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Deliberately mixing belief with science produces non-science and non-"scholars"!Koran means 'recitation', i.e. repeating something. That something was Judeo/Christian (compare "Jews believing in Jesus") Syriac-Arabic texts spiced with Arianism, and used for keeping Arab bandit gangs together, and much later collected as a book and spiced with the hitherto unknown islamic Muhammad.
When Klevius wrote that 'the biased and unscientific way the so called "Birmingham Koran" was handled and presented is deliberate forgery of facts', some people didn't seem to get it. So here's some more in simple science English:
1 The "islamic paradigm" (i.e. what muslims believe) is a non-historical system of myths completely segregated from scientific scrutiny. It's like "studying" ghosts, and when the ghost doesn't appear/make sense it's explained as tbhe "will of Allah".
In other words, the oxymoron "muslim scholar" is a pure charlatan in a scientific context. And if you insist in using "Allah" as your a priori axiomatic launch pad - it differs radically from e.g. Euclid's' axioms. Whereas "Allah" is a muddled and inscrutable abode for human wishes and fears built on sand, Euclid is clear and open and functioning as a bedrock for logical conscusions drawn from his axioms/postulates - incl. Popper's falsification test.
And unlike other myths and legends, the muslim navel string was never cut off, leaving the rotting placenta contaminating the future via a mummificated canal from the dark ages to date.
2 The historical reality was Jewish/Christian texts (Jesus was a Jew) used in a Syriac-Arabic linguistic environment where Arabic took its first stumbling steps in the written world that the non-Semitic Sumerians had entered some 4,000 years earlier.
3 There was no historical Muhammad. Before Abd al-Malik (caliph 685-705) Muhammad (allegedly dead 632 but see Pourshariati who beyond doubt shows the historical impossibility of such a death date) is never mentioned on any official document whatsoever. The simple truth is that a mythological Judeo-Christian Messiah figure was applied to or used by one or several leaders, and later, under Malik, turned into a "muslim Messiah".
Islam is rooted in an eastern Jewish-Christian schism. Jews and Jews believing in (a monophysitism inspired Christianity) MHMD (anointed/Messiah) didn't only offer the wealthy background against which barbaric (according to islam's foremost historian Ibn Khaldun) Bedouin Arabs were enslaved and/or submitted/enrolled, but also constituted the missing fifth columnist historical link to the "unexplained" success of early islamic terror "conquest".
4 The only logical/historical explanation to islam's expansion out of the Arabian desert is parasitism. Ironically, that's also the explanation the Koran gives - albeit strongly denied by PC people.
Conclusion: There was no Muhammad nor a Koran at the alleged time of the so called Birmingham Koran. So the only way to desperately try to make sense of what doesn't make sense, is to rely on unhistorical muslim mythology.
So, first you had a severe pillage inflammation in the narrow slave tracts through the desert. And the longer they got the bigger the gang which needed even more booty and women. Some three quarter of a century after the initial attacks (the slaughtering of the Jews in Medina etc.) the first Koran was edited together. More than hundred years after the alleged death of Muhammad the first sharia emerged.
So all of this has certainly nothing to do with that Koran "science" nonsense in Birmingham, which babbles about a non existing Koran written down at a time of a non-existing "prophet"!
Christoph Luxenberg's reading of the Koran
According to Christoph Luxenberg, the Koran was not written in Arabic but in a mixed Arabic-Syriac language, the traders' language of Mecca and it was based on Christian liturgical texts. When the final text of the Koran was codified, those working on it did not understand the original sense and meaning of this hybrid trading language any more, and they forcefully and randomly turned it into classical Arabic. This gave rise to a lot of misinterpretations. Something like this can only have happened if there was a gap in the oral transmission of the Koranic text.
Luxenberg remarks that the Koran contains much ambiguous and even inexplicable language. He asserts that even muslim scholars find some passages difficult to parse and have written reams of Quranic commentary attempting to explain these passages. However, the assumption behind their endeavours has always been, according to him, that any difficult passage is true, meaningful, and pure Arabic, and that it can be deciphered with the tools of traditional muslim scholarship. Luxenberg accuses Western academic scholars of the Koran of taking a timid and imitative approach, relying too heavily on the biased work of muslim scholars.
According to Luxenberg, the Koran was not originally written exclusively in Arabic but in a mixture with Syriac, the dominant spoken and written language in the Arabian peninsula through the 8th century.
"What is meant by Syro-Aramaic (actually Syriac) is the branch of Aramaic in the Near East originally spoken in Edessa and the surrounding area in Northwest Mesopotamia and predominant as a written language from Christianization to the origin of the Koran. For more than a millennium Aramaic was the lingua franca in the entire Middle Eastern region before being gradually displaced by Arabic beginning in the 7th century."
Luxenberg argues that scholars must start afresh, ignore the old islamic commentaries, and use only the latest in linguistic and historical methods. Hence, if a particular Koranic word or phrase seems meaningless in Arabic, or can be given meaning only by tortured conjectures, it makes sense – he argues – to look to the Aramaic and Syriac languages as well as Arabic.
Luxenberg also argues that the Koran is based on earlier texts, namely Syriac lectionaries used in the Syriac Christian churches of Syria, and that it was the work of several generations who adapted these texts into the Koran we know today.
Klevius advise: You might be better off without your belief in ghosts. However, you will certainly be better off with a conscience resting on Universal Human Rights freedom (for you and others) than with limiting and imposing sharia that is also uncontrollable because different users can interpret it differently due to its that violates Human Rights of others and opens up for parasitism, racism and sexism.
Measured by basic Human Rights standard islam is extremely uncivilized. And this is the only logical in islam. Born out of evil always evil. And when you disinfect islam from its evil it's no longer islam.
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Friday, July 24, 2015
The laughable Birmingham Koran forgery* doesn't qualify on Klevius science blog. Maybe Klevius should start a joke blog...
Some readers have urged Klevius to write about the "Birmingham Koran" scandal. However, as it has absolutely nothing to do with science Klevius politely refers you to Origin of islam - the worst racist sexist hate crime ever against humanity.
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Tuesday, June 26, 2012
The laughable oxymoron "islamic science", how could anyone possibly take it seriously?!
The oxymoron "islamic science" is utter defamation of science, and is rooted in ignorance about the origin of islam!
Klevius science tutorial for Seyyid Hossein Nasr and othersSeyyid Hossein Nasr ("professor" of Islamic Studies at Georgetown University) at MIT Islamic Students Association (sponsored by the Pakistan Study Group, the MIT Muslim Students Association and "other groups"): "Science has its own world-view. No science is created in a vacuum. Science arose under particular circumstances in the West with certain philosophical presumptions about the nature of reality. As soon as you say, m, f, v, and a, that is, the simple parameters of classical physics, you have chosen to look at reality from a certain point of view. There is no mass, there is no force out there like that chair or table. These are particularly abstract concepts which grew in the seventeenth century on the basis of a particular concept of space, matter and motion which Newton developed. The historians and philosophers of science in the last twenty [or] thirty years have shown beyond the scepter of doubt that modern science has its own world view. It is not at all value free; nor is it a purely objective science of reality irrespective of the subject you study. It is based upon the imposition of certain categories upon the study of nature, with a remarkable success in the study of certain things, and also a remarkable lack of success [in others], depending on what you are looking at."
Klevius: Listen to this utter crap! "Science has its own world-view. No science is created in a vacuum". Two cardinal flaws in just twelve words! Does this muslim fella also believe that "the Western interpretation" 2+2=4 has a corresponding Sharia compliant islamic version?! The choice to look at reality from a certain point of view isn't science, just like what you choose to do with your power tool isn't the power tool!
OK, science doesn't have its own world-view, that's for sure. If it had it wouldn't be science anymore. This is the very definition of science. Just as Negative Human Rights don't have a world-view either, simply because they are supposed to protect you from "world-views".
Science is pure logic* and shouldn't be confused with the scientific process, i.e. including its non-scientific parts, such as choice of topic, background/pre-understanding etc., and the interpretation of results from the scientific part of the scientific process. Nor should flaws in the scientific process (such as e.g. errors, deliberate or accidental) be blamed on scientific logic. And yes, logic could be described as "a vacuum" just like Negative Human Rights is the eliminating of impositions. Logic that is dependent on a worldview is per definition not logic at all, and Human Rights that are dependent on an ideology/world-view (e.g. Sharia) aren't (negative, i.e. the basic freedom rights) Human Rights at all.
As Klevius use to put it: Our most holy duty is to NOT fill the freedom Human Rights with anything! You shouldn't have the positive Sharia "right" to, for example, be raped by your husband; instead you should have the negative right to choose not to have sex. Even a child understands that this latter right doesn't deny you from having sex, only protects you from imposed compulsion. The difference is, as you can see, is mind blowing if you have been raised within an islamic "world-view".
And this is the reason why the islamofascist muslim world organization/Umma, Saudi initiated and based islamofascist OIC with its fanatic Turkish Fuhrer/caliph Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu 1) has abandoned Human Rights and REPLACED THEM WITH SHARIA, and 2) criminalized scrutiny/criticism of islam (the worst racist/sexist hate crime ever against humanity) and calls any critical scrutiny "islamophobia" or "defamation of religion".
* as Klevius has explained in Demand for Resources (1992) pure logic is the pointing out of conceptualized deterministic chains (e.g. 2+2=4) in a universe that is deterministic yet chaotic in the sense that our existence-centrism excludes us from "a total, god-like overview" (see Origin of Universe").
Here's what Klevius wrote about "islamic science" a couple of years ago
One example is the Medieval Indian/Persian Al Beruni whom the notorious islamic mass murderer and enslaver (one of the worst known to history - also called the plunderer of India), Mahmud of Ghazna, imprisoned and let stay alive as long as he submitted to islamic Mohammedanism.
But BBC, Wikipedia etc. happily present this islamic hostage as a "muslim scientist" (sic)!
The bloodthirsty Mohammed is the evil and only pope of islam - and needs to be pierced by Enlightenment so his ignorant followers may be released and his deliberate followers may be ashamed. However, a strategy based on naming evil good seems less appropriate for this task, doesn't it.
It's truly sad that the descendants of islam's victims through 1400 years continue defending their bully!?


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Nov. 28, 2011 (EIRNS)This release was issued today by the Lyndon LaRouche Political Action Committee.
A senior U.S. intelligence source today confirmed that the Joint Chiefs of Staff are on an all-out war-avoidance mobilization, fearing that President Obama isto use a euphemism"unpredictable." The source emphasized that, as long as the Iran situation remains in limbo, the military brass will oppose any other military operations, including against Syria.
What they fear the most, given the Obama wild card, is that they will be drawn into a war that they vehemently oppose, as the result of an Israeli attack against Iran, followed by Iranian retaliation against Israel and U.S. forces and U.S. allies in the Persian Gulf. The United States has bilateral treaty obligations with several of the Gulf Cooperation Council member countries, that would be activated in the event of any Iranian attacks against them.
Once the U.S. is drawn into such a war, there is no limit to the conflict, up to and including the use of nuclear weapons. Additionally, the source emphasized, the U.S. is still deployed in Iraq, and the relationship with Pakistan has become extremely complex. There is greater concern about a military crisis with Pakistan than there is about any conflict involving Syria. And there is still a real possibility of Libya erupting into sectarian violence and civil war. It is for all of these reasons, the source emphasized, that the Pentagon leadership is adamantly opposed to any escalation against Syria or Iran at this time. He added that the only war that the Pentagon wants to fight right now is a war with the Congress over the sequestration/budget cuts.
The source also acknowledged that the Russian position on the U.S. plans for a missile defense system in southern Europe are very legitimate, and must be addressed. Neither the Obama Administration, nor any leading NATO countries, have done enough to draw Russia in to a genuine partnership on the missile defense plans. This has been further exacerbated by Obama's deteriorating relations with both Medvedev and Putin.

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NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif., July 2, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- IPC The Hospitalist Company, Inc. (Nasdaq:IPCM), a leading national hospitalist physician group, announced today that it is expanding its presence in Florida with the acquisition of select operations of Cape Coral Hospitalists, Inc. (CCH), headquartered in Ft. Myers, Florida.
R. Jeffrey Taylor, President and COO of IPC, stated, "This is our second acquisition in Florida in the past 30 days, and we continually look for opportunities to further expand our presence throughout the state. Florida still holds significant growth potential for IPC in both acute and post-acute care facilities. As with any practice we acquire, the physicians joining IPC can look to us for resources and expertise to continually add value to their hospitals and practices, and to constantly improve the quality of patient care."
CCH principal Anand R. Mahadevan, M.D. will continue to provide support to the practice under IPC. Dr. Mahadevan commented, "Joining forces with a strong national company such as IPC ensures that a practice can be solid and stable despite the looming uncertainties of healthcare reform. IPC is clearly the 'go-to' company for independent hospitalist practices considering alternative ways to secure their future. We believe that as a part of IPC, the practice will further enhance its reputation with both facilities and community physicians who rely upon us to deliver high quality and cost-effective care to their patients."
The acquired operations of CCH represent approximately 13,000 encounters on an annualized basis.
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This was written by Allison Brown, a former trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice in the Civil Rights Division's Educational Opportunities Section, and a parent. She founded an education consulting firm that works with school districts and schools to focus on federal compliance through equity and collaboration with students, parents, and communities. Her email address is email@example.com.
By Allison Brown
"You got me guh." That's what D.C. kids say when they're really irritated or just tired of hearing the same old thing. That's how I felt reading Fred Hiatt's piece in The Washington Post that presents publicly funded, privately managed charter schools as the miracle solution to the puzzle of how to improve teaching in schools.
I should say first that I have seen the good that charters can do firsthand. As a charter school parent, charter school board member, legal education consultant — as well as a long-time resident of Southeast Washington, which has been underserved for so long — I get the allure of "choice" in education.
But the public charter versus traditional public school frame is wrong, destructive, and ultimately hurts children. The public education system should not, as some suggest, be set up as a Darwinian or laissez-faire free-market competition. We are talking about educating children, and the grown-ups owe them more than ideological food fights.
Schools should help teachers do their jobs — guide student learning — by empathetically respecting student voice, making learning fun, and incorporating parents in the learning process. This can — and is — happening in many different school management structures. Arguing over whether teachers work better in public versus charter schools is akin to saying it's better to wear blue or gray into a major battle. Why aren't we talking about what tools teachers need to do their jobs?
Charter school champions are fixated on public charter schools as the panacea. Why do they so vociferously advocate for charters, not on their own merits or test scores, but in contrast with the traditional entitlement public school system?
If children truly are our focus, we need to have an honest conversation about just how they are faring under privately managed charter schools.
Once a charter school opens, accountability rests with each school's own board of directors or trustees, usually a group of people with full-time jobs outside of the school. The D.C. Public Charter School Board, which oversees the charters, does not have a transparent system to address family concerns about how a particular school is being run or to handle protests when a child is expelled or simply asked to leave.
Public schools, like them or not, are beholden to that federal web of laws that require such constitutional protections for children as due process prior to the administration of exclusionary student discipline.
There are measures of success that some charter schools celebrate, such as their lofty scores or graduation rates, but they don't reveal how they attained them. There is no real public accounting of how many students in the graduating class were there in the freshman year, or how many students left the school, were forced out, or gently nudged out because "maybe this school isn't the right fit for you."
Similarly, the most competitive traditional public schools pick and choose its "out-of boundary" student population in the same way, pushing students who may lower the school's test scores out the door.
There is no safety net for the kids who aren't a "good fit" in either system, leaving a lot of kids, almost always children of color, to bounce around trying to find a place to learn.
I see countless parents — all parents of color — afraid to advocate on behalf of their children within schools, lest they get singled out and kicked out with no recourse. Being a "system of choice" gives administrators of some of the most competitive schools — traditional public and public charter — an incredible sense of arrogance toward parents and teachers who ask uncomfortable questions or who deign to advocate strongly for their children. You don't like it? Leave.
Traditional public schools have their challenges, not least of which is that they are part of an arcane system trying to operate in a modern, and increasingly flat, world. Public schools are steered toward over-reliance on Common Core standards and other boilerplate and outdated methods of instruction that serve to stifle creativity and generate robotic order.
Even so, advocating for the continuing spread of charter schools unchecked is advocating for the Wild Wild West in education. This focus is on the ideology of free markets, rather than the nuggets of gold within any system that work for our children, including tools, training and resources that teachers need.
We need to have the moral and ethical discussions as we proceed with this educational experimentation. Exploration with impunity is how people — usually people of color who are in the way — get hurt.
As it is today, we get a new crop of charter schools approved each year with no real overall city plan for addressing the needs of the city's most vulnerable students. (Why not situate a voluntary enrollment alternative educational center at an underenrolled high school east of the river, for instance, and solicit charter applications based on that needs-based assessment?)
We simply approve charter applications that are pitched well, but don't follow up or monitor what happens with each child, or give families a real voice in how things are run and how their tax dollars are spent.
Yes, there are many charters getting it right — incorporating students' families in a meaningful way in the learning process, respecting student voice, taking seriously their mission to educate every single child they receive with no excuses. But there are some public schools getting it right too.
We need to stop senselessly hacking away at low-hanging fruit, such as scrutinizing teacher salaries and evaluations (which are only publicly available in the traditional system and not the charters).
Instead, we need to focus our energies on sharing those practices that work in every public school, traditional or charter, and as well study aspects of private and international instruction that work. We need methods other than high-stakes testing to ensure that students are keeping pace academically; we need to stop demonizing teachers and instead elevate the profession; we need to stop competition among schools and school systems.
Anyone who has gone through the process of trying to navigate the D.C. system knows that so-called competition and "choice" is a theory, not a practice. D.C. parents: Raise your hand if you've played the lottery game and lost — and find your child waitlisted everywhere.
If left unchecked, the charter bubble will burst, and if there is no safety net to catch the schools, where will our children be? To say nothing of our tax dollars.
Connecticut and other states have seized on the parent-school compact requirement in the No Child Left Behind Act to develop methods to engage families in academic instruction rather than marginalize parents and accue them of failing their children. Many schools have developed community partnerships so that students are required to volunteer their time rather than be suspended out of school for misbehavior. These are nuggets worth replicating.
Constantly griping and bickering about what color shirt to wear? We all should be guh.
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DETROIT — The Detroit Tigers responded to a jarring injury with an audacious move.
Free-agent first baseman Prince Fielder and the Tigers agreed Tuesday to a nine-year, $214 million contract that fills the American League Central champions' need for a power hitter, a person familiar with the deal said.
Detroit boldly stepped up in the Fielder sweepstakes after the recent knee injury to star Victor Martinez. A week ago, the Tigers announced the productive designated hitter could miss the entire season after tearing his left ACL during offseason conditioning.
The Tigers won their division by 15 games before losing in the AL championship series to Texas. Adding the 27-year-old Fielder gives the Tigers two of the game's premier sluggers, pairing him with Miguel Cabrera.
With Fielder now in the fold, general manager Dave Dombrowski and owner Mike Ilitch have a team that figures to enter the 2012 season as a favorite to repeat in the division — with an eye on winning the franchise's first World Series title since 1984.
The move also keeps Fielder's name in the Tigers' family. His father, Cecil, became a big league star when he returned to the majors from Japan and hit 51 home runs with Detroit in 1990. Cecil played with the Tigers into the 1996 season.
Now is son Prince is a beefy slugger who hit .299 with 38 home runs and 120 RBIs last season. He is a three-time All-Star and was the MVP of last year's game.
Fielder has averaged 40 homers and 113 RBIs over the past five years. He's also been among the most durable players in the majors, appearing in at least 157 games in each of the last six seasons.
Fielder hits left-handed, while Cabrera is a righty. Manager Jim Leyland will get to decide where to put them in the batting order.
"I don't think there's a better right-left combo in any lineup in baseball," Boesch said. "I'm sure Skip's wheels are already turning on how to set them up."
The deal is only the fourth $200 million contract in baseball history, following Alex Rodriguez's $275 million, 10-year contract with the New York Yankees, A-Rod's $252 million, 10-year deal with Texas and Albert Pujols' $240 million, 10-year contract last month with the Los Angeles Angels.
Among current players, Fielder's $23.78 million average salary is behind only A-Rod ($27.5 million), Ryan Howard ($25 million), and Cliff Lee and Pujols ($24 million each).
Dombrowski indicated last week he'd probably seek a short-term solution to Martinez's injury, but he left himself some wriggle room, saying it depended who the replacement was.
Acquiring Fielder opens all sorts of possibilities. For now, Detroit has an opening at DH with Martinez out. But Martinez is in the second year of a $50 million, four-year contract.
One option could be to move Cabrera from first base to third. He played third base regularly for the Florida Marlins before the Tigers acquired him before the 2008 season.
Third baseman Brandon Inge has one year left on a two-year, $11.5 million deal with Detroit.
The Tigers reached the World Series in 2006, but they appeared to be in cost-cutting mode when they traded popular center fielder Curtis Granderson to the New York Yankees after the 2009 season.
It turned out they were simply re-allocating resources. They quickly signed ace Justin Verlander to a five-year deal in early 2010, then added Martinez and standout reliever Joaquin Benoit last offseason.
YANKEES' POSADA RETIRES: Jorge Posada was watching television when he saw speculation on which teams were interested in signing him as a free agent.
"They put my face on different uniforms," he said. "And it didn't look good."
He began as a Yankee and ended as a Yankee, spending his entire career in pinstripes.
Flanked by his wife and children, with five World Series trophies sitting on a table to his right, the five-time All-Star catcher retired at age 40 on Tuesday after 17 major league seasons. He finished with a .273 career batting average, 275 home runs and 1,065 RBIs.
Posada joins Bernie Williams and Andy Pettitte in retirement, leaving only 37-year-old Derek Jeter and 42-year-old Mariano Rivera from the core group that led the Yankees to four World Series titles in five years from 1996-2000.
"Mariano said this is it. He says one more year. But Derek says he's got like three more to go. So we'll see," Posada said, adding he didn't expect the great closer to quit after next season.
"I don't think about it right now. But the time will come," Rivera said. "Definitely the time will come when I'll have to just admit it and hang (up) the glove and the uniform and move on. We all go through that."
Jeter, the Yankees' captain and leader, expects to outlast Rivera.
"Mo's still got to go first. He's a lot older than me," he said before adding with a laugh: "Mo's going to be here longer than all of us."
Shrieking at success and fuming over failure, Posada often was nuclear fission at the center of the Yankees and what became known as the Core Four. While Jeter and Rivera rarely reveals their feelings, and Pettitte does only on occasion, Posada has been a passionate open window into the Yankees, praising, strutting, venting and battling.
"We feel the same way; I'm just better at hiding it. But we feel the same way inside, and I think that's why we've gotten along so well throughout the years," said Jeter, who first played alongside Posada in the minors in 1992.
He has called him "Posado" for years, ever since late Yankee Stadium announcer Bob Sheppard mispronounced his name when he pinch ran for Wade Boggs in Game 2 of the 1995 AL playoffs.
In the same room where Pettitte announced his retirement 111/2 months ago, select season ticket holders were invited to sit in the audience.
Posada talked with great fervor about the team that drafted him on the 24th round in 1991.
"Every time I step through the Yankee Stadium doors," Posada said, "I quoted Joe DiMaggio and said, I want to thank the good Lord for making me a Yankee."
"I could never wear another uniform. I will forever be a Yankee."
Posada's voice broke up, especially when he spoke in Spanish. He thanked his teammates, rubbing his chin three times and wiping his eyes. He called Rivera "my brother" and praised Jeter "who helped me stay focused and positive."
"Hopefully you won't miss me that much," he said.
Diana Munson, wife of the late Yankees catcher Thurman Munson, spoke admiringly of Posada, who kept a quote from her husband in his locker: "Batting fourth and being in the lineup is important, but I think the stuff I do behind the plate is more important." One day at Yankee Stadium, Posada sat next to her and told her about his admiration for the former captain, who died in a plane crash when Posada was 7. She wound up following Posada in the box scores.
"He in fact is the one who brought me back to baseball again. After losing Thurman, I kind of lost my heart for baseball," she said. "He plays the game I think the way Thurman played it: a lot of grittiness, lot of toughness. ... I think he and Thurman would have been best buds. He definitely has the it factor. I can't describe it. I don't know what it is. But I knew immediately upon meeting him that he had it, and I think the Yankee fans also have realized that, and I imagine they're as sad today as we all are."
She was followed by a video of fan tributes and by Lisa and Brett Niederer from Bristol, Wis. She talked about the Jorge Posada Foundation and its emotional support and financial assistance to families affected by craniosynostosis, a disease that causes bones in the skull to fuse prematurely.
Jorge Jr. has had nine operations, and Lisa Niederer was watching on television when the father and son went onto the field together during the introductions for the 1992 All-Star game. Brett, then 21/2, was diagnosed the disease around the start of that year, and they talked about the Posada family's assistance.
"I knew we were not alone anymore," said Lisa, who has become a mentor for the foundation.
When the focus returned to baseball, Posada recalled how he started his professional career as a shortstop, was moved to second base and was asked by the Yankees to move to catcher after the 1991 season.
"I felt like it was the worst decision ever," he said, remembering all the passed balls he allowed while catching top draft pick Brien Taylor. "It was not a pretty sight."
He went on to have one of the better offensive careers by a catcher. The switch-hitting Posada made the decision to retire during a season that turned tumultuous May 14 when he was batting .165 and was dropped to No. 9 in the batting order against Boston. He asked to be taken out of the lineup, saying he wasn't ready to play.
Posada rallied to hit .268 for the rest of the season, leaving him with a .235 average, 14 homers and 44 RBIs. And then on Sept. 21, his two-run pinch-hit single beat Tampa Bay to clinch the AL East and earn another huge ovation. He hit .429 (6 for 14) in the five-game loss to Detroit in the division series.
Yankees manager Joe Girardi and general manager Brian Cashman said that was just a blip in his career — part of Posada's fiery disposition, the one that drew fans to him, one that he may take with him into coaching or managing — after the Yankees likely honor him with a tribute this year.
That nature caused him to tell his agents not to negotiate with other teams.
"They kept saying that people are asking about you," Posada said. "I'm like — not interested."
LINCECUM, GIANTS REACH AGREEMENT: Two-time NL Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum and the San Francisco Giants reached a verbal agreement Tuesday on a two-year contract worth $40.5 million.
The deal includes a $500,000 signing bonus and salaries of $18 million this year and $22 million in 2013, a person familiar with the agreement said Tuesday.
Lincecum had asked for a near-record $21.5 million in salary arbitration and had been offered $17 million by the club. He remains eligible for free agency following the 2013 season.
The 27-year-old right-hander, the winning pitcher in the Game 5 World Series clincher at Texas in 2010, earned $13.1 million last season when he finished a two-year deal worth $23.2 million.
PENA RETURNS TO RAYS: Slugger Carlos Pena is excited about returning to the Tampa Bay Rays and bolstering hopes for another run for the playoffs.
The 33-year-old first baseman officially rejoined the team he helped advance to the postseason in 2008 and 2010 after passing a physical Tuesday. He agreed to a $7.25 million, one-year deal last week after spending 2011 with the Chicago Cubs.
"I have so many great memories here. I look forward to creating even better ones," Pena said during a news conference at Tropicana Field. "I'm very optimistic about what the future holds for me, but most importantly for the ballclub."
Pena played for the Rays for four seasons from 2007-10, averaging 36 home runs, 102 RBIs and 93 walks. He was the AL comeback player of the year in 2007 and an All-Star in 2009.
COLON SIGNS WITH ATHLETICS: The Oakland Athletics and free agent right-hander Bartolo Colon have agreed to terms on a $2 million, one-year contract, bolstering their depleted starting rotation.
The team made the announcement Tuesday. The sides had an agreement last week pending a physical.
The 38-year-old Colon, a former A's nemesis during his four-year stint with the AL West rival Angels from 2004-07, went 8-10 with a 4.00 ERA in 29 appearances and 26 starts last year for the New York Yankees in his 14th big league season. He won the 2005 AL Cy Young Award.
MARTIN, YANKEES REACH DEAL: All-Star catcher Russell Martin and the New York Yankees avoided salary arbitration Tuesday when they agreed to a $7.5 million, one-year contract.
The deal, announced Tuesday, was $100,000 under the midpoint between the $8.2 million he had asked for in arbitration and the $7 million the Yankees had offered when proposed salaries were exchanged last week. Martin also can earn performances bonuses.
Martin hit .237 with 18 homers and 65 RBIs last year for the Yankees, who signed him after the Los Angeles Dodgers failed to offer a contract. He had a $4 million base salary and earned $1,375,000 in performance bonuses.


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WASHINGTON — Washington. -- Although I have never been pregnant, I know what it's like to want a drink at the end of the day. And I can't imagine that lugging around the extra weight would make me want that drink any less. Yet it has been official U.S. Government policy since 1981 that women should not drink alcoholic beverages during pregnancy because of ''the risk of birth
Total abstinence. As of November 1989, this warning has been required on every bottle of beer, wine and hard liquor. In a celebrated recent incident, a pregnant woman ordered a strawberry daiquiri in a Seattle restaurant and was handed the warning label from a beer bottle instead.
A government pamphlet for pregnant women says no alcohol ''even on infrequent occasions,'' and recommends instead meditation, pounding a pillow ''or writing out your feelings.'' I have chosen the latter course. My feeling is that this campaign is totally out of hand.


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Quit showing spectators effect after effect, and give them an experience instead! That's exactly what Cas na Clocha is: an experience your audience won't forget.
This magical and mystifying experience is a multi-phase encounter with the spectator. They get to immerse themselves in the story of an ancient con game, where the spectator must determine which end of a stick placed into a box has the odd-colored stone. Though it sounds simple, the routine ups the ante in each phase through pseudo-explanations until a kicker ending they won't see coming. It's a sucker's game, but the presentation lets everyone leave feeling good--baffled, but good.
The routining has been thought-out from start to finish. The online instructions give ample advice on angles, performance, psychology and more. The handling is based on sleights that are simple to learn, and the apparatus resets instantly. Given how easy this is to perform, many magicians will be performing this very quickly.
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State DOT to remove fence on city road
"I received confirmation from the DOT today that the fence will start coming down tomorrow and should be gone within 10 days," said Wallace, a Democrat representing the 109th District.
Neighbors complained the fence, which surrounds property owned by the state Department of Transportation , was an eyesore that encroached on the neighborhood. They compared the 8-foot fence to everything from the Berlin Wall to a prison fence.
"That's good they're taking it down," said Bob Conley , a contractor who lives on nearby Rockwell Road. "It'll take away an eyesore and a lot of people will be happy."
The fence went up this summer, as part of a massive DOT renovation of the property, where the state keeps trucks, plows, materials and other equipment to maintain Interstate 84.
Wallace said fences were put up at all DOT installations as a security measure, regardless of location.
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Los Cuatro Vientos – The Four Winds
Location: Roosevelt and usually 67th St.
Time: When the sun goes down.
This is my newest favorite truck. I can't believe I didn't know about it until last month. The tacos are packed with meat. The selections are plentiful. The food is salty and soft and fatty. Everything I could ever want. Also, the onions are caramelized just a bit on the carnitas. It's great. I think I would prefer this to even Coatzingo. I can only recall 3 tacos I've enjoyed moreso than here, al pastor at Bety's in Corona, carnitas at El Globo and that one where they have the spit on the street on Roosevelt. All 3 of those I need to do more research on.
There is a lot of English on this menu, the operators are good communicators and are sweethearts. I highly recommend you try a taco from here – but watch out daysiders, they only run late into the night.
Al Pastor – Shepherd style pork. This is similar to a gyro, schwarma or doner. The only tacos I wouldn't recommend here are the al pastor. This may be a lesson in taco trucks, as it makes sense it's not great. It's not freshly cut from the spit. It nearly tastes plastic. I am pretty sure they don't create the taco filling themselves. I've tried all the other beef and pork tacos, they are highly recommended.
de pollo – chicken
de carne enchilada – spicy pork
de lengua – tongue
de carnitas – fried pork
de campechano – beef steak and with Mexican sausage. Translation: Hearty
de suadero – brisket of beef. Smoother texture. Steamed.
de pernil – Roast Pork
sobrebarriga – Flank steak
de bistek – steak
de cecina – salted beef
Most people get tacos here, and so far I can't resist having a taco. The rest of the menu is sort of a mystery, as I haven't seen any of this in real life, but the translations are below.
Tortas – Mexican Sandwich
Tortas Milanesa – I'm not sure why they phrase it this way. You can usually have milanesa de res (fried steak cutlet) or milanesa de pollo (fried chicken cutlet)
Tostadas – Fried open-faced tortilla
Tacos Dorados – AKA Flautas (flutes). Rolled, skinny, fried tortilla with fillings. Flautas are flour tortillas, taquitos are corn tortillas. I'm not sure what they sell here.
Quesadillas – a cheesecentric dish.
Gorditas – Kind of like a sandwich with a thick tortilla shell. I'm not sure how they do them here. translation: little fat girl.
Sopes – palm sized, thick tortillas (usually made on the grill), open faced sandwich
Guaraches – AKA Huaraches (said same way). Translation: sandal. The translation gives a clue to what they look like. Usually they are about a foot long, with a fried homemade shell and hold their long list of ingredients on top, open face style.
Tamales – a corn based dough with a filling, steamed inside a banana leaf.
Champurrado – Hot chocolate
Arroz con leche – rice milk
aguas frescas – translation: fresh waters. This is usually Horchata and jamaica drinks, where they have the huge tub of a drink they make. I'm not sure if they make any here. It's possible there's some in cups in a fridge aboard the ship.
Jarritos – sodas
soda de lata – Canned soda
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President Medvedev's vision of Russia's Future - Right on ends, but wrong on means
President Dmitry Medvedev's speech of November 12, 2009, has attracted a lot of interest. He spoke out for a "modernization" drive of the Russian economy. This was not the first speech on this topic, either by Medvedev or by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, and this speech was an elaboration on his "Forward, Russia" article. Even so, delivered during the solemn "Address to the Nation," it was a very significant event.
President Medvedev's made "modernization" the spinal chord of his whole intervention. It is beyond doubt that the modernization issue is a vital one for Russia and certainly there are a lot of very positive things said in this speech. There is no doubt that production and exports of commodities have assumed too large a role in the economy. There is no doubt that the process of innovation, and the process of bringing innovation in the productive sphere, is not developed enough in today's Russia.
There was too a focus on energy efficiency. The Russian economy is wasting energy on a giant scale, and the president rightly acknowledged this. The shift toward a true energy-efficiency strategy is an important one for Russia and, to the contrary to what is frequently thought, is certain to be much profitable. Energy wasted today could be sold tomorrow. By the same token, nobody can deny that corruption is widespread in Russia. Certainly, the time when the ugliest crimes were related to the economy is a past era. But corruption has been and still is a burden for Russia.
However, for all its positive content, there are many points unanswered and many questions left open.
First of all, the speech embarked onto the now fashionable opposition between "old" and "smart" industries. But things are much less clear-cut. There are considerable opportunities for innovation and high-technology processes in so-called "traditional" industries. In the production of steel or aluminium one can introduce modern and even high-tech technologies. The development of biotechnologies does not take place in isolation from agricultural production. Biotechnologies are extremely important in the development of new ways of processing food, but also in deriving new products from traditional ones like combination of alimentation and medicine. It is also obvious that in some industrial sectors, like carmaking and aerospace, the application of new technology is extremely important.
As a result, the necessary drive toward new, high value-added, technologies will not take place in isolation with the development of "traditional" industries, but much more complementarily with them. By the same token, it is not true that Russia's industry has been stagnant in recent years. The rise in labour productivity is actually proof of the contrary. In the non-extractive industry, from 2003 to 2008 we have seen a rise of 148%. In construction, the increase was 169.6% and in transport and communications, 152.4%; as a whole, global economic productivity increased by nearly 145%. There has been progress outside the oil and gas industry.
However, the issue of the "new development model" is certainly a central one. President Medvedev rightly made it a core point of his speech. But he probably erred when he bluntly attacked state corporations. That their management can be improved is an obvious fact. But their privatization is not the solution.
First, one has to wonder why Russia has developed these state corporations after having privatized most of its industry in the previous decade. The reason is obvious. Private investors have been unable and/or unwilling to develop these industries. One can discuss the reason why, but it is a fact. The development of some key industries has to be done by the state or not at all.
Second, one has to reckon with a simple fact: in Russia only the state has the financial power to develop some sectors. We can understand why we ended up in this situation. People's savings were destroyed twice in the 1990s. They could not support large investment funds. Savings are made only through export revenues, which are either channelled directly to the state budget through taxes or indirectly through state enterprises.
Third, the possibility of floating state corporations looks very remote today. Foreign investors will be much more interested by short-term investment. By the way, some of these corporations are far too strategic to be left to foreign investors.
What Russia is now facing is a form of the "Dutch Disease." This explains why private investors are reluctant to invest outside export sectors. The main clue is the exchange rate of the ruble. In real terms, according to the Central Bank, it increased by nearly 50% from January 2005 till June 2008. The crisis brought a sharp devaluation, but not an enduring one. We are now again at more the 35% than the January 2005 value. In such a situation, it will be very difficult to develop industries other than in the raw-materials sector.
This overvaluation is directly the result of the liberalized currency exchange system, and a strong state sector is an attempt to compensate for this exports-induced overvaluation.
Actually, only a return to a current-account only convertibility system, with some exceptions for long-term foreign investment but also the creation of a special exchange sector for exporters, is able to support the modernization policy on the scale and scope envisioned by President Medvedev. But, he has been silent on this issue…
Jacques Sapir, Professor of economics and Director of the CEMI Research Center at EHESS (Paris)
The opinions expressed in this article are the author's and do not necessarily represent those of RIA Novosti.
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Louisville earns its dogpile celebration
After clinching at least a share of the Big East title Friday night, the Louisville baseball team chose NOT to celebrate its title in the usual way - a dogpile.
Instead, the Cardinals said they would wait until after Saturday's final game. They shook Pittsburgh's hands and huddled in right field for their usual postgame pow-wow.
It was a risky move. If Pitt won Saturday's game, the Panthers would tie the Cardinals for the league title, and UofL likely wouldn't be in the mood to celebrate a shared title.
And for a program that cherishes its dogpile photos - they are displayed prominently around the stadium - losing a chance to dogpile in celebration of the program's fourth title in five years would be brutal.
But the Cardinals didn't have to miss out. They scored five runs in the third inning and fended off a Pittsburgh comeback to win sole possession of the Big East regular-season championship with a 7-4 win.
"I would have celebrated yesterday, but I left it up to them," coach Dan McDonnell said. The Cardinals' coach said he'd never want to miss a chance to dogpile in celebration, but he noted it speaks to his team's maturity and focus.
The Cardinals will be the No. 1 seed in the Big East tournament next week. They also won their 16th straight game and are the hottest team in college baseball.


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Well meaning friends making comments that use balanced argument to 'help' me see the world as they do.
They aren't suicidal so their point of view must be healthier.
I've seen the other person's side for most of my life. I can see that people behave in a way that was in a reaction to their own problems. But if their actions (for very good reasons I know) have had an effect on me that means that I want to kill or self harm. Then please
- don't ask me to try and understand their side
- don't ask me to stop seeing my hurt 'because theirs is more understandable'
In order to stop the self destruct I need to see my side. I need to remember that from my point of view they damage me (not meaning to I know, I KNOW, I KNOW).
The desire to harm / destruct myself is an effort to validate to myself the pain that nobody else can see.
Please don't drive me closer to it.


text: DELONG - Jeffery L. Allen, 50, died Wednesday in his home after an illness. Survivors include a daughter, Angel Keppler of Elkader, Iowa; a son, Jason of Knox; his parents, Margaret and Floyd Allen of Delong; two sisters, Julie Ketcham of LaPorte and Barb Brown of Peru, Ind.; and two brothers, Alan and Pat, both of Delong. Services will be at 1 p.m. EDT Saturday in Gospel Lighthouse Church of Delong. Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. EDT today in Rannells Funeral Home, Hamlet Chapel, and two hours before services in the church.


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The Colorado Lottery, like all such institutionalized games of chance, has a potential downside. As a game with dramatically high odds that favor the house, the lottery's success is based upon investment from those who are very unlikely to see any return. For most people, purchasing a lottery ticket is about as smart an expenditure as lighting a dollar bill on fire. But the community benefit the lottery's 30 years has brought makes the investment worth it, regardless of how slim the odds of each of us hitting the jackpot.
For La Plata County, those three decades have meant $19.1 million in Great Outdoors Colorado and Conservation Trust Fund grants, as well as educational programming through lottery funding to Colorado Parks and Wildlife. That hefty sum, leveraged by local investment, has produced many amenities that are iconic of life in Durango. Dallabetta Park, Horse Gulch, Jacob's Cliffs open space, the Cameron-Sterk property – now known as Oxbow Park & Preserve – land along the river, upon which the Animas River Trail now sits, the La Plata County Fairgrounds and the city of Durango's multi-use fields are all realities because of lottery funding, administered through GOCO or the CTF, which is for open-space purchase. Those monies are often matched by a local investment, and the city of Durango in particular has been savvy in leveraging local dollars to secure the state funding for big purchases and projects. As Parks and Recreation Director Cathy Metz said, "GOCO grants are pretty competitive, but we've gotten our share. Conservation Trust Fund dollars are distributed on a per capita basis, and we've managed to leverage those dollars with city dollars to make some nice open space purchases."
Nice indeed. Horse Gulch, Jacob's Cliffs and Oxbow Park in particular are key landscapes whose long-term protection as open space is critical to Durango's identity. Each of these, and the many other acquisitions and improvements made possible by lottery money, contributes significantly to the quality of life in Durango. There is no shortage of places to recreate – in fact, the number and scale of amenities is growing at a clip – in, and near, the city. Biking, hiking, boating, ball-playing, equestrian activities and just enjoying the great outdoors are integral values in Durango and La Plata County, and lottery money has played a huge role in making that possible.
As we celebrate Earth Day today, with an eye toward how to make cities greener and transportation and energy cleaner, it is worth a look around our community to see just how much we have invested toward that goal. The funding brought about by the Colorado Lottery has contributed in no small amount to making Southwest Colorado a cleaner and greener place to live, with the welcome byproduct of many fun activities for residents and visitors, young and old. The state has administered this funding well, and the city of Durango in particular has been skillful and strategic in securing that money to build out its vision for parks, open space and trails.


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Marketers are already making changes to their data management policies and processes as they prepare for the enforcement of GDPR in 2018.
And with increased scrutiny for consumers, regarding the way their details are handled, the best policy is transparency.
So, I thought I'd share some examples which make it crystal clear to consumers why customer data is collected, how it's handled and how customers can opt-out.
A couple of my examples take it a step further too and have adopted video as a way of presenting their policies in an engaging format.
Channel 4: Our Viewer Promise – Time: 2:02
What I love about it:
- Uses a popular figure as endorsement to attract attention
- Uses humour, without understating the value of the message
- Communicates why, how and for what purpose data is collected
The Guardian: Why your data matters to us – Time: 1:35
What I love about it:
- Explains what happens to the money earned from advertisers
- Highlights the benefits of giving data to the Guardian
- Reassures the customer that they are in control and that their data is in safe hands
The publisher also produced another video going into more detail regarding their privacy policy.
Slack: Our Privacy Principles
I know that not all companies have extensive video or animation budgets, so I thought I'd share a good written example too. Slack, a workplace messaging platform, have followed some of the principles of transparency from the videos above in writing. The platform clearly communicates:
- What happens to the data: 'We don't own team communication data. Teams own their data. They like it that way and so do we.'
- Data request from law enforcement in a Transparency Report. Very handy, in light of government surveillance concerns!
- Type of data collected: 'We collect different kinds of information. Some of it is personally identifiable and some is non-identifying or aggregated. Here are the types of information we collect or receive…'
Have you seen a great example of a data policy? Do share!


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Chris Rock came with it on his opening monologue at the 2014 BET Awards. He went in using 2014 highlights including, Jay Z, Oprah, Donald Sterling and Rick Ross. My favorite was when he declared the West won over the East when Dr. Dre made $3B off Beats by Dre. WATCH NOW Chris Rock – […]
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'Eat the cake, Anna Mae!': Jay Z delivers Tina Turner lyric at the Grammys
She danced like a desperate stripper waiting for her trick to save her 'cause her weave got wet looking like a wet poodle. He rapped he was Ike Turner and beat his wife to eat the cake like Anna Mae. I'm being sarcastic, but that pretty much sums up my analysis of Jay-Z and Beyoncé's […]
GNSF! Odessa Kane Celebrates San Diego Music Award Best Hip-Hop Album Win @ Bar Pink
Official Party Pics celebrating Odessa Kane San Diego Music Awards Best Hip-Hop Album Win and his wife Ree Obaña Quiñones Birthday @ Bar Pink!! Salute to everyone who came out and showed love! It was turnt up as a mutha last night. #listentoOdessaKane Go purchase S.D.'s Best Hip-Hop Album Cuetes & Balisongs
GNSF! SD Music Awards Hip-Hop Nominees ft. Odessa Kane #CuetesandBalisongs
The San Diego Music Awards started in 1991, as a way to recognize the achievements of our diverse local music community. Now in its 23rd year, the SDMAs presents awards in 27 categories. According to SDMA, all of the genre categories are voted on by the public. All of the album categories are voted on […]
GN$F! Grammys Turn-ons & Turn-offs
GRAMMYS Biggest turn-offs: Juanes intro'd Frank Ocean? Wiz Khalifa's superugly suit showing his skeleton chest; Nas losing to Drake, FUN's rain performance=lipsync? Rihanna's extra ombre weave and stripper dress. Biggest turn-ons: Seeing Nas in a suit; Bruno Mars rocking with Sting #Perfect; Carrie Underwood's visual arts dress #feltlikeakid; Alicia Keys reminding me of Shiela E. […]
GNSF! NYC's Village Voice Names 'Popmaster Fabel' Best Hip-Hop Professor
GN$F! wants to congratulate "Fabel" for his latest achievement for being recognized as Best Hip-Hop Professor in NYC. That's big. And thanks to Fabel and his partner-in-crime, Christie Z-Pabon, for all the good work they do in giving us Hip-Hop park jams, which keep the culture alive and suave.
GNSF! [WINNERS VIDEO] ALMA 2012 so short but dazzling
I got lucky stumbling on The 2012 NCLR ALMA Awards ceremony. I swear to GOD, Latinos really get the short end of the stick when it comes to mainstream recognition. When it was 8:58PM, the show got shut down – they said
GNSF! YO! 619! Come Party With Ya Girl at Jack Daniels 'SoundDiego' LIVE
YO! San Diego! GN$F! wants to invite you to come party at the Propagandist on Sept. 27. Enjoy music from Black Sands (2012 SD Music Award winner) and Todo Mundo (2011 SDMA winner and 2012 SDMA nominee).
GNSF! See Who Made S.D. Music Awards Nominations in Hip-Hop
Best Hip Hop Blame One Black Mikey El Gun Legro Odessa Kane Orko Eloheim Parker & The Numberman theBREAX Vokab Kompany Best Hip Hop Album Autopsy – 21 Bodies Black Mikey – Premeditated Music Bully Blinders – Moon Under Eyelids Don Diego – All Red Everythang Left Handed Scientists – Kill Your Present Future Parker […]
GNSF! 'Urban Legends' Auction Artwork Graffiti Exhibit
You may have just missed out on 45 years worth of graffiti artwork. But GN$F! was there and given a personal tour by Shawni D (Esteria.org) to see the works of 31 incredible artists from around the world, including Los Angeles's Mear One, ABCNT, Estevan Oriol, Pablo Cristi (GN$F! favorite), Chaz Bojorquez, Judy Baca, YOU […]


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Fashion week is definitely an exciting time for designer shows but impressive street style from editors, blogger, models and other fashion influencers from this time, is giving us major daily wear goals!
Bloggers like Akanksha Redhu and Aien Jamir and designers like Masaba showed us what comfort is in crop tops, crisp white t-shirts and khaki printed comfy-wear. Scroll through our photo gallery to see all the looks.
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An archive dedicated to the preservation of records associated with the history and construction of the motorways and major trunk roads of Glasgow.
Construction of the motorway system was a considerable engineering achievement which transformed travel across the region. Today, Glasgow has more miles of urban motorway than any other UK city.
The Glasgow Inner Ring Road was planned as an urban motorway route around the city centre. Only the north and west flanks were constructed, and today, these carry the M8 motorway through the city. Click here to view our IRR articles!
The story of Glasgow's motorways can be traced back to the 1940s. This section provides background on the planning & development of the motorway system, & includes a timeline of important dates.
The Glasgow motorway system is made up of a number of major routes, including, the M73, M74, M77, M8, M80 & M898. This index provides links to our articles on each route, as well as some important facts & figures.
For further information on the history of Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick & Partners, and specifically on Scott Wilson in Scotland, we recommend Jim McCafferty's excellent website on the subject. Click below for more.
The Glasgow Motorway Archive seeks to provide a comprehensive and factually accurate historic resource. To find out who we are, and why we are here, be sure to check out the About Us page!
Our M8 Renfrew Bypass page has been extensively updated to include over 100 exclusive construction photos & key project dates!
The photos have been supplied by Mr Barrie Old, a retired civil engineer who worked on the project from 1965 to 1967. Barrie worked for Peter Lind on Stage 1 of the project. It opened to traffic in March 1968.
Click below to read about the first section of M8 to open in the west of Scotland!
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The climate of New Bern is as nearly an ideal one as can be found anywhere
in the United States, if not in the world. You can live out doors,
comfortably ten months in the year, roses bloom in the open yards eleven,
and sometimes twelve months or every month in the year.
We have but two winter months--January and February, and with but very few days exception, outdoor work can be carried on without interruption from weather conditions throughout the entire year. During the winter of 1904-5 we had but one snow storm, this fell early in February and lasted for three days only. Ploughing was carried on during January and February with few interruptions.
Potato planting began early in March, and by April first much of the tender vegetables were transplanted in the open ground. On April 5th, many of the roses and other tender flowering shrubs and plants were in full bloom, and on April 15th, the trees were all in full leaf, and this has been reckoned a rather backward spring. A description of the soil around New Bern can best be made by quoting from a report made by the United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Soils, co-operating with the North Carolina Department of Agriculture, 1904, giving an exhaustive report of a soil survey made of the Craven area, which is situated in Eastern North Carolina from 35 to 75 miles from the Atlantic Ocean, between meridian 77 and 77-30 west from Greenwich and parallells 35 and 35-30 north longitude comprising 897 square miles and includes parts of six counties. This report sys:
"The City of New Bern, (Craven County) is situated in this area about eight miles from the south-east corner and the character of the soils in and around New Bern is laid down in the topographic map of this survey, as being largely composed of Potsmouth sandy loam and Norfolk sand.
The distinctive features of these soils are given in this report as follows:
"Portsmouth sandy loam, consists of from ten to twenty inches of a rather coarse loose dark-gray sandy loam, underlain by a mottled gray and yellow sandy clay subsoil.
"Cotton, corn, hay and other forage crops produce well on this soil, as do many of the truck crops, such as Sweet and Irish potatoes, cabbage, &c. Small fruits are also grown successfully. Near New Bern, where this type of soil is well drained and heavily fertilized, the staple crops, as well as truck crops and small fruits give remarkably large yields.
"Here cotton yields from one to two bales per acre, corn from 40 to 80 bushels, hay from one to two tons at each cutting and the vegetables in like proportion.
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Will of John Deane
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In the name of God Amen. I John Deane of St. John's Mason and labourer being of sound and disposing mind memory and understanding but mindful of my mortality do this twenty ninth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty three make and publish this my last will and testament in manner and form following First I give and recommend my soul into the hands of Almighty God that gave it and I desire to be buried with as little expense as possible. I have now at my credit in the Savings Bank about fifty four pounds currency Mr. Edward Morris of the Bank is indebted to me in the sum of one pounds cy. and I desire my executors to sell my bed and bedding and effects and to pay my funeral expenses and also the sum of one pound ten shillings to the widow Hannon which sum I owe her. About twenty one years ago I fell indebted to Messrs. Perkins & Morgans of South East pier head Swansea in Wales in the sum of about fifty pounds sterling and it is my desire and request that my executors shall draw my money from the Savings Bank and after paying my funeral expenses and Mrs. Hannon aforesaid remit the balance then remaining on their hands to the Reverend Charles Kavanagh, R.C. Clergyman now living at South West Swansea to be by his Reverance paid over to the aforesaid Perkins & Morgans the said Perkins & Morgans at the time above mentioned were Colm and Coal Merchants and Father Kavanagh will please take their receipt and forward to me or one of my executors. And I nominate and appoint Mr. Henry Roach and Mr. James Power executors of this my last will and testament hereby revoking all former and other wills and testaments by me at any time heretofore made. In witness whereof I have to this my last will and testament set and subscribed my hand and seal at St. John's, Newfoundland the day and year first above written. John Deane (LS) Signed sealed published and declared by the said testator John Deane as and for his last will and testament in the presence of us who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses thereto. Hy. Devereux, Not. Pub. Henry Roche. James Power.
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-Label each task with a simple "I can statement" or SLO (student learning objective). This helps the student, anyone possibly working with the student, and anyone in the classroom who is observing to better understand the goal the student is working on.
-Label boxes with students names (and possibly color coded or with a shape) so that students can identify their boxes and independently retrieve them for work time. (I change the activities in the boxes daily.)
-Move past the boring alphabet matching activities... Make letter matching more meaningful by having them match the letters in their names, places in the community, or one of their parent's names!
-For students who are working on matching pictures, picture symbols or words, have students match words/pictures in specific content areas linked to the Common Core (like words about Earth's materials, Solar System, landmarks, United States Presidents, bodies of waters, etc. The list is really never ending, but stop having kids just match basic pictures of food, toys, and body parts!
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SCHERERVILLE, Ind. (AP) Â? A Lake County sheriff's department helicopter crashed in a farm field Tuesday evening.
Two people were aboard when the helicopter crashed in a field a few miles southwest of Gary while on a training mission about 6 p.m., said Tony Molinaro, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman.
The pilot, Lt. Rick Bruner, was showing Sgt. George Nistorovich how to handle an engine failure, sheriff's department spokesman Mike Higgins said. But the engines failed to restart and the helicopter dropped and landed on its skids.
Nistorovich was treated at a hospital for a minor head cut and released, Higgins said.
Television images from Chicago station WLS showed the helicopter upright in a recently planted field with a small amount of debris around the site.
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Warmingtons Garage has been based in Bideford since 1927 serving Bideford, Torrington and Barnstaple. Chris Beer, Managing Director, served his apprenticeship with Warmingtons in the 1970s and took over the business in 2003.
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Tenancy agreement registration
Ve.N.I.Ce. Immobiliare Cera s.r.l. deals with tenancy contracts for residential and commercial use, as real estate brokers.
Moreover, thanks to VENICE Cera Real Estate Services Center, customers will be able to register tenancy contracts also for the account of third parties, both for contracts about properties located in the municipality of Venice and throughout the national territory. For further information please visit the website www.ceraservice.it.
How long does it take to register a tenancy contract?
The tenancy contract is registered in electronic way using the appropriate platform of the "Agenzia delle Entrate", allowing the operator to register directly from his PC; the time can vary according to the amount of work, from a couple of days to about a week. When registration is made you will receive an e-mail stating that your contract has been registered and ready to be picked up at our Real Estate Agency.
What is the deadline by which you must register the tenancy contract?
The deadline is 30 days from the date of execution or the starting date (if earlier).
Who should pay the contract registration?
The registration tax is equally divided between the landlord and the tenant, on the other hand stamp duties are the sole responsibility of the tenant (a stamp duty of 16 euros every 100 lines of contract).
On the contrary, regarding the contract submitted to the so-called Cedolare Secca (alternative to the ordinary tax regime, which can be chosed by the landlord) these charges are not present.


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So today, I'll leave you with something I have been thinking about for the past few day: finding freedom in Jesus Christ.
At times when I go to bed, instead of falling asleep I find my mind filling up with memories. Not the kind that bring a smile on my face and an occasional chuckle out of me. Rather, my mind is filled with embarrassments and failures that I'd rather forget than ever go through again.
What is this freedom in Christ, that we hear of so often? Shouldn't freedom in Christ be like freedom of speech? That I can do whatever I want without being put into jail or experiencing any consequences? That I can say and do anything without having to feel guilty or oppressed for it?
Um, sorry, no.
In Christ, there is love. Never-ending, unconditional love. That is the freedom I find in Christ. God sees the depths of my heart - even the parts I don't know. He sees and knows the wickedness present in my heart, yet He chooses to love me. He knew my heart even before I was born, and chose to give His Son to die on the cross for my sins. God still knows the depths of my heart and all the wickedness in there, but chooses to see my heart as pure, as I am covered with the blood of His begotten Son. He chose to die so that I could live.
|Turku University, taken when I was waiting for an entrance exam interview to start. I didn't end up getting in to study.
Don't get me wrong, though. Just because God loves me no matter what I do or am doesn't mean that I can go and do the worst things and be okay with it. God still calls me to follow His commandments. There are many things I shouldn't do and say as a Christian. But now, I know I am always loved. And that changes my whole world.


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in service with GHQ believed to be at Archerfield, Brisbane in June-July
1942. The three personnel in the foreground are:
left: Lt Robert S. Clinkscales (co-pilot)
centre: Major Henry C. Godman (pilot)
right: Colonel Joe Sherr (GHQ Cryptanalyst)
Lt Clinkscales was later killed in a B-29 which was rammed by a Japanese aircraft over Yawata, Japan.
Henry Godman passed away in October 1996 in Alamogordo, New Mexico.
Colonel Sherr was killed in an air crash en route to New Delhi in September 1943. Earlier he had been evacuated from Corregidor with General MacArthur because he was a master of cryptanalysis. He was subsequently a major factor in the creation of the Central Bureau codebreaking outfit.
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I reviewed Xandria's current album, Sacrificium, last week and here's the newest video from it for the song "Nightfall". The album's due for release on May 5th through Napalm Records.
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Once again, a record-hot winter for CaliforniaPosted by Jim at Tuesday, March 17, 2015
By Andrea Thompson
6 March 2015
(Climate Central) – As Yogi Berra famously said, "it's déjà vu all over again." While much of the eastern U.S. digs out from yet another snow and ice storm, the West has capped off a decidedly toasty winter.
In fact, California, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, and Washington each saw their hottest winter on record, according to data released Friday by the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC).
For California, this winter eclipsed the previous record set just last year — a symptom of the area of high pressure off the West Coast that has stubbornly stayed in place and kept temperatures elevated. It also serves as a potential sign of how the average temperature for the year may turn out, not welcome news for a state parched and in drought.
From December through January, California recorded an average temperature a solid 1.5°F above last year's mark. For just the first two months of this year, temperatures are 1°F hotter than last year, which ended as the hottest year on record by nearly 2 degrees.
"The state is already off to a large head start compared to last year," NCDC climatologist Jake Crouch said in an email. "While it is too early to speculate on whether California will see another record warm year, 2015 is off to an impressive start." And if it doesn't set the record, it will likely still be among the leaders, Mike Anderson, the California state climatologist, said in an email. [more]
Once Again, A Record-Hot Winter for California
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I remember my instructor telling me that he could have as good a practice with a beginner as with an experienced student. I find that this goal can actually be achieved. Treating an attack as serious, and moving the same way one would with another uke, is the key. As an Aikido instructor I sometimes see my student's technique decline slightly when working with a new person : ( The focus probably goes from "doing my best" to "helping the new person." The truth is, people learn by observation. If my technique is weak, then my partner, a new student, will not be learning the best either. Now, if someone has trouble with taking Ukemi, then, a good throw can still be done. I teach my students to throw at normal speed, and then slow down a the end to le the beginner fall on their own. I disagree with the statement made that a better person is necessary for development. It is ideal, in general, but I have only my students to practice with mainly, and I have improved, so obviously it is not necessary. Even if a new person stays one day, as long as they know the attack, you're golden. To do your BEST technique, with a beginner, that is a real achievement.
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10 Best First Date Restaurants: Fort Worth
Looking for the 10 Best First Date Restaurants: Fort Worth? If you are going on a first date and need to find a restaurant that is suitable for a first date experience, there are plenty of restaurants in Fort Worth which are first date experience. Below is a list of 10 restaurants to consider when going on a first date in Forth Worth:
- La Familia – This restaurant welcomes their guests to their dining room with low seating and lighting so that you can dine comfortably. Try their well-known taco salad. It's a great casual option if you are looking for a fuss free establishment for your first date. 841 Foch St. ,Fort Worth, TX 76107
- El Asadero Mexican Restaurant – This restaurant is family owned and operated. The staff at this restaurant now what you look for in a meal. They offer live music to enjoy your meal with and they serve authentic Mexican dishes such as refried bean and pollo en mole, making for a memorable first date experience. 1535 N. Main St., Fort Worth, TX 76106
- Joe T – This restaurant serves items such as pico de gallo, refried beans and cheese nachos in a family friendly atmosphere so that you can happily enjoy your meal and your date. 2201 N. Commerce St., Fort Worth, TX 76106
- Blue Mesa Grill – This restaurant focuses on tacos, tortillas and enchildadas. Their drinks consist of over 80 different kinds of labels. If you are looking to have some tasty wine on your first date, then this is the place to go. 1600 University Drive , Fort Worth, Texas 76107
- Los Molcajetes – Mexian shrimp and fish with jalapenos and tomatoes are on the menu for a spicy date option. They are open everyday for both lunch and dinner. If you are planning on having some good Mexican seafood on your first date,then you should consider this restaurant. 4320 Western Center Boulevard, Fort Worth, Texas 76137
Esperanza Mexican Cafe – This restaurant is known for serving breakfasts. They offer both indoor and outdoor seating for their customers. They are open for breakfast, lunch and dinner everyday. If you want to go on a breakfast date, then this is the place for you. 1601 Park Place avenue
Fort Worth, Texas 76110
- Tandoor Indian Restaurant – This restaurant focuses on Indian dishes such as their classic shrimp curry with their homemade spices and herbs. A great place to try something new on your first date, Tandoor is sure to be delicious. 532 Fielder North Plaza, Fort Worth, TX 76012
- Bombay – This restaurant serves classic Indian food using their own spices and herbs. Popular items on the menu include seafood, chicken curries and vegetarian choices. If you are looking for Indian food on your first date, then this is the best place to go to. 4625 Donnelly Ave., Fort Worth, TX 76107
- Maharaja Indian Restaruant – This restaurant offers both meat and vegetarian options for their guests. They are open for both lunch and dinner. The restaurant is known to have good vegetarian choices, so if your date does not eat meat, this is the place for you. – 6308 Hulen Bend Blvd., Fort Worth, TX 76132
Chettinaad Palace – This restaurant offers South Indian dishes, not usually offered at most Indian restaurants. A variety of menu items such as seafood and chicken are also available. If you are looking for something exotic in Fort Worth, this is the perfect place. 2205 N. Central Expressway, Fort Worth, TX 75075
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FAYETTEVILLE � Arkansas center Travis Swanson felt a little uneasy Saturday.
FAYETTEVILLE � Arkansas center Travis Swanson felt a little uneasy Saturday.
He understood the benefits of the bye week, getting a long-awaited chance to catch his breath and prepare for the final five-game push. But after the Razorbacks put together two straight wins against Auburn and Kentucky, Swanson said he and the rest of his teammates didn�t want to be spectators last week.
�It was kind of frustrating for Saturday to be just kind of sitting around, not playing a game and watching all the other games going on,� Swanson said.
�So I knew we would be happy to get back out there (Sunday).�
Arkansas (3-4, 2-2 in Southeastern Conference), which is trying to recover from one of the program�s worst starts this season, re-emerged from its off week Sunday and continued preparation for the next test against Ole Miss (4-3, 1-2) in Little Rock.
Players and coaches are carrying much-needed confidence into the week after surviving the blow from a 1-4 start behind a pair of wins. While it came against two teams still searching for their first wins in SEC play in 2012, Arkansas coach John L. Smith said the performances have been a catalyst in his team�s recovery.
�I think we�re a much more confident football team without a doubt than we were early on,� Smith said. �I think we�re gaining confidence kind of daily. So it�s good. �
�It�s more like a sense of we�re back to where we think we should�ve been, you know? We�ve kind of got our swagger back a little bit.�
Arkansas is hoping it still shows against Ole Miss, which also is trying to maintain momentum after collecting a big win before its bye week.
The Rebels, who aren�t among the SEC�s upper echelon at this point, have plenty in common with the Razorbacks at this point: Ole Miss earned its first SEC win against Auburn on Oct. 13. It was a win that ended the Rebels� 16-game SEC losing streak and became the program�s first league win under new coach Hugh Freeze.
So Freeze was asked last week if he thought Ole Miss� bye week came at a good time after ending the program�s SEC drought. He had mixed feelings about it as well.
�I feel that way 90 percent of the time, then 10 percent of the time you feel like, �Man, I wish we could back out there,�� Freeze said last week. �But that doesn�t take me long because when I see our team, because in practice (last Tuesday) we probably had 10 guys that were limited or out of practice.
�With our depth issues, we�ve been fortunate to not be without some key guys in any of our games. But we�re so thin at certain spots. I think it�s come at a good time and hopefully we can get every one pretty healthy for the stretch run.�
The Ole Miss-Arkansas game isn�t a do-or-die for either team in regard to bowl eligibility, but the winner will move a step closer to the postseason Saturday.
There�s no doubt it would be a big accomplishment for an Ole Miss program that hasn�t been a bowl since 2009. Arkansas didn�t exactly envision a fight to the six-win mark when this season began, but would be satisfied if it could get there now.
�Hopefully everybody just stays hungry,� Arkansas receiver Cobi Hamilton said. �I think everybody knows what this team is capable of doing when we�re doing the right things and doing the little things at the right time. I think everybody�s excited. I know Ole Miss, they�re going to be excited. They�re on the same roll as us.�
Smith credited his players for making it happen at Arkansas. He said the recent success stems from Arkansas� determination to press on through the early-season disappointment to show everyone �we�re a good football team.�
The Razorbacks have shown improvement the past two games in areas that were its biggest weaknesses in the losses. The ground game took steps in the right direction against Auburn and Kentucky. Arkansas� defense enjoyed some success, too, after being torn apart by opponents during the first five games.
�There is nothing like getting your juices flowing and knowing that you can be more confident now that you�ve got a few wins behind you,� Arkansas defensive tackle Alfred Davis said. �I think our guys understand that we are in a great position right now coming off two big wins in the SEC. I think it will carry over.�
Swanson said Arkansas � after having to wait and watch patiently during its bye week � will get a chance to prove it against Ole Miss on Saturday.
�We were a very highly touted team coming into the season and we had a little slump in the beginning,� Swanson said. �Hopefully we have figured it out. We just want to show everyone that we are the team that we said we would be.�


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The Invictus Games is a competition for wounded service members which Prince Harry started in 2014.