Pakistan Regulatory Media Authority (PEMRA) has slapped a fine of Rs1 million on Samaa TV for showing indecent text message during their show Wardaat on July 22, 2015.
Samaa Tv program “Wardaat” had aired a reenactment of a crime story on July 22, 2015 in which vulgar text message, from a boy to a girl, was shown clearly in its original form. It was not only against our culture, customs, and religious values but also a violation of PEMRA rules and codes of conduct, imposed by the Supreme Court of Pakistan.
After no response from Samaa TV management, the case was referred to Council of Complaints, Karachi. The Council of Complaints held its meeting on January 14, 2016 and has approved the penalty of Rs1 million after finding the opinion of the TV channel and viewing the program video.
The council had also decided to suspend the license of Samaa TV in case of future violations and ordered the circular be issues to all TV channels to not show such indecent content lie Samaa TV did.


It’s almost December, temperatures are chilly, and snow is on the ground in many parts of the state. That gets many of us in the mood for the annual tradition of decorating the tree.
Iowa Agriculture Secretary Mike Naig says there are plenty of Iowa locations to find that ideal fir, spruce or pine.
“We’ve got over 100 Christmas tree farms across the state and those farms produce or sell about 40,000 Christmas trees each year,” Naig says. “It’s a wonderful way to have some fun, get outdoors and support a local farm.” It takes between six-and-12 years to grow a Christmas tree and most tree farms in Iowa are three-to-eight acres in size. Most sell trees by the choose-and-harvest method, where customers come to the farm and cut their own trees.
Naig says the big boom in the tree business started late last week and will continue well into the final month of the year. “Our Christmas tree farms do a great clip of business here starting on Thanksgiving weekend and over the next couple of weekends,” Naig says. “I think folks do very, very well and most of the Christmas tree growers that I visit with have more demand than supplies.”
Speaking from personal experience, Naig offers a little advice about picking the perfect pine. “Something that we sure didn’t do as well as we should have the first time we did this, make sure you cut the right size Christmas tree,” Naig says. “Make sure you know the size of the spot in the house. It seems to look different when it’s outdoors versus when it’s in the house.”
Once you get your tree home, remember to check the water daily as trees can use up to a gallon of water every day. Also, make sure you unplug any tree lights before you leave home or go to bed. The Christmas tree industry contributes about one-million dollars to Iowa’s economy each year.
(By Pat Powers, KQWC, Webster City)


Born in Leeds but raised in Blackpool, Rob Lea has been touring across the UK and Europe for the past 10 years in one of the world’s biggest Queen Tribute Bands – Majesty. Performing as the legendary Freddie Mercury has given Rob amazing opportunities to perform in front of huge crowds and even compete on the ITV show Starstruck as his idol. Now Rob is ready to step into the limelight as himself.
In April 2022 Rob released his debut single “Reflection”, an emotive pop ballad which deftly highlights his own struggles through anxiety and depression in a way that’s hard not to connect with and relate to. His follow up single “Summer in the Morning” burst into the Summer with joy and sunshine. The laid-back indie-pop track brought more of Rob’s influences to his audience, with soaring harmonies, dynamic vocals and an infectious energy. After this, Rob released his third single “Freak”, a fierce middle finger to all those that see others as anything less than perfect. It celebrates individuality with an anthemic lyrical chorus line that will have you singing along after the first listen, whilst the guitars deliver captivating modern alt-rock tones with a touch of blues nostalgia.
The singles have been released via Nashville indie record label WBA, whose roster includes John Oats, The Little River Band, Michael Londra and many more talented artists. Rob credits the audiences he’s performed to and the fanbase he’s garnered over the years as the motivation for getting his own music out into the world!


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Well, obviously, my name's Ffgtfgtr, and if you read my stories, you'd know my real name (first name, at least). My big story, Silver Soul, weighs in at 39 chapters and 100,000 words, but better proof of my prowess appears in my later works.
|My Strengths: beta, writing, or reading strengths
First of all, I have a good eye for grammar and spelling. Also, I have a nice, big vocabulary and I know how make one sentence flow to the next, one paragraph to the next, etc. I also am very stingy on using the same word too many times (except for the standard words such as "I," of course). I do a great job of using humor when it fits, and my overdeveloped sense of sarcasm only helps. Heck, I can make humor in dark fics work. Oh yeah, and for what it's worth, if someone pisses me off, I'm great at ranting. XD
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I might have a typo in some of my stories' chapters due to my tendency to skim through my story to spell check. In addition, I tend to leave out some detail, especially when it comes to dialogue. Also, my name is not Indigo Shade or Happy2BMe. xD
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First off: I will only beta read Pokemon or Yugioh 5D's stories. I'd beta read most anything, but of course I'll have my preferences.
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I prefer stories without canons in pokemon... or without Sues/Stus. And don't send me anything that's canon and romance for pokemon. No homo pairings either; I'm cool with that stuff, but they're not my thing for stories. pretty much open to anything in 5D's. Also, if you have no semblance of grammar knowledge (poor capitalization, spelling, etc), then I'd suggest you take the time to spell check before sending me your stories. I never read stories where the summaries have no commas, are in all lowercase, have misspellings, all that jazz. Can't stand that.
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Deidre Thornell is a Texas girl who is now calling Nashville home. She says, “it’s going to be that way for a long time! I love Music City!”
The singer-songwriter writes a lot of her own music but tells CountryCommon, “I’m never opposed to cutting someone else’s song when it feels right.”
She plays the guitar, but enjoys having other people play for her, “because of how talented so many musicians in this town (Music City) are.”
Thornell describes her sound as “contemporary country that is influenced with a bluesy-pop infusion.”
As many artists, her favorite song is, “The House That Built Me,” which was written by Tom Douglas, but made famous by Miranda Lambert.
The singer shared her best memory so far. “My proudest performance would have to be performing The National Anthem at AT&T Stadium for a Cowboys game in front of 90,000 screaming fans. It was surreal and I chase after that feeling everyday.”
She dreams one day of traveling the US for her own tour, then a European tour because, “Who wouldn’t want to travel the world playing their own songs?!”
Her pre-show ritual includes silent prayer, voice warm-ups and a wall push-ups.
Thornell has tried out for America’s Got Talent and The Voice and tells us, “That’s something I’m absolutely interested in continuing to pursue.”

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Both Holly and I want to thank you for listening to last night’s show! We set a NEW listener record with 594 listeners which tops our previous record of 588 listeners from our Michael Hutchence Special:MYSTIFY ME which originally aired this past April 22!
This was the first BIG show we’ve had since we got our own chatroom and we welcomed a lot of new listeners! A heartfelt thanks to Holly and all of our regular listeners/chat members who welcomed our new listeners with open arms, I’m very happy and proud to be a part of this great REWIND family!
And thank you for the song selections that was picked for the show, MANY Daryl Hall(and Hall & Oates fans) know their big hits but I wanted to spotlight their great album cuts from nearly 50 years of great music. We didn’t play ALL of their great songs BUT I like to think we covered MOST of the bases as far as Daryl’s music is concerned.
We had listeners from all over the WORLD listening in last night! The list of countries include Venezuela,Chile,Brazil,United Kingdom,Ireland,Australia,Japan,Canada,and the United States!
For those who didn’t hear last night’s show we will replay choice cuts from the Special this Saturday October 17th at 4:00pm ET/1:00pm PT.
Again THANK YOU ALL for being a part of last night’s special show, we made history!
~Leslie “DJ L ROB” Robinson, Holly Frye Orman!!!


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If you are an online business owner who accepts payments through PayPal, it is important to track your transactions in order to understand your sales performance and make informed decisions about your marketing strategies. Fortunately, Google Analytics makes it easy to track PayPal transactions by using a simple code snippet.
Step 1: Create a Custom Dimension
The first step in tracking PayPal transactions is to create a custom dimension in Google Analytics. This will allow you to categorize your transactions based on the payment method used, such as PayPal.
- Log in to your Google Analytics account and navigate to the Admin section.
- Click on the property for which you want to create a custom dimension.
- Under the Custom Definitions tab, click on Custom Dimensions.
- Click on the +New Custom Dimension button and enter a name for your new dimension. For example, “Payment Method”.
- Select the Scope as Hit and the Active as Yes.
- Save your changes.
Step 2: Add the Code Snippet to Your PayPal Button
The next step is to add a code snippet to your PayPal button. This will allow Google Analytics to track the transaction and assign it to the custom dimension you created in Step 1.
- Log in to your PayPal account and navigate to the My Selling Tools section.
- Click on the Update link next to Website Payment Preferences.
- Scroll down to the Advanced Settings section and click on the Enable Acceptance of Payments from Mobile Devices option.
- Copy the code snippet provided by Google Analytics and paste it into the text box provided by PayPal. Make sure to replace the “UA-XXXXX-Y” with your own Google Analytics tracking ID.
- Save your changes.
Step 3: Verify Your Tracking
The final step is to verify that your tracking is working correctly. You can do this by making a test transaction using PayPal and checking your Google Analytics data for the custom dimension you created in Step 1.
- Make a test transaction using PayPal and select the payment method as PayPal.
- Log in to your Google Analytics account and navigate to the Real-Time section.
- Click on the Transactions tab and look for the custom dimension you created in Step 1. You should see a value of “PayPal” for this dimension.
By following these simple steps, you can easily track PayPal transactions in Google Analytics and gain valuable insights into your sales performance. This will help you make informed decisions about your marketing strategies and improve your overall business success.

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I have really gotten into hybrid projects. I have several I want to show you, hopefully I will get them posted in the next few days. Here is what I finished up today.
I used two templates by Boop Designs. In here store HERE you will find a popcorn wrapper and a wide handle bag template. They go perfectly together and make a nice little gift. I also used the Studio Collab for October called Farmer's Market.
On the popcorn wrappers I put fun facts about popcorn. Each wrapper has a different fact. I am so happy with the way it all turned out.

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SHINE Medical Technologies plans to locate its European medical isotope production facility in the Netherlands after a yearlong search and a review of more than 50 proposals from sites across Europe. The company announced on May 20 that construction at the site should begin in 2023 with commercial production starting in late 2025.
May 24, 2021, 7:00AMNuclear News
September 30, 2020, 7:00AMANS Nuclear Cafe
The government of the Netherlands has released a report, Possible Role of Nuclear in the Dutch Energy Mix in the Future, that answers in the affirmative the question of whether nuclear energy can play an important role in the country’s future energy mix.
The report, released this month by Enco, an Austrian energy research group, was commissioned by the Netherlands’ Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy.
The Netherlands currently has one nuclear power facility supplying the grid—the Borssele plant, which houses a 482-MWe two-loop pressurized water reactor that entered commercial operation in 1973.


Antelope Environmental Monitoring System
Real-time earthquake monitoring software system
Digital signal processing of seismic data for earthquake detection and location
Robust long-haul, store-and-forward, and near-real-time data sharing
Antelope Environmental Monitoring System is a state-of-the-art Unix® based software system for collecting data from seismic and other environmental monitoring networks and performing digital signal processing to detect and locate earthquakes and events of interest. It includes an embedded database to store acquired and generated data and tools for analysis and dissemination of results.
Beginning with Antelope 5.4, Antelope Environmental Monitoring System uses a MATLAB® toolbox that connects to the foundation APIs of the system such that MATLAB can be used to further explore collected data and to extend Antelope-based processing.
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PRO T-FLEX is the latest anticipated, hi-build flexible insulating and 100% acrylic water proofing textured wall coating from Thermilate. Guaranteed for 15 years, acrylic water paint the life-long elasticity within the coating protects from flaking, blistering and tearing while concealing gaps, cracks and other imperfections in walls. T-FLEX is made with micro porous structures to ensure unrivalled breathability so water vapours escape out through walls, to prevent damaging condensation build-up while preventing water vapour entry.
- Guarantee properties remain bone-dry
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- Save Energy and Save Money on energy bills
- Be resistant to contamination and ageing (from carbonation, penetration chlorides, corrosion and damaging salts – in all weather conditions)
- Protect the environment as it is a water-based product
- Protect from penetrating damp

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But what about deeper change? Well, I can understand the argument – made punchily by Gideon Rachman here – that this will increase the likelihood of a hung Parliament. That's probably true. But there's also a chance that it might help the Tories pull clear of their opponents. It all depends on which party the Lib Dems suck voters from and, more importantly, in which marginals they do so. Or, of course, there's always the possibility that people were impressed with Clegg last night – but won't change their vote as a result. Either general ambivalence, or less convincing performances in the two remaining debates, could drag the Lib Dem leader down from the stratosphere again. We will need to wait for more polls – including the poll of polls that is the election – to find out.
And then there's the little matter of whether last night will help rejuvenate our democracy. On that front, the main thing which struck me about the debate was its civility and its clarity. Sure, there were confrontations and obfuscations aplenty. But, on the whole, this was politics played at a more edifying level than in PMQs each week, and several worlds away from the pervasive grubbiness of Westminster. If people tuned in, then they may well have been impressed by what they saw. It all depends on whether they tuned in – and we'll have viewing figures shortly.

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John Podesta, the chairman of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, wrote that the man who killed Cecil the Lion should be extradited to Zimbabwe and jailed, according to hacked emails posted online on Tuesday.
In an August 1, 2015 email to former New York Timesreporter Barry Bearak, Podesta suggested that Bearak write a column calling for Cecil the Lion’s killer to be sent back to Zimbabwe to face local authorities.
Bearak had conducted award-winning international reporting for the Times. Bearak also spent time in a Zimbabwean prison while covering the country’s 2008 elections and the resulting backlash against opposition forces by brutal leader Robert Mugabe.
Podesta said that experience made him the perfect person to write about Cecil the Lion.
“As the only person anyone knows who has spent time in a Zimbabwe jail, you should pen an oped calling for his killer’s extradition,” he wrote to Bearak.
“What an asshole,” Podesta continued.


In the scrubgrass of Queensland, the cavalry speeds silently through the woods. Wearing combat fatigues, motocross helmets, and goggles, two scouts from the Light Horse Regiment with Queensland Mounted Infantry roll through light brush and narrow paths, beneath the canopy of trees. But they’re not riding horses—they’re on e-bikes. The scouts (seen in a video, at bottom) are demonstrating a new answer to an ancient military question: how can soldiers move without being detected?
For centuries, seeing where the enemy is without being caught was the primary form of military intelligence. Human scouts, on foot or horseback, would advance beyond the main formations of an advancing army, looking for the telltale signs of a mass of armed people. In modern times, that task has expanded to include work done from vehicles on land, sea, air, and satellites in space, but the human scouts haven’t been forgotten. With the scouts seeing immediately ahead, a moving column of troops can avoid danger or prepare for an ambush.
For a unit moving by armored transports, scouting can be tricky. The armored vehicles are large and loud, giving away their position through noise as much as size. Motorcycles, which have a long history in war, are nimble and fast, but their engines scream, and exhaust too can reveal a position. In the trial, the bikes also scout paths for armored vehicles, like checking to see if a stream could be cleared by larger troop transports.
“The footprint [with e-bikes] is minimised due to less power, less noise, and you’re not kicking up much dust that could be seen by enemy forces,” corporal Thomas Ovey of the Queensland Mounted Infantry said in a release. “It’s much more effective than a standard motorbike.”
[Related: The best electric bikes for an easier ride]
The e-bikes used have a top speed of 55 mph and a range of 62 miles. For a scouting run, that means the bikes can cover 30 miles in just over half an hour, and then return back to the unit before the bikes run out of charge. Even then, the fact that it is a bike means soldiers could still pedal it to its destination.
With that range, and with the quieter profile provided by electric motors, the bikes could also work as battlefield couriers.
“It allows us to do safe-handing of information, whether that’s information people have found on the battlefield, or even if one of the troops takes photos on their phone and wants to send it back to headquarters,” Ovey said. “They’ll call us up, we’ll get the stealth bikes out, head down there and grab the information. It’s a lot quicker. We cover more ground much faster, and it saves time instead of waiting for troops to come to us when they’ve found something.”
In a 2014 program seeking to build a silent motorcycle, DARPA set a threshold for the bikes at 55 decibels when running on electric power. That’s louder than a conversation in a house but quieter than an air conditioner 100 feet away, so not exactly quiet, but quite enough.
The Australian Department of Defence did not name the model of e-bike used, nor give a decibel read for the engine. Without that, it’s hard to say how quiet the bikes are in the abstract, but it’s safe to say they are quieter than gas-powered vehicles. More importantly, they are quieter than the sounds around them in the field, especially in rough terrain and with some ambient natural noise.
It remains to be seen if Australia will adopt e-bikes into their forces. As the country continues a process of modernization for possible Pacific warfare, past experience shows that bikes provided a valuable edge to militaries that could use them en masse in the eastern Pacific.
Historically, perhaps the most famous bicycle-driven military feat was the Japanese capture of Singapore in WWII, in which lightweight and silent bikes allowed soldiers to advance faster than anticipated over streams and rough terrain.
Much of war has changed since the 1940s. Yet the utility of lightweight, fast, and flexible transportation, carrying everything from scouts to confidential information, remains valuable. Ebikes might offer the outward appearance of a more sustainable approach to war, but at heart they’re a new approach to an old kind of stealth.
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Brace yourself for the modern version of the UNO card game you know and love with UNO Attack! This spin on the original UNO card game involves a special electronic card shooter and an exclusive Attack! Attack! command card.
Card shooter makes a variety of sounds to further increase the excitement
Keep the cards in the shooter so the unit is both portable and storable

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Stroller Sleeping Bag Baby Footmuff
Elmi sleeping bag made of the highest quality fabric
The Ricokids sleeping bag will work well in any conditions, providing comfort and a sense of security.
✶ soft, delicate and detachable fur,
✶ modern and fashionable design,
✶ inside it is lined with velvety soft and anti-allergic material,
✶ zipped with two-way detachable zipper (top and bottom),
✶ adapted for installation of 2, 3 and 5-point seat belts,
✶ fastening element that prevents the sleeping bag from sliding in the stroller,
✶ protects against wind and snow – perfect for sledding!
Three-layer, highest quality material
✶ The top layer guarantees full waterproof and windproof properties.
✶ The middle layer is filled with warm, anti-allergic down material.
✶ Inner layer, designed to ensure proper drainage of moisture and maintain the correct temperature.
Perfect in all conditions
The Elmi sleeping bag is completely resistant to unfavorable weather conditions, and in sunny weather it provides adequate ventilation.
Sleeping bag dimensions: 95 x 48 cm
Holes for seat belts: 2, 3 and 5 points.
Zipper: two-way detachable


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You may have heard the phrase "tax-loss harvesting." A financial professional may be able to provide some guidance.
Without a solid approach, health care expenses may add up quickly and potentially alter your spending.
Making a career move requires tough decisions, not the least of which is what to do with the funds in your retirement plan.

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Power drive units are electronic components that drive a three-phase brushless DC motor (hereinafter “motor”), which powers Electric Motorcycle*.
Controlling the motor according to the vehicle status, such as forward drive, stopping, acceleration, deceleration, going uphill or going downhill, provides smooth, consistent vehicle drive performance.
*Electric Motorcycle … Uses electrical power as an energy source to drive the motor and vehicle.
|Use||Motor drive control, high voltage battery charging control using motor regenerative current, communication control when charging|
|Compatible products||Electric Motorcycles|
Electric Motorcycle system management
The system manages start control for high voltage batteries and DC/DC converters, charger communication, vehicle sensor input, motor output and various load outputs.
Digital phase control
The system reads various types of vehicle information and controls the motor depending on the vehicle status in order to improve the driving performance.
Producing drive with high voltage and large currents
The motor drive has a structure that uses a highly efficient MOSFET with a 3-phase fully controlled bridge circuit. Using our power design technology that we developed, we are able reduce switching surges and power loss.
Offering various protection functions
The system is equipped with overvoltage protection for high voltage batteries, overcurrent protection during an overload, high temperature protection and electric shock protection using an insulation design.


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There is 1 golf course in Cornwall, New York and 0 are municipal courses. There are also another 35 golf courses within 20 miles of Cornwall, including 19 public, 8 municipal and 8 private courses.
The oldest course in the Cornwall area is the Highlands Country Club opened in 1898.
The longest course is Trump National Hudson Valley, which is 7,100 yards. The Powelton Club is rated the best course near Cornwall. The following courses have won various awards: Hudson National Golf Club, Trump National Hudson Valley.

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The Free Nationals, Anderson .Paak's backing band, have announced their full-length debut album as a band. The group and Paak both hopped on social media today to share the news, along with the project's artwork. The news comes on the heels of an announcement that they'll join Bruno Mars on tour in Europe this spring.
No word yet on details, or on what Anderson's involvement with the project will be. The FADER has reached out to reps for Anderson .Paak and the band for comment.


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NASHVILLE — Tom Brady might have a broken nose, about the only damage inflicted by the Titans.
Brady threw for 236 yards and two touchdowns Sunday, and defending AFC champion New England routed Tennessee 34-13 for their ninth straight season-opening win. It's the longest current streak in the league.
"I need some scars," Brady said, joking about the white bandage covering his nose and marring his usual look.
Titans defensive end Kamerion Wimbley, a former Florida State star, hurt Brady in the second quarter on Tennessee's only sack. Brady said that was the only good hit he took and complimented his revised offensive line featuring new pieces Nate Solder (left tackle), Dan Connolly (center) and Donald Thomas (right guard).
The Patriots ruined Jake Locker's debut as Tennessee's starter, sacking him twice and forcing two turnovers. New England rookie linebacker Dont'a Hightower returned his fumble 6 yards for a touchdown.
New England knocked Locker out of the game in the fourth quarter. He hurt his left shoulder tackling safety Patrick Chung on a fumble return that replacement officials should have whistled dead as an incomplete pass intended for Nate Washington, who also was hurt on the play.


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Syntax IPCONFIG /all Display full configuration information. IPCONFIG /release [adapter] Release the IP address for the specified adapter. IPCONFIG /renew [adapter] Renew the IP address for the specified adapter. IPCONFIG /flushdns Purge the DNS Resolver cache.
What is the command for network connections?
Open the Network Connections Applet Using Run Dialogue
You can open the applet using the command right from the Run dialogue without actually launching command line (a.k.a. cmd): Press Win+R key combination. Type ncpa. cpl (you can copy and paste the command into the “open” field).
How to enable network connection in Windows?
What to KnowDisable: Control Panel > Network & Internet > Network and Sharing Center > Change adapter settings. Right-click [network] > Disable.
Enable: From the same Network Connections screen, right-click the network and choose Enable.
Before disabling a network connection, save any open web-based files so that you don’t lose your work.
How to run network adapter troubleshooter in Windows 10?
To do that, follow the instructions below:Go to your taskbar, then click the Search icon.
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How to fix unidentified network Windows?
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Gene Summary: This gene encodes monoamine oxidase A, an enzyme that degrades amine neurotransmitters, such as dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin. The protein localizes to the mitochondrial outer membrane. The gene is adjacent to a related gene on the opposite strand of chromosome X. Mutation in this gene results in monoamine oxidase deficiency, or Brunner syndrome. General information above from NCBI
Catalytic activity: RCH(2)NHR' + H(2)O + O(2) = RCHO + R'NH(2) + H(2)O(2).
Subunit structure: Monomer, homo- or heterodimer (containing two subunits of similar size). Each subunit contains a covalently bound flavin. Enzymatically active as monomer.
Subcellular location: Mitochondrion outer membrane; Single-pass type IV membrane protein; Cytoplasmic side.
Tissue specificity: Heart, liver, duodenum, blood vessels and kidney.
Involvement in disease: Brunner syndrome (BRUNS) [MIM:300615]: A form of X-linked non-dysmorphic mild mental retardation. Male patients are affected by borderline mental retardation and exhibit abnormal behavior, including disturbed regulation of impulsive aggression. Obligate female carriers have normal intelligence and behavior. Note=The disease is caused by mutations affecting the gene represented in this entry.
Sequence similarity: Belongs to the flavin monoamine oxidase family.
General information above from UniProt

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From Our Editors
The typical perception of classic French cuisine doesn't usually consider the amalgam of Spanish, Italian, and Moroccan flavors that inspires a large portion of the country's cooking. However, Cafe Massilia's chefs wholeheartedly embrace these influences, dedicating their menu to the dishes of Provence—a region in southern France—where these pan-Mediterranean flavors converge. Gayot praised the selection of hearty soups, braised meats, and other rustic yet refined dishes, claiming that the eatery, "serves some of the best bistro cooking in the area." In addition to routinely preparing classics, including duck leg confit and mussels in an aromatic broth of white wine, garlic, and tomatoes, the chefs also prepare a number of specials depending on the day, such as a saffron-tinged paella brimming with shrimp, chicken, and chorizo.
With a French flag hanging alongside Old Glory outside the restaurant, Café Massilia proudly showcases its European roots to passersby on the street. The décor mimics the cozy spirit of the menu, seating guests at tables dressed with burgundy-hued linens and jet-black napkins. Framed artwork depicting the Mediterranean coast adorns the dining room's sunset-orange walls, as do the gleaming sconces.

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The National Journal of Community Medicine (eISSN: 2229-6816, pISSN: 0976-3325) is a monthly peer-reviewed open access journal (CC BY-SA 4.0). The journal publishes research articles, focusing on epidemiology, public health, environmental and occupational health, biostatistics, health care delivery, medical anthropology and social medicine. Learn more about the journal's Aims & Scope. NJCM is indexed by SCOPUS , Scimago Journal Ranking.
Policy for Screening for Plagiarism
Papers submitted to National Journal of Community Medicine will be screened for plagiarism using CrossCheck Similarity Check (powered by iThenticate). The journal will immediately reject papers leading to plagiarism or self-plagiarism.
Author may find details of plagiarism on the following link.
Authors can report plagiarism done by somebody else. He/she can adhere to the following steps to report plagiarism:
- Inform the editor of the journal where a plagiarized article is published.
- Send both the articles - original and plagiarized articles – to the journal editor.
If evidence of plagiarism is convincing, editor will take further steps.
If author want to detect plagiarism, it could be detected using Google search engine or other online programs like iThenticate.

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Luke Bryan’s Father’s Day Post From His Wife Caroline Was Payback [Pictures]
Luke Bryan's family — particularly his wife Caroline and mother LeClaire — have a long history of pulling pranks on each other, so it seems only right that the country superstar's Father's Day gift included a lot of humor — and a little bit of revenge.
To commemorate Father's Day on Sunday (June 19), Caroline posted a series of snapshots of Bryan to her Instagram, each picture goofier than the last. The first is a close-up shot of the singer with hilariously coiffed hair, followed by a snap of him wearing a lei and matching flowers, then one of the singer in pink glasses and a gray wig with curlers.
That's not all: In total, Caroline compiled nine goofy, odd or otherwise unflattering images of her country superstar husband to celebrate Father's Day.
"Did you really think I would let this day pass without getting you back for Mother's Day post..." she says in the caption.
To be fully in on the joke, you've got to do a deep dive through Bryan's recent post history to find what he shared in tribute to Caroline for Mother's Day (May 8). That post is a video of Caroline, wearing a virtual reality headset and dancing around, a big, goofy smile on her face.
"And...you had to pick this video!" Caroline replied in the comments section of that post. "It's ok....just [wait] until Father's Day!!!!"
Sure enough, she remembered, and once the big day rolled around, she got her revenge.
But that's not all: On her Instagram Stories, Caroline shared video of Bryan discovered what she'd posted for Father's Day. In the clip, the couple are onboard a plane when Bryan looks up from his phone, a huge grin on his face, and holds it up to reveal his wife's post.
"I can't believe you did it, a--hole," he says, though he quickly breaks into a laugh.
Bryan and Caroline share two sons, 14-year-old Thomas and 11-year-old Tatum, plus they are the adoptive parents of Til, Jordan and Kris, who are the children of Bryan's late older sister.


OK, maybe you will believe it, but sometimes a really good B.S. subject line is what's required to get people to start reading a blog entry.
Still, this was pretty cool.
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A little later Jen jumped out of her seat and dashed off camera, returning with a big grin on her face and the news that there, during the webinar, their Seed&Spark campaign hit 100% of goal. Right in front of our eyes, they'd made it, and we had it digitized for posterity.
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Despite the very windy conditions (30mph in the night!), I decided to Holkham and have a look for some geese. It started well with 15 white fronts really close to Lady Anne's Drive. Although it was very windy, poor light and I was trying to shelter behind a tree, I don't think these shots are too bad. They are certainly better that anything I got with my Nikon Coolpix and all the digiscoping extras. Can't wait for some sunny days with decent light.
Most of the geese had already gone but from the Joe Jordan hide there was another flock of white fronts but at least 150 this time. They are cracking when you can see them up close. Pinkies were moving past in small groups and one of them included the adult Ross's that has been kicking about. Some people who were already in the hide had seen a rough-leg drop onto the ground but the only bird that I saw while I was there was common buzzard. They had described the bird as having a pale base to the tail so it was probably still sitting our of sight somewhere.
A quick look at the sea produced a few red-throated divers, eider and great-crested grebes but little else and Holkham Gap had just a few skylarks.
18 corn buntings at Choseley drying barns on the was home was the only other sighting of note.


September 1st, 2014
As of last Monday 25/8/14, the security service started to empty Domokos prison, in order for it to be transformed into a ‘C’ type hellhole, according to the fascist law 4274/2014. On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday they transferred about 100 prisoners to other prisons around the country!
As soon as we got the information that the emptying procedure started in Domokos we found the decision of the Ministry of Justice dated August 1st 2014, which orders the “transformation of Domokos Correctional Facility from type B to type C prison”.
This procedure is suppose to be completed within two months after the fascist law is published.
According to safe sources, the whole procedure of evacuating Domokos prison and transferring all prisoners intended for type C prisons (first in line are the prisoners sentenced for armed revolutionary action), is supposed to be done by the end of September. This fascist law says that the prisoners will be transferred to C type prisons within 10 days from the publication of the internal law. It is not a coincidence that they are emptying Domokos in such a fast pace (30 to 40 prisoners a day).
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Afghan president Hamid Karzai has summoned the US ambassador to his country and NATO's chief in Aghanistan over a series of attacks by NATO forces that have allegedly taken a large casualty toll on civilians.
Karzai called John Allen, commander of NATO forces in the country, and Ryan Crocker, the US envoy, to the presidential palace on Monday to discuss what he said were dozens of civilian deaths and injuries caused by air strikes by the foreign forces in four provinces since Sunday evening.
Officials on Monday said at least 14 of those killed by an overnight NATO air strike were in Badghis province. An additional six civilians were injured in the attack in the province's district of Balamurghab.
In a statement released on Monday, Karzai said that the strategic pact sealed by Barack Obama, the US president, last week was at risk of being "meaningless" if Afghans do not feel safe, according to a statement.
"Karzai signed the strategic pact with the United States to avoid such incidents (civilian casualties) and if Afghans do not feel safe, the strategic partnership loses its meaning,"
Elsewhere in Afghanistan on Monday, NATO said in a statement that a bomb had killed three of its service members in eastern Afghanistan.
The statement did not provide details about the attack or the nationality of the service members killed. NATO usually waits for member nations to provide details about troop deaths.
So far this year, 142 coalition members have died in Afghanistan.
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Theodor Seuss Geisel was born 2 March 1904 in Springfield, Massachusetts. He graduated Dartmouth College in 1925, and proceeded on to Oxford University with the intent of acquiring a doctorate in literature. At Oxford he met Helen Palmer, who he wed in 1927. He returned from Europe in 1927, and began working for a magazine called Judge, the leading humor magazine in America at the time, submitting both cartoons and humorous articles for them. Additionally, he was submitting cartoons to Life, Vanity Fair and Liberty. In some of his works, he'd made reference to an insecticide called Flit. These references gained notice, and led to a contract to draw comic ads for Flit. This association lasted 17 years, gained him national exposure, and coined the catchphrase "Quick, Henry, the Flit!"
In 1936 on the way to a vacation in Europe, listening to the rhythm of the ship's engines, he came up with And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, which was then promptly rejected by the first 43 publishers he showed it to. Eventually in 1937 a friend published the book for him, and it went on to at least moderate success.
During World War II, Geisel joined the army and was sent to Hollywood. Captain Geisel would write for Frank Capra's Signal Corps Unit (for which he won the Legion of Merit) and do documentaries (he won Oscar's for Hitler Lives and Design for Death). He also created a cartoon called Gerald McBoing-Boing which also won him an Oscar.
In May of 1954, Life published a report concerning illiteracy among school children. The report said, among other things, that children were having trouble to read because their books were boring. This inspired Geisel's publisher, and prompted him to send Geisel a list of 400 words he felt were important, asked him to cut the list to 250 words (the publishers idea of how many words at one time a first grader could absorb), and write a book. Nine months later, Geisel, using 220 of the words given to him published The Cat in the Hat, which went on to instant success.
In 1960 Bennett Cerf bet Geisel $50 that he couldn't write an entire book using only fifty words. The result was Green Eggs and Ham. Cerf never paid the $50 from the bet.
Helen Palmer Geisel died in 1967. Theodor Geisel married Audrey Stone Diamond in 1968. Theodor Seuss Geisel died 24 September 1991.
The Sneetches and Other Stories is a collection of stories by American author Dr. Seuss, published in 1953.
It is composed of four separate stories with themes of tolerance, diversity, and compromise: "The Sneetches", "The Zax", "Too Many Daves", and "What Was I Scared Of?".
The first story in the collection tells of a group of yellow bird-like creatures called the Sneetches, some of whom have a green star on their bellies.
At the beginning of the story, Sneetches with stars discriminate against and shun those without. An entrepreneur named Sylvester McMonkey McBean (calling himself the Fix-It-Up Chappie) appears and offers the Sneetches without stars the chance to get them with his Star-On machine, for three dollars.
The treatment is instantly popular, but this upsets the original star-bellied Sneetches, as they are in danger of losing their special status.
McBean then tells them about his Star-Off machine, costing ten dollars, and the Sneetches who originally had stars happily pay the money to have them removed in order to remain special.
However, McBean does not share the prejudices of the Sneetches, and allows the recently starred Sneetches through this machine as well. Ultimately this escalates, with the Sneetches running from one machine to the next….
تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز سی ام ماه آوریل سال2007میلادی
عنوان: اسنیچ های با ستاره و اسنیچ های بی ستاره و قصه های دیگر؛ نویسنده: زئوس؛ مترجم: رضی هیرمندی؛ تهران، افق، کتابهای فندق؛ سال1384؛ در32ص؛ شابک9643691845؛ موضوع: داستانهای کودکان از نویسندگان ایالات متحده آمریکا - سده20م
از بهترین کتابهای آموزشی برای کودکان است؛ اسنیجهای با ستاره خیال میکنند به خاطر ستاره ای که روی شکمشان دارند، از اسنیجهای دیگر بالاتر هستند؛ اسنیچهای بی ستاره هم قبول کرده اند که ارزش هر اسنیچ به داشتن ستاره است
تاریخ بهنگام رسانی 25/12/1399هجری خورشیدی؛ 06/10/1400هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی
It’s not rare that Dr. Seuss came up with this charming tale in 1961, at the beginning of the decade where the civil rights were in a mass turmoil.
This story reminded me about the classic TV episode “Let That Be Your Last Battlefield” from Star Trek: The Original Series where the last two individuals from the same planet were still battling against each other, since they consider themselves “different” from the other one, just because their faces have black-white colors in opposite sides (and not surprising that it was aired in 1969, still in this convulsive decade).
Here, is the same concept (eight years before) just using stars in the bellies (curiously enough, a couple of decades before, in our messy world, stars were used to make look people as different, just in that time, nobody would want to interchange stars).
And in the middle of the ignorance and prejudice, always...
...somebody makes profit out of our foolish desires to be “different”, “better”, than others.
A sad truth about our species, but we have Dr. Seuss to educate the future generations.
I tried to bake a fabulous cake like this in order to celebrate . . .
but ended up with a bit of a wreck . . .
We’re all supposed to be reading Oh, The Places You’ll Go! today too, but Anne pretty much wrote the best review ever for that one, so I’m eating a birthday donut in lieu of cake and reviewing my favorite Dr. Seuss book, The Sneetches, instead.
In a world where bullying happens nearly upon birth, this is a story that should be required reading for all. With constant reminding, maybe kids will realize that there is no need to worry about having the hottest new trends . . .
Hear that little one? THESE . . .
were kinda a waste of your Christmas money.
One day you will see that:
“No kind of Sneetch is the best on the beaches.”
One day you will forget all about stars. And whether, or not, you have one upon yars ; )
Why 5 stars? Why rate a children's book? Because there is still prejudice in the world, that's why. If we got the world leaders together, and brainwashed them with this book, war would disappear. Segregation, discrimination, prejudice, sophistry, bias and artificial prominance would go away. In his unique way, Theodore Giesel points out the folly of judging anybody by physical characteristics, or any other inaccurate method.
Lessons learned from this book:
Whether we have stars or not, no matter the color, race, language, gender, religion or orientation, we are all similar, with similar wants and needs. In addition, we CAN all be taught.
Sometimes, our best friends may come in a package that we may not accept unless we are open-minded enough to accept them. Even the strangest of bedfellows, in this book empty green trousers, have feelings, and great potential.
If we fail to give up those afore-mentioned biases, we will relegate ourselves to an immobile state. We will stubbornly stand, unrelenting, while the world passes us by, building roads and highways around us while we stagnate based on principle alone as the Zax characters did.
Never name your children all the same name. It causes confusion.
This book is a classic, appropriate for all ages. And, if you are careful enough to see past the ever-so-cute artwork, you just might learn something as you read it.
Sneetch Scandal! Crazy Yellow Birds Discover Indifference to Differences! "Well, once they discovered that the presence or absence of a little green star on their bellies didn't mean anything and they focused on their common Sneetchiness - I was out of business!" - Sylvester McMonkey McBean - The Exploiter Echo.
An enduring classic of a story that highlights that social division will be exploited for profit, and that social division will be promoted by the unscrupulous, because when people are focussed on their differences they can be endlessly exploited by evil people for fun and profit.
This remains an enduring classic precisely because people are vulnerable to being divided by those who desire to exploit them.
People wedded to the idea of social division and exploitation, will hate the fundamental message of this book - that the cure for social division and its attendant hatred is indifference to differences, and a focus on the common humanity that unites us all.
Sadly, the message of the uniting nature of our common humanity is lost amongst the insane babble of the media matrix.
Strongly Recommended: 5 'Sneetches are the Best,' stars.
The Sneetches and The pale Green pants were favourites of my children and grandson, I have to admit they are favourites of mine too, paticularly the pale green pants, what a message that gets hammered home to children. Absolute classic Seuss!!
I have been reading many of Dr. Seuss’ books ever since I was a child, but out of all the books I have read from him, this book was the most effective book I have ever read! “The Sneetches and Other Stories” is a short collection of stories by Dr. Seuss where each of them detailed how to accept other people for who they are. “The Sneetches and Other Stories” is a truly memorable book that displays some of Dr. Seuss’ best works!
Alright, not only will I talk about how I felt about this book, I will also discuss about the various themes in this book from my viewpoint on the situations. Dr. Seuss has certainly done a brilliant job at both illustrating and writing this memorable book about the importance of accepting other people for their different qualities and the consequences if we do not accept them for who they are. Let me discuss about my thoughts on the stories “The Sneetches” and “What was I scared of?” as they were my most favorite stories out of the entire book. In “The Sneetches,” it was obvious that this story was discussing about accepting other people’s differences, or in a more general sense:
RACISM AND PREJUDICE
The Star-Belly Sneetches believed themselves to be far more superior than the Plain-Belly Sneetches because they possessed qualities that the plain-belly sneetches did not possessed, which were the stars on their bellies. I am guessing that this story was relating to the extreme racism and prejudice going on during the 1960s at the time, since this book was written during the 60s. I really enjoyed this story because it seemed to have a solution at the end of the story, that it is pointless to see who is better than the other and it shows that no matter what your skin color (or in this case, whether you have a star on your belly or not) everyone is still a human being and we are all equal in every way. The other story I wanted to talk about is “What Was I Scared of?” and this story talks about how a young boy was scared of a “pair of pants” when walking through the night on an errand and what was so interesting about this story was that this story was about the fact that it expresses the whole “the person I am afraid of is just as scared of me as I am of him or her” situation. I really loved how the situation was handled at the end of the story and how becoming friends with a person you were once afraid of is the best solution in trying to connect with a person who is different from you. Dr. Seuss’s illustrations are just as creative in this book as they were in his other books! I just loved how the sneetches’ appearances in this book as they are shown as tall and yellow creatures who all look alike, except that some of them have blue stars on their bellies which indicates the differences between the Star-Belly Sneetches and the Plain-Belly Sneetches. I also loved in the story, “What Was I Scared of?” where the majority of the story is illustrated in blue colors, giving this story a spooky mood.
The only problem I had with this book was with the two stories, “The Zax” and “Too Many Daves.” I know that Dr. Seuss is well known for his nonsensical works, but I felt that “The Zax” and “Too Many Daves” were not as memorable as “The Sneetches” and “What Was I Scared Of?” since there was no real solution to the characters’ problems in those stories and they also kind of had abrupt endings that sort of left me feeling incomplete with the stories.
Before I give my final verdict on this book, I like to give my opinions on the issue of racism and prejudice. Personally, I think that racism and prejudice is pretty pointless in society and it will just make more people unhappy with the world and not accept other people for who they are. Does racism and prejudice exist even in today’s society? It definitely does and it is so sad because it seems that people who are against other cultures and races do not want to experience the cultures’ differences and I always think that everyone is equal, no matter what country, culture or race they are apart of. We are all human beings and we should try to learn to get along with other countries and races instead of fighting each other because of fear and hatred. This issue really affects me to the core and I would love to see more people try to get along with each other instead of despising each other for their differences. So, basically overall “The Sneetches and Other Stories” is a great children’s book to use to discuss racism and prejudice issues for young children and I think the more people read this book, the better they gain an understanding about how ugly racism and prejudice really is. I would recommend this book to children ages four and up since there is nothing inappropriate in this book.
Oh, Dr. Seuss! You wonderful man. . .(nope. I won't subject you to my attempts at Seussian) !
The members of my group are well-read for kids, and so have read this book many times and it has cycled through in their collections, dependent on their ages. However, I hadn't ever had the chance to read this one with them - which is my personal favorite.
It begins with The Sneetches, (the lengths to which we will differentiate in order to elevate, and how to identify lurking McBeans in our lives) and while a reader’s brain cells absorb meaning from that primary tale, Seuss marches straight into a no-holds-barred fable stated in Aesop's manner of telling of the consequences coming from unbridled stubbornness (The Zaks), followed by the parental misstep of Mrs. McCave, which reminds us that if we don't think before we act facts will take over ( Too Many Daves), and finally my 2nd personal favorite - What Was I Scared of?, a saga of the true nature of fear, the power of kindness and personified pants.
I was a bright kid, there’s no doubt about it. It was Seuss who knocked me over with that Learning Feather that set me running to Mother, reporting straightway! The message for all kids and grownups alike is still just as loud and clear now as any I’ve learned all these years later:
1. There is no difference in a being’s value (equality worthiness) due to shape, size, kind, peculiarity, color or origin (or anything).
2. Every story told has at least one agenda. My job as reader is to find why the author did write it!
There are standouts in the body of Seuss’s work – and the Grinch is one of our favorites. The animation we love best is Halloween is Grinch Night featuring (besides Himself, The Grinch) the beloved Max, and Euchariah Who, who along with his grandparents Josiah and Mariah, and his sibs Obediah and Mathiah, deal with the effects of the Sour-Sweet wind. . .oh those gree-grumps and hakken-krakks. . . .I wish that had been in a book (not just a show), and I'm looking for the sheet music. . .(any help welcomed!)
This is my favorite book to read to my kids. It has "Sneetches" that teaches that "No kind of Sneetch is the best on the beaches." Then there's "The Zax" that teaches us how unproductive it is to never compromise. "Too Many Daves" - Scott and I talked about this one last night and how it is a fun little story, but doesn't have and underlying message. Then we decided that it does have a message. It's about making all of your kids feel special and letting them be different. Then there is "What Was I Scared Of?" (aka - "Pale Green Pants"). I LOVE reading this to Taz and Ash, because I bring out my inner actress (or story-teller, I guess). This story is all about not being afraid of people who are different. They may seem scary, but once you get to know them you may find you have a lot in common. I love Dr. Seuss and the fun way that he teaches lessons that we all need to be reminded of.
Dr. Seuss, you were one crazy man. First, I'm giving this 4 stars, because my youngest son really likes the story about the Sneeches. Second, the story about the empty pair of pants that follows that furry little dude around is just weird. Third, well... I guess there is no third.
SUMMARY This collection of short stories touches on themes like the value of diversity, the get-nowhere-fast of stalemates, the value of individuality, and confronting fears. There are two kinds of Sneetches in The Sneetches: those who have stars on their bellies, and those who do not. When a man comes along with a star-on / star-off machine, the Sneetches get all mixed up and the resolution is that all sneetches are equal. In The Zax, two Zaxes (a north-going one and a south-going one) meet, and neither one will budge an inch to the east or west, so the world ignores them and cities and roads are built around them while they stand where they are forever. This teaches the value of compromise. In Too Many Daves, a woman has 23 sons, all named Dave. Humorously, when she calls one, they all come running, and she is left wishing that she'd named them all differently. This teaches the value in everyone being different. And in What Was I Scared Of?, a boy is afraid of a pair of pale green pants with nobody inside them, but he finds out that the pants are just as afraid of him and they become pals. This teaches children to confront their fears and to not be afraid of someone just because they happen to be different than them.
EVALUATION Of all the Dr. Seuss books, this one is my favorite. Its commentary is more subtle than some of the other books, but I think that the message—that diversity is valuable—is such an important one. My nephew loves Too Many Daves, and I think that there are many opportunities to extend this book into classroom activities, or family activities. The language is fun and flamboyant, and it is a joy to read aloud. Because it deals with imaginary creatures and impossibilities, it inspires Wonderment, and that is important for the very young, and maybe for the old as well.
I highly recommend to everybody, to once in a while read a Dr. Seuss book (no matter what your age is). It is just pure genius. All of these ideas, not only funny but touching important topics masked as a kids book. This book has stories about prejudices and races, unnecessary stubbornness, and fear from the foreign.
The Sneetches tell us the tale of two different cultures/races. The Plain-Belly Sneetches and the Star-Belly Sneetches. Those two do not mix together, they keep apart (and the Star-Belly Sneetches have so much fun). Until one day comes Sylvester McMonkey McBean, the Fix-it-up Chappie, and helps to fix the current state (and he gives the star to the starless Sneeches). But everything gets more complicated, because mixing cultures can be a messy thing when it happens. It says above, pointless prejudice can be costly, and since when did that prevent from people to do so? A great story to explore this topic.
The Zax story is kind of related. Hard headed South-Going Zax and a North-Going Zax are not planning to budge and move aside to let one another keep walking through prairie of Prax. It's a bit of a problem since they face one another and not one of them is ok with a step to east or west.
What I was scared of deals with fear. But fear from someone/something you don't really know because you see it from afar. Cute adventure of meeting empty pants with nobody inside them.
5 stars. (and I am happy that my daughter understands that she is not too old for Dr. Seuss).
THE SNEETCHES "Now, the Star-Belly Sneetches / Had bellies with stars. / The Plain-Belly Sneetches / Had none upon thars." This collection of four of Dr. Seuss's most winning stories begins with that unforgettable tale of the unfortunate Sneetches, bamboozled by one Sylvester McMonkey McBean ("the Fix-it-up Chappie"), who teaches them that pointless prejudice can be costly.
THE ZAX Following the Sneetches, a South-Going Zax and a North-Going Zax seem determined to butt heads on the prairie of Prax.
TOO MANY DAVES Then there's the tongue-twisting story of Mrs. McCave--you know, the one who had 23 sons and named them all Dave. (She realizes that she'd be far less confused had she given them different names, like Marvin O'Gravel Balloon Face or Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate.)
WHAT WAS I SCARED OF? A slightly spooky adventure involving a pair of haunted trousers--"What was I scared of?"--closes out the collection. Sneetches and Other Stories is Seuss at his best, with distinctively wacky illustrations and ingeniously weird prose.
The Sneetches is my absolute favourite Seuss story. The rhythm trumps all other Seuss stories, and when I am reading this out loud to my kids I joyfully shift from Star-belly Sneetch voices to Plain-belly Sneetch voices to Sylvester McMonkey McBean's voice without even a hint of having to think about the shift. Seuss's rhythm invites that. I can speed up to warp, I can slow down and leave an octo-pregnant pause, and still the rhythm is flawless. Plus, the story's pretty meaningful too. This is the perfect mix of fun, readability and content. Me loves it.
The Zax is a damn fine follow up, and the fact that it has two of Seuss's crabbiest, most stubborn characters, characters who bring themselves to a permanent halt while the world moves on around them (a cautionary tale for all those who believe unswervingly in their chosen dogma) makes it more than a match for The Sneetches moral strength.
Too Many Daves is just plain fun. Super fun. All I can say is "Zanzibar Buck Buck McFate!" If we have another boy, I am going to do everything I can to convince Erika to name hm ZBBMcF. Or at least Zanzibar.
What Was I Scared Of? is the only weak link in The Sneetches, but that's not a bad thing to be when the stories are so strong. It's cute. It delivers a good message, teaching us how silly it is to be afraid of the dark. But it remains, at least around here at our house, the least read of the four stories. We finish Too Many Daves and we close the book.
I think I will start there next time. What Was I Scared Of? deserves a little more love.
I read this to my niece and nephew last night for a bedtime story. I chose it from Over Drive's Civil Rights & Human Rights (In memory of Martin Luther King, Jr. and in recognition of the National Day of Racial Healing, January 22, 2019) collection.
I read this online in my browser and the print was super tiny.
The Sneetches is the best story in the collection. In typical Dr. Seuss fashion, the silly, rhyming text teaches kids about acceptance and tolerance of others. The Star Bellies Sneetches are snobby and exclude the plain bellied Sneetches. The stars in the story made me think about the Holocaust but it could also be segregation or any other type of society that excludes those who don't look like them. In the end, differences don't matter because they're all the same. The yellow, blue and green illustrations are eye-catching and the children liked the funny looking Sneetches and pointed out the fix-it man was a different sort of creature.
THE ZAX Following the Sneetches, a South-Going Zax and a North-Going Zax seem determined to butt heads on the prairie of Prax. This is a very very short story about two stubborn creatures. I didn't see as much value in the message as with The Sneetches.
TOO MANY DAVES A quick, nonsense story about a woman who names all her children Dave and comes to regret it. Perhaps this is commentary on the importance of individuality? Niece and nephew both have uncommon names. Niece is pretty much the only one with her name, while nephew will encounter other boys with his given name. They thought this story was silly but didn't really get it.
WHAT WAS I SCARED OF? 5-year-old nephew's favorite story. He knew this one but hasn't quite absorbed the moral of the tale: fear of the unknown is greater than the thing one is afraid of. I didn't get this story AT ALL. I don't understand how pants can get up and walk around without anyone inside but nephew thought it was funny and liked pointing out the pictures to me.
Overall, an enjoyable collection. You can't go wrong with Dr. Seuss!
To make it easier I will rate this book based on the individual stories. I found this to be such a different Dr. Seuss book because while you learn a valuable lesson there was still some messed up things that aren't discussed in this book.
The Sneetches: 5 stars
I really enjoyed this story but the ended was a little bit screwed up in my opinion. I found this story to be remarkable and suggest for every child and adult to read it because Dr. Seuss was smart at addressing discrimination. In this story we meet these Sneetches who are separated into two groups: Sneetches who have a star in their bellies and those who don't. If you have a star then you get all the wonderful perks in life and are treated as first class citizens. If you are plain looking one you are not allowed to play at the beach or enjoy nice camp fire events. The plain looking Sneetches are tired of it all and here comes Sylvester McMonkey McBean. He has this devices that allow these creatures to add and remove stars and essentially help break out a major fight against the two groups. If you pay the con artist a fee you can get a star or remove one and he becomes filthy rich. When the Sneetches are broke, he packs up and leaves and finally they learn that it doesn't matter whether you have a star or not because you are equal.
While I love the message and all I can't help myself that I'm angry McBean got away with it. I felt like Dr. Seuss should have changed it and made them get their money back because I feel it teaches children that being a con artist and manipulating people's discrimination and turn it into profit is the wrong message to deliver to kids. I remember watching the cartoon version of this story about over a decade ago and I love how simple Dr. Seuss uses his imagination to illustrate an issue that invades all cultures and societies.
The Zax: 5 stars
I remember watching this short cartoon animation years ago and didn't understand the message until now. I found this brilliant and creative in terms of how time doesn't wait for you to catch up. We meet these Zax creature, one is walking from the North and the other is from the south. They are walking in the same path and meet each other at a crossroads. None of them want to move to the side because then they are walking east and west and decides that they can stand there for weeks and years before surrendering and giving up. While they are stubborned and hot-headed, the world around them doesn't wait for them and the people have created highways the surrounds them. I love that message for a relatively short story! I know some people in my lifetime who are always waiting for tomorrow to accomplish something whether it be a goal or a dream and I always tell myself you have to accomplish dreams now if it is possible, you are only young once and the older you get sometimes those dreams cannot be accomplished anymore due to lack of mobility and strength. I don't think a kid for understand the message of this story but I believe this in life awakening for many people.
Too Many Daves: 4 stars
This story is extremely short which is a mother had 23 sons and she named them all Daves. Because of this issue she can't single out each child individually and starts daydreaming other names she could have named them. My question is why didn't you name them different names idiot? I would rate this 3 stars but since it is such a short story I'll pretend that this story never existed.
What was I Scared of?: 5 stars
I love this story as I have with the others and how it dealt with how when we are afraid of a person we are frighten because we are confuse and we haven't walked in their shoes to understand how they might feel towards us or our reactions towards them. This creature is walking in the forest one night and boast that they are not afraid of anything. Then out of nowhere a floating pants appears and scares the living day lights of this creature. They run away but over the course of the story as the creature is doing other activities, they keep bumping to this until they realize that the pants is equally scared as them. So they change their ways and become friends no longer afraid and even they wave and smile and say hello.
The illustration for this book is lovely and I practically loved almost all those stories. Dr. Seuss did his beautiful magic again!
Reviewed for THC Reviews I've been a huge fan of Dr. Seuss since I was a child, but until I read The Lorax for the first time a few years ago, I had never realized that he was an author with the heart of an activist. Much like The Lorax, The Sneetches and Other Stories tackles mature themes in a non-threatening, even humorous, way that kids can understand. All four stories in the book have the underlying message of tolerance, acceptance and compromise with those who are different from us or with whom we may not see eye to eye.
In The Sneetches, we have the story of how the Star-Belly Sneetches think they are better than the Plain-Belly Sneetches, and as a result, the Plain-Belly Sneetches are excluded from the Star-Belly Sneetches's activities. That is until Sylvester McMonkey McBean comes to town with his magical machine that adds or removes stars, creating utter chaos, and eventually rendering stars irrelevant. I really liked this story about how our differences don't really matter. The illustrations are cute, and I was especially moved by how incredibly sad the Plain-Belly Sneetches looked when they were being shut out.
In The Zax, we have two Zaxes who each have their own way of thinking and both absolutely refuse to alter their course. This leaves them at a stubborn impasse as the world goes on around them. I thought this was a great story about the importance of compromise.
Too Many Daves is about a mother who named all of her twenty-three sons Dave. I have to admit that I wasn't entirely certain of the meaning behind this one, but I think it was about how we are all the same and yet each one of us is also unique.
Last but not least, in What Was I Scared of? the cute, little, nameless protagonist is afraid of a pair of pants that walks around by itself, because it's so different than anything he's ever seen before. When he realizes that the pants are as scared of him as he is of them, the two are able to offer comfort to one another and become friends. I thought this was another great story about the importance of accepting those who are different from ourselves.
Overall, The Sneetches and Other Stories was an enjoyable book that managed to address some serious issues in a fun, easy to understand way. I highly recommend it for “kids” of all ages.
This is a collection of four stories about silly superiorities, too stubborn for your own good, being lazy and not thinking ahead, and confronting your fears.
The Stories "The Sneetches" are divided. Some have green stars for belly buttons while others do not. Naturally, the Star-Belly Sneetches are far superior to the Plain-Belly Sneetches…until…one day…an enterprising Sneetch comes along and offers to help the Plain-Belly Sneetches by giving them stars on their bellies. Well, this just won't do. How are the Star-Belly Sneetches supposed to tell who is who?
"The Zax" is a meeting of two immovable idiots around whom freeways and roads are built because each refuses to step aside and allow the other to move forward. The South-going Zax refuses to budge to the east or the west while the North-going Zax never takes a step to the side
This, of course, explains why our roads are so silly and twisty.
"Too Many Daves" is a rather stupid story of a mother who birthed 23 babies and named them all Dave. She eventually figured out that it would have been easier if she had named them each individually.
"What was I Scared of?" is a cute story of being afraid of someone you don't know. Everywhere he went he kept encountering a pair of trousers with no one inside them. And everywhere he went, he kept running away until finally he stopped and discovered the trousers were afraid of him as well. Is this what they mean by a meeting of the minds?
3.5 "L'habit ne fait pas le moine" or "Never judge a book by its cover" The sneetches with a star on their belly think they're superior, they hold their heads high, they play on the beach and have parties to which the plain belly sneetches aren't invited. When the plain-belly sneetches decide to get a star, the star belly sneetches decide to take it of, there's such a big mess that no one knows who's who anymore. We're all the same in our diffrences, so never judge someone on his/her looks


It was another exciting week as celebrities got to work on sets across the globe. Daniel Craig suited up for his role as James Bond in Skyfall while Mark Wahlberg performed stunts on set in Miami. Chris Hemsworth and Olivia Wilde played a bride and groom for the cameras and Mindy Kaling made a run for it during filming. Click through to see all the stars on set this week!
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Electronic music meets hip hop in Japan with the release of ME目EP
The Japanese influenced collaborative EP by nine international artists, ME (目 pronounced méꜜ), is now unleashed. An inimitable sound with a unique vibe, modernizing traditional Japanese sounds in an uncompromised forward-looking manner. The EP comes as the first release under Studio Koto, the cutting-edge music label and artist agency launched by Rana Vatanparast. In collaboration with Red Bull Music Studios Amsterdam and under the creative direction of Sam Tiba, Studio Koto and their impressive roster of talent have joined forces to produce this pioneering EP comprised of seven powerful tracks.
From the Netherlands to France and all the way to Japan, distance was no limit for the nine artists who collaborated on this stunning EP from across the globe. The newly-formed team boasts some massive names including the widely-renowned Club cheval members, Canblaster and Sam Tiba, along with Dutch legends The Flexican, Wantigga, Jengi and Jaël, and the prominent Japanese rappers Awich, Loota and producer Emufucka.
Following on from the success of their African-inspired EP, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, the artists once again set their sights on an exotic theme, choosing a Japanese style with the oriental energy to match. “We’ve mixed broken beat, electronic music and experimental R&B with chord progressions and instruments regular in Japanese music, to try and blend our personal styles with the Japanese music we love.” said Dutch artist, Wantigga.
Recorded partly in Red Bull Music Studios Amsterdam, Sam Tiba said, "It was great to gather in the studio with six producers who have mutual love and passion for Japan. During three sessions we tried to merge our favoriteinfluences with a subjective but sincere depiction of what Japan means to us.”
Although the artists were not always in the same country, Japanese rapper, Awich, said it worked, “When you work with multiple different producers from different countries and cultures, it’s really exciting to see what they will do with what I had provided them”.
Wantigga found working internationally to be particularly inspiring, as he said, “To have been able to work with Japanese artists that I listen to, makes this project extra special for me.”
While Sam Tiba also raves about the experience, stating “The result of the EP is seven very diverse tracks, which nicely reflects the signature sounds of all the producers involved and gives a personal interpretation to traditional Japanese sounds."
Released under Studio Koto, this project not only showcases the agency’s high calibre artists but also positions the label as an international player to watch, demonstrating to be at the forefront of industry trends.


I wasn't aware of that ruling. It's clarified in the DMG errata that mundane ammunition fired from a magic bow counts as magic. That seems good to me.Magic ammo? Just use a magic bow.
The comparison is then as always, the caster's magical attacks are magical from day one. The archer needs to find a magic bow. That said, I feel like an archer at tier 3 should be assumed to have one!