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When you stay at Hotel Ras El Ain in Tozeur, you'll be near the airport and 7 minutes by foot from Dar Chrait Museum. This 4-star hotel is 14.8 mi (23.8 km) from Oasis Entrance Gate and 15.6 mi (25 km) from Great Mosque of Sidi Salem.Rooms
Make yourself at home in one of the 142 guestrooms featuring refrigerators and minibars. Complimentary wired and wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and satellite programming provides entertainment. Private bathrooms with shower/tub combinations feature deep soaking bathtubs and complimentary toiletries. Conveniences include safes and complimentary newspapers, and housekeeping is provided daily.Amenities
Enjoy a range of recreational amenities, including a nightclub, an outdoor pool, and an indoor pool. Additional features at this hotel include complimentary wireless Internet access, concierge services, and barbecue grills.Dining
For lunch or dinner, stop by Le Palmier, a restaurant that specializes in international cuisine. Dining is also available at the coffee shop/café, and room service (during limited hours) is provided. Wrap up your day with a drink at the bar/lounge. A complimentary buffet breakfast is included.Business, Other Amenities
Featured amenities include a 24-hour business center, dry cleaning/laundry services, and a 24-hour front desk. Planning an event in Tozeur? This hotel has facilities measuring 2970 square feet (276 square meters), including a meeting room. Guests may use a roundtrip airport shuttle for a surcharge, and free self parking is available onsite.Attractions
Distances are displayed to the nearest 0.1 mile and kilometer.
Dar Chrait Museum - 0.6 km / 0.4 mi
Oasis Entrance Gate - 23.8 km / 14.8 mi
Great Mosque of Sidi Salem - 25 km / 15.6 mi
Corbeille of Nefta - 25.3 km / 15.7 mi
The preferred airport for Hotel Ras El Ain is Tozeur (TOE-Nefta) - 3.3 km / 2.1 mi
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card, or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
Please note, there is important information about this property to know before you arrive.
- A fee for a mandatory Christmas Eve gala dinner is included in the total price displayed for stays on 24 December.
- A fee for a mandatory New Year's Eve gala dinner is included in the total price displayed for stays on 31 December.
- A fee for a mandatory New Year's Day gala dinner is included in the total price displayed for stays on 1 January.
- A fee for a mandatory gala dinner is included in the total price displayed.
- The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.
- No pets and no service animals are allowed at this property.
You'll be asked to pay the following charges at the property:
- A tax is imposed by the city: TND 3.00 per person, per night, up to 7 nights. This tax does not apply to children under 12 years of age.
The charges below are included in your overall room price:
- Gala dinner fee
- New Year's Eve gala dinner fee
- New Year's Day gala dinner fee
- Christmas Eve gala dinner fee
We have included all charges provided to us by the property. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.
The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
- Late check-out fee: TND 40 (subject to availability)
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
- -Accessible bathroom
- -Roll-in shower
- -Free breakfast
- -Coffee shop or café
- -Safe-deposit box at front desk
- -24-hour front desk
- -Concierge services
- -Free WiFi
- -Outdoor pool
- -Children's pool
- -Spa tub
- -Spa treatment room(s)
- -Fitness facilities
- -Barbecue grill(s)
- -Laundry facilities
- -Dry cleaning/laundry service
- -Free self parking
- -24-hour business center
- -One meeting room
- -Reception hall
- -Newspapers in lobby (surcharge)
- -Tours/ticket assistance
- -Turkish bath/Hammam
- -Exercise/lap pool
- -Conference space size (feet) - 2970
- -Coffee/tea in common areas
- -Free RV, bus, truck parking
- -Luggage storage
- -Airport transportation (surcharge)
- -Indoor pool
- -Conference space size (meters) - 276
- -Meeting rooms
- -Wheelchair accessible path of travel
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Once again Bibi is lying through his teeth, let’s delve into some of his asinine assertions…
|By: CTuttle Monday October 6, 2014 8:00 pm|
|By: CTuttle Friday October 3, 2014 7:10 pm|
So after Monday’s blatant bigotry from the UN podium, (where’s Hugo Chávez when ya need him?) the devil Bibi met with Obama in the Oval Office…
|By: CTuttle Sunday July 13, 2014 3:00 pm|
As Haaretz summed it up today… Israel’s real purpose in Gaza operation? To kill Arabs
|By: CTuttle Friday March 28, 2014 6:59 pm|
|By: CTuttle Monday February 17, 2014 8:00 pm|
It seems the cocktail circuit crew has a new ‘leader’.
|By: CTuttle Sunday December 29, 2013 5:20 pm|
Seriously, as Bibi just became the longest serving PM, there never was a ‘Peace Plan’.
|By: CTuttle Saturday October 5, 2013 8:00 pm|
Did you catch that Calvinball shift?
|By: CTuttle Saturday September 14, 2013 10:40 am|
Let’s remember that Putin submitted his own evidence to the UN, and, Assad has too.
|By: CTuttle Sunday September 1, 2013 7:00 am|
Let’s be clear here… Chemical Hypocrisy: Lies and Disinformation on the Road to War!
|By: CTuttle Wednesday August 28, 2013 8:00 pm|
Now, let’s be clear here that Al Qaeda does in fact possess the know-how to produce Chemical Weapons, from the CIA.

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It is a legally registered non-profit organization which embraces citizens of every creed, race and religion.
CBTT, which is affiliated to CITIZENS FOR A BETTER LIFE (CBL), believes that a united people will go a long way in helping to solve the many problems people face today.
Members work hard on a voluntary basis to help the disadvantaged in society because they are deeply concerned for those who are poorly clothed and fed as well as those who need living space, jobs and the other essentials of life.
One of the major aims of the group is to prevent the growth of drug abuse. Volunteers attached to CBTT lecture on a regular basis to both young and old on the physical, social and legal consequences of drug abuse.
As a result of this, another group known as PARENTS AGAINST DRUGS [PAD], the first group of its kind in Trinidad and Tobago, was formed in conjunction with CBTT. The objective is to establish a PAD group in all communities.
Two national surveys on the abuse of alcohol and tobacco smoking were carried out by CBTT in 1996 for the sole purpose of making young people and adults aware of the grave dangers of these two legal drugs.
CBTT, which is well known for its social, charitable and community work, is committed to helping other groups and organisations in the fight against other major ills affecting the society.
Every year, CBTT, with the assistance of caring and generous individuals, donates hundreds of hampers to needy families. Many employers also assist the group by employing needy students during the school vacation.
During it's annual MONTH OF PRAYER in April, volunteers visit hundreds of homes to pray for and comfort people who are sick, lonely, despondent and suicidal. Hospital visits by volunteers are another outstanding feature of the organisation.
Many adults and young people benefit greatly from regular seminars and symposiums on career guidance, substance abuse, crime and domestic violence organised by the group. CBTT, which is a bonafide non-governmental organisation [NGO], is always ready and willing to assist victims of substance abuse, AIDS, incest and domestic violence.
The REPUBLIC DAY AWARD was initiated by CBTT in 1993. This award, which is in keeping with Trinidad and Tobago's status as a Republic, is given annually to an individual for long and outstanding contribution to national and/or regional development. Non-Trinidadians are also eligible for the award.
CBTT believes that all persons take one common path to the grave. Rich and poor, great and small, young and old have a final appointment to keep with death.
Until that final appointment, it is incumbent on us to do what we can to make the world a better place in which to live.
And in order to do this, we must develop ourselves to the greatest extent possible so we can make the contribution which life expects of us, and for which we were created.
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Sadly, I have a personal connection to this. My sister-in-law, Amanda Wagner, is one of those teachers whose job will not be in the district budget for next year. Rather than be angry, she took the chance to share her insight via an editorial in The Buffalo News. Her overall message is a call to action; a plea for parents, students, teachers, and community members to take an interest in their schools. Too many see education as an almost invisible part of their community, and this can be dangerous as conditions slowly and quietly decline.
A few days after Amanda's editorial printed, someone posted a negative comment. Maybe this guy was just trolling, but I took the bait and we have been sparring back and forth. My goal isn't to make this person look foolish; I have a much deeper motivation.
I'm proud to be a teacher, and I truly believe that what we do on a daily basis makes a tremendous difference in the lives of our students. I have used the comment section of my sister-in-law's editorial to hopefully dispel some of the popular misconceptions of teachers. My hope is that immediately after reading my blog post, you will read her article and the comments. Think about what makes you valuable as an educator, and add your own comment. As professionals, we need to advocate for ourselves.


text: All-day trip geared towards participants with some birding experience but unfamiliar with common spring birds of the Pacific coast and/or with birding at Bodega Bay, a world-class birding location. Harbor mudflats, ocean beach, and rocky headland for ducks, grebes, loons, gulls and shorebirds in one compact area – Bodega Bay, Harbor and Head, and Doran Beach. Winter weather can be surprisingly good, but be prepared for cold and wet with layers, hat and gloves. Only a major rainstorm will cancel the trip. Easy walks and good bird photo opportunities around the harbor. Space is limited: Contact leader Chris Dunford [530 753-9073; christopher.j.dunford at gmail dot com] to reserve a seat and for details of transport options and meeting time/location. From Davis, a two-hour drive each way; you should be back by 6 pm.

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This locally-owned beach hotel and resort does more than offer visitors a tropical getaway in the Florida Keys; they support the mission to save our reefs, and they give their guests the opportunity to do the same!
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What is your earliest memory of the ocean?
I've lived here in the Florida Keys my entire life (43 years). I grew up in Grassy Key, and I can remember my father taking my sister and I to the sandbars in Valhalla to walk and explore sea life. We would find many conch shells, starfish, horseshoe crabs, black spiny sea urchin and bone fish.
What is your favorite marine creature?
I love dolphins and turtles, but I'd have to say my favorite would be the Whale Shark because they are so beautiful, unbelievably large and gentle.
Have you experienced a healthy coral reef ecosystem? If so where, and how did it make you feel?
Yes! Sombrero Reef and Looe Key Reef many, many years ago. I felt like I was in another world. It absolutely took my breath away seeing so many beautiful colors and creatures of the sea.
Have you seen a badly degraded reef system? How did that make you feel?
Yes. Unfortunately the reefs are not what they use to be, and it makes me sad to see our marine life becoming so colorless and limited.
What concerns or scares you the most about climate change?
What scares me is that eventually the beauty and life that our reefs once had will be completely gone and how horrible that would be for all marine creatures as they need a home too.
Why do you, personally, care about coral reefs?
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People. We need to come together as a community by putting up signs of support, adding more trash cans, and organizing clean-ups along the coast line. We need more Coast Guard and FWC officials enforcing the laws by patrolling the sandbars, dive spots and fisherman.
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Denise Richards could take lessons from the wife of Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade when it comes to the airing of dirty laundry.
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The people at Google have fleshed out the chain of events that led to the crashing of United Airlines stock yesterday -- and, again, they seem to line up (mostly) in the Sun-Sentinel's favor.
And it all started with a Tribune Co. story from 2002 about UAL's bankruptcy at that time popping up on one of those "Most Viewed" story boxes over the weekend. The site posts a screen capture of business page (Marcia Heroux Pounds' page to be precise) that shows the UAL story as the fifth most viewed story of that day. That got the attention of the God of the Internet, Google.
"[B]ecause the [Google] crawler saw this new link appear," writes Google business product manager Josh Cohen, "it followed it to an article titled 'UAL Files for Bankruptcy.'"
Here's a screen capture of the 2002 story in question:
Now, notice that the article is undated. "The only date found in the context of the article indicated that the article was from September 7, 2008," writes Cohen.
I would beg to disagree. That date clearly isn't for the article, it's obviously just the day's date, connected to the website at large. But Google picked up the article and slapped Saturday's date on it.
On Monday, it was picked up by an over-eager employee at Income Securities Advisors, who splashed it onto the Bloomberg site, and the rest is history.
So you have some big-picture technical glitches and big dose of human error and, voila, you wind up with a stock market crash that led to what might amount to hundreds of millions of dollars in investment losses.
The Sentinel's role, while central, doesn't seem to make them very culpable. Just because their story didn't have a date doesn't mean they should take the blame. It was Google, after all, that apparently put the WRONG date on it. That said, they better make damn sure all their stories are clearly dated from here on out.
Google obviously needs to add some internal controls to make sure this never happens again. As it stands and if all the information is out, it looks like it bears a piece of the blame for this fiasco.
The main culprits, though, are Income Securities Advisors and Bloomberg, as I read it. In effect ISA serves as the reporter for the story and Bloomberg is the publication. The ISA employee, before slapping the story on Bloomberg, should have at least, um, read it. Poor Bloomberg is a passive culprit in this, but a culprit nonetheless. It too is going to have to seriously overhaul the procedures on its massively influential website to make sure this doesn't happen again.


Heather Graham is chiseling out her place on the Mt. Rushmore of Women of Hollywood lately. The actress turned heads on the red carpet at the Fandango Movieclips Comic-Con party in San Diego this week, wearing a slinky number that garnered comments galore.
Graham was at the event to back up her appearance in Black Ops 3: Zombie Mode, to which she lends vocal talent. Heather Graham is joined on the video game sound track by the likes of Neal McDonough, Jeff Goldblum and Ron Perlman.
But no one was talking about Ron Perlman’s figure on the red carpet. So let’s talk about what Heather Graham is doing besides just wearing dresses.
— charlieINTEL.com (@charlieINTEL) July 9, 2015
Graham is currently working on three film projects: Half Magic, My Dead Boyfriend, and Norm Of The North. Before that, she was in Neil LaBute’s play The Money Shot in New York. She’s a busy lady.
Half Magic is a sex comedy written, produced, and directed by Graham. She also stars in it as Honey, a woman who wants a man who can give her hot sex and is also a nice guy.
Half Magic also stars Johnny Knoxville, Thomas Lennon, and Molly Shannon.
For My Dead Boyfriend, Graham stars as “a woman discovers who her couch potato boyfriend really was after she finds him dead at home.” That film has John Corbett (My Big, Fat, Greek Wedding) joining Graham.
Finally, Heather Graham is also working on Norm of the North, an animated film that features her with the voice talents of Bill Nighy, Rob Schneider, Ken Jeong, and Colm Meaney. Schneider voices Norm in the film. He voices Norm all … night … long.
“Displaced from their Arctic home, a polar bear named Norm and his three lemming friends wind up in New York City, where Norm becomes the mascot of a corporation he soon learns is tied to the fate of his homeland.”
— Keythe Farley (@faronear) July 10, 2015


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Author Interview: Helen and Paul Webster, Day Walks in the Cairngorms
- Wednesday 5 February 2020
Day Walks in the Cairngorms by Helen and Paul Webster, founders of the Walkhighlands website, is a new walking guide containing twenty circular routes through the spectacular scenery of the Cairngorms National Park. Featuring outstanding photography and Ordnance Survey mapping, the book contains easy to follow directions for each recommended walk.
In this interview, Helen and Paul consider why the Cairngorms is a great place to live, why it is such a popular tourist destination and which is their favourite walk in the area. The interview also covers concerns about the impact of climate change on the future of the National Park.
After a 4,000-mile continuous backpacking trip across Europe, what was it about the Cairngorms that made you decide to settle there?
We actually moved to the Isle of Skye after leaving our office jobs. But after a few years, we were writing about walks all across Scotland, and we needed a new base that was more in the centre of the country so we could easily travel to all parts. The Cairngorms have proven ideal – they've always been one of our favourite areas. Though the winters here are the coldest in the UK, we get far more sunshine and it's much drier than in the West Highlands. Winter on Skye often meant struggling to open our front door with the strength of the wind and rain, and nothing beats the magic of a bluebird sky’s day over pristine snow.
The Cairngorms National Park Authority (CNPA) are looking to cut their carbon emissions to help contribute to reaching the Scottish Government’s target of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2045, how do you think visitors and tourists can help keep their carbon footprint down?
If you are coming on a walking holiday here, travelling overland within the UK rather than taking a flight somewhere more distant, you've already taken a great decision in terms of reducing your CO2 emissions. The Cairngorms have great public transport links from outside – with a main rail line and good coach connections – but transport within the area without a car is still a struggle for someone doing a series of different day walks; we've still got a way to go to make this easier. One great way to reduce emissions from tourism is if people stay longer in one area like the Cairngorms and really explore it properly, resisting the temptation to race around to different parts of Scotland and spread your time too thinly. Slow tourism is the way to go, and gives a richer experience than just racing around a bucket list of popular hotspots.
How do you think climate change will affect tourism in the Cairngorms?
This is the coldest and snowiest place in Britain. Whilst that will continue to be the case, the trend is definitely that winters here are getting less cold and the snow less reliable. It's hard to see a future for downhill skiing in Scotland in the longer term, but the high plateau offers great ski-mountaineering and snow-shoeing, and I think these activities will grow as, not being reliant on lifts and runs, you can go to where the snow is.
Beyond the impact on winter tourism, a much-needed reduction in people taking flights is likely to see the tourism market change, with fewer visitors flying here from overseas, but hopefully an increase in domestic tourism to make up for it.
What’s your favourite walk in the Cairngorms?
I really love to walk in the ancient Caledonian pinewoods – any of them! But if I had to pick a single day walk to introduce people to the area, it would probably be the ascent of Sgor Gaoith. It's got a bit of everything that makes the Cairngorms so special: an approach climbing up through beautiful old pines, a spacious plateau, and it culminates in an incredibly dramatic summit at the last moment, perched atop the huge broken crags that plunge down to Loch Einich.
What do you think it is that makes the Cairngorms so attractive to walkers and keeps them coming back for more?
A big part of the appeal of going walking for me is to experience something of nature, and to reach remote and challenging places you otherwise can't get to. The Cairngorms contain a huge area far from roads and habitation – a place where humans feel small and insignificant amidst a landscape on a vast scale. But they also have landscapes that are as close as Britain has to being places in their natural ecological state – the heart of the ancient Caledonian pinewoods, or the exposed, arctic plateau. Thus they satisfy both of the common meanings of the word 'wild'.
What do you think of the debate about rewilding in Scotland and how do you think it would affect walkers?
Much of Highland Scotland is badly overgrazed, with red deer being maintained at artificially high densities, whilst other areas are intensively managed for grouse shooting. Rewilding will mean reducing these grazing pressures so that the fragments of native woodlands which we do have – which make parts of the Cairngorms so magical – expand in size. It would also mean recovery of the natural montane scrub at higher altitudes, something we really lack in Britain at the moment. There is a hugely ambitious project called Cairngorms Connect, through which several adjoining estates, owned privately, publicly and by nature conservation agencies, are working together on a common vision to enhance natural habitats in the area of the Cairngorms they own. This can only be a great thing for walkers, enhancing and enriching the very qualities that inspire us to get outdoors.


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The power & the passion : a guide to the Australian music industry / by Lesley Sly.
At head of title: The Australian Contemporary Music Institute (A.C.M.I.) & Warner/Chappell Music present "The power & the passion".
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Grump Weed is a micro cultivator and processor in Manitoba who, in partnership with a BC-based micro-processor, has products just beginning to arrive on shelves in some provinces.
Started by David Hargreaves, the CEO and President, Grump Weed is a three-person team managing the indoor production space in Minnedosa, a few hours west of Winnipeg.
Grump Weed is a continuation of his and his crew’s long-standing work with and appreciation of all things cannabis. Growing previously under the medical regulations, Hargreaves says he saw the opportunity to shift production over to a micro licence shortly after legalization and quickly started the process of building their facility and working through the application process. The micro facility was licenced by Health Canada in May 2020.
Following some initial breeding and pheno hunting, both with their own genetics as well as a partner nursery, they’ve now grown out two crops with one (Ice Cream Cake) already on shelves in Saskatchewan and another (Powdered Donuts) awaiting testing results.
Although they have their own processing licence, they’ve chosen to work with another micro-processor, Joint Ventures Craft Cannabis in BC in order to package their product and get it into the provincial markets.
“In my mind, it’s better to team up with someone who specializes in the packaging and the sales licence part of it. People don’t realize how much work goes into that. Not even just getting the sales licence. You need to be able to deal with so many other things, like handling a recall, insurance. It’s a lot.”
Joint Ventures uses a NitroTin to package the cannabis, that Hargreaves says was a big advantage to working with Joint Venture rather than packaging their own product, despite being an added cost.
“In my mind, it’s worth it,” he says. “Premium packaging is going to make sure your product stays good and you can’t put a cost on that. I think the biggest issue with some of the big LP is the final processing and packaging. It’s not keeping in the freshness of the product and I think a lot are going under because of it.”
Although he says partnering with Joint Ventures has helped them access distributors and build their brand, Hargreaves also says it takes a lot of work on his part to maintain a relationship with retailers, especially in his home province.
“You have to have a relationship with the stores. As a craft producer, we’re pioneering this industry. It’s our job to educate the stores on why our product is better than the big guys.”
He says this lack of focus on marketing and relationship building in the supply chain can be the difference between success and failure for many growers. Even if you are partnering with others, being able to build a demand for the product is the grower’s responsibility, too.
“I think the big issue is a lot of guys are saying ‘I’m going to grow weed and it’s going to sell’. But you have to look at the whole supply chain, and put yourselves in the shoes of the people who are buying it,” explains Hargreaves. “You’re looking at the stores and asking why are they going to buy it, and looking at the wholesalers and asking why are they going to buy your product, and figuring it out as you go. If you think you can just grow a product and it’s going to sell, you’re crazy.”
“It’s figuring out what the stores want, what the customers want, and even if you’re not going after direct-to-retail, without figuring that out, no one is going to want to buy your product.”
Although they are considering expanding their footprint in the future, Hargreaves says he’s not in any rush to expand.
“We wanted to start small, get our feet wet, get things figured out and then maybe expand from there. But I don’t want to get too big. Right now there’s just a few of us (working here) and in my mind, that’s where the craft quality comes from. It’s from the owners growing it and perfecting it.”

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A PHOTOGRAPH of the three Beragh players who will be part of the Tyrone panel in this Saturday’s All-Ireland Minor Final now adorns the entrance to their St Mary’s Park home as the build-up to the big game reaches its climax.
It’s a remarkable achievement for the trio of Red Knights teenagers. For aside from the obvious challenge of defeating the Royals, the club will also hope that the efforts this year so far of Paddy McCann, Conor Owens and Fiachra Donnelly will inspire other young players in the area to also aspire to represent the Red Hands.
Over the years Beragh have had numerous players on Tyrone Minor teams bidding for Thomas Markham Cup. The Ulster title-winning team of 1967 also included three – Paddy McGarvey, Ben McQuade and Jim Gallagher – JJ Donnelly was on the very first Tyrone team to win the title in 1948, Colm McAleer was on board at centre-half-back in 1973 and Martin Rodgers played in the 2008 side.
Conor Owens has recently enhanced his reputation with a number of strong performances after being introduced as a substitute in each of Tyrone’s games to date. His goal in the Ulster Final against Donegal proved crucial to the victory, while four points in the win over Cork last weekend help send Tyrone completely out of sight.
While Paddy McCann has been consistently lining out at full-forward and Fiachra Donnelly has made occasional appearances also as a substitute, the performances and scoring of young Conor Owens have been stand-out moments for those from the club who travelled to the games or watched them on TV.
Owens said: “We set out at the start of the year to win the Ulster title. Anything else above and beyond wasn’t in our sights at that time, but it’s just great to be in the All-Ireland Final now and we’ll just have to focus on that and make the most of the chance,” he said.
“Thankfully, the players have dug deep and I think that just shows how tight this bunch of players are. Everybody is friendly with each other and the preparations have just been so relaxed throughout the past few weeks.
“There’s three of us Beragh players in the panel and I’d say the spread of players is amazing. No club is represented by more than five or six and that’s Ardboe and Donaghmore who are really strong at this age group. Every other club has two or three, which is good.”
See this week’s Ulster Herald for our full interview with Conor Owens


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Date: 2008-06-10 23:29:01
Stefan Seefeld <seefeld <at> sympatico.ca> writes:
> Gennadiy Rozental wrote:
> A 'StopIteration' exception is the mechanism by which Python terminates
> an iteration. This exception is certainly not ignored. It is simply
> translated and handed over to the Python runtime. I'm not sure I
Kinda against the rules for good programming
> understand how that gets into the way of debugging.
VS has nice feature I like to use th at allows to catch exceptions in the point
of inception. If I enable it these StopIteration exceptions start to creep up
and make debugging impossible.
> However, you don't need to use iterators to traverse a container. Simply
> fetching a container's size and then use the usual operator works
> fine, too (though it might well be slower).
python code is written using regular for construct
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The deal: A seven-night cruise of Hawaii on Norwegian’s that covers four islands, starting at $1,199 per person (not including taxes and fees). Free stateroom upgrades aboard the Pride of America are available.
When you’ll go: The rate is available for cruises starting August 30 and September 27, round trip from Honolulu.
Why we love it: If you want to see Hawaii’s four major cruise islands in one shot, it’s tough to beat this price. The $1,199 price tag is several hundred dollars less than what you’ll pay for same cruise later this year. You’ll get some solid island time too, with overnights in Maui and Kauai.
What you can do: Excursions include a nine-hour drive of the perilous Road to Hana, a tour of Pearl Harbor, and Volcanoes National Park. Or you can just lay down on the beach with a drink. Onboard the Pride of America are 14 restaurants and nine bars and lounges.
How long does this last? The deal ends August 31 (subject to availability)
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Earn, save, spend and donate - four habits children should learn
There are four habits parents should be teaching children when it comes to money management, according to Dr Alice Wilder an internationally recognised children's education specialist. They are: earn, save, spend and donate.
These are the four concepts which Wilder, working with Prudential and Cartoon Network, has used in the making of Cha-Ching, a new cartoon aimed at helping parents build money-smart values in children aged seven to 12.
'Kids tend to do what they see us do as adults, and what they see us do most often is spending,' says Wilder, speaking at the launch of the television programme in Hong Kong.
'The really wonderful thing about having this multimedia platform is that it takes these more abstract non-visible parts of the money process - earn, save and donate - and makes them visible through the magic of media.
'One of the things about saving which really children don't see too much is that saving is so important and difficult because it involves self-control and this whole notion of delayed gratification.'
Each concept plays an important role in teaching children about money. 'The principles of earn, save, spend and donate show children they have choices with their money,' she says.
Earn - Experts recommend parents try to give children a realistic idea of money values by talking about how much their spending money could buy. They should let them know that everything costs money, and that money is earned through hard work. Wilder says one of the main goals of Cha-Ching is to get across to children that money really doesn't grow on trees, and that money is much easier to spend than earn.
Save - This is one of the most difficult concepts for children to understand, as it involves self-control and delayed gratification, says Wilder. She suggests parents should talk to their children about what they would like to save for, as well as their short-term and long-term goals. The traditional savings box is a good first step and introduces the concept of saving before spending, says Wilder, but the bank account is better for long-term saving because it puts the money out of sight and out of mind.
Spend - This is something parents do all the time and it is okay to let children to spend as long as they are encourage to differentiate between what they want and what they actually need, says Wilder. In its parents' guide, the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants uses an example of deciding whether to buy a branded or cheaper non-branded pair of trainers, and recommends parents talk about the 'want' and 'need' issue, even if they intend to buy the branded trainers.
Donate - 'Money is not all about accumulating wealth, and it is our duty is to make sure we take care of others as well,' says Wilder. 'In the programme, we wanted to show children this is another of the choices they can make with their money and it is a very important one. We also wanted to show that charity can be about donating services or giving old toys away.
'The important thing is to get into the habit of donating.'

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The German Research Foundation (DFG) has established a new Collaborative Research Center on "Nanodimensional polymer therapeutics for tumor therapy" (CRC 1066) at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P). Starting in October 2013, the Collaborative Research Center will receive grants totaling approximately EUR 11 million over four years to develop a nanoparticle-based cancer therapy to combat melanoma as an immunogenic tumor model.
The Mainz scientists will focus on a form of cancer immunotherapy that is specifically suitable for permanently eliminating minimal residual disease, such as hidden metastases. The new CRC is notable for its interdisciplinary approach: chemists will study the synthetic feasibility and the structure-property relationships of carrier materials, while immunologists and biomedical specialists develop models for the optimal use of such carriers – in the form of a new combination therapy for activating the body’s immune response against the cancer.The coordinator of the new DFG-funded Collaborative Research Center is Professor Rudolf Zentel from the Institute of Organic Chemistry at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Assistant coordinators are Professor Stephan Grabbe from the Department of Dermatology at the Mainz University Medical Center and Professor Katharina Landfester from the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz. In addition, the Board of Directors will include Professor Detlef Schuppan from the Department of Internal Medicine I at the Mainz University Medical Center and Dr. Mathias Barz from the JGU Institute of Organic Chemistry as a representative of young researchers.
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On February 14, 1779, Captain James Cook, the great English explorer and navigator, is killed by Native Hawaiians during his third visit to the Pacific island group.
In 1768, Cook, a surveyor in the Royal Navy, was commissioned a lieutenant in command of the HMS Endeavour and led an expedition that took scientists to Tahiti to chart the course of the planet Venus. In 1771, he returned to England, having explored the coast of New Zealand and Australia and circumnavigated the globe.
Beginning in 1772, he commanded a major mission to the South Pacific and during the next three years explored the Antarctic region, charted the New Hebrides, and discovered New Caledonia. In 1776, Cook sailed from England again as commander of the HMS Resolution and Discovery, and in January 1778 he made his first visit to the Hawaiian Islands. He may have been the first European to ever visit the island group, which he named the Sandwich Islands in honor of one of his patrons, John Montague, the Earl of Sandwich.
Cook and his crew were welcomed by the Hawaiians, who were fascinated by the Europeans’ ships and their use of iron. Cook provisioned his ships by trading the metal, and his sailors traded iron nails for sex. The ships then made a brief stop at Ni’ihau and headed north to look for the western end of a northwest passage from the North Atlantic to the Pacific. Almost one year later, Cook’s two ships returned to the Hawaiian Islands and found a safe harbor in Hawaii’s Kealakekua Bay.
It is suspected that the Hawaiians attached religious significance to the first stay of the Europeans on their islands. In Cook’s second visit, there was no question of this phenomenon. Kealakekua Bay was considered the sacred harbor of Lono, the fertility god of the Hawaiians, and at the time of Cook’s arrival the locals were engaged in a festival dedicated to Lono. Cook and his compatriots were welcomed as gods and for the next month exploited the Hawaiians’ good will.
However, Cook's arrival brought with it infectious diseases that devastated the Native Hawaiian population. And, after one of the crewmen died, exposing the Europeans as mere mortals, relations became strained. On February 4, 1779, the British ships sailed from Kealakekua Bay, but rough seas damaged the foremast of the Resolution, and after only a week at sea the expedition was forced to return to Hawaii.
The Hawaiians greeted Cook and his men by hurling rocks; they then stole a small cutter vessel from the Discovery. Negotiations with King Kalaniopuu for the return of the cutter collapsed after a lesser Hawaiian chief was shot to death.
The captain and his men fired on the Hawaiians, but they were soon overwhelmed, and only a few managed to escape to the safety of the Resolution. Captain Cook himself was killed. A few days later, the Englishmen retaliated by firing their cannons and muskets at the shore, killing some 30 Hawaiians. The Resolution and Discovery eventually returned to England.


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You will find mosques in every few hundred meters in Dubai. But among these numerous mosques, the Jumeirah mosque stands out for several reasons.
It is among the few mosques that are open for non-Muslims to visit. It is also the most beautiful mosque in the emirate. To understand the significance of this mosque in the culture of the UAE, just look at the fact that it is featured on the 500 Dhs currency note.
History of the Jumeirah Mosque
The Jumeirah mosque was built in 1979 when Dubai started sprawling towards the nether regions of the desert. But Jumeirah wasn’t a totally deserted place in the first place. It was mostly inhabited by Arab fishermen and pear hunters. A few of their old houses are still around to this day. None of them are inhabited, though. But these houses remind us of the recent past of Dubai, which mainly consisted of fishing hamlets.
As Dubai grew with its newfound wealth, the only practical direction for the city to expand was towards the south as the old part of the city was already saturated with residential buildings.
Unlike in the old Dubai, the month of them who came and settled in Jumeirah was the western ex-pats. They came here as a part of the rapid expansion projects in Dubai, which were undertook by multinational companies. On the other hand, the early settlers of Old Dubai were from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, who were small traders and laborers.
It also made sense to build a luxury resort near the sea to accommodate those who were in the emirate for offshore oil exploration. The building of such a hotel was a major undertaking in Dubai up until that time.
Jumeirah, for quite a long time, was known by the name Chicago Beach after the Chicago Beach Hotel, which once was nearby. The hotel and the mosque were the only modern structures on the beach in those times. The hotel predated the mosque by two years.
There was a reason for building a hotel so far away from the central Dubai city in those times. Following the discovery of first offshore oil well in Dubai, Chicago Bridge and Iron company took up the contract to carry out the work of the oil rig and all other facilities it requires. The Chicago beach hotel, named after the contracting company, was therefore built at a location close to the oil site.
After setting up the oil extraction plant and the underwater storage tanks, another residential area was needed to accommodate the expatriate workforce in the oil industry. This residential district was called the Chicago Beach Village and was not far away from the original beach hotel. The Jumeirah Mosque was also built at the same time.
The architecture of the Jumeirah Mosque
Another thing that makes the Jumeirah mosque different from other mosques in Dubai is its distinctive architecture. The mosque is built following a Fatimid style, which has its origins in 9th century Egypt. The two minarets are also a contribution of the same style.
Jumeirah Mosque is said to be the most photographed mosque in Dubai. One of the reasons for that title is the thousands of tourists who visit the mosque every month. Another reason is obviously the immaculate beauty of the marble mosque. The noticeably large dome of the mosque has intricate detailing on them.
Like the exterior, the interior of the mosque displays elegant craftsmanship. The use of multicolored marble stones and the quranic verses engraved with shaped stones (instead of painting like they are usually done) are some of which are worth mentioning.
Although the chandeliers in this mosque won’t amaze anyone as there are newer and bigger mosques in Dubai itself with more magnificent chandeliers, those in Jumeirah Mosque would have rivetted many eyes upwards at the dome when it was built.
Jumeirah mosque tour
A tour of the mosque is your chance to get to know the culture, history, and heritage of Dubai up close. The benefit of having a guided tour is that you get to know everything first hand from an expert. The mosque tour is carried out under the patronage of Sheikh Muhammad Centre for Cultural Understanding, an initiative by the ruler of Dubai, to aid the communication and understanding between the cultures.
It is a perfect opportunity to ask the emiratis why they dress the way they do, or why do they greet in a particular way, etc. without offending anybody. You will also get to know more about Islam, which has been part of the native people’s lives for centuries.
The tour also comes with a cultural dining experience. The mosque tour offers all its guests a cultural breakfast. A rare opportunity to relish the taste of authentic emirati dishes in replete with classic silverwares and arabic coffee.
Dress code while visiting the mosque
Visitors should wear modest clothing inside the mosque premises. Women should cover the entire body except for the forehands and face, while men shouldn’t wear trousers shorter than knee and should cover the upper body.
Guided tours in the mosque
The guided tours make the visit to the Jumeirah mosque more than just a sightseeing experience. They let you learn more about the religious aspect of the mosque and about the history and impact of Islam in the emirates.
You will also get a first-hand understanding of the religion and the prayer rituals that are carried out five times every day in the mosque.
The guided tours are operated by SMCUU with the slogan ‘Open doors, open minds’. The organization was founded by the ruler of Dubai Sheikh Muhammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum to increase understanding and tolerance between cultures and traditions.
Those who want to participate in the tour are required to register at least 30 minutes before the tour.
Mosque tour timings: There are guided tours every day starting from 10 AM except for Fridays.
The tour starts from the majlis area, where the host gives a basic introduction of everything. Here you can enjoy traditional Emirati refreshments like Arabic coffee and tea. Afterward, you will get to see the different areas of the mosque where purification and prayers are done.
In the final part of the tour, guests can ask the host any questions pertaining to the local religion and culture without offending anyone and will also get proper and clear answers.
Other mosques in Dubai where non-Muslims can visit
Al Farooq mosque
This mosque is deeply reminiscent of the Blue Mosque in Turkey. Although not as large as the Sultan Ahmed mosque in turkey ( the Blue Mosque), the Al Farooq mosque is also an architectural masterpiece. This mosque dates back to 1986.
It stands out from the rest of the mosques in Dubai with numerous domes and minarets. The walls of the mosque are white, and the domes are blue. The largest among these domes is 30 meters above the floor.
The interior of the mosque rival the outside beauty of the mosque in every sense. The use of stained glasses of different colors and styles adds quite a unique look to the interiors. During day time, there is enough natural light inside the mosque to save the use of electricity.


Pak SC criticizes govt for failing to take action against Musharraf
Islamabad: The Supreme Court of Pakistan has said that the federal government has failed to take action against former president Pervez Musharraf for violating the Constitution.
A two-member bench, headed by Justice Jawad S Khawaja, observed that the federation had so far taken no action against the former military dictator who had been declared a usurper by the apex court on July 31 2009 and against whom the Senate had unanimously passed a resolution on January 23 2012, calling for his arrest whenever he returned to Pakistan, reports The Express Tribune.
The bench observed that the federal government had apparently failed to take any action against Musharraf even after he returned to the country last month.
The bench also directed Attorney General Irfan Qadir and Acting Law Secretary Sohail Qadeer Qureshi to submit a detailed response with regard to the steps taken by the federation to initiate criminal proceedings against Musharraf.
Meanwhile, Musharraf`s counsel Ahmed Raza Kasuri filed an application asking for the setting up of a full court bench, minus Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, to hear the petitions against his client. Earlier, the Supreme Court office had asked him to file separate applications for each of the five petitions.
In his reply, Kasuri stressed that the apex court could not order the trial of the former president, as only the federal government could initiate such proceedings.
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We have had the good fortune to spend a week on the Southern Great Barrier Reef with our friend Sue on board, and catamaran cruising friends Amanda & Neville on Bossa Nova, and now we are back on the mainland as you would have gathered with the publication of this post.
Every stop you make along the Reef offers an incredible variety in seascapes and marine life. No two cays or lagoons are the same. For this reason we have put five posts together about our reef hopping activities and we will share these with you over the next 10 days. The first in this series focuses on North West Island.
Dolphins jumping high in the air to get rid of remoras (they have a suction pad on the top of the head to attach themselves to larger fishes), a manta ray flying through the air as we arrived, dozens of stingrays congregating in the shallows, hundreds of beautiful noddies and brown boobies flying around us, turtles and their tracks in the sand from the previous night’s egg laying session, these are just a few of the delights of our stay at North West Island.
This coral cay is one of the northern most reefs in the chain of the Capricorn and Bunker Group, part of the Southern Great Barrier Reef. Although 50nm offshore of the Keppels, you are not isolated here, North West Island being a favourite camping spot with fishermen, especially on weekends. You can only get in and out of the pisonia tree-covered cay at high tide. At other times the reef forms a barrier and it is too shallow to motor over it.
It is quite amazing to walk right around the cay as you get to see lots of bird life, turtle tracks and a huge number of Cowtail Stingrays congregating in the shallows!
But at low tide it is time for entrancing snorkeling through the gutters on the edge of the extensive reef surrounding the cay. Having arrived at low tide we suited up and were in the water straight away. There were so many beautiful species big and small, a mix of those we are familiar with and new ones we had not observed before. Many of them being very shy and speedy, we could not photograph them all, but here is a small selection.
We spent a day and night there, then left the next morning for our second stop along the reef: Wistari Reef.
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Amazing photos! I look for to the coming photo series. ❤😎
Thanks John, hope we don’t bore you with so many underwater shots!
No way! Frankly, this is the only way I will ever see these creatures as I am way too fearful of what is down there. The crazy colours, patterns and fishes are so beautiful. ❤
Oh you will like the next couple of posts, then: sharks, stingrays…! Even I had to back pedal to get away from inquisitive rays!
love the stingray photos..how did you coax them to line up? 🙂 We didn’t get to North West this time (although we were originally going to make it an overnight stop). North West is the first place that Border Force tried to call us. We were on shore at the time and just waved to them overhead as they did a fly by. They did the fly by to read our boat names…..the call was picked up by friends on Mast Head Island. (The next time we were hailed by Border Force we were at Cape York!)
That happened to us as we were sailing to Lady Elliot!. The stingrays were amazing : lots of them hanging around in the shallows in the southern side of the island! Where are you now?
We are anchored north of Jacob’s Well (at the end of the boats). We will sit here for the next two nights (we hope to catch up with a boat today we haven’t seen for 2.5 years!) and tomorrow night is looking a little nasty. On Tuesday we will saunter down to the Coomera River for an early morning lift into the slipway on Wednesday….
This sounds wonderful! Manta ray jumping?! So cool! For some reason, WordPress unsubscribed me from lots of the blogs I was following – including yours – so I haven’t been seeing your posts – so annoying! Be fun to catch up 🙂 Looks like you are enjoying some tropical cruising now!
Hi Ellen, nice to hear from you! Yes sometimes WP does odd things… you’ll just have to follow again!
We have been having fun. Si nice to be in the warmth and going for snorkels every day.
Great photos Chris. Thanks for adding photos of birds too! 🙂
Oh HJ the birds on NW Island were fantastic and not too shy so we could approach them. More of these in the next posts.
Thanks for the updates and photos – they are so beautiful. Coffee with Sue this afternoon.
She will have lots to recount 😊. Thanks Barbara!
This looks amazing! I love all your articles. I would love to go there and camp. I’m choosing between Lady Musgrave and North West Island. I don’t have my own boat. Which did you prefer?
Hi Amanda, Lady Musgrave is our favourite of the two. It is the most protected, offers options for exploring, and has multiple places to anchor or moor safely.

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Noiseless power supply for this device is purchased separately (you can choose):
AMT HEATER HR-1 is an analog of the legendary Tube Screamer in nature, but developed on the basis of modern components including JFET transistors. Such an approach allows you to look at the well-known pedal at different angle and discover new opportunities and colors of guitar sound.
The most attention in the process of the pedal development was paid to the sound quality due to the use of film capacitors.
The device features true bypass, which on the one hand calls for high quality cables, on the other - leaves the original instrument sound intact when the effect is off.
The pedal is powered either by 9V-battery or 9-12V power adaptor. The extended power voltages range is convenient if the «heater» is used along with a tube pedal which normally require 12V adaptor. In this case you can use single power adaptor via coupler.
With HR-1 used as a booster, overdrive or distortion any guitarist will find his/her special sound.
AMT HEATER HR-1 Features
- True bypass;
- JFET transistors in sound section;
- High-quality components;
- Film capacitors in sound section;
- Lightness and compactness;
- Low voltage consumption.
The User Manual and other additional materials for this device can be found in the AMT Media Center http://media.amt-sales.com/
Yes, the battery 6LR61 (9v)
It is for electric guitar:
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The polarity of the power supply connector:
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You may have seen many people sliding their eyeglasses up back to the top of their noses. This is a clear indication that their eyeglasses frames do not fit. If you are one of those people then it’s time for them to get a new pair for yourself.
Blue light is also known as High Energy Visible (HEV) light. It is the portion of a light spectrum ranging from 380- 550nm, and it exists everywhere. It is noticed that blue light majorly comes from digital gadgets like smartphones, laptops, computers, office lighting these days. It may cause harm to the light-touchy cells in […]


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Nov. 2019 Highway Homestead update
Partner Spotlight: Highway Homestead
We are happy to add a new partner to the Green Heron Compost family: Highway Homestead.
This family-owned and operated farm is located beside a local highway in Strawberry Plains, Tennessee. The property features various gardens, chickens, geese, and a very special type of goat, Kinder Goats. In fact, Cortney Black, a full-time mom, farmer, cook, gardener, chicken wrangler, and goat whisperer, explained that Kinder Goats are a special cross between a pygmy goat and Nubian goat. The result of this cross-breed is a goat that can breed any time of the year and produces delicious milk that Cortney uses to make all kinds of goodies.
According to the Kinder Goat Breeders Association, Cortney and her husband Samuel are the only breeders in East Tennessee and most of the state. There is only one other Kinder breeder who is located near Clarksville in the western area of Tennessee. Needless to say, the family has a unique heard of goats residing on their farm.
Additionally, Highway Homestead has many chickens who lay eggs of almost every color. Any eggs that aren’t used to feed the young family, are sold or given to friends and family. Seasonally, the family sells a small number of high-quality, free-range meat chickens that are raised in a cruelty-free environment with hormone-free feed. Cortney has perfected her whole chicken spice recipe and offers a homemade packet of spices and easy-to-follow directions on how to cook the bird.
Cortney and Samuel also use a unique farming called the Back to Eden method. Instead of tilling the land and using commercial fertilizers, the Back to Eden form of growing is sustainable, organic, and often much less labor. Although the method has many other elements, the basic idea is that garden beds are to be covered in wood chips to help lock in moisture, prevent erosion, control weeds, and improve nutrients in the soil.
When I visited the Highway Homestead for the first time, I sampled some tomatoes and assorted fruits from the garden and I can confirm, the produce was very flavorful. In fact, the tomatoes were some of the sweetest I’ve ever tasted.
Like our other partners, Highway Homestead uses compost as an organic fertilizer for their land. We deliver food scraps, yard waste, and other organic matter to the farm where they process the material into fertile black gold: compost. They also use selected waste and scraps to feed the chickens so they can have a diverse diet that is rich in nutrients. We even delivered leftover Halloween pumpkins to the chickens, one of their favorite treats.
Join us in welcoming Cortney, Samuel, and their lovely kids to the Green Heron Compost family and check out their fun videos about farm life and activities at Highway Homestead.

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Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Oliver & Company
People always give me weird looks when I tell them this is my favorite Disney movie. It's more obscure than it deserves to be, and people don't seem to think it's as awesome as I do, but it's been love at first sight ever since I first saw this movie when I was about nine. First of all, I've always been obsessed with Charles Dickens and his stories of the haves and the have-nots and how these groups intersect and interact in society. We grew up pretty dirt poor when I was a kid, so these kinds of stories always seemed relatable even if Dickens was writing about times in the distant past and a kind of poverty I never knew. "Oliver Twist" is a pretty depressing story in a lot of ways, but it still resonated with me enough for me to like almost every story even remotely related to it.
Being a Disney movie, this version changes many aspects of the story (the most obvious being, well, the characters are stray cats and dogs instead of orphaned kids) but the sense that these are the outcasts of society is still pretty strong with me. I relate pretty strongly to animals anyway (I kid you not, when I picked up my kitty from the animal shelter I had to suppress tears the whole time and I wanted to take all the animals with me...seeing them abandoned there broke my heart). This movie opens with a scene that never fails to make me cry. Oliver is a stray little kitten who is in a box on a street corner with his brothers and sisters eagerly awaiting someone to come by and take him home. The look of happiness and hope in his eyes every time someone looks into the box, and then the let-down after someone chooses one of the other kittens and leaves Oliver behind, is heartening. Oliver keeps a smile on his face though, always hopeful, until late that night when all the other kittens have been chosen and he's abandoned and alone in the rain...seriously, it cuts me to the bone every single time. The lyrics to the song that plays over this scene get to me, too:
"How could anyone stay starry-eyed when it's raining cats and dogs outside and the rain is saying 'now you're on your own?' So, Oliver, don't be scared, though yesterday no one cared, they're getting your place prepared where you want to be. Keep your dream alive - dreaming is still how the strong survive - once upon a time in New York City."
Not to get all melodramatic here, but Lord do I EVER relate to that. It's hard getting back up and trying and trying and trying again just to get kicked back down over and over and over again. Sometimes I repeat these lines to myself, that dreaming is still how the strong survive, and it helps. It helps me keep going. So it's good, and it touches me, and I don't care if it's a kid's movie, it's more inspiring than most of the sermons I've ever heard in my life. So there.
So Oliver keeps fighting to survive, and finds friends (though at first, they don't seem that friendly...Dodger the dog, voiced by Billy Joel, is very much a "don't let yourself get attached to anyone" kind of guy) and the gang of friends he eventually finds are all stray dogs who work for Fagin, who in this version of the story is much more loving than he is in other versions. Here he's not just exploiting and using the gang, he actually loves them, and they love him. When Fagin is down and depressed about not having the money to pay off his creditors, the dogs cuddle with him and bring his slippers and share their dog biscuits with him in an effort to cheer him up, and it's sweet and touching. I really love it.
Of course, this being a Disney movie, there are more twists and turns coming, and a little girl who will love Oliver and give him a forever home, and if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go hug my adopted shelter kitty and give her some treats now. Yes, I'm a sap. I blame the movie.


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I was SO excited to hear from this couple recently! I worked with them for their maternity and newborn pictures with their son two years ago and now they are expecting again! Such an exciting time for them. Every time I am around this couple I can immediately see the love between them. It seriously radiates from their eyes! They are both so warm and kind, I have thoroughly enjoyed each of our sessions together. I just can’t wait for the arrival of their second baby! I know their son is going to make the best big brother.
One of the reasons I absolutely love what I do is getting to know these amazing people through the years. I’ve been a photographer for nearly five years now, so I am getting to watch so many families and children grow. It is so rewarding and I could not be more thankful 🙂


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Mickey's Magic Mix 2020 Fireworks Show at Disneyland. Main Street & Cinderella's Castle Light Show.
The Mickey's Magic Mix Fireworks at Disneyland includes an awesome light show projected onto Cinderella's Castle and the buildings along Main Street. The music is a mix from many of the most popular Disney cartoons, including Frozen, Aladdin, The Jungle Book, The Aristocats, Coco and some spooky music from the Disneyland Haunted House.
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GDP to grow by around 6% plus: FM
With India’s GDP estimated to have grown about 5% last year, the lowest since 2003-04, finance minister P Chidambaram said the economy this year would grow faster.Updated: May 27, 2013 03:38 IST
With India’s GDP estimated to have grown about 5% last year, the lowest since 2003-04, finance minister P Chidambaram said the economy this year would grow faster.
The final GDP numbers for the year 2012-13 will be announced this week. Current full year estimate for 2012-13 is at 5%. For the first three quarters, it grew 5.1%. From 9.3% in 2010-11, the economic growth decelerated to 6.2% in 2011-12.
“The economy has slowed down, business has slowed down. But I expect this year it will grow at least 1% more than last year," Chidambaram said while inaugurating the regional office of the public sector Canara Bank.
He also expressed hope that the growth would be one percentage point higher than the current year in financial year 2014-15 and would soon reach potential growth rate of 8%.
Chidambaram urged banks to invest in human resources and technology and to build capacities to deal with growth.
He also urged banks to distinguish between the wilful and business cycle-affected honest defaulters.”NPAs (non-performing assets) are not unusual and will remain when the economy is not performing well. Banks cannot abandon their clients but should hold their hand,” he said.
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Five Seasons: A Novel
This tale of an awkward Israeli widower and his misadventures with women is an “extraordinary novel . . . a masterpiece” (Los Angeles Times).
After seven long years of illness, Molkho’s wife passes, leaving him in mourning, but also with an unexpected sense of freedom. No longer is he bound to being a caretaker for a woman too sick to even bear his touch. His future—and his desires—are his own.
As the seasons of his life propel the hapless middle-aged accountant through a series of journeys and a string of infatuations—with an unwanted wife, an aggressive bureaucrat, a young girl, and a Russian émigré—Molkho begins to find the real element that was missing in his life was not romance, but his own will.
An absurd, tragic, humorous, and hopeful meditation on love, marriage, and the quiet struggles of average Israeli lives, Five Seasons “reconfirms [A. B. Yehoshua’s] status as a shrewd analyst of domestic ordeals” (Publishers Weekly).
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Lucky O’Leary has never been very lucky–until his grandfather sends him a lottery ticket that turns out to be a million-dollar winner! But before Lucky can cash it in, someone sneaks into his house and steals it. Now it’s up to Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose to track down the thief and return the ticket–before Lucky loses out!
After The Kidnapped King severely stretched my suspension of disbelief, The Lucky Lottery offers Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose a mystery that’s far more realistic for them to solve. Instead of trusting these elementary schoolers with the future of a fictional country, The Lucky Lottery sees them reunited with an old friend who has a new mystery. Lucky O’Leary, last seen in The Bald Bandit, makes his return when he asks the three child sleuths to help him recover a missing lottery ticket. He thinks it’s been stolen… but even if he finds the thief, how will he be able to prove that the winning ticket specifically is his?
As usual, it’s a fairly solid mystery. The clues aren’t so obvious that older readers and parents reading along will feel they or their child is being talked down to, though the occasional punny names can be a bit eye-roll-inducing (depending on your stance on puns, of course!). The lack of overt suspects in the story makes it a bit obvious as to who the culprit is going to be, but likely in a way that a young child is going to pick up on. And Josh Pinto gets a bit more characterization, displaying a talent for and interest in art and drawing in a similar move to the introduction of his affection for animals in The Falcon’s Feathers.
A to Z Mysteries fans should love the book, and general mystery and children’s book fans should be entertained at the very least. As always, I highly recommend the series.
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By David Sirota
Note: I’ve known Bernie Sanders for 21 years. He’s been a hero for me. I deeply respect his life’s work and he remains an inspiration to me — and no amount of post-election gossip, punditry or backbiting will change that. Working on his campaign was a great honor, and I’ve thanked him and so many others for that experience. What follows are some frank takeaways from the campaign. We did not run a perfect race — and having worked on both winning and losing campaigns, I accept my share of responsibility for that. Lord knows I was hardly perfect — and from the very beginning until the very end, I’ve taken my share of criticism. But I believe that we have an obligation to look back on the painful past because we must always try to learn lessons for the future. – D
If you’ve read the autopsies of the Bernie 2020 campaign in the New York Times, the Huffington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Politico, Buzzfeed or CNN, you’ve probably read a version of a story that goes something like this: pollster Ben Tulchin, co-chair Nina Turner and I were fire-breathing monsters aggressively pushing Bernie to “attack” Joe Biden, Bernie refused to do it, and that’s why Bernie lost.
There are some nuggets of truth in here, but there’s also some fiction — and so it is worth separating the facts from the fantasy, in order to understand a huge-but-little-discussed problem plaguing the Democratic Party that I call the tyranny of decorum.
A Thing That Is True: We Pushed, With Some But Not Enough Success
Yes, it is true — a small group of us with many years of campaign experience pushed Bernie to sharply contrast his own progressive record with Biden’s record of working with Republicans against the Democratic agenda. I’ve been on seven underdog challenger campaigns in my life, and won a few of them — this is campaigning 101: you contrast, or you lose. And with Biden, the contrast was particularly stark.
While Bernie was fighting to stop the Iraq War, Biden helped the GOP pass the Iraq War resolution and vote down Democratic amendments to that resolution. While Bernie was fighting to stop the bankruptcy bill, Biden helped the GOP pass the legislation that could now crush hundreds of thousands of Americans during the coronavirus recession. While Bernie and Paul Wellstone were pushing a bill to lower the price of prescription drugs and prevent profiteering off vaccines developed at taxpayer expense, Biden was helping Republicans kill the initiative. And as I told MSNBC, while Bernie was fighting to protect and expand Social Security, Biden was helping echo the Republican argument for cutting Social Security.
Even though Biden at times pathologically lied about some of these facts (at one point he actually insisted he didn’t help write his own bankruptcy bill!), this record is verifiable, it is not in dispute. A group of us believed it was important for this record to be spotlighted — because it was good strategy and good for democracy.
Anytime Bernie so much as made a passing mention of one of Biden’s bad votes, there were overwrought accusations that Bernie was “going negative,” hand-wringing warnings about the “perils of going negative,” with Team Biden shedding crocodile tears about “negative attacks.” This transparent bullshit soon became attacks on staffers who dared to point out flaws in Biden’s record.
We didn’t push Bernie to “attack” Biden in some sort of vicious way. We pushed him to instead simply and very explicitly cast the primary as a choice between a vision of progressive change, and Biden’s promise to his donors that “nothing will fundamentally change.”
To his credit, Bernie at times worked with us and embraced the strategy — and when he did, it was successful (see his Social Security contrast with Biden in Iowa, and see his contrast with Wine Cave Pete in New Hampshire).
At other times, though, the campaign backed off and did not seize opportunities to explicitly and continually spell out big differences between the candidates.
Ultimately, Biden was able to avoid having to constantly try to explain his offensive record. Instead, he was allowed to depict himself as a safe, electable “unity” candidate.
Was it fun to always be one of the people pushing the campaign to be more aggressive, and also eating shit on Twitter for supposedly being “toxic” for simply tweeting a few videos of Biden pushing some grotesquely retrograde policy? No, it was not fun. I have more gray hair and less stomach lining because I pushed. I’m no hero or a martyr, but I can tell you it was awful, excruciating and heartbreaking.
But it was necessary.
A Thing That May Or May Not Be True: Winning
Would we have won had we consistently contrasted with Biden? If we’re gonna play shoulda-coulda-woulda, I’d love to say yes. However, I can’t say that with total confidence, because there are so many variables and because Biden was an extremely powerful primary candidate, even if he may not have seemed like it to the average onlooker.
Let’s remember: in the last 65+ years, no current or immediate past vice president has ever mounted a serious run for president and not successfully secured his party’s nomination at least once. That obscure stat evinces a core truth: if given the choice, voters of both parties almost always opt to nominate people who were a heartbeat away from the presidency (and incredibly, with all the talk about “electability,” they have done this even though vice presidents don’t have a great record in general elections).
As a former vice president who once bragged about being one of the most conservative lawmakers in the Senate, Biden had the support of much of the corporate-aligned party establishment, as well as the billionaire class that correctly saw Bernie as an unprecedented existential threat to their economic interests.
That establishment may be weaker than ever — but it is still enormously powerful, especially because so much of the media often echoes its objectives. Some examples: CNN likened Bernie to coronavirus. MSNBC ran an all-out campaign against us. Self-described “fact-checkers” insidiously obscured the facts and deflect criticism of Biden’s very clear record. And as Politico reported, “Biden enjoyed nearly $72 million in almost completely positive earned media” in the pivotal days leading up to Super Tuesday.
Maybe a sharper contrast coulda overcome this, maybe not. I’m not sure.
I am confident, however, that a stronger contrast would have at least put us in a better position to survive when Beto, Klobuchar, and Wine Cave Pete all fell in behind Biden to help him seal Super Tuesday.
In absence of a tough critique early on and with no day-to-day focus on his record, Biden was able to solidify an “electability” argument he didn’t deserve or earn.
According to exit polls, Biden was able to win the largest share of Democratic voters in 15 states who said health care was their top priority, even though a majority of Democratic voters in those states said they support replacing private insurance with a government run plan — a position Biden opposes.
Biden won Midwest states that have been ravaged by the trade deals that he himself supported.
Biden even won the most Democratic voters in 11 states who said climate was their top issue, despite his far weaker climate plan.
By the time our campaign was finally comfortable consistently making a strong case against him, it was after Super Tuesday and it was too late.
A Thing That Is Dangerously Untrue: Contrasts Are Bad
If you’ve read this far, I know what you are wondering: what explains Bernie’s resistance to more sharply contrasting with Biden? …
- David Sirota Looks Back On Bernie Sanders’ Campaign — David Sirota speaks with Cenk Uygur on The Conversation about Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential run. Link To 22-Minute Video
(Commoner Call cartoon by Mark L. Taylor, 2020. Open source ad free for non-derivtive use with link to www.thecommonercall.org )


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Vegetable oil subs in for butter in this fruit-topped, vanilla-scented cake, reducing the saturated fat; whole-wheat flour boosts the fiber and lends a nutty flavor.
vegetable oil, such as safflower
packed light-brown sugar
1 1/2 tsp.
teaspoon baking soda
pure vanilla extract
ripe firm pineapple
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Brush a 9-inch square baking pan with oil; line with a strip of parchment paper, leaving an overhang on two sides. Brush paper with oil. Sprinkle bottom of pan with 1/4 cup sugar. Trim pineapple wedges to no more than 4 to 5 inches long; arrange in pan in groups of four, alternating direction.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together flours, baking powder, baking soda, and salt; set aside.
- In a large bowl, whisk together buttermilk, eggs, vanilla, oil, and remaining 3/4 cup sugar. Add flour mixture; mix just until combined. Pour batter over pineapple. Tap pan firmly on counter to settle batter, then smooth top.
- Bake until a toothpick inserted in center of cake comes out clean, 50 to 60 minutes. Cool 20 minutes in pan; invert onto a serving platter (peel off and discard paper).
Looking for more dessert ideas? Check out our homemade chocolate chip cookie recipes, apple pie recipes, and chocolate cake recipes.