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A man who was abducted as a toddler 32 years ago was finally reunited with his biological parents Monday, with the help of facial recognition technology.
Mao Yin was taken from his family in 1988 when he was two years old while outside of a hotel in the Chinese city of Xi'an, in Shaanxi province. He was then sold to a childless couple in the neighboring Sichuan province, according to Chinese state-broadcaster CCTV.
Authorities said they were still investigating the initial abduction and did not release further information about Mao's adoptive parents.
Mao was raised by his adoptive parents as Gu Ningning, without knowing his biological parents had been searching for him for more than three decades, the report said.
In late April, police in Xian received a tip-off that a man in Sichuan province had bought a child from Shaanxi in the late-1980s, state news agency Xinhua reported.
The police used facial recognition technology to analyze an old photo of Mao as a boy and came up with a simulated image of him as an adult, which was then compared with photos in the national database, according to CCTV. It did not give details about the database or the process of how the photos were compared.
After a series of investigations and comparisons, the police tracked down a man in the city of Mianyang who resembled the image of Mao. He was later confirmed to be the missing son using a DNA test, Xinhua reported.
Mao Yin goes through a photo album with his mother Li Jingzhi and father Mao Zhenping following their reunion on Monday.
On Monday, 34-year-old Mao was reunited with his biological parents at a news conference held by the Xi'an police.
Emerging from a side door of the conference hall, Mao called out to his mother and ran toward her. The family of three broke down in tears in a long embrace, the livestream of the news conference broadcast live by CCTV showed.
"I don't want him to leave me anymore. I won't let him leave me anymore," his mother, Li Jingzhi, said as she held tightly to her son's hand.
Mao, who now runs a home decoration business in Sichuan, said he would move to Xi'an to live with his biological parents, according to CCTV.
Following Mao's disappearance, Li quit her job and devoted herself to the quest of searching for her son. She sent out more than 100,000 flyers and went on numerous national television programs. She also became a volunteer, collecting information about other missing children and helping 29 of them reunite with their families.
According to CCTV, Mao had seen Li talking about her missing son on television before, and was moved by her persistence -- but little did he realize he was the boy she had spent decades looking for.
There is no official tally on how many children are kidnapped in China each year. On the website "Baby Come Home," a widely-used platform for Chinese parents to post missing child notices, more than 51,000 registered families are searching for their children.
According to Xinhua, police have found and reunited more than 6,300 abducted children with their families since the Ministry of Public Security set up a nationwide DNA database in 2009 to match parents with missing children.


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I have this annoyance for a long time now: every Text cell uses the default font size, though it appears too small on my screen. See comparison of same text, same font (Times New Roman), same fontsize (12), same magnification (100%) on Word 2003 (left) and Mathematica 8.0.1 (right). The Screen Environment
menu option is set to Working
, though none of the other environments gives the proper visual size: some are even smaller (very hard to read), and e.g. Presentation
gives enormous letters. I thought that a given fontsize should produce the same look-and-feel, though this is definitely not the case here. Of course I can set the fontsize larger in Mathematica, but then the problem manifests when I print the notebook (text will be too large).
Has anyone else experienced this?

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Aaron sends us these knuckles with the following story:
Since childhood, many horrific moments came to help shape who I am. Suffering mental abuse, physical abuse and rape at an early age set the standards for my path of self-destruction. Fighting and run-ins with authority figures. Battles with depression, self-loathing and alcohol abuse came to define who I was. My young son was diagnosed with a rare cancer at age two and received a bone marrow transplant. Diagnosed with severe anxiety and panic disorders were the outcome. No more. I refuse to be a victim because I shall never admit defeat. My knuckles remind me to STAY CALM in whatever may be thrown my way and to act with compassion and patience. Believe in the power of Positive Mental Attitude. It just might help you save your life.


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The Most Arresting Performance of Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody' You Will Ever See, From the Back of a Cop Car
Move over, Adam Lambert! Our choice for Queen's new lead singer is here in the form of an (allegedly) intoxicated man arrested somewhere in Canada, who responds by singing 'Bohemian Rhapsody' -- every bit of it -- in the back of a police car.
As reported by Spinner, the detainee first tries to wrangle his way out of trouble by invoking some magical "brotherhood of men on the planet Earth" get-out-of-jail-free card, and gosh, do the Royal Canadian Mounted Police up front probably wish they had taken him up on that deal.
But they declined, the fools, and instead were subjected to a very loud, passionate and surprisingly complete rendition of the legendary track from 1975's 'A Night at the Opera.' Our bearded friend even adds some percussion near the end, just in case his captors' headaches hadn't reached a critical point yet.
Someday college essays will be composed comparing and contrasting the vast differences in tone, mood and setting between this grainy, desperate black and white cry for understanding, and the world's previously most famous 'Rhapsody' in a car video, the euphoric big-budget celebration of life we know as the opening scene from 'Wayne's World.' Party on, Garth!
Watch an Arrested Man Perform Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody'


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By the lack of postings one could wonder if I ever came down from the high that BlogHer Food and San Francisco. I did. I actually gave myself one day to catch up and crashed hard on Wednesday evening. Responsibilities hit me up again the following day. I love that work is insane and insanely good. I don't like that it keeps me away from here this much. I definitely rely on a 4 o'clock break complete with cookies and milk. Or as it was the case this week, doughnuts and hot chocolate!
I am not one to be afraid of deep frying but I certainly am one to shy away from making doughnuts that often. I know I will end up eating too many. Right out of the hot oil. Almost. Perfectly brown. Crisp and soft. Lightly sprinkled with powdered sugar. Simple is always best but there is a place and time to venture out in baking. Especially when it comes to doughnuts. S'Mores Doughnut specifically.
Thanks to Lara Ferroni and her book "Doughnuts: Simple and Delicious Recipes to Make at Home", I only have to sit there and pick the next one. I know for having been part of her testing panel that all the recipes have been seriously and thoroughly discussed, dissected and perfected. I could not have possibly tested them all and started making a list of the ones to bake once her book would be out. S'mores doughnuts of course, but also Apple Cider, Creme Brulees, Sopapillas, Loukoumades, Carrot Cake…there is literally a doughnut and a glaze for every friend you have.
You get it. I liked the book. A lot. The doughs, the glazes, the fillings. The regulars like Basic Raised Yeast doughnuts, the basic cake, the chocolate version. And a impeccable gluten free version. Maple glaze, bourbon, caramel, chocolate. There four pages of these for your belly's delights. See? Not kidding when I tell you there something for everyone.
If you are into visuals, Lara's book is truly the proverbial feast for your eyes. And how could it be otherwise with Lara's talent as a photographer and stylist. Knowing what goes into a shoot when working/acting as a single agent, from the shopping, cooking, styling, photographing, all the way to post processing, you can tell that Lara poured her heart and perfectionism into this book.
It shows. It's fun, it's straight foward, it's generous in details and instructions and it's quirky at times. Much like Lara…
So far this week, I made the Gluten Free Raised Doughnuts with a citrus glaze and the S'Mores Doughnuts. Wish I had not ran out of gluten free flours when I decided to make these but from the look on B's face as he chowed through a couple, I know I must make them again this week! Stay tuned for another doughnut post…Both versions of the basic yeasted doughnut were equally easy to work with and very close in texture which is no small order in gluten free baking. That makes me very very happy for the rest of the recipes in the book.
Bravo Lara! Hard work pays off, period. Wishing your book plenty of sweet and delicious success! I am honored everyday by your friendship and generosity.
S'Mores Doughnuts (reprinted with Lara's permission)
Makes 8 to 12
4 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted, divided
10 graham crackers, finely crushed
2 teaspoons superfine sugar
1 batch Basic Raised dough (recipe follows)
1 tablespoon milk or water
twelve 1-ounce squares milk or dark chocolate
48 mini marshmallows
Stir together 3 tablespoons of the melted butter, graham crackers and sugar. Cover and set aside.
Prepare the dough as directed through the proofing stage. Roll the dough to just a bit more than 1/4 -inch thick. Cut into 3-inch diameter rounds. Roll out half of the rounds to about a 3 1/4-inch diameter. To assemble, lightly brush each wider round with the milk or water and place a square of chocolate and 4 mini marshmallows in the center of each. Top with the smaller rounds and lightly pinch to seal. Then recut with the same cutter to seal the edges.
Fry the doughnuts as directed and let cool for only 3 minutes. Brush each doughnut with a little melted butter, then dip into the graham cracker mixture. Serve immediately.
Basic Raised Dough:
3 tablespoons (22grams) active dry yeast, divided
1 cup of whole milk, heated to 110ºF, divided
2 to 2 1/2 cups bread flour, divided
2 tablespoons (30 grams) superfine sugar
½ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
3 egg yolks
½ stick (4 tablespoons / 2 oz) unsalted butter or vegetable shortening
vegetable oil for frying
In a medium bowl, dissolve 2 tablespoons of the yeast into ¾ cup of the milk. Add ¾ cup of flour and stir to create a smooth paste. Cover and let rest in a warm spot for 30 minutes.
Combine the remaining milk and yeast in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Add the rested flour mixture along with the sugar, salt, vanilla, and egg yolks. Mix until smooth. Turn off the mixer and add ½ cup of the remaining flour. Mix on low for about 30 seconds. Add the butter and mix until it becomes incorporated, about 30 seconds. Switch to a dough hook and add more flour, about ¼ cup at a time with the mixer turned off, kneading the dough at medium speed between additions, until the dough pulls completely away from the sides of the bowl and is smooth and not too sticky. It will be very soft and moist, but not so sticky that you can't roll it out. You may have flour left over. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 1 hour (and up to 12 hours).
Line a baking sheet with a lightly floured non-terry dish towel. Roll out the dough on a slightly floured surface to ½ inch thick. With a doughnut or cookie cutter (can use a glass, too) cut out 3-inch-diameter rounds with 1-inch-diameter holes (for filled doughnuts, don't cut out the holes).
Place the doughnuts on the baking sheet at least 1 inch apart and cover with plastic wrap. Let sit in a warm spot to proof until they almost double in size, 5 to 20 minutes, testing at five-minute intervals. To test whether the dough is ready, touch lightly with a fingertip. If it springs back immediately, it needs more time. If it springs back slowly, it is ready. If it does not spring back at all, it has overproofed; no worries- you can punch it down and re-roll it once.
While the doughnuts are proofing, heat a heavy-bottomed pot with at least 2 inches of oil until a thermometer registers 360F. With a metal spatula, carefully place the doughnuts in the oil. Fry for 1 to 2 minutes per side or until golden brown. Remove with a slotted spoon, drain on a wire rack over a paper towel, and let cool before glazing.
Disclosure: the book was sent by Lara's publisher as a thank you for being one of her recipe testers.


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Oroville's Feather River Fish Hatchery (FRFH) released over 11.3 million young Chinook salmon smolts into the waters of the Feather River, San Pablo Bay, and San Francisco Bay from March to June 2022 to support Northern California and Pacific Ocean fisheries. These fish include both spring and fall-run Chinook salmon.
DWR Updates
With California in the third year of a severe drought and facing continued extreme weather swings, DWR has been developing and using new data and forecasting tools to better anticipate and manage available water supplies.
Jonas Minton, who served Californians for decades as a member of the DWR team and Deputy Director, passed away this week at the age of 73.
Lake Oroville Community Update for June 24, 2022.
DWR's Operations and Maintenance Apprentice Program has released four exams in 2022 for the paid apprenticeship program as an electrician, operator, mechanic, or utility craftsworker. The exams, available from June 24 to 30th, are the first step to applying for a career in the hydroelectric industry.
As California's severe drought worsens, DWR and State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board) are taking action to help small and rural communities.
Lake Oroville Community Update for June 17, 2022.
DWR was one of two public agencies to be inducted into the first-ever Climate Leadership Awards Hall of Fame at the national Climate Leadership Conference for its ongoing work to address California's changing climate and evolving water management challenges.
DWR along with a dedicated task force within the department guided by the Capitol Collaborative on Race and Equity program crafted a comprehensive and sustainable Racial Equity Action Plan aimed at advancing an honest and critical assessment of its work and identify racial inequities that exist within its programs, policies, and institutional cultu ...
Lake Oroville Community Update for June 10, 2022.


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Clover Earrings
Width 5cm
Length 8cm
Please allow up to 7 working days production time for your order.
If you require your jewellery in a shorter timespan, please contact us to see if we can help.
Due to the handmade nature of the jewellery including natural materials and vintage pieces, unique imperfections can occur in some designs. We believe this contributes to the beauty and the story of the products.


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Welcome to Om Shanti Music online!!! – Music that elevates
Music is considered divine because it is not only a science but also a means for attaining salvation. Infact, it is considered the easiest way to mukti. Enjoyment or singing of music involves forgetting other things and becoming one with music. This transcent is reminiscent of our union with God. Music without devotion is empty. It is always a means for higher attainment; not just pleasure.
Brahma Kumaris Om Shanti Music online provides a bouquet of musical tools and techniques for personal upliftment. All content of this e-list have been created by both our professional and dedicated artists and lecturers who have taken and continue to take benefit from the deep and profound experiences gained through the meditation and self development courses. The insights and personal experiences contained herein are of the knowledge, commentaries, sounds and experiences gained through an ancient meditation practice known as Rajayoga Meditation.


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No holiday on the western calendar has the body of music devoted to it that Christmas does. Some of the greatest composers and lyricists who've ever lived had included Christmas music in their repertoires and the legacy they left is some of the most emotional music there is.
I have a bunch of favorite Christmas songs and carols, It would be impossible to pick a single favorite. One that rarely fails to bring a tear to my eye is In the Bleak Midwinter.
In 1906, no less than Gustav Holst set it to music and a classic was born. Holst set his arrangement up for congregational singing and his version, the version here, is known as the Cranham. In 1909 Harold Edward Darke rearranged it to accommodate soloists and the Darke setting comes across as feeling more triumphal and is the version usually performed by full choirs
So now that it's Christmas, I want to wish all of you a merry one and I want to thank you for another great year at Kitchen and Residential Design.


text: Brannan Island has 102 family campsites in two loops; the Cottonwood loop and the Willow loop. Each campsite has a fire ring, picnic table and ample room for several tents on the surrounding lawn areas. There are 13 recreational vehicle sites near the boat berthing basin. These thirteen sites come with a boat berth for the same fee as a regular campsite. Near the berthing area and included in the price of a boat berth are several walk-in campsites. The campgrounds all have restroom facilities with pay showers nearby. All the family and recreational vehicle sites accommodate up to eight people and three vehicles. Six group campsites are located in the north section of the park, near the park's day use area. The group sites can accommodate 30 people and 10 vehicles per site. Near the park entrance is the Rally Site which can accommodate large groups of recreational vehicles or groups desiring a large area for their group camp-outs.


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As your mother always said, practice makes perfect. Luckily, every day you are presented with countless opportunities to perfect your posture while sitting, walking, sleeping and...showering.
Lathering is a good time to practice healthy posture
Yes, that's right. You can, and should, be aware of your posture even while performing the most mundane of tasks. So before your next shower, take a few meditative minutes to enjoy the healing properties of warm water...and then pause before you grab your shampoo bottle. Why? Because the half-minute you spend lathering your hair is probably the most vulnerable shower-time for your back.
Just before you lather is an important time to pause and set your posture
Most people in industrial cultures, when lifting their arms above their head, will sway their backs and put themselves at risk for a couple of problems. Swaying is an excessive arching of the back that compresses spinal discs and compromises circulation around the spine--not good. In the shower, be careful not to lean your head too far back while shampooing because this movement can exacerbate the sway.
Raising the arms above the head can easily result in a swayback
To prevent this, I recommend a technique called "anchoring the ribcage". I teach this maneuver to students to help them achieve a healthy shape in the low back. To anchor your ribcage, you want to contract your internal oblique abdominal muscles to pull the front of the rib cage downward and inward. This is easier said than done! Your goal is to lengthen and straighten your low back. To isolate the internal obliques (as opposed to rectus abdominis, the ab muscle modern Westerners are more aware of and tend to overuse), it helps to guide the action with your forearm or fists. Place either your forearm or your fists over the lower border of your ribcage (you want to feel bone), and gently press backwards so as to rotate your ribcage forward a little.
Gently pushing back on the lower border of your ribcage helps rotate the ribcage forward and fix a sway back
When you think you've got it, you can assess the spinal groove in your low back with your fingers. A healthy low back shape has a mild groove, embedded bumps (your vertebrae), and soft ridges on either side of the groove. If you feel taut muscle ridges on either side of a deep spinal groove, then your back is still swayed. Perform this maneuver to maintain a relaxed and lengthened position next time you shampoo. Lather, rinse, repeat, and before you know it, you'll be a proper posture pro!
Esther demonstrating how to anchor the ribcage to prevent swaying the lower back
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We also offer in person or online Initial Consultations with any of our qualified Gokhale Method teachers.


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An International Crime Called Gaza
By Dr. Elias Akleh
28 December , 2009
A fully pre-meditated international crime of genocide has been taking place during the last 62 years in the heart of the Arab World. The victims are the Palestinian people especially those in the Gaza Strip. The assassin is the worst ever terrorist group deceptively called the Israeli Defense Forces under the leadership of the theocratically most racist "god's chosen" deceitfully self-proclaimed "democratic Jewish-only" Israel . Israel had been created, financed, armed, and politically protected by, mainly, British and American rapture-vision-obsessed Talmudist power elites consisting of profit-seeking financiers and military-industrial complex.
In December 2008 this Israeli Terrorist Forces added another war crime to its long list of war crimes against the Palestinians since 1948. One more time the international political community had become an accomplice to one more Israeli war crime either by being a passive silent witness or by becoming an active participant and protector of Israeli war criminals. One more international war crime had been perpetrated against the Palestinians. It is an international crime since multi political regimes; Israeli, American, European and even Arab governments, had joined in this crime that is STILL GOING ON up to this very minute.
For almost the last three years Israel had subjected Gaza to an illegal economic siege, which in itself constitutes a crime against humanity. Israel had, and still is, preventing the entry into Gaza of vital life sustaining products such as food stuff, fuel, medicine and needed medical equipment, water purification equipment and many building materials. This is a genocidal crime using hunger and thirst as weapons.
Starting late December of 2008 and for continuous 22 days Israeli terrorist army had perpetrated a genocidal war crime against Gaza Palestinians. The Israeli army, known to be the fourth powerful army in the world, attacked unarmed civilian Palestinians of Gaza comprising mostly of children, women, and old people. There was no regular army in Gaza to face the well equipped, well trained to murder Israeli army. Only few male civilians, who took it on themselves to carry the light arms they could obtain to resist the Israeli war criminals in order to protect their own families.
The Israeli military radio station announced that half of the Israeli air force had conducted 2500 air sorties dropping a total of 1,000,000 KG of explosives on the civilian families of Gaza . This is not counting the shells fired by the artillery and tanks. They had used high precision GPS -guided bombs to destroy vital locations such as the UN food warehouse and schools, government buildings, hospitals and medical clinics, religious buildings and civilian institutions.
From his observation of the video taped explosions in Gaza , the British weapons expert Dy Williams concluded that the Israeli army had used DIME bombs to guarantee murder of victims, Phosphorous bombs producing 900 centigrade degrees of heat, and DU bombs producing 5,000 centigrade degrees of heat, that is equal to the heat of the sun surface.
The Israeli soldiers, themselves, had admitted and boasted to "Breaking The Silence" organization of committing war crimes in Gaza . These included, among many, the deliberate murder of civilians including women and children, using civilians as human shields, shelling homes after hording groups of civilians inside, destroying and vandalizing properties and civilian homes, and writing hate and racial graffiti on walls.
Israeli criminal leaders were not satisfied with mere destruction of Gaza infrastructures, contaminating agricultural land and water, and murdering some 1500 Palestinians. They had carefully chosen the most lethal weapons of mass destruction (WMD)that will cause the death of Palestinians, who survived the attack, and the death of their future born generations. Besides their devastating environmental contamination effects the Israeli bombs were found to have long lasting reproductive toxic, carcinogenic, genotoxic, fetotoxic and pathogenic effects on humans.
A study titled "Craters Gaza 2006/09 and respectively WP Bomb Gaza 2009" published on www.newweapons.org was done by Prof. Mario Barbieri CNR, Rome, Prof. Maurizio Barbieri, University of Rome, and Prof. Paola Manduca, University of Genova. They analyzed dirt samples from four bomb craters in Gaza , and residual components of spent Israeli bombs. Their analyses found unusual concentrations of Molybdenum (male sperm toxicant), copper, nickel, cadmium and Mercury (carcinogenics), Tungsten (genotoxic and fetotoxic), Zinc and Manganese (carcinogenic and fetotoxic) Aluminium (fetotoxic and pathogen affecting nervous system and kidneys), and Cobalt (DNA repair inhibitor and mutagenic).
Even now, after a year of the Israeli barbaric war crimes against Gaza , the Israeli air force bombards life vital centers, while the Israeli army use bulldozers to raze fertile farm lands, destroy crops, and shoot farmers. The Israeli attack boats have become worse than the Somali pirates. They attack and sink Palestinian fishing boats. They fire at, kidnap, and confiscate international humanitarian aid materials loaded on boats of "Free Gaza" organizations.
In a blatant violating of all international laws and a disdain to all humanitarian appeals the terrorist Israeli state had severely tightened its military siege against the Gaza Strip after the end of its last onslaught in January 2009. Palestinians in Gaza are living without clean drinking water, bare minimum food, without electricity, and without the necessary medical supplies. This is a real holocaust. A holocaust is the premeditated plan to exterminate masses of people (such as the 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza), whether through gassing, incendiary phosphorous, DU and WMD bombs, hunger and thirst, or any other means leading to mass death.
Instead of coming to the aid of Palestinians the UN reverted to its old tactic of blaming the Palestinian victims and Ban KI-moon requesting a permanent cease fire. In its meeting the UN had totally ignored the Palestinian elected Hamas government; a major part of this conflict. Rather it listened to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who humiliatingly begged the UN for help, promising to do "everything" to secure peace. In an indirect way he blamed Hamas government and did not even criticize Israel 's aggression.
The UNSC issued Resolution 1860 that ignored realities of Israeli genocide of Palestinians, exonerated the Israeli terrorists, blamed the Palestinian victims (as usual) and equated them with the Israeli terrorist army. It stressed the urgency of and called for an immediate durable ceasefire leading to full withdrawal of Israeli forces. It called for efforts to prevent alleged illicit trafficking of arms into Gaza (but not the sale of arms to Israel ). Thus denying the Palestinians any means of defending their lives against terrorist Israel . It misrepresented the conflict as a humanitarian crisis by calling the international community to provide humanitarian aid to alleviate the suffering of Gazans. This is not a humanitarian crisis; an Israeli occupation. It is a political conflict with grave humanitarian consequences. This is a genocidal holocaust of 1.5 Palestinians through thirst, starvation and use of WMD. THIS IS BLATANT NAKED WAR CRIMES.
Ban Ki-moon was sent to visit Gaza after the Israeli onslaught. He cared only to check the bombed UN warehouse and schools but not the civilian sufferings. He cared more about buildings than humans. He later expressed his "pleasure" that Israeli leaders had agreed to meet with UN representatives to discuss precautions that further "accidental bombing" of UN facilities could be avoided. Thus meeting with Israeli war criminals has become a UN pleasure. He stated, further, that he would close any investigation into Israel 's war crimes.
Whatever Israel bombs and destroys Western donors volunteer to pay for. These donor countries pledged $4.5 Billion for Gaza reconstruction on the condition that such money is paid to Abbas' Palestinian Authority and not Hamas. After a whole year of the onslaught, Gaza Palestinians had never received one cent of that money, and no reconstruction had even started. Most of the money had gone into the private pockets of Abbas' gang and to his security forces.
After the failure of Israeli siege of Gaza and its onslaught on the Strip to destroy the democratically elected Hamas government The Western countries stepped in to produce harsher measures. In February 2009 experts from nine Western countries (US, UK , France , Canada , Germany , Italy , Spain , the Netherlands , and Norway ) met in Copenhagen to discuss ways of combating alleged weapons smuggling into Gaza . Their main concentration was to use Egypt as a land front to further tighten the siege against Gaza , specifically to target the underground tunnels Gazans use to smuggle in food stuff, goods, and fuel. They also decided to send NATO warships into the Mediterranean , Red Sea , and Persian Gulf to intercept alleged weapon smuggling from Iran to Gaza .
At the end of January 2009 French President Nicolas Sarkozy sent a frigate with helicopters to the waters off Gaza to combat arms smuggling into Palestinian territories. He ordered his Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner to coordinate closely with the US and EU to come up with more effective ways to fight arms smuggling on land and sea. Sarkozy said: "We have pledged to help Israel and Egypt with all the technical, military, naval and diplomatic ways to help end the smuggling of weapons into Gaza ."
British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, issued an order to deploy the British Navy to the region to help fight weapons smuggling. "We'll send Royal Navy to help fight weapon smuggling" He stated courageously. Latest British scandal came this month when its Foreign Office Minister Ivan Lewis said that UK is urgently looking into reforming its laws to protect Israeli war criminals, such as Tzibi Levni, from being arrested.
Germany sent end of January border police exports and equipment to detect and destroy tunnels in Gaza Strip. German Deputy Interior Minister, August Hanning, claimed that Egypt had requested the detection equipment and the technical skills.
The newly elected American President at the time Barak Obama had also sent American vessels into the region to board all suspected vessels of smuggling weapons. He also had asked the Gulf States , especially Saudi Arabia , to help combat arms smuggling. The US had sent surveillance cameras and underground sound sensors to Egypt to be installed on the border with Gaza . Recently the US Army Corps of Engineers had constructed treated steel plates and is helping Egypt install them as an underground wall on the Gaza border to prevent tunnel digging.
While denying Palestinians acquire any arms for self defense the US and EU member states are major arms exporters to Israel . According to figures from Brussels the European Union member states authorized the export of €200 million in arms exports to Israel in 2007, with France far and away the Israel 's biggest European weapons supplier. According to the EU's 2008 report on arms export licenses, published in December for the 2007 calendar year and consolidating the accounts that member states must annually submit, 18 member states authorized a total of 1,018 such licenses to Israel worth €199,409,348.
The US is the largest arms exporter to Israel . Successive American Administration had sold Israel the latest and most technologically and most devastating weapons. According to Amnesty International the US had provided Israel with $8.3 Billion worth or weapons between 2004 and 2007. In 2002 the US granted Israel $21 Billion worth in military aid. Israel 's 2006 war against Lebanon and its 2008/09 war against Gaza were carried using American weapons. Still Obama's administration had delivered late last January 14,000 tons of weapons to Israel delivered by the German cargo ship, Wehr Elbe, to Israeli port of Ashdod . Recently, peace prize winner, President Obama has signed off $2.775 Billion in further defense aid for Israel , a part of the $30 Billion over 10 years. Last Monday 12/21 Obama has approved a defense spending bill that includes $2.2 Million in funds for Israel 's missile defense program, more than double what was approved last year. All this while American economy is collapsing, housing crisis is exacerbating, and unemployment rate is rising. It seems for Obama administration the Israeli citizen is more important than the American tax payer. Also refer to my article "Arming Terrorist Israel".
EU and US don't mind breaking their own laws for the sake of arming terrorist Israel . Under Criterion 2 of the EU Code of Conduct on Arms Exports, Member States are supposed to "deny an export license if there is a clear risk that the proposed export might be used for internal repression, or be used in the commission of serious violations of international humanitarian laws". Israel is proved to commit both offenses.
The US breaks three of its own arms export laws; US Arms Export Control Act (P.L. 80-829), Foreign Assistance Act (P.L. 97-195), and the Leahy Law (Foreign Ops Appropriation Act).
With such extraordinary consorted international efforts and the use of such amassed technical and military powers one would imagine that Israel , EU and US are fighting a war against a great global enemy not impoverished and starved civilians trying to survive on a small and narrow war-scorched strip of land. The reality is that this international power is fighting the resisting spirit of these people against colonial occupation. They are afraid that such spirit may spread over and impede their own occupation in the region. To destroy this spirit these Western governments are willing to unconditionally support terrorist Israel financially, militarily and politically, on the expense of their citizens tax payers despite their own economic crises and joblessness.
The worst accomplices in this international crime are the Arab governmental regimes, who are supposed to protect their Palestinian brothers from such a holocaust. Rather than united in one nation, one government, one military, and one economy Arab leaders had, instead, asserted the division of the Sykes-Picot Agreement. Thus they keep themselves weak and vulnerable to foreign occupation, interference and control that can be overtly and covertly seen in almost every Arab state. The Arab League is just a tool to keep the leaders in a chaotic disagreement unable to make any national decision. For the last 61 years they have watched Palestinian land gradually gobbled by the Zionist occupation and had not taken any significant action to free Palestine . Rather they spend their Billion oil money in buying obsolete weapons to rust in the desert. Finally they stopped financing Palestine freedom fighters and surrendered the penniless Palestinian Authority to the merciless manipulation of the pro-Israeli Western donor countries. While some had completely withdrawn from the Arab/Israeli conflict, others like Jordanian and Egyptian regimes had actively contributed to the suppression of all forms of Palestinian resistance against Israeli occupation.
During the Israeli 22 days onslaught on Gaza Arab leaders kept coming up with unreasonable excuses for not convening an urgent summit meeting. When they finally did meet, they, as usual, agreed to disagree on how to deal with the Israeli aggression. They finally begged the UN to interfere. Such delay gave Israelis longer time to murder more Palestinians and destroy more homes.
The Arab League, later on, issued a resolution calling for breaking Israel 's siege of Gaza , yet they donated money to Abbas' security forces, controlled by American general Dayton , to oppose the democratically elected Hamas government. Instead of feeding the starving Palestinians in Gaza the League is spending $50 Million to protect the lives of endangered marine turtles on 8000 square meters coast land off Al-Arish in Egypt . What a humanitarian gesture!
Like all colonial puppet local regimes, the present Palestinian Authority, under the leadership of Mahmoud Abbas and his thugs, had hijacked the Palestinian leadership and offered Palestine and its people on the Israeli alter to glorify a genocidal god and his chosen people. My previous articles ( here and here ) discuss the betrayal of the present Palestinian Authority. This betrayal was recently exposed by Israeli audio and video recording of these so-called Palestinian leaders urging the Israelis to attack Gaza to finish off the elected Hamas government regardless of any Palestinian casualties. Abbas and his PA had also tried to muffle Goldstone's Reportabout Israel 's crime.
Besides crushing dissidents and any form of pro-Palestinian solidarity, Jordan has become a training campground for Abbas' security forces under the supervision of the American General Keith Dayton. Dayton had established a twin sister of the American School of Assassins to suppress Palestinian resistance. It was reported that about four thousands trainees of this School were ready to enter and control Gaza after the anticipated destruction of Hamas government.
Besides suppressing and robbing its own citizens for the last 28 years, Hosni Mubarak's Egyptian regime has played the most active role, second to Israel , in opposing elected Palestinian government and in the destruction of Gaza and starving its people. To ease Mubarak's conscious for participating in such genocide of his Arab brothers his regime is paid a handsome $2 Billion in the form of American Aid.
Mubarak's regime has committed crimes against humanity by fully participating in the Israeli siege against Gaza . Rather than helping the next door homeless and hungry Arab brothers of Gaza Strip the Mubarak's regime preferred to send, last May, an airplane full with humanitarian aid to Sri Lanka on the opposite side of the globe. This regime was a stubborn obstacle in the face of every international solidarity movement and organizations, who tried to break the siege against Gaza . The regime blocked the entry of thousands of tons of badly needed food aid to Gaza; letting them rot in the desert heat, and finally burn them as spoiled food. Under the deceptive banner of "fighting arms smuggling into Gaza " it erected the most sophisticated surveillance equipment to detect and prevent life-sustaining materials delivered to Gaza through tunnels.
This month, December 2009, Egyptian Mubarak's regime, with the help of American Army Corps Engineers, is building an underground steel wall to block tunnel digging, and is running underground pipes to flood the existing tunnels with sea waters.
Egyptian regime has opposed the elected Hamas Palestinian leadership and sided with the Western puppet Abbas, whose presidency has expired. It has sabotaged all reconciliation attempts between the two Palestinian factions by imposing harsh conditions against Hamas government and altering the text of agreements before signature.
The Egyptian policy towards their Palestinian brothers in Gaza , many of whom carry Egyptian citizenship, was reflected in the confession of its Foreign Minister, Ahmad Aboul-Gheti, in 11 th of November 2008 when he stated that Egypt was closing Rafah Crossing with Gaza to punish a Palestinian faction (Hamas). Opening the Crossing, in his opinion, constitutes recognition of Hamas' legitimacy.
Unlike the silence over the Holocaust during WWII conscientious citizens of these same international criminal governments are actively mobilized to act against terrorist Israel and the genocidal policies of their governments. Through Breaking Gaza Siege Campaigns many of them, such as Viva Palestina and The Hope convoys, are delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza . They have also organized boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaigns to boycott companies that sustain Israeli occupation on Palestine such as Motorola and Caterpillar, as well as academic and cultural boycott of all Israeli academic and cultural institutions, all of them are supported by the Israeli government. The effects of these campaigns had penetrated the blindly pro-Zionist American congress, where on December 18 th Representatives Jim McDermott and Keith Ellison are seeking signature on a "Dear Colleague" letter to President Obama criticizing Israel 's siege of Gaza . Representatives Jim Moran and Bob Inglis are also seeking signatures on another "Dear Colleague" letter to Secretary of State Clinton urging her to pressure Israeli government to end the ban on student travel from Gaza to the West Bank .
This week protests are organized in major countries around the world in US, UK, France, Turkey, Ireland, Germany, Spain, Australia, Belgium, Switzerland, Sweden, Canada, Poland, Denmark, Greece, Jordan, and occupied Palestine (Israel), commemorating the first anniversary of the Israeli onslaught against Gaza.
Under the Principle of Universal Jurisdiction we are witnessing Western courts issuing arrest warrants against Israeli leaders (Tzibi Livni) and army generals (former military chief Moshe Yaalon and General Doron Almog) for committing war crimes. International lawyers are filing for more arrest warrants against more Israeli war criminals. Soon Israeli leaders will be chased across the globe as war criminals the same way Israel had chased German Nazis as war criminals.


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Even with all those nice power saving mechanisms introduced in latest Wi-Fi standards device lifetime is limited to days, while we expect some sensors to operate years without the requirement to maintain its battery. Let's leave alone node number limitation and poor reach if we are talking about providing network coverage in rural, suburbia and city district areas. While low-power WPAN technologies like Bluetooth LE, ZigBee, Z-Wave allows a device to operate from months to years without the need to replace battery they still lacking in such areas as transmission range and amount of connected devices.
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Hello! I wanted to show you some pictures of why I didn't get to be an active participant in the June Papertrey Blog Hop. I had a fantastic time at the Country Stampede. What is the Country Stampede you may ask? It is a 4 day event with like 5-6 country acts a day. Well, I don't usually go to this but my husband works for the radio station that sponsors it so I decided to go once I heard that Danny Gokey, Darius Rucker, and Keith Urban were all going to be there yesterday!
So, if you can bear some non-stamping photos......here we go!!
First up is Danny Gokey.........are any of you American Idol fans? Well, I am and I loved Danny on American Idol with his "where he came from story". What a great show he put on and he is soo cute! Have any of you heard his song.....My Best Days? Here is a link to his video.
We were very close to the stage to the right. We were able to sit in the 94.5 Country VIP section and had access to plenty of cold water and even a little air conditioning once in a while! Now, the port-a-potties that's a different story! Yuck, Yuck, Yuck! Especially in the dark!
I had to use my phone to see where to go! I know, TMI!! :)
On to Keith Urban, I am totally in love with him! Can you say HOT? Here are some pictures of him singing. I didn't realize he could play the guitar like that! Wow! Now these pictures do no justice to seeing him up close but a little on that in a minute!
Well, now we get to the awesome part of the concert!! Keith Urban was singing to the right side of the stage and then he jumped into the crowd and started going down the main VIP aisles. Then he jumped over the fence into the 94.5 Country VIP section (you see where I'm going now?)!!!!! He walked right past me!! Now, I was so star struck that he walked right by me that I didn't even get a good picture up close! This is the best I got but this was during the madness of his security guys trying to keep the GA people away from him!! That's Keith Urban with his arm up!
I tried to download a short video I took of him singing his song "Kiss a Girl" but I'm not sure why it wouldn't upload. Here is a link to his song video. Yesterday was actually Keith Urban and Nichole Kidman's anniversary. He talked a couple of times about how she's the best thing that's happened to him. He seems like a genuine nice guy and not to mention "nice on the eyes" too!! My friend, Laurie, agrees and she wanted to come so bad but it just didn't work out. We would have had a
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Thanks for letting me vent about my absence from the blog hop last night!
I want to thank those who left comments on my post.
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Tradition says that Thanksgiving as we know it grew out of a celebration 400 years ago. English settlers in Massachusetts suffered a brutal winter. About half of them died. The rest celebrated their first harvest in 1621, after accepting help from Native people who lived nearby. They included the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe. Today, a Wampanoag elder celebrates his 92nd Thanksgiving, and NPR's Neda Ulaby joins him.
NEDA ULABY, BYLINE: You cannot not eat when you visit Earl Mills Sr., aka Chief Flying Eagle, at his modest, blue frame home in Mashpee, Mass.
EARL MILLS SR: Come in.
ULABY: Thank you. Thank you.
MILLS: Come in. Come in.
Well, I got chowder for you.
ULABY: Oyster chowder, butternut squash and a kind of hard-shell clam...
MILLS: Quahogs.
ULABY: ...Caught in Cape Cod Bay and breaded and sauteed by the chief himself in his tidy, white kitchen.
MILLS: Cut him with your fork in half so you don't lose the crumb.
ULABY: Earl Mills Sr. was born in Mashpee in 1929. His father worked as a guide to tourists, taking the likes of President Grover Cleveland on hunting and fishing expeditions. For decades, Mills ran a popular restaurant, serving traditional New England food.
MILLS: I love to cook.
ULABY: Growing up in the 1930s and '40s, Mills enjoyed Thanksgiving meals maybe not unlike what the Wampanoag shared with the Pilgrims.
MILLS: Raccoon, rabbit pie - we might even have a skunk.
ULABY: Skunk?
MILLS: Skunk tastes like - really like roast pork.
SHELLEY POCKNETT: I haven't had skunk.
ULABY: That's Earl Mills' daughter Shelley Pocknett. She's 67 years old, with arresting gray eyes. Thanksgiving with her Wampanoag family, she says, was pretty much like anyone else's.
POCKNETT: Good family, good conversation, good food - really good food - a lot of laughing.
ULABY: But with loving attention, she says, paid to her family's ancestors.
POCKNETT: And you make them a plate. And you put it outside after you've done your tobacco.
ULABY: The tobacco, says Chief Flying Eagle, is a ritual performed at the fire pits many Wampanoags maintain in their backyards.
MILLS: You present the tobacco to the fire. The fire and the smoke bear the message to the spirit world, OK?
ULABY: That message, he says, can be just a greeting to those who came before.
MILLS: You probably say, just checking in - hope everything's going well. It's going well here. The family's good. You certainly helped us to get to this place, and here we are.
ULABY: Even at a moment of reckoning over America's history of violence towards Black, brown and Native people, Chief Flying Eagle is very pro-Thanksgiving.
MILLS: That's a celebration. We have an ongoing Thanksgiving because we give thanks for everything every day. We celebrate the whole universe - our thanks to it.
ULABY: Still, his tribe is one of only three that survived out of more than 60 Wampanoag tribes here when the Pilgrims first arrived. Yellow fever killed two-thirds of the Wampanoag Nation. Then came slavery and genocide. At 92 years old, Chief Flying Eagle is only four generations away from that very first Thanksgiving.
MILLS: I think about it all the time.
ULABY: But, he says, it does not make him sad.
MILLS: No, nothing about what's going on is sad for me. I have no control over it. The way I look at it is, we're still here. We're still here.
ULABY: So Chief Flying Eagle, Earl Mills Sr., is making his favorite mince pie today, smoked herring, local cranberries and roast turkey with cream sauce with some of his five children, 12 grandchildren - and he does not even remember how many great grandkids - cooking and singing in his Cape Cod kitchen.
MILLS: (Singing) In the meantime, in-between time, ain't we had fun?
ULABY: Earl Mills Sr. says, if you can hear this, you're invited to his 93rd Thanksgiving next year.
Neda Ulaby, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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One of the best things about getting older has been the fact that I can now do more woodworking tasks "by feel" than "by eye."
As my already-crappy eyesight has become dulled by middle age, I've found that my other senses – particularly my sense of touch – have become heightened. I cannot always see a knife line, but I can feel it with my saw, chisel or plane.
Same goes with the dreaded tear-out – I can feel it coming through the tote and knob of my handplane before I see it in a shaving or on the wood itself. This feedback allows me to correct things during my stroke – usually rotating the plane's body slightly – to improve the feedback.
I also can feel when a board is flat or clean – I don't have to inspect every square centimeter (unless I want to).
You don't, however, have to endure 20 years of woodworking to develop this intuition. The shortcut is to simply get a chunk of Tasmanian blackwood (Acacia melanoxylon) and see if you can plane it without tearing it.
Toolmaker Colen Clenton gave me a hunk of it while I was in Australia this month, and it's from the same board that David Charlesworth's chunk of blackwood comes from. It is nasty stuff, and this particular chunk has bark inclusions, plus sapwood, heartwood and crazy grain. Fun!
This week I decided to see how my planes measure up and record what settings on the tool will produce a clean surface. The results were not surprising. To get clean cuts, you need some combination of the following properties.
1. Sharp iron. Sharp fixes everything.
2. Fine cut. The thinner the shaving, the less tearing.
3. High pitch. Planes that are pitched at 55° or higher have an easier time with blackwood.
4. A close-set chipbreaker. If the plane has a chipbreaker, set it a hair's width from the edge. A chipbreaker isn't a must-have item. I have several planes without breakers that could handle the blackwood easily using the above three characteristics. But if you have a breaker, you might as well use it.
5. Tight mouth. Closing the mouth tight seems to help, though not as much as the top three characteristics.
6. Stop skewing. Skewing the tool lowers your effective cutting angle, which can increase tearing. Plane the grain directly 90° to the grain.
Oh, and all of the above tips are for naught if your plane does not have a well-bedded iron and a reasonably flat sole.
The Doomsday Board
Oh, this might be a good place to mention that I do own one board that is completely unplaneable. It's a piece of perfectly straight-grained Douglas fir. John Economaki of Bridge City Tool Works sent it to me a couple years ago and suggested I give it a go.
So I took a single stroke on its face, and my plane iron was trashed – it looked like a toothed iron for veneer work.
I took a close look at the board. It looked normal in every way. I resharpened my iron and tried a different face. Again, my iron looked jagged, like a bread knife, after only one stroke.
What's the deal?
Economaki explained that the board was from a tree that was near Mount St. Helens during its 1980 eruption. The wood was completely impregnated with tiny bits of volcanic crap. And those little bits of volcanic junk were trashing my plane.
The funny thing is that I didn't just throw the board out. I keep it in the lumber rack in case I ever get into a planing contest that is unwinnable.
— Christopher Schwarz
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Using advanced 3-D printing, Dartmouth College researchers have unlocked the key to transforming microscopic nanorings into smart materials that perform work at human-scale.
Nanomachines can already deliver medication and serve as computer memories at the tiny nanometer scale. By integrating a 3-D printing technique pioneered at Dartmouth's Ke Functional Materials Group, researchers may unlock even greater potential for these mini-machines.
The research was published on March 22 in the online edition of Angewandte Chemie, the journal of the German Chemical Society.
"Up until now, harnessing the mechanical work of nanomachines has been extremely difficult. We are slowly getting closer to the point that the tiny machines can operate on a scale that we can see, touch and feel." said Chenfeng Ke, Assistant Professor for Chemistry at Dartmouth College and principle investigator for the research.
In an example provided by Ke, the first-generation smart material lifted a dime weighing 2.268g. The coin, 15 times the weight of the structure that lifted it, was raised 1.6 mm- the equivalent of a human lifting a car.
"Creating nanomachine-based smart material is still extraordinarily complex and we are only just beginning, but this new technique could allow the design and fabrication of complex smart devices that are currently beyond our grasp," said Ke.
The design of the new material is based on Nobel Prize-winning research that turned mechanically interlocked molecules (MIMs) into work-performing machines at nanoscale. Previously, researchers have shown how light, heat and altered pH levels could force movement within a structure -- known as a rotaxane -- composed of rings on a molecular axle. Much the same way beads are threaded onto a string, the sliding -- or shuttling -- of rings along the axle causes the molecules to change shape and store energy.
According to the paper, MIMs are already widely used as molecular shuttles, switches, muscles and pumps. But for years, chemists have been stymied by the problem of ordering their random positions. Establishing such order is critical to keeping the structures from canceling out each other's mechanical movement so that their molecular motions can be amplified.
"Our work provides the first design principle to add 3-D printability to nanomachines. Importantly, we have also transformed molecular motions to macroscale to do useful work," said Ke, who did his post-doctoral research with one of the 2016 Nobel laureates, Sir Fraser Stoddart.
The research group designed and synthesized MIM-based gels with properties desirable for 3-D printing. Utilizing the hydrogen bonding interactions between nanorings, they successfully printed lattice-like 3-D structures. By crosslinking the axles, structures with good 3-D structural integrity and mechanical stability were created.
Researchers found that the complex 3-D architecture of these structures can be reversibly deformed and reformed through solvent exchange that switches the threaded ring structure between random shuttling and stationary states at the molecular level. This shape-changing and recovery behavior was found by to be repeated easily many times.
"Just like moving beads to strengthen or weaken a string, this action is critical because it allows the amplification of molecular motion into macroscopic motion through the conversion of chemical energy input into mechanical work," said Qianming Lin, the first author of the paper and a first-year graduate student in the Department of Chemistry at Dartmouth College.
Ke and his team hopes this advancement will enable scientists to develop smart materials and devices. For example, by adding contraction and twisting to the rising motion, molecular machines could be useful as soft robots that complete complicated tasks similar to a human hand.
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Who Is Spotify's Most Streamed Artist of All Time?
Spotify has a new most streamed artist, and that person just nabbed the largest amount of listeners in one month in the platform's history.
Coming in with 83.3 million monthly listeners — marking the most monthly listeners on the streaming platform — is none other than... Justin Bieber! Chart Data unveiled the new statistic on Saturday (Aug. 28).
This shouldn't come as a surprise as Bieber currently has the No. 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart alongside Kid LAROI with "Stay." Bieber was also recently added to Wizkid and Tems' hit "Essence," which also upped his total number of monthly streams. Additionally, the Canadian superstar is featured on Skrillex and Don Toliver's single "Don't Go."
Bieber also beat out his former collaborator Ariana Grande's record for most monthly. Grande currently comes in with 56.7 million monthly streams.
No other artist currently has over 80 million monthly listeners. In second place is The Weeknd with 74.53 million monthly listeners, followed by Ed Sheeran with 72.41 million.
The most streamed female artist is Dua Lipa, who comes in at 65.5 million monthly listeners. Followed closely behind the "Levitating" singer is Doja Cat with 60.84 million.
Bieber recently broke another major record. In July, the "Peaches" singer became the youngest solo artist to have 100 entries on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart at the age of 27. "Stay," which debuted at No. 3, marked his 100th entry on the chart.
Drake previously held the record at age 28, followed by Lil Wayne at 29. Other artists who have reached the impressive milestone include chart-toppers such as Kanye West, Nicki Minaj, Future and Taylor Swift.


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Provides supervision and development opportunities for members of management and hourly associates by hiring, training, and mentoring
associates; assigning duties; setting clear expectations; providing associate recognition; delegating business objectives effectively; ensuring diversity
and inclusion awareness; and recruiting and developing qualified associates to meet staffing needs and achieve company growth potential.
Drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and communicating business
plans and priorities; removing barriers and obstacles that impact performance; providing resources; identifying performance standards; measuring
progress and adjusting performance accordingly; developing contingency plans; and demonstrating adaptability and supporting continuous learning.
Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by selecting and training; mentoring; assigning duties; building a team-based work
environment; establishing performance expectations and conducting regular performance evaluations; providing recognition and rewards; coaching
for success and improvement; and ensuring diversity awareness.
Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by training and providing direction to
others in their use and application; ensuring compliance with them; and utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy.
Ensures business needs are being met by evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of current plans, programs, and initiatives; consulting with business
partners, managers, co-workers, or other key stakeholders; soliciting, evaluating, and applying suggestions for improving efficiency and cost effectiveness;
and participating in and supporting community outreach events.
Minimum Qualifications...
Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.
1 year's general management experience to include financial accountability.
2 years' of college; OR 1 year's retail experience and 1 year's experience supervising 10 associates/employees; OR 2 years' general work
experience and 1 year's experience supervising 10 associates/employees.
For facilities that sell only ammunition and have state specific requirements, I acknowledge that the position for which I am applying may require a
current state issued Certificate of Eligibility.
For facilities that sell firearms, I acknowledge that the position for which I am applying will require successful completion of a firearms- specific
Criminal Background Check (CBC) and Firearms Authorized Training.
Associates will be required to attend and successfully complete all job-required trainings and assessments (for example, Academy trainings, Open
Door trainings, etc.).
Preferred Qualifications...
Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
Bachelor of Science in Business Management and Leadership through Live Better U and Bellevue University, General work experience supervising 20 or more direct reports to include the responsibility of performance management, mentoring, hiring, and firing
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Your Own Software Store
Whether you are a magazine publisher, website owner or a traditional boxed software retailer, we can give you your own electronic software distribution (ESD) store which will enable you to provide downloadable software to your customers or web users, with the minimum of work required. You receive a commission from every sale, without any commitment, up-front financing, hosting or development work.
Back in 2008 we, Creativemark, wanted to develop a better ESD system to provide software to our web users. From the start we developed our store(s) to enable other companies to offer their own customised, branded store and received a guaranteed payment every month from sales made through your store.
Our store concept is based on the Cleverbridge e-commerce platform that powers the checkout for brands such as Acronis, Laplink, Uniblue, Paragon Software and many others. When you launch your own store based on this platform, you have access to all these brands, plus others than we have signed up, including AVG, Kaspersky, PC Tools, Magix, Cyberlink and others TBC through 2010. Every time we add a brand, these will be available in your store. You can also sell your own products from your store and you are not just limited to downloadable software. Our store concept enables you to provide a backup installation CD, cables and other components that can be sent by post. Your store is based on the Cleverbridge affiliate network. For every sale made through your store, you are paid a commission that is agreed by Cleverbridge and each software developer. As an example, Acronis, Paragon Software and others pay 30%. Uniblue pay 45% commission.
Best of all, there's no commitment, no contract required and you are paid directly by Cleverbridge, by wire transfer, PayPal or check, every month, on approximately the 16th of the month. You have access to your own store transactions (view by hour, day, week, month etc), the number of 'user sessions', cookies stored on your store, so you can quickly see the real-time performance of your store and store products. In addition, you can add tracking to your store so you can use WebTrends, Google Analytics or other advanced web tracking services to see detailed access of your store customers.
Your store can be completely customised. On a basic level, you can have your own store domain (as an example, http://store.yourcompany.com), a branded store header/footer and store newsletter. Your store is independent from other stores on the platform, can host its own adverts (mini-MPUs), sends custom store notification information to your users and much more. You can even have multiple branded stores that operate independently, with their own revenue stream.
Your store can be translated. Each store is powered by our content management system (CMS) that was developed ground-up to provide an independent white label structure, which means that your company could have a store in English and an alternative store in another language. As the store concept is powered by the Cleverbridge platform, the store checkout is automatically available in 18 languages and supports 23 currencies. A customer from the USA can see products priced in USD and order in USD. A customer in Sweden can see prices in Swedish Krona, order in Swedish and purchase in SEK. To your international customers, the store will appear as if it's localised for their territory.
Your Store Questions Answered
What Are Our Store Commitments?
Apart from promoting your store and store products, there are few commitments. We do not ask you to sign a contract, you are not committed long-term, you own and keep control of your own store domain/sub-domain. Each store is based on an affiliate system, so each software product is sold as an affiliate of the original brand, thus commitment is minimal. We simply ask you to promote your store. If you are ever unhappy, you can simply walk away or stop promoting the store. Unlike other store providers, we do not care if you promote software outside the Cleverbridge network or have another store on your website.
How Do We Track Sales & How Much Will We Make From Our Store?
Income various based on each software brand and depends on their affiliate model. The store concept resides on the Cleverbridge affiliate network and your commission depends on each software developer. For example, Acronis, Paragon Software and others pay 30% per sale. Uniblue pay 45%. However, the average transaction warrants 20% commission per sale. You will be paid directly by Cleverbridge, around the 16th of every month, for sales from the previous month. Each store is provided with an advanced online system which can be used to see orders real-time, the number of 'user sessions', monitor the performance of each software product and see the commission earned during the last week, month, quarter or year.
How Quickly Can We Have Our Own Store?
Our store concept was developed to provide an independent store with the minimum of effort. We can get your a branded store, on your own domain/sub-domain, ready within two weeks and often much sooner. We want you to be trading and earning a commission within days and not weeks.
What Do You Require From Us?
We need you to assign domain or sub-domain to your store. This could be something like http://store.yourdomain.com where this sub-domain is pointed to our server. You have full control over your domain and this is a simple internal DNS change that takes under 15 minutes to arrange. We ask you to promote your store and link from your website. We can provide 300x250 branded store MPUs which you can use on your website to promote the store and/or store products. Note that we organise the store hosting, each store sits on the CMS we developed and can be controlled separately.
We Are Paid By Cleverbridge?
Each store is based on the Cleverbridge e-commerce platform and affiliate network. You are an affiliate of Cleverbridge, through your store. Cleverbridge are a well-estimated e-commerce provider for key brands such as Acronis and Laplink. Each store owner is paid around the 16th of the month, based on the sales performance from the previous month. You are paid by either wire transfer, PayPal or by check. You make the decision on how you are paid. You can be paid in USD, EUR or GBP.
Can We Sell Our Own Products?
Yes! Although the store concept is based around ESD (providing downloadable software products), our stores do sell a few hardware components, such as cables, backup CDs and more. However, you can also sell your own products. You could use your store to sell back-issues of magazines, a subscription service for your website and more. The Cleverbridge e-commerce platform is immensely powerful, enabling you to sell software products via electronic download, send boxed products through the post, organise postage prices per territory and more. We can discuss your requirements.
Can We Expect Other Brands? Suggest Our Own?
Yes! We're adding our own software brands every months. We have additional brands planned for inclusion through 2010. We also support additional brands that sign up to the Cleverbridge platform. For example, Ipswitch are moving across to Cleverbridge, so Ipswitch products will be added before Easter 2010. You can also suggest your own brands and even do some basic negotiation on behalf of your store.
Do We Have a Store Newsletter?
We provide a store newsletter that we send to users each week. This newsletter is independent across the store brands and is branded differently for each store. You can control the distribution of your store newsletter or we can do this on your behalf. We send out a store newsletter weekly. We can change your store newsletter distribution to bi-weekly or monthly, depending on your requirements.
How Do We Manage Store Promotions?
Many store promotions are equal across every store. For example, we may choose to give away some software when a customer purchases Extended Download Insurance. This offer will be available across all stores. However, as each store is independent, we can organise a promotion unique to each store. For example, we could offer 20% off a software application, in association with the software developer, specifically for your territory. You can discuss and organise your own promotions.
Who Looks After Customer Information?
Cleverbridge handle the transactions and power the e-commerce, so they handle customer information. As Cleverbridge are pure e-commerce providers, they do not use customer information for any purpose apart storing data about a customer order. Cleverbridge handle all refunds, deal with customer support and more. They do not contact customers directly. We retain basisc customer information if they choose to subscribe to the store newsletter. We have no access to customer account information and do not pro-actively contact customers, apart from through their newsletter.
Who Handles The Extended Download Insurance?
This is an insurance service provided by each store, if included with the order. This enables a customer to retrieve their order receipt, serial code(s) and downloads for up to two years after they place their order. We handle the Extended Download Insurance as part of the store ownership and the customer account information is secured by the customer. If the customer does not order Extended Download Insurance, they have 30 days to download their software as is standard industry practise.
Ok, So How Do We Contact You?
Simply go to the Contact Us section and select the 'We're interested in hosting a store' option to find more. Send us the URL of the website where you intend to promote your software store, we'll take a look and will come back to you with the next steps (ie. branding, sub-domain thoughts and so on) within 48 hours. We should be able to get your store online within two weeks.


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In just a few days, the world will be overcome with green: Green beer. Green shirts. Green beads. Green hats. And corned beef and cabbage. What? Don't ask me. I've never heard of anyone eating corned beef and cabbage outside of an Irish restaurant or St. Patrick's Day. I'm not sure it's for me, but I made colcannon, which is basically mashed potatoes and cabbage, and I liked it, so maybe I should give it a try. Anyway, back to St. Patrick's Day - the celebration of St. Patrick driving the (non-existent) snakes out of Ireland, by drinking green beer until you can't see straight. Why? Because that's how Americans celebrate almost everything.
While you can probably find that old Kiss Me I'm Irish shirt in your closet and hit up your local parade, a change of scenery may not be a bad thing. Maybe you're traveling over the holiday and are looking for something fun. Here are some of the best celebrations around the world:
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Bueno Aires, Argentina
Argentinians love to party and they have the 5th largest Irish population in the world, so not getting in on this celebratory time is simply crazy talk. The parade and a ton of activities, food stalls and more go one throughout the day. Because it's not an official holiday, it's celebrated on the Saturday closest to St. Patrick's Day (this year the 18th), so you can actually celebrate twice if you want, or spend the actual day going to church and the traditional things one would do on Friday, which I'm sure many of the 500,000 Irish in Argentina take advantage of.
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Chicago, Illinois
The city is famous for turning their river green each year for St. Patrick's Day. Once the Chicago River has been colored, it's time for the festivities to start. The parade takes place on the Saturday nearest the 17th, but there is a second celebration that takes place in the city as well. The South Side Irish Parade takes place the day after the downtown parade, so you can make a weekend of it. There are also many Irish pubs around town to indulge in some beer, music and food.
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Dublin, Ireland
The ultimate place to get in on the festivities is where it all began. Well, not the parties. The holiday was quite religious and secular in Ireland until fairly recently. The first festival to be held in Ireland didn't occur until 1996 and it was only one day. Since then, it has grown into a week-long celebration of all things Irish that draws hundreds of thousand of visitors every year who come to party, join parades, watch concerts, witness fireworks, attend sporting events, take in theater performances and, of course, to drink beer.
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Montreal, Quebec
Who knew that there was a place in Canada that was like being in a little version of Ireland? Despite being in the heart of French Canada, you can find a selection of Irish pubs and a St. Patrick's Day parade that's like the US Postal Service. Whether snow, rain, sleet or hail, the parade must go on. It always takes place on a Sunday and is surrounded by an Irish Film Festival, charity ball, luncheon and more.
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New York City
There's no surprise that a city built on immigrants has a large population of Irish and makes their celebrations its own. The city still has one of the largest concentrations of Irish in the world and their history can't be forgotten. New York's St. Patrick's Day parade lasts nearly 6 hours, and if you can't make it there, or hate crowds, you can watch it online. If nothing else, you won't be surrounded by a bunch of drunks, as alcohol is strictly prohibited.
These are just a few of the places that throw a great bash. It's by no means a complete list, as you can also find wonderful celebrations in Boston, London, the West Indies, LA and possibly even your own city. You won't catch me at pub chugging a green beer, wearing shamrock sunglasses, but I might be quietly sipping a Guinness and watching a local parade on TV.
How do you celebrate St. Patrick's Day?


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What should you consider when choosing a policy?
Depending on your health level and appetite for risk, you can often find a policy and price that's just right for you. The four main variables to consider include the deductible, copayment, annual limits, and the actual coverage offered in your policy.
- Deductibles, the amount you pay before insurance pays.
- Copayments, the percentage that you pay toward medical bills.
- Annual limit, the total amount the insurer pays.
- Medical services, treatment, and drugs the policy covers.
Preventative care is typically taken care of.
When getting individual health insurance, insurance providers typically pay up to 100 percent of the costs of preventative health care, such as checkups, screenings, and vaccines. This is an important aspect to know when selecting a health insurance policy.
Health insurance can be a complicated subject. Contact us to learn more about it and your coverage options.
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