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There has been plenty bandied about regarding the HTC HD7 and now comes a leaked spreadsheet from German carrier O2 that pins the release date to 42nd week of the year. That dovetails nicely with previous rumors of an October 18th release in the UK. According to the document, the HTC HD7 will be €79 on a two year €20 monthly contract, and €559 without a contract.
As for the US, the HTC HD7 is rumored to be coming to T-Mobile. Come mid-October, it sounds like we'll have no shortage of new Windows Phone 7 phones cropping up. Of course, we encourage our readers to sign up now for our Windows Phone forums. Get in now before the rush.
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CLAYTON, N.C. (WTVD) -- Clayton police say a teen wanted in the murder of his mother's boyfriend was captured early Wednesday morning in Fayetteville.
They had been looking for 17-year-old Cortaz Quemel Lucas Jr. since December 28 with the help of the FBI and SBI.
Police said last month they believe Lucas shot and killed 28-year-old Robert Lee Horton inside his mobile home in the 1000 block of South Lombard Street.
Investigators said it's believed a domestic dispute led to the shooting. Horton was found with multiple gunshot wounds and was rushed to Wake Med Hospital in Raleigh where he was later pronounced dead.
Lucas is charged with first-degree murder.
Police said Fayetteville officers were able to stop a car and take Lucas into custody without incident. He was hiding in the passenger floor-board area of the car.
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Friday night at our OCC shoebox packing party, we celebrated Danny's birthday, too. I didn't need any Pinterest boards or glossy magazine pictures to get the inspiration for this one - just Danny's sweet tooth!
I bought two cakes at the grocery store, one large chocolate and one small lemon. I asked the bakery ladies to stack them and give me a happy birthday phrase. I knew they wouldn't have room to write it on the cake because of my ultimate plan for the decorations.
Once I got the cake to the church, I used miniature chocolates all over as if they'd been blown out of a volcano. The randomness looked amazing, and the visual effect made my blood sugar go through the roof!
Danny was thrilled with his birthday cake, and he even shared it with his friends. It was so much fun to make. Now I have to start thinking about next year, I suppose. Yay!


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Congratulations to Sheridan Stores - the overall winners of Ballinasloe's Best Christmas Window Display 2016 as voted on by the public.
There was a fantastic response from the town with 45 shops/businesses entering the competition and 3,180 people voting on their favourite window display.
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Lin Luo Jing (Zheng Qiu Hong) accidentally gets drawn into a game world where she is the daughter of the prime minister and meets all kind of beautiful men. The system informs her that she can only return to the real world after she finds her true love. While there seems to be an abundance of good men around Luo Jing, there is one man she can't stand at all: the prince of the barbarian Yuan Kingdom Zhong Wu Mei (Gong Jun). But out of all men, she ends up in an arranged marriage with Wu Mei. Thus begins their love-hate relationship.
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The Czech military said it had analysed nine systems from seven producers before deciding on the Israeli one.
The defence ministry expects a deal worth some USD 430 million to be signed early in 2021 with the delivery two years later.
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Child prodigy Dev Shah believes that chess has life lessons for everyone. Here, he draws parallels between navigating the chessboard and navigating the corporate world.
Child prodigy Dev Shah believes that chess has life lessons for everyone. Here, he draws parallels between navigating the chessboard and navigating the boardroom.
Believe in child prodigies? Ever met a child prodigy? Ever seen a child genius do wonders?
Few of us have the chance to see child geniuses in action as they create a name for themselves on the world stage, while others their age watch cartoons at home.
For some, the creation of a child prodigy is a biological process. Others, however, believe that it is quite simply written in the stars. It is in the destiny of child prodigies to do something stupendous, their destiny to make people go 'Wow.'
This is about one such kid (at least by age): Dev Shah, a 9-year-old Commonwealth Gold Medalist and FIDE World Youth & Cadets Chess Championships runner-up.
If being a chess wiz isn't incredible enough, this 'kid' delivered a speech on one of the most prestigious platforms at TEDxNMIMSBangalore. His speech spoke about how chess helps people develop valuable qualities that are relevant in today's society, especially the corporate world.
When he was 3 years old, Dev used to accompany his parents to his sister's chess tournaments. It is an age at which every child wants to do everything his/her sibling does, and it was only natural that Dev would be intrigued by the chessboard.
That intrigue led him to learn the nuances of the game, with his mom and sister tutoring him. In his own words, "Soon, it became like a video game for me." That is how fluent he was at his game and how confident he was about his abilities in chess.
As he grew older, chess became a bigger and bigger part of his life, without him realizing it. He started participating in tournaments, and tested his skills against other, similarly brilliant kids. But Dev Shah was different. He had something in him that set him apart. The first issue he addresses in his speech is power.
According to the chess rule book, the power of a piece depends on how freely the piece can move on the board. Which is the most powerful piece on the board? It is obvious, isn't it? The Queen. It can move diagonally, longitudinally, laterally, and has incredible power. Dev disagrees. He says it is a common misconception.
Dev says that the pawn is the most powerful piece on the board. Why? He has two reasons:
- It guards the more 'powerful' pieces.
- It has the power to become any piece – a rook, a bishop or even a Queen.
This is a very relevant point in today's business structure. Everybody is focused on the powerful ones, and they forget to pay attention to the smaller pieces.
Here, the smaller pieces are you and me, the working middle-class. These pawns are the ones that drive the organization.
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Without them, the managers and the so-called powerful pieces will have nothing to do, and no one to manage. The power of an organization lies in the satisfaction of its employees. The more content the employees are, the further it will progress. The world has recognized this, and the change is visible.
Human resources was renamed 'human capital.' And now, human capital is being called 'talent acquisition.' These are not mere name-changes. They have an inner meaning, and that is being conveyed to the employees through various measures. There has been an increase in employee engagement activities, more surveys are being conducted on how to improve the work environment, employees are being offered more flexibility with work from home options. These are ways to motivate your employees.
When the workforce is motivated, it is like a nitro-boost to the organization's growth. The employees form the engine of any organization and, if the engine is not properly maintained, the organization will cease to move forward.
Dev says chess helps people enhance their thinking capabilities and further hone them. It opens doors to unexplored, uncharted territories.
Dev also talks about the importance of not giving up. Everybody wants to win, but when your back is up against the wall, you need to do everything in your power to stay in the game as long as you can. You should not lose. This is where strategic thinking skills come to the fore. We should know what to do in order to survive. And even more importantly, we should know what not to do, i.e. what will lead to doom.
Dev also emphasizes the importance of being pro-active. He talks about 'Reciprocal Thinking.' In a dynamic corporate environment, we need to be ahead of the others. We need to anticipate what the competitor's move would be, and we should be ready with our counter move. This counter move should nullify our opponent's move, and if possible give us an edge, which takes us ahead. This is of utmost importance in today's business world, because our uniqueness is what will take us forward.
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we use it in leeds and surrouding areas. Its like a snicket or passageway. Me and my cousin thought everyone used it till we got down to devon and asked what was down the ginnel. Got some funny looks, i tell thee.
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"Our cat ran up their ginnel" (A phrase used to indicate a very tenuous familial relationship between two people.
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A ginnel is the walk way that goes between houses connecting streets together. they are usually poorly lit and are full of chavs/children who want to drink and smoke somewhere dark. its what we say in manchester, and it doesnt come up in predicitve text.
on the phone "just walking down the ginnel to your house, had to ring incase some chavs beat me up".
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As has become usual, much of the news in the Budget had already been offered up as teasers and stories over the weekend and Monday, but I hadn't found anything much there about 'climate change'. And the Treasurer didn't say a lot about it. No longer are we hearing glowing accounts of how investing in new technologies will lead to a 'green-jobs' revolution. President Obama isn't saying that any more, either, and in Europe the current worries seem to be about the escalating cost of energy, and what to do about it. Spain's experiment with the green-jobs strategy has turned out to be disastrous, and it has done its best to slash subsidies for solar energy. Germany could afford the experiment more than Spain could, but Germany too seems to be moving away from renewables.
It seems to me that the green-jobs dream is something you indulge in when everything is going well. When money is tight, however, it is not the first thing on your mind. So what did the Treasurer do? I could find three large items, and all of them look to me like the dumping of 'climate change' as a major interest of the Government. Of course, you could argue, and some have indeed argued, that neither Treasurer Swan nor Secretary Parkinson (formerly Secretary of the Department of Climate Change, and responsible, if anyone is, for the Treasury miscalculations) will be there to implement any of this anyway. The important question is what Treasurer Hockey and his new Secretary would do with it all. My guess is that they will approve.
It was already known that carbon-tax receipts, like mining tax receipts, weren't going to deliver their expected revenue, but what was not known was the amount. It seems that receipts over the next four years are going to be $3.7 billion lighter than expected. Why? Because people actually purchased carbon permits in advance of the 'cap and trade' scheme that is expected to come into effect in mid 2015, when the carbon price is expected to be $12 a tonne. I don't know why it is that Treasury has these expectations. The carbon price in Europe is at about $4 a tonne at the moment. Who knows where that will go by mid 2015? The Chicago stock exchange trading in carbon permits has closed.
That's not a 'measure' so much as a gulp, another contribution to the deficit. But it has consequences, and one is the deferral of the forecast carbon-compensation tax cuts. Those hanging out for the $1.49 billion will now need to wait until the carbon price rises above $25.40. That does seem a long way off, so I wouldn't be borrowing now on the strength of what was coming to me. What else is there? A year ago the Government set up up the Australian Renewable Energy Agency, which was given the job of getting us further into renewables. It will have less money to play with, which the Treasurer has called 'rephasing', a term I must remember to use in household budget discussions ('let's rephase that overseas trip' etc). In the ARENA case the rephasing has been put into the 2020s, which is quite a long way off. An even earlier program in the same domain was about 'Connecting Renewables', where nothing much seems to have happened, but funding was not touched.
One I'd never heard of, called the Carbon Farming Initiative non-Kyoto Fund, has been wound up, saving a quarter of a billion, or thereabouts. Those who want money that way can apparently get it through the carbon trading scheme. The low-carbon communities program (I don't think I'd heard of that one, either) has been trimmed by $46 million. Carbon capture and storage, which I had heard of, and seems not to have captured or stored anything just yet, has reached its use-by date, and that has saved three-quarters of a billion.
Those who see the coal industry as an enemy will be pleased that carbon-pricing adjustment to the coal-miners has been reduced (by a bit more than $300 million), but they probably will wonder why steel has been given a little more assistance. Oh, and remember the hoo-haa about the 'green car' and how Australia was going to lead the way? Well, the Green Car Innovation Fund has lost $61.3 million. That seems to be about it, since there were no cuts to the fund that subsidises industry energy efficiency improvements.
All in all, and without saying so, the Government has pushed 'climate change' off its agenda, and saved a forthcoming Abbott Government a good deal of trouble. Governments don't like to actually abolish programs that they have set up, because to do suggests that one made a mistake in the beginning. The preferred process is first to reduce funding, and then to merge the program into another, with the suggestion that the work will be carried out even more efficiently there.
I remarked the other day that someone had suggested that Labor campaign on 'climate change'. I didn't think this was a very bright idea, and with this Budget the Government would have no weapons with which to enter such a battle. The question now is: where do the climate-change activists go? I still see the Greens' vote going down in September.


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More than 120 U.S. ski/snowboard venues have registered to host a Guinness Book of World Records event in pursuit of four separate records. The event takes place at 10 a.m. (local time zones) on Friday January 8, 2016 and is the "unofficial" kick-off for the snow sports industry's Learn to Ski and Snowboard Month (January). This snow spots industry initiative has introduced thousands of children and adults to ski and snowboard lessons since its inception in 2009.
Details and a list of participating venues are being posted at learntoskiandsnowboard.org. Venues will post their specific information on their own web sites beginning in November.
For the first time, records will be set for the world's largest multi-venue ski lesson and the world's largest snowboard lesson. From this group, the single venue ski lesson and the single venue snowboard lesson record will be determined. Ski and snowboard lessons are not taught together.
The single venue records for both disciplines are approximately 500 people.
"We are not talking about giant lessons at each venue," said Mary Jo Tarallo, director for the snow sports industry's Learn to Ski and Snowboard (Month)/Bring a Friend. "If a venue has 100 people that may mean 10 lessons with ten people. It depends on the venue."
Tarallo added, "It will be fun where we can set all four records or not. Who wouldn't want to set or break a Guinness Book of World Records? We hope current skiers and riders will tell their newcomer friends and family members wanting to learn."


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Our trip to Singapore wouldn't be complete without a visit to one of the Cooled Conservatories in Gardens by the Bay, the Flower Dome.
When I was planning our two-day itinerary to Singapore, I was not prepared for Singapore's humid weather. Fortunately, the beautiful island city-state thought well-enough to give everyone a chance to bask under the sun while staying cool. Gardens by the Bay has two Cooled Conservatories for tourists who enjoy being surrounded by lush greeneries and floral gardens. In this travel diary, I am sharing with you sneak peek of what to expect when visiting the Flower Dome.
A glimpse of the garden from the entrance
Get ready to chase after your active toddler in this 1.2 Hectares indoor garden
Flower Dome is divided into nine parts showcasing different gardens. So, be ready to chase after a curious toddler as she leads the way. Here's a map of the Flower Dome in case you'll be too distracted to check the flyer of the garden. Just remember to explore The Baobabs and Succulent Garden because this area was the only space we missed during our trip. It's on the right side as you enter the Flower Dome.
- Baobabs and Bottle Trees
- South American Garden
- Succulent Garden
- California Garden
- Australian Garden
- Mediterranean Garden
- South African Garden
- Olive Garden
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The world's largest column-less greenhouses are the two Cooled Conservatories at the Gardens by the Bay. Both the Flower Dome and Cloud Forest were designed using glass sitting on a steel grid. The design gives the two structure an eggshell facade. It looks magnificent in the inside and stunning in the outside. It will almost feel like living in the future to see the two structures in real life.
The Australian and South African Garden
Be creative in taking photos
Taking photos and videos were nearly impossible with an active toddler, but there's a workaround it. Ask your toddler to take pictures with you before you begin the tour with the help of fellow tourists. We were able to get at least three photos overlooking the Baobabs Garden. The challenge was how to get her attention when she's too busy smelling the flowers. Try not to bother her, just let them move around freely. Sometimes forcing them to smile for a photo won't do any good. So, instead of asking her to stop and smile for the camera, I just took close up pictures of different flowers in the Flower Field.
"Rapunzel! Rapunzel! Let down your hair." She sang merrily when we found Rapunzel's tower.
The Mediterranean Garden
The Mediterranean Garden displays tall Date Palm and Stone Pine trees. It gives the perfect shade on a sunny day. There were also island seats for tired tourists, which my daughter turned into a runway.
Hold an impromptu fashion show under the Date Palm Tree
Stay tuned for the changing floral display
The Flower Dome holds different floral display theme. Just this July, they are holding the Orchid Extravaganza in celebration of Singapore's pop culture. So, head to the Gardens by the Bay until September 15, 2019, to catch the flower display.
Hey, these are some reminders when planning a trip to Gardens by the Bay:
- We got our online tickets on Klook, which was so convenient. No need to print any documents show the online tickets and reservation from your phone.
- Bring water bottles with you. Walking the warm Singapore weather can be exhausting but don't worry, there is a water fountain inside the Flower Dome if you need a refill.
- Dining is so relaxed at Gardens by the Bay. There are so many restaurants to choose from.
- Allot at least two to three hours of touring time at Gardens by the Bay because there are so many conservatories to see inside.
- Bring lightweight strollers for small children but be sure to pack light because although it's a relaxed tour around Singapore, some attractions have no lifts. So, wear comfortable shoes to climb stairs easily.
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Editor's note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore's online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As of Fall 2018, the DG has merged with The Phoenix. See the about page to read more about the DG.
Despite featuring the two best players in the Centennial Conference – Player of the Year front-runner Katie Lytle '14, whose 20 double-doubles rank fifth in Division III and who enters the week third among Conference players in scoring and first in rebounding, and front-court teammate Elle Larsen '15 (ninth in the Conference in scoring, tenth in rebounding) whose post moves are the most refined of any Centennial big – the Swarthmore women's basketball team was picked to finish ninth out of 11 in the preseason coaches' poll in early November.
Fifteen weeks and 26 games later, the Garnet found itself trailing by two in the final minute of its first Centennial Conference Championship Game since 2002 and locked in another barnburner, a defensive battle with the top-seeded Gettysburg Bullets on Saturday.
There may be a team, even two, in Division III women's basketball with more close-game experience than the Garnet this season but no more than could be counted on a single hand. Entering Saturday, Swarthmore was 7-3 in games decided by six points or fewer including Friday night's victory over Muhlenberg in the Centennial semifinal 62-56 in which the Garnet rallied from a 56-50 deficit with 3:30 to play to score the final 12 points of the night.
In a season that has featured a banked-in buzzer-beating three to beat those very same Mules, six first-half buzzer beaters, a near triple-double and a challenge to the program and Conference record for steals in a game, the game-winning basket on Friday was scored on what must be the most bizarre sequence of the year. Still trailing by one with under a minute to play, an errant pass destined for the Garnet bench instead connected with the belly of an official, standing in the court of play, and fell at the feet of Madge Ross '13 who drove, with the shot clock running down, from the left sideline, across the top of the arc, and down the right side of the lane for a layup to put Swarthmore in front for good.
Thirty-five seconds and five free-throws later and they had set up a Saturday-night date with the Bullets. The point differential between the teams after their two meetings in the regular season? Zero. The Garnet dropped Gettysburg by one on the Battlefield in December before succumbing by a single point in the rematch.
Indeed, the final had all the tension that could ever be asked for as the teams exchanged defensive stands more so than baskets and the Garnet took a three-point lead into the halftime. The second half was the Caroline Murphy show for Gettysburg as the junior center dropped 15 points on 5-8 shooting and pulled the homestanders in front by four points when Larsen fouled out on a phantom blocking call with five minutes to play.
But Swarthmore was hardly finished and a Jess Jowdy '16 pull-up and Kayla Moritzky '14 three later, the Garnet was within a deuce inside of two to play. But on a night when the tenacious 2-3 zone of the Bullets held Swarthmore to 25% shooting, there would be no reprise of Friday's late-game magic and indeed no further scoring in the contest. A contested floater in the final ten seconds went long and the 1.7 seconds remaining on the clock left no time for a second look after a foul and pair of missed Bullets free-throws.
As Gettysburg cut the nets on their home court to celebrate the program's first Centennial Championship, the Garnet walked off the floor with their heads appropriately held high after the most valiant of efforts against the nation's second-best defensive team and a four-month run few outside of the Lamb-Miller complex could have imagined in November.
Though the Centennial proved to be a one-bid league to the NCAA tournament on Monday as the Garnet was left out of the bracket as a Pool C at-large candidate, Swarthmore, with its 20 win season, earned the second seed in the ECAC South Region Championship and the right to host No. 7 Marywood (15-12) on Wednesday at 7:00 PM in Tarble Pavilion. The ECAC bid is the program's first in a decade while Marywood of the Colonial States Athletic Conference returns to the tournament for the third consecutive year.
Moravian College, one of the final teams left on the table for NCAA at-large consideration, was named the top seed in the tournament. Semifinals and finals will be played on Saturday and Sunday at the highest remaining seed after Wednesday's action.
Wednesday's first-round contest, the final game in Tarble Pavillion for seniors Ross and sharpshooter Eliza Polli '13 barring a Neumann upset of Moravian, can be watched via the Garnet Sports Network by visiting swarthmoreathletics.com.


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Antebellum House Party
To make the servant in the corner unobjectionable
Furniture, we must first make her a bundle of tree parts
Axed and worked to confidence. Oak-jawed, birch-backed,
Cedar-skinned, a pillowy bosom for the boss infants,
A fine patterned cushion the boss can fall upon.
Furniture does not pine for a future wherein the boss
Plantation house will be ransacked by cavalries or Calvary.
A kitchen table can, in the throes of a yellow-fever outbreak,
Become a cooling board holding the boss wife's body.
It can on ordinary days also be an ironing board holding
Boss garments in need of ironing. Tonight it is simply a place
For a white cup of coffee, a tin of white cream. Boss calls
For sugar and the furniture bears it sweetly. Let us fill the mouth
Of the boss with something stored in the pantry of a house
War, decency, nor bedevilled storms can wipe from the past.
Furniture's presence should be little more than a warm feeling
In the den. The dog staring into the fireplace imagines each log
Is a bone that would taste like a spiritual wafer on his tongue.
Let us imagine the servant ordered down on all fours
In the manner of an ottoman whereupon the boss volume
Of John James Audubon's "Birds of America" can be placed.
Antebellum residents who possessed the most encyclopedic
Bookcases, luxurious armoires, and beds with ornate cotton
Canopies often threw the most photogenic dinner parties.
Long after they have burned to ash, the hound dog sits there
Mourning the succulent bones he believes the logs used to be.
Imagination is often the boss of memory. Let us imagine
Music is radiating through the fields as if music were reward
For suffering. A few of the birds Audubon drew are now extinct.
The Carolina parakeet, passenger pigeon, and Labrador duck
No longer nuisance the boss property. With so much
Furniture about, there are far fewer woods. Is furniture's fate
As tragic as the fate of an axe, the part of a tree that helps
Bring down more upstanding trees? The best furniture
Can stand so quietly in a room that the room appears empty.
If it remains unbroken, it lives long enough to become antique.


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Printed Amstrad Addict magazine announced, check it out here!
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Quote from: Gryzor on 11:24, 17 April 12Hello guys,As you may have noticed, all available mags and games have been upped to the forum.Can I ask you to use the downloads section and provide some feedback? I've had some issues reported (titles not found when searching, too few results/page) that I can't recreate, so I'd really appreciate some more users reporting...
Quote from: ervin on 16:17, 23 April 12I've downloaded a few games (to add to my HxC ), and it's all gone fine.Thanks for this service - it really makes cpcwiki feel much more "complete".
Quote from: Zeke on 18:58, 03 June 12From someone who is new to this - how do I actually download the magazine files?
Quote from: Badstarr on 11:55, 05 June 12This is great stuff! A little while ago I posted a couple of images (Prehistorik 2 and Super Cauldron) that I had trouble loading via my HxC. I had hoped that a few people would download them and confirm that their HxC devices did not like them either however, there have been no takers so far. So what I thought would be a better solution would be for me to post the images I fixed ready for the HxC so that these can be added to the downloads. I will dig them out and post them at some point today.
Quote from: Badstarr on 12:23, 05 June 12No worries Gryzor! I will upload the HFE images, I will use the ones I have on my HxC so just need to dig out my SD Card Adaptor, I'm always loosing it lol!
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Rachel Maddow talks to Jonathan Turley about why Judge Bybee is lobbying the Nevada congressional delegation to, as Think Progress notes, tell his side of the story. As Turley points out this is more likely a matter for a world court than it is for a state to become involved with since it deals with international agreements on war crimes which is something a state has no authority to act upon.
They also discuss Nancy Pelosi's double speak on what she knew about our "enhanced interrogation program"...a.k.a. torture and why she never allowed the Bush administration to be investigated for that and why she said that impeachment was "off the table".
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is trying to fend off criticism over her knowledge of the Bush Administration's plan to torture detainees. Pelosi has adopted a highly lawyered exclamation that she was briefed on the plan but never told that they were implementing the plan. It is a distinction lost on civil libertarians. She was still briefed on a war crime and did not act to stop it.
So, here is the analogy. Someone briefs you on their conclusion that they are allowed to burn down buildings, but you are not responsible unless you personally see the smoke or you are told about the arsons. I was not aware that asserting the right to commit war crimes was not a concern for congressional oversight. So, the Bush Administration went to all the trouble of securing formal opinions to allow it to torture people and to brief high ranking democrats, but Pelosi did not consider it a matter of sufficient concern to call for action from the Committees. This occurred at the same time that Bush and others were calling for rough treatment of detainees and publicly questioning the application of things like the Geneva Conventions.
Notably, lawyers are required to act when a client tells them that they are considering an action that could result in physical injury or death in other individuals. Yet, when Pelosi is told about the Administration belief that it can commit war crimes, she feels no compulsion to act until after the war crimes are committed.
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Economic Development
Kingman county economic development director
324 N. Main
P.O. Box 168
Kingman, KS 67068
Phone: (620) 553-4029
Fax: (620) 532-2147
Starting in January, 2020, the City of Kingman and Kingman County joined forces to hire the Kingman County Economic Development Director. The Director will oversee and coordinate economic development activities for the City of Kingman and Kingman County.
Our hope is to provide a "one stop shop" for all things related to the economic development of the City and County. Keep an eye out on this page for new updates and information. In the meantime, please do not hesitate to contact the Director for any questions or information you may need. We look forward to working with you!


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Released March 2009
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No Lyrics
First voice:
My true love went riding out
In white and green and gray
Past the pale of Offa's Wall
Where she was wont to stray
And there she came upon
A white and wounded fawn
Singing: oh, the hazards of love
She being full of charity
A credit to her sex
Sought to right the fawn's hind legs
When here her plans were vexed
The taiga shifted strange
The beast began to change
Singing: oh, the hazards of love
Oh, the hazards of love
You'll learn soon enough
The prettiest whistles won't wrestle the thistles undone
Fifteen lithesome maidens lay
Along in their bower
Fourteen occupations paid
To pass the idle hour
But Margaret heaves a sigh
Her hands clasped to her thigh
Singing: oh, the hazards of love
Oh the hazards of love
You'll learn soon enough
The prettiest whistles won't wrestle the thistles undone
Second voice:
"Thou unconsolable daughter," said the sister
"When wilt thou trouble the water in the cistern?
And what irascible blackguard is the father?"
And when young Margaret's waistline grew wider
The fruit of her amorous entwine inside her
And so our heroine withdraws to the taiga
Margaret: Gentle leaves, gentle leaves
Please array a path for me
The woods all growing thick and fast around
Columbine, columbine
Please alert this love of mine
Let him know his Margaret comes along
And all this stirring inside my belly
Won't quell my want for love
And I may swoon from all this swelling
But I won't want for love
Mistle thrush, mistle thrush
Lay me down in the underbrush
My naked feet grow weary with the dusk
Willow boughs, willow boughs
Make a bed to lay me down
Let your branches bow to cradle us
William: And here I am softer than a shower
And here I am to garland you with flowers
To lay you down in a clover bed
The stars a roof above our heads
And all my life I've never felt the tremor
All my life . that now disturbs my fingers
I'll lay you down in a clover bed
The stars a roof above our heads
And we'll lie 'til the corncrake crows
Bereft the weight of our summer clothes
And I'd wager all
The hazards of love
The hazards of love
Take my hand, cradle it in your hand
Take my hand. Feel the pull. The quicksand.
I'll lay you down in a clover bed
The stars a roof above our heads
Made of bones of the branches
The boughs and the brow-beating light
While my feet are the trunks
And my head is the canopy high
And my fingers extend
To the leaves
And the eaves
And the (bright?)
Might I shine?
It's my shine (child?)
Was a baby abandoned
Entombed in a cradle of claim (clay?)
And I was a soul
Who took pity
Margaret: Isn't it a lovely night?
And so alive with fireflies providing us their holy light
And here we made a bed of boughs
And thistledown to lay us down up the dewy ground
And isn't it a lovely way
We got in from our play
Isn't it babe? A sweet little baby
William: Wasn't it a lovely breeze
That swept the leaves of arbor eaves
And bent to brush our blushing knees?
M & W: And here we died our little deaths
And we were left to catch our breaths
So swiftly lifting from our chests
Colin: Mother I can hear your foot-fall now
Soft disturbance in the dead-fall how
It proceeds you like a black smoke pall
Still the wanting comes in waves
And you delivered me from danger, then
Pulled my cradle from the reedy glen
Swore to save me from the world of men
Still the wanting comes in waves
In waves, and waves
And the wanting comes in waves
And the wanting comes in waves
And I want this night
And I want this night
Queen: How I made you
I wrought you
I pulled you
From ore I labored you
From cancer I cradled you
And now: this is how I am repaid?
This is how I am repaid?
No Lyrics.
Rake: I had entered into a marriage
In the summer of my twenty-first year
And the bells rang for our wedding
Only now do I remember it clear
All right, all right, all right!
No more a rake and no more a bachelor
I was wedded and it whetted my thirst
Until her womb started spilling out babies
Only then did I reckon my curse
All right, all right, all right!
First came Isaiah with his crinkled little fingers
Then came Charlotte and that wretched girl Dawn
Ugly Myfanwy died on delivery
Mercifully taking her mother along
All right, all right, all right!
First voice: And all the while whispering arbors provide cover
What previous witnessed ardors of our lovers
Our heroine here falls prey to her abductor!
All a'gallop with Margaret slung rude 'cross withers
Having clamped her innocent fingers in fetters
This villain must calculate crossing the wild river!
Queen: I'm made of bones of the branches, the boughs, and the brow-beating light
While my feet are the trunks and my head is the canopy high
And my fingers extend to the leaves and the eaves and the bright
Brightest shine, it's my shine
And he was a baby abandoned, entombed in a cradle of clay
And I was the soul who took pity and stole him away
And gave him the form of a fawn to inhabit by day
Brightest day, it's my day
And you have removed this temptation that's troubled my innocent child
To abduct and abuse and to render her rift and defiled
But the river is deep to the banks and the water is wild
But I will fly you the far side
William: Annan water, you loom so deep and wide
I would cross over if you would stem the tide
Or build a boat that I might ford the other side
To reach the farther shore where my true love lies in wait for me
In wait for me
O gray river, your waters ramble wild
The horses shiver and bite against the bridle
But I will cross if mine own horse is pulled from me
Though my mother cries that if I try I sure will drowned be
Drowned be
But if you calm and let me pass
You may render me a wreck when I come back
So calm your waves and slow the churn
And you may have my precious bones on my return
Annan water, oh hear my true love call
Hear her holler above your water's pall
God that I could, that my two arms could give me wing
Rake: I have snipped your wingspan
My precious captive swan
Here all clipped of kickstand
You spirit won.t last long
Don't you lift a finger
Don't you snap and jaw
Limber limbs akimbo
Rest 'til rubbing raw
Margaret: O my own true love
O my own true love
Can you hear me love
Can you hear me love?
Rake: Don.t hold out for rescue
None can hear your call
'Til I have wrest and wrecked you
Behind these fortress walls
Charlotte: Father I.m not feeling well, the flowers me you fed
Tasted spoiled for suddenly I find that I am dead
But father don.t you fear
Your children all are here
Singing: O the hazards of love!
Dawn: Papa turn the water down, the basin.s overflown
The water covers everything and me left all alone
But Papa here in death
I have regained my breath
To sing: O the hazards of love!
Isaiah: Spare the rod, you.ll spoil the child but I.d prefer the lash
My sisters drowned and poisoned, all, and me reduced to ash
And buried in an urn
But father, I return
Singing: O the hazards of love
William: And here come the waves!
And the wanting comes in waves
And the wanting comes in waves
And the wanting comes in waves!
And I want this night.
William: Margaret, array the rocks around the hole before we're sinking
A million stones, a million bones, a million holes within the chinking
And painting rings around your eyes, these peppered holes
So filled with crying
A whisper-weight upon the tattered down where you and I
Were lying.
So tell me now, O tell me this: a river's son, a forest's daughter
A willow wand, a will-o-wisp, our ghosts will wander all of the water
W & M: So let's married here today, these rushing waves to bear our witness
And we will lie like river stones, rolling only where it takes us
But I pulled you and I called you here
(Didn't I, didn't I, didn't I)
And I caught you and I brought you here
(Didn't I, didn't I, didn't I)
But these hazards of love
Never more will trouble us
No shows booked at the moment.


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Aimee Song, the famous fashion blogger behind Song of Style, took a white shirt and styled it in multiple different ways!
This video is all about 9 ways to wear a white shirt! I got so many comments requesting this, so I hope you like it!
9 ways to style a white shirt
My favorite ideas are wearing a white cotton shirt backwards for an everyday look and creating a strapless top for a night out.
You can always steal one from your man…. 🙂
Have a lovely Day and thank you so much for reading!!!


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Okay guys, I have seriously found THE ANSWER. The one I only ever dreamed existed, and I actually found it. Or really more honestly, my sister found it. Pretty much most important and helpful beauty tips come from my sisters Savanna and Emma. I feel like the old mom that doesn't know what's cool, and they're like the young hip daughters trying to teach me, except they're my sisters. So that's weird, moving on. My hair is super fine, and while I love that it's very soft, it makes it really hard to get any kind of volume. I have been an avid The Small Things Blog fan for several years now and learned some amazing things from Kate. But something was still missing in my quest to properly tease my hair.
Kate has some fabulous suggestions if you can spend money on your hair, but let me just say I don't have that kind of money. So this is what I've done on my budget that is currently doing the best job for me that I have been able to accomplish.
First off, shampoo and conditioner. I'm using Aussie Aussome Volume Shampoo
and Aussome Volume Conditioner, which just FYI appears to currently have a coupon on Amazon. I was really surprised at first because I didn't actually expect it to make any difference, but after I'd been using Suave for a couple of years it did seem to change something. I will take it. (As a side note I have been using the Aussie 3 Minute Miracle Strong Conditioning Treatment about once a week also, and besides having a fabulous coconutty scent it has helped keep my hair feeling moisturized)
Then moving on to Big & Sexy Hair Root Pump Spray Mousse. This was a game changer for me, people. If I don't use it my hair lays perfectly flat along the contour of my head. No bueno. Apply this to your roots while wet and then blow dry your hair with your head upside down. Another small leap for womankind.
Recently Savanna turned me onto this stuff and it is super duper helpful for adding some texture to your hair as you tease it. Just pick up the section of hair, spray with L'Oreal Advanced High Lift Creation Spray Hair Spray, and then tease. Umm a million times better than teasing without. My soft silky hair just had nothing for the comb to grip and tease and this product creates that texture!
Okay and now for the secret...it is this amazing YouTube video right here. I used to never wear my hair straight because blah it was so flat. I needed to curl and give it some texture and volume. Now I can wear it straight using this technique!!
Promise not to laugh. No seriously. This was no makeup and in my messy bathroom. You cannot laugh. I just need you to see the difference it makes in my hair.
Impressive, right?? Here is the amazing video with the mind boggling technique I was telling you about.
Okay fine haired friends, what is your secret trick to give your hair just a little more oomph? I feel this is a never ending quest and I know there are more good ideas out there.


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I bought a sack of Louisiana-grown sweet potatoes a couple of weeks ago, and now need to find many ways to cook them. Fortunately, sweet potatoes are versatile, lending their use to a wide variety of recipes from desserts to side dishes and even biscuits (the subject of a future post). They are relatively bland and can be combined with many seasonings–I even found a recipe for curried shrimp-sweet potato soup which sounded interesting.
My favorite way to prepare sweet potatoes is simply to bake them. It's easy, fool-proof and tasty. Given the wide range of flavors that go along with sweet potatoes, I also like to stuff the baked sweet potatoes with an assortment of ingredients. The possibilities are endless.
Some of the twice-baked sweet potato surprise combinations I've subjected my family to this past week are:
- bourbon sweet potatoes with pecan-praline topping,
- pineapple & rosemary sweet potatoes with marshmallows,
- crunchy sweet potatoes with garlic-salad topping mix,
- sweet potatoes with Granny Smith apples (and onions).
And the crowd favorite was marshmallows!
Read on to learn how to bake sweet potatoes and make the surprise stuffings.
For baking, I suggest selecting small to medium potatoes. Large sweet potatoes take longer to bake, and easily make two servings. Pictured above are medium potatoes which are 6 potatoes per 3 lb. (Small potatoes are about 6 potatoes per 2 lb. which actually make a reasonable serving. Large potatoes are about 6 potatoes per 4 lb.)
The premise for baking sweet potatoes is to bake them in a rather hot oven (375 degrees), and prick the potatoes every several inches with a knife so the steam can escape as they bake. To keep the skin from drying out as they bake, I rub a thin layer of vegetable oil over the skin. Very simple.
Baking times at 375 degrees are:
- small potatoes – 40 minutes
- medium potatoes – 50 – 60 minutes
- large potatoes – 1 hour, 20 minutes
Remove the potatoes from the oven when the inside is soft (when pierced with a knife), let them cool so they can be handled. Take a knife and make an oval marking around the top of the potato.
Remove the skin from this area. Then scoop out the inside of the potato, leaving a layer of potatoes around the edges.
Whip the potatoes that you've scooped out, along with butter, milk, salt and pepper (or other seasonings) until creamy. Then add surprise ingredients. Refill the potatoes, bake about 20 – 30 additional minutes at 350 degrees. Top with marshmallows (or other topping) and bake at 400 degrees for a few minutes longer to melt and brown the marshmallows.
Four medium baked sweet potatoes yielded 1 cup pulp.
Bourbon Sweet Potatoes with Praline-Pecan Topping:
- 1 cup sweet potato pulp
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1 Tbsp margarine
- dash salt
- dash pepper
- 1 Tbsp bourbon whiskey
Heat milk and margarine in microwave oven about a minute (or on stove top until milk is steamy and margarine melted). Add to pulp in medium bowl along with salt, pepper and whiskey. Whip until the mixture is creamy and smooth. Refill the sweet potato shells. For topping, crumble brown sugar, flour and margarine with fork until combined. Sprinkle over potatoes. Bake about 20 – 30 minutes at 350 degrees. Add pecans to topping and bake 10 minutes longer.
- 2 Tbsp brown sugar
- 2 Tbsp flour
- 1 Tbsp margarine (not melted)
- 1/4 cup chopped pecans
Pineapple and Rosemary Sweet Potatoes with Marshmallows
- 1 cup cooked sweet potato pulp
- 1/4 cup drained, unsweetened crushed pineapple
- 2 Tbsp brown sugar
- 1 Tbsp margarine, melted
- 2 Tbsp fresh rosemary, minced
- dash salt
- marshmallows
Mix all ingredients and blend until smooth and creamy. Refill sweet potato shells, bake at 350 degrees for 20 – 30 minutes. Turn oven to 400 degrees. Add either regular size or miniature marshmallows to tops of sweet potatoes. Return to oven and bake up to 5 minutes longer, until marshmallows melt and brown.
Crunchy Sweet Potatoes with Garlic Salad Topping Mix
This one turned out to be the family favorite. Any dried salad topping mix could be substituted for the one listed here.
- 1 cup sweet potato pulp
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1 Tbsp margarine
- 1/4 cup McCormick Roasted Garlic Caesar Salad Toppins mix
- marshmallows
Heat milk and margarine in microwave oven about a minute (or on stove top until milk is steamy and margarine melted). Add to pulp in medium bowl along with the dried salad topping mix. Whip until the mixture is creamy and smooth. Refill the sweet potato shells. Bake about 20 – 30 minutes at 350 degrees. Add marshmallows, either regular size or miniature ones, and bake up to 5 minutes additional, until marshmallows are melted and browned.
Sweet Potatoes with Granny Smith Apples and Onions
- 1 cup sweet potato pulp
- 1 Tbsp margarine
- 1/4 sweet onion, chopped
- 1/2 Granny Smith apple, diced
- 1/4 cup apple cider or apple juice
- 2 Tbsp brown sugar
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon (optional)
- marshmallows (optional)
Melt margarine in small skillet, add onion and saute until onion is translucent and soft. Add apple and apple cider, reduce and simmer about 15 minutes until apple is soft. in medium bowl, whip sweet potato pulp until smooth. Add onion and apple mix, brown sugar, add cinnamon if desired. Refill sweet potato shells and bake 20-30 minutes until heated through. If desired, add the marshmallows to this one too, and heat at 400 degrees for up to 5 minutes until marshmallows melt and brown.


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Anatomy of a website: website labeling
Summary: In this article, we're going to take a look at what labeling is and why it's important, go over some examples and show you how you can improve the labels on your own website.
Generally speaking, the modern web is a far more user-friendly place than it was 10 years ago. Growing consensus around things like accessibility and user experience has led to a web that's easier to use, faster and more useful for more people. One of the areas that's really helping to push things along in this regard is efforts around website architecture, and more specifically information architecture (IA). There's a lot to talk about when it comes to IA, so we recommend checking out our getting started guide if you're completely new to the field.
IA is largely made up of 4 components or systems. There are:
- Organization systems
- Navigation systems
- Search systems
- Labeling systems.
We've talked a lot about the organization, navigation and search side of IA before, now we're going to take a look at what labeling is and why it's important, go over some examples of good labeling and bad labeling and show you how you can improve the labels on your own website.
Let's get started!
Introduction to labeling
Labeling, in the most basic sense, is a type of representation. On the web, we use labels to represent larger chunks of information simply because we can't crowd every page with all of the information on the entire website – it's just not practical and it doesn't look very nice. Take an 'About us' label that you might find on an organization's homepage as an example. For most users, this label should mean that by clicking on or interacting with it, they'll find information about the organization – office locations, staff, company history, etc. Because we can't list all of this detail on the homepage, we use the label 'About us' to trigger the right association in the user's mind.
We can use all sorts of labels for this purpose throughout a website, which in turn means we can keep our pages as clear and understandable as possible, making it easier for users to find what they're actually looking for.
Why labeling is so important
People spend huge amounts of energy decoding the meaning behind certain words in books, lyrics music and dialogue in films – but that's not the case with the web. The web has evolved in an entirely different way. Given that people generally want to access the information they're after as quickly and with as little hassle as possible, you can't use unclear or difficult labels and expect users to sit there decoding the intended meaning. Chances are if they can't find what they're looking for, they're going to leave and look for it somewhere else.
Labeling systems are also a way of identifying websites where it's clear that the organization does not place a heavy emphasis on the needs of its users. Commonly, you'll see this on websites where labels aren't clear, but instead, use internal terminology that only people who work at the organization will understand.
Let's now take a look at 2 examples of labeling systems, one planned and the other unplanned. For the purposes of this exercise, imagine that the following labels are represented as a navigation bar on a website.
Unplanned system
- Tri-State alliance
- Public policy
- Small business
- Technology grants
- Public-private partnership agreements
- 1752 overpass project
- Report a fault
- Community issues board
Imagine you've just arrived on the website of the unplanned system for the first time. Chances are, you have little idea of what the labels are referring to. It's clear that they've been designed based on the assumption that users will already know what they mean.
We can probably determine that these labels have something to do with a government body, whether that's at a state or federal level, with some labels being quite clear like "Community issues board" and "Report a fault", but others are just entirely confusing like "1752 overpass project" and "Small business". As a result, we're left sitting here wondering what each label is actually pointing to.
Planned system
- Mobile phone
- Account information
- Mobile data plans
- Home broadband plans
- About BananaCom
- Support center
The planned system paints a much clearer picture. It's not perfect, but we have more of an idea about what we're likely to find behind each label. What's more, we can see by looking at all of the labels that they're related. Sure, there are outliers like "Support center" and "Account information", but it's not hard to see how these relate to the others. They're also clear labels in their own right.
Importantly, this isn't an entirely new labeling system – there's a near-global precedent for this arrangement of labels and so we're not asking our users to take on the substantial cognitive task of learning a new system.
Good labeling versus bad labeling
Effective labels are simple and focused. Ideally, the labels on your website should be written using language that's easily understandable to your users and reflects the content that's behind them. After all, labels are designed to trigger associations in your users' minds, allowing them to make their way through your website as quickly and with as little trouble as possible.
Let's look at a real example of a website with poor labeling.
This is the website of Motorix International. Imagine you've just landed on the homepage and this top navigation bar is the first thing you see. Certain labels make sense immediately because we've seen them so many times before. We can probably assume that 'Home' takes us back to the homepage, 'Products' will show us a list of this company's products and 'News' will be some sort of press release or blog page. But there are fundamental problems with the rest of the labels. 'President', 'Access', 'Sales Agents', 'Inquiring' and 'Banks' are all essentially open to interpretation.
Now, let's move on and look at an example of a website with good labeling.
This is the sidebar of the AccorHotels group website. As you can see, nearly all of the labels here are clear and easily understandable – even without the context of the rest of the page. In addition to the usual items you'd expect to see on a hotel website (pointing you to information about hotel sub-brands and related facilities), AccorHotels has added icons to the four labels at the bottom of the list to provide additional guidance. 'Professional Solutions', 'Loyalty Program', 'My bookings' and 'Support' are all likely things that AccorHotels users regularly look for or return to on a regular basis, and the added icons help to anchor these labels in the sidebar.
How to improve your labeling
- Write a list of your labels to get a visual representation of them
- Use your website's search log to see what people are looking for
- Look at your competitors – does their labeling make sense? Why or why not?
- Plan for the future. Try and account for future labels your site may need as best you can now
- Use Questions to survey a representative sample of your users
With an understanding of why labeling is so important, how should you go and effect these changes on your own website? In general, you should be able to base the majority of your labeling decisions on best practice, whether that's web best-practice or industry best practice. Labeling depends on user association, so it's a good idea to follow good examples of what's come before.
Here's some more guidance for improving your labeling:
- Make a list: Before doing any work on your labels, write a list of all of them to get a visual representation of what you're dealing with. This will help you to identify any potential double-ups, overlaps or strange outliers that don't really fit or make sense.
- Use your search log: Your website's search log is a goldmine of labeling guidance. Access will depend on the platform your website is built on, but you're often able to see exactly what people are searching for – useful when assessing whether your own labeling lines up!
- Look at your competitors: It doesn't take much time and it's also free. Head over to the websites of your competitors and look at their labeling systems. Do they make sense? Why? Why not? Are they doing anything useful or interesting that you could adapt for your own labeling system?
- Plan for the future – as best you can: While it's not essential that the labeling system you build now account for any future adjustments, understanding how it could change will make your life much easier in the future.
- Run a survey: Using a survey tool like Questions, run a survey with a representative sample of your users to work out which labels make sense – and which don't.


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