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12 Nights
Journey Type
Sailing from Switzerland
10 Ports
13-14 August
Setting sail from Basel
Basel lies where Switzerland, France and Germany meet, a sophisticated and multicultural city with a picturesque setting astride the river Rhine. The medieval Old Town is exceptionally well preserved, best appreciated from the summit of the hilltop cathedral, which offers incredible views across the city. Basel boasts a wealth of museums and galleries, and plays host to events including the renowned Art Basel contemporary art fair, held during the summer, and Fasnacht, Switzerland's most famous winter carnival.
Don't miss
Explore the medieval Old Town on foot for a true feel of life in Basel 500 years ago.
15 August
France: Strasbourg
Strasbourg is the capital of France's Alsace region, right next to the border with Germany, and there is a tangible Germanic influence that sets the city a little apart from the rest of France. Highlights include the beautiful Gothic cathedral, the old town's fairytale half-timbered houses, and the pictureque canals of the Petite France district.
16 August
Germany: Baden-Baden
17 August
Germany: Heidelberg
Wonderful Heidelberg, with its beguiling old town, dramatic hilltop castle and picturesque bridge across the Neckar river, is one of Germany's most popular destinations. It's a famous university town, full of both history and youthful vitality, and we could spend hours wandering the intoxicating streets.
18 August
Germany: Koblenz
Koblenz was founded by the Romans, who valued the city's strategically important location where the Rhine and Moselle rivers meet. Rebuilt from the rubble of the Second World War, modern Koblenz has a pleasant and relaxed atmosphere, and serves as a gateway to the Romantic Rhine.
19-20 August
Germany: Cochem, Bernkastel
22-23 August
Germany: Remagen
Netherlands: Arnhem
24-25 August
Arriving in Amsterdam
Amsterdam is one of our very favourite cities to visit, as well as also being a perfect base to explore the nearby landscape of windmills and dikes. The Amsterdam canal belt is now officially recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage site, and from them there are so many neighbourhoods to explore, such as the Jordaan with its higgledy-piggledy streets and its famed garden courtyards (hofjes). There are also a wealth of famous museums and galleries to choose from, such as the Van Gogh Museum, the Rijksmuseum and the Anne Frank House, not to mention some more, shall we say, quirky options.
Don't miss
The quaint cobbled streets that straddle Amsterdam's grandest canals, known as De Negen Straatjes, are awash with history and contain some of the most unique shops in the city.
Your home from home
Tauck's most modern design, the Inspiration Class, offers the most space per guest of all European river vessels.
What we love
Rich woods are complimented by muted tones, giving these ships an airy and luxurious feel. The alternative restaurant with outside seating at the rear is an idyllic place for a relaxed lunch as you cruise to your next call and the regional cuisine served in the Dining Room is excellent.
|130 Guests
|43 International Staff
Active days followed by sophisticated evenings.
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Tailor-make your trip
Where to stay in Basel
The Grand Hotel Les Trois Rois (three kings) is one of Europe's oldest city hotels.
Excursions from Basel
If the Romans are your thing then you'll enjoy Switzerland's largest Roman ruins at Augusta Raurica, with the excellent Römermuseum alongside.
Two nights in Amsterdam
There is a fantastic range of canal front hotels to choose from, but we love the new Waldorf Astoria.
Around Amsterdam
Visit windmills in Zaanse Schans, the flowers at Keukenhof, or the cheese market in Alkmaar.


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Here is the letter that my Aunt Raizel wrote to my mother, Sala, when she first discovered that Sala was alive. We will read it tonight at our seder. Raizel was writing from Karlstad, Sweden, where she and other survivors were taken to recuperate after liberation. Sala was in Ansbach, Germany. They exchanged many letters after this one, and were eventually reunited in New York in 1948.
December 6, 1945
Dearest newly found little sister,
My hands are trembling. I am jumping around, going crazy: I am delirious. I don't know where to begin. So my intuition concerning you was correct, after all, and you are alive for us! My mind is frantic, confused. December 6, 1945 will be a memorable, festive day for us, for today I received a letter from you, my dearest one.
I can't believe my eyes; it happened just as I was feeling abandoned and resigned. I did not doubt that you were alive, but I could not figure out how you – the one of us who knew best how to survive – remained silent.
My love, I read your letter ten times. My tears covered up your words, and others had to help me read them while I tried to calm myself.
Dearest one. I am already anxious to know when our first letter will reach you. I am happy that you are well and did not have to wander around, as we did. We suffered terribly but in spite of everything, we survived. Now that I know you are alive, I must work twice as hard to get well quickly, so that when I am healthy and strong, I will be ready to see you. Finally, after all our sufferings, after six years of horror and separation, we will be able to hug you tight, close to our heart.
Sala, I do not wish to, and will not write to you about our experiences, because no matter how much I write, it could not, would not measure up to the reality of it all. I want to talk to you, face to face, about everything. When will that be, Sala?
Do not worry about us: the worst is over. Even when we had no news about you, I kept staring at the door as if I knew for certain that you were alive. What is there to say now? Everything minute without you will be an eternity.
I used to pour out all my suffering and my bitterness in my letters to my girlfriends. I talked about you, Sala dear, time and time again. Blima has also been filled with bitterness, but also with consolation. In her last letter to me, she wrote that she dreamed about [our aunt and uncle], and their children, and that whenever she dreams about them, she gets good news. And so I hope, wrote Blima, that something new and good will happen now!
…To try and find you, I wrote to Czechoslovakia, to Sosnowiec, to Stockholm, and to Warsaw, hoping your name was listed somewhere. All to no avail. Then, suddenly, there was news that people were being identified from Czechoslovakia. My heart twisted that there was no trace of you. And now you have appeared again on earth's surface! Hold to it fast, fast, so you may recapture at least a bit of your lost young life…
If someone is destined to live, he will extricate himself from the worst situation. And so it is.
I will not write any more now, and will end by taking leave of you, dearest, and kissing you a thousand times; your sister, who longs from the depth of her heart to see you and to embrace you. We shall never again lose contact with each other, never!

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Revocation, 'Existence Is Futile' — Album Art of the Week
Landau's preliminary idea for the artwork, like many a project, was a starting point that would end up turning into something different. "I know it's hard to imagine, but the initial painting was very stark and had more of '70s metal album cover feel to it.
"I have been obsessed lately with odd color palettes of that era, and was trying to work with purples and powder blues (stop laughing, I'm serious), but somehow make it look tough — like Molly Hatchet tough. Well, the band loved the imagery but wanted more of a 'Reign In Blood' looking collage-like painting."
Revocation collaborated with Landau to eke out the image they desired. "We had such a blast working on this together," Landau said. "They would be like 'Dude, can we get way more demons up there, and more fire and lava down there, and more suffering people in there?' And we just kept going until every square inch was dripping with nihilistic agony."


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A trio of New York state senators are planning a visit to Pennsylvania next week, where they'll tour one of the state's most-active counties when it comes to natural-gas drilling.
Sens. David Carlucci, Cecilia Tkaczyk and Bill Perkins are all scheduled to take part in the trip, Carlucci said today. They'll be in Susquehanna County—south of Binghamton—all day April 26.
The trip is being organized by Citizens for Clean Water, a Pennsylvania-based group vocally opposed to hydrofracking. The senators—all Democrats, though Carlucci belongs to the Independent Democratic Conference—are scheduled to visit gas wells, pipelines, compressor stations and homes nearby.
"I think it's really important that we drill down to the facts and the science and get emotion out of the debate," Carlucci said. "That's why it's important that we go down there and see it first hand."
Pennsylvania has had large-scale fracking in its state since 2007, while New York has kept it on hold.
Carlucci, D-Clarkstown, Rockland County, has sponsored a bill that would place a two-year moratorium on hydrofracking, though it would also tie it to the completion of a pair of outside studies.
He said he wants to meet with gas companies in the region, as well.
"It's really to see it first hand and hopefully share stories with (state Health Commissioner Nirav Shah)," Carlucci said. "Because I believe we are getting down to maybe some of our last chances to make sure that the science and not only the environment but the impact on human health are taken into the equation."
A decision on whether to allow large-scale fracking in New York currently awaits a report from Shah. There's no timetable on when Shah's report will be finished, though he said in January and March it was a "few weeks" away.
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Enterprise Holdings joins Global Travel and Tourism Partnership
Oct 11, 2013, 11:51 ET from Global Travel and Tourism Partnership
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Global Travel and Tourism Partnership (GTTP) announced that Enterprise Holdings has joined as its latest industry partner to help support its multi-country educational program to introduce students to career opportunities in Travel and Tourism. As part of this initiative, Peter Smith, Vice President of Global Franchising at Enterprise Holdings – which owns and operates the Enterprise Rent-A-Car, National Car Rental and Alamo Car Rental brands – joins the GTTP Advisory Board.
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Enterprise Holdings has become a part of the industry philanthropic initiative alongside Amadeus, American Express, Carlson Wagonlit Travel, The Hertz Corporation, Hogg Robinson Group, KDS, Lufthansa, Starwood Hotels & Resorts, and Travelport. With the support of its industry partners, the GTTP teaches students about careers in travel and tourism in more than 5,600 schools in Brazil, Canada, China, Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Russia, South Africa, Tanzania, and the United Kingdom.
Nancy Needham, Executive Director of GTTP, said: "The Global Travel and Tourism partnership provides life-changing educational opportunities for students. Thanks to the support of our industry partners, our work means that we are also helping to educate future employees and address the global skills shortage in the travel and tourism industry. We warmly welcome Enterprise Holdings as a valued industry partner who will help us provide an excellent perspective to students on the global car rental market, a vital component of the travel and tourism industry."
"We appreciate the opportunity to be part of such a forward-thinking coalition, especially as Enterprise Holdings continues to expand its global footprint," said Peter Smith. "Our role in the international travel industry as well as our growing franchise network makes the GTTP initiative critically important. We strive to take the long-term view in all aspects of our business – and what could be more long-term or sustainable than investing in today's students and tomorrow's employees in the travel and tourism sector?"
"The role of the industry partner is critical to ensuring the GTTP curriculum is timely and relevant and that students have the opportunity to experience working in the real world. We are pleased to welcome Enterprise Holdings to the GTTP and are excited by the opportunities they will offer," said Ingrid Eras-Magdalena, chair of the GTTP Advisory Board and vice president of People Development and Staffing at Starwood Hotels & Resorts, EAME. "We are confident Enterprise Holdings will find it enriching to be part of a successful industry philanthropic initiative and give back to the communities in which they operate."
About GTTP
The Global Travel and Tourism Partnership is an industry philanthropic initiative to foster future talent and tackle the global skills shortage. The GTTP educates secondary school students about careers in Travel & Tourism at a time when they are making career and education choices. The GTTP works in 12 countries in Europe, Africa, East Asia, and North and South America. It serves some 450,000 students in more than 5,600 schools. For more about GTTP visit http://www.gttp.org or the GTTP Facebook page.
About Enterprise Holdings
Enterprise Holdings and its affiliate Enterprise Fleet Management together offer a total transportation solution. Combined, these businesses – which include extensive car rental and car-sharing services, commercial truck rental, corporate fleet management and retail car sales – accounted for more than $16 billion in revenue during fiscal 2013. The combined revenues also place Enterprise near the top of the travel industry, exceeding all other rental car companies, and most airlines, cruise lines, hotels, tour operators and online travel agencies. Enterprise Holdings, through its regional subsidiaries, operates the largest fleet of vehicles in the world through a global network of more than 8,100 airport and neighborhood locations under the Enterprise Rent-A-Car, National Car Rental and Alamo Rent A Car brands. Its affiliate, Enterprise Fleet Management, provides full-service fleet management to companies and organizations with small- to medium-sized fleets. Other transportation services marketed under the Enterprise brand name include Enterprise CarShare, Enterprise Rideshare, Enterprise Car Sales and Enterprise Commercial Trucks. Enterprise Holdings is the largest car rental company in the world as measured by revenue, fleet and employees.
SOURCE Global Travel and Tourism Partnership


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Hurray! It's WHAT IF? Wednesday again and time for a new Sketch Challenge! I designed the card layout shown here and then asked our Rock Stars to put their own spin it.
Check out all the fantastic cards they created this week!
And now it's your turn! The rules are really simple… Your card doesn't even have to be made with Repeat Impressions stamps, but if you would like to include our designs we would really love to see them! 😀 Plus you will get an additional entry in our random.org drawing for using our stamps in your submissions! Simply create a card based on my sketch, upload your card to your blog or Splitcoast gallery, then link your card here to this post by clicking on the little blue button below.
We will be accepting submissions to this J2711 Sketch Challenge until 5pm EST on August 9th. All participants will be automatically entered into our random drawing. Then on August 10th we'll kick off a new challenge and after we wrap up our August challenges we'll announce the winner for the month. One lucky person will win a $25 Repeat Impressions Gift Certificate!
So what are you waiting for?! Why not play along with us and start stamping up a card now. We can't wait to see your creations! When you are ready to share your card, please add the direct link to your entry using the link button below. And please be sure to provide a link back here and reference Repeat Impressions Sketch J2711 in your blog or gallery posting.
Today we also announce the winner of our July sketch challenges. As usual, we let random.org select the lucky recipient of our $25 Gift Certificate. Drum roll please… this time that person is… Barbara Colbert! Congratulations, Barbara and happy shopping! Please leave a comment on this post and I will get your certificate on it's way.
Don't forget… our latest Designer's Choice Challenge wraps up on August 2nd so there's still plenty of time to play along there too. Our hostess, Joy has challenged us to a fun glitter challenge. Please follow this link to my DCC720 Designer's Choice Challenge post for the inspiration card and all the details!
Thank you so much for visiting with us today. We hope you've been inspired to play along and look forward to seeing your challenge card linked here soon.
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DANVILLE, Va. (WAVY) – Crews began cleaning up a massive coal ash spill on the Dan River in Danville late last month. Nearly 40,000 tons of toxic sludge went into the river in February through a damaged pipe at Duke Energy's plant in Eden, North Carolina.
WAVY News' Erin Kelly met with Duke Energy's Jeff Brooks along the river to discuss the clean up. "We're going to be using a vacuum to essentially remove the sediment from the top all the way down to the sediment, to the river bottom there and we'll be working on a barge that will actually move back and forth across the deposit and remove that material using a vacuum," Brooks said.
The Dan River feeds into the Hampton Roads water supply through Lake Gaston. Thomas Leahy, the director of Public Utilities for Virginia Beach, said Hampton Roads cities immediately stopped pumping from Lake Gaston out of an abundance of caution.
"Under no circumstances, could anything have moved down the river that quickly anyway. It would have taken at least a month, just to get to Lake Gaston," he said. Leahy said there has been no indication the coal ash ever made it that far, likely because it settled or was diluted. He said he believes it would take a much bigger spill to impact the Hampton Roads water supply.
"We've been monitoring this water every day at three locations and the arsenic levels are down almost below our detection levels, and conventional water treatment plants are very efficient at removing arsenic," Leahy said.
Andrew Lester of the Roanoke River Basin Association said environmental groups have been pushing for Duke Energy to clean up other coal ash pits in the area. "As long as those sites are on the river basin, this kind of thing could happen again, and not only would we be affected, it would certainly affect everybody downstream, including Hampton Roads. We've come back and asked in a legal intervention for Duke Energy to be required to not only clean up the site at Eden and the impacts of that particular disaster, but also to do some preventative measures," Lester said.
Brooks said Duke Energy was looking at the other coal ash basins one by one, to find out what to do with them.
When asked how the company would ensure another spill would not happen, Brooks said, "We've safely operated coal plants for decades in our service areas and this has obviously been an incident that requires a lot of thoughtful look on the part of Duke Energy, but we're committed to making sure that we continue to operate our plants safely."
Norfolk Virginia Beach and Chesapeake will decide together when to resume pumping from the Lake Gaston pipeline. They believe the disaster has proven their water supply system is resilient. Meanwhile, state environmental groups are still looking into any impact on wildlife on the river, which could take years to determine, according to Lester.
A federal grand jury met in March as part of a criminal investigation triggered by the coal ash spill.
Related links:
EPA response to spill: http://www.epa.gov/region4/duke-energy/
Sierra Club: http://content.sierraclub.org/coal/disposal-ash-waste
Physicians for Social Responsibility: http://www.psr.org/environment-and-health/code-black/coal-ash-toxic-and-leaking.html
American Coal Ash Association. http://www.acaa-usa.org/Home.aspx


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In full disclosure, early in my military career I twice requested to attend the U.S. Army Ranger School but was denied due to my follow-on assignments — first the 325th Airborne Battalion Combat Team in Vicenza, Italy and second, the 4th Battalion, 5th Field Artillery, First Infantry Division. In both instances the necessity for reporting to those units superseded an additional 70-day delay while attending Ranger School and probable leave.
I still keep up with my PT routine and back in the day, my best two-mile PT run was 10:35 — I was a skinny 2LT then. When I showed up in Vicenza, Italy I had to do my "indoc" run as a new Airborne officer — the vaunted 8-mile run from our base, Caserma Ederle through the city to Monte Berici (Mount Berico) to the Basilica that overlooked the town. I still shudder thinking about the final climb to the top — and then you had to run back.
That was an unwritten standard, just like the six-mile ruck sack runs out the "back 40" to the local village and back. Today things have changed — no more running in boots. I guess it was proven to be not good for the body. Then again, neither is being hit by a bullet.
Now, why am I confiding all of this with you? Because it's 2015 and according to the decree from the lords of social egalitarianism, we now have female soldiers allowed to attend U.S. Army Ranger School — next year the lords have declared the same for U.S. Navy SEAL training.
And so 60 females were allowed to enter Ranger Training Assessment Course (RTAC) beginning in January this year. According to Defenseone.com, "A dozen women have now qualified for the Army's Ranger School, putting them one step closer to becoming the first females to complete one of the military's most elite special operations training programs alongside men. Six servicewomen successfully passed the latest round of the Ranger Training Assessment Course, or RTAC, qualifying them for the first gender-integrated full Ranger Course beginning on April 20, the Army announced on Wednesday. The two-month combat training course is considered to be one of the toughest in the military."
"Five women qualified during the first RTAC in January, and one in the second round in February. "As we've seen from the Ranger Course, women are able to take on the challenges," Army Secretary John McHugh told Defense One recently. "Not all men can be infantrymen, and not all women can and would want to be infantrymen."
I will leave it up to those who have completed Ranger school and earned the coveted Ranger Tab to make comment, but I'd like to offer these thoughts.
First of all, is this being done because there's a requirement in the force, or is this just an experiment in social justice? Just for the layperson let me explain what I knew about the Ranger School PT assessment.
Regardless of your age, everyone was evaluated against the Army PT standard for the 17-21 year old male — and those were the toughest standards for pushups, sit-ups, and two-mile run. Now in reality there are several age categories as well as a separation between PT standards for males and females.
So my first question is whether or not the female candidates had to pass the PT test based upon the 17-21 year old male standard — or was that changed?
"The standards are the same during the gender-integrated RTAC iterations, and they won't change," Maj. William Woodard, company commander at the Army National Guard Warrior Training Center at Fort Benning, Ga., said in the Army release."
Hmm, that statement reminds me of the Reagan quote, "trust but verify."
Are there women out there capable of exceeding the standard, sure, but is that the exception or the rule? And why is it now, during wholehearted degradation of U.S. military capability and capacity does anyone feel this is the right time?
Because, as the article states, "Even if these women pass the Ranger Course and get their Ranger tab, that doesn't mean they'll join the 75th Ranger Regiment — beyond more training and schooling, it is currently only open to men. "
So I suppose this will all be a very nice feel good moment and will provide the Obama administration a cute Rose Garden photo op and a "legacy" bullet point of having advanced the cause of women with the first female Ranger School graduate. I suppose I'd rather have that than a nuclear Iran as a legacy.
So what is this really about? These words sum it up succinctly:
"The Army's gender-integrated RTACs and Ranger Course are part of an ongoing, military-wide assessment of the remaining barriers to full gender-integration in the military, ordered by former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.
Unless a service requests and is granted an exemption, by January 2016, all military occupation specialties, or MOS, across the services will be opened to women. "I will tell you that the assessment course has been very, very valuable experience," McHugh said. "It's also been valuable for the Army because it's helped us understand some of the challenges that are attendant to integration on the battlefield." "We are very methodically determining what the required physical skills for the MOS's may be," McHugh said, "not to lower the standards, not to accommodate women, but to better posture every soldier, male or female, for success and also to ensure that whatever job they're doing, they're actually physically able to do it."
So there you have it. The mentality of "every kid gets a trophy" has finally come to the U.S. military. The idea of guaranteeing success and making it equal for all has breached the defenses of the warrior elite.
It's no wonder that all of a sudden NBC has a new show called "American Odyssey" depicting what? A female Special Forces officer — just as during the Clinton Administration we had the movie "GI Jane" and Anne Bancroft's character really seemed to resemble Colorado Congresswoman Pat Schroeder who was the first female to sit on the House Armed Services Committee.
So what do I think? I think that if we were in a time of peace, we could embark on this type of experimentation. However, at a time when we have such a volatile global security situation, the time is not now. If we weren't decimating our military capability and capacity, then this would be a bit more palatable. What I don't want to see is another political photo op by the Commander-in-Chief Obama a la the Bergdahl fiasco that in the long run ends up being an embarrassing moment for our country.
This could have waited — and don't give me the false equivalency narrative to integrating blacks into the military. They had long since proved they could meet and exceed the defined standards in heroic fashion.


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An Insider's View
Posted by Rodrigo, November 17th, 2011 05:11 am under Style
As consumers, we often think of product as an end result; what is available in a catalog or on a store shelf. We rarely see the behind-the-scenes processes that go into the development of the product unless shared by the company or artist. This includes both the design and manufacturing process. Lucky for us, NICK DIAMOND chose to share what goes on in the manufacturing of DIAMOND SUPPLY CO. goods in a recent trip to China. As snapback cap fiends, we consider ourselves lucky to get this privileged rare glimpse.


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Illegal Immigrants Who Commit Crimes Focus of Deportation – NYTimes.com.
Agents' Union Stalls Training on Deportation Rules
By JULIA PRESTON
Published: January 7, 2012
WASHINGTON — The federal agency in charge of deportations is conducting a far-reaching training course to push immigration enforcement officers and prosecutors nationwide to focus their efforts on removing immigrants convicted of crimes.
The training course is the clearest sign yet that administration officials want to transform the way immigration officers work, asking them to make nuanced decisions to speed deportations of high-risk offenders while halting those of illegal immigrants with clean records and strong ties to the country. The policy is President Obama's most ambitious immigration initiative before the November elections, senior administration officials said.
But in a new sign of the deep dissension over immigration, the union representing some 7,000 deportation officers of the agency, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, known as ICE, has so far not allowed its members to participate in the training. Without the formal assent of the union, the administration's strategy could be significantly slowed for months in labor negotiations.
Read the full article here: The New York Times
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text: Learning Session: Getting Ready for Tier 4 Emissions Laws January 26, 2010 06:00 PM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Sara Schafer Top Producer Editor Email Linda H. Smith, Top Producer Business and Marketing Editor Challenger has taken the challenge of reducing emissions almost to zero seriously and is ready to meet the Tier 4 EPA regulations that go into effect in January 2011. It is relying on e3 techology, using diesel exhaust fluid or DEF (32.5% urea and 67.5% distilled water). Mixed with diesel, it cools the engine, and NOx emissions break down into nitrogen gas and water. It reduces carbon dioxide emissions as well. "Major on-road truck companies already have adopted this technology," Challenger's Jason Hoult told attendees at the Top Producer Seminar. "Major truck stops are committed or you will be able to have it delivered to your location." Side benefits include better efficiency (more miles per gallon), a lighter, more efficient cooling package and longer oil change intervals, he says. For More InformationRead the complete 2010 Top Producer Seminar coverage. You can e-mail Linda Smith at firstname.lastname@example.com. Back to news


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Word Verification Sniglets
Feel free to submit your own or define those I haven't.
Afrigood namer: the gentleman who creates the new names for African nations once they shed their colonial ties. Afrigood Namer thought long and hard about the country formerly known as the Belgian Congo, when it came to him: its new name would be the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
typhoo: a severe rotary storm that derives its energy from cloud formations and rainfall, develops in the Western Pacific, has sustained winds of over 74 mph, and ends far more suddenly than the TV weatherbotsreporting from rain-lashed beaches led you to believe. It must have just been a typhoo; Stormy Daniels is doing the weather in the studio again!
clashout: to wear aggressively mismatched clothes as an act of social defiance. John just had to clashout; he wore a pink mohair sweater and zebra striped Hammer pants to the party celebrating his father's being named country club president.
hatives: (pron: hay'-tivs) jingoistic local denizens. "I tried asking for directions to The Pompidou Center, but the hatives wouldn't give me the time of day."
hestoni: extreme overacting, of the Charleton Heston, scenery-chewing variety. "It wasn't quite 'Soylent Green is people!' terrible, but Marci's performance as Rizzo was very hestoni."
unded: a species of spelling-challenged zombie. "Did you know an unded is unleashed from the Underworld every time someone texts 'kewl'?"
cesiffil: a new "green" landfill made from poop. "Do you like my man-made archipelago? It's 100% cesiffil!"
vamine: a female sexual dry spell. "Ever since Travis and I broke up, I've been in a vamine."
tailice: a cold rear-end. "I can't believe you're sweating and I've got a tailice."
angly: built like a rock star; synonym: "roller-skate skinny" coined by J. Salinger. "My Noah went to summer camp a squidgy little boy; he came back all tan and angly."
copayann: the friend who always throws $20 onto the table, no matter what she owes for her share of the meal. "Everybody cough up another two bucks; this is all Copayann left before splitting early."
unbiliti: a mother who hovers unnecessarily close to her child, perhaps fearing that the offspring cannot survive without her. In reality, the opposite is usually true. Janice had such an unbiliti, she tried to get in the baby swing with little Emily.
progasms: (Insert own "I'll have what she's having" joke here. ("Hehhehheh, she said "insert."))
surlyopr: what happens when Ms. Winfrey (or I, for that matter) go on a no-carb diet. Gail says steer clear of Oprah today; she had steamed cod and dry broccoli for lunch and she's one surlyopr.
exagon: what geeky working class Brits call a six-sided polygon. Hey, guv, that's a lovely 'exagon you doodled with your Biro.
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Designed for Travel
The RoadTripTM is a fixed-neck travel guitar that's designed to suit the needs of acoustic guitarists who want the biggest sound and fullest tone possible in a travel-sized guitar. With an overall length of about 36 inches and a lower bout width of under 14.5 inches, the RoadTripTM boasts a longer relative scale length of 24.5 inches and an expanded Manzer wedge © body design with highly scalloped forward-shifted X-bracing. The result is a guitar that travels small yet sounds ginormous with awesome bass response and sweet trebles! The string spacing is 1 ¾ at the nut and 2 ¼ at the saddle, so it feels and plays like a full-sized guitar.
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text: On 20-21 March the Ambassador and his wife, Ása Baldvinsdóttir, had meetings with senior officials in Saint Petersburg and in the administration of the Leningrad region to discuss relations between Iceland and the Russian Federation and to introduce Icelandair, who will begin scheduled flights to Pulkova airport on 1st of June. Also present at the meetings was Mr. Ársæll Harðarsson, Icelandair´s Regional Manager for Russia. Meetings were held with Oleg A. Markov, Deputy-Governor of Saint Petersburg, and Aleksandr V. Kuznetson, Vice-Governor of the Leningrad region. There was also a meeting with senior officials at Pulkova airport.


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Sat, 23 Mar 2002
Dear friends
We have been working with hijras, kothis, and homosexual/bisexual men from the poor and non-English speaking backgrounds for the last 2 years. Recently (1 month ago) we have started a drop-in/meeting space every Sunday from 3 p.m to 6 p.m in our office. Our office is in the Flat 13 (3rd Floor) of the 'Royal Park' Apartments. There are only two residences (out of 16 flats) in the 'Royal Park' apartments, which are situated on the first and second floors. The rest are offices, which remain closed on Sundays.
the 17th of March 2002 (Sunday) one of the residents, Mr. Ashok Kattimani
an ex-MLC sent for one of Sangama's office staff at 3:00 p.m who was present
at the meeting. He stated that since there were families present in the
building, we shouldn't allow hijras (most people including Mr. Kattimani
and Police don't differentiate between kothis and hijras, at times they
even call gay/homosexual/bisexual men 'hijras') to come there. He also
alleged that hijras were having late night dance parties in our office.
This is an absolute lie. Some of the other people present at the meeting
on that day were Shakun of
also told Sangama staff that an Inspector would be visiting the office
and within 15 minutes, the Sub Inspector from Commercial Street police
station, came with 3 plainclothes police men. They again took the details
of Sangama's
had meeting with some of our supporters on the 19th (Tuesday) where it
was decided that we approach Police Officials and to start a dialogue
demanded for an end to this kind of Police harassment. He (the DCP) immediately
spoke to the Commercial Street and Shivajinagar Police Stations
We are planning to meet the Inspector General of Police (Human Rights) soon. We have decided against going to the media at this point of time. We are strengthened by the support and concern of many individuals and groups in Bangalore and elsewhere. Sangama is functioning as usual and will continue with its Sunday meetings (tomorrow). We don't expect any harassment from the Police. We will let you know of future developments.
In Solidarity
Famila, Kumar, Lakshmi, Manohar, Nithin,


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Big show, but you could tell the economy is wearing on things: you usually see an empty table or two, but there were more than I've seen before. And people attending, numbers were down: not as obvious on Saturday, but on Sunday...
Seems like some people are worse about asking high prices on things, too, though that's just my impression(Attention: just because it's a nice 'X', made by 'Y' sixty years ago, doesn't mean somebody's going to pay THAT for it).
Got to go in for a while Friday afternoon during setup, and observed a One Houndpower Wheelchair; lady in what appeared a racing-type chair holding a leash attached to the harness of a ~50-pound dog, who was happily pulling her along at a trot. He must've been quite used to it, as he kept a nice, straight path and allowed no distractions to pull him off line.
And I got to see my remaining Grail firearm for the first time: a S&W K32 Target Masterpiece. Looked like had never been fired, in the box, $2200. Which means it will remain a Grail piece for some time to come. Apparently those that were actually used by people are still in the family and they're not turning loose; the others, either bought as investments or just never used, are going for premium prices. This is the least-costly one I've seen and the first I've physically seen; all I've seen online have had asking prices about $2300 and up. And for a pistol I want to actually take out and shoot... nope.
And I saw something else: Coonan was there with a display of their .357 Mag autopistols. Impressive. Solid, welll-fitted, well-balanced. One of the guys had his as one of the display pieces, says has ~5k rounds through it and it still felt tight and smooth. Oleg Volk has a bunch of pictures on his site. Something I'd definitely like to have down the road.


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Once upon a time, there was a little blonde-haired, blue-eyed baby boy in need of a place to call home. He needed a mom, a dad, and a few siblings to grow alongside.
A few miles away was a family looking for a child to love forever. The family had a mom and a dad and two children searching for a child to coddle, wrestle, chase, kiss, and teach about the love of the King.
One day, after several months of seeking out such a child, the blonde-headed, blue-eyed baby bounced into their place of worship. He was safely held, that is, in the arms of a family caring for him until such a time as he was matched with his forever family. For the daddy of the family in search of a baby, it was apprehensive love at first sight. For the mommy, it was a bit of confusion because she thought they were called to love a brown-haired, brown-eyed baby girl. More about her later as she wouldn't come along for another year…but that would be getting ahead in the story. After one visit with the baby boy in her home, the mommy, also, was forever in love with the blonde-haired, blue-eyed baby boy.
In fairy tales, evil always ensues before the damsel is rescued, the family reunited, or the kingdom saved. Real life mimics fairy tales because fairy tales mimic real life. This little boy's story had many a dark and looming cloud.
For nine months the boy and the family grew to know and love one another. They shared firsts and celebrated milestones. The mommy and daddy, and the boy's temporary family, sent e-mails, made phone calls, attended meetings, and petitioned judges before the blonde-haired, blue-eyed boy bounced into the family's home to stay. (Only modern day stories include phone calls and emails, but they are no less valiant, mind you, than decrees and messengers riding through the night to save the kingdom, rescue the damsel, or reunite the family.)
All throughout these months, and the ones which would ensue, a host of people within the Kingdom began to pray and petition the King for the boy to be placed with this family. Countless men, women, and children throughout the land would ask the King to place the boy with the family forever, and, quickly! The petitions of the people were being heard and would be answered in time.
Shortly after the boy came to live with his soon-to-be family, the court discovered an error that had to be addressed for this story to turn a final page into the second portion of its tale. This error would take ten more months to come to light and, thereafter, be rectified.
All this time, the months were accumulating while the boy was waiting for the royal proclamation to give him a family. It would be thirty months until the proclamation would be granted. Thirty months before the blonde-haired, blue-eyed boy would be given his royal name–that name which his family prays is already written in the scrolls of the Kingdom as in this kingdom. Thirty months until…forever.
Thirty months came and went before this big day arrived…
As the boy and his family experienced the declaring of the proclamation that would unite them for all of their life in this kingdom, they thought of how quickly the thirty months passed in retrospect. Like thirty balloons being lifted to the sky and released in a moment's time with the wave of a hand, the loosing of a grip, the relinquishing of power.
The weight of the wait was intense and a load, at times, seemingly unbearable. But upon the royal decree, the weight instantly became as light as air. All the cares of the past were lifted away to be replaced by a focus on the future and on raising a knight for the Kingdom.
Lest you forget, fairy tales are full of woe before wonder, and this fairy tale will be like the others and, similarly, unlike. Good days and gloomy days lurk ahead, but this day was a day two kingdoms celebrated with thirty balloons and triumphant shouts filling the chasm between. Maybe, just maybe, one of those balloons reached the other side and greeted others who have waited in like fashion.
*This story is a prologue to another story still unfolding. If it weren't for this one, the later would never be possible. Woe lurks, but wonder is on the other side. The Kingdom prays and the King whispers, Courage dear heart.3 Comments


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The Baghdad sky fills with smoke Friday evening after a bombardment of the city. Detonations shook buildings miles away.
The United States launched a ferocious, around-the-clock aerial assault on military targets in Baghdad and other cities Friday, squeezing the Iraqi leadership and pressing for surrender.
Ground forces punched more than 100 miles into Iraq, and a division of the Iraqi army -- some 8,000 soldiers -- surrendered to coalition troops.
"Iraq's rulers are starting to lose control of their country," said Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
In Baghdad, shortly after 9 p.m. local time, the intense aerial attack lighted the night sky. Explosions spewed pink, red and brown hues, while bursts of antiaircraft fire winked overhead. Rumbling aftershocks rolled through the city.
One of the city's presidential compounds burned, while fierce antiaircraft fire erupted over the area of the al-Rashid military complex.
Soon after the strike began, sirens of emergency vehicles wailed through the deserted, but still-lit streets, although there were no immediate reports on the number of casualties. Iraqi radio was knocked off the air temporarily.
A huge explosion shook the center of Iraq's capital before dawn today. Aircraft could be heard overhead, but it was unclear what had been targeted. After the single blast, sirens presumably from ambulances or police cars could be heard racing racing through the city.
Rumsfeld said the objective was "to end the regime of Saddam Hussein by striking with force on a scope and scale that make clear to Iraqis that he and his regime are finished."
Iraqi officials remained defiant, however, at least outwardly, with the interior minister appearing at a news conference waving a chrome-plated Kalashnikov rifle and wearing six ammunition clips in his vest.
"You may ask why I am dressed like this and why I have a gun. I took an oath to God that I will put my gun down only on the day of our victory," said Interior Minister Diab Ahmad.
The condition and whereabouts of Hussein himself, however, remained unknown.
Hoping to avoid a bloody, last-stand battle for Baghdad, the Bush administration tried Friday to entice Hussein into exile by signaling that the U.S. may not seek the unconditional surrender of Iraqi forces. Senior administration officials reiterated that the United States would accept the departure of the 65-year-old Iraqi dictator for asylum in an unspecified third country.
"I don't know how Saddam Hussein is feeling today," White House press secretary Ari Fleischer said, adding that he had "nothing concrete" to confirm or deny rumors that Hussein had been wounded or killed.
President Bush told congressional leaders, "We are making progress. ... We will stay on task until we've achieved our objective."
The president watched the bombing of Baghdad on television Friday, then flew to the presidential retreat at Camp David, where he plans to hold a meeting of his "war council" today.
In other developments Friday:
-- In a move that could complicate the Pentagon's war planning, about 1,500 Turkish commandos crossed into Kurdish-controlled Iraq Friday night, apparently to keep Kurds from surging into Turkey. The action, following Turkey's agreement to allow U.S. planes to fly over its territory, sets up a potential clash between Turks and the Kurds. The Kurds have long opposed any Turkish attempt to control their population in northern Iraq.
-- Antiwar sentiment flared again in the United States, major European cities and across the Middle East and Asia. Police clashed with thousands of demonstrators trying to storm the U.S. Embassy in Yemen, leaving a police officer and two protesters dead. Meanwhile, 220 people were arrested in San Francisco, 65 in Chicago and 26 in Washington, D.C. Another two dozen were taken into custody near the White House for blocking traffic.
-- French President Jacques Chirac said he would veto any U.N. Security Council resolution that would allow the United States and Britain to administer a postwar Iraq. "That would justify the war after the event," he said.
Oil fields secured
"You train your whole career for this," said Army Staff Sgt. Steve Wright, 32, armed with a $150,000 Stinger missile and carrying 120 pounds of gear on his back
U.S. Marines, meanwhile, took control Friday of the strategic port of Umm Qasr in southern Iraq, and thousands of Marines and British soldiers dug in around the city.
Adm. Michael Boyce, chief of the British defense staff, told reporters in London the Marines control the city.
"Umm Qasr has been overwhelmed by the U.S. Marines and now is in coalition hands," Boyce said. "This port is a vital objective. ... It's going to become one of our main ways of getting humanitarian aid, hopefully within days ... into Iraq."
Located along the Kuwait border, Umm Qasr also will be useful for moving military supplies into Iraq. With control of the city, the Marines should more easily contend with Iraqi resistance in the south.
Two Marines were killed in that early fighting, according to the Pentagon. Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said U.S. troops thus far have faced "sporadic resistance."
U.S. and British troops have captured many key facilities in Iraq's southern oil fields, saving them from possible sabotage and ensuring their use for the country's postwar reconstruction, senior military officers said Friday.
American units advancing west of the southern city of Basra secured the Rumeila field, whose daily output of 1.3-million barrels makes it Iraq's most productive. Coalition forces also discovered that only seven oil wells were on fire in southern Iraq -- far fewer than officials had feared.
"All the key components of the southern oil fields are now safe," Boyce told reporters in London. "We have specialist civilian contractors on their way who will be in the area very shortly, in a day or two, to deal with the oil well fires."
Defense Secretary Rumsfeld told reporters that "only about 10 wells that we know of, out of possibly 1,000 in that area," had been damaged.
Other units moved into western airfield complexes, where Iraq was thought to have Scud missiles capable of reaching Israel and possibly weapons of mass destruction.
An Iraqui woman welcomes U.S. Marines who rolled into the southern border city of Safwan on Friday. The city is still in shambles from the last Gulf War. The Marines had faced sporadic resistance from Iraqui troops.
In the southern town of Safwan, Marines hauled down giant street portraits of Hussein, and some local residents joined Maj. David Gurfein in a cheer. "Iraqi! Iraqi! Iraqi," he yelled, pumping his fist in the air.
One military official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said U.S. Navy SEAL commandos took control of two terminals in the Persian Gulf where Iraqi oil can be loaded onto huge tanker ships. At least one of the terminals contained explosives not yet wired for detonation, the official said.
-- Information from the Times wire services was used in this report.
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2nd November 1936 – regular television broadcasting commenced from make-do BBC studios at Alexander Palace in North London. The corporation had already tackled the question of whether to employ the mechanical system invented by John Logie Baird or the fast progressing EMI electronic system.
By 1936 it became clear that Baird's system was greatly inferior to that of EMI. However the BBC did test both systems with a trial.
So on the 2nd of November 1936 regular broadcasting of the BBC television service (the first in the world) started with an audience of about 300.
Media reception to this new-fangled form of entertainment was, to say the least, mixed and predictions of it's future, cautious.
This report from The Era – Wednesday 4th November 1936 is typical.
Television Starts
Where will it end?
"Era" special
Television for domestic purposes is like a home movie with sound. In a typical Baird receiver the images are thrown on to a mirror about the size of a woman's handkerchief.
They are brilliant miniatures, especially when a film is being used, and there is a slight suggestion of eye strain at this stage. The images behave unexpectedly, as did the early films, but are surprisingly free from atmospheric interference, though the coil ignition systems of the passing cars are liable to throw a few flashes on the mirror.
Lord Selsdon, who, in presence and manner, to say nothing of experience, seems to cut out to be a television star, made the important announcement at the opening ceremony last Monday, that people who bought receiving sets now could be assured that there would be no radical change in receiving sets for at least two years, and after the affective range of the Alexandra Palace station was 20 miles, with local variations that might reach much further.
The price of the Baird television set, manufactured by Bush radio, on which we saw the demonstration, was 85 guineas.
There is a population of 10,000,000 within the area covered by the Alexandra Palace station, equal to, say, 2,500,000 families. If only one family in one hundred purchases a set of some kind, there is obviously a considerable immediate market for the new attraction.
It will be a tremendous boon to such aspects of broadcast entertainment as "Music Hall", travel interludes, the news bulletins and "In Town To-night" – simple, direct things –but it is unlikely, at first to affect the course of radio drama.
Its power, as a rival attraction to other entertainments, depends largely on the amount of money spent on it, and it would appear that the BBC has already pawned it's shirt to provide the not very elaborate entertainment now been broadcast from the Alexandra Palace.
We are unable to see that television increases the menace of radio as a rival to existing forms of entertainment, though it may do something to arrest the decline in the entertainment appeal of radio.
Television calls for much fixation of attention that an hour at a time is likely to be the limit of the average man's endurance.
On the whole, it seems to us that the entertainment professions should congratulate themselves on the birth of an entertainment from which they will be able to extract substantial fees, leaving posterity to decide whether television is to be a comprehensive umbrella for all forms of entertainment.
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Well, Bob - so much for the guy from the local gardeners association - I knew more than he did, I think! he noticed that the laurel tree trunk was black and thought that that also was diseased - but that trunk is always a much darker brown than anything else in the garden and is rock solid - it has always had a split trunk as long as we have been here, and is still growing strongly. (It was just a huge shrub, but we took a tip from Highgrove and chopped all the lower branches off to make said shrub into a tree). He brought the Gardening Expert book on Pests and came to the conclusion that the problem was somesthing whose name I cannot remember except that it began with a P - but the description was nothing like what we have got. Husband chopped half the hawthorn tree down and will dig the remaining trunk and root out tonight so that at least if it is the honey fungus we are removing the host. When we had the tree onthe ground, chopping it up for disposal, some of the leaves looked fine but most of it looked complely dead - as if it had been poisoned. We do know that the people who cut the field at the side of our garden put weed killer down the edges where it abuts to us, for ease of cutting, and we cannot help but wonder if some of it has affected our tree - but then, would it not have affected all the blackberries that we have climging up the same fence, but in a different part of the garden? We also but up to a a woodland area which belongs to a Govt Dept and cannot be touched, so we also wonder if something has eaten the roots where they might have spread into this area. I guess we are just going to have to bite the bullet and call in the experts but, in the meantime, when we have got all the root out we will spray the soil liberally with Armilladox (I think thats what it is called) to sterilise it. Said man had not a clue about the apple tree, but it is still fruting nicely so we will hang fire for a while with that and see if it recovers. Watch this space!
Thanks for the tip Bob - got a guy from the local gardening association coming around tomorrow pm - if he can help I willl let you know what he says.
Good morning Bob - getting obsessed with the situation now - but when I went out to put the bird food out, I looked at the tree and moved some of the soil- seems to be okay, and the roots on top of the soil were from a fruit tree, but I did notice this am that there were slugs of all things climbing the bark at the bottom of the tree and apparently feeding! We did have on hawthorn which never really flourished, and all out problems seem to have started when we followed a grower's advice and moved it to a different place in the garden. We had hoped not togo to the expense of hiring an expert, but it looks like we have no choice.
Yes Bob - I noticed today that there are root like growths actually on the surface of the soil - we put the trees in about six years ago - they were the first we planted when we moved here and got the garden going but they were not very small saplings - probably about 12' tall at that time. I guess we are going to just have to grit our teeth and call someone in, less we lose all of them but thanks for the tip.
It seems to me that they eat everything Iput out whether it be left over meat potatoes, pastry, suet pellets, seeds etc
Yes thank you - I looked at that this am and tried to ring them but no answer! Have been iut in the garden again this pm and noticed tht the hawthorn is very sick - when I pushed at it it rocked on its roots - I had noticed what looked like damage right at the bottom of the trunk where it comes up out of the ground.I think if I had pushed really hard it might have come up out of the ground a bit - and yet it seems like it was brilliant only last week with lots of lovely blossom forming. Over the weekend other half will have to chop it down, dig it out, and try to get it burned. We have a friend who is always collecting wood for his wood burning stove, so he might be able to help out - he has a chipper so might be able at least to get it down to manageable pieces for us. I am just amazed at how quickly it has gone.
Thank you Flowerchild. The apple tree that is badly damaged is the very first tree that we planted when we starrted the garden - it is so pretty, as well - such a lovely shape reminiscent of my chilldhood. The second hawthorn that seems to have had it has definitely faded quite quickly - at the beginning of the month it looked quite green andhealthy - it was only when I got closer to see why it had not blossomed that I saw the state of it. We have two other apple trees in that part of the gsrden, two plum and a cherry - as I said in an earlier post, we had to remove the pear tree, which seemed to be sickening last year. At least, even though it is going to be expensive if we have to replace them all, they are not 100 year old trees, which we had in a previous orchard.That would have been just soul destroying.
We cannot just take out the affected bits because they are on the main trunk, below flowering branch level but our other concern is that it might be something in the garden or the soil which is causing the problem.
I have looked at the pictures of fireblight and this is exactly what is happening to all out trees in our new little orchard - perhaps the hawthorn tree that we moved to nearer the fruit (on the advice of the grower) was diseased and that was why it was failing - and in moving it perhaps we have put it too near to the other trees and thus they have all got infected. Whatever, practically all the trees in that area are showing the same symptoms so - can anyone give me some advice. I have read all the bumph about it but it is a bit like ploughing through treacle to a fruit tree novice - though the apple tree most badly affect seems to b e fruiting, the leaves are beginning to curl - are we best off just cutting our losses and getting rid of all the damaged trees and starting again - or now that it is in the garden will it just spread. We have loads of roses, an ash tree that we planted three years ago and a part of the garden that was already planted with cotoneasters before we arrived. Should we get rid of the 20'tall pyracantha which is shedding its leaves as if it were winter before it can do any more damage? We do not know enough about this and do not know where we can go to get advice. Obviously we do not want the good trees to be infected - b ut can we then replant this year without risk of anything else being got at? The apple tree that is really badly affected has got cankers all over the place but on the base of the trunk there is a big one that almost completely rings the tree.
That is what we thought with our first collection but perhaps I am paranoid about them after losing so much stuff in the garden a couple of winters ago! Obviously, if they grow wild like that, they do notneed feeding or watering over much - I guess I might have messed up but I shall definitely leave them alone now and see what happens.
I love my birds - costs me a fortune to support them. I do not mind the robins, the crows, jackdaws, magpies, black birds et all - but I dread it when the starlings come round - such messy eaters and such bully boys - an elderly acquaintance used to call them "shovellers" as they seem to shovel as much into their beaks as they can and even so much that they drop it as they fly away. They do seem, however, to diminish as the year goes on and just come back at baby feeding time or in a very harsh winter.


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Master McNeil will teach you the ancient Taoist sexual practices and techniques that date back 5000 years. These methods were originally used by those lucky enough to become privy to such knowledge, for restoring health, for rejuvenation and longevity and for achieving extraordinary levels of sexual pleasure and gratification ... and for enlightenment. The techniques are so powerful that those who practiced them could reverse health problems, lived well beyond their years and experienced sexual fulfillment far greater than most of us experience today. For many, many years this knowledge was kept secret by the emperors and kings of the orient who were, however, careful to preserve them and pass them down from generation to generation. In those days these techniques were considered the 'secret fountain of youth' and the way to immortality.
James McNeil would go to Taiwan every year where Master Hsu would teach him personally in the internal healing arts, but most of all he taught Jim for four long and intense years of personal training in Taoist Lovemaking also known as the Taoist sexual techniques. As Jim continued practicing and training hard Master Hsu handed down to him the next generation of Taoist sexual techniques. This is only handed down from Master to Student and one per generation. After Master Hsu unexpected death in 1983 Jim was accepted as the first and only American student of the Honorable Master Chiao Chang-Hung.
10/20/2004 9:30am, #2
Go ahead and laugh now, but I went on a week-long retreat with a "Sifu Stephan" to learn what he called "the ancient Taoist sexual techniques." He was very gentle and we still exchange letters.
10/20/2004 9:43am, #3James McNeil would go to Taiwan every year where Master Hsu would teach him personally in the internal healing arts, but most of all he taught Jim for four long and intense years of personal training in Taoist Lovemaking also known as the Taoist sexual techniques
10/20/2004 9:48am, #4
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sounds like a tantric sex seminar to me.
10/20/2004 11:30am, #5
All these groups are the same . . .
If the things they tell you in seminars like that aren't obvious to you, then you deserve to have your money taken.
But then again I don't really have any experience with such seminars. I used to read things (mostly short articles) written by folks who claimed to practice "tantric sex" and the like. They all sounded the same and had nothing interesting to reveal.MY NAME IS ANTAGONY I SUCK AT COMBAT SPORTS KTHX
"blahblahblah, but I don't think I'm going to train tonight."
"Well if that were true, then I'd really REALLY want to come train!"
10/21/2004 8:48am, #6
practice "iron palm" by spanking your woman's fat ass
10/21/2004 8:51am, #7
10/21/2004 11:13am, #8
Ashida Kim should run a seminar like that. He could demonstrate on the students.Lone Wolf McQuade Final Fight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmrDe_mYUXg
10/21/2004 11:17am, #9
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Remember hearing about Sting's (the musician) tantric sex exploits with his wife where'd they go for hours at a time? Turns out they made it up to screw with the media.Seventh: If you think TKD doesnt work, your right, until you get the side of you face smashed with a roundhouse kick. -- ronin69
It's just that I carry weapons and have no moral compass anymore. -- JKDChick
At least until the Wing Chun clown car arrives. --JKDC
10/21/2004 12:21pm, #10
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But how about his fighting system?


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CROWLEY: Joining me are Democratic Senator Mark Warner of Virginia and Republican Senator Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire. Thank you both for being here.
AYOTTE: Great to be here.
WARNER: Thanks, Candy.
CROWLEY: Senator Warner, first to you. You heard the Republican reaction to what Timothy Geithner brought to Capitol Hill. It seems to me it kind of moved things backwards. There was sort of this, OK, OK, we're -- you know, we'll put revenue on the table, and suddenly people are saying, well, we're really far apart. We're at a stalemate.
Did it do more harm than good?
WARNER: I don't think so, Candy. I mean, when they first met, the president laid out his opening offer many terms of a down payment. Let's go ahead and have the rates go back up, which, by the way, was the assumption that was made in the Simpson-Bowles plan, was the assumption that was made in the gang of six plan.
WARNER: You can still do tax reform off that higher base.
Then they said, no, that's not enough, give us your full plan, because as somebody who has spent more time doing business deals than I have in politics, you lay out a term sheet. Well, the president laid out a term sheet with all the details.
I think in any negotiation I've been involved in, you put down a term sheet, the other side comes back and says, no, I like this part, I don't like this part. And my hope would be they would actually get to those negotiations because every day that clicks off, we are hurting the economy as we go into the Christmas retail season, as people are probably not buying because they may not know all the details of the cliff, but they know bad stuff is going to happen if we don't get our act together and get this done.
CROWLEY: And, Senator Ayotte, you heard the treasury secretary say, well, now it's up to the Republicans, they have got to bring us something. What would that something be?
AYOTTE: Well, Candy, let me just say I was disappointed by the president's proposal. I think it's essentially a rerun of his budget proposal. I mean, the revenue proposals are, you know, $1.6 trillion in revenue and tax increases. It's a massive tax increase.
But also not significant and meaningful entitlement reforms, which is -- as you know, the speaker came forward and put revenue on the table and said, you know, for Republicans, we really want to solve this.
And I want to commend Senator Warner for the work he has done on the "gang of six" and also the "go big" principles because that has contained really three components. You know, revenue, spending cuts, meaningful entitlement reforms. Obviously, we need to give that certainty to our economy as well. We want to solve this, and I think the speaker earnestly wants to solve it. I was disappointed by the president's initial proposal here.
CROWLEY: Do you think the president has to get more involved in this? We've seen -- you know, some Republicans are saying, where is he? You know, well, he was up in a sort of campaign style event on Friday while Geithner was presenting this thing.
And honestly, Senator, there's -- as you point out, there are three kind of critical business weeks coming, certainly for retail, and it has taken us almost a month since the election for the president to put out what everybody already knew he wanted, so what...
WARNER: The first meeting, the president laid out let the rates go back up. The assumption that Simpson-Bowles had, the assumption the "gang of six" had, and then said to our Republican colleagues, give us back what you want for a down payment, because we're not going to solve all of this by the end of the year.
Then they said no, give us more detail. And through Secretary Geithner, they've laid out more detail. I think it's also incumbent...
CROWLEY: But it wasn't new detail, and it has taken so long.
WARNER: But it's also incumbent upon the president to realize this is a conversation he needs to have not just with Washington, but with the fact of everybody in the country. So bringing in business leaders, bringing in small business owners, going out across the country.
One of the reasons why I think this time it's going to be different from the failures of the past, you know, the debt ceiling debacle, the failure of the super committee, is I think the American people and particularly the American business community, realize what's at stake, and I think there is an awful lot of us, frankly, in both parties who are willing to get there. And I want to commend Kelly as well.
There has been a big group of us, well in excess of the majority in the Senate, who said, we're willing to do our part. We want to give the president and the speaker room to get the framework, but we'll be there to get -- to help fill in the details as we go forward.
CROWLEY: Senator Ayotte, it has -- there's not much time left here, and it does seem like an inordinate amount of time, almost a month has passed, and we have a description of stalemate and way far apart.
AYOTTE: Candy, I see that as very disappointing, a big problem. That's why I didn't like seeing that essentially it was a rerun of his budget that couldn't get support from either party in the House or the Senate.
So it is time. I see, you know -- for the speaker to come forward and put revenue on the table, that was a big...
CROWLEY: That was a big thing, would you agree? The speaker put revenue on the table the day after the election, I think.
AYOTTE: That was very difficult. But let's -- I mean, I know that Mark has been -- understands that, but the primary drivers of our fiscal crisis, when we think about it, we don't want to go bankrupt. We don't want to be like Greece. Entitlement reforms, the majority of our spending, and also to make sure that those programs are preserved, 2024 Medicare is insolvent, Social Security, 2033. These are important -- it is time for us to come together and solve the big problems.
CROWLEY: Do you agree entitlements absolutely positively have to be on the table?
WARNER: I think entitlements have to be part of the mix. But saying you're putting revenues on the table versus specificity is really two different things. As a business guy, you've got to have a term sheet with details.
If the Republican leadership...
CROWLEY: If Senator McConnell said, hey, you know what, let's raise the...
WARNER: If the Republican leadership doesn't like the details in the term sheet that Secretary Geithner laid out, come up with a counter term sheet.
You know, we've got to get past the kind of Washington decoder- speak and say specifically, how do we get there? I also believe that one of the things we need to get to is major tax reform, but we need to go ahead and lay down what we're going to get done before the end of the year, and then how we get to that. I believe at least $4 trillion in net deficit reduction.
CROWLEY: Let me stop both of you there, because I have got to take a quick break. So they'll stay with us after a short break. I do want to come back and ask you about President Obama's U.N. ambassador, Susan Rice. Has the Benghazi incident ruined her chance to come the next secretary of state?
CROWLEY: We're back with senators Mark Warner and Kelly Ayotte.
Final wrap-up question on this fiscal cliff. Do you both agree with the following? This deal has to happen and this deal will happen before the end of the year?
AYOTTE: It has to happen, Candy, and I truly hope that it does happen. And -- but I'm really disappointed by the president's initial proposal, and I think that we've got to get beyond, you know, the tax rate issue.
I just want to say one thing. Republicans have offered closing loopholes, deductions, or capping deductions. There is more revenue there. The tax rate issue is more of a political trophy than an economic solution. And so it's time for us to get to the table and resolve it.
I think there's some will, though, among both parties to get this done. CROWLEY: Hoping it will happen is not the same as saying it will happen.
WARNER: It will get done. And quite honestly, getting this done will do more to jump-start jobs and the economy than any single policy proposal that either Governor Romney or President Obama put out during their campaign.
Let me turn you to Benghazi. You've been quite outspoken, senator, I know about Susan Rice, the UN ambassador, the things that she said on the Sunday following the Benghazi attack which turned out not to be true. Are her chances to become Secretary of State should the president nominate her, and we expect something to happen this week on that, are her chances over? Is she a nonstarter for you?
AYOTTE: Well, Candy, I did meet with her this week. I remain very troubled not only myself, for example, the ranking Republican Susan Collins of the homeland security committee raised some very important questions after meeting with her.
But here's where we are. If after the meeting with her - I think there was an impression left that she just went on and repeated some unclassified talking points on all the Sunday shows, but she had the daily intelligence briefings, including the classified talking -- materials that basically had the references that individuals with ties to al Qaeda were involved.
CROWLEY: So you think she knew al Qaeda...
AYOTTE: She did. That information was -- she had reviewed it before going on Sunday shows, and went on the Sunday shows went well beyond the talking points saying we have decimated al Qaeda, that was no where in the talking points, said things like the attacks were a result of the -- direct result of our heinous and offensive video, that was want in the talking points, said that the security at our consulate was substantial, strong, significant. That's not in the talking points and frankly, not supported by the record.
I mean, what happened that day?
CROWLEY: So has Susan Rice disqualified herself...
WARNER: Nothing I have heard in my mind would disqualify her thus far. Now, that's amazing to me that we should be focusing on not so much what was said about which talking points, but how did the tragedy where four Americans were killed in Benghazi happen? We've got a State Department investigation headed up by Tom Pickering and former General Mullen. We've got on the intelligence community on which I serve, we're now in a series of hearings looking at that.
How do we make sure? I'm sure Kelly and I would agree that we have got appropriate protection for our State Department personnel. How do we make sure if they come under assault that we have got assets to be able to come in and protect them. What I find remarkable is the president hasn't even nominated anyone yet. Why are we spending all this time if you nominate Secretary Rice or Ambassador Rice, we ought to have these discussion. What we ought to be looking at is what happened in Benghazi, how do we make sure it never happens again?
CROWLEY: Do you find it interesting - I mean it is, that happened September 11. It is now December 2, and we still don't know what happened. Why there wasn't any security. I mean, isn't it part of that overall discussion?
AYOTTE: And I agree with what Mark said in terms of the big picture question here. Why don't we know yet? First of all, why was the consulate so unsecure given the prior attacks, given that the British left, the Red Cross left? And also during a seven-hour attack why couldn't we help those individuals?
But also, this talking point issue, I hope that our intelligence was not politicized because there have been some intelligence questions and failures here. We've had three stories on the talking points, so that's important just for making sure that our intelligence is solid going forward.
WARNER: Well, remember these talking points came at the request of the House intelligence committee. If there was a way to make sure we get those cleaned up and they were amended four days later. Again, we'll get into this if this individual is nominated, but I think at the end of the day we make sure we never have this kind of tragedy again.
And candidly, back to the issue before, in 30 days we have to decide whether this country is going to go over a cliff that would be dramatic not only to our economy but to the world's economy. That's where we ought to have our focus right now.
CROWLEY: Senator Warner, Senator Ayotte, thank you for joining us.
AYOTTE: thank you, Candy.
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The Hadji strikes back
El Hadji Diouf has stepped out this afternoon to defend himself against the oncoming attack from London that started last Saturday afternoon.
Diouf has denied the claims made by Neil Warnock that he abused Jamie Mackie whilst he was lying on the floor in agony.
Even the QPR players have been twittering about the bad behaviour of Diouf but the Senegalese winger has today had his say.
Diouf told Sky Sports News - 'I am very sorry for the lad to have broken his leg, the QPR player.
'But what Warnock said - I never said that.
'After the game I argued with some players, that's it.
'When the lad broke his leg, I never said anything back to him.
'I never talked to him, you can ask Benjani or Ryan Nelsen.
'Everything Warnock said is not right.'
Diouf also had a few choice words to aim at Neil Warnock over his verbal tirade and responded with his usual charm and wit ;)
He continued - 'I am not disappointed with what Warnock said - who is Warnock? He is nothing to me.
'He is not Alex Ferguson, he is not Arsene Wenger, he is not Sam Allardyce or an important manager.'
Diouf even remarked he felt that his previous transgressions were often held against him.
He said: 'Of course, but I am a strong man and I can survive with that.'


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