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Namaste Mari: I DID IT!
Today should be a fun day; after work I am going to my sisters house to see my sobrino (Jasper) and then I am taking my niece to her Yoga class. I wont be getting home until 8pm so I hope I am not too tired to squeeze in some Yoga.
Snack: I ate half the container of some more Honey nut cheerios =) . And YES that is tape on it lol, saving the rest for today.
that wrap just about made me drool!! so yummy!
Everything looks fantastic! Maybe you didn't have a big enough lunch? Those strawberries do look amazing though!
I mean breakfast, not lunch!
PT: oh it was DELISH!
Manana: I am not sure what it was but I was STARVED!
Oh my gosh, I love the idea of a bagel with PB & strawberries -- I always do banana, but that sounds good. I'm going to have to try it!
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Tribute To Ella & Louis on 180g Vinyl LP!
Jazz vocalist and bassist Nicki Parrott and powerhouse trumpeter Byron Stripling collaborate on a tribute to Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, backed by John Di Martino (piano) and Alvin Atkinson (drums).
Tribute to Peggy Lee and Julie London from Acclaimed Vocalist & Bassist!
Black Coffee is a sultry and attractive tribute to Peggy Lee and Julie London. Parrott is again surrounded by a hugely talented cast that includes pianist John Di Martino, tenor saxophonist Harry Allen and guitarist Paul Myers as well as her sister Lisa Parrott. In 2010, the album received Swing Journal's Gold Disc award.
Summer-Themed Songs from Acclaimed Vocalist & Bassist!
Coming after the Spring-themed Sakura Sakura, Summertime is the second in bassist-vocalist's Nicki Parrott's seasonal series of albums. An all-star group of New York-based musicians supports the immensely gifted Parrott on this release.
Rare Find, Long Out Of Print!
Ms. Parrott hands out a "Ticket To Ride" back to a simpler time when Karen and Richard Carpenter were spreading the love through melodious tunes and meaningful lyrics.
Out Of Print! Limited Quantities!
The ladies of Venus, including Nicki Parrott, Anna Kolchina, Simone and Laird Jackson, have combined their efforts to assemble a collaboration album.
Nicki Parrott Performs The Burt Bacharach Song Book on 180g LP!
Jazz vocalist and bassist Nicki Parrott performs a collection of Burt Bacharach favorites with John Di Martino (piano), Paul Meyers (guitar), Harry Allen (tenor sax) and Alvin Atkinson (drums).
Nicki Parrott is a world-class double bassist and an emerging singer/songwriter. In her work with artists from around the globe she has brought a signature sound to every bass part she has played.
On this release, Nicki Parrott is joined by John Di Martino on piano. Features jazz classics "You Make Me Feel So Young" and "I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues."
With vocalist/pianist Alexis Cole, guitarists Bucky Pizzarelli and Frank Vignola, vocalist/bassist Nicki Parrott, and trumpeter Bria Skonberg.
Rachel Z's first release from Venus features standards as well as cool jazz versions of rock tunes by Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Sting and Peter Gabriel!
Red Hot Audiophile 2008 features such artists as Chie Ayado, Eva Taylor, Nicki Parrott and more!
Tribute To Ella & Louis on SACD!
Acclaimed bassist & vocalist Nicki Parrott is joined by sax player Houston Person, pianist John di Martino, and more, for this album dedicated to songs of the Winter season including several well-known Christmas tunes.
Enjoy jazz all night long with One For All, the Harold Mabern Trio, Tessa Souter, Nicki Parrott and more as they play favorites like "Stolen Moments", "Blue Bossa" and "Getting Some Fun Out Of Life".
Nicki Parrott's latest release from Venus Records is a gorgeous collection of romantic standards.
Parrott's Debut Album for Venus!
For this auspicious label debut release, Parrott was teamed with wonderful musicians that included John di Martino, a wonderful pianist and arranger who has recorded several times for Venus. Paul Myers' guitar work is exemplary, and Harry Allen contributes with tasteful solos and obligatos.
Parrott's Second Album Features Powerful Bass and Sultry Vocals!
Nicki Parrott surrounded herself with wonderful musicians again on Fly Me To The Moon. John di Martino, Billy Drummond and Harry Allen--familiar faces from the previous album--are joined by Nicki's sister Lisa, who plays baritone and soprano saxophones, and guitarist Mark Sganga.
Nicki Parrott Performs The Burt Bacharach Song Book on SACD!
Parrott Performs Collection of Well-Known Theme Songs from Hollywood Movies!
The Look of Love is a collection of well-known theme songs from Hollywood movies. Supporting Nicki Parrott are great musicians based in New York, including Chuck Redd on vibraphone, Ken Peplowski on tenor sax and clarinet, John Di Martino on piano, and her sister Lisa Parrott on baritone sax and alto sax.
Francesco Cafiso began playing the alto saxophone at age 9, toured Europe with Wynton Marsalis at age 14, and won Italy's version of the Golden Django award for jazz musicians at age 16.
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Kitui Governor Charity Ngilu has been summoned by the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) over utterances inciting youths to set on fire lorries ferrying charcoal.
The commission has asked the county boss to avail herself for interrogations on 20 February at 10am.
“Following the utterances by Hon. Charity Ngilu in regards to charcoal burning the Commission has summoned the Governor in a letter dated 14th February 2018 to appear before the Commission for investigations/interrogations on 20th Feb 2018 at 10.00AM,” NCIC said on Twitter.
The lorry was set ablaze at Kanyonyo near Matuu, with the owner, David Kariuki denying buying charcoal from Kitui since charcoal trade was banned in the county.
“We do not buy charcoal there. The problem is, the road from Tana River to Nairobi cut across Kitui, there is no other road,” Kariuki told reporters.
Kiambu leaders, including Governor Ferdinand Waititu want Ngilu charged with inciting the public.
But the Kitui governor denied the allegations saying that the charcoal ban has been in play since 2014 and was only enforcing it.
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Instead of letting iTunes update podcasts every hour or in the middle of the day, you can schedule iTunes to check at night. Using a simple AppleScript and scheduling it to run with iCal you can have new podcast episodes waiting for you when you get to your Mac in the morning.
Closed captioning for this video is available on YouTube: MacMost Now 329: Schedule Podcast Updating with AppleScript.
Hi, this is Gary with MacMost Now. On today's episode lets use AppleScript to schedule podcast updates in iTunes.
So I often hear that people are frustrated by iTunes lack of options for updating podcasts. Either you have to update every hour or at the same time everyday. People want to be able to set iTunes to update, say in the middle of the night just once a day, so they have fresh new podcasts waiting for them in the morning. Well you can do this using AppleScript. So this is a good opportunity for us to look at how to use some basic AppleScript. Lets create one and then schedule it to run in the middle of the night using iCal.
So you can find the AppleScript editor in the 'Utilities' folder in the 'Applications' folder. Once you run it, you get a scripting window like this where you have to type in commands. Now if you're not a programmer AppleScript probably isn't a very good programming language to start with. But you can find lots of example AppleScripts all over the internet by searching for 'AppleScript', followed by a description of what it is you're looking for. So for instance you can find information about how to update podcasts in iTunes. Lets start with a line here that tells us to point the AppleScript at iTunes. So 'tell application "iTunes"', and the first line is 'activate'. This will either run the program iTunes or it will bring it to the front if it's already running. Now the next is a specialized command; well there's no way of knowing that it exists unless you're specifically looking for it or happen to stumble upon it on the web. 'UpdateAllPodcasts'. That'll basically be the same as hitting the refresh button in the podcast section of iTunes. Then we 'end tell'. So we're going "Tell application iTunes to activate, update all podcasts." Now we click the 'compile' button, we can see that a format's attached and it gives a clue that we've probably typed the right thing.
So we want to test this out by hitting 'Run'. And if it works it should launch iTunes and then automatically update the podcasts. Lets see if it does. I click on it and I can see that it is indeed running iTunes. There's iTunes there and we can see now it's downloading one item, it actually did go ahead and update the podcasts. And now if I click on the MacAnswers podcast I can see it updated it with the most recent episode.
So now we just have to save this script out. We save it as, lets just call it 'Update Podcasts. I'm going to put it on the desktop here, but you'll probably want to put it somewhere else, like in your documents folder. We're going to keep it as format 'script' because iCal can actually handle AppleScript scripts; you don't have to save it as an application. And we'll hit save.
So in iCal lets create a new event, and we're going to call it 'Update Podcast'. We're going to set an alarm for this podcast as 'Run Script'. And then we're going to select the 'Update Podcast' script right here. Once you select a script like this it will actually appear in a list here - you can see 'Run Script' and then 'Update Podcasts' appears in that list. And then we're going to set it to run at zero minutes before, so it'll run exactly at the time that we've scheduled. We're going to change the time here so that it runs at 3:01 AM and ends at 3:01, and we're going to set it to repeat everyday, to repeat everyday at 3:01 AM. We're going to click done, and we can see it's scheduled here. Now what'll happen is if your machine is awake it will then launch this script at 3:01 AM and begin iTunes, updating the podcasts. But if your machine is asleep it won't run. If your machine is awake though, you don't need to have iCal running - I should point that out. iCal schedules, like this, alarms, whatever they are, will run regardless of whether or not iCal, the program itself is running because there's a process on your Mac that runs iCal alarms regardless. It wouldn't be very useful if we always had to keep iCal running all the time.
Now what happens if your machine does go to sleep or if you put it to sleep every night? Well you can simply tell it to wake up a minute before the script is set to run. Just go to 'Energy Saver' and go to 'Schedule', and in there you can tell it to start up or awake everyday and you can set it to 3 AM. So now we know that your computer will be awake when that calendar event has to run.
So if you're a programmer you may want to continue to look into AppleScript. There's a lot of different casts that you can script, even beyond what Automator can do. There's a library inside the AppleScript editor that you can browse through and a lot of online resources as well you can search for. Hope you've found this useful. Til next time this is Gary Rosenzweig with MacMost Now.
Related Posts: How Do I Implement an AppleScript To Restart the My Headless Mac mini?, How To Updating CreditCard Info In Apple Account?
Or unless you browse through the scriptable objects and commands in the iTunes Script Dictionary, which is what you should do when you want to try scripting anything… read it’s script dictionary. To do this, Go to AppleScript Editor > File > Open Dictionary… then choose the app you want to script.
Searching on the web is great but why not start right at the source?
Anyhow, thanks for the great tip.
Well, that is what I mean. You can browse and find it, but I had so many requests from people about a command that would do this that it was obvious that people were looking and still not finding it.
Thanks very much for this one Gary. Really appreciate it…billiant!!!
PS: I would have never worked it out myself in a million years!
I tried to run the script but a get this error message…can you help or suggest a solution…?
The command is “updateAllPodcasts” (with an s at the end).
I am a new Mac user and learn a lot from your podcasts. Question about this scripting.. I set up the script as you described and it works when I have my MacBook pro on. I tried telling the machine to ‘wake’ with the Energy Saver a minute prior to the ical script, but this doesn’t happen. Will the Energy Saver not ‘wake’ if the laptop is closed? Currently, the script will run as soon as I lift the lid of my laptop and type in my password. Am I doing something wrong?
If you have a MacBook then it must sleep if the lid is closed. (Exceptions are if it has a mouse, keyboard and external screen hooked up). So that’s what’s happening.
Thanks Gary for such a quick response! Keep up the good work with your podcasts. I recommend you to my friends and colleagues.
Automator is actually just an easier shell put on to AppleScript. A programmer might like to skip Automator and just write an AppleScript. A non-programmer would just stick with Automator and not use AppleScript at all. What Automator does is a subset of what AppleScript can do. That’s why sometimes you have to place a small AppleScript inside Automator to accomplish a task.
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About this journey The average travel time between Marne La Vallee and Angouleme is 2h58 minutes. The quickest route is 2h58 minutes. The first train leaving Marne La Vallee is at 08:33, the last at 18:33. There is an average of 5 trains a day between Marne La Vallee and Angouleme, leaving approximately every 3h20 minutes.
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Tow hooks? These are a thing now? Why?
I understand *most* of what the "tuner" crowd does, and (theoretically) why. Fart-can exhaust? Well, sure, less restriction = moar powaaaaaah, and that's good, then things got less focused on power and more on sound and looks. And a lower COG and stiffer springs *can* equate to better handling, so I understand the lowering thing.
Most "tuner mods" that I've seen have some sort of roots in performance. But tow hooks? WTF? Is there something I'm missing? I'm seeing more and more of these beautifully-machined, billet-aluminum tow hooks on tuner cars. Short of "I overcooked a turn and drove straight off a cliff, now someone needs to drag the remains of my vehicle back to the road", I don't understand the point. Most consumer cars come with serviceable tow points. What's the point? Am I missing something? Why would anyone want this? Why is this a thing? I'm confused.
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A new US insurance company is pledging to donate any money left after paying out claims to charity.
Lemonade started offering insurance to New York renters and homeowners yesterday after gaining clearance from the state regulator.
The peer-to-peer insurer has surprised the market with the speed with which it has come to market, moving from the start of fundraising to launch in about a year.
Capacity is being provided to Lemonade by Berkshire Hathaway and XL Group,Bloomberg reported.
Charities can register with Lemonade so policyholders can specify where any surplus should be donated.
The company estimates that every policy bought by a supporter of a charity will generate more than $100 in donations.
Ecclesiastical is keen to strike more scheme partnerhsips withi brokers after its latest successful partnership.
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Looking at the pictures in this post so far, there certainly are quite a few cute kittens. Too many?
We'd better balance things out with one more picture... and then no more cat pictures today, I promise. ?
Onward to the May roundup!
Can you guess what "бегу – волосы назад" means?
Lots of resources here for learning Russian military words.
5 Russian words that used to have a different meaning.
Struggling with Russian? Consider language learning fitness.
A short read about tea culture, самовары, and all that good stuff.
Залить за воротник, уговорить бутылку, and other expressions about drinking.
This site promises to help you "Improve your Russian with Immersive, Interactive Videos."
And finally, my very favorite find of the month: this old song!
Read Andreyev's The Little Angel story... done! When I was a teenager, I bought a super-depressing book of Russian short stories. (I know what you're thinking- doesn't that pretty much describe every piece of Russian literature? But this book was even more depressing than you'd expect.) After reading the book, I lost it and forgot what it was called. This book might actually be that book and even if it's not, it's suitably depressing enough. Although the Wikisource formatting is sometimes a little weird, it's cool to be able to read these stories for free online.
Last month I joined a FB group for Russian-speaking travel bloggers. Although I haven't written anything since the original intro, I've still been scanning through the group posts a few times a week.
It turns out that my new penpal is a prolific blogger, so it's hard to keep up with all her posts. There's one I definitely want to read this week, though, about how she lost all her baby weight just 3 months after giving birth. I'll try to keep up more with her future posts. This month I'm going to write her back in Russian (snail mail) and restart an old Russian snail mail campaign with another penpal.
Getting all the way through Russian Step By Step: Verbs of Motion took over a year. :/ I was SOOOO excited to find out that such a workbook exists, but the actual product was a little disappointing.
This workbook is definitely not for beginners, since you're already expected to know how to decline nouns. Also, it never once actually mentions the terms совершенный вид and несовершенный вид. Maybe, the authors are trying to make it easier by not using these terms, but it was confusing for me.
If you already have a decent grasp on Russian verbs of motion, this might be a good way to just get some repetitive practice. If you're looking for more explanations, I recommend Schaum's Russian Grammar. There's a second Russian Step By Step: Verbs of Motion workbook, but I'm going to skip it for now.
The свекровь visit was a partial success- everyone survived and there were absolutely no snarky comments from either her or me this time, ура! We did speak Russian together all day, every day, but the 'learn 2 new words a day' plan didn't happen because I didn't write anything down.
And with all the traveling this month, D and I haven't watched much. We did catch the first episode of a show called Анжелика- thanks for tip, Teango! Замуж за американца, Как я стал русским, and Китайский язык за 16 часов are getting moved to next month's plan. Живая земля ended, so I'm not sure if the course is still accessible.
What are your language goals for June 2017?
Хаха, я люблю этот видео!
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When we talk about good performance, we are not talking about how fast your PHP scripts will run. Performance is a set of tradeoffs between scalability and speed. Scripts tuned to use fewer resources might be slower than scripts that perform caching, but more copies of the same script can be run at one time on a web server.
In the example below, A.php is a sprinter that can run fast, and B.php is a marathon runner than can jog forever at the nearly the same speed. For light loads, A.php is substantially faster, but as the web traffic increases, the performance of B.php only drops a little bit while A.php just runs out of steam.
Let us take a more realistic example to clarify matters further. Suppose we need to write a PHP script that reads a 250K file and generates a HTML summary of the file. We write 2 scripts that do the same thing: hare.php that reads the whole file into memory at once and processes it in one pass, and tortoise.php that reads the file, one line at time, never keeping more than the longest line in memory. Tortoise.php will be slower as multiple reads are issued, requiring more system calls.
Hare.php requires 0.04 seconds of CPU and 10 Mb RAM and tortoise.php requires 0.06 seconds of CPU and 5 Mb RAM. The server has 100 Mb free actual RAM and its CPU is 99% idle. Assume no memory fragmentation occurs to simplify things.
At 10 concurrent scripts running, hare.php will run out of memory (10 x 10 = 100). At that point, tortoise.php will still have 50 Mb of free memory. The 11th concurrent script to run will bring hare.php to its knees as it starts using virtual memory, slowing it down to maybe half its original speed; each invocation of hare.php now takes 0.08 seconds of CPU time. Meanwhile, tortoise.php will be still be running at its normal 0.06 seconds CPU time.
As the above example shows, obtaining good performance is not merely writing fast PHP scripts. High performance PHP requires a good understanding of the underlying hardware, the operating system and supporting software such as the web server and database.
Your network is probably the biggest bottleneck. Let us say you have a 10 Mbit link to the Internet, over which you can pump 1 megabyte of data per second. If each web page is 30k, a mere 33 web pages per second will saturate the line.
More subtle networking bottlenecks include frequent access to slow network services such as DNS, or allocating insufficient memory for networking software.
If you monitor your CPU load, sending plain HTML pages over a network will not tax your CPU at all because as we mentioned earlier, the bottleneck will be the network. However for the complex dynamic web pages that PHP generates, your CPU speed will normally become the limiting factor. Having a server with multiple processors or having a server farm can alleviate this.
Shared memory is used for inter-process communication, and to store resources that are shared between multiple processes such as cached data and code. If insufficient shared memory is allocated any attempt to access resources that use shared memory such as database connections or executable code will perform poorly.
Accessing a hard disk can be 50 to 100 times slower than reading data from RAM. File caches using RAM can alleviate this. However low memory conditions will reduce the amount of memory available for the file-system cache, slowing things down. File systems can also become heavily fragmented, slowing down disk accesses. Heavy use of symbolic links on Unix systems can slow down disk accesses too.
Default Linux installs are also notorious for setting hard disk default settings which are tuned for compatibility and not for speed. Use the command hdparm to tune your Linux hard disk settings.
On some operating systems such as Windows creating new processes is a slow operation. This means CGI applications that fork a new process on every invocation will run substantially slower on these operating systems. Running PHP in multi-threaded mode should improve response times (note: older versions of PHP are not stable in multi-threaded mode).
Avoid overcrowding your web server with too many unneeded processes. For example, if your server is purely for web serving, avoid running (or even installing) X-Windows on the machine. On Windows, avoid running Microsoft Find Fast (part of Office) and 3-dimensional screen savers that result in 100% CPU utilization.
You can also disable at startup various programs by modifying the startup files which are usually stored in the /etc/init* or /etc/rc*/init* directory.
Also review your cron jobs to see if you can remove them or reschedule them for off-peak periods.
If your web server requires services running on other servers, it is possible that those servers become the bottleneck. The most common example of this is a slow database server that is servicing too many complicated SQL requests from multiple web servers.
Some people say that it is better to defer tuning until after the coding is complete. This advice only makes sense if your programming team's coding is of a high quality to begin with, and you already have a good feel of the performance parameters of your application. Otherwise you are exposing yourselves to the risk of having to rewrite substantial portions of your code after testing.
My advice is that before you design a software application, you should do some basic benchmarks on the hardware and software to get a feel for the maximum performance you might be able to achieve. Then as you design and code the application, keep the desired performance parameters in mind, because at every step of the way there will be tradeoffs between performance, availability, security and flexibility.
Also choose good test data. If your database is expected to hold 100,000 records, avoid testing with only a 100 record database – you will regret it. This once happened to one of the programmers in my company; we did not detect the slow code until much later, causing a lot of wasted time as we had to rewrite a lot of code that worked but did not scale.
We will cover how to get the best PHP performance for the two most common web servers in use today, Apache 1.3 and IIS. A lot of the advice here is relevant for serving HTML also.
The authors of PHP have stated that there is no performance nor scalability advantage in using Apache 2.0 over Apache 1.3 with PHP, especially in multi-threaded mode. When running Apache 2.0 in pre-forking mode, the following discussion is still relevant (21 Oct 2003).
Apache is available on both Unix and Windows. It is the most popular web server in the world. Apache 1.3 uses a pre-forking model for web serving. When Apache starts up, it creates multiple child processes that handle HTTP requests. The initial parent process acts like a guardian angel, making sure that all the child processes are working properly and coordinating everything. As more HTTP requests come in, more child processes are spawned to process them. As the HTTP requests slow down, the parent will kill the idle child processes, freeing up resources for other processes. The beauty of this scheme is that it makes Apache extremely robust. Even if a child process crashes, the parent and the other child processes are insulated from the crashing child.
The pre-forking model is not as fast as some other possible designs, but to me that it is "much ado about nothing" on a server serving PHP scripts because other bottlenecks will kick in long before Apache performance issues become significant. The robustness and reliability of Apache is more important.
Apache 2.0 offers operation in multi-threaded mode. My benchmarks indicate there is little performance advantage in this mode. Also be warned that many PHP extensions are not compatible (e.g. GD and IMAP). Tested with Apache 2.0.47 (21 Oct 2003).
The maximum number of child processes to create. The default means that up to 256 HTTP requests can be handled concurrently. Any further connection requests are queued.
The number of child processes to create on startup.
The number of idle child processes that should be created. If the number of idle child processes falls to less than this number, 1 child is created initially, then 2 after another second, then 4 after another second, and so forth till 32 children are created per second.
If more than this number of child processes are alive, then these extra processes will be terminated.
Sets the number of HTTP requests a child can handle before terminating. Setting to 0 means never terminate. Set this to a value to between 100 to 10000 if you suspect memory leaks are occurring, or to free under-utilized resources.
Apache on Windows behaves differently. Instead of using child processes, Apache uses threads. The above parameters are not used. Instead we have one parameter: ThreadsPerChild which defaults to 50. This parameter sets the number of threads that can be spawned by Apache. As there is only one child process in the Windows version, the default setting of 50 means only 50 concurrent HTTP requests can be handled. For web servers experiencing higher traffic, increase this value to between 256 to 1024.
Determines the size of the output buffer (in bytes) used in TCP/IP connections. This is primarily useful for congested or slow networks when packets need to be buffered; you then set this parameter close to the size of the largest file normally downloaded. One TCP/IP buffer will be created per client connection.
In the original HTTP specification, every HTTP request had to establish a separate connection to the server. To reduce the overhead of frequent connects, the keep-alive header was developed. Keep-alives tells the server to reuse the same socket connection for multiple HTTP requests.
If a separate dedicated web server serves all images, you can disable this option. This technique can substantially improve resource utilization.
The number of seconds to keep the socket connection alive. This time includes the generation of content by the server and acknowledgements by the client. If the client does not respond in time, it must make a new connection.
This value should be kept low as the socket will be idle for extended periods otherwise.
Socket connections will be terminated when the number of requests set by MaxKeepAliveRequests is reached. Keep this to a high value below MaxClients or ThreadsPerChild.
Disconnect when idle time exceeds this value. You can set this value lower if your clients have low latencies.
Maximum size of a PUT or POST. O means there is no limit.
You can also configure the default isolation level of your web site. In the Home Directory tab under Application Protection, you can define your level of isolation. A highly isolated web site will run slower because it is running as a separate process from IIS, while running web site in the IIS process is the fastest but will bring down the server if there are serious bugs in the web site code. Currently I recommend running PHP web sites using CGI, or using ISAPI with Application Protection set to high.
Performance Tuning based on the number of hits per day.
Determines how much memory to preallocate for IIS. (Performance Tab).
Controls the bandwidth per second allocated per web site. (Performance Tab).
Controls the CPU% available per Web site. (Performance Tab).
In IIS 5, you can compress dynamic pages, html and images. Can be configured to cache compressed static html and images. By default compression is off.
HTTP compression has to be enabled for the entire physical server. To turn it on open the IIS console, right-click on the server (not any of the subsites, but the server in the left-hand pane), and get Properties. Click on the Service tab, and select "Compress application files" to compress dynamic content, and "Compress static files" to compress static content.
If the settings are missing from this registry location, the defaults are being used.
After much testing, I find that the best PHP performance on Windows is offered by using IIS with FastCGI. CGI is a protocol for calling external programs from a web server. It is not very fast because CGI programs are terminated after every page request. FastCGI modifies this protocol for high performance, by making the CGI program persist after a page request, and reusing the same CGI program when a new page request comes in.
As the installation of FastCGI with IIS is complicated, you should use the EasyWindows PHP Installer. This will install PHP, FastCGI and Turck MMCache for the best performance possible. This installer can also install PHP for Apache 1.3/2.0.
This section on FastCGI added 21 Oct 2003.
Sets the amount of memory that IIS will use for its file cache. By default IIS will use 50% of available memory. Increase if IIS is the only application on the server. Value is in megabytes.
Determines the maximum size of a file cached in the file cache in bytes. Default is 262,144 (256K).
Sets the length of time (in milliseconds) that objects in the cache are held in memory. Default is 30,000 milliseconds (30 seconds).
Sets the number of pool threads to create per processor. Determines how many CGI applications can run concurrently. Default is 4. Increase this value if you are using PHP in CGI mode.
Specifies the maximum number of active Keep Alive connections that IIS maintains in the connection queue. Default is 15, and should be increased to the number of concurrent connections you want to support. Maximum is 250.
The PHP script was loaded by the Zend Engine and compiled into Zend opcode. Opcodes, short for operation codes, are low level binary instructions. Then the opcode was executed and the HTML generated sent to the client. The opcode was flushed from memory after execution.
Today, there are a multitude of products and techniques to help you speed up this process. In the following diagram, we show the how modern PHP scripts work; all the shaded boxes are optional.
PHP Scripts are loaded into memory and compiled into Zend opcodes. These opcodes can now be optimized using an optional peephole optimizer called Zend Optimizer. Depending on the script, it can increase the speed of your PHP code by 0-50%.
Formerly after execution, the opcodes were discarded. Now the opcodes can be optionally cached in memory using several alternative open source products and the Zend Accelerator (formerly Zend Cache), which is a commercial closed source product. The only opcode cache that is compatible with the Zend Optimizer is the Zend Accelerator. An opcode cache speeds execution by removing the script loading and compilation steps. Execution times can improve between 10-200% using an opcode cache.
One of the secrets of high performance is not to write faster PHP code, but to avoid executing PHP code by caching generated HTML in a file or in shared memory. The PHP script is only run once and the HTML is captured, and future invocations of the script will load the cached HTML. If the data needs to be updated regularly, an expiry value is set for the cached HTML. HTML caching is not part of the PHP language nor Zend Engine, but implemented using PHP code. There are many class libraries that do this. One of them is the PEAR Cache, which we will cover in the next section. Another is the Smarty template library.
Zend Accelerator: A commercial opcode cache developed by the Zend Engine team. Very reliable and robust. Visit http://zend.com for more information.
You will need to test the following open source opcode caches before using them on production servers as their performance and reliability very much depends on the PHP scripts you run.
The PEAR Cache is a set of caching classes that allows you to cache multiple types of data, including HTML and images.
The Cache constructor takes the storage driver to use as the first parameter. File, database and shared memory storage drivers are available; see the pear/Cache/Container directory. Benchmarks by Ulf Wendel suggest that the "file" storage driver offers the best performance. The second parameter is the storage driver options. The options are "cache_dir", the location of the caching directory, and "filename_prefix", which is the prefix to use for all cached files. Strangely enough, cache expiry times are not set in the options parameter.
To cache some data, you generate a unique id for the cached data using a key. In the above example, we used md5("this is a unique key!").
The start() function uses the key to find a cached copy of the contents. If the contents are not cached, an empty string is returned by start(), and all future echo() and print() statements will be buffered in the output cache, until end() is called.
The end() function returns the contents of the buffer, and ends output buffering. The end() function takes as its first parameter the expiry time of the cache. This parameter can be the seconds to cache the data, or a Unix integer timestamp giving the date and time to expire the data, or zero to default to 24 hours.
To save the data we use save(). If your unique key is already a legal file name, you can bypass the generateID() step. Objects and arrays can be saved because save() will serialize the data for you. The last parameter controls when the data expires; this can be the seconds to cache the data, or a Unix integer timestamp giving the date and time to expire the data, or zero to use the default of 24 hours. To retrieve the cached data we use get().
You can delete a cached data item using $cache->delete($id) and remove all cached items using $cache->flush().
New: A faster Caching class is Cache-Lite. Highly recommended.
In earlier section we have covered many performance issues. Now we come to the meat and bones, how to go about measuring and benchmarking your code so you can obtain decent information on what to tune.
If you want to perform realistic benchmarks on a web server, you will need a tool to send HTTP requests to the server. On Unix, common tools to perform benchmarks include ab (short for apachebench) which is part of the Apache release, and the newer flood (httpd.apache.org/test/flood). On Windows NT/2000 you can use Microsoft's free Web Application Stress Tool (webtool.rte.microsoft.com).
These programs can make multiple concurrent HTTP requests, simulating multiple web clients, and present you with detailed statistics on completion of the tests.
You can monitor how your server behaves as the benchmarks are conducted on Unix using "vmstat 1". This prints out a status report every second on the performance of your disk i/o, virtual memory and CPU load. Alternatively, you can use "top d 1" which gives you a full screen update on all processes running sorted by CPU load every 1 second.
On Windows 2000, you can use the Performance Monitor or the Task Manager to view your system statistics.
If you want to test a particular aspect of your code without having to worry about the HTTP overhead, you can benchmark using the microtime(), which returns the current time accurate to the microsecond as a string. The following function will convert it into a number suitable for calculations.
Alternatively, you can use a profiling tool such as APD or XDebug. Also see my article squeezing code with xdebug.
This case study details a real benchmark we did for a client. In this instance, the customer wanted a guaranteed response time of 5 seconds for all PHP pages that did not involve running long SQL queries. The following server configuration was used: an Apache 1.3.20 server running PHP 4.0.6 on Red Hat 7.2 Linux. The hardware was a twin Pentium III 933 MHz beast with 1 Gb of RAM. The HTTP requests will be for the PHP script "testmysql.php". This script reads and processes about 20 records from a MySQL database running on another server. For the sake of simplicity, we assume that all graphics are downloaded from another web server.
While running the benchmark, on the server side we monitored the resource utilization using the command "top d 1". The parameters "d 1" mean to delay 1 second between updates. The output is shown below.
Looking at the output of "top", the twin CPU Apache server is running flat out with 0% idle time. What is worse is that the load average is 9.07 for the past minute (and 3.29 for the past 5 minutes, 1.79 for the past 15 minutes). The load average is the average number of processes that are ready to be run. For a twin processor server, any load above 2.0 means that the system is being overloaded. You might notice that there is a close relationship between load (9.07) and the number of simultaneous connections (10) that we have defined with ab.
Luckily we have plenty of physical memory, with about 798,160 Mb free and no virtual memory used.
Further down we can see the processes ordered by CPU utilization. The most active ones are the Apache httpd processes. The first httpd task is using 7280K of memory, and is taking an average of 21.2% of CPU and 0.7% of physical memory. The STAT column indicates the status: R is runnable, S is sleeping, and W means that the process is swapped out.
Given the above figures, and assuming this a typical peak load, we can perform some planning. If the load average is 9.0 for a twin-CPU server and assuming each task takes about the same amount of time to complete, then a lightly loaded server should be 9.0 / 2 CPUs = 4.5 times faster. So a HTTP request that used to take 1.283 seconds to satisfy at peak load will take about 1.283 / 4.5 = 0.285 seconds to complete.
To verify this, we benchmarked with 2 simultaneous client connections (instead of 10 in the previous benchmark) to give an average of 0.281 seconds, very close to the 0.285 seconds prediction!
Conversely, doubling the connections, we can predict that the average connection time should double from 1.283 to 2.566 seconds. In the benchmarks, the actual time was 2.570 seconds.
When we pushed the benchmark to use 40 connections, the server overloaded with 35% failed requests. On further investigation, it was because the MySQL server persistent connects were failing because of "Too Many Connections".
The benchmark also demonstrates the lingering behavior of Apache child processes. Each PHP script uses 2 persistent connections, so at 40 connections, we should only be using at most 80 persistent connections, well below the default MySQL max_connections of 100. However Apache idle child processes are not assigned immediately to new requests due to latencies, keep-alives and other technical reasons; these lingering child processes held the remaining 20+ persistent connections that were "the straws that broke the Camel's back".
By switching to non-persistent database connections, we were able to fix this problem and obtained a result of 5.340 seconds. An alternative solution would have been to increase the MySQL max_connections parameter from the default of 100.
The above case study once again shows us that optimizing your performance is extremely complex. It requires an understanding of multiple software subsystems including network routing, the TCP/IP stack, the amount of physical and virtual memory, the number of CPUs, the behavior of Apache child processes, your PHP scripts, and the database configuration.
In this case the PHP code was quite well tuned, so the first bottleneck was the CPU, which caused a slowdown in response time. As the load increased, the system slowed down in a near linear fashion (which is a good sign) until we encountered the more serious bottleneck of MySQL client connections. This caused multiple errors in our PHP pages until we fixed it by switching to non-persistent connections.
As our client wanted a maximum response time of 5 seconds, the server can handle up to 34 simultaneous connections per second. This works out to a peak capacity of 34/5 = 6.8 page views per second.
To get the maximum number of page views a day that the server can handle, multiply the peak capacity per second by 50,000 (this technique is suggested by the webmasters at pair.com, a large web hosting company), to give 340,000 page views a day.
The patient reader who is still wondering why so much emphasis is given to discussing non-PHP issues is reminded that PHP is a fast language, and many of the likely bottlenecks causing slow speeds lie outside PHP.
Most PHP scripts are simple. They involve reading some session information, loading some data from a content management system or database, formatting the appropriate HTML and echoing the results to the HTTP client. Assuming that a typical PHP script completes in 0.1 seconds and the Internet latency is 0.2 seconds, only 33% of the 0.3 seconds response time that the HTTP client sees is actual PHP computation. So if you improve a script's speed by 20%, the HTTP client will see response times drop to 0.28 seconds, which is an insignificant improvement. Of course the server can probably handle 20% more requests for the same page, so scalability has improved.
The above example does not mean we should throw our hands up and give up. It means that we should not feel proud tweaking the last 1% of speed from our code, but we should spend our time optimizing worthwhile areas of our code to get higher returns.
First we need to understand that the expression $j<sizeof($arr) is evaluated within the loop multiple times. As sizeof($arr) is actually a constant (invariant), we move the cache the sizeof($arr) in the $max variable. In technical terms, this is called loop invariant optimization.
An alternate way of speeding the above code would be to use output buffering. This will accumulate the output string internally, and send the output in one shot at the end of the script. This reduces networking overhead substantially at the cost of more memory and an increase in latency. In some of my code consisting entirely of echo statements, performance improvements of 15% have been observed.
Note that output buffering with ob_start() can be used as a global optimization for all PHP scripts. In long-running scripts, you will also want to flush the output buffer periodically so that some feedback is sent to the HTTP client. This can be done with ob_end_flush(). This function also turns off output buffering, so you might want to call ob_start() again immediately after the flush.
In summary, this example has shown us how to optimize loop invariants and how to use output buffering to speed up our code.
My benchmarks showed me that the use of $max contributed 0.5 ms and ob_start contributed 1 ms to the 1.5 ms speedup.
From the above figures, you can see that biggest speed improvements are derived not from tweaking the code, but by simple global optimizations such as ob_start(), or using radically different algorithms such as HTML caching.
Initial code, no optimizations, excluding database connection and SQL execution times.
1. Initialise all variables before use.
2. Dereference all global/property variables that are frequently used in a method and put the values in local variables if you plan to access the value more than twice.
3. Try placing frequently used methods in the derived classes.
Warning: as PHP is going through a continuous improvement process, things might change in the future.
I have found that calling object methods (functions defined in a class) are about twice as slow as a normal function calls. To me that's quite acceptable and comparable to other OOP languages.
Incrementing a object property (eg. $this->prop++) is 3 times slower than a local variable.
Update: 11 July 2004: The above test was on PHP 4.0.4, about 3 years ago. I tested this again in PHP4.3.3 and calling a function now takes about 20 $localvar++ operations, and calling a method takes about 30 $localvar++ operations. This could be because $localvar++ runs faster now, or functions are slower.
The more you understand the software you are using (Apache, PHP, IIS, your database) and the deeper your knowledge of the operating system, networking and server hardware, the better you can perform global optimizations on your code and your system.
For PHP scripts, the most expensive bottleneck is normally the CPU. Twin CPUs are probably more useful than two Gigabytes of RAM.
Compile PHP with the "configure –-enable-inline-optimization" option to generate the fastest possible PHP executable.
Tune your database and index the fields that are commonly used in your SQL WHERE criteria. ADOdb, the very popular database abstraction library, provides a SQL tuning mode, where you can view your invalid, expensive and suspicious SQL, their execution plans and in which PHP script the SQL was executed.
Benchmark your most complex code early (or at least a prototype), so you get a feel of the expected performance before it is too late to fix. Try to use realistic amounts of test data to ensure that it scales properly.
Updated 11 July 2004: To benchmark with an execution profile of all function calls, you can try the xdebug extension. For a brief tutorial of how i use xdebug, see squeezing code with xdebug. There are commercial products to do this also, eg. Zend Studio.
Consider using a opcode cache. This gives a speedup of between 10-200%, depending on the complexity of your code. Make sure you do some stress tests before you install a cache because some are more reliable than others.
Use ob_start() at the beginning of your code. This gives you a 5-15% boost in speed for free on Apache. You can also use gzip compression for extra fast downloads (this requires spare CPU cycles).
Consider installing Zend Optimizer. This is free and does some optimizations, but be warned that some scripts actually slow down when Zend Optimizer is installed. The consensus is that Zend Optimizer is good when your code has lots of loops. Today many opcode accelerators have similar features (added this sentence 21 Oct 2003).
The fastest way to concatenate multiple small strings into one large string is to create an output buffer (ob_start) and to echo into the buffer. At the end get the contents using ob_get_contents. This works because memory allocation is normally the killer in string concatenation, and output buffering allocates a large 40K initial buffer that grows in 10K chunks. Added 22 June 2004.
Pass objects and arrays using references in functions. Return objects and arrays as references where possible also. If this is a short script, and code maintenance is not an issue, you can consider using global variables to hold the objects or arrays.
If you have many PHP scripts that use session variables, consider recompiling PHP using the shared memory module for sessions, or use a RAM Disk. Enable this with "configure -–with-mm" then re-compile PHP, and set session.save_handler=mm in php.ini.
For searching for substrings, the fastest code is using strpos(), followed by preg_match() and lastly ereg(). Similarly, str_replace() is faster than preg_replace(), which is faster than ereg_replace().
Added 11 July 2004: Order large switch statements with most frequently occuring cases on top. If some of the most common cases are in the default section, consider explicitly defining these cases at the top of the switch statement.
For processing XML, parsing with regular expressions is significantly faster than using DOM or SAX.
Unset() variables that are not used anymore to reduce memory usage. This is mostly useful for resources and large arrays.
For classes with deep hierarchies, functions defined in derived classes (child classes) are invoked faster than those defined in base class (parent class). Consider replicating the most frequently used code in the base class in the derived classes too.
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This is the second portion of this article responding to writing by Daniel Krawisz of the Nakamoto Institute. I recommend starting with his piece, found here, and then the first portion of this article, found here, before reading this.
At the end of the first piece, after attempting to demonstrate that the unstable potential equilibrium of multiple, equally-useful currencies is actually a self-stabilizing system thanks to the expected risk-averse behaviors of major participants, I said that this second part would explain how the necessary conditions for that could occur. After all, in order for the proposed self-sustaining equilibrium to be relevant, there must first be two (or more) currencies that are approximately equal in market capitalization and liquidity, and also universally accepted. Let’s start with that last one – acceptance.
1. Cryptocurrencies are a nascent and growing marketplace as a medium of exchange (we’re currently exiting this status).
2. Cryptocurrencies begin to gain mass-market usability. Solutions are created (such as the Xapo or Coinsis debit card) that allow ordinary users to go full-cryptocurrency without cutting themselves out of large sections of the marketplace. This creates a virtuous cycle of increasing the asset price of cryptocurrencies and of increasing the number of transactions that can be performed without converting cryptocurrencies back into traditional currencies. This slowly creates a closed-loop system, which is nearly impregnable, from an economic standpoint. This in turn promotes further merchant adoption of cryptocurrencies (as their suppliers are beginning to accept it, and so it also promotes merchants entering the closed loop) – they see someone else (Xapo or Coinsis) cutting into their margins, and naturally they will move to take the margins back for themselves. Coinsis, Xapo, and other similar businesses will inevitably lose steam and fade to irrelevance – their only true purpose is to act as a bridge between step one and three. Not to say they aren’t good and relevant businesses – just that they are time-limited by the inevitability of Bitcoin.
3. Cryptocurrencies become the default medium of exchange globally thanks to their impressive and varied advantages over traditional currencies (lack of inflation, lack of middlemen, increased speed, peer-to-peer nature, increased security, ano(pseudo)nymity).
Now, as for how a second cryptocurrency could emerge to match Bitcoin? Let’s start by eliminating one option: Bitcoin’s failure. Obviously, if Bitcoin runs into a serious and unsolvable systemic issue of some kind, something else would replace it. Let’s ignore that possibility, and assume that Bitcoin succeeds.
2. Buy an altcoin and propel its market cap to or above Bitcoin’s.
Essentially, these are a low-risk and a high-risk option, within the risk spectrum of a cryptocurrency investment. Bitcoin is a lower risk; the altcoin is a higher one. I’d argue that the altcoin is enough of a higher reward to justify the risk, at least for some entities.
This can happen very, very quickly, and it’s an extraordinarily powerful play, as well. If it can be sustained, it’s a very profitable investment to begin with – sending the coin up in value 50-100x from where it was when the entity was buying it off market. It also sets up for a very strong future – Bitcoin is greatly undervalued at current, and a rival cryptocurrency would be similarly undervalued.
There is a time limit to this, though. If Bitcoin’s next bubble takes it up to a stable market cap of $35-45BN, it would be hard for a single entity to accomplish this feat. They would have to act quite quickly – or already have acted.
I’m interested to hear why this would or would not be a workable plan, so please sound off in the comments if you have an opinion! Just remember, economics is not about ethics – if someone is doing this, they’re doing it for profit, not for justice.
I just started using Bitcoin a few months ago and have been learning about all of this, so I could easily be off-base with my comments.
One problem I see for BTC is its volatility is keeping it from general acceptance. This volatility also forces most merchants to immediately exchange BTC to fiat. I don’t know how stability could be achieved, maybe tying the price somehow to some kind of global index? That’s a question for the economists, but I thought I’d take a shot at it anyway.
I think there’s room for several crypto currencies. It could be that some are specialized, ie, colored coins. I think that your scenario of Acoin and Bcoin is not far away and people would then choose which they were more comfortable using, depending on the advantages they perceive between the coins. Several coins could be in our future, the only limits being our imaginations and acceptance of the coins created.
Merely because someone accepts a payment in a specific currency does not mean that the are indifferent to how they hold their assets. I can, for example, use my EUR-denominated debit card to by goods from all over the world, but the merchants prefer to hold their local currency.
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Walking is the best way to tour in historically rich cities wherever you travel in the world. No matter how attractive it may seem to take a double-decker bus or public transport to visit touristic sites, some things will still be missing unless you discover the streets by walking with a map in your hand.
Taking a tour in Istanbul by walking is as equally crucial as walking in cities like Rome, Florence, Barcelona, and Paris. Furthermore, I can assure you as a person who’s been to these cities, it’s even more important to discover Istanbul by walking.
The feature that makes Istanbul special compared to the rest of the cities in the world is that it’s located on two continents. However, it would be unfair to state it purely as a geographical fact. Istanbul, which serves as a bridge between the West and the East, is also a prototype of Anatolia and the blend of both continents.
You don’t really need to go too far to see both European and Asian (especially the Middle East) themes in Istanbul. Even a short walk from Sultanahmet to Galata Tower and ending at Karakoy will prove that true.
No doubt, both for domestic and foreign tourists alike, walking around the city is a really enjoyable activity. However, it’s also a fact that even Istanbul born and raised locals definitely miss some things. It will surely make you happy to find the places worth discovering on the streets of 2700 years old Istanbul.
If you start taking a walk from Sultanahmet Square, you can visit Hagia Sophia, Blue Mosque, Hippodrome, Divanyolu Street, Cemberlitas, and Grand Bazaar. Then, you can go towards Sirkeci direction via Uzun Carsi Street.
Sirkeci is the best place for local restaurants and dessert shops. Therefore, you can take a meal break here and visit the Spice Bazaar at Eminonu afterward.
Generally speaking, you will have visited the works of Ottoman Classical Era Architecture up to that point. However, when you cross the other side of Galata Bridge, you will find yourself in Beyoglu that is characterized by the European architecture.
In recent years, walking tours that include Fener and Balat have gained tremendous popularity. These tours usually start in front of Kadir Has University at Cibali and end at Balat neighborhood. You should also note that this tour is an ideal weekend activity in Istanbul.
Alternatively, you can always take Fener Balat walking tour individually too. You may start your tour from Kadir Has University and walk alongside historical city walls and take photos of the gates of city walls. Then, you can visit Fener Greek Orthodox Church, the most important monument of this route.
Moreover, it’s possible to take a meal break at one of the cafes and restaurants around the streets that surrounds the Patriarchal Church and take some amazing photos on Merdivenli Yokus (Stairlift Slope) for your Instagram page.
One third of the city was non-muslim in Istanbul during the Ottoman Empire. Fener-Balat trail is one of the best walking tours in Istanbul to enjoy the cosmopolitan architecture of Ottoman era.
Undoubtedly, the Byzantine Empire and the Ottoman Empire are the most important empires in the history of Istanbul. And one of the walking routes from Zeyrek to Suleymaniye Mosque is how you can experience the cultural heritage of these empires.
You can start your walking tour from Zeyrek Mosque (previously known as Monastery of Pantocrator) because this monument, like Hagia Sophia in the Byzantine Era, served as a church and it was converted into a mosque later.
Once you cross the other side of the road by following the aqueduct, you will reach Sehzadebasi. This neighborhood was named after Sehzade (Prince) Mosque built by Mimar Sinan (most famous architect of Ottomans). It was commissioned by Suleiman the Magnificent as a memorial to his son, Prince Mehmed and it is one of the most elegant Ottoman mosques in Istanbul.
Naturally, boza (fermented drink based on bulgur and yeast) is the first thing when Vefa neighborhood comes to mind. You can take a break at Vefa Bozacisi after visiting Sehzade Mosque and enjoy boza&leblebi (roasted chickpeas). And your next step should be the majestic Suleymaniye Mosque. It’s the biggest mosque in Istanbul and it was also built by Mimar Sinan. If you want to keep your tour longer, you can get to Grand Bazaar by a 10-minute walk.
This walking route from Zeyrek to Vefa and Suleymaniye areas will enable you to see Byzantine, Roman and Ottoman cultural heritage respectively.
Kilic Ali Pasha Mosque is one of the small size mosques in Istanbul and it’s a really fine mosque that is among the top three mosques in that category. The mosque was built by Mimar Sinan and it was actually built for Giovanni Dionigi Galeni (Chief Admiral Ali Pasa), an Italian sailor in the 16th century.
The street next to Kilic Ali Pasa Mosque has become colorful thanks to the cafes opened recently. You can take a coffee break at one of the boutique cafes on this street and continue discovering the side alleys of Karakoy.
Karakoy and Galata used to be a cosmopolite neighborhood as they were a busy port during the Ottoman Empire era. As you can remember from history books, Venetians and Genoese tradesmen lived here and they played a crucial role in exporting the goods from the Silk Road to Europe.
I am sure most of you are familiar with the route that starts from Taksim Square, extending over to Istiklal Avenue and ending at Galata Tower. However, what Beyoglu offers is not limited to the things you see on the main streets. You can discover places you’ve never seen before if you walk the side alleys of Istiklal Avenue.
There are really interesting walking routes in Beyoglu such as Cukurcuma Street (Cihangir), Mesrutiyet Street (Pera), and Serdar-i Ekrem Street (Galata).
It will take a whole day to walk on Istiklal Avenue and nearby streets that reflect the 19th century of Istanbul to the best in the last century of the Ottoman Empire.
Ortakoy is one of the most popular spots among Istanbulites for a weekend activity. You can have a great breakfast and eat kumpir (baked potato with various fillings) at Ortakoy, identified with Ortakoy Mosque and Bosphorus Bridge.
After breakfast at Ortakoy, it’s a must-do thing to walk to Bebek direction and enjoy the breeze and feel the fresh air from the Bosphorus. As you walk from Ortakoy to Bebek, you will also walk past Arnavutkoy (where you will see many people fishing). This walking route also serves as one of the best slow paced running tracks in Istanbul.
Plus, Bebek Starbucks is definitely the best Starbucks branch in Istanbul with its amazing view. Indeed, Bebek Starbucks branch may even be the one with the most beautiful view in the world. This place offers a majestic Bebek Bay view from a great point and you can end your walk with a nice coffee break here. If you prefer a local shop instead of Starbucks, I highly recommend you to choose Bebek Baylan.
Karakoy is one of the neighborhoods that has witnessed tremendous development in Istanbul in recent years. Before you start your walk, you can enjoy some great breakfast at Namli Gurme and have a small portion of baklava at Karakoy Gulluoglu next to Namli Gurme.
While you walk on the side streets of Karakoy, historical monuments like Kilic Ali Pasa Mosque will definitely attract your attention. You can visit Kilic Ali Pasa Mosque at Tophane Square and take photos of Tophane-i Amire Culture and Art Center that boasts an interesting architecture.
Moreover, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art is also located on this line. You can visit it and enjoy modern art while you sip your coffee and enjoy the Bosphorus view. Then, you can visit Nusretiye Mosque and Bezmialem Valide Sultan Mosque (Dolmabahce Mosque) which are not far from each other. These two mosques are two important works of late Ottoman architecture.
Meanwhile, it will take around two hours to discover Dolmabahce Palace, the most important historical monument on this route. Having your coffee at the café nearby Dolmabahce Palace is a lot cheaper compared to many others at the Bosphorus. Moreover, you will have a chance to enjoy your drink at a seaside café.
If you decide to stay outside till evening, you can go to Besiktas and enjoy some delicious food at Besiktas Fish Market. You should note that one of the best doner shops of Istanbul is in Besiktas (e.g. Karadeniz Doner Asim Usta). Apart from doner, there are various fish restaurants at Besiktas.
Kadikoy has always been known as the most popular neighborhood on the Asian Side. However, we can easily say Kadikoy has become a more important place of attraction in recent years as the entertainment sector of Istanbul has shifted towards this neighborhood. Thus, some of the best bars, meyhanes, and beer houses of Istanbul are located in Kadikoy.
Furthermore, Kadikoy Fish Market is flooded by tourists thanks to Istanbul Culinary Tours that have become popular in recent years. And Ciya Sofrasi, the shining star of Fish Market is an indispensable spot to hit during such tours. You can enjoy some of the finest cuisines of the Turkish kitchen and enjoy being a local tourist at the same time.
As you walk towards Moda from Kadikoy, don’t skip visiting antique shops and art galleries on Tellalzade Street. This direction will take you to Bahariye Street, the busiest street of Kadikoy.
While you continue walking to Moda direction, you can see some recently opened cafes like Asuman and take a coffee break at one of these awesome cafes. And, once you arrive the Cape Moda, a breathtaking view will welcome you.
For residents who live on the Asian Side like me, the best walking route is the part between Bostanci and Caddebostan at Bagdat Street.
This walking route that starts from Bostanci and includes areas like Suadiye, Saskinbakkal, and Erenkoy will give you the opportunity to do shopping, drink, eat and visit book stores.
If you walk towards the coast after you arrive at Caddebostan, you can also enjoy the great park at Caddebostan too. There is another walking route (from the coast) to Kalamis and even Fenerbahce for the ones who wish to continue walking from that point. This waterside route offers a nice sea view and abundant green scenery. And if you continue walking to Fenerbahce direction, you should definitely visit one of the most nostalgic places in the neighborhood, Romantika.
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MA (Journalism) is aimed at people who have decided to pursue a career in Newspaper & magazine as well as various editorials, publishing houses and content creating organization in this multimedia communication environment.
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The Master of Arts in Journalism is a course with academic and professional orientations that can lead to careers with communication responsibilities in a broad array of domains – journalism, corporations, professional associations, media industries, arts and community groups, NGOs, government, education – or to further study and research in the Media and Communication Ph.D. program.
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Patience wears thin as we head in to May and the ground is still wet and cold. The cost of going in too soon, based on soil conditions and not the calendar, can be mighty costly. If the ground is fit, but a little cool, that’s one thing, but ground that is both wet and cool is just going to end up in a mess if you put the planter in too soon.
In this episode of the Corn School, RealAgriculture field editor Bernard Tobin joins Doug Alderman, national sales manager for PRIDE Seeds, on his farm near Inwood, Ont., to gauge soil “fitness”. The term “fit” can mean different things, however Alderman uses the squeeze test to evaluate first the top soil, and then the planting zone’s moisture levels. That, combined with current soil temperature and an eye to the forecast, will dictate the length of time before Alderman will send the planter to this particular field.
Want more Corn School episodes? See the entire library here!
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The Acid Spitter Battle Pod is an individual digital creature tool for generating encounters for the A’Kyria tabletop RPG system, developed to assist you in creating your own adventures.
This insect inhabits areas where it can burrow and attack unsuspecting prey from behind. It has three heads that can face in any single direction or in three different directions at the same time. They are approximately 8 feet long and somewhat flat. They normally use their acid for burrowing through rock, but will use it if they feel threatened or if they are damaged for more than half their Life Points. While not particularly hostile, they will attack anything that they consider prey. They gather in small colonies of 5 to 30.
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Polar Camel 30 oz. Dark Gray Ringneck Vacuum Insulated Tumbler w/Clear Lid. 30 oz. Stainless Steel Polar Camel Tumblers features double-wall vacuum insulation with a clear lid. The mug has a narrower bottom to fit most standard cup holders. It is 2X heat & cold resistant compared to a normal tumblers and is BPA and lead free. Polar Camels are made from 18/8 gauge stainless steel (18% chromium/8% nickel) – also known as Type 304 Food Grade.
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Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen digs into its history during the wartime years.
In the autumn of 2018, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen transports visitors into the history of the then Museum Boymans during and around the Second World War. Recent research provides the basis for the candid discussion and visualisation of this past. The presentation includes wartime acquisitions, visual documentation of exhibitions ‘back then’, and Rotterdam art from the years under occupation.
From 13 October 2018 to 27 January 2019, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is examining its own past in the multifaceted exhibition ‘Boijmans in the War. Art in the Destroyed City’, produced by curator Peter van der Coelen and guest curator Sandra Smets. One of the reasons to stage the exhibition is the conclusion of the provenance research into the museum collection, which involved examining documentation of every artwork or artefact and wherever possible ascertaining their provenance. Two publications are being released to complement the exhibition.
How do you maintain a museum’s vitality when the works of art are stowed away to protect them from the ravages of war? What do you do as an artist in times of censure and oppression? During the war, these questions were painfully relevant in Rotterdam. The bombardment of 14 May 1940 razed the historic city centre and many artists were left without a studio. Museum Boymans boasted the country’s most successful director: Dirk Hannema. Supported by the city council and private individuals, he built the museum into an institution of national significance. During the occupation he adapted pliably to the new regime, thus becoming the most controversial museum director as well. The story of the museum in wartime is presented against the backdrop of Rotterdam’s cultural life. The city’s reconstruction offered new opportunities for artists, as did the arts policy of the occupier. However, when the Nazis started to impose rules and obligations, artists were faced with a choice: cooperate, shut yourself away or resist. One of the exhibition’s galleries is devoted to casting light on the subject of looted art: before, during and after the occupation works ended up in the museum’s collection as a consequence of the large-scale theft of art owned by Jews by the Nazis, who came to power in 1933. This presentation reveals how the provenance of several works has been ascertained and their rightful owners traced.
· A major symposium takes place at De Doelen in Rotterdam from 13:00 to 17:00 on 9 November, with Ian Buruma as keynote speaker (and Jort Kelder as chair of proceedings).
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen has used an oral history project to amass first- and second-hand memories of the museum during the war in partnership with Verhalenhuis Belvédère, a social history initiative in Rotterdam. This entailed speaking to parents, grandparents, neighbours and others about their memories of the then Museum Boymans during the Second World War, as well as about the Rotterdam art scene during this period. The collected stories are presented on a website and several narratives are included in the exhibition. If you have stories to share, please submit them via: info@verhalenhuisbelvedere.nl.
With the publication by Ariëtte Dekker the museum aims to provide full transparency about its history in relation to and during the Second World War. The museum director flexibly complied to the wishes of the occupier and collectors affiliated with the museum sold works of art to the Nazis. At the same time, the museum played an important role as a hub for art, culture and cultural conservation in the blitzed city of Rotterdam.
This Boijmans Study reconstructs the role of the museum and its patrons, as well as that of director Dirk Hannema, during the war. The picture would be incomplete without addressing the earlier history of the museum, which owed the enormous expansion of its collection to patrons such as the Rotterdam port barons D.G. van Beuningen and Willem van der Vorm, as well as the Haarlem-based banker Franz Koenigs. Their collecting activities and patronage played out in an era of great shifts in prosperity, with a thriving international art trade as a result.
Author Dr Ariëtte Dekker is an independent researcher in economic history who has previously published a biography of Anton Kröller (2015) and a history of De Club Rotterdam (2008).
The ambitious Dirk Hannema adapted himself to the demands and views of the occupier and cooperated with German initiatives. At the same time he used his position to help Jewish and non-Jewish artists and collectors, even managing to secure release from German detention for some. Dirk Hannema harboured an affinity with National Socialist ideology and was eventually appointed 'Authorised Representative for Museums' in Mussert’s so-called shadow cabinet. All he wanted to do in his museum was show art, but like other Dutch museum directors he eventually had to allow Nazi propaganda into his galleries. A scholarly biography of this successful but controversial museum director, who was dismissed after the liberation for collaborating, is being released by Uitgeverij Prometheus to coincide with the exhibition: ‘Hannema: museumdirecteur,’ by Wessel Krul, Professor Emeritus of Modern Art and Cultural History at the University of Groningen.
An important reason for staging this exhibition and publishing the Boijmans Study is the conclusion of the provenance research that the museum has conducted over recent years in the context of the national research project ‘Museum Acquisitions from 1933 onwards’. The museum’s collection has been investigated to determine whether it is the steward of works of art with a dubious provenance. Attention was focused on works that were acquired after 1933 or had changed hands in the period between 1933 and 1945. After the Nazis seized power in Germany in 1933, Jews were persecuted and their belongings confiscated. This developed into the widespread looting of art before and during the Second World War, which involved works of art being plundered, confiscated or sold under duress at prices that were far too low. In Austria this occurred after the Anschluss, or annexation, of 1938, and in countries such as France and the Netherlands during wartime occupation. Via art dealers, auction houses or private parties, looted art sometimes ended up in Dutch museums. In later years museums also acquired art and artefacts, without knowing that these had been looted, confiscated or sold under duress during the Second World War. Provenance research has resulted in the restitution of seven works from the Boijmans collection between 1999 and 2009. This consequence of the war is explored in a separate section of the exhibition using a number of specific cases. Several returned works are being shown, thanks to the cooperation of surviving relatives. The stories of the families concerned and how the provenance was established feature alongside, as well as an explanation of restitution process. Also on show are works of art with provenances that raise questions.
The ‘Boijmans in the War. Art in the Destroyed City’ exhibition is supported by Stichting Volkskracht, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds Zuid-Holland, Stichting stad Rotterdam anno 1720, Erasmusstichting, M.A.O.C. Gravin van Bylandt Stichting and an anonymous benefactor.
The accompanying publication ‘Omstreden verleden. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen en de Tweede Wereldoorlog’ has been produced with the support of Stichting “de Leeuwenberg”, Stichting Pieter Haverkorn van Rijsewijk and Stichting dr. Hendrik Muller's Vaderlandsch Fonds.
In 1935, Rotterdam acquired an art museum of standing. The collection came into its own much better in the evocative rooms in the new building designed by architect Ad van der Steur than in the Schieland House, which had become far too small for the numerous recent acquisitions.
The municipal acquisition budget was limited, but Hannema, the director, succeeded in securing many donations and bequests. For major acquisitions, he was able to appeal to the wealthy entrepreneurs from the Rotterdam Port, such as D.G. van Beuningen and Willem van der Vorm, or from sources outside the city, such as the Haarlem banker Franz Koenigs. Hannema had an eye not only for old masters but also for modern art, such as the abstract Mondrian. But none of the acquisitions had the status of ‘The Supper in Emmaus’ which was added to the collection in 1937 as an undisputed Vermeer.
The opening of the new Museum Boymans also proved the start of a dynamic exhibition policy. Blockbusters featuring Johannes Vermeer and Jheronimus Bosch attracted international attention.
Rotterdam, a modern port city with a vibrant nightlife, played out to a backdrop of jazz, attracted progressive architects, graphic design flourished and all new visual arts blew in. Artist association ‘De Branding’ organised exhibitions in which its own members exhibited among international avant-gardists. There was, typical for Rotterdam, patronage from the business community. De Bijenkorf and, in particular, Studio ‘32, founded by film pioneer Abraham Tuschinski, were stages for art. From 1935, the Rotterdam artist associations were allowed to exhibit their work annually in the new Museum Boymans.
Artists wanted to contribute to a better world. Labourer photographers such as Wally Elenbaas recorded social injustices and left-leaning artists made anti-fascist and politically committed exhibitions (‘The Olympiad Under Dictatorship’). During the twenties and thirties, artists in Rotterdam like those in other parts of Europe, adopted figuration or a realistic style.
On 10 May 1940, German paratroopers took the Waalhaven airfield, the North Island and the Maas bridges. A fierce battle raged for five days and was finally decided when the inner city was razed to the ground in a bombing attack, killing more than eight hundred and making tens of thousands homeless. The museum escaped.
In Museum Boymans, the old masters had been stored away in the cellars since August 1939, together with vulnerable items of china, glass and silver. In the morning of 10 May, the museum staff moved the remaining works to the cellars and camped there, either alone or with their wives and children, until the capitulation.
Immediately after the capitulation, 30,000 people started clearing away the rubble in the devastated inner city. Five special teams concentrated on saving historically valuable fragments of buildings and sculptures. The rescued items were collected in Museum Boymans, where the staff registered and preserved everything. When the above-ground salvage work had been completed, a ‘Tile Team’ set to work, at the initiative of Hannema, searching for tiles in the cellars of the demolished buildings.
The Germans raised no objections when Hannema asked six artists to produce drawings of the devastated city. They were issued a special pass, an ‘Ausweis’, which allowed them to enter the closed off disaster area to make their sketches.
In the first years of the war, the occupier wanted to win the Dutch for national socialism, so that they could be assimilated as ‘Germanic brother nation’ into the German Reich. Many people acquiesced in the situation, the more so since Germany seemed unlikely to lose the war. The devastated Rotterdam prepared itself for the reconstruction. Artists were given new opportunities thanks to a unique commissioning policy.
Between September 1940 and March 1942, the town hall put in an order worth 70,000 guilders (in today’s money more than one million euro) for sculptures, murals, gable stones and shop signs for the emergency shops. This meant employment for dozens of artists who had suffered poverty during the crisis years. For the emergency shops on the Coolsingel, Han Richters designed the first Rotterdam war monument: ‘The fleeing woman’. She arose there in the beginning of 1941, together with her optimistic opposite number: ‘The Architect’.
In the museum, too, work continued, although restrictions applied because of the risk of damage to the collection by acts of war. From 1942, when victory no longer seemed certain, the German regime became a lot harder and suppression increased. At the same time the mass deportation of Jews began.
Four days after the bombing, city architect W.G. Witteveen was asked to make plans for the new Rotterdam. A model of his design was added in October 1941 to the exhibition ‘Holland builds in brick’ in Museum Boymans. This exhibition used photo panels to offer an overview of two centuries of brick architecture and was the most successful exhibition during the occupation. But it was also an stop-gap measure: it was no longer possible to mount blockbusters with masterpieces.
Witteveen’s plans for the reconstruction never saw fruition, for in 1942 a building stop was announced due to the scarcity of material and labour.
The greater part of the museum collection was in storage, in the museum’s cellars and later also in the national storage facilities in Zandvoort, Maastricht (Sint-Pietersberg) and Paasloo. Urgent attention had to be given to securing the collection, for Rotterdam became the target of around 120 allied bombing raids, whereby Museum Boymans was hit two times. The collection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century paintings was still exhibited during the first years of the war, with one restriction: no work by Jewish artists.
In 1940, Van Beuningen donated the major part of the former Koenigs Collection to the Museum Boymans Foundation. Hannema’s acquisitions of old master paintings remained limited, partly because of the enormous increase in prices and the competition from German collectors, including Nazi leaders such as Hitler and Goering. The arts and crafts department grew spectacularly, thanks to the acquisition of several private collections of ceramics. The print collection also grew in size, especially with the acquisition of nineteenth-century French and contemporary Dutch graphic art.
Among the many acquisitions made in the war years were a few works which were later revealed as ‘looted art’ and were returned to the heirs of the original owners. This story is told elsewhere in the exhibition.
Even though no blockbusters were held and planned exhibitions with famous contemporary artists such as Jan Sluijters and Charley Toorop were cancelled, the museum attracted on average 50,000 visitors a year. During the war years, they could visit no less than 44 exhibitions, mainly of graphic art, nineteenthcentury painting and contemporary Rotterdam art. In the first years of the war, Hannema refused to mount exhibitions proposed by the occupier, but in 1942 it became mandatory to mount the propaganda exhibition ‘The German Book of Today’. Following this, he worked with more enthusiasm on three other Nazi exhibitions. He was appointed Head of Cultural Affairs by the municipality, following which he organised exhibitions in other locations and supervised all cultural events in Rotterdam.
Herman Bieling mounted group exhibitions of Rotterdam art in the museum. From 1942, the only artists eligible for exhibition were those registered with the Culture Chamber.
‘Art is not a matter for government’ was the motto in the Netherlands for many years. But after the bombing, the Municipality of Rotterdam involved artists and a commissioning policy arose. At national level, the occupier gave arts a role in the creation of a new society; the national art budget was increased fifteen-fold.
In February 1941, Tobie Goedewaagen, secretary-general of the new Department of Public Information and Arts (DVK) announced in Museum Boymans the creation of a guild system that would restore the traditional bond between artists. In 1942, registration with the ‘Dutch Culture Chamber’, as the announced guild system was called, became mandatory. All artists received a registration form by post which they had to complete and return, together with a signed Aryan Declaration. Whoever failed to do this was excluded from professional practice: no material, no commissions, no exhibition possibility, no subsidies, no pension. Most Rotterdam artists registered; the objectors generally withdrew into the studio to make work as they saw fit, without exhibiting it.
Although the Culture Chamber caused a schism, a lot of art was still seen after its creation. The number of galleries and art dealers in Rotterdam increased, the art academy had a growing number of applications, including some from young men wishing to avoid ‘Arbeidseinsatz’. Each year, Herman Bieling had sufficient submissions for the group exhibitions in Museum Boymans. At the same time, the press stressed the ideas of national character and traditions. Critics drew comparisons with old masters such as Hercules Segers and called Rembrandt ‘a political painter’. But they also raised questions about the one-sided supply: ‘Pots, tankards, jugs, jars, flowers, fruit, skulls, shells... remarkable that they do not become bored by being painted yet again!’ wrote the Algemeen Handelsblad on 28 September 1943.
Just like other museum directors, Hannema worked with the occupier in order to keep his museum in operation. But he went further. He showed a great affinity with national socialism and became a member of advisory groups, held lectures and submitted contributions to publications of the New Order. In 1943, he had himself appointed by NSB leader Mussert as Authorised Representative for Museums, which meant he joined the Secretary of State of the NSB. He was not required to become a member of the party and on the installation photo he is the only person not wearing a uniform. His duties and powers as Authorised Representative were limited. He did use his title in efforts to help Jews who were threatened by deportation, arrested members of the resistance and hostages from the cultural circuit.
On two occasions, collector and Boymans patron D.G. van Beuningen sold art to Hitler’s art purchaser Hans Posse for the planned Führer-Museum in Linz. In December 1940, he sold a selection of 528 drawings from the collection which Franz Koenigs had had to relinquish because of his debts to the bank. Van Beuningen had purchased the whole collection one month before the war for 1 million guilders and received 1.4 million for just the selection. He knew that transactions with the occupier were forbidden, but probably needed to pay his debt for the purchase of ‘The Three Marys at the Tomb’ by Jan van Eyck. A similar reasoning was behind the sale of eighteen paintings by old masters – incl. Watteau, Lancret and Pater – in July 1941. This time, the money was needed for the acquisition of ‘The Last Supper’, a supposed masterpiece by Vermeer.
Van Beuningen did not sympathise with the occupier. In the last years of the war, he worked closely with the resistance on the Veluwe, where he made his estate available for allied weapon drops.
For Museum Boymans, the liberation meant the end of the Hannema era. Hannema was arrested on 8 May on suspicion of collaboration and subsequently dismissed. The former director spent more than a year in the internment camp Vianda, after which the Rotterdam Tribunal acquitted him from any further prosecution. He was able to concentrate on expanding his personal collection, putting it in the hands of the Hannema-de Stuers Fundatie and thus became the founder of the current Museum De Fundatie in Heino and Zwolle.
In Rotterdam, Coert Ebbinge Wubben picked up the baton as acting director. Under his leadership, and with the help of patron Willem van der Vorm, the collections were brought back from the national storage places. Art forger Han van Meegeren admitted that he had actually produced ‘The Supper at Emmaus’, and the museum lost its ‘Vermeer’. Fons Vorenkamp, who as member of the Monuments Men had worked on returning Dutch art from Germany, was for a short period director, but Ebbinge Wubben was finally appointed director of Museum Boymans in 1950, and he held this position until 1978. The highlight of his tenure was the acquisition of the Van Beuningen collection in 1958.
After the liberation, the Honorary Council for the Visual Arts reviewed the role of artists during the war. Some were banned from exhibiting for six months, others were punished more severely. Artists knew what had happened to each other, without names being mentioned. The punishments were lenient, but reputations were destroyed.
The art world in Rotterdam only recovered slowly. The pre-war artists collectives were disbanded and exhibition locations were almost non-existent: artists searched for new paths or combinations. A realistic style was associated with the occupier, so the search was for a modern style which expressed the era, with liberty and optimism. The work of Henk Chabot, who had withdrawn into seclusion, initially acted as an example and inspiration was also sought in the pre-war avant-gardes. Once material became available again, everything became large and colourful. But the war was not forgotten and pain and suppression remained important themes.
After the liberation, the conviction grew that the Dutch art subsidy policy was a reward for the heroics with which the artists had defended themselves during the war. Improperly, the government just continued the occupier’s budgets for art.
In 1947, the Jewish sculptor Ossip Zadkine designed a sculpture in which a figure cries to the heavens, his heart having been torn out. The bronze model was exhibited in Museum Boymans in December 1949. Zadkine’s embodiment of a war bombing attack touched a chord in the city which had lost its own heart. The Bijenkorf, a Jewish-owned company and also heavily hit, donated the full-sized sculpture to Rotterdam, where it was erected on Leuvehaven. Not only was it the ultimate war monument, it was, as a modern art work in a modern city, something which, after an initial period of uncertainty, earned the love of the city’s inhabitants.
From 1933, the Jews in Germany and subsequently those in annexed Austria and the occupied countries, were persecuted. This led to the murder of six million European Jews; more than 100,000 were from the Netherlands.
Part of the Jewish Persecution was the systematic theft of capital and goods. Countless pieces of art were confiscated or sold under pressure. In the period 1933-1945, this looted art infiltrated, via art dealers, auctions or private sales, into other collections, including those of public museums. Even after 1945, museums acquired works without having sufficiently investigated whether it was, in fact, looted art.
In common with other Dutch museums, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen has, since the late nineties, been investigating the provenance of works of art in its collection. Between 1999 and 2009, seven works with a problematic provenance have been returned to the heirs of the original Jewish owners.
Recent investigation has again revealed a small number of pieces which could give rise to doubt. Possibly this was a question of involuntary loss of property. Several works have been submitted to the Restitution Committee set up by the Dutch Government for a binding advice. The others are published on the website of the national research project ‘Museum Acquisitions since 1933’ and that of the museum, with the call for anyone with information to make contact. The examples in this room highlight the complexity of the research.
Rotterdam’s Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen - the world’s first publicly accessible art depot - will open in 2021.
The Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen will be a unique space for exploration, interaction and discovery. The Depot will be the first museum storage facility in the world to offer public access to the largest part of the 151.000 artworks from the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen collection without the mediation of a curator.
‘netherlands ⇄ bauhaus’, with over 800 Bauhaus objects, opens this weekend. It is the final major exhibition at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen before its renovation. On the opening day – Saturday, February 9 – admission to the museum is free for everyone.
Han Nefkens has bought an extraordinary dress from fashion house Viktor & Rolf at Paris Fashion Week. The patron has just announced that he is donating the work, called 'I Want a Better World', to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam.
In 2019 Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is paying tribute to the Rotterdam-based artist Co Westerik, who recently died at the age of 94, with a retrospective of his art and his diaries. It is the first time these private journals are on display.
Before work starts on the ambitious programme of renovating and refurbishing the museum, we are pulling out all the stops again. In February 2019, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen kicks off the Bauhaus centenary with a huge exhibition about the legendary art and design school, whose influence is felt to this day.
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Check out a video from student, Brogan Kroener, from the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, where he highlights both the issue of homelessness in Los Angeles as well as how St. Francis Center is working to be a a part of the solution. Included are interviews with Jose Ramirez, Executive Director, Martin Karpiel, Board Member, as well as two of our guests.
Homelessness is no longer a Skid Row problem, but is becoming more visible and expanding to other Los Angeles communities, such as South LA, the Valley, and Hollywood.
In the midst of the ever-growing problem of homelessness, the work of St. Francis Center is more important than ever. This past year, we served a record-breaking 130,000 meals, provided over 18,000 grocery visits, and recovered over 1.3 million pounds of food. We also have a Resource Specialist on-site to provide case management services to provide more comprehensive assistance.
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Jaako surveys the skateboarding landscape with a special set of optics, uncovering lines most of us would never see. This dude is something special.
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The Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa (CEEPA) is mandated to enhance the capacity of African researchers to conduct environmental economics and policy inquiry of relevance to African problems and increase the awareness of environmental and economic managers and policy makers of the role of environmental economics in sustainable development.
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Eligible candidates include all researchers working in the field of environmental economics in Africa.
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Members of the research team of funded projects will also enjoy additional support through technical and scientific mentorship arrangements and participation in CEEPA research workshops and other activities.
• CEEPA encourages research proposals that focus mainly on broader issues in environmental economics and policy in African countries.
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Here’s the sensational headline which accompanied a Feb 17th article at i100 (The Independent’s BuzzFeed–style website) by Bethan McKernan.
The Feb. 15th Haaretz op-ed i100 cites, written by Amitai Etzion (an 86-year-old Israeli, who served in the IDF in the late 40s) addresses the challenge presented by a future war with Hezbollah, and how best to neutralize the group’s stockpile of over 100,000 rockets – most of which are hidden within the civilian infrastructure.
Etzion, who’s been living in the US since the 1950s, explores the possibility of using Fuel-Air Explosives (FAE), which reportedly “cause massive explosions and flatten buildings over a large range,” thus destroying most rockets.
However, as even i100 makes clear, such a weapon would only be used after Lebanese civilians had the chance to evacuate the area.
So, whilst i100 found that op-ed, written by someone not associated with the Israeli government, worth publishing, it’s quite telling that neither i100 nor any brand associated with The Independent saw fit to report a threat by Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, that same week. Based on reports in the Israeli and Lebanese media, Nasrallah boasted that, in a future war with ‘the Zionist entity’, he’d launch a strike on Haifa’s ammonia storage tanks that would kill tens of thousands of Israelis.
Naturally, the mental picture painted by the i100 article about the ‘shocking’ Haaretz op-ed by Etzion comports perfectly with the narrative about Israel advanced by the Indy and rest of the UK media – a militaristic country which has become a cruel Goliath, reacting ‘disproportionately’ to imagined regional threats.
If such media outlets would take Arabs seriously as moral actors who pose serious threats to the lives of Israelis, and consistently report such threats of mass murder against Jews, the narrative of Israeli aggression they’ve spent so much time nurturing would be seriously undermined.
Finally, we’re often asked if such double standards – and other examples of biased reporting – are motivated by antisemitism.
It is the belief of this writer that this usually is not the case.
More often, editors, journalists and contributors at major British publications seem wedded to an ideological orientation which views events in the region through a myopic, morally binary framework – “habits of mind” which inform an instinctive anti-Israel prejudice.
The pattern of bias, inaccuracies, double standards and selective moral outrage we’re continually documenting is a natural consequence of this cognitive process.
The Israeli government must declare clearly and unequivocally that any attempt by the Hezballah to hit the Haifa ammonium plant will have an automatic reaction – pushing back all of Lebanon to the stone age.
I look forward to your Knesset election campaign.
I look forward to your Eternal Nakba.
I look forward to you growing up and facing reality.
The good news ist that the Indy will cease publishing its paper edition this month. Say no more.
May Der Guardian follow it into oblivion.
Jew hating, American hating “Der Guardian”.
May it and like minded fascist socialist rags sink beneath the waves.
I bet that the Indy’s editors don’t have a problem with Dresden being flattened in WWII.
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In a victory for a free and open internet, the US Senate voted yesterday to repeal the Trump administration's rollback of Obama-era net neutrality rules.
Net Neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers (ISPs) must treat all data on the Internet the same, and not discriminate or charge differently by user, content, website, platform, application, or method of communication.
Democrats were able to force the vote under the Congressional Review Act, which allows Congress, with a simple majority vote in both houses, to pass a joint resolution and overturn recent agency decisions.
The joint resolution passed 52-47, with the support of 49 Senate Democrats and three moderate Republican Senators -- Susan Collins (Maine), John Kennedy (Louisiana) Lisa Murkowski (Alaska).
In February of 2015, on the recommendation of President Obama, the FCC passed the Open Internet Order, which reclassified broadband internet service as a telecommunications service. In doing so, it prohibited internet service providers (ISPs) from restricting the flow of data to and from websites, or segregating the internet access by cost -- therefore preserving net neutrality.
The historic 2015 regulation established "net neutrality" as the internet's guiding principle and the law of the land.
In December of 2017, the FCC, under new Chair and Trump appointee Ajit Pai, voted 3-to-2 along party lines to repeal the Open Internet Order, claiming it constituted regulatory overreach by the FCC at the time. Supporters of the repeal hailed it as a victory for investment and innovation.
The action was immediately decried as a violation of the First Amendment's right to free speech by denying equal access to any part of the internet to any individuals, based on their ability to pay.
Twenty-one states and DC subsequently filed lawsuits against the action.
A December 6-8, 2017 poll by the University of Maryland showed that 83% of Americans favored keeping the FCC rules, including 75% of Republicans, 89% of Democrats and 86% of independents.
Proponents of net neutrality include consumer advocates, human rights organizations, online and internet application companies, Electronic Frontier Foundation, ACLU, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, Reddit, Vimeo, Yahoo!, Vonage, eBay, A mazon, IAC/InterActiveCorp, Re ddit, Twitter, Tumblr, Etsy, others.
Opponents include internet infrastructure service providers, AT&T, Comcast, Verizon, National Cable & Telecommunications Association, National Music Publishers Association, US Telecom & Broadband Association, Time Warner Cable, Cablevision, Cisco, Tekelec, IBM, Intel, Panasonic, Ericsson, others.
The Senate vote, however, was largely symbolic for now as it still has to go through the House.
That will require a simple majority of 218 to force a vote, which means securing the support of all 193 Democrats and 25 Republicans in the GOP-led House.
A companion resolution has already been introduced in the House by Congressman Mike Doyle (D-PA).
Regardless of the immediate outcome, the bi-partisan support for the issue among voters themselves could prove to be an advantage for Democrats at the ballot box in November -- particularly among younger, internet-savvy millennials.
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Use Amazon GameLift Local to run a limited version of the Amazon GameLift service on a local device and test your game integration against it. This tool is useful when doing iterative development on your game integration. The alternative—uploading each new build to Amazon GameLift and configuring a fleet to host your game—can take 30 minutes or more each time.
Your game server is correctly integrated with the Server SDK and is properly communicating with the Amazon GameLift service to start new game sessions, accept new players, and report health and status.
Your game client is correctly integrated with the AWS SDK for Amazon GameLift and is able to retrieve information on existing game sessions, start new game sessions, join players to games and connect to the game session.
Amazon GameLift Local is a command-line tool that starts a self-contained version of the Amazon GameLift service. Amazon GameLift Local also provides a running event log of server process initialization, health checks, and API calls and responses. Amazon GameLift Local recognizes a subset of the AWS SDK actions for Amazon GameLift. You can make calls from the AWS CLI or from your game client. All API actions perform locally just as they do in the Amazon GameLift web service.
Amazon GameLift Local is provided as an executable .jar file bundled with the Server SDK. It can be run on Windows or Linux and used with any Amazon GameLift-supported language.
Before running Local, you must also have the following installed.
The game server launches properly and initializes the Amazon GameLift Server SDK.
As part of the launch process, the game server notifies Amazon GameLift that the server is ready to host game sessions.
The game server sends health status to Amazon GameLift every minute while running.
The game server responds to requests to start a new game session.
Once Local starts, you see logs indicating that two local servers were started, one listening for your game server and one listening for your game client or the AWS CLI. Logs continue to report activity on the two local servers, including communication to and from your game components.
Start your Amazon GameLift-integrated game server locally. You don't need to change the endpoint for the game server.
16:50:53,217 INFO || - [SDKListenerImpl] nioEventLoopGroup-3-1 - NOTE: Only SDK versions 3.1.5 and above are supported in GameLiftLocal!
16:50:53,543 INFO || - [SDKListenerImpl] nioEventLoopGroup-3-1 - onProcessReady data: logPathsToUpload: "C:\\game\\logs"
Once your game server successfully calls ProcessReady(), you can start making client calls. Open another command prompt window and start the AWS CLI tool. Get and install the AWS Command Line Interface tool. The AWS CLI by default uses the Amazon GameLift web service endpoint. You must override this with the Local endpoint in every request using the --endpoint-url parameter, as shown in the following example request.
In the AWS CLI command prompt window, calls to AWS SDK APIs result in responses as documented in the .
With the AWS CLI, submit a CreateGameSession() request. The request should follow the expected syntax. For Local, the FleetId parameter can be set to any valid string (^fleet-\S+).
In the Local command prompt window, log messages indicate that Amazon GameLift Local has sent your game server an onStartGameSession callback. If a game session is successfully created, your game server responds by invoking ActivateGameSession.
In the AWS CLI window, Amazon GameLift responds with a game session object including a game session ID. Notice that the new game session's status is Activating. Th3 status changes to Active once your game server invokes ActivateGameSession. If you want to see the changed status , use the AWS CLI to call DescribeGameSessions().
The game client is successfully making AWS SDK requests to the Amazon GameLift Local service, including to create game sessions, retrieve information on existing game sessions, and create player sessions.
The game server is correctly validating players when they try to join a game session. For validated players, the game server may retrieve player data (if implemented).
The game server reports a dropped connection when a player leaves the game.
The game server reports ending a game session.
Open a command prompt window, navigate to the directory containing the file GameLiftLocal.jar and run it. By default, Local listens for requests from game clients on port 8080. To specify a different port number, use the -p parameter, as shown in the following example.
Once Local starts, you see logs showing that two local servers were started, one listening for your game server and one listening for your game client or the AWS CLI.
Start your Amazon GameLift-integrated game server locally. See Test a Game Server for more detail on message logs.
Configure your game client for Local and start it.
Change the ClientConfiguration object to point to your Local endpoint, such as http://localhost:9080.
Set a target fleet ID value. For Local, you do not need a real fleet ID; set the target fleet to any valid string (^fleet-\S+), such as fleet-1a2b3c4d-5e6f-7a8b-9c0d-1e2f3a4b5c6d.
Set AWS credentials. For Local, you do not need real AWS credentials; you can set the access key and secret key to any string.
In the Local command prompt window, once you start the game client, log messages should indicate that it has initialized the GameLiftClient and is successfully communicated with the Amazon GameLift service.
Test game client calls to the Amazon GameLift service.
In the Local command prompt window, only calls to CreateGameSession() result in log messages. Log messages show when Amazon GameLift Local prompts your game server to start a game session (onStartGameSession callback) and gets a successful ActivateGameSession when your game server invokes it. In the AWS CLI window, all API calls result in responses or error messages as documented.
Verify that your game server is validating new player connections.
After creating a game session and a player session, establish a direct connection to the game session.
In the Local command prompt window, log messages should show that the game server has sent an AcceptPlayerSession() request to validate the new player connection. If you use the AWS CLI to call DescribePlayerSessions(), the player session status should change from Reserved to Active.
Verify that your game server is reporting game and player status to the Amazon GameLift service.
For Amazon GameLift to manage player demand and correctly report metrics, your game server must report various statuses back to Amazon GameLift. Verify that Local is logging events related to following actions. You may also want to use the AWS CLI to track status changes.
Player disconnects from a game session – Amazon GameLift Local log messages should show that your game server calls RemovePlayerSession(). An AWS CLI call to DescribePlayerSessions() should reflect a status change from Active to Completed. You might also call DescribeGameSessions() to check that the game session's current player count decreases by one.
Game session ends – Amazon GameLift Local log messages should show that your game server calls TerminateGameSession(). An AWS CLI call to DescribeGameSessions() should reflect a status change from Active to Terminated (or Terminating).
Server process is terminated – Amazon GameLift Local log messages should show that your game server calls ProcessEnding().
Unlike the Amazon GameLift web service, Local does not track a server's health status and initiate the onProcessTerminate callback. Local simply stops logging health reports for the game server.
For calls to the AWS SDK, fleet IDs are not validated, and can be any string value that meets the parameter requirements (^fleet-\S+).
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The Supreme Court refused a plea challenging the grant of 5% quota to Gujjars and four other castes in jobs and educational institutions in Rajasthan through an amendment.
The Supreme Court bench dismissed the appeal filed against an order of the Rajsthan High Court refusing to grant an interim relief on the petition challenging the quota to Gujjars and others, treating them as socially and economically backward classes.
The Rajasthan assembly passed a bill granting five per cent quota to the Gujjar, Raika-Rebari, Gadia Luhar, Banjara and Gadaria communities in jobs and education.
The bill sought to increase the backward classes’ reservation from the present 21 per cent to 26 per cent with a five per cent quota.
The Rajasthan government passed the bill after the five communities protested for days on railway tracks to push for the reservation quota.
The plea for relief is already pending in High Court, therefore, we are not inclined to entertain it.
It was argued that the reservation would breach the 50 per cent ceiling on total quantum of quota.
The Ninth Schedule was added to the Constitution by the First Amendment in 1951 along with Article 31-B with a view to provide a “protective umbrella” to land reforms laws to save them from being challenged in courts on the ground of violation of fundamental rights.
According to Article 13(2) of the Constitution, the state shall not make any law inconsistent with the fundamental rights and any law made in contravention of fundamental rights shall be void to the extent of the contravention.
Originally, the Ninth Schedule contained only 13 acts and regulations but at present their number is 282.
The acts and regulations of the state legislature deal with land reforms and abolition of the zamindari system and that of the Parliament deal with other matters.
Laws placed in the Ninth Schedule are open to judicial scrutiny and that such laws do not enjoy a blanket protection.
Laws placed in the Ninth Schedule after the Keshwanand Bharti Judgment on April 24, 1973, when it propounded the “basic structure” doctrine, were open to challenge.
It laid down dual test to examine the validity of a law placed in the Ninth Schedule.
Whether it violates any fundamental right and if yes whether the violation also damages or destroys the basic structure. If the answer to both the questions is in the affirmative, then only a law placed in the Ninth Schedule can be declared unconstitutional.
Custodian of Enemy Property for India offloaded more than 4.43 crore shares of the company. More than 3.86 crore enemy shares were purchased by Life Insurance Corporation.
As per the Enemy Property Act, 1968, ‘enemy property’ refers to any property that was belonging to a person who migrated from India to an enemy country when a war broke out.
In India, after the war with China and Pakistan in 1962 and 1965, the government took over the properties, under the Defence of India Act, from persons who migrated to these countries.
The confiscated property included both movable and immovable properties — securities, jewellery, land, and buildings.
In 1968, a law called the Enemy Property Act was enacted to regulate such properties and entrusted with the Custodian of Enemy Property.
It voids the legal sales undertaken by enemies of enemy properties since 1968. This means that a person who may have bought an enemy property in good faith when such sale and purchase was legal, now stands to lose the property.
It prohibits Indian citizens who are legal heirs of enemies from inheriting enemy property, and brings them within the definition of ‘enemy’.
The Enemy Property Act gave enemy citizens certain rights with respect to their properties vested in the Custodian. But the ambiguity in their rights and the powers of the Custodian to administer these properties resulted in disputes being raised before the courts. Some of these disputes related to Indian citizens challenging whether they could inherit enemy properties belonging to their ancestors who were nationals of enemy countries.
The Centre has allowed state governments to put to “public use” some enemy properties that were left behind by people who migrated to Pakistan since the Partition and to China after the 1962 Sino-Indian war.
The Bill prohibits civil courts from entertaining any disputes with regard to enemy property. It does not provide any alternative judicial remedy. Therefore, it limits judicial recourse or access to courts available to aggrieved persons.
In a boost to Larsen and Toubro (L&T), the Competition Commission of India (CCI) has approved the former’s proposed acquisition of Bengaluru-based IT firm Mindtree.
Competition Commission of India established in 2003 which is a body of the Government of India responsible for enforcing The Competition Act, 2002 throughout India and to prevent activities that have an adverse effect on competition in India.
CCI is quasi-judicial statutory body and became fully functional in May 2009.
It prohibits anti-competitive agreements, abuse of dominant position by enterprises and regulates combinations (acquisition, acquiring of control and Merger and acquisition), which causes or likely to cause an appreciable adverse effect on competition within India.
Objectives of this act sought to be achieved through Competition Commission of India which consist chairperson and 6 Members appointed by the Central Government. Government has now approved reduction of members from 6 to 3.
To create and sustain fair competition in the economy that will provide a ‘level playing field’ to the producers and make the markets work for the welfare of the consumers.
To give opinion on competition issues on a reference received from a statutory authority established under any law and to undertake competition advocacy, create public awareness and impart training on competition issues.
To eliminate practices having adverse effect on competition.
Protect the interests of consumers.
The first-ever global coalition on clean and efficient cooling was launched at the First Global Conference on Synergies between the 2030 Agenda and Paris Agreement, which concluded in April 2019, in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Cool Coalition comprising 23 members is backed by United Nations, Climate and Clean Air Coalition, the Kigali Cooling Efficiency Program and Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL).
Clean, efficient cooling appliances and equipment can save up to $2.9 trillion in energy use by 2050 and help avoid 0.4° Celsius warming of the planet.
RMI is an Indian and global nonprofit organisation focused on driving the efficient and restorative use of resources.
The report is named ‘India’s Electric Mobility Transformation: Progress to Date and Future Opportunities’.
The report also quantifies the catalytic effect that FAME II and other measures could have on the overall Electric Vehicle (EV) market.
India could achieve high penetration of electric vehicles (EV) by 2030 on the back of the success of FAME II and other measures.
Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Hybrid and Electric Vehicles, or FAME 2 scheme aims to further accelerate the government of India’s commitment to a clean mobility future.
It promotes the electrification of transportation as a primary focus area.
It intends to catalyse the market for faster adoption of EVs to ensure durable economic growth and global competitiveness for India’s automotive industry.
Under these scheme the government will offer incentives for electric buses, three-wheelers and four-wheelers to be used for commercial purposes.
FAME 2 will offer incentives to manufacturers, who invest in developing electric vehicles and its components, including lithium-ion batteries and electric motors.
The centre has asked states to frame their EV policy and provide additional fiscal and non-fiscal incentives to manufacturers and buyers.
The centre plans to roll out an incentive of ₹10,000 per kilowatt (kW) for two-, three- and four-wheelers, based on the size of their batteries.
Central Public Works Department (CPWD), as a part of its continued effort for green and clean sustainable development, organised a National Seminar on “Greenery and Landscaping” under the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation.
Plantation, greenery and other environment friendly applications should be planned around the building by way of dwarf trees, small shrubs, ground covers, hanging baskets, creepers, etc.
Plants and greenery help in reducing adverse effects of climate change. Therefore, every individual should adopt minimum one tree.
Trees produce oxygen, and help filter out harmful air pollution, including airborne particulate matter. Water spots, from lakes to rivers and fountains, moderate temperatures.
Urban parks and gardens play a critical role in cooling cities, and also provide safe routes for walking and cycling.
Green spaces also are important to mental health.
Having access to green spaces can reduce health inequalities, improve well-being, and aid in treatment of mental illness.
Physical activity in a natural environment can help remedy mild depression and reduce physiological stress indicators.
Physical inactivity, linked to poor walkability and lack of access to recreational areas, accounts for 3.3% of global deaths.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath dubbed the “Muslim League” a “virus” and claimed the Congress was affected by it, prompting the opposition party to retort that it was he who was a “virus” that would be “eradicated” in the election.
In this regard, the Indian Union Muslim League petitioned the Election Commission to register an FIR against Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath.
Muslim League, original name All India Muslim League, is a political group that led the movement calling for a separate Muslim nation to be created at the time of the partition of British India (1947).
The Muslim League was founded in 1906 to safeguard the rights of Indian Muslims.
For several decades the league and its leaders, notably Mohammed Ali Jinnah, called for Hindu-Muslim unity in a united and independent India.
It was not until 1940 that the league called for the formation of a Muslim state that would be separate from the projected independent country of India.
The league wanted a separate nation for India’s Muslims because it feared that an independent India would be dominated by Hindus.
British Plan: Dividing Indian on communal lines and adhered separatist attitude in Indian politics. For example- Separate electorate, Played caste politics between non- Brahmins and Brahmins.
Lake of Education: Muslims were isolated from western and technical education.
Loss Sovereignty by Muslims: 1857 revolt makes British to think that Muslims are dangerous for their colonial policy. As they were established their rule after dethroning the Mughal rule.
Expression of Religious Colour: Most of the historians and radical nationalists glorified India’s one side of our composite culture. Their praises were biased because Shivaji, Rana Pratap etc were paraises but they remained silent on Akbar, Sher Shah Suri, Allauddin Khalji, Tipu Sultan etc.
Economic backwardness of India: Lack of Industrialisation causes acute unemployment and British attitude towards cottage industry was pathetic.
To overcome on the feeling of hostility among Muslims towards other communities.
Soon after Partition, the All India Muslim League, which had led the movement for Pakistan, was disbanded.
Over the next few months, the party of Mohammed Ali Jinnah was succeeded by the Muslim League in West Pakistan and The All Pakistan Awami Muslim League in East Pakistan.
In East Pakistan, the Awami Muslim League championed the cause of Bengali nationalism, and sought to chart a course independent from Punjabi-dominated West Pakistan.
Under the leadership of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, East Pakistan ultimately broke free from the West.
In independent India, the All India Muslim League was succeeded by the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML).
The IUML fought elections under the Constitution of India, and has always had a constant, if small, presence in Lok Sabha.
The IUML is the strongest in Kerala, and has a unit in Tamil Nadu as well. It has long been recognised by the Election Commission of India as a state party in Kerala.
Delhi Session of ML, four demands were issued to be incorporated in draft constitution prepared by Motilal Nehru.
When Jinnah demands were not incorporated in Nehru Report Jinnah presented his 14 demands.
Lahore Session of ML passes Pakistan Resolution.
The ML criticised the idea of single Indian Union.
Unlike 1937, ML performed really well. In provincial elections, ML got a majority in Bengal and Sindh.
Mountbatten plan leads to partition and ML achieve its goal as independent Pakistan.
Its aim was to make a crater on asteroid.
Also, this spacecraft will collect its underground samples to find possible clues to the origin of the solar system.
Hayabusa-2 made history on 22 February when it successfully touched down on the boulder-strewn asteroid and collected some surface fragment.
Hayabusa, formerly known as known as Muses-C, was a Japanese spacecraft that brought back a sample of asteroid material to Earth in 2010, after a mission riddled with technical glitches.
The aim of the Hayabusa is to seek clues about the origins of life by landing on Ryugu asteroid.
It was launched in December 2014 and is scheduled to return to Earth at the end of 2020.
The spacecraft was originally intended to launch in July 2002. However, a July 2000 failure of Japan’s M-5 rocket forced the delay.
The spacecraft touched down on a small near-Earth asteroid called Itokawa and safely brought back minute rocky particles for analysis.
Hayabusa carried a tiny mini-lander named “MINERVA” which never landed on asteroid due to technical glitches.
Finding of minerals such as olivine and pyroxene, which are common on Earth and have been found on the moon and Mars.
Hayabusa2, an asteroid sample-return mission, follows on from Hayabusa mission.
Hayabusa2 was launched in December 2014 and rendezvoused with near-Earth asteroid Ryugu in June 2018.
Hayabusa2 carries four small rovers to investigate the asteroid surface. MINERVA-II-1 is a container that deployed two rovers, Rover-1A (HIBOU) and Rover-1B (OWL) and Rover-2 carreid by MINERVA-II-2.
The fourth rover called ‘Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout’ (MASCOT) was developed by the German Aerospace Center in cooperation with the French space agency.
The function of MASCOT is to collect data on the surface structure and mineralogical composition, the thermal behaviour and the magnetic properties of the asteroid.
To serve as a “scouting” vehicle to guide the sampling site selection of the main spacecraft.
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When it comes to fashion, not many exciting things are happening where I live. So when the news came that the sisters behind A Suivre were setting up shop in Roeselare, I knew the town would be in for something good.
The story of A Suivre started 8 years ago, when the sisters Nele & Veerle Van Doorslaer decide to quit their jobs to pursue their dream of opening a multibrand store in the city centre of Ghent. A mix of Belgian and foreign labels with various price tags appeals to both youngsters as well as a slightly older crowd. The formula was a success and it didn’t take long before a second store in Kortrijk followed.
Last week they opened their 7th store in Roeselare, where they offer a collection of feminine, trendy, bohemian chic & refined labels such as Paul & Joe, N°21, Athe Vanessa Bruno, Designers Remix Collection, Marc by Marc Jacobs, Nanuschka, Anecdote, Maison Olga, Kenzo, T by Alexander Wang, Iro, Current Elliott, Lee & Me, Fine Collection, Faliero Sarti Anne Zellien en Clio Goldbrenner. I think I just may have found my new shopping paradise.
You can find A Suivre in Bruges, Knokke, Kortrijk, Ghent & Brussels.
A Suivre, Delaerestraat 13A, Roeselare (Belgium).
Disclaimer: This post is not sponsored. Pics courtesy of A Suivre.
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For the past few years the month of September has been unofficially recognized as the Month of Pain, in honour of the number of running and mountain biking events in the corridor.
It's a packed slate again this September, even if the month gets off to a late start with the annual West Side Wheel Up (www.worca.com) on Saturday, Sept. 12. The following day is the annual Terry Fox Run in Whistler as well as the Loop the Lakes 8 km and 15 km trail run (www.loopthelakes.com) in Squamish.
The following weekend features the annual Cheakamus Challenge Fall Classic Mountain Bike Race (www.cheakamuschallenge.com) on Saturday, Sept. 19, while Sunday is all about the XTC Off-Road triathlon and duathlon taking place in Squamish (www.xtccanada.com) - a new entry into the Month of Pain calendar.
The fun continues the following weekend with the second annual Whistler Spirit Run at Whistler Olympic Park (www.whistlerspiritrun.com) with a formal cross-country race on Saturday, Sept. 26 and a 10 km fun run on Sunday, Sept. 27.
The annual Rubble Creek Classic, a 25 km trail from the Cheakamus Lake parking lot to the Rubble Creek access on Highway 99, also takes place on Sept. 27 (www.rubblecreekclassic.com).
As in past years Pique Newsmagazine will be recognizing the King and Queen of pain, the male and female athletes that participate in the most events or have the best overall time.
The rules are simple - if you compete in more Month of Pain events than any other male or female athlete then you win. If two or more athletes compete in the same number of events (one point per event plus an additional half point for doing the longer course) then it will come down to the lowest combined time in events that the athletes have in common. If they only have one timed event in common then that will determine the winner.
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From a Wave (or Inverted Line).
The Right Pull By is done with the person originally facing the same direction as you were. In this respect, Explode The Wave is similar to Trade The Wave in that you can 'peek' down the wave to determine with whom to work.
Explode And anything [Plus]: From a Wave (or Inverted Line). As one movement, Step Thru & 1/4 In. Ends in Facing Couples.
1/4 In | Out [A1] (Jim Faulkenberry og Clarence Watson 1959): From a Couple or Mini-Wave. Individually turn 1/4 toward (1/4 In) or away from (1/4 Out) your Partner (the adjacent dancer). If you do not have a Partner, turn 1/4 toward or away from the center of the smallest applicable sub-formation you can find.
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Thinking of Selling your Ranch at Prescott, AZ home? Make sure you are "in-the-know" about the best ways to get your home prepared for sale, and sold in a timely manner! You will certainly benefit from our informative reports which are FREE to you. Simply fill out the brief form below, and we will get back to you promptly with the reports you have requested. Thanks, and we look forward to serving you!
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Today I’m meeting Sarah Tector at her home studio in Raleigh. Sarah is a jewelry designer that I met at my exhibit opening at the Contemporary Art Museum in Raleigh. Follow her @stectormetals.
Hello, It’s Ann. It’s great to see you. Can I interview your closet? Sure! Come on in!
What’s your favorite shirt and where did you find it? There are two I really like, including what I have on today. It was shoulder padded dress from Zara that I converted into a t-shirt with green tiger with glitter mouth! Hand modified, and converted into a t-shirt! Rise and Ramble silk velvet hand dyed shirt- part of show wardrobe because it looks great with jewelry so helps with displaying. Bought after enduring a difficult time!
What is your spirit animal? Rabbit for sure! For me I’ve just seen them as soft and sweet and cuddly but love their elegant shape! I associate happy things from my child hood- Beatrix Potter and Peter Rabbit. I love to draw them too even though I make them more like cartoons. The shape of a rabbit's ears are like leaves, and I use leaves a lot in my work! And robots if that counts as a spirit animal! Appeals to my mechanical nature/ curiosity.
Hunt Slonem painting. Image Courtesy of First Dibs.
What did you wear the last time you went out to dinner? Drinks and nibbles count? I wore an indigo dyed linen dress at Edge of Urge in Raleigh! And pulled out my fantastic leather stacked mules and my beaded crochet snake necklace! My friend makes pieces based on historic examples @mamawolfwears.
Where did you go and what did you order? We went to Hummingbird, with great outside seating. We went for drinks and had some seasoned Japanese popcorn and I had a vodka gimlet.
What is your favorite beverage of choice? My favorite if I can get it is the vodka gimlet but I love the margaritas at Centro- also great food there too! I’m a big lover of shoes, queso and robots!
What song will you never delete from you playlist? Everything She Wants by Wham! Anytime a girl hears that song everyone in my car starts singing a long! My friends request it from me because they know it’s on my playlist.
Do you believe in astrology? If so what’s your sign and which characteristics are important parts of your personality? I’m a libra- I do like balance in life I help balance other people I like to find a happy balance. Yes I do follow the libraness!
If you could go in a time machine, where and when would you travel to? I’d love to hang out with Alexander Calder and hang out in his studio!
What would you wear on this time machine adventure? Probably high waisted jeans to run around his studio comfortably. I’d wear my cheetah print wedge boots and my cropped black short sleeve button down with my army jacket with my snakeskin patch, my spinner ring and my mom’s jade ring and my bronze hoops. He doesn’t seem too formal, so I think this outfit would work great for this visit! I’d love to make something in the studio together!
A jewelry display in Sarah's bedroom.
What are your favorite websites/blogs? I’m a visual person so I love Instagram for inspiration. Design Milk is one of my favorites!
If you were a car what would you be? A muscle car! I’ve always owned a stick shift too and love driving them! I love the car chase in Bullit, the Dodge Charger was amazing! Basically a 70s muscle car!
If you could invite anyone in the world for a coffee who would you invite and why? I just saw the documentary last night about Manolo Blahnik so I really want to meet him. It was amazing, I was so sucked into and couldn’t believe it was over! So I’d love to meet him and pick his brain creatively!
I spent too much money on shoes (but honestly never over 100 unless it was a gift!) but saved a lot of money by not buying coffee out!
I would love something I design to appear in this publication I’d love to see some of my jewelry in W, for installations or lights, I love Dwell!
I wear this fragrance I actually have a sensitivity to scent so I don't wear any! but I love smelling this fragrance on someone else I like musky and natural scents but nothing overly floral or sweet! Not into vanilla.
Powder coated collar designed by Sarah Tector.
Thanks for letting me interview your closet Sarah. I’m glad I got to know you better too. Now would you mind if I borrowed your vintage woven wedges?
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On November 19th from 9am – 2pm come out to the Burnsville Town Center for the annual Christmas Ornament Craft Festival! This festival features one of a kind gift items handmade by local crafters and artisans. Shop items such as paintings, quilted sheep, teddy bears, wooden bowls, stained glass, painted signs, glass ornaments, beeswax candles, baked goods and much more! If you are interested in participating contact Christy Edwards at (828) 208-6975 or email at christyedwards1970@gmail.com.
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UPDATE: We’re happy to share that Miles now Kai has found his forever home!
“Hi Melody! Hopefully you received the many pics I sent! Miles is now Kai (already knows his new name)! Kai loves cuddling up with the five children in this house and the mom( comes to me when needs space and doesn’t like us to leave…so sweet). Already knows we are his fam, even maneuvering his head to see his siblings in the field playing baseball. He loves his walks by each of us, in the neighborhood and any park. Likes going in the car and sitting on our laps. Super cuddly! Can go anywhere we go, that is dog friendly, including restaraunts…. Will sit by our feet.
Kai enjoys the farmers market ( special for us because it’s where we spotted him…. Knew he was the one!) loves taking kids to school, watching their sports, and following them. Home is his fav…. He knows when we’re walking where our house is and when we’re driving he gets excited when we pull in. He loves it here. He is great about going potty ( most of time ) where he should…. Very trained and trainable! He goes in crate in my room at night and so quiet all night). Also goes in crate when we leave and can’t take him…. No accidents there! He Is good with other dogs but will get scared or over excited( normal )…just working with him on that.
Brief Bio: Meet Miles! Miles was rescued along with his litter mates when a rescuer spotted them along with their mom Maru in a bush on the side of the road huddled in a dirty box. Miles was only a few weeks old at the time and his mom did all she could to keep her babies safe. Luckily the rescuer was able to get the whole family off the streets and to the vet. The puppies and their mom Maru are not all in good health and ready for their forever home. Miles is a sweet pup who would love nothing more then to find a home to call his own. We are looking for a home that understands the responsibilities of owning and raising a puppy. Miles is patiently waiting!
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The likelihood of an adult-use marijuana bill passing in New Jersey prior to a June 30 budget deadline allegedly is declining, but lawmakers still look poised to approve recreational MJ over the next year, according to a policy analyst and advocate.
The present effort is hitting a snag due to state budget squabbles as well as lack of consensus within the details of a marijuana business, according to NorthJersey.com.
Despite this hiccup, Karen O’Keefe, director of state policies for the Marijuana Policy Project, said that New Jersey has a lot of momentum for legalizing recreational cannabis even if it doesn’t happen within the next week due to the budget stalemate.
In fact, a bill to legalize adult use, introduced June 7, was co-sponsored by Sweeney and fellow Senate Democrat Nicholas Scutari.
New Jersey has a yearlong Legislature, so the legalization campaign could be picked up following June 30.
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Currency converter 257 MXN to (in,into,equal,=) USD. How much is 257 Mexican Peso To to (in,into,equal,=) United States Dollar ? what is 257 Mexican Peso converted into United States Dollar ?
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Elseworlds Month 3 comes to a close with a universe where the Hero is the host of Read Right to Left!
Log on! Shinta plugs into the Battle network game that’s technically not a battle network game which tries mixing the classic game-series’ battle elements and the Late-X-series 3D platforming into the BN’s RPG stylization!
Suffice to say, it goes badly.
Elseworlds Month 3 continues with a universe where the Hero haunts the Longbox!
The yugioh reviews return with the first arc of the second anime series, the one most people have seen….and just a small snippet of how bad the dub actually is when one learns of what they changed.
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This page features all the pig breed society links that I have found so far and has been compiled from a number of different sources. It will be expanded over time to include as many as possible and will be reviewed regularly to check all links shown. Any pig breed society links that are no longer working will be removed and only reinstated once the website is active again.
Please let me know via the comment facility at the bottom of the page if there are any errors or if there are other pig breed society websites I should add.
The Berkshire Pig Breeders Club was founded in 1983 for three reasons: to promote the Berkshire breed, to further communication between breeders and to encourage the keeping of pedigree Berkshire pigs.
The British Kunekune Pig Society is run on a non-profit basis to further the interests of the pigs, the pedigree breed and of those who love to keep them.
LARGE BLACK PIG BREEDERS CLUB was founded in 1996 to bring together breeders and further promote this splendid traditional British pig breed.
The Middle White Pig Breeders’ Club is not exclusively for breeders and anyone with an interest in the breed or pigs in general is welcome to join. Within the club, the leading Middle White breeders will be delighted to offer help and advice to novices.
The Oxford Sandy and Black is a rare traditional breed of pig. It is increasing in popularity from virtual extinction twenty years ago.
The Pedigree Welsh Pig Society has recently been set up to protect, enhance and promote the Welsh Pig breed. The aims of the Society are to support, encourage and promote the development of The Pedigree Welsh Pig.
The club was set up to promote the Tamworth breed and encourage more people to keep registered pedigree stock, in order to preserve this charismatic pig and keep bloodlines alive.
Scottish Pig Keepers Association – aims to promote pigs in Scotland at a local level and give all owners and pig enthusiasts a way of sharing ideas and information.
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Let your mind roam. Play with ideas.
If you can, find a friend to bounce ideas off.
After years of earning a living from affiliate programs, my wife Joanna and I now see the world through a “Would that be an idea for a website?” filter.
Then we're likely to branch off from there … SillyIdeas.com? CrazyIdeas.com? FabulousIdeas.com?
We'll probably expand the theme … FabulousFantasies.com? … and so on. It's a little brainstorming game we sometimes play.
1. Start with your hobbies and interests. Find a quiet, peaceful spot and picture a typical day or typical week. What do you enjoy reading about and talking about? These are the most important topics to consider carefully because if you choose one of them, you'll find it easier to do the research and write the articles. Most important of all, you're more likely to enjoy the project.
2. What about your job? Have you learned special skills you could share? You may be able to write a 20-page report you could sell to supplement your affiliate income.
3. Consider your family, relatives, neighbors and friends. Sometimes ideas can be so close to us, so obvious, that we overlook them. Do you know someone who is an expert at something? Does a neighbor build wind chimes? Does a friend grow beautiful roses? Does a cousin …? You could interview that person to acquire unique, useful, interesting facts for your website. You could make a video of your cousin showing how she… whatever.
4. Look in your daily newspaper, magazines and on TV for ideas. Read the ads as well as the news. Read the sections you don't usually read.
5. Visit forums in niches in which you are interested. Look for problems that need solving. Watch out for questions which keep appearing over and over again. Search Google for “anywordorphrase” +forum.
6. Subscribe to email discussion lists – if you're lucky enough to find one in your niche. Look for problems that need solving. For example, LED Digest was a very popular discussion list about online business and marketing. LED Digest seems to have died, but you can still find ideas in the archives.
7. Walk around your house, considering every item you see … toothbrush, toothpaste, hairbrush, perfume, teeth whitener, jewelry, wastepaper basket, cutlery, drawer liners, sheets, towels, carpet, rugs, desk, pens, etc, etc. Open the drawers, cupboards and boxes.
Choose products you like, so that you can be genuinely enthusiastic about them. Try typing some of the words into Wordtracker. You may be amazed at the demand for ordinary products online.
8. Turn your keyword research on its head. Instead of typing very specific, niche phrases into Wordtracker, type in a GENERAL, non-specific word. Good words to try include “ideas”, “tips” and “problems”. Also try “find”, “where” and “how”.
9. Walk into a magazine store and see which magazine catches your eye. If you already have knowledge of the subject, you'll find website creation a lot easier and more fun. Each successful magazine is aimed at a niche market. Scan the article headings and index for ideas.
10. Read the list of industries in the Yellow Pages … Gardening, Removals, etc, etc.
11. Think of seasonal topics. For example, Halloween, Easter, Valentine's Day, Super Bowl marketing, Christmas. Try searches in Google for “holidays and festivals”.
12. Slowly scan the subjects in our affiliate programs directory. Carefully consider the ones you're tempted to reject – the ones which nearly everyone else rejects, too. The ones which might be “too hard”. If you do that, you'll have less competition.
13. Regularly check new affiliate programs as they are listed in our directory. Consider building your websites quickly before most of your competitors even know the topic exists.
14. Investigate the affiliate networks for website ideas. You'll find obscure programs not many affiliates know about.
16. Seek products for which there's a passionate demand. For example, someone who has bad breath will be very keen to find a product which solves the problem. In a similar way, people who collect things can be passionately eager to buy products. This is a very powerful idea. People who are desperate for an answer make excellent customers.
17. Consider easily identified market segments, for example readers of all sorts of magazines. Wander around a store selling magazines for ideas, or browse an online magazine store.
18. Consult Amazon.com for new website ideas. Look at the hot-selling books. You can also find website ideas at ClickBank and eBay. To find out what products are “on fire” at eBay, see eBay's What's Hot page and download the PDF report.
19. Keep a sharp eye on new ebooks and other products offered on the ClickBank network.
20. Check out the big portals. Yahoo! and other large sites often have hot lists and popular searches. You'll spot seasonal changes and new trends. On Yahoo! check Marketplace and the Buzz Index. At CNet.com, see the Buzz Report.
21. Get a list of valuable keywords and analyze them carefully. Valuable keywords are excellent for generating AdSense income to supplement your affiliate revenue. By the way, don't design a site purely for AdSense revenue. That's against the AdSense rules.
22. Consider new trends, fads and fashions. Type “trends” and similar phrases into Google. See if you can catch the next trendy wave as your theme. Google Zeitgeist shows you “search patterns, trends, and surprises”. Most of the popular searches involve celebrities but you'll probably spot the odd surprise. Gizmodo is a popular gadgets blog. Another popular site is TrendWatching.
23. Look for high-demand topics. Subscribe to Wordtracker's free Top Keywords report and get a weekly report of the top 500 frequently searched words on the Internet. You can spot seasonal changes and hot new ideas for your site.
Shopping.com, where millions of shopping searches are done each week, has a Consumer Demand Index which reveals emerging trends and hot products.
24. Dummies.com was NOT created by dummies. The For Dummies business has more than 150 million books in print, covering more than 1,300+ topics. Each topic is a market niche which has already been carefully researched before the book was launched. Each index gives you a heap of ideas for articles. If a Dummies book has been published in the niche, you can be certain there's a market out there. For heaps of website ideas in all sorts of niches, see Dummies.com.
25. Social networks. Scan Digg, Twitter and other social networks and bookmarking sites to see what people are discussing. Be disciplined. You could waste weeks, months or years on “research” without actually doing anything productive.
26. My favorite website idea … Aim to get paid over and over again. Look for affiliate programs that pay you month after month, perhaps even year after year. Residual income programs, such as some for web hosting and autoresponders, automatically pay you every month.
Lifetime commission programs pay you every time “your” customer makes another purchase. I love these programs so much I set up a web site reviewing them: LifetimeCommissions.com.
27. TOP TIP: Download the free Affiliate Masters Course and study the tips on how to dig up a topic that matches your interests. If you've already read it, print it out, re-read it and take notes. Make sure you've read the latest version. It describes what SiteSell's top 100 affiliates do. This is absolutely essential reading for all affiliates.
28. Become interested in something. If, after your brainstorming sessions, you still haven't found a topic that interests you, try this. Throw yourself wholeheartedly into researching a topic. You'll find that the more you learn and become an authority on the subject, the more you'll become interested in it. As your depth of knowledge increases, the more interested you'll become.
It works. Eventually, one day you'll realize with surprise that you're actually enjoying what you're doing.
29. Consider promoting successful retailers. Study a list of the Internet's top 500 retailers. You can safely guarantee that these companies know how to sell. That's an excellent start. For more in-depth research, you can buy a Top 500 Guide.
30. Be sure to read my Affiliate Program Tutorial for ideas on incorporating valuable keywords into your plans. This is most important if you want to maximize your income.
31. In his article Choosing a niche for your online businesss Jay Stockwell shows you free tools and the strategies and techniques you can use to find a profitable niche.
32. Still seeking ideas? Try the website 43Things. It's all about people's dreams and aspirations.
In Ken Evoy's famous FREE Affiliate Masters Course, he describes what his top 100 affiliates do. He also gives invaluable tips on how to choose the right niche for you.
These tips apply to ANY affiliate program.
Print it out, find a quiet spot and study it carefully. Do this, and you'll save yourself an awful lot of wasted time.
PLEASE do this. I've seen so many affiliates make a snap decision when choosing a topic, only to regret it after months of wasted work. Save yourself anguish. Read Ken's course BEFORE you choose your niche.
THis is good, I am writing from Ghana, West Africa, but of course the net knows no limit. Choosing a niche has been one big problem since the past 3 years. I love internet marketing but it seems the market for that has expired.
Any new ideas in that area. Pls advice with a twist that can cut it. Thanks.
Just what I was looking for! Thank you for the information you have given Allan. Most are stingy with such knowledge. Which is understandable. I have been attempting to place myself in some state of zenlike consciousness for a marketable website idea?? HaHaHa..
Thanks for the great information...as always!
This is an excellent post for brainstorming niches! Thanks, Allan.
I never thought to look at the Dummies books, for instance.
You could also flick through catalogs (or even catalogs.com), and read ads. ALL ads you see, from newspapers, to the junk that falls through your mailbox.
And once you find a niche, don't forget to check search volumes, competitors, and keyword costs - that way you'll quickly see what is in demand and affordable.
Really an excellent and informative posts. Really it requires some sort of special brain for thinking to such a level.
The value of this post can't be expressed in words.
Thank you for good information on finding niches, I found few tips and ideas useful to follow up.
Nice list. Have shared it on stumbleupon for my followers to read. Hope some of them will do something with their best idea.
Great article, but I would love to see more case studies as we are doing.
Richard, That would be a good question to ask on our affiliate forum. It might generate a useful discussion. The link is at the top of the page.
I have a idea for a website that i am sure would be a home run. not a facebook but it would have a million sorry millions of users. i am not computer savvy so i would need help setting it up without my idea being stolen. where would i need to look for help with this.
Thanks for this post, it helped me a lot.
Very interesting and useful article with a number of resources links.
Thanks for sharing all of this great information and not keeping it to yourself! Someone like me who is on a budget truly appreciates the free tips you give!
What a wonderful read! Thank you for taking the time to post this. It has given me a new outlook!
Thanks a lot for this information. I have just entered in the world of Aff. Mktg. Can you give me some idea as how to get started.
thanks we created latenite.picsent.com because of your article!
I set up www.thisisglossop.co.uk with inspiration from this article!
I just discovered your site and it is AMAZING !! So much information, tips and help all in one place and FREE.
Thank you for having this site and caring about people enough to help in this way. For Newbies especially, there is so much to learn and it can be overwhelming but your site makes things much easier.
Always keep this site going and know that you are very much appreciated !!
I found your tips very useful. I would also like to mention that you should sometimes talk to person who is least likely to make a website by him/herself. Ask what he/she wants: there probably are not such service yet. I hope this is not shameless self-promotion but please visit my site, I have wrote some website ideas there: http://badass-website-ideas.blogspot.com. They are free for everyone to use.
exept its not going onto google and its not finished.
I've got a hobby that I'm passionate about and could write page after page after page on -- however, I've done some research and there aren't many affiliate opportunities in this niche so I can make money. Is this a subject worth pursuing? Any suggestions?
Here are some niches that you can choose from so you can build your affiliate niche stores; I will list a few keywords after each niche idea for you to get started right away.
Great Ideas! Thanks for the tips!
thanks . learned some great new brainstorming tips.
Thanks very much for all of the useful information and helpful links.
It's not often that i continue reading articles until the very end but it was exactly the information i was looking for and very well written so i kept reading.
Some good tips here and i have used them myself in the past. Good article.
Thanks so much for this. You are a genius. Seriously. I just got about 10 new site ideas from the "Dummies" book series suggestion alone. One of those "I can't believe I didn't think of that before" moments. Thanks!
This is such great information. I opened my first website in Sept through the commission ritual course and while I didn't make any money, I did learn how to upload, and set it up, although, I must have done something wrong.
Very good list of resources, including some new ones I hadnt seen yet. thanks for this excellent effort.
Loved the article! It's rare to see such a indepth one.
Very useful tips and hints in this article which we read sometime ago. Based on that we got a quick idea to make website is-cheater.com. But more would come to be sure. Thanks you so much for opening those blocked channels in the grey matter.
thanks for your tips, and I think hobby and work relatived is the good field to build a niche website.
I just bought a domain because of this article :).
One of the best & comprehnsive list to get fresh ideas. I was searching online for website ideas in 2012 and I came across this website.
Thank you for sharing these great ideas, loved reading.
Great article, I would also like to add that passion is one of the most important factors to consider when deciding on a topic. If we really like talking about something we definitely could build a website about it with great results.
I am curious to find out what blog system you're using? I'm having some small security problems with my latest blog and I'd like to find something more risk-free. Do you have any solutions?
Hi page, We're using a content management system (CMS) from Interspire, called Website Publisher, with our own modifications. Interspire is discontinuing it.
These are some helpful ideas, especially browsing trough affiliate networks. The problem is that nomatt er what niche you will find there is a great competition already and also most of the "keyword" domains are taken. I'll say that the brand new niche are worth checking.
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Essie Bobbing for Baubles 769 Nail Polish Winter Collection 2011. A deepest darkest sapphire. DBP, Toluene and Formaldehyde free.
Essie Bobbing for Baubles 769 Nail Polish Winter Collection 2011 A deepest darkest sapphire. DBP, Toluene and Formaldehyde free. Note: The picture shown here is for display purposes only. For exact colors please reffer to the color number and/or actual enamel sample paper chart (available in retail stores and beauty salons).
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-Green flag (start): How do we start our journey of faith?
-Yellow flag (caution): The decisions we make can sometimes put us in danger. How do we learn to heed God’s caution?
-Red flag (delay): Finishing well involves pit stops. How does God help us get the most out of these breaks?
-Blue flag (yield): Each of us may run our own race, but we also need to respect others. How does God help us focus on others’ needs?
-Black flag (disqualification): What happens when our own violations take us out of the race, and how does God help us get back in?
-White flag (final lap): As we head toward the finish line, how do we steer according to God’s will?
-Checkered flag (victory): If we persevere—navigating the hazards, managing the pit stops—then victory is ours. But how does God want us to experience victory?
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In Oklahoma, continued signs of hope and rebuilding are everywhere. Communities affected by severe weather and the devastating tornado of May 2013 are making progress to restore normalcy to their neighborhoods, one day at the time.
The generosity of AARP members and other compassionate donors made this possible. We thank them again for coming to the aid of seniors in Oklahoma.
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Rusty Dewees and Patrick Ross. Come for the comedy and laughs and enjoy some music, too, with two of Vermont’s favorite sons— Rusty DeWees THE LOGGER and Lyndon Institute’s own Patrick Ross, THE FIDDLER. Don’t miss the COMEDY and MUSIC No Added Sugar Tour to christen the 2019 GROUNDHOG NIGHT.
Save 20% when you buy by January 3. Discount is automatically reflected when you choose your seats.
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Ready to take a magic carpet ride?
Disney unveiled a new trailer for the live-action remake of "Aladdin," which features a snippet of the 1992 original's iconic music, including the Oscar and Grammy Award-winning song "A Whole New World."
With it comes a glimpse of the famous magic carpet ride shared by titular thief (Mena Massoud) and Princess Jasmine (Naomi Scott).
We also get a much better look at Will Smith's blue Genie, whose first appearance in last month generated quite a bit of controversy (and Twitter jokes). And there's even a tease of his big number "Friends Like Me."
Not surprisingly, the trailer also showcases the comedic tone of the movie. The original was also chock full of jokes and the late Robin Williams' hamming it up. It seems that even though this take is live-action, it isn't trying to be much more serious.
"Aladdin" opens in theaters May 24.
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When you’re reading through a quilt pattern, one of the last items on the list is the borders. You may be directed to cut them out with the rest of the fabric but attaching them is generally one of the last things you’re going to cross off the quilt-to-do-list. I say generally, because that is one quilt rule that can be broken, and we will do just that later on in this series of blogs.
Loosely defined, borders are strips of fabric that surround the outside of blocks and sashing/setting triangles (if either or both of those are used). A single border can be used, or multiple borders can be made, depending on how large you want your quilt, the look you desire, or what the pattern calls for if you’re sticking to the directions. I’ve always thought of borders as “frames,” so mine tend to always be dark. However, this is not a hard, fast rule – borders can be any color and nearly any width.
Now what can you do and more importantly, what should you have done to begin with?
Let’s pause a moment and remember two important things at this point. First, always important to square your quilt up after every step: After every unit is made, after every block is completed, and after each strip of sashing (both horizontal and vertical). If this is done, then the odds of your completed quilt top being truly squared up are in your favor. But what if the measurements of that top come out 55-inches wide and 76-inches long? It can happen. You could have sewn a scant ¼-inch seam when you should have sewn a full one. Your needle could have been in the wrong position. However, if you’ve already cut your border fabric, then either a) you pray you have enough scraps to piece your border b) you hope there still is some of that fabric at the LQS or on-line store c) you ask your quilting buddies if they have some of this fabric in their stash or d) hop on eBay and hope for the best. My general advice for all borders is cut them out when you’re cutting everything else out, but make then longer than directed. It’s always easier to make something smaller than bigger. It’s always better to cut something down to size than to stretch it to make it fit.
For all borders, no matter what kind or what size, there is a process to determining exactly how long to make them. The first thing to do is press your quilt top. Then lay it on a flat surface – floor or table works best. A soft surface, such as a bed, may have too much “give” to get an accurate measurement. Take a tape measure (the retractable metal ones work best) and measure the length of the quilt top in three places – a few inches in from the right and left side and then straight down the middle. Add those three measurements together and divide by three to get the average – and that’s how long the left and right borders should be.
So, let’s say we take that quilt top that’s supposed to measure 75-inches long. The measurement on the left is 75 1/2 – inches, the middle measurement is 75-inches, and the measurement on the right is 75 1/2 -inches. Add those three together (226) and now divide by 3 – and you get 75 1/3-inches. The left and right border should be cut to 75 1/3-inches. If you had already cut those borders to 75 inches as directed, you could certainly ease the top into that, but it’s aggravating, and this can sometimes cause a “ripple” effect in the seam. In other words, the border seam will look slightly puckered even though there are no puckers in the seam. It’s just much easer to take those left and right border strips that were cut slightly longer and trim those down to 75 1/3-inches.
I also pin my borders. I know some quilters don’t – the simply line up the edges and let ‘er rip, but I’m more cautious. I find the middle of the quilt top’s left or right side (in this case it would be at the 37 2/3-inch mark) and place a pin in it. Then I find the middle of the border strip and match that at the pinned location on the quilt top and pin from the middle out. To me, this makes the border lie flatter. Do this on both sides of the quilt and sew the left and right borders on. Press the seam to the side (usually it’s pressed to the border side) and once again lay the quilt top out on a flat surface. Take the tape measurer and repeat the same process to find the average length to cut the top and bottom border. Then go through the identical process to sew them onto the quilt top.
That’s the easy part – it’s pretty simple to find the correct length of the border. Patterns will tell you how wide to make the border. But what if you’re designing your own quilt? How wide is too wide and how narrow is too narrow?
Let’s go back and re-visit the Golden Ration that we discussed a couple of blogs ago. The border should be the Golden Ration of the size of the block most commonly used in your quilt. If your quilt is made primarily of 8-inch finished blocks with 2-inch sashes, that would make the finished size of the entire block 10 inches (8 + 2 = 10). Multiply 10 by 1.618 and you come up with 16.18. Now divide that by 4 (for the four sides of the quilt) and you get 4 inches. The border should be 4-inches, finished, which means you cut it at 4 ½ – inches to include the seam allowances. Now in that four inch ratio, you could do one 1-inch border and one 3-inch border. Or two 2-inch borders. You can make multiple borders as long as the sum of the widths equal four.
If wide borders aren’t your thing, you can take the size of the block (10-inches) and multiply it by half of the Golden Ratio (.618) and you come up with 6.18. Divide that by 4 and you have 1 ½ – inches. That is the narrowest border that the Golden Ratio suggests. And like sashing, your border width can fall anywhere between 1 ½-inches and 4-inches and it will look balanced.
However…what if you need your quilt to be wider and longer than the pattern allows for?
No problem. Go for it. There are a couple of things to keep in mind at this point. The math is still important. The border can be 1/3 to ½ the width of the finished block. So, if your finished block is 10-inches, then the border can be between 3 1/3 and 5-inches wide. That’s fairly close to the Golden Ratio, but it is a tad bigger.
If that doesn’t work, try the Fibonacci Numbers. This is a mathematical sequence of numbers where each number is the sum of the preceding two ones. A chain of Fibonacci Numbers would be 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8. Two is the sum of 1 + 1, 3 is the sum of 1 + 2, etc. You can make multiple borders to finally arrive to the size quilt top you need, and as long as they follow the Fibonacci Number series, the top’s borders would look balanced. And a Fibonacci Number sequence doesn’t have to begin with one. It could start with 2 and be 2, 2, 4, 6, 10, 16, etc.
Let me throw this in here – remember what I told you about the Golden Ratio? That folks like quilters and designers kind of have this ingrained in us and know when something is too big or too small? At some point, if you’re adding multiple borders to make the top bigger, you will know just by looking at your quilt, when the borders are overwhelming the quilt top. Then it’s just better to add more blocks to the top to make it larger and add the borders later.
In the upcoming blogs we’re going to take a look at mitered borders, pieced borders, applique borders, and adding borders as the rows are made. I’m also planning to discuss altering the borders that the pattern calls for…because who wants to stick by the directions all the time?
Meanwhile, crunch the numbers and Quilt with Excellence!
Fantastic blog. Never too old to learn something new.
Thank you so much! The basics are so important! And learning something new is fun!
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Iowa Park is a small city off Route 287 in northern Texas. Between the Red and Wichita rivers, and west of Wichita Falls, Iowa Park is a great family-friendly community. Homes for rent in this city are spread out among a variety of suburban neighborhoods, with safe streets that are great for kids. Parks such as Antelope Park give families fun recreation spaces, while businesses like Cryovac, Inc. exemplify the many work opportunities in the area. The city has a rich commodities culture on a convenient rail and trucking route, which means plenty of shopping and restaurants for renters.
Iowa Park residents are near several notable bodies of water. Within the city limits, there's Gordon Lake, and families can go boating in Lake Iowa Park. To the northwest is the much larger North Fork Buffalo Creek Reservoir, which features trails for recreation around its banks.
Iowa Park started in 1888 because of its location on the Fort Worth and Denver City Railway. Soon after the town was created and named for its Iowa residents, half the town burned down. Cotton, oil and wheat were the main commodities in this area.
Families may want to take a trip into Wichita Falls every so often. With an airport, major businesses and a big city feel, families will love driving just down the road to Wichita Falls.
Located in downtown Iowa Park, the Iowa Park Leader is the local newspaper. It's an authority on regional news, opinion and sports.
Learn more about the community, the laws and the people of Iowa Park at its website. There's a community calendar, public notices and information for enrolling in school at the Iowa Park Schools.
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“Nobody knows about us,” was one of the last things we heard as we were leaving the Kidd Toy Museum at 1301 SE Grand Avenue. I had gone there with Will Simmons from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania who’s famous for his Pittsburgh Orbit blog. The comment wasn’t made to elicit sympathy, it was a statement that had to do with the museum’s no advertising policy.
It may have been the ninth time I’d heard about it, more on that later, but the tip that got me through the door came from writer Chuck Palahniuk. I had heard rumblings about the place and read about it in Palahniuk’s book “Fugitives and Refugees,” but my preconceived notions of a what a toy museum could be may have kept me away. I imagined being herded into an annoying gift shop filled with precious toys for sale, but no, Kidd’s Toy Museum is nothing like that–a characteristic that cements its low-key charm. Palahniuk recommended the place in a list of Portland must-sees in one of the weekly newspapers making it an opportune place to visit with an out-of-town guest.
In all my overstimulation resulting from looking through rooms of old toys, I overlooked getting the name of the woman Will and I spoke with as we were headed out the door. She was informative and gracious looking up at us from where she sat in a cluttered office area. I missed the origins of Kidd’s toy collecting mania as it was described because I was slow to turn on my phone’s voice recorder. I recall that Frank Kidd’s collecting bug started with finding and buying a toy on a business trip.
Regardless of the genesis, the museum holds quite the collection of banks, dolls, cars, trains and other odd genres. The collection is grouped by category, housed in glass enclosed cases and lit by fluorescent lighting. We were told that the museum exists in part because an inheritance tax that might have required parts of the collection be sold off. Kidd created a nonprofit to keep the collection together, a nonprofit status that requires the toys be made available to the public.
One feature of the museum is how unlike a museum it is. It’s an opportunity to see a well-curated antique toy collection. The displays offer little information like brand names or dates. This minimalism is due, we were told, to the notion that signs would take up valuable display space. Seeing the objects as they are offers visitors a to experience the toys and form their own interpretations.
Word about the museum doesn’t get out due to that lack of advertising. It was explained that, “people locally don’t tend to know we’re here. People from out-of-town look for things to do.” Word of mouth comes from a woman who runs a North Portland candy store who recommends that people visit the museum. People are sure to mention when the “Candy Lady” sent them.
As we were running out of conversation we were given a quick lesson in advertising. Our museum contact told us what she’d learned in an advertising class. She explained that you have to see something three times before you actually see it and three more times before you act on it. The math means you have to see something nine times before you do anything about it. The number nine stuck in my mind. It seemed as good an explanation as any as to why I had lived in Portland for nine years before l made it to Kidd’s Toy Museum. Don’t let it take you that long.
I received a comment that made a good point. It should be noted that the museum is open weekdays from 9am to 5pm. It has no weekend hours.
Note: There are items on display at the museum that some might find controversial. At a time when we’re offering wishes of good will to all mankind I made a decision not to delve into this aspect of the collection. I may visit it at a later time.
A classic free box, yours for the taking.
My friend Butch Lazorchak had a saying, or maybe it was just something he said once that I associated with him, an expression legendary in my mind. I forgot the circumstances but one day he blurted out, “free is the way I like it.” It’s not catch-phrase worthy, but appropriate in the right situation. The saying pops into my head when I see a free box or a sign that brings my attention to a free item on a curb.
The deal was sweetened with a jump rope and a dog frisbee.
I’m not writing about the Freegan lifestyle. That’s a different post. I know there are websites and networks for those who champion that lifestyle. With effort, bargains are sure to be found and technological advances make their pursuit easier. I prefer random encounters with free stuff; things I don’t even have to bring home.
No indication of what’s free, but the sign’s magnificent.
Like most people, I appreciate anything free. I’ve never been able to find free shoes that fit but discarded shoes gross me out anyway. I have unrealistic expectations that all concerts should be free which is why I never go anywhere. I have no idea what a free food hook up is. That no free lunch slogan is the story of my life. The occasional art opening really means free cheese. Considering how disappointing “free” antenna TV is makes paying for cable worth it. Regardless I always hope worthwhile free stuff will come my way.
Summers in Portland are good times to leave stuff out for gleaners. People feel confident that even if no one wants their junk there isn’t the risk that it will be ruined by rain. In a survey with no scientific merit, Saturdays were deemed the most popular day for this donation method. It’s the first day of weekend cleaning. I always thought that if I needed a chest of drawers, which I actually would like to have for bike stuff, I could drive around on a Saturday and find one.
Spread out your wares so customers can see your free offerings.
This is a great concept, this placing of goods on the curb in hopes that someone will find value, the value that is no longer found in the item by the discarder, and carry it off eliminating the trip to the dump or the item heading to the landfill. I prefer discard piles that have a sign, otherwise it feels like a gray area that has me questioning whether people are getting rid of items or utilizing lawn storage space. The free sign is optional because it’s a given that stuff on the curb invites people to help themselves. It made me feel better when I asked someone if I could take the tape deck from a signless pile on a curb. I also asked if the deck worked. The answer was sure and “your guess is as good as mine.” Cordiality is unnecessary when dealing with free junk.
No free poles, only poles that advertise free couches.
I would gather free stuff from curbs on a regular basis but I can’t indulge my hoarder tendencies when I have a basement full of junk. My restraint is incredible. I only window shop curbside free stores taking fleeting glances into pandora’s box-like, free boxes. My quest for an old couch, delusional as I may have been that the right one would appear someday, ended after hearing a bedbug horror story that occurred from someone dragging free furniture into their home. Contamination cures couch collection compulsion the headline could have read.
A free couch, expertly labeled.
Free Boxes have inspired the creation of art. Jon Meyer named his web series The Free Box after encountering many of them in SE Portland. The show centered around broke characters and free boxes that were worked into some of the episodes.
Conveinent and recyclable packaging is essential.
The free stuff that’s available can be anything. Some of it falls into the “You’re Really Trying to Give That Away?” category. People want to find someone who can give new life to what they need to get rid of, whether it’s a pile of dirt with a sign made from painter’s tape or a collection of broken concrete. Free box books are usually better suited for the Goodwill self-help section yet every once in a while a must-read can be unearthed. A bag of free floral foam was one of the more unusual, yet useful things I’ve seen lately. If you think you really need something and don’t want to pay never give up your quest to find it. Free stuff will always materialize but more likely when you need it the least.
Free Dirt and home made font.
Free is the way I like my chunks of concrete!
If you end up at the Sunnybrook Medical Center it may be due to an injury requiring the services of a trauma surgeon. Or you may have something stuck in your ear, nose, throat or somewhere else necessitating a visit to the ear, nose, throat, or somewhere else department.
Thanks to a display tucked away in the lobby of the ENT department, I learned all manner of objects can be and are lodged in the human body.
The framed story of Dr. Charles Emerick* greets those, suffering and not, who enter. He collected these items during his service at a missionary clinic in India and a Naval hospital in San Diego. His career summited Mt. Scott at Kaiser Permanente where he cached his loot of curiosities upon retirement. The display educates patients, staff, and visitors of the dangers of things and bodily cavities and the coexistence of the two. The origins of this collection, while not discussed in the brief write up, are what intrigue me. That spark, that moment of inspiration when Dr. Emerick committed to starting his collection had me wanting to dig (pun may or may not be intended, I’m just not sure) into this story and uncover more than what the lobby offers.
Thanks to modern technology, I was able to access an article about Dr. Emerick. The old school alternative would have had me in library basement futzing with microfiche and an ancient, bulky machine. I found one secondary source available with ease, an Associated Press article that ran in a Fredericksburg, Va. newspaper in 1997. Dr. Emerick had been retired for seven years. A photo showed him looking over his collection. I read looking for the source of his inspiration to collect what are referred to in the story as “items.” And there it was!** Emerick explained he, “was inspired to keep the items because he heard Dr. Chevalier Jackson, a pioneer in endoscopy, had such a collection.” Note that endoscopy is how an item, once lost in the esophagus, trachea or lung, is located. A hollow lighted tube illuminates the included object; it then takes an additional piece of gear for removal should the object prove an obstruction or irritant or otherwise inconvenient or unwanted addition to the patient.
It’s noteworthy that the AP writer made an attempt to locate Dr. Jackson’s collection which was last seen at Temple University Hospital. A spokesman uttered the sad words, “nothing remains of the collection.” This gives Dr. Emerick’s achievement heightened stature and highlights its remarkable staying power simply persisting in its low key existence, not as some central attraction of a national medical museum but in the quiet confines of Kaiser’s ENT waiting room.
Looking over the items housed in the display case with revolving shelves, the kind of display case you find in antique stores, was as fascinating as it was gross. The first consideration seems to be with the item itself. I thought about the size and shape of the bagged and tagged objects before moving on to contemplate where each was found. It never failed to amaze me.
It’s rare to see evidence doctors put this much effort into their jobs. Trash cans have been filled so thoughtlessly over the years. Body junk salvaged from many an Ear, Nose and Throat languishes in landfills, yet the experiments and accidents of Dr. Emerick’s patients live on in a display case in Portland carefully preserved and labeled. It is detritus for all time, but also significant and instructive. Whether a pilgrimage must be made to this strange menagerie is up to you unless you’re accident prone or careless with either money or crayons. If that’s the case, a few extra minutes checking out this collection on the third floor could be worth thousands in future medical expenses.
*After a bit of confusion, I figured out that Emerick was the last name of the doctor and not a medical term referring to stuff lodged in the human body.
**Mrs. Yuchmow having to justify using the word “and” at the beginning of a sentence always makes me try to find a way to not do it, but I needed to add drama to my story and discovering a tidbit of information concerning something I had been wondering about for a long time but hadn’t gotten around to checking out inspired that sentence: And there it was. Yes you told your students in Princeton, NJ, back in the day, that under most circumstances they shouldn’t start a sentence with the word “and.” In this case you should just be glad I didn’t use an exclamation point.
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The plants especially natural dries, live and grafted plants are used for different purposes. This can be a decoration, a pattern on any good or a carving. To know the sellers of all such kind of natural dried, live and grafted plants scroll the below list.
Indian exporters of dried flowers, artificial flowers, floral wreaths, decorative dried flowers, flower arrangement, garland flowers, sola flowers and bouquet, pot pourri, terracotta fruits and cane items.
We are leading manufacturers of mandap decorations, handicrafts, garlands, torans & rakhisin various artistic and exclusive designs.
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WHAT: Come learn more about a unique dual-degree executive MBA program created by UCLA and National University of Singapore (NUS). The UCLA-NUS EMBA Program (http://www.ucla.nus.edu.sg) is a part-time, intensive 15-month course of study that leads to two MBA degrees, one from UCLA and one from NUS. The program consists of six intensive two-week segments conducted in residence in Singapore, Los Angeles and Shanghai.
Program participants will receive a well-balanced general management education that provides the breadth and depth of knowledge and skills necessary for managing a multinational organization. They will also have an opportunity to establish a strong international network with senior executives in United States and Asia.
Designed for executives, the UCLA-NUS EMBA program is timely in light of China’s entry into the World Trade Organization and the recently concluded U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreement, which require business leaders who can think globally and act locally. This program is particularly valuable for those interested in doing business in both the United States and Asia.
WHO: Professor Chris Erickson, UCLA's faculty director for the UCLA-NUS Executive MBA Program, will be on hand to discuss program specifics, including program structure, admissions, curriculum and fees. Current participants in the program will be available to discuss their experiences.
PARKING: Parking will be available in Lot 4, adjacent to UCLA Anderson School of Management at a cost of $7.
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Creative Minority Reader: Planned Parenthood Paying Activists to Protest?
As pro-abortion protestors ascend on the Texas Capitol today, it's good to remind everyone that most of the time, bused in progressive protestors are being paid to protest. Craigslist in Austin currently has an advertisement up for wanted full-time activists. The advertisement was posted on June 29, 2013, just two days before the second special Texas Legislature session started.
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Roberta M. Feb 08 .
Boy Meets Girl is an expensive store calling themselves a boutique. I guess they do that so they can justify their prices. $35 for a onesie and $10 for a tank? Come on now! That's what I pay for adult clothing. Their stuff is cute, but not worth the high pricetag that comes along with it.
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The share price of ElectReon Wireless is up 13% on a large turnover in trading, after the company reported that it had won a tender for demonstrating electrified road technology in Sweden. The company's share price has soared 270% this year, pushing its market cap up to NIS 545 million.
ElectReon said, "The payments by the Swedish government will cover the company's expenses in the three-year project… No final agreement has been signed yet with the Swedish transportation authority, and it is possible that some of the project terms may be different than those listed in this report."
ElectReon, led by cofounder, chairperson, and CEO Oren Ezer uses smart road technology for wireless charging of electric vehicles. The company's technology is based on coils beneath the road surface for wireless transmission of energy to vehicles traveling on it. The aim is to extend the travel range of electric vehicles, while saving charging time and reducing the vehicles' weight. The vehicles need only a small battery for traveling on road sections lacking the company's coil infrastructure.
Ezer said today, "ElectReon's wireless electric road technology makes it possible to profitably electrify a fleet of trucks without carrying huge batteries and stopping to charge them, and without creating an eyesore. Scandinavia, especially Sweden, is a global leader in environment and electrified transportation. The selection of ElectReon by the Swedish government shows recognition of the technology's potential to revolutionize global transportation electrification for the next and critical stage of full implementation."
ElectReon as founded in late 2013 by Ozer and CTO Hanan Rumbak. They previously served in various positions at Elbit Systems. The company was listed on the TASE after being merged into stock exchange shell Biomedix Incubator in October 2017; its value has since multiplied 12-fold. ElectReon's most prominent shareholders are Ezer and Rombak, 18.7% each, and Dan Bus Company, 13.5%.
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All of the links below provide excellent opportunities to further your fixed wing flying experience, along with any existing flying or gliding experience which you have already gained through the Air Training Corps.
To aid your application, you must read the requirements fully and ensure you meet the age, nationality and educational qualifications needed for each individual scholarship or bursary. These will vary, so do not be disheartened if you do not meet the standard for one alone. Also they will be looking for a keen interest in aviation as a hobby or career. It would greatly help if you are an existing member of a flying or gliding club, you are a staff cadet on an AEF or VGS, or you have a keen interest in becoming a pilot as a career.
If you are called forward for an interview, ensure that you do your research on your chosen career path. Even if you do not wish to become a pilot, military or civilian, they will be interested in what you may choose to study at university or college. To become a pilot you must be aware of the path you would like to take to get there.
You may ask the squadron staff and peers for guidance on your application, but must make sure any writing is your own work.
Can gain 35 hours of flying experience, with 5 runners up gaining 12 hours. Applications close on the 31st January 2013! If you are interested you must apply as soon as possible. To aid your application for this or further years to come, you should consider specifically helping RAFA, a charity organisation, with fundraising and volunteering.
Can gain funding to support the training for a full Private Pilot’s License (Fixed Wing). Application forms will appear on the website in January 2013.
Must read the requirements before applying to this scholarship – https://www.formstack.com/forms/?
Also must be a member of the Air League. There are plenty of added benefits to joining this membership only group. If you are seriously interested in all aspects of the world of aviation, as a student, the cost of joining is only £30-33 a year, with no other commitment necessary. £56-59 for Adults (over 22).
Closing date for applications is 31 March 2013. Can be awarded £1000 to put towards flight simulator experience, or flying experience in many types of aircraft. See link for more details.
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100% Design South Africa, is an annual event that offers a carefully curated mix of products from leading designers and brands catering to the residential, hospitality and commercial interior decor and design industries.
As South Africa’s only international design show, the event attracts top architects, interior designers, developers, hospitality buyers, procurement companies, retailers and media with select designers invited to shwcase special features.
The event offers an exciting mix of top global design brands alongside local design stars, and is the perfect platform for designers to launch new products and for buyers to source the latest South African and international products and brands.
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Would you like to create your own resume while you are confused when you have to start building?. We have put together some of the most popular Resume Cover Letter to help you create your own resume. Resume cover letter examples is one of the 16 galleries that we pack in Resume Cover Letter.
A professional resume will not make you bored. Instead, you look convincing!. We have collected many Resume Cover Letter as inspiration and your additional ideas. We hope that these 16 resume of gallery will help you to make your resume more professional. We offer a lot of inspiration below, choose and decide now!.
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Loveitts Estate Agents are partnering up with Zoe’s Place to make it a hat-trick, as they continue their fine work in raising crucial funds for the much-renowned children’s charity.
Now in their third year as Loveitts’ nominated charity, Zoe’s Place has reaped the rewards in recent years with the staff and colleagues of Warwickshire’s oldest existing estate agents raising over £15,550.00 since their partnership began in 2015 with in excess of £8500 raised in 2017 alone.
The company staff have held a number of fundraising activities throughout their fruitful charity partnership to help collect cash for Zoe’s Place after adopting the hospice as their corporate charity for yet another year – and plans are already in place for a number of exciting events in 2018.
In previous years Loveitts have thrown themselves out of planes, hit the links at the prestigious Warwickshire Golf Club and climbed some of the tallest mountains in the world; all to ensure the doors of Zoe’s Place remain firmly open.
Their well-received golf day has particularly found great success in recent years since the estate agents first teed off in 2015 for the children’s hospice.
Last year’s tee-off alone saw the estate agents raise an incredible £3,500 for Zoe’s Place.
With the average cost of £850 providing a day’s outing for 6 children, the £15,500 Loveitts has generously raised over the past three years is visibly invaluable in ensuring Zoe’s Place continues their incredible work for families whose children have life-threatening illnesses.
So, fundraising is the engine that keeps the hospice moving forward, as the independent charity only receives a modest amount of funding from the NHS and central Government.
Paul Barnes, Director at Loveitts Estate Agents commented, “Zoe’s Place is a special charity that is very close to heart of the staff at Loveitts so it was a no-brainer partnering up for our third year together!
“The funding they need to keep their doors open is truly eye opening, with £21,000 only providing 1:1 care for six children at the hospice for one week, it really puts it into perspective how much Zoe’s Place needs to continue its fantastic work.
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from Ascoli Piceno of the region of Marche in Italy. Francesco was telling me of how in his home town they offer perpetual adoration for many years. I was so happy for him and all his fellow worshipers who love Jesus so much.
After we ended our .conversation on the phone. I knelt down and praising our Lord I said, Lord Jesus, how wonderful these people love you and adore you they are so faithful to you.
Our Lord instantly answered me. Our Lord said, My daughter tell Francesco and all his devoted people that because of their devotion, I shall protect their city when the chastisement will come. Because of their small and faithful group their city will be protected and spared.
After I thanked our Lord I said, Lord you are such a good and merciful God that you would spare their entire city with only a small group of faithful followers, you would do so much. He answered, Yes, I will do that. I promise he said, tell them to be courageous and continue to be faithful because I love them very much.
Please people come and adore our Lord and pray for your cities and countries you will receive many graces.
Since the 12th of December 2012, My son had a very severe heart attack. He was hospitalised for a fortnight causing me untold stress. I thank our Lord for saving him.
During a prayer for my son, Jesus appeared and told me that my son would be alright and that the doctors would help him.
As well, the mother of my grandchildren was very ill with Pancreatic cancer.
She turned to the Angel and took the mantle and draped it around my shoulders, it came only below my knees.
Then Holy Mary said, “No, no, this is not right, it is too short,” and took it off and handed it back to the Angel.
She then said, “I will wrap you in My own mantle.” She loosened the clasp and took the mantle and wrapped me in it.
All the while embracing me. I thanked them feeling very happy.
People, I tell you, the boy’s mother passed away at 11.30 that same morning. All this was given to me to give me strength to cope with all that is happening in my family.
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Want to Cast Live YouTube Streams to Your Chromecast? Now You Can from Your PC!
Functionality of Chromecast has expanded at least tenfold since its launch last summer, and now it looks like there's some new functionality that was quietly added to YouTube live streams in the desktop version of any browser: live streaming. That's right, you can now watch all those awesome live streaming web cams, shows and other things on YouTube via Chromecast by clicking on the little Chromecast icon in the bottom right hand corner of any YouTube video when viewing it in any browser on a laptop or desktop computer. This isn't platform or browser specific, which is something fairly new to Chromecast, which was specific to streaming just from Chrome up until recently. This sort of functionality brings Chromecast just one step closer to replacing more and more devices connected to your TV, and could help usher in a better way to watch TV and other special live broadcasts.
Looking for some live streams to test that shiny new feature out on? Anything on YouTube's featured live channels list should work just fine, and you'll be watching live streams on the big screen through your Chromecast with just the click of a button. If you haven't casted from YouTube before it's simple; pull up your video of choice, click on the little casting icon that appears on the bottom right of the player, and select the Chromecast that resides on your network. This is limited to desktop versions of browsers right now though, so attempting to stream it from your phone or tablet will likely present you with an error. Knowing Google this functionality could be added to the mobile world at any time, or it might not be added for months. Right now there's no telling what's going to transpire but at least you have one more option to watch live streams than being huddled around that tiny laptop screen! There's lots of competition out there when it comes to streaming boxes for your TV, but maybe this sort of support from Google will sway those not already in the Chromecast arena.
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A 2000-seat multi-use venue envisaged to rival the world-famous Sydney Opera House is set to b built as part of plans for The Opera District in Downtown Dubai, developer Emaar has announced.
To be used for opera, theatre, concerts, art exhibitions, orchestra, film, sports events and seasonal programmes, Emaar said it would be the centerpiece of the district to promote the arts, culture and events scene in Dubai.
Styled on the traditional sailing vessels of the Arabian Gulf, the classic wooden dhows synonymous with Dubai Creek, the “bow” of the planned building will contain Dubai Opera’s main stage, orchestra and seating areas, as well as the proposed sky garden and restaurants.
The elongated “hull” area will feature waiting areas for spectators, a taxi-drop off area and parking amenities.
Emaar said The Opera District, which is accessed via Mohammed Bin Rashid Boulevard and faced Burj Khalifa, Burj Park, and The Dubai Fountain, will also feature luxury hotels, residential and serviced apartments, a retail plaza, waterfront promenades, recreational spaces and parks.
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fixed speed cameras, mobile speed cameras, radars and radar traffic light ... stretch. Although not actually correct to call it radar, this kind of 'cazamultas' of DGT (DGT) are becoming more common on Spanish roads. Unlike other radars, the latter are the average speed between two controlled points in the same section to determine which car has committed an offense. But how do they work?
1. The vehicle enters a controlled speed stretch: An infrared camera machine vision on each lane, with system character recognition (OCR), captures the moment when we pass under the 'portico No. 1', reading tuition. a recording in which is recorded the day, hour, minute and second by which the car has passed under the porch is performed. The picture quality is up to 1280x1024 pixels.
2. The vehicle leaves the section: A twin system records data over vehicle output section guarded 'gantry # 2'.
3. Data transfer and calculation: With the data recorded by the cameras, software checks the time that each vehicle has been slow to cross the tunnel and calculating its average speed. If this is higher than allowed or what is the same, it takes less time established-at least the data refer fiber optic Center Automated Denunciations of DGT in Leon. There the corresponding file is processed and the complaint refers to holder fined vehicle.
0.1 Example: In the radar section located in the Guadarrama tunnel, linking Madrid and Castilla y Leon, a stretch with 3,323 km length is controlled. A limited speed of 100 km / h, any vehicle to do it in less than 2 minutes and 5 seconds will be fined.
Example: In the radar section located in the Guadarrama tunnel, linking Madrid and Castilla y Leon, a stretch with 3,323 km length is controlled. A limited speed of 100 km / h, any vehicle to do it in less than 2 minutes and 5 seconds will be fined.
- Radars are interconnected. Thus, if we enter controlled by the right wing and the left leg out, reading tuition will also take place and may be fined either.
- It is also infringement, mild in this case, Circular below 50 percent of the set speed, so we may fine too.
- Cameras infrared reading They can work equally at night or in low light conditions, the flash being unnecessary.
- Unlike conventional radar, these They have no margin for error, so they are much more reliable.
- However, like conventional radar, the stretch They are marked with the same signal, with the only change that point 'Speed control section'.
- These radars section They have to meet a series conditions: changes have no speed limits, no inputs or outputs during the kilometers stretch control.
سكودا رابيد وSpaceback 2017: حاولنا!
Domande: Quanta acqua è quello di portare il serbatoio lavavetri?
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Kroger Technology seeks a self-directed IT intern with a passion for technology, collaboration, and creative problem-solving. The intern will actively contribute to meaningful projects and work closely with a mentor and with senior leadership. The internship will rotate assignments within the Kroger Heath & Wellness technical teams including support, engineering, business intelligence, and applications.
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Vail is packed with enough festivals and events to keep you going throughout the summer. Be sure to book your Vail Hotel early for Winter Promotional discounts up to 35% off.
Rocking in the winter season right with the biggest Snow Daze yet. Dance the night away at Ford Park with a stellar lineup of bands featuring Grammy-winning alternative rockers The Wallflowers; Willie Nelson's rocker son Lukas Nelson & his band P.O.T.R ; Rusted Root and alternative rock masters 10,000 Maniacs. This all-ages outdoor event is fun for the whole family so the kids can rock out too. Add a 3-Concert Pass to lift and hotel package and enjoy the excellent live tunes as the perfect aprés-ski for your Vail vacation. Try out some new gear while you're at it, with brand expos and product samples from event sponsors throughout the resort. Special after-dark parties throughout the village will keep the celebration pumping all week.
Decimo nightclub returns to its iconic locaiton at the top of Gondola One in Vail Village. Experience high altitude partying like nowhere else on Earth. Exceptional service VIP tables and bottle service accompany the world class entertainment at Decimo. Learn more at the Decimon website.
The 11th Annual Vail Film Festival includes film screenings, discussions, music, galas and parties, and a filmmaker reception. Organized and run by the Colorado Film Institute, the Vail Film Festival is a four day event that is attended by thousands of industry experts, movie makers, and fans of creative and unique cinema.
In its 24th year, the Taste of Vail is the nation's premier spring food and wine festival, held at several venues throughout North America's favorite ski resort. During the annual three-day event, upwards of 5,000 people are able to "taste the Vail Valley lifestyle" which showcases Vail's world-famous resort village set against dramatic mountain vistas. Participants at the Taste of Vail experience the Vail Valley's world-class restaurants, fine wine poured by winemakers and winery owners from top wineries around the globe, along with interactive seminars, auction and dance, the Colorado Lamb Cook Off, apres ski tasting and the popular mountaintop picnic sensory extravaganza at the top of Vail Mountain. We hope you join us to enjoy this year's Taste of Vail!
* While me make effort to ensure these event dates are correct, actual event dates are subject to change without notice. Please plan accordingly.
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A well deserved ode to the tjoerie. The what?!? The tjoerie, which is the Surinamese word for what is know in the French West Indies als 'le tchip' and in the English speaking part of the Caribbean as 'kiss-teeth'.
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This second edition of the renownedCultural Theory provides a systematic and accessible introduction to cultural theory, encapsulating a usually complex field in a concise and balanced overview.
This fully revised and expanded second edition provides a comprehensive tour of the major figures, themes, and debates in cultural theory, from Durkheim and Weber through to Foucault and Butler, and from charisma to consumption, but also introduces entirely new chapters on race and gender theory, and the body. Other new material includes treatments of thinkers such as Nietzsche, DuBois, and Eagleton, and considers important contemporary themes, including virtual reality and cosmopolitanism.
Internationally respected by students and teachers alike, the first edition of Cultural Theory has been translated into several languages and became legendary on campuses worldwide. This new, restructured edition, packed with special features for students and accompanied by a website, promises to be the most authoritative text of its kind.
Preface to the First Edition: About this Book.
Introduction: What is Culture? What is Cultural Theory?
1 Culture in Classical Social Theory.
2 Culture and Social Integration in the Work of Talcott Parsons.
3 Culture as Ideology in Western Marxism.
4 Culture as Action in Symbolic Interactionism, Phenomenology, and Ethnomethodology.
5 The Durkheimians: Ritual, Classification, and the Sacred.
6 Structuralism and the Semiotic Analysis of Culture.
8 Culture, Structure, and Agency: Three Attempts at Synthesis.
10 The Production and Reception of Culture.
11 Culture as Text: Narrative and Hermeneutics.
12 Psychoanalytic Approaches to Culture and the Self.
13 The Cultural Analysis of Postmodernism and Postmodernity.
14 Postmodern and Poststructural Critical Theory.
15 Cultural Theories of Race and Gender.
16 The Body in Cultural Theory.
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Nike unloads a new colorway in the brand’s Air Max 1 for Fall 2011. Featuring a suede and canvas upper, the kicks sport a pretty simple makeup, with smoke highlights and white midsoles adding some contrast. Nothing groundbreaking or over-the-top, this latest release is just another classic drop from the swoosh. Look for them now through select Nike accounts worldwide, including the afew Store.
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Shelley Zimmerman has joined AwesomenessTV in the newly created role of Head of Scripted Series, the company has announced. She’ll head up development and production of original scripted series for AwesomenessTV’s television network and SVOD service partners. The company also announced that Shauna Phelan will continue overseeing development and production for scripted and unscripted series on AwesomenessTV.
Prior to joining AwesomenessTV, Zimmerman served as Senior Vice President of Scripted Programming for Warner Horizon, where she expanded the studio’s roster of scripted series to a diverse group of networks including Pretty Little Liars on ABC Family, Netflix’s Longmire, TNT’s Dallas and TNT’s Rizzoli And Isles. Before Warner Horizon, Zimmerman was President of Television Development at Tollin/Robbins Productions, where she produced and developed Smallville, One Tree Hill and What I Like About You.
AwesomenessTV’s sketch series AwesomenessTV aired on Nickelodeon and it currently has Richie Rich and Project MC² on Netflix. It also has an original development and production agreement with DHX Media for programming to run on Family Channel in Canada. It’s owned by DreamWorks Animation and Hearst Corporation, and includes under its banner the Youtube channel, the ATV network, DreamWorksTV, Awestruck, Awesomeness Films, Big Frame, and various consumer, publishing, music and branded entertainment operations.
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Let’s now look at some of the more popular agencies in Tanzania, what they do and who they serve.
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· Client roster: Vodacom Tanzania, Tanzania Breweries Limited (TBL), Raha, etc.
2. Ogilvy Tanzania – Tanzanian arm of Ogilvy Africa (under Scangroup Kenya). Other Scangroup subsidiaries include Scanad and Squad Digital. Ogilvy Tanzania is one of the most reputable agencies in East Africa. Like AIM Group, their scope of services covers Social media engagement, print, creative and digital services. They serve some of Serengeti Breweries Limited’s beer brands, the National Bank of Commerce (NBC), Airtel Tanzania (managed by Ogilvy Africa out of Nairobi), Coca-Cola East Africa etc.
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4. Popote Media – While they occasionally take on digital and print, Popote primarily provide social media community building, management and engagement services. Popote’s clients include Heineken Tanzania.
5. PinPoint Africa Media – PinPoint Africa Media’s scope of service is limited to digital media. However, they also provide website development services as well as social media training. With media planning of the highest level, PinPoint is the first and only certified Google partner in Tanzania. Their roster includes Tigo Tanzania, Serengeti Breweries Limited (SBL), Fastjet Tanzania Limited and Precision Air Services plc.
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Instead of posting the same / similar stuff, post a link to your old comment, and explain why you think that old comment is relevant.
This is a big rule, because a lot of people think it's somehow okay to write anti-immigrant, anti-Mexican garbage. It's not.
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Well, if you uphold all these ridiculous rules, every single fundy will never be able to post.Every obama basher, every person against gay marriage, evolution, etc.
[quote="Gregg B the 2nd"]Well, if you uphold all these ridiculous rules, every single fundy will never be able to post.Every obama basher, every person against gay marriage, evolution, etc.
Actually they still post and everyone that responds to them gets their post removed. A poster broke every rule in response to my post and when I called him out for it using some demeaning terms, my post was removed and his stayed.
IF you have going to remove one post, all posts should be removed.
Sometimes the conversation drifts from the topic at hand. This is not always bad.
GoodGrief wrote: Sometimes the conversation drifts from the topic at hand. This is not always bad.
I think that should be in anyway.. However, sometimes the topic strays and several people are involved in going off-topic. It's usually a gradual thing, where successive posts stray a little more off topic, but each is relevant in the context of the previous comments. If that makes any sense..
* One that has little or nothing to do with the subject of the article.
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* One that could easily be addressed with a personal message to another user.
I have found in my experience here and in my life, that conversations can take us to new places, if they are allowed to unfold organically. Staying "on topic" can become quite oppressive and impersonal when enforced literally.
When things segue off topic, it can be an exploration of what is personal to those involved in the topic at hand.
I consider such things valuable and worth supporting.
What's going on with the thubs? It appears to me on the articles that there's only thumb's up now, but there are still recent comments with negative ratings?
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This is a big rule, because a lot of people think it's somehow okay to write anti-immigrant, anti-Mexican garbage. It's not. Go be angry / hateful in private.
The biggest threat to free speech in the U.S. currently is private restrictions on free speech as opposed to govenrment restrictions, which is very disconcerting seeing as newspapers often hold up the banner of free speech as a claim to their importance/existence. It seems to me that many of the other ground rules have roots in accepted and tested (as in legally) media law. This one seems to me to be very subjective. It would be great if everyone had equal empathy, but does a newspaper really want to start down that slope? If it's defamation as covered by law, that's one thing, if it's "offensive," I guess on your site, that's your call, but it's my call to stop using/visiting the site. But it seems to me ther's just as much anti-European or anti-male "garbage" on your site as anything else.
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It certainly is something... unless all these are critics of MBS, that is.
What is the Saudi version of Arkancide called?
Riyacide, perhaps? Or, wait, no, Meccacide has a better ring to it. But don't tell anyone. I'm not getting droned over a word.
If the 17 Saudi Arabian officers targeted by he sanctions are among the 21 in custody in KSA I don't see how American citizens could engage in business with them... So these sanctions have no real effect.
According to the Washington Post, the CIA has concluded that MBS ordered the killing and the agency has passed that assessment on to lawmakers and Trump administration officials. The State Department reacted to this news insisting that the U.S. had not yet reached a determination regarding the death of Khashoggi, and that “numerous unanswered questions” remained. Trump said "as of this moment we were told that he did not play a role. We're going to have to find out what they have to say." And John Bolton told reporters "I have not listened to the tape myself, but in the assessment of those who have listened to it, it does not, in any way, link the crown prince to the killing,"
Kirsten Fontenrose, the top White House official responsible for American policy toward Saudi Arabia resigned on Friday evening, a move that may suggest fractures inside the Trump administration. She had pushed for tough measures against the Saudi government, and had been in Riyadh to discuss a raft of sanctions that the American government imposed in recent days against those identified as responsible for the killing. When she returned to Washington, she had a dispute with her bosses (Bolton?) at the National Security Council, where she had served as the director for the Persian Gulf region.
Republican Senator Bob Corker, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was less cautious on the role of MBS : "The intel that I’m aware of points to MBS. There’s no smoking gun, but I don’t think there’s any question that he directed it, knew it. And we’ve got to figure out a way to cause (the Saudis) to pay a price. I see tremendous negative feelings (in Congress) toward Saudi Arabia right now,"
Several other lawmakers are pushing for dramatic action against Saudi Arabia, including ceasing all arms sales to the kingdom and defunding the U.S. war effort in Yemen. Corker suggested those proposals could pass in the current climate, particularly if Trump was not forthcoming.
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I read on facebook that January 25, 2019 is "Model Car Day".
First I knew about it........And its almost to late. Oh well, wait till next year.
Yes this has just popped up on here and it's the 26th. Put it on the callendar/diary.
EVERY DAY IS MODEL CAR DAY.NOW IF THEY ONLY CAN MAKE MORE 4 DOORS.
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NOTES: Calling "pe-ent" in flight and giving display dives intermittently Flying over a bench area NW of Town (bench? mf) Also: lark sparrow, western meadowlark call and song, reflector. Q 2.
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Billionaire Carl Icahn is closing the Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resorts in Atlantic City, N.J. after deciding to cut his losses in the money losing casino due to a failure to reach a labor deal with its thousands of unionized workers. Members of the UNITE Here Local 54 union had been on strike for 102 days amid contract negotiations.
Twenty six years ago, Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump opened the doors on Taj Mahal, then the most expensive piece of his gaming investments in Atlantic City. However, Taj Mahal and Trump's other casinos such as the Trump Plaza have endured chronic declines and restructurings as the region failed to live up to its hype as an alternate gaming hub to Las Vegas.
Icahn, a close friend of Trump and a supporter of his Presidential bid, bought the Taj Mahal and other Trump properties out of bankruptcy in 2014. Since then, Icahn and thousands of local union workers were engaged in negotiating a new labor deal, with items such as healthcare and a funding of pension benefits as most important.
However, in a Monday statement, Icahn said he and the union were at an impasse. The billionaire, who's famed on Wall Street for agitating corporate management change and restructurings, says he lost almost $350 million on his Taj Mahal investment and was looking stem the money bleeding. "Today is a sad day for Atlantic City. Despite our best efforts, which included losing almost $350 million over just a few short years, we were unable to save the Taj Mahal," Icahn said.
In addition to Taj Mahal, Carl Icahn's holding company, Icahn Enterprises, owns casinos in Indiana, Nevada, Mississippi, Missouri and Aruba through Tropicana Entertainment. As of June 30, the gaming segment of Icahn Enterprises generated $888 million in revenues, adjusted EBITDA of $146 million and net profits of $36 million. Icahn Enterprises, which has fallen 21% excluding dividends in 2016, consolidated the Trump Taj Mahal into its financial statements in the first quarter of this year.
"I am extremely grateful to all of the almost 3,000 employees for their hard work, especially those that stayed loyal to us during this trying period. After our last offer, which included medical, was rejected, it was simply impossible to find a workable path forward that would not have required funding additional investments and losses in excess of $100 million over the next year. Like many of the employees at the Taj Mahal, I wish things had turned out differently," he added.
The shuttering of the Taj Mahal marks the fifth such closure in Atlantic City over the past two years and it comes as hopes of a revival of the coastal gaming and resort town dim. Roughly 3,000 workers will lose their jobs, adding to the over 11,000 jobs lost in the Atlantic City gaming market over the past two years.
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The real trick to this one is to just go slow as there isn't a timer. I found stopping ~10 yards before the drone and mashing the accelarator as the flames died down with Jeremy and Richard worked well, James gave me some trouble with the last U before the tunnel. I wound up setting myself up straight across the apex, and as soon as flames looked like they were dying down, mashing it got me through.
There are currently no gaming sessions for the Fire Breaker achievements that you can join - why not register and make a new session?
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