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Out to kill at the Boston marathon
* Mark Steyn: “The Tsarnaevs’ mom, now relocated from Cambridge to Makhachkala in delightful Dagestan, told a press conference that she regrets ever having gotten mixed up with those crazy Yanks: ‘I would prefer not to have lived in America,’ she said. Not, I’m sure, as much as the Richard family would have preferred it. Eight-year-old Martin was killed; his sister lost a leg; and his mother suffered serious brain injuries. What did the Richards and some 200 other families do to deserve having a great big hole blown in their lives? Well, according to The New York Times, they and you bear collective responsibility.”
* Steyn: “If I follow correctly, these UCLA profs are arguing that, when some guys go all Allahu Akbar on you and blow up your marathon, that just shows that you lazy complacent Americans need to work even harder at ‘assimilating’ immigrants. After all, Dzhokhar and Tamerlan were raised in Cambridge, Mass., a notorious swamp of redneck bigotry where the two young Chechens no doubt felt ‘alienated’ and ‘excluded’ at being surrounded by NPR-listening liberals, cooing, ‘Oh, your family’s from Chechnya? That’s the one next to Slovakia, right? Would you like to come round for a play date and help Jeremiah finish his diversity quilt?’”
* “After Maj. Hasan gunned down 13 of his comrades and an unborn baby, Gen. Casey, the Army’s chief of staff, assured us that it could have been a whole lot worse: ‘What happened at Fort Hood was a tragedy, but I believe it would be an even greater tragedy if our diversity becomes a casualty here.’ What happened at Boston was a ‘tragedy,’ but it would be an even greater tragedy if there were to be any honest discussion of Islam.”
* A note on The New York Times and Boston Globe
* Please also see this previous dispatch on the Boston bombings.
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1. USA Today does the investigative reporting The New York Times declines to do
2. “Did we all fail the Tsarnaevs?” (By Mark Steyn, Orange County Register, April 27, 2013)
3. “Mosque that Boston suspects attended has radical ties” (By Oren Dorell, USA Today, April 23, 2013)
USA TODAY DOES THE INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING THE NEW YORK TIMES DECLINES TO DO
[Note by Tom Gross]
In the piece below, Canadian writer Mark Steyn rightly singles out The New York Times for its dismal coverage of the aftermath of the Boston terror attack.
Mark Steyn’s piece appeared on Friday. Since then, The New York Times has run another very long piece about Boston on its front page yesterday that despite its length, again manages to avoid dealing with the one real cause of the bombing: radical Islamic indoctrination of the Tsarnaev brothers in Boston. (The same piece appears today at the top of Page 1 and continues on most of Page 7 of The International Herald Tribune, a paper soon to be renamed “the international New York Times”.)
The New York Times tells us that no less than 13 reporters worked on the article – six from Boston – and yet there is barely a single word about the new radical mosque in Boston to which the brothers went. Perhaps we should not be surprised: The lead writer of these 13 New York Times reporters is Deborah Sontag – the former Jerusalem correspondent of the New York Times who was notoriously hostile to Israel and soft on Palestinian terrorism.
Sontag and her colleagues argue in their piece that if the U.S. had eased the process of the older Boston bomber to become a U.S. citizen, despite his beating up his girlfriend and being on both the CIA and FBI terrorism watch lists, the Boston bombings wouldn’t have happened.
Similarly a very long piece in the Boston Globe last week, which the paper said was co-authored and researched by an incredible 23 journalists, also avoids discussing the Boston mosque. (The Boston Globe is owned by The New York Times.)
But other papers with far less resources and prestige are doing the reporting that the Times and Globe should be doing. After Mark Steyn’s piece in the Orange County Register, I attach a piece from USA Today titled “Mosque that Boston suspects attended has radical ties” authored by a single journalist with limited help.
Yet unlike the 36 reporters for the Times and Globe, he manages to explain how several people who attended the Islamic Society of Boston mosque in Cambridge, Mass., have been investigated for Islamic terrorism, including the mosque’s first president who has been convicted of plotting a murder. And USA Today explains how its sister mosque in Boston, known as the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center, has invited guests who have defended terror suspects.
-- Tom Gross
DID WE ALL FAIL THE TSARNAEVS?
Did we all fail the Tsarnaevs?
By Mark Steyn
Orange County Register
April 27, 2013
One of the most ingenious and effective strategies of the Left on any number of topics is to frame the debate and co-opt the language so effectively that it becomes all but impossible even to discuss the subject honestly. Take the brothers Tsarnaev, the incendiary end of a Chechen family that in very short time has settled aunts, uncles, sisters and more across the map of North America, from Massachusetts to New Jersey to my own hometown of Toronto. Maybe your town has a Tsarnaev, too: There seems to be no shortage of them, except, oddly, back in Chechnya. The Tsarnaevs’ mom, now relocated from Cambridge to Makhachkala in delightful Dagestan, told a press conference the other day that she regrets ever having gotten mixed up with those crazy Yanks: “I would prefer not to have lived in America,” she said.
Not, I’m sure, as much as the Richard family would have preferred it. Eight-year-old Martin was killed; his sister lost a leg; and his mother suffered serious brain injuries. What did the Richards and some 200 other families do to deserve having a great big hole blown in their lives? Well, according to The New York Times, they and you bear collective responsibility. Writing on the op-ed page, Marcello Suarez-Orozco, Dean of the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, and Carola Suarez-Orozco, a professor at the same institution, began their ruminations thus:
“The alleged involvement of two ethnic Chechen brothers in the deadly attack at the Boston Marathon last week should prompt Americans to reflect on whether we do an adequate job assimilating immigrants who arrive in the United States as children or teenagers.”
Maybe. Alternatively, the above opening sentence should “prompt Americans to reflect” on whether whoever’s editing America’s newspaper of record these days “does an adequate job” in choosing which pseudo-credentialed experts it farms out its principal analysis on terrorist atrocities to. But, if I follow correctly, these UCLA profs are arguing that, when some guys go all Allahu Akbar on you and blow up your marathon, that just shows that you lazy complacent Americans need to work even harder at “assimilating” “immigrants.” After all, Dzhokhar and Tamerlan were raised in Cambridge, Mass., a notorious swamp of redneck bigotry where the two young Chechens no doubt felt “alienated” and “excluded” at being surrounded by NPR-listening liberals, cooing, “Oh, your family’s from Chechnya? That’s the one next to Slovakia, right? Would you like to come round for a play date and help Jeremiah finish his diversity quilt?” Assimilation is hell.
How hard would it be for Americans to be less inadequate when it comes to assimilating otherwise well-adjusted immigrant children? Let us turn once again to Mrs. Tsarnaev:
“They are going to kill him. I don’t care,” she told reporters. “My oldest son is killed, so I don’t care. I don’t care if my youngest son is going to be killed today ...I don’t care if I am going to get killed, too ... and I will say Allahu Akbar!”
You can say it all you want, madam, but everyone knows that “Allahu Akbar” is Arabic for “Nothing to see here.” So, once you’ve cleared the streets of body parts, you inadequate Americans need to re-double your efforts.
There is a stupidity to this, but also a kind of decadence. Until the 1960s, it was assumed by all sovereign states that they had the right to choose which non-nationals were admitted within their borders. Now, to suggest such a thing risks the charge of “nativism,” and to propose that, say, Swedes are easier to assimilate than Chechens is to invite cries of “Racist!” So, when the morgues and emergency rooms are piled high, the only discussion acceptable in polite society is to wonder whether those legless Bostonians should have agitated more forcefully for federally mandated after-school assimilationist basketball programs.
As Ma Tsarnaev’s effusions suggest, at the sharp end of Islamic imperialism, there’s a certain glorying in sacrifice. We’re more fatalistic about it: After Maj. Hasan gunned down 13 of his comrades and an unborn baby, Gen. Casey, the Army’s chief of staff, assured us that it could have been a whole lot worse:
“What happened at Fort Hood was a tragedy, but I believe it would be an even greater tragedy if our diversity becomes a casualty here.”
What happened at Boston was a “tragedy,” but it would be an even greater tragedy if there were to be any honest discussion of immigration policy, or Islam, or anything else that matters.
Speaking of glorying in blood, in Philadelphia, the Kermit Gosnell defense rested, without calling either the defendant or any witness to the stand. As I wrote last week, “Doctor” Gosnell is accused of cutting the spinal columns and suctioning out the brains of fully delivered babies. The blogger Pundette listed some questions she would have liked the “doctor” to be asked:
“Why did you chop off and preserve baby hands and feet and display them in jars?”
There seems to be no compelling medical reason for Gosnell’s extensive collection, but bottled baby feet certainly make a novelty paperweight or doorstop. “I think we already know the answer,” wrote the Pundette. “He enjoyed it.”
Unlike the Boston bombings, even the New York Times op-ed team can’t figure out a line on this. Better to look away, and ignore the story. America is the abortion mill of the developed world. In Western Europe, the state is yet squeamish enough to insist that the act be confined to 12 weeks (France) or 13 (Italy), with mandatory counseling (Germany), or up to 18 if approved by a government “commission” (Norway). Granted, many of these “safeguards” are pro forma and honored in the breach, but that’s preferable to America, where they’re honored in the breech, and the distinction between abortion and infanticide depends on whether the “doctor” gets to the baby’s skull before it’s cleared the cervix. The Washington Examiner’s Timothy Carney sat in on a conference call with Dr. Tracy Weitz of the University of California, San Francisco:
“When a procedure that usually involves the collapsing of the skull is done, it’s usually done when the fetus is still in the uterus, not when the fetus has been delivered. ... So, in terms of thinking about the difference between the way abortion providers who do later abortions in the United States practice, and this particular practice, they are completely worlds apart.”
Technically, they’re only inches apart. So what’s the big deal? The skull is collapsed in order to make it easier to clear the cervix. Once a healthy baby is out on the table and you cut his spinal column, there’s no need to suck out his brains and cave in his skull. But “Dr.” Gosnell seems to have got a kick out of it, so why not?
You can understand why American progressivism would rather avert its gaze. Out there among the abortion absolutists, they’re happy to chit-chat about the acceptable parameters of the “collapsing of the skull,” but the informed general-interest reader would rather it all stayed at the woozy, blurry “woman’s right to choose” level.
We’re collapsing our own skulls here – the parameters in which we allow ourselves to think about abortion, welfare, immigration, terrorism, Islam shrink remorselessly, not least at the congressional level. Maybe if we didn’t collapse the skulls of so many black babies in Philadelphia, we wouldn’t need to import so many excitable young Chechens. But that’s thinking outside the box, and the box is getting ever smaller, like a nice, cozy cocoon in which we’re always warm and safe. Like – what’s the word? – a womb.
Tom Gross adds: Personally I think bringing the debate about abortion into this piece was unnecessary.
MOSQUE THAT BOSTON SUSPECTS ATTENDED HAS RADICAL TIES
Mosque that Boston suspects attended has radical ties
By Oren Dorell
April 23, 2013
Terror suspects, fugitives and radical speakers have passed through the Cambridge mosque that the Tsarnaev brothers are known to have visited.
BOSTON — The mosque attended by the two brothers accused in the Boston Marathon bombing has been associated with other terrorist suspects, has invited radical speakers to a sister mosque in Boston and is affiliated with a Muslim group that critics say nurses grievances that can lead to extremism.
Several people who attended the Islamic Society of Boston mosque in Cambridge, Mass., have been investigated for Islamic terrorism, including a conviction of the mosque’s first president, Abdulrahman Alamoudi, in connection with an assassination plot against a Saudi prince.
And its sister mosque in Boston, known as the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center, has invited guests who have defended terror suspects. A former trustee appears in a series of videos in which he advocates treating gays as criminals, says husbands should sometimes beat their wives and calls on Allah (God) to kill Zionists and Jews, according to Americans for Peace and Tolerance, an interfaith group that has investigated the mosques.
The head of the group is among critics who say the mosques teach a brand of Islamic thought that encourages grievances against the West, distrust of law enforcement and opposition to Western forms of government, dress and social values.
“We don’t know where these boys were radicalized,” says the head of the group, Charles Jacobs. “But this mosque has a curriculum that radicalizes people. Other people have been radicalized there.”
Yusufi Vali, executive director at the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center, insists his mosque does not spread radical ideology and cannot be blamed for the acts of a few worshipers.
“If there were really any worry about us being extreme,” Vali said, U.S. law enforcement agencies such as the FBI and Departments of Justice and Homeland Security would not partner with the Muslim American Society and the Boston mosque in conducting monthly meetings that have been ongoing for four years, he said, in an apparent reference to U.S. government outreach programs in the Muslim community.
The Cambridge and Boston mosques, separated by the Charles River, are owned by the same entity but managed individually. The imam of the Cambridge mosque, Sheik Basyouny Nehela, is on the board of directors of the Boston mosque.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, attended the Cambridge mosque for services and are accused of setting two bombs that killed three people and injured at least 264 others at the April 15 Boston Marathon.
The FBI has not indicated that either mosque was involved in any criminal activity. But mosque attendees and officials have been implicated in terrorist activity.
• Abdulrahman Alamoudi, who signed the articles of incorporation as the Cambridge mosque’s president, was sentenced to 23 years in federal court in Alexandria, Va., in 2004 for his role as a facilitator in what federal prosecutors called a Libyan assassination plot against then-Saudi crown prince Abdullah. Abdullah is now the Saudi king.
• Aafia Siddiqui, who occasionally prayed at the Cambridge mosque, was arrested in Afghanistan in 2008 while in possession of cyanide canisters and plans for a chemical attack in New York City. She tried to grab a rifle while in detention and shot at military officers and FBI agents, for which she was convicted in New York in 2010 and is serving an 86-year sentence.
• Tarek Mehanna, who worshiped at the Cambridge mosque, was sentenced in 2012 to 17 years in prison for conspiring to aid al-Qaeda. Mehanna had traveled to Yemen to seek terrorist training and plotted to use automatic weapons to shoot up a mall in the Boston suburbs, federal investigators in Boston alleged.
• Ahmad Abousamra, the son of a former vice president of the Muslim American Society Boston Abdul-Badi Abousamra, was identified by the FBI as Mehanna’s co-conspirator. He fled to Syria and is wanted by the FBI on charges of providing support to terrorists and conspiracy to kill Americans in a foreign country.
• Jamal Badawi of Canada, a former trustee of the Islamic Society of Boston Trust, which owns both mosques, was named as a non-indicted co-conspirator in the 2007 Holy Land Foundation terrorism trial in Texas over the funneling of money to Hamas, which is the Palestinian wing of the Muslim Brotherhood.
What both mosques have in common is an affiliation with the Muslim American Society, an organization founded in 1993 that describes itself as an American Islamic revival movement. It has also been described by federal prosecutors in court as the “overt arm” of the Muslim Brotherhood, which calls for Islamic law and is the parent organization of Hamas, a U.S.-designated terror group.
Critics say the Muslim American Society promotes a fraught relationship with the United States, expressed in part by the pattern discussed by Americans for Progress and Tolerance in which adherents are made to feel cut off from their home country and to identify with a global Islamist political community rather than with America.
Zhudi Jasser, president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, says the radical teachings often follow a theme of recitation of grievances that Islam has with the West, advocacy against U.S. foreign policy and terrorist prosecutions, and efforts “to evangelize Islam in order to improve Western society that is secularized,” he says.
Jasser, a veteran of the U.S. Navy and author of the 2012 book A Battle for the Soul of Islam: An American Muslim Patriot Fights to Save His Faith, says the teachings make some followers feel “like their national identity is completely absent and hollow, and that vacuum can be filled by (radical) Islamic ideology, which is supremacist and looks upon the West as evil.”
The Cambridge mosque was founded in 1982 by students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard and several other Boston-area schools, according to a profile by the Pluralism Project at Harvard University. Its members founded the sister mosque in Boston in 2009.
The leadership of the two mosques is intertwined and the ideology they teach is the same, Jacobs says. Ilya Feoktistov, director of research at Americans for Peace and Tolerance, says much of the money to create the Boston mosque came not from local Muslims but from foreign sources.
More than half of the $15.5 million used to found the Boston mosque came from Saudi sources, Feoktistov said, who cites financial documents that Jacobs’ group obtained when the mosque sued it for defamation. The lawsuit was later dropped.
But Vali said the vast majority of total donors were in the United States and that “no donations were accepted if the donor wanted to have any decision-making influence (even if benign).”
Vali characterized Americans for Peace and Tolerance and its founder, Jacobs, as anti-Muslim activists who spread “lies and half-truths in order to attack and marginalize much of the local Muslim community and many of its institutions.”
“It’s the new McCarthyism in full swing,” he said.
Sheik Basyouny Nehela, the imam of the Cambridge mosque, which is located across the Charles River from Boston, is on the board of directors for the Muslim American Society of Boston, which runs the Boston mosque. The Tsarnaevs attended the Cambridge mosque.
A statement issued by the Cambridge mosque say the Tsarnaev brothers were “occasional visitors” and the mosque’s office manager, Nichole Mossalam, said neither brother expressed radical views. “They never exhibited any violent sentiments or behaviors. Otherwise, they would have been reported,” Mossalam said.
The Cambridge mosque says Tsarnaev, 26, who died Thursday night in a shootout with police, “disagreed with the moderate American-Islamic theology” of the mosque. Tsarnaev challenged an imam who said in his sermon that it was appropriate to celebrate U.S. national holidays and was told to stop such outbursts, the mosque said in a statement.
Talal Eid, a Muslim chaplain at Brandeis University, says focusing on individual radicals that prayed in a building is unfair.
“In 2011, the two brothers were right under the nose of the FBI and they didn’t find anything,” Eid said, who never met the Tsarnaevs. “How do you want me as an imam to know enough to tell them they are not welcome here? How can I figure out those people have that kind of criminal intent?”
The Muslim American Society says on its website that it is independent of the Muslim Brotherhood. However, early Brotherhood literature is considered “the foundational texts for the intellectual component for Islamic work in America,” the website states.
Jacobs says claims of moderate Islam do not square with the mosque’s classic jihadi texts in its library and its hosting of radical speakers.
Jacobs said Ahmed Mansour, his co-director at Americans for Peace and Tolerance, found writings by Syed Qutb, the former leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and other jihadi texts at the Cambridge mosque’s library when Mansour went there in 2003. Qutb pioneered the radical violent ideology espoused by al-Qaeda.
Yusuf al Qaradawi, the Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader who espouses radical views in videos collected by Jacobs’ group, was listed as a trustee on the Cambridge mosque’s IRS filings until 2000, and on the mosque’s website until 2003, when he addressed congregants via recorded video message to raise money for the Boston mosque, according to a screenshot of the announcement that Feoktistov provided.
But Vali said Qaradawi was listed as an honorary trustee years ago only because his scholarship and high esteem in Muslim circles would help with fundraising.
Yasir Qadhi, who lectured at the Boston mosque in April 2009, has advocated replacing U.S. democracy with Islamic rule and called Christians “filthy” polytheists whose “life and prosperity … holds no value in the state of Jihad,” according to a video obtained by Jacobs’ group.
Vali said Qadhi was a guest of a non-profit that was renting space at the Boston mosque and changed his views since that video was made.
But Jacobs and others say it is not only renters who express sympathetic views for terrorists. Leaders of the Boston and Cambridge mosques, and invited guests, have advocated on behalf of convicted terrorists, urging followers to seek their release or lenient sentences.
Imam Abdullah Faaruuq, sometimes a spokesman for the Boston mosque, used Siddiqui’s case to speak against the Patriot Act, the anti-terrorism law passed under the Bush administration. “After they’re done with (Siddiqui) they are going to come to your door if they feel like it,” he said according to a video obtained by Americans for Peace and Tolerance.
Anwar Kazmi, a member of the Cambridge mosque’s board of trustees, called for leniency for Mehanna and Siddiqui at a Boston rally in February 2012, in a video posted to YouTube. He characterized Siddiqui’s 86-year sentence as excessive.
In an interview with USA TODAY, Kazmi insisted that the Cambridge mosque is moderate and condemns the bombings. On Monday, the mosque e-mailed members to caution them that the FBI may question them and that they may want to seek representation.
“This kind of violence, terrorism, it’s just completely contrary to the spirit of Islam,” Kasmi said. “The words in the Quran say if anybody kills even a single human being without just cause, it’s as if you’ve killed all of humanity.”


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Water and other activities are strictly prohibited!
The above actives are NOT allowed on any of the Districts’ public water supply reservoirs including:
- BOULTER POND
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Foot travel only, within 250’ of the normal high water mark of any of the above listed reservoirs, unless you are on an approved trail.
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February 3, 2023
Cooperation on the Trails
TO: YWD / KWD Watershed ATV Permit Holders & General Public
Subject: Combined Efforts on Trail Maintenance
With the recent snow and ice storm that moved through the area, the damage was felt and seen throughout both York and Kittery’s Watershed. Heavy winds whipped through forests that never had a chance to shed the snow from their branches. While damage could certainly have been worse, Mother Nature took a toll on many of the Watershed Trails. The number of downed trees made travel difficult, with many areas temporarily impassable, other than on foot. York Water District took the lead in getting their crews into the woods to begin clearing damage and reopening the trails to all travel. Kittery Water District soon followed suit, after receiving the word from Gary Stevens that the trails needed attention. This type of communication and teamwork between the 2 districts is common practice, and not at all surprising. It is something that we can all be proud of and should not take for granted.
Something that did surprise me, or rather truly impressed me, was the actions of members of the York Fish and Game Club. Without receiving notification or requests for assistance from either Water District, several members took it upon themselves to jump on their 4-wheelers, armed with chainsaws, and took to the trails. Kent Winters, Bobby Crowell, John Lewis and Douglas Richard were all “caught” volunteering by Robbie Henson while doing a watershed patrol. The group were slowly making their way from blowdown to blowdown, cutting and clearing as they went. Alan Covel was spotted working as well, and we have good reason to believe that several other permits holders were generously volunteering. Their hard work and kind efforts saved the Crews from the Kittery and York Water Districts several miles of travel and hours of work. These gentlemen volunteered their time and their own equipment to reopen trails on land that they clearly respect and appreciate having open to public use.
The York Water District and the Kittery Water District greatly appreciate the efforts put forth by this group of riders. These are exactly the type of people that we hope to see enjoying the watershed. The cooperation that they displayed went a long way in opening up trails after a storm and goes a long way in keeping the trails open to the public in the future.
January 26, 2023
To: YWD/KWD Watershed ATV Permit Holders
Subject: Reckless ATV Operation on Water District Property
The York and Kittery Water Districts have identified an increase in dangerous and reckless operation of ATVs on our watershed properties.
Documented activities observed recently:
- Off Trail Riding
- Operating Under the Influence
- Speeding, and more
In addition to the safety risk, damage to management roads, trails, and landings create additional soil erosion, water quality deterioration, and financial burden for both Districts.
If these actions continue, the Districts will be forced to consider enforcement action including, but not limited to ATV permit suspension, size/power restrictions, night or seasonal closures, and trail closure.
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Millennials or Gen Y generation. Who believes in sensible, smart and researched approach. They can easily reach every sector. Currently, there are many options for the Millennials in the housing segment. Including rent, co-living and ownership.
According to a report by Deloitte, Generation Y is rapidly increasing its income. And doing more work than their previous generations. They constitute 47% of the current working population. This generation specializes in digital media and technology.
1 – Modern Living Modern Life
Today’s young generation is well aware of the investment of their money. Only one-third of their 24-hour lifestyles are found for themselves. So wherever they want to live. Looking for a comfortable place. So he likes the modern lifestyle. In which better object is a place of art and entertainment.
2 technical facilities
Today’s young generation is surrounded by technology. He likes to be with technology. So it is a matter of pride for them to own something. They know that they have reached here on the strength of their skills. However depending on the spending of this population also depends. How much they spend and what kind of houses they prefer to buy.
3 Have their home close to the business and commercial hub
Millennials spend more on their holidays and entertainment. So any housing society is made according to them. So for millennials, any developers should build their projects accordingly. Millennials want their home to be the place where the office is closest. All facilities should be nearby. Do not have to go far.
4- Sound Security System
Millennials spend very little time in their homes during their work days. So they need a better security system. A home equipped with modern security will surely be the first choice of smart home millennials.
5 – Social gathering should be good as well as good place
Co-living spaces are emerging as modern living spaces. Millennials prefer homes with no living plans and no interference from the landlord. Where there is social gathering.

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Is Touring Still Relevant In the Digital Age? Yes, Actually – More Than Ever.
[Editors Note: This blog was written by Patrick McGuire. Patrick is a writer, composer, and experienced touring musician based in Philadelphia.] In 2017, there’s never been more ways to experience the world around us on our computers and smartphones through the omnipotent lens of the internet. The internet’s effect on how music is now being created, […]
How To Build a Great Set List
[Editors Note: This is a guest blog post written by Mason Hoberg. Mason is a freelance writer who covers music-related topics and is a regular contributor to Equipboard.] One of the hardest parts about being a musician is that unless you come from a genre that’s acceptable in academia, (essentially just classical or opera), no one ever […]
Artist Breakdown: TuneCore Live at Bardot 8/21
While we were thrilled to announce the inaugural TuneCore Live Brooklyn, you didn’t think we were abandoning our 2015 post at the lovely Bardot in Hollywood, did you?! We’re back and at it this Friday, August 21st with the help of our buddies Swisher Sweets and CeleBuzz. Per usual, the event is 21+, free and […]
Double Your Income… No Really
By Ari Herstand
When you’re on tour, merch is your #1 income generator. This can’t be stressed enough. Believe it. Bands stress over their guarantees and door splits and turnouts. If you want to survive financially with your music you must understand the importance of merch sales and approach it as such. I’ve played shows where 10 people showed up, but they had such an amazing time and I stressed the merch to them that all 10 people bought something averaging about $15. That’s $150 in merch sales. That’s good for any night.


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This is another beautiful hand-painted, one-of-a-kind porcelain item by Master China Painter, Margaret Surber. This is a beautiful little pitcher/creamer with pink roses on a very pale greenish/cream background. It is trimmed with 24kt gold highlights and measures 5 1/2" high x 3 1/2" wide. The vase is signed beneath the handle. The condition is excellent with no chips, cracks or damage. Note: This porcelain is safe for use but it is strongly recommended that you do not put it in dishwasher.
Partial Biography: Margaret Surber (American, 1913 - 2001) won many awards for her china painting, including three ribbons at the 1963 World's Fair in Seattle. She was the president of the International China Painting Teachers Association. She also wrote several books about how to paint on porcelain.
Victorian Style Pitcher with Pink Roses by Surber

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Agents of SHIELD cast share tributes as final season filming ends
After seven seasons and multiple comebacks from the brink, Marvel's Agents of SHIELD has finally come to an end. Well, the filming of it has, at least.
To mark the final day of shooting, cast members Clark Gregg (Phil Coulson/Sarge) and Ming-Na Wen (Melinda May) as well as co-showrunners Maurissa Tancharoen and Jed Whedon have all posted tributes to the show on social media.
Tancharoen has shared a group text marking the beginning of the final day of filming, as well as a photo from the end of the show's first ever season. Don't they all look so young?
#tbt Last day of production on Season One. #agentsofshield
A post shared by Maurissa Tancharoen (@motancharoen) on Jul 30, 2019 at 7:31am PDT
Related: Agents of SHIELD's latest episode features a surprise character return
Ming-Na Wen tweeted: "We shoot our last day of @AgentsofSHIELD. Spy’s goodbye. I’m not okay. How is it that I’m numb & yet so emotional?"
Whedon shared a photo from the set and an adorable video of his daughter pointing at the Hydra logo. He wrote: "Last day of filming. Ever. So much of our life has happened here. Our daughter doesn’t know life without this show.
"Thank you to the behind-the-scenes family we’ve built here and to the fans who allowed us to build it. These Zephyr One sets are wrapped for good. Hard to describe the all emotions around here. But grateful is heavy in the mix. Love to all."
#agentsofshield last day of filming. Ever. So much of our life has happened here. Our daughter doesn’t know life without this show. Thank you to the behind-the-scenes family we’ve built here and to the fans who allowed us to build it. These Zephyr One sets are wrapped for good. Hard to describe the all emotions around here. But grateful is heavy in the mix. Love to all.
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Meanwhile, Clark Gregg shared photos of the cast and crew throughout the years, writing: "My god, I love these people."
Last day of #agentsofshield My god, I love these people. 7 seasons
A post shared by Clark Gregg (@clarkgregg) on Jul 30, 2019 at 10:37am PDT
While season 7 will be the final run of the show, the cast have teased that their characters could continue to appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, perhaps in a spin-off?
Marvel's Agents of SHIELD airs on ABC in the US, and on E4 in the UK.
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The Caribbean is one of the most popular getaways for the world’s wealthiest. Maybe because only the rich can afford to travel to the region spanning over some 7,000 islands.
Also maybe because one of the islands, Montserrat, opened its doors only to the rich amid the pandemic.
Only those who earn at least $70,000 a year and can take a two-month vacation are currently allowed at the island.
Ever since the island restricted the entry of tourists in April, only 21 people from seven high-flying families have met the government’s criteria.
Nobody wears a mask here. The island has a population of around 5,000 and has seen only 33 COVID cases so far.
The Soufriere Hills Volcano is one of the major attractions here. The volcano last started erupting in 1995 when it rendered two-thirds of the island uninhabitable.
From exploring coral reefs and marine life to relaxing at the beachs, there’s a lot to do in Montserrat.
There are people who feel $70K a year is not rich, while others want to get on the island now that it will be open.
thats…..— landsnark. remember #DemocratTheFuckUp #vote (@conjja) September 24, 2021
NOT a lot of money. https://t.co/uHS1x8NItW
A paradise for party crashers.🥳🍾 https://t.co/OkcxpnGLns— 🅢🅨🅝🅒🅗🅠🅣🅡🅞🅝 Is The Quantum⦿Clock (@Synchotron) September 24, 2021
$70,000 is not rich. Who wrote this? https://t.co/6HdWSDhocw— No days off. Soon come 🇯🇲 (@TanyaMarie_P) September 23, 2021
$70k in California is like poverty 🤷♂— GFY (@GfyGfy7777) September 23, 2021
I forgot that the super rich don’t get Covid pic.twitter.com/VDPGQ01lkG— Moto Bikemad (@MBikemad) September 23, 2021
2 month minimum vacation 🤨— Sir Bryan Lee (@FamousBL3) September 23, 2021
How da fuq is anyone doing 2 months?
2 weeks kicked my butt
Everyone who wanted to visit the island but couldn’t because of the strict rules, can now plan their vacation as the government is about to change the current rules.
As per reports, all vaccinated tourists will be welcome on Montserrat from 1st October, 2021. Other conditions related to quarantine, etc. are also being relaxed.
Is this going to be your next travel destination?


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a small, cone-shaped gland adhered by a stalk to the posterior wall of the brain’s third ventricle. With regard to reptiles and amphibians, the gland seems to serve as a part of the visual system. Within mammals it excretes melatonin. Since it is an unpaired organ found in the middle of the brain, French philosopher Rene Descartes considered it to be the seat of the rational soul and the link between body and mind. Commonly referred to as epiphysis cerebri- pineal body.
PINEAL GLAND: “The pineal gland is somewhat eroded.”

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Canadian actress Samantha Weinstein passed away at the age of 28 on May 14 as confirmed by his father David Weinstein on Thursday. She died of ovarian cancer at Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto, Canada.
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Samantha was well known for her role in the remake of “Carrie” in 2013. She also voiced several cartoon characters. She married Michael Knutson in 2022.
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Michael Knutson was Samantha’s long-term boyfriend. Last year on October 29, 2022, the 28-year-old decided to marry Michael Knutson, whom she affectionately referred to as Mike. She announced her wedding to her “best friend, a partner in crime, and the love of her life” on the best day of her life.
Samantha’s father condoled the tragic news of her death in a statement, saying “We’re overwhelmed with the outpouring of tributes to Samantha,” he said. “She led a very full, charmed and authentic life. She was very passionate about her art and worked up until her last days voicing animated characters and living as full a life as she possibly could”.
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He also made a post which reads, “After two and a half years of cancer treatment, and a lifetime of jet setting around the world, voicing a plethora of cartoon animals, making music, and knowing more about life than most people ever will, she is off on her next adventure”.
The actress was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 25 and fought hard with it. She believed in living life to the fullest. Weinstein identified herself as “bisexual/pansexual” and non-binary, and her parents and husband accepted her, as written in her article “Love What Matters”.
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The article “Love What Matters” talked about her complete journey from getting diagnosed with cancer to going on her first date with her boyfriend a week after getting diagnosed. She talked about her suffering and the obstacles she faced while fighting cancer, and motivated readers to fight comes your way.

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Mr. Perfectionist Aamir Khan and Indian skipper Virat Kohli have teamed up for a special Diwali chat show to promote the actor’s upcoming film ‘Secret Superstar’. Taking out time from their hectic work schedules, the duo was recently spotted shooting a Diwali special show in Malad, Mumbai. The ‘PK’ actor was accompanied by his son, Azad on the sets. Aamir was seen holding a cricket jersey, while Virat was spotted with a clap-board in his hand. The special episode will have both Aamir and Virat getting candid about their lives. For the first time ever, the audience will get to witness two of India's biggest icons in the same frame at their candid best as both will be seen sharing their few secrets
Comedian Jimmy Kimmel put all jokes aside during the opening monologue of his US talk show overnight and instead delivered an emotional speech following the Las Vegas mass shooting. Kimmel, a Las Vegas native, visibly choked back tears as he spoke about the tragedy that unfolded yesterday when a gunman opened fire on a concert taking down at least 59 people and injuring more than 500
As soon as the news of the killing of more than 58 people at an open-air country music festival in Las Vegas broke out, Hollywood celebrities including, Kim Kardashian West, Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Britney Spears, Harry Styles, Carrie Underwood, John Legend, Ariana Grande and Rihanna have expressed their condolence and shock at the 'devastating' attack
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A senior Iraqi commander declared that the city of Fallujah was "fully liberated" from DAESH militants on Sunday, after an over month-long military operation. Iraqi troops have entered the northwestern al-Julan neighborhood, the last area of Fallujah to remain under DAESH control, the head of counter-terrorism forces in the operation, Lt. Gen. Abdul-Wahab al-Saadi, told The Associated Press.
Al-Saadi said the operation, which began in late May, "is done and the city is fully liberated." The Iraqi army was backed by U.S.-led coalition airstrikes and paramilitary troops, mostly Shiite militias.
"From the center of al-Julan neighborhood, we congratulate the Iraqi people and the commander in chief ... and declare that the Fallujah fight is over," he told Iraqi state TV, flanked by military officers and soldiers. Some of the soldiers were shooting in the air, chanting and waving the Iraqi flag. He added that troops will start working on removing bombs from the city's streets and buildings.
The announcement comes more than a week after Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared victory in Fallujah after Iraqi forces advanced into the city center and took control of a government complex. While al-Abadi pledged the remaining pockets of DAESH fighters would be cleared out within hours, fierce clashes on the city's northern and western edges persisted for days. The operation has fueled an exodus of thousands of families, overwhelming camps for the displaced run by the government and aid groups.
According to the U.N. Refugee Agency, more than 85,000 people have fled Fallujah and the surrounding area since the offensive began. Like other aid agencies, the UNHCR warned of the dire conditions in the camps, where temperatures are well over 40 degrees Celsius and shelter is limited, calling for more funds to meet the mounting needs of the displaced. There are no figures on the number of civilian casualties during the Fallujah operation but they are believed to be much lower than when U.S. forces stormed the city in 2004.
Fallujah has been under the control of DAESH militants since January 2014. Fallujah, which is located in Anbar province about 65 kilometers (40 miles) west of Baghdad, was the first city to fall to DAESH in January 2014.
Iraq has suffered a security vacuum since mid-2014, when DAESH captured the northern city of Mosul and overran large swathes of territory in the northern and western parts of the country. Iraqi security forces launched a major offensive on May 22-23 to retake Fallujah, one of DAESH's most emblematic bastions, which lies only 50 kilometers (30 miles) west of Baghdad.
DAESH still controls significant areas in northern and western Iraq, including Mosul.
In total, more than 3.3 million Iraqis have fled their homes since DAESH swept across northern and western Iraq in the summer of 2014, according to U.N. figures. More than 40 percent of the displaced are from Anbar province.


(Football news) Inter Milan scored two goals as new Champions League finalists made a comeback to beat Fiorentina 2-1 and retain the Coppa Italia title on Wednesday. World Cup winner Nicolas Gonzalez gave Fiorentina an early lead but then Martinez made sure that Inter didn’t go out without a fight as he drilled Inter level and then went on to score a volley in the before half-time for Simone Inzaghi’s side. Inter subsequently lifted their ninth Italian Cup triumph and moved level with Roma. Only Juventus have lifted the trophy more often, with 14 titles
Fiorentina were denied a first trophy since 2001, but the club still has a chance to end the season with a trophy having reached the final of the Europa Conference League, where they will face Premier league side West Ham in Prague on June 7. Whereas Inter will take on Premier League champions Manchester City in the Champions League final in Istanbul on 10th June. Fiorentina made history when they became the first club to reach the final of four different major European competitions. The team in Purple started the match on the front foot as Gonzalez scored from a Jonathan Ikone’s cross.
Sofyan Amrabat had a golden opportunity when he rolled his effort wide as Fiorentina looked very threatening a but the Argentine forward made no mistake when he was presented with a chance after Marcelo Brozovic slipped him through on 29 minutes as the World Cup winner hammered a low into the corner past Pietro Terracciano for his historic 100th goal for Inter. Martinez then turned the match upside down after he struck again eight minutes later, this time an inch perfect delivery from Nicolo Barella as he volleyed the ball in the goal with pinpoint accuracy.
Fiorentina, who beat Basel in the final seconds of extra time, pushed for a goal right until the end with former Real Madrid striker Luka Jovic going close twice.The Serbian striker was denied by a world class save from Samir Handanovic before heading wide with his second opportunity. Gonzalez almost forced extra time but his looping header was again saved by the brilliant Handanovic. Matteo Darmian in the dying moments made his side hold on to the lead as Inter hung on to retain the Coppa Italia..
“I’m so happy because we’ve been winning trophies with this great club the past two years,” Martinez, who also helped Inter win Serie A in 2021 and last year’s Italian Cup, “We have to keep going like that. We really wanted to lift another cup tonight. We started badly in the first 15 minutes but then we did what we should have done from the beginning.”
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Last year I grew way too many tomato starts from my saved seeds. So I shared them. I explained I didn't know what some of the varieties were, just that they tasted good so I saved them.
I gave some to the neighbours.
I gave some to relatives.
I gave some to some to very distant relatives who were going through some hard times.
I probably gave away 50+ plants. I thought I was just setting them up for a year of tomato growing.
This year, feedback is trickling back. The family that is still in hard times, normally buys tomato starts and grows a garden. They saved seeds from my plants, saying they grew better than anything they bought in the past. This year, they have already planted seeds and will share with their parents/family and maybe return one variety to me! I will offer them some squash seed, I think.
Another relative lives in a low income housing development. She saved seeds from the plants I gave her last year, and bought seeds, has started plants, and is planning on giving dozens away to her neighbours. She wants some of our rhubarb and maybe some other things...
A friend I gave squash to (not at all a gardener) saved the seeds and plans to plant them in some scrub land to see if they grow. He also grew his first tomatos from my starts last year.
Anyway - smiling this morning. It cost me next to nothing to grow and share tomato starts. But the ripples from doing so.... We will see.
I will give more seeds and more starts away again this year. It will be interesting to see where they end up.

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