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This Arabian luxury resort offers an idyllic escape set on a pristine beach in acres of UAE's picturesque North Coast, tucked away in the coastal town of Khorfakkan. With 177 spacious guestrooms and lavish suites, exceptional dining establishments, a championship golf course nearby. The Oceanic Resort & Spa is perfect for a quiet retreat or a family break. With large swimming pool and children's pool, enormous expanse of pristine beach, wonderful restaurants, 360 Spa and fitness center this beautiful hotel provides the perfect base to discover the spectacular surroundings of the Hajar Mountains or explore the aquatic wonder off the coast of Fujairah.
However, the sight of the renovated hotel set with the lovely backdrop of the jagged Hajjar mountains on one side and a long beachfront at the other put me on holiday-mode in no time.Enjoy watching local fishermen use traditional techniques, dream at a spectacular sunset, snorkel in clear waters or rejuvenate at the Spa. Re-opened in May 2013 following extensive renovation, The warm sun of Arabia and the hospitality awaits us.
We booked a trip to Oceanic Khorfakkan Resorts n Spa on Ramadan time through cobone.com, and we got a very good deal with a very low rates and breakfast complimentary. As we reach down to the hotel at the reception we found that they have upgraded our room to a premium sea view, we were on top of the world. A warm welcome gesture by the team with a hot face towel to get refreshed after a long drive from Dubai to Khorfakkan.
The drive from Dubai to Khorfakkan is indeed a marvelous experience, amidst the hills and the sea on one side, got some really breathtaking snaps on my way. The beautiful weather and the scenic beauty was just the beginning of a much needed outing away from the city life and all the hustle and bustle.
PREMIUM SEA VIEW, with stunning sea view, located on all floors, bright and modern furnishing, feature includes; Bathtub, 42-inches LED TV, Wi-Fi Access, Non-alcoholic mini-bar, writing desk, hair dryer, in-room safe, tea coffee making facilities.
We got our keys to the room and what we found on the LED Screen my hubby's name with a beautiful note on it. What a tremendous hospitality to welcome the guest on board. All information was decked upon the screen, just a click away.
The view from our room was really amazing and pleasant,the port was clearly visible and during night the horns of the ship to get signal was one just amazing experience. The sea so beautiful and calm, embracing us with its pleasant roaring.The pool which was very distinct from the room was big with a snack lounge attached.
We put on our beach clothes and went for some sightseeing. The weather was good and the sea was calm too, the beautiful and magnificent sea along with the hotel attached so close to it was an amazing experience for us. We spent a lot of time near the sea and got some beautiful shots from my iphone.
We found a lot of Crabs over there, if it wasn't Ramadan time i would have definitely gone for a crab feasting, so relaxed on the shores amidst the rocks and playing hide and seek with the waters. It was a great effort to get the perfect shot.
The new and unique diving center on the beach, an easy and quick access to all the sites with dive-boats. Certified IDEA Diving Center, the best quality in both services and equipment's and highly experienced staff. All courses and dive trips are organized to be both fun and safe. IDEA Professionals make underwater exploration and adventure accessible to the public while maintaining the highest standards for dive training, safety and customer service.
It was time for Iftar so we went back to our rooms for some refreshment, the Iftar was served in Al Murjan Restaurant, Intimate yet relaxed ,delicious home made delicacies, fresh-made pizzas, a tempting array of antipasti and a wide range of soft drinks. Designed in a contemporary style, Al Murjan offers trendy indoor settings and ample daily International buffet for breakfast, lunch and dinner. A la carte menu is also available.
The Iftar cum dinner was delicious and with a lots of variety in it. The dish prepared was delicious, fresh and very elegantly presented.
The Sehri too was served in the same restaurant, as it was Ramadan i was not able to do any activities nor was i able to take any spa treatments,but i will definitely go back for some more fun and spas.
The activities includes :
- Tennis court
- Table tennis
- Diving
- Snorkelling
- Sauna
- Fitness centre
- Spa and wellness centre
- Massage
- Private beach area
- Children's playground
The Outdoor Activities includes :
- Outdoor temperature controlled swimming pool
- Children swimming pool
- Beach Volley Ball
- Yoga
- Diving
The Dining Options available are :
- The Cafe Oceanic, open 24 hours and located in the lobby offers fresh light snacks and pastries, desserts and chocolates as well as an extensive list of coffee, tea and fresh juices.
- An ideal spot from which to enjoy the calm and beauty of our landscaped gardens, the newly styled al fresco Amwaj pool bar, offers cool breezes, fresh air and panoramic views. It also specializes in the best light and styled dishes and snacks, freshly squeezed juices and varieties of Mocktails, luscious desserts and more.
- Al Diwan Tea Lounge is ideal for a chat with friends or rejuvenation as you catch up with your favorite daily newspaper or book offering fresh juices, delicious homemade pastries, wide selection of organic and herbal tea with a great choice for tasty Mocktails.
- Experience the most delectable seafood offerings at Bab Al Bahr Seafood Restaurant, with views of the stunning Indian Ocean and Hajjar mountains. Enjoy a feast with mouthwatering dishes personally prepared right in front of your eyes. With only the finest and freshest local seafood offered, our highly trained chefs will ensure each dish is cooked to your personal taste whilst you enjoy the sights and smells of the exciting live cooking display kitchen, your meal will then be delivered to your table by our friendly serving team.
- Breakers, snack cafe & takeaway offers a wide range of delightful and healthy foods ranging from an English breakfast savory to Mexican tacos, sandwiches and burgers cooked just the way you like to have it, a fine selection of tea, fresh juices and mocktails all prepared with direct ocean views and only a few steps from the beautiful beach.
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This week I found myself tasked with giving a presentation at a company developer group meeting. Having a limited amount of time, I didn't want to have to run through a live demonstration, knowing that something will go wrong when you least expect it. With this in mind, I remembered some recent screencasts that I had seen, that proved to be nice tutorials for performing fairly simple tasks with which I was not yet familiar. It seemed like this would be an ideal time to get my feet wet with screencasting, so I figured why not give it a shot.
After doing some research and giving a couple of other products a try, I decided to go with Wink, and I have to admit that I was very pleased with the results. Not only were the results more than sufficient for my purposes, but the application is freeware, so you won't hear me complaining about the price.
When you start out with a new project, you have to select an area of your screen where you would like to do the capturing. After having done that and choosing to minimize wink to the system tray, you need to issue a key combination (ALT + Pause in my case) to get things rolling. Once recording begins, you simply need to perform the desired actions within the previously selected area of the screen. In my case, I was recording some JavaScript debugging, using Microsoft Visual Studio. When you have completed the tasks that you would like to record, you simply issue the same key combination that you started the recording with and return to Wink.
Having completed the recording, you will be presented with a series of screenshots that Wink took during the recording session. I was impressed with just how easy it is to edit a screencast with Wink. I will admit that I walked through one of their provided tutorials first, just to get a feel for things. Anyway, I found it quite easy to edit slides as needed, adding conversation bubbles on slides that I wanted to emphasize. Wink also provides a feature whereby you can add a button, and have the presentation stop until the button is clicked.
There were a couple of caveats that I encountered, but these were on the minor side. First, recorded typing was very slow using the default framerate. Thankfully, Wink lets you set a time for each slide to be viewed. I ended up setting my typing slides to .05 seconds, which proved to yield a fairly realistic quick typing result in the end product. Second, Wink did not always capture the mouse cursor where I expected it to. For example, I wanted to demonstrate that clicking on a particular tab would result in certain content being displayed. However, the mouse was not even captured moving over the tab. It turned out that this was easily remedied, as the mouse cursor is captured as an editable object. You simply need to drag the cursor to the desired location for the slide in question.
When you are finished doing your editing, Wink outputs the slides into a Shockwave Flash video and accompanying HTML file. I found that I had to do a bit of tweaking with mouse cursor positions and slide timings, but I was mostly pleased with the initial result. All in all, Wink worked great for my purposes, and I will definitely give it a shot again in the future. I found that with each screencast I created, my proficiency increased, making the final screencast a no-brainer. It's so easy, that I will likely use it as a tool the next time that a non-technical friend or relative asks me for details on how to perform a technical task.
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Getting Started With Screencasting
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Parents! Grandparents! Godparents! You're looking for books for Christmas gifts for your little ones, aren't you? I mean, I know it's still October. But I also know how hard it is to find the perfect book. This year, though, for once, it's easy. If your little ones are the right age for board books, they need Goodnight Jesus, Angie Isaac's new story about a little one kissing everyone good night.
Of course they need it! Books are good for little ones. And bedtime routines are good for little ones. And books about bedtime routines? That's pretty close to perfection already.
But your children and grandchildren and godchildren undoubtedly already have Goodnight Moon. And Sandra Boynton's Going to Bed Book. And maybe they have Twenty Yawns and Good Night, Baddies too. So why do they need Goodnight Jesus?
They need it because it starts with the little one kissing icons of Jesus and Mary. Then he kisses Andrew and Peter and "John in scratchy clothes." He kisses more saints. He kisses the Gospel book and the cross. Of course he kisses his family. He kisses a picture of his grandmother. He kisses his stuffed bunny. And he even blows a kiss to his goldfish!
All that kissing is so sweet and so happy and so thoroughly Orthodox.
But wait … let's back up a bit. I've been calling the little one "he," and I shouldn't. Because both Isaacs and Nicholas Malara, the illustrator, were careful to make the little one just a little one. A mostly bald head, a few wisps of blond hair, green polka dot pajamas. The child in the story could be a little boy or a little girl. He or she. It doesn't matter to the story one bit.
Celebrating Diversity Through Art
Malara made another choice in his illustrations. "Orthodox Christianity," he said, "is rich with cultural diversity, and we wanted to celebrate that a little through the artwork in this book." R.J. Hughes, the illustrator for Catherine's Pascha felt the same way. That's why Catherine and Elizabeth attend such a diverse church. But Isaac didn't send the little one in her story to church. It was bedtime. They were all home.
Yet Malara "wanted to represent as many ethnicities in the book as possible so that there would be no potential for any family reading the book to feel excluded." So he made the very interesting choice of making the little one's family a transracial family. The little one has blond hair and big blue eyes. Neither of her parents is blond, nor are any of her three brothers. Her parents could be Greek or Palestinian or Lebanese. Her brothers are each of a different race: one is Black, one Asian, and one perhaps Hispanic.
Every year for the past 20 years, between 7 percent and 14 percent of the children's books published included characters who weren't white. Only a small portion of those include interracial or transracial families. So a child whose family includes people of more than one race will rarely see a family like hers in a book. That's a problem. And it's a problem, too, because other children who never see a family like hers in a book, either.
All children need to see people who are like them in books. And all children need to see people who are not like them. As parents and grandparents and godparents, we must be intentional about seeking out books that show the rich cultural diversity of our world and our Church.
And Goodnight Jesus has just made that easier to do.
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A Child Who Never Sleeps: When my children were young, sleep was a huge issue in our house. My kids didn't sleep easily. They didn't sleep well. And kids who aren't getting enough sleep – it's a problem for me. If it's a struggle for you, too, here's some stuff I learned that might help.
Twenty Yawns: A Review: Let your little one yawn along with the sleepy people in this adorable book, and it might just make sleep come a little easier.
17 essential picture books for Orthodox Christian kids: These delightful books all have engaging stories and Orthodox Christian people as main characters.


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Rare is the day I am interested in a game out of both ends of my brain's enjoyment matrix. I unintentionally prepared for this sweet delight by reading reviews, seeing videos, and hearing all about the highpoints – by which I mean the zenith and troughs alike. I fully expected the story and relationships to be intact and to even enjoy them as Bioware staples, but as Mass Effect: Andromeda looked more and more like someone spilled a big glass of Assassin's Creed: Unity on top of Mass Effect, my ears perked straight up.
There's something to the disaster that keeps on keeping on that's all the more admirable when it crosses the finish line. Mass Effect 2 and 3 are masterclasses in the action RPG genre, bringing out more feelings than quick-time events and placing all of existence against oblivion itself. For me, neither of those had significant quality dips to the point where I questioned if I was going to enjoy my time with either game. They were classics from introductions to end credits. Take them against a title like Final Fantasy XIII that doesn't really define itself in the beginning and takes a longer burn to determine the quality, or Deadly Premonition that tanks early as a cheesy barrel of fun times from the start screen.
Mass Effect: Andromeda is one of the few that starts as the latter and ends up spinning itself to a balanced posture the further into its own galaxy it goes. I couldn't believe how many squares on the Mass Effect: Andromeda "Huh?" Bingo card I hit, heaps of them flying in to make me scream "Bingo!" like a Wednesday night regular at the hall.
Seriously, this:
- Creaky voice acting.
- Getting stuck in walls and corners like a Blair Witch victim.
- Teeth phasing through lips, promising me terror in place of friendship.
- Suddenly shifting necks and heads that ultimately revealed them more owl than person.
- Enough people talking over one another to make my nose bleed.
That was hours one and two, making me cackle relentlessly at the glass house Bioware had tried to paint with a metallic silver.
Hours three through ten start to unveil the other side, touches of that elusive quality bar held high by the past coming through with a noticeably hollow ring. In every game since Bioware hit the characterization jackpot in Mass Effect 2, I've felt that the casts have been weak. To wit, the worst handful of characters in their history are in this game as edgier, slanted versions of Jacob or Miranda – neither of which are often heralded for setting rooms ablaze with personality in their time. It still feels like Bioware hasn't shaken the desire to chase personality traits in lieu of creating new, better characters.
That said, the lore is still excellently presented on the back of the previous trilogy. Coming into this game absolved from the influences of old Mass Effects may hinder this, but the presentation of stories – either interactively or in thematic windows – is as enticing as ever. Seeing the Krogans in a different light is brilliant, and even having a female Turian around is somewhat different. Even with her though, you get the feeling that the designers just wanted to switch the gender and keep the character that so many loved, defining Vetra more by her gender as a result. One last nail driven into this point: the speed of Bioware's U-turn on this whole situation.
So choices…the Mass Effect: Andromeda choices feel flimsy and sheltered from real decision and consequence. The vast majority fall into "Do I want to be quirky, sassy, knowledgeable, or a blank drone," and while that's not the way I'd prefer them, they still could've worked if the subtleties Bioware promised came through in more pressing ways. It's banal to pick between many of these doors that all open to the same room with no very little change on and on and on. This isn't a new issue to the Mass Effect galaxy, but this window dressing is old and faded by now.
Plus, getting to know your crew feels like speed dating from the start with some sort of flirtation guarantee in the crew's standard contract. This leads into the famous sexual encounters that serve as pinnacles that side step the whole point of becoming closer to crew mates – and also lovely introductions to sex in space. For me, the romance options were never about the dirty deeds done. I never romanced in the first Mass Effect because I never felt a thing for those characters. I did in Mass Effect 2 because I felt for their story and wanted to see my version of Shepherd with them. Neither time did their geometrically smooth bodies banging together like Barbies ever come to mind as deterrent nor reward, and I'm equally unmoved by it here.
The action…isn't bad nor great. The battle can become much more close-quarters than you may be used to and I tended to enjoy that style more. Zooming in for a stiff arm of death is delightful and new whereas the shooting is still solid but expands much less across the game. With the increased mobility of the terrain, it feels like the game is pushing to be more mobile than a normal cover shooter but there are very rarely chances to use said mobility in battle. Not all gameplay loops fasten securely to one another, creating a frustrating blind search for seams between what you imagine your character doing and what the game will let you do.
Mass Effect: Andromeda can't hold a candle to 2 or 3 in my eyes, but maybe it was never intended to either. From the design choices Bioware (and EA, I'm sure) recurrently put front and center, the original pitch seems to be closer to a "relationship builder in space" than putting the plight of the universe first. Even if that's the case, they collectively missed the mark. We'll always have the laughs but for Mass Effect fans, that won't be enough next time.
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It was obvious to anyone watching that Prince Harry had the feels when he first spotted his bride, Meghan Markle, in that romantic Clare Waight Keller gown Saturday.
Now, People magazine is revealing what Harry said to Waight Keller at the lunch reception following the royal wedding!
Harry reportedly sought out the Givenchy designer straight away, gushing, "Oh, my God, thank you! She looks absolutely stunning."
Waight Keller went on to say, "I think everybody saw on television he was just absolutely in awe. I think she looked incredible."
Details of the gown were kept secret, with no leaks until the morning of the ceremony. In fact, Waight Keller never breathed a word of it to her own family! She said the moment she told them was, "Literally on the morning."


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It is appropriate to celebrate "the glorious heritage of Relief Society, which has ties back to the ancient Church during the time of Jesus Christ," Sister Julie B. Beck, Relief Society general president told the Church News. "This year marks 170 years since Relief Society was established in this dispensation. The sisters were given authority to preside over the unique work that would help build the kingdom of God and would make a significant contribution to the Lord's work of salvation. The purposes of Relief Society have remained constant through all time."
On March 17, 1842, 20 women gathered and heard the Prophet Joseph Smith announce the official establishment of the Relief Society organization. Nearly 170 years later, more than 6 million sisters around the world still strengthen each other and build the kingdom of God.
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Cycle Show round up
So, what was at the Cycle Show? Lot's of demo areas, lot's of road bikes, electric bikes as far as the eye could see and mountain bikes with big wheels. Here are some of the bits that caught my eye.
First off, action cameras. This seems to be a growing market and the show was loaded with choices. This is the new offering from JVC. The GC-XA2
The previous model, the XA1 got very good reviews. In most peoples opinions it was "almost" as good as the benchmark GoPro Hero 3. Now the XA2 has been launched, this is much more a direct competitor to the Hero 3 Black Edition. Theres already reviews online and it is looking promising, so check it out.
Next, onto suspension and X-Fusion. I have personally been very interested in this brand in the last couple of years. Their products look great, seem to be getting very good reviews, are apparently reliable and they are cheaper than the competition. What more could you want? A downhill fork? Well, now you have it, the 2014 RC1. It's got some cool features like carbon protectors on the magnesium lowers and I love the screw on covers on the bottom of the legs to protect the control adjusters.
Marzocchi. Ive always been a Marzocchi fan and these 55's look amazing! Marzocchi have been through a phase of reported reliability issues but my old 2008 55 ATA's haven't been serviced and still feel great.
DMR Bolt. This bike stuck out to me with it simple clean lines and its Cro.Mo steel construction. 125mm rear travel and up to 150mm on the front. I am interested to try this out
Cube had a huge stand and a huge bike range. Most with big wheels but their DH rig, Two 15, is still running 26". I do like Cube's styling!
And finally Specialized. Not many 26" wheels left here but Specialized do know how to make a bike look good. S-Works Enduro Carbon frame
And the S-Works Demo 8 Carbon frame with the new Öhlins rear shock


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So, they say your thirties are when shit really starts to make sense. Now I'm not saying we're having major epiphany moments, while I'm sure plenty do. But I'm talking about that "now I get it" moment, where the little light bulb pops up in your head about something that happened in the past. I've always been told I was too wise for my age, but I knew 30 would be a beast year. I knew I wanted to do more of what I loved, and continued to make due on the goals and dreams I've set for myself. The passing of Nipsey Hussle, really hit hard and truly pushed me to go harder. For years I've been adding my new favorite Nipsey song to my "Get Right" playlists. His words always found a way to remind me to I've been "grinding all my life" so why stop now. With him gone, it's a forever reminder that truly "The Marathon Continues".
Starting around sometime in November of last year, I decided I would surprise my aunt with a 2 week Eurotrip. She's always been talking about this "one way ticket to Paris", and so I got it… & one for me too. For months I researched places we could go, it wasn't until some time before my trip to Washington DC that I started purchasing Airbnbs. I waited to tell her about the trip until her birthday. Considering I was traveling to DC at that time, I decided I would print out the flight information and mail it to her with a little note. I strategically tried to mail it so it that it would get to her on her birthday, but she got it a day earlier.
I remember just landing in Baltimore, and driving my rental car to the Airbnb when I see my phone ring, "Auntie Nena". Figuring that she's checking in to see if I made it safely, I answer the phone. "Twanika" she says, I reply "Yes auntie", again she says my name but with a different tone this time. I replied again "Yes auntie" before I realized she must've gotten the letter; I replied "So we're going?!". Her little squeal was everything I needed and more.
I knew I wanted to travel around my birthday which is in April. I also knew that I still had a ticket to Dreamville fest, since it was reschedule last year due to the hurricane season. I already knew it would be a good birthday once I got the email saying it was rescheduled to my birthday weekend. I figured since I was already on the side I might as well go visit my friends in New York. So for 3 days I ate my way around NY, and then spent the weekend in Raleigh, NC before I headed out for my Eurotrip.
*Note: I didn't get much footage on Dreamville, but my Instagram highlights always has the best "behind the scenes"footage. ❤ @Str8CaliStyle


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Acrylic Signs A4 size is 297 mm by 210 mm.
What makes the Perspex signs GJ Plastics produce different from the rest?
We purchase only the best quality acrylic sheet available all the signs are machined in our UK factory outlet, manufactured to high quality standards.
We can print your artwork direct on to the fully polished signs or perspex panel in full high quality colour.
Our HP flatbed printer is fitted with white ink, so the print can be backed with white ensuring an even more vibrant print.
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Polished or Black supports are also available at an additional charge.
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All the above is undertaken to provide you with quality printed signs to your exacting standard.
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Astra Garlic by Health Concerns is an odorless garlic supplement that could potentially work to promote general health in several ways.
Notably' garlic extract might play a role in maintaining optimal cardiovascular function. For example' it may act to preserve already healthy blood pressure levels while working to regulate circulation by inhibiting the hardening of your arteries.
Garlic may also have mild antibacterial and antifungal properties. As a result' a supplement like Astra Garlic could potentially work to relieve certain symptoms associated with mild yeast infections.
In addition to garlic extract' Astra Garlic also contains a blend of herbs that have been used in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). These herbs include astragalus (huang qi)' white atractylodes (bai zhu)' and he shou wu.
Take three tablets three times daily between meals. Each bottle of Health Concerns' Astra Garlic contains 90 tablets' which should last for about 10 days at the recommended serving size.
These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). These products are not meant to diagnose' treat or cure any disease or medical condition. Please consult your doctor before starting any exercise or nutritional supplement program or before using these or any product during pregnancy or if you have a serious medical condition.
Odorless Garlic bulb Da Suan
Astragalus root Huang Qi
Ho-shou-wu root He Shou Wu
Ganoderma (Reishi) fruiting body Ling Zhi
Crataegus fruit Shan Zha
Tang Kuei root Dang Gui
Salvia root Dan Shen
White Atractylodes rhizome Bai Zhu
Internal: 2 to 3 tablets' 3 times per day 90 tablets' 750 mg' 15 day supply May be taken just before a high-fat meal; or between meals
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A new vulnerability, known as "Shellshock", was recently discovered within Bash. This security hole needs to be patched immediately to avoid potential exploits of your Linux server. Our Fully Managed cPanel customers have already had this patch applied since yesterday. An additional patch will likely be required to completely resolve "Shellshock" but that additional patch is not yet available. Once it is, we will apply it for our fully managed customers immediately and provide an update to our self-managed customers on the steps they need to take.
In the interest of getting to the point quickly of how to best fix the issue we will dive right into how you can test your server for the vulnerability and patch it as best can be done for the time being. If you want more information on the vulnerability itself here are a few articles with more information.
- Test for the vulnerability by running the following command at shell:
env x='() { :;}; echo vulnerable' bash -c "echo this is a test"
- If the output of the above command looks as follows:
this is a test
Update Bash:
If cent 5/6/7 run
yum clean all
yum update bash
If bash doesn't get updated, check /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo and ensure it is default and not Hivelocity Mirrors(not updated, working on resolution)
Manual Build of Bash
For Cent4 or Debian Squeeze or older versions of software you may need to compile bash from source, use the following command script:
The script below does the following:
- Downloads bash
- Downloads latest patches for bash
- Extracts bash
- Applies the patches to the source code
- Builds and installs bash into /bin/bash
mkdir /src
cd /src
wget https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-4.3.tar.gz
for i in $(seq -f "%03g" 0 25); do wget https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-4.3-patches/bash43-$i; done
tar zxvf bash-4.3.tar.gz
cd bash-4.3
for i in $(seq -f "%03g" 0 25);do patch -p0 < ../bash43-$i; done;
./configure --prefix=/ && make && make install
Additional information and updates:
National Vulnerability Database
Please note: The original patch (shown above) was thought to have fixed the issue CVE-2014-6271 but is now known to be incomplete. An attacker can provide specially-crafted environment variables containing arbitrary commands that will be executed on vulnerable systems under certain conditions. However, according to Red Hat, customers should upgrade to the version of Bash which contains the fix for CVE-2014-6271 (which was done yesterday for managed clients), and not wait for the new, yet to be released, patch which fixes CVE-2014-7169. CVE-2014-7169 is a less severe issue and patches for it are being worked on at the moment.
To summarize, CVE-2014-6271 does fix the initial low access complexity exploit. But it was incomplete and thus, a new exploit, assigned CVE-2014-7169 is out and that is currently being patched and will be available through repos shortly. This is a high access complexity exploit so it's not as serious or widespread as the initial exploit.


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A decade ago, as Europe's Columbus laboratory module was attached to the International Space Station for microgravity research, ESA's Large Diameter Centrifuge began offering lengthy experiments in hypergravity.
The principle is simple: the 8 m-diameter four-arm centrifuge is set spinning at up to 67 revs per minute, creating up to 20 times normal Earth gravity for weeks or even months at a time.
As part of ESA's Life and Physical Sciences Instrumentation Laboratory at the Agency's technical centre in the Netherlands, the centrifuge's development was supported by the Dutch government and its use is encouraged by the European Low Gravity Research Association.
For the last decade it has been a place of pilgrimage for researchers, including student experimenters on regular Spin Your Thesis campaigns.
Tomorrow sees a celebration of the centrifuge's first decade, giving its team the opportunity to hear from their users about desired upgrades and new research ideas.


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- Date/time: November 1st
- Venue: Altria Theater
- Phone: (800) 514-ETIX (3849)
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Preheat grill to high heat. Combine black pepper, salt, and ground red pepper; sprinkle over chicken drumsticks. Place drumsticks on grill rack coated with cooking spray. Cover and grill 3 minutes or until charred; reduce heat to medium. Grill 18 minutes or until a thermometer inserted into the thickest part registers 160°, turning occasionally.
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Exterlude: Aelfgar0
May 19, 2016 by Lyn
"Damn." Aelfgar drained his glass and passed it back to Doug for a refill. The kid kept good whisky in stock, and he wasn't stingy with it, either. "I fucked that one up pretty badly. And the damn thing got away from us." Doug passed his glass back, and he took another long gulp. "I don't blame the boy for going after his kid, though. Took balls, and he pulled it off, too."
Another gulp. "I owe you, Luke, and I owe that boy, and those kids." Luke, drinking his own rotgut, didn't bother trying to deny it, or make noises about how it wasn't his fault. They all knew it was.
"What are you going to do?"
"Track the fucker down." He finished the glass and passed it back, unsurprised to see Doug glance at Luke, somewhat surprised to see the tiny nod the second man gave. "Exterminate him and any Nedetakaei that get in my way."
"Nice, simple plan," Luke commented dryly. "No pesky details to get in the way."
"Do I tell you how to do your job?" he complained.
"Every chance you get, old man. You said it took you and a pack of so'jers to take out the last nest. How are you going to handle this one on your own?"
It was an entirely reasonable question. It didn't make Aelfgar want to punch the smartmouthed full-blood any less. "With help, you blasted Mara," he snarled into his whisky. "But I'm still going to do it." He downed the glass. "Gotta."
"Mmm," Luke nodded. Doug just drank more.
"Talkative family, aintcha?"
"Yup," the Mara smirked. Just as easy to piss off as they were talkative. Aelfgar had been trying for years to get a rise out of this one.
No use in it, he was just feeling cranky and putting off what he had to do. He pulled a knife from his boot, careful to make no sudden moves – they were all still on edge – and set it between him and Doug. It was a good blade, rowan with a bone hilt, the carvings worn smooth in places. "This is for your girls." He enunciated carefully, tasting how the whisky was slowing him down and working around it. "For the thorn. They're damn good warriors."
Doug picked up the knife and turned it over, noting Aelfgar's glyph in the carvings. "I'll tell them you said that."
"Do that." He pulled five bone beads from his braids and pushed them across the table. "One for each of you. One for each of the kids. One for the boy who went and rescued them – for him, not his ice bitch of a mistress, and fuck tradition there. I owe you all."
Luke pocketed four of the tokens and passed the other to his son without comment. Aelfgar shot a rueful look at his empty glass and lumbered to his feet. "I got one more errand to do here, then I'll be outta your hair. I'll let you know when I've killed the critter."
"Errand?" Doug didn't trust him. At the moment, Aelfgar didn't really blame him, but it was still irritating.
"I gotta go talk to my son."
One of his sons. He had several here, he was pretty sure, and an uncounted number scattered across the globe. But one in particular, he wanted to have a chat with. And he hoped the boy's sister wasn't there. That might get awkward. Aelfgar's daughters rarely liked him.
Most of the buzz had burned off by the time he made it to the boy's room. He thought about trying to clean himself up, but decided there was no point in being dishonest. He might produce the best-groomed sons on seven continents, but he was still a grizzled old biker, whether he tidied up or not.
The boy's look when he answered the door almost made him regret his decision. Aelfgar had never met a more arrogant get, and he was looking him up and down with plenty of disdain and no fear at all.
"Yngvi." Damned if he'd be sneered at by a whelp a fraction of his age, but he needed the kid to listen to him.
"Aelfgar, right? Come in, if you wish." He sounded resigned about it rather than at all welcoming. Brat.
"Thank you." He shut the door behind him and looked at the boy he and – what was her name again? So very stern and so very fiery under the sternness. Amanda. – The boy he and Amanda had made. There was a lot of strength there, as firm as his mother, and as good-looking. Probably caused him problems. "I need to talk to you."
"It's a bit late for the birds and the bees." He gestured at one of the chairs, and the old warrior sank into it.
"Aye, and not my job, either." The boy sat on the edge of his bed, straight-backed and prim.
"Then what?" There was no give to this boy – every inch his mother's son. Aelfgar wondered if she'd ever married, or if carrying his bastard had shortened her chances too far. He wondered at the sudden pang of concern for a woman he could barely remember.
"I gotta talk to you about your friend." What had they said she called herself? "Shahin, the little dark one."
"I wouldn't think she's your type."
"Damn it, boy, get over yourself long enough to listen to me!"
"Seems an inability to get over oneself is a family trait," he snapped back. It was so prissy and so right on the mark that Aelfgar couldn't help laughing.
"You got me," he admitted. "But, seriously, boy… Yngvi, really, Yngvi, this is important. Your friend Shahin and her boy, they got in a lot of trouble."
He sighed, put-out. "What did that hooligan talk her into now?"
Aelfgar shook his head warningly. "He may be a little punk, but this time he did something right. Tried at least. Poor kid."
"Poor kid? The bully that's been leading Shahin around on a leash for weeks now is a 'poor kid?'"
"He's also the kid that attacked a dragon to try to rescue her." Aelfgar shook his head. "More balls than sense; if I didn't know better, I'd think he was mine."
"Thanks so much. Wait. A dragon, you said?"
"A monster," he agreed. "An evil bastard of a monster, that snuck into the school and decided to take your friends as a trophy."
"And you're sitting here talking to me? Why aren't you out there rescuing her?"
He couldn't help grinning, but answered quickly, before the kid flipped out, "Emrys' father already did."
"Emrys' father? And what about Sheen's?"
"Ah, well, that's a story for another day. But they're back, and probably out of Dr. Caitrin's by now. But I wanted to let you know, since you're her friend, if not his."
"Let me know what, exactly?"
Ah, and there was the awkward part. How much to tell was too much, and how much too little? He'd never been any good at the subtle shit.
Hell, and no-one expected him to be, either. "They're going to be in bad shape. Caitrin's a good healer. She can fix all the physical damage, probably has already."
"Physical damage." He looked a little shell-shocked. "She's hurt?"
"They've been healed. But they went through a lot of shit. They were in really bad shape when Ambrus brought them back."
It looked like he was getting through to him; the boy nodded slowly. "You're saying she was tortured."
"I'm saying they were both tortured. That they both nearly died. They're going to need a lot of help to get through the next few months sane." He frowned balefully. "And they're going to need each other. So whatever problem you have with that boy…"
Yngvi held up a hand imperiously. "I understand." He slumped and dropped the hand. "I don't understand what they've been doing, or why, but Emrys has helped me out a couple times. I'll do what I can for both of them. And if he really attacked a dragon to rescue her…"
"He did," Aelfgar confirmed. "Whatever else you can say about him, he's willing to walk through fire for her."
"I'll do what I can, then. And I'll tell Ayla. She's been a mess." He frowned suspiciously at Aelfgar. "Why are you telling me this?"
"You need to understand. They're tough kids, they deserve to have someone help them through this. And… you're my son, for whatever that's worth."
"An unpronounceable name and some blonde hair, it seems like. And, apparently, 'turning out queer.' Thanks."
"Don't forget the temper," Aelfgar added dryly. "I'm not real good in the parenting department."
"Thanks. But…" He pulled off two more bone beads. Lucky he was gonna kill something soon; he was running out. "If you or Aelgifu ever need anything from me, just call. Regine has a number I can be reached at. So does Luke."
Yngvi looked down at the beads uncertainly. "Thanks," he muttered. "Thanks for telling me."
"Yeah, well." Aelfgar shrugged and shoved the chair back, standing abruptly. "I gotta go kill a dragon."
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PITTSBURGH, June 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (NYSE: PNC) announced today that it expects to issue financial results for the second quarter on Wednesday, July 18, 2012. PNC Chairman and Chief Executive Officer James E. Rohr and Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Richard J. Johnson will hold a conference call for investors the same day at 9:30 a.m. (EDT).
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Eden Hazard has admitted that he would love for Belgium team-mates; Kevin De Bruyne and Radja Nainggolan to join him at Chelsea.
Belgium are preparing to take on England in Group G at the 2018 World Cup in Russia and Roberto Martinez has a plethora of Premier League stars at his disposal.
Romelu Lukaku has already scored 22 goals in his debut season at Manchester United, while Tottenham's Mousa Dembele is being hailed as the most complete central midfielder in the country.
However, when asked which Belgian he would most like to see at Chelsea, Hazard named Manchester City's De Bruyne and Roma's Nainggolan.
'In Belgium we have players, good players. It's not: "I play for Chelsea so I don't talk to the guy from Tottenham" – no, we are together,' Hazard told COPA90.
'In football it's like this because, if it is not like this, all the national teams are in trouble.'
De Bruyne completed a £7million move to Chelsea back in 2012 but only made three Premier League appearances before leaving for Wolfsburg.
The 26-year-old midfielder is now favourite to win PFA Player of the Year after starring for Manchester City in a sensational season under Pep Guardiola.
On his disputes with Jose Mourinho at Chelsea, De Bruyne previously told The Times: 'I just said I can play. 'I have no statistics – two games, what do you want me to do?
'I had a feeling I wasn't even going to play. Even if he said you're going to play more games, from two games I was maybe going to go to five. It was, for me, a good decision to leave. 'For them, in the end, it was also a good decision. They sold me for more money for a player who didn't play.'
Nainggolan, meanwhile, has been strongly linked with a move to Stamford Bridge and came close to joining the Blues ahead of the 2017/18 campaign.
Antonio Conte has made no secret of his admiration for Nainggolan and confirmed that Chelsea failed with a bid to sign the midfielder. 'In the past, we tried to buy him but now Nainggolan is Roma's player,' Conte admitted back in October.
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How to Measure Ring Size for Your Finger
When it isn't convenient to stop by the jewelry store, here are some tips you can use on how to measure ring size. It is a little different than you might think, but as you will see, it makes complete sense.
How to Measure Ring Size
Your natural instinct is going to be to put a string around your finger like it is your new ring and measure it, right? Well, no, not really. Here is how to measure your ring size to get an accurate size for a ring that you are going to purchase.
First of all, it is always best and most accurate to use the sizing rings that the jeweler uses. But sometimes you won't be able to go to the jeweler right away and you need to know your size right away. Well, this is what you do.
Cut a strip of paper that is about the size of the width of the ring's band. Don't worry about the ring setting, just use the band of the ring. Make this strip about 3" long.
Wrap the strip around your knuckle of the finger you want to size. Mark the strip of paper where the paper meets the end of the paper and mark the end of the paper. This gives you your ring's measurement. Put the strip paper on a ruler and find the millimeter measurement. Compare that millimeter measurement to the chart to find your ring size.
The reason you don't use the measurement of your finger where your ring will sit is because that ring must be large enough to pass over your knuckle. If your knuckle is very large, ask Ben David Jewelers how to measure ring size for their expandable Finger-Mate device that will shrink the ring after it passes over the knuckle.


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A common assumption that many of those entering into divorce proceedings in Peoria often have is that alimony will automatically be a part of their divorce settlement. Their assumptions likely come from hearing stories in popular media of renowned divorce cases involving disputes over spousal maintenance. Yet the truth is that alimony is not awarded in every divorce case. Indeed, according to information shared by CBS News, government agencies report only between 243,000 and 361,000 adults in American as having received alimony in 2016. An important point to remember about spousal support is that it is not meant to serve as a punishment levied against the more well-to-do spouse; rather, it is simply meant to help an economically disadvantaged spouse transition into post-divorce life.
Can a lump sum payment help women struggling to get alimony?
In traditional Illinois marriages, it is fairly common for women to remain at home while the man is the primary breadwinner. This is especially normalized in high-asset marriages with children, as one party often remains at home to raise the kids. When the marriage ends, these women find themselves at an economic disadvantage.
What are ways for men to manage mental health after divorce?
The process of getting a divorce in Illinois often includes dealing with strong and complex emotions: fear, sadness, relief and confusion. While you may start to feel better as soon as you sign the papers, you may instead find it more difficult to move on with your life. You may struggle with depression or other mental health issues. While you may have to look hard to find them, there are resources that address the connection between men's mental health and divorce.
4 ways stay-at-home moms rebuild credit after a divorce
Effective marriages often require both sharing and splitting household responsibilities. If you elected to stay home to raise your children while your spouse went to work, though, your credit score may not be as high as you would like. Alternatively, you may have no creditworthiness at all.
How can I prepare my finances for a high-asset divorce?
If you are getting a divorce in Peoria, you may have wondered how you can prepare for that financial hit. Some divorces are amicable with couples never needing to set foot in court, or at the very least, not for long. However, when there are high-value assets involved, years of marriage that led to entangled ownership, and a breadwinner versus homemaker situation, things might become more complicated.
Financial debts and divorce
When individuals get a divorce in Illinois, the most complex parts of the settlement often revolve around finances. When a court grants a divorce, part of the order includes a division of the couple's finances, including both assets and debts. It is important for individuals to understand how debt may affect a divorce settlement.
Can I really get a paternity test at Walgreens?
If there is some doubt regarding the paternity of your child, you have likely spent a lot of time considering your options. Whether you are the father or the mother of the child, you may wish to prove who the biological father is once and for all. Unfortunately, DNA tests are typically very expensive and many parents are seeking cheaper solutions. Because of this, many have turned to Walgreens.


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Wage theft by employers costs workers millions each year
Economists: Geography matters a lot in gender discrimination
Poll: Which common work behaviors are most objectionable?
A scientifically valid poll by NPR and Ipsos recently delved into Americans' opinions about some common, potentially objectionable workplace behaviors. The pollsters found that the behaviors identified as most objectionable were still quite prevalent. It also found that men between 18 and 34 are much less likely to recognize the behaviors as improper.
EEOC releases top 10 discrimination complaints for FY 2017
DOL attempts to clarify FLSA matters in opinion letters


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16 Apr 2016
Three MINI ALL4 Racing to contest during a Sealine Cross Country
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Yazeed Al Rajhi (KSA) and co-driver Timo Gottschalk (GER) demeanour to
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Munich. The Sealine Cross Country Rally is a third
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HALEYVILLE - Emotions ran high for the family of the late Juanita White, at the Haleyville City Board of Education's regular meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 22, when a "Serve With Pride" award was given in recognition of White to members of her family in attendance. White was the custodian at Haleyville Elementary School from 1977 until she passed away in 1996.
Superintendent Dr. Holly Sutherland remembers White when she was in school.
"I remember she would smile and was always involved, asking us how our days were…I have fond memories of her," Sutherland said.
Sutherland explained White did her job, including more than what was listed in the job description. She invested in the kids and was rewarding to them due to her philosophy of service.
"Her love and tenderness to care for Haleyville City Schools was not a job, but a ministry. Mrs. White was an example of what we should do and what we should be for the Lord," a statement from the family read.
When the award was given, Sutherland also revealed a photograph of White, the frame bemade by the Haleyville Center of Technology agriscience students, to be displayed in HES.
What made the event even more special was the fact White was recognized on what would have been her 80th birthday.
As White's family came forward to accept the awards, several members of the family broke down, showing their emotion over what the recognition meant to them.
White's son Will explained his friends in school would tell him his mother was one of the greatest people.
"Everybody loved her, and we were raised to love everybody," Will said. "She made rainy days sunny and cold days warm. She loved the Lord. She touched everybody she met, not just her own kids. We never did without, and there were eight of us kids to feed. I'm proud of that."
These qualities are what Will wants to pass on to his daughter, nieces and nephews.
Will also mentioned the recognition award was not planned to be given on her birthday.
"That's the Good Lord working," he remarked.
White's daughter, Lynn, has heartfelt memories of her mother.
"She always kept a notepad on her nightstand with a long list of people she prayed for individually every night before she went to sleep," Lynn said.
"She was what I always called 'my pioneer mama' because she would get up every morning around 4:30 or 5 and make sure that the wood heater was still going to keep us warm, then start up her 'old timey' percolator coffee pot that smelled so good. She would come into our rooms and say, 'Don't get up until the house is good and warm.'"
Lynn also referred to her mom as one who could chop logs into firewood, better than any man could.
"She never stopped working even when she was at home. She always put her kids first, and so did daddy. She would always tell us, 'Always look presentable and look your best no matter what.' Then she would say, 'Don't come to my job looking any kind of way making me look bad!'"
"If she saw a child come through the doors at school with dirty clothes on or appearing any way that made her feel the child was in need, she would go to Wal-Mart and buy a few outfits for the child. My parents were always giving and helping everybody they could."
White touched the lives of many students through the years at the school. Many fondly recall her smile and grace and will continue to do so for years to come.
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In light of this weekend's saga, I would like to say a few words regarding the meaning and import of what happened in Charlottesville, Virginia this weekend. What at first may appear to be an attack by violent extremists on nonviolent, peaceful, moderate lovers of equality is in fact not that; and it deserves to be noted what, exactly, it was.
- Removal of the Robert E. Lee Statue
The city of Charlottesville decided, in some closed board room, to rename a park that had been known since God knows when as Lee Park as Emancipation Park, and to remove a statue of Robert E. Lee, whom they appear only to consider as a Confederate general. This they have done in accordance with the post-Obama norm of deleting all references to the Confederacy and castigating the Confederate belief system, especially by the notorious tactic of equating it with the much more horrid and outrageous Nazi system which overran Europe starting in the early 1930s.
What is at play here is more than just a battle over archaic ideals. The fastest way to strip someone of his manhood is to negate his identity, which starts with his history. This, of course, is highlighted so well by George Orwell, especially in 1984; but it is something which the modern left does with alarming frequency.
Lee, in truth, was a great man—the epitome of grace, class, and courage. In every portrait of this man that has come down to us in history, he is depicted as a courtly gentleman, and is renowned more for his decency than for his martial qualities, great as they were. Far from siding with the Confederacy because of its protection on slavery—which, by the way, is something different from racism, although the two are linked—he did so because he believed that his state was his country. This was the major battle of the war—not the battle over slavery. Is the federal government or the state government supposed to be more powerful? The Founders generally believed that the state governments were better able to take care of their own concerns, because they were closer to whatever issues were going on in their territories; thus they placed rather strict limits on the operations of the federal government, but left a few loose phrases so that the federal government had room to maneuver in case there was a need for it to do so.
In any case, Lee had, up until resigning his commission in order to serve his home state of Virginia, honorably served the Union, and had been the general in charge of the hanging of the abolitionist John Brown, who was executed for his organization of the raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia, home to the arsenal of the United States army. He was not, so far as I can tell, implicated in the shipping of weapons from army depots in the north to those in the south during the Buchanan administration. Nothing in his record speaks of a pre-concerted design to betray and break the Union. His greatest sin was exercising freedom of choice, and responding to the call of his state against that of what at the time was a radical invading army.
Thus at issue here is, from the start, the idea of deleting this man from history and acting embarrassed by him, when his value system is in fact one for admiration and imitation. Yet we hear not a murmur of protest from professional historians; where the fuck is the AHA? where are all the university professors? where are the authors? They are nowhere to be found. Some might say that it is not their province to interfere in local political concerns; others might say that they feel that Lee's exploits deserve recognition in a museum, but not in a public park; some might say that they have other things on their agenda and never even heard about the removal of Lee's statue; but the gist of their inaction is that they tacitly agree with the value system espoused in the removal of the statue. In any case, it can be assumed that since the protesters had heard about the removal of the statue, it was enough of a story that some historian should have heard about it and mounted a formal protest. Since one needs a Ph.D. to be considered as a respectable historian today, and the university faculties who issue the Ph.D.s are notably liberal, it can be assumed that all of these silent historians also share the liberal ideals that are causing this massive issue. Professional, indeed; isn't one of their obligations to ensure that history isn't lost or distorted beyond recognition?
The simplest way of putting this whole mess is as follows: dragging Lee's name, or all people's, into the tawdry modern running commentary on 'racism' and 'bigotry' is a disgrace not to him, but to ourselves. Lee has no business in this discussion. He was a good man and a true one.
- Protests
The result of this decision to remove the statue and rename the park, coupled with the silence of the historians, meant that someone else would have to argue in favor of Lee, and the only groups that chose to do so were immoderate members of the so-called 'alt-right'—members of groups that are called hate groups but in some (not all) cases espouse few actual doctrines of hatred. Some of these groups are clearly of the most abysmal sort; for instance those shouting 'blood and soil' are evoking the Nazi slogan by which that party had appealed to rural farmers. There's no doubt in my mind that these are not all good people, and in most cases were probably bad people. Yet at the same time they are the only ones standing up for Lee and for history—true history—against the continual assaults of the left. The truth is that anyone who stands up for someone like Lee against the vicious claims of the media and academics is labelled a bigot; and that groups who oppose the high-handed and untruthful tactics of the left are very often miscategorized. Members of the alt-right travelled from some distances to get to Charlottesville, where they gathered in Lee Park. They obtained a permit for a rally. Then the trouble started.
People on the left then decided that they needed to openly emphasize their position on equality. They did so by showing up to counterprotest, because this to them seems the most productive thing to do. If the stories I have read be correct, the counterprotesters then showed the high regard for truth and equality by using pepper spray on the original ralliers, the members of the alt-right. In so doing they launched an armed assault on freedom of speech. At this point the original protesters began to fight back, and here we are, several deaths later, the rally has been broken up, the original protesters have been officially denounced and publicly shamed, and the counterprotesters have been made into the gallant heroes of modern times.
The episode highlights one of the sad, but egregious truths about the political left: they demand equality but only on their own terms. They have the intellectual development of five-year-olds. 'You can say what you like so long as we agree with it, but if we don't then you no longer have the right to say it.' Meanwhile, they have been assiduously labelling any and all who disagree with them with vicious names, ranging from bigot to racist to Fascist to whatever else they can think of in their endless supply of monikers.
The truth is that whatever their identification, the members of the alt-right who began to fight back after pepper spray was used were the true defenders of American interests, because they were using whatever means available to protect that simplest and most essential right of free people: freedom of speech. Yet we know that if given their way they would subvert American interests, because many of them openly declare themselves neo-Nazis, Fascists, or members of other hate groups with long traditions in this country. So the whole situation is fucked up from the start, but how can we truly blame the protesters for getting into it with counterprotesters when the counterprotesters, in true liberal fashion, openly declare that anyone who disagrees with them should have no voice? There would have been something entirely right in what they did if only they had done more damage than they actually did. In the end both groups just look pathetic.
- The President's Commentary
So, then, the President got up and said that he condemns the many sides of bigotry—and immediately gets slammed for not condemning hatred. Yet that's what he did. Only the left refuses to acknowledge its own role in this hatred, and that it is the purest representative of hatred. The left, and really the left only, is attempting by any means possible to subvert freedom of speech.
All of which highlights the most important truth of all that I have here stated: however much we may hate the extreme movements on the right, they are the clear and unambiguous product of extreme movements on the left. Without the left's increasing 'progressivism'—by which one should really mean 'regressivism'—the right will have no fuel for its own radicalization. The left's constant battering ram-assaults on American values—on Constitutional rights, on time-honored customs, mores, beliefs, traditions, and laws, on truth and justice—are now bearing their ugliest fruit. And the left, represented by stuck-up assholes, has no clue that it is itself the cause of this behavior, because it has no understanding of history and no idea that this has happened before.
Winston Churchill called Fascism the 'ugly child' of Communism because it was a direct response to the earlier movement. That brilliant man should, of course, be our guide in the modern world; but like Lee, he has been charged by the liberals with racism and whatever other forms of bad behavior they wish to levy at their targets, and has been in some sense forgotten. When Churchill warned of the threat of Islam, he was a hundred years ahead of his time; and he was sixty years ahead of his time in this, his second-most important observation.
The point is that extremism breeds extremism, and that the left, not the right, is the original source of this problem.
On Orson Welles's Macbeth
In light of my recent engagement with great films, I will here begin with a brief commentary on Macbeth (1948), a black-and-white adaptation of Shakespeare's famous play.
Welles, who directed and produced the film and played its title character, was beset by issues in the making of the film. Due to a prior conflict with a very powerful news magnate—owing to the production of Citizen Kane (1941)—Welles was unable to collect reviews, to obtain publicity, and, hence, to draw the interest of those who might otherwise have backed his films financially. He was left with a low budget, to say the least, and sought to show that 'necessity is the mother of invention.'
The result was, actually, a masterpiece. With no money he was forced to rely on a Republic set which had formerly been used for Westerns; it was basically a cave set in the wilderness. This he made into Dunsinane Castle, which appears as a swamped up, craggy military fortress, rather than the luxurious residence of kings that we might otherwise expect. Yet here's the catch: Macbeth was an 11th Century Scottish King, and Scotland was hardly more civilized than many African nations are today; so that Welles's Dunsinane appears, I think, much closer to what Macbeth's castle would have looked like than a set made to look like Windsor Castle would.
A second brilliant touch by Welles was his use of drink, following the murder of Duncan, to make Macbeth appear to be losing his senses. Being drunk on wine is symbolic of being drunk on something else—power—and the viewer can't help but make the connection as the inebriated Macbeth orders a pair of hired ruffians to murder his friend Banquo, and then, later, the wife and children of the impressive Macduff. It is much easier to believe that a drunk Macbeth would see the ghost of the dead Banquo at his feast than that a sober Macbeth would see him there; and in general much easier to believe a drunk Macbeth than a sober one at any point later in the movie. Alcohol provides an adequate explanation for what seem to be the incoherent actions taken by this tyrant, so it both connects the dots and forms a link in the viewer's mind that is extremely important.
Another of Welles's nice touches was his use of a voodoo doll resembling Macbeth in the hands of the three witches; it comes out of their infamous cauldron and is henceforth their tool. Unlike the sweet choir in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, when Welles's witches say 'Double, double, toil and trouble' they have something vicious in their minds and on their tongues; their speech is hideous, shocking, frightening, as they inform Macbeth that he will become not only Thane of Cawdor but King as well; then again as they coyly soothe him by telling him that no man of woman born will be able to kill him, and that he cannot be dethroned until Birnam Wood do come to Dunsinane. Of course they are toying with him; but with the voodoo doll we see that they are doing it more than just verbally. The voodoo doll also invites the viewer to remember that Welles was the producer of the 'voodoo Macbeth,' a 1930s New Deal-funded adaptation of the famous play that shifted its location to Haiti and used an all-black cast.
These, coupled with a very well-done score and a very fine casting and costuming job, make this a very fine movie indeed. Alas, Welles was doomed to the life of Tantalus. Here he had a masterpiece, but it got buried under his feud with Hearst, and the reviews he did receive, far from praising him for his work with a low budget and very short time frame for filming (23 days), were highly critical. As is so common, the reviewers, caught up in the size of their longest (or shortest?) members, were unable to spot a masterpiece.


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Music As A Second Language™ is a method of teaching music conceived and propagated by U.S. guitarist, bilingual public school teacher and pedagogue David Wish. Wish's central observation is that people acquire music in much the same as they acquire a second language. Wish founded Little Kids Rock a national nonprofit to help make the MSL Method broadly available to music teachers.
Wish posits that since all humans are hard-wired for speech and since music functions as a second language, by extension, all people are also hard-wired to "speak" music. The Music As A Second Language™ method begins with the assertion that all people are innately musical beings and that music education is more about drawing music out of individuals as opposed to drumming it in. One New York Times editorial on Music As A Second Language™ summarized this perspective by saying that, "… an appreciation of music can't be imposed; it needs to be elicited."
The ideas of fostering low-anxiety environments, using a student-centered repertoire, leveraging intrinsic motivation, employing comprehensible input, the early introduction of improvisation and composition as well as the use of an "acquired system" of learning are some of the special features of the Music As A Second Language™ approach.
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Recently we posted about a contest for women with innovative business ideas sponsored by Bayer and DailyCandy.com.
Well, the winners have been announced and they're all great ideas!
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