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"Donald Trump only sweats the small stuff".
The cloud hanging over the White House mushroomed in February when Trump's national security adviser Michael Flynn resigned over concerns about his meetings with Russia's ambassador in Washington.
Press Secretary Sean Spicer spoke with reporters today about what James Comey wrote in his explosive memo on President Trump's request that he stop his probe on Michael Flynn.
But the swirling questions about his conduct were clearly on his mind when he told graduates at the US Coast Guard Academy in CT that "no politician in history, and I say this with great surety, has been treated worse or more unfairly". It sends that resolution to the Judiciary Committee if it feels the conduct is objectionable. "I'll be forced to issue him with a reprimand because he did not share these secrets with us". "It would be good for the country".
The White House, for the second time in a week, is scrambling to protect the president from his own questionable actions after he reportedly passed highly classified intelligence to two top Russian officials during an Oval Office meeting. We can only hope. Yet US allies and some members of Congress have expressed alarm. "As President, I wanted to share with Russian Federation (at an openly scheduled WH meeting) which I have the absolute right to do, facts pertaining.to terrorism and airline flight safety".
Last week, Senator Grassley had downplayed concerns about Comey's firing, telling those anxious to "suck it up". "I want it to end, ' that's one thing", he continued. Really, if a freshman can refuse to spin for the White House, why can't lawmakers with years of seniority in no danger of losing their seats?
Edelman's night with model led to Matt Harvey's suspension
The Mets hope Duda can return to the team during its upcoming road trip, which begins Friday in Milwaukee . It's not the first time Harvey has been punished by the Mets for his behavior. "We have a policy here".
The news of the Russian meeting also came a day after Mr Trump dismissed Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey from his post. The FBI investigation into the Russian impact on the 2016 election must continue.
At first his subordinates gave a justification for it that was completely unrelated with interfering with an ongoing proceeding, but then in an interview with Lester Holt of NBC News, Trump basically said that they had all been lying and that the reason he did it was to wind up the Russian Federation investigation because he thought the Russian Federation investigation was a big fake.
The official said aides are seeking to avoid a repeat of the critical coverage of White House statements in recent days.
We need to get the facts out in the open. Oh, she's just trying to save her swing seat, you say? The president's critics say the disclosure could compromise the source of the intelligence provided by a USA ally and make other nations wary about sharing sensitive information with the United States. "I don't know that you could say the same about the president".
Republican congressman Justin Amash told The Hill that if reports were true about Mr Trump's pressure on Mr Comey, it would merit impeachment. Republicans will begin to realize that their agenda is going nowhere and that their political survival depends on Trump's political demise. This would take time and delay any conclusion by many months. And since the people who are in office in the Republican Party are elected by people who listen nearly exclusively to the self-contained conservative media they have much less incentive to actually do something because they fear they will be punished by their constituents if they were to betray or abandon the president of the United States.
Truex Jr. wins race marred by scary wreck
Keselowski, Harvick and Blaney went three-wide with Keselowski on the high side, and he made the move stick to finish second. On the restart, Truex blew past Blaney and never gave the lead back. "I hate that I'm the part of it that started it".
Iranians determine future of reforms in presidential election
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the most powerful man in Iran, symbolically cast the election's first vote. Tight race in Iran's presidential electionIranians will soon head to the polls to vote for the next president.
Sweden drops rape investigation into WikiLeaks founder Assange
CIA Director Mike Pompeo said in April that Assange should not be afforded constitutional free speech protections in the U.S. In order to proceed with the case, Julian Assange would have to be formally notified of the criminal suspicions against him.
Honey Moon? New South Korean leader's popularity surges with common man touch
A special envoy representing Moon is due to visit China on Thursday for talks on THAAD and the overall bilateral relationship. In March, South Korean officials voiced concerns that Beijing was limiting tourism to their country as an unofficial sanction.
PayPal now lets you pay online with a fingerprint scan
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Chinese media blame the United States of America for WannaCry ransomware cyber-attack
The best course of action is to contact an IT or Cyber Security professional to assist you in analyzing and minimizing the attack. Even though Microsoft no longer provides updates for Windows XP, it is still widely used in Europe and Asia.
Remote cave reveals earliest Australians lived around 50000 years ago
But after a few thousands years, as sea levels rose, the island was cut off from the mainland and the cave abandoned. Veth said the location provided the longest sequence of dietary remains from any Australian site.
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Cornell family cites drug he was prescribed
Cornell was a leader of the grunge movement with Seattle-based Soundgarden , with whom he gained critical and commercial acclaim. Asked about his past addictions, Mr Cornell often remarked that drug problems were overlooked among non-famous people.
Trump to meet French President-elect Macron in May
The vote - 66% for centrist Macron to 34% for Le Pen - proved a stronger victory than many analysts and polls had projected. His rivals now will be motivated to keep Macron from making further gains during the two-round parliamentary election.
Mexico private sector eyes more NAFTA content in future products
Trump has invoked the trade gap to argue that naive American policymakers had been out-negotiated by their Mexican counterparts. The Congressional Research Service has concluded that the impact of NAFTA on the USA economy "has been relatively small".
Mauricio Pochettino Makes Remarks that Imply Concession in Title Race
Tottenham lost 1-0 to West Ham United on Friday night as Pochettino's men failed to cut Chelsea's lead at the top of the table. After a troubled campaign, this was a rare uplifting moment for West Ham.
Lewis Hamilton buoyant after 'rawest fight' with Sebastian Vettel in Spain
Lewis and myself picked up wheel-spin straight away. "What can I say? He was respectful and that stayed the same even at the end". One of the best drives was that of young German-Mauritian Pascal Wehrlein in the Sauber.
Labour's ratings boosted in new poll
Despite the rise in support for Labour, there are indications that Labour's support is "softer" than the Conservatives. But I don't see Labour winning.
Chicagoland Speedway to lose playoff race, report says — NASCAR schedule
He leads active drivers in All-Star driver rating (101.9) and poles (3). "Really and truly, the race was just icing on the cake". The victor of each of the first three will be locked into the final 10 auto , 10 lap stage, providing they stay on the lead lap.


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Mark's Antarctic post got me thinking about visits to remote and inaccessible places. Has anyone been to the Faroe Islands, Shetlands or St Kilda near Scotland or, Tristan da Cunha, St Helena in the Atlantic. How about Kermadec Islands or Macquarie and Heard Islands south of Australia or the Auckland Islands of New Zealand. I am sure there are plenty of such places. Please post any images here and tell us a bit about the island and the circumstances of your visit.
To get started, here are some photos of Saibai Island that I took last week (9d22'27"S 142d38'02"E). This is almost the most northerly part of Australia (nearby Boigu takes that honour) but is is unique in that it is the closest part of Australia to another country being only 3.6 kilometres by sea from the Papua New Guinea mainland.
Papuan people cross the short passage regularly for traditional trading and to shop at the island store. They set up a small market in the hope of selling some artifacts to the rare tourist.
More sadly, Papua New Guinean people, will often bring their desperately sick children to the clinic on Saibai (sometimes treking for weeks from their home village). Once on Australian soil they become our responsibility and, as is often the case, have to be flown 1000km south to the nearest city, Cairns, for proper hospital treatment.
The local people have a pretty laid back lifestyle

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This threshold offers a change in plane that transitions from public to private space
This, and the next photo are entrances to a public park. The thresholds include a change in material as well as masonry elements to mark the transition
This is a threshold to an elevated play platform. I though it was specifically interesting that it is size-selecting, which speaks to scale. Having tried to climb up on this platform myself, adults are NOT welcome!
This is an entrance to a public trail. There is a change in material, pavement to gravel. Also, the trees become much more dense creating an over-hang. There area also cement blocks on either side of the path that mark the transition.
This backyard has a change in material (grass to concrete step) and a gate that marks the transition from public to private.
I have often seen thresholds at home entrances in the form of stairs, especially ones that are different materials. This ramp has a concrete end that serves the same purpose.
This is a threshold in the most traditional sense, a piece of wood that marks the transition from one room to another. The thing that I think is interesting is that the space (front hall and living room) might otherwise have been experienced as one space if the flooring wasn't different. This was my way of keeping the feeling of a traditional front hall, my house was built in 1886, but creating a larger room with more traffic area that works better with our furnishings and lifestyle.


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Little was known about Private James Powers, a Michigan man who served in the Civil War, later moved to Seattle and died 95 years ago.
He was a soldier lost to time and memory.
Until a Kent couple, family history researchers and Civil War enthusiasts with masters degrees in history, made it their mission and their deep pleasure to bring Powers' story to life.
After extensive research, painstaking verification and widespread networking they began last summer, Jim and Loretta-Marie Dimond confirmed that the Union Army infantryman had never received a proper military burial. For whatever reason, brass urns containing the cremated remains of James and his wife of 57 years, Irene, have sat in community storage at a Seattle cemetery since his death in 1921 and hers in 1928.
Working with several veterans organizations, the Dimonds are determined to right this wrong.
Their effort culminates with the long-delayed military interment of Powers and his wife at noon Saturday at Tahoma National Cemetery near Kent. The memorial service is open to the public.
Powers will receive full military honors "as if it were a 1921" ritual service, complete with a gun salute, the playing of "Taps" and honor guards from local Civil War reenactors, military reservists and other groups, Jim Dimond said.
As many as 10 of Powers descendents throughout the nation are expected to attend. The Dimonds contacted one of the last surviving members of the family, a Floridian, who consented to the ceremony.
"It took 20 minutes to find (descendents)," Loretta-Marie Dimond said, "but 20 weeks to put (the memorial service) together."
For the Dimonds, it has been an amazing adventure to provide a fitting honor for a once-forgotten but deserving war veteran who died at the age of 78.
"This is closure for a story that started in 1921, and we're finally giving honors to a Civil War veteran that was never done," said Jim Dimond, a retired federal government worker who is the Western Washington historian for the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW), a volunteer, fraternal, nonprofit educational organization. The SUVCW is similar to its predecessor, the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR), which was one of the first integrated organizations in the United States and the largest Union Civil War veterans organization at that time.
"It's a surreal moment. It's like a-once-in-a lifetime deal, a Civil War funeral, and it's exciting and scary," Jim Dimond said. "He is finally getting what he deserves, the recognition of his service to this country. That's what means the most to me. … It's a great thing: it's doing justice to an American Civil War hero."
Powers will be the first Civil War veteran to be interred in the state since Hiram Randall Gale, the last GAR national commander and the last living Civil War veteran in Washington, died in 1951 at the age of 104.
The Dimonds' partner in the effort has been Robert Patrick of the Washington chapter of the Missing in America Project, which works to find, identify and inter the unburied remains of veterans. The couple have been working since 1994 with local genealogists to chronicle the stories of Civil War veterans who moved west to Washington.
Loretta-Marie Dimond photographs gravesites and manages a database of compiled findings. She stumbled upon the Powers' names after analyzing a partial list of community storage cremains at a Seattle cemetery. Her curiosity led to further records, documentation and information and finally to the realization that the Powers – the war veteran and his wife – were never interred.
"The Dimonds did all the work. … Jim lives for the Civil War veteran," Patrick said. "They did the research, found him and his wife, approached the cemetery and did the verification process with the VA (Veterans Administration).
"It's exciting to me, kind of strange in a lot of ways, to have a man recovered after 95 years," Patrick added. "It's kind of a good day in the office."
Private Powers isn't just an accidental, isolated case, but it is unique in the nature and scope of unclaimed veterans, especially one from the Civil War period. Patrick and other organizations today work to find, verify and ensure a proper burial for many unclaimed or lost war veterans.
About the soldier
James Powers joined the 12th Michigan Infantry in 1864, replenishment for a veteran unit that had seen heavy casualties. But the 5-foot-5, blue-eyed, fair-haired man never saw significant combat, his military service mostly consisting of railroad guard duty and work as a hospital steward in Arkansas, records show.
No surviving photos of him have yet been found.
Discharged in 1865, Powers married Irene, and they raised two sons, Jesse and Frank.
Powers worked in public service. He spent a term in the Michigan Legislature, read and practiced law. He also farmed, and documents in his pension file showed that as he aged the rigors of mechanized farming became more difficult. An accident in 1867 crippled his left arm, according to records.
His health deteriorating, Power suffered a stroke in 1915.
The Powers eventually moved to Seattle in 1920 to be near Jesse, who became a minister and founded the First Unitarian Church.
James Powers died a year later, his wife in 1928. Both were cremated but for unknown reasons, family members never claimed the remains.
'Wonderful experience'
The Dimonds have a great appreciation for American history and for those who put their lives on the line to protect the land of the free.
Their work with the Sons of Union Veterans, which maintains a registry of burial locations of Civil War veterans, is a worthwhile extension of their passion for history and family. Both of their fathers were World War II veterans.
"It's important because I love history, family history and my father's background in the military," Jim Dimond said. "All those things together make it extremely important to me.
"And the fact we're accomplishing this with the family present is just way beyond anything I ever expected," he said. "It's a very incredible, wonderful experience."
Dimond is intrigued and humbled by those who have served, especially by an Army private named Powers.
"The man who saved the union and helped end slavery deserves (an honorable burial). … Just think about the impact of what these people did."
The Dimonds contributed to this story.


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The 2020 U.S. Census will ask couples living in the same household to define their relationship as "same-sex" or "opposite-sex."
The question is the Census Bureau's first major attempt to count the number of gays and lesbians living in the United States.
According to a March 29 report, data about relationships is used in "planning and funding government programs that provide funds or services for families," as well as to understand changing households.
There are still no questions pertaining directly to gender identity or sexual orientation, so transgender people and single gay, lesbian, and bi Americans won't be counted. The Bureau had considered questions about sexual orientation, but they were nixed from the most recent draft, reigniting the debate about LGBT inclusion in the survey.
"This survey helps the Census Bureau understand how best to reach communities that are historically undercounted," Meghan Maury, policy director for the National LGBTQ Task Force, said in a statement. "Not counting LGBT people means less money for social programs and less democratic representation, and that's just not fair."
Cecilia Chung of the Transgender Law Center hopes the Census Bureau will expand its survey to include more inclusive questions.
"These are all labels," she told NPR "But if we don't have the proper labels when we try to look at the picture, there will be a lot of missing pieces, like jigsaw puzzles."
The Census Bureau also plans to include a question about citizenship on the 2020 questionnaire, drawing ire from activists who worry it could prevent millions of immigrants from filling out their forms and therefore skew the results.


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Fund and Safety days are certainly fun - but while they provide a ton of entertainment for youngsters and their families, all the excitement is just a smart way to deliver a very serious message.
Held this year in Hailsham, Uckfield and Crowborough, the events aimed to give children vital information about how to stay safe.
Cllr Claire Dowling, Wealden's cabinet member for public health and community safety said: "This is vital of course, and the purpose of the event, but more importantly they always have a great time. They are a great example of events the council organises with partner organisations to keep our communities safe and healthy."
The first Fun and Safety day was held at the Hailsham East Children's Centre, Vega Close, Hailsham on January 28. This was followed by last week's day hosted at Uckfield Fire Station while this week the teams were once again in action at Crowborough Fire Station on Wednesday, April 8.
Uckfield's gallant firecrews gave youngsters the chance to find out what it is like to be a firefighter by sitting in the driving seat of a fire engine. The children then joined forces with Sussex Police by climbing into a police car.
There was a simulated fire and car rescue and attractions like a children's entertainer, badge making, crafts and tons of giant outdoor games.
Fun and Safety days were free and open to all in all three towns. Partners included East Sussex Fire and Rescue; Sussex Police; Freedom Leisure (operators of leisure centres in the towns;) Active Play and Wealden Children's Centres and focused on encouraging children to stay safe and healthy. There were also opportunities for families and carers to benefit from East Sussex Fire and Rescue offering the opportunity to take advantage of free home safety fire checks.
Fun and Safety was free and open to all, Partners for the Fun and Safety Days include East Sussex Fire and Rescue, Sussex Police, Freedom Leisure, Active Play, Waitrose, (which has stores in all three towns;) Booker & Best and Wealden Children Centres.
Cllr Dowling added: "It was good to be at Uckfield Fire Station again where the children, parents and carers were able to experience first hand the life-saving expertise of our colleagues in the emergency services. I am sure it provided a morning of fun and excitement in the Easter holidays for everyone taking part, and they will go home having picked up some basic safety skills which they can share in the future. It was good that children in all three towns got the chance to go along too."
An impressive total of 709 people attended the Uckfield Fun and Safety Day.
Wealden organiser Sophie Hepworth said: "Our thanks go to everyone who worked so hard making it a success - and the Safer Wealden Partnership which kindly provided the funding. It was a fantastic example of partnership working."
A simulated car rescue by the firefighters proved very popular, as did a simulated chip pan fire which provided a good example of some of the hazards that can lurk in the kitchen and people often have no idea how to deal with them.
Parents and carers were given the opportunity to try using a mobile phone of a car driving simulator which brought home the dangers and lack of concentration involved if you try to text when you are driving.
One parent commented: "Until I used the driving simulator I had never thought how dangerous texting could be when driving. It certainly something I am never going to do again."
One of the highlights from the craft event was making fluorescent streamers which can safely be streamed after bicycles, making them much more visible. Refreshments on all three days were provided by Waitrose. Stepping Stones Nursery also had a refreshment stall serving delicious snacks and food which proved a great fund raiser for the nursery.
As one happy parent said afterwards: "It is great to be able to attend a free event in the school holidays where the children enjoy themselves and learn something as well."
Each year new safety issues arise and the teams dealing take these on board. This year mention was made at Hailsham of the potential danger for to young children from window blind cords. A limited number of free blind cleats - fitted to the window frame - were given away.
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As the year-end draws near, PSAC is demanding the government take immediate action to exempt public service workers they have mistakenly overpaid, from being forced to pay back the gross amount.
"When overpayments show up in the bank accounts of our members, they receive the net amount. But after December 31, 2017, these members will be on the hook for the gross pay," said PSAC National President Robyn Benson. "This is completely unfair. Where are they going to get that money?"
A significant number of public service workers who have been overpaid have been trying to report and repay this money but the government has not dedicated the resources necessary to process these payments. Others have even repaid their overpayment to the Receiver General, but are still having money taken off their pay because their payment still hasn't been processed.
"The state of recovering overpayments is a huge mess," said Benson. "The least the employer can do at this point is to reassure the people caught in this nightmare that they won't have to pay back more money than they received."


text: Like many MBP users with the early 2007 MBPs, my Top Case died recently. Never one to shy away from hardware repair, I purchased one off of eBay and installed it today. That's when the problems arose. Apparently there were significant Top Case hardware revisions between the first MBPs and the one I purchased. The keyboard works. But none of the function keys are properly mapped to their special functions. No volume, no screen brightness, no backlight controls. The Touchpad registers *all* multitouch functions including 4-finger gestures, the pinch to zoom, etc. BUT the button does not register a click when I press it. When I check the System Profiler, it reports the Keyboard Version as 0.70 and I know that's not correct. Anyone know what I could do to restore some functionality? I'm using the machine, its keyboard and touchpad right now as I type this and am not unwilling to simply buy the 'correct' topcase. HOWEVER, I'm really digging the full multi-touch capabilities of the newer MBP topcase. Thoughts greatly appreciated.


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Only a small part of the former Ororama Megacenter is now left as demolition continues.
As shown, the future site of Puregold's flagship store in Cagayan de Oro is now reduced to a rubble with Limketkai Hotel now clearly visible in the background. The property is bounded by China Bank.
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The other day, I was reading an article in that week's issue of The Nation, and I was reminded of an old West Wing episode. The article in question was Judge Mark W. Bennett's "Imposing Justice" (it has a different title online). What amazed me was how little the national discussion on drugs has changed since the episode of The West Wing – "Mandatory Minimums" (Season 1, Ep.20) – first aired, on May 3rd 1999.
"Never could I have imagined that by the end of my 50s, after nineteen years as one of 678 federal district court judges in the nation, I would have sent 1,092 of my fellow citizens to federal prison for mandatory minimum sentences ranging from sixty months to life without the possibility of release. The majority of these women, men and young adults are nonviolent drug addicts. Methamphetamine is their drug of choice. Crack cocaine is a distant second. Drug kingpins? Oh yes, I've sentenced them, too. But I can count them on one hand… I am greatly conflicted about my role in the 'war on drugs.'"
Judge Bennett then gets into the details of his experiences in sentencing people for drug-related crimes:
"Crack defendants are almost always poor African-Americans. Meth defendants are generally lower-income whites. More than 80 percent of the 4,546 meth defendants sentenced in federal courts in 2010 received a mandatory minimum sentence. These small-time addicts are apprehended not through high-tech wiretaps or sophisticated undercover stings but by common traffic stops for things like nonfunctioning taillights."
Incidentally, the "traffic stops for things like nonfunctioning taillights" happens in another episode of The West Wing – "Bartlett for America" (Season 3, Ep.10) – but in that instance it's how they catch an arsonist planning on burning a black church in Tennessee…
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This brings us to the following scene from West Wing's "Mandatory Minimums":
Sam and Toby are crossing a street.
SAM – Mandatory Minimums are racist.
TOBY – I understand that.
SAM – They're a red herring.
TOBY – I understand that, too.
SAM – It's a way of looking like you're tough on crime, without assuming the burden of being tough on crime.
TOBY – Everything you've said I understand.
SAM – I'm saying…
TOBY – We do things one thing at a time.
SAM – But I'm saying we don't have time to do things one thing at a time.
TOBY – We're talking about treatment.
SAM – I'm talking about treatment and I'm talking about Mandatory Minimums and I'm saying it's a red herring and I'm saying it's racist.
And again, later in the episode:
Congresswoman ANDREA WYATT is sitting on a picnic blanket. Toby is standing nearby… She gets up and picks up her blanket. Toby and Andy start to walk by the Tidal Basin.
TOBY – What about drugs?
ANDY – That's a different story.
TOBY – Andy…
ANDY – Mandatory Minimums are racist.
TOBY – One step at a time.
ANDY – It's part of the same step.
TOBY – Treatment.
ANDY – I'm saying Mandatory Minimums...
They each try to talk over one another.
TOBY – I know what you're saying. I don't want to talk about Mandatory Minimums.
ANDY – The Sentencing Commissioners…
TOBY – Andy, I don't want to…
ANDY – …. proposals regarding cocaine recommend that relative federal mandatory minimums sentencing crack users…
TOBY – This is what happens. This is what you do. I say I don't want to talk about Mandatory Minimums and we talk about Mandatory Minimums anyway. You hijack my ability to make that decision for myself, Andrea. And making decisions for myself is my birthright!
ANDY - Good to get that off you chest there, Pokey?
[Ok, to those last few snippets of dialogue were included just because I like the scene…]
The point is made more succinctly later in the episode, in a scene between Toby and the President:
TOBY – Mandatory Minimums are considerably higher for crack than for powder cocaine.
BARTLET - Yes.
TOBY – The vast majority of crack users are black. The vast majority of drug users are white. The Mandatory Minimums are racist.
BARTLET – Yes, they are
There are so many problems with Mandatory Minimums, and while Judge Bennett makes a lot of good points, I thought there was one that was made in West Wing that didn't feature in the article, but I thought deserved a mention:
BARTLET – I get nervous around laws that fundamentally assume that Americans can't be trusted. We'd better have mandatory sentencing, because judges can't be trusted to disperse even-handed justice.
The most depressing comment from the article, however, lies in the following snippet:
"If lengthy mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug addicts actually worked, one might be able to rationalize them. But there is no evidence that they do. I have seen how they leave hundreds of thousands of young children parentless and thousands of aging, infirm and dying parents childless. They destroy families and mightily fuel the cycle of poverty and addiction. In fact, I have been at this so long, I am now sentencing the grown children of people I long ago sent to prison." [Emphasis mine]
Mandatory minimums remain an issue in American politics. How is it, again, that a part of pop culture (over a decade old) makes a better case for addressing the issue than many (if not all) current members of the US government? Just as I've found many thriller authors (conservative and democrat, in the higher quality echelons) do a better job of articulating the two sides of any political issue, The West Wing remains a solid, valuable and valid commentary on modern-day American politics. If you want more evidence of this, check out this article from The Atlantic – "Democracy in America? Watching The West Wing With Egyptians in Cairo."
This political stasis is evident in so many issues, actually, and so many episodes of the West Wing are relevant to today's political discussion – adjusted for specifics, dates and statistics, of course. The "Mandatory Minimums" episode is just one of many, and this relevance is just one of the many reasons I keep coming back to the series. Indeed, I'm re-watching the show now, for what must be the eighth or ninth time…


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Discussion in 'Hardware For Sale/Swap' started by Devil Dog, 4 Dec 2015.
Hailea hx 6520 x 3 : R250 each
Hailea hx 6530 R 350
Hx 6530 sold.
Price drop on the others to R200 each
How many LPH is it
Will you take R300 for 2 middle pumps in the pic and post office delivery
Ok im going to pass. Just looked it up and saw it 1000L/H
For what flow rate are you looking for?
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The wind power generator motor core is an important part of the wind turbine flux circuit and the stator coil. Wind generators are usually formed by stamping sheets and various fasteners.
The function of the core of the wind generator is mainly used to generate a magnetic field, which exerts a force on the energized conductor in which it is located.
Wind power generator motor core should meet the basic requirements:
First, the wind turbine core should have good magnetic permeability and low loss.
Secondly, the stiffness of the core of the wind turbine generator is better and the vibration is good.
Third, the structural arrangement of the wind power generator motor core should have a good ventilation effect.
Fourth, the inner diameter and groove size of the core of the laminated wind power generator motor core should meet the design accuracy requirements.
In addition to these requirements, wind power generator motor cores should meet some other requirements in view of the use characteristics. For example, a large hydro-generator needs to ensure the gap between the split cores. Otherwise, the core will vibrate when the motor is running.
Wind power generator motor core production description: The thickness of the stator core punching sheet is usually 0.5 mm or 0.35 mm hot-rolled, cold-rolled silicon steel sheet or yttrium-nickel soft magnetic alloy sheet punched. The full-circle punched sheet with an outer diameter of less than 1m and the fan-shaped sheet with a diameter of more than 0.99m. The vent slot is made up of channel steel and slot pieces, and one or two channel bars are spot welded on each tooth on the slot piece. The fastening of the iron core usually adopts external press-fitting for the full-circular punching and internal press-fitting for the fan-shaped punching.
Wind power generator motor core material requirements:
Under normal circumstances, the wind power generator motor core is made of silicon steel sheet. Silicon steel is a silicon-based steel with a silicon content of 0.8 to 4.8%. The wind turbine core made of silicon steel transformers is because silicon steel itself is a kind of magnetic material with strong magnetic permeability. In the energized coil, it can produce large magnetic induction, which can make the
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My oldest son, Alastair, got his exam results today. Please allow me to share them with you.....
IT - unknown. He is down as unclassified, but we need to see if that is because some stuff still needs to be marked.
History - D. Technically a fail, but he can still pursue this at A-level if he wishes to do so. Having seen past papers, this is a nasty little piece of work in the exam hall.
French, Art - C. Art he wishes to pursue, and he can with that grade. He took French on our reccomendation as both Doreen and I feel it is important.
English, English Literature, Citizenship, Physics, Chemistry and Biology - B. Excellent stuff, given the science teaching was not the best, but the surprise is Eng Lit - not his favourite subject.
Mathematics - A*. Top marks :)
He did his best, and I'm proud of him, as combined with last year that makes two A's, seven B's and two C's. His place in post-16 educatuio nis also secured - plus he found out today he gets an extra week's holiday.
Just enough time to complete the pre-course work then.
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File a Petroleum Revenue Tax return
Use form PRT1 to complete a Petroleum Revenue Tax (PRT) return, if you're a participator in an oil field.
You must complete this form and deliver it to HMRC within 2 months after the end of the chargeable period, under the provisions of paragraph 2, Schedule 2 Oil Taxation Act 1975.
Email HMRC to ask for this form in Welsh (Cymraeg).
Related forms and guidance
If you're a participator in an oil field you can also use Petroleum Revenue Tax forms:
PRT(D1) to declare returns by participator
PRT60A to claim exploration expenditure
Published 4 April 2014
Last updated 14 August 2017 + show all updates
Last updated 14 August 2017 + show all updates
- Section G has been removed as reporting of zero-rating of Petroleum Revenue Tax is no longer required.
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Hyper Japan Review Part 1: Initial thoughts
We arrived on Friday right around 2:30 from the outside, Earl's Court Two looked quite massive, with the ticketholder's line going around the side of the building, going over half way to the back of the building. Luckily enough the line was moving quite quickly, so I think we made it inside within a half hour. The energy and excitement around us made the wait seem much shorter.
Once we did get inside, we were immediately assaulted by the mix of smells and sounds. Just upon entering was the Nintendo and other gaming areas, immediately next to stalls selling all sorts of merchandise, and we could smell the amazing foods we'd soon be enjoying, hidden away behind the vendors. It made for quite an initial impact.
At first, I was concerned about how much wide open space there was throughout the area. Friday was actually rather quiet, so it felt a bit empty. Saturday and Sunday more than made up for it. Everything was packed, almost shoulder to shoulder in some places. Were we to go back, I think getting the 3 day pass again would be a good idea. Take the quieter Friday to get all of your shopping done and chat with the different vendors and people advertising trips to Japan and study opportunities, and leave Saturday and Sunday for just experiencing the event. The energy on those two days was incredible. I can't say I saw a single frown in the place. Everyone was running on a high that simply couldn't be diminished by the crowds, the heat of being packed in together, or the sometimes overwhelming noise around you. It was an incredible feeling (even for a natural introvert like me).
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April 12-13, 2012 - Once we got past our engine trouble, we had a pleasant day sailing up the Pamilco towards Manteo. We actually had a 'Plan B' point where would have to divert to an anchorage if it looked like we couldn't make it all the way before dark. We were making good time when the decision point came so we kept moving.
The last stretch of the day is a very familiar route for us. We have, many times, gone from Colington down to Oregon Inlet, into the ocean and back. We never had to contend with a 5' 6 draft or a 56' mast clearance. So our concerns focused on hitting bottom and hitting top. We stayed to the channel and knew the turns so bottom was not a problem. When we got to the bridge near Pirate's Cove the evening was settling in - still, flat, getting dark. The recorded bridge clearance is 'around 60 feet' - not very comforting. We eased up to the bridge and got so nervous that we, literally, came to a complete stop and drifted under the bridge. Man, that looks close looking straight up!
It was dark as we made the turn(s) into Manteo but, once again, these are familiar waters. A little help from the charter got us into the anchorage right off the lighthouse without trouble. (Well, there was one bit of excitement when we almost took out an unlit sailboat).
Many times we have been to Manteo and have seen the boats anchored there and wondered who they were. This time, it was us.


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What comes to mind when you hear "accountability" or "motivation?" For many, these words conjure the image of a coach or an accountability partner "cracking the whip" so they'd finish certain tasks – even when they're dragging their behinds and aren't inspired by the project at all.
No wonder people are sitting on the couch and complaining that they lack motivation. The problem isn't that there's something inherently wrong with them. They may just be going about it the wrong way.
What if there's a better way to get motivated? What if we can take control and create motivation through our actions? What if we can get ourselves motivated by setting up the right conditions?
If you go beyond "accountability" and do meaningful work that inspires you everyday, wouldn't you feel more driven? When you hear stories about successful entrepreneurs, you often get a sense of "inevitability" – they're doing what they do not because of external circumstances but because of intrinsic drives.
They're doing the work not because someone is cracking the whip. They're driven to take meaningful actions everyday because something deeper is driving their actions and decisions. How can you set up the conditions so taking action becomes inevitable? How do you create meaningful work so you feel inspired and driven everyday?
Social entrepreneurship offers us many insights into how business, motivation and meaningful work come together to create successful enterprises. Successful social entrepreneurs are motivated by the impact and meaning they create through their businesses.
Here are 5 lessons on motivation we can learn from social entrepreneurs who build profitable ventures driven by their desires to make a difference in the world:
1. Set Intentional Goals
You've heard many times that you need to set clear goals. Unfortunately, many people focus too much on arbitrary metrics to measure success without fully considering whether those numbers are in alignment with what truly drives them.
To get motivated, you need to set goals with intention. Then track metrics that reflect the impact you want to achieve. You may have to challenge conventional wisdoms to set your own bar. You may have to devise innovative ways to measure success.
If you don't find meaning behind the numbers, the sense of achievement becomes temporary. You can easily end up on the hamster wheel. The grind can wear you down and leave you feeling fatigue and unmotivated. On the other hand, achieving metrics that speak to a meaningful goal gives you the long-term positive feedback that'll keep you motivated day-in-day-out.
2. Anchor In a Community
You can fuel your motivation by giving meaning to your venture within a larger context. Rachel Brathen's 109 World is built on a global community of yoga enthusiasts, while Muhammad Yunus's Grameen Bank transformed the economy of many third world communities through micro financing.
Instead of being product- or service-focused, turn your attention to the community you aim to serve and find a match between the needs of the market and your vision, skills, expertise or product idea.
You'll gain inspiration to fuel your actions by listening to and interacting with your community. Such dialogues give you continual and meaningful input that helps you evolve in a meaningful direction.
When your business creates products and services relevant to your community, you get the positive feedback that'll further motivate you to grow.
"I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples." ― Mother Teresa
3. Give Meaning To Commercial Success
Meaningful venture and commercial success aren't mutually exclusive. Blake Mycoskie's TOMS Shoes and Gavin Armstrong's Lucky Iron Fish are both profitable businesses born out of and still closely tied to a social cause.
These social enterprises are doing more good by using profits from a commercially successful venture to fuel a cause that motivates them. Putting meaning behind profit gives social entrepreneurs the positive feedback that encourages them to do more good because it's an evidence of their impact.
More often than not, many social entrepreneurs gain clarity on what truly motivates them when they're not constrained by funding. Such motivation can be more powerful than any financial factor.
4. Get Inspired By Real Live Experience
Many social entrepreneurs find the calling that motivates them to succeed after eye-opening travel experiences that cracked open their worlds and broadened their perspectives.
Scott Harrison of charity: water built his non-profit after a life-changing trip to West Africa. You don't have to go to some remote, poverty-stricken countries to find your calling. You can discover more opportunities in your backyard than you'd ever imagine if you tune in, stay open, get involved and be relevant.
Look for motivation and find out what makes you tick by interacting with people and communities you care about. Understand their needs and map your skills and expertise to solving a problem that'll make a difference in their lives.
Often times there's no substitute for getting boots on the ground and find out how you can make an impact through participation and trial-and-error.
5. Tap Into Your Strength
Understanding and applying your strength makes you effective. Instead of trying to be perfect in everything, do work that taps into your strength and you'll find more passion in what you do.
When you focus your strength on high value activities toward a meaningful goal, you've a much better chance of creating successful results that gives you the positive feedback to further motivate you.
Success fuels confidence, and this confidence will keep you motivated to do what matters.
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places" – Ernest Hemingway


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So, I began working at an unnamed corporation about a year ago. One thing about this company is that they have the employees attend 3-day schooling sessions so we can be better at our jobs.
Next week is going to be my first one! Which fills me with dread and excitement.
I'm going to have to "roll with it" and go along with their schedule which goes from 6:45 a.m. each day until about 5pm each day. In the mornings, we get picked up in the hotel lobby and are gone for the entire day at classes.
So, I have to think about:
- What I'm going to eat and how I'm going to keep food from going bad.
- Bringing 100% cotton bedding with me
- I cannot cannot forget my bandana which I use to touch stuff like doorknobs
- Making sure I have my soap / plastic silverware on me at all times.
- Having outfits that are 100% cotton and good enough to blend in with the business-style peeps I'll be around. Cotton can look a bit casual - especially if you're still re-building your wardrobe, like me, because you developed an allergy to synthetic clothing out of nowhere.
The company is going to be providing our lunches for us and there's a mandatory dinner as well. It's been a while since I registered for these classes, so I don't remember what I chose for the lunch options (they give a few choices). I'll have to email the coordinator to see what I have on file. I do remember thinking I'd have to bring stuff with me, though.
For our "required dinner", I researched the restaurant online and saw that they have an all-you-can-eat salad bar which is perfect for me. Hopefully they won't have metal utensils for the lettuce and everything :-/ I'll bring some olive oil mixed with lemon and keep it in my purse or something. I'll have to possibly carry it with me all day if we don't come back to the hotel before dinner.
We're all staying at the Hyatt, which is actually one of the places that features "hypo-allergenic rooms". Those rooms weren't an option (through the company I work at) when I booked the trip, but I can manage without it. The hypoallergenic rooms mostly deal with dust prevention and that sort of stuff. I can usually get by alright in that regard. As long as the bedding is clean and the room is vacuumed well, I'm uuuusually fine.
So, I wrote them ahead of time just so I could get an idea of what I'd be dealing with:
I'm going to be staying at the Hyatt soon with my company, XXXXXXX. The reason I'm contacting you ahead of time is because I have a long list of allergies - both food and otherwise.
My questions are:
- Is there a little refrigerator in the room? - Do you have a list of restaurants within walking distance? - Do you have 100% cotton bedding / sheets / pillow cases? - Is the restaurant inside the hotel accommodating? (ie: cooking with extra virgin olive oil instead of other oils or butter) Also, do they have an online menu? I couldn't find one.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks and looking forward to my stay!
And this was their reply:
We do not have refrigerators in the room, but you can ask for one at check in. I will also note the request on your reservation. You can also ask the desk for a list of nearby restaurants, and there is also a map of them.
Our restaurant can accommodate most allergies. If you dine with us, ask the server for an allergy form prior to giving your order, and in most cases we can accommodate.
Our bedding is not 100% cotton; sheets, pillow cases and other bedding are a blend of polyester and cotton.
Thank you for choosing the Hyatt and we look forward to having you as our guest.
Kind Regards
And for anyone with medical or allergy problems, the extra fridge is free! :-) I dig that.
My To-Do list for right now:
- Contact the business trip coordinator at work to get the full details about the meals being served to us
- Think up some possible non-refrigerated foods I can carry with me throughout the day
- Think up some food I can keep in my mini fridge in the hotel room
- Make sure I have a container for my salad dressing I'll be bringing with me
- Plan out my outfits
- Write out a list of everything I'm bringing with me because I have all of my certain products and gloves that I NEED and they're bought at different places. I can't just get it all at one store and I may not be able to find the products I need where I'm going to be staying.
I'll make sure to share my experiences on the trip! :-)


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On to Chapter 1. The first bit of rules in the SRD defines Episodes and Scenes, it is not a super exciting opening but it is the one we've got. So! The way the narrative is structured, there's Scenes (divided into Intermissions and Operations), Episodes and Episode Arcs. The reason the way time is structured matters is because time measures how PCs replenish their resources. As time passes, PCs get back spent power/action/genre points, refresh abilities that can be used once per encounter/hour/scene and heal their wounds among other things.
Some would argue that it is more immersive or naturalistic to track things by hours or days, to which I say that it gets in the way of playing the game and makes things harder on the GM. The difference between both methods is that the more naturalistic method gives PCs the option to stall for time in order to always be at full power. Meanwhile, the abstract method of structuring time gives the GM full control over whether resources replenish or not, thus making it much harder to exploit the rules. Note that exploiting the rules this way isn't a problem if the PCs are always pressured for time or the Players themselves promise not to abuse the rules, but good rules systems should have as few ways to exploit them as possible. There is a joke in D&D saying that the typical adventuring day lasts five minutes, because after five minutes of combat everyone spends the rest of the day resting.
Battle Century G gives the GM the responsibility of measuring the passage of time, because it is their role to challenge everyone with appropriate Tests in Intermissions & Operations. To that end, they should be able to call when it is that people get back their Genre Points, heal their Plot Armor, reload their One-Shots and so on and so forth. To make things easier, the very first rules section in the book gives them a quick rundown of how the typical Episode goes and it boils down to "Do whatever with Intermission Scenes, just make sure there is one Operation per Episode." You can have more than one Operation per Episode, and the Expansion features a system hack to make the game work better that way, but it is not the default.
Partly this is because BCG adheres to genre expectations, making combat happen once per Episode against the monster of the week, but the real reason is that it tends to work better in gameplay. Nearly every resource that matters to combat is refreshed between combat scenes, making all PCs start every battle at full power. The grand majority of RPGs don't do this and expect you to only get back your stuff after several encounters with enemies, each one gradually wearing them down. In BCG, every Operation is meant to push PCs to the limit and possibly defeat one or more of them, forcing them to retreat - or die. Below are some of the pros and cons to doing things this way.
- Players get to go all out every fight without worrying about holding back good powers, weapons or items for later. This is the big one. Have you ever played a videogame and hoarded all of your powerups because you might need them later, only to win the whole game without ever using any of them at all? It is the same problem, but applied to tabletop RPGs. Players will save their best toys for as long as they can even if it is a bad idea to do so, they will struggle against foes during the first few fights because they refuse to use the powerful options they have at their disposal and overwhelm the superbosses meant to be a big climactic fight with all they've saved up. You can design the game around this and try to mitigate the problem, but this is just the way most Players will try to play the game, and a good game should enable them to do what they want to be doing rather than try to force them to play in a way they don't want to play. If you try too hard to correct them, odds are they'll just find the game unfun and abandon it at worst and houserule it so it works like they want it to work at best.
- Every battle carries a genuine risk to the PCs and takes effort to win. Solving problems with teamwork and overcoming difficult challenges is at the core of what makes RPGs fun. The easier things are, the more quickly you'll get bored of doing them, and the less that people will want to keep playing the game. If you need to get through two to three easy battles in order to get to the really fun one that takes things to the limit, at some point the pre-climax action scenes lose their sense of tension because you know you can win them easy with your big guns.
- All PCs have equal chances of being relevant during every combat scene. If one PC has a streak of bad luck and is the target of too many enemies during one fight, they will have a lot less resources for the next set of battles. If the rest of the Players (GM included) don't make sure to account for this, then that PC will be powered down for the big action scenes that really matter while other PCs have an excess of ammo for their weapons, spells to cast or whatever else. This is most notably a problem with health, since a PC that runs out of ways to heal themselves in the middle of an episode arc or dungeon crawl is a Player that is going to be very bored when they spend half of the remaining combats with a K.O'd PC.
- It makes fights more repetitive because everyone can repeat the same strategy. When Players know that they will get all their stuff back when the fight is over, they will not hesitate to try to repeat the same strategy over and over. This is most commonly done with glass-cannon builds that attempt to blow out the opposition without leaving them a chance to fight back. Even if you can balance the game around this, it makes things repetitive, and repetition is generally not very fun. The way BCG goes to solve this problem is to try and enable as many possible builds for enemy NPCs that each and every PC strategy has a lot of counters. So many that they should always have some difficulty getting their plan to work, forcing them to always be on their toes.
- When every battle carries a significant risk of defeat, there's higher chances that PCs will be defeated before they get to do anything cool. Making every fight difficult and nearly lethal to the PCs is good, but if the game is too lethal then some PCs will end up being defeated early in the scene and sit out the rest of combat which is not a very fun way to spend their time. The game must provide PCs with ways to mitigate this risk to minimize the chances of things going wrong, like the Not so Fast Genre Power.
- Because every combat scene is meant to be an all-out battle with everything at stake, it is harder to surprise the PCs. Let's say you, the GM, want to set up a trap and catch the PCs unaware. This is a lot harder to pull off when they can be reasonably sure that a group of weak enemies are likely a distraction or somehow stronger than they look, because every fight has to be a big deal.
Overall, I would say that an abstract narrative structure and replenishing resources after every fight is the right call, especially for a game like BCG that desires to mimic episodic structures and wants combat to be fast paced. Sometimes it gets repetitive and sometimes PCs or NPCs alike are overpowered before they get to use their fun toys, but the game is aware of this and the book tells Players how to keep this from happening too much - also the expansion has a whole chapter to help the GM with it.
Still, I sometimes wonder what the game would have been like with a less episodic structure. Giving the PCs more control over their resources can be cool too, it lets them save all their powerups for the battle against their rival which is both anime as heck and a badass feel-good moment of payoff. What do people think? I'm always interested in hearing your opinion, but it is even more relevant now that I'm trying to figure out where to go next.
Next time: Attributes.
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A man has been charged with murder after a "great mate and father" was found dead on a South Australian beach.
Nuriootpa man Rory Elliott, 49, was found dead on Telowie Beach, more than 230km north of Adelaide, late last night.
Police arrested 39-year-old Matthew James Loleit at the scene and charged him with murder.
The Port Pirie man faced court this afternoon.
He did not apply for bail and will appear in the Port Augusta Magistrates Court in May.
A former workmate of Elliott's told 9NEWS that Elliott would be "sorely missed" and that he was a "great mate and father".
Another friend said the tradie was "always willing to help out others in need".
Mysteries surround Elliott's death, with police saying the pair knew each other.
However, they have not revealed why the two met in such an isolated area, who raised the alarm or whether there were any witnesses.
"We have a number of lines of inquiry that we're following up immediately," Superintendent Damian Powell said.
"As a result of that there may be the need to speak further with others."
Police have not ruled out returning to Telowie Beach in the search of more clues as to the moments leading up to Elliott's death.
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By Serdar Yegulalp | 2015/10/24 13:13
One of the things I plan to ship with MeTal is a set of basic themes to allow people to get started right out of the box:
I've got personal use cases for all four, although the last on the list is going to be more useful to others than to myself. (My one foray into webcomics, which lasted about a year, was more notable for me trying to keep it up for that length of time than because it was actually funny or artistically noteworthy.)
The basic templates are meant to be just that: basic. One thing I haven't yet figured out is how they are to be programmatically extended, or how they will in turn programatically extend the system itself -- e.g., if you have a template where you want to have a homepage slotting panel, how is that implemented? Those parts are still to be worked out, and right now my plan is to save those things for later on. It's possible to deliver a basic product without them, but in the long run I know they're essential.


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FREDERICK, Md. - A passenger in a vehicle involved in an accident on southbound Interstate 270 died Monday afternoon, according to Maryland State Police in Frederick.
Police said a 38-year-old Saul Cardenas-Sorto, of Washington, D.C., was driving a 1992 Suzuki Sidekick south on I-270 when he changed lanes at 3:15 p.m.
His vehicle struck the front bumper of a 1992 Isuzu Rodeo driven by Gloria Jean Mathews, 49, of Gaithersburg, Md., police said.
Cardenas-Sorto's vehicle entered the median, started to overturn and crossed the northbound lanes, coming to rest on the right shoulder of the northbound lanes, police said.


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Jammin' Live: AR Rahman, internet sensations to perform together
AR Rahman and YouTube sensation Sanam and Shraddha Sharma alongwith other Bollywood music directors will jam in Mumbai on November 11.music Updated: Nov 02, 2016 19:25 IST
Oscar-winning composer AR Rahman will perform with Bollywood composers Salim-Sulaiman, Clinton Cerejo and Mithoon along with internet sensations Sanam and Shraddha Sharma in Mumbai.
The Jammin' Live digital collaboration between Bollywood composers and YouTube stars will take place on November 11.
"Jammin' has spawned a new genre of music that we like to call 'non-film Bollywood' by bringing together mainstream composers with YouTube stars to create original compositions that typically would be commissioned for a blockbuster film," Samir Bangara, co-founder and Managing Director of Qyuki, said in a statement.
A musical performance of his latest digital hits along with crowd classics, Rahman's set will also enthrall the audience to the track Yaara -- a collaboration with all YouTubers of Jammin'.
"I am looking forward to performing at the Jammin' Live concert along with all the Jammin' artistes," said Rahman, who is also the co-founder of Qyuki -- a multi-platform media network across digital, live, TV and film.
Jammin' is in association with YouTube. Satya Raghavan, Head of Entertainment for YouTube in India, said: "This live concert with Bollywood music legends and YouTube stars heralds a new era for the music industry in India."
The lineup for the concert also includes Siddharth Slathia, Jonita Gandhi, Arjun Kanungo, Maati Baani, Sanah Moidutty and RaagaTrippin'.
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The kids are on holiday! It's the beginning of beach days and sleepless nights. Everything learnt in school has been reassigned to the dark corners of the brain and their time in school has already begun to fade into a distant memory in the few seconds they've walked out of those gates. It's a time of relaxation and fun, but don't let them get caught up for too long. While their relaxation and fun is well deserved, precautions should be made to prevent your kids from feeling the back to school shock.
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The fear of death before repenting;
the fear of not living up to one's repentance and breaking one's promise;
the fear of not being able to fulfil Allah's obligations;
the fear of losing one's softness in the heart and its hardening;
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the fear of the punishment of the grave;
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the fear of the awe during the presentation in front of Allah;
the fear and the shame of being naked (at the time of resurrection);
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the fear of the bridge (over Hell) and its sharpness;
the fear of the fire, its chains and its torment;
the fear of being deprived of Paradise, the Eternal and everlasting kingdom and abode and
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Matis' Fall/Winter 2012 models ooze a cryptic demeanor with their kohl eye make-up and long, exaggerated yellow and black lace nail additions. Echoing this past years Black Swan fever, Matias' bold nails suggest that some daring seasons are on the horizon, complete with ebony-hued trimmings. For those looking to add some edge to their enamel routines, some extra embroidery might spice things up.
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