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Why LOVE Electric?
A Colorado organization, BEL-CO, recently launched a new website called "Love Electric" that seeks to educate and accelerate the adoption of efficient electric technologies in homes and businesses across the state. The information provided by the website help navigate some of the technology misperceptions, illustrate cost savings, and provide information on utility rebates, contractors, and other resources to help go all-electric.
BEL-CO is a coalition of stakeholders in Colorado working to advance beneficial electrification in Colorado's buildings and industrial facilities through building leadership, sharing knowledge, fostering collaboration, coordinating market development strategies, and increasing consumer awareness.
Beneficial electrification refers to installing energy-efficient electric equipment—such as heat pumps for space heating and cooling, heat pump water heaters, and induction/electric cooktops—in place of combustion-fueled (typically propane or natural gas) equipment. Switching from a non-electric energy source to an efficient electric energy source is beneficial because as the electrical grid is increasingly powered by renewable energy, the electrification of appliances can:
Reduce customer costs,
Lower greenhouse gas emissions,
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Utilize grid resources more efficiently and flexibly.
BEL-CO works closely with the national Beneficial Electrification League, a non-profit organization whose mission is to increase understanding of the benefits of electrification by promoting the market acceptance of beneficial electrification (BE), educating policy makers on the value, benefits and tools of BE and by serving as a conduit and facilitator of BE resources. The group's vision is for BE to be universally accepted as a necessary strategy to meet economic, consumer and environmental goals.

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Thursday, August 26, 2021
The Byrds - The Columbia Singles '65-'67 [Recompiled 2021]
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Hi Prof ..... can I be the first to congratulate you on another fine release here for us to get our ears into. Many thanks for your hard work in recompiling these.ReplyDelete
Can't wait to hear these - the Professor's versions are always sonically superior to lazy commercial CD pressings! Thanks!ReplyDelete
Thanks to you and the mighty Gene!ReplyDelete
Sweet! Thank you!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 27, 2021 at 6:16 AM
Once again a wonderful well dome job! I'll feel a whole lot better after I listen to these tracks. Thanks.ReplyDelete
I can't even begin to express my appreciation for this! Can't wait to dive in!ReplyDelete
- NappyragsAugust 27, 2021 at 8:06 AM
TYhis is great....thank youReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 27, 2021 at 8:07 AM
Brilliant stuff, many thanks.ReplyDelete
Perfect as usual.ReplyDelete
Many thanks
Sounds great! Thank You.ReplyDelete
Thank you for this wonderful collection.ReplyDelete
Thank you very much! This sounds better than my previous rip I had.ReplyDelete
Thanks, Professor...a superior job, as always...ReplyDelete
This stuff is essential. Thank you Prof!ReplyDelete
Thanks for this and all your projectsReplyDelete
thanks what a great set this is !ReplyDelete
Thank you for all your work on this!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 28, 2021 at 8:58 AM
Thanks prof for another outstanding work of Yours, sure it will become my Go-To-Byrds sampler. Yours CausingerReplyDelete
Thanks for shining up a "turd" created by Sony into the diamond it should've been. Your "it's all in the details" approach created another "industry standard" if the industry had high standards.
Cheers Prof, one of my favourite compilationsReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 28, 2021 at 5:52 PM
Prof, thank you for putting together this excellent Byrds collection and including so many great Gene Clark songs. If you are looking for projects to undertake, check out the Clarkophile blog. They have proposed an excellent fantasy deluxe edition release of Gene Clark's Roadmaster and it looks right up your alley: http://clarkophile.blogspot.com/2021/08/how-id-create-deluxe-edition-of.htmlReplyDelete
It's always a delight to check your site and find that you've been busy! Many thanks for this compilation: I look forward to making a cup of coffee, playing this, and being transported by the Byrds ringing harmonies.ReplyDelete
Many thanks kind sir. All power to yur turntables.ReplyDelete
Thank you so much for collecting together these fantastic Byrds sides. It is so great to have these compiled together in one place.ReplyDelete
Terrific, thanks for this carefully assembled collection of the best sources!ReplyDelete
The best Byrds 45, though, is of course "Wasn't Born To Follow" from '68 ... ;)
Yeah yeah, but that was a European only thingy..ReplyDelete
Many thanks for this sonically superior collection.ReplyDelete
Thank you so very much!ReplyDelete
Still remember the first time I heard "Mr. Tambourine Man". Thank you for this one too.ReplyDelete
Another great one! Thanks, Prof. Btw Track 9 (The Times They Are A-Changin') sounds exactly like the bonus track mono mix on Turn!Turn!Turn!. It is always given a recording date of 28th June 65, while here it says to come from 1st Sept 65...ReplyDelete
Sorry, track 9 wasn't supposed to be a vinyl-only track anyway. That was 5-8!ReplyDelete
awesome. thank you.ReplyDelete
Wonderful :) I never liked the sound of the Sundazed, so this is very welcome.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 4, 2021 at 6:23 PM
I'm sure the late Byrds biographer Johnny Rogan would approve and appreciate this great work of art. Many thanks for the great improvement on the Sundazed effortReplyDelete
Thanks! My No 1 group forever. Amazing Job!ReplyDelete
- d00rsfanOctober 28, 2021 at 2:56 PM
Thank You very much!ReplyDelete
Thank you very much Prof, just loving the comp! I must admit that I don't know too much about the Byrds, so would it be allright if you quickly ran through the bonus tracks? Are they alternate takes released on early pressings of 45s acccidentally, rare mixes, etc? Hope it's not too much of a hassle. Best wishes, Justin.ReplyDelete
Wonderful to have all the singles in one place in such fantastic sound!ReplyDelete
Thanks, once again!
- AnonymousDecember 13, 2021 at 4:15 PM
I've just played this all the way through. Outstanding. Many thanks!ReplyDelete
- JavimulderDecember 15, 2021 at 1:34 PM
Listening to this as I type. The Byrds always make me happy. "It Won't Be Wrong!" I have all the 90s Byrds CDs and this is a wonderful companion. Thank you so much!ReplyDelete
- SchroederDecember 26, 2021 at 10:45 AM
Thanks for this compilation - all hits, no misses!ReplyDelete
Perfect for todayReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 11, 2022 at 11:49 PM
Thanks again Prof!ReplyDelete
thank you very much...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 14, 2022 at 6:47 PM
Thanks so much!ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousAugust 22, 2022 at 8:35 AM
I have the songs in various cds, but now I can hear them the way I heard them originally on AM radio. But now they sound so much better! Thank you.ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousDecember 21, 2022 at 8:15 PM
Thank you. I've lately found the stereo stuff to be pretty anemic. Thanks again.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 11, 2023 at 4:16 PM
Prof - LONG time Byrds fan and collector. Also a longtime audio enthusiast and production community professional. I've been collecting 'unofficial' recordings of the Byrds for decades. In the early 1980s I had a commercially released cassette that had many of the non-released items in your collection. Your collection is superb - and I haven't even listened to it yet! Your other projects tell me the sound will be AWESOME. Thank you for your hard work and time spent on these projects. IT IS MUCH APPRECIATED.ReplyDelete
Thanks for this ByrdManiacal effort!ReplyDelete
Thanks Prof, appreciate your efforts. All the best from Glasgow, Scotland.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 16, 2023 at 3:22 PM
Thank you for the bonus tracks!ReplyDelete


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In Arkansas, we use our air conditioners most of the year, so we can't afford to let them fail. When you call your HVAC maintenance company for your annual service inspection, you should have confidence that your tech will thoroughly inspect your AC parts and replace those that show signs of wear.
Do you know anything about the various AC parts and which ones are the most likely to fail over time? Here's a look at some of the AC parts that most commonly suffer breakdowns.
- Capacitor. The capacitor stores electricity. It sends the initial jolt to the air conditioner's motor so that it revs up and starts the cooling process.
- Thermostat. Regardless of which type of thermostat you have, this is where you set the temperatures so that your HVAC system turns on when you want it to. If you have an older-style thermostat you may need to change the batteries. Some thermostats are hardwired, and the wiring may come loose or fray.
- Evaporator Coil. This coil is located in the interior of the HVAC system. The compressor pumps liquid refrigerant to the evaporator coil. The blower fan moves air over the coil so the refrigerant in the evaporator coil absorbs the heat. The coil needs to be clean so that this process works correctly. The evaporator coil can become corroded and cause leaks as a result of formic acid accumulating on the coil.
- Condenser Coil. Condenser coils are located in the exterior side of the AC. They can become dirty and sometimes need cleaning, either with a hose or, in extreme cases, with chemicals.
- Compressor Fan. These fans blow over the condenser coils as they carry hot refrigerant. When this fan stops working, the AC will not produce cool air. The fan motors can also burn out.
- Compressor Failure. One of the most dreaded of parts failures because of the expense, the compressor may fail due to dirty coils. Blocked refrigerant lines can cause the compressor to explode.


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Regular Article
Tissue dynamics with permeation
Institut Curie (UMR 168: Institut Curie, CNRS, Université Paris VI), 26 rue d'Ulm, 75248, Paris Cedex 05, France
2 Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Nöthnitzer Str. 38, 01187, Dresden, Germany
3 ESPCI, 10 rue Vauquelin, 75231, Paris Cedex 05, France
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Accepted: 25 May 2012
Published online: 15 June 2012
Animal tissues are complex assemblies of cells, extracellular matrix (ECM), and permeating interstitial fluid. Whereas key aspects of the multicellular dynamics can be captured by a one-component continuum description, cell division and apoptosis imply material turnover between different components that can lead to additional mechanical conditions on the tissue dynamics. We extend our previous description of tissues in order to account for a cell/ECM phase and the permeating interstitial fluid independently. In line with our earlier work, we consider the cell/ECM phase to behave as an elastic solid in the absence of cell division and apoptosis. In addition, we consider the interstitial fluid as ideal on the relevant length scales, i.e., we ignore viscous stresses in the interstitial fluid. Friction between the fluid and the cell/ECM phase leads to a Darcy-like relation for the interstitial fluid velocity and introduces a new characteristic length scale. We discuss the dynamics of a tissue confined in a chamber with a permeable piston close to the homeostatic state where cell division and apoptosis balance, and we calculate the rescaled effective diffusion coefficient for cells. For different mass densities of the cell/ECM component and the interstitial fluid, a treadmilling steady state due to gravitational forces can be found.
Key words: Biological Physics: Multicellular Systems
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Documentary Films on Hungarian Synagogues and Jewish Museums
A series of four films, made for TV, in which Rudolf Klein guides viewers to synagogues, Jewish Museums and a few other Jewish heritage sites in Hungary and Slovakia (in Hungarian). Click for:
Video 1 Video 2 Video 3 Video 4
In the Footsteps of the Wonder Rabbis
A heritage, online exhibit, and travel guide to Jewish heritage in northeastern Hungary — where several Hasidic masters once held court. Towns include Mád, Tokaj, Olaszliszka, Tarcal, Bodrogkeresztur, Sátoraljaújhely and places around them.
List of all Jewish cemeteries known to Mazsihisz, in Excel format, with addresses and contact numbers: there are at least 1300 Jewish cemeteries in all parts of Hungary, most of them neglected.
"Jewish Cemeteries" web site – izraelitatemetok.hu
Web site with documentation and photographs of more than 1,000 Jewish cemeteries around Hungary. (In Hungarian)
Database of Documentation of Jewish Cemeteries in Hungary
Lo Tishkach Report on Jewish Cemeteries in Hungary – February 2009
Download from here the PDF file of a report on the condition, state, threats and legislation regarding the at least 1,300 Jewish cemeteries in Hungary, prepared by Lo Tishkach.
Jewish grave markers (family tombs and gravestones) designed by early 20th century architect Béla Lajta
There are scores of synagogues buildings in Hungary; some used as synagogues, some empty, some converted for other use. You can find further information than what we provide on this page by searching our web site for Hungary synagogues.
Documentary Films on Hungarian Synagogues and Jewish Museums
A series of four films, made for TV, in which Rudolf Klein guides viewers to synagogues, Jewish Museums and a few other Jewish heritage sites in Hungary and Slovakia (in Hungarian). Click for:
Video 1 Video 2 Video 3 Video 4
Synagogues designed by Lipot Baumhorn
Lipot Baumhorn (1860-1932) was modern Europe's most prolific synagogue architect. He designed (or designed the restoration of) about two dozen. This article on centropa.org runs down 16 surviving Baumhorn synagogues.
Photographs of Hungarian synagogues, without text or description.
Web site and database relating to the work of the prominent Hungarian Jewish architect Bela Lajta, whose work included synagogue and ceremonial hall designs, sculptural tombs, a Jewish school in Budapest and other significant buildings.
Genealogy-oriented web site with information and photos on a number of Jewish sites in western Hungary and eastern Austria
A wealth of Jewish heritage sites, including active synagogues used by central Europe's largest Jewish community. A score of synagogue buildings; medieval Jewish sites in Buda; downtown Jewish quarter in Pest (6th and 7th districts); Jewish cemeteries.
Medieval Sites in Buda
There are the remains of two Medieval Synagogues in the hilly Buda district of the city, near the Castle, on Tancsics Mihaly street — formerly known as "Jewish street.".
One, at Tancsics Mihaly 26, is a small ground-floor chapel, from the end of the 14th century, that now can be visited in May through October as part of the Castle Museum. It has inscriptions on its walls and there is a display of Medieval and Turkish-era Jewish gravestones. Since late 2018 it has been used — after centuries — for services, organized by the Chabad-associated EMIH. (Tel: +36 1 268-0183)
The district's monumental synagogue, built in 1461 and destroyed in 1686, stood on the opposite site of the street, in what is now the garden of Tancsics Mihaly 23. The ruins were discovered in 1964 by the archeologist for the Budapest History Museum, Laszlo Zolnay, but were filled in with earth and covered up again. Plans to excavate the synagogue as part of a development scheme for the Castle District are currently on hold.
The Schulhof Foundation for the Restoration of the Medieval Synagogue in Buda
Downtown Jewish District (7th Districts)
This inner city disrict was a main center of Jewish life from the early-mid 19th century onwards. It is anchored by three great synagogues (Dohany st.; Kazinczy st. and Rumbach st.) and includes other synagogues as well as kosher restaurants and other facilities. The district was also the site of the World War II ghetto.
Information (in Hungarian with brief English translation) on 17 Budapest synagogues; also pictures and links
Main synagogues in the 7th District
Dohany street synagogue (largest synagogue in Europe)
Dohány u. 2
Designed by the Viennese architect Ludwig von Förster and built in 1854-59, the grand, Moorish style synagogue is the largest in Europe and a city landmark.
Article on Bet Hatfutsot web site about the synagogue
Article by Haim F. Ghiuzeli about the history and architecture of the synagogue.
Web site about the courtyard of the Dohany st. synagogue and the Heroes synagogue, built next to it in 1930. The courtyard was used as a cemetery for Jews who died in the World War II Budapest Ghetto. The web site has lists of names, history, information and historic pictures.
Kazinczy st. 27
Used by the small, traditional orthodox community, the synagogue was designed by the architects Sandor and Lajos Loeffler and built in 1913 in a style that foreshadows art deco. It has an almost fortress-looking facade, decorated by decorative terracotta tiles, and a richly ornate interior. The synagogue anchors a self-contained Jewish courtyard, with a kosher restaurant and other facilities, including an outdoor frame for a chupah (wedding canopy).
Built in 1872, an early design by the Viennese architect Otto Wagner. The building has an octagonal sanctuary. Sold to the state by the Jewish community in 1988, the synagogue complex changed hands several times and long languished in semi-derelict condition following partial reconstruction in the late 1980s/early 1990s that was left unfinished for lack of funds. It was returned to Jewish ownership in 2006. The synagogue reopened in June 2021 following an award-winning, €10 million renovation, fully funded by the state, that was carried out in 2017-2019 and entailed the conversion of the synagogue and its entire building complex into a multi-purpose arts, culture, prayer, and education center.
Click to read our article from February 2022, on its 150th anniversary
Watch our video made for its 150th anniversay:
Elsewhere in the city
Budapest's three grand main synagogues, located in the central part of the city on Dohány, Kazinczy and Rumbach streets, are local landmarks. But there are a more than a score of other synagogues scattered around the Hungarian capital, most of them home to active — if small — congregations.
See our series of three posts about synagogues all over Budapest:
Discovering Budapest's lesser known synagogues. Part 1 — Synagogues that are no longer used as synagogues
Discovering Budapest's lesser known synagogues. Part 2 — Synagogues tucked away in courtyards and apartment buildings
Discovering Budapest's lesser known synagogues. Part 3 – Stand-alone synagogues
Once known as the Chortkover Kloyz, a small prayer house originally founded by Hasidim from Chortkov, Galicia (today: Chortkiv, Ukraine), who came to Hungary after World War I, located in Budapest's 8th district, once a populous Jewish neighborhood with many such little shuls. The current congregation is attempting to restore the Teleki ter Shtiebel through the Jakab Glaser Foundation, established in 2010.
See news about the documentary "Tales of Teleki ter" made about the synagogue, its history and its revitalization
Jewish Cemeteries
List of Jewish Cemeteries in Budapest with contact info
Article by Rudolf Klein
Kozma utca (Rakoskeresztur) Jewish Cemetery
Kozma utca 6
Budapest's main (Neolog) Jewish cemetery, founded in 1891 and including some 300,000 graves. Many prominent people are buried here, and there is an extensive Holocaust memorial section. There is also a large, ornate, Moorish-style ceremonial hall. Much of the cemetery is well maintained, but large sections are still overgrown and untended. The perimeter is lined by elaborate family mausolea, some of them designed by leading architects in art nouveau and other styles.
"A Walk in Budapest Jewish Cemeteries"
Includes a clickable alphabetical list of personalities buried in the main Kozma utca Jewish Cemetery, with photos of their tombs
Friends of the Budapest Jewish Cemetery
American organization founded in 2016 to help fund cemetery clean-up
Salgótarjáni utca 6.
Tel: +36 1 896-3889, +36 1 896-3891, +36 1 896-3902, +36 70 400-8632
Founded in 1874, this is the oldest Jewish cemetery in the Pest side of Budapest. It is the Jewish section of the city's Kerepesi monumental cemetery, where national heroes are buried — and is the final resting place of the crème de la crème of Hungarian Jewry of the time. Massive family tombs of Jewish noble families and industrialists line the perimeter; but there are also the graves of ordinary people. There is also a section where Holocaust victims are buried. Quite a few of the tombs are the work of leading architects of the day — such as Ignác Alpár, Sándor Fellner, Albert Körössy, Emil Vidor and Béla Lajta. Lajta, whose work prefigured art deco, also designed the entry way from the street and the massive Ceremonial Hall (now roofless), built around 1908. The cemetery has long been densely overgrown and very neglected, with the huge tombs crumbling; collapsing and being swallowed by vines and other vegetation. Some of them have been broken open: you can even see the coffins in the crypts. Restoration work, however, was begun in 2017.
See our photo gallery of this cemetery
Holocaust Monuments
There are several Holocaust memorials in Budapest, here are the main ones:
Memorial Weeping Willow next to Dohany utca synagogue
Holocaust Memorial and Memorial section in Kozma utca Jewish Cemetery
The main memorial lists the names of thousands of victims; people have penciled in names that were left out
"Shoes" memorial on the bank of the Danube
Memorial to Raoul Wallenberg
Memorial to the Swedish diplomat who save thousands of Jews by granting false papers
Memorial to Carl Lutz
Dob utca
Memorial to Swiss diplomat who saves Jews by granting false papers
Ghetto Memorial Wall memorial
Dohany utca 32-34
Erected to mark the 70th anniversary of the Holocaust in Hungary, and designed by by the architects Peter Sugár and László Kara. It includes a map of the Budapest Ghetto and inscriptions.
Holocaust Memorials — and Euphemisms — on the Danube Embankment
A thoughtful article by Rabbi Alfréd Schőner about how a series of Holocaust memorials erected on the Danube embankment only obliquely refers to the victims commemorated as Jews.
Other Jewish Buildings
Who Lived Here, Who Built Here
Extensive, interactive web site about buildings in Budapest designed by Jewish architects or constructed by Jewish builders. A project of OVAS!
A project recognizing buildings where Jews were forced to live before being moved into the Budapest Ghetto in WW2
The wine-growing region of northeastern Hungary has some of the oldest Jewish heritage sites in the country and was the home of several key Hasidic masters.
In the Footsteps of the Wonder Rabbis
A general exhibit and travel site that serves as a heritage, online exhibit, and travel guide to Jewish heritage in and around towns including Mád, Tokaj, Olaszliszka, Tarcal, Bodrogkeresztur, Erdobenye, Sátoraljaújhely.
On-site it is located in the complex of the restored synagogue in Mád (built in 1795) and the rabbi's house/yeshiva next door, which includes a permanent exhibition as well as accommodation.
There are well over 1,200 Jewish cemeteries and scores of synagogue buildings around Hungary. You can find information on these in the lists and databases linked to above. Following are key sites and sites with their own web pages.
Hunyadi ut
A simple rectangular building with a peaked roof, it was constructed in the early 1800s. The Center for Jewish Art writes that it was "built in 1820 in a combination of Neo-Classicist and Baroque styles. Its prayer hall, spanned by sail vaults, is devoid of interior supports. The vaults and walls were decorated with murals, some of them discovered and conserved during reconstruction works."
Following World War II it was used for agricultural purposes, and almost all its interior fittings were lost. It had remained empty and in deteriorating condition for the past two decades, and became owned by the municipality in 2006: concerts were held there even before renovation commenced.
Renovation completed in 2017, funded almost completely by a Norway grant totaling around €930,000, transformed it into a "House of Arts" community cultural center. Transformation of the abandoned synagogue into an arts center was the diploma project of architecture student Balasz Toth, in 2015.
Clkc to see Center for Jewish Art documentation of the building
Iskola u. 5.
Tel: +36 78 427 227
Baroque synagogue believed built in 1822. The original interior, with a central four-pillar bimah, and part of the decoration were restored in 1980s, in a project that won the Europa Nostra award. The synagogue is used the town library and culture center. There is a disused Jewish cemetery near the synagogue, across a field.
Munkacsy Mihaly u. 9
Tel: +36 79 322 741
Neoclassical synagogue from 1845, designed by Lajos Frey, whose interior has been well preserved. Since 1985 the synagogue has served as the town library, with a large Holocaust memorial outside. The Hungarian postal service issued as stamp portraying the synagogue in 2012.
There is a large Jewish cemetery, at Szegedi ut 107.
Library web site (Hungarian and English)
The orthodox Jewish cemetery, located behind a stone wall on Temeto utca near the town's Christian cemeteries, comprises about 3,400 tombstones dating back to the 18th century and was recognized as a national historic monument in 1994 (on the 50th anniversary of the deportation of local Jews to Auschwitz). It is one of the best-maintained Jewish cemeteries in Hungary, cared for by the local Kertesz Istvan Foundation, which is dedicated to preserving Jewish heritage. The Foundation has mapped, photographed and documented all the grave markers in the cemetery.
Pictures of the Jewish Cemetery
Ipoly Region Jewish Collection and Exhibition
24 Hunyadi u.
2660 Balassagyarmat
This small museum, which includes exhibits on local Jewish history and traditions, was created in 2000 and installed in the former Chevra Kadisha, a small peak-roofed building with a red and white facade.
Béla Majdán, Secretary of the advisory board of the István Kertész Foundation
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Tel: +36 30 583 2186 (Hungarian only: for English, contact the translator, Tel: +36 30 430 6779, Email: firstname.lastname@example.com.)
General photos and photos of some individual gravestones in this village in northeastern Hungary; from web site on Jewish history and Holocaust in the town
Active Jewish community (the largest and most active in Hungary outside of Budapest); two synagogues; Jewish cemetery.
The Jewish community has organized a web site facilitating pilgrimage and tourism to Jewish sites in Debrecen and in Nagykallo, with history, maps, and other information.
Pilgrimage/Tourism web site (in English)
Downloadable Pilgrimage Brochure (English and Hungarian)
Thanks to a more than €1.41 million grant from the European Union's European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), the Kápolnási street synagogue in Debrecen and and the Zion synagogue across the border in Oradea (Nagyvarad in Hungarian), Romania — were restored as part of religious tourism itineraries and cultural and educational programs. The project comes within the framework of the Hungary-Romania Cross-Border Cooperation Program. (See our post about the project)
Jewish heritage sites in Debrecen
List in English on the Jewish community "Pilgrimage" web site, describing the two synagogues, the Beit Midrash, the Jewish cemetery and other sites.
Built in 1909-1910 for the Status Quo Ante community, designed by the Budapest-based Laszlo brothers in an eclectic style with a distinctive arched entryway. Located in a shady garden, it is used now mainly for community events, rather than regular weekly services.
Pásti street Orthodox Synagogue
Built in 1913, it has a simple interior and a bold brick and stucco façade marked by arched doorways and false arcades along the peak of the roof. It was re-opened in April 2015 after full restoration, to serve both for religious purposes and also a cultural space for exhibitions, conferences, concerts. There is a permanent exhibition of Judaica and family memories.
Jewish Cemetery
Monostorpályi út, 44
Tel:+36-52-471-744, +36 20 483 27 61
GIS mapping of Debrecen Jewish cemetery
Slide show of Jewish heritage in Debrecen
Located on downtown Kossuth square, the synagogue was designed by the architects Karoly Gerster and Lajos Frey and built between 1866 and 1869; the synagogue was dedicated on July 22, 1869. Its tripartite, peach colored façade features tall arched windows and a high, arched central section, framing a big clock and topped by the tablets of Moses. Around the top of the clock runs a Hebrew quotation from the book of Isaiah: "For my house shall be called a house of prayer for all people." Inside, the two tiers of the women's galleries, supported by cast iron columns, have beautifully decorated ceilings, and there is a choir loft and organ.
In September 2014 a permanent exhibit on Jewish life and history in Pécs and surrounding Baranya country from the 18th century to the present was inaugurated in the women's gallery and stairwell of the synagogue.
Synagogues360 panoramic view of the synagogue interior, and other pictures
World Monuments Fund pages on the synagogue, with architectural and historical information
Jews lived in Sopron from early medieval times until their expulsion in 1526. They returned in the 19th century, forming a community of nearly 2,000 Jews on the eve of World War II; almost all were killed. The town retains evidence of both the medieval and modern Jewish presence.
The two oldest synagogues in Hungary face each other on the onetime Jewish street, now called Uj utca (New street). Both date from the 14th century; both were transformed and used as private dwellings for centuries, and both were re-discovered and restored between the 1950s and 1970s. The gothic Old Synagogue at No. 22 Uj utca (Tel: +36 99 311 327), with a high peaked roof, richly carved Ark and foundations of the bimah, was restored in 1967 and serves as a Jewish Museum. The complex also includes a mikvah. The "New" Synagogue, built around 1370 as the private prayer house of a Jewish banker, is found across the street at No. 11 (but does not form part of the museum).
A disused dome-topped red-brick synagogue built in 1890-91 and designed by Janos Schiller stands at Papret Square, outside the town center.
The park/parking lot in front of it has a sculptural Holocaust memorial, and there are commemorative plaques on the synagogue's wall.
The large Jewish cemetery on Tomalom utca near St. Mihaly's church dates from the 19th century. It has a large Holocaust memorial.
Two synagogue buildings; Jewish community and active community complex with prayer room; large Jewish cemetery with ceremonial hall.
Szeged's magnificent domed Great (New) Synagogue was designed by Budapest-based Lipot Baumhorn (1860-1932), Europe's the most prolific synagogue architect, and completed in 1903. It was built for the Neolog community and is considered Baumhorn's masterpiece.
The architect worked closely with the Szeged Rabbi, Immanuel Löw, on the richly ornamental and symbolic decorative elements, which include stained glass by Miksa Roth and a monumental organ. The synagogue is set in a parklike square, whose plantings, a Biblical garden, also were part of the design. Today, a marble plaque in the vestibule lists Holocaust victims from the town.
Next to the Great Synagogue is the former Orthodox (Old) Synagogue, a neoclassical building designed by Henrik and Josef Lipowsky and completed in 1843. Listed as a cultural monument, it is owned by the local government and currently used for cultural purposes.
The Great Synagogue is part of a nearby Jewish communal complex also designed by Baumhorn that includes a prayer room that is also richly ornamented, and a gala hall. Baumhorn also designed the domed Ceremonial Hall in the large Jewish Cemetery. The cemetery includes the temple-like tomb of Rabbi Lipot Löw, one of the pioneers of Neolog Judaism in Hungary.
Contacts – click here for full list
Great Synagogue
Gutenberg u. 20
6722 Szeged
Tel: +36 62 423 849
Old Synagogue
Hajnóczy u. 12
6722 Szeged
Jewish cemetery
Fonogyari ut 9.
6728 Szeged
Tel: +36 70 542 0961
Jewish Community Office
Jósika u. 10
6722 Szeged
Grandiose, Moorish-style former synagogue, with two big towers, built in 1880 and desgiend by Ludwig Schone, that has long been used as a concert hall. The synagogue preserves two large, dome-topped towers and a lavishly decorated exterior. A Holocaust memorial stands next to it
There is also small prayer hall and culture center used by the Jewish community; Jewish cemetery; other buildings.
Jewish community and visitors center
Zrinyi Ilona street 17
Tel: +36 30 434 757
Email: email@example.com
Opened in 2013, the visitor center has a permanent exhibition on local Jewish history. On the web site there are links and descriptions to other heritage in the city.
Jewish heritage and history in Szombathely
Web site with documentation, history, photographs of religious sites as well as urban architecture.


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Sharman Networks, publishers and distributors of Kazaa, have launched the Kazaa "Emerging Artists Channel," an initiative that enables emerging artists to promote and sell music using peer-to-peer technology. This new feature of Kazaa demonstrates the power and flexibility of peer-to-peer technology as a universal commercial platform for promoting and selling music, especially for independent musicians.
Developed in partnership with Altnet Inc, the leading provider of secure digital media via peer-to-peer technology, and Cornerband.com, a self-service online label for musicians, the Emerging Artists Channel provides a new music 'incubator' within Kazaa, allowing independent artists around the world to promote and sell their music directly to an estimated 60 million music lovers worldwide.
From just US$9.99 a month per track, plus a one time set up fee of US$49.95, artists can have their songs promoted in two ways: First, the songs are given preferred placement in Kazaa search results with a 'Gold' colored icon using Altnet's TopSearch service. Second, songs have a listing featured in the Emerging Artist Channel. Altnet also digitally secures each song and allows artists to control the distribution rules of their music, for example, as a paid download, try-before-you-buy, or free sample. Each time a 'Gold Icon' file is shared via Kazaa, each new user must agree to the license before gaining access to its content.
The Emerging Artists Channel showcases the latest and greatest independent music from around the world. Music fans can download songs, share and build playlists, vote in a "best bands" competition, and listen to a free streaming radio player. Popular songs appear in a "Top 100" style hit list, ranked according to their popularity with Kazaa users.
"More than 75 million songs from over 1,000 emerging artists have been downloaded by Kazaa users in the past 12 months through services provided by Altnet and Cornerband," said Nikki Hemming, CEO of Sharman Networks. "The Emerging Artist Channel recognizes the increasing demand for these services that make it even easier for a new generation of bands to take advantage of low cost promotion and for music lovers to discover great new music. Every great band and musician has to start somewhere, and this is a fantastic new way to be discovered."
Illustrating the power of peer-to-peer promotion, San Francisco based band, Ten Mile Tide, has promoted its music through file-sharing on Kazaa for the past 12 months. The band has seen its songs downloaded more than 8.6 million times and online CD sales double, making the dream of being able to quit their day jobs come true.
According to Scott Beck, CEO of Cornerband, "The concept behind the Emerging Artists Channel is to provide a low cost stepping-stone for growth into the mainstream market — it's not much to pay for such great exposure. Once a band becomes more established, they can move to more prominent and higher trafficked promotional areas within Kazaa."
Altnet Senior Vice-President Christian von Burkleo said: "It's the new radio, a perfect win-win for independent musicians and music lovers. Independent musicians get a low-cost way to promote their music to a massive audience and Kazaa users get to discover great new music." –Bob Grossweiner and Jane Cohen


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Known mostly for their 17-minute journey through "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida," Iron Butterfly was a powerful band and set the stage for many of the moster rockers to follow. An ever changing line up muddied the waters a bit, but overall you know what you're getting when you toss a Butterfly platter onto the turntable. Rock on boys.
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What happens when your website gets miscategorized by web filtering technology?
I was out and about the other day and stopped in the local library for a while to get online. I try to check the back end of the website every day to get an idea about traffic over the last day, and see who's reading what and how they found me. I logged into the library's wifi and clicked over to my website, but couldn't get in. All I saw at first was that the site was blocked, and it occurred to me that it might be because I was trying to get to a WordPress admin page. It sort of made sense to me that I could be blocked from accessing the back end of a website. I thought it was a little strange though because I'd worked on the site before from the library.
I tried to hit the front end of the site and got this message.
Wait, what? Pornography?
If you've read more than a couple of pieces here, you know there's nothing pornographic about anything I write. Granted, one series is about human trafficking, but there's no pornographic content in any of the books. (And it just occurred to me that I might want to limit how much I use that word in this article, so I don't get…you get the idea.)
Why The Big Deal?
I write books. I'd like to be able to tell people about those books, and the website is one of my main venues.
Web filtering, in general, isn't unusual or new. Schools and businesses and libraries have been controlling access to websites pretty much since the web went graphic. Lots of places use web filtering to restrict access to social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, so this site fills in that gap. I wasn't surprised to run into it, even at the Muskogee library. I just didn't understand how or why I was tagged for adult content. It can be very frustrating to spend a lot of time and effort to get your site looking good and ranking for certain keywords, and then discover that people can't reach it because of overzealous web filters.
What I Did
At any rate, I started talking to some people and discovered I was blocked by both WebTitan and Webblocker. One friend suggested the server's IP address might be blocked. I checked with DNSlytics and found BobMuellerWriter.com is hosted on a shared server, along with about 1,200 other sites. That by itself isn't a big deal because I knew I was on a shared server, and being on a shared server is completely normal. The problem with shared servers though is that innocent domains can get caught up in an aggressive web filter that blocks an entire IP address. I checked about a dozen of the domains listed in the DNSlytics report, and accessed most of them just fine. I deliberately checked a couple of questionable sites on that list and found them blocked.
That work established that it wasn't an IP block. I also checked my Ravensbeak domains to see if someone had just reported all of my stuff. All of them were accessible (because who's going to filter genealogy.ravensbeak.com, right?).
That meant I was going to have to contact the filtering companies directly.
As it turns out, I never did figure out why I got flagged. It's possible but not likely that someone did it manually, but I haven't had any other problems since then as far as I know, so I don't think that was it. That's one of the risks of web filtering algorithms: false positives.
I asked a couple of knowledgeable friends for ideas. One pointed me to Sucuri's SiteCheck, a free resource that lets you check your website "for known malware, viruses, blacklisting status, website errors, out-of-date software, and malicious code." That check came back clean. Unfortunately, the "Website Blacklist Status" list didn't show me flagged anywhere.
My friend also pointed me to MXToolbox.com, which has just a boatload of testing resources for your website. Good news: I passed all those tests. Bad news: I passed all of those tests.
It was time to start calling companies. As it turns out, many of the web filtering companies share data. I eventually figured out that WebTitan and Forcepoint seemed to be the industry leaders for data, and that many of the other filtering packages used their lists.
Forcepoint did indeed have me classified as having adult content. Once I found their testing page, where you can check your website, it was easy enough to request a change. Click the "Suggest a different classification" link and choose what's appropriate. The problem with Forcepoint was that at their main website, there's no obvious link to their testing page. I think I emailed their sales or demo department to get the link. They haven't changed anything on their website to make it easier to find though.
Next, I called WebTitan, getting an Irishman in the US. At least I think he was in the US. TitanHQ, the parent company, is based in Ireland, although I called a Tampa number. Who knows? He was very polite though and explained that they used a list curated by Zvelo. Once he got around trying to spell that for me with his Irish pronunciation, I was off to their website. I was indeed miscategorized there.
At both Forcepoint and Zvelo, once I got to the page I needed, the changes seemed to be almost instantaneous.
Where I Looked
The hard part for me was finding the sites to check the classifications. So of course I'm going to share those links for you here, because that's the kind of guy I am. I'm making it a point to check these once a month now.
General Site Checks
DNSLytics will give you the IP address of your website's server (not the address of the computer you're browsing with), known as a reverseIP lookup. It'll also list the other domains that might be hosted on the same machine, letting you check those domains to see if any problems you're having are specific to your domain, or being caused by a block of the IP address.
Sucuri Sitecheck (listed under "Resources"): https://sitecheck.sucuri.net/
MXToolbox: https://mxtoolbox.com/
Web Filtering Companies
Symantec (Bluecoat, Webpulse, ZoneAlarmPro): https://sitereview.bluecoat.com/
McAfee (SmartFilter Internet Database, Webwasher URL Filter): https://www.trustedsource.org/
Webroot (BrightCloud): https://www.brightcloud.com/tools/url-ip-lookup.php
Cyren: https://www.cyren.com/security-center/url-category-check
Check Point (you may have to create a free account): https://www.checkpoint.com/urlcat/main.htm
Palo Alto Networks: https://urlfiltering.paloaltonetworks.com/
Forcepoint: https://csi.forcepoint.com/
Zvelo: https://tools.zvelo.com/
Forcepoint and Zvelo seem to be the primary data providers for web filtering companies. If you ever need to fix this kind of problem, I encourage you to start with them. Here's hoping you never need this list.
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The Congress on Tuesday alleged the Narendra Modi-led government inflicted losses to a state-run company and benefitted a private company with the Rafale jet deal.
The opposition party also demanded a probe by the Joint Parliamentary Committee into the deal.
"The NDA government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi signed the Rafale deal to benefit a private company to the tune of Rs 30,000 crore," Congress Rajya Sabha member Kumari Selja told reporters.
While the Congress has been alleging that the Rafale deal was a "scam", the allegations have been refuted by the government.
"The UPA government, in December 12, 2012, agreed to buy a fighter aircraft from Dassault Aviation for Rs 526.10 crore and going by this deal the price of 36 aircraft was Rs 18,940 crore," Selja said.
"But the Modi government junked the agreement, and on April 10, 2015, went for buying 36 aircraft for 7.5 billion euros, which means Rs 60,145 crore. At this rate, cost of each aircraft jumped to Rs 1,670.70 crore," the former Union minister said.
This way, Modi caused a loss of Rs 41,205 crore to the state coffers, she alleged.
"Besides, the government inflicted a loss to a state-run company and profited a private company with Rs 30,000 crore," she said.
The Congress leader said the state-run Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) had inked an offset contract with inked Dassault Aviation in the shape of a work share agreement on March 13, 2014, but it was "snatched away from the HAL and given to private company Reliance Defence, which does not have any work experience, for Rs 30,000 crore".
Reliance group has refuted the charges of any undue benefit from the deal and has already sent legal notices to a number of Congress leaders asking them to "cease and desist" from levelling these allegations.
Selja further claimed that the Modi government gave the Reliance firm Rs 1,00,000 crore life-cycle cost contract related to Rafale.
She further alleged Modi had said in April 2015 that 36 Rafale aircraft were being procured under emergency purchase, but the first aircraft would not land in India until September 2019 and the entire fleet of 36 imported fighter aircraft would reach the country by 2022.
"This means that under the deal of April 2015, the Air Force would get the aircraft in eight years. So what is the point of emergency purchase?" she asked.
In view of the growing threat from China and Pakistan, she said, it was a compromise with the country's security.
"The Indian Air Force needs at least 126 fighter aircraft. Previous Congress-led UPA government's request for proposal was based on it in 2012," the Congress leader said.
"But Prime Minister Modi reduced this to 36 from 126, without holding consultations with the Air Force," she alleged and sought a Joint Parliamentary Committee probe into Rafale deal.


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We're working with the Sandy Spring Slave Museum to let you know about upcoming events.
This Saturday, 2/8 at noon, check out A Portrayal of Josiah Henson by Kevin Fowler ($10 admission)
On Saturday, 2/15 at noon, there will be a presentation on Segregated Schools in Montgomery County (1866-1961) by Troy Boddy.
The presentation will cover the history of education for African-American children in Montgomery County followed by a panel discussion that will be moderated by Audrey Hill.
On Saturday, 2/22 and Sunday, 2/23 at 4pm the museum comes alive for Local Legends. Come meet those who paved the way and opened doors for others to walk through.
On March 14-28, check out the featured exhibit on Women's Suffrage (1920-2020). "In Black & White" African-American women who lifted as they climbed.


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In Nevada, the coronavirus crisis has led to drawing social distancing lines around homeless people as they sleep in a parking lot.
"Nevada, a state in one of the richest countries in the world, has painted social-distancing boxes on a concrete parking lot for the homeless to sleep in," wrote Twitter user Social Distancing Mancino Williams, above a picture of the parking lot.
The pictures came after a Catholic Charities homeless shelter reported that a homeless man who used its services tested positive for the coronavirus, which forced the shelter to move to an outdoor location in Las Vegas.
According to a joint statement from the city of Las Vegas and Clark County, the parking lot shelter at the Cashman Center will remain open until April 3, when they except Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada will reopen.
"Due to the closure of Catholic Charities, we are joining up with @CityOfLasVegas & area homeless providers to set up a temporary shelter @ Cashman Center. It will open tonight and run through April 3, when Catholic Charities will reopen," Clark County wrote on its Twitter account.
In a separate tweet, Clark County said the temporary outdoor shelter will provide the homeless with mats placed 6 feet apart to abide by social distancing policies, which are part of the effort to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
Speaking with Las Vegas news station KLAS, Lisa Morris Hibbler, the city's chief community services officer, said, "We have it spaced so that they're social distancing."
She added, "We know we have one job as a public servant, and that is to serve the community, and I think that we're showing that we do that well."
While the homeless get shelter during the time Catholic Charities is closed, medical students from Touro University have volunteered to help out at the temporary facility.
"Touro University med students & physician asst. students have arrived to help with our temp. homeless facility at Cashman Center," Clark County wrote.
The Touro University students will screen the homeless before they come into the shelter, looking for symptoms of COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the virus.
"In case somebody may come down with symptoms or whatever, they can get on that right away," Michael Hamilton, a homeless man in Las Vegas, told KLAS.
The novel coronavirus originated in Wuhan, China, and continues to spread across the world. According to a Johns Hopkins University tracker, there are over 156,000 confirmed cases in the U.S. and over 2,800 deaths. In Nevada, there are at least 1,008 confirmed cases and 15 deaths.


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Keeping Elk off the Road- Wildlife Crossings Coming to I-40 Soon
In Arizona, hundreds of elk are hit by cars every year. Locals are well aware of the situation--they see the carnage on the sides of the roads every day. Now a stretch of I-40 near Flagstaff is about to get safer. AGFD has joined forces with the ADOT, FHWA, US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, and the Arizona Elk Society to build wildlife crossings along the road, allowing elk to safely pass underneath. The crossings will reduce collisions between elk and vehicles and provide connectivity for elk, along with other wildlife, between wildlands on either side of the interstate.
According to research by USGS biologists, I-40 serves as a barrier more formidable than the Grand Canyon to certain wildlife species, including mountain lions.
Even if you're not concerned about things like habitat connectivity, you should be concerned about wildlife-vehicle collisions. The resulting accidents are not only deadly to animals, but costly for drivers and tax payers alike. The Federal Highway Administration estimates that the average cost of an individual elk-vehicle accident to society is $18,561 --the number includes a monetary value estimate of $3,000 per elk. I have no idea how they came up with that, but even if you don't buy it, the remaining 15K per accident adds up.
Arizona Game and Fish biologists are getting high tech, just as they have for similar projects on I-17 and SR 260. They're capturing and fitting elk with GPS collars to determine exactly where crossings are needed the most. Then ADOT will incorporate the crossings into plans for improvements to the interstate. This a great combination of technology and biology that will benefit elk, people, and other wildlife that will use the crossings.
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- Tina DelSignoreJuly 16, 2010 at 4:21 AM
My family and I were visiting the Grand Canyon July 10, 2010 and hit an elk on Rte. 64/180 leading to Rte. 40. Coming from Ohio, we weren't aware of the magnitude of elk concerns, especially with crossings, etc... The speed limit was 65 mph and if not for our seat belts, we would all 4 be dead. The bull was 8 pt. (16 pt. total) and probably around 1000 pounds said the Arizona officer of Public Safety. What I think would be helpful for out-of-towners (especially people from all over the world visiting the Grand Canyon), are suggested speed limits at night, more urgent signs, and even annual statistics of collisions posted on these routes. I know we would have slowed down and possibly avoided the crash if we had been going slower. What may seem obvious to locals (to drive slow) isn't to people who live in areas where occasionally I spot a 100 pound deer. The elk we hit was definitely no where near this category. It was crossing the road at a full speed run at 9 pm at night. Could there be fencing/stone walls with under passages for these enormous animals? Something has to be done...ReplyDelete


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Architects and developers strive to find ways to build and manage buildings in a sustainable, eco-friendly fashion, such as the Green Building movement is becoming more important. As a company, Harsh Consultancy has promoted the use of plants as an integral part of sustainable building management for a long time.
Harsh Consultancy intends to work hard to promote greater awareness of the benefits of landscaping and, to ensure that they provide convenience as a recognized, measurable component of the new green building rating schemes.
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Last month, on 2 February 2016, English PEN welcomed the news that the death sentence handed down to poet and artist Ashraf Fayadh had been overturned. We were nevertheless extremely disappointed to learn that the court had ordered a harsh new sentence of eights years and 800 lashes.
In the run-up to World Poetry Day on 21 March, English PEN and our sister centres around the world are continuing to call for Ashraf Fayadh's immediate and unconditional release. Please join us by taking one of the actions suggested below.
English PEN will be continuing to campaign for Ashraf Fayadh throughout 2016, or until his release from prison, through our regular vigils at the Saudi Embassy in London. Ashraf is also among the international writers to be featured at the inaugural English PEN Modern Literature Festival in April 2016, for which he has been paired with poet and Guardian first book ward-winner Andrew McMillan. His poetry will also be performed at the Ledbury Poetry Festival in July 2016 as part of our annual Poetry as Protest Initiative.
For further background information, visit the PEN International website.
- Show your support for Ashraf Fayadh by sending messages, poetry or artwork via the dedicated website ashraffayadh.com
- Share details of his case and examples of his writing with friends and colleagues and on social media. #FreeAshraf
- Write to the Saudi authorities calling for his immediate and unconditional release – more details below.
Please send appeals:
- Welcoming the commutation of the death sentence imposed on Palestinian poet and artist Ashraf Fayadh;
- Urging the government to immediately commute his sentence of 800 lashes, as it violates the absolute prohibition in international law against torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment;
- Calling on the authorities to release Ashraf Fayadh immediately and unconditionally, as he is held solely for the peaceful exercise of his right to freedom of expression;
- Calling on Saudi Arabia to ratify, without reservation, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
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Office of His Majesty the King
Royal Court, Riyadh
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Riyadh 11137 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Salutation: Your Excellency
It is recommended that you send a copy of your appeals via the diplomatic representative for Saudi Arabia in your country. Contact details for embassies can be found here.


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In the Philippines, traffic jams have become part of daily life that has to be contended with. Since public transportation is still not reliable, some Filipinos have turned to other ways to move around the metropolis and even outside the capital. One of the best alternatives to public transportation is cycling. Cycling gives you more control when moving from one point to another, provides a good way to exercise, and also helps lessen the damage to the environment caused by burning fuels.
Of course, you can't go cycling without a good bicycle to get on. There are a lot of good bike shops in Philippines where you can go for all your cycling needs, from entire bicycles of different types of spare parts.
Bike Shops in Philippines
If you are planning to try your hand on cycling, here is a list of reliable bike shops in Philippines that can help you going. These bicycle shops can help you choose the proper equipment for a safe cycling experience. This list provides details of products offered and locations of these bike shops, most of which can be found in Metro Manila.
1. All Terra Cyclery
Since being founded in 2004, this mountain bike shop in Philippines has become a go-to place for cycling enthusiasts. It sells types of bicycles, from entry-level models to race-ready set-ups from trusted brands like Intense Cycles, Specialized Bicycles, and Colnago. Those who are on a budget will be glad to know that this bike shop in the Philippines also offers second-hand models that are easier on the pocket. Aside from bicycles, this shop also sells cycling clothes, helmets and spare parts like saddles and chain rings. This convenience of having a wide array of products has been a factor for the popularity of this bike shop.
All Terra Cyclery also organizes exciting bicycle rides in the Philippines to put those products into work. You can visit this bike shop at the CW Home Depot in Pasig City, or you can also check its Facebook page where pictures of its products are posted. There are also instructions on how to order from outside Metro Manila. Just be mindful that there may be additional costs when doing this due to shipping fee of products.
Address: Pasig, Metro Manila, Philippines
Phone: +63 2 909 7264
2. Bike Town Cyclery
Also among the most reliable bike shops in Philippines is Bike Town Cyclery, which can be found at the heart of Makati City. This hip and modern-looking store has an impressive collection of the best brands and custom builders, mostly from the United States. These brands include Erikssen, Pivot, IF, Transition, Chris King and GT. Customers also go back to this bike shop because of its mechanics who are ready to assist in choosing which bike spare parts are best to buy, from quality tires to saddles. Bike Town Cyclery has a Facebook page that it regular updates with information on its newest products.
Address: 2240 Chino Roces Ave, Makati, 1233 Metro Manila, Philippines
Phone: +63 2 261 7392
3. Gran Trail Cycles
Are you looking for a shop that specializes in mountain bikes in the Philippines? This bike shop, which has two branches in Makati City and Alabang, is your best shot at finding mountain bikes, particularly two-niners or those following the big-wheeled trend usually used for trekking, road racing and cyclo-cross touring. Among the brands that this bike shop carries are Rocky Mountain, Kali Protectives, Birzman, Wolf Tooth Components and Niner. For the Niner Bikes, the shop sells different varieties, including cross country, single speed, trail and all-mountain types. Aside from bikes, this shop also has various kinds of helmets and different bicycle spare parts.
For those who want to save up some money while purchasing quality cycling gear, Gran Trail Cycles also has promos throughout the year that makes bicycles and parts with more affordable prices. To get to know more about this bike shop in the Philippines and its promos, visit their FB Page.
Address: 830 Antonio Arnaiz Ave, Makati, 1223 Metro Manila, Philippines
Phone: +63 917 553 5978
4. Bike King Philippines
Another well-known bike shop in Philippines is Bike King, which is located at the upscale Bonifacio High Street in Taguig City. This mountain bike shop in the Philippines, particularly caters to more athletic cyclists, including those who are into cyclocross and triathlons. It is also known to be an authorized dealer of the Spanish bicycle brand, Orbea.
For those who do not have time to go to the actual store but are in need of cycling accessories, Bike King has also sort of transformed itself into an online bike store in the Philippines, thanks to its partnership with Lazada. In this online shop, you can purchase bike repair kits, bike handlebars and even flashlights for night-time cycling. Visit their FB Page for more information.
5. Paulina's Cycle Center
This bike shop in Philippines, with two branches in Manila and Pasay, boasts of a comprehensive supply of different models of bicycles, bike spare parts, and cycling gears and equipment. This store is always fully stocked with products from brands like Giant, Shimano, Rock Shox, SRAM and Avid, which are sold at very competitive prices. The shop also has cycling apparel from trusted brands like Vamos. Check out the Facebook page of Paulina's Cycle Center and be on the look out for various sales and promos to get the most out of your money.
Cycling is an exciting and rewarding hobby, but it requires some patience in choosing the right gear for you. It's a good thing that these bike shops in Philippines can provide customers with their cycling needs, to make their bicycle adventures safe and hassle-free.
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Dear Parents/ Guardians,
Following the Government's announcement earlier in the week we are busy looking at if it is possible for us to welcome back more children before the summer holidays. The limiting factors to if we can increase the number of pupils in school are of course: the number of staff needed and available rooms.
This term has certainly had its challenges and, as we get closer to the new school year, I feel that there are going to be more challenges ahead! As I have said previously, I am extremely grateful that I am working in such a supportive school community as this has definitely made things easier.
We are, of course, thinking about September and planning our curriculum for the new term. Preparing a curriculum for an effective start in September is within our control. Knowing how schools will be asked to safely reopen is not. For this we are relying on Government guidance, which is currently not forthcoming. Buckinghamshire Head Teachers, Governing Bodies, teaching unions and the Local Authority are all lobbying government for early publication of guidance. Clearly, knowing what to expect as soon as possible is in all our interests.
Please be assured that whatever the new term brings, we will be doing everything that we can to meet the academic, social and emotional needs of your children; we cannot wait to have them back!
We are in the process of proofreading annual written reports and these will be sent out by post nearer the end of term.
It looks as though we might get some sunny weather this weekend so hopefully you will be able to get outside and enjoy it.
Stay safe,
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Host Anthony Desiato and guest Tyler Patrick (KRYPTON REPORT podcast) dig into the classic Bronze Age capper "For the Man Who Has Everything" by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons, along with its adaptations on JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED and SUPERGIRL. This is the conclusion of an unofficial trilogy considering three iconic stories that explore what Superman truly desires and deserves in the end.
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Tonight will become partly cloudy with lows in the 2 to 5 C range, but one or two places could slip a bit lower and have a touch of ground frost by early morning.
Thursday will become more unsettled again with fairly widespread showers and the chance of a few heavier thunderstorms, all moving quite slowly and somewhat randomly although there will be a tendency for northeast to southwest drift of any showers. Rainfall amounts could be 5-10 mm in some places, or even more locally. This will begin to ease the dry conditions that have prevailed in many areas all month but relief from that (if in fact you are seeking relief) will be gradual. Highs on Thursday will reach 12 to 14 C.
Friday will be a somewhat better day with a bright start but eventually a significant cloud cover by mid-day with isolated showers. The wind gradient is never very strong this week but by Friday it almost disappears, so that winds across the country will be quite light and variable in direction. Lows near 2 C and highs near 13 C.
Saturday is likely to be partly cloudy with isolated showers and still on the cool side, lows near 2 C and highs 12 to 15 C.
By Sunday there will be increasing cloud and the threat of some light rain by evening and the overnight hours into Monday, with temperatures in the range of 7 to 13 C.
Monday could see some more prolonged rainfalls in the 10-20 mm range as a weak but persistent low tracks across the country from the northwest. Although the track of this low has lifted further north on guidance today, compared to yesterday's estimates, there won't be much difference to the impact other than perhaps to spread the rain a bit more widely across all regions.
Next week does not look any warmer as the Atlantic, while starting to show some vigour, is largely confined to moving its frontal systems across the Bay of Biscay into France and then Germany, with the cooler air well entrenched over Ireland and Britain. This will keep temperatures a bit below normal values all week (2-8 May) and will also likely lead to occasional rainfalls.
There are some very cold looking patterns generated by computer models later in the week with a good draw on higher latitudes bringing down chilly maritime arctic air masses that could be several degrees below normal temperatures for May, more like 9-10 C than the usual 15-16 C. I would still expect there to be a warming trend at some point in May. This April has been rather rare, it looks as though it will quite possibly turn out colder than March. I don't have a long historical data base available to check that out for Ireland, but over in Britain, where there is such a data base going back almost four centuries, only sixteen Aprils failed to add to the mean temperature of March, out of 362 in the series, so it's about four per cent of Aprils that show this odd result. There has never been a series of March, April, May where all three were colder than the preceding, but May can be cooler than April again in rare numbers of cases. This year with such a cool April I think even a continuation of the pattern would have to add at least 2 degrees to the outcome. In reality it may be more like 3-4. But even that could leave May a bit below its average values.
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Prop. 45: A foe drew personal attacks
As a surgeon, I weigh in on political issues whenever they impact me and my patients, and when I think I can shed additional light on the matter.
That was the case this year when I became a vocal opponent of Proposition 45, which would have given the state's Insurance Commissioner unprecedented new powers over health care decisions. Fortunately, voters rejected that initiative by a near 20-point margin, sending a clear signal that it was fundamentally unsound public policy.
The rejection of Proposition 45 was a vote of confidence in the state's newly established health exchange, Covered California.
Some would suggest at this point to pack up the resounding victory and move on. But now that the dust has had weeks to settle, and knowing full-well that issues like these tend to spring up time and again in the most unlikely of places, I think it's important to underscore what the wholesale rejection of Proposition 45 really meant.
Also, having proponents of the ballot measure personally attack me, my physician colleagues, nurses, health care providers and even Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi for expressing our grave concerns about the policy, I feel it is even more important to clearly explain why newspaper editorial boards from across the state and nearly 60 percent of California voters opposed Proposition 45.
First and foremost, the rejection of Proposition 45 was a vote of confidence in the state's newly established health exchange, Covered California. In the past year alone, the exchange enrolled 3.4 million people and cut the state's uninsured rate in half, remarkable progress that has made California a model of health care reform in America. They also negotiated competitive rates and benefits on behalf of consumers and small businesses.
That's why many of the national architects of the Affordable Care Act, including Leader Pelosi were vocal opponents to the measure. That's also why groups that care deeply about insuring the uninsured, like the California NAACP and the Service Employees International Union (and more than 250 other respected groups and organizations) opposed the initiative.
And voters from across the political spectrum, whether they support Obamacare or not, rejected the measure because few believed that adding another layer of bureaucracy on top of the newly established health reform would be helpful.
The California Medical Association joined other physicians, nurses groups and health care providers from across California in opposing the measure because it was so poorly and loosely drafted that we believed it could interfere with treatment decisions best left to doctors and their patients.
Add to that the conflicts of interest that were not disclosed, and the fact that the initiative's sponsors wrote in provisions that would allow them to make tens of millions more through legal challenges to health care reform policies, and voters called it for what it was – a deeply flawed and undesirable policy.
In the aftermath of elections, some try to spin their losses and blame it on factors outside of their control. In this case, the voters spoke loud and clear, rejecting a measure motivated by self interest to primarily benefit the people who wrote it.
Ed's Note: Dr. John Maa is on the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Medical Society.
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Criminal cases being dismissed include attempted murder
RIVERSIDE COUNTY – Over the past four weeks, Riverside County Superior Court judges have dismissed more than 500 criminal court cases due to a backlog of cases due to COVID-19 and a limited number of courtrooms.
These cases are both misdemeanor and felony cases and include nearly all crime types.
Approximately 50 felony cases have been dismissed thus far. Felony cases dismissed included charges such as attempted murder, assault, stalking, arson, vandalism, and a hate crime. Most of
the dismissals are domestic violence or driving under the influence cases. Many of the dismissed cases include a victim of crime.
These are cases in which our office has witnesses gathered and has announced that we are ready to begin jury trial. However, the Superior Court does not have a judge available to hear the case so, rather than granting a short continuance until a trial courtroom becomes available, judges have chosen to dismiss criminal cases and release the accused perpetrators back into the community.
An example of a felony case that was dismissed is the People v. Steven James Flores, INF1801291, in which the defendant was charged with attempted murder, assault with a gun, robbery, assault with a deadly weapon on a peace officer, and resisting the duty of a peace officer in 2018. Flores was previously convicted of first-degree burglary, INF10000496. The DA's Office has refiled this case and the new case number is INF2202320.
Another example of a felony case that was dismissed is the People v. Paul Phillip Powers, RIF2100772, in which the defendant was charged with six counts of vandalisms committed on Nov. 2, 2020, and a violation of Penal Code 422.6(b), a hate crime. As part of the dismissal motion filed, a victim spoke to the court, however, the case was still dismissed. The DA's Office
will refile the case.
"The dismissal of cases and thus allowing criminals back into our community with no consequences for their actions is a danger to everyone," District Attorney Mike Hestrin said in a statement. "The consequences of the decisions being made from our judges is going to cause extreme harm to victims of crime and our community at-large. This is a public safety crisis, and it needs to stop."
The DA's Office is taking every available action to safeguard our community, such as arguing the dismissals in court, immediately refiling felony cases that are being dismissed, and filing appeals when appropriate, according to Hestrin.
In a statement, the DA's Office said it is committed to keeping the public informed regarding this public safety crisis and will continue to periodically release updated information regarding case dismissals as that information becomes available.
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Joe Swash has revealed that he once programmed his mum's Sat Nav to drive her to the Lake District when she wanted to go to Lakeside shopping.
The TV personality, who made headlines on Christmas Eve for his proposal to Stacey Solomon, appeared on the BBC show 'Would I Lie To You?' on Christmas Eve.
The Christmas episode of the award-winning comedy panel show also featured guests Jo Brand, Joe Lycett, Ruth Madeley, Lee Mack and David Mitchell.
On the show, hosted by Rob Brydon, celebrities explain events and their co-stars have to guess whether they are telling the truth or in fact lying.
Reading from a card Joe said: "One Christmas, I accidentally put the wrong address in my mum's Sat Nav, and instead of driving to Lakeside she drove all the way to the Lake District."
When questioned he went on to explain it was a long time ago and that he suffered from slight dyslexia as a child.
He also explained that it wasn't just his mum in the car on the six-hour journey, she was joined by her next-door neighbour Debbie as well.
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Joe said: "They just kept on driving until it got dark.
"And then what my mum said was, they got so scared because it was just them two in the car and they didn't know where they were going, my mum doesn't know how to do the Sat Nav and all of that business, that they thought it would be safer just to continue to where they were going."
He went on to explain they stayed the night in a hotel before returning to London the next day.
His fellow guests on the show thought that Joe was telling the truth and as he revealed the story was in fact true he said: "Yeah, it happened, yeah."
The guests erupted in laughter, but at the time Joe's mum did not see the funny side of it as he revealed she was "fuming".