text: 2017-11-20 Thanksgiving Safety Tips Posted By Stabinski & Funt, P.A. Thanksgiving is a time of gathering for many families; it can be a wonderful time to catch up with loved ones over a delicious, home-cooked meal. And while nobody anticipates getting into an accident or otherwise becoming injured on Thanksgiving, it unfortunately happens more often than you might think. From auto accidents while driving to or from holiday gatherings to cooking incidents and everything in between, there are many hidden risks to be aware of. By knowing about some of the more common Thanksgiving-related accidents and injuries, as well as how to avoid them, you can hopefully keep yourself and your loved ones safe this Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is the perfect opportunity to spend time with our loved ones, but the holiday isn't without risks. Here are a few ways that you can ensure your Thanksgiving is as safe as possible. Staying Safe on the Road Many people travel to be with loved ones for the holidays, so if you have any plans to hit the road this Thanksgiving, there are some extra precautions worth taking. For starters, remember that there will likely be more people on the road than usual, since more people travel during the holidays than at any other time of year. Therefore, you should plan to give yourself some extra time to get where you need to be. Remember that speeding will not really save you that much time in the long run and will put you at greater risk of an accident. Take it slow, enjoy the trip, and make plenty of stops along the way if you have a long drive. Furthermore, before you even leave on your Thanksgiving road trip, be sure to give your vehicle a quick once-over to ensure that everything is working properly. This should include: checking your tire pressure and adding air as needed checking all your lights to ensure they're working testing your brakes and signal lights making sure you've had a recent oil change. Making sure your car is in safe operation and that you use a little caution on the road will help you reduce your chances of ending up in an accident during your holiday travels. Staying Safe in the Kitchen Another potential Thanksgiving hazard comes with all the cooking that goes on in the kitchen. Unfortunately, house fires occur every year on Thanksgiving, so taking some time to be extra cautious is important. Start by limiting the number of people allowed in the kitchen at once; while it may be nice that everybody wants to pitch in and help, having a crowded kitchen can increase the risk of an accident, such as a burn or other injury. Limiting the number of people is especially important if you're working in a smaller and more closed-off kitchen. And, of course, small children and pets should be kept out of the cooking area at all times. If you don't already have a fire extinguisher in your kitchen, now is the time to pick one up if you plan on hosting Thanksgiving dinner this year. Make sure you purchase an extinguisher that's rated for many different types of fires, including grease and electrical fires. Keep it in an easily accessible place in or near the kitchen, such as under the kitchen sink or in a pantry. With the number of hours the average Thanksgiving turkey needs to be roasted in the oven, the risk of forgetting about the turkey is high, which can pose a greater fire hazard. For this reason, it is always recommended that you use a timer when cooking a turkey so as to avoid the possibility of forgetting about it in the oven. You may not think this is something you would forget about, but when you have a house full of people and other side dishes to prepare, it's an easier mistake to make than you might think. While cooking, be careful to keep any flammable materials away from your stove and other sources of heat. Some common items that often get left in dangerous places and lead to fires on Thanksgiving include: pot holders oven mitts food packaging plastic bags wooden utensils. If you plan on deep-frying your turkey, make sure to do so outside and well away from the exterior of your home. Deep-trying a turkey can result in delicious cuts of meat, but keep in mind that it can also be quite dangerous if you don't know what you're doing. Everybody plans on having a happy and safe Thanksgiving holiday, but it only takes one small mistake for a serious accident to occur. If you've suffered an injury as a result of somebody else's negligence, whether on Thanksgiving or at any other time of the year, be sure to have the right legal team on your side. 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You will receive an equal amount of various pork cuts/sausage and whole chicken.
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|You're probably here because I did something wrong. No one ever takes the time to comment when things are going well. Oh well, go on, spit it out.
For previous messages, see /Archive 1, /Archive 2 and /Archive 3.
- 1 Welcome!
- 2 Alco Engines et al
- 3 Sorry, jumped gun on creating page
- 4 Disambiguation link notification for March 10
- 5 ITN recognition for Donald Tusk
- 6 Update on ITN / al-Jina mosque page (2017 al-Jina mosque airstrike)
- 7 Disambiguation link notification for March 27
- 8 Disambiguation link notification for April 9
- 9 Notability of Lakesha Woods
- 10 Notability of Lakesha Woods
- 11 A cup of coffee for you!
- 12 Iron Maiden's manager official album sales statement for 2017.
- 13 Georgia Ports Authority
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Alco Engines et alEdit
Thank you for starting those new pages. I had worked on both the 241 and 244 engines, but had not posted either because they were combined. --SSW9389 13:52, 19 February 2017 (UTC)
- I see you have expanded them significantly, can you please cite the information you added using in-line footnotes? The level of specificity is in my opinion too great to not be directly attributable to the sources. Thanks, The Wicked Twisted Road (talk) 00:36, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
It's the same source.--SSW9389 02:33, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
- Then cite it, using in-line footnotes. The Wicked Twisted Road (talk) 02:40, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
I would if I could, it's the same book you are sourcing. The same facts you are not stating. Your version leaves out a lot --SSW9389 02:45, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
- How can you not? If you're adding the information, surely you have access to the source and can cite it within the article, you can't just hand wave it away by saying that it's already been referenced in the article, because specific claims need to be specifically cited. The Wicked Twisted Road (talk) 02:50, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
I submitted my article a couple of years ago to Slambo. Here's what he wrote:"Ah yes, sorry for the delay. I had expected to see it as a subpage. Regardless, I just read through it. The lead section needs a little more on where the engine was used and the total production run numbers; this section should be a miniature version of the entire article. I like the pacing of the development section and the overview that it gives on the engine's design. It has enough detail to be interesting without the minutiae that gearheads tend to add. There are a few spots in there where I'd adjust the grammar and/or punctuation a little for consistency and MOS considerations (along with separating it into a few paragraphs rather than one big paragraph). The sections that follow that seem more like notes than well-formed content. There are a few sentence fragments in these sections. You've got some great references listed at the end (these are the resources that I would expect to see for an article on this subject); a few inline footnote citations to these references is the next step. But I'd say promote it and we'll all work on improving it. I'm sure I've got some additional references in my collection that can be used to further verify and fill out the latter sections in the article. With inline citations, links to associated articles, a few images (especially images of the engine itself, but images of the locomotives that used it would be a good start) and an infobox, it won't take too much more work to get it to GA nomination level. Slambo (Speak) 13:58, 7 June 2014 (UTC)" My thought is several people need to work on this article.--SSW9389 02:54, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
- It doesn't necessarily need multiple people; one person can write an article just as well or better than a group. That said, I do think we need other opinions regarding the sourcing before doing anything else, because I still don't think it's acceptable in its current state, so I'm going to bring this up at the railroad WikiProject. The Wicked Twisted Road (talk) 03:09, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
Bud you left out too much detail and you deleted Preston Cook. Both of those are non-starters with me. There were huge gaps in what you wrote, I filled them in, and maybe the articles should go back to sandbox for a do over. How about I do the pioneer work and you do the finish work? --SSW9389 03:39, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
Sorry, jumped gun on creating pageEdit
Hello, Wicked Twisted Road (and anyone else out here), Thanks for checking up on me. I think I accidentally published a page I was creating. I really wanted to create a draft of it, flushing out all the content, before actually 'publishing' (?) it for approval. I did launch a wizard, but may have skipped a few steps. I'm okay with deleting the page I 'created' if it means I can start over. I have started editing it now though. If I have to, I could probably edit my content offline, and then submit. I'm not sure I read correctly, can I create the draft in the sandbox? I have to do more reading on creating a page. I promise that Edgar is worth creating a page over, and there's going to be tons of citations about his work. Theresa/ Indevelopmeant (talk) 06:06, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
- Hey, sorry I wasn't able to follow up with you; unfortunately I got awfully busy off Wikipedia, but I see Melcous helped you. Working on the article in draft space is definitely the way to go about it, and it looks like a good start. The Wicked Twisted Road (talk) 03:25, 7 March 2017 (UTC)
- Thanks for checking in. I got stuck on other jobs also, and have to go back to creating this page. - theresa — Preceding unsigned comment added by Theresa at Indevelopmeant (talk • contribs) 04:23, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
Disambiguation link notification for March 10Edit
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ITN recognition for Donald TuskEdit
Update on ITN / al-Jina mosque page (2017 al-Jina mosque airstrike)Edit
You made what seemed to me to be a correct edit by removing an extremely dubious source.
That content has been added back by the original creator of the page, with edit summary:
- the source seems to be credible. You need to show otherwise before removing the sourced content
As we can both understand from a brief glance at that website, this is bullshit. That is not a credible source, and the user is experienced enough to know that. The user has elsewhere demonstrated remarkable understanding of how to scrutinize unreliable sources example 1; example 2
What we have here is a case of an experienced user with a strong agenda trying to weasel some controversial claims into a high-profile/high-traffic article due to his personal convictions about the war. And it won't be easy to solve. I'm allergic against this bullshit, so I'll be turning off Wikipedia and getting back to things that matter, but if you want to pick up this fight, feel free to do so.
You can also see my edit history for a ANI discussion I've started on a related issue. 18.104.22.168 (talk) 14:32, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
- I'm trying to repair the article. It was a disaster that should never have been posted to the main page; in addition to the dubious sourcing it had a blatant copyright violation. I've never touched ANI in my life and have no desire to start now, but I'll keep an eye on the discussion. The Wicked Twisted Road (talk) 14:42, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
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Notability of Lakesha WoodsEdit
Hello - just wanted to take a moment to respond to your concerns about my article. Lakesha Woods is a published author, spoken word artist and editor-in-chief of a nationally known publication that has a strong presence in the African American community. My user name may be similar or the same as a PR company, but it is just a username and I am not affiliated with any PR companies, and I stand to gain nothing at all from creating a Wikipedia page for Lakesha Woods. I follow urban entertainment and magazines.
Lakesha Woods has interviewed, musicians, entertainers, and reality TV stars who are very relevant in television and entertainment. The citations are to published interviews from secondary parties that interviewed Lakesha Woods. Many of the artists and entertainer that she has interviewed are included in Wikipedia.
Cover stories on famous people such is Tyrese, Momma Dee (a reality star included in Wikipedia) celebrity chef Charles Mattocks who was also on Dr. OZ. I would have never known about some people if I wasn't following her work. Images where also included to show proof that she has interviewed nationally and internationally recognized individuals. Rather than be biased based on personal lack of knowledge of the individual let's see if we can give other users a chance to contribute and improve the article. I added as many citations as I could. There is so much online about her and I chose the content and interviews that I personally listened to. What can we do to make this better? I do believe that if her page is deleted it will continue to be added because she is continuously gaining recognition in urban media outlets all over.
I also don't understand why would you make a comment about my username. Aren't we allowed to make up names to protect our identity as contributors? If I had known that having a name similar to a company would be a problem I would have added my name. Please explain, or advise because it took me a very long time to create that article and I would not want to contribute again under this username if that is going to be a concern again in the future.
Mediasource (talk) 23:39, 13 April 2017 (UTC)Mediasource — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mediasource (talk • contribs) 23:30, 13 April 2017 (UTC)
- Well the crux of the matter is the general notability guideline, and the related biographical notability guideline, which boiled down means that the article has to be based on reliable third party sources (the verifiability policy), and the subject has to have been covered extensively by those sources sufficiently to prove that they are for some reason impactful. The article works in the context of the first part, you've done a good job finding the sources and citing them, but where I see it falling down is in the second part. Looking at the article, a lot of the references just don't satisfy the criteria for reliable, secondary sources, or they don't cover Woods extensively enough. I'll go through the references one at a time and explain my reasoning.
- The first one is a tangential mention of Woods, in the context of a separate event, which itself isn't notable--we can't list minor artistic performances like that, otherwise we'd end up with a pile of indiscriminate lists. So unfortunately it doesn't really meet the threshold of "significant, interesting, or unusual enough to deserve attention or to be recorded" from the biographical notability guideline.
- The second one has exactly the same problem as the first.
- The third one is again a tangential mention of Woods, and also, simply being an interviewer doesn't automatically confer notability--in the context of an author, their works have to have become significant in their own right.
- The fourth one doesn't appear to be a reliable source because it seems to be self-published, with no editorial oversight and whose purpose seems to be promotional--it describes itself as "promoting our guests activities."
- The fifth one runs into the same problem--it seems to be a self-published blog that doesn't meet the standard of a reliable source.
- The sixth one plain doesn't support the claim, it's a landing page. In any case, a database like that is not going to be helpful in establishing notability, since it's indiscriminate by definition.
- The seventh one appears to be the same as the fifth, with a shared name.
- The eighth, ninth, and tenth do not mention Woods.
- The eleventh is again a self-published blog that isn't a reliable source.
- The twelfth again doesn't mention Woods.
- The thirteenth through fifteenth are primary sources--they were written by Woods herself. Primary sources are generally frowned upon, since they don't do anything to establish notability, and are pretty much only used for background information once secondary sources have been used to show notability.
- The sixteenth doesn't mention Woods.
- The seventeenth is an indiscriminant list of people who have attended a particular college--while it's acceptable for citing that particular fact, it doesn't show that Woods is unique among her peers.
- The eighteenth is again a landing page that doesn't mention Woods.
- The nineteenth is a primary source--while it's perfectly acceptable to list her works, without showing that the book is notable itself in some way it doesn't confer notability on its author.
- The twentieth and twenty-first are again articles written by Woods.
- The twenty-second doesn't mention Woods.
- The twenty-third and twenty-fourth are again articles written by Woods.
- The twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth don't mention Woods.
- The twenty-seventh is the same book as the nineteenth.
- To make it better, there have to be references to better sources. They don't have to be to the New York Times or anything like that, but there has to be evidence that she has received coverage in publications that have higher standards than individual blogs. Local media or industry publications are perfectly acceptable, but Woods would have to be the subject of coverage, instead of being mentioned in passing. I hope this makes my concerns clearer. The Wicked Twisted Road (talk) 00:27, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
- Edit: lastly, if you want your opinion to be a part of the deletion discussion, you should comment on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lakesha Woods; this conversation won't be considered or seen when the discussion is closed. The Wicked Twisted Road (talk) 00:30, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
Notability of Lakesha WoodsEdit
Thank you for clearing that up. I can work on citing publications that mention her as the main subject. So would that mean I'd have to delete the citations to interviews(on her) where she is only the main subject for part of the show?
Mediasource (talk) 00:42, 14 April 2017 (UTC)Mediasource
- Yes. Citing reliable publications. You wouldn't have to delete citations to reliable sources that reference her in passing so long as you have enough citations elsewhere in the article to establish notability. Passing mentions are perfectly fine for mentioning a fact in the article, they just aren't enough to by themselves support an article. The Wicked Twisted Road (talk) 00:48, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
A cup of coffee for you!Edit
|Compliments on your edit of 2017 Aleppo suicide car bombing as noted in tht Talk:2017 Aleppo suicide car bombing page, under "Criticism of Western governments for silence." I appreciate your efforts to keep Wikipedia on-topic and purged of political commentary.
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Iron Maiden's manager official album sales statement for 2017.Edit
I'd like to inform that R. Smallwood - manager of Iron Maiden group in the special interview for prestigious "Music Week" UK magazine, stated Maiden has sold "100 mln copies of albums" to date (first day of May'17). To read "Big Interview" must log in for free trail. Statement of the impresario we can find at the end of article.
Read this one please and make a change on official band'a Wiki bio.
Cheers! Up The Irons! — Preceding unsigned comment added by RALFFPL (talk • contribs) 15:53, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
Georgia Ports AuthorityEdit
Could someone please address recent edits to the Georgia Ports Authority Wikipedia page? We need to update our information, much of it is outdated and inaccurate. We need our page to look similar to those of the Port of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amaddy82 (talk • contribs) 20:13, 18 May 2017 (UTC)
- You have absolutely no right to a Wikipedia article, particularly not one that reads like a press release. A fundamental principle of Wikipedia is that information should be presented in a neutral point of view, and the language you wrote is completely unacceptable in that regard. You should read the guidelines on conflicts of interest before editing further, and I suggest that at the very least you develop the article as a draft at Draft:Georgia Ports Authority before rewriting the article. You should also utilize the conflict of interest noticeboard to request comments from other editors regarding any content changes you wish to make to the article. If you merely reinsert the promotional content into the article it will be removed again. The Wicked Twisted Road (talk) 18:27, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
We will take a look at that and try to come up with a draft, I'm actually new to contributions on Wikipedia, so I'm sure those resources will be helpful. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amaddy82 (talk • contribs) 16:36, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
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Thanks for your efforts in starting Uinta Basin Rail. I've updated and put some work into this page, as there is renewed activity. I'm considering nominating the article for a DYK. However, I'm concerned the sourcing isn't the best. It currently uses some self published sources, though very good and well sourced themselves. I know certainly I'd get in trouble at FAC with that, but I'm positive I could defend the accuracy of the sources if given the chance. The problem is once you're on the main page you aren't give the chance, no mercy ;). So if you are aware of any better sources than what I've found I'd be most grateful. Thanks again for starting this page. Dave (talk) 19:35, 17 December 2019 (UTC)
- I would definitely be concerned about some of the self published sources, which may have been why I hadn't added anything about the early history when I wrote the thing originally. I did some Google Books sleuthing and scrounged up some contemporary sources for some parts, although I don't have much time at the moment to do any more.
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I participated in an Annual Planning Day with writer and coach Isabel Parlett who is known on the web as the SoundBiteShaman. She was delightful and one of the things she said so clearly was we should all follow our own hearts. Which is, after all, one way to say there are no writing gurus.
It's so tempting, particularly when starting out, or later when things get tough, to decide we don't know enough and look for a guru or to some other writer who claims to have all the answers – or even most of them. We forget we're the expert on our own lives and look outside ourselves, hoping for a magic key that will make our problems go away.
The truth is there are no writing gurus
Of course, the real definition of a guru is a spiritual teacher who gives some sort of (often) secret initiation. That term, however, has come to mean in popular parlance someone who has specialized knowledge about something – even freelance writing, knowledge that few, if any others seem to possess. These are the folks who wildly over-promise to turn you into a best selling or high ranking or 6-figure earning writer if only you do exactly what they say to do.
There are several problems with this approach including:
- They rarely make it clear that they succeeded in their freelance writing by doing whatever. In many cases the way they became famous or made $100,000 or more was not in the writing but in selling the classes and workshops.
- They are not you; you are not them. Even though we are all connected and have many things in common, we are also unique. My writing style is very different from yours. My approach to life and work isn't the same as yours, nor should it be. If I try to duplicate what you're doing I'm going to come off wrong, and probably stilted.
In her article, Beware the Gurus and Experts, Lori Widmer points out some additional problems and asks some pointed and valid questions about self-styled writing gurus and about what you're hoping for.
No writing gurus doesn't mean no learning from others
It should be obvious I'm not suggesting we can't learn from others. I wouldn't keep writing this blog if I believed that. I have a few writers I follow pretty regularly – you'll find me linking to them when it's appropriate… and yes, I'll do a blog post of my favorites… great idea.
From time to time I also pay for a writing webinar or even to hire a coach. I've offer both coaching and classes for a fee. Many of the writers I follow and respect also offer coaching and classes. But none of them think of themselves as gurus, nor do I. They demonstrate their writing ability often in blogs. Their sales material doesn't over promise, or pretend that they are the only ones with answers. They recognize that their truly are no writing gurus – or that everyone can be their own writing guru.
That's part of what Isabel reminded me of when she spoke about following our own hearts. If we're willing to look inside deeply to what some call 'the still small voice,' we'll know when we need help and when we can trust our own judgement. We won't expect or even hope (very much or very often anyway) that someone will save or rescue us. We become willing to step into our own lives in the fullest way possible – and expand from there.
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The Derby Blues June, 2005
It was 2005 and Country Music Television was coming to the derby! We were thrilled to think of all the possibilities that their visit might mean to us. Then they offered an idea and a challenge! Find a local community member who (1) can sing (2) can play a guitar and (3) can write Linds first derby song. Did that frazzle us? Heck no! At least, we werent going to let them know that in TINY Lind, their request was HUGE! But of course, we calmly accepted their challenge and began the search for our guitar-singin performer! After collecting our thoughts, settling down and thinking it through, we found our talented community member. And she was only a few miles out of town, tucked in the hills of a wheat ranch. There she was, guitar in hand, with a singing voice that wouldnt quit. It only took us four hours to write Linds first hit song, and in two days, Linds Annie Smart was on her way to Spokane to be professionally recorded. he song, The Derby Blues, was written by five local volunteers who found out the true meaning of the words rhyme and time! We, of course, think its a hit, and theres no doubt that we think the song should be in line for an award at the Country Music Awards.
We are extremely proud of Annie and her musical gift. And, have to admit that we are extremely proud of the five who helped write this huge hit!
We think youll agree!
Thanks, Annie, for sharing your wonderful talent with the Lind Community.
You expect me to balance on this header,
strum a guitar, and sing....all at the same time?
It takes a long time to record a new star with an award winning song.
But, before the song is put to music, there first has to be a song. Well, it was no problem
for Annie. She was confident that she could play whatever we came up with...and do it right at the same time. A problem for the song writers? Yes, it was a mind boggling request and with a time limit, it was very nerve wracking! But, with very few people, the award winning hit was written, and as if by magic, Annie made our words blend with the beautiful sounds from her guitar.
As we all look back, it was one of our favorite memories. We came up with some lyrics that couldn't be published, we had lyrics that wouldn't rhyme, and we had lyrics that had words that weren't even words, and we even had verses that made absolutely no sense to anyone! But, in time we did the job and the new song was professionally published in Spokane, compliments of Country Music Television. They eventually produced a special on the derby and featured the new song. Still waiting for it to make the top ten on the country charts....in time...in time...!
"The Derby Blues"
Written by Annie Trunkle Smart, Dwayne & Alexis Fowles,
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The Derby Blues (lyrics)
Let me tell you a story about a town named Lind.
Nestled in the scablands, not much rain but lots of wind
We were fading really fast, we had to sink or swim.
Then along came a man, and he had a hook.
Lets have a Combine Derby, and the idea really took.
Wheat not worth a dime, combines past their prime,
Lets have a Derby.
In 1988 we started small. Now they come from Spokane,
St.John, Ritzville & Edwall.
Old combines never the same,
Weld em up and give them a name,
Come to the Derby.
From Pasture Prime, to the Concubine.
The Miller Machine took out Old Gang Green.
It was kinda sad when Frank ran over his dad
Down at the Derby.
They sit in the stands till their butts get sore.
When the combines crash, hear the Beer Garden roar.
Pit crew work to get their driver back,
Hungry people gather at the ol cook shack
Down at the derby!
Four thousand people come to this towns tradition
It even made the pages of Playboys fifty year edition.
Rain or shine well have a helluva a time
Rain or shine we had a helluva time
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Dance Committee – The place to plan and organize the high school dances. Students in this club are responsible for raising money, creating a theme, purchasing decorations and food, and setting up/cleaning up every dance.
Girls' Group - Typically in this population there are fewer girls. This club provides our girls with the opportunity to connect and address challenges specific to them. The club also provides the girls a place to do "girly" things; paint their nails, bake cupcakes, shop, and talk.
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Oscar-Grammy winner A R Rahman has a thoughtful gift in store for his fans this Valentine's Day. For, the second single from Mani Ratnam's Kaatru Veliyidai will be released on that day.
The buzz is that this is the same number that was played in the teaser of Kaatru Veliyidai.
It is to be noted that recently that the first single from the film, Azhagiye, was released and it went on to become a huge craze.
Mani Ratnam's Kaatru Veliyidai, which has Karthi and Aditi Rao Hydari in lead roles, has raised the expectation levels ever since the release of the first look in July 2016.
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Good morning and welcome to my favorite day of the week. Jerry is on his way back to the States and will check in with us later.
Here's a dog, Border Collie by the looks of it, that takes itself sledding.
Here's a weird thing to amuse your brain with: the seminal grunge rock song of the 90s auto-tuned to a major key.
After that, listen to the same song covered by The Ukulele Orchestra.
Sonny Bono died today in 1998, so that's as good an excuse as any to play this song today.
Finally, in Dobrzyn Hili is thinking pragmatically about something very important to her.
Hili: When you've cleaned the litter box we will go to the kitchen.
A: I don't think you are very hungry.
Hili: No, not very, but enough.
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For over 25 years, the Ford Mondeo has been a commonplace sight on UK roads — and it's recently been treated to a refresh of its fifth-generation form. With tweaked powertrains, a revised look and more tech than ever before, there's plenty to lust after on this car. In the market? Here's what you need to know…
What engines are available?
As to be expected from a real competitor in the family car market, the Ford Mondeo offers strong petrol and diesel powertrains. It does also have a trick up its sleeve over most rivals, though — an optional hybrid powertrain.
In terms of petrol offerings, there's just the one — a 1.5-litre EcoBoost developing 163bhp and can be speci with either a six-speed manual gearbox or a six-speed automatic.
In terms of diesels, there are two 2.0-litre offerings. The first produces 148bhp and can be paired to a six-speed manual or eight speed automatic gearbox and following that is a 187bhp offering that's mated to an eight-speed manual.
As for that hybrid, it pairs a 2.0-litre petrol up to an electric system to develop 184bhp and sends power via a CVT transmission.
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There's a comprehensive range of trims available for the Ford Mondeo, and here's what each consists of:
Zetec Edition
17-inch alloy wheels, front fog lamps, LED daytime running lights, LED tail lights, Power folding door mirrors with puddle light, Front and rear parking sensors, Sync 3 with eight-inch colour touchscreen, pre-collision assist with AEB and pedestrian and cyclist detection, cruise control with adjustable speed limiter, Quickclear heated front windscreen, leather wrapped steering wheel
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The arts make an impact
The arts in public schools, according to studies by universities and analysts, improve academic achievement, social and emotional development, and civic engagement. The arts include theater, art, orchestra, dance, band, etc.
"Test scores increase in schools with active fine arts programs, for many reasons. For example, the arts teach students to think outside the box and engage their creativity. Memorizing songs stimulates the brain, making memorizing formulas in math and historical dates and events easier. The arts opens the mind to new ideas and skills," said Justin McLean, band teacher, Hamilton Middle School, Houston Independent School District.
Arts are taught differently from other subjects. The arts inspire, motivate and educate today's students.
"The arts demand students' involvement and cause them to want to indulge themselves deeply. Confidence and self-discipline emerge as benefits of studying the arts. The arts teach (positive) habits, behaviors and attitudes that are necessary for success in any field of endeavor. Arts also build critical skills, such as creativity, critical thinking, communication and collaboration," said Walter Smith Jr., manager, K-12 fine arts, curriculum and development, HISD."In studying art, students learn valuable critical thinking skills, which can then be applied to understanding and analyzing literary materials. Also, art teaches artistic development. Dance promotes student engagement, critical and creative thinking, self-conceptualization and artistic development. Theater addresses mental/physical development, artistic development, personal and social development," Smith said.
One student noted that in studying art and painting, she became greatly interested in history, as her teacher said when looking at a picture of a famous painting in their book, to look at the background, see the landscape and observe things that will tell you about the time and place.
"In band, students develop a set of skills that does not come from other activities. They learn an instrument, and in doing so it includes most every other course offered, such as science, math, history, language arts, English, etc. Music is a universal language, and it does not matter where you come from or what language one speaks, we can all come together and speak music," McLean said.
In music or band, students have to know the exact number of beats, which relates to math, and each song has a history that helps students understand the song. Reading music is like telling a story in music and enhances reading skills.
Also, in band, students learn how to work together to achieve common goals and develop group discipline and respect for fellow students.
"Students learn to focus on goals and achievements that are more than personal, as well as develop self-discipline. Students are not just learning skills for musical performances. They are gaining experience and social skills to function in life, society and the real world. Our students learn how to deal with both success and failure in a family-type environment. This support helps to develop strong, confident and independent student leaders," said Woodrow Smith, band director, Montgomery High School.
The impact of the arts on the developmental growth of children is tremendous.
"Studies have shown that where there are strong arts programs the graduation rate is higher, the dropout rate is lower, levels of delinquency is lower, truancy is lower, and academic performance levels are higher. The arts help close the gap between socioeconomic groups creating a more level playing field. Parents, teachers and communities benefit from strong arts programs. Job satisfaction for teachers, welcoming environment for parents and community, and happier students are only a few of the benefits. Arts experiences create memorable, engaged learning that impacts everyone," Smith said.


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'Passing Faces' by Kareem Al Qurity at Al Masar Gallery – The Art Lounge
Al Masar Gallery: 'Passing Faces' by Kareem Al Qurity
157 B 26th Of July St., Floor 0
11AM-9PM, Fridays by appointment
Jessica Noble
One piece that particularly caught our attention was titled 'Polarisation'. The small, rectangular image depicted four groups of people, all facing separate directions and painted in different shades of brown and grey. This particular image was created to highlight the contrasting beliefs, largely politically, in Egyptian society today. Curiously, there is a tiny silhouette of a man praying in the corner; we assumed he might represent religious polarisation or the growing influences of certain political parties, however, the artist himself claimed this detail had little theoretical significance.
Most of the portraits were textured and contrasted against a smooth background to give the impression of sculpting, but on paper.
The largest of Al Qurity's paintings was a series of three, dramatic, black and white charcoal portraits. Each face displayed a mysterious, stony expression, with the eye sockets left hollow for dramatic effect. The deep, white lines cut across the faces like lashings of rain, whilst water droplets caused a smudging, tear drop effect. We thought this may have been the artists' way of depicting the depth of the figure's emotions, imaging their despair. Again, the artist dampened the flames of our imagination by claiming he was simply playing around with the charcoal, experimenting with his technique. Despite resulting in an interesting final piece, the concept behind the masterpieces was a little shallower than our own interpretations.
Also hanging in the exhibition is a series of paintings titled 'People and the Constitution'; an extension piece from his 'Safe Haven' project, which examined the public's deep feelings about security in the country. The 'People and the Constitution' piece is particularly relevant today and highlights the controversial verses from the old constitution. Al Qurity uses the extracts of text to make up the background, on top of which portraits of blank faces sit looking in different directions. Amongst the anonymous faces, there is also a portrait of an Egyptian soldier, possibly implying their involvement in enforcement, despite their personal beliefs.
Undoubtedly, the paintings themselves are both attractive and powerful; however, disappointingly, the theory was a little weak and our imaginations took us further than their intended meanings.


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The United States recently dropped its support for the "Annan plan" — due to the fact that there is no more Annan plan, special U.N. Syrian envoy Kofi Annan recently having resigned. As most understood the plan, the Obama administration was supposed to be pressing for international sanctions and organizing a common front against Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, as Annan forced Assad to negotiate away his power with various rebel groups.
Annan's Westernized Third World credentials also supposedly made him uniquely suited for soothing Russia and China's fears over the loss of their friend Assad. Annan's shuttling between the Syrian government and the rebels would usher in a peaceful transition to consensual government. Such a grand bargain would then be overseen by the United Nations and result in a pluralistic Syrian society, albeit with some sort of face-saving retirement for the deposed tyrant.
In other words, Annan's pipe dream was doomed from the start. The United States is now left with the task of asking Assad to step down while stealthily sending arms to the insurgents to ensure his compliance — hoping thereby to gain some influence when and if they take power. But Assad is in no mood to compromise, given the fate of other deposed authoritarians such as Moammar Qaddafi, Hosni Mubarak, and Saddam Hussein.
After more than a year of violence, Assad's regime wagers that the West in general is tired of the Middle East and will not interfere in Syria the way it intervened in Libya — and that Barack Obama in particular is more worried about the November elections than about the escalating violence. Further, the regime knows that China and Russia will not abstain from Security Council votes on Syria as they did from votes on Libya.
The rebels understandably want the usual American help — no-fly and safe zones, heavy armaments, money, and supplies — but they want itwithout any liberal strings attached. It is likely that the terrorists and Islamists among them believe they can, in time, do to their naïve, more moderate rival insurgents what they did to Assad. Summed up, the rebel front's implicit position is that Syria may or may not end up with the Muslim Brotherhood in power, but that is the insurgents' own business, and either way the new regime will be better for the West than Assad was.
It is true that few regimes have done more to harm U.S. interests or oppress their own people than has the Assad dynasty, which has ruled Syria since 1970. Bashar al-Assad, who assumed power on the death of his father Hafez in 2000, turned Syria into an unambiguous client of Iran, a sponsor of Hezbollah, and a supporter of terrorism. He also sought to destabilize Lebanon, destroy the American effort in Iraq, and encourage terrorists to strike Israel.
So the Syrian uprising, which began on March 15, 2011, in the wake of the Arab Spring that swept North Africa, should have been a godsend to the West and to the United States in particular. Unlike Hosni Mubarak in Egypt and Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in Tunisia, Assad has been a clear enemy of the United States. His fall would belie the common belief that only pro-American Arab dictators suffer popular uprisings. Even if we worry that the stability of pro-American authoritarians may deteriorate into chaos and anti-Western Islamic theocracy, how could anything be worse than Assad's Syria? Why, then, are we not actively and publicly working to topple the government in the manner we did with similarly odious authoritarians such as Hussein and Qaddafi?
#page#Public opinion explains much of the reluctance. With over 80,000 Americans still in Afghanistan, with nearly 8,000 Americans having died in Iraq and Afghanistan, and with the country $9 trillion more in debt than when we took out Saddam Hussein, there is no support for sending ground troops into Syria — the only sure method of removing Assad and replacing him with a pro-Western, democratic government. In fact, the public has no more desire to intervene in the Middle East, whatever the strategy or rationale. One could argue that the removal and trial of Saddam Hussein, who was replaced by a constitutional government, was the catalyst for the Arab Spring. Yet few, especially in the Obama administration, seem eager to make that argument. One of the most bizarre aspects of the current administration's Middle East policy has been its eagerness to intervene in Libya and contemplate some sort of assistance to the anti-Assad forces in Syria, while ostracizing the Maliki government in Iraq and offering no support for the million-plus protesters who swarmed the streets of Iran in the spring of 2009.
The election-year American politics of Syrian intervention are certainly muddled. Many liberals are calling for overt help for the Syrian resistance, despite the general indifference they have shown Iranian protesters. Supporters of the Iraq War are baffled that the administration and its supporters, who demagogued everything from Iraq to Guantanamo, now ponder using preemptive force to remove a Middle East strongman. Bipartisan calls to do more in Syria evoke an eerie déjà vu of a similar consensus in October 2002, when both houses of Congress voted to authorize the use of force to remove the Hussein regime — a consensus that crumbled when casualties mounted in late 2003 and the 2004 presidential primaries heated up.
Arab politics concerning Syria are even more muddled. Oil-rich Sunni authoritarians from the Gulf are sending money and arms, hoping to topple an ally of Iran. Apparently they believe that outcome would be worth the risk of spreading the Arab Spring to Kuwait, Qatar, the smaller Gulf sheikhdoms, and Saudi Arabia itself. And if we think that the Lebanese — long the victims of Assad's terrorism — are uniformly rooting for the Syrian insurgents, we should think again. Many worry that the fall of the murderous Assad would end any shred of tolerance for Alawites, Christians, and Shiites, of which Lebanon has large populations. That is not an idle fear, given the Muslim Brotherhood's growing hostility toward the Coptic Christian minority in Egypt. Syria's Alawite minority, which dominates the Assad government and has largely been an oppressor of majorities, may soon find itself a persecuted minority — much the way that Germans in Eastern Europe in 1945 went from being protected pro-Nazi bullies to being a victimized minority as the Red Army swept in to settle scores in atrocious fashion. And looming over the violence in Syria is a soon-to-be-nuclear Iran, yet there remains some uncertainty as to whether the restless Arab Street fears Iran more than it enjoys the prospect of the irritation that an Iranian bomb would cause Europe, the United States, and Israel.
The NATO removal of Moammar Qaddafi is sometimes cited as a model for deposing Assad. But Libya is sui generis and offers no blueprint for much of anything. In the lead-up to the intervention, authorization from Congress was bypassed in favor of U.N. approval for the first time since the Korean War. Yet Security Council resolutions called only for no-fly zones and humanitarian aid, not an around-the-clock NATO bombing campaign. In other words, Congress was ignored and the U.N. was snookered, and they are unlikely to approve a similar use of air power in Syria. And whereas Libya was less than an hour's flight from NATO bases in Sicily, Syria is far from Europe, in a more volatile region of the world, better armed, and over four times as populous.
#page#In some sense, Qaddafi was a monster in rehab. His offspring jet-setted to and from the West, buying respectability on the cheap among American and British academics and journalists (who nonetheless damned the regime when it became clear it was likely to end). It took the Arab Spring to ensure that British war cemeteries in Libya — sacrosanct since World War II — would be desecrated by Islamist gangs in the manner of Bamiyan and Timbuktu. Post-war Libya cannot be worse than the first 30 years of the Qaddafi regime — but it also might not be any better than the last four.
The West's hopes for the Arab Spring — that constitutional reformers would ensure human rights, free elections, and a transparent society — are for now suspended. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was met with chants of "Monica! Monica!" as she arrived in Egypt — a state that has received an aggregate of $65 billion in American aid since 1979. Newly elected Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice party, may have two children who were born in California and are U.S. citizens, but he convinced few Westerners of his commitment to tolerance and moderation when, almost immediately after his election, he called for the U.S. to grant clemency to the "blind sheikh," Omar Abdel-Rahman, who is serving a life sentence in a North Carolina federal prison for his prominent role in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.
What future will follow the removal of tyrants in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, and Yemen is unknown even to the revolutionary players themselves. At worst, the secular dissidents will fade from post-revolutionary election cycles as hardcore Islamists are voted in and purge the opposition — "one man, one vote, one time."Islamists could thendo to Egypt or Libya what the Khomeinists did to Iran, or what the Hamas theocrats have done to Gaza. At best, we might see something like Erdogan's Turkey, where a "moderate" Islamist purges opponents and jails critics while holding elections that are more or less open and transparent — and which he is unlikely ever to lose. Even if the governments of Afghanistan and Iraq are corrupt and probably only with difficulty will give up power, they nonetheless reflect the American effort to birth constitutional government — a stewardship impossible with the Arab Spring democracies.The presence of American troops, aid, and constant attention can result in a constitutional government that may serve as the model for others — but it comes at such a price, in American blood and treasure, serial violence, and knee-jerk opposition from the Middle East street, that it probably will not be repeated in the near future.
Israel seems ambivalent about the removal of its archenemy, the Assad regime. As an authoritarian, Hafez al-Assad could enforce the agreements he signed, and he did not succeed in any meaningful way in subverting the understood protocols that followed the 1973 Yom Kippur War. When he seemed to try — e.g., in the air war of 1982 and the attempt to build a nuclear facility — Israel easily swatted him down. A Syria governed in the fashion of Sudan or Somalia might be worse. Syria could well turn into a sort of Star Wars cantina for assorted international terrorists, its weak government denying any culpability as it sought immunity from Israeli retaliation against terrorists operating on its soil.
There are other contours in revolutionary Syria that should cause reflection. Like Qaddafi, Bashar al-Assad was long considered by many Westerners to be an authentic anti-imperialist who, if he did not have legitimate grievances against the United States, was at least unfairly demonized as a terrorist abettor by the Manichean George W. Bush. The Assads were the subject of a splashy Vogue profile — a 3,200-word valentine entitled "Rose in the Desert" — that portrayed the dictator's family as evolving Westernized liberals with exquisite taste. The author, Joan Juliet Buck, fawned over Bashar's wife, Asma: "glamorous, young, and very chic — the freshest and most magnetic of first ladies." Buck apparently had never heard of Hama, where in 1982 Bashar's father butchered up to 20,000 people. Her subsequent mea culpa ("Mrs. Assad Duped Me") seems predicated not on the fact that Assad is a monster, but on the probability that he is a loser going the uncool way of Hussein and Qaddafi.
Adjustments must be made as Assad transmogrifies from an understandable voice of Arab nationalism who fights neoconservative nation-building into a creepy international pariah. Barack Obama, remember, advocated the resumption of diplomatic relations with Syria — which had been ended by Bush in 2005 over Syria's overt efforts to promote terrorism — amid Democratic calls in 2008 to reopen direct relations with both Syria and Iran. For most of the last decade, Middle East dictators' anti-Americanism and opposition to the war in Iraq shielded them from liberal criticism.
#page#We may forget that despite John Kerry's current calls one day for NATO bombing of Syrian military installations and the next for the establishment of a Western-enforced "safe zone" for Syrian insurgents, the senior senator from Massachusetts visited Syria frequently in the past few years. Indeed, he once voiced real confidence in the regime: "My judgment is that Syria will move. Syria will change as it embraces a legitimate relationship with the United States and the West and economic opportunity that comes with it and the participation that comes with it." But in fact, as in the case of the about-face concerning Qaddafi, most liberal calls for U.S.-backed efforts to remove Assad follow earlier assurances that he was worth courting in a way that the obstinate George W. Bush could not appreciate. Speaking about Bashar al-Assad in March 2011, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared: "There's a different leader in Syria now. Many of the members of Congress of both parties who have gone to Syria in recent months have said they believe he's a reformer." Perhaps Hillary Clinton was referencing then–House speaker Nancy Pelosi, who in March 2007, at the height of Syria's efforts to send terrorists into Iraq to kill Americans, said of Assad, "We were very pleased with the assurances we received from the president that he was ready to resume the peace process. He's ready to engage in negotiations for peace with Israel." John McCain had it right when he concluded that the Clinton-Kerry-Pelosi assessment was "one of the great delusionary views in recent foreign-policy history."
Where, then, does this incoherence leave us? Conservatives should not oppose U.S. efforts to topple Assad simply because of the abject hypocrisy of the liberals who found him worth reaching out to when Bush was president but wish for his downfall now. Their inconsistency does not change the fact that Assad's departure would be in America's interest.
But this fact raises two questions: At what cost, and what follows? Since ground and air power are largely ruled out, we are talking mostly about continuing or increasing covert military assistance to rebels. The theory, apparently, is that we could somehow selectively arm rebel factions in a way that avoids arming the many al-Qaedists and other Islamic terrorists who are involved with those factions.And if the United States failed to keep its arms out of terrorists' hands, then we might at least win some influence through our help. Yet our experience of supplying the Taliban and the Libyan rebels suggests that we would either have no leverage with Syrian Islamist dissidents or incur their hostility.
What is sorely lacking is a Middle East policy that deemphasizes particular countries and personalities and instead applies a consistent general standard. The criterion should be that the United States supports those who advocate constitutional democracyand opposes those who do not, and we should honestly accept that this standard sometimes has costly consequences. The Obama administration, in contrast, was silent when nearly a million Iranian reformers hit the streets in the spring of 2009. It belatedly treated Hosni Mubarak as the Carter administration had the Shah of Iran in 1979, and thereby suffered the same fate: that of alienating friends and looking weak to enemies and neutrals. In Libya, the administration's stated policy of "leading from behind" was a euphemism for coming late and opportunistically into the conflict and outsourcing the more publicized bombing to Britain and France. And in Syria, the administration is above all adaptable — after resetting with Syria, it now calls for Assad's removal to the degree the rebels seem to be winning in a given month, and it supports negotiations when the insurgency stalls.
Why the incoherence? Because the Obama administration cannot quite square the various circles of its own making. It refuses to open up oil-rich federal lands for petroleum and natural-gas exploration, but then wonders why corrupt and illiberal Gulf sheikhdoms possess the power to veto American foreign policy. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate champions human rights in the abstract, but does not acknowledge that such idealism usually hinges on American exceptionalism and a willingness to incur costs — lest he be tarred with the interventionist slur that not so long ago he readily leveled at others.
The administration — through hare-brained schemes such as attempting to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a civilian court or euphemisms such as relegating Major Nidal Hasan's mass murder to the category of workplace violence — has assured us that Islamism is an invention of the paranoid right wing and that the Muslim Brotherhood is evolving into a secular political force. And yet, according to some reports, the administration privately remains worried that al-Qaedists and their ilk are infiltrating the very dissident groups of the Arab Spring that it hopes to help and influence.
Until the United States develops fully its own natural-gas and oil reserves, becomes honest about the dangers of radical Islam, and articulates an across-the-board policy that promotes constitutional government in place of authoritarianism, its policies regarding anti-authoritarian uprisings will seem not just opportunistic, but ineptly so.
– Mr. Hanson is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the author, most recently, of The End of Sparta, a novel about ancient freedom.


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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Retail stocks were little changed on Wednesday as investors digested President Barack Obama's State of the Union address and awaited data on new home sales and the latest statement from the Federal Open Market Committee. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. WMT, -1.24% shares fell 0.4%. The retail giant said Walmart Canada plans to open 40 supercenters in the fiscal year starting Feb. 1, including entry to two new provinces, Manitoba and Quebec. Walmart Canada, started in 1994, operates 323 stores, the retail giant said. The S&P Retail Index $rlx was little changed at 506.00.
Retail stocks flat ahead of new-home-sales data
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Spotlight on Innovation
Wednesday, 01 Nov
16:15 - 17:30
This fast paced 'Innovation Showcase' session will begin with a panel featuring venture capitalists, investors, and industry experts sharing their thoughts on what makes a successful venture in telecommunications today. Following this, a series of start-ups will pitch their company to the panel and audience. After a live audience vote, the winner will be granted the opportunity to speak at next year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.