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Robert Winnett / Telegraph:
50p tax rate 'failing to boost revenues' — The amount of income tax paid fell sharply last month in the first formal indication that the new 50p higher rate is not raising the expected amount of revenue. — A Treasury source said the relatively poor revenues from self-assessment returns …
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air: Surtax on wealthy in UK results in lower revenue
Curtis Dubay / The Heritage Foundation: Britain to Obama: More Proof that Taxing the Rich Is a Fool's Errand
BigFurHat / iOwnTheWorld.com: Brits Learn that their punitive tax rate hikes garnered no increased revenue
Repair Man Jack / RedState: Soak The Rich, Drown The Retirees
Mike Flynn / Big Government: Surprise! Higher Tax Rates Yield Lower Revenue
Mark J. Perry / CARPE DIEM: Economic Lessons in the News
William Teach / Pirate's Cove: Shocking News: Higher Tax Rate In Britain Results In Lower Tax Revenue
Wall Street Journal:
Obama's Dividend Assault — A plan to triple the tax rate would hurt all shareholders. — President Obama's 2013 budget is the gift that keeps on giving—to government. One buried surprise is his proposal to triple the tax rate on corporate dividends, which believe it or not is higher than in his previous budgets.
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Daniel Horowitz / RedState: Obama the Tax Cutter? Think Again
Stephen Green / Vodkapundit: Economics for Dummies or Presidents (But I Repeat Myself)
Conservative Wanderer / The PJ Tatler: Obama's Corporate Tax Cut Good, But Not Enough
James Pethokoukis / The Enterprise Blog:
Why Obama's corporate tax plan is a total bust
Why Obama's corporate tax plan is a total bust
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Doug Mataconis / Outside the Beltway: White House Corporate Tax Plan Leaves Much To Be Desired
Veronique de Rugy / National Review: Half-Baked Corporate-Tax Reform
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air: Obama moves on corporate-tax reform
Zachary A. Goldfarb / Washington Post:
Obama proposes lowering corporate tax rate to 28 percent
Obama proposes lowering corporate tax rate to 28 percent
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William Teach / Pirate's Cove: Obama To Propose 28% Corporate Tax Rate, Go After Oil And Gas Companies
Nathan Pippenger / The New Republic: Obama Plans To Cut Corporate Taxes, But How Much Do Companies Really Pay?
Peter Suderman / Hit & Run: Obama Administration Proposes Corporate Tax Overhaul Based on Theory That Loopholes Are Bad …
Meteor Blades / Daily Kos: Obama proposes 28% corporate tax rate with fewer loopholes. Expected GOP response: Not low enough
Gaius Publius / US Politics: Obama to propose lowering corporate tax rate to 28 percent
The Lonely Conservative: Obama Wants 28% Corporate Tax, Higher Taxes on Oil and Gas Companies, and Huge Hike to Tax on Dividends
Melissa McEwan / Shakesville: Primarily Stupid
Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Obama Offers to Cut Corporate Tax Rate to 28%
Obama Offers to Cut Corporate Tax Rate to 28%
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Pat Garofalo / ThinkProgress: Obama's Corporate Tax Proposal Raises Taxes On Wealthy Money Managers, Ends Corporate Accounting Boondoggle
Jared Bernstein / On the Economy: Corporate Tax Reform: Be Careful What You Wish For
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online: The Paradox of Corporate Tax Reform
Mark Thoma / Business Insider: Cutting Corporate Taxes Is A Good Idea, But It Won't Stimulate The Economy
Kim Dixon / Reuters: Obama to propose corporate tax rate of 28 percent
Bruce Bartlett / Economix: Tax Code Not Aligned With Basic Principles
Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
Wonkbook: Tax reform is really, really hard
Wonkbook: Tax reform is really, really hard
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Jonathan Bernstein / A plain blog about politics: Tax Reform is (Almost) Impossible
Daily Mail:
50p tax is 'not working': Amount of total income revenue falls as rich make plans to avoid higher rate
50p tax is 'not working': Amount of total income revenue falls as rich make plans to avoid higher rate
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Adam Bitely / NetRight Daily: Buffett rule fails in Europe
Chris Christie: Rick Santorum's Satan Comments Are Relevant — Rick Santorum says his 2008 comments that "Satan has set his sights on the United States of America" are "not relevant" to the 2012 presidential race, but Chris Christie told me on "GMA" that Santorum is wrong.
Taylor Marsh / The Moderate Voice: GOP Today: Bob McDonnell's State Rape, Baptizing the Dead, and Santorum's Satan Squeal
Ronald J. Hansen / Arizona Republic: Romney fundraising edge in Arizona slips
Paul Steinhauser / CNN: Lots at stake in first GOP debate in nearly a month
Hart Williams / his vorpal sword: Foster Friess and the Famestream Feedia
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain: Satan Angered by New Poll Showing Santorum Ahead 34%-18% in Wisconsin
Steve Benen / The Maddow Blog: 'Secular' is not a dirty word
Joan McCarter / Daily Kos: Mitt Romney opens door to a theocratic agenda
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post: Santorum's 'Satan' comments relevant, Chris Christie says
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Get Thee Behind Me! — Ah, you just gotta love the MSM and its blinders! — Thanks to a handful of obscure researchers and bloggers (I first noticed the story at People for the American Way's Right Wing Watch, but others may have gotten there first), and to the subsequent efforts of a handful …
Discussion: The Agonist and Eschaton
Steve Hynd / The Agonist: Santorum's Political Holy War
Byron York / Campaign 2012:
Team Santorum: U.S. is with Rick on devil belief — MESA, Ariz. — Some of Rick Santorum's advisers are frustrated and angry that reporters are focusing more on their candidate's statements about Satan than on his positions on the issues. Here in Arizona Tuesday, Santorum faced repeated questioning …
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David A. Graham / The Atlantic Online: Does Santorum Really Want to Make a Stand on Mormonism?
Meenal Vamburkar / Mediaite: Santorum Aide To Reporters: 'Why Is Mormonism Off Limits?'
Dan McLaughlin / RedState: David Waldman of Daily Kos: Know-Nothing Bigot
Matt K. Lewis / The Daily Caller: Rick Santorum continues to come under fire for his religious beliefs …
Katrina Trinko / National Review: Santorum Adviser: 'Why is Mormonism Off Limits?'
Howard Kurtz / The Daily Beast:
Rick Santorum Faces a Grilling at CNN Debate — The GOP's new frontrunner will be under a harsh spotlight in Wednesday's CNN debate after widely covered remarks on explosive social issues like Obama's theology, prenatal care, and home schooling. — It doesn't take a crystal ball to predict …
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Maggie Haberman / Politico: Rick Santorum steps into new debate role
Joel B. Pollak / Big Journalism: Stephanopoulos and the Social-Issue Setup
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish: The Moral Scandal Of Rick Santorum And "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques"
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online: Does the Media Really Savage Social Conservatives?
Mollie Reilly / The Huffington Post:
Alan Simpson: Rick Santorum Is 'Rigid And A Homophobic'
Alan Simpson: Rick Santorum Is 'Rigid And A Homophobic'
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama ties Romney with Arizona — Arizona is a great microcosm of how Barack Obama's reelection prospects have improved over the last 3 months. When we polled there in November his approval numbers were atrocious and his prospects for winning the state in the general election didn't look very good.
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …, The Hill and Guardian
Romney: Obama tax proposal would kill jobs
Romney: Obama tax proposal would kill jobs
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Dave Carter / Ricochet Conversations Feed: Is Mitt Conceding the Premise Again?
Detroit News endorsement: Mitt Romney for Michigan GOP primary
Detroit News endorsement: Mitt Romney for Michigan GOP primary
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post: Mitt Romney, scourge of the one percent
Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box: Detroit News endorses Romney, calls opponents unelectable
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus: New Poll Shows Tight Race in Michigan
Libby Spencer / The Impolitic: Big Mitten just not that into Mitt
Alexander Burns / Politico: Detroit News backs Mitt, says bailout issue not relevant to primary
Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
New Romney proposal would cut individual tax rates by 20 percent
New Romney proposal would cut individual tax rates by 20 percent
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air: Rasmussen poll shows Santorum up 43/22 in Oklahoma
Christian Heinze / GOP 12: Santorum jabs Romney over tax plan
Quinnipiac University:
Santorum Up 9 Points Among Republican Voters, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds …
Santorum Up 9 Points Among Republican Voters, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds …
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Peter Nicholas / Washington Wire: Poll: Is Romney's Electability Argument Fading?
Josh Lederman / The Hill: Locked in tight race, Romney, Santorum face pivotal debate
Christian Heinze / GOP 12: The Jeb Fantasy
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air: Q-poll: Santorum up 9 over Romney
Jonathan Easley / Ballot Box: Polls show Obama holding slim lead over GOP presidential field
Mark Murray / msnbc.com:
NBC poll: Romney, Santorum deadlocked in Michigan; Romney leads in Arizona
NBC poll: Romney, Santorum deadlocked in Michigan; Romney leads in Arizona
Rick Santorum / CNN: Romney press release skips over Detroit tough love
Shushannah Walshe / ABCNEWS: Rick Santorum Gets Some Help From His Friends in the Battle for Michigan
Ross Douthat / Campaign Stops: Can Santorum Win in November?
Adam Sorensen / Swampland: Will the Auto Bailout Factor in Michigan?
Jonathan Easley / Ballot Box: Polls: Romney tied with Santorum in Michigan, but trails nationally
Jonathan Martin / Politico: For Rick Santorum, all politics were local
Doug Mataconis / Outside the Beltway: All Tied Up In Michigan — With the final debate before the election …
Hugh Hewitt / Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog: Romney Up 16 in AZ, Up 2 In MI
Christian Heinze / GOP 12: Mixed morning polls for Santorum
DemFromCT / Daily Kos: Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: State of the race
Tricia McKinney / The Maddow Blog: Morning Maddow: February 22
Ewen MacAskill / Guardian: Rick Santorum hopes for Tea Party backing to edge out win in Arizona
Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Romney Promises All Americans A 20 Percent Tax Cut
Romney Promises All Americans A 20 Percent Tax Cut
Discussion: RedState
Aaron Gardner / RedState: Governor Romney Teases New Tax Plan Prior to Arizona Debate
Anita Kumar / Washington Post:
Virginia governor no longer fully supports ultrasounds before abortions — RICHMOND — Gov. Robert F. McDonnell is backing off his unconditional support for a bill requiring women to have an ultrasound before an abortion, focusing new attention on one of the most controversial pieces …
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Frances Martel / Mediaite: Jon Stewart Explains Ultrasound Law To GOP: 'A TSA Pat-Down In Your Vagina'
Alec MacGillis / The New Republic: Bob McDonnell Probes Veep Prospects For A Heartbeat
Robert MacPherson / Agence France Presse: Virginia holds back on abortion ultrasound bill
Laura Conaway / The Maddow Blog: Virginia Governor McDonnell backs away from transvaginal ultrasound bill
David Badash / The New Civil Rights Movement: Abortion: Virginia Governor Backpedals On Transvaginal Ultrasound Bill
Doug Mataconis / Outside the Beltway: Virginia Governor Requests Changes To Ultrasound Law
ZIP / Weasel Zippers: Virginia GOP Gov. McDonnell Backs Off Promise To Sign Pro-Life Ultrasound Bill, Now Says He Will "Review" It...
Laura Clawson / Daily Kos: Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell no longer guaranteeing he'll sign state-sponsored rape bill
Amanda Peterson Beadle / ThinkProgress: Virginia Governor Backs Off 'State-Sponsored Rape' Ultrasound Bill, Promises To 'Review' Measure
David Dayen / Firedoglake: Women Fight Back: House Dems To Hold Own Hearing With Woman Issa Excluded; Virginia Gov. McDonnell Ducking?
Ken Shepherd / NewsBusters.org: In Story On Proposed Ultrasound Mandate, WashPost's Kumar Fails to Note Va. Abortionists Already Use Them
Lawhawk / A Blog For All: Virginia Governor Has Second Thoughts About Passing Invasive Ultrasound Procedure Bill
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Andrew Jones / The Raw Story: VA gov backs off support for ultrasound bill
Joel Gehrke / Campaign 2012: Va. governor retreating from Planned Parenthood?
Shawn Maclauchlan / WWBT-TV: Attempt to send ultrasound bill to committee fails
Wesley P. Hester / Richmond Times-Dispatch: In spotlight, ultrasound bill headed to governor
John Cole / Balloon Juice: Maybe You Should Have Asked Some Women
Jordan Bloom / The American Conservative: Does Virginia's Ultrasound Bill Really Mandate 'State-Sponsored Rape'?
Sam Baker / The Hill:
Virginia House passes controversial anti-abortion bill
Virginia House passes controversial anti-abortion bill
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Amanda Peterson Beadle / ThinkProgress: Virginia Governor Backtacks, Offers Amendment To Ultrasound Bill
Noam Scheiber / The New Republic:
EXCLUSIVE: The Memo that Larry Summers Didn't Want Obama to See — For the past three years, Washington journalists and politicos have obsessed over a 57-page memo that Barack Obama's incoming economic team prepared for him in late 2008. The document has achieved such totemic status for good reason …
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James Pethokoukis / The Enterprise Blog: Secret Obama memo wanted the $800 billion stimulus to be—gasp!—$1.8 trillion
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Mark Thoma / Economist's View: Summers, Romer, and the Stimulus Package
Joe Weisenthal / Business Insider: This Is The Memo That Could Have Saved The US Economy
Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
Some More Thoughts on Heartland — I know that many of you are probably sick of this story, for which I apologize. I'm crunching on a column after a weekend family emergency, so the other blogging which would normally be interspersed with the Heartland stuff is going to be very light through at least tomorrow.
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Global Warming Alarmists Resort to Hoax
Global Warming Alarmists Resort to Hoax
Walter Russell Mead / Via Meadia: Green Movement Jumps the Shark
The Barrister / Maggie's Farm: "So, Peter Gleick: if I am wrong, sue me."
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Jonathan H. Adler / The Volokh Conspiracy: Climategate Turnabout
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David Appell / Quark Soup: Interview with AGU President Michael McPhaden
Curryja / Climate Etc.: Gleick's 'integrity'
Tim Mak / Politico:
Chris Christie tells Warren Buffett: 'Shut up' — Chris Christie has heard enough about Warren Buffett, and in typical fashion, the New Jersey governor had a certain blunt way of putting it. — "He should just write a check and shut up," Christie said Tuesday on CNN's "Piers Morgan Tonight."
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Linette Lopez / Business Insider: Chris Christie Told Warren Buffett To 'Just Shut Up' On Piers Morgan Last Night
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
A simple solution to inequality: Stop talking about it
A simple solution to inequality: Stop talking about it
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Steve Benen / The Maddow Blog: Chris Christie on tax fairness: 'Shut up'
Bob Drummond / Bloomberg:
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Joshua Green / Business Week:
Dow 13,000? Thank Democrats
Dow 13,000? Thank Democrats
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David A. Graham / The Atlantic Online: Barack Obama, The Candidate of Wall Street
Benjamin J. Dueholm / Washington Monthly:
Rules of Misbehavior — Dan Savage, the brilliant and foul-mouthed sex columnist, has become one of the most important ethicists in America. Are we screwed? — ive months after the death of Esther "Eppie" Lederer in 2002, the bulk of her estate—a sprawling Chicago apartment's worth of furniture …
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William Saletan / Slate:
The Conversion — How, when, and why Mitt Romney changed his mind on abortion. — To understand Mitt Romney, you have to understand the most difficult passage of his political life: how he changed his position on abortion. Not the story he tells about it, but the real story.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic Online: Recalling A Pro-Choice Mitt Romney
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Mike Sacks / The Huffington Post: Supreme Court To Revisit Affirmative Action In University Of Texas Case
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New York Times:
The Court and Citizens United II
The Court and Citizens United II
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James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly: Enslaved By Freedom and Equality
Donald Douglas / American Power: Why the Left Can't Handle the Truth About Social Conservatism
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit: JAMES TARANTO: Mystification and Triumphalism: Why the left …
Tina Korbe / Hot Air:
What I'd love to see at tonight's debate: Ashes — It is Ash Wednesday, after all, and, if Joe Biden is willing to sport soot in public, then surely Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum will be, too. — Why do I want to see smudged crosses on their foreheads?
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William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Someone forgot to obtain a waiver — Multiple metaphors in this photo. — From reader Eric: … Metaphor Alert:
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David Dayen / Firedoglake:
Tom Miller, HUD Officials Laugh at Schneiderman Publicly — Whether you believe in Eric Schneiderman's ability to deliver a legitimate investigation on mortgage securitization fraud or not, you have to admit that the united front on opposition to a settlement on foreclosure fraud collapsed …
Discussion: Politico
Glenn Thrush / Politico: HUD boss Donovan jumps into Obama mortgage melee
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Democratic Lawmaker Responds To 'Fetal Pain' Bill With Measure Limiting Vasectomies — A Democratic lawmaker in Georgia is responding to a Republican-backed effort to prevent women from receiving abortions 20 weeks after fertilization with a tongue-in-cheek measure that seeks …
Discussion: Metro, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Florida Times Union, The Maddow Blog, Don Surber and The Raw Story
Ray Henry / Metro: Abortion debate flares in Georgia Legislature
Christopher Quinn / Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Abortion bill gaining momentum, has support of Georgia speaker
Walter C. Jones / Florida Times Union: Georgia House Democrats make light of Republican's abortion bill with vasectomy bill
Laura Conaway / The Maddow Blog: Serious satire: 'It is the purpose of the General Assembly to assert an invasive state interest …
Stephen C. Webster / The Raw Story: Dem proposes vasectomy limitations in wake of anti-abortion legislation
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Washington State Poll —PPP finds the race for Governor of Washington tied, with Jay Inslee and Rob McKenna each at 42%. McKenna had led 40-38 on PPP's only previous poll of the race, last May. The reason Inslee has closed that small gap is that he's now getting the same percentage …
Discussion: Seattle Times and ThinkProgress
Jim Brunner / Seattle Times: Poll finds Inslee & McKenna tied


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Serve with: Pickled beets and baby potatoes sprinkled with parsley. Dessert: Lemon bars from the bakery.
- Yield
- Makes 4 servings
- 1/2 cup purchased tartar sauce
- 2 tablespoons plus 1/2 cup finely chopped green onions
- 2 teaspoons plus 1 1/2 tablespoons chopped fresh thyme
- 1 teaspoon drained capers
- 4 slices good-quality firm white bread, torn into pieces (1 1/2 cups)
- 1 celery stalk with leaves, cut into 2-inch lengths
- 1 1/4 pounds boneless cod, haddock, or other white fish fillets, cut into 2-inch chunks
- 1 large egg
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- Lemon wedges
- Stir together tartar sauce, 2 tablespoons green onions, 2 teaspoons thyme, and capers in small bowl.
- Place white bread in food processor; using on/off turns, process until very coarse crumbs form. Transfer breadcrumbs to large bowl. Using on/off turns, finely chop celery; add to bowl with breadcrumbs. Using on/off turns, coarsely puree fish; add to bowl. Add remaining 1/2 cup chopped green onions, 1 1/2 tablespoons chopped fresh thyme, egg, salt, and ground black pepper to bowl. Mix gently but thoroughly. Transfer fish mixture to work surface and shape into four 1/2-inch-thick cakes.
- Heat olive oil in heavy large skillet over medium heat. Add fish cakes and cook until brown on bottom, about 5 minutes. Using large spatula, carefully turn fish cakes over and cook until second sides are brown and centers are opaque, about 5 minutes longer. Divide fish cakes among 4 plates and garnish with tartar sauce and lemon wedges.
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Nutritional Info
- Calories295
- Carbohydrates10 g(3%)
- Fat14 g(22%)
- Protein32 g(64%)
- Saturated Fat3 g(14%)
- Sodium490 mg(20%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat2 g
- Fiber2 g(7%)
- Monounsaturated Fat9 g
- Cholesterol117 mg(39%)

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Janet and Andy Merris
Visited in October 2018, the 7th Successive year we have taken a Autumn break in Ypres and always buy our chocolates here. Fantastic choice on offer, matched by the welcome form the owners. If you like chocolate then this is where you need to get them from. Looking forward to visiting again.
Falk Walther
Everytime I'am in Belgium I visit this beautiful shop. Two weeks ago I was there. Probably there you get the best pralines ever. The owners of this shop are really lovely. And they speak any language required: English, Dutch, German, French, Flemish.
Karen Elias
I couldn't get to Ypres to buy chocolates for my mums 80th birthday, so I ordered on line, after talking to the lovely lady that owns the shop and explaining what mum likes, a perfect selection arrived by post. The packaging and service was brilliant and not overcharged on postage, will now use this service again when I can't visit personally.
David Woodard
Simply the best chocolate I have tasted, and the service that is even better than the taste.
Your new shop is an experience all of it's own.
Alan Taylor
Simply the best anywhere in Belgium and with the best two owners in the world Best Wishes From Santa.Ho Ho Ho
Tania Greenwood
Simply the best handmade chocolates I've had in my life...and I've had a lot!
Amanda Atha
After living in Mons for over 2 years our favourite place for chocolates was rapidly confirmed as your warm friendly shop in Ypres.
We have been back in England for nearly a year but our resent trip back to Mons would not have been as amazing without a trip to Ypres and our favourite chocolate shop.
Thank you for allowing us a peak at your soon to be new shop, I'm sure it will be as amazing as it looks.
Maria Driscoll
Just returned from a visit to the Battlefields and the Menin Gate, of course! I was advised to visit the Peter de Groote chocolate shop, but stumbled across your shop first! I purchased 2 x three boxes of truffles for ten euros each..for gift, and a box of crocs for twelve euros for myself! Am chomping my way through them..so quickly! They are absolutely delicious, great quality chocolate and great variety. Wanted to tell you that will be coming again to see you every visit to Ypres...don't care what Peter de Groote offers, yours are so lovely, thank you xx
Thea Hoebrechts
Jullie glimlach en supervriendelijke bediening (én de chocolaatjes natuurlijk!!) zijn voor ons altijd net dat iets dat een bezoek aan Ieper extra leuk maakt.
Tot binnenkort!!!
Danny en Thea uit Tienen
Steve and Barbara Morse
So pleased to hear that you will be having a new shop. I hope this means your rent will not be doubled in 2014.
We look forward to seeing you next year. Your shop is always a great place to visit and you deserve all of the very best in the future.
We look forward to seeing you next year and possibly the granddaughter will be with us.
We will have to check your online shop for goodies.
Natassia Antcliffe
I visited for the first time on the 29th July (my brother had already brought me some of these chocolates home, so I was keen to visit), and the shop is truly AMAZING! The staff were very friendly, and even recognised my brother who had been in a few times before :) I got some beer and some chocolates (the BEST Belgian chocolates in my opinion), and I will certainly be visiting again the next time I am in Europe :)
The Hall Family
United Kingdom
WE have visited Belgium many times and always make time to visit this fantastic chocolate shop. The owners are so friendly and always remember that we have been in the shop before. The choice of chocolates is great and you can choose exactly the ones you like for your box. We hope to visit again soon.
Duthoo Vera
Als oud ieperling kan ik niet passeren aan 't Hemelryck zonder binnen te gaan. Niet alleen hun pralines en andere produkten zijn Hemels maar ook hun vriendelijkheid en hun hulpvaardigheid tegenover de klanten zijn bijzonder. Dit zijn 2 prachtmensen. En zeker hun aanrader zijn de heel lekkere suikerwafels. Eigenlijk zijn het de lekkerste van België.
vera uit Bocholt
Roger Viggers
Beer and chocolate, and lots more besides. Add to that very cheerful service and willingness to help and it's a place well worth visiting.
Peter Daelmans
Al vele malen heb ik met gasten de Westhoek bezocht en al even zoveel keer was het einde van mijn bestemming "Het Hemelryck "
We hebben genoten van jullie praline's en ik hoop spoedig weer jullie winkel te bezoeken.
Groetjes Peter Daelmans.
Krimpen aan den IJssel.
Peter Urie
I stopped by yesterday with some friends, we were all on a bike trip. We loved the friendly service and fantastic chocolates, all mine have gone already we will be back!
Sarah Tiller
Lespinoy, France
Your Shop is wonderful and you were so helpful and friendly. The Pralines are so good I can see myself poppiong over the border a couple of times a year now. May you continue to bring smiles to many more faces over the years to come.
Tony Norris
York, England
Our visit to Ypres was made even better by our visit to your shop. The beer is outstanding and at long last I am able to send you the photograph. I hope you like it. Until next time....cheers!
Manfred Thyssens
Cologne, Germany
Congratulations to your website! Also congratulations to your shop, especially the world\'s best pralinés... I\'ll be back in Ypres in the mid of December. Best wishes from Cologne, sincerly yours Manfred
Sheila Mellon
I just came across the business card I got when I visited your shop last year. It brought back the wonderful memories of your beautiful town and your wonderful chocolate. My husband had to come and retrieve me from your shop, because I was unwilling to leave voluntarily. I brought your chocolate home and shared it with my 92 yr old Mother-in-Law, who still sometimes talks about it. Thanks for providing such a wonderful product. Sincerely, Sheila Mellon
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Benjamin Franchise
Race: Men
Faction: Transylvito
Class: Chief Caster (Moneymancer)
Proposed Canon
"For matters majestic,
the King elects
To neglect the domestic."
First Appearance: TBFGK Epilogue 11 (Referenced) LIAB 34 (Seen)
Benjamin Franchise is the Chief Moneymancer of Transylvito. He was a close friend and advisor to Don King, and every night the two discussed Transylvitan politics and finances over wine.
His first priority is the Transylvito treasury, to the point that he refers to himself and the treasury as the same.Erf-b3-p61 When Don King asked Benjamin to make a gem for a sizable loan to Slately during the battle for Spacerock, Benjamin refused, echoing Don's earlier belief that they couldn't afford it. Benjamin went further, saying he needed to hear what Caesar had to say before he could loan desperately needed shmuckers to a shaky side, and eventually (respectfully) refused the order with the unanimous backing of the Transylvito warlords present at the capital. He also cautioned Don against giving additional funds to Faq, an investment he privately regarded as "fiscal abuse" and motivated by Don's fascination with Jillian. Erf-b2-pT34
Benjamin respects and admires Caesar Borgata's prowess in battle, although he cautions Don to keep an eye on Caesar's ambitions. He is uncomfortable with Bunny's subvocalizations, despite being aware that she is unable to speak, and their conversations are typically brief. Erf-b3-p157
Benjamin was a member of the bat pack.
Benjamin is apparently not a Transylvito Vampire. It is unclear if he was popped by Transylvito or was originally a barbarian caster, as he does not have Signamancy that resembles Bill or Bunny.
In the real world, Ben Franklin was a brilliant polymath: a scientist famed for his work with electricity; author, publisher, copy-editor, and printer of Poor Richard's Almanack, including assorted epigrams, minor poetry, and weather forecasts in it; a mathematician who explored "magic squares"; and one of the major political leaders of the American Revolution against King George III. Benjamin states "in doing my Duty, I try to look beyond my discipline," possibly implying a similar interest in other schools of magic. One of these interests appears to be in Rhyme-o-Mancy, as he "cancels the antsy" during the Battle for Spacerock with a Rhyme-o-Mancy rant Erf-b2-pT34 and also rhymes prior to his first meeting with Parson Gotti.Erf-b3-p199
Real World References
Benjamin's name and appearance is a reference to Benjamin Franklin, especially his depiction on the one hundred US dollar note.
"Benjamin" is also a slang term for an one hundred dollar bill; "Benjamins" can be used to refer to large sums of money. Benjamin wears a gold 100 around his neck, furthering the comparison(On-Line Slang Dictonary)


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On a usual day, Bruno stepped in his pyjamas at six a.m. through his front door and complained about the weather, whatever that happened to be: sunshine or grey, cloud-covered sky. He came back inside, sat down at the kitchen table, and turned the pages of the daily paper. First off, he muttered curses aimed at the politicians of the moment, then turned to a detailed study of the TV program listings.
When Mimi refilled his cup with milk coffee for the third time, he folded the newspaper neatly and handed it to her.
Only on Sunday, she snatched the travel section away from him.
During her afternoon nap later that day, she would dream of graceful dancers in Bali in gold-yellow silks, of a musher's sled drawn over the ice by a team of yelping huskies, of a night in the Serengeti, and of leopards whose eyes glittered in the moonlight. And she dreamed of people in all the countries they would visit in their travels, who would open their doors to them and invite them into their homes. After each siesta she woke up with rosy cheeks and felt the blood coursing through her veins.
Today, though, everything was different. Instead of complaining, Bruno stormed through the house they had called home for the past thirty years. He looked out over the garden. His only joy, thought Mimi, her eyes fixed firmly on him. Long ago, they had a plan: when children arrived, they would move to a home with large, sunny rooms. But the children never came.
He hadn't touched the paper, had jumped to his feet after the first sip of coffee; now he was leaning against the sink, looking straight at Mimi with bright blue eyes: "Suggestion!"
The exclamation point in his voice made her look up. As she looked at Bruno in anticipation, the Travel Section seemed to subside between coffee mug and toast, seemingly of its own volition. The stubbles of Bruno's beard reflected to morning sun; his fingers busied themselves with the collar of his pyjama top; Mimi cleared her throat as though wanting to help him find the right words. The corners of his mouth seemed to attempt a smile – a smile? Mimi asked herself. How long had it been since they last laughed together? Age had made a quibbler of him, humourless and stale.
Bruno scratched at his throat, took a deep breath.
Mimi could barely contain her curiosity, but the fear that he might again withdraw into himself if she should press him, was too great.
"I'm listening?" She tried to keep her voice as calm as possible.
There, in a blink of an eye!
"Yesterday, we got a letter - you were out, shopping. The house is paid off."
Bruno extracted a folded paper from his pyjama pocket, smoothed it out, held it up to the sunlight. Then he crumpled it into a ball: "Be back in a minute!"
Mimi rushed to the window and watched him proceed to their only tree, spade in hand. After he had buried the letter, she saw him make the sign of three crosses in the air.
Now he sat with folded arms on the drainage board of the sink and nodded like the little dachshund nodder by the back window of the old Simca. "Wedged in between the neighbours' houses, you can hear every fart," he groused.
Mimi bit her lip.
Now his eyes moved to the flower-garlanded rim of the old kitchen clock.
How long would it take to get rid of the house, how far would we get? – Mimi asked herself.
Bruno jumped down from his perch and moved to the table. He got hold of the Travel Section. "Look what there is in this world," he said, and put his finger on the photo of a gleaming white house with blue window frames. "Crete" was printed below.
Mimi reached for her coffee cup; the china rim clinked against her teeth.
"And when we run out of dough, we won't have to worry, either: we'll simply sleep under the stars and lie on the sun-warmed sand and catch fish in the sea." His eyes twitched nervously."Bruno," Mimi whispered.
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New Mexico's employment ratio--the percentage of the working-age population to the number of employed people--is the lowest it's been since 1976. It's also lower than neighboring states and the national average. (Infographic; Mar. 2017) Read more
In the world of revenue-estimates and budget-making, numbers can seem pretty abstract. This infographic takes a look at how the revenue provisions in HB 202 might actually be invested to stem more harmful spending cuts. (Infographic; Feb. 2017) Read more
Reinstatement on the tax on food is likely to come up in the 2017 legislative session even though New Mexico has the second highest rate of children who don't always have enough to eat. This infographic looks at food insecurity in New Mexico and which other states in the nation tax food. (Infographic/Fact Sheets; Dec. 2016) Read more
Trickle-down economics were touted for years as the best economic tool for creating jobs. It does change the way in which money flows through the economy, but not quite in the way proponents promised. (Infographic; April 2016) Read more
Faced with falling revenue and unwilling to raise taxes, New Mexico's Legislature made deep cuts in some critical programs. But, as this infographic shows, one area of the budget actually saw increases. (Infographic; March 2016) Read more
Cutting taxes in the hope that jobs will be created is a "race to the bottom" as state revenues decline and services like education, health care and public safety are cut. Investing in our state's human capital and infrastructure is a "race to the top" that will make New Mexico attractive to employers. (Infographic; Feb. 2016) Read more
The SNAP Double Up Food Bucks program helps low-income families purchase fresh, locally grown produce at farmers markets. It helps local farmers too! This infographic shows if there's a participating farmers market in your community. (Infographic; July 2015) Read more
With the highest long-term unemployment rate in the nation, New Mexico is in no position to require parents to find a job in order to receive food benefits. Unfortunately, some state officials are pushing for just that. (Infographic; July 2015) Read more
This infographic, which focuses on the economic realities that food-insecure families face, was created as a handout for the National Commission on Hunger, which asked NM Voices to join their discussion on food insecurity. (Infographic; July 2015) Read more
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Village Song (around 35 members) started in August 2016.
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, and many discover new found confidence in their voice through participating in the group.
My goal for the choir is that everyone in the group feels included and accepted, and that as we sing together we create joy, have FUN and co-create community. You choose your level of participation in the choir - for those who feel inclined, there will be opportunity to sing in small groups, or to solo.
The choir repertoire includes songs from a wide range of countries and styles. We will learn African, Gospel, Pop, Maori and Pacific, Taize, doo wop and more. We perform several times a year, either putting on our own concerts or singing at events.
Thursday evenings during school term, 7:30 - 9:15
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New members are welcome at any time - just come along as a casual for an evening and experience the joy!
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Now, on the XJ470 the mobius is mounted in a gimbal and there is an additional need to use a cable which does not interfere with the workings of the gimbal, that is, a very soft cable.
HobbyKing has a solution to both the connector and wire problem with their slim mobius cable.
This is not a fantastic product. First off the USB connector is not the slimmest they could have made. It protrudes when inserted into the connector on the mobius. I have no idea if this is necessary or not but it kind of break the case a little bit for my tight mounting in the gimbal.
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Emma Watson did more than give an impassioned speech before the 71st United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday. She also let her wardrobe do some of the talking. The effect was a subtle, if powerful, one. Wearing a "fully sustainable" black turtleneck and camel pencil skirt, the Harry Potter actress and UN Women Global Goodwill Ambassador telegraphed her passion for justice, integrity, and gender equality without, as it were, a single word. Watson had approached Zady, an ethical online retailer with its own private label, to create the outfit, which is part of a broader capsule collection to be unveiled over the coming months. Cut, sewn, and knit in California and New York City, the custom pieces feature silk from a cooperative in India, wool from a sixth-generation Oregonian ranch with sustainable roots, and woven goods from a family-run mill in Italy that runs on solar power.
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All of the items have been manufactured according to Zady's "The New Standard," a best systems approach for apparel production that takes into account design, material choice, and modes of manufacturing.
Watson, who previously worked with the likes of People Tree and the Green Carpet Challenge, has long described fashion as a "feminist issue."
Watson, who previously worked with the likes of People Tree and the Green Carpet Challenge, has long described fashion as a "feminist issue."
Watson, who previously worked with the likes of fair-trade clothier People Tree and Livia Firth's Green Carpet Challenge, has long described fashion as a "feminist issue," largely because so many garment workers in less-than-ideal situations are women.
"Emma has exquisite taste, natural style and grace," Maxine Bédat, who co-founded Zady, said in a statement. "Our team is committed to pieces showcasing gorgeous design—made by farmers, spinners, weavers, and sewers who are at the top of the game in talent and sustainability."
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And Watson, a real-life Disney Princess who arrived at this year's Met Ball in a gown made of recycled plastic bottles, is the perfect muse.
"For us, there isn't a more conscientious and compelling modern style icon than Emma herself," Bédat added. "We jumped at the chance to create bespoke sustainable items for her, and are excited our customers will eventually be able to purchase the items, too."
You don't have to wait for the full capsule collection to drop: Watson's UN look is already available for preorder on www.zady.com.


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The Acting Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, on Monday encouraged the Senate to increment budgetary portion to the commission to capable it work viably.
Mr. Magu made the supplication in Abuja while guarding the commission's 2017 spending plan before individuals from Senate Committee on Anti-Corruption and Financial Crimes.
He called attention to that the commission's 2017 proposition had been diminished by the Budget Office from N18.8 billion in 2016 to N17 billion, speaking to 8.5 for every penny cut.
He said that if the 2017 assignment was not expanded, operations of the commission would be hampered.
Mr. Magu said that the 2017 capital use was N7.1 billion, overhead, N3 billion, while faculty cost was N7 billion.
He asked the board of trustees to expand the faculty cost from N7 billion to N9.7 billion to suit the proposed enrollment of 750 cadets in 2017 and the 530 as of now selected in 2016.
He additionally called for dire finishing of the commission's head office in Abuja, saying that its present office game plan was blocking successful operations.
In his comments, Chairman of the board of trustees, Sen. Chukwuka Utazi, complimented the EFCC for its endeavors in the battle against debasement.
He, be that as it may, encouraged authorities of the commission to put in their best to spare Nigeria from dangerous inclinations of debasement.
Mr. Utazi prompted the commission to interface with the National Assembly and have a decent correspondence relationship.
He questioned the general introduction of the commission's financial plan and advised it against hurrying to the administration dependably to look for additional assets or intercession.
He kept up that 2016 spending execution was not legitimately processed as the rate of execution was not shown.


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A candidate for chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) on Saturday blasted President TrumpDonald John TrumpPapadopoulos on AG's new powers: 'Trump is now on the offense' Pelosi uses Trump to her advantage Mike Pence delivers West Point commencement address MORE, calling him "a draft-dodging chickenhawk president."
"I'll be damned if we're going to have a draft-dodging chickenhawk president of the United States — who thinks he's too smart to read his own intelligence briefings — ordering the people I served with back into another conflict because he can't be bothered to do his job properly," South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg said at a DNC forum in Baltimore.
Buttigieg, who was deployed to Afghanistan while serving in the Navy Reserves, said during a panel with other DNC candidates that Democrats need to "tap into the moral outrage" across the country, alluding to protests over a series of executive actions Trump has taken in the first weeks of his presidency. Buttigieg criticized Trump for his order on refugees.
The New York Times reported last year that Trump received five deferments from the military draft during the Vietnam War, including four educational deferments and one medical deferment.
Other Democratic candidates criticized Trump on Saturday, with Rep. Keith EllisonKeith Maurice EllisonDemocrats face new civil war in primary fight 18 state attorneys general call on Justice Dept to release Mueller report Keith Ellison: Evidence points to Trump being 'sympathetic' to white nationalist point of view MORE (D-Minn.), a top contender for DNC chair, calling the president "misogynistic."
Ellison also condemned recent immigration raids after reports that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials detained several hundred people this week.
"We've got to be in solidarity, we've got to be with them. We've got to be on the line, carrying the sign," Ellison said.
The DNC's interim chairwoman, Donna Brazile, similarly spoke out against the raids on Saturday.
"For the last few days, in communities across our country, some of our neighbors heard a knock at their door. Peaceful, hard-working people were asked for their papers. Some were torn from their homes, leaving mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters behind," Brazile said in a statement.
"This is not happening in some faraway dictatorship you have trouble finding on a map. This is happening here, in our America. And we have to keep working, keep fighting and keep speaking out until it stops."
A report on Friday said undocumented immigrants were arrested this week in Atlanta, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. An ICE official said while the raids were an "enforcement surge," they were also routine.
Trump signed two executive orders last month on immigration enforcement, one of which ended the "catch and release" policy that allowed people who crossed the border to return to Mexico without being arrested. The other order called for construction to begin on the U.S.-Mexico border wall.


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Credit Score Ranges
Credit scores generally range between the low 300s and the mid-800s. One might think that a score around 600 should be a decent credit score but not really. A credit score is considered excellent if it ranges between 720 and up.
If the score is from 680 to 719 then it will only be considered good. I know that might sound weird, but that's how it is. An average credit score range from 620 to 679. If the score is from 580 to 619 it is considered poor credit score. Bad credit score is 500 to 579 and anything less than 500 is considered a miserable credit score.
Thus, a decent credit score must range somewhere within 680 to 719 to be on the safe side. Achieving this score should not really be a problem if you work up your finances and apply the tips mentioned in this article!


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Pixelsumo is a blog about interaction, with an emphasis on play, installation, video game culture, playgrounds and toys. Written by Chris O'Shea.
Posted August 2nd 2006 under Multi-touch
BoingBoing have just posted a link to a video demonstration & explanation of Jeff Han multi-touch interaction. Watch video at TED Talks. The interaction demos have been seen before, but good to hear a rapid explanation from Jeff.
Previous posts on multi-touch interaction:
Multi-Touch Sensing through Frustrated Total Internal Reflection
Multi-Touch Interaction Roundup
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It's so amazing how time has allowed us to truly develope all that has already been here. He blesses us in many areas, and this complexed and wonderful creation Jeff and others have develope makes me want to always look beyond what I see.
Thanks to dreamers and movers.
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Mesa Libraries Begin New Streaming Media Service
Mesa's libraries are launching a new way for people to download movies, music and audiobooks without having to set foot in a library building. Hoopla Digital, a Netflix-like service which caters to library systems, allows users to check out digital materials by streaming them from their computer or downloading them to a smartphone.
"We're committed to exploring new digital services for our patrons that will advance learning and knowledge. So, then, we just decided this was a product that we maybe wanted to explore offering," said Mesa Public Library spokeswoman Liz Costanzo-Lee. "Plus, it's a pretty cool thing, being able to download and stream on your mobile device or personal computer."
The service is open to residents of Maricopa County with a current Mesa library card. The new on-demand resource will allow users to view current availability of media materials and when a wanted item will become available.
Mesa starts the service this week, but 13 other Arizona cities have already incorporated digital library service in January, including Apache Junction, Phoenix, Maricopa, and Casa Grande public libraries.


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Rocrail consists of two programs; The Rocrail Server and the Rocview Client. These programs communicate with each other using TCP/IP, and they do not need to be on the same computer. Due to Rocrail's client-server architecture, control of a layout from any computer or mobile device on a home network or over the Internet is possible. Rocrail runs on a computer connected to the layout by one of the standard computer interface setups, and supports many controllers. Click supported Command Stations for a list of currently supported Command Stations.
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Triple-Bow Arcuballista
Concocted and culminated all through the stature of the Greek and Roman domains, the ballista was fundamentally a monster crossbow mounted on a truck. Yet, the arms of the bow didn't curve like those of an ordinary crossbow. Rather, they were strong light emissions mounted between contorted skeins of rope. At the point when a lever was turned, the finishes of the arms pivoted toward the back of the ballista and wound the ropes to make torsion.
It was a massively intense weapon, however abandon it to the Chinese to say that one bow wasn't sufficient. They needed three. The advancement of the various bow arcuballista was continuous, starting in the Tang tradition with a crossbow that utilized two bows for included force. Records from the period express this bow could fire an iron jolt up to 1,100 meters (3,500 ft), more than three times the scope of other attack crossbows.At minimum 200 years after the fact, the attacking Mongol strengths roused another arms jump for Chinese arcuballista planners.
At some point amid the early Song line, they revealed the sangong chuangzi nu—the "triple-bow little bed."Details of this arcuballista are few and far between. In any case, it's trusted that the Mongolian armed force, obstructed by these intense barrier machines, enlisted Chinese specialists to construct their own particular triple-bow behemoths. This in the end turned the tide of war in the Mongols' support and prompted the ascent of the Yuan tradition.
It was 1584, six long winters into the Eighty Years' War, and Federigo Giambelli could taste retaliation noticeable all around. A long time prior, he had offered his administration as a weapons originator to the Spanish court, however they'd giggled him out of the nation. Raging, he'd moved to Antwerp, where he at long last discovered the chance to retaliate for his wounded Italian ego.Fresh off a triumph against the Ottomans, Spain sent the Duke of Parma to lay attack to Antwerp, which had turned into the center point of Dutch separatists. The duke would have liked to gag the city with a bar of boats over the River Scheldt.
Antwerp countered by sending flame ships—truly, delivers ablaze—against the barricade. Giggling, the Spanish armed force pushed them away with pikes until the vessels blazed themselves into the waterway. As yet needing retribution on the Spanish, Giambelli approached the city committee for 60 boats, vowing to break the barricade. In any case, the city just gave him two.Undeterred, Giambelli started assembling his artful culmination weapons. With every boat, he gutted the hold, manufactured a bond load inside with dividers 1.5 meters (5 ft) thick, and stacked in 3,000 kilograms (7,000 lb) of black powder.
He topped it with a marble rooftop and heaped every boat high with "each unsafe rocket that could be imagined."Finally, he built a perfect timing component to touch off the entire burden at a foreordained time. These two boats turned into the world's first remotely exploded time bombs, which he called "hellburners."As night drew closer on April 5, Giambelli sent 32 flame ships in front of his hellburners to occupy the Spaniards. The duke called his men onto the barricade to keep the boats away. In any case, one hellburner grounded too a long way from the bar and tenderly "popped" when its igniter failed. With the flame boats failing out, the second hellburner simply pushed the line of Spanish ships and gave off an impression of being dead in the water.
A portion of the Spanish warriors started to laugh.Then the second hellburner blasted, killing 1,000 men and blowing a 60-meter (200 ft) gap in the barricade. The sky drizzled concrete obstructs the measure of headstones. Above all, the impact opened the corridor to resupply the city.Shocked, the Dutch didn't move to get the supplies they'd positioned downriver. A couple of months after the fact, they surrendered to Spain. Giambelli couldn't have minded less. His war was over in light of the fact that Spain damn surely understood his name now.
Greek Steam Cannon
In 214 BC, the Roman Republic laid attack to the Sicilian city of Syracuse in an offer to increase key control of the island. General Marcus Claudius Marcellus drove a maritime armada of 60 quinqueremes—Roman war vessels—over the Strait of Messina in a frontal charge while his second-in-summon assaulted from the area. In any case, as the noose fixed around the city, the relentless Roman armed force got itself repulsed by an improbable foe: Archimedes. For everything the Romans tossed at him, Archimedes was constantly three stages ahead.
Ballistae on the external dividers tore through the propelling rangers. Toward the ocean, the Claw of Archimedes lifted entire boats out of the water and smashed them in a shower of fragments and shouting slaves. For a long time, the attack delayed, an epic skirmish of military may versus experimental mind. Amid this attack, Archimedes was said to have contrived a weapon so destroying that it could smolder boats to ash from 150 meters (500 ft) away. All it took was a couple drops of water. The gadget was misleadingly straightforward: a copper tube warmed over coals with an empty dirt shot dropped down the barrel.When the funnel got sufficiently hot, a small piece of water was infused into the tube underneath the shot.
The water in a split second vaporized, impacting the shot toward propelling boats. On effect, the dirt rocket blasted, splashing blazing chemicals onto the wooden ships.Even today, Archimedes' steam gun is a matter of exceptional hypothesis. Mythbusters gave it a bust, however a group at MIT could fabricate a working—and very powerful—model utilizing the first portrayal of the cannon.They ascertained that their .45-kilogram (1 lb) metal shell was propelled with 1.8 times the dynamic vitality of a M2 automatic weapon shooting a .50-gauge round. In the event that they hadn't shot it specifically into a mass of soil, they speculated that it would have had a scope of 1,200 meters (4,000 ft). Also, they just utilized a large portion of some water.
Rocket Cats
No one had ever known about rocket felines before 2014. No one, that is, aside from Franz Helm, the man who developed them. At some point around AD 1530, the mounted guns expert from Cologne, Germany, was assembling a military manual for attack fighting. Black powder was simply starting to affect fighting, which made the book well known.
Rudder's manual contained depictions of about each sort of bomb conceivable, every last bit of it brilliantly represented and horridly outlandish.Then he included a segment encouraging attack armed forces to discover a feline. Any feline will do, he said, the length of it originated from the city you were attempting to vanquish. At that point attach a bomb to it. In principle, the feline would hasten back to its home and along these lines torch the whole city. Pigeons were reasonable amusement, as well.
Regardless of whether these things really happened is an inquiry that individuals are as yet attempting to reply, yet the answer is "most likely not." According to Mitch Fraas, a specialist at the University of Pennsylvania who had the joy of being the first individual to interpret the content, there isn't any recorded proof that anyone really attempted to do what Helm recommended. The no doubt aftereffect of such a plan, he said, would be setting flame to your own camp.
Gun Shields
Indeed, even in the sixteenth century, when the idea of guns was still fresher than the torment of a first separate, individuals made sense of that adding a weapon to something gave it at any rate double the shooting force. Lord Henry VIII was particularly sold on the thought. Notwithstanding a mobile staff made destructive with a spiked morning star and three guns, his illustrious arsenal included 46 weapon shields like the one imagined above.
These shields were regularly wooden circles with a firearm jabbing through the inside, albeit each was not the same as the following. Some had iron protecting on the front and others had metal meshes over the weapon for locating, however they were all viewed as beautifying interests more than anything of real chronicled interest.Most of them were appropriated by scattered historical centers, where they assembled dust in showcase boxes alongside other irregular peculiarities from the Middle Ages. In any case, the UK's Victoria and Albert Museum as of late investigated their example and found that firearm shields may have been more ordinary than most students of history initially accepted.
So they gathered together the greatest number of as they could discover and got to studying.What they found was that few of the firearm shields had powder copies from where they'd been utilized. Some of them additionally seem to have been intended to bolt onto a ship's gunwales, where they were likely utilized as an additional layer of protecting and additionally a line of people killing shoot. At last, however, it presumably seemed well and good to keep the shields and the firearms separate, so the unusual weapon shield fell into lack of clarity.
Percussion Pistol Whip
On March 17, 1834, Joshua Shaw was conceded a patent for the main thing that could have made Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark shockingly better: a riding whip with a gun covered up in the whip's handle. What made it especially helpful—and possibly hazardous—was how it was terminated. Rather than utilizing a trigger like most firearms, the gun had a catch in the side of the handle that you could press with your thumb.
That permitted a man to hold the whip like they regularly would and still have admittance to the gun's trigger. Regularly, the trigger was flush with the handle, however when it was positioned, the catch would stand out for prompt firing.At slightest one of these percussion gun whips was really made, in spite of the fact that there aren't any records of them being delivered in any sort of numbers. It exists now more as an anomaly than whatever else. Its real downside was that the gun must be discharged once, yet on the other hand, in some cases one shot is everything you need.
Axe Guns
Almost every society has made no less than one variant of a weapon edge blend. Not just do they look cool, they offer a ton of flexibility on the front line. The blades utilized as a part of the Crimean War and the American Civil War are presumably the most celebrated cutting edge illustrations, however the pattern has been around since the first Chinese flame spears in the tenth century.Yet some way or another, no one truly nailed it like Germany did.
Probably the most all around saved illustrations of German hatchet weapons as of now live in the Historisches Museum in Dresden and date from the mid-to late 1500s. These luxuriously cut pieces highlighted overwhelming fight tomahawks on the barrels of wheel-lock firearms.Some could be utilized as a chopper and a shooter all the while, while others were fundamentally tomahawks that uncovered a weapon barrel when the hatchet head was uprooted. They were likely created for rangers, which clarifies the broadened handles on what might somehow or another be a gun.
Whirlwind Catapult
Launches are the age-old war machines, and like present day rifles, there was an alternate kind for each reason. While movies have demonstrated to us the divider punchers and monster machines utilized by Greek and Roman armed forces, the Chinese concocted a littler variant that could hit critical focuses with pinpoint exactness: the xuanfeng, or tornado catapult.Like an expert rifleman rifle, the hurricane launch was an one-shot, one-murder type of assault. They were sufficiently little to be immediately moved around a combat zone, and the whole launch could be swiveled on its base while somebody located out an objective.
This gave them a vital point of preference over heavier slings and trebuchets which, while significantly more damaging with a solitary shot, required significant investment and labor to move into position.To add to their lethal precision, the Chinese constructed these hurricane launches with two sling ropes and two discharge pins, keeping the sling pocket consummately focused in the center. No different societies were known not that.
Chinese Flamethrower
As a percentage of the most punctual guns, the Chinese proto-firearms were an immense, inventive arms stockpile that was dissimilar to anything that had been made to that point. With no earlier predisposition for how an explosive driven weapon ought to look, Chinese designers had a clear canvas to make the absolute most strange firearms the world has ever seen.Fire spears, the first incarnation, developed at some point in the tenth century. These were lances joined to bamboo tubes that could shoot a burst of fire and shrapnel up to a couple feet away. Some shot lead pellets, others discharged a burst of toxic gas, and some shot arrows.
These soon offered approach to unadulterated shoot tubes as armed forces dumped the lances for modest, dispensable bamboo firearms that just gave one shot yet could be mass-created and shot in a steady progression. They were regularly given different barrels, prompting about unlimited kinds of death.From the guts of this innovative pandemonium developed the sky-filling spurting tube. Students of history for the most part call this weapon a flamethrower, however that portrayal doesn't exactly do it equity.
Utilizing a low-nitrate type of explosive, this weapon could create ceaseless blasts of fire for up to five minutes.But it was the expansion of arsenious oxide to the blend that made it so deadly. The harmful smoke actuated retching and shakings. To finish it off, the barrel was regularly stuffed with well sharpened sharp porcelain shards. The outcome was moment cut took after by a burning shower of harmful fire. On the off chance that your Chinese adversary didn't execute you immediately, your inner parts would gradually quit working from the intense arsenic introduction. In the long run, you'd fall into a state of extreme lethargy and kick the bucket.
China was wildly defensive of its black powder weapons amid the fourteenth and fifteenth hundreds of years. They held the most unstable development in military innovation since the bow and bolt, and they didn't anticipate surrendering it without a battle. China forced strict embargoes on black powder fares to Korea particularly, leaving Korean architects to battle for themselves against an apparently interminable attack of Japanese invaders.By the turn of the sixteenth century, on the other hand, Korea had more than ventured up to the explosive test and was producing their own particular war machines, coordinating any of the spurting tubes protecting the Chinese territory.
The Korean visit de power was the hwacha, a multi-rocket launcher that could fire more than 100 rockets on a solitary match. The bigger renditions utilized by the lord could fire more like 200. These things were samurai busters, fit for bringing down whole arrangements of thickly pressed samurai with every salvo. The hwacha's ammo was known as a singijeon, which was essentially a blasting bolt. The singijeon's breakers were balanced taking into account the scope of the foe with the goal that they would blast on effect. At the point when the Japanese attack started in full drive in 1592, Korea as of now had many hwachas in operation.
Maybe the best demonstration of the hwacha's energy came amid the 1593 Battle of Haengju. At the point when Japan mounted an assault on the peak stronghold with 30,000 troops, Haengju had scarcely 3,000 officers, regular people, and warrior friars set up to protect it. The chances were overpowering, and the Japanese powers progressed with certainty, unconscious that Haengju had one last trap up its sleeve: 40 hwachas mounted on the external walls.The Japanese samurai battled up the slope nine times, just to be repulsed over and over by a downpour of unadulterated hellfire. More than 10,000 Japanese kicked the bucket before they canceled the attack, flagging one of the first real Korean triumphs in the Japanese intrusion.


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This spring The Bath Business Expo 2019, one of the largest general business exhibitions and networking opportunities in the region, takes place on Thursday 21st March 2019 from 10am - 3pm at the impressive Assembly Rooms, in the heart of Bath. The event builds on the success of the previous years' sold out events that have hosted 108 exhibitors, and 500+ visitors are expected to attend.
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One of my favourite poets is Pablo Neruda, he is from Chile and has won a Nobel Prize for literature. I wanted to share with you all one of his remarkable quotes: "Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life." Relevant and inspiring all through time. It's good that we change, that we experience new things, but keep the core values of who we are intact.
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FILMS THAT TELL THE STORY of gay men or black men — let alone black gay men — are few and far between. To say the least. But the second feature by director Barry Jenkins, who made his debut with Medicine for Melancholy more than eight years ago, opens in the UK in February. It is being lauded by critics, many of whom are already calling it the best film of the year.
Even Madonna gave a rare Instagram shout out for it. Not is it just the film of the year, it is a masterpiece that may just be the most powerful film of the past 10 years. And it's about us.
Moonlight is the story of a young black boy growing up in an environment that tells him it is not OK to be who he is, and the consequences of that experience.
There has never been a film about a black gay man that has received this much attention and touched audiences in a way that the Hollywood rule book would suggest it couldn't. But touching audiences it is.
There is huge power in its portrayal of life for African American men in modern-day USA and in its portrait of toxic masculinity, drug addiction, the importance of male role models and the relationship between a mother and her son. But what Moonlight is also about, at its core, is the destructive power of gay shame, something I wrote about in my book Straight Jacket. It feels as if these conversations have finally broken through — and not before time.


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This month, we take a look at several games that base their origins in existing worlds. There's the Arkham Horror: The Card Game (an adaptation of an adaptation, if you will) that demonstrates how to pull the best facets of a universe and weave them into new shapes, maintaining the cosmic horror and unforgiving nature of its board game namesake and H.P. Lovecraft's stories while applying fresh living card game mechanics to create an experience that feels fresh but fitting. Another smart reimagining of an existing board game can be seen in Pandemic Iberia; very much a release for existing Pandemic fans that makes good on its premise of battling historical diseases.


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A trip to Turks and Caicos doesn't require flash cards for multiplication or extra construction paper, but I threw them into my suitcase anyway, because I wanted to be part of Pack for a Purpose. That program is part of The Sandals Foundation, a group created to support those in need.
Whether it's collecting and distributing school supplies from guests at its resorts or hosting free dental clinics, children throughout the Caribbean benefit from this group.
The Sandals Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Sandals Resorts International, supports education for those in need through its Adopted Schools Program.
Children from 26 schools benefit from the collection of school supplies. The schools are located in Jamaica, Antigua, Saint Lucia, The Bahamas and The Turks & Caicos Islands.
The Foundation has several similar community programs, meant to deal with complex issues such as violence, poverty, disaffected youth and lack of health care access.
The Foundation partners up with local leaders and neighbors to create programs with lasting impact, to change lives forever. Heidi Clarke is the Director of Programs for the Sandals Foundation. She explains in this video why it's so critical, and you will hear from some of the students.
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Eastport United Methodist Church
Friday, May 24, 2019
Open Hearts, Open Minds, Open Doors
Our Pastor
Rev. Michelle Thorne Mejia was raised in the United Methodist Church. Her father,
Rev. Alan D. Thorne, is a United Methodist pastor in the Virginia Conference.
Michelle graduated magna cum laude with her B.A. in Hispanic Studies and History from The College of William and Mary. During those four years Michelle served in various leadership positions at the Wesley Foundation and spent the summers working with different United Methodist camps and mission projects. Upon graduation, Michelle served for a year as an intern at Ginghamsburg UMC in Tipp City, Ohio. Upon further discernment of her call to ministry, Michelle pursued her Master of Divinity at Wesley Theological Seminary, graduating summa cum laude in May 2011. During her time in seminary, Michelle served as the Assistant Pastor at Emmanuel UMC in Beltsville, MD and as the Grassroots Coordinator of Immigration Reform for the General Board of Church and Society of The United Methodist Church.
Michelle also spent a quadrennium on the Board of Directors for the General Commission on Christian Unity and Interreligious Concerns. After graduating seminary Michelle accepted an appointment in the Baltimore Washington Conference at Community UMC in Maryland City. Since she began serving as pastor of this congregation in July 2011, Community UMC has received new friends and members, begun an Adult ESOL program for their Latina neighbors, started a youth group, celebrated their 50th anniversary of ministry in Maryland City, deepened their relationship with Maryland City Elementary School, and started homeless ministries which include serving the tent city near their church and participating in the Laurel Winter Shelter.
Currently, Michelle is a Provisional Elder in the Virginia Conference (serving on loan in the BWC) and will apply for ordination in the fall of 2014. In her sabbath time, Michelle enjoys dancing, cooking, photography, yoga, traveling, reading, writing, and hiking. Michelle recently married her best friend and fellow United Methodist pastor, Rev. Daniel Mejia on June 29, 2013.