from football after receiving a 90-day suspension.
He was only elected as permanent President of CONMEBOL in March after initially serving on an interim basis from August 2014.
Uruguay's Wilmar Valdez will now replace Napout, who has reportedly agreed to be extradited to the US, as interim President.
"With the resignation of Mr Juan Angel Napout as President, the congress was convened for the election of officers for 26 January 2016," a CONMEBOL statement said.
Wilmar Valdez has now taken over as CONMEBOL President ©Getty Images
Following last week's latest arrests, the number of people and entities charged as part of the US investigation into corruption in football has reached 41.
United States Department of Justice Attorney General Loretta Lynch has described the betrayal of trust in the cases being investigated as "outrageous".
"The scale of corruption alleged herein is unconscionable," she said.
The last three CONMEBOL Presidents have now been arrested due to the scandal, with Napout joining former leaders Nicolas Leoz, his compatriot, and Uruguayan Eugenio Figueredo.
The governing body has pledged to bring in greater transparency measures.
December 2015: Two FIFA vice-presidents arrested in Zurich among 16 indicted by United States Department of Justice
November 2015: Former Brazilian football head extradited to the United States to face corruption charges
November 2015: FIFA problems harder to solve than IOC's after Salt Lake City Scandal, predicts Carrard
November 2015: German Football Association headquarters raided amid tax evasion allegations
October 2015: Former top CONCACAF official extradited from Switzerland to United States
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Qualitative Health Research Consultants is a full-service research firm. We use state-of-the-science qualitative methods to collaborate with clinical, health services, and public health researchers. QHRC offers consultation at every phase of research, from helping investigators write fundable grants, to designing and implementing small pilot demonstration projects, to training and supervising research staff on large-scale, multi-site and multi-year clinical trials and policy evaluation projects.
Cameron Macdonald is the Principal and Co-founder of QHRC. She has taught Qualitative Research Methods at the graduate level for over twenty years. Prior to founding QHRC, she served on the faculty of Harvard University, UW-Madison, and the University of Connecticut. She received her PhD in Sociology from Brandeis University.
The author of numerous books and articles based on ethnographic and interview methods, Macdonald completed an NIH-funded Certificate in Clincal and Translational Research at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. She has served as Co-investigator and Methodologist on numerous clinical, translational, and health policy projects. Dr. Macdonald brings advanced skills in focus group facilitation and stakeholder engagement, as a trainee of Richard Krueger and a graduate of the Journey of Facilitation and Collaboration at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Dr. Macdonald oversees all aspects of qualitative research design, data collection and analysis at QHRC. She especially enjoys working with investigators on grants and assisting researchers in disseminating their results.
Her research interests involve patient-centered care, with a special focus on surgical outcomes, cancer care, and end-of-life care.


The current White House administration seems determined to start new trade talks with every big commercial partner it has right now. There's been talk about it with China and with the EU, and German manufacturers will be particularly affected by such measures. BMW in particular sees this as troublesome as they are the biggest exporter of cars from the US by value.
The claims the Bavarians are making are now backed by their most recent manufacturing report for the year 2018. For the fifth consecutive year, BMW Manufacturing led the nation in automotive exports by value, according to data released this week by the U.S. Department of Commerce. BMW exported 234,689 X models from its Spartanburg, SC, plant during 2018. About 81 percent of these Sports Activity Vehicles and Coupes were exported through the Port of Charleston with an export value of more than $8.4 billion, according to Commerce Department data.
The remaining 19 percent of BMW X models were exported through five other southeastern ports: Savannah, GA; Brunswick, GA; Jacksonville, FL; Miami, FL; and Everglades, FL. All totaled, the Spartanburg plant exported nearly 66 percent of its total production volume of 356,749 units. BMW Manufacturing's production volume and exports declined slightly in 2018 due to model updates of the popular BMW X4 and BMW X5.
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Weak leaders: Following the same limp trajectory as Bush, Obama starts brash but quickly rolls over for the Israel lobby to "take on" the Muslims
Obama Takes on the Muslim World
(AntiWar.com) -- by John Taylor
In the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, George W. Bush recognized that Israel's endless war on the Palestinians, a grossly unequal struggle waged with the military, financial, and diplomatic support of the United States, had put America at risk. For a brief moment, Bush spoke strongly of the need to establish a Palestinian state and bring the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to a speedy and just conclusion. Bush even demanded an end to Israeli incursions into the West Bank and the targeted assassinations of Palestinian leaders.
In very little time, the president realized that acknowledging America's own foreign policy in the Middle East had put America in the terrorist crosshairs was unlikely to be a vote-getter, particularly among the Republican Party's Evangelical faithful, who view the establishment of the state of Israel as the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy. So the president, with the eager support of both parties and a tame corporate media, chose the explanation that foreigners willing to fly airplanes into buildings must hate America's freedom and openness, our margaritas and miniskirts. This facile and entirely specious assertion was a much more palatable explanation for 9/11 than that American intervention, particularly U.S. support of corrupt Arab kings and potentates, a blank check for Israeli adventurism, and a murderous embargo on the Iraqi people, had provoked an intense hatred of the U.S. among a small but growing percentage of Muslims around the world.
Fast forward though the invasion of Iraq, justified by entirely bogus intelligence, through years of fighting in Afghanistan, bringing nothing but misery to the Afghan people, and through Israel's brutal pounding of Lebanon and Gaza, to the election of a new American president determined to make a fresh start with the Muslim world. Barack Obama's visit to Cairo in June of last year to deliver a much-ballyhooed speech seemed to break with the policies of the Bush administration, which had been perceived, especially in the Arab states, as blatantly anti-Arab and anti-Muslim. As part of Obama's determination to change America's profile among the world's billion Muslims, he subsequently insisted that Israel end all settlement activity in Palestinian lands captured in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, a stance consistent with international law and favored by most of America's allies.
As Bush learned in 2001, pressure on Israel, no matter how justified, takes courage and has political costs. The Democratic Party has long received a large proportion of its financial support from Israel's friends in the United States, and Israel has many advocates in the Obama administration, the best example being the president's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, who served in the Israeli army. So President Obama quickly surrendered to Israel's American constituency, dropped his insistence that settlement of Palestinian lands cease, and began to pressure the Palestinian Authority's weakling President Mahmoud Abbas to resume negotiations without preconditions.
To put a seal on Obama's humiliation at the hands of right-wing Israeli politicians Bibi Netanyahu and Avigdor Lieberman, the Obama administration sidelined the Goldstone Report detailing war crimes during the Gaza war ("willful killings and willful causing great suffering" to the civilian population and "collective punishment intentionally inflicted by the government of Israel on the people of the Gaza Strip"), signed a multi-year, $30 billion defense protocol with the Israelis, and rebuked U.S. Middle East negotiator George Mitchell for saying quite accurately that the U.S. had once withheld U.S. loan guarantees as a way showing displeasure at settlement activity.
At the same time, President Obama did nothing to alleviate the sufferings of 1.4 million desperate Palestinians under Israeli siege in Gaza...MORE...LINK
Clinton and Blair followed pretty much the same trajectory, too. Perhaps it's Baby Boomer syndrome: selfish, no principles other than self-preservation and comfort at any cost, shallow, compassionate on a superficial level that is more of a calculated pose out of personal vanity than a philosophy, highly materialistic to the point of completely selling out the country, its interests, and future generations of Americans for temporal luxuries; craven and cowardly -- bent on studiously averting their gaze as Israel rapes the Palestinians and America because noticing might effect their careers and personal bottom line...
I could go on and on, but America has been ill served by the Baby Boomer generation of leadership. It's almost as if it was custom engineered to roll over for the Zionists so America could be easily Judaized and thus sold out and co-opted by the Lobby for Jewish tribal interests.
Marx...Freud...Dr. Spock...Falwell...Spielberg...Hagee...what say you?
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Stopping Alert Volume Going To 100%
by Lawrence D'Oliveiro
For quite a while now, I've been annoyed by the system notification volume going to 100% on my Debian systems, regardless of my attempts to set it to a lower level. For example, when I open the KDE System Settings app, change something, then try to close the window, the sound that accompanies the save/discard/cancel alert is always startlingly loud. I think I have finally found a fix: in your /etc/pulse/daemon.conf, put in a line saying flat-volumes = no (You should find an existing comment "; flat-volumes = yes" that indicates the default.) You can make this new setting take effect in the current session immediately without having to logout or reboot, by executing the following as the currently-logged-in user: pulseaudio -k (This kills and restarts the PulseAudio daemon for your user session.) There are several discussions of the pros and cons of this issue online, going back some years. For example, here <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1265267>. Also a mention about the "flat-volumes" setting in the ever-reliable Arch Linux Wiki here <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio>.
How Qualcomm Shook Down The Cell Phone Industry For Almost	20 Years
A pretty sobering read <https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/05/how-qualcomm-shook-down-the-cel…>: Qualcomm's first weapon against competitors: patent licensing terms requiring customers to pay a royalty on every phone sold—not just phones that contained Qualcomm's wireless chips. Sound familiar? Judge Koh draws a direct parallel to licensing behavior that got Microsoft in legal trouble in the 1990s. Microsoft would offer PC makers a discount if they agreed to pay Microsoft a licensing fee for every PC sold—whether or not the PC shipped with a copy of MS-DOS. This effectively meant that a PC maker had to pay twice if it shipped a PC running a non-Microsoft operating system. There's a lot more--the article reads like a catalogue of gangster-like tactics. All of which is perfectly all right under the US interpretation of "Free Enterprise", of course ... Also, reading the details of how Qualcomm managed to sabotage Intel's efforts to develop 5G chips, it seems to me that Qualcomm is directly responsible for the situation today where US companies are lagging behind Chinese ones like Huawei in 5G capability.
Edge TV Now Online-Only
If there is anybody else besides me who wondered what happened to Edge TV, as of the beginning of this month it is no longer on Freeview, it can now only be viewed as an online stream <https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/113928839/the-edge-tv-remove…>. In the last few days of June, there was a promo announcing that it was going HD, but I don't recall it mentioning that it was leaving the broadcast airwaves. Quote: MediaWorks chief executive Michael Anderson says the move is in line with audience trends, which show people primarily consume music videos online. While that may be mostly true, personally I would go look for videos on YouTube after seeing them first on Edge TV.
The State Of Video Streaming In NZ
Apple's TV+ streaming service is coming soon, followed by Disney's one <https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=122666…>. Note: Disney+ will break Sky's longtime near-monopoly on Disney content in these parts. Disney says that, ultimately, Disney+ will be the exclusive home of its content. So to get a comparable range of TV content to that you currently have free-to-air, you are going to have to subscribe to two or three or maybe more different streaming services. The increasing multitude of things to pay for isn't about choice, but about no choice at all.
"Open Source" Journalism
This week's "Listening Post" on Al Jazeera (viewable here <https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/listeningpost/2019/09/xinjiang-story-c…>) talks, in the latter part, about this new phenomenon of "open source" journalism. My understanding is, the meaning of "source" here is not that of "source code" familiar to software developers, but "source of information" as understood by journalists. That means getting information from public sources available to all. Even a tightly-controlled society like China makes a surprising amount of information freely available online--more than it really wants to make available, sometimes. And this information can be pieced together like a puzzle by perceptive investigators, to point to conclusions which can be directly at odds with public pronouncements from Government officials.
Yahoo Groups Is Winding Down and All Content Will Be Permanently Removed
by Peter Reutemann
'Yahoo announced on Wednesday that it is winding down its long-running Yahoo Groups site. From a report: As of October 21, users will no longer be able to post new content to the site, and on December 14 Yahoo will permanently delete all previously posted content. "You'll have until that date to save anything you've uploaded," an announcement post reads. Yahoo Groups, launched in 2001, is a cross between a platform for mailing lists and internet forums. Groups can be interacted with on the Yahoo Groups site itself, or via email. In the 18 years that it existed, numerous niche communities made a home on the platform. Now, with the site's planned obsolescence, users are looking for ways to save their Groups history.' -- source: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/19/10/16/1928228 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
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Fedora 31 Released
'Fedora 31 has just rolled out the door. From a report: Is it an exciting release? No, not really. Sure, enthusiasts will find themselves thrilled withe inclusion of the GNOME 3.34 desktop environment (with Qt Wayland by default), Linux 5.3 kernel, and Mesa 9.2, but otherwise, it is fairly boring. You know what? That's not a bad thing. In 2019, Fedora is simply a mature and stable operating system that only needs to follow an evolutionary path at this time -- not revolutionary. It stands alone as the world's best desktop Linux distribution. "Fedora 31 Workstation provides new tools and features for general users as well as developers with the inclusion of GNOME 3.34. GNOME 3.34 brings significant performance enhancements which will be especially noticeable on lower-powered hardware. Fedora 31 Workstation also expands the default uses of Wayland, including allowing Firefox to run natively on Wayland under GNOME instead of the XWayland backend as with prior releases," says The Fedora Project.' -- sources: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/19/10/31/168259 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
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