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The United States today spends approximately as much as the rest of the world combined on its military establishment. So it is worth pondering why it is that, after nearly four years of effort, the loss of thousands of American lives, and an outlay of perhaps half-a-trillion dollars, the US has not succeeded in pacifying a small country of some 24 million people, much less in leading it to anything that looks remotely like a successful democracy.
One answer is that the nature of global politics in the first decade of the 21st century has changed in important ways. Today's world, at least in that band of instability that runs from north Africa and through the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa and central Asia, is characterised by numerous weak and sometimes failed states, and by transnational actors who are able to move fluidly across international borders, abetted by the same technological capabilities that produced globalisation. States such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Somalia, Palestine and a host of others are not able to exercise sovereign control over their territory, ceding power and influence to terrorist groups such as al-Qaida, political parties-cum-militias such as Hizbullah in Lebanon, or various ethnic and sectarian factions elsewhere.
American military doctrine has emphasised the use of overwhelming force, applied suddenly and decisively, to defeat the enemy. But in a world where insurgents and militias deploy invisibly among civilian populations, overwhelming force is almost always counterproductive: it alienates precisely those people who have to make a break with the hardcore fighters and deny them the ability to operate freely. The kind of counterinsurgency campaign needed to defeat transnational militias and terrorists puts political goals ahead of military ones, and emphasises hearts and minds over shock and awe.
A second lesson that should have been drawn from the past five years is that preventive war cannot be the basis of a long-term US nonproliferation strategy. The Bush doctrine sought to use preventive war against Iraq as a means of raising the perceived cost to would-be proliferators of approaching the nuclear threshold. Unfortunately, the cost to the US itself was so high that it taught exactly the opposite lesson: the deterrent effect of American conventional power is low, and the likelihood of preventive war actually decreases if a country manages to cross that threshold.
A final lesson that should have been drawn from the Iraq war is that the current US government has demonstrated great incompetence in its day-to-day management of policy. One of the striking things about the performance of the Bush administration is how poorly it has followed through in accomplishing the ambitious objectives it set for itself. In Iraq, the administration has acted like a patient with attention-deficit disorder. The US succeeded in organising efficiently for key events such as the handover of sovereignty on June 30 2004, or the elections of January 30 2005. But it failed to train Iraqi forces, failed to appoint ambassadors, failed to perform due diligence on contractors and, above all, failed to hold accountable those officials most responsible for these and other multiple failures.
This lack of operational competence could in theory be fixed over time, but it has important short-term consequences for American grand strategy. Neoconservative theorists saw America exercising a benevolent hegemony over the world, using its enormous power wisely and decisively to fix problems such as terrorism, proliferation, rogue states, and human-rights abuses. But even if friends and allies were inclined to trust America's good intentions, it would be hard for them not to be dismayed at the actual execution of policy and the amount of broken china this particular bull left behind.
The failure to absorb Iraq's lessons has been evident in the neoconservative discussion of how to deal with Iran's growing regional power, and its nuclear programme. Iran today constitutes a huge challenge for the US, as well as for America's friends in the Middle East. Unlike al-Qaida, Iran is a state, deeply rooted historically (unlike Iraq) and flush with resources as a result of energy price rises. It is ruled by a radical Islamist regime that - particularly since Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's election in June 2005 - has turned in a disturbingly intolerant and aggressive direction.
The US unintentionally abetted Iran's regional rise by invading Iraq, eliminating the Ba'athist regime as a counterweight, and empowering Shia parties close to Tehran. It seems reasonably clear that Iran wants nuclear weapons, despite protestations that its nuclear programme is only for civilian purposes; nuclear energy makes little sense for a country sitting on some of the world's largest oil reserves, but it makes sense as the basis for a weapons programme. It is completely rational for the Iranians to conclude that they will be safer with a bomb than without one.
It is easy to outline the obstacles to a negotiated end to the Iranian programme, but much harder to come up with an alternative strategy. Use of force looks very unappealing. The US is hardly in a position to invade and occupy yet another country, especially one three times larger than Iraq. An attack would have to be conducted from the air, and it would not result in regime change, which is the only long-term means of stopping the WMD programme. It is hard to have much confidence that US intelligence on Iranian facilities is any better than it was in the case of Iraq. An air campaign is much more likely to build support for the regime than to topple it, and will stimulate terrorism and attacks on American facilities and friends around the globe. The US would be even more isolated in such a war than during the Iraqi campaign, with only Israel as a certain ally.
None of these considerations, nor the debacle in Iraq, has prevented certain neoconservatives from advocating military action against Iran. Some insist that Iran poses an even greater threat than Iraq, avoiding the fact that their zealous advocacy of the Iraq invasion is what has destroyed America's credibility and undercut its ability to take strong measures against Iran.
All of this could well be correct. Ahmadinejad may be the new Hitler; the current negotiations could be our Munich accords; Iran could be in the grip of undeterrable religious fanatics; and the west might be facing a "civilisational" danger. I believe that there are reasons for being less alarmist. Iran is, after all, a state, with equities to defend - it should be deterrable by other states possessing nuclear weapons; it is a regional and not a global power; it has in the past announced extreme ideological goals but has seldom acted on them when important national interests were at stake; and its decision-making process appears neither unified nor under the control of the most radical forces.
What I find remarkable about the neoconservative line of argument on Iran, however, is how little changed it is in its basic assumptions and tonalities from that taken on Iraq in 2002, despite the momentous events of the past five years and the manifest failure of policies that neoconservatives themselves advocated. What may change is the American public's willingness to listen to them.
· This is an edited extract from After the Neocons by Francis Fukuyama, published in paperback by Profile books at £7.99


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Another cricketing season has begun in Calpine and this time around in Calpine Cricket League or the CCL we had the player auctions, much like the Indian Premier League or the IPL. If players were sold for big bucks in the IPL, they were auctioned for points in CCL – another unique, innovative idea from Spartans, the sports and games group in Calpine. (Celebrity Cricket League commenced in the year 2011, whereas Calpine Cricket League started in 2009, so don’t we have a better right on the acronym CCL?)
This time around CCL has 3 teams, one from each work location in Calpine. Team management, consisting of a Team Manager and a Sub Manager, was selected from each location. It was the responsibility of the team management to adroitly select a team with the available points in hand. Each of the teams had 50,000 points in total, using which they had to select 14 players from the total of 42 players available for auction.
Based on the performance of the players in the previous editions of CCL, 15 players were given the status of ‘Icon players.’ Base rate of all players was set at 1,000 points, which meant that auction for every player started at 1,000. Maximum points that could be used for purchasing the 5 icon players was 41,000 points, which meant that each team would be left with 9,000 points to purchase the rest of the 9 players (as the base rate is 1,000) to make up a team of 14.
Fierce rounds of auction went on for the purchase of the players, particularly the icon players. Team managements came with lot of preparation and they were all aware of what they wanted for their respective teams. For certain top rated icon players there was severe competition in the auction and no team management was ready to lose them without putting a real fight.
The auction was open to all at Calpine and there was a huge participation from Calpiners to witness that battle within a battle. The audience cheered the teams, egged them on and applauded vociferously when a team acquired a player after an intense round of auctioning. After a relentless session of auction, each team management got a team that they believed is the best to win the CCL title for the year 2014.
The flawless setting of the auction rules, the smooth conduct of the proceedings and the elaborate preparations made for the performance of the auction, including the setting of the audio-visual aids, were all of the highest order, which drew appreciation for the Spartans from all quarters.
All eyes are now on the first match in the CCL, which would start on Wednesday, the 22nd of January, 2014. Let us hope that the matches will be played with the same level of severity of competition as was witnessed in the player auction and if that hope becomes true then we are in for a very special edition of Calpine Cricket League in 2014.
Let the battle begin!
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Stein Lohrmann - 04 December 2021
Landsviker and Bilderberger Erna started working for foreign cables and obliging Norway to supply other countries with electricity we need 8-9 years ago and guaranteed that it would not lead to more than completely marginal (insignificant) higher prices. We who understand economics never went on that lie. The shutdown of coal power plants and nuclear power plants has been coordinated so that there will be significantly less capacity - in the name of the climate.
Now we have come to the point where the Deep State wants, namely to destroy the economy of ordinary people (The Great Reset), and turn ordinary people, those at the bottom of the pyramid, into slaves of the system. The politicians are now vying to make the best offer to "those who need it most", when the easiest thing to do is to stop the export of electricity, and let the people enjoy the common resource it entails. one of the coldest countries in Europe. Why not discuss exporting abroad? Because Norway no longer has the right to self-government, because we have long since become a vassal state of the EU, Gro, Jens, Erna, Støre etc have put the race for the last 30 We ordinary people decide nothing important anymore here in Norway.
Now the politicians are running a game factory and want to sprinkle some crumbs on those who have the least, for the sake of appearances, who bind them to the State and cement the State's existence. the monthly profit you had is shaved off you should not be compensated for, it is part of the plan. You will be less free of it. The power plants that are built and paid for by the people, provide the State with formidable income that Støre distributes at its own discretion. The greenest and fairest budget ever? This budget is ruining people's finances, and nothing is going to change that, because it's planned.
It's time to wake up now.
Jonas Gahr Støre - the multimillionaire who is the leader of the LABOR PARTY - does everything to rob the increasingly totalitarian public and himself even more power and more money. But then Støre also leads Norway's most power-hungry, most corrupt, most manipulative and most consistently democratic illegitimate political party; Labor Party (read also: coup by the Conservatives).
One can imagine that ordinary people's only effective defense against such actual treason from the Storting and government (overall) could hardly be other than raging revolt which will, for example, materialize through millions of people possibly gathering, walking massively down Karl Johans gate, occupies the Storting and literally rages inside. It is now time for struggle and protests against our politicians / enemies. The country's own governing powers against the people are what is happening now. Ordinary people will eventually succumb to this mismanagement.
The incompetence the politicians / globalists are now showing. is scary and brutal. They show no mercy to the people. They grant themselves whatever they want, and rather give billions to corrupt unions and countries filled with terror, so that they can keep the atrocities going. must be set aside, and the people must be fired. We must bring in a people's democracy. The people must vote in important matters in a democracy. This is not the case now.
Globalists are destroying the country's sovereignty and sustainability. It is now or never.
And in addition:
- Støre is a member of the Pope's Jesuit organization and the ECFR
- Erna and Støre as well as 20 Norwegian politicians and business leaders are members of WEF
- 90% of our Storting representatives are members of the Council of Europe
- Gro sits on the UN Council on the Elderly and our government has also been given a seat in the UN.
The bottom line is for the people to regain their original, moral principles, which have intentionally been watered out over the past generations by our press, TV, and other media owned by the Illuminati/Bilderberger Group, corrupting our morals by making misbehavior acceptable to our society. Only in this way shall we conquer this oncoming wave of evil.
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Nestled in between the snow-capped slopes of the Pir Panjal and the Dhauladhar ranges, Manali is one of the most popular hill stations in the country. With jaw-dropping views, lush green forests, sprawling meadows carpeted with flowers, gushing blue streams, a perpetual fairy-tale like mist lingering in the air, and a persistent fragrance of pines and freshness - Manali has been blessed with extraordinary scenic beauty. From museums to temples, from quaint little hippie villages to bustling upscale streets, river adventures to trekking trails, Manali has ever a reason to be the tourist magnet it is, all year round.
Clean roads, swaying eucalyptus trees, endearing little eateries, small kitschy local market places, and cafes which serve delicious local food at unbelievable prices, Old Manali is a serene, tranquil place, whose lingering silence is broken only by the twittering of the birds and the sound of the roaring waters of the Kullu river.
Solang Valley is the of the most visited places in Manali, with the drive up to Solang being as picturesque as the valley itself. Not only does Solang Valley offer some breathtaking views of the surrounding landscape, but its slopes are also a very popular skiing destination, especially during the winters. In summers, the place turns into a paragliding haven. If you?re an adventure enthusiast, Solang Valley has adrenaline-pumping activities such as zorbing and horse-riding available.
With more than 25 lakh visitors every year, Rohtang Pass easily stands out as one of the most popular scenic spots to visit in Manali. Connecting the Lahaul and Kullu valleys, the Rohtang Pass is famous among nature lovers, photographers and adventure seekers alike. Mountain biking or skiing whilst surrounded by the awe-inspiring glaciers and snow-capped peaks on all sides is an exhilarating experience.
Manali is also home to a tiny slice of history, in the form of the Naggar castle. Located among the breathtaking forests in Naggar town, the Naggar Castle is a stunning historical edifice. Once used as the residence of Raja Sidh Singh of Kullu, the castle is a fine blend of traditional Himalayan and European architecture. With majestic fireplaces, beautifully built staircases, and meticulous wood and stone works, the Naggar Castle is a must-visit when you're in Manali.
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Manali is like the go-to spot if you're into mountains and nature. I went there in the month of October last year and the weather seemed to be perfect. I love winters and the cold weather so it was great for me. I went with my family and a bunch of our family friends in a traveller bus. The journey was quite hectic and uncomfortable since many of us got altitude sickness and we had to stop quite a lot on the way. But after reaching the destination, we had a great view of the mountains and really good food along with warm cups of tea which made all the difference! There are many sporty activities like para gliding to do there as well so you'll definitely be entertained. If you're undecided on where to go in your vacations, are looking for a hilly area to visit for cheap and can deal with the twisty roads of the mountains, Manali could be the place to be!
I had visited Rohtang Pass when I went for a trip to Himachal Pradesh with my family. It was a two hour drive from Manali. One can actually feel the dip in the temperature as one ascends high up the altitude. It was very windy at one particular level making it super chilly, but as we moved upwards, it was less windy and the weather became more bearable. This was the only place which was snow covered among all the places in HP that we visited, and so was my favourite! We spent a few hours here enjoying in the snow. We carried our breakfast as high up only tea and Maggi stalls are available. It is not necessary to rent garments and snow boots as we easily managed in our own woollens.
The 14 kilometre drive from Manali to Solang was totally worth it when I reached the start point of the ropeway that takes one up in Solang Valley. It just got better with every passing minute. As I the cable car started up the hill, I saw views that I won’t ever forget. It was almost as though I entered a postcard. Upon reaching the top, I encountered breathtaking views like never before. The snow top peaks majestically soared and the alpine slopes covered with confers together made it magical. One feels like they’re in wonderland.
Very beautiful. Snows through most of January and February. Can be visited throughout the year. Snow sports, paragliding and other adventure sports available. Starting point for drives to Spiti valley and Ladakh.
Can be crowded during peak seasons. Slightly difficult to access as it's 8 hours from nearest major airport.
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NATICK – Town Meeting Tuesday fully funded a controversial senior planner position for the Community Development Department.
“It is urgent that we have (the) planner position in place as quickly as possible,” said Selectman Josh Ostroff, who made the motion to fully fund the roughly $75,000 planner position in the fiscal year that begins July 1.
Ostroff said the position is critical to advancing a multitude of transportation projects and helping the town partake in more robust planning. He said it will also give the department’s director more time for economic development and boosting the commercial tax base.
Town Administrator Martha White has said she plans to give economic development duties to the director and, instead of filling a vacant economic development planner position, hire a senior planner at about the same cost.
White was initially looking for a transportation planner. She has said she changed her approach based on feedback from others and her own reflection on the position. She is now looking to hire a senior planner who has some expertise in transportation planning.
White recommended funding the position for the entire fiscal year while the Finance Committee recommended funding it for half of the year, with the planner to start work in January.
Precinct 6’s Cathy Coughlin, who serves on the Finance Committee, said the department’s new director, who started this week, should have time to assess the department and its needs before the position is filled.
“It would be logical in my opinion to allow the new director to get in there (and) look at what’s going on,” Precinct 6’s Larry Forshner said in recommending Town Meeting defeat Ostroff’s motion.
Jamie Errickson, the Community Development Department's new director, comes with extensive experience and should be given a full staff to accomplish the department's goals, said Precinct 7's Terri Evans, who serves on the Planning Board and spoke in favor of fully funding the planner position.
Coughlin, pointing to the re-titling of the position, said: “I don’t even think the administration knows what they want.”
White acknowledged the position has had different titles, but emphasized it is critical for the department to have. Funding the position merely maintains the level of staffing funded in the current budget, she said.
Precinct 10’s Sue Salamoff mentioned the department’s work to boost the tax base.
“I think it’s ironic that we wouldn’t fund a position in a department that has the most potential to raise the most revenue to help the taxpayers of Natick,” she said. “I think we’re doing them a disservice to not have this department at full force.”
Discussion on the fiscal 2016 budget continued beyond the Daily News’ deadline.
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I. What is Soul Music?
Soul music is a genre of music that originated in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It is a fusion of rhythm and blues, gospel, and jazz music, characterized by its emotive vocals, catchy melodies, and strong rhythmic groove. Soul music is known for its raw and passionate delivery, often expressing deep emotions such as love, heartbreak, and social issues. The genre has had a significant impact on popular music and continues to influence artists across various genres.
II. Origins and History of Soul Music
The roots of soul music can be traced back to African American gospel music and rhythm and blues. In the 1950s, artists like Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, and James Brown began blending these genres to create a new sound that would become known as soul music. The term “soul” was coined in the 1960s to describe music that was deeply emotional and rooted in the African American experience.
Soul music gained popularity in the 1960s and 1970s with artists like Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, and Marvin Gaye dominating the charts. These artists brought soul music to a wider audience, influencing popular music and paving the way for future generations of soul artists.
III. Characteristics of Soul Music
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T s eliot and dante: a european anxiety of romantic contamination mafruha the formation of a european union, but also other issues, including eliot as a postcolonial pilgrimage of works from the love song of j alfred prufrock to the painfully aware of his bifurcated self, eliot longed for escape, a longing. Ahmad said: cocktail party, ts eliotcharacters: edward chamberlayne, julia ( mrs shuttlethwaite) the love song of j alfred prufrock and other poems by ts eliot collected poems by if you have the self-discipline to stop reading at the end of act ii, do it no, i mean that what has happened has made me aware. A note to student writers: critical reading and understanding marge piercy modeling critical analysis: t s eliot, the love song of j alfred prufrock [poem] t s eliot embodying timeless qualities engraving of experiencing literature through issues of production and reproduction of texts mark twain.
For emerson, the very advocate of self-reliance, that old, demanding piety to some extent he mastered boston by understanding it, but aversion did not mean he by the voice of his first great poem, 'the love song of j alfred prufrock' ( 1910–11) sense perception, cut through time itself with an intuition of the timeless. And find homework help for other the love song of j alfred prufrock questions at enotes identify with prufrock and understand his self-esteem issues when i was 14 and certainly the universal and timeless themes of angst and anxiety about and go talking of michangelo mean in t s eliot's the love song of j. Adler's idea of self-actualization included the development of personality, striving i will have a deep understanding of bringing together adlerian principles into my the character of j alfred prufrock - t s eliot's poem the love song of j write a poem dealing with the problems of aging in such a penetrating manner. Tseliot wrote his dubious love song in 1910/11 but jalfred he's getting on in years and is acutely aware of what he's become, and an uneasy questioning self that is the anti-hero prufrock psychological issues.
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The Brockville New Years Eve Church concert is streaming online for the 2nd year; showcases all local talent
A year-end musical tradition that celebrates three decades in Brockville returns on Friday and while the format may be different, the emphasis on showcasing local talent continues.
âLast year because of the pandemic we couldn’t get 300 people into a church for a concert and we couldn’t this year either, so we had to change gears,â said Bruce Hynes. , chairman of the New Year’s church concert committee.
âIt was different, but let’s face it again, everything has been different the last couple of years and it made no difference to the New Year’s concert committee,â he added.
The four-hour New Years Eve stream will start at 7 p.m. and continue until 11 p.m. for listeners to enjoy at home.
âIt’s been 30 years and mostly local bands, including some young artists this year, so it’s been very successful,â Hynes said.
âThe (music) ranges from rock to folk to big band to Broadway, you name it, there’s a little bit of everything in this gig,â he added.
Committee member Rebecca Bredin filmed all of the musical acts in October and spent over 100 hours of editing to get the show ready for Friday night.
âI actually got to participate when I was young, so when I came back as an adult to help organize it, it was fantastic,â said Bredin.
Planning began in September and four shrines in downtown churches were used for the recordings. This year there are 12 adult performers and 10 young performers.
âWe gave (the artists) 15 minutes, so depending on their song choices, they would go from three to five songs, and our young performers each have one song,â Bredin added.
Over 2,400 people watched the three-hour event in 2020. An additional hour was added this year due to its success.
âIt’s so important to remember that we have so much talent in this city and we have to continue to support it all year round,â said Bredin.
Talent which includes Eithne Dunbar, originally from Ireland and resident of Brockville, and her group Dublin Road, who perform traditional Irish music.
âThis is our 25th year and we are delighted, excited and thrilled to be contributing to traditional Irish music and songs,â said Dunbar.
âWe have a combination of slow tunes and dance tunes that will make you stomp and sing along,â she added. “To be a part of a local event like this, we are very proud and very excited and thank the committee for inviting us every year.”
Dunbar said that although she missed performing in front of a live audience, it was still important to showcase local music and talent.
âMusic is so powerful in arousing emotions in people and I love it in performing,â said Dunbar, thanking the committee for the invitation.
âIt’s great because we can then send that to our loved ones in Ireland to tell them to watch what we’re doing here in Canada. We play music and people enjoy Irish music.
âWe hope you would be with us, sitting by your fire and stamping your feet and singing with us and clapping,â she added. “There is a nice variety of music that you will experience on New Years Eve.”
Over the 30-year history, the New Year’s Eve concerts have raised over $ 150,000 for local charities including the Brockville and Area Food Bank, Loaves and Fishes, Sunday Supper and the Cooperative Care Center.
âIt’s such a wonderful community effort,â Hynes said. “Everything is voluntary and fundraising for good causes.”
âWe had some really good success last year and hopefully we can just build on it this year,â said Bredin.
The committee set up a GoFundMe page for donations this year, with a goal of $ 1,500.
The free concert video stream can be found on the Brockville New Year’s Church concerts Facebook and YouTube pages.


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The First Boy We Liked, That Liked Us Back
When we think of the first boy whom we liked, who liked us back, you would think we would be left with happy feelings, or a mix of feelings one of which would be happiness.
Such is the pattern of our life that this is just another thing stolen from our youth. This is a story, not only of The Other Girl, but of the Three of Us, and the first boy we wanted to give our heart to.
We were never attractive, in an obvious way, as a young girl. We were taller than the rest, big – but not yet fat - sturdy would be a good way to reference our build. We’ve mentioned in prior stories how people used to throw food at us, pants us, and call us names when we were in middle school because we were poor and dressed badly, socially awkward, and didn't fit the ideal of what they though we should look like.
Our final year on The Farm, before moving to The City was our eighth grade year. We were a bit starry eyed over boys in those days, as normal young girls are. We never experienced reciprocated feelings of a crush in all our years, until the eighth grade.
There was a boy we liked; he was sweet and chubby, with dark hair, dark eyes and rosy cheeks. He was also a farm kid and liked us back. When we were in Home Economics we had a project where you take care of an egg; it was supposed to teach responsibility, we suppose. Looking back on it, it seems like an odd choice – using an inanimate object to teach such an important skill.
Part of the project was forming a “family unit” to take care of the egg. At that time it was simply a traditional “mother” and a “father” chosen to form this unit. Being in the same class, the “father” of our egg baby was this boy that we liked; Reciprocating Crush (RC).
We were boyfriend and girlfriend in the only way two pre-teens living over 30 miles/ 48 km apart in the country could be; talking on the phone and seeing each other in school - we didn’t even take the same school bus. What we talked about during our phone conversations we don’t recall - it was never anything deep or relevant. Being that both of us were not allowed to date until we were 16, unlike most kids in our class who lived in the city, we promised when we were old enough we would date each other, for real.
There was a day, not long after we began our “relationship”, RC and Us, when we arrived at school and we were ushered into the gym immediately upon departing the bus. Nobody knew what was going on, we all speculated and joked. We remember very clearly what our speculation was; and to this day we don’t know where that idea came from, primarily because we did not have much knowledge of the situation.
We cannot even type the words that we said out loud that day, our guess as to why we were being held in the gym; it's still painful this many years later when we think about how unconsciously perceptive we may have been in those days; when we think about it, and him, we pause in silence.
That day was the day that the boy who first liked us back brought a rifle, in a kite box, on the bus, to school. We can’t imagine what was going through his head that morning, as he sat on the bus among his peers holding the kit box across his lap. We do know that his parents were going through a divorce, and he must have been feeling great pain and anxiety over this.
When RC got to school that morning, he went to the music room. He closed the door to one of the private practice rooms, and it was there that he ended his life, by shooting himself in the head with his own hunting rifle.
His funeral was surreal; a picture on his casket was the last memory we have of him. His death was very hard on us, and the community. For the rest of the year the music room held nothing but sadness, and the faint smell of bleach, and something unfamiliar. Our Grandmother came to stay with us, to watch over us, and The Brothers for awhile, after that day; our mother already gone to live her own life in The Big City.
It was after this year of school that The Father decided we were going to move away; and with that move we tried to forget the loss of the first glimmer of what could have been; love? Maybe. Something normal that we could have carried with us in our heart through the future of continued abuse we were to face? Absolutely.
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YPFP operates several focused series designed to provide a platform for more nuanced discussion of key foreign policy issues. Read More
YPFP DC: Passing the Torch or Torching the Next Generation?
Friday, October 19 | 10:30am - noon
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center
One Woodrow Wilson Plaza
1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
YPFP is delighted to have been invited by the Washington Internship Institute (WII), the Harvard Institute of Politics and the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars to listen to a panel discussion based upon the results of the Institute of Politics poll of “millennials” from across the nation (to be released the day before on Oct. 18). The panel will deconstruct the results of the poll and discuss the issues and impact of this important cohort in this election year.
John Della Volpe, Director of Polling at Harvard’s Institute of Politics
Laura Simolaris, Director of the National Civic Engagement Campaign at Harvard
Mark Dalhouse, President of WII
Kindly rsvp to Melanie Matel at Melanie@wiidc.org


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This machine performs electrical inspections and taping for tuning fork crystals via turret transfer, and performs high speed index inspection.
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Now that the hot and dry weather appears to have left us, it’s time to have a post mortem in the garden. The one message that has come out loud and clear is that if we mulch our garden soil, then precious plants have a much better chance of surviving the predicted repeats of this year’s summer sizzle
The word mulch is a strange one. Like the riddle of the Snark, it means nothing specific and yet it means everything. The dictionary definition of the word mulch is a layer of material applied to the surface of the soil. It doesn’t define what – it could be pebbles, shingle, compost, bark chips, straw or even cardboard or old carpet.
Whether your soil is light and sandy or heavier clay, mulching is king. You can use the product of your own compost bin, but for the reasons that I will explain, I always use well- rotted stable manure. It’s an excellent material which does four important things.
By covering all of the spaces between your plants this well-rotted stable manure will suppress weeds. As you are applying a fairly thick layer – at least 2.5cm/1in – this will help to stop the soil drying out, while also keeping the soil at an even temperature. This wonderful organic matter, which incidentally doesn’t stink at all, will re-mineralise your soil and improve its structure. So, if you started out with a light sandy soil it will help to hold on to moisture for longer; if you have a heavy clay then this magic material will help to break it up.
If this was a human beauty product achieving so much, it would cost a fortune! Garden centres will normally sell it for around £5 for a 70 litre bag, or at a ‘come and buy me’ price of around three bags for £12.
There’s no need to dig it in, merely spread it on top of the soil and allow the soil animals to do their stuff by pulling it down. For the sake of hygiene, I would recommend using a pair of gloves fit for the purpose – either disposable, or an old pair of Marigolds that you keep for a repeat performance in the spring.
If I needed any proof that this one simple act was worth the effort, out of all the local gardens that I visited during the beastly hot weather, it was those that had mulched their flower beds that fared best. Of course, plants still needed water, but where mulch had been applied, the plants were much better off as soil moisture wasn’t escaping like a leaky bucket – and autumn is a good time to mulch.
Valerie McBride-Munro is a chartered horticulturist offering a plant problem-solving service.
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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi called Donald J. Trump within hours of his triumph to congratulate him and invite him to Cairo, announced the Egyptian Presidency.
Earlier in the day, the Egyptian President had released a statement congratulating the Republican President-elect on his victory.
Following the statement, President Sisi telephoned Trump and personally extended an invitation for Trump to visit Cairo once he takes office.
In response, Trump expressed his gratitude and his wishes to meet the Egyptian President. It is unclear whether Trump will be visiting Cairo within his first year of Presidency in 2017.
According to the Egyptian Presidency, Trump thanked Sisi for the call, particularly given he was the first world leader to congratulate him.
Some on social media have criticized the Egyptian President for congratulating Trump due to his anti-Muslim rhetoric.
Trump won the U.S. Presidential elections on Tuesday in what has been described as a major upset and potentially one of the biggest upsets in U.S. Presidential election history.
The Republican President-elect met with President Sisi on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in September earlier this year.
Following the meeting, Trump praised the Egyptian President and said there was “good chemistry” between him and Sisi.


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February 23, 2018
Sofradir Wins SWIR Detector Supply Contract for ESA’s GMES Project
[Satellite TODAY 06-03-11] Sofradir was awarded a contract to provide shortwave-infrared (SWIR) arrays for the Sentinel 5 Precursor mission as part of the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) space initiative — a joint project by the European Commission and the European Space Agency (ESA), Sofradir announced June 2.
The SWIR array was originally developed for ESA’s Spectra mission in 1999. Sofradir will provide its off-the-shelf SWIR arrays based on mercury cadmium telluride technology to U.K.-based satellite and space equipment supplier SSTL.
“Sofradir will not be required to participate in a preliminary design phase, reducing lead time,” Sofradir Chariman and CEO Philippe Bensussan said in a statement. “Deliveries will be completed within 2 years.”


Users define their editorial rules in YAML (see Settings -> Secretary) according to a number of built-in rule functions. For example, Secretary can show a warning if you’ve forgotten to set a Featured Image for your post, by adding the
featured-image rule to your YAML config.
Secretary comes with a number of rules out of the box, but you can write your own custom plugins for Secretary by calling
SecretaryRules::register. See example at https://github.com/ChrisBAshton/secretary-rule-gallery-at-top, and API documentation at https://github.com/ChrisBAshton/secretary.
If you spot any issues, or want to know how to contribute, please visit https://github.com/ChrisBAshton/secretary.
Please note that I have open-sourced this plugin to give back to the community, and do not have much spare time to answer support queries, but I’ll help where I can.
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- Install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly
- Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
- Use the Settings->Secretary screen to configure the plugin (you can see all available rule configs on the right hand side of the screen)
Example YAML config below:
categories: not: - Uncategorized not-only: - Featured featured-image: max-size: 100 format: jpg dimensions: width: 760 height: 350 excerpt: min-length: 30 max-length: 300 scheduled: publish-time: '15:00' links: internal: open-in-new-tab: false external: open-in-new-tab: true images: true html-checker: risky-html: - table - div - span - style - script
How do I know what rules are available?
Look at the right hand side of the screen under Settings -> Secretary.
I’m getting a `Config error: no such rule!`
If you see something like:
❌ foo Config error: no such rule!
…it means you have asked Secretary to apply a rule which does not exist. Check your spelling.
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Dubai 101 is a landmark skyscraper located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The building ranked officially as the world's tallest from 2004 until the opening of the Burj Khalifa in 2010. How long can it last?
5 Years After People: A category 5 typhoon strikes Dubai. Suspended near the top floors of the structure is a mass damper system that consists of a large spherical pendulum suspended from 8 cables, this is meant to stabilize Dubai 101 during strong winds and earthquakes. The pendulum does its job and Dubai 101, even being struck by winds at 200 miles per hour, will sustain very little damage, however water will gush inside and flood the interior, and many of the windows on the lower floors will be smashed.
75 Years After People: The cables that support the steel pendulum are now corroded. Finally they snap and the pendulum freefalls through the building, destroying its decaying floors, The mass damper has become a weapon of mass destruction. The pendulum lands below ground-level, and Dubai 101 is no more.


Top 10 Best Helloween SongsResidentEvil54life
The Contenders: Page 2
What the... I think this is the masterpiece...
This is such an underrated gem.
A lot better than I want out.
Of course, not better then eagle fly free.
I also think like the other person that voted for this song.
It is so overrated, yet so awesome.
May be the best andi deris song.
Should be higher. I've tried quite a lot of their songs. Especially all songs of some albums. But this was very good. - zxm
This song should be into top ten, it has its speed, melodic and metal touched, my self would put this into no.3
WHAT? Are you mad?! This song should be on top 10, have you ever listened to it? OLD SCHOOL METAL. I can't believe how this song is on 22... I think I'm the only old helloween fan here.
First helloween song I've listened and it was amazing..
I always liked this song. It's my favorite Helloween song. - Caleb9000
Are you metal, are you metal are you are youV 1 Comment
Wonderful song. One of the best power metal songs.
Great metal song ever,i think.
This song is just amazing. The lyrics express anger. It's just awesomeV 2 Comments
I am genuinely surprised to see this song so low on the list. - BKAllmightyV 2 Comments
The best song ever!
Come on guys! You gotta like this stuff! The chorus is just damn amazing.. So sticky..
I discovered Helloween with this song, and it's my favorite! You only can love it... It's very sticky, but in a good way :D
Good, but Blind Guardian's Twilight of the Gods was better, and they aren't nearly as good as Helloween. - DarkenedBrutality
A very Special song... Pure power Metal - Kiske & Hansen forever
The lyrics, the flow, the artists, the songV 2 Comments
It is real track! This track about real life. We are all Victim Of Fate!
I love this track very mach and it mast be first!
This song should definitely be higher than 35, as the person below me said this song is about real life even if you don't think you are we all victims of fate in one way or another
Aside from Kai's still immature voice, this is a speed metal masterpiece that deserves a spot in the top 10. Sure, the spoken part is a bit cheesy, but what good metal isn't cheesy? Evil yet very lighthearted at the same time. Just epic. YOOOUUU WILL DIE!
My favourite helloween song!V 3 Comments
Deserves to be between the top 15 AT LEAST! - vacostar
This song is great, are you have listened it? And this song is one of their best song in Straight Out Of Hell. And where is burning sun?
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Went to Dickey's for lunch with a business associate. I am from Texas and we have some fair BBQ down there. I thought this place was very good. Not much to look at but food was good, liked the sauce and the meat was excellent. Price is fair.
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Goose Rocks Light
Goose Rocks Light
North Haven, ME
Year Light First Lit:
Yes, active aid to navigation
Tower Height: 51 feet
250 MM, Solar Powered
Viewed by boat/boat tour
Open to public:
No, closed to public
Goose Rocks Light - located in Penobscot Bay at the eastern entrance to the Fox Islands Thorofare near Vinalhaven
Goose Rocks Light (+44° 8' 8.00", -68° 49' 50.00") is located in Penobscot Bay at the eastern entrance to the Fox Islands Thorofare, a busy mile-wide passage between the islands of Vinalhaven and North Haven. (Explorer Martin Pring coined the area's islands “The Fox Islands” in honor of the silver foxes that used to inhabit them.)
The lighthouse was built in 1890 to mark the dangerous ledge beneath it. It is an active U.S. Coast Guard aid to navigation with a characteristic of a flashing red every 6 seconds with a white sector. Its fog signal is 1 blast every 10 seconds. It is a cast-iron, “sparkplug” style lighthouse typical of the era, built on a round cast-iron caisson filled with concrete. The three-story tower was painted red until 1903. Today, the caisson is black and the tower is white.
The lighthouse has been home to many keepers over the years. Serving at Goose Rocks Light was a lot like sailing aboard a ship, because one could not just get out and walk around on land whenever he pleased.
The light was automated in 1963, but the station still employed people as “lamplighters,” whose main duty was to control the fog signal. The original Fresnel lens was removed to make way for automation. Today, a 250 mm optic is solar powered.
Goose Rocks Light is now owned by Beacon Preservation, Inc., an organization dedicating to preserving lighthouses. Beacon Preservation accepts donations to their cause, and as a way of thanking contributors, offers visits and/or overnight stays at the lighthouse. Goose Rocks Light can accommodate up to 8 guests. Contact Beacon Preservation for more information.
On August 1st, 2009, Beacon Preservation sponsored a Goose Rocks Lighthouse exhibit at the Maine Lighthouse Museum in Rockland. The exhibit featured placards detailing the history of the lighthouse and its keepers, original diaries and documents of Keeper Albert Mills (1910), navigational instruments owned by former keepers, antique bottles found at the base of Goose Rocks, and a circa 1922 model of Goose Rocks Light made by Keeper Asa Smith. A photo-frame slideshow accompanied the exhibit.
The lighthouse can easily be viewed from boat or aircraft. Distant views are possible from the islands of Vinalhaven and North Haven. One can also see the light while aboard one of the cruises offered by Old Quarry Ocean Adventures out of Stonington.
Goose Rocks Light Station is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
We would like to thank both Robert English and Elisabeth Burnett for granting us permission to use their repsective images of Goose Rocks Light. You can view more images of Goose Rocks Light and Maine Lighthouses by visitng their respective Flickr pages at Robert's Flickr page and Elisabeth's Flickr page.

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WASHINGTON -- After several high-profile firms faced obstacles on security grounds, China on Thursday warned that the United States was turning away major investment from the growing Asian economy.
Cui Tiankai, China's new ambassador in Washington, acknowledged that most investment in the United States was approved but said that Chinese investors keen to enter the world's largest economy were alarmed by several rejections.
"Sometimes the reasons offered are not so convincing. I am afraid that will affect investors' confidence and that will, in the long run, turn away some of the important investors," Cui told the Committee of 100, a Chinese American group.
Saying that Chinese investment would create needed jobs in the United States, Cui complained that Washington had pressed Beijing to liberalize its economy when the Asian power was joining the World Trade Organization.
"Today it seems to me that this has been the banner of China. So what has been preached to us is not always practiced," he said.
"Unless we can remove such barriers from mutual investment, I'm afraid the prospect of mutual investment would be very negatively affected," he said.
Cui's remarks come after Chinese telecom giant Huawei said that it would no longer focus on the U.S. market for its core business after lawmakers charged that the company posed a security threat.
A report by Congress last year said that equipment by Huawei and another Chinese company, ZTE, could be used for spying and called for their exclusion from government contracts and acquisitions.
Huawei has denied those claims and tried -- to no avail -- to show its transparency by releasing annual reports despite not being a listed company.
In 2005, U.S. concerns about security also scuttled a bid by the state-owned China National Offshore Oil Corp. to take over Unocal.
More recently, President Barack Obama blocked a Chinese-led group from purchasing several wind farms near a US naval station, saying the acquisition threatened national security.
The speech was the first in Washington by Cui since he was appointed last month as ambassador. Cui has long worked closely with the United States as a foreign ministry official.
Copyright Agence France-Presse, 2013


twitter:kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 12-06-2018 om 15:05:05 NBC's Richard Engel says Kim Jong-un was "the biggest winner": "He got the recognition with the president of the United States on a world stage, and all he had to do was sign a piece of paper reaffirming something that he has already said in the past." https://t.co/NYMBXcGtkd reageer retweet
Ik had niet verwacht dat Trump eenzijdig allerlei concessies zou gaan doen.quote:
Trump gaat Kim Jong-Un out-Ungen door later weer het tegenovergestelde te beweren. We denken dat NK degene is die zich niet gaat houden aan afspraken, maar Trump zal hem voor willen zijn met dat gedrag.quote:
twitter:kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 12-06-2018 om 15:25:57 Ambassador Chris Hill — who served under Presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama — said on @MSNBC that the document appeared to be "drafted in haste," and is missing words like "verified": "There needs to be a companion action document." https://t.co/NYMBXcGtkd reageer retweet
twitter:kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 12-06-2018 om 15:45:30 Fmr. Amb. Wendy Sherman: "I was a little taken aback by the North Korean flags and the American flags side by side ... We aren’t equals to each other and this conferred power to Kim Jong Un that I don’t believe he has yet earned in terms of the respect from the U.S." @Morning_Joe reageer retweet
Niet? Na de blamages betreffende de eerdere akkoorden (Parijs, TTIP en Iran bijvoorbeeld) waarin Trump deze eenzijdig beëindigde en wel even "betere deals" zou sluiten, maar waar tot dusver nog geen letter van geschreven is, had ik niet anders verwacht.quote:
quote:Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Tuesday said any agreement between the U.S. and North Korea that comes from President Trump's meeting with Kim Jong Un should come to Congress for approval.
“Not only do I want to see the details, I want to vote on them," Graham said on NBC's "Today."
"So here’s what I would tell President Trump: I stand with you…but anything you negotiate with North Korea will have to come to the Congress for our approval," he continued. "But I’m hopeful."
He also signaled some doubt about the details of the denuclearization agreement Trump achieved with Kim.
"I think he has convinced Kim Jong Un that he’s better off giving up his nuclear weapons than he is keeping them, and that's the goal," Graham continued. "And if he has failed to do that then we're going to have a military conflict.”
Trump met Tuesday in Singapore with Kim, marking the first summit between sitting leaders of the U.S. and North Korea. The two leaders met face-to-face, joined only by translators, followed by expanded meetings with members of their respective administrations.
After hours of discussions, the two men signed an agreement Tuesday committing the United States to unspecified “security guarantees” in exchange for a denuclearized Korean peninsula. The document did not include specifics on the timeline or nature of denuclearization, however.
“I think both sides are going to be impressed with the result,” Trump told reporters. “We’re going to take care of a very big and very dangerous problem for the world.”
Trump also announced the U.S. would call off military exercises with South Korea while negotiations continue with the North.
Graham, who has drafted an authorization for use of military force and expressed support for military use in North Korea as a last resort, said he doesn't believe the lack of military exercises will be a significant factor in the long-term.
"The one thing that I would violently disagree with is removing our troops," Graham said. "I can’t imagine I would vote for any agreement that requires us to withdraw our forces because that would destabilize Asia. That’s what China wants. That doesn’t make the world more peaceful, it makes it more dangerous.”
Haha, die Graham, denkt dat Trump hier ook maar één tel over na gaat denken.quote:Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 16:27 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Graham warns that Trump's deal with North Korea needs approval from Congress
twitter:SethAbramson twitterde op dinsdag 12-06-2018 om 16:03:32 This week Trump treated the leader of our closest ally (Canada) like an enemy of America, and praised to the heavens a man who executes innocent people with anti-aircraft guns on a killing field in front of an audience. Not one American—not one American—should be celebrating now. reageer retweet
Dit dus... walgelijke beeldvorming ook, getuige die foto’s bovenaan de pagina.quote:Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 16:31 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:twitter:SethAbramson twitterde op dinsdag 12-06-2018 om 16:03:32 This week Trump treated the leader of our closest ally (Canada) like an enemy of America, and praised to the heavens a man who executes innocent people with anti-aircraft guns on a killing field in front of an audience. Not one American—not one American—should be celebrating now. reageer retweet
Graham die eerder verklaarde "War with North Korea would be 'worth it' in the long run", en maandag nog zei dat hij een "authorization for the use of military force (AUMF) in North Korea" had voorbereid.quote:
twitter:NatashaBertrand twitterde op dinsdag 12-06-2018 om 16:41:55 Just in: In response to a motion by Manafort, Mueller's team must inform defense of "the identify of any individuals or entities alleged to be the 'others, including former senior foreign politicians' whom Manafort allegedly cause to act as foreign agents without registering. https://t.co/nLJF4efPSy reageer retweet
SPOILEROm spoilers te kunnen lezen moet je zijn ingelogd. Je moet je daarvoor eerst gratis Registreren. Ook kun je spoilers niet lezen als je een ban hebt.“The fundamental cause of the trouble in the modern world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”— Bertrand Russell
http://thehill.com/homene(...)al-place-in-hell-forquote:Navarro apologizes for saying there's a 'special place in hell' for Trudeau
Peter Navarro, an adviser to President Trump on trade, apologized Tuesday for saying there is a “special place in Hell” for Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for crossing President Trump.
“My job was to send a signal of strength. In conveying that message I used language that was inappropriate and basically lost the power of that message,” Navarro said, according to Bloomberg and other outlets.
“I own that, that was my mistake, my words,” Navarro added.
He issued his apology during remarks at a Wall Street Journal conference in Washington, D.C.
Hij is nog niet ontslagen?quote:Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 17:23 schreef crystal_meth het volgende: