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Kirtan & Social Justice, Vocal Workshop/Singing
Kirtan Soul Revival (KSR) is New York City's funkiest devotional mantra music experience. Since 2011 they have been fusing traditional Sanskrit mantras, original music, and music from around the world to create a unique, dynamic sound that merges guitar-driven funk, rock, gospel, rhythm and blues, world grooves, and chants. Soul-stirring vocals and three part harmony add fullness and depth to their sound. Calia Marshall, Helen Styring Tocci, Todd Keller, and drummer, Terrence Pompey, are all longtime yoga practitioners and musicians. They have created a singular sound in the growing genre of mantra music. KSR brings the connecting power of harmony and a fusion of Eastern and Western sounds to a public craving more positivity, love and community in its music and life.
KSR has led kirtans, workshops and yoga classes in and around New York City (including Integral Yoga Institute, Jivamukti Yoga and Laughing Lotus Yoga Center). With many successful tours on the East and West coasts, they have played numerous times at Kripalu and Omega Institute and at festivals such as Wanderlust, BhaktiFest, Unifier Festival, Hamptons Yoga Fest, Philly Shakti Fest, Ahimsa Yoga & Music Festival, VerMantra, and Berwick Yoga Festival in Nova Scotia. They have recorded with Krishna Das, The Hanumen, John de Kadt, Prema Hara, Saul David Raye and Devadas.
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1. Mantra Music Concert, 2. Divine Harmony: Singing & Social Justice
Mantra Music Concert
Sing, dance, and revive your soul with an evening of healing call and response chanting, funky devotional music, and heart-felt sacred song. Through KSR's simple presentation, even non-singers can easily experience the joy of being surrounded by harmony in a space that encourages improvisation and exploration. Join us for a heart-opening, uplifting celebration of life!
Divine Harmony: Singing & Social Justice
Bhakti yoga has the potential to create deep transformation, both inside of ourselves and in the world around us. This practice can help us to love ourselves and to love one another as we recognize sameness and difference, shadow and light. In this workshop we will use chanting, discussion and journaling to release judgement of ourselves and others, to explore ways to open our voices and sing in harmony, and to find our individual voice inside of the collective voice. When we sing from the heart we open to our divine potential. We tune our voices and hearts to that which is sacred, so we may use our voices as a tool for empowerment and social change.


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Where To Start?
As a new buyer, meandering your way through the world of real estate is easy - at first. After all, searching for homes is fun! How hard can it be? But then you peel the proverbial onion and all of a sudden it becomes more complex. You are faced with the offer, downpayment, home inspection, mortgage, appraisal, purchase and sale contract, and insurance to name a few. Don't worry - here's what to do.
The Search
First, decide what you want in a house and the area that you'd like to target. Document your requirements as a wish list then divide them into a "Must Have" list and a "Nice to Have" list.
Second, determine what you can afford. Talk to a mortgage professional. A good mortgage consultant will educate you on the process, determine how much house you can afford and help to get you pre-qualified. Our First Team Mortgage professionals can get you started. The mortgage process requires you to gather documents and information that will be supplied to a lender. The mortgage consultant will help out with all this. Check out this link for more information.
Third, talk to a real estate agent. Armed with a pre-qualification letter and your requirements, the agent can introduce you to homes that match your criteria and set up appointment for showings.
The Offer
Massachusetts uses a two document purchase process - an Offer to Purchase and a Purchase and Sales contract.
When you finally find the house that you fall in love with, the next step is to make an offer. The real estate agent can help you during the negotiation process. You will most certainly be advised to consider a home inspection. The names of local inspectors can be found by searching the Division of Professional Licensure website at www.mass.gov/dpl/boards/hi, or in the Yellow Pages where many advertise under "Building Inspection Service" or "Home Inspection Service."
Purchase and Sales Contract
The Purchase and Sales contract outlines the terms of the sale including the final purchase price, downpayment, closing date, and finance or other contingencies or terms. This document typically precedes financing commitment. During the financing process, you will be asked to secure a home insurance provider.
The Closing
The closing, also referred to as "passing papers", completes the purchase process. The participants often include attorneys for the lender, buyer (often the same as the lender's attorney) and the seller, the mortgage consultant, seller's real estate agent, buyer's real estate agent and the buyer and seller. You will show proof of identification, sign a lot of papers and, finally, get the keys for your new home. The process typically lasts about an hour. Then the fun begins with the move.
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UK archaeology forecast shows mixed outlook
Landward Research Ltd recently completed a report on the State of the Archaeological Market in the UK. There is both good news and bad news for the state of professional archaeology. Job losses have stabilized since the the recession but they are still down 800 positions (5,900) from pre-crash levels (6,700), though these numbers do not take into account the potential growth in jobs had the recession not occurred. Looking at the Profiling the Profession reports (provided at the Landward Website) between 2002-03 and 2007-08, employment increased by 20 percent. Had that trend continued, there would currently be around 8000 archaeology jobs in the UK. This puts the actual losses at closer to 2,000 jobs. This larger number probably explains the tough competition among recent graduates and veterans for jobs, there are five years of students who have not been able to obtain jobs except from positions created by the retirement of archaeologists.
When asked if the employment situation will improve, the report shows that the opinions expressed by commercial companies and other organizations are split. Read more…
Heritage tourism increasing in the Navajo Nation
Heritage tourism is on the increase, states a Native American Times article (3 April 2012) by Susan Montoya Bryan. Based on a report commissioned by the Navajo Nation from Northern Arizona University, data show that some 600,000 visitors made nearly $113 million in direct purchases on the reservation in 2011. That represents a 32 percent increase in tourism spending since 2002.
Surprisingly, this increase occured over the same period when U.S. gasoline prices rose from approximately $1.80 to $3.90 a gallon. The Navajo Nation, a soverign nation since 1868, is the largest Native American reservation in the United States. It covers 27,000 square miles in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. Traveling to the Nation by automobile, and there are few other options for visitors, is a significant trip from almost anywhere. However, the article states that U.S. visitors to the Nation were actually down in the period since 2002. It was non-U.S. visitors, primarily from Germany and France, that were up more than 11 percent and responsible for the increase.
Heritage-only firms must market
Its list time in Canada, when many of the provincial lists of qualified archaeological firms get updated. Recent articles in Heritage Business Journal have noted a shift in market share away from heritage-only firms. In the draft of the current list of qualified Alberta archaeological consultants there are 27 companies listed: 19 of these were heritage-only firms and 8 were multidisciplinary firms. This listing also suggests that multidisciplinary firms have more staff (average of 2.8 vs. 1.8 for the heritage-only firms). There are three caveats here. First, I sorted the firms on my knowledge of what they do–they are not listed that way. Second, while more heritage-only firms have a single archaeologist, the number of staff on the list is not very consistent. Third, it should be noted that not all the firms on the list are actually in Alberta, in case readers are wondering how a single province supports 27 archaeology firms.
Archaeology, like many environmental services, is a requirement for some development approvals. Developers who do not know how to find an archaeologist are given the list of qualified firms. My hunch is that lists such as the Alberta Consultant's List form the entire marketing plan for many small heritage-only firms. This raises the question of whether the reported switch to multidisciplinary firms is due to a customer desire for one stop shopping, or whether it is because multidisciplinary firms out-market and out-brand heritage only firms. Read more…
UK tax code change could hurt historic preservation
The recently announced Chancellor's Budget in the UK includes a proposal to increase the VAT from 0 to 20 percent for the alteration and maintenance of listed buildings. This will put a heavy financial burden on those that own or maintain historic listed buildings.
While not every building alteration on a listed building requires specialized historical preservation skills, many projects do for at least some aspects. An increase of 20 percent for project costs may cause some repair projects to be postponed or shelved. This in turn may have a knock-on effect for those employed in the historic preservation sector. It may also hurt other sectors such as heritage and museum management. Sites and museums would see their maintenance costs increase forcing them to reallocate funds from other areas of their budgets. Though these results are hypothetical, and it is unknown at the moment what problems the tax increase might bring, the Council for British Archaeology is "urging its members to make their views on this known and also to sign the online petition."
Full details can be found at the HM Revenue & Customs website and consultation on the proposed changes has been put up by the CBA (p. 23), which is open until 4 May 2012.


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Veracruz-Style Red Snapper
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- Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C).
- Heat olive oil in a skillet over medium heat. Stir in onion; cook and stir until onions begin to turn translucent, 6 to 7 minutes.
- Cook and stir in garlic until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Add capers and caper juice; stir to combine.
- Stir in tomatoes, olives, jalapeno pepper, . Cook and stir until jalapeno pepper softens and tomatoes begin to collapse, about 3 minutes. Remove from heat; stir in oregano.
- Drizzle 1 teaspoon olive oil into a small baking dish. Sprinkle in 1 tablespoon of the tomato-olive mixture. Top with 1 snapper fillet, salt, black pepper, and cayenne pepper. Top with more filling and juice from 1 lime. Repeat with remaining snapper fillet, seasoning, and lime juice in a second baking dish.
- Bake in the preheated oven until fish is flaky and no longer translucent, 15 to 20 minutes.
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Per Serving: 452 calories; 25.2 16.2 43.1 73 1034 Full nutrition
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Glad my Doctor insisted on more fish in the diet! This was fast, fresh and so very good. Thanks for the recipe Chef John!
Not bad! Made with tilapia and used regular olives instead of Castelvetrano because that's what I had. Also used less lime (~3/4 of one). Made 1 baking dish without jalapenos and cayenne for ...
Glad my Doctor insisted on more fish in the diet! This was fast, fresh and so very good. Thanks for the recipe Chef John!
I made this exactly as written, except: I used a chopped, fresh (locally grown) tomato instead of cherry tomatoes, and I only had one lime. Anyhow, it turned out great -- really delicious and j...
Delicious! This was a big hit with everyone, and Weight Watchers friendly. Do take the effort to find the Castelvetrano olives; very flavorful. I was able to track them down at Whole Foods.
This dish looks and tastes complicated but goes together very quickly and easily. I was impressed Chef John! Served with Spicy Green Beans, Mexican Rice II and Tomato, Avocado and Corn Salad a...
I had to use a large regular tomato instead of the cherry tomatoes, and red onion instead of white. Very easy preparation and the flavor is outstanding. I sautéed the snapper in a separate pan ...
Alterations: used Tilapia, no-salt-added canned tomatoes, added green & red bell peppers. Layered a bit of sauce on the bottom, added sauteed yellow squash & zucchini & a bit more sauce, then ...
My son thought this was the best fish ever! Great bold flavors. Followed exactly using fresh mangrove snapper except I used large martini olives instead of fancier ones and we all loved it. Chef...
Fabulous. Made it twice. Finished both times with cilantro. Next time i might try this with shrimp.
Tasy and low-cal!.. I made this tonight after first seeing the video on U-Tube... I didn't realize it was for only 2 servings which explains why my sauce wasn't quite enough but the flavors made...


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You know you want a website, you have performed your research on various solutions and have looked into a CMS solution. Now the question of SEO is rearing its head and you're left stumped. With a number of CMS options out there how do you decide which is the best?. Working as a web design company in Yorkshire we have experience of a number of CMS implementations and the SEO benefits associated with them.CMS or content management systems are increasingly becoming the most popular way of building a website. With the growing popularity of WordPress which has made the transition from blogging tool to CMS, the days of opening up your asp or html programming books are quickly disappearing. However WordPress is the new kid on the block. Older more established CMS solutions such as Joomla, Mambo and Drupal have been dominating the opensource CMS market for a few years now. But the question still remains which is best for SEO?. What your first need to consider is your sites purpose and your skill level. For optimum Search engine optimisation you need to have a CMS that maps to your requirements in a website and your ability (and patience!) to implement the solution. For a small blog/site that is based on provision of information, WordPress wins hands down. The built in SEO add-ons within WordPress or simple to deploy and can be performed in a matter of minutes by a newbie following simple to follow forum tips. Joomla is a little more complex in it's SEO implementation. Very often newcomers to Joomla (suing the built in SEO functionality) leave global meta tags and keywords on the configuration which are applied to all pages (and even components) that have not had individual meta data populated. Robust Joomla SEO solutions require a number of third party plug-ins in order to make it operate correctly.So WordPress is the solution then? You would think so reading the above but i'm a great believer in have your cake and eat it. Joomla has a massive array of superior design features and components that not only make it look better than WordPress allow you to extend and grow your site more. You can also implement WordPress into Joomla as an integrated solution, so the best of both worlds. If you have the time and patience this is the best SEO solution. Because I believe good SEO extends beyond the search engine results pages. It's no good if your site ranks high within Google if your site doesn't look the part or you can't extend it as your business needs change or grow. Joomla allows you to add shopping cart functionality via the virtuemart component, which provides a decent ecommerce solution. Granted WordPress also has a shopping cart component but the current offerings are more for selling the odd item here and there as opposed to a full shopping cart.So if you're after a scalable extendable solution, Joomla and WordPress integration is the best option. If your a small site with limited time to learn then WordPress will meet your SEO needs.
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SEO consists of two major parts: on-site and off-site (also called on-page or off-page) optimization. Just focussing on one of them means neglecting the opportunities that the other one opens up. It is fatal to think being perfect with on-site leaves room for neglect in the off-site optimization. This is sooo not the case.A DefinitionOn-site and off-site optimization are a team. And there is a reason why people say "Never change a winning team".On-site optimazitaion refers to all SEO done directly on the website that is to be optimized. This includes adjustments in the HTML-Code as well as in the editorial content. Because I don't consider myself an expert in technical SEO, I will focus on editorial content as well as some HTML tactics to better your on-site optimization. Off-page optimization is the opposite to the on-page optimization, as the wording indicates already. But let me break it down: Off-(the)-site optimization refers to all measures undertaken outside the own website. Often it is misunderstood as pure link building. Though link building is an integral part in SEO, it is not the main ingredient in the optimization mix.Off-site SEO is a mixI am referring to off-page optimization as a mix, because there is more to it than links. If you have all the links in the world, but fail to master all the other implications in off-site SEO a lot of potential is thereby neglected. There is more to it than just (spammy) links in directories and social bookmark platforms. Even building a content network is not enough. While many agencies still operate this way, off-site SEO has gone further than just links from blogs.But what ARE the ingredients in that mix? Other than links there is one major area often referred to as social signals. Social signals simply means what is the response in social networks towards your website, your content, a subpage or a posting. The more people talk about you in their social media feeds, the better it is for your website. Good social signals or a large quantity of them might not automatically lead to a high ranking, but it definitely adds some spice to the mix. Ultimately, social signals are also links. Because talking about something in "social media terms" means sharing, commenting, posting and liking. Ultimately, those social signals create links as well and thereby add to the link mix of a site.
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One of my Intune SA customers wants to allow BYO devices without a device PIN, but enabled managed apps used to access corporate data to be secured with a pin, while enforcing a device PIN on corporate (CORP) devices.
A pretty simple ask, but they were caught up in an underlying issue with Intune SA showing a setting as Not configured, while still enforcing any custom values entered in the setting before it was set to that state. Changing the setting to Require, defaulting everything then setting to Not configured while slotting in a save or two worked around the problem.
They have a bunch of users who use their own personally-owned iOS and Android devices to access corporate email, they do not want to enforce a password on these devices, instead, they want to use managed application policies to tighten down and secure corporate data on them; They also have a bunch of devices that are owned by the company and are not BYO, and thus need further configuration or tightening down.
Pairing off the BYO from CORP devices or users can be carried out using Azure Active Directories Groups, along with associated queries to tease them apart, much as we would in SCCM with Collections and AD security groups. We'd then use these groups to assign (deploy) policies and configurations.
The basics for getting an iOS or Android device configured so that the device does not require a PIN, or any security other than what the user has defined (biometric, pin, gesture etc), while prompting for a PIN when managed applications are accessed is pretty straightforward.
Hive off the BYO devices into a group, using manual or dynamic (queries) group types, then create the following specifically for the BYO devices and assign them to the BYO group:
- BYO Device (Configuration) Profile
- BYO Device (Compliance) Configuration
- BYO Application Protection Policy – most likely you would utilise an existing App protection policy, and assign it to your BYO group, rather than rig one out for this solution
Within the device profile that is used to restrict the device, Password is set to Not configured:
Note that the defaults are configured, no customisation of the settings were made before Not configured was selected.
And within the device compliance policy, both Email and System Security are tweaked. Here's the managed email profile being enabled:
And here, system security is set so that having no device password does not make the device non-compliant:
Finally the application protection policy is configured so that a password is required, here we can see policies for both Android and iOS for application protection:
And here we have the iOS application protection policy's access requirements configured:
The end result is that a newly enrolled device experience results in no device password enforcement for a specific group of users or devices, however, when they attempt to access their corporate email, they are prompted to setup a 4 digit PIN, or however you setup that aspect of security in your environment.
Such a light touch of a subject with many avenues to explore.
Intune has matured into a really strong platform for device and data management. There's so much extensibility now that if you've already begun your journey from Active Directory to Azure Active Directory and the modern management landscape (EM:S), you cannot help feel inundated with options and flexibility that just a year or two ago we didn't have.
An interesting observation I've made recently is that businesses are beginning to switch onto de-wiring parts of their existing corporate network, so as to reduce cost and align with their modern management roadmap using SDWAN or vWAN technology, reconfiguring their small to medium branch offices with far more cost effective internet connections for devices to VPN over, while installing at their larger sites network appliances pre-configured to VPN to their Azure network, the need to go side-ways is diminishing, with smaller more agile companies leading the charge on shunting or setting up most if not all of their assets in the cloud.
Azure, AAD, AD, Intune, and SCCM alone yield a rich landscape from which to design a modern infrastructure.


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So, you're flying for business and you want to be comfortable and do a little work en-route, but you've checked your points balance and its screaming zero.
What do you do? Well, building up your points ahead of time would obviously prevent this problem from happening and there are lots of credit card offers you can sign up to, which help accrue points, but if you are out of luck on the points front, it's not game over, because there are a few cheeky tactics you can employ to try and blag yourself an upgrade regardless.
Be nice
This is the simplest way, and may or may not work, as it really does depend on who you get on the day, but simply by asking politely and professionally whether there are any upgrades available when you check in, you could find yourself landing lucky. If you don't ask, you don't get. Manners sometimes get you to great places, and in this case it could mean you're upgraded to business class from your economy ticket. Name dropping your company might help you here, but again, it depends who you get and what mood they're in on the day, as well as availability – if there's no room, no amount of asking is going to help.
Pay for an upgrade
There are sometimes upgrades available for a fee on the day, and if that's the case, look into how much it is. If you're able to and you're happy to go ahead, pay the money and you'll automatically be upgraded. You can also sometimes upgrade before your day of travel by contacting the airline or looking online, and in this case you might get it cheaper than on the day.
Do a spot of bidding
There are sometimes bidding schemes you can take part in, which means you bid for an upgrade, for a fee of course. It is a risk, but it sometimes pays dividends. You basically buy your economy grade ticket as normal, and opt in to offers and promotions at the time. You may then receive an email from the airline a week or so before you are due to depart which gives you the chance to upgrade to business class as part of the bidding system. You basically bid the price you're willing to pay, and then sit and wait. If you're not successful, it's nothing lost, and you don't pay, and you should find out no more than 24 hours before your departure.
These are just three suggestions that could help you bag that precious upgrade, which will make such a difference to your business travel. Like we mentioned before, if you don't ask, you don't get, so make sure you try!
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101 Tragedies of Enrique MetinidesFebruary 20–April 18, 2013
Curated by Trisha Ziff, 212berlin
Opening reception: Wednesday, February 20, 2013, 6:00-8:00 pm
101 Tragedies of Enrique Metinides is Enrique Metinides's choice of the key images from over fifty years of photographing crime scenes and accidents in Mexico for local newspapers and the nota roja crime press. Accompanying the images are Metinides's own accounts of the characters and life of the streets, the sadness of families, the criminals, and the heroism of emergency workers—which reveal much about himself as well. Selected photographs are also paired with their original newsprint tearsheets, collected by Metinides. The photographs have been compiled by Trisha Ziff, a filmmaker and curator who has collaborated with Metinides on this project for over five years and who contributed an essay about his life, work, and personality to the accompanying publication, 101 Tragedies of Enrique Metinides (Aperture, 2012). Though Metinides's photographs have been exhibited and published internationally, this is the first selection of images chosen by the photographer himself, and which offers his own account of his life's work.
A limited‐edition portfolio featuring Metinides's latest photographs is available through Aperture. In this series, Metinides has re‐constructed and created fictional rescue scenarios for crime scenes photographed early in his career, using his collection of over ten thousand toy firemen and medics. These recent pictures are a new twist on an extraordinary career. The prints were made at the artist's local Costco in Mexico City, and are offered in the paper Costco bags in which he picked them up.
Enrique Metinides (born in Mexico City, 1934) worked as a crime photographer for over fifty years, capturing murders, car crashes, and catastrophes for the nota rojas, Mexico's infamous crime magazines. He has won numerous prizes and received recognition from the Presidency of the Republic, journalists' associations, rescue and judicial corps, and Kodak of Mexico. In 1997 he received Mexico's Espejo de Luz Prize (Mirror of Light), awarded to the country's most outstanding photographer. His work as been shown internationally, including at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Les Rencontres d'Arles festival, France; and the Photographers' Gallery, London.
Trisha Ziff is a curator of contemporary photography, a filmmaker, and a Guggenheim Fellowship recipient. She has produced and directed several award-winning documentary films that deal with photographic subjects, including Chevolution (2008) and The Mexican Suitcase (2011).
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Morocco Buys Abrams Tanks, Russia Makes Veiled Threats
The Kremlin used the sale as an excuse to brag about its missiles
Uncategorized September 9, 2015 Joseph Trevithick 15
Morocco is about to become the world's newest owner of America's main battle tank, the M-1 Abrams. And Russia used the sale as an excuse to brag about its missiles … and make a veiled threat.
In 2012, the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency announced plans to sell 200 M-1A1 tanks, plus radios, machine guns, ammunition and other related gear to the North African kingdom. On Sept. 4, the U.S. Army's Security Assistance Command announced that the deal was going ahead as planned:
The Kingdom of Morocco will modernize its military fleet and receive M-1A1 Abram[s] tanks from the U.S. Army as part of a foreign military sales case coordinated by the Army Security Assistance Command. The case includes associated spare parts, equipment, logistical support and training.
The first 50 tanks will undergo refurbishment at the Joint Systems Manufacturing Center in Lima, Ohio following contract award to General Dynamics and Land Systems for $17.2 million. Additional repairs will be done at Anniston Army Depot in Alabama.
The refurbishment process will be accomplished through the Army's Excess Defense Articles program. EDA allows for our country's allies to receive materiel that the U.S. government no longer uses. Equipment designated under the program can save the U.S. money by eliminating potential storage or disposal costs of materiel and make room for other items to be stored as they are returned from theater. The EDA program provides the potential for the industrial base to support parts, refurbishment and sustainment of the vehicles.
As the first country to recognize the United States as a nation, Morocco is one of Washington's longest standing allies. The Pentagon has already sold or gifted the advanced tanks to other important friends such as Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Iraq.
According to the original DSCA, the spare tanks in question are in the "special armor" configuration. While the Pentagon is tight-lipped about the protective shell on the various Abrams models, this setup is generally assumed to have improved defenses over standard M1A1s.
The older variants already had advanced composite Chobham armor made up of ceramic plates and metal reinforcements. Weighing more than 60 tons, the new version will still have the M-1's deadly 120-millimeter main cannon and powerful jet turbine engine.
Four days after the Army's press release went online, Russian media took a shot at the M-1. State-owned outlet Sputnik bragged that Russia's latest Kornet-EM laser guided missile could "kill the beast:"
Conflicts that have recently flared up in various parts of the world showed that America's much-trumpeted M-1 Abrams tank falls easy prey to even older types of Russian antitank weapons.
The Kornet-EM is a multi-purpose long-range antitank guided missile system. It was unveiled at the Moscow Airshow in August 2011. The system was also demonstrated at the Russian Arms Expo in September 2013 and May 2015.
The missile system is designed to destroy advanced and modern tanks fitted with explosive reactive armor from 1,100-millimeter to 1,300-millimeter, light-armored vehicles and fortifications.
It can also engage surface-level marine and low-speed aerial targets at ranges between 150 meters and 10,000 meters and offers high immunity against jamming.
Kornet does have an impressive combat resume. When American troops rolled into Iraq in 2003, Iraqi forces reportedly disabled two Abrams with the Russian missiles. Since 2006, Hamas and Hezbollah both claim to have knocked out Israeli Merkava tanks with the weapons, too.
More recently, Islamic State militants have taken on Iraqi M-1A1s with Kornets. To add insult to injury, the brutal extremists captured the weapons from Baghdad's soldiers.
But while Sputnik did not mention Morocco by name, the Kremlin news agency was clearly responding to that specific sale. The piece ended on a thinly veiled threat:
The Kornet-EM has already won big kudos abroad. Algeria, for one, plans to buy several units.
One of its neighbors will soon be buying Abrams tanks, which means that the Algerians already have a strong "antidote" against The Beast…
Rabat and Algiers have squared off in the past. In the 1970s, the two countries found themselves on opposite sides in the fight for the disputed Western Sahara.
For more than 15 years, Algeria actively supported the Polisario rebel movement, while the Moroccan army fought for control of the territory. In the civil war that followed in Algeria in the 1990s, authorities in Algiers accused the Moroccan regime of supporting the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria. After blaming Algerian security services for backing a terrorist attack in the major city of Marrakesh in 1994, Morocco shut down the border.
But relations have thawed somewhat since then, with both countries offering important diplomatic gestures back and forth. However, the status of Western Sahara remains undecided.


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There are times when I create good soup that I think I should go the route of food blogs with the overhead camera and the nifty ingredient tricks (Snap! Chopped!) but I always decide that it's not worth it for the actual amount I cook.
Yesterday, against all prior planning, I accidentally created some really good soup. Let's start at the beginning with just a little bit of background. I love those deli chickens because they're easy and tasty when compared to messing around with raw chicken and roasting to savory goodness. My intention is always to use the best white meat atop a lunch salad and then find frugal and efficient ways to use the rest.
What usually happens instead is that I fail at matching up available fresh greens with the chicken and never get my delicious salad. I have even (gasp) ended up wasting the chicken. 🙁 But this weekend I bought greens and chicken, and in a burst of Monday inspired efficiency, carved it up and made a delicious salad on my lunch break.
I don't know exactly what possessed me (probably the chilly rain outside), but I grabbed a 2 qt pot and started tossing the dark meat and tiny scraps of chicken in.
Ingredient: Good Soup Needs Roasted Chicken Bits
My pantry is full of canned goods, so I added a can of mixed vegetables and pondered spices for a minute, but turned the burner on to get a feel for what I had created with these two ingredients so far. (It's how I roll.)
As you can guess, the combination left something to be desired and would surely leave me wanting pizza for dinner if I didn't look around for flavor. I threw in a can of diced tomatoes for color and additional veggie goodness. Still lacking something. Oh, right – it lacks flavor.
Ingredient: Good Soup Needs Garlic and Onion
I have some garlic paste in a tube that I'm trying to use up – so I added about an inch and a half as a start (equiv of 1-2 cloves). Then I grabbed a fistful of frozen onions and turned up the heat. Started mixing salt and pepper in a small ingredient bowl and threw them in as the mixture started boiling. After a few minutes, I turned the heat back and cleaned up my chicken chopping mess and went back to work.
Garlic inspires me. The aroma drifted into my home office and pulled me back to the stove for tasting. I also had a timer I carried back to work with me so I wouldn't forget to check. At this point, the chicken and vegetables were coming together into a very suitable 1st course for dinner. I could have stopped at this point with just the addition of a little more salt.
Ingredient: Good Soup Needs 1 More Something
I was so close to perfect I actually stood there and stared into the pan for a few minutes thinking through what else I had in the freezer or pantry that would take this over the top for me. Noodles? Some other pasta? Beans? That's it! One of my favorites is White Bean Chicken Chili and I always keep canned beans around in the winter. But when I opened the pantry door, the first thing in view was a stack of black beans I had carried home with no plan other than a healthy addition to something. Bingo!
Ingredients: Here's The Whole List
Scraps of deli roasted chicken – I probably had about 3/4 cup of dark meat and tiny bits of leftover white meat.
Cans – 1 Mixed Vegetables, 1 Diced Tomatoes, 1 Black Beans – liquid and all – just open and dump them in
Flavor – 1 handful of frozen chopped onions – probably 3/4 cup if you feel the need to measure. It could have used more, but I didn't want to play with the temperature up and downs again. 1 and 1/2 inches of garlic paste from the tube in the fridge – equivalent to 1-2 cloves. Salt and pepper to taste – probably 1/2 – 1 teaspoon each. I added more salt a couple of times during the simmer.
That's it. I ended up eating 2 bowls with crackers for dinner and skipping the meal I had planned. It was so good and I have enough for 2-3 bowls left over for lunch today.


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BRUSSELS (AFP) – The European Union has launched an antitrust probe on internet king Google on Tuesday, after complaints the Silicon Valley giant abused its dominant position in the online search market.
European Union competition watchdogs formally announced their investigation, after rivals accused Google of "unfavorable treatment" of their services in both unpaid and sponsored search results, the crucial listings that make the web navigable.
Competition authorities are probing whether Google's own services – the company has branched out into just about every web domain there is – are getting "preferential placement" when users punch in search queries, some of which may lead to consumer spending.
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Microsoft's portion of the US market improved a fraction to 11.2% while that of Yahoo! slipped from 17.4% in August to 16.7% in September, comScore reported last month.
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If you were alive to remember the 1980's or even born a decade after that you will remember the impact that the game Super Mario Bros. and the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) had on kids of all ages. It was an addictive game, the way it looked was marvellous to kids like me at the time. The "pixelated" look of games at the time was just the way things were, the NES had a standard display resolution of 256 pixels wide by 240 pixels tall.
All digital images are divided into small sections called picture cells, or better known as the abbreviation pixels. Similarly, three-dimensional images can be divided into volume cells, or better known as the abbreviation voxels. In the last few years the retro game style has made a fresh come back on mobile phones and tablets ! A few wildly successful indie developers using pixel and voxel art have made big download wins on the major App Stores both this year (2015) and last year (2014).
Return of the Pixel to Mobile Games
The first major indie mobile success story of 2014 stayed true to a retro 2D look from the 1980's, even going so far as to mimic the look of the classic "pipes" in Super Mario Bros. The game was Flappy Bird, created by Vietnam-based developer Dong Nguyen. It went viral in early 2014 and was reported as generating large sums of ad revenue during its time at the top of the charts. However, Flappy Bird did not remain at the top of the charts for very long after its creator removed the game from the app stores at the peak of its success. There were reports in the media that Nintendo may not have approved which helped force the "voluntary" removal of the game from the App store.
The second indie mobile success story of last year was Timberman created by the indie team at Digital Melody in Poland. It went viral in July of last year and remained near the top of the app store charts for several weeks, reportedly generating large sums of ad revenue.
If you want to listen to a great interview from one of Timberman's creators Pawel Kitajewski, check out the AppMasters podcast – Timberman: The Process of Developing a Hit Game with Pawel Kitajewski from Digital Melody.
Adding the Extra Dimension – Voxels and CrossyRoad
The third indie mobile success story adds an extra spatial dimension to the mix with their use of voxels, along with 3D game play (or more like 2.5D). The super successful game is called Crossy Road and was created by the indie team Hipster Whale. The creators are Matt Hall, Andy Sum and Ben Weatherall, of which Andy and Matt met at one of the popular game developer conferences in Australia called GCAP (Game Connect Asia Pacific).
Looking at App Annie the game went viral in November of last year and continues to maintain a top seat in the Game genre on the iOS Store (United States region shown in rank history chart below) –
For a really great interview with Matt Hall from Hipster Whale, check out the AppMasters podcast episode – How Crossy Road Hit Over 25 Million Downloads with Matt Hall. It was recently reported that within 90 days it had made $10 million (assumed USD) [1]. So what tools did they use to create this awesome game? Just download the game to your device and have a look at the credits screen under the heading "Tools".
So go ahead, get started ! Make your own pixel or voxel based game and publish it to the app stores.
References:[1] ABC article – Victorian app developer comes to a Crossy Road in lucrative gaming world [2] App Annie [3] Wikipedia – Super Mario Bros [4] AppMasters.co


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Some days you'll become satisfied with what you've accomplished. Be careful not to let that stop you. Remember to continue building on what you've already created. After all, the greatest achievement means very little if it is not put to use.
Some days the turn of life's events will bring you sadness. When those days come, take comfort in knowing that your sadness is possible only because you care so very much.
Some days will be frustrating and filled with disappointment. Take the opportunity to learn from those days, and know that you're making progress even if it doesn't seem so at the moment.
Some days will be truly joyful. Dive deeply into those days and let yourself experience them fully so that their positive value will always be with you.
Each day, no matter what its flavor may be, contains a treasure that will add real and lasting value to your life. Give your best to each day, and that treasure will steadily grow.
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text: Tweet Share Team Profile 1 Piotr Kantor Birth Date: 01/01/0001 Birth Place: Height: 200 cm Weight: 90 kg Career Results 2 Bartosz Losiak Birth Date: 01/01/0001 Birth Place: Height: 190 cm Weight: 86 kg Career Results Seed 0 World Tour Ranking 0 Participations 0 Medals 0 0 0 Team info Fifth-place finishers at the 2017 FIVB World Championships, Kantor and Losiak will be participating in their second SWATCH FIVB World Tour Finals after qualifying via their international ranking. Kantor and Losiak placed fifth on the 2016 SWATCH event in Toronto after being eliminated by Ben Saxton and Chaim Schalk of Canada. Despite both players being 25, Kantor and Losiak rank with Italians Daniele Lupo/Paolo Nicolai as the second-most experienced team in the SWATCH FIVB World Tour Finals in terms of FIVB World Tour participations together (66). Kantor and Losiak competed in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games and placed 17th with their last two setbacks to medal winning teams on Copacabana - Alexander Brouwer/Robert Meeuwsen of The Netherlands (bronze) and Lupo/Nicolai (silver). Both players have been playing in FIVB events since 2009 as Kantor and Losiak have three youth world championships to their credit along with the world tour gold medal in 2016 at the Rio Grand Slam. The Polish pair has netted nine medals in 66 world tour appearances.


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The popular, inappropriate puppet musical Avenue Q has recently released the rights for public productions to be performed. Therefore this is my second review of the musical in the last three months and the third overall production I have seen. It is a musical that brings catchy songs, the universal love of puppets and real life situations together in a comedic and enthralling evening. This musical is filled with many imitations and mocking of real world people and persona's, therefore the impersonations and representations need to be as accurate in order to be their comedic best. The DOMA Theatre Company has done a stellar job in staying true to the characters and script that calls for stellar puppeteers and the voices to make the characters come to life.
Director Richard Israel has created his cast and production to be as close to the original work as possible. The memorable puppet-like voices that can be heard on the Original Broadway Recording are being very closely represented at The MET Theatre. The talented cast has done a great job re-creating these characters in this hilarious mock Sesame Street. Libby Letlow, Puppet Coach and actress has not only coached the actors to bring their characters to life but she has brought life to the puppets herself.
Playing several characters throughout the show and being the second arm to Nicky and others, Letlow's expressive puppeteering almost steals the show. It is hard enough creating a character, but the ability to create a character using your own body as well as that of a puppet and making sure both are expressive in the same ways, is a craft all to its own and this cast has captured it.
During the show the main character Princeton (Chris Kauffmann) decides he wants to collect money to help out his friend/girlfriend Kate Monster (Danielle Judovits). During this number, "The Money Song" the cast goes out into the audience and asks for money. It is funny and well done, however what very few people realized is that they are actually collecting money. On your way into the theater there is a tiny sign that states all money collected during the performance will be given to Hurricane Sandy Relief Efforts. This is a fabulous and amazing idea, except that I, like most of the audience didn't see the sign until leaving the theater. I think this is a wonderful thing they are doing but I do suggest that they make an announcement before the show starts so the audience is aware, because it truly is a wonderful idea.
As mentioned earlier I have seen two other productions of this musical, both from theater companies with more funds and resources then DOMA and I will have to say that as a whole there is not much difference from the quality of the productions. Some of the casting choices I liked better in the other two productions and yes it was obvious in the presentation that this was a smaller theater company and venue. However, what DOMA has is heart and lots of it. No matter what I have gone to see there, the cast is always 100% committed and everyone from the people who greet you, seat you or pour you your drink, are all so enthusiastic to be there and that is infectious. They have truly found their "purpose" in life, and that is to provide musical theater to the Hollywood area.
If you have not seen Avenue Q, then you are truly missing out. It is one the most refreshing musicals to come from Broadway in years. With DOMA's current production running through December 16th you have plenty of opportunity to see it now, in all of its' comedic puppet glory.
**Due to the popularity of DOMA productions and the show Avenue Q performances are selling out, please be advised to purchase tickets early.


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GFOA's Awards for Excellence recognize innovative contributions in the field of government finance and leading examples of best practice implementation.
- GFOA also offers The Louisville Award for Innovation in Government Finance that recognizes an exceptional accomplishment that introduces a new concept or technique with enduring value to the government finance profession.
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GFOA relies on governments to showcase successful demonstrations of best practice and innovative concepts to educate peer organizations. Winners and those nominating entities for consideration can be proud that creative and innovative projects will provide examples for other jurisdictions to follow, promoting best practices in government finance.
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Winners may be asked to participate in a case study about their project/program, provide documents and examples for sharing with other GFOA members, speak at one of GFOA's conference sessions or write an article for GFOA's member magazine, Government Finance Review.


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Imagine diving into digital archives, excavating previously unappreciated images from other worlds, and electronically piecing them together to present new pictures to our world. That's what The Planetary Society, in partnership with UnmannedSpaceflight.com, is pleased to host – an archive of amateur-processed space images. Contribute your image or learn how to make your own.
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Best New Local Brewery: Out of TownIt would now be pretty easy to stock a pub purely with beers made in and around the city of Glasgow itself and still provide plenty of choice – something you couldn't have said just a few years ago. Most of these new starts have occurred in the last couple of years. My choice for the best new local brewery is Out of Town – which as the name implies is based on an industrial estate in Cumbernauld (incidentally, the same one Lawman is on).
Many brewers produce beers which are impressive on the first sip; the Out of Town beers are distinguished by their massive drinkability too. They started up near the end of 2016 but it's really been in 2017 that their beers have become ubiquitous in the city.
Even newer breweries have started up in the latter part of the year – Ride in Tradeston, Merchant City in Maryhill, and Late Night Hype in Clydebank. Too late for any of them to quite make it as best new local brewery, but what I have had the chance to sample from all of them has been promising.
(New award)
Best UK Cask Beer: Up Front Old Man AhabI'd usually make my beer of the year something I'd drunk regularly, but what with one thing and another my pub visiting has declined this year. So it's the beer which stuck in my mind the most. Up Front Old Man Ahab (7.1%) managed to fool drinkers at the Paisley Beer Festival into thinking it was made with coconut – yet the brewer subsequently denied that there was any coconut in the beer. The power of imagination seemed enough to give the beer a delicious coconut aroma and flavour (more fresh coconut than Bounty bar, since you ask). It's a great shame that Up Front can't make their desired margin on cask beer, which is why there is so little of it.
Runners-up: A chance half of North Riding Single Hop Centennial in April had amazing lemon and resin aroma, light and clean in body with a long bitter finish. The best beer festivals are when you start googling a brewery you've never heard of because the beer is so good.
(Last year: Orkney Corncrake)
Best UK Keg Beer: Five Points PilsThe Five Points Pils I had at a tap takeover in Edinburgh was pretty impressive – "This is what a pils should be like!" say my notes – with fresh CO2 and herbal hops (Tettnanger is what's used). A full, sweet malt character puts the over-attenuated hop extract water produced by some German breweries to shame. A worthy rival to a previous winner, Fourpure Pils. Yet the second glass of it – poured to the brim in a half-pint glass – was underwhelming, showing that a lot of the joy of pilsner is down to serving technique, something which is still neglected in the UK. Lager needs foam!
Runner-up: Until Loch Lomond arrived with their Out of Range IPA, the New England style locally had been the preserve of semi-hobby brewers, notably Gallus whose first beers made it something of a house speciality. Out of Range brought it closer to the mainstream, and nailed it in flavour.
(Last year: Lost & Grounded Kellerpils.)
Best UK Small Pack Beer: Little Earth Organic East India Pale AleOrganic East India Pale Ale by Little Earth Project is my bottled beer of the year. I discovered it while searching for authentic 19th-century style IPAs – there are fewer of these than you might think – back in July and already knew I had found this year's winner. A gueuze-like aroma meets the nose, followed by faint oak and a bit of lemon with wild yeast esters. But take a sip, and it's not sour – perhaps just on the border where bone dry tips into slightly tart. Maybe the slight lemony note encourages the association but the pithy bitterness immediately brings marmalade to mind. It's a dry beer with only a ghost of malt sweetness remaining. You have to get used to the overall flavour profile of it (well, I did) before it's possibly to discern the sweetness below with notes of leather and tobacco. This really shows it's worth doing things the old-fashioned way. Recommended by me, Captain Tightwad himself, as genuinely worth the £5 for a 330ml bottle.
Runner-up: The Pale Armadillo by Tempest, on the other hand, is cheap as chips and is one beer which manages to be amazing both on draught or packaged. Ridiculously quaffable dank pale ale.
(Last year: Up Front Ahab)
Best Overseas Draught: Schlenkerla Märzen
Still Schlenkerla Märzen I think. Though the quick Schumacher Alt I had while changing trains in Düsseldorf in May was pretty good too.
(Last year: Ulrich Martin Pilsner)
Best Branding, Pumpclip or Label: First ChopThe letterpress-on-beermats style chosen by Salford's First Chop is simple but striking and effective. Their bottles and cans aren't half bad either – I love the use of a bold but subdued colour palette.
(Last year: Cloudwater/Boundary/Gallus)
Under-Hyped Brewery Of The YearThere are so many breweries now, with attention focussed on a tiny number of them, that it's impossible to pick out just one that doesn't get its due. I've very much enjoyed beers from Wylam, Bear Claw, Top Out, Holdens, Lacons, Ossett this year. If you see them, try them too.
(Last year: Fell)
Pub/Bar of the Year: The Curfew, Berwick
(Last year: The State, Glasgow (it is still brilliant, having just won Glasgow CAMRA's Pub of the Year for the fourth year in a row))
Best New Pub/Bar Opening 2017: Grunting GrowlerThis year Grunting Growler in Glasgow's Yorkhill finally got its on-sales license – which was apparently needed so they could offer tasters – and took the opportunity to add some seats too for tastings or just to sit and have a beer. I'm not sure whether owner Jehad Hatu really meant to end up running a bar but it's essentially what he's now got. He is also the only person I know who can get away with greeting you with the words "Hey, y'all down to clown?" and still be cool.
Runner-up: Koelschip Yard. Definitely a worthwhile addition to the south side, but they should have done it five years ago when I lived there.
(Last year: Hippo Taproom (which sadly did not make it to the end of this year))
Beer Festival of the Year: West End Beer FestivalConor Steven of Cafe Source Too is one of the unsung heroes of Glasgow's beer scene. As well as helping save the day when Hippo's beer festival was cancelled, he somehow found time to organise his own, the West End Beer Festival. It featured the cutting edge of the local breweries, as well as some from further away, such as Brass Castle, who came up specially and brought their beer-dispensing piano. It also featured a dramatic unintended plastic keg explosion, which I'm not allowed to tell you about.
Runners-up: I enjoyed the Edinburgh Craft Beer festival much more than I expected to. But I still came home drunkest from the Paisley Beer Festival.
(No award last year as I barely went to any festivals)
Ugliest Beer which is nonetheless wonderful: Dead End Brew Machine Decay IPAAs regular readers may have noticed, I am sceptical of most murky beers. I still try them. Most are harshly bitter and unpleasant (whether the harshness comes from yeast or incompetent hopping I care not). Others are sweetish and reminiscent of turbid mango juice, in which case I'd rather just have the mango juice, which would be easier on my wallet and my liver. The stand-out exception this year, however, has been Dead End Brew Machine's spectacular canned Decay IPA. It looks hellish, like muddy khaki soup (possibly broccoli) with soapy scum on top, but it tastes fantastic with a perfect balance of dank hop flavour and tropical juiciness. It's good to see Chris Lewis' commercial beers – still basically a hobby – now matching the quality of his remarkable homebrew.
(New award)
Supermarket of the Year: WaitroseWaitrose and Marks & Spencer have both stepped up their beer game in the last couple of years – but I think that Waitrose have perhaps come further in a shorter time. Waitrose it is, then. Where else can you get Fuller's imperial stout in a supermarket?
(Last year: Booths)
Independent Retailer of the Year: Good Spirits Wine & BeerWith the sad collapse of the Hippo Beers empire it's down to a four-way dance-off between Valhalla's Goat, The Cave, Grunting Growler and Good Spirits Wine & Beer. There's not much in it, they are all good. I guess I have bought more from Good Spirits than any of the others. The Wee Beer Shop is too new for this year's award but I expect it to be in the running next year.
(Last year: Grunting Growler)
Most Cringey Attempt To Be Down With The Kids: Wadworth 6XPlease step up Wadworth's with your ridiculous "Old Cool Is The New Cool" campaign, which alienates traditionalists but is scoffed at by crafties. From the inapub story:
"Whilst drinking 6X, this cool generation were wearing Adidas and playing vinyls way before their children and grandchildren," said head of marketing and communication, Elaine Beckett.I don't know how you get to be cool but I do know that you don't do it by announcing how cool you are. Also, they're called records.
(Last year: Marstons and their distressed type that was briefly fashionable ten years ago)