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Skip to comments.Obama: Republicansí Fault If Social Security Checks Donít Go Out
Posted on 07/23/2011 12:37:53 PM PDT by PROCON
(CNSNews.com) At a hastily convened news conference Friday evening, President Obama offered his explanation of why debt negotiations with House Speaker John Boehner fizzled, and he once again raised the specter of entitlement checks not going out if the debt ceiling isnt raised soon.
Well, when it comes to all the checks, not just Social Security -- veterans, people with disabilities -- about 70 million checks are sent out each month -- if we default then were going to have to make adjustments. And Im already consulting with (Treasury) Secretary (Tim) Geithner in terms of what the consequences would be, Obama said.
We should not even be in that kind of scenario. And if Congress -- and in particular, the House Republicans -- are not willing to make sure that we avoid default, then I think its fair to say that they would have to take responsibility for whatever problems arise in those payments.
In the next breath, Obama said hes not interested in finger-pointing and Im not interested in blame, but I just want the facts to speak for themselves.
Obama said hes getting letters from people who tell him they have to skip meals at the end of each month, as well as from senior citizens on Social Security who are hanging on by a thread. Folks who have severe disabilities who are desperate every single month to try to figure out how theyre going to make ends meet. He also mentioned federal contractors who have to wonder are they going to be able to get paid and what does that do in terms of their payrolls."
Obama said a huge number of people would be affected by a government default: (I)magine what that does to the economy, when suddenly 70 million checks are put at risk. I mean, if youre a business out there, that is not going to be good for economic growth. And thats the number one concern of the American people.
Like House Speaker John Boehner, President Obama said raising the debt limit is not an option, it has to be done.
Obama insisted that the only fair solution is one that includes tax hikes on wealthy Americans, including many small business owners who create jobs. "Thats all the American people are looking for -- some fairness, he said.
Obama indicated that he and Boehner were not that far apart when it comes to deficit reduction. The difference was, he said, that the White House plan didnt put all the burden on people who are least able to protect themselves, who dont have lobbyists in this town, who dont have lawyers working on the tax code for them -- working stiffs out there, ordinary folks who are struggling every day.
And they know theyre getting a raw deal, and theyre mad at everybody about it. Theyre mad at Democrats and theyre mad at Republicans, because they know somehow, no matter how hard they work, they dont seem to be able to keep up. And what theyre looking for is somebody whos willing to look out for them.
Obama said Americans are just desperate for folks who are willing to put aside politics just for a minute and try to get some stuff done.
Republicans have complained for months that Obama has advanced no clear deficit reduction plan, not has he been willing to say where he would cut spending. His goal, they say, is to raise taxes.
0bozo wouldn't know a fact if kicked him in the arse.
40 Billion in debt payments
There is money for SS
The checks will only stop if Obama orders them to stop
In addition to being the worst president ever, he sure is an a**hole..
Yes, but we are stuck with you until 2012.
That’s alright, the only possible way to get RATS and RINOS in the Senate to vote for the bill the House sent over is for Barry to actually not send out SS checks. Senators are smart enough to know exactly who will get the blame and they’d rather have it on democrat Barry than on the democrat Senators. At that point, it’s all in the lap of Little Barry. He can veto it and keep on blaming other people which even Barry knows looks stupid, or he can sign it an then pout between tantrums.
Yes, however just remember if you think he will stop the checks...
Sorry Barry. As usual, YOU’RE WRONG! YOU are the flippin’ POTUS. It’s a “The Buck Stops Here Thing”. You’re the “leader”! Do your flippin’ job bubba! If you decide that the checks won’t be sent out, we Americans want to know where the hell all the money went that we’ve been stuffing into Social Security. And then you need to apologize to the elderly for playing politics with their Social Security checks. ***hole!
August 1st the House should pass a motion prioritizing what federal receipts should go towards (SS, Medicare, Vets, and military pay) dump the responsibility for what gets cut after that on Obama and the Democrat controlled Senate.
Force them to roll over and agree or have them explain to the country why they are cutting what.
Republicans also kidnapped the Linbergh baby......
Somebody needs to explain to BO what the word “executive” in Executive Branch means. Actually, someone should’ve have explained that to him two and half years ago.
I wouldn’t put it past the smelly little leftist turd.
I was watching Fox with Martha McCallum(sp?) and WHAT A BUNCH OF CR@P!
According to ‘their’ poll .. 47% blame Congress for the budget and impasse and only 15% blame the POS in the whitehut!?
Anyone notice what’s missing here?
Where is the breakdown of .. Which party in Congress do the people blame the most? (Or does it matter?)
Facts don’t matter. That is how the public will perceive it. A FOX news poll showed that the public will blame the pubs by a 3/2 margin, and the left-stream media will do everything to reinforce that.
That’s what happens when Congress is too chickensh*t to investigate who in hell occupies the WH.
Only Evil to the core would do such threats. A real leader would calm the pubic by saying, that no matter what happens, checks would go out.
Obama talks pretty big for a man who has no budget plan.He has not submitted one.
No America will not blame the GOP, if Obama refuses to send out checks,Obama will get it big time.He is the man who has done all the threatening about it “ I will not send out checks.” WHo do you think will be blamed?Buahahahahahaha! It is a false created crisis deigned to grift Congress into unlimited spending and taxation.A street trick.
Let Obama wear it.
Obama is a child acting like a thug. Pathetic.
You all know/ how this works, what is different now, other than the fact that the AnointedIdiot, as with the libtard Dems, 1) lies habitually, 2) loves to fear-monger, and 3) lacks any sense of accountability?
If all else fails, re-blame the Repubs.
" I'm LeBron, baby. I can play on this level.
I got some game."
Obama is trainig America to the new tune” Obama giveth, and Obama taketh away!”
Obama is on short time now.
He's no longer perceived as the poor little black boy who grew up in slavery and busted through the ranks to make something of himself as the first black POTUS.
People are P!SSED and he knows it!
Please, let’s at least get it correct: barry bass turd is a lying, demagoguing, asshole. Don’t skimp ...
All recent polling indicates like this thing is going to backfire, on Obummer, like pi$$ing into the wind, as long as the RHINO’s don’t come along with a sop rag to clean it up.
Default has been the RAT plan for two months or more.
IF they could have gotten $3 trillion in new taxes, or IF they could have gotten Congress to abdicate in favor of Obama, then we wouldn’t default.
But those were longshots. Default, and especially holding the SS checks, has been the enemy’s main axis of attack since May.
He wants his way and he wants it now. And he thinks he’ll galvanize seniors into berating the Republicans into giving him his way.
I have faith, despite the polls, that seniors and reasonable Americans will see through that and realize he did not HAVE TO delay those checks.
This could backfire on him tremendously, and destroy his presidency.
Dude (Zer0), we need a transparent webcam in on your bogus “negotiations”.
>>In addition to being the worst president ever, he sure is an a**hole..<<
And we have not seen anything yet. Wait’ll the end of summer. And winter. And next spring as all of this unravels and shoes continue to drop.
It is gonna get VERY ugly. I actually just read a post from a liberal that said that if Americans would riot like the people in Greece are we would get action. I think it will happen, but I don’t think he’s gonna get the action he expects. The poster needs to remember the Korean shop owners in Watts.
From approximately ten years ago: Fred articles on race relations and potential future civil war:
Since when is Social Security an "entitlement"?
I PAID into Social Security during my entire working career, and my employers also PAID into my Social Security account for that same period.
In other words, my SS account is my investment account supposedly "managed" by the US Government, and money now being paid to me from my investment account is - most definitely - not an entitlement.
If payments are stopped, Barack Obama should be tried and impeached for theft from seniors.
Zer0 DID submit a budget. It was for an increase in spending. You can read it at the White Hut Website.
Empty threats... empty promises.... empty suit.
Yes massa Obama we know its Bush’s fault. Now I really want to see his college grades...bet they are lower than Kerry and Teddy.
I wish someone would ask him if his own check and the checks to his staff and the csars and their staffs and congress. And ask also which would HE be putting first? Would he deny the Vets and SS while still cutting checks to the many csars and their staffs, his cabinet, etc.?
Just noted Rasmussen’s poll results for today and Dear Leader is at -19, a substantial drop from yesterday, as I recall. I don’t know how to do a post, but figure you do and it might be a lift to some to hear news that this imposter’s ratings are headed in the right direction.
Still no mention of WELFARE CHECKS not going out, I see.
He’s a two-year old.
Hey, 0bama. Just back the semis up to the loading gate at Ft Knox. I will take what I have contributed to SS over the years in gold bars and we can call it even.
Won’t someone, ANYONE on the G.O.P. side, call a press conference to declare in no uncertain terms that the President is a lying piece of SHT?
What a thug this Marxist is.
So this (really bad adjective) president caused the economic havoc that is ravishing the country and has no solution to fix it apart from more of the same. Then he comes out and whines that the Republicans are being mean to him and he wont pay anyone unless he gets his way.
Great pick America. Lets hope we can do better in 2012.
We know you're a self-serving, lying prick.
We know already that the Social Service Administration said that it is Treasury that decides when or whether to cut the checks and send them out, that Treasury is part of the executive branch, that you're in charge of the executive branch, and that if the checks don't go out, it's because the one who's in charge of the executive branch has chosen for his own personal reasons to make sure they don't go out.
We know the Republicans don't control the executive branch.
We know you (or whoever controls you) control the executive branch.
If the checks don't go out, YOU, Barry Soetoro, are the one to blame; the fault lies with you; we will not let anyone forget that.
Get ready to be tossed onto the electoral trash heap.
But first, for our own entertainment, go totally friggin berserk on national TV so we can pop a giant bag of popcorn and watch it again and again and again.
I’m so sick of this effin’ dictator.
But it will not work...if the 'Pubs in Congress do not relent. The seniors will figure out that it is the President's charge, not Congress'. The Big O has painted himself in the corner. It is a case of who will blink first. This fight is in favor of the 'Pubs. It is theirs to lose.
(two can play that game Alinsky turd)
But, I guarantee the republicans will be blamed no matter what happens. If they cave and obama gets everything he wants and the market crashes and interest rates go up, it’ll STILL be the republicans’ fault.
If Obama cant pay current obligations, how did he think he would pay for future “gimmies” like Obama Care?
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The Allentown Art Museum of the Lehigh Valley honored Joanne and Hank Barnette at its annual Gala Dinner Dance and Auction on April 12. Hank was chairman and CEO of Bethlehem Steel, retiring as chairman emeritus, and also served as a trustee of Lehigh University and Moravian College. Joanne, a longtime activist and volunteer in the Lehigh Valley, served on the art museum's board of trustees for 10 years, most recently as president June 2009 to June 2010. The couple is well-known for their community service and support.
More than 300 guests turned out for the event, which supports museum exhibitions and educational programs. A cocktail reception for Museum Sustainers kicked things off as the sun went down on a wonderfully warm early spring evening. Rather quickly, the action of more than 100 silent auction items on display in the museum's Trexler Hall heated up, with guests bidding on donated artwork, fashion accessories, vacations, spa services, restaurant certificates, cultural and sporting event tickets, and unique offerings such as a C. F. Martin & Co. ukulele and a tour for 10 of the Knoll manufacturing plant in East Greenville.
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Gala-goers enjoyed dancing in the Kress Gallery inspired by the Ken Battista Band.
Board Chairwoman Dolores Laputka toasted the Barnettes, who were joined at the gala by their son, Kevin Barnette.
Other guests included Honorary Gala Committee Chairwoman Nancy Light, Joel and Ruth Spira, Bill and Phyllis Grube, Matthew and Ronnie Sorrentino, Wayne and Jocelyn Mitchell, Dave and Pam Kennedy, Mike and Kim Perry, Michael and Christine Perrucci, Greg Butz and Yvonne Kuklis, Jane Heft and Dominic Basciano, and Missy and Sam Saxton.
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Cabaret & Cuisine supports the programs and services the Red Cross offers in the Greater Lehigh Valley, including disaster response, health and safety classes, service to armed forces programs, international services and blood services.
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As a rule, TV shows shouldn’t let us see them trying. Once we realize that a show is setting us up to be surprised, scared or moved, the intended effect is greatly diminished, if not destroyed entirely.
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Daniel’s latest recruit is Carl Hickman (William Fichtner), a former New York City policeman who was fired after losing the use of his right arm when he was shot by a child abductor. Taking the burned-out-cop cliché to new levels, Carl is now addicted to morphine and has a job picking up garbage in a carnival in the Netherlands.
Persuaded that his deductive skills are crucial to the team’s current case — a serial killer who has been leaving the unidentifiable bodies of dead women in parks in major European capitals — Carl heads to Paris to investigate the latest murder.
His new colleagues are an unusually attractive bunch: Tommy McConnel (Richard Flood) is an Irish detective and former bare-knuckle boxer; Sienna Pride (Genevieve O’Reilly) is an upper-class Brit from Scotland Yard; Eva Vittoria (Gabriella Pession) is an Italian anti-Mafia specialist; Anne-Marie San (Moon Dailly) is a French detective with near-perfect memory; and Sebastian Berger (Tom Wlaschiha) is a tech nerd and police officer from Berlin.
Upon meeting Carl, the team members recite his life history to him, often finishing one another’s sentence. This being an international co-production, we can guess that maybe this wouldn’t seem so silly with French or Czech subtitles.
In the course of the investigation, some of the team members’ individual skills are exploited, but not in that Justice League-taking-turns fashion. Carl makes some brilliant deductions, and Sienna does a “cognitive interview” to draw forgotten details from an overwhelmed witness. Sebastian sets up a digital-imaging thingamajig at the crime scene, acquiring an important piece of information that could have been obtained just as easily with a smart-phone camera.
The European flavor of the show is a nice change from the usual network procedural. For example, the team rushes from city to city on express trains.
The non-English speakers have a hard time figuring out the cultural references in Carl’s dialogue. They have to ask Sienna for help when Carl tells Tommy, “You can kiss my a– in Macy’s window.” The women members don’t get a later reference to the Justice League.
Given his back story, Carl’s sullenness is understandable. The other principals also have their own weighty histories. Tommy and Sienna, being from opposite sides of the tracks, seem to be forming an attraction.
Donald Sutherland appears in a few scenes as Michael Dorn, a big shot in the ICC who green-lights and supervises the team. Perhaps to justify the money spent on this name actor, the writers pad out one of his scenes with a monologue in which Dorn explains to some pigeons that he can’t feed them and then mocks himself for talking so philosophically to pigeons.
Absurdly late in the game, the script tries to make us care a little more about one of the principals. Astute viewers will know that doesn’t bode well.
The second hour builds to a satisfying climax, although the screenwriters should have made the villain either creepier or more threatening. Two characters have major issues that are left promisingly unresolved.
Despite its title, “Crossing Lines” generally colors within the lines. Since unimaginative procedurals have a long history of success on the broadcast networks, this shouldn’t be a problem with the show’s intended audience.
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>hello Mikos how are you?
>Did you want to tell me something about Babajij?
Hello Troy how are you doing?
>I’m doing fine thanks!
That’s good, I’m doing fine thank you. I would like to talk a bit about your friend Babajij.
> What can you tell me about him?
I would like to tell you a bit about his past, and a bit about his next steps.
>Is that you sitting in the library? [I can see him wearing light-gray robes with light blue trim and sitting in a gold-colored chair, almost a throne, with not much else around him - he is somewhat elevated/higher than my vantage point]
Yes I’m at the library of Pathologos.
>Are these “bad” or difficult things you want to tell me?
In a way I would say they are difficult. Babajij, as you have felt, is a very strong soul. He has had a difficult childhood but these experiences have been important to bring him along to where he is today. If he did not have these experiences you would not have known him in this lifetime. And it is important that you connect with him now because of what’s happening.
You were brothers in a past lifetime and one of you was killed standing on the ice.
>I vaguely remember that dream, but it was a long time ago. I remember looking up in the ice and not being able to find a hole for breath. I remember hitting the ice but it was too hard to break.
He tried for a long time to rescue you Troy and that event haunted him for the rest of his life.
>I understand, I would feel the same way. I feel a great deal of sadness about that event.
Well this is something you both need to let go of – remember how to do this… bring that past version of yourself to the surface, that young boy stranded in the ice, and tell him he is free to go; he is no longer needed. Babjij, when you read this, please do the same. Bring that past version of yourself, the boy searching on the ice, call him to you, and then tell him he is no longer needed, he is free to go. He has found his brother, and he can go home.
>Thank you Mikos. So much sadness…. You folks over in Telos are certainly giving us a bumpy ride!
You know these are necessary things to go through, Troy – and I wish I were there to comfort you through this difficult time. Understand that these things surface when you are ready to deal with them – no sooner, no later. We are helping you and your friends on the surface to deal with these because you are ready, and we send you healing energy to help clear the darkness so you may fully embrace the light. It is really quite simple – you have travelled far to be where you are today.
>I feel Babajij may feel the same way I do about this, and I thank you for your help. Is it possible to send healing energy in advance?
Of course it is Troy – just think about the time that he will receive this message, and then send that energy to that future time – he will receive that energy at that point in time. Use that white, gold and purple energy you like to send – it’s a great idea to combine them into a single flow/channel.
>Is this episode what you wanted to tell me about?
Yes it is – we will speak again in the future. It is enjoyable to talk to you Troy, even though we are sometimes having to deal with difficult events.
>I enjoy our discussions too, Mikos. I enjoy speaking with all of you. It is heartwarming!
As it is with us. Take care, Troy.
>Thank you Mikos, same to you!

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Tamil guerrillas staged attacks across Sri Lanka yesterday, assaulting a Navy camp and setting off bombs in two buses and a rickshaw, government and rebel reports said. At least 43 persons died and 124 others were injured.
Tamil separatists, fighting for a separate homeland in the island nation, detonated time bombs in two buses as they passed near a military base in the eastern port city of Trincomalee, 150 miles northwest of Colombo, the government said. Each bus was carrying about 75 persons, it said.
Col. Lucky Wijeratne, military coordinating officer for Trincomalee district, told United Press International that at least 18 persons were killed and 68 were injured on the buses.
The Press Trust of India news agency, monitored in New Delhi, quoted rebel sources as saying a Tamil mortar attack on a naval camp in northern Sri Lanka killed 19 Navy personnel.
A bomb in a motorized rickshaw outside a movie theater in the Kotahena section of Colombo exploded as the crowd was leaving, injuring 36, police said. The driver of the rickshaw was arrested, but an accomplice fled.
In addition to the rebel attacks, six Tamil guerrillas also were killed and 20 were seriously injured in operations by security forces around the island, the rebels quoted by the Press Trust of India said.


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Echo Chernik's 3rd Art Book 'Echo A La Mode' has come to fruition through the backing of her loyal fans and supporters via Kickstarter. This funding platform for creative projects has allowed Echo to raise over $14,000 to put together an 'indulgent must have' full of some of her finest works including the 'Shadowrun portraits' and 'Goddesses of Cuisine.' She said at the start of the project "This is the book that my fans have been asking for - one featuring only the best of my work. The base required amount will allow me to produce a 64-page soft cover version and a limited number of hard cover versions of ECHO A LA MODE, an art book featuring art, notes, sketches, photos, and details about my process that everyone has been begging me for. Stretch goals will be added to improve the length and quality of the book. For example, ECHO NOUVEAU successfully reached stretch goals that allowed an increase to 100 pages, a hard-cover, a beautiful spot varnish, and gold foil embossed slip-cases for Kickstarter backers and collectors only." Now the financial goals have been exceeded, the book is due to be released in the early Summer. More information on the Kickstarter website.


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We were cruising through Grays Ferry the other day and some construction caught our eye at 30th & Dickinson. We don't spend so much time in this neighborhood so we confess, we didn't remember what had been here before. Thanks to the magic of Google Street View though, we quickly discovered that it was previously a one-story warehouse with a sweet mural preaching the virtue of "Common Ground." Today, it's a pile of dirt and some construction equipment.
Former view at 30th & Dickinson
Construction at 30th & Dickinson
So... what's happening here? Don't get too excited guys, permits indicate that this property will turn into a parking lot. You may be wondering, what's the need for a parking lot at 30th & Dickinson? We're pretty sure it'll be for the Carl Moore Health Center, located at the other end of this block, at 31st & Reed. This place opened in September and is associated with GPHA, and offers various medical services, including family medicine, dental care, behavioral health, nutrition, and podiatry.
It was just a couple of months ago that we last visited the 1900 block of Cecil B. Moore Ave., telling you about plans for 24 units on a large vacant lot. That project, at 1913-1919 Cecil B. Moore Ave., got approval from the ZBA shortly after and construction should be getting started sometime soon. We're generally fine with this, as it's almost always good when a vacant lot bites the dust.
Back in January
Our concern at the time, which remains with us still, was that the design of the new student housing project would be, uh, utilitarian, like so much of the other new construction we've seen around this area over the last number of years. And that (valid) concern remains. The situation is exacerbated on this block by a number of really attractive old buildings, including the cinema turned church in the image above. Unfortunately, as we've covered before, developers built some regrettable stucco boxes next door to that building a few years back which stand among our least favorite buildings in town.
Several readers reached out last week, excitedly sharing the news about some demolition happening at the Grays Ferry & Carpenter intersection. We knew that this couldn't be happening on the southwest corner, as that property is owned by the Veolia plant around the corner and contains several large large tanks of who knows what. The northwest corner has some newer homes, so we figured it was an unlikely candidate. And then our hearts lept. We've been frustrated by the blighted building on the southeast corner for many years, complaining about it in a post in 2013. At the time, we noted that the back of the property had collapsed and we wondered whether the rest could follow. According to L&I though, that wasn't going to happen. Still, every time we passed this building, we felt our blood pressure rise.
Back in 2013
We visited the intersection the other day and holy moly, the place is getting torn down.
According to public record, the same people that have owned the property since 1983 are still the owners. Looking at the permits, it's pretty clear that this isn't a City ordered demolition, like we expected several years ago. We'd wager that developers have purchased this building but it hasn't been reflected in public record, and they are tearing it down with plans to build a new home in its place. But wait, there's more demolition!
The other day, we directed your attention to a blighted building on N. College Ave., thanks a tip from the guy that runs the @genbrewerytown Instagram account. We were looking through some previous images on the feed and noticed 2538 W. Oxford St., an old warehouse with a 'For Sale' sign on it. Always on the lookout for possible development opportunities, we figured we'd check it out in person.
Looking west on the 2500 block of W. Oxford
When we made the trek to this block, we discovered a some rough looking but occupied buildings, a number of blighted buildings, a row of vacant lots, and a couple of old warehouses. This block is actually loaded with potential, but we don't know when or if it will fulfill that promise.
Ever been to Rival Brothers Coffee at 24th & Lombard? This little coffee shop has been one of our favorites in the city since they opened back in 2014, in a space that was previously occupied by Taste Buds Market. They roast their own coffee, offer pastries from High Street, and have a limited number of sandwichy options. We recommend the peanut butter toast. The biggest issue with this place is the size. With only half a dozen tables or so, it's not uncommon to walk in and see a packed house, and turn around and walk out the door. It seems the owners recognized this issue, as they have just opened a larger second location at 1528 Spruce St., in a retail space in the Touraine.

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FOR MILLENNIA, THE MEDITERRANEAN Sea has been the battleground of empires where epoch-making sea battles along its crenellated
coast changed the course of history, where Islam and Christianity fought a ferocious war for supremacy.
The Mug is made from aluminum and has a crenellated
base perfect for smashing in some zombie skull.
All coins within the range feature the crenellated
edge particular to Britannia coins.
The property is approached via large stone pillars with wrought-iron decorative gates and a high, stone, crenellated
wall to the front.
From within its tall, crenellated
walls, Al-Azhar's sheikhs spent more than 1,000 years studying Islam's holy texts and interpreting their meaning for the faithful, building an authority unrivalled in the Muslim world.
At 510 Amsterdam Avenue the palette is brushed steel, crenellated
aluminum and polished concrete.
Eichhorn took in the view of the crenellated
walls ringing the Old City.
Man-made changes to what were wild stretches of the river tamed its course, shifting the flow so significantly you can almost touch a crenellated
battlement or the walls of an ancient monastery as you cruise along.
The conventional idea that a castle is defined by its external features, its impenetrability and invincibility--with its moats and bow-and-arrow-slit windows, its crenellated
flat roofs for defending soldiers while they attack with cannon and burning-oil, its towers for surveillance--is here overturned or, rather, turned inside-out.
At Cairo's citadel, a spectacular mediaeval fortress of crenellated
towers built to fortify the city against Crusaders and which towers over Egypt's capital, patriotic student volunteers were cleaning ramparts and painting its hand-rails.
We heard this account as we stood at the top of Nann Myint Tower, a thirteen-storey structure that looms above the surrounding terrain, its sleek central cylinder capped with a traditionally crenellated
Grady and Simonds prove particularly adept at describing the landscape and the environment (Grady has written a number of books on environmental issues and the natural world): "We drive between red canyon walls that loom above us, looking almost sculpted in the way their crenellated
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His defense of a freed and democratic society stems in large measure from his views on the scientific method and how it should be applied to politics, history and social science.
Indeed, his most important political texts—The Poverty of Historicism (1944) and The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945)—offer a kind of unified vision of science and politics.
Popper’s rejection of these ideas was anchored in a critique of the philosophical beliefs that, he argued, underpinned them, especially a flawed understanding of the scientific method.
This approach is what gives Popper’s political thought its particular philosophical interest and originality—and its controversy, given that he locates the roots of totalitarianism in the ideas of some of the West’s most esteemed philosophers, ancient as well as modern.
In contrast, the individualism, freedom and personal responsibility that open societies necessarily engender leave many feeling isolated and anxious, but this anxiety, Popper said, must be born if we are to enjoy the greater benefits of living in an open society: freedom, social progress, growing knowledge, and enhanced cooperation.
“It is the price we have to pay for being human” (Open Society Vol. Popper charged that Plato emerged as the philosophical champion of the closed society and in the process laid the groundwork for totalitarianism.
These included not only historicism but also what he labeled “holism” and “essentialism.” Together they formed the philosophical substrate of what Popper called the “closed society.” The “closed society” is what leads to totalitarianism.
According to Popper, totalitarianism was not unique to the 20 century.
(Socrates was indicted on charges of corrupting the youth and introducing new gods.) They sought to turn back the clock and return Athens to a society marked by rigid class hierarchy, conformity to the customs of the tribe, and uncritical deference to authority and tradition—a “closed society.” This move back to tribalism was motivated by a widely and deeply felt uneasiness that Popper called the “strain of civilization.” The structured and organic character of closed societies helps to satisfy a deep human need for regularity and a shared common life, Popper said.
(In fact, The Open Society began as a chapter for Poverty.) Yet there is a difference in emphasis.
The Poverty of Historicism is concerned principally with the methodology of the social sciences, and, in particular, how a flawed idea, which Popper dubbed “historicism,” had led historians and social scientists astray methodologically and which also served as a handmaiden to tyranny.
Under this system, Sparta became a dominant military power in ancient Greece, but, unsurprisingly, made no significant contributions to the arts and sciences.
Popper described Sparta as an “arrested tribalism” that sought to stymie “equalitarian, democratic and individualistic ideologies,” such as found in Athens (Open Society Vol. It was no coincidence, he said, that the Nazis and other modern-day totalitarians were also inspired by the Spartans.

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Spagetti (yes it's spelled that way) which is a 12 weight cotton, a heavier weight thread than usual, so I had to use a topstitch needle and sew a little bit slower. My machine had no problem with it at all. I love the more graphic, impactful look of it and how it sits on top of the fabric instead of blending down into it and disappearing. I also like how it made the zig-zagged edge look. More on this thread in another post...


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A dozen stunning silver pieces by Italian father-and-son smiths Mario and Gianmaria Buccellati, of the renowned Buccellati family, are among the notable lots in an upcoming auction at Sotheby’s New York on April 20. The private collection from Miami-based interior designer Victor Diaz features an impressive menagerie: Whimsical works in the shapes of animals include a pair of magnum wine coolers in the guise of male and female penguins (est. $150,000 to $200,000), a tureen in the shape of a tortoise (est. $50,000 to $80,000), and a bowl in the form of an octopus (est. $25,000 to $35,000).
Of the pieces, Diaz says, “Silver and beautiful objects of all genres have long been one of my passions, and it has been a joy to incorporate these exquisite pieces into my everyday life. While it is bittersweet to part with a collection that I’ve amassed over two decades, it is a pleasure to be able to share my vision of how both new and seasoned collectors can embrace these opulent yet functional works in their own unique spaces.”
Other standout lots include a group of pieces by the revered Danish design company Georg Jensen, led by a rare silver seven-light chandelier designed in 1920. Tagged at $150,000 to $250,000, the fixture is one of only six known silver chandeliers by Jensen, the founding artist. According to the catalog notes, Diaz acquired it from Jensen in 2012 and worked with the company to create a matching hook for the chain to accompany the piece.
“Diaz has used his designer’s eye and keen sense of quality to put together a collection that mixes Georgian candlesticks with modern Latin Art, Victorian tablewares with fabulous Buccellati animal sculptures, and usable 20th-century designs by Georg Jensen and Stuart Devlin,” says John Ward, head of sale for the house, adding that, “His pieces and the way that he lived with them show that the bright metal can be fun and contemporary.” In all, more than 150 objects from the designer’s home will be on offer.


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Paris, September 11, 2018 – The report on the state of food security and nutrition in the world (SOFI), released today by United Nations agencies, shows a drastic increase in the number of people suffering from hunger in 2017.
Governments and the International Community need to take immediate and joint actions if they want to meet with the zero hunger objective by 2030. The implementation of sustainable, nutritive and resilient food systems is a priority in this regards.
821 million of people suffered from hunger in 2017. In other words, one person out of nine is undernourished in the world. After years of progressive decline, global hunger is increasing for the third consecutive year which undermines 10 years of progress. Furthermore, while extreme hunger is on the rise in conflict zones (Kasaï in Democratic Republic of Congo, or Yemen sadly illustrate this trend), people are also increasingly suffering from food insecurity in more stable areas.
In order to adequately solve this problem, we need to address the vicious cycle between conflict and hunger (75% of malnourished people live in conflict areas), but we also need to consider hunger as a long-term process maintained and aggravated by climate change. The figure shows that by 2080 there will be an additional 600 million people suffering from hunger due to climate change: countries the most suffering from hunger are also the one the most affected by climate variability and extremes.
The first victims of hunger are the poorest populations and especially women. Even though the SOFI report highlights the progress made in the fight against malnutrition, they remain far from sufficient in regards of the upcoming challenges. We are currently facing the risk that all the recent achievements made in the fight against hunger will be jeopardize by the consequences of climate change. In this respect, and according to the fact that the world has increasingly to deal with situations where under-nutrition and over-nutrition coexist, a specific effort needs to be made to promote sustainable, diversified, healthy and nutritious diets.
« The number of extreme climate events has doubled since the early 1990s. Those sudden events, together with increasing climate variability, have direct impacts on the food security and nutrition status of millions of people who depend on agriculture and livestock in order to survive. » explains Pascal Revault, Director of Expertise and Advocacy at Action contre la Faim.
In contexts where livelihoods are highly dependent of climate hazards, there is a strong correlation between climate change and the number of hungry people. In the Sahel region for instance, 65% of the active population has agriculture/livestock related livelihoods: last year’s low rainfalls put the food security of millions of people at risk in the sub-region by decreasing drastically the availability of forage resources.
« In order to solve this problem, we need to rethink our approach of the agriculture sector and to start promoting food systems that are truly sustainable and nutritious. Agriculture is the largest contributor to climate change with 70% of the total gas emissions; and droughts account for 80% of damage and loss in agriculture. It’s an emergency to endorse an agro-ecological transition and to promote sustainable production modes that really benefit the most vulnerable » declares Pascal Revault.
"It’s an emergency to endorse an agro-ecological transition and to promote sustainable production modes that really benefit the most vulnerable"
The most vulnerable and especially small-scale producers and family farmers must be central of agricultural related policies and climate change action plans. Consequently, the funds dedicated to their adaptation to climate change need to be drastically increased. We need to go beyond a simple change of scale in our approaches. The challenge of reducing the number of hungry people in a world above two degrees will never be met without an ambitious shift of paradigm in the way we view and address hunger.
The main victims of hunger and climate change: the protagonists of African and South American agricultural systems are the first calling for an agro-ecological transition. They are insistently requesting an urgent change in agricultural practices and an agro-ecological transition that would be sustainable, nutritious and shaped around the needs and the rights of the most vulnerable populations. So far, whether they be from the South or from the North, governments are not hearing this call.
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On this week’s ‘SEPULQUARTA’ session, SEPULTURA welcomes Rudy Sarzo (Ex-Ozzy Osbourne) and Tanya O’Callaghan for a live Q&A session and a performance of ‘Meaningless Movements’ with Roman Ibramkhalilov (JINJER).
Derrick Green comments: “It’s an honor to have the legendary Rudy Sarzo and Ireland’s own pride and joy Tanya O’Callaghan on our next Sepulquarta. These two powerhouse bass players have incredibly unique experiences from the road. We look forward to sharing and chatting about our connections through the passion of music. Last but not least, all the way from Ukraine, we have the talented guitar shredder from the band JINJER, Roman Ibramkhalilov. We will be performing a classic SEPULTURA song with him from the Arise album, “Meaningless Movements”! Be sure to tune in.”
Join the band this WEDNESDAY 12th AUGUST at 8pm BST:
SEPULTURA released their latest album Quadra through Nuclear Blast on February 7th, 2020. The band recently announced their re-scheduled North America tour with SACRED REICH, CROWBAR and ART OF SHOCK for Spring 2021.
Quadra North American tour
with SACRED REICH, CROWBAR and ART OF SHOCK.
06/3//2021 Ace Of Spades – Sacramento, CA United States
07/3//2021 The Complex – Salt Lake City, UT United States NEW!
08/3/2021 Summit Music Hall – Denver, CO United States
10/3/2021 Rave II – Milwaukee, WI United States
11/3/2021 Wildwood – Iowa City, IA United States
12/3/2021 Varsity Theater – Minneapolis, MN United States
13/3/2021 Harpo’s – Detroit, MI United States
14/3/2021 House of Blues – Chicago, IL United States
15/3/2021 Rex Theater – Pittsburgh, PA United States
17/3/2021 Warsaw – Brooklyn, NY United States
18/3/2021 Opera House – Toronto, ON Canada
19/3/2021 Corona Theater – Montreal, QC Canada
20/3/2021 Big Night Live – Boston, MA United States
21/3/2021 Theatre Of Living Arts – Philadelphia, PA United States
22/3/2021 Soundstage – Baltimore, MD United States
23/3/2021 House of Blues – Cleveland, OH United States
25/3/2021 Underground @ The Fillmore – Charlotte, NC United States
26/3/2021 Masquerade – Atlanta, GA United States
27/3/2021 Culture Room – Ft Lauderdale, FL United States
28/3/2021 The Ritz – Tampa, FL United States
30/3/2021 House of Blues – New Orleans, LA United States
31/3/2021 Parish – Austin, TX United States
01/4/2021 Gas Monkey Live – Dallas, TX United States
02/4/2021 Diamond Ballroom – Oklahoma City, OK United States
03/4/2021 Warehouse Live – Houston, TX United States
05/4/2021 Rockhouse – El Paso, TX United States NEW!
06/4/2021 Van Buren – Phoenix, AZ United States
07/4/2021 House of Blues – San Diego, CA United States
08/4/2021 Ventura Theatre – Ventura, CA United States
09/4/2021 Belasco Theater – Los Angeles, CA United States
10/4/2021 UC Theatre – Berkeley, CA United States
Tickets and VIP bundles are on sale now from: www.sepultura.com.br/tour-dates
Order Quadra now in various formats here:
or in the official SEPULTURA shop:
More on “Sepulquarta”:
“Isolation” (Live Playthrough): https://youtu.be/VEkMRVlUEtM
“Agony Of Defeat” (Live Playthrough): https://youtu.be/y7yv8s9R7Dk
“Refuse Resist” (Live Playthrough): https://youtu.be/nCxVElI5j9Y
“Kairos” (Live Playthrough): https://youtu.be/SQqwoxvKTvc
“Kapital Enslavement” (feat. Kadu Fernandes): https://youtu.be/ujjRcJBUG3E
“Resistant Parasites” (Live Playthrough): https://youtu.be/PS7eshg6M94
“Fear, Pain, Chaos, Suffering” (feat. Emmily Barreto): https://youtu.be/hYu9NqpGqpo
“Mindwar” (Live Playthrough): https://youtu.be/zFb9Hp9xM2I
“Cut-Throat” (feat. Scott Ian): https://youtu.be/caTU42u05Vo
“Desperate Cry” (feat. Jason Bittner & Felipe Roa): https://youtu.be/g0a93F_7zUg
“Inner Self” (feat. Phil Rind): https://youtu.be/PFt_hPnl_CQ
“Biotech Is Godzilla & Polícia” (feat. Shavo Odadjian & Tony Bellotto): https://youtu.be/OdljvJ7w9l4
“Live Q&A with Devin Townsend”: https://youtu.be/5jkm0qJ6Boc
“Sepulnation” (feat. Danko Jones): https://youtu.be/JQttoi2JZ6A
“Ratamahatta” (feat. Joao Barone and Charles Gavin): https://youtu.be/7yNgxP9cWCY
Pure and raw thrash on one side and melodic yet experimental on the other – with their catchy and fascinating concept album based around the number of manifestation, SEPULTURA define their own universe where they alone are the masters of their Quadra.
Quadra is available as 2CD digipak, 2CD + Blu-ray Earbook, black vinyl LP, picture vinyl LP, silver vinyl LP (limited to 500 pieces), crystal clear vinyl (limited to 300 pieces) and glow in the dark vinyl LP (limited to 300 pieces, Impericon exclusive).

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They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if you don’t know how to use the camera? This is exactly the situation that I found myself in after I purchased my first digital single-lens reflex camera (SLR).
After years of barely getting by with a point-and-shoot, I decided to make the switch to a digital SLR. Although I knew that the transition wouldn’t be easy, I was using my camera in my writing career on a daily basis, and the images I was getting from my point-and-shoot weren’t cutting it.
I purchased a digital SLR and told myself that I would take the time to learn how to use the plethora of buttons and what seemed like endless features. I took an Introduction to the Digital SLR Camera course and tried to carve out time to apply what I learned. The problem? I didn’t have any time. My work weeks range from 60-70 hours a week, and at the end of the day, messing around with a camera was the last thing I wanted to do.
After countless swear words, hundreds of blurry photos, and a handful of angry rants, I realized that a full digital SLR wasn’t for me. What I really wanted was to be able to get the effects and the quality of a digital SLR without having to spend absorbent amounts of time doing it. For many people, discovering how to create the perfect photograph is precisely what they enjoy about photography, for me, it was what I dreaded. I was spending more time setting up and editing photos than writing, and I knew it was time for me to make a change.
I started researching and realized that I wasn’t alone; the demand for a user-friendly camera with easily navigable features was there, but many people just don’t know where to start.
After about half a day of research, I set my sights on the Olympus PEN E-PM2, a stylish and small micro-four thirds camera that is compatible with a range of Olympus lenses. The camera offers digital SLR style photos with a simple interface, and is repeatedly recommended online as a happy medium between a point-and-shoot and a digital SLR.
Lucky for me, I was given the opportunity to test it out. Stay tuned for part two to see how the camera conundrum turned out.


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The Art Linkletter's Car Tour Break attraction during repairs
Art Linkletter's Car Tour Break
January 13, 1997
Avg. queue length:
The Art Linkletter's Car Tour Break queue is like a tour through the bad part of Tourtown. The attraction cars are built like Benny the Cob, and while you drive you can break them by licking the tires.
- If it's your anniversary, animatronic animals might point at your friends.
- Instead of riding this attraction, experience something that doesn't involve lasers.
Guest Policies and Information
- Guests may get very dry on this attraction.
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If you are looking for a healthy and outstanding breakfast that is healthy, affordable, and delicious, then Blake’s Lotaburger is the perfect option.
This amazing fast-food chain has headquarters in Albuquerque and is popular for its New Mexico green chili, topped with hamburgers, French fries, and New Mexican foods.
The restaurant is popular, with more than 110 locations, for its affordable breakfast.The breakfast menu offers staples, French fries, hamburgers, burritos, and much more.
Also, if you want to enjoy delicious food in your breakfast, then you should be aware of the breakfast time and menu to avoid disappointment.
Breakfast hours of Blake’s Lotaburger
If you are looking for the best breakfast taco and burritos, then Blake’s Lotaburger is the best place to visit. Breakfast starts serving at 8 AM, so if you are an early riser, you do not have to worry as they serve breakfast just in time.
Also, the prices of this restaurant are difficult to beat as the main dishes on their menu are less than five dollars. The restaurant is open from Monday to Friday, and during weekends, i.e., Saturday and Sunday, it is open from 11 am to midnight.
So from Monday to Friday, the breakfast timing is from 7 AM to 11.30 AM, and on Saturday and Sunday, it is from 8 AM to 12 noon.
Blake’s Lotaburger breakfast menu list
The breakfast menu of Blake’s Lotaburger includes multiple options like tacos and burritos, their breakfast tacos like potato and eggs along with cheese, and bean burritos along with beans, potatoes, potatoes, and cheese. It also includes Chicken Burrito with eggs and gravy.
They also have breakfast options like Huevos Rancheros (beans, rice, fried eggs rice, and salsa) or breakfast burritos (jalapenos, cheese, and eggs) with sandwiches like cheese sandwiches and Bacon eggs. Below is the menu list
- Bean and meat burrito
- Sausage burrito
- Bacon burrito
- Hatch Valley green chili
- Jumbo chili dog
- Onion fries
- Regular fries
- Seasoned fries
- 2 PC fish basket
- Fish Sandwich
- Ranch chicken sandwich
- Black’s chicken sandwich
Does Blake’s Lotaburger serve breakfast all day?
The famous fast-food chain serves food the entire day, but their breakfast timings are from 7 AM to 11.30 AM from Monday to Friday and from 8 AM to 12 noon on Saturday and Sunday.
Apart from it, the restaurant’s closing time is at 5 PM in the evening. By this time you can enjoy their delicious food.
This article on Blake’s Lotaburger breakfast time tells every detail regarding their breakfast time and menu. Generally, the restaurant remains open every 7 days of the week; however, during special holidays, some branches of Blake’s Lotaburger may remain closed. To get accurate details regarding their opening time and menu, it is recommended to check the official website of Blake’s Lotaburger. With up-to-date information, it is better for the fans of Blake’s Lotaburger to avoid any kind of disappointment.


HISD’s Transportation department teamed up with the Houston Educational Support Personnel, Local 6315 Union all week long to celebrate National Love the Bus month with their “Lettuce Show You Some Love” event.
Created by the American School Bus Council. National Love the Bus month shows appreciation during the month of February for school bus drivers and personnel who go above and beyond to safely transport students to and from school.
This year, the Transportation department decided to go without the traditional sweet treats. Instead, management served employees with a healthier alternative—a fresh garden salad bar. All four bus terminals, including Barnett, Butler, Central and Northwest, held events at their motor pools.
“One way to show love is to improve the health of employees by encouraging them to eat more salad and drink water, [which] improves blood pressure, diabetes, and cholesterol,” said Wretha Thomas, president of Houston Educational Support Personnel, Local 6315 Union. “The salad appreciation lunch in Transportation was a great program, and we encourage other departments within the district to do the same thing.”
Each day, nearly 1,000 HISD school buses travel more than 15 million miles annually to transport over 30,000 students across the district.
“Anytime HISD comes in and wants to do something with each motor pool, it’s very much appreciated,” said Patricia Dennis, who has been an HISD bus driver for 10 years. “We are very thankful for HISD, the salad bar and the event because it helps us promote and get started with the [district’s] weight challenge.”


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Kanye West doubled down on his support for President Donald Trump.
How does one of the planet’s most controversial superstars drive up even more attention for his latest high-profile appearance? If you’re Ye -- that would be, the artist known until this weekend as Kanye West -- you pop up two days before your performance on the Saturday Night Live season premiere wearing a “Make America Great Again” baseball cap and a Colin Kaepernick sweatshirt.
Then, you announce on Twitter, about twelve hours before the gig, that you’re changing your stage name to something more, well, monosyllabic. (A longtime nickname, “Ye” is also the title of an album the rapper dropped last spring.)
But those shenanigans were just prelude to the rambling speech that West -- as he was still introduced on the show, both by the announcer and host Adam Driver -- delivered to the studio audience post-broadcast, following sets that were relatively low on bombast (even if the rapper pranced around in a facsimile of a Perrier bottle during one of them).
What TV viewers didn’t get to see -- at least until clips started circulating on social media, courtesy of Chris Rock and others -- was West defending, at some length, his support for President Trump. Having once again donned his MAGA cap for the show’s close, he referred to a “Democratic plan” to “take the fathers out of the homes and promote welfare.”
Pacing the stage as some jeered -- though there were also sprinklings of applause -- West continued, “So many times I’ve talked to a white person about this, and he’d say, ‘How could you love Trump? He’s racist.’ Well, if I was concerned about racism I would have moved out of America a long time ago.’”
As an organ played behind West, evoking a sort of improvised sermon, he continued, “You got a situation where we need to have a dialogue and not a diatribe...It’s easy to make it seem like it’s so, so, so one-sided.” West later advised, “Follow your heart and stop following your mind. That’s how we’re controlled...You want the world to move forward, try love.”
Acknowledging the crowd’s relative patience, West thanked everyone for “giving me this platform. I know some of y’all don’t agree.” But clearly, whatever he calls himself, West isn’t going to stop stirring the pot any time soon.


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FRIGHTS & SPRITES RETURNS!
Weekdays throughout October half term
11am – 3pm (park open 10am – 5pm)
Our spooky family-friendly festivities are returning this October half term, on the lead up to Halloween.
Lady Edwina and Franklin are hosting a brand-new ghost story in Rumpus Mansion LIVE this year! And, after braving the Mansion, you won’t want to miss out on the Spooky Disco, Puppet Theatre and Fancy Dress Competitions. There’s also crafts and games, too…and you’ll want to keep your eye out for a Gremlin or two in our Gremlin Quest!
So, what are you waiting for? Put on that witch’s hat, pick up your broomstick and grab your tickets online now to join our fabulously frightful characters!
Enjoy a freakishly fab day out this October!
A SPOOKTACULAR PARK adventure awaits...
Embark on a ghostly adventure as you search for our ghastly Gremlins across the park! Grab your Gremlin Quest map upon entry and get exploring! Don’t forget to enter our colouring competition to win some seriously SPOOKTACULAR prizes, too!
Something strange is GOING ON in Rumpus Mansion...
The ghosts and ghouls of Rumpus Mansion LIVE are hosting a brand-new story this year! Take an interactive tour around the residence to meet a whole host of new characters. Find out what mystery has Franklin and Lady Edwina stumped every day from 11am-3pm!
Create a slimy new buddy or spellbinding potion in the NEW Rumpus Laboratory!
For the first time in the history of Blackgang Chine, Rumpus Mansion will be opening its secret laboratory…
Delve into the world of wonky science in these BRAND-NEW workshops to create magical potions and mysterious slime. Make sure you keep a keen ear on the mad scientists Luna and Luther Leviathan, as they instruct you to the right ingredients to make your very own magical potion or to bring to life your very own gloopy slime buddy.
Will you make a potion that turns people into frogs, or will you choose to create your very own squishy slime friend?*
*Suitable for ages 4+ and accompanying adult is required (1 per child)
*Additional charges apply for this experience
What else is happening as part of Frights & Sprites this October half term?
Once you’ve braved the Mansion, head over to Rumpus Lawn for a spooktacular afternoon of ghoulish entertainment! Join in with our Spooky Disco and Games from 11am – 3pm every day!
Godwin’s Puppet Theatre will also be returning this half-term with new characters and even more wacky adventures!
Catch up with our resident Dodos, but don’t get held up talking to Lady Penelope and Raphus for too long because Cedric the Dragon wants to see you too! Join these charismatic characters at 12pm and 1.30pm.
Don your best Witch’s hat, Vampire fangs and Wizard’s cape for our daily Fancy-Dress competitions at 2pm with great prizes to be won!


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Regions :: Eastern Europe :: Hungary
Oltchim privatization delayed again, bidders interested in buying refinery
5:26 AM MDT | April 4, 2014 | Ian Young
The Romanian government has delayed for a second time, by up to 45 days, the deadline for submission of binding offers to acquire the state's majority stake in chemicals and petrochemicals producer Oltchim (Ramnicu Valcea, Romania), Romanian press reports say. The first postponement of the deadline was from 31 January to 28 March but no bids had been submitted by the revised date. However, Romania's economy minister Constantin Nita, quoted in the press reports, says that the delay was requested by potential bidders that are interested in buying Oltchim together...
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From tricky logistics to food safety to culinary talent retention, Foodservice @ Retail Summit at NRA Show® offers grocery and c-stores retailers everything they need to solve the category's biggest headaches.
Gather with peers for two eventful days to connect, collaborate and share. Absorb the hard-won knowledge from those who've spent years in the foodservice trenches. Learn to improve and grow your operation. Among the timely topics:
Each participant will tour Latinicity, the multi-sensory food and retail experience. Even better? Latinicity's co-founder, chef Richard Sandoval, will host the visit and the tasting and cocktails that follow.
Space is at a premium—secure your spot before it sells out!


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Transformers: The Last Knight 3D
Optimus Prime finding his home planet, Cybertron, now a dead planet, which he comes to find he was responsible for killing. He finds a way to bring the planet back to life, but in order to do so he needs to find an artifact, and that artifact is on Earth.
CAST: Mark Wahlberg, Nicola Peltz, Peter Cullen, Frank Welker, John Goodman, Ken Watanabe
DIRECTOR: Michael Bay
RUN TIME: 148 min


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Dell previews Inspiron Duo netbook, tablet hybrid
Dell took to the stage at the Intel Developer Forum today with the surprise unveiling of a netbook and tablet hybrid it said will be a real production model. The Inspiron Duo when closed acts as a 10-inch Windows 7 tablet but can spin the display within the frame to face inwards and work as a traditional netbook. The dual design would not only be less bulky than a traditional convertible tablet but would open the door to tablet-sized docks, such as one to add speakers for movies and music at home.
While mum on most of the details, Dell painted the iPad as a target by claiming the Inspiron Duo would be the fastest 10-inch tablet available with a dual-core Atom processor. It will run Windows 7 Home Premium as it needs the more expensive OS to support multi-touch, but there are no signs so far that it plans to optimize the tablet for fingers beyond what Microsoft has already done.
The PC builder is edging away from its habit of unveiling systems several months before they ship and hopes to have the Inspiron Duo shipping before the end of the year.
Until the Streak, Dell was one of the more reluctant participants in tablets and only had its conventional Latitude XT series to its credit. It's known to be venturing further into Android tablets with the Looking Glass project, but the Inspiron Duo is its first confirmed large tablet for the home and likely its first inexpensive model. [via SlashGear]


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I'm usually pretty good at name-that-tune, but... CHFI-FM's Funky Friday Mix last week had a random song from the 70's with the polished shimmer of a Philly Soul production and a funky mid-tempo beat which hinted at disco, a burbling synth which teased the bass player, and a rousing conclusion where a chorus of backing singers chants: "I've been searching, searching, searching..." or "I've been working, working, working..." intertwined with the lead vocalist in an interesting complex harmonic style. This would have been on AM radio in the 70's, maybe not a big hit, but on the charts. (On Google, "I've been searching" & soul/funk/disco just leads to the record bins. Not the Vandross/Change song).
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70s styled porn (or funk) song? Content marginally SFW. The clip is from a 2003 Phil Hendrie radio show sketch. I searched around on YouTube under "porn music" but didn't find anything that sounded this steamy.
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What's the bass & drum style of Flight of the Conchords Sugalumps
, particularly 9th through 15th second of the video, called?
Rhapsody's genres has something called Electro-Funk which includes artists like the Bass Mekanik that include test tones on some albums and Bass Transmission. I'm particularly interested in the sustained low low bass "notes," particularly when combined with higher percussion (snare) in a really danceable, but somewhat slow tempo.
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What album cover featured notable musicians as the twelve apostles of funk, with Lionel Richie as Judas? This was described to me in the early nineties. I think it was the cover of a hip hop album. Perhaps it wasn't an album cover, but some other artwork. Google returns a couple of hits for Richie as "Judas of funk," but other searches led nowhere.
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History of Yuseong at a glance
- Historical studies have found that Yuseong was inhabited by ancestors from the Neolithic Age. During the Samhan Period, Sinheunguk, one of the 54 tribal states of Mahan, was located at Mt. Bingye, which is currently between Gyesan-dong and Hakha-dong of Yuseong-gu.
- Baekje, founded along the Han River, conquered Mahan around the 3rd Century B.C., spreading its powers to the South Coast and moving the capital city to Ungjin. Daejeon at that time was called Usul-gun, and, under the greatest influence of Baekje among the three ancient empires, was a military strategic point.
• Baekje to Joseon
• Was a part of Nosaji-hyeon, Usul-gun during the Baekje Empire, Yuseong-hyeon, Bipung-gun during the Silla Unification, Deok-hyeon during the Goryeo Dynasty, and Deok-gun during the Joseon Dynasty.
- On March 1, 1910, the Japanese Government General’s Order #111 merged the districts of the province. As a result, Hoedeok-gun, Jinjam-gun, and Hyeonnae-myeon of Gongju-gun were merged to create Daejeon-gun.
- On October 1, 1910, the Myeon system was created to establish Daejeon-myeon of Daejeon-gun.
- On March 1, 1930, Daejeon-myeon of Daejeon-gun was promoted to Daejeon-eup. On October 1, 1917, the Japanese Government General’s Order #112 eliminated Daejeon-gun as soon as Daejeon-eup was promoted to Daejeon-bu.
The areas outside Daejeon-bu were renamed Daedeok-gun and Yuseong, and became a part of Daedeok-gun.
- When Korea was liberated on August 15, 1945, it was governed by the U.S. Military Administration for 3 years from November of that year until the foundation of the Korean Government on August 15, 1948. Daejeon-bu continued to exist.
- On August 15, 1949, Legislation #32 (declared on July 4, 1949) was enacted to create the Local Administration Act to change Daejeon-bu to Daejeon City.
- On July 1, 1973, the Presidential Ordinance #6543 was declared to promote Yuseong-myeon to Yuseong-eup.
- On January 1, 1989, Legislation #4049 (declared on December 31, 1988) was enacted to promote Daejeon City into a directly governed city and created Yuseong-gu.
- On August 27, 1994, Yuseong-gu and four other tourist destinations were designated as special tourist districts by the Korean Government.
- On January 1, 1995, Legislation #4789 (declared on December 20, 1994) was enacted to change the name of the Daejeon Directly Governed City to Daejeon Metropolitan City.
Added Noeun-dong, Gwanpyeong-dong, and Wonsinheung-dong as supporting cities of the Sejong Special Self-governing City with a population of 320,000.

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Alpine skiing-Shiffrin crowned in Zagreb slalom
By Manuele Lang
ZAGREB (Reuters) - Mikaela Shiffrin was crowned a snow queen at 17 when she won the classic floodlit slalom in Zagreb on Friday to show she is not just a one-hit wonder.
The American teenager, who celebrated her maiden World Cup victory last month in Are, dominated both runs to win in two minutes and 1.73.
Sweden's Frida Hansdotter was second, like in Are, a considerable 1.19 seconds adrift while Canada's Erin Mielzynski, her country's own slalom prodigy, finished third some 1.76 off the pace.
Totally dumbfounded when winning her first laurels in Sweden three weeks ago, Shiffrin again said she was unable to take in what was happening.
"After Are, I thought I'd be able to handle it the next time, but I'm not," she told reporters.
"I chose the same tactics of shutting down my brain and letting the skis go."
Her exceptional technique paired with a relaxed approach worked wonders again, allowing her to claim back the red bib as the discipline's World Cup leader.
"To be honest I didn't know what it was when I took (the bib) for the first time in Are. Now I'm just going to make sure I keep it clean," she said. Continued...