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A somewhat misleading name, since traditional Jamaican rice-and-peas doesn’t include any peas. The peas in the recipe are actually red beans, and the dish is a mainstay of Jamaicans’ diet. The special factor that makes the dish a real Jamaican treat is that the dish cooks in coconut milk, which creates a sweet and creamy side dish with a unique tropical vibe. And it wouldn’t be Jamaica if some peppers and other spices were added to kick the flavors up a notch. A completely satisfying and authentic island dining experience.
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Jamaica has so many unique foods, places and events to offer. These things are often missed by visitors to Jamaica and even locals. Our goal is to have you try new things and see what Jamaica has to fully offer with something to do 365 days of the year. Please note that these are all our opinions and we are always open to suggestions.
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Apple faces challenges in introducing Apple Pay in Korea after failing to “coordinate different opinions” over transaction fees with local credit card companies, including Shinhan Card, Hyundai Card and KB Card. “There is a big difference in technical issues as well, including fingerprint recognition,” Business Korea reports. The news follows reports that Samsung Pay entered beta testing in Korea this week.
- Rambus explores five key reasons retailers should have a mobile wallet
- TSB to roll out iris scanning tech
- Wells Fargo wants its ‘Control Tower’ to manage your digital financial life
- Mastercard expands QR payments choice
- Amazon Pay Places lets you pay for real-world shopping using your Amazon info

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The Pleasant Hill Library was built in 1961 on approximately 5 acres between Oak Park Boulevard and Santa Barbara Road in Pleasant Hill. The building houses the Library, one of 26 community libraries in the Contra Costa County Library system, as well as the offices of the Project Second Chance adult literacy program. Contra Costa County's Library Administration relocated from this site to 777 Arnold Drive in Martinez in 2016 in anticipation of the construction of a new Pleasant Hill Community Library. That year, residents of Pleasant Hill passed Measure K with 66% approval, securing city funding for the new facility to be located in the immediate vicinity of the current library.
The library’s collection has 85,000 books, audiobooks, videos, DVDs, and CDs that circulate nearly half a million times a year. We offer free Internet access from 38 computers and Wi-Fi throughout the library. The Pleasant Hill Library is a partial Depository Library for Federal government documents.
The Library fosters lifelong learning with programs for all ages, including four weekly storytimes, family nights and maker events, after school activities for teens and tweens, music and author talks for adults, tech support, a weekly ESL conversation group, 3 monthly book clubs, and more. We are grateful for the support of The Friends of the Pleasant Hill Library, which raise funds for new books and programs.

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Homie girl / Idle Girl
- Updated19-02-2020, 10:35
- NameHomie girl / Idle Girl
- CategoryRole playing
- OS versionAndroid 4.4+
Homie girl / Idle Girl – this is an interesting game development, which will deal with the care of a girl. This character has an artificial intelligence. In the story, a doctor created a virtual person named Luna. It will appear in the mobile device. The player will be able to communicate with the heroine, buy various items for her, and take care of everything. It will also please the user in response. The gameplay is accompanied by high-quality design, as well as voice acting. Thanks to the comfortable controls, it will be easy to interact with the game. This game will help you have a good time, getting new impressions and interesting experience.
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Join Steve Garfield on a tour of the vlogosphere. It's Vlog Soup #10, featuring geeks, nerds, ducks and cats!
For those who are interested, here's what my Final Cut Pro Sequence for this video looks like:
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Total time to edit and post this episode was approximately six hours.
Christian Scholz made a version of this episode which lets you click on the video to go to the website I'm talking about. Cool!
Bram Cohen of BitTorrent on 24x7
Rob CmdrTaco Malda and Jeff Hemos Bates joined us for the 24×7 film experiment, and an all around fun afternoon it was. You know them from Slashdot,
Keep up with the film shoots at:
A break in the space time continuum
Featuring little blonde girl with a cat and a newly maried couple.
Just playing around with Quartz Composer's posterize effect. Here is a 30 second clip of a fountain at The Grove in LA. Looks kinda like fireworks.
Makes me want to figure out what quartz composer is
Markus Sandy found this on the Internet Archive
Howard Rheingold explains how we have been telling a story of competition for many years, but have the chance to tell a new story that empahsizes the importance of cooperation.
ducks from a different angle.
Josh Leo on Gerald Ford
Captured fleeting moments
Eli Chapman has his video camera on hand to capture a rapping cabbie .
It's M.C. Mars free styling cabbie
CATS - Cat videos
get off my case
one thousand dreams got a cat

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- FEATURE: Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel OST Review
- Halo: Nightfall Trailer
- RUMOR: GTA San Andreas Going to Xbox 360
- Gamelock Introduces Guaranteed Resell Prices for Games
- Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare A New Era of MP Trailer
- Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition Arrives Next Week
- Judge Rules That EA's Confidence in BF4 Launch is Not Securities Fraud
- Mornin '14
- Developer Who Threatened Gabe Newell Resigns
- Sunset Overdrive Awesomepocalypse Trailer
- Dragon Age: Inquisition Followers Trailer
- Shadow of Mordor Free DLC Lets You Play as the Enemy
- Ubisoft Details Far Cry 4 Season Pass
- Research Finds Portal 2 Better for Brain than 'Brain Training'
- REVIEW: Alien: Isolation
- Hatred is About Hating the Hate Caused By Other Haters to Hate the Hate
Did you know that Sony might be releasing the PlayStation 4 console in 2013? You didn't know that? Well, neither did we. However, WSJ seems to have got wind of it. Yes, the report points out that folks "familiar with the matter" confirmed that the next-generation console will be unveiled at the February 20 PlayStation Meeting.
It was also mentioned that the retail release is planned for 2013.
Confirming the story (sort of) is this report from Superannuation indicating that Ivory Tower, created by Test Drive Unlimited devs, is making racer for the nest PlayStation console. Apparently, a CV of an artist lists the "confidential game" for Xbox 360, PS3 and "PS4."
In related news, have a look at the supposedly leaked PlayStation 4 specs.
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The Ennahda movement released a statement on Friday calling on the Tunisian government to disclose the reality of the economic, financial and social situation and “not to pursue misleading policies”.
The movement called on the country’s government to “focus seriously on providing basic materials that have been missing for months, monitor random price increases, withdraw from this year’s school material price hikes, and consider the purchasing power of citizens.”
The movement also called on the authorities to “stop the populist discourse based on arbitrary accusations of corruption and insinuations of misappropriation of public funds by former governments without providing evidence.”
READ: Tunisia: Administrative Court rejects 2 appeals against constitutional referendum results
Federal President Kais Saied reiterated on Wednesday: “The need to activate the legal effect of any violation with regard to the donations that should benefit the people.”
This comes after Saied reviewed the Treasury Ministry’s report on the results of the inventory and control of the status of loans and donations to the state and public institutions over the past decade.
Saied said: “The numbers mentioned in the report are large, especially considering the donations that should go to their natural beneficiary, the Tunisian people.”
Tunisia is suffering from an economic and financial crisis, exacerbated by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian war in Ukraine, in addition to the political instability the country is experiencing since President Saied imposed exceptional measures on July 25 has imposed, 2021.
READ: Ghannouchi: Tunisia could ban Ennahda from voting or disband elections
Last June, annual inflation in Tunisia rose to its highest level in three decades as commodity prices surged, largely due to the impact of the war in Ukraine.
The National Institute of Statistics said annual inflation rose to 8.1 percent last June, compared to 7.8 percent in May.

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It can be a stressful time when you realize you need to move out of your current home and into another. Whether you’ve lived on the UWS for years or want to move there to be closer to your job, 221 West 77th condos have it all. You’ll never wonder if you made the right choice because you’ll absolutely love where you live. It’s perfect for larger family units and for those who live singly.
For many, the goal is to be near enough to nature that they can stroll either way and hit a park. With 221 West 77th condos, you’re situated and nestled between Central and Riverside Park. The building itself exudes a fresh, contemporary feel, though the façade is modern and warm. The floor-to-ceiling windows are part of the classic style of the UWS, creating charm throughout the block. The interior looks just as modern and homey as the outside, so you’ll always love coming home.
Whenever the building amenities aren’t enough, you’ll find a variety of exciting things to do nearby. For example, Pure Yoga is near so that you can find your Zen once more. Restaurants, such as RedFarm and Maison Kayser UWS are also close. Retail and cultural options are also in close proximity, so you can always find the perfect way to spend the day or a place to rush into for a quick meal on your way home.
While most people don’t focus on the amenities when choosing a place to live, you’ll be able to enjoy them year-round. 221 West 77th condos offer lounges with a pool table and comfortable seating, a rooftop terrace with a fireplace for those chilly evenings, and a state-of-the-art gym with all the tools and equipment needed to work out and get healthy.

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This month we saw a Democratic President of the United States seek an audience with the Pope, likely with the hopes he could regain his tarnished progressive image by having some of the Bishop of Rome’s credentials rub off on him. And if nothing else, this unusual state of affairs goes to show that the music of Prince, who, two decades ago sang “You can be the president, I’d rather be the Pope” is as relevant as ever.i
By last month Pope Francis, or Jorge Mario Bergoglio, was a year in to his tenure as leader of the oldest and largest religious organisation on the planet. Bergoglio, formerly the archbishop of Buenos Aires, had taken charge of a church whose members believe him to be the final authority on all holy matters. And judging by recent media reaction it seems that some in the secular world are beginning to think the same.
We’re used to people like the Dalai Lama, who represent a more personal and less invasive form of religion, being accorded praise from within and without their congregations. In recent years especially however the Catholic establishment has been almost exclusively defined by its approach to matters of sexual morality (homosexuality, contraception, etc.) and its incompetent reaction to the child abuse scandal. Pope Benedict’s resignation, the first by a pontiff in over half a millennium, was of course spurred by the PR-storm the Vatican found itself in. And when Catholic laypeople were themselves leaving in droves, any talk of projecting a positive image to the wider world would have been laughable.
With their immense influence, popes have a unique ability to force change, and this is what’s crucial in an institution that needs radical quantities of it. And with the Catholic Church swimming in accusations of immoral and illegal activity, the worst possible kind to boot, Francis can be held to a demanding standard. The Pope’s ability to effect change is not limited to the Catholic sphere either– when you’re at the helm of a collective embodying 1 out of every 7 people alive, you’re responsible for much much more.
Elites and celebrities have always appeared to hold popes in high esteem, but even here there now seems to be a change in the wind. Queen Elizabeth II’s visit to the Vatican last week was her first abroad since 2011’s to Australia, and there could hardly be more contrast in the comfortableness of the lifestyles of these two heads of state. Obama had visited a week earlier and was personally given a copy of Francis’ exhortation Evangelii Gaudium (The Joy of the Gospel). The Pope has described Evangelii Gaudium as a statement of his intentions for reform of the Vatican, and Obama said, “I actually will probably read this when I’m in the Oval Office, when I am deeply frustrated, and I am sure it will give me strength.”
(Evaneglii Gaudium, §49. Hopefully his Holiness means ‘hurting’ as a noun rather than a verb.)
One of the central themes of Evangelii Gaudium, arguably as it was in the Gospels, is inequality and poverty. Such themes could give the Democrats, particularly the more left-of-centre economic populists, the resolve they need in the upcoming battle with the deeply entrenched plutocratic political class. It is this ability to inspire Davids rather than Goliaths that characterises the ‘Francis factor’.
As a recent theological conference at Jesuit-run Georgetown University notes, there are fairly few doctrinal differences pre and post-Francis, but it is the change in focus that counts.ii Rather than pick on the already embattled women and the sexually-oriented minorities, Francis has chosen largely to fight against those who create rather than experience suffering and oppression. By saying “who am I to judge” when asked about homosexuals who want to practice Catholicism, asking the world at Lampedusa to remember “how to cry” for refugees, kissing the feet of female Muslim prisoners, or assuring atheists their good deeds may earn them a place in heaven, Francis truly sets wonderful precedents that the liberals in the church can at last look forward to building on.
Francis’ ability to also pinpoint institutional rather than isolated injustices, like the dog-eat-dog Social Darwinism of unfettered capitalism, has earned him the scorn of neo-liberalism’s most vociferous defenders. Rush Limbaugh described the Pope as a “Marxist”, and his criticism isn’t entirely misplaced, as one of the Catholic Church’s greatest traditions is the critique of the exploitation and social fragmentation associated with capitalism. The Pope unapologetically described the collapsed garment factory in Bangladesh, and the economies complicit in it, as representing “slave labour”. On a separate occasion Francis described capitalism as idolatry and a tyranny.
Francis’ simple attire, like his namesake Francis of Assisi, is itself a direct challenge to the vanity of our consumerist times. On top of this, the Pope drives a Ford Focus, often cooks his own meals, and immediately chose to avoid living in the luxurious Papal palace. Francis has also taken more combative action as well, by firing Germany’s Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, the “Bling Bishop”. He is reminding us of the distaste for ostentatious wealth that a life in the developing world can instill.
Francis is far from perfect, he has only just named the people who will sit on the child sex abuse commission and has yet to come even close to supporting women’s ordination. And while the Pope is making advances like reforming its bank, the Vatican still sits on hoarded wealth. Not forgetting that Bergoglio entered the Papacy accused of not doing enough to fight Argentina’s fascist regime during the dark days.
Ultimately, Francis doesn’t have to reach perfection if he is simply capable of being a force for more good than evil in world, or if one can say he is a huge improvement on his predecessor. To one of these things observers can almost certainly say yes, but it wouldn’t be a stretch to say both.
When the Pope blesses a statue of a ‘homeless Jesus’ near St. Peter’s Square, falls to his knees in public and confesses his sins to an ordinary priest, the theologian George Mannion at Georgetown’s conference describes Evangelii Gaudium as “ecclesiological dynamite”, or Fortune magazine names Francis top in a list of greatest world leaders, clearly something is up. Mannion continues to say, “there is no sugar-coating” it: the exhortation has “little substantive continuity with the ecclesial agenda” of Francis’ predecessors.
If what Mannion says appears to portray radicalism, add to this the Pope’s words that a true church should be both for the poor and poor itself, or the Vatican’s creation of a council of eight advising cardinals, the ‘C8’, which Francis has assembled with whom to share power. Professor Alberto Melloni, an ecclesiastical historian, has described the decentralisation of power embodied by the C8 secretariat as the “most important step in the history of the church for the past 10 centuries”. If in just a year this 266th, but 9th youngest Pope can transform a thousand years of tradition, imagine what else he may leave behind.
i It’s a good thing Prince doesn’t allow his music on YouTube or you’d see that he followed this up by singing “You can be the side effect, I’d rather be the dope” which isn’t half as useful for the present discussion…
ii For example, Benedict XVI in his 2008 encyclical Caritas in Veritate developed Catholic social theory while defending human rights, democracy, and the welfare state against the political Right. Here and elsewhere Benedict also garnered the nickname ‘the Green Pope’ from speaking extensively on climate change, some highlights of which can be found in Peter’s later article here.

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After a four-year legal battle, a group of caddies have dropped their lawsuit against the PGA Tour, as a deal has been reached that will increase their stipend for healthcare.
Initially filed in 2015, the caddies lost both a class-action lawsuit and its appeal. Under the counsel of the Association of Professional Tour Caddies (APTC), which was not not involved in the lawsuit, negotiations began with new Tour commissioner Jay Monahan in an attempt to resolve at least the health insurance issue.
“New commissioner Jay Monahan brought a breath of fresh air and trust that wasn’t there between the caddies and the PGA Tour in the past,” Scott Sajtinac, APTC president, told ESPN’s Michael Collins, himself a former Tour caddie.
According to Collins, the PGA Tour has not provided details of the deal reached with the caddies, but the ESPN golf analyst reports that a “significant increase” in the stipend given for health insurance will be forthcoming, starting next year.
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It’s tough to tell what’s wrong with the Washington State basketball team in crunch time. Then again, it’s not actually. The epidemic has a little of every kind of basketball sickness imaginable attached to it and it always seems to pop up in the last 5-7 minutes of the basketball game.
On Wednesday, it popped up earlier, but the Cougs were able to recover in time to put the game away. Well, that and the fact that Utah is just plain bad. On Saturday however, it began promptly at the 6:08 mark, when Spencer Dinwiddie nailed a three to extend Colorado’s lead from two to five, 47-42. The Cougs scored 7 points the rest of the way and lost 58-49.
By the way, Dinwiddie’s three was the only such basket of the night for CU, and still they pulled away. 19 of 24 from the free throw line to 4 of 9 for WSU contributed in a big way, but so did Washington State’s inability to do what they did the rest of the game in the last stretch run. Up four with 15:00 remaining, sound familiar? The Cougs always seem to be up anywhere around four-to-eight with around 15 minutes to go.
Ken Bone blamed it on fatigue with several of his guys playing big, big minutes. The players blamed it on their lack of execution. The fans don’t know what to blame it on. Personally, I blame the lack of great leadership on the team.
We could sit here and blame it on missing Moore, which is a viable analysis, but you play with what you’ve got so that’s not a good excuse anymore. I don’t want to blame the coaching here, because I know they are all knowledgeable basketball guys and great people. I do however sense a lack of respect from the team. Not the kind where a team goes rogue on their coach, but the type that has a problem buying into the program and struggles to find courage from their coach in those moments where you really need it.
This isn’t really a fair comparison, but it needs to be made. When Tony was coaching, the team believed they were going to win. They knew that if they did what he told them to do, they would give themselves a chance, and they played like it. Do you get that feeling today? No you don’t. Neither does the team. In fact, it’s the opposite where the team seems to play as if no matter what they do right, something will go badly enough for them to lose.
That’s the best way I can explain it. I love our coaches, but the time is running out on losing basketball around here. It has to be. We need somebody who can inspire change and courage in our players. If that ends up being who’s already here, I would love that, but things need to change earlier than it seems they will for that to happen.

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Unfortunately, sometimes along the way we run into unexpected hiccups. Somewhere in those steps, comes financial hardship. It’s a lesson in life we dread and try our best to avoid, but nevertheless, it can happen.
This article focuses on two things. First, how to protect your credit during financial hardship and secondly, how to rebuild your credit if it has taken a hit.

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There are so many great products in the new Occasions Catalogue - my wish list is a long one! After having a quick look through the catalogue I returned to page 15. I think this set is so cute so here's my first creation with 'From the Herd'. I have more ideas in my head for this set - I just need the time to sit and create.
Here are the 13 stamps that make up this set.
I've used my Blendabilities to colour this image - have you noticed that you can choose a Blendabilities assortment as your FREE item when you purchase $110 NZD worth of product?
The Square Framelits came in handy to create the card. The largest framelit - which is a scallop square formed the card base and then I used the 3 11/16" frame for the picture. I cut the mat to a 3 7/8" square.
Stamp - From the Herd
Card Stock - Daffodil Delight, Night of Navy, Whisper White
Ink/Blendabilites - Momento Black, Melon Mambo, Pumpkin Pie, Smoky Slate, Crumb Cake, Daffodil Delight, Wild Wasabi
Other - Square Framelits
Don't forget - if you have a big wish list like me why not host a party with some friends.
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Hundreds of migrants deported without children, analysis of cases shows
Hundreds of migrant adults have been deported without the minors who were accompanying them, according to data that researchers at Syracuse University published Wednesday.
The case-by-case analysis of Customs and Border Protection detentions from October 2014 through April came from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a nonpartisan data-gathering, research and distribution organization at Syracuse University.
Many adults who arrived in the U.S. with children were quickly deported, the data shows. Nearly 1 in 4 adults with children that Border Patrol agents took into custody in April — 1,060 of 4,537 — have been deported.
The number of children arrested with adults in April was higher than the total of adults, but fewer than 1 in 6 of the children — 851 of 5,144 — have been deported.
► Here's why:The rise of detaining immigrant children was years in the making
► 'Where are the children?':Women march to protest family separations
► First lady:Melania Trump returns to border for 2nd visit with immigrant families
"Thus, several hundred parents appear to have been deported without their children in April alone," according to the records clearinghouse.
On April 6, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a zero-tolerance policy for undocumented migrants apprehended near the border. Historically, prosecution of adults for the federal misdemeanor charge of illegal entry has been discretionary.
The administration has cited that policy decision as the root cause for the separation of migrant families, sparking global outrage and a nationwide emotional debate on immigration.
As of June 20, 2,053 minors were in the custody of the federal Department of Health and Human Services because of Sessions' policy announcement.
In a fact sheet published Saturday from the departments of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services, officials state that separate deportations are a choice given to parents.
"A parent who is ordered removed from the U.S. may request that his or her minor child accompany them," according to the fact sheet. "It should be noted that in the past many parents have elected to be removed without their children."
When migrant families are kept together, their immigration cases are consolidated, said Manoj Govindaiah, director of family detention for the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services also known as RAICES.
The family separation results in separate immigration cases that result in different dispositions. Govindaiah, who referred to this as a "manufactured crisis," said the Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement's system is built to take in "truly unaccompanied children" and not those whose parents are being detained separately.
So in this scenario, deportations and releases from detention happen at different times.
Out of desperation, some parents are signing voluntary deportation paperwork in exchange for being reunited with their children, Govindaiah said.
► Saturday rallies:People marching in 50 states to protest Trump immigration policy
► Immigrant children:Judge orders families separated be reunited within 30 days
"Parents are, for the most part, coerced into giving up their claims for asylum with an expectation that it will be the fastest and easiest way to be reunited with their children," he said.
Since May 24, the Texas Civil Rights Project has interviewed 381 families who have been separated at the Texas-Mexico border and confirmed the following:
• 266 of those families remain separated
• 101 of these adults are not in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, which could mean they have been deported
• 2 minors have been deported without the guardian from which they were separated
• 5 adults have been deported without the minors they were separated from and those children remain in the U.S.
• 5 other parents also have been deported and the Texas Civil Rights Project is the process of confirming whether they were deported with or without their children
In late May, the Texas Civil Rights Project, the Women’s Refugee Commission, the Immigration Clinic at the University of Texas School of Law, and Garcia & Garcia Attorneys at Law filed an emergency request for precautionary measures with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on behalf of five parents who had been separated from their children.
► Reunification:Administration racing clock to get 2,000 children back with parents
► Timeline:Immigrant children separated from families at the border
The organizations requested that the commission, part of the Organization of American States that encompasses countries in North, Central and South America, adopt measures requiring the United States to immediately stop the practice of separating families and reunite the petitioners with their children, according to a news release from the nonprofit.
Under the commission’s rules of procedure, it can adopt measures requiring member states to take action in cases of serious, urgent, and life-threatening human-rights abuses.
Follow Beatriz Alvarado on Twitter: @CallerBetty

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The propeller inflow of a patrol boat of the Australian Navy was measured at full scale using a newly developed LDV technique. The velocity distribution in front of the propeller was measured, both on a straight course and in a turn. Model tests that were carried out in a towing tank with the model at a drift angle were shown to adequately simulate the most important effects of the wake distribution. The model wake data were used to complete the full scale data and an analysis was made of the power absorption of the propellers in relation to the inflow velocities. It was found that the transverse velocities in the propeller plane were almost fully responsible for changes in power absorption in a turn. The mean axial velocity was about equal for the inner and the outer propeller in a turn. Unexpectedly the transverse velocities induced by a turn were small in the upper half of the propeller plane. The effects of the inflow measurements on the cavitation inception speed have also been estimated analytically.


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Understanding the influence of lobbying on decisions made by the Kansas House Education Committee, 1995 - 2006
Lobbying and lobbyists have been a part of the national policymaking landscape since the inception of this country. In addition, lobbying and lobbyists play a similar role in the policymaking in every state in the Union. Recent and past media reports of dishonest politicians in Washington, D.C. who have accepted expensive gifts from powerful and unscrupulous lobbyists do little to cause the general public, including legislators in Kansas, to trust those individuals whose role includes being a source of information legislators can access when making decisions about issues.
The purpose of this study was to discover the nature of the influence on Kansas K-12 education policy that each type of registered education lobbyist had from 1995 – 2006. The influence lobbyists have had on Kansas K-12 education policy was identified through interviews with each type of registered education lobbyist and with legislators who have served as the chief leadership of the Kansas House Education Committee, as well as through an analysis of documents related to bills the Committee considered from 1995 – 2006.
A qualitative method of inquiry, in the form of a case study, was selected by the researcher as the methodology around which to structure the research. The focus of this case study was to learn how lobbyists influenced the decisions made by members of the Kansas House Education Committee from 1995 – 2006. The study identifies the significant education issues of the Committee as determined by an expert panel of educators, the strategies registered lobbyists indicated they used in their attempt to influence legislators’ decisions, and the information sources which were perceived to influence the positions lobbyists and legislators took on education policy. As a case study, the research is “based on one person’s encounter with a complex case” (Creswell, p. 187); and includes analysis of the data; a discussion of the implications of the understandings drawn from the analysis of data, and suggestions for future research.
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School Location:USA - Kansas
Source Type:Master's Thesis
Keywords:lobbyist influence k 12 education kansas legislators house committee policy decisions administration 0514 general 0515 political science 0615
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A new book, “Love, InshAllah,” brings together 24 essays about the love lives of American Muslim women. It's why I loved being a part of the book Love Inshallah, so much – for the first time I saw my narrative side-by-side with 24 other Muslimah's love stories. It gave. Love, InshAllah by Nura Maznavi, , available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide.
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Share via Email 'Life can be a balancing act for a modern Muslim woman, negotiating different cultures and pursuing romance within the confines of her faith. Muslim women are in love. And, you know, doing what lovers do. Wahabi guys, best look away. They aren't fictional, they are personal accounts of what happens when you meet someone and fall in love — only you can't really fall in love because a your parents will go crazy and b you've been told it's against your religion to fancy someone. The book, which was officially released in the US on Valentine's Day it's available on Kindle, and will be published in March in the UK , has been compiled by two Muslim women — Ayesha Mattu, a civil rights lawyer, and Nura Maznavi, a human rights consultant.
For a topic as fraught with controversy as Muslim women's sexuality, shockingly little has been published on the subject by Muslim women themselves.
Love InshAllah is a welcome and timely remedy. Willow Wilson, award-winning author of The Butterfly Mosque and Alif the Unseen "These are gorgeously powerful women who love men and women, fight and laugh, lie to themselves and hold back nothing.
You'll fall for some and be frustrated by others. You will see yourself in them. And, I wager, you will not be able to put down these stories of women risking themselves for love.
These remarkable stories capture what love means to Muslim women today. As the Sufis say, the quest for the beloved is ultimately the heart's longing to unite with God. Listen with an open heart as these Muslim women reveal their journeys into the divine mystery of love. Not all of our authors find love, and God and God's Will are just as often felt by their absence as by their presence. The brutal honesty that these women portray is refreshing and frightening.
Nearly every story reveals another aspect of the human condition, and makes you appreciate that even among people who share the same faith, love can mean something very different. These bold new voices share stories that are romantic in the very best sense of the word - by turns intimate, sexy, funny and sad.
The authors have created their own spaces. The achievement is profound.
Love and religion get mixed up in beautiful, painful, confusing, and liberating human ways. A crucial literary intervention for anyone who can't see Muslim women as human beings.
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There will now be a public consultation period. Shire President Matthew Reid said the council acknowledged there was significant community opposition to the application.
‘It was a very successful meeting,’ he said.
‘There was healthy debate and an open question time. By voting that the application may be a permitted use, we are able to release the application for public consultation,’ he said.
The decision will also enable the input of any relevant authorities and for additional information to be obtained to facilitate a more comprehensive, detailed and thorough assessment of the application.
Avon Valley Residents Association chairman Keith Schekkerman said 170 people attended the zoning meeting, including representatives from waste disposal company SITA, as well as opponents of the planned development.
Mr Schekkerman said AVRA supported the way the council had handled the application.
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The application will be open for public comment from next Saturday until March 15, after which the council will hold a public meeting to inform people about the submission process.
After the public comment period, the council will submit a report with the public submissions to the Development Assessment Panel for determination. SITA had hoped to begin work on the proposed landfill by late last year or early 2014.


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Early Town Libraries (1700s – 1896)
In the mid-1700s, a “town library” was kept in a room of the Gay Manse located on North Main Street, which was the residence of Ebenezer Gay, minister of the Congregational Church.
In 1812, a subscription library was formed in a store in West Suffield. For an investment of $2.00, a subscriber could withdraw $1.50 worth of books at a time, to be returned within two months. The library had a total of 76 books and 43 subscribers.
In June 1884, interested citizens started the Suffield Library Association. Opened in January 1885, at the corner of Day Avenue and North Main Street, the library was open to the public on Monday and Saturday afternoons. The charge for a card entitling a holder to the privileges of the library was $1.00
In 1893, the Connecticut Legislature passed an act providing state aid to purchase books for towns who established free public libraries. Upon the petition of Edward A. Fuller and others, a special town meeting was held March 14, 1894, for the organization of a free public library in Suffield. A board of twelve directors was chosen who authorized the purchase of books not exceeding $200. Also included in this library were all the holdings from the Suffield Library Association which consisted of 1,200 books and papers.
The Kent Memorial Library on High Street (1897-1971)
In 1897, Sidney Albert Kent, a Suffield native and successful Chicago businessman, donated $35,000 to build a library as a memorial to his parents, Albert and Lucinda Kent. On November 1, 1899, the Kent Memorial Library was dedicated. Mr. Kent gave the library 6,872 carefully selected books, 32 magazines and newspapers and created a $25,000 endowment. The land, on High Street, upon which the library still stands, belonged to the Connecticut Literary Institute, now the Suffield Academy, which sold it to the town. The land was part of the allotment of land made in 1678 to Samuel Kent, an early settler of Suffield.
After its founding in 1940, the Suffield Historical Society chose the library to be the repository of its documents and photographs. The Kent Memorial Library’s historical collection is one of the richest in the state, and is a haven for researchers of early Connecticut and Suffield history.
The Platner Building (1972 – Present)
In 1966, the Suffield Annual Report states, “[the library] book collection of 22,689 has now caused the library shelves to burst at the seams.” A Building Study Committee was formed, consisting of Chairman Allan Fuller, Mary Anne Zak, Edward McDonough, Samuel Fuller and Librarian Elinor Burnham, who decided to purchase the site on 50 North Main Street for a new library and hire Warren Platner as the architect. Construction was completed in 1972. The total cost for the property, building construction, landscaping, shelving and furnishings was $974,037. It was paid for by the sale of the prior library to Suffield Academy for $50,000, half of the endowment fund, a federal grant, a capital fund drive, and $45,000 from the Friends of the Library. No taxpayer money was used for the purchase of the land or the construction of the building. However, the Town of Suffield spent $72,000 on furnishings for the new library.
In 1992, when the library was deemed too small for its growing collection, a long-term plan was developed to add more shelving and build an addition to the south side of the library. Shelving was added, but an addition was never built. Ultimately, an analysis indicated that a new, larger library should be built and the Platner building razed. Although the proposal for a new building passed twice in two town meetings, in 2008 and again in 2011, a referendum was called for in both cases which defeated the initial votes.
Library advocates regrouped and formed a new plan to revitalize and renovate the existing building, making it ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) compatible. In 2011 and again in 2014, the staff moved into temporary quarters to renovate the library. In 2015, construction began on a new, more accessible entrance to the Kent Memorial Library with a significant contribution from Michael Zak in honor of his mother, Mary Anne Zak. The Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, donations to the Suffield Library Foundation, and Library Commission endowment funds also funded the project. Tecton Architects designed the new ADA entrance. By eliminating the hill along Bank Lane, patrons can enter the library at street level and have the option of taking the stairs or elevator to enter the library. The project also included additional parking. The architectural firm of Silver/Petrucelli and Associates took part in the renovation of the library by replacing the existing windows with energy efficient glass, adding a sprinkler system and updating the heating, ventilation, air conditioning, electrical, and plumbing systems. Enterprise Builders coordinated the two projects.
Before the completion of the original project, the toxin PCB (polychlorinated biphenyl) was discovered in large quantities which caused a major delay and more expenses. The toxin was successfully remediated and subsequent improvements were made to the historical room, the auditorium, the staff workroom and gallery and new furniture was bought. These were funded by the Town of Suffield, Michael Zak, the Library Commission endowment, the Suffield Library Foundation and the Friends of the Kent Memorial Library.
The culmination of all these efforts is a beautiful library. The building welcomes visitors with its warm colored woodwork and rooms filled with light from the inner garden courtyard. It is a mid-century masterpiece by Warren Platner, open once again.
Warren Platner, The Architect of the Kent Memorial Library (1919-2006)
The Kent Memorial Library is unique. It is the only free-standing public building designed by Warren Platner. Unknown to many, there is a twin to our library at Princeton University. It is a glass structure attached to Prospect House, a dining club for faculty and staff.
Warren Platner studied architecture at Cornell University, graduating in 1941. Early on, Platner worked with legendary architectural luminaries. The experience provided him with a wide range of architectural and design skills. From 1945 to 1950 he was employed by Raymond Loewy, known as the “The Man Who Shaped America.” Among Loewy’s designs were the Shell, Exxon and TWA logos, Coca-Cola vending machines and the Lucky Strike cigarette package. Platner also worked for I. M. Pei, nicknamed “The Master of Modern Architecture.” In 1955, Platner received the Rome Prize for Architecture, a highly competitive fellowship. During the early sixties, Platner worked with architect Eero Saarinen on the TWA Terminal at JFK Airport. After Saarinen’s death, Platner was partly responsible for completing the soaring St. Louis Gateway Arch. Before starting his own firm in New Haven in 1965, Platner worked with Kevin Roche who was later awarded the Pritzker Prize, equivalent to a Nobel Prize. Planter’s first solo project was the New York showroom for Georg Jensen, the high-end seller of Scandinavian furniture. Sometime after that, Platner designed the Kent Memorial Library which opened in 1972. After Suffield, he designed many interiors including Windows on the World, the restaurant at the top of the World Trade Center and the American Restaurant in Kansas City. Previously known for his understated, efficient office spaces, Planter’s spare style became giddy, flashy and opulent.
Platner focused on the Kent Memorial Library’s interior to create the perfect balance between the building structure and its interior.
”I tried to conceive what would be the best atmosphere, the best character for a small town public library building…Where would you like to go to look for books, perhaps sit down and read a book…The first thing we did with that concept was to think of it as a donut. If you add many individual, intimate spaces, small in scale around an opening…a garden court…then …as you enter the building, you could see across the court and see all the other spaces and you could understand the building.”
Platner spoke passionately about the library design in a 1981 interview. He also featured the library in his book Ten. As the dust jacket notes:
“These designs show …the making of desirable surroundings from mundane elements raised to the distinction of style…beautiful places …everyday buildings… [u]sing simple concepts, integrating nature, architecture and furnishings.”
Platner is best remembered for his furniture design. The sculptural bases were made of hundreds of rods, and for some chairs, required more than 1,000 welds. The Platner collection, considered mid-century masterpieces, has been in continuous production at Knoll International since its introduction. And that’s a good thing because Platner arm chairs and tables made an appearance in the James Bond movie, A Quantum of Solace and were consequently blown up. Other starring roles for the Platner Collection were in No Strings Attached and Marvel Comic’s Luke Cage, a Netflix series.
More research on Warren Platner can be done by studying the 164 boxes stored at Yale which document his career. The records include extensive documentation of major projects, such as Standard Brands, Kent Memorial Library….and others.


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ZTE Grand X3 hands on
We are here at CES 2016 with ZTE as the company continues to take the wraps off of a slew of budget-friendly smartphones. Their latest offering is the newest addition to the Grand X series, which stands out by bringing some high-end features to an affordable package. What does this device have to offer? We find out, as we go hands on with the ZTE Grand X3!
Starting with the display, the Grand X3 features a large 5.5-inch display, and while it only comes with a 720p resolution, the display actually looks really good, and the additional screen real estate is something that media-consumption and gaming centric users will certainly appreciate.
Under the hood, the Grand X3 comes with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 210 processor, backed by 2 GB of RAM. 16 GB of internal storage is all that is available to you, but expandable storage via microSD card is also found to help alleviate any storage concerns you may have.
One of the favorite features of ours of the Grand X3 is its sizable battery, boasting a 3,080 mAh capacity. The battery is also removable, which is a feature that is going by the wayside for the most part, and is great to see here, giving users the option of carrying around a spare. Another hardware aspect that has only been seen with high-end smartphones so far is the availability of USB Type-C, and the device also comes with fast charging capabilities, which is also a first in this segment of the smartphone market.
As far as the camera is concerned, you get an 8 MP rear shooter and a 2 MP front-facing unit. The camera software packs a lot of interesting and useful features, including a selfie mode than can detect when you smile when taking a selfie to automatically take a shot. The camera package also comes with a surprisingly robust manual mode, with granular control over elements like ISO, exposure, and white balance.
On the design front, the device comes with a textured plastic backing which is removable. The somewhat large device is very light however, and despite packing a 5.5-inch display, the one-handed handling experience is quite good, particularly when needing to reach across to the capacitive navigation keys below the display. The back and Recent Apps capacitive keys can also be switched around, depending on which setup you find more convenient.
On the software side of things, the Grand X3 comes with Android 5.1 Lollipop out of the box, and the software experience is quite close to stock Android, with only a few customization options added by ZTE. Even with a lower-end processing package, going around the various elements of the user interface seems to be smooth, and the overall experience is very good.
So there you have it for this quick look at the ZTE Grand X3! In the US, the Grand X3 will be available from Cricket Wireless priced at a very affordable $129.99 off-contract. For those of you looking for some high-end features on a phone that is still able to provide a budget-friendly price tag, the ZTE Grand X3 is going to be a great choice.
Stay tuned with Android Authority as we continue to bring you more great hands on coverage from CES 2016!


Jon Rothstein has picked your Fighting Hoyas of Georgetown to finish 10th in the Big East this season.
10th, as in last.
As in, worse than DePaul.
BIG EAST OFFSEASON POWER RANKINGS:
3. Seton Hall
5. St. John’s
On the upside, he does list sophomore guard Jagan Mosely as a potential breakout player.
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I remember the first time I ever heard Hibria. I was discussing power metal with a friend, who then turned to me and asked if I had ever heard of this Brazilian band Hibria. While I knew the name I had never actually heard the music. He then went on to describe this concert he had been to in at some rundown bar in Kitchener where there had been about 10 people in attendance, but the band played as it there were 10,000. About ten seconds into “Tiger Punch” I knew that this was a band that I was going to be in love with. All these years later Hibria is still a band that I have a lot of respect for, and make a point of following which is why I was very excited when I heard about the release of this newest album. I will admit that while I had no reason to be skeptical, I often worry when a band releases a self-titled album later in their career. I find that this can sometimes signify a lack of creativity as a disguise for going back to their roots (Dream Theaters latest effort comes to mind). However after starting this album it became immediately clear that I had absolutely nothing to worry about.
The album blasts off with “Pain” a wonderful fusion of Hibria’s signature speed and riffs with the style of Swing music. It was during this track that I realized that this album would be a reflection of where Hibria has come from, but also where they were going from here. The song has the traits of their usual style but it comes off as fresh and new, making it a truly interesting experience. From here the album becomes a much heavier affair than usual. The album is a little more stripped down so that each instrument can play its part. The riffs on this album take the front stage, excellently written and sure to make this the heaviest album of the year. They really come through on tracks like “Abyss”,“Ghosts” or “Fame”. These tracks really show Hibria’s clear roots in Hard rock, and how it integrates with their current sound. This doesn’t mean that the band isn’t afraid to slow things down a bit, the ballad “Life” brings some emotion to the album and proves that they can have a diverse sound while still being a very powerful band. All the tracks on this album really show Hibria telling the listener where they had come from and what they are about while at the same time pushing forward and reinventing themselves on their own terms. This really comes through on the last track “Words” which tells you everything you need to know about the band, and gives you know choice but to accept it. While I was a little disappointed that the album doesn’t quite have the highs of some of their earlier albums, that really isn’t what this is about and the overall quality of this makes it a way above average effort.
I said earlier that I was a little worried about the album being self-titled, but when it came to a close I couldn’t think of a better way to represent the Hibria name. It gave me everything I wanted from the soaring vocals to the amazing technicality, it does justice to Hibria’s past while at the same time pushing forward. It shows where they have come from, but also what to expect from them from this point onward, and after this I couldn’t be more excited.
-Danny Guts, Laurier Loud, Radio Laurier.


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Sure, to clarify though, I'm not making a solid genre argument by referring to his style as techno so much as I'm making a method argument. That is, whether or not it fits established expectations of particular techno genres/sub-genres is less important from my point of view that it fits an idea of what techno is, i.e., the sound of machines. That said, I think that it's fair to call it minimal abstract techno, I'm not really sure what else you'd call it. It is a rhythmic style that is enforced by the looping nature of his methods.Vortifex wrote:I think I would put Graham Dunning into the category of something like a sound artist, similar to Tarek Atoui (the Brian Ferneyhough of electronica, not necessarily a complement), rather than techno artist. His art is more about the entertaining visual aspect of his method than it is about the musical result.
Sure, no doubt, and, in fact, my criticism of live acts is often that they put method over substance. Here I mean substance with respect to the genre in question. Consequently, when I attend noise festivals my expectations are very different than when I attend a warehouse party.Innovative method is also important for artists like Aphex Twin, but like so many other producers his method is a secret alchemy that's kept hidden from view - the end product has always been what mattered most. Actually in his case his mischievous refusal to talk openly and honestly about his method is part of his image.
I do think that what Graham does is interesting. I would probably refer to it as "techno turntablism." It has many of the quirks of turntablism with some of the aesthetic of techno.


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Dear guests of the site I invite you to my husband’s Facebook and Instagram pages: Gregory Boyko and @wooden_utensils . Here we upload photos of wooden utensils crafted by Gregory (with the obligatory indication of wood species). Each item is one of a kind work. They are made for domestic use and as art objects. We will be very pleased to get your likes and comments. You are welcome. Enjoy and share with your friends. I appreciate your support!
Highly recommend to visit an excellent exhibition “Moscow Metro. Subterranean Monument” at Schusev museum of architecture (Moscow, Vozdvizhenka str., 5/25, 17 March – 17 July 2016). It represents the Moscow metro as a unique achievement of architecture and art in the variety of projects embodied and unrealized.
Metro station project “Novoslobodskaya”, 1950
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Moscow, B. Ovchinnikovsky lane, 24, build. 4 (metro st. Novokuznetskaya)
Natalia Goncharova (1881–1962), an exciting artist of the Russian avant-garde, who played a crucial role in the development of Russian modernism. Her name resembles the name of Pushkin’s wife, also called Natalia Goncharova, whom distant descendant she was. Freedom of avant-garde art of the early 20th century allowed the painter to try everything from primitivism to the grotesque. Natalia Goncharova was happy to know the lifetime success. Today she is known as one of the most expensive woman artists. The invaluable Tretyakov gallery exhibition displays all genre diversity of Goncharova’s paintings. Everyone will find there something touching the soul.
I was mostly touched by her Spanish women.
The egg “Memory of Azov” is the only one in the collection of the Moscow Kremlin Museums, commissioned by Emperor Alexander III. It was presented to his wife, Maria Fyodorovna, on Easter in 1891 and dedicated to the journey of Tsarevich Nicholas and his brother George to the East aboard the cruiser “Memory of Azov” (Pamiat Azova). The itinerary included Greece, Egypt, India, China, and Japan. The Easter egg is made of heliotrope (a kind of jasper) and decorated with gold and diamonds in the rococo style. The surprise within is a miniature gold and platinum replica of the Imperial cruiser, fixed on a piece of aquamarine representing the water.
In my opinion, one of the most beautiful metro stations in Moscow is Arbatskaya (dark blue line). Completed in 1953, the year of Stalin’s death, it was intended to be used as a bomb shelter, if necessary. Look at that bomb shelter! The long 250 meter platform is also very deep - 41 meters underground. The station represents an example of Stalinist baroque style, its opera clothes include white arched ceilings, bronze chandeliers, ceramic bouquets of flowers, red marble decorations, and glazed tiles. Arbatskaya station can boast a unique design. It was not yet time for austerity and criticism of luxury in Soviet architecture. Up to 1955 metro stations were built on the individual projects. They looked like palaces. Later, between 1955 and 1970 mostly functional aspects prevailed.
Before 1955 in one of the escalator vestibules one could see a mosaic portrait of Stalin (sculptor G. Opryshko).
The same place today:
The church of the Intercession of the Virgin at Fili, a lithograph of the early 19th century.
The Church of the Intercession of the Virgin at Fili is located at Novozavodskaya Street. Fili metro station is a short walk, not more than 200m. The church was built between 1689 and 1693 by a boyar Naryshkin, the uncle of Peter the Great. Actually it consists of two churches, a winter one in the basement and a summer church above it, which was never heated. The new architectural style was formed at the end of the XVII century in Moscow. It is known as the Naryshkin Baroque and is also called Moscow Baroque style.
The exhibition of Konstantin Korovin (1861-1939), Russian Impressionist painter, dedicated to his 150th birth anniversary is open till August, 12 at the Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val, 10. The last exhibition like this took place in Moscow in 1922.
Konstantin Korovin. Gurzuf, 1914
The Tsar Nicholas II presented this Easter egg to his wife Alexandra Fyodorovna in 1908. It was made of Sayan jade and decorated with miniature watercolor portraits of the tsar’s daughters and Tsarevich Alexei. Portraits frames and the first letters of the names over them were lined with diamonds. The surprise inside was the exact gold model of the Alexander Palace with rock crystal windows and a roof of green enamel. Originally this country residence was built by order of Catherine II as a wedding gift to her beloved grandson, Alexander. In the reign of Nicholas II the royal family mostly lived in Tsarskoye Selo at this palace. Jade was considered a symbol of love, hope, and happiness.
The Armoury Chamber collection, Moscow
Independent travelers sometimes complain that it is difficult to find the entrance to the Kremlin museums. It’s quite easy.
The main entrance is through the Kutafya tower.
1. First of all, please, do not try to enter the Kremlin from Red square. It is useless and even unsafe if you insist.
2. Look at the map. There are two entrances for us (shown by red arrows), both are located on the side of Alexandrovsky gardens (Alexandrovsky Sad in Russian). The main one is through the Kutafya tower (1). To visit the Armoury chamber and the Diamond Fund go to the end of the Gardens along the Kremlin wall to the Borovitskaya Tower (2).


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Saturday Recipe: Spicy Red Pepper Soup
As trees begin to lose their leaves and the number of rainy Beatrix Potter days ever increases, now is the perfect time to cosy up with a bowl of homemade soup. But this ritual need not be complicated with hours of stock-making and prep. Here’s a bright and simple recipe that will warm you from the inside out. Packed full of flavour and nourishment!
Ingredients (serves 2)
1 Red capsicum, roughly chopped
2 cloves garlic
¼ cup sundried tomatoes
1 cup low sodium vegetable stock
¼ cup dry white wine, or ½ Tbs apple cider vinegar and ½ Tbs mirin
1/3 cup parsley, roughly chopped
2 tsp spice mix (or else a pinch of each): chilli flakes, nutmeg, cinnamon, paprika, cumin, pepper, cardamon, ground cloves, raw sugar, and sea salt.
Note: Mirin is a sweet Asian sauce, if you don’t have it, substitute with 1 tsp honey or raw maple syrup and a dash of water.
Place all the ingredients in a food processor, blender or blend using a bar mix for 30-40 seconds, or until smooth.
Put the soup in a saucepan and heat for 10 minutes.
Drizzle with olive oil
Serve with crusty bread, toasted ricecakes or wholegrain crispbread.
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The ceasefire in Ukraine has been holding for months now, but the Obama Administration continues to agitate for new fighting in the east, and continues to try to insinuate itself into that potential future conflict.
Vice President Joe Biden today talked up the idea of sending lethal arms, including anti-tank missiles, to the Ukrainian military, saying it was necessary because of Russia’s “brutal aggression.”
Biden went on to claim Russia was carrying out a “hyper-aggressive propaganda program” over the annexation of Crimea, which the US does not recognize. Biden added that sanctions against Russia will remain in place.
The US has provided considerable non-lethal military aid to Ukraine, and is involved in a training program there for Ukraine’s military. The Obama Administration has previously held off on sending arms for fear of being blamed for the collapse of the ceasefire, and continues to insist the eventual fall won’t be their fault.
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US: Stocks flat ahead of Yellen testimony
[NEW YORK] Wall Street stocks treaded water early Tuesday ahead of the always closely-watched congressional testimony from Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen.
Ms Yellen, appearing in a semi-annual hearing on Wednesday, is due to update lawmakers on the state of the US economy and the likelihood of additional moves to tighten monetary policy in light of the improving labor market but still mild inflation.
Meanwhile, analysts have seen lofty stock valuations as a challenge for further appreciation in equities.
About 15 minutes into trading, the Dow Jones Industrial Average stood at 21,409.14, up less than 0.1 per cent.
The broad-based S&P 500 slipped 0.1 per cent to 2,424.37, as did the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index which was down to 6,170.69.
PepsiCo lost 1.3 per cent after reporting a five percent rise in second-quarter earnings to US$2.1 billion. Revenues rose two percent to US$15.7 billion.
Department store JC Penney dipped 0.2 per cent as it announced chief financial officer Edward Record was stepping down.
Snap, the parent of photo messaging app Snapchat, dropped 4.9 per cent following a downgrade from Morgan Stanley.


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Visualize sitting in a boring meeting at work while the guy in front of you is playing a mobile game of poker on his smartphone. Then move on to win some cash while placing real money bets. All online casinos aim for people to gamble on their mobile phones this way more often.
If you look at it, a mobile phone is an ideal gambling device. It allows people to gamble on their way to work in the morning, while on their lunch break or at night while lying in bed, in fact they can do so from anywhere they want as long as there is a reliable site. Internet connection. One day people will realize that they no longer need to go down to horse races or other sports matches, since they UFABET will be able to place bets easily and comfortably from their mobile devices without having to travel anywhere. Mobile gaming is said to transform the gaming world and revolutionize the online gaming industry.
A recent report from the research company Juniper states that the probability of them being played at mobile casinos will increase and their future is very optimistic. They have estimated that by 2015 the amount of betting in mobile casinos, lottery and sports betting on mobile devices will be around $ 48 billion.
Many casinos in Europe currently receive almost 15% of their trade through mobile casino games such as mobile poker, blackjack and slots. Some of the big names in online casinos are already offering mobile gambling to their customers and it is anticipated that most other online casinos will eventually follow suit. Online casinos used to be the talk of the town, but now due to innovative technology, the new craze will be mobile casino gambling.
However, will everyone welcome the mobile gaming phenomenon? Some people may feel that it will be too easy to gamble hard earned money if it is so readily available. Until the idea becomes more common, we may have to settle for gambling from our home computers and why not as there is nothing wrong with this. With online casinos, you can experience the same excitement and excitement as in a real casino and the graphics are of higher quality, making the experience more realistic than it would be on a mobile device right now.
Without a doubt, mobile gambling is becoming more and more popular, but at the moment it seems that many people are satisfied with the online gambling options that they currently have.
Just keep in mind that the world of mobile casino gambling will also explode in the near future.
Hello, my name is Elliot. I have spent a lot of time in land-based and online casinos and I would like to share some gaming experiences with you. I hope you find my articles useful and help you make the right decisions along with a little money when betting.


THE National Judicial Council (NJC) may be living on old glory. But they are unlikely to know that they are no longer viewed with the reverence of years past, when they were doted on by nearly everyone, and their every word was regarded with a solemnity that was at once noble and distant. Before the NJC became immersed in avoidable controversies, Nigerians had embraced the culture of tiptoeing around the eminent jurists, scared of rousing their anger. Today, the situation is different, and the jurists themselves may not even know it.
To cap what may amount to many months of difficult judicial diminution, the NJC on Monday issued a statement signed by its spokesman, Soji Oye, indicating that the council took note of the president’s acceptance of the resignation of the former Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Walter Onnoghen, after many months of uncertainty, and thanked him for doing so. Said the NJC: “The NJC held an emergency meeting today (Monday) to take formal note of the acceptance of the voluntary retirement of Hon. Mr. Justice W. S. N. Onnoghen as Chief Justice of Nigeria by President Muhammadu Buhari. The President’s acceptance of the retirement is in line with Council’s recommendation to the President on 3rd April, 2019. Council at the end of its deliberations thanked the President for the acceptance which was in the best interest of Nigeria.”
The NJC is of course at liberty to endorse anyone’s resignation, no matter how controversial or, as in the case of Justice Onnoghen, unwholesome. And as the NJC statement said, a fact also reiterated by the presidency, it is true that the NJC had advocated the compulsory retirement of the former chief justice. But because the presidency was breathing threats and imprecate on Justice Onnoghen in those intransigent days, there were indications that the presidency was ready to meet the former CJN’s stubbornness with a vicious corruption trial of their own. They simply disregarded due process and rode roughshod over the beleaguered jurist.
Even then, the former CJN, who seemed curiously confident that he could best the government on points of law, was still willing to face up to the presidency’s threats, and was in addition willing to meet them and joust with them in the courts, whether the courts were rigged or not, or whether or not the presiding judges could call their souls their own. It was at that point, when things seemed to drag on interminably, and the regularisation of the appointment of the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Ibrahim Muhammad, seemed threatened, that the NJC cut the Gordian knot and asked the government to compulsorily retire Justice Onnoghen. Sensing that all was lost, and with the Court of Appeal developing cold feet over the myriad of cases brought before them by the former CJN hoping to secure some exculpatory reliefs, and knowing for sure that he could not hope to get justice anywhere and anymore, Justice Onnoghen threw in the towel. He knew that at that point things could only get nastier.
The politics behind the presidency relenting over the Onnoghen retirement has not been revealed. Perhaps it is complicated. Perhaps a lot of begging went into the affair to bring it to that ignoble end. Perhaps Justice Onnoghen’s hand was not as strengthened as he and his sympathisers made everyone to believe. Whatever the case, the former CJN retired, the presidency took about two months to make up its mind whether to accept the resignation — a speed unlikely to be connected with the customary gridlock afflicting the government — and the NJC has curiously appreciated the government for burying the hatchet. If this outcome had been etched on an artist’s canvas or portrayed in a novel, it would have been condemned as surreal. But it is real. The NJC is grateful that the presidency took its counsel. Not since the Ayo Salami affair, when the same NJC let its imagination get entangled in boyish fantasies, has the judiciary postured so outlandishly.
The presidency finally relented, just as it is true that the NJC charted a curious way out of the Onnoghen ordeal. But it would have been far better if the NJC had not felt prompted by unknown motives to claim the questionable glory for resolving that judicial and ethical labyrinth and in the same breath extending their gratitude to the presidency. There was nothing to thank the president for. If the retirement of Justice Onnoghen had not been accepted, and the case had dragged on in the courts, it is difficult to see even a conniving Senate ignore the brutal judicial and administrative realities of the day to endorse the appointment of Justice Ibrahim Muhammad. The presidency simply bowed to reality, convinced it could go no further without drawing more flak and fouling the judiciary. The NJC should have kept a dignified silence in a case that unfolded bizarrely before the whole world.


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As much as we all hate to see summer go, fall is right around the corner, bringing plenty to do around your garden, greenhouse or fields. We want to help you be one step ahead when spring returns by sharing some great tips for saving seeds from this year’s harvest. By adding seed saving to your fall to-do list, you are not only saving yourself time next year, but money, too! Here are some great tips for making seed saving a fun and economical activity!
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Drip Irrigation is a very efficient method of watering crops, providing more uniform, timely and precise application of water than all other irrigation methods. Drip tape systems should be set up either on the surface of the soil, or directly underneath in order to deliver water right to plants’ roots reducing waste. Drip irrigation offers many benefits and the result of these advantages is more rapid growth and earlier harvest, higher quality crops at higher yields, as well as cost savings associated with greatly reduced water usage. When first designing a drip system, it can be a bit confusing. Here are a few questions commonly asked by FarmTek customers who are just getting started.

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