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How top fuel motorcycle dirt drag racing has escaped my attention until now is an unforgivable crime, and it's time to make up for it.
The races have been a thing for nearly two decades, starting with hillclimbers that were bored of waiting for their chance to run up a mountain. That meant the first batches of bikes were Japanese dirt bikes with small tanks and extended swingarms, but they eventually evolved into big bore Harleys that can run on anything from gas to nitro methane with no rear suspension and no limit on the size of the rear tires that look like they were pulled off a small tractor.
They're using Super Swamper Boggers with the smaller alternating lugs cut out, a common tire cut for mud drag vehicles.
If you missed our earlier post on this, here is the link where you can watch some video of dirt dragging.


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Actor Ted Robbins is in hospital after collapsing on stage during the opening night of a revival of Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights live show, forcing its cancellation.
Actor Ted Robbins is in hospital after collapsing on stage during the opening night of a revival of Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights live show, forcing its cancellation.
BBC Radio Lancashire presenter Ted, who plays Den Perry in the show, was in the middle of a solo section when he clutched his chest, stumbled and fell to the ground, it has been reported.
The curtain was closed immediately as staff rushed to the stage with medical equipment and the show at the Manchester Arena was cancelled.
Audience members expressed their shock on Twitter.
Tom Peck, a sports writer for the Independent who was at the show, said: "Horrible atmosphere at phones4u arena. Sold out for Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights. Show cancelled as actor Ted Robbins collapses on stage."
Dave Swanton wrote: "Thoughts are with my mate Ted Robbins taken ill during the opening night of Phoenix Nights. Get well soon pal", while Steve Ens added: "Truly hope Ted Robbins is ok ... Just watched him collapse on stage at the Phoenix Nights show. Best wishes to him & fellow cast members."
Comedian Kay has revived the characters from his Channel 4 series for a live show to raise money for Comic Relief.
His sister Kate Robbins later tweeted to say he had been taken to hospital.
She said: "My brother Ted was taken ill on stage. He's been taken to a local hospital . Thank you for all your good wishes and concern. He's a fighter".
Broadcaster Eamonn Holmes tweeted: "Just getting an update on #TedRobbins He is stable but he needs our prayers . Nice man. We go back a long way. MC'D my 50th birthday party."
To which Ms Robbins replied: "Thanks Eamonn. He's in hospital. We are all with him."
Robbins was reprising his Den Perry role as the main "villain" from the TV programme in 2001 and 2002, in which he famously burned down the Phoenix club.
The 59-year-old, who is a second cousin of ex-Beatle Sir Paul McCartney, has also appeared in Brookside, Doctors, Holby City, Little Britain and Coronation Street.
He is currently playing Barry Quid in the 2014 revival of Birds Of A Feather and heads the fictitious prison as the governor in CBBC programme The Slammer.
He was the voice of TV show Catchphrase between 1994 and 1999 and also presents a morning show on BBC Radio Lancashire.
Robbins is one of five children and lives in Lancashire with his two children.
A spokeswoman for the North West Ambulance Service said paramedics were called to the arena at 9.46pm following reports of the collapse and "took a male to Wythenshawe Hospital".
There was no word on the nature of Robbins' illness.
Comedian John Bishop spoke of his shock at Robbins' collapse, tweeting: "Travelling home from Manchester with all of my thoughts and love with Ted Robbins, his family and the rest of The Phoenix Nights cast."
And Manchester United and England footballer Phil Jones, who was also in the audience, added: "Still shocked to see Ted Robbins collapse on stage. Thoughts with him and his family."
A statement from Manchester Arena said: "Ted Robbins collapsed during the performance of Phoenix Nights Live. He's been taken by ambulance to hospital and is in a stable condition."

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Give more options for e-mail address resolution
In late crm 4, email address resolution behavior was changed. In earlier versions, if you had an e-mail address on multiple records (account, contact, lead, user), it would only resolve to one of them. This behavior was changed so that if there are multiple records with the same address, when ...
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Thank you for your feedback. We released this feature as part of the functionality in Fall 2016 release update 2.0 or SP2 for CRM 2016.
This is being delivered as a feature with our fall release. Expect it with update by 11/29 or by Dec hotfix update. There is an organization setting to turn off contact resolution for the whole org. If that is the case, user will have to manually resolve the email activity to a CRM record (when there are multiple records match the email address in CRM).
CRM 2011 Connector Crashes Outlook All Day Long
Can't believe nobody's posted this yet. I just searched for the word 'crash' and found only two references to Outlook, with only 1 vote each. Maybe this is unique to our environment so if anyone has a suggestion, I'm all ears. But I haven't found one yet so I'm posting here.
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Thank you for your feedback. We are not considering the suggestion at this time due to the following reason: Not applicable. if this is still happening for CRM 2011 or any latter version, please file a support case and the team will investigate. We have done a lot of work on stability since CRM 2011 UR11.
64-Bit Outlook 2010 CRM Client
I'm surprised this isn't listed on here yet. I searched the open suggestions, but didn't see it. Title is self explanatory.
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There is a 64 bit client for many years now. I don't think it is relevant any longer.
Rooms get removed from appointments
We have an issue where when we add a room to an appointment and sync it with CRM, the room gets removed. It is getting changed from a resource to a required attendee.
We have employees that are constantly late or miss meetings because they do not know where to go.
I opene...
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we have proposed to fix this before. we will do so again. Thanks for your feedback
Add Subfolders to Server-based SharePoint Integration for Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online and SharePoint Online
As explained here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-in/library/gg334768.aspx
CRM online no longer requires you to use the list component in SharePoint for document integration. You can upgrade to this new feature called Server Side integration. The new server side integration no longer...
Category: Microsoft Office Integration (832)
Great feedback. Not in our current roadmap, but, we have made a strong case for this enhancement and we will do it again. Thanks
Remove the "Wrapping up" message from Outlook client when syncing mail
Every time an item (email/appointment etc) is tracked within Outlook using the Outlook client for CRM 2015 a dialog with a progress bar pops up saying, "Contacting CRM", followed by "Wrapping up". This takes away focus from the Outlook window (and anything else you're doing) and nothing can be...
Category: Microsoft Office Integration (832)
We are not planning any new enhancements to outlook client. However, our experience on new CRM app should be better. if you have any concerns, please let us know. Thanks for the feedback.
Enable the E-mail Router to process e-mails sent to distribution lists or aliases
Currently e-mail messages sent to distribution lists or aliases are discarded by the E-mail Router with the warning "NoRecipientMatch" because the list or alias address is not known to CRM. We suggest implementing an additional setting on the Mailbox entity to specify whether the E-mail Router...
Category: Microsoft Office Integration (832)
we are not enhancing email router any longer. Thanks for the feedback. if this applies to server side sync, you can file a separate request.
Track email from a Shared Mailbox using CRM for Outlook
PLease can you add the ability to track email from a Shared Mailbox using CRM for Outlook. Currently if you try to track an email from a Shared Mailbox you get the following error:
"Only items in the default Microsoft Outlook store can be promoted to Microsoft Dynamics CRM.Item Name=subjec...
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Feature enhancement: Ability to immediately Track email from Outlook and promote the email to CRM in server-side sync
Enhancement needs to be made so that as soon as the user clicks on "Track" in CRM from Outlook, the email is promoted to CRM in server-side sync, so that user can perform "Convert To" action to further edit the activity record in CRM.
In current state, as of April 2015, the "Convert...
Category: Microsoft Office Integration (832)
This was delivered previously. Let us know your feedback. Thanks
Ability to manage entities that display in the Set Regarding feature in CRM for Outlook
Would like to have the ability to identify the entities that are available for the Set Regarding feature in Outlook. Only entities enabled for Set Regarding would display in the list. All other functionality of the Set Regarding feature would work as it does today.
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Non-Slip Slippers: Woodland Collection -Busy Beaver
Terry cotton non-slip slippers for kids. Made from soft organically grown cotton so they feel extra snuggly! Choose from Playful Fox, Busy Beaver, or Sleep Owl. Matching baby/toddler and kids hooded towels as well as bath mitts are also available.
These adorable slippers are the perfect toddler and pre-school gift:
6 1/4" long and 3" wide, for age 2-4 years.
Note: The footbed and vamp are made with organically grown cotton. The sole and inner foam are both polyurethane.
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… did the bay city rollers know something back in the 70's we didn't?
Today's post comes to you from Ethan in Thailand, enjoy…
PROFILE – Emmanuel Adebayor
Birth Date February 26, 1984
Birth Place Lome, Togo
Height: 1.91m
Weight: 73.0 kg
Age: 25
Position :Forward (backward?)
Squad # 25
Adebayor made the surprise move to join Arsenal from AS Monaco in January 2006 for [...]


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I found this painting today for $6. The artist's name is Sarah Lynn Richards. I found her web site, and much of her work are these beautiful paintings of horses. This painting measures 6″ x 15″ and came matted and framed to dimensions of 15″ x 24″. The painting was also signed on the back. Sarah Richards has a gallery in Rockland, Maine.
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With a strong passion for music at a young age, ESG always had his eyes on being a performer in the music industry… Starting his DJ Career by playing opening sets all across Melbourne, ESG developed an interest to working with dancefloor's all across Australia. ESG's drawn heavy influence from Urban kingpins such as Diplo, Kanye West, Kid Cudi and Kendrick Lamar who are known all the world for their vast array of sounds and samples.
This opened his eyes to the ability of playing out more than just RNB in his sets, incorporating his sets with a variety of genres to suit any set ranging from dancehall, reggaeton, moombahton, hip hop, trap to house. Having supported prestigious acts such as Childish Gambino, Sean Kingston, Snoop Dogg, Ciara, Ice Cube, ASAP Rocky, Chingy & many more, it goes to show ESG's unique style is always in demand as a supporting DJ at the highest tier. To this day you can find ESG at some of Australia's premier nightspots including Ms Collins, Alumbra & LUX.


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Researchers at the UNC School of Medicine and North Carolina State University have created a method of obtaining and culturing stem cells to treat chronic and potentially fatal lung inflammation. Chronic inflammation in the lungs causes the formation of scar tissue that inhibits proper oxygenation of vital organs, like the heart and brain. Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are some of the most common results of chronic inflammation. With many IPF patients not surviving past 5 years following diagnosis, this treatment could significantly prolong their lives. The treatment is done by isolating a patient's own lung stem cells through biopsy, then culturing and expanding them to clinically relevant numbers. In an animal model, the subjects were induced to have scarring and inflammation in the lungs to mimic IPF in humans. Those that were injected with their own stem cells showed significant improvement in lung function compared to those that received a placebo.
StemSave Blog
Topics: stem cell treatments, regenerative medicine, COPD, IPF, chronic lung disease treatment
At this year's Lung Science Conference in Estoril, Portugal, researchers revealed that mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) can be effective in treating chronic inflammatory lung diseases, such as COPD or cystic fibrosis, which currently have no cure. In pre-clinical trials, MSCs injected intravenously into mice with inflammatory lung diseases demonstrated an ability to repair the damaged lung tissue and alleviate inflammation by decreasing the number of neutrophils and monocytic cells, which are indicators of inflammation.
Topics: mesenchymal stem cells, regenerative medicine, COPD, cystic fibrosis, inflammatory lung disease
Scientists at the University of Cambridge and University of Manchester are using stem cells to create study environments that closely resemble human tissue which they call "mini lungs." These lungs are not designed to be transplanted, but offer a valuable biological use in evaluating new treatments and therapies.
Topics: lung transplant, lung disease, stemsaveblog, regenerative therapies, research, mesenchymal stem cells, pneumonia, COPD, cystic fibrosis, asthma


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Holiday 2013
It is time to start up the thinking machine and decide on your color schemes for the holidays!
Do you know what your colors are for this year! The trends or "what's trending" seem to be picking a color scheme and placing it throughout your room or home. Or, have many themes in different rooms.
For instance ~
Kitchen ~ maybe a black and white theme, or silver and grays. Pair up 2 colors or different shades of one color.
Living Room ~ go with the colors of your furniture or your pillows and blankets.
Create a Formal Tree for the Living Room and a Casual tree or Family Tree in the Family Room.
Bedroom ~ The kids need a decorated tree! Follow the colors of their walls, or their favorite colors. Purples, pinks, greens, blues and orange, etc.
Bathroom ~ every Bathroom needs a little extra ambiance and light. Just a little tabletopper, perfect to light up in the corner for the guests to enjoy.
Porch ~ how about the Back Porch or the Front Vestibule? Add a pop of color with a fun color scheme to welcome in the guests upon arrival.
And, don't forget about the Front Hall. Tabletop version or full size. Fun pop of colors here too will round off the colors from the living room and dining room.
So there you go... start up the engines and on these rainy days, look around and see where you will put the "trees"....:)
Find TONS of additional inspiration and the links to the fantastic inspiration above at
As always, you can find over 112 colors of solid colored glass ornaments (in 3 finishes and 9 sizes) on
On this site, you will also find artificial trees of all sizes, shapes and colors!
Hmmm....Where else could I put a decorated tree?!?!
Enjoy your Rainy Day Daydreaming!


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Why Would I want to Live in…….
La Quinta CA? Well the first reason is that it is very pretty in La Quinta. Often referred to as the "gem" of the Desert. There are Great Mountain Range views. Lots of golf courses, nice homes and plenty of shopping and dining. As a result, La Quinta has become the upscale hub of the East Valley and you will find many of the little luxuries of life here.
|Search La Quinta Homes
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|$100,000 – $200,000
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La Quinta In Spanish it means Country estate or Inn so perhaps it is fitting that the La Quinta Resort was the impetus for the founding of this town. Originally started in 1926 this resort remains to this day one of the most luxurious and exclusive in an area full of first-class resorts.
There is a little of everything from luxury resorts, golf courses, public art installations, nice parks and city sports facilities to major retail outlets and quiet subdivisions.
A nice mix of gated and nongated communities to choose from and the schools are good. La Quinta is referred to as the Gem of the Desert and one visit will show you why.
La Quinta is also home to PGA West comprised of six golf courses, clubhouses and many thousands of homes and condos. In fact, it is impossible to separate La Quinta from golf with the numerous course and golf communities that fill the town. Some of the other communities you will hear about in La Quinta include Rancho La Quinta CC, The Citrus, The Hideaway, Griffin Ranch, The Palms, The Tradition, Haciendas at La Quinta, Mountain View Country Club, Palmilla, and Renaissance. There is are even fractional ownership opportunities in La Quinta. You can share a home with up to 8 other owners, call us for details. Your only limit on indulging your perfect golf getaway is your budget.
Luckily in La Quinta, there are beautiful options for every budget. The City is well planned and locals will tell you how great the schools are. The corridor along Highway 111 has grown to become a center of commerce for the East Valley and national and regional outlets of almost every variety are represented here. La Quinta has a vibrant old town with picturesque shops and great dining and every March there is the La Quinta Art Fair with celebrated artists from around the world converging on the city. Currently, the city has a population of about 34,000 people.
Fun Events In La Quinta California:
Certified Farmers Market Currently on Sunday Mornings in Old Town
Hot Rod Custom Car Show January at the La Quinta Community Park
Career Builder Challenge (Formerly Bob Hope/ Humana) Golf Tournament January
La Quinta Arts Festival March
La Quinta Museum
La Quinta Blues & Brews November
King of The Smoker Competition December
Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony December
Art Under The Umbrellas Oct-March on Select Saturdays
Taste Of La Quinta February
Attractions Close By:
Adjacent to LA Quinta in Indio or Indian Wells there is:
Stagecoach Country Music Festival April (IN)
Coachella Music Festival April (IN)
BNP Paribas Tennis Open March (IW)
Riverside County Fair & National Date Festival February (IN)
Resources and City Information for La Quinta California
City Of La Quinta
78-495 Calle Tampico
La Quinta CA 92253
Phone: 760-777-7106
Post Office: 51321 Avenida Bermudas
Library: 78-275 Calle Tampico
School District: Desert Sands Unified School District
Sheriff Office: 760-863-8990
Fire Department: 760-564-2122
Utility Companies Serving La Quinta:
Imperial Irrigation District
Southern California Edison
Southern California Gas Company
Coachella Valley Water District
Time Warner Cable AKA Spectrum
Verizon Phone Company (Internet Services now called Frontier)
PARKS and Recreational Facilities:
Fritz Burns Park – Avenida Bermudas and Ave 52
La Quinta Sports Complex Ave 50
Michaels' 5 great Things About La Quinta:
1) Soup Plantation
2) Trader Joe's
3) The Views In The Cove
4) Old Town La Quinta
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Ishq Mein Marjawan 28th September 2017 Written Episode Update: Deep gives tickets to Arohi only on ATechSky.com
Scene 1
Deep meets Arohi. He says I know you are mad. She says I am so angry that I can even kill someone. You lied and fixed the wedding date. he says I am helpless. I didn't want to do it. She says why didn't you cancel. He says I will. You look pretty in anger. I will answer you. I can't lie to your family and mine. I can't back out. People will talk so much about you. They will investigate your past and what you are trying to hide will be public. He shows her photo with Vishal. She says what is this. How you got them? he says doesn't matter. I wanna know if your brothers knows about him. She says so you want to blackmail me? He says not at all. I just wanna know if you love him. Arohi says yes I really love him.
After parents died he took care
of me. He is my life. I can't live without him. I can't go against my family. This time I will marry him no matter what happens.
He gives her an envelop and says go to Mumbai with vishal. No one would annoy you there. I will sacrifice my love for yours. He gives her tickets and money. He says all the best. he says this is not a joke. Believe it. Arohi says thanks. He says what happened? You are worried about your brother and bhabhi? You don't have time. You have only this option. Take Vishal and go from here. She says I can't hurt my family. Brother is dreaming I will settle here with you. He says its about your life and happiness.
Arohi says what about you? He says I will talk to my family. No one should know. Meet met at 4 and take my car to Mumbai and that will be new chapter of your life.
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Scene 2
Ridhi shows Nikhil her dress for mehndi. Nikhil says arohi why are you upset? Her nephew says she doesn't want to live here. She wants to go to uncle's house. Arohi says soon I will leave this house that is why I am sad. Ridhi says this is your mehndi dress. Try it.
Arohi calls Vishal and tells him everything. She says but I am worried about brother. He says forget them. She says what do you mean. They are my family. I can't be selfish with them.
Deep tells everything to his dad.
Maya says to Dep check your clothes I have so many things to do. She leaves. Raichand says no one knows about your plan and they are so happy. Deep says I will handle everything.
Deep texts Arohi. She says I thought you would motivate me. You only care about your happiness. He says okay I would do what you say, She says you know I don't like selfish people. Ridhi comes and says why are you not ready yet.
Laksh says these are the photos of the young girls from the party. We have names and we have faces. Now we have to attach them together.
Arohi says one thing is for sure everyone is remembering me because of Deep.
Laksh says there is someone who was not in the list of guests. He looks at the photos.
Arohi is packing up her stuff. Laksh says her name is Arohi. No one invited her but she was there. She was dancing with him and was trying to run away from me. Keep an eye on her.
Arohi says I have to go far away from this city. Laksh says we have to arrest her soon.
Precap-Laksh waits for Arohi. Arohi comes to a hotel and asks Vishal's room. Later, Deep meets Arohi and says I want to meet the man you love.


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|Lookin' Good Shane
Game Two should see this series pick up, and a safe bet would be that we will see more scoring. Heck, it can't get any lower. Pekka Rinne was at the top of his game on Thursday's opener, and Roberto Luongo was solid as well. The Canucks did in fact carry most of the play, and while most of the media felt the Canucks would have an emotional let down, they also should have considered that a let down from the amazing level of play they had in Game 7 would still probably be enough to push them over the top in the opener of their second round series against the new opponent.
Game 2 will probably be a bit faster out of the gate, as both teams spent the first 5-10 minutes of Game One feeling each other out. Expect Nashville to reduce the number of neutral zone turnovers, and to crank up the physical play. Vancouver meanwhile will be hoping for more of the same, but with a bit more finish and a bit less Finnish (Rinne).
Many in Nashville felt that Game One was the worst game the Predators played all year, so Canucks fans should not assume this will be an easy series. Simply check out the highlights below, and when you see Keith Ballard catch Ryan Suter by surprise and knock him into New Westminster, you can get a sense of where the Preds heads were at for Game One.
On the other hand, if you're a Canucks fan, and you're worried about the lack of scoring, consider what the guys over at Kurtenblog came up with to explain the lack of goals. Good goaltending! The goals will come, probably. Chicago's Corey Crawford and Nashville's Pekka Rinne have simply played outstanding games. However, if there's anything the Canucks could do to improve their chances, it might be to make Rinne move a bit. He's a big guy, and as the Chris Higgins goal suggests, if you get him to move laterally, you may have some success - even if the refs don't see it at first.
It wouldn't be a Canucks playoff game without some odd officiating as well. Heck, even Nashville writers are defending the Keith Ballard "clip" on Jordin Tootoo. Ballard's great checks may no longer be 'hip' with the NHL, but fans certainly enjoy them, and they're pretty darned effective.
With Game Two on tap for Saturday night at 6pm, expect a few more goals than last game, and a better Predators' squad than the one we saw Thursday. Pressure will mount for the twins and Kesler to break through on the score sheet, and you have to believe the power play will click eventually for them.
Brief aside - have you noticed the Canucks have not had more power plays than the opposition once in eight games so far? EIGHT! Didn't know that was possible.
If the Vancouver Canucks take a 2-0 series lead, the Preds may be in tough, as you'd figure they'd have to take both games back in Nashville to make it a series, unless they watched the Blackhawks and are trying to lull the Canucks into a sense of comfort. After all, who cares about momentum right?
Well, maybe Nashville wants to lose both games to avoid the O'bligatory O'Brien celebration at the Roxy?


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MULTIMEDIA AND ITS APPLICATIONQ.1- What are Natural resources?
Q.2- What are the problem of forestry in india?
Q.3- What are the causes of food grain problem?
Q.4- Define the term "soil as a natural resource"?
Q.5-What is "Genetic Diversity"?
Define words-
(a) Wild life
(b) Deforestation
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Wordless Wednesday- Eyeshadow
For more Wordless Wednesday photos click here.
Labels: Photography, Wordless Wednesday
6 comments:
- Christina said...
Wow, what a fashion statement! I think it's even better than Nadia's recent forays into makeup!
- September 24, 2008 at 10:24 AM
- Joanna said...
Holy cow! She was really enjoying that makeup. I think you have an artist on your hands!
- September 24, 2008 at 3:06 PM
- Stacy said...
LOL...did you explain that EYEshadow was for the EYES?? Looks like she was having having fun anyways. :)
- September 25, 2008 at 9:12 AM
- Jaimee said...
LOL!!! Good for you momma to let her have fun playing round.
- September 25, 2008 at 7:30 PM
- Killlashandra said...
Looks more like body shadow. ;) Sure looks like she's having a good time with it though. My 3 year old likes to get into his older sister's makeup and has surfaced from her room with similar faces. ;) Too cute!
- September 25, 2008 at 9:11 PM
- Maggie said...
Ha ha ha! Now THAT is some serious eyeshadow!
- September 26, 2008 at 8:13 PM
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Report a missed bin collection
Report a missed bin collection
If you believe your wheelie bin was not emptied when it should have been, please fill in this form:
Report a missed bin collection
Let us know by the end of the next working day after your bin was due to be collected.
We will arrange to empty the reported bin as soon as possible after we have received your form.
We are sorry if we have accidentally missed your household, recycling or garden waste collections.
If you are unsure of your bin collection date, go to bin collection dates.
Things to check before reporting a missed bin collection
Have a look at our below checklist before reporting a missed bin collection:
- the Council empty wheeled bins once a week on a fortnightly cycle (one week waste, one week recycling)
- to avoid us missing wheeled bins make sure they are in your back lane, footpath or on the edge of your property in an obvious place, so our crews can find wheeled bins easy
- wheeled bins must be placed outside by 7.30am on collection day
- make sure that you have the correct colour out on the correct collection day
- we have introduced a new recycling system where our collection crew will attach a tag to the handle of your blue recycling bin if incorrect items are found inside
- we may also empty your blue recycling bin at a different time to your inner caddy, on the same day. This is to ensure that the paper is collected separately, without mixing it with the other material
Please remember:
- the Council empties your wheelie bin once a week on an alternate weekly cycle (one week waste, one week recycling)
- you need to put your bin out for collection by 7.30am on your collection day
- please leave the bin at the edge of your property where our vehicle can get to it
What to expect once you've reported a missed collection
We will arrange to empty the reported bin as soon as possible after we have received your form.
If you would like to know further information regarding your missed bin collection please call the Council on 0191 427 7000


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Mafia Returns
|good community
|limited actions
|intricate relations
Several hours later, you are found by police with urine-soaked pants and a 50 dollar bill stuffed firmly into the back of your throat. You didn't live.
Not knowing whether this was worth wasting my scarce gaming time on a Mafia game, I started looking around for comments, hints. But found nothing apart from a set of good comments on a website, but only too good not to be suspicious. No reviews or anything explicit about the game... even the wiki seemed reticent to me: "I know nothing... Mafia ? Never heard, now leave me alone!". Well, this is exactly how a Mafia Game should be... so I decided to try.
The first impression of Mafia Returns - The Game is not the most inviting. The interface is very minimal, definitely austere. The tutorial does not provide much insights on the mechanics, but merely guides you through your first drug sale. There is no resemblance of any graphical element, map, piece of equipment, cash.
The options are very limited as well, and this penalises the diversity. By looking at the screen, there are three main groups of activities, that seem to have the very same relevance in this game:
- Profit: this is where you can find work, buy/sell drugs and gamble. The first consist in clicking a button to receive automatic cash, but the nice idea is that the work is performed for a real family formed by players, which does benefit from your work. The second profit opportunity consists in buying drugs, travel to a different suburb or city and sell for more money (some more clicking on buttons). The last is a set of gambling games (roulette, poker, etc) which makes use of what seems to be a third-party plugin.
- Action: here you can try to hit a player, one of his bodyguards, or perform a duel. You can also partake in several nice enterprises like graverobbing and pickpoketing. To "wack" a player or one of his bodyguards you need to know your target, and this is one core aspect of the game, on which I will comment in a second.
- Comm: forums, chat, and the usual stuff. To be noticed that this is placed at the same level as the rest: in Mafia Return the "social" level is fundamental!
To explain the last statement, you need to look at how hitting another player works. First, you need to know your guy. Second, your action may have witnesses, and you have to be always aware of the consequences. In this game you can not pick your target randomly, or you career could (and probably will) be short. So you have to have allies (your family or gang) and ask permission to hit certain targets (playing characters, corrupt agents or bodyguards). Moreover, any city and district has its own rules, so you have to keep those sticked on your monitor for a while, before you move your fat fingers on the wrong key. Even pickpocketing may lead to disputes, and you know how those end up when there are automatic guns in the picture.
This obviously leads to an intricate web of relationships, protections, favours, permissions. And it should be like this. Definitely the strong point of this game, but also a down point if you look for a game you can play as alone wolf (which you shouldn't). You start as a small tug, and you can end up being Chairman or Godfather.. it's a matter playing well your cards (and bullets).
Another cool idea is the character creation. You are given the choice to randomly generate your initial stats (almost all stats can be trained later, at different speed) or answer some questions. This is something I honestly loved, and it is not common at all in a browser game. It definitely constitutes a nice addition to a character-driven game.
In conclusion I found a lot of good ideas, even though it needs way much more diversity, exploration and quests to meet my taste. Recommended anyway.
VideoGame > Browser Game (web browser)
Mafia Returns, mafia, RPG, fighting, reality browser game
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33 years ago Madonna broke through the male-dominated music scene, Oprah Winfrey debuted her TV talk show, and Nancy Hallberg and Kris Sieradzki launched Connections Housing in Atlanta.
Early clients included Joe Corley's Battle of Atlanta (who remains a client today) and the Atlanta Braves. In 1996, Connections was hired to provide housing for all government agencies at the Summer Olympics, including the Secret Service. On the day everyone arrived, Hallberg learned the hotel wasn't ready, so she rushed over to make beds, hang shower curtains, get towels, and whatever else it took to get her clients settled. No job is too big or too little for Connections!
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According to an advance security bulletin released this week, November's Patch Tuesday has a total of six bulletins. Four of this month's bulletins are marked at critical with one important bulletin and one moderate bulletin.
The critical bulletins, including the bulletins for Windows Server 2012, and the important bulletin address remote code execution vulnerabilities. Admins currently running Windows Server 2012 will keep an eye out for those critical patches.
The critical bulletins and the moderate bulletin affect older server and desktop versions as well as service packs for them.
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Internet Explorer is also named in one of the month's critical bulletins. This is no surprise since critical vulnerabilities affecting the popular web browser have continued to be patched throughout this year. However, it is the first new patch for IE since August.
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Google is known to roll out frequent updates to keep up the healthy competition in its platform, weed out the undeserving money-spinning sites and honor those that add value. Since March 8, 2017, there is a sense of unrest in the SEO community, and the main reason behind this is the release of Google Fred update. There has been a lot of controversy surrounding this new update which cost some websites 50-60 percent of their organic traffic and some sites even lost 90 percent of the traffic overnight.
Google does not quickly confirm an update these days, but after a lot of speculation, several spokespersons from Google have hinted that there has been a major update recently. While some sites that were topping the charts and enjoying a good amount of organic traffic suddenly dropped down from the picture, it is interesting to note that sites that had a proper SEO plan in place to improve, its quality soared high in their rankings.
Who is Impacted and How?
A few recent articles and our own analysis give as a really good idea about what Google hopes to achieve with this update and what are the type of sites that are most affected. Upon reviewing the data regarding the number and type of sites that have been impacted by this update, it can be concluded that there are a few main deciding factors about the sites that have been influenced and they are:
- Sites with a low-quality link profile – a spammy link profile and/or non-relevant links
- Sites with too many ads
- Sites with little value or thin content that does not give any value to readers
- Affiliate sites that only aim to make money
Our research and analysis have shown that pages with low-quality backlinks are taking a drastic hit with this Google algorithm update. But let's, also, dig a little deeper to understand – what are the so called ad-heavy low-value content sites that have been most heavily impacted by the recent Google update. These are sites that have been designed with the sole purpose to get more traffic in order to maximize revenue. The content is not focused on adding value to the users, and instead, they simply want users to click on the ads or affiliate links so that they get paid. However, it is also very important to understand another thing that most of those sites have in common and that is a low-quality link profile, quantity over quality and relevancy.
If you come across a site with the following traits then you can be sure that it has been affected by the Google Fred update:
- Too many ads or affiliate links on the site making it tough to read the actual content
- Lots of keywords stuffed in the content, making it sound unnatural
- Content has no video or image. Instead, they are presented in text or article style.
- Content aimed mainly at generating revenue and does not solve any query
Do you think that your site may have been adversely affected by this update and your site doesn't possess the traits mentioned above? Then, most likely, your site has a low-quality/non-relevant backlink profile.
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Google does not have any problem with sites having affiliate links, but it has an objection to sites with the sole purpose of becoming a container for ads and affiliate links. So, if you are an affiliate, keep that in mind. Also, if you own a business site, stay away from cheap SEO services that build 100s of backlinks and link pyramids. Remember, the quality and relevancy of the links pointing to your site is far more significant than the total number of links. To reverse the impact of the Google Fred update on your business sites and to protect your sites from future updates, you need to seriously consider hiring a reliable Vancouver SEO company such as Slavtech Marketing.


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This is a stick- well that's pretty obvious but if I invited you to imagine a stick, would it have been this very one?
It might have been similar but it could not possibly have been this particular one. This stick is unique. It has twists and turns. It has formed in response to the ways of the world that it has grown up in. There are millions of sticks in this world but every single one is unique. Why a stick? This is a stick that my son picked up on a walk today. It was a lovely sunny day and we were both relaxed. There were no pressures, nothing to rush back for. There were just the two of us (if you don't count the dog!) and we simply walked… and we talked. In fact he talked more than he has done in a long time.
I have three sons and each of them is different. I have learned that for one of my sons long car journeys are when he talks to me, for another it is when we are cooking together.
Every child connects in a different way but some seem to grab out attention more than others- you know the ones!
My question to you in busy early years setting is: Do you listen to the little voice?
Do you go to where that child is comfortable, where he is playing, investigating or just watching?
Do you spend time without a camera, without an iPad, without a clipboard?
Are you able to leave your leaky roof and lost keys behind in order to be positive and present for him, for him alone?
Can he see that you have 'pressed the pause button' of all the expectations you have to meet and you are now calm, warm and open to what he wants to say?
Can he see that you are not just physically available but also emotionally available?
This is when the magic happens- when he is in his comfort zone- when you discover what makes him shine and what makes him shrivel.
What Makes Him Shine and What Makes Him Shrivel?
We complain that children don't communicate these days but have we thought what we could do to make ourselves available to listen?
Just like the stick, every child is individual. Let's listen well and let them know that their voice is heard, their voice is valued.
Listen to the little voice and you will truly discover how to help every child to learn.
Watch out for Ali's next blog 'Being sensitive to their story'.
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You lucky people can hear her speak at Childcare Expo in September and take away not just practical tips and advice but a real depth to enable you to challenge your own practice.
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The insomniac opted for this one, which was brought to the attention of the "Ladies in Black" by Laura of Roses and Vellum. Which was very unselfish of her, because had the insomniac been the one to discover it, she most likely would have kept that information to herself.
A collage of skulls, ravens, toads, owls, bats and damask patterns, it has a little bit of everything the insomniac loves. The fabric speaks to her, and what it appears to be saying is, "Five yards is not enough. Why did you only purchase five yards? What were you thinking?" Something along those lines anyway ...
|Michael Miller - Nevermore Collection
Your first order of business will be to find some insulated material. Unfortunately, you're on your own here, as one has absolutely no idea what this stuff is actually called. It is a quilted fabric with a silvery metallic heat-resistant outside and a cotton muslin inside.
Heat Resistant Side of Fabric
Cotton Muslin Side of Fabric
Now while you might be the kind of person who can pull things out of the oven with just one potholder, a dish towel, your shirt or whatever else is at hand, the insomniac is not such a person. She requires two large oven mitts that go halfway up her forearm, so as to avoid the risk of charred flesh and possible damage to the tattoos. Should you also be such a person, please repeat the next three steps twice - once for each oven mitt. And if you're planning on making a simple round potholder, you probably don't need a tutorial and might want to skip ahead.
|Cut out front and back of oven mitt
from the insulated material,
using this pattern.
|Cut out front and back of oven mitt
from the fabric.
|Baste fabric to insulated material, with
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Rather than use a purchased bias tape to enclose the seams, today we'll be making our own using a handy little tool called, unsurprisingly, a Bias Tape Maker. Select a complementary fabric, perhaps something left over from a past project that isn't large enough to do much else with. One has chosen to make a one-inch bias tape to fit around the thickness of the oven mitt. The following instructions are very brief as, should you decide to purchase a Bias Tape Maker, much clearer instructions than the insomniac could ever hope to provide will be included in the package.
|Create the first 45° line.
|Cut 2" wide strips.
|Sew all the strips together.
|Run fabric through the Bias Tape Maker.
|Now you have, literally, miles
of bias tape for future projects.
|Tape sewn onto the top of oven mitts.
Normally at this point, the oven mitts would be sewn wrong sides together and the exposed seams enclosed in more bias tape. But apparently a little bit of stripey accent goes a long way and adding even more stripey accents made it a bit too busy, even for the insomniac's tastes. Which is odd considering her "tastes" are best described as completely over the top, bordering on the garish.
The mitts were sewn right sides together. While one had planned on neatly finishing the seams with the serger, it was protesting quite loudly about having to get through two layers of insulated material, so a simple straight seam with a zigzag stitch to finish off the edges was used instead. The second hardest part of the project was turning the oven mitt right side out - the handle of a wooden spoon helped push the thumb out quite nicely.
|Messy inside sewing.
Nobody sees that part anyways ...
The last remaining pieces of the insulated material were used to create hot mats for the Dining Room Table. They, plus the new oven mitts, have been safely put away until the night before the Annual Christmas Potluck so as to remain in pristine condition until then.
|Four hot mats are not enough. Why did you only make four hot mats?
|Add bias tape loops if you like to hang your oven mitts.
Come the New Year, one already has plans for matching placemats, an apron and a tea cozy because (as you've probably already guessed) an additional six yards of fabric have been purchased. Which is the only reason the insomniac has shared the fabric source, in a completely selfless manner just like Laura, because eleven yards might be enough. But just to be on the safe side, the Michael Miller rep was contacted this week ... is a $1000 minimum order a bit too much fabric, do you think? Quoth the raven, "Never! More!!"
Until next time, the insomniac wishes you nights of blissful sleep filled with pleasant dreams. Goodnight, my pretties.
PostScript: The insomniac was delighted at having made it through yet another year, celebrating her Fifty-Seventh birthday this week. Only three more years and she'll qualify for Senior Citizen Status; apparently she has already achieved Crone Status. Which evidently is not as insulting a comment as was first thought, when she was referred to as such recently ...


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Ethical fashion's movers and shakers met at the Ethical Fashion Forum's SOURCE Summit last Friday. Calling itself "the most important event for fashion and sustainability", this was a one-day industry convention held at The Crystal in London.
It was a day where people working in the ever-growing ethical fashion ghetto could network and discuss the issues that colour the sector. As with any growing field, the future was discussed and debated at length along with the sustainability of sustainability, how to hit the mass appeal zeitgeist and, crucial to all this progress, transparency.
Like most things fashion, buzzwords abounded. "Ethics". "Sustainability". "Rana Plaza" - the Bangladeshi factory used to make clothes to feed the international demand for fast fashion which collapsed killing 1,127 workers this April. The reverberations from the tragedy run deep in this part of the fashion sector. Virtually every speaker mentioned it and there was a genuine sense everyone wanted to do something about it. However, very few people had the individual power to wish away the constructs that made that building fall apart.
Another burning concern was how to change an industry with industrial and worker exploitation embedded in the heart of its profit-making model.
"If you buy unsustainable fashion, you are telling brands it is okay to be unsustainable," says Belgium fashion designer and former art director for Hugo Boss, Bruno Pieters.
"Reputation is important. If you look at luxury brands, they gained their consumer trust when they were small and hand-crafted. Everything was done to a high quality. Sure, you paid for it but you knew what you were getting.
"The disconnect happened when their production became industrialised. You were no longer getting the bespoke service but the markups remained the same. So now the heritage of what people are buying into isn't what is being delivered."
Pieters used to run Hugo Boss's Hugo line and is a fashion industry 'name'. Now running his own label, Honest by, which claims to be the first 100% transparent fashion brand, Pieters is a stealth hippie. His clothes and poise disguise a Gandhi-quoting vegan firmly committed to ensuring customers know what they are getting.
You can find out exactly what goes into all his clothes - from the farmers who grew it, the factories that made it and, controversially, what kind of profit he makes when he's selling it to you.
"I created the brand because transparency was what I was looking for as a consumer but couldn't find. I'm using it as a tool for change. Change doesn't start with institutions. The pyramid of power in fashion has the designer at the bottom, then the CEO, the shareholders and at the very top is the consumer."
Transparency was brought up on a panel about the future of ethical businesses to Vivienne Westwood's head of couture, Brigitte Stepputtis, via a question from the floor.
"If Vivienne is so concerned about the ethics of fashion, why doesn't she have a transparent supply chain?"
It was the first question of the day and immediately set the tone for subsequent queries. Brigitte, who works on the higher end of the Westwood line and is an artist in her own right, diffused the frisson and said she would relay all of these questions to the boss.
"Change is happening, but it is a process," Brigitte continued when we chatted later on. "Sourcing ethically will be difficult until governments legislate for that process. One of the most important issues for us is to be able to work sustainably but to scale. We have a global brand.
"It is easier for smaller lines to be more transparent because they don't have the scale that we have. And we don't have the scale the likes of H&M have. Many ethical producers and artisans can't keep up with the thousands of metres of fabric that we need in the short timescales that we ask from them."
Then surely the question shouldn't be about what you consume but whether you should consume at all? "Part of sustainability is durability so we make our clothes to last for years, to be anti-fashion and always look good despite trends. Fashion will eventually be ethical and sustainable. For us, the next five years will see some big changes towards this because you will see big changes in the supply chain."
Having only spotted two pairs of Birkenstocks amongst the hundreds of attendees who took great pride in their "look", the notion that ethical fashion looks like an itchy Laura Ashley-print orgy is on its way out. Vogue.com's editor, Dolly Jones said "It's all about design. If you show us pretty clothes, we'll write about them."
However, keynote speaker and chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Ethics and Sustainability in Fashion, Baroness Lola Young, said that "perfection can be a hindrance to progress". She referred to a number of strictly puritanical activists who view corporate or mass media moves towards ethics with deep suspicion - the "go hard or go home" faction of ethical fashionistas who live the ideal and keep everybody in check. ASOS's Ethical Trade Manager Alice Strevens echoes the industry line when she stressed the importance for the "sustainable agenda to sit with the commercial one".
The shift towards a wider acceptance of transparency was thrown in to the spotlight after the deaths of over a thousand factory workers at Rana Plaza. But even before that tragedy, major brand agents like PPR - who generated over €9.7bn in revenue in 2012 - changed their name to Kering to reflect their changing values. Technology is getting a look in when Indigenous use QR codes to allow a consumers to trace their garment's supply chain and MIT have a SourceMap that tracks global brands.
I can't imagine swathes of fashionistas storming Topshop like its the Bastille and toppling Philip Green, but it will take a combination of radical thought, creative and directional design and a lot of consumer pressure to push governments towards legislation that makes transparency the business norm.
Leah Borromeo is a journalist and filmmaker making a feature-length documentary on the fashion supply chain called The Cotton Film: Dirty White Gold.
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Sigh. I KNOW THAT.
The problem doesn't like in magic open. The problem lies in assuming world writeable directories are safe.
The problem that I am discussing is that it's using 2-arg open without me knowing it is. Now that I know it does do that, I won't make the mistake of EVER doing any -pe'something' * in something that is automated again. Too bad, since Perl really is nice as a one-liner crafting tool. Or I thought it was.
Consider the following program:
Blah blah. Those two examples are completely unrelated. They only happen to use @ARGV. I was *NOT* discussing the array @ARGV, but the magic filehandle that opens implicitly.
Your examples change the files, which is by definition less secure. My concern is with scripts/one-liners that readline *ARGV without knowing it could be any mode. I'm talking about implicit open, you're talking about explicit open and explicit truncate.
Please step into the real world and realise people make mistakes, and that people sometimes think they know how something works but do not. I thought I knew what magic ARGV did (Note again: @ARGV is not magic. I'm talking about *ARGV{IO} here, and only that.), but apparently did not.
My search on my server, on which multiple people automate tasks using Perl one-liners, proves that I'm not the only one that opened up huge security holes by assuming -n and -p were safe (again assuming no $ARGV, no @ARGV and no $^I or ANYTHING that *changes* files).
It would very insecure to think that using 3-arg open will fix your problems.
Pedant. Let me rephrase: 3-arg open with "<" as its second argument would fix most of the problem that I describe. Possibly still has exploits with nullbytes and such, but at least those are real exploits, and not some stupid Perl
To anyone reading my post: I acknowledge that it is a feature (after all, it's documented and sometimes useful) and not a bug. I also agree that you shouldn't assume things. But people do assume a lot and my message serves as a warning for people like me. In some IRC channels some people were quite shocked and started editing their scripts immediately.
Sometimes I wonder why it is that in Perl world you cannot warn people or express your wishes without getting replies about that things are supposed to work the way they do, that any changes would break legacy scripts, that I should have been perfect in the first place and that worse situations are possible too.
So, to avoid further confusion:
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2. First look: Poll du jour
Watching media coverage, you'd think Trump is nearly alone in believing "both sides" share fault for the Charlottesville violence. Turns out, most Republicans have his back.
SurveyMonkey findings, previewed first for Axios readers, for an online poll yesterday with 2,181 respondents:
- When presented with a verbatim quote from President Trump on Tuesday ("You had a group on one side that was bad, and you had a group on the other side that was also very violent"), more disagree (53%) than agree (43%).
- Republicans agreed, 87%-11%. Democrats disagreed, 83%-15%. Independents disagreed, 59%-39%.
- Far more blame "the far right groups" for Charlottesville (46%) than "the counter-protesters" (9%), but a remarkable 40% concur with Trump's assertion that both were equally responsible.
- "Beneath the surface, we see the same partisan division: Two-thirds of Democrats (66%) blame the far-right groups rather than the counter-protesters (6%), while Republicans overwhelmingly blame both sides equally (64%). About the same proportion of Republicans blame the far-right groups (18%) as the counter-protestors (17%)."
Why it matters: These findings reflect the fact that, because of the nation's partisan divide and fractured media, we no longer agree on basic facts. That makes civil debate impossible.
4. Walls closing in on tech giants
As Jim VandeHei just tweeted: "This is the most consequential change/story overshadowed by a national fixation on Trump."
Tech behemoths Google, Facebook and Amazon are feeling the heat from the far-left and the far-right, and even the center is starting to fold, Axios' David McCabe writes.
- Why it matters: Criticism over the companies' size, culture and overall influence in society is getting louder as they infiltrate every part of our lives. Though it's mostly rhetoric rather than action at the moment, that could change quickly in the current political environment.
- See David's breakdown of the three biggest fights they're facing.
P.S. Wall Street Journal front page: "The government review of AT&T Inc.'s $85 billion takeover of Time Warner Inc. has reached an advanced stage, ... a significant milestone in a deal that was closely watched for signs of how the Trump administration would view large mergers."
- "AT&T lawyers are discussing merger conditions with the Justice Department."
- Why it matters: "An approval could underscore the administration's pro-business credentials at a time when ... Trump's ties with America's CEOs are under severe stress."
5. Barcelona suspect is 18
Terrorists have turned to vans and trucks to murder more than a hundred people across Western Europe in a matter of months — Daily Mail: "Low tech attacks using stolen and hired vehicles to randomly rammed into crowds, have been increasingly used by terrorists unable to get hold of guns and explosives."
- Why it matters: "It is 'nigh on impossible' for security services to monitor and stop potential terrorists planning such murders and the only way to prevent them is by using barriers to protect pedestrians, according to one expert.
Barcelona latest — BBC: "Spanish police say they have shot dead five suspected terrorists in the town of Cambrils in a second vehicle attack, hours after another in Barcelona killed 13 people and injured dozens. Police said the men were linked to the Barcelona attack, which [ISIS] said it had carried out."
- "Police are still hunting the man who drove his van into crowds on Las Ramblas in Barcelona on Thursday. Spanish media have named Moussa Oubakir, 18, as the suspect."
6. The conversation
- BuzzFeed's Ben Smith: Bannon is "playing for — or at least fantasizing about — a major realignment of American politics. He's been saying the same thing for years to anyone who will listen: that trade and manufacturing are the core issues for working Americans, who also want their sons and daughters back from foreign wars; and that a president who can deliver that will 'get 60% of the white vote, and 40% of the black and Hispanic vote and we'll govern for 50 years,' as he told Michael Wolff in the heady days of mid-November."
- "Trump's attacks could leave him friendless if impeachment comes," by Reuters' Richard Cowan: "More than half of the 11 Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which would be central to any proceeding to remove Trump from office, have tangled with the Republican president."
- The Economist's lead editorial (leader), "Trump has no grasp of what it means to be president: U-turns, self-regard and equivocation are not what it takes": "This is a dangerous moment. America is cleft in two. After threatening nuclear war with North Korea, musing about invading Venezuela and equivocating over Charlottesville, Mr Trump still has the support of four-fifths of Republican voters. Such popularity makes it all the harder for the country to unite."
7. Worth the click
"A 2:15 Alarm, 2 Trains and a Bus Get Her to Work by 7 A.M.: Like many in the housing-starved San Francisco region, Sheila James has moved far inland, gaining affordable space at the price of a brutal commute," by N.Y. Times' Conor Dougherty and Andrew Burton, from Stockton, Calif.:
Long commutes are a byproduct of the region's tech boom, which has given rise to a full-blown housing crisis. As home prices have escalated beyond middle-class reach, areas far inland have become an oasis of (relative) affordability. Ms. James wakes up in a city where the median home price is below $300,000 ... Prices rise steadily along her commute until she gets off her last train in San Francisco, where a typical home costs more than $1 million.
8. Dispatch from Trump country
"Battling Demons in Community Looking to Trump for Change" — AP from Aberdeen, Wash.:
- "In Grays Harbor County, a rural community on the coast of Washington state, the rate at which people die from despair — from drugs, alcohol and suicide — is nearly twice the national average."
- "The county embraced Donald Trump's call to America's forgotten corners, and flipped Republican in a presidential election for the first time in 90 years."
- "The logging economy collapsed decades ago and was replaced by a simmering sense of injustice that outsiders took the lumber, built cities around the world and then left the community to decay."
- "Grays Harbor sank into despair. Suicides increased, drug and alcohol abuse rose. A crowded tent city of the desperate and addicted has taken over the riverbank, and some here who are fighting to stay alive worry about losing health coverage that helps them get clean."
Why it matters: "[S]ome maintain confidence that Trump will rise above the chaos to deliver on his pledge to resurrect the American dream. But others fear new depths of hopelessness if he fails."
9. Scoop: Snapchat show posts monster numbers
In less than a month, more than 29 million unique viewers have watched "Stay Tuned," NBC News' daily Snapchat Discover show, Axios' Sara Fischer writes:
- Why it matters: Millennials are actually watching news shows: Getting nearly 30 million young people to watch a hard news show is an enormous feat.
- The success of "Stay Tuned" — combined with the strength of Snapchat's original political newscast, "Good Luck America" — demonstrate a major shift in how TV news will transition to mobile in the digital age.
- "Stay Tuned" speaks to Snapchat's ability to successfully serve hard news content to its millennial audience, not just tabloid gossip and reality TV.
- Gadi Schwartz and Savannah Sellers alternate as hosts for the twice-daily iterations of the show. The two host 2-3 minute segments daily that feature on-camera guests and field interviews.
- Disclosure: NBC is an investor in Axios.
10. 1 change worth making
The glow of the tech in our bedrooms cuts through the darkness and tricks our brain into thinking it's daytime, the Houston Chronicle's Jenny Deam writes on the front page.
- "Just by slapping on a pair of cheap orange sunglasses a few hours before bedtime while still using their regular devices, .. melatonin levels [for participants in a University of Houston study] shot up by 58 percent. Melatonin [tells your brain] it's time to sleep."
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Entry to the world of punk seemed pretty cheap: self-cut hair and heroin. If that was too expensive: glue and paint. But punk always had a hard commercial edge. Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood were no altruists. Punk sold. And that meant getting the punk look. You too could look rebellious, anarchic and stick two fingers up to everyone else by, er, looking like whatshisface off the telly.
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Punjab: 100 swine flu cases reported in 23 days, Ludhiana worst hit
Doctors are expecting a rise in these cases in coming days as people tend to get more prone to this virus in the months of October and November.punjab Updated: Sep 17, 2017 12:14 IST
Swine flu continues to tighten its grip over the state with 100 new cases of influenza A (H1N1) being reported in last 23 days till Saturday, affecting a total of 204 people in Punjab this season.
This season, swine flu cases have already surpassed the previous year figure of 177 positive cases and 62 deaths.
Ludhiana is worst affected with 55 cases and 18 deaths so far.
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A total of 55 deaths have already been reported in 2017 across the state where Ludhiana leads with highest number of deaths at 18, followed by Jalandhar with six fatalities.
Out of the total 204 cases, Mohali is the second most affected with 43 positive cases, followed by Patiala with 22 cases. 18 confirmed cases in Jalandhar places the district at fourth position.
- 2016: 177 cases
- 2015: 300 cases
- 2014: 27 cases
- 2013: 217 cases
However, Jalandhar is leading with most swine flu cases recorded in the Doaba region, closely followed by Hoshiarpur with 14 confirmed cases and five deaths while only one positive case has been reported from Kapurthala and SBS Nagar each till Saturday.
In 2016, total 177 positive cases of H1N1 were reported. A year before that, there were 300 positive cases while 2014 recorded only 27 such cases.
The year , 2013, which saw the first swine flu case in India, Punjab had over 217 patients suffering from the flu.
Nodal officer of Punjab's integrated disease surveillance programme, Dr Gagandeep Singh Grover, said that awareness drives were being organised continuously in the state and many areas have even witnessed a drop in swine flu cases as compared to the previous year.
Singh said that pregnant women, children under the age of five years and people above the age of 50 years were more prone catch swine flu, besides those having asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases.
He advised people to not panic, take care of their eating habits and visit the nearest government hospital in case swine flu symptoms are observed.


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The seven houses were built on the western 180 feet of a 200 foot lot George Peters purchased from the Boston and Roxbury Mill Corporation on March 1, 1872, after the houses were under construction.
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Albert Smith died in September of 1910. Maria Smith, their two sons, Albert Pratt Smith and Stanley Webster Smith, and her sister, Helen Pratt, continued to live at 396 Beacon.
Maria Smith died in April of 1915; her sons and sister continued to live at 396 Beacon during the 1915-1916 winter season, but moved thereafter. Stanley Smith married in March of 1916 to Nora Kathleen Johnstone. In January of 1920, at the time of the US Census, Stanley and Nora Smith were living at 122 Bay State Road, and Helen Pratt and Albert Smith were living in Andover.
396 Beacon was not listed in the 1916 Blue Book.
On September 11, 1916, 396 Beacon was purchased from Albert and Stanley Smith by real estate trustee Davenport Brown. He and his wife, Marie (McKenna) Brown, made it their home. They previously had lived in Medfield. They raised their only daughter, Marie Davenport Brown (born Marie McKenna Brown) there.
By the 1926-1927 winter season, they were joined by Davenport Brown's niece, Mary Clarissa Vance, the daughter of Reginald Conroy Vance and Clarissa (Brown) Vance. She previously had lived with her parents in Washington DC. Mary Vance and Marie Brown both were debutantes in 1928.
Marie Brown married in January of 1930 to George Glover Crocker, III. After their marriage, they lived in Cohasset.
Mary Vance continued to live at 396 Beacon until her cousin's marriage, but moved thereafter. She married in September of 1934 to Basil Livingston Macassey of London.
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After it was remodeled, the Hills lived in one of the units. They previously had lived in Brookline.
Emilie Hill died in April of 1965, and in February of 1968 Lawrence Hill married again, to Barbara Ruggles (Ferguson) Lincoln, the widow of John Mason Lincoln. After their marriage, they lived at 396 Beacon and later in Florida.
On December 11, 1979, 396 Beacon was purchased from Lawrence Hill by Steven A. DiSarro, trustee of the 396 Beacon Trust.
On February 18, 1981, he converted the property into seven condominium units, the 396 Beacon Street Condominium.
In July of 2004, the owner of the unit on the garden level, applied for (and subsequently received) permission to legalize the building as having seven (rather than six) units.


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Reliance Health and Pharma Stores
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Reliance group after establishing Reliance Fresh chain of stores is all set to make its entry into another smaller format store – Reliance Health and Wellness Pharmacies. These stores will not just sell Allopathic Medicine but Ayruvedic and Homeopathic will also be sold under the same roof. They will also sell other health and fitness products.
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