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This weekend's Swell Music & Arts Festival on Arranmore coincides with the beginning of the 41st annual Burtonport Festival.
Parking will therefore be limited in the pier area and car park and some areas will be closed due to ongoing festival proceedings.
We recommend that patrons attending our festival try to arrive in Burtonport as early as possible to find suitable and safe parking for your motor vehicle.
Please respect the Burtonport community and do not leave your vehicle in a location that may cause an obstruction to local traffic.
We would like to take this opportunity to wish the organisers of the Burtonport Festival (July 21 to 29) all the very best for their annual week-long festivities.
For anyone interested in attending this year's Swell Music & Arts Festival that full weekend and day passes are selling very, very fast and we are nearing full capacity. So be sure to purchase your tickets as soon as possible!
There are also important details you need to know about the ferries here. Thank you all for your continued support, we look forward to seeing you at this year's Swell Music & Arts Festival! It's going to be an amazing weekend!


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I bought this dress back in the spring at Goodwill but never took the time to refashion it. And I'm so glad I waited, because now I can use it for a maternity dress! Here are some before and after pics and a brief description of what I did.
Refashion Details:
I Began by separating the skirt part from the top with a seam ripper . I then took the top in on the sides and brought it up at the shoulders. The dress form helped a lot with that! I then measured, resized, and resewed the skirt at the side seams and shorted the back, doing a rolled hem stitch at the hem so it matched all around. I basted the front flap over the other front flap of the skirt to hold it together. I then resewed in the elastic to the skirt and sewed the top and skirt back together. I then topstitched on the bottom side of the elastic to hold down the seam allowance and also make it look more professional.

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Your roof is one of the most important parts of your home, and that's why it's so important to take good care of it. If you've been noticing a leak coming from any area, then patching is going to be absolutely necessary. This is something you shouldn't wait on, because if you do, you could end up with a black mold problem that puts your health at risk. The good news is that a local roofer can help you with roof patching, and will be able to do it properly so that you end up with a roof that you can trust to keep you safe and dry!
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Finding where a leak is coming from can be impossible, especially when it's on your roof. Just because the water is coming from one area that doesn't necessarily mean that the hole is in that exact spot. The hole could actually be quite far away, and that could mean not knowing where the patch actually needs to go. A local roofer will be able to help you find the actual leak, because they will have the experience that is necessary to do so.
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Installing a patch isn't as simple as it may sound, especially when you're on a roof several feet up in the air. This won't post as a challenge for a professional, because they will have the experience necessary to do a patch just about anywhere. In addition to this, they will also have the tools that are required to do the patches the right way. The good news is that once this is finished, you will have a patch that is safe and secure so that no more water gets through the area. This can prevent a lot of water damage, and ensure that the growth of black mold is not going to happen.


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A Pay Loader truck yesterday fell off the Berger Bridge in Lagos and landed on two cars.
It was gathered that the two cars were damaged in the accident, which happened around 9am.
The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) and the Lagos State Emergency Management Authority Response Unit (LRU) were at the scene.
According to The Nation, a LASTMA official said he heard of the incident on Traffic Radio around 9am and immediately ordered the officials close to the scene to go there.
"The information I have regarding the accident is that the Pay Loader entered from the bridge and fell. The LRU came to the scene for rescue but it could not, so it left because it could not lift the Pay Loader because it was heavy. The accident did not cause traffic. Nobody died."
Another LASTMA official said he was ordered by his boss to go to the scene.
"I was told that it was caused by break failure, although I did not see any sign of brake failure. I did not see nor heard that anybody died or was injured."
A passerby, Yinka injured his hand while assisting a motorist to pull out what hooked the door of the car. "He injured in his hand and was bleeding. He left the scene," an eyewitness said.


text: A man reading a coke bottle in San Juan Teotihuacán, Mexico. Jordan Crawford/Unsplash July 12, 2019 How heat waves increase your craving for sodas: findings from Mexico Lisa Oberlander, Paris School of Economics – École d'économie de Paris and Ximena Játiva, University of Fribourg New research indicates that rising temperatures can push those who prefer sweets to drink more sugary beverages, not water. This has significant implications for public-health policy.


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Miz Scarlet and the Vanishing Visitor (A Scarlet Wilson Mystery #2)
by Sara M. Barton
Series: A Scarlet Wilson Mystery (#2)
Published: 03 Oct 2013
A pleasant night in Bay Head, NJ, unexpectedly turns dangerous as Scarlet Wilson heads for home after a delightful weekend at the Jersey Shore with boyfriend Kenny "Captain Peacock" Tolliver. A terrif... more info
Antiques & Avarice
by Jane Firebaugh
Series: White Mountains Romantic Mysteries (#1)
Published: 24 Nov 2015
Olivia McKenna is a young woman with a passion for antiques and a penchant for mystery. Owning her own little antique finding business is just enough to keep her and her Golden Retriever, Molly fed, h... more info
Miz Scarlet and the Holiday Houseguests (A Scarlet Wilson Mystery #3)
by Sara M. Barton
Series: A Scarlet Wilson Mystery (#3)
Published: 02 Dec 2013
The time-honored Red Sox versus Yankees rivalry...bitter, divorced parents who can't stop bickering...a challenging teenage daughter who questions everything her mother tells her....These are the leas... more info
Miz Scarlet and the Bewildered Bridegroom (A Scarlet Wilson Mystery #4)
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Series: A Scarlet Wilson Mystery (#4)
Published: 27 Feb 2015
When innkeeper Scarlet Wilson is asked to host Annalee Pinault and Gunnar Magnusdotter's nuptials at the Four Acorns Inn, she never expects it to start a war of matrimonial madness. Three senior citiz... more info
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Granny is at it again! When Granny accompanies her friend Mavis to the Next To The Last Resting Place nursing home to visit Mavis' sister, Beulah, both women are shocked to find the new resident dead.... more info
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Jezabelle Jingle and her neighbors in the Penderghast section of Brilliant, Minnesota, have a mystery on their hands.Someone is stealing sections of hardwood floors in their homes and the thefts may b... more info
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Scarlet Wilson's love life keeps tanking, no matter what she does. It's pretty sad when the elderly ladies at the inn have a better romantic life than the forty-something innkeeper. Is she cursed when... more info
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Town of Chapel Hill, NCHome Menu
Strategic Plan
The Chapel Hill Police Department is committed to strengthening its relationship with the residents of Chapel Hill in order to enhance the quality of life in our community.
In the winter of 2010, the Police Department began the first step toward the development of a comprehensive strategic plan. A series of community input sessions were held in partnership with the Justice in Action committee. These sessions were designed to gather input from the community on their expectations and desires for the Police Department. Additionally, the police department held a series of internal meetings to gather input from its employees.
Six common themes were identified from these internal and external input sessions:
- Customer Service
- Visibility
- Transparency of Policies
- Accountability
- Communication
- Technology and Online Resources
Police Department employees with varying levels of experience and work assignments were chosen to serve on the strategic planning committee. The committee was charged with developing a strategic plan that reflects the basic premises of community policing. The committee developed new mission and vision statements for the Chapel Hill Police Department that will help us fulfilling the expectations of our community.
The committee developed five goals that are measurable and representative of community and employee input:
- Foster a relationship of mutual trust through consistent, honest, and timely customer service.
- Provide a professional and nurturing work environment that promotes accountability through fair and consistent treatment of our employees.
- Reduce crime through a strategic and data-driven partnership with our stakeholders through prevention, accountability and enforcement.
- Build relationships within our community that enhance the sense of security through problem-solving, visibility, and education.
- Promote vehicular, bicycle, and pedestrian safety through education and enforcement.
Click each of the five goals to learn more about the goal and to see what the Chapel Hill Police Department has accomplished so far.
The committee developed strategies for each of the goal and prioritized them based on need and scope. The strategies were broken down into immediate, middle, and long term.
After identifying the immediate strategies, employees were tasked with developing action plans to assist in the implementation of strategies. Many of these strategies have been implemented and others are near implementation. The middle priority strategies have been assigned to departmental units for development and are currently either in progress or under review by the committee.
The Strategic Planning Committee recently held another series of public input sessions showcase our progress and to solicit community input on our efforts so far. Again, these meetings were held in partnership with the Justice in Action Committee. Comments from these sessions will be compiled by Justice in Action and our Strategic Planning Committee will use them to make any necessary adjustments to the plan.
Our strategic plan will evolve as the needs and desires of the community and the police department change. We are committed to this plan's success and we look forward to future opportunities for community input.


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Hi @MarcoFargetta_0c9b1 @brucellino
Users who authenticated via TERNET IDP to access federated services are facing login problem, so far when you try to login at https://sgw.africa-grid.org/ you will get an error saying "Login has failed. Double-check your username and password"
But we are able to login at our IDP https://idp.ternet.or.tz/login with no problem.
Just for information, it seems like this happened after full registration of our IDP last week but not sure as longer as before the full registration process we were able to access those services.
Any assistant will be appreciated.
I've managed to reproduce the problem - I can log into the IDPPublic web frontend to the IDP, but I can't use that identity to log into the AfricaGrid Science Gateway.
I've solved the problem - but before I describe the solution, let me explain how I understood what the problem was.
The fact that you couldn't log into the science gateway using this IdP, but could log into the web front end itself, showed that the communication between the IdP host and the ldap host themselves was ok. There was no problem with the authentication and management of users using the web front end (IDPPublic), however, the shibboleth idp is a different process and is configured in a different way.
The IDPPublic configuration of how to talk to a backend identity store is done using the file {{ tomcat6_webapps }}/ROOT/classes/ldap.properties. -
{{ tomcat6_webapps }}/ROOT/classes/ldap.properties
Note :
- name: Fix ldap server
dest: "{{ ansible_env.HOME }}/idpFrontEnd/IDPPublic-{{ IDPPublic_release }}/src/java/ldap.properties"
regexp: '^url=ldaps://ldap.sagrid.ac.za:636$'
replace: 'url=ldap://{{ ldap_server }}:389'
- customise
(This task was written a while ago and should probably be replaced with a template)
However, the Shibboleth-idp is configured to talk to the ldap in {{ shibboleth_install_path }} (also defined in group_vars/<ansible_os_family :
{{ shibboleth_install_path }}
- name: Configure the Login module
become: true
src: login.config.j2
dest: "{{ shibboleth_install_path }}/conf/login.config"
owner: "{{ tomcat6_user }}"
group: root
notify: restart tomcat
(see https://github.com/AAROC/DevOps/blob/master/Ansible/roles/shibboleth-idp/templates/login.config.j2)
So - the configuration at TERNET had an incorrect userFilter in the login.config file
< userFilter="(&(cn={0})(memberOf=cn=Users,ou=Group,dc=admin,ou=Services,dc=local))";
> userFilter="(&(cn={0})(memberOf=cn=Users,ou=Group,dc=idp,ou=Services,dc=local))";
The users are in the idp group, not in the admin group, which is why they were not being found in the ldap tree.
@brucellinoThanks very much for describing what was the problem and the solution in place.Rgds,


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The World Confederation of Business (WORLDCOB) has conferred a Corporate Social Responsibility consciousness award on Kanshipp Ghana limited, a Ghanaian maritime firm for providing quality service to its clientele.
Kanshipp Ghana's effort was recently recognized and awarded in similar fashion as the "Best Socially Responsible Company of the year 2017 at the Ghana Maritime and Shipping Awards.
The Director of International Relations of WORLDCOB, Nicholas Caffaro who presented the award to Kanshipp urged businesses to prioritise quality service delivery to their clients in order to distinguished themselves from others and become excellent among the many companies around.
He commended Kanshipp for exhibiting excellence in its customer care delivery whiles urging them to do more.
According to him in the current business world of competition, excellent quality service delivery to customers is the only panacea to stay ahead of the competition.
The World Confederation of Business operates in all continents with more than 3000 companies and is aimed at certifying companies which are CSR sensitive in their operational areas.
Mr Caffaro commended Kanshipp Ghana whiles urging the company to continue improving with greater challenge in order to reach higher heights in the coming years.
On behalf of WORLDCOB, he also presented certificates to some staff for their dedication to duty.
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Kanshipp Ghana ltd, Mr Seth Effah Hills expressed gratitude to WORLDCOB for the recognition and said the award will inspire his outfit to go higher in providing service in the maritime industry.
He expressed delight that the company's efforts have been acknowledged but will not relent in working hard in freight forwarding industry.
The award he said is a manifestation of the good quality of service it offers its customers and resort in the year under review.
On behalf of players in the Maritime industry, Mr Effah appealed to the government to ensure that enough education is conducted on any policy decision affecting the Industry in order to derive maximum benefit.
According to him, Kanshipp Ghana limited is taking advantage of the In-land Port at Boankrah to enhance its business operations in the middle and Northern belts of the country.
He also commended the paperless port operations system which he said has eased doing business.
Kanshipp Ghana is a wholly Ghanaian own shipping company established some twenty years ago and operates as a logistics and clearance entity.


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Well this seems like a true question for Rochester support, however you could make the RPG program get called within a CL and the monitor for the error such that you loop back up and call the RPG program again.
On the other hand when we dealt with extensive calls to other programs especially for processes that were called from web based applications we made extensive use of the RPG exception/error handling routines. Java also has exception handling routines. The java processes need to be defined as procedures such that their exception/error routines pass back error information to the calling program this allows you start a new instance of the java procedure when necessary. The people at Rochester support can direct you to some good white papers and some redbooks dealing with the subject.
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One Marylebone, 1 Marylebone Road, London, NW1 4AQ
Cocktails in the City is back for fifth year, touring around the country and bringing the best of each city's cocktail offering under one roof.
Kicking off in London with its spring edition this month, the three-day residency will see 25 bars (including international offerings) take over Grade I listed, former church One Marylebone from 30 March to 1 April.
Keeping up with this year's growing health trend of healthy alternatives and natural ingredients, the event will see bars embrace in-house infusions and homemade ingredients, with natural flavours and a 'drink your greens' theme featuring.
The event will also see the return of retro mixers and drink and a Hygge cocktail takeover, with Woodford Reserve flying over three international bars from Oslo, Copenhagen and Stockholm.
The full list of bars is as followed:
100 Hoxton & Bulldog Gin
214 Bermondsey & Bermondsey Tonic Water
Artesian & Glenfiddich IPA
Barts & Maker's Mark
Blue Bar at Berkeley & Bombay Sapphire
Burlock & Doorly's 5yr
Cahoots & Jim Beam
Double Oak Chapter 72 & Tia Maria
Disrepute & Hennessy Cognac
Gaucho & Stolichnaya Premium Vodka
Himkok (Oslo) & Woodford Reserve
Hush & Nomad Whisky
Linje Tio (Stockholm) & Woodford Reserve
London Cocktail Club & Tequila Rose
Monkey Shoulder Dinky Disco & Monkey Shoulder Whisky
Reverend JW Simpson & Angosturo Amaro
Ruby (Copenhagen) & Woodford Reserve
The Four Sisters Townhouse & Southern Comfort
The Hide Bar & Campari
The Lucky Pig & Lanique
The Walrus Room & Bols Genever
Three Six Six & Brockman's Gin
Trader Vic's & Pommery Champagne
Vesper Bar (Berlin) & Sash & Fritz – Deutscher Wodka
Whiskey Ginger & Jameson Irish Whiskey
The event takes place from Thursday 30 March to Saturday 1 April, from 6-11:30pm.
Tickets are priced at £15 (including a cocktail), and can be purchased via the Cocktails in the City website.


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PRAGUE, May 3. /TASS/. Small amounts of the Novichok nerve agent were produced and stored in the Czech Republic, President Milos Zeman told Prague-based Barrandov television on Thursday.
"We did produce and store Novichok, though in insignificant amounts. We know where and when. Let us not be hypocritical. We should not lie about this," the president said.
The head of state recently ordered the Czech Security Information Service (counterintelligence) to see if the type of the nerve agent used in the Salisbury poisoning could have been made in the Czech Republic. On March 17 Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on the Rossiya-24 television news channel that the nerve gas Britain was referring to as Novichok "most likely came from the countries that had been conducting intensive research into this group of chemicals since the late 1990s - Britain, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Sweden.
"Last year, in November, A-230 chemical was tested at the Defense Ministry's research institute in the city of Brno. Its amount was insignificant. After the testing, it was [fully] destroyed," Zeman said.
According to the Czech military intelligence, this substance is of the Norochok family. Milos Zeman agrees with the findings of the military intelligence.
Meanwhile, he sees nothing scandalous in the fact that insignificant amounts of a Novichok-type agent were produced and stored in the republic. "We have an excellent chemical defense unit, and it needs to study [toxic agents] to counteract them," the president said.
Salisbury poisoning
On March 4, Sergei Skripal, who had been convicted in Russia of spying for Great Britain and later swapped for Russian intelligence officers, and his daughter Yulia suffered the effects of an alleged nerve agent in the British city of Salisbury. Claiming that the substance used in the attack had been a Novichok-class nerve agent developed in the Soviet Union, London rushed to accuse Russia of being involved in the incident. Moscow rejected all of the United Kingdom's accusations, saying that a program aimed at developing such a substance had existed neither in the Soviet Union nor in Russia.


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|June 16, 2009 12:00 PM EDT
Turkish Riviera, the Turquoise Coast Magazine
Every year gulet (wooden yachts) owners and Bodrum's "blue voyage" tourism industry bring tens of thousands of tourists to Aquarium and other local spots by boat.
And every year tourists enjoy the same garbage and litter mountains which were left behind by animals (I can't call them human beings) on the shore.
Here are my questions:
1) Where is the mayor of Bodrum, and what is he doing? http://www.bodrum.bel.tr.
The mayor's name apparently is Mehmet Kocadon. Well he is directly responsible from this embarrassing picture.
2) What is the gulet owners association doing? I understand they are broke and barely pay their bills but they are part of the big picture here.
3) Is there a tourism organization in town? What are they doing?
In short this picture shows how primitive the concept of "tourism" is in Turkey and a hot destination such as Bodrum is of course part of this culture, or the lack of it.
If the mayor of Bodrum were a Japanese mayor he would kill himself with shame, but he is a Turk after all and I can assure you after reading this, he won't even understand what the problem is.
The problem is, as the mayor, he needs get in to one of those gulets,a nd clean up the garbage with his own hands.
His job is not to look prety with his waxed hair and take pictures and add new pages to the official city website photo album.
What is wrong with these people? If he is so much in love with himself, then he needs to post his photos as he is cleaning the city he is in charge of.
It is a cultural thing and the subject is a "non issue" in primitive societies such as this tourism destination in Bodrum.
Turks and the captains of these tourist gulets will never get it. If they did, tourists would not be taking pictures of these garbage piles in shock.
Next time I am in town will I take the picture of an even bigger and much expanded garbage mountain in Aquarium, and of course many other tourist destinations?
Here is where the mayor of Bodrum sends a message to the residents of Bodrum, which is a blank page. Doesn't he have anything to say? Or he could not find more briyantin photos of himself to add to this page?
To be fair to the mayor, after cleaning up his city's major tourist spots, he should send us the pictures of his work, and we will happily post the before and after photos to his credit.
Deal, Mr. Mayor? Yes, deal!
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The 3rd Future of Education Congress and the Expo of Technologies & Equipment for Education held on 3 and 4 October in Targi Kielce
One of Poland's most important autumn educational events is held at Targi Kielce. The Future of Education Congress held for the first time is a part of the third edition Expo of Technologies & Equipment for Education. The event has been designed is to promote innovation and creativity at schools and educational institutions as well as to raise awareness regarding vocational education.
The first day of the Congress is held under the banner of" Creative and Innovation Education. The Kielce exhibition and congress centre is the platform for exchanging experiences as this is a meeting point for experts, pedagogues, educators and practitioners from all over Poland.
The two days' event in the Targi Kielce Congress Centre includes over 20 knowledge-packed lectures and presentations delivered by education specialists from Poland and abroad.
Students' creativity and innovativeness, vocational education based on close cooperation with employers and students and teachers' digital competences development are the state's education policy implementation directions for the school year 2018/2019. Thus the Future of Education Congress perfectly goes in line with these issues and developments.
The importance of the project is confirmed with Honorary Patronages granted by the: Minister of National Education - Anna Zalewska, the Świętokrzyskie Voievodship Marshal - Adam Jarubas PhD., the Świętokrzyskie Province Voivode - Agata Wojtyszek, the City of Kielce Mayor - Wojciech Lubawski.
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BOSTON – Officials are scheduled to gather at noon on Tuesday for a public event at the UMass Club, 225 Franklin St., Boston, to introduce the new Northeast Climate Science Center at the University of Massachusetts. The Amherst-based center was established last year to focus on how climate change affects ecosystems, wildlife, water and other resources
In October 2011, the federal government awarded a $7.5 million grant to the University of Massachusetts to create the Northeast Climate Science Center, which will study how climate change affects ecosystems, wildlife, water, and other resources from Maine to Missouri. The Amherst center is among eight national climate centers created to study the effects of climate change.
Today's session in Boston is expected to include information about the initiative and will feature various special guests, including state Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Richard Sullivan, state Commissioner of Energy Resources Mark Sylvia, among others.
UMass officials expected to attend include Richard Palmer, Curt Griffin and Raymond Bradley, all professors at the Amherst campus who will serve as climate investigators for the project. Palmer is head of civil and environmental engineering at UMass, Bradley is director of the Climate System Research Center and Griffin is professor of wildlife ecology and conservation and co-director of the university's environmental sciences program.
The five-year grant will sponsor research at UMass-Amherst as well as at institutions in Wisconsin, Minnesota, New York and Massachusetts.


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Image of the feature "Doorways: N transept interior, NE stair turret doorway" at Ely.
by Ron Baxter.
Single order, segmental headed with tympanum and roll corbels. This narrow doorway has plain jambs with roll corbels supporting a tympanum, all in the same plane. The monolithic tympanum is segmental and carved with an order of plain fictive voussoirs, indicated by inscribed lines, outside a segment carved with scale ornament. It is supported on a pair of roll corbels, carved on their front faces with fluted sexfoils, and along their bodies with single, nested chevrons, alternately roll and hollow.
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|thickness of tympanum
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|w of opening
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I'm sorry for the unintentional vacation from this blog. I went on vacation and… decided to stay on vacation for a bit. I have a lot of pretty photos to share soon.
But first, I wanted to share a few good things that have happened.
The Washington Post's Capital Weather Gang has published a couple of my photographs:
"Mossy Tree," illustrating "D.C.-area forecast: Rain relents today, but more coming"
"Daisy," illustrating "Summer hasn't really yet arrived in D.C., with more springlike weather over the next week."
And I'm pleased to announce that I'm runner-up in the Free Verse category of the 4th Annual Rhyme On Poetry Contest. I believe there will be a book published soon, and I'll share more information about that later.
I hope your summer is going well. Mine is going better than I ever would have imagined.


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At first, I didn't care Google Blog Search wasn't listing TMC's blogs, since I didn't think anyone really used Google Blog Search. But Rich Tehrani, my boss forwarded me an article saying how referral traffic from Google Blog Search was growing and he wanted me to try and figure out why Google removed us from Google Blog Search. So I went to Google Blog Search "About page" to see if I could figure out why. The first thing I wanted to determine is what Google considers a "blog".
According to the Google page, it says:
"Which blogs are included in Blog Search?
The goal of Blog Search is to include every blog that publishes a site feed (either RSS or Atom). It is not restricted to Blogger blogs, or blogs from any other service
It certainly seems like blogs on the blog.tmcnet.com domain fit this description. So the next question is if you are running a legit blog, what is the proper way of getting listed on Google Blog Search? The answer according to Google is, "If your blog publishes a site feed in any format and automatically pings an updating service (such as Google Blog Search Pinging Service), we should be able to find and list it. Also, we will soon be providing a form that you can use to manually add your blog to our index, in case we haven't picked it up automatically. Stay tuned for more information on this." Great, all you need is a feed (RSS).
I see a Wiki (not a blog) http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/ listed on Google Blog Search. It's a Wiki - how is that a blog? I also see EETimes, a CMP publication which is clearly not a blog, so Google doesn't seem to be very stringent in their requirements. Seems like anyone with an RSS feed can get on Google Blog Search.
According to Google, the link to ping is http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2, however I was already pinging http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2 since this was already added to my Movable Type configuration. At a loss as to what to do next, I decided to contact Google Blog Search using the email address they published online.I knew this was a shot in the dark at best, since sometimes Google responds, and sometimes they don't. I can't entirely blame Google since they must get thousands of requests each day from people complaining about everything from being delisted to lower rankings, etc. Still, TMCNet.com is a very respected web domain with a ~3000 Alexa ranking, so perhaps Google would respond to my query.
They've responded to me a few times in the past, but I have to say, they seem to have gotten worse over time. In any case, I wrote to Google using the contact info from the About page and didn't hear anything back. I waited a month and emailed them again - still no response. I tried a third time - still no dice. What's a person gotta do, kneel before the almighty Google Zod / God?
I'm surprised Google published the email address online since no doubt spambots will pick it up and spam the hell outta this email address. My legit email is probably lost somewhere in the middle of 10,000 spam emails.
Update: They literally JUST switched their About page to a Contact form. I no longer see the email address published. At first I thought I was going crazy and imagined it since it's been awhile since I last contacted Google Blog Search. But I went to the Google cache dated May 18th and you can see the email address listed on this screenshot:
In any event, I then tried using Google's Webmaster Tools, since according to Matt Cutts (aka GoogleGuy), the tools can help you discover any problems with your website and many (but not all) Google penalties being applied. As an example, Matt talked about a banned site in another post and explained, "...we started flagging this site as penalized in Google's webmaster console. I believe that Google is the only search engine that will confirm to webmasters that their site does have penalties. No, we don't confirm penalties if we think it might clue in web spammers that they've been caught. But yes, we do try to confirm penalties if we think a site is legitimate or has been hacked. You can read more about how we confirm penalties in this previous post."
Well, I checked Webmaster Tools and all of the sitemaps display "no errors".
At this point, I think I've all but given up on getting into Google Blog Search. Ironically, I see several of my fellow VoIP bloggers in Google Blog Search, including Andy Abramson, Om, Alec Saunders, Asterisk Blog, and a ton more. If interested to test to see if you are listed on Google Blog Search you can use the link: or blogurl: commands. I prefer the blogurl: command since it only returns results from that specific domain where as the link: command shows blogs linking TO you. So to test your blog, you would do something like this on Google Blog Search:
As seen by my search, my blog returns zilch:
When I do the link: command I see a ton of MFA (Made for Adsense) blogs, including this aggregator - http://avoipblog.info that has aggregated my blog, Rich Tehrani's blog, and VoIPNow.org. This site, avoipblog.info is using full body content (not excerpts), which means my entire blog content shows up on their website. In theory, Google is supposed to give more weight to the site with more PageRank and credibility, but obviously these MFA sites are still getting traffic somehow. Take a look at this screenshot showing this MFA in action - every single one of these stories is mine:
So let me get this straight - this MFA (aka Mother F'n Ass-h**e) gets on Google Blog Search and my PageRank 7 site can't? This is why Google Blog Search sucks. I still love Google, especially their web search results, but their webmaster tools for tracing problems leaves a lot to be desired and I won't even attempt to describe their customer service. Though to be fair, Google isn't alone in hiding behind their web servers and making it difficult to reach a live customer support person. Yahoo, MSN, and other search engines are equally difficult to reach a real live person.
If Yahoo or MSN want to gain market share on Google and win the search wars, my suggestion to them would be to invest in a call center that can accept calls -- including VoIP calls -- from webmasters to resolve these kinds of issues.
If phone calls are too expensive (due to the phone charges or the labor), then perhaps a simple online trouble-ticket system could be deployed. This would allow a search engine to track each user's issue and force the case to be handled within a timely manner - such as forcing the agent to close a case within 1-week. That would go a long way to improving customer service.
To prevent spam they could force users to register or even better, since TMC is both a Google Adwords & Adsense customer, Google can use TMC's registered Google account. Heck, we're a paying customer bringing revenue to Google, so they should at least offer the courtesy of some sort of reply from Google as to why TMC's blogs are not included. Wishful thinking perhaps... Ah well, at least TMC's blogs rank pretty well in the SERPS (Search Engine Results Pages).
Update: They resolved the problem!
Google Blog Search Doesn't Suck?


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Mahmood Hussein Mattan
Mahmood Hussein Mattan
Mahmood Hussein Mattan
|3 September 1952 (aged 28–29)
|Cause of death
|Execution by hanging
|Resting place
|Western Cemetery, Cardiff
|British subject
|Criminal charge
|Murder of Lily Volpert on 6 March 1952
|Criminal penalty
|Convicted on 24 July 1952 and sentenced to death
|Criminal status
|Conviction quashed by Court of Appeal on 24 February 1998
|Laura Mattan (née Williams)
Mahmood Hussein Mattan (1923 – 3 September 1952) was a Somali former merchant seaman who was wrongfully convicted of the murder of Lily Volpert on 6 March 1952. The murder took place in the Docklands area of Cardiff, Wales, and Mattan was mainly convicted on the evidence of a single prosecution witness. Mattan was executed in 1952 and his conviction was quashed 45 years later on 24 February 1998, his case being the first to be referred to the Court of Appeal by the newly formed Criminal Cases Review Commission.[1]
Early life[edit]
Mahmood Hussein Mattan was born in British Somaliland in 1923 and his job as a merchant seaman took him to Wales where he found work at a foundry in Tiger Bay. In Cardiff he met Laura Williams, a worker at a paper factory. The couple married just three months after meeting, but as a multiracial couple they suffered racist abuse from the community. The couple had three children, but in 1950 they separated and afterwards lived in separate houses in the same street. In 1952 Mattan resigned his job at the steelworks.[2]
Conviction for murder[edit]
On 6 March 1952, Lily Volpert, a 42-year-old woman, was found murdered in her outfitter's shop in the Cardiff Docklands area. Her throat had been cut with a razor, and about £100 (equivalent to £2,826 in 2018) had been stolen. Within a few hours Mattan was questioned by the Cardiff City Police and ten days later he was charged with Volpert's murder. When the police raided Mattan's home they discovered nothing. There was no evidence of any blood-stained clothing or the missing money.[3]
The trial took place at the Glamorgan Assizes in Swansea in July 1952. The main witness for the prosecution was Harold Cover, a Jamaican with a history of violence, who later received a share of a reward of £200 (equivalent to £5,653 in 2018) offered by the Volpert family. Cover claimed to have seen Mattan leaving Volpert's shop, though it later emerged that he had previously identified another Somali living in the area at the time, Taher Gass, as the man he had seen. The jury was not told of this, or of Cover's background during the trial. Neither was the jury informed that four witnesses had failed to select Mattan from an identification parade. One 12-year-old girl, who saw a black man near the shop at the time of the murder, and was confronted with Mattan, stated that he was not the person she witnessed, but the police ignored her statement and did not take the evidence to court. Furthermore, the shoes belonging to Mattan with specks of blood were second-hand, and no forensic information was brought forward linking the samples.
Mattan was described as having a limited understanding of English, and refused the services of an interpreter. In a trial slanted with racial overtones, Mattan's barrister described his client as "Half-child of nature; half, semi-civilised savage". These comments are likely to have prejudiced the jury and undermined Mattan's defence, particularly since they came from Mattan's own barrister, who had the task of defending him. On 24 July 1952, Mattan was convicted of the murder of Lily Volpert and the judge passed the mandatory sentence of death.[2]
Mattan was refused leave to appeal and to call further evidence in August 1952, and on 3 September 1952, six months after the murder of Volpert, he was hanged at Cardiff Prison. He was the last person to be hanged at the prison.[4]
Subsequent events[edit]
In 1954 Taher Gass was convicted of murdering wages clerk Granville Jenkins. Gass was found insane and sent to Broadmoor; after his release he was deported to Somalia. In 1969 Harold Cover was convicted for the attempted murder of his daughter, using a razor. Mattan's middle son, Omar was found dead on a Scottish beach in 2003, and an open verdict was returned.[4]
Posthumous appeal[edit]
The Mattan family's first attempt to overturn the conviction was denied in 1969 by the Home Secretary James Callaghan; by this stage, three years had passed since the death penalty's abolition.[5]
In 1996 the family was given permission to have Mattan's body exhumed and moved from a felon's grave at the prison to be buried in consecrated ground in a Cardiff cemetery.[2] His tombstone says: "KILLED BY INJUSTICE."[6]
When the Criminal Cases Review Commission was set up in the mid 1990s, Mattan's case was the first to be referred by it. On 24 February 1998 the Court of Appeal came to the judgement that the original case was, in the words of Lord Justice Rose, "demonstrably flawed". The family were awarded £725,000 compensation, to be shared equally among Mattan's wife and three children.[4] The compensation was the first award to a family for a person wrongfully hanged.[7]
- ^ "MPs warn criminal review commission". The BBC. 30 March 1999. Retrieved 28 February 2009.
- ^ a b c Midgely, Carol (7 June 2001). "Injustice casts a lifelong shadow". The Times. innocent.org. Retrieved 13 March 2014.
- ^ Roy Davies, Crogi ar Gam? (2000), p. 16.
- ^ a b c "Open verdict on hanged man's son". BBC News. 22 October 2003. Retrieved 13 March 2014.
- ^ Lee, Adrian (25 February 1998). "Widow wins fight to clear hanged husband". The Times. innocent.org. Retrieved 13 March 2014.
- ^ Mohamed, Safia (28 January 2019). "'Killed by injustice': The hanging of British Somali Mahmood Mattan". BBC News. Retrieved 25 January 2019.
- ^ Davies, John; Jenkins, Nigel; Menna, Baines; Lynch, Peredur I., eds. (2008). The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. p. 544. ISBN 978-0-7083-1953-6.
- Roy Davies, Crogi ar Gam? Hanes Llofruddiaeth Lily Volpert, Wasg Gomer (2000).
- John J. Eddleston, A Century of Welsh Murders and Executions, The History Press (2008).
- Alan Llwyd, Cymru Ddu: Hanes Pobl Dduon Cymru/Black Wales: A History of Black Welsh People, Hughes and Son (2005).
- Michael Mansfield, Memoirs of a Radical Lawyer, Bloomsbury (2009).
- John Minkes and Maurice Vanstone, Gender, Race and the Death Penalty: Lessons from Three 1950s Murder Trials, Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 45(4), 403–420 (2006).
- David Thomas, Seek Out the Guilty, Long (1969) (chapter on the murder of Granville George Jenkins by Taher Gass).
- Geoff Tibballs, Legal Blunders, Robinson (2000).
External links[edit]
- "Regina v. Mahmoud Hussein Mattan (Deceased)" at the Wayback Machine (archive index). 24 February 1998. Judgment.
- Mahmood Hussein Mattan at Find a Grave
- 1923 births
- 1952 deaths
- Executed British people
- Overturned convictions in the United Kingdom
- Somalian emigrants to the United Kingdom
- Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom
- Somalian people executed abroad
- 20th-century executions by England and Wales
- Somalian people convicted of murder
- People convicted of murder by England and Wales
- Executed Somalian people
- Wrongful executions
- 1950s murders in the United Kingdom
- 1952 crimes in the United Kingdom
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This is inspired by Ollie's post about "Things to do before you turn 30". Here is my version :
1. Work and get a new life
I graduated when I turned 17. My plan was to go to college, but I received a job after thinking that would be cool, I took it.
As time passes by, I realize that this is the best decision I ever made . Since started working here, I have met with many successful, inspiring people with brilliant minds. They amaze me and I learn so much from them. I have left behind the life of rules academic that I used to be. I am very grateful because I always have many opportunities to increase my knowledge about what the real life is.
Now, I can be somebody in my own kingdom.
2.Enjoy Ourselves
I often see many people feeling blue and people with negative minds or maybe they're just being crazy all the time. Ther reasons seem crazy too, such as they don't have a lover, they can't be with the one they love.
I understand it's very humane.
But, I'm sad watching all those people, if they realize the world big enough to find true love, they will not be sad. I chose to be free and enjoy myself with my ordinary life, even i do not have a boyfriend.
Because I'm too busy learning and building my dream. Also, My time is too precious to waste on sitting around thinking over myself without a boyfriend.
Guys! We can do whatever we want. But, why not try another path? So get up and let's take an action. Show to the world that we're as teenager still can be the best and we can enjoy ourselves without any interruption.
3. Traveling out of Country
You know, there's so much time that can be used for traveling around the world. We can find the true beauty of the amazing places around the world that we could never imagine before. We better try to go abroad and get some fresh air.
I remember, when I first backpacked to thousand islands with my best friends, i had so much fun because i was in the nature. Every step I made, I was filled with amazement. All i wanted to say was "How precious my Lord who has created this beautiful place". And I believe there are so many other parts of the whole world that are more beautiful than this.
Now, I'm 19, I only have one year left before turning 20 to try to explore overseas. I will try my best to be there as soon as possible. Where exactly is "there" ? Only God knows.
As far as your minds can go, it will be a place nobody can reach but yourself. You will get limitations only if your minds are closed.


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Dermatological researchers are investigating a new class of medications for treating acne. These drugs are known as peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor agonists, or PPAR agonists (stimulants) for short1. This class of new acne treatments contains both great promise and great peril. Before you use them, you need to know about their potential benefits and side effects. We're sorry that this is a little technical, but if your doctor is prescribing you a drug called Zileuton, or if you take medication for type 2 diabetes and you have acne, this is information you need to know.
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A PPAR-agonist really is not a medication that causes pain and suffering to PPAR. An agonist is the opposite of an antagonist. A PPAR-agonist makes PPAR more active. But what is PPAR?
A peroxisome is an organelle (or miniature organ) in a cell that creates enzymes that break down fats into a form that the cell can use for fuel. It also creates enzymes that enable the cell to use many of the essential amino acids. Many biologists believe that peroxisomes are "permanent symbiotes" that perform some of the functions of symbiotic bacteria but that are purely human tissue.
A peroxisome proliferator is a chemical factor that causes another part of the cell known as the endoplasmic reticulum to create new peroxisomes. These peroxisome proliferators can activate receptors that switch on metabolic processes that use fats and amino acids.
Different kinds of tissues have different kinds of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors. The peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors-alpha are found in liver, kidney, heart, and fat cells. -Beta and -delta receptors are found in the brain and skin. -Gamma1 receptors are found all over the body. -Gamma2 receptors are found in fat tissue. -Gamma3 receptors are found in fat and in the large intestine.
The nomenclature gets a little hard to follow. What is important to remember that these compounds "flip a switch" that helps a cell use fats and protein. That can be a good thing. Sometimes it's not.
Medications in this class became standard treatment for diabetics about 1997. One of the early PPAR-alpha agonists was a drug called Rezulin. It activated cells in the liver to store sugar taken out of the bloodstream. At first it appeared that the drug made control of diabetes effortless. All you had to do was to take the pill and your liver stored all that sugar you otherwise would have to cut out of your diet.
It turned out that there were limits to how much sugar the liver could store, and thousands of diabetics taking the drug developed liver failure. Hundreds died. But that didn't stop the pharmaceutical industry from coming out with two more PPAR-alpha agonists called Actos and Avandia.
You may have heard the story about these medications. At first it seemed like they too would be miracle drugs for diabetes. What doctors did not realize until their patients started gaining 30 to 100 pounds without changing their diets was that they activated receptors that not only helped fat cells store sugar taken out of the bloodstream, but that changed stem cells into fat cells. The adult stem cells the body generates to renew blood and bone were being transformed into fat. The stem cells it uses to repair the heart were also being transformed into fat.
Diabetics became morbidly obese without eating huge amounts of food. Many developed osteoporosis or anemia or congestive heart failure. Many suffered the indignity of being blamed for their health problems, and some self-righteous doctors stopped treating their patients altogether.
Actos and Avandia now have "black box" warnings. Rezulin has been banned. So the pharmaceutical industry is now looking to reinvent this class of medications in skin care.
PPAR-agonists, which stimulate gene activity, have mostly turned out to be disasters. The pharmaceutical industry now is experimenting with PPAR-antagonists, which turn genes off.
One of these PPAR-antagonists is a drug called Zileuton. It switches off the genes that are involved in the creation of a class of hormones called the leukotrienes, specifically the genes for a leukotriene called LBT4.
This is the substance that causes inflammation in acne. If you don't have inflammation, pimples begin to heal, cysts and nodules begin to shrink, and blackheads and whiteheads never get started. You might still have a problem with your pores closing because the skin in the lining of the pores grows too fast, and you still might have a problem with excessive sebum production, but one of the most important phases of the formation of acne just might be brought under control if acne patients were given Zileuton. And scientists have discovered that Zileuton seems to slow down skin oil production, too.
When Zileuton is used to treat asthma, the most common side effect is a headache. About 1 in 4 users of Zileuton develops cluster headaches. There are also people who experience nausea, vomiting, heartburn, or mild liver damage, as well as some who become depressed. The drug is not recommended for people who are heavy drinkers or who have a history of liver disease, and it is not known to be safe for women who are breastfeeding or pregnant.
The pharmaceutical industry did not know about the potential of Rezulin to cause deaths from liver failure before it was released and the pharmaceutical industry did not about the potential of Actos and Avandia to cause deaths from congestive heart failure before they were released. It seems like an awful risk to take Zileuton for acne.
And there are much simpler and safer (not to mention cheaper) treatments that do a better job of treating acne inflammation. One of them is salicylic acid, which is chemically related to aspirin. Salicylic acid is the only beta-hydroxy acid used in skin care. It relieves inflammation and redness, but that is not all.
Salicylic acid lifts the dead skin off the surface of pores. It makes the natural color of the skin more visible. It helps pores drain. It stimulates the production of collagen underneath scars to help heal them from the inside out.
You can spend $20 for a beta-hydroxy acid exfoliant that works or $200 for a PPAR-alpha antagonist that might not. The time for Zileuton in acne treatment just has not yet arrived. Wait another 10 years to make sure that it does not cause horrible side effects.
To be your most trusted ally in your pursuit of clear, healthy skin.


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The Cars franchise has been a very lucrative and popular one for Disney and Pixar, now in its third film, but the actors still joke about how the universe, where everyone is a car, doesn't make any sense. Cars 3 is now in theaters, and even if critics didn't love the first two entries as much as other Pixar offerings, each installment has been a box office hit, not to mention the huge volume of toys its sold from clothes to backpacks to matchbox cars to Lightning McQueen race car beds.
The Cars universe, like that of Toy Story and various other Pixar properties, features a world in which every character is a certain inanimate object. Not only is race car Lightning McQueen a sentient car, but so are his competitors and every spectator at the race - so is every other character in the world. And because of this, a lot of people have asked a lot of questions about how things work in that universe.
In a new video from Mashable, a group of actors with speaking roles as cars in Cars 3, including Owen Wilson, Kerry Washington, Cristela Alonzo and many others, pose some of the questions posed by the Cars universe- and they don't come up with many easy answers.
Owen Wilson asks why there are sidewalks in the Cars world, when cars can't walk, and why the cars have doors. Armie Hammer asks if the cars go to the doctor, or a mechanic when they get sick. And that's even before they get into the even bigger questions of how cars reproduce, are born, and die. Hammer suggests that a car riding in an airplane is similar to "a human riding a horse." And Lea Delaria has an even more vulgar answer.
These questions are certainly amusing to consider, although the video doesn't even come close to getting to the weeds of how the Cars world was created, whether or not cars can get married or as Matt Zoller Seitz and other critics have posited, whether the Cars films are in fact set in a post-apocalyptic, Planet of the Apes-like universe that was formerly ruled over by humans before the machines (in the form of cars) took over.
Of course, the children who are in the target audience for the Cars films aren't going to be kept from enjoying the antics of Lightning McQueen and Tow Mater by such far-reaching existential questions better suited for late night dorm-room philosophizing. But their parents now have additional questions to ponder.
Cars 3 opens in theaters today.
Source: Mashable


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The recipients of the following team awards for 2019, and the winners are...
Most Improved Runner of the Year - Ilene White
Awarded to the new member who has cut 3 minutes or more from a half marathon or marathon personal best time, cut 5 minutes or more from a 10 kilometer time, showing incredible improvement or an existing member that has lowered their present best time at any distance in the 5 previous years that has been recorded and submitted.
As a new member, Ilene improved her 10K time by 9 minutes from 1:09:13 at the Firecracker 10K to 1:00:49 at the Rock Hall 10K!
Comeback Runner of the Year - Langston Maclin
Awarded to the member who has suffered and comeback from injury, returned to form, or has overcome personal obstacles.
Laangston has suffered with an unknown medical condition causing him breathing problems from February-October. This condition became progressively worse and eventually caused him to stop running for weeks. Fearing his running days were over, he went through a series of medical tests, a battery of trials and wore a specialized heart rate monitor. Despite his health problem, he was able to compete and finish the Baltimore Half Marathon and a total of 8 races for the year.
Best Performance of the Year - Walter Tresville
Awarded to the member who has demonstrated exceptional running ability despite difficult physical, weather or course conditions.
Walter has been competing in the Hermes 10 Mile Race since its' Inaugural race in 2004. He was inducted into the race's "100 Mile Club" in 2014.
To date, Walter has not missed a year of competing. This year, even though he was suffering with injuries, he still competed and would not give up!
He is an example of true dedication.
Most Supportive Member - Warren Elzy
Awarded to the member who has consistently and unselfishly given their time and efforts to team members (when not racing or unable to race) by providing support (bringing clothes, drinks, food to the finish area), cheering for members at team races on the course or at the finish line, giving encouragement during training, and present at team gatherings.
Warren provides leadership for the team. He schedules and leads team meetings. Each year, he indentifies training/race schedules, and is present at all team meetings and races. He has consistently given support to team members at the finish line, even when he has been unable to compete because of injuries. As the Team's Race Director, he coordinates travel for the team providing alternatives with pricing making travel more affordable. In addition, he stepped up to host our local Rite Aid event at the last minute.
After racing or training, we get together and discuss our experiences on training, racing, health, fitness or we talk about current events as we stretch and refuel.
If you are a runner, walker or run/walker looking for a group to run, train or race with locally and out of town, please contact us & join our great team!


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Welcome to our live coverage of WWE 205 Live, exclusively on the WWE Network! Join us immediately following the WWE Mixed Match Challenge around 10:20pm ET. Be sure to leave your feedback in the comments section, share our coverage of tonight's episode through social media, and REFRESH for the most up to date coverage.
Tonight, Mustafa Ali faces Jack Gallagher, and NXT Superstar Buddy Murphy will have his 205 Live debut match against Ariya Daivari in the final two matches of the first round in the Cruiserweight Championship Tournament
- Recap of last week's first round tournament matches: Mark Andrews defeating Akira Tozawa while Drew Gulak took down Tony Nese.
- Vic Joseph and Nigel McGuinness welcome us in and preview tonight's matches: Jack Gallagher vs. Mustafa Ali and also Buddy Murphy vs. Ariya Daivari.
Buddy Murphy vs. Ariya Daivari (First Round Tournament Match)
Before the match gets going Daivari says Murphy made such a big deal cutting down to 205 pounds, but this isn't The Biggest Loser, it's 205 Live, and Murphy isn't stealing his WrestleMania moment. We also see Murphy's final weigh-in, making it under the limit.
The secret is out! @WWE_Murphy is here! pic.twitter.com/mg2JnYWnY2 TDE Wrestling (@totaldivaseps) February 21, 2018
"Buddy Murphy" chant gets going as things get started. Murphy with a hurricanrana, sending Daivari to the floor, slides out and tries to send Daivari back in the ring, but the two end up on the apron. Daivari drops Murphy on the apron and shoves him into the steel steps. Action back in the ring with Daivari hitting some big chops and sending his opponent into the corner. Murphy charges in and he gets hip tossed into the corner, pin, two.
.@WWE_Murphy on the rise! pic.twitter.com/l4cfVSvOjH TDE Wrestling (@totaldivaseps) February 21, 2018
Murphy lands a couple kicks, selling a back injury, and hits a couple clothesline. Another kick drops Daivari near the corner, Murphy heads to the top, but Daivari moves to the floor and Murphy hits a huge front flip over the top rope. He gets back up, heads to the top again and lands double knees on Daivari, pin, two. Daivari catches him with a spinning forearm, heads to the top rope, frog splash, cover, two. Hammerlock lariat, pin, 1-2-no! Daivari can't believe, McGuinness saying nobody has kicked out of that yet. Murphy recovers and hits a lightning quick pumphandle spinning slam, pin, and that will do it.
Winner: Buddy Murphy via Pinfall
- Backstage, Drake Maverick reveals the matches for the next round of the Cruiserweight Championship Tournament: Cedric Alexander vs. TJP, Roderick Strong vs. Kalisto, Mark Andrews vs. Drew Gulak, and finally Buddy Murphy will face the winner of Jack Gallagher and Mustafa Ali. TJP and Alexander come into the picture and talk some trash before TJP heads off.
The OFFICIAL @WWE #Cruiserweight Championship Tournament brackets#205Live pic.twitter.com/qrGReB5AqA Drake Maverick (@WWEMaverick) February 21, 2018
- Kalisto tells McGuinness and Joseph to let his upcoming opponent, Roderick Strong, that "speed kills."
Gran Metalik and Lince Dorado with Kalisto vs. Two Guys
No entrance for Metalik and Dorado's opponents as Dorado goes to work on poor soul number one. Metalik tagged in and gets right to walking the rope with a nice dropkick. Metalik gets distracted momentarily and the other team gets in a little bit of offense. Dorado is tagged back in and goes to work, hits a crossbody off the top rope, pin, two.
Yes sir! @LuchadorLD gets two for one! pic.twitter.com/1es4Cu3h9F TDE Wrestling (@totaldivaseps) February 21, 2018
Handspring double stunner by Dorado sending both opponents to the outside. Both Metalik and Dorado up and over the top rope, dropping both wrestlers. Metalik throws one of their opponents back in the ring, Dorado up top and hits a shooting star press off the top rope, cover, and that will end this one.
Winners: Gran Metalik vs. Lince Dorado via Pinfall
- Backstage, Drew Gulak says some said he went too far last week, but only losers say things like that. He tells Andrews he's all flash and Gulak will be moving on.
- Random Location, Mark Andrews says he's going to fly right passed to Gulak (Andrews was holding the camera and did a back flip) and on his way to WrestleMania.
.@MandrewsJunior won't be held down by the No Fly Zone. pic.twitter.com/j1t7ojN9H9 TDE Wrestling (@totaldivaseps) February 21, 2018
Jack Gallagher vs. Mustafa Ali (First Round Tournament Match)
Fantastic new look for @GentlemanJackG #205Live pic.twitter.com/Zlx0MFtMSa Drake Maverick (@WWEMaverick) February 21, 2018
As demanded by the GM, Gallagher out in new wrestling attire. Gallagher goes to work on Ali's shoulder and wrist. Ali having trouble getting away from Gallagher as Ali gets dropped and put into a fujiwara armbar, Ali quickly gets to the bottom rope. Some back and forth mind games are being played by both wrestlers. Multiple pin attempts from both wrestlers, none of which end in a three count.
Both get caught in the ropes, spinning kick sends Gallagher to the floor. Ali tries for a baseball slide, but Gallagher pulls up the ring apron to trap Ali, and swings away on his opponent. Referee starts up a ten count, but Ali able to make it in the ring. Crowd with a random "Rusev Day" chant as Ali chops down his opponent, pop-up dropkick followed by a hurricanrana. Facebuster by Ali as he tries to go up top, Gallagher stops up for a moment, Ali goes up, but gets stopped.
Both men up on the second rope, Gallagher yanks Ali's arm over the top rope and then sends Ali straight into the ring post, pin, two. Gallagher continues to work the arm, but almost gets pinned in the process. Gallagher gets sent to the outside, Ali goes for a corkscrew over the top rope and Gallagher apparently moved out of the way. It kind of looked like Gallagher wasn't expecting him to come over like that, weird spot. Referee with a ten count, Ali took to nine to get back in.
Goodness! ?? pic.twitter.com/FZesr75mHf TDE Wrestling (@totaldivaseps) February 21, 2018
Ali keeps getting caught in armbars, but is able to break out of them. Ali on the apron now, throws Gallagher's face into the top turnbuckle and heads to the second rope. Gallagher locks in yet another armbar, Ali shoves him off. Gallagher with a running dropkick that sends Ali from the second rope all the way to the barricade! Oh my! Crowd woke up for that bump. Gallagher doesn't wait and throws Ali shoulder first into the edge of barricade. Action back in the ring, scoop slam into the corner, pin, two. Gallagher with multiple hard elbows to the side of the head, tries for another pin, two! Gallagher looks to be getting a bit frustrated. He sits Ali on the top rope and tries for a back suplex, but Ali flips and lands on his feet. Spinning DDT and 054 for the win. That match really picked up at the end, wow! Nigel McGuinness standing and clapping after that one.
Winner: Mustafa Ali via Pinfall
- Next week, Cedric Alexander vs. TJP along with Roderick Strong vs. Kalisto.


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(third-person singular simple present tinds, present participle tinding, simple past and past participle tinded or tind)
From earlier tend, from Middle English tenden, teenden, from Old English tendan ("to kindle") (usually attested in compounds); related to Danish tænde, German zünden. More at tend.
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From Middle English tind, tynd, from Old English tind ("tine, prong, tooth"), from Proto-Germanic *tinduz, *tindaz ("prong, pinnacle"), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)dont- ("tooth, projection"). Cognate with Dutch tinne ("battlement"), German Zinne ("pinnacle, battlement"), Danish tinde ("pinnacle, battlement"), Swedish tinne ("tooth of a rake"), Icelandic tindur ("spike, tooth of a rake or harrow, pinnacle, peak, battlement"). Related also to Dutch tand ("tooth, tine"), English tooth.


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A major collection of archive Helmut Lang is being exhibited at PFW
Jan 17, 2018 | By Samuel Trotman
Apr 25, 2012
Known for its appreciation of craftsmanship and innovative design, new gentleman's journal Grain & Gram arrives as the latest publication for the modern man.
Self titled as 'The New Gentleman's Journal', Grain & Gram focuses on the art of story telling and introducing craftsmen through their incredibly inspiring site. Each article focuses on young, creative, self-starting talents; each man's occupation is totally hands on and more than just an occupation, it's a trade. From Jean Makers, Butchers and Wood Workers to Printmakers, Grain & Gram offers a personal look into the life that pursues passion and creativity, using an elevated level of photography and video to communicate each story. Articles so far have introduced artisans such as Jason Gregory of Makr Carry Goods, Roy Slapper of Roy Jeans and woodworker Blaire Sligar.
Grain & Gram's high standards for finding quality content means their speed of publication has been the sacrificed variable, but this comes with good reason. Their silent work process isn't from a lack of purpose; rather, it's their hard work spent crafting each article to create a focused and enjoyable experience for the reader. While most other online blogs and publications drive out infinite offerings daily, the guys at Grain & Gram are content to gradually push out small, considered editorials to maintain a crafted and quality collection, without "filler or fluff" (as they say).
Take a look at the full website at www.grainandgram.com and find your inspiration to get out of the office environment and get your hands dirty.
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"True inspiration is impossible to fake," explains a character in Christopher Nolan's existentialist heist film Inception. If that's the case, then Inception is one of the most honest films ever made. Nolan has crafted a movie that's beyond brilliant and layered both narratively and thematically. It requires the audience to take in a collection of rules, exceptions, locations, jobs, and abilities in order to understand the text, let alone the fascinating subtext. Nolan's magnum opus is the first major blockbuster in over a decade that's demanded intense viewer concentration, raised thoughtful and complex ideas, and wrapped everything all in a breathlessly exciting action film. Inception may be complicated, but simply put it's one of the best movies of the year.
"I'm asking you to take a leap of faith."
Inception requires so much exposition that a lesser director would have forced theaters to distribute pamphlets to audience members in order to explain the complicated world he's developed. During my first draft of this view, I realized I had spent three paragraphs simply trying to explain the plot. I will simply avoid this exposition and present the movie's basic premise. Inception centers on a team of individuals led by an "extractor" named Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) who, through the use of a special device, construct the dreams of a target and use those dreams to implant an idea so that the target will make a decision beneficial to the individual who hired the team. To say that scratches the surface would be an insult to both scratches and surfaces. But since it takes Nolan about fifty minutes to set everything up, I hope you'll forgive my brevity.
Why is it so difficult to explain the plot in depth? First, I don't want to spoil you. Secondly, the film layers dreams on top of dreams to the point where a unique keepsake called a "totem" is required in order to inform a character as to whether or not he or she is still dreaming. Then you have people in particular roles like "The Architect", "The Forger", and "The Chemist" in order to pull off the job. Furthermore, dreams have rules: dying in a dream forces the dreamer to wake up, delving too deeply into a mind can cause an eternal slumber called "Limbo", using memories to construct dreams is dangerous because it can blur the line between dreams and reality. In addition, intruding in the dreams of another will cause the dreamer's "projections" (human representations created by the dreamer) to attack the intruders like white blood cells going after an infection. And these explanations only represent a fraction of the terminology, rules, exceptions, or details that are necessary for creating the world of Inception.
But it's not a confusing movie if you provide it with your full attention. There are a lot of summer movies that ask you turn off your brain and enjoy the persistent-vegetative-state ride. Inception is not one of those movies. There's a lot to take in, but the imaginative and thoughtful delivery of exposition keeps the viewer riveted despite the amount of information required in order to understand the premise, setting, and plot.
It tends to be the case that lots of rules create lots of loopholes. Filmmakers can use these to cheat and let audiences fill in the leaps of logics. But Inception always plays fair. It will twist your mind but it's not a film built on twists. It's a film built on possibilities and the boldness of pursuing those possibilities. On my first viewing, the film experienced a technical malfunction where a misplaced reel skipped the movie forward by twenty minutes and then played the scene upside down and in reverse. Inception had already sent the audience through such a strange narrative labyrinth that almost everyone in the theater wasn't sure if something had gone wrong or if Nolan had just made another bold decision.
The film deserves, demands, and rewards repeat viewings, but from your first viewing you can grasp the events on screen and how they interact with each other as long as you force yourself to be an active viewer. But with set pieces so intricate, so jaw-dropping, and so breathtaking, you'll find that there's no exertion needed to stay focused. You'll already be swept up in the whirlwind.
"And I will lead them on a merry chase."
Inception features one of the best fight scenes of all-time. Take a moment to consider that: in the entire history of cinema, of every fight scene that has ever taken place, the one in this movie is among the best. Watching a fight without gravity is incredible. It's not like in The Matrix where a character can defy gravity if they choose. The fight scene in Inception has no gravity to defy and Arthur (played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt), the team's point man, has to figure out how to achieve his objective while fending off projections. I can only hope that someday in the distant future, when people with free time are on a space station in zero-gravity, they will re-enact this scene. In the meantime, Nolan's spectacular visual effects will have to suffice.
With the exception of one set piece (which I'll get to in a moment), the action scenes in Inception are spectacular. Visually lush and imaginative, Nolan transforms car chases into countdowns, fistfights into puzzles, and shootouts into…well, shootouts. There's a mission on a snowy mountainside that doesn't work as well as the other set pieces because there's a poor sense of location, a lack of visual diversity, and sloppy editing. But that doesn't really halt or hurt the film because Nolan brilliantly placed the car chase, the fistfight, and the shootout on top of each other. You would think this would cause action fatigue, but by cutting between three set pieces and having what happens in one set piece affect the others, the action climax of Inception isn't exhausting—it's exhilarating.
"If you're going to perform inception, you need imagination."
You can be the best action director around but you can only get so far if you lack characters worth caring about. With Inception, every character not only has a particular skill and task, but has a personality that mirrors their job description.
We learn about the characters of Inception not from long monologues about their past or even (with the exception of Cobb) delving into their dreams and memories. We learn about them by how they interact with each other. The small moments between Arthur and Eames, "The Forger" (Tom Hardy) indicate years of working on j tolerating each other on jobs but with no animosity between the two. Neophyte "Architect" Ariadne (Ellen Page) is a total jerk towards Cobb, but she's the only one who's willing to cut through his bullshit. Cobb's relationship with his wife Mal (Marion Cotillard) is the heart of Inception. The interactions among the supporting characters are standard for a well-made action movie, but the relationship between Cobb and Mal is yet another reason why Inception stands apart.
DiCaprio will take some flack for playing a similar character to his one in Shutter Island from earlier this year. Both Cobb and Teddy Daniels have become separated from their families, suffer from unbearable guilt, and have a tough time handling the nature of reality. Here's another similarity: DiCaprio is great in both movies. I wouldn't worry about him getting typecast as tragic-figure-with-tenuous-grasp-on-reality-as-a-result-of-intense-guilt-and-regret.
Two of the film's stars will (hopefully) find their careers at the next level after this movie opens. Their names are "Joseph Gordon-Levitt" and "Tom Hardy". Gordon-Levitt has excelled at playing lost boys, tortures souls, and recently a charming male lead in (500) Days of Summer. You can now add "bad-ass blockbuster action star" to that list. Gordon-Levitt's versatility is why I will be excited for any movie that lists him as one of its stars.
Hardy's critically acclaimed performance in Nicolas Winding Refn's Bronson brought him to Hollywood's attention. His performance in Inception will bring him the attention of countries. He brings a light-hearted touch to the film and while the script forces other characters to remain serious, Eames takes a more laid back approach to the mind-heist game. But he's not comic relief and he's not around to comment on absurd circumstances. Like everyone in the cast, he's there to help the team achieve their goal (although the script functions in such a way that you could see each character as a representation of a specific idea).
The only actor who's a little shaky is Ken Watanabe who plays Saito, the team's employer. His performance is great. He pulls off the impressive feat of being threatening without being menacing. The only problem is that Watanabe's Japanese accent is so thick that it's sometimes difficult to make out what he's saying. In a movie where the dialogue is as delicately crafted as the rest of the film, it's unfortunate to lose a few lines due to something as simple as pronunciation. And it's only noticeable because everything in Inception is so finely crafted.
The physical scope of this movie is astounding. Worlds fall on top of each other, a freight train can burst onto a city street, hotels can lose all gravity, and everything that we know is impossible appears completely natural. It's not enough to say that the cinematography is gorgeous, or that the sound design is sensational, or that this is one of composer Hans Zimmer's all-time best scores. There aren't "supporting" elements in Inception. Just as the film layers its narrative structure and thematic subtext, so it does with its technical elements. You will notice the cinematography and the art direction and the sounds and the score. It's like hearing beautiful solos mixed together in a glorious anthem.
"Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange."
As you've probably guessed, when I said at the beginning of this review that Inception was the first movie in over a decade to mix breathtaking action with thoughtful subtext, I was referring to 1999's The Matrix. The comparisons are inevitable. Both movies deal with the nature of reality combined with pulse-pounding set pieces that will be included in any action-scene highlight reel. But The Matrix is a freshman level course compared to the doctorate held by Inception, and it has nothing to do with how far special effects have come in ten years. It's about taking multiple genres, settings, ideas, emotions, and questions and weaving them into a rich tapestry that will have folks talking long after the credits roll. But then you throw in those advanced special effects and you have a summer blockbuster that will blow your mind.
You've never seen anything like Inception, and you'll want to see it again and again.
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This has to be one of my longest experiments ever, partly due to me getting the baking bug only in the winters. The first two were disastrous failures and the end product could have been the choice of weapon used by Cain to kill Abel. The first one, used -wait for it… Champagne yeast and placed in a pressure cooker which doubled as an oven. It was pretty cold too -around 2 deg C in Delhi and the bread never rose. If I had saved the baked bread it could have replaced a brick in my garden wall back home.
365 days later, I was more prepared. I had bought a small 16 liter Bajaj OTG, (Oven-Toaster-Grill) -more because I was convinced by now that store bought white bread was not in any way good for the body -especially with its horrid ingredients which had numbers instead of names and others with un-pronounceable chemical names. My friend had given me a packet of yeast which I used, but I presume that it was well past its sell by date as the bread never rose in spite of keeping it at 30 deg C to rise. I threw it out of my balcony into some wasteland for some other creature to consume carefully avoiding hitting any dogs who were scavenging around.
By attempt 3, I had decided on sourdough. It was traditional, good for health as it broke down the "not-so-good-for-the-body" phytic acid in the flour and added some sourness which would increase the storage life of the bread. Refined flour was out of the equation from day one and it was a do or die resolve which finally got me some acceptable results. I watched a lot of bread making documentaries and got me a Kilner clip top jar to make my sourdough starter.
Recipe for sourdough starter:
- 1 cup organic whole wheat flour
- 1 cup water
- 5 organic grapes chopped (Optional)
Mix the water with the flour and form a smooth mixture. If you chose to add the chopped grapes to kick start the fermentation, add them too. I didn't need them. Pour into a jar with a lid. Once the fermentation starts, remember to discard the grapes or use them up with your bread dough.
Feeding your starter : Every 24, 48 or 36 hours, (depends on your temperature. In summer it will grow faster and not discarding and feeding it will make for a very sour starter unless you place it in the refrigerator) discard or use up half of this mixture, and add another cup of water and flour and mix well.
Do this till the mixture becomes bubbly. This is when the starter is ready to use.
Warning: The bread you bake at home, unless you use unhealthy refined or bread flour, is going to taste and feel very different from the bread available in the market and is an acquired taste. When I gave it to friends, I soon realized that it wasn't appreciated much as they had preconceived expectations of how bread should look, feel and taste as their senses are so accustomed to the chemicals which give quick and very strong flavors which overwhelm the tongue. This however is the real thing, and once you accept that, you will soon start enjoying its taste and not like store bought bread anymore!
Sourdough bread recipe:
- 1 cup wholewheat flour
- 1 1/4 cup water
- Salt to taste 1 use 1 level teaspoon
- 1 teaspoon ghee (clarified butter) or oil (I used organic coconut oil but it took longer to rise than ghee). This keeps the bread from ending up too dry.
Mix all of the ingredients with half of your starter to form a soft dough (Don't forget to feed your starter as mentioned above as it is alive).
Leave your dough to rise for 30 – 35 minutes in a bowl covered with clingfilm or a damp cloth. Please adjust the timing appropriately for your location (temperature and weather)
After 30 minutes, on a floured or oiled surface, lightly pat down the dough, knead and form a thick circle. Roll it up and fold down the sides to seal the bread and placed in a greased loaf pan. Brush some oil on the top, lance the bread with a blade (I've not mastered this yet) and cover with cling film and leave it to rise for 40 – 45 minutes.
Check whether the bread has risen properly, if not leave it for a bit longer or in a warmer place. Once you are happy with the rise and bloom, preheat your oven to 220 deg C, remove the cling film and place in the center of your oven.
Bake for 20 -30 minutes. The bread should sound hollow when tapped. When the bread is still warm, remove from the loaf pan and cool overnight on a wire rack. I personally feel it is better to store the bread in a cotton bag or the exiting moisture might make the bread go moldy. Of course you can use one of those Tupperware bread boxes to store the bread in the fridge. I usually slice only as much bread as I need. This keeps the slices from drying out completely.
Recipe for bread with instant yeast?
Use 1 teaspoon instant yeast instead of the sourdough mixture. Everything else remains the same 🙂
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