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Hasling raids devastate the Imperial signal towers along the coast, preventing word from reaching the major garrisons and settlements. Hargendorf repels an attack at no small cost just as the party returns. Deciding it's time to take sides (and get regular lodgings and money) they swear an oath to serve Werner Von Gausser in his capacity as commander of the Hagendorf Free Company.
After helping secure the nearest signal tower and spending a tiring night escorting critical parts needed to get the signal system working again they learn that the capital of Nordland, Salzenmund is under siege by a Greenskin army whilst the Haslings continue to raid. If Saleznmund fails there is nothing between the combined Greenskin and Hasling forces and the Imperial heartlands except the city of Middenheim.
With the Elector Count Theodoric Von Gausser and most of Nordland's forces in the Wasteland laying siege to Marienburg, and a series of damaged towers in the south there is no quick means to warn the Imperial heartlands and call for the aid of the mighty armies of the Emperor and the other Elector Counts.
Word of large numbers of greenskins moving through the forest of shadows reaches them, and the adventurers convince their Lord to head south into Laurelorn forest to warn the Wood Elves and seek their aid in the absence of any great forces in Nordland at this time. Heading south by boat they hope to cut right into the heart of Laurelorn and mention the name of the elf maiden Uliana as she aided them before.
After coming across evidence of a large force of Orcs marching towards Hargendorf they stumble over goblin scouts in large number and try to engage them as they cross from the east banks of the river Demst but they begin to be overwhelmed as they try to escape by boat just as a force of elves appear on the West bank and unleash a frightening volley of arrows which scatters the goblins back into the forest….
A journey to find and save the soon to be executed former handmaiden of the mistress of the Count of Nordland takes a an unexpected twist when old friends and enemies arrive from Norsca.
Beloche Meergeboren returned in the morning with tales of an ancient fortress next to a lake deep in the Forest of Shadows, of unnaturally fast and quiet figures in black robes and of strange smells and music emanating from the fortress.
Deciding the Count needed to be advised his paramour was involved in black arts, or at least members of his court the party went to the Temple of Sigmar as a credible witness would be needed to provide testimony to those in authority who could listen. Sigmar seemed to smile upon them as Karl Sydow, the Abbot of Sigmar's temple in Salzenmund agreed to help them by sending a familiar face to join them in exploring the forest – Griselda, Priestess of Sigmar!
Exploring the forest they came upon the ruined fort, it's walls still intact they had to climb to get inside and open the gates…signs someone was indeed using it. The upper floors of the main keep were a ruined den of decay, filth and drugged prisoners and an extremely offbeat young, filthy overseer.
Below, a nightmare descent down into the earth for many hundreds of feet. A large chamber giving off a seductive purple light, with slow thumping music dancing in the incensed air. Below this, an ornate pit with a small water fall flanked by dozens of men and women in various states of ecstasy.
Behind the waterfall was a lavish chamber. Finding many jewels and items of interest they were interrupted by the presence of a woman of incredible but unearthly beauty. Failing to negotiate they tried to gain the upper hand but fell under her spell. The spell was broken when Griselda, who was guarding the entrance to the waterfall arrived and charged the attack, breaking her spell. The creature's visage changed to a nightmare that held several of the party in shock. Her large, crab like claw dropped Griselda with one blow to the head but the party prevailed after a short, but brutal fight that saw the creature vanish in agony rather than die.
With Griselda seriously injured and some of the party needing a physician things turned from bad to worse as 11 more of these 'women', robed in dark purple with a curious symbol etched into the cloth filled the edges of the room, effectively surrounding them.
The 'crow' necromancer melted back the way he came and shortly after the sounds of shuffling, pained footsteeps came down the tunnel. Quickly trying to bar the way into the chamber with a heavy, empty bookshelf the party realised the walking dead were coming for them….
Despite their efforts to funnel the rotting zombies in a few at a time the case fell and a disorderly slow rush pushed through – this worked to their advantage as the dead at the front fell causing a slow drive and they were easier to deal with. Despite this the party fought hard to secure the area and ended up drawing many into a fire they set.
Going outside the barrow they saw the necromancer and were, with some effort and a brilliant shot able to dispatch him, recovering the book also looting his cloak.
The long journey back to Salzenmund was uneventful and they reported first to Gertrude, who suggesting setting a meeting with Beatke.
To divert possible attention they made contact with the Thieves Guild, including their leader, the mysterious Kirstin, hid party members in safe houses and generally caused a fair amount of confusion to try and confuse any who might be watching.
Eventually they exchanged the book for information from Beatke, who told them the Count's paramour was Brunhilde Ulke Von Schönhausen. She also informed them Lady was seen to leave the city for an unknown destination to the south every full moon. With a few days to go the party arranged for a reliable scout with the Thieves guild to tail her carriage, with Beloche Meergeboren going along with the scout they set off into the night…
Exploring the still smouldering ruins of the Shrine Library the party find all are dead. A patrolling priestess of Sigmar passes and leaves after they explain they are not the people responsible for the sacking of the Shrine Library.
Finding many rough tracks leading away cross country towards Lowitz the party heads there to find a well fortified settlement. The tracks seem to bypass it and head off to the forboding hills to the south.
Taking time to rest and resupply in Lowitz, they encountered unfriendly administrators and a mysterious 'cartographer' named Anna Brozek, who was injured from a trip to the hills where the many footsteps led. She told them not to go.
So the next day they headed off to the hills, which seemed to be a long and ever more complex system of hill-barrows. The place reeked of old death, and the trail of many footsteps continued deeper within the hills.
Spending a cold and miserable night on a hill, they witnessed a mysterious crow flying low at night heading north. In the morning they continued to follow the trail of many footsteps and came to a large, central barrow. Proceeding inside they quickly discovered why Brozek warned them away….for the dead walked as the living.
Dispatching many of these fell creatures they explored the barrows rooms and discovered signs of habitation. Coming across a central room with an altar they were surprised to discover the master of the unholy place had returned. A black-clad, faceless figure covered in a cloak of crow feathers stood between them and the only way out….
Beloche Meergeboren, survivor of a massacre of Jarl Bjorg's chosen band of bear skins or 'berserkers' was sent south to Salzenmund to warn Hanna Schneider of increased war bands of Haslings and other far north tribes from the Northern Wastes.
Meanwhile Hannah, with a new companion Emmrich Schelman headed back to the Temple of Shallya outside Salzenmund after months of adventuring around Middenheim and the foothills of the Middle Mountains in Hochland.
While this was going on, as if by fate a Dwarven runebear; Aura Grimfire on an errand of aid and information from the mighty Dwarven stronghold of Karak Kadrin arrived on the same day as the others. Priestess Gurtrude, sensing a converging of powers and fate invited them to further aid the cause of Light. Knowing the pacifist stance of Shallya prevents her from direct action she has tasked the companions to approach Beatke Priestess of Verena at the Temple University in Salzenmund in order to form an alliance.
Beatke however proved comfortable and unwilling to directly go against the Elector Count, despite having a small army of scribe-monks who take care of almost all the records and dealings of the Von Gausser family. However, after some persuasion she agreed on the condition that the companions recover a tome which will act as insurance should the Count or his family discover her actions and move against her.
The tome, called 'The Celebrated Ambitions of the Gaussers of Nordland' is a book supposedly written in duplicate by a celebrated monk of Verena. This book has an official copy kept by the scribes of Verena in the University of Salzenmund, but the duplicate, a larger work, contains what is rumoured to be a true history of the Von Gaussers, and is rumoured to be kept current. Clearly the existence of such a book that may contain damaging secrets of the rulers of Nordland is going to be valuable as leverage. The fact Beatke wants this tome suggest she suspects or even knows something is amiss in the high halls of the Elector Count's castle.
After some serious fast talking (to enter) and research in the University Library Emmrich Schelman was able to find out the last location of the supposedly lost book was at a Shrine Library in the province of Ostland between the towns of Rossin and Birkewiese.
After several weeks of travel they arrived in the mist shrouded forests of Ostland and found their way to the Shrine Library and what appeared to be the aftermath of a brutal attack, leaving the monks dead or dying. Schelman immediately tried to save the lives of those he could as the others looked around the scene of carnage and destruction…
Whilst investigating a missing diplomatic caravan near the mining town of Oldenlitz the party discover a band of ruthless mercenaries led by Cassandra, Tyutchev and Thaum, hunting one of the survivors of the Caravan…an Elf woman badly injured, who they claimed was a witch.
Wanting to help they bring her to edge of Laurelorn Forest so her kin can care for her. There they find evidence of a brutal slaughter against both men and elf by the mercenaries they managed to avoid thus far (with the aid of some talking birds)
Waking, the Elf woman reveals she is an envoy called Uliana, knowing it is just a matter of time before the mercenaries arrive to finish the job the party prepared for the worst.
Sure enough the attack came and a brutally swift melee saw Cassandra, Tyutchev and Thaum mortally wounded (a mage who turned into a bear helped somewhat) and their followers dispursed.
Thanking them for their aid Uliana headed into the forest to warn her kin – the party left knowing that there is something foul afoot in the court of the Elector Count that could have a destabilising effect on the rest of the empire and beyond…
WIth Magnus Schmitt off finding his official magic guild representative to pay his fees and properly register; Hanna Schneider & Leichbrecht Crowson spent a few days shopping, ordering new gear and speaking with Gurtrude about current events.
Whilst out in the city of Salzenmund they were able to catch some of the local gossip which included:
Upon their return Gurtrude informed them than a Diplomatic envoy working on behalf of the Laurelorn Elves left Salzenmund three days ago after speaking to the count and his wife. The Envoy caravan seems to have vanished without a trace shortly after leaving Oldenlitz.
The adventurers decide to go and investigate this as they are keen to find out from people with access to the Count what exactly is going on, hoping that if a fell plot is at hand they can gather enough evidence to present it to the Cults of Sigmar and Ulrich so that action may be taken.
They spent the last night wining and dining their men before what could be a short but likely hard journey ahead…
The forces led by Ragnar, Bob, Hanna & Magnus return victoriously to Ulfsland to celebrate their decisive defeat over the forces of Jarl Hafdan.
News travels fast in Norsca and other Jarls and interested parties will be planning their visit to Ulfsland to meet this formerly minor Jarl and his Reiklander Huscarls who have led his forces to victory…
A trade ship from Finnsholm arrives a few weeks later carrying leichbrecht Crowson – who has been tasked with bringing Magnus Schmitt to Salzenmund in secret to meet with Gurtrude, a priestess of Shallya.
Deciding to leave, the adventurers are given a smaller ship and five Norsemen to see them return to Nordland safely. They are followed and whilst staying at Neues Emskrank they manage to disable and imprison (in an empty herring barrel!) a shady character they caught disabling their mask. Having no means to sail they set off the next day up the river Salz, rowing against the thankfully peaceful flow of the river.
Ultimately they arrived at the small chapel compound dedicated to Shallya just outside the city of Salzenmund and were promptly hidden in an unused barn by one of the priests until Gurtrude arrived.
It seems the idleness that comes with peace has turned into potentially damaging events. Gurtrude upon her return explained how the Elector Count has been acting erratically, rumours he is dedicating chapels in his castle to older gods without names abound. He locks himself in his tower for days on end and sees few people.
Whilst speculating what could be the cause of this one of the initiates arrives to inform them Elector Count Theodoric Gausser has annouced his intentions to raise an army and march on the Free City of Marienburg to retake it and bring the Wasteland back under Nordland's control…
The party were bolstering defenses at Aarvik after winning over the townsfolk to the banner of Jarl Bjorg when Jarl Ragnar's longship arrived carrying Ragnar himself. Ragnar informed them of an army massing in the Unangiven Ruins to the east of Birka.
Heading back to Ulfsland the adventurers met with Jarl Bjorg and the headsfolk of the area. It was decided that despite fortifications being prepared on Ulfsland that the best form of defence was attack they prepared 8 longships with about 40 men on each and headed for the Unangiven Ruins.
In a daring night raid they strafed the shores where the main army was camped with fire arrows causing confusion and mayhem. Seeing the initiative was there's the Ulfslanders landed and formed a beach head. Despite organised resistance the combination of surprise, team work and a certain magic user they were able to completely rout the beach camped forces. The survivors clambered up the hill where the Haslings formed a shield wall and waited.
Not wanting to risk a frontal assualt up the hill the party convinced Ragnar to head back to the ships and feign sailing away. In fact they sailed up the coast a few miles out of view and then the adventurers made landfall. Magnus Schmitt in bird-form scouted ahead and was able to accurately mark the Hasling sentries so the party was able to methodically sneak up on them and take them out – creating a path for Ragnar's forces to follow up behind and ultimately surprise attack the hill fort ruins from the flank.
Despite the surprise attack it became clear the Hasling forces were 'blessed' and better organised. This however crumbled when Magnus's magic frenzied them into wild attacks. Combined with Bob Smith moving around the wicker and wooden wall they had erected and setting fires the Haslings were confused, enraged and threw themselves against the Ulfslander's shield wall.
Lauga (deceased) from a position on top a ruined wall was able wreck havoc with magic fire on the Ulfslander's shield wall as well as reanimating the dead behind their lines (but this was stopped by Hanna Schneider, whose shieldmaiden training was clearly paying off). Sensing a turn in the turn due to Lauga's magic, Magnus turned to dove form, flew above her and using all his magic powers (and fate points!) turned into a wolf, glowing unnaturally from the side effects of magic and swept down upon Lauga and her two guards. Lauga herself died in terrified disbelief and her arteries were severed by the beast formed Magnus.
Bob, after setting fires all around the wall stealed back into the ruins with it in mind to rush the Haslings from behind and drive through to his own allies shield wall. However he was spotted by a mounted and enraged Jarl Hafdan (deceased) who gave chase but was confounded by the smaller Bob's dodging in and out of ruined walls and buildings. Finally out in the open he seemed ready to run down the Dwarf when he was hit by Hanna's arrows. Magnus then jumped off the wall and attacked Hafdan's horse, which threw him off and ran away in fear of the wolf.
Despite Hafdan's best efforts to get to his feet and fight, the combination of arrows, axe and glowingwolf maw was too much for Hafdan and his dark gods abandoned him…the Hasling Lord was dead!
With the loss of their Jarl, his witch-daughter and most of their forces the remaining Haslings and other beastial allies routed. A spectacular victory won, with less than a third of the forces taking down an army that would have surely razed a defiant Ulfsland to the ground.
The winter months were spent feasting, forging closer ties with the Ulfslanders, wolf hunting by magical means, fortifying defences and deflecting rumours that certain shieldmaiden was with child…
Within days of the ice thaw of first spring Bob Smith, Hanna Schneider, & Magnus Schmitt headed to Aarvik with four Norse companions.
Aarvik turns out to a be sorry place, led by an aging Jarl Sven who has seen too many winters. A younger warrior with braided hair seems to be running things in his stead – and while he has the passion of youth he also has the impatience.
Learning quickly that Aarvik is preparing for Jarl Hafdan as liberators due to incessant goblin attacks on their lands the braided warrior laughs at the adventurers offers to help in exchange for pledging to Jarl Bjorg's cause, telling them Hafdane's daughter is a witch with powerful magic and boasts that if they can bring 10 goblin heads he will join their cause whilst mocking with laughter. He is silenced when Magnus Schmitt turns into a dove and flies off to scout the mines in the hills that the goblins operate from.
Bob Smith led the planning to lure the Goblins out of the mine into the forest by setting up what appeared to be a poorly defended camp of travellers. Naturally the curious green skins, lured by the smells of cooking food investigated and attacked only to find the band ready for them. A vicious melee resulted before the Goblins were decimated and routed.
The following morning the party walked into Aarvik and laid 12 stinking Goblin heads at the feet of Jarl Sven and the braided warrior…
Wisely fleeing the wolf-like beastmen our intrepid adventurers reached their ship with only one crewman lost to the beast. Casting off the were met by a much larger longship coming up the fjord towards them. At the prow stood a giant of a man with strange mask.
A desperate fray ensured as they rowed past the longship whilst simultaneously preventing a boarding action from what were clearly Hasling warriors – dread Northmen from the Chaos Wastes.
Searching the forests north of Karlsholm after finding tracks they cam across woodsman Skalds and five children survivors. Deciding the best place for them would be Ulfsland they made their way back to the ship, intercepting a minotaur scot which then thankfully dispatched.
To their dismay Hasling ships were docking at Karlsholm's intact docks and their own ship had headed up the coast. Making their way there they had to use their wits to build a small raft to get out to the ship without falling into the freezing seas.
Despite straying off course they made their way to warm hearths in Ulfsland and decided to settle in for the winter and plan their spring actions…
With Ulfsland secure (at least temporarily) the next question is where to go next in order to bring more Chieftains and Jarls to Jarl Bjorg's cause against the Hasling Jarl Hafdan…
Deciding to head for Skorlm on the mainland, the domain of Jarl Torstein of Skorlm the set sail with five reliable warriors.
Arriving at the fjords in the late afternoon despite increasingly rough seas they settled into a row towards the docks leading to Skorlm itself. More peaceful waters in the fjords were offset by occasional glimpses of pairs of eyes looking at the boat from the cover of thick forest.
Welcomed as friends at the docks they were taken to Skorlm and were surprised at the developments there – solid stone foundations on the town walls with heavy timber construction and cleared farmland around the town for half a mile in every direction.
Jarl Torstein was welcoming but it became clear that his 'queen' Lady Aslaug was not a willing bride. Later that evening she arranged for a messenger boy to warn them that they should go while they still could. Decideding to take her advice (as much trusting her as spying the increasing numbers of townsfolk with obvious beast-like mutations and increasingly frequent howling in the forests) they snuck to the gates before being surprised from behind by a goat headed creature of chaos…
Swiftly attacking the baying beast they were flanked by alerted guards – their three warriors formed a stout shield wall to hold them off while the adventurers killed the beastman and flanked the guards, dispatching them swiftly.
Running out of town towards the docks they were slowed by the lack of light but managed to get back to the storage area by the docks before being surprised by Yrisa stepping up from the docks armed and ready…just as they noticed a dozen heavy set wolf-men-like creatures approaching from either flank…
After finding a mysterious man named Schmitt on the southern beach of Ulfsland who was welcomed in Erstwich by Jarl Bjorg after a display of magic the band were sent to Birkasholm to investigate reports of Hafdan's men landing.
Mulling around town for a while they went to the hall of chieftain Ragnar where Heinri made an impassioned speech to convince Ragnar not to side with Hafdan and his men…in front of Jarl Hafdan himself.
After a tense stand off a vicious fight broke out. It quickly became clear Hafdan's men were not all normal – some displayed the 'gift' of mutation. Fortunately Hanna Schneider managed to get a knife to Hafdan's throat and called for them all to back down and leave.
An angered Hafdan was allowed to live and sent off with his men, swearing oaths of vengeance.
Once back in Erstwich they reported their victory to Jarl Bjorg which expressed concern that Hafdan will be back and that he would probably bring his Witch daughter whose magic was dark and powerful.
After some discussion the band decided that the best course of action would be to try and reach the mainland and gain support for Jarl Bjorg by approaching the Skaeling Jarls and Chiefs and convincing them to rally against Hafdan.
Carried off over the Sea of Claws by Norscan raiders the adventurers had to use all the gifts the Gods have given them to find their way home…
Deciding to help Jarl Bjorg recover his sons who have been taken hostage by Jarl Hafdan to ensure his cooperation in raiding the south the adventurers crept off with Yrisa to recover them on the Norscan mainland.
Judicious use of a cross bow and some Dwarven bravery saw them bring the boys back safely to Ulfsland. With his sons back Jarl Bjorg will have regained the respect of his men and will be able to better resist the guaranteed retaliation by Jarl Hafdan that will come before the winter snows…


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May 25, 2017
Carmen West the catcher for Southwestern college has committed to play at Hiram College in Ohio. West who has played two years for Southwestern was part of the battery to help lead SWC to playoffs and supporting Yasmine Jameson to her season high 206 strikeouts. She plans on majoring in Nursing.
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The Complete Works of Doug
13 May 2002
Using ZENworks to Manage 2000 University PCs
Doug Streit works in a university environment where he was tasked to change passwords and other account information on 2000 university-managed PCs -- not a trivial task. Read how Doug enlisted ZENworks to do all the heavy lifting.
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The Craft of a Story
Storytelling Is Celebrated at the Moth Ball
"There are people who say the art of storytelling is dead," said Garrison Keillor. "I'd say, 'I hope so!'"
Mr. Keillor, the famed radio host, was presiding over a crowd of hundreds at the annual Moth Ball Tuesday evening. The audience included designer Jonathan Adler, filmmaker Albert Maysles, writer Adam Gopnik and comedian Ophira Eisenberg.


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June 6 ~ Day 11
Many thanks, Ellen and Yvette, for your comments. I am trying to evaluate whether this 365 project and blog are serving me and my readers. Process is really important to the creative life. It has been an interesting 11 days, knowing that I will create an image each day. I have forced myself to take risks I would not have taken, and looked at my surroundings more carefully. All of that is worthwhile. What I am not sure about is this feeling of being so plugged into the internet. I will continue to evaluate.
My goal for this blog has been (and still is) to try to provide a springboard for inspiration and encouragement for myself and others in the creative process, in addition to pontificating about life. I so appreciate your comments.
Monday, June 06, 2011
Posted by Jane Fulton Alt at 7:59 AM
2 comments:
- Annapurna Moffatt said...
I love your blog--and your photography. As a photographer myself, I love seeing how other people use the medium, especially for creative purposes. I love seeing what's out there and what inspires me.
- Love, Ro said...
Do you see the light in the photo on DAY 9 ? That is YOU ! Please keep going with the project and the blog--it is a source of inspiration for many--and more people you haven't yet touched.
I understand the hesitancy to plug in, but the 365 doesn't have to be done perfectly. You can still shoot one every day and share as time allows..Perhaps this will give you more freedom in more ways than one.
As always, it is inspirational to view your work and read your musings.
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It's a brilliant way of tracking users over their customer lifetime, which should improve service and sales. This solution joins up telesales information and online marketing activity in a simple useable package.
(PRWeb UK) February 8, 2011
AdInsight has beaten off stiff competition from larger international organisations to win the world-wide Econsultancy Innovation in Web Analytics Award for its visitor level call tracking software, AdInsight Clarity.
Linus Gregoriadis, Econsultancy Research Director said: "It's a brilliant way of tracking users over their customer lifetime, which should improve service and sales. This solution joins up telesales information and online marketing activity in a simple useable package."
AdInsight was the first UK company to integrate call tracking technology with Google Analytics and Adwords allowing clients to track phone calls back to the original online advertising source. The Google Analytics and Adwords call tracking features allow users to see phone call conversion metrics within their existing Google Analytics and Adwords reporting.
Ross Fobian, director, AdInsight comments: "Our product is innovative as it helps businesses see exactly which advertisements and keywords are driving leads and sales via the telephone by linking online visitors to the offline phone calls they make - helping business identify which marketing was worth the investment.
"Best of all we have streamlined the entire solution, making it easy to setup and understand. Insightful reports are provided with a click of the mouse and in real-time providing full visitor activity details, including what they did before, during and after they called.
"The awards recognise innovation in the industry and we're tremendously proud to have won our category. Having only set up AdInsight in 2008 it's been a fast growth path for us and winning this award is a huge endorsement for the company, our product and the hard work we have all put in."
The award ceremony will take place on the 9 February at the exclusive Sartoria Restaurant in Mayfair, London.
"AdInsight is helping marketers in over 1200 small and large companies across the UK to improve their marketing by being able to see how their marketing campaigns are affecting their offline telephone conversions and ultimately how they affect the businesses bottom line," concludes Ross Fobian.


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Manchester City are being linked with several transfer rumours today and one of the more interesting pieces is rumours linking them with a move for Tottenham pair Dele Alli and Danny Rose in the summer.
The Citizens are also said to be keen on Jordan Pickford, Jack Wilshire and Kyle Williams, but it is the gossip about the Tottenham pair that is the big news.
Dele Alli is currently the best young player in the premier league having already scored 13 goals and been instrumental in so many other goals for Spurs. He has also been linked with Real Madrid who have already snapped up Gereth Bale and Luca Modric against the wishes of the Tottenham board.
Danny Rose has really come into his own over the last couple of seasons and he is just the sort of flying defender that Guardiola loves to have in his squad.
Tottenham will not easily allow the pair to leave and any club that wants to sign one of the better players at White Hart Lane will have to pay a serious amount of money, especially considering the long term contracts the pair are on.


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Outside spending shows which House districts are in play for super PACs ahead of elections
As outside groups ramp up their efforts in this year's slate of state House races, filings with the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance reveal exactly which districts are getting the most attention about two weeks ahead of the Nov. 8 elections.
The two major super PACs spending heavily in this year's cycle have invested in different strategies.
Republican super PAC Kentuckians for Strong Leadership has spent the bulk of its resources on TV advertising while Democratic super PAC Kentucky Family Values has used much of its resources on door-to-door canvassing, each in seven districts.
Both sides are battling for control of the state's House of Representatives, where Democrats maintain a 53-47 majority in the last southern legislative chamber in Democratic hands.
Republicans are hoping for a majority in the House for the first time since 1921.
Here's a closer look at outside spending, according to independent expenditure filings with KREF reviewed last week. This report does not include dollars spent by Americans for Prosperity Kentucky, which is investing in field work, digital advertising and direct mail since the 501(c )(4) does not have to report expenditures to KREF as an issue-based group.
Kentuckians for Strong Leadership
KREF filings show Kentuckians for Strong Leadership has spent $516,497 in legislative races thus far this fall.
The group, which has received from the Republican Party of Kentucky $203,570 worth of polling and $84,000 worth of opposition research this year per federal filings, invested more than half of that — $327,922 — in television buys with another $21,500 spent to produce the spots.
The super PAC's TV campaign includes three districts held by Democrats — $33,185 in Rep. Fitz Steele's 84th House District covering Perry County and part of Harlan, $33,538 in Rep. Cluster Howard's 91st House District in Breathitt, Owsley, Lee and Estill counties, and $11,657 in Rep. Martha Jane King's 16th House District in Logan and Todd counties and part of Warren— and two open seats last represented by Democrats— $37,380 in the 94th House District covering Letcher County and part of Pike and $22,492 in the 23rd House District covering Barren County and part of Warren.
The super PAC is also airing ads in Democratic Rep. John Short's 92nd House District covering Magoffin and Knott counties, although a corresponding independent expenditure report was not on file at KREF.
The lion's share of the group's TV spending, however, has been in defense of a pair of recently converted Republicans in Reps. Denny Butler and Jim Gooch, who joined the GOP ranks after Gov. Matt Bevin's election last year.
Kentuckians for Strong Leadership has reported dropping $110,283 in Butler's 38th House District in southwestern Jefferson County and $99,827 in Gooch's 12th House District covering Webster and McLean counties and parts of Daviess and Hopkins counties.
The group has supplemented that effort with radio and digital advertising, direct mail and phone-banking, according to KREF filings. The super PAC's radio spending has totaled $19,110 in the 12th, $10,003 in the 94th, $9,022 in the 23rd, $5,259 in the 16th, $5,275 in the 91st, $3,000 in the 38th and $2,999 in the 84th, plus a $15,069 buy in support of Republican Rep. Suzanne Miles in the 7th House District covering Union County and parts of Henderson and Daviess.
It's digital advertising totaled $26,000 in the 38th, 84th, 91st and 94th districts.
The group also peppered House Speaker Greg Stumbo's 95th House District covering Floyd County and part of Pike with $8,079 in direct mail as part of that spending.
Kentucky Family Values
Kentucky Family Values, which has received $27,000 in research and polling from the Kentucky Democratic Party, has spent $777,075 so far this cycle, with much of that coming in the field to defend Democrats, according to KREF filings.
The Democratic super PAC has invested $46,601 going door-to-door in Rep. Linda Belcher's 49th House District in Bullitt County, $46,173 in Rep. Chuck Tackett's 62nd House District covering Owen County and parts of Scott and Fayette, $46,119 in Rep. Tom McKee's 78th House District covering Harrison and Pendleton counties and part of Scott, and $45,790 in Rep. Jeff Taylor's 8th House District in parts of Trigg and Christian counties.
The group is targeting Butler, Gooch and Miles in its field efforts on the Republican side, spending $53,281, $45,225 and $45,082 respectively in their districts, KREF records show.
Kentucky Family Values hasn't invested in television advertising or direct mail so far, instead focusing on radio and digital buys. Those dollars are part of a wider effort in various districts throughout the state.
3rd House District (McCracken; held by Rep. Gerald Watkins, D-Paduch): $17,460 radio, $11,599 digital
7th House District: $20,801 radio, $13,701 digital
8th House District: $17,136 radio, $10,031 digital
12th House District: $13,102 radio, $14,090 digital
14th House District (Daviess and Ohio; held by Rep. Tommy Thompson, D-Owensboro): $11,723 radio, $10,867 digital
16th House District: $37,104 radio
38th House District: $19,721 digital
39th House District (Jessamine and part of Fayette, held by Rep. Russell Meyer, D-Nicholasville): $30,800 radio, $12,040 digital
62nd House District: $19,500 radio, $24,245 digital
70th House District (Mason, Fleming, Robertson and Bracken; open): $3,552 radio, $13,339 digital
74th House District (Montgomery, Powell and Menifee; held by Rep. David Hale, R-Wellington): $2,861 radio, $13,340 digital
78th House District: $10,652 radio, $12,402 digital
84th House District: $4,893 radio, $11,817 digital
91st House District: $6,243 radio, $12,417 digital
92nd House District: $11,182 radio, $13,499 digital
94th House District: $7,628 radio, $12,362 digital
Other outside spenders
A handful of other groups have reported independent expenditures in this fall's campaign season.
The Republican State Leadership Committee has been the most active in that category, reporting $104,000 in TV and radio ads against Stumbo and $46,500 in TV and radio spots against Tackett.
Planned Parenthood Action Kentucky has focused entirely on Butler's race, spending $17,017 on Facebook ads last month.
Kentucky Tomorrow, a super PAC run by Jennifer Krantz, Congressman Thomas Massie's former political director, reported spending $17,780 in radio ads against Stumbo, KDP Chairwoman Sannie Overly and House Majority Floor Leader Rocky Adkins in August.
Correction: A previous version of this report indicated that polling and research was received by political parties from their respective super PACs.
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The mother of an 11-year-old girl who died after an incident in their home remains in intensive care at the Midland Regional Hospital in Tullamore.
Local GP Dr Bernadette Scully (55) was rushed to the hospital on Saturday night along with her disabled daughter Emily after they had been discovered unconscious in the family home in the town. Emily was pronounced dead at the hospital later that evening.
A post-mortem examination was carried out in the hospital but that proved to be inconclusive. Gardai are not seeking to interview anyone else in connection with the girl's tragic death. Toxicology tests are being carried out but it may be a considerable period of time before the results are known.
The mother and daughter girl were found in the house in the Bachelor's Walk area of the town, also known as the New Road. An ambulance was called at about 9pm. The Garda Technical Bureau remianed at the scene on Monday morning carrying out forensic checks. State Pathologist Professor Marie Cassidy conducted the post-mortem examination.


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The Glaxo Smith Kline administrative building in Quebec City, Canada — designed by coarchitecture, a local firm, and completed in 2011 — is a building with a mission to promote sustainable design in the workplace. Combining passive solar green building principles with systems and practices that enhance and enrich the surrounding landscape, it illustrates a number of ways in which our workplaces can become greener, more healthful, and maybe even beautiful.
The building (which comes to us via Designboom) was constructed around the principles of bioclimatic design, which relies heavily on passive heating and cooling strategies appropriate to the climate while paying special attention the comfort of the building's inhabitants and the health of the surrounding landscape. Toward that end, the building relies on a combination of its site orientation and a strategic use of different types of glazing on each of its four facades to achieve a carbon neutral profile.
The building protects against solar heat gain during the summer via a system of sunshades on its south-facing side integrated into a fully-glazed, double-skinned envelope. As an added precaution, the administrative building's main work areas were placed on the north side to shield them from glare and fluctuations in solar radiation, and to provide an unobstructed view of the surrounding landscape. (Full transparency on the south side also permits the exposure of the building's wooden skeleton, whose frames were refined to express the warm, organic character the company was looking for.)
One of the principles of bioclamatic design is the primary reliance on the sun for heating the building during the winter and for daylighting year round. To help achieve this, those sunshades are opened up during the winter months, allowing light and heat to enter the building; the building envelope on the north side was also designed to conserve energy during this time of year, as were the translucent metal panels that clad the east and west sides of the building.
What heat the building requires beyond that supplied by the sun comes via an efficient radiant heating system (which also, conveniently, helps to soundproof the wooden decking on the lower level, ensuring a quieter work environment). Chilled beams and acoustic panels that diffuse sunlight light come together in a custom system that allows the richness of the structural wood to be seen without compromising the quality of the acoustics in the building.
The building's south side features interactive spaces and lounges where occupants are encouraged to take their breaks and socialize and relax. Care was taken here to ensure that temperatures in these spaces can be adjusted via natural ventilation and daylighting. By spending time away from their desks in an area flooded with sunlight, staff members have access to a form of on-site light therapy.
The site on which the building is located, formerly lacking in soil quality and largely devoid of vegetation, was restored using native, drought-tolerant plants. The company even went so far as to replenish the local groundwater table to help ensure the health of those plants and the landscape in general for the long term.


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A call for descendents of Muslims expelled from Spain in the seventeenth century to be given preferential terms for Spanish citizenship has highlighted the country's uneasy relationship with its Islamic heritage.Naturally, this caused increased tension, especially there were some with a sense of history just as strong as the Muslims who had something other than reconciliation in mind:
The proposal was made at a meeting this week in Cordoba, a city in Andalusia which was the centre of Islamic civilization in the Iberian peninsula during nearly eight centuries of Moorish rule of much of what is now Spain and Portugal.
In 1609, Spain's King Philip III ordered all Muslims to leave his kingdom, leading to the expulsion of about 300,000 people. Their descendents today mainly live in North Africa and still regard themselves as "Andalusians", after the old name for Muslim Spain -- "Al Andalus"
Giving them preferential terms for Spanish citizenship would be an act of symbolic reconciliation, said Mansur Escudero, head of Spain's Islamic Board, the biggest group representing Spanish Muslims.
Former Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, a member of the conservative Popular Party, last year called for Muslims to apologise for invading Spain in the eighth century.Somehow, I don't think Spain ever got an apology for its Muslim occupation.
More recently, the issue of Muslim history revolved around the status of a mosque in India that had been destroyed in 1992 by a Hindu mob--the issue being whether the Muslims should get the land around the area where the mosque stood, or the Hindus should get the land because they claim the mosque had been built on the birthplace of the god-king Rama after the destruction of the Hindu temple by Muslim invaders in the 16th century.
In the end, a court decided the land would be split between the Muslims and the Hindus--but not evenly:
A court in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh said in a judgement on Thursday that the site of a demolished mosque be should be split between Hindus and Muslims. The 1992 demolition of the mosque by Hindu mobs triggered some of India's worst riots, killing 2,000 people.The decision is striking in that it did not require the land to be divided evenly and that the court did not automatically restore the land to the most recent owner.
The court ruled Hindus would get two-thirds of the land and be allowed to keep a makeshift temple that was built over the razed mosque's central dome.
The decision has been met with calm throughout India, despite fears the ruling could spark religious riots.
Of course, what is even more striking is that the decision did not lead to Muslim riots.
Not surprisingly, the issue of controlling land has come up recently in Israel, where fake Muslim gravestones made the news:
Around 300 Muslim gravestones destroyed by Israeli bulldozers in a Jerusalem cemetery earlier this week were "fake" and set up in a bid to snatch government land, the city charged on Thursday.The purpose of the fake graves was to stake Arab claims to state land.
But while the issue is still in the courts, another issue has been raised--similar to the situation in India: what to do with mosques that are no longer mosques:
Islamic Movement activists are also demanding to reclaim the mosque in Caesarea – which is currently a restaurant; the mosque in Ashkelon – which has been converted into a museum; as well as additional mosques in Jerusalem, Tiberius, Kfar Hitim, and the Muslim cemetery in Ashkelon, in addition to thousands of other sites within the Green Line.The fear is that should Muslim groups succeed in reclaiming even one of these sites, others will be sure to follow--leading to the loss of thousands of dunams of land.
According to a member of the Northern Islamic Movement, there are over 3,500 sites that are sacred to Islam, and have been nationalized, raising concerns at the Israel Land Administration over the increasing number of ownership battles over holy Islamic sites.
The question is whether the authorities in Israel will be able to take as strong a stand as India, and stand firm in the face of what are sure to be an increasing number of Muslim claims.
UPDATE: Lest you think that unlike India and Israel, mosques are not an issue in Spain--actually in Spain, the mosque business is booming:
The city of Barcelona, widely known as a European Mecca of anti-clerical postmodernism, has agreed to build an official mega-mosque with a capacity for thousands of Muslim worshipers. The new structure would rival the massive Islamic Cultural Center in Madrid, currently the biggest mosque in Spain. An official in the office of the Mayor of Barcelona says the objective is to increase the visibility of Muslims in Spain, as well as to promote the "common values between Islam and Europe."Technorati Tag: Mosques.
The Barcelona mosque project is just one of dozens of new mosques that are in various stages of construction across Spain. Overall, there are now thirteen mega-mosques in Spain, and more than 1000 smaller mosques and prayer centers scattered across the country, the majority of which are located in Catalonia in northeastern Spain.
The Muslim building spree reflects the rising influence of Islam in Spain, where the Muslim population has jumped to an estimated 1.5 million in 2010, up from just 100,000 in 1990, thanks to massive immigration. The construction of new mosques comes at a time when municipalities linked to the Socialist Party have closed dozens of Christian churches across Spain by way of new zoning laws that several courts have now ruled discriminatory and unconstitutional. It also comes at a time of growing anti-Semitism in Spain.


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So why does a man like Mr. Paulson take on the relatively thankless job of Treasury secretary?
"The taxpayer -- that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination." -- Ronald Reagan
Doubtless many of you are wondering, to yourself and/or aloud at social gatherings, why Goldman Sachs' (GS) CEO Henry M. Paulson Jr. would take an appointment as Treasury secretary. He is after all, the head of Wall Street's equivalent of the New York Yankees.
You just don't get any higher on the food chain than CEO of Goldman Sachs. It's a dream job for anyone in finance. Sorry, Mr. O'Neal (at Merrill Lynch (MER)), Mr. Wuffli (at UBS) or Mr. Prince (at Citigroup(C)) -- you all run magnificent money machines, but they pale in comparison!
Many of you would say Paulson is going from the penthouse to the outhouse. I mean, seriously, the only jobs that have lower approval ratings associated with them are members of Congress, or manager of the Chicago Cubs!
As CEO of Goldman Sachs for seven years, he's shepherded Wall Street's most powerful brokerage and trading firm through both the good and bad, and managed to enrich Goldman partners and shareholders immensely. Since Goldman came public in its 1999 IPO, shares are up more than 100% while the S&P 500 is negative during that same period!
You will read that Mr. Paulson is an advocate for a variety of environmental causes, but he doesn't just talk the talk -- he walks the walk. My records show he generously donated upward of $100 million of his Goldman shares to a family foundation dedicated to conservation and environmental education. Even after such a magnanimous gift, Mr. Paulson still has at least $500 million in Goldman Sachs stock remaining.
So why does a man like Mr. Paulson take on the relatively thankless job of Treasury secretary? I've got two answers:
1) Public service, and
2) Section 1043 of the Internal Revenue Code.
What's Section 1043 of the Internal Revenue Code? That, my friends, is what I believe brought in Robert E. Rubin as President Bill Clinton's Treasury secretary and is a nearly irresistible carrot to dangle in front of prospective Cabinet appointees.
Section 1043 of the Internal Revenue Code provides for the deferral of capital gains taxes on assets that must be sold to comply with ethics program requirements. Proceeds from divested assets must be reinvested in certain specified categories of investments. This change allows for a more flexible remedy to conflicts that avoid subjecting an executive branch employee to costly tax consequences that would otherwise result from the sale.
So to put this in plain terms, Cabinet-level appointees such as Mr. Paulson can divest (sell shares) and are not taxed on the investment until he or she cashes out from the approved investments. So, as I posed in the lead, what's better than 15% long-term capital gains tax? That's right, the answer is ZERO!
How else could you lure Robert Rubin or Henry Paulson to a job with lots of blame, and a lower salary than their weekly take-home at Goldman? A deferred tax on $500 million is one heck of a carrot! And since many of Mr. Paulson's options are probably yet to be exercised, they don't qualify for long-term capital gains, and would instead be subject to short-term gains, which run at 35%!
Now, I know you can do the math, but I hate it when people make a statement and tell us to take it from there, so I'll calculate this for all of us. Say you have $500 million in gains at a blended tax rate of, say, 25%. That would mean $125 million in taxes. OUCH!
What if you got a certificate of divestiture as part of your Cabinet appointment and got to place the full $500 million into a mix of bonds and other approved investments and deferred your tax on the sale for say a decade or so?
The "Rule of 72" tells us that money invested at 7.2% will double in 10 years, so the money you could make on the tax deferral could end up paying your tax liability! That's a pretty neat trick.
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The Elephant Map Project: Prints and Posters for sale now!
Wildlife conservation champion Katie Losey, I've created an illustrated map about African elephants as a fund-raiser to benefit The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, an organization dedicated to protecting and preserving Africa's wilderness and the creatures who live there.
For sale beginning November 1, 2017 is a 24" square museum-quality archival pigment print of the map in a limited edition of 40. Each map, beautifully printed on Crane's Museo paper, is signed and numbered. Also for sale are 24" square posters. The original 4 x 4' square painted canvas is spending the 2017-2018 academic year at Avenues School in New York City; after that, it will be sold to benefit the Sheldrick Trust. 100% of net profits from the sales of prints, posters, and the original canvas will go towards DSWT. To purchase prints, visit the elephant map website: www.elephantmap.com.
Everyone, it seems, loves elephants: their appeal is universal, and their ecological importance is inestimable. Buy a beautiful map and at the same time help make a difference. This map is suitable for all: children, parents, spouses, friends, students, and teachers. Though we are the species responsible for the endangered status of elephants, we are also the only species who can prevent their extinction. In the words of biologist Ian Redmond, "Save the elephants to save the forests to save the world."
The Elephant Map Project: Cartography as Stewardship--Connie Brown in conversation with Katie Losey (lecture)
Join Katie and me as we discuss The Elephant Map Project on Monday, January 22 at 6:30 pm. Sponsored by New York's Mid-Manhattan, the talk will be held in the Schwarzman Building (the main library, the one with the lions, in room 78. Use the 42nd Street Entrance. Here's the link: https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2018/01/22/elephant-map-project-connie-brown. Hope to see you there!
Manuscript Mapmaking Workshop
On Saturday, April 29th, I'm giving a two hour manuscript map workshop in Manhattan, sponsored by the New York Map Society--it's my only workshop for the rest of 2017. RSVP to me: firstname.lastname@example.com or 860 575 4640. I'll add you to the list and send you a little info. There's a $20 supplies fee, payable to the New York Map Society, which you must pay by April 20. You'll be making a map of the complexity shown here--it's Micron Pigma marker and colored pencil on Canson Opalux vellum, my favorite drawing surface. You might not finish within 2 hours, but you'll attain the skills to finish on your own.
The event will be held at the amazing Avenues School campus, 259 Tenth Ave, between 25th and 26th Streets, NY, NY, 10001. The room has floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the High Line.
The Connecticut Map Society's Kickoff Event!
Please join others like you to learn about plans for the Connecticut Map Society! Sunday, April 9th at 3pm, 253 Main Street, Durham CT
Founders Connie Brown, Maryann Ott and Brian Tims are planning a Connecticut-based organization dedicated to cartographic history, the role of maps in exploration and discovery, maps as art, the intersection of maps and technology, global and political maps and contemporary mapping practices. We will also celebrate the history of Connecticut mapping.
We will schedule lectures about all aspects of cartography, from medieval apocalypse maps to GIS applications, along with field trips to museums, universities, historical societies, and collectors' houses. We will also hold "show and tell" events where members talk about their favorite maps, and social gatherings to encourage camaraderie.
But we want to hear your ideas about topics, venues, and activities!
Please join us for cocktails and appetizers at the studio of cartographer Connie Brown; we'll get acquainted and brainstorm about the Connecticut Map Society. RSVP to Connie: email@example.com or 860-575-4640
Atlas Obscura & Timberland Present: Mapping the Sea
Participants will gather in Boston Harbor at 10:30 am on Saturday, October 15th for a morning cruise on a tall ship schooner. After an on-board lunch (featuring Brooklyn Brewery beers), the event moves to a docked cruise ship, where I (wearing my Timberland boots, of course) will conduct an afternoon mapmaking workshop. Registration required. Click here for the particulars.
Three-Day Introductory Map Workshop
Workshop at the celebrated Osher Map Library in Portland, ME. Click here to register.
For additional information, contact Heather Magaw at the Osher Map Library.
Women in Cartography: Celebrating 400 Years of Unsung Contributions to the Mapping World
This exhibit, curated by renowned map librarian Alice Hudson, includes my map The Hudson River and its Watershed, commissioned by the Beacon Institute in 2007. At the Osher Map Library through October 22; On November 1st. the exhibit moves to the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at Boston Public Library, where Ms Hudson will give a talk on Thursday, November 12 at 5:30 pm--details here. On Saturday, November 14, she will lead a tour of the exhibit for the New York Map Society.
Alice in a World of Wonderlands: The Translations of Lewis Caroll's Masterpiece
Curated by Jon A. Lindseth and Alan Tannenbaum. The Grolier Club, 47 East 60th St (between Madison and Park), NY NY 10022. The exhibit is one of many events celebrating the 150th anniversary of the publishing of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and includes four maps of mine commissioned by Lindseth and Tannenbaum: a world map showing locations of the 170+ languages and dialects into which Alice has been translated, and three regional maps. Click here for information about the exhibit, the accompanying three-volume book, and other celebratory events. Click here to read about my involvement. At 1:30 pm on Saturday, October 17, I will lead a tour of the exhibit for the New York Map Society. The event is free of charge and open to the public.
Friday, September 18th through Sunday, September 20th, 2015. Advanced Manuscript Mapmaking Workshop at my studio: 253 Main Street, Durham, CT.
Prerequisite: my Introductory Mapmaking Workshop or demonstrable familiarity with mapmaking.


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Media Blackout on new extreme radical Islamic centre for Jihadist's of all persuasions, overseen by a British mercenary in Idlib in Syria. Through Qatar is being structured in Idlib, a sort of Al Quada civil system based in the logic of the Taliban, and overseen by British mercenary James le Mesurier, operated through a Washington company with the aid arriving through Turkey. Some journalists are becoming alarmed at what looks like a re-grouping under a new and even more fanatical expression of Islam in rebel held territories, especially in Idlib, suggesting this new creed could spread across the entire Sunni Islamic secret society networks, filtering down into western Muslim communities. This would be the catalyst to move Muslims from the passive Jihad to that of the House of War.
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The real story in the Gulf States, Wahhabist Suni's V Iran
Nothing of the real political scene in the Gulf states of Saudi Arabia which has pitted the Suni against Shia, is ever presented in a manner that can be understood by the general populations through the corporate media channels. The public are deliberately left in a state of hypnosis so that politicians and think tanks can take full advantage of the hypnotic state, and peddle whatever garbage they can get away with to secure a paralysis in any moves against the agenda of the day. The religio-political stage upon which the divide between the Suni and Shia is currently being dragged to war, is all about oil, or more correctly it is about the land in which some 80% of Saudi oil is sourced.
Russia moves strange Islamic find to Antarctica
We know there has been an international effort between nations in Antarctica, since the early twentieth century. What are they building? A strange report circling in the Kremlin on 6 December prepared by the Ministry of Defense (MoD) states that the sudden launching yesterday by Aerospace Forces (AF) of two satellites are for the protection of the Federation naval research vessel Admiral Vladimisky which has just departed the Saudi Arabian Port of Jeddah, after taking on board a mysterious object described as the Ark of Gabriel whose importance is deemed so vital that President Putin has further ordered naval warships guided missile cruiser Varyag, the Sovremennyy-class destroyer Bystry, Boris Chilikin-class fleet oiler Boris Butoma, and the powerful salvage tug Alatau that upon the ending of their current mission in India, they are to rendezvous with the Admiral Vladimisky in the Southern Ocean providing it protection as it sails to Antarctica.
The Arab States and the refugees
"Kuwait and the other Gulf Cooperation Council countries are too valuable to accept any refugees. … It's too costly to relocate them here. Kuwait is too expensive for them anyway, as opposed to Lebanon and Turkey, which are cheap. They are better suited for the Syrian refugees. … it is not right for us to accept a people that are different from us. We don't want people that suffer from internal stress and trauma in our country." — Kuwaiti official, Fahad al-Shalami.
Admiral Ace Lyons : the Obama administration is anti-American and pro-Islamic
Admiral Ace Lyons speaks about the Islamic issue states the fact Barack Obama's agenda is anti-American, Anti-Western and pro-Islamic. His administrations aims work in sync with Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood's political aims. He states that fanatical Islam is a political movement masquerading as a religion. This positions both the Sunni version of Islam (Muslim Brotherhood, Saudi Arabia) to be working together with its arch enemy, the Shia version of Islam (Iran and Syria). Both synchronise with the third pretender to the israelite tradition, Zionism, Zionism of course has its claws into the Christian Right fronted by the Evangelical cult beholden to ChristianZionism
In Profile : the difference between the Shia of Iran and Sunni of Arabia in Islamic terms
Shia Muslims also feel animosity towards some of the companions of the Prophet Muhammad, based on their positions and actions during the early years of discord about leadership in the community. Companions such as Abu Bakr the warlord and Umar ibn Al Khattab the warlord, titles by which definition show they are perceived to belong to the House of War. When it comes to the former it is also because of the fact Mohamed consummated his marriage to Aisha, the daughter of Abu Bakr when she was only nine years old. This comes from those who have narrated traditions about the Prophet's life and spiritual practice.
The religious and political blueprint for WWII, is Isil the new religion?
Has the banking cartel chosen the Saudi version of Suni Islam, also known as Wahhabism, to be the control program for the one world religion?
Has the banking cartel positioned Suni Islam as the agitator for the activation of the Contingency Act?
I believe both are running operations, the latter is to prevent the former being stopped in its tracks, especially if the older generation Muslims in Europe begin to see the game, at least they cash shift to the civil unrest declaration and activate the emergency scripts as set by the United Nations.


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Information Corp (NWSA.O), the owner of Dow Jones Newswires as well as publication writer HarperCollins, submitted a modified incomes that bordered previous specialists' estimate for the initial time in 3 quarters as the decline in advertisement sales in its information organisation was responded to by growth in its different other organisations.
Shares of the media company were up 1.6 percent at $12.59 after the bell on Thursday as plutocrats looked past the Rupert Murdoch-controlled company uploading its 2nd straight quarterly profits, which was largely because of issues charges.
The company's information as well as information solution, that includes the Wall surface Road Journal along with the Times in London, has really been battling with reduced advertisement sales as target market reduces, with customers choosing free info on websites along with mobile applications.
Earnings in company dropped virtually 7 percent to $1.30 billion in the 2nd quarter, losing out on specialists' regular quote of $1.34 billion, inning accordance with FactSet Road Account.
Advertising and marketing incomes went down 8.3 percent to $748 million.
Info Corp has actually been reducing jobs along with preserving prices, while acquiring its digital uploading solution to boost margins. Business asserted clients to the digital variation of the WSJ composed over fifty percent of general clients for the initial time ever.
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TOLEDO, OH (Toledo News Now) – According to the Ohio Department of Health, there were 8 outbreaks of infectious disease in the state as a result of tattoos or piercings in 2011.
One of those infections was in Janeen Rybak's eye. Rybak says she got her eye and nose pierced at a Toledo business, and later became sick because of the piercing.
"He had went too deep and he had pierced through the sinus cavity," said Ryback, who had to be hospitalized with the infection. "It got to the point where I stopped breathing. I stopped having a heartbeat and they had to come in and resuscitate me."
"When I was fully coherent, he told me he was glad to see me alive. They did not think I was going to make it through," Ryback said.
Following the incident, the Lucas County Health Department inspected the business in question, but found nothing amiss. The health department follows up on all complaints of an infection, but Lucas County Health Department Director of Community and Environmental Services Eric Zgodzinski says it's difficult to prove a business was responsible for an inspection.
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Contact with bacteria any time after the piercing can cause an infection, so it's impossible to say the business in question caused Rybak's infection.
But, Ryback says she took every precaution to avoid infection, wearing gloves and cleaning the piercing with the material the piercing shop gave her.
"They can always say you didn't take care of it properly. And that's where the circle begins," Ryback said.
The health department takes a proactive approach to preventing infection, regularly inspecting businesses which perform tattoos and piercings. If a business fails to correct a problem after inspection, the department can even shut the place down.
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Kumar Sangakkara cracked a solid 59 and Muttiah Muralitharan hammered 33 off 16 balls as Sri Lanka clinched a thrilling two-wicket win over Bangladesh in the tri-series final Friday.
Sri Lanka made a horror start when they lost five wickets for six runs -- the lowest score at the fall of the fifth wicket in the history of the one-day game -- before surpassing Bangladesh's total of 152 with 11 balls to spare.
Man-of-the-match Sangakkara kept his cool under pressure to mastermind his team's win with his 44th half-century. He also added 63 runs for the seventh wicket with Farveez Maharoof, who remained unbeaten with 38.
Bangladesh had an opportunity to clinch their maiden tri-series involving a Test-playing nation when left-arm spinner Shakib Al Hasan removed Sangakkara and Nuwan Kulasekara in three balls to reduce Sri Lanka to 114-8.
But Muralitharan shattered the hosts' dream with his amazing power hitting as he plundered 20 runs in an over from teenage paceman Rubel Hossain, including three fours and a six.
The Sri Lankan tail-ender ensured the victory when he smashed Hossain for a four and a six off successive balls in the bowler's next over before Maharoof ended the match with a single off spinner Naeem Islam in the penultimate over.
Fast bowler Nazmul Hossain (3-30) was instrumental in putting Sri Lanka under pressure, grabbing three of the first five wickets in an incisive opening spell.
The tourists' batting woes began with the first ball of the innings when veteran opener Sanath Jayasuriya was run out following a mix-up with Upul Tharanga.
The 21-year-old Hossain then rattled Sri Lanka with two wickets in three balls, having Tharanga and skipper Mahela Jayawardene caught by wicket-keeper Mushfiqur Rahim.
Sri Lanka's batting continued to wobble as Mashrafe Mortaza had Chamara Kapugedera caught by Junaid Siddique in the slips and Hossain bowled Thilan Thushara, but Sangakkara and Muralitharan came to their team's rescue.
Sri Lanka's bowlers earlier did a good job when they restricted the hosts to a modest total, with paceman Nuwan Kulasekara (3-19) doing the early damage and unorthodox spinner Ajantha Mendis (3-24) striking in the closing overs.
Raqibul Hasan top-scored with a fighting 43 not out. He also added 53 for the seventh wicket with Naeem Islam (21), the highest stand of the innings.
Mohammad Mahmudullah was the other main run-getter with 26.
Sangakkara, Murali shatter Bangladesh dream
Kumar Sangakkara cracked a solid 59 and Muttiah Muralitharan hammered 33 off 16 balls as Sri Lanka clinched a thrilling two-wicket win over Bangladesh in the tri-series final Friday.


text: I have a BEFSR41 router. It is the older one, a version 1 actually. I have a lan adapter for my wii, but it only works intermittently. I have tried two different LAN adapters (I took the first one back, only to have the same problem with the new one) and both adapters are made specifically for the Nintendo Wii. Here is what happens, once I get my Wii hooked up, and I run the connection test, everything appears to be running smoothly. As I start to game, or watch youtube videos, the connection begins to drop. The lights on my router (just the lights that correspond to the port the Wii is plugged in) also go out. After about 20 seconds they come on again, and the Wii is connected. Within a minute, the lights go back out and I get disconnected. I have plugged the Wii into all 4 ports on the router and I get the same effect for each one. I have tried DHCP and giving the Wii a static IP. Nothing seems to work. I have a Linksys PAP2 phone adapter hooked up to this router, and my VOIP phone works with no problem. There are also two computers wired to it. The only thing that I simply cannot get to work is the Wii, even my Directv HR21 HD/DVR works great when wired to the router I have read about people with a BEFSR41 V4 being able to get their Wii working easily. Could the problem simply be that this old hardware will not work with a Wii? I am using firmware version 1.44.2 which is considered by many to be the most stable release for this router.


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Mobo with two SATA connectors, and two IDE connectors
Recently, my 200 gig SATA drive crashed. It was the only drive I had in the computer. I had a spare IDE 60 gig lying around, so I popped it in and started rockin'. I ordered a new SATA drive, that came yesterday. Everything was working fine on the IDE drive, plugged into IDE1 on the mobo. My DVD drive is plugged into IDE2, and always has been.
Well, i popped in my SATA drive, and expected a seamless installing process for windows XP. I couldn't get the IDE drive out of the way, even after formatting the drive to get rid of the windows partition. I eventually unplugged the drive to install XP on my SATA drive.
Once windows XP was installed and running, i noticed two things which are why i'm here:
1. I have a "Safely remove hardware" icon on the windows status bar (by the clock) that has as the only hardware my SATA drive. This is laughable. It's offering to let me safely remove hardware that the operating system is running on. Is there a way to convince windows that this hardware is not an external USB drive? There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with the function of the HDD, and the correct model number is even listed in the device manager. Why is it treating my SATA drive as a removable USB drive?
2. I cannot for the life of me get windows to recognize the old IDE drive. While it was out of the computer I switched the jumper to "slave" thinking that might ease the process of having it as a second drive in my PC. I'm thinking I should switch that back, but i'm also thinking it doesn't matter. I look in the Device Manager, and the IDE drive is listed, with the proper model number, and it is working properly. However I did not format the drive, and it's not showing up in windows explorer. I figured I could go to windows explorer and format it (NTFS) just like normal. It's just not showing up.
I got no clue how to proceed here. I really want access to that 60 gigs of backup space, but this is getting frustrating... Anything I can do?
[EDIT] - Solved, I got a partition manager, and switched the HDD to master. She works!
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The government shutdown will be delayeduntil January 15 and the debt limit till February 7 – as the votes came in at 81 votes to 18. The House then subsequently did their bit and came to agreement, voting the deal through 285 to 143.
The key concern I had yesterday was whether John Boehner would get his marching orders as Speaker of the House, due to the disregard of the Hesbert rule (which requires the majority of House Republicans to vote through any proposals), with only 87 of the 232 House Republicans voting 'yes'. However from what I've seen so far, I see no reason to think this is going to be the case, which should be positive for risk assets.
The next thing markets need to (and to a degree are already doing) think about is how stressful negotiations will be in January and February, when we get to see both political parties revisiting negotiations to avoid a fresh government shutdown and curb the US treasuries ability to borrow in the capital markets (i.e. debt ceiling). I was quite bearish on this situation yesterday, but I think with John Boehner continuing at the helm, it makes so much more sense for the Republicans to now start thinking about the mid-term elections and try to win some much needed PR. They have taken a hammering of late and they now know (and Republican Senator Peter King said it himself today) that they can never win the fight against Obamacare. Therefore, using the threat of a government shutdown or even default just doesn't work for them, so why would they try it again when in theory it could see the US public lose even more patience with them?
It also seems logical that the US treasury will go to town in the bond markets prior to the February 7 debt ceiling deadline and borrow substantially to keep them funded and meet its obligations for maturing US T-bills on February 13, 20 and 27. Attracting capital there won't be an issue at all as we have seen over the last few weeks.
We are back to looking at central bank policy and earnings
So with the US fiscal drama's seemingly priced into assets, we can go back to looking at earnings and global data and how that feeds into different central bank's policy settings. It will firstly be interesting to see when the US release its September non-farm payrolls and while this data print is now backwards looking in nature, a good number could set the scene for a ramp up in tapering talk. US earnings of course are in full flow and while I expect to see cyclically focused stocks aiding the S&P 500 total sales growth (and not just financials this quarter), it's not hard to imagine companies which derive a large percentage of revenues domestically talking vocally about the headwinds they've seen from the sixteen (and a half) day shutdown.
Global equities look like they want to push higher and we have seen that in Asia today, with gains across the board. However, for global money managers it's a question of which region offers the best value right now. It's interesting to see that from a pure current price earnings (P/E) basis, Europe still offers the compelling value, although this is partially offset by its tepid growth forecasts. Australia looks lofty with a current P/E of 21x, however this is still offset by one of the highest aggregate dividend yields, which at 3.5% is only really bettered by Italy, Portugal and Luxembourg.
The fact is, with the US debt debate seemingly pushed out until the New Year, where it possibly won't cause as big of a headache (hopefully), and with monetary policy across both the developed and emerging world still very accommodative, risk assets like equities should still push higher. In fact, with talk of serious amounts of cash on the sidelines, this could be the next catalyst for pushing stocks to print higher highs. Short interest in global markets is still relatively elevated; take the S&P 500 for example; having short interest of just over $7 billion (one of the highest levels all year). At some stage the bears will cover shorts as they have seen the kitchen sink being thrown global markets and pullbacks have been orderly and shallow. Of course some of the short interest will be portfolio hedges, as well as hedge fund who run long/short portfolios, but it's those who are merely speculating on lower levels who will be feeling the pain. Remember there is an opportunity cost in every position.
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I continue to like global equities, while AUD looks good against the CHF, EUR and GBP. Tomorrow's Chinese data dump will be interesting; with Q3 GDP expected at 7.8%, while industrial production like to increase 10.2% on the previous corresponding period. If I was going to be short AUD, then I would respect the downtrend and look at short AUD/NZD trades, with a stop at 1.1440.
Our European index opening calls reflect a market that has priced in agreement. However there is still plenty to keep traders occupied. On the docket we get UK retail sales (expected to increase 0.3%) and with cable having broken its uptrend (drawn from the August 2 low), it could be topping out and ready to head lower in the coming weeks. We also get US jobless claims, which after last week's big rise should come back to more realistic levels. On the earnings side, traders will be looking out for numbers from Goldman Sachs, Verizon, Baxter (lead in for CSL) and Google.