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In her dreams she saw that face from the wooden pendant that was the face of the oni grinning at her with its demonic countenance set in a snarl. It made no sound but watched her in the dark. Its teeth were fangs and its eyes were crimson and it would not let her escape. Teeth scraped her neck with such intimacy as she had never known and its hands clawed at her and cut her off from this world, choking everything that could be choked, and she could somehow still see its eyes which burned like coals like the smouldering of a fire blazing in the deep winter amidst the snows with the sound of the hiss of hot boiling water against human skin.
It claimed her with fingers from head to toe and the pressure upon her throat was the worst and best and it was about to tear, her windpipe, blood bubbling up to her mouth and past her teeth, and then with it finally came that last definite crack and she was sent tumbling down the path to her next life which might be better or worse than this one
but definitely worse, for a rotten creature like you
She was awake. Breathing again, her neck hurting. The wood was rotten and stank of mould and the lantern above was only a naked flame chased by flies. There was no monster’s face looking at her but only the warped material of the walls and the moist ground which she had her hands resting upon. She was sat down and leant against something. From where she sat she could see the door, a heavy wooden edifice with iron hinges, and it was slightly open. She wanted to move but could not. Her legs ached as well where she had fallen and more than that there felt to be a disconnect between her brain and her body. Things drifted in and out of her mind. She moved her dry lips and tried and failed to make a word. Time had passed; it was much later now than the Hour of the Rooster, perhaps closer to the middle of the night. She could hear nothing from above save for dripping water far-off somewhere beyond the door.
Takamasa’s aged and dirty face set in a leer came to her as well, and then his leaning into her and telling her to take care and calling her Kaede of Iwami. It was more of a name than Basket Girl – a real name, with real meaning perhaps. She did not know what the characters that made it might mean but her hope was that it would be something good. Her lips moved, forming the sound of it. “Kaede.” she said. The ajar door then creaked, swinging slowly open, and at the same time as the wind rolled in from outside it blew out the lantern and filled the room with blackness. But there as a presence was the figure who had opened the door who was a shape like a man in several layers of robes, tall and thin, his head almost scraping the ceiling. The smell of fragrant sandalwood drifted in with him and it was as comfortable as a mountainside temple hiding one from the storm. The girl was not afraid. He stood there and eased his way into the room, stooped. He was before her now and unlike the wretched thing in the sleeping-space he breathed like he was alive and stood as a living man would, and nothing of him suggested evil or strangeness except for that she still could not fully see him even as he now stood so close that his robes were almost touching her. There was something else beneath the sandalwood but she could not recognise it.
“Are you well?” he asked, in the voice of the man from the gate who had told them to come back at night. His gentle tone soothed the girl’s heart further. “I am sorry.” he said. “It was not proper of me to allow my vulgar wife to greet you. There are many duties required of the master of a household. I was otherwise occupied.”
“Lord Hashimoto?” she managed. The man did not reply. He was still so near and yet so vague, a living shadow. “You are welcome in my home, but there are other residents here who do not wish it so. I must ask you to stay in here until I am ready for you. Please, do not think me disrespectful. I know who you are, honoured oni.”
“Oni?” she asked. He reached out with a hand. The sleeve of his outmost robe brushed against her. His long, thin fingers were touching her face, exploring her, his warm skin against her cheeks, marching up to her forehead and then running themselves through her hair. “Your body is delightful.” he said, whispering into her ear. “Perfect.” He stood up. “I will speak to you later, my guest.” No words came from her as he moved back to the door, almost seeming to glide, his robes trailing on the stone. He held the door. “Goodbye.” She had half-opened her mouth to speak when he pulled the door shut. There was the sound of the bolt being pulled to from the side.
The girl remained sat down for a few more seconds, alone and surrounded by blackness. Then she moved. Her robes were intact and her neck was not in agony and without the smell of the sandalwood nearby her head managed to clear itself of fog and soon she knew enough to know that this was a bad situation and that she needed to escape from it. At once with all sentiment forgotten just as in the mountains after she had killed her father her brain was working. The door was locked from the other side didn’t move when she tried it, but the wood was old and wet and it strained against the metal of the hinges which held it to the wall. Her knife remained in her pocket and now she took it out, offering a prayer to her grandfather. By the light earlier a crack in the lower hinge had shown itself, something she remembered, and so she went there now, digging the knife into the wood and beneath the hinge and prying. The wood cracked and groaned as metal forced its feeble matter apart. She went on prying, stabbing away at the rotting door until her arm hurt and her fingers were numb and she had splinters all along her skin – but finally the wood and the hinge split with a wet crack. Covered in sweat she then moved onto the upper one. This took longer but it was the same basic work, a task that numbed but was not difficult, until all she knew was the creak of the wood and the clang of when the knife hit the iron by mistake, and she could not see and could not think about what would come next but was only focused on the door and on the hinge and on breathing.
When that was finished she fell down with her body heavy with exhaustion. Both hinges had been severed from the wood or at least enough for her plan perhaps to work. She stood, readying herself, and then went against the door and pushed at it with all her strength. She was a weak girl – a creature cursed for past sins with the pathetic flesh of the tempting untrustworthy inhuman female – and it was solid wood and yet it was old and she was young and she heard it, heard the final deathly groaning of the wood and the lone iron of the lock holding it in place and kept on pushing, her shoulder aching and her palms wet and filthy with rot and her sandals clattering as they kept losing purchase on the stone. She grit her teeth, grunting and sobbing, and did not move even as her body through the pain told her it was finished, and she remained there and kept on pushing and pushing and then at last the door came loose and fell, crashing down with a noise like an explosion, the girl falling with it and landing hard with her knee at once shot through with pain. She remained there with the door a mat beneath her, panting and gasping. When that was done the girl got back up and continued.
She found herself now in a tunnel lit at intervals by dim lanterns in old stone mountings which rested in enclaves dug into the walls, with rotted wooden boards upon the stone forming a kind of flooring. The tunnel went vaguely upward and then far-off rounded a corner and went sharply to the right. Ropes were festooned from the ceiling like long dead eels captured by some fisherman and they were decorated with paper, frayed and old, that had characters written on it. The meaning of that was lost on her but the stone buddhas in the alcoves with the lanterns were language she understood. The girl walked on with her knife ready. Her sandals echoed and her breathing was heavy. After a few minutes she came to the corner and turned and the tunnel went on after that for another length, as far as the last, and so she walked. She noticed that there was no wind and wondered what it was that had put out the lantern in the room she’d awoken in, and she noticed too the faint smell of sandalwood and after a few seconds realised that it came not from the tunnel or the ropes but from her own robes. She found the source of the dripping water at least, a crack in the ceiling that had filled up a portion of the path with a puddle of blackness which glancing down she could see her face in, the face once again of a beast and not of a girl with a name. This in its own way was for now a comfort.
Soon the end of this tunnel came to her and waiting there for her was another door in the way, but this door was unlocked and so she swung it open and slipped inside. Now once more was the noble estate, which had not been a dream and had been real; although the room was underground it had wooden walls of that same type as above, with latticed screens to keep out the rock, and a lantern above in an elaborate mounting which illuminated what was below, which took up most of the rectangular chamber she found herself at the edge of. What was below was a bed dressed in silk coverings, with space enough for at least four people and portable screens around it patterned with images of sunsets and of flying birds.
Before that was an incense burner, set with something not sandalwood that was spicy and strong which now struck her hard and made her wrinkle her nose. It was so she guessed to override the decay, which it almost succeeded at. The whole of the chamber she supposed was to override the misery of human existence with pleasure. The girl recalled what Takamasa had said to her about Lord Hashimoto preferring common women and she had a sudden vision of unpleasantness of pale flesh and mewling noises and the harsh hands of men upon the yielded flesh of women. Somewhere mixed with the smell of the tunnel rock and the incense was the faint scent of stale ejaculate.
The girl hurried swiftly on past the immense bed and to the door at the far end, which opened just as easily and onto another plain tunnel, although a slightly less damp one than the first. It had had more wooden boards to keep out the natural world, and though it was bereft of buddhas was decorated with lanterns that shone brighter, wearing paper to make them more tasteful. This tunnel too curved upwards and so she followed it, smelling not only rot and the incense at her back but something else, fresh air, and feeling from above the faintness of wind. At this the girl remembered who she was and remembered Takamasa, remembered him properly, and the house of evil he had disappeared into. In the glow from the lanterns the rock that poked through the broken wood was glistening, shimmering, showing off a thousand filthy futures. She advanced up the shaft and tasted on her tongue freedom ahead.
Takamasa would have disappeared somewhere within the house or perhaps he would have obtained his treasure and left her, but she thought it was more likely that the lord and his monstrous wife had got to him first. This lord, who kept hidden chambers beneath the earth for prisoners and for intimacy, who smelled of sandalwood and seemed to have no face or form, who had called her ‘oni’, was no ordinary noble and even she was aware of that. She recalled earlier being outside his estate and hearing nothing from within, as if he truly had been waiting here in silence, as a wolf creeping up on its prey, moving with care so as not to startle the innocent meat coming unwittingly into its grasp.
The idea haunted her as the mountain spirits had at home, singing in the wind outside her father’s house, and as then she paused, bowed her head and clasped her hands and repeated to herself the Name of the Buddha. Down here however the words seemed to fall apart as they came as if she were choking on them. The girl put her hand back into her robe and found again the handle of the knife and that served also as a bolster. She went on.
The tunnel curved sharply up, becoming a severe slope, and then she saw above a wooden hatch with grass growing around it and a gap in one side that let the wind in, locked tight by another bolt. The girl scurried up the slope to it. From the other side she could hear the wind and she could feel fresh air. There was nothing to be done with the hatch’s hinges here. She pushed against the hatch and it stayed put and she grunted and pushed at it again and again, her grunting becoming rough and angry, a sound of aimless frustration. She hammered at it with her fists, hurting herself and yet carrying on. Her fingers ached and her neck was sore. She slumped back against the wall, the hatch undefeated, and merely looked up at it and studied the patterns of decay upon the wood. She snarled, hurling herself again at it, scratching and tearing at it. It did not move. A sigh escaped her and she wished it back because it seemed in its leaving to represent a flagging of her energy which she could not afford. One more time she pushed against it with all her feeble strength.
This time the hatch still did not move but there was a creak from the other side of it as if someone was pushing back and she stopped, pulling away, just in time to see the whole hatch ripped free from its hinges and tossed aside to land elsewhere with a crash and flooding the tunnel with moonlight. Squinting and covering her eyes from the sudden brightness the girl didn’t at first notice what had pulled the hatch away, and then she did and she felt once more the nameless terror the thing in the sleeping-space had stirred in her, all of her bestial unthinking mind washed away as if she were a hare noticing at the last second the hunter stood over her with bowstring already drawn and arrow nocked, unable to move and only waiting to die.
The thing that stood was like a man with arms and legs and body and head, and yet it was misshapen, with pieces missing from its all over, its arms seeming lengthened like the legs of a spider by what was absent, a huge chunk of its abdomen only a crater and its torso full of dents, its skull concave and its face bent the wrong way. What this signified was obscured by the thick bandages, stiff with pus and blood, that were wrapped about it from head to toe, leaving all of it only a sickly mass of yellow-red paper but for the single eye peering out from the otherwise-covered face, which was only human but when taken with the rest of it was the worst part of all. It stood stooped with one malformed arm held at its side, the long fingers of a shattered hand gnarled and frozen. The other hand lay at the end of a thick and muscular arm and gripped tight a heavy sword, which was rested upon its contorted left shoulder which was longer than the other.
The thing lifted its broken hand to its chest. She could see only a half-jaw beneath the bandages. “Young girl!” he said, its voice a melted-together ruin. Its bulging and wild eye saw only her. It bent down towards her. “What are you doing in there? I thought you were a ghost.” He put his twitching hand upon the edge of the tunnel entrance. “Are you lost? It’s dangerous down there!” Every sentence came out in that same idiot’s tone, all the words mushed into an incoherent paste. The blood all over the bandages was dry but she saw by the glimmer of the moon that the gore upon the sword was a bright red. “You don’t need to fear me.” he said. “I’m Higuchi, the swordsman. I protect all who live here from monsters and thieves.” She saw what there was of his jaw move beneath the bandages as a shuddering wreck. “Come out of there.”
The kindness of his words was not within his ravaged voice. She kept on seeing the blood upon his sword and she could smell it too, fresh death coating him as surely as the sandalwood had coated his master. “It’s dangerous.” he said again.
The girl found her own voice. “I beg you, Sir Higuchi. I would prefer to stay in here.”
He turned his head, neck cracking. The angle was unnatural and sharp. “Oh? Why so? Young girl, why?”
She thought. “I – I am here for his lordship. I am waiting for him. In his private room.” The thing called Higuchi’s eye widened and his fingers shook. “Oh! The lord’s? Oh! But, you are so pretty…” He sighed, yellow spittle dribbling from his bandages onto the stone and pooling up in front of her. “As his lordship orders, this Higuchi, his loyal swordsman, shall follow.” He stood back up, framed as a skeletal atrocity against the moon. “Very well. Very well.” Then finally he turned from the tunnel’s entrance, ignoring her now, his footfalls heavy and then, as he went, quieter and quieter. The girl did not move until she heard the rattle of a rain shutter being lowered. Then, trembling as much as the thing named Higuchi had but for very different reasons, she eased herself out of the tunnel and into the moonlit space above.
The girl found herself in a small courtyard, without lake or pavilion but only with the wall of the estate on her left and straight ahead. To her right was a roofed aisle and another room covered up by rain shutters, and to her back the same. She had emerged from a hole in the ground and all around her was grass. The moon was at its apex above which meant now it was midnight. The girl stood, listening for the irregular thud of the cursed swordsman’s footsteps, which soon were far-off. She stepped from the tunnel entrance, her sandals touching soil and the skirt of her outer robe kissing grass. In this place and in this place alone there was peace. Beyond the walls a dog howled to itself and there were cicadas in trees nearby and she could feel the air all over her, congratulating her on another minute of life just purchased.
But with the swordsman and the lady both in the house still there was little guarantee of much else, and so the girl went to the wall and looked at it and recalled what she had told Takamasa, that she could climb over it. Her palms hurt but that was no matter. With a glance back at the two rooms adjacent to the courtyard which waited indifferently with their rain shutters all pulled down, she grabbed hold of the top of the wall and grunting hefted herself up. It was possible – with a few minutes or so of practice, and much more sweat, she had managed to take a precarious position atop it. An alleyway was below, lined with trees, and another estate opposite beyond that. Lanterns smouldered in the distant streets of Heian-kyo.
The girl laughed to herself. And yet here with no other obstacles and with survival so close she thought of the name that Takamasa had given her. Takamasa had named her ‘Kaede’. She did not think that was her real name because she had no real name and yet the mystery of it teased her, and might in future she thought end up haunting her. She wanted to know what it meant. With the hand that was not helping to balance on the narrow wall she found the buddha beneath her robes, running her fingers over it, finding each contour and bump and shape, describing with touch the shape of the buddha so that she could learn from it, hear it speak without speaking. The moon remained high. From here several other of the Hashimoto estate’s buildings were visible, larger halls beyond the two small rooms neighbouring her, more places to find monsters within, more places that Takamasa might have wandered into. She sighed and with care slipped from the wall and back into the yard.
Now there were two options: to go east, which from the blood around the aisle seemed to be where the swordsman had gone, or to go south, to search first that small room and then to explore the aisle and find what other chambers remained, until she came to wherever Takamasa might have gone. The swordsman’s half-voice still rang in her ears. She decided to go south. The girl turned away from the tunnel and from the eastern room, all the while conscious of the swordsman, although his footsteps had now disappeared completely. She stepped onto the roofed aisle and to the southern room. There was a portable screen between a gap in the rain shutters, a screen decorated with birds. She moved it aside and eased her way in. What she found was a chamber of seats and cushions and beds all segmented with more screens, robes hung from some of them and from the ceiling, all dark and only lit by the light that had come in from her entry. The air was heavy with dust and she could smell yet more mould coming from the clothes strewn about.
This had been some kind of quarters for servants, she supposed, for people just above people like her. Crouched and quiet she entered, pushing the screens aside without regard, finding interrupted dice games and dried-out inkstones and in one area a series of combs of different sizes laid out next to matching robes hung upon the screens. Lives stopped – a sudden swooping in of karma, of agents of cause and effect which had disrupted things as was their purpose, and which had torn apart the peace upon which good life was based with the disharmony of action, action which then had ended things violently. It had to have been the action of the lord of the estate, who had spoken to her and called her delightful. She reached the other side of the chamber and unfastened one of the rain shutters and lifted it up, slipping under and creeping out onto the aisle. A small bridge went to the next room and to her right were two more rooms connected in this fashion, forming a small courtyard of thick bushes between the four of them. It was what she saw in this yard that made her pause.
She saw shapes lying in the bushes, things inelegantly tossed there, and realised that in the light coming in from the open gap between the roofs above that they were human bodies that had been cut apart with a heavy sword and flung bloodied and torn into the yard, as if it were a ditch for bandits to dispose of their prey in. Two small stone statues of the buddha stood at the steps to the aisle, the violence before them a mockery of their presence. The bodies all wore plain robes and she supposed this was what had happened to the servants, what had disrupted them. Far-off in the estate, somewhere else, she heard heavy clumsy footsteps. The girl clutched the hem of her sleeve tight and when the tears came she caught them with the sleeve and wiped them away.
Over the bodies was the other side of the yard, the aisle going between rooms and to what looked to be a latticed door that led to another part of the house. She saw the other two rooms, closed off by shutters and screens, and felt already there was no sense in searching them. Quietly and with care the girl eased her way around the aisle and to the corridor between the other two rooms and past the bodies. The stench of death came up from them, but not only from them. The whole house, wood and all, she realised, was in a state of advanced rot, all of it dying as surely as anyone with sickness would if their karma merited it. Takamasa, she thought, would be somewhere in it, and maybe he would have the treasure that he had come here for. She felt the gold against her chest and it calmed her. In this manner did the girl proceed into the rest of the estate.


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Frances Burney: Evelina
Thursday, May 27, 2010, 7 pm
Frances Burney's first and most enduringly popular novel is a vivid, satirical, and seductive account of the pleasures and dangers of fashionable life in late eighteenth-century London. As she describes her heroine's entry into society, womanhood and, inevitably, love, Burney exposes the vulnerability of female innocence in an image-conscious and often cruel world where social snobbery and sexual aggression are played out in the public arenas of pleasure-gardens, theatre visits, and balls. But Evelina's innocence also makes her a shrewd commentator on the excesses and absurdities of manners and social ambitions--as well as attracting the attention of the eminently eligible Lord Orville. Evelina, comic and shrewd, is at once a guide to fashionable London, a satirical attack on the new consumerism, an investigation of women's position in the late eighteenth century, and a love story. The new introduction and full notes to this edition help make this richness all the more readily available to a modern reader.
Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird
Thursday, June 24, 2010, 7 pm
One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than thirty million copies worldwide, served as the basis of an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father -- a crusading local lawyer -- risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.
Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities
Thursday, July 29, 2010, 7 pm
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times….” With 200 million copies sold, A Tale of Two Cities is among the most famous works of English fiction. It depicts the plight of the French peasantry under the demoralization of the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the French Revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution, and a number of unflattering social parallels with life in London during the same time period. It follows the lives of several protagonists through these events, most notably Charles Darnay, a French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a dissipated British barrister who endeavours to redeem his ill-spent life out of love for Darnay's wife, Lucie Manette.
John Steinbeck: Cannery Row
Thursday, August 26, 2010, 7 pm
Steinbeck's enduring novel explores life near the sardine fisheries of Monterey, California during the Great Depression. The stories of Doc, a marine biologist; Mack, the leader of a group of hobos; Dora, the proprietor of the local whorehouse; and others interweave to paint a convincing portrait of the lives of those misunderstood, marginalized people who still exist at the fringes of American life today.
Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale
Thursday, September 23, 2010, 7 pm
In a startling departure from her previous novel, respected Canadian poet and novelist Atwood presents here a fable of the near future. In the Republic of Gilead, formerly the United States, far-right Schlafly/Falwell-type ideals have been carried to extremes in the monotheocratic government. The resulting society is a feminist's nightmare: women are strictly controlled, unable to have jobs or money and assigned to various classes: the chaste, childless Wives; the housekeeping Marthas; and the reproductive Handmaids, who turn their offspring over to the "morally fit" Wives. The tale is told by Offred (read: "of Fred"), a Handmaid who recalls the past and tells how the chilling society came to be. --Library Journal
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
Thursday, October 28, 2010, 7 pm
The epic battle between man and monster reaches its greatest pitch in the famous story of Frankenstein. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor himself to the very brink. How he tries to destroy his creation, as it destroys everything Victor loves, is a powerful story of love, friendship …and horror. –GoodReads.com
Raymond Carver: Collected Stories
Thursday, November 18, 2010, 7 pm
From the jacket flap: Raymond Carver's spare dramas of loneliness, despair, and troubled relationships breathed new life into the American short story of the 1970s and '80s. In collections such as Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? and What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Carver wrote with unflinching exactness about men and women enduring lives on the knife-edge of poverty and other deprivations. Beneath his pared-down surfaces run disturbing, violent undercurrents. Suggestive rather than explicit, and seeming all the more powerful for what is left unsaid, Carver's stories were held up as exemplars of a new school in American fiction known as minimalism or "dirty realism," a movement whose wide influence continues to this day. Carver's stories were brilliant in their detachment and use of the oblique, ambiguous gesture, yet there were signs of a different sort of sensibility at work.
Our discussion will focus on three of Carver's most acclaimed stories: "Cathedral," "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love," and "A Small, Good Thing."
Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
Thursday, December 16, 2010, 7 pm
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte's only novel, is one of the pinnacles of 19th-century English literature. It's the story of Heathcliff, an orphan who falls in love with a girl above his class, loses her, and devotes the rest of his life to wreaking revenge on her family.-Goodreads.com


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It looks like local communities will be made whole on personal property tax after all.
After a year of negotiations between lawmakers and business and local government groups, Lt. Gov. Brian Calley announced last week that use tax revenue will be used to fully reimburse local governments if the local personal property tax paid by some businesses is repealed on the August ballot. Calley has been the point person for the governor on the issue.
The plan, as originally proposed, would have guaranteed only 80 percent reimbursement, but it would have allowed communities to seek a special assessment to make up the difference.
The Michigan Legislature repealed the personal property tax during the lame-duck session in December 2012, if approved by voters this August. That gave supporters of the repeal time to build their case, and opponents time to work with the administration to ensure that the loss of revenue the tax produces does not cause shortfalls in municipal budgets around the state.
Full reimbursement is defined as the amount of money local governments were receiving in December 2012.
When the phaseout of the PPT begins in 2016, the state will dedicate $380.6 million to reimburse local governments. By 2023, once the tax is fully phased out, the state's contribution goes up to $548 million.
The diversion of the use tax won't hurt other recipients of state funds, Calley said, because beginning in 2016 a series of major tax credits for business given out under the Granholm administration will begin to expire.
Right now, those tax credits cost the state between $500 million and $600 million each fiscal year in lost tax revenue, but that will diminish over the next several years. "This plan will work," Calley said.
A bipartisan, 10-bill package (Senate Bills 821-830) making the change is expected to be approved by the full Senate this week. After approval in the Senate, the House is expected to move just as swiftly, with the goal of having the bills in front of Gov. Rick Snyder by the end of the month. Then the work begins on educating the public about the August vote.
Business groups had already begun pouring money into a fund to mount a campaign in support of the ballot question. But with passage of these bills that ensure local governments will be made whole, their lobbying organizations are now in support, making any organized opposition to the proposal negligible.

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Alfred State agricultural technology student Andrew Richards, of Silver Springs, recently represented the college as a 2018 Ambassador at the 185th New York State Agricultural Society Annual Meeting and Forum in Syracuse.
According to the society’s website, the Ambassador Scholarship program provides professional development opportunities each year to 15 young adults interested in agriculture. The scholarship covers all expenses for attending the annual forum and a yearlong membership in the society.
The forum attracts hundreds of attendees and dozens of exhibitors. Alfred State was among several State University of New York (SUNY) campuses that participated in the forum as exhibitors.
“I wanted to apply for the NYS Ag Society Forum because I thought it looked like a good learning experience,” said Richards. “I got to meet a lot of different people in agriculture and even managed to get an internship with the Animal Health Diagnostic Center at Cornell University.”
As an Ambassador, Richards was paired with a mentor to enhance his experience at the forum and overall understanding of New York agriculture. Richards said his mentor introduced him to different people and helped familiarize him with the forum, which offered a valuable opportunity to network and engage with business professionals in agriculture. This year, the forum brought in over 470 attendees, according to the event webpage.
Speaking about his field, Richards noted, “Agricultural technology is a very important tool to help improve agriculture and sustainability. More technology is being utilized on farms now than ever before and I believe it is the path agriculture will continue to take to keep up with the growing population.”


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|Calories from Fat||30|
| ** Percent Daily Value is based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.|
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Whey Protein Blend (Whey Protein Concentrate, Whey Protein Isolate), Natural and Artificial Flavors, Xanthan Gum, Sucralose.
Preparation: Mix 1 serving (1 scoop) of Infinite Pro with 8 to 10 oz of cold water or skim milk; mix well. Consume immediately.
Suggested Use: Take 2 to 3 servings of Infinite Pro daily.
Contains milk, soy.

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The US Navy has begun integrating Lockheed Martin’s new Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) with its Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and airworthiness flights are due to start next month.
The service says its test and evaluation team at Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland conducted the first load and fit checks with the weapon 12 August using a “mass simulator vehicle” – all in preparation for first phase of airworthiness certification.
LRASM has already been integrated with the US Air Force’s Boeing B-1B bomber, and now pictures released by the navy show the weight-representative payload attached to a Super Hornet’s pylon.
The load and fit checks mark another step forward for the programme, which is being speedily rolled out to meet an urgent need for longer-range anti-ship missiles in the Pacific theatre.
The navy says it will field the maritime derivative of Lockheed’s Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM-ER) with the B-1B in 2018 and the F/A-18 in 2019.
“This missile will help us pace the growing maritime threat and provide the warfighter with an urgently needed capability to engage surface combatants at extended ranges,” says the navy’s precision-strike weapons program manager, Capt Jaime Engdahl.
Super Hornet airworthiness flights will take place over Patuxent River and Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake – located in California’s Mojave Desert.
Lockheed expects to receive first contract for production LRASM missiles in 2017, and has recently expanded its missile plant in Troy, Alabama, to cope with increased volumes.
LRASM has been developed by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency as a stopgap measure while the navy competes its Offensive Anti-Surface Warfare Increment 2 requirement.


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April 22 will forever remain afresh in Zohmingliana Raltes mind. His side, Aizawl FC, were up against one of the giants of Indian football, Mohun Bagan, needing nothing less than three points to pull.. Deccan Herald
The Blues completed the official paperwork in time for Gurpreet to be part of the 2017 AFC Cup campaign. He will be available for selection for the home leg of the crucial Inter-Zonal semifinal.. Zee News
The players draft ahead of the fourth Indian Super League season was full of a variety and requirements. While Bengaluru FC retained Sunil Chhetri, they had to let go Eugensen Lyngdoh, who was snapped.. Source: nnis Sports English -
Aizawl FC created history by becoming the first club from the Northeast to win the Hero I-League after they held hosts Shillong Lajong FC to a 1-1 draw.
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The 10th edition of the I-League has been launched amid much fanfare in Delhi. 10 teams from four different regions would be playing in the premier tournament, but Bengaluru FC has been touted as the.. Source: nnis Sports English -
Celebrities came in large numbers to support Vijender Singh defend his WBO Asia Pacific Middleweight title. From Mary Kom to Sushil Kumar, to actor brothers Raghu Ram and Rajeev Ram, to Baba Ramdev, to.. Source: nnis News English -
A good week for Indian football. After Bengaluru FC’s historic entry into the final of the AFC Cup, the national football team has achieved its best ever FIFA ranking in six years. Source: nnis News English -
Bengaluru FC's reserve side suffered a 1-2 defeat to Japan's Avispa Fukuoka under-18 side in a friendly game at the Bangalore Football stadium on Saturday.
Striker Hirohisa Ohata scored twice (58th,.. Deccan Herald
Bengaluru FC's under-18 side will look to put on a good show when they take on Japan's Avispa Fukuoka U-18s in an Asian Football Confederation (AFC)approved friendly game at the Bengaluru Football.. Deccan Herald
Coming in with a wealth of experience having played in Spain and Australia, midfielder Dimas Delgado is now looking forward to a new challenge with Bengaluru FC as they embark on their first campaign.. Deccan Herald
Defender Anas Edathodika and midfielder Eugeneson Lyngdoh emerged as costliest picks for an identical Rs 1.1 crore by new outfit Jamshedpur FC and two- time champions ATK respectively in the Indian.. Deccan Herald
In a city that has witnessed a series of attacks on local trains and at railway stations, it is alarming to read about the police's apathy recently, when an alert commuter tried to draw their attention.. Mid-Day
Continuing their efforts to rebuild the squad for the upcoming season, Bengaluru FC have retained two promising youngsters -- midfielder Malsawmzuala and defender Nishu Kumar -- till the end of the.. Deccan Herald
The Player Draft of the Indian Super League season 4 will be held here on Sunday with more than 200 domestic footballers up for grabs for the ten clubs, including the new two entrants of Jamshedpur FC.. DNA


Bill to Bolster Election Clout Gains
Seeking to force presidential candidates to pay attention to California’s 15.5 million voters, state lawmakers on Tuesday jumped aboard a new effort that would award electoral votes to the candidate who wins the popular vote nationwide.
As it is now, California grants its Electoral College votes to the candidate who wins the popular vote in the state. Practically speaking, that means Democrat-dominated California spends the fall presidential campaign on the sidelines as candidates focus on the states -- mostly in the upper Midwest -- that are truly up for grabs.
Under a bill passed by the Assembly, California would join an interstate compact in which states would agree to cast their electoral votes not for the winner in their jurisdictions but for the winner nationwide. Proponents say that would force candidates to broaden their reach to major population centers such as California.
The bill is part of a 3-month-old movement driven by a Bay Area lawyer and a Stanford computer science professor. The same 888-word bill is pending in four other states and is expected to be introduced in every state by January, its sponsors say. The legislation would not take effect until enough states passed such laws to make up a majority of the Electoral College votes -- a minimum of 13 states, depending on population.
“This is a bill that would allow California to be able to play a role in presidential elections,” said Barry Fadem, the Lafayette, Calif., lawyer spearheading the drive. Now, because the state is largely ignored, he said, “A vote in California is not equal to a vote in Ohio, and everyone would concede that.”
The bill -- AB 2948 by Assemblyman Tom Umberg (D-Anaheim) -- cleared the Assembly 49 to 31 with a single Republican vote from Assemblyman Rick Keene (R-Chico). To become law, it must be passed by the Senate and signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican.
Fadem said he was surprised by the partisan divide in the Assembly vote. In the New York Legislature, Republicans introduced the bill, he said, and they support it in Illinois, Missouri and Colorado.
But Republican Assembly members warned that the bill would empower big cities -- whose residents tend to vote for Democrats -- at the expense of small states.
“Small states suffer here,” said Assemblyman Michael Villines (R-Clovis). “Yes, California is a big state. But I don’t want a candidate to go to 10, 12 big urban centers, win a majority and walk away with the presidency.”
“This would simply say if you’re in Miami, Los Angeles, New York, Boston ... you can elect the president,” Villines said.
Assemblyman Chuck DeVore (R-Irvine) argued that the Electoral College was created by the drafters of the U.S. Constitution after great debate and thought, and he said it should not be altered lightly.
“Direct democracies were properly seen by the founding fathers as very unstable because 50% plus one of the people can vote themselves anything and run roughshod over the rights of the minority, run roughshod over rule of law,” DeVore said. “That is what the Electoral College is all about.”
The Constitution dictates that presidents are elected by an Electoral College in which every state gets a number of votes equal to the state’s congressional districts plus two. The political parties in each state choose a group of delegates equal to the number of the state’s electoral votes.
The delegates of the party whose presidential candidate gets the most votes statewide in the November general election then cast their electoral votes, usually by gathering at the state capitol in December. Electoral votes from across the country are sealed and sent to Congress, and the candidate with more than half of the total is declared president.
The Constitution gives states discretion in how they award Electoral College votes and provides for binding contracts among states.
There are 538 electoral votes, and they change among states each decade depending on population shifts. California has 55 electoral votes, the most of any state. Usually the presidential candidate who wins the popular vote also wins the Electoral College vote, but President Bush was elected in 2000 despite winning fewer popular votes than Democratic candidate Al Gore.
After several decades as a reliable Republican presidential vote, California since 1992 has been just as reliably Democratic. Candidates tend to come here for the money, or as an adjunct to visits to more critical states.
The last, ferocious weeks of the presidential campaign are instead spent in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Florida, among a few others.
“You may have noticed in presidential campaigns we are really an ATM machine,” Umberg said. “The presidential candidates come to California, they withdraw money, but in terms of the things you and I care about, there’s really an absence of debate ... whether it’s water policy, trade policy, immigration policy.”
Though some Republicans called the Umberg bill a scheme for getting around the arduous job of amending the U.S. Constitution, Fadem said the framework for such a compact is built into the Constitution.
Fadem, who specializes in ballot measures, wrote the 1984 initiative that created California’s lottery. He and computer scientist John Koza, who helped invent lottery scratch-off tickets, have written a book making the case for a national popular vote called “Every Vote Equal.”
Supporters of their voting plan include former independent presidential candidate John Anderson and former Republican congressman Tom Campbell of Palo Alto.


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Shortly after the release of iOS 11 public beta 2, Mac users also received a second pre-release build of macOS High Sierra, available for public testing ahead of its arrival this fall.
Participation in Apple's public beta system is free after registering and agreeing to terms and conditions at the company's website. Participants can test out pre-release builds of macOS, iOS and tvOS, though watchOS is not a part of the program.
In the latest High Sierra beta, Apple enabled initial Time Machine support, and has added routines to AVKit for developers to allow users additional flexibility for content playback when multiple outputs are available. Additionally, some touch event processing modifications have been implemented, with enhanced timing for ignoring errant touches.
The second pre-release beta of macOS High Sierra arrives a few weeks after the first build was provided in late June.
Apple recommends that users install the software only on a secondary Mac, and make a backup of that device beforehand.
High Sierra is due to launch as a free update this fall. The software will support standards like Metal 2 and H.265/HEVC video, and transition to the Apple File System, already in use on iOS 10.3.x devices. Apple is also planning miscellaneous upgrades to apps like Photos, Mail, and Safari.
By spring 2018, High Sierra will also officially support external Thunderbolt 3 GPUs, enabling high-level graphics normally reserved for gaming PCs and workstations.


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If You’re Reading This, You Are Not Oppressed
Nothing bugs me more than when my fellow Christians and conservatives complain about how oppressed we are. Look at what happens to Christians elsewhere; we’re not oppressed. Life is unfair for us in certain particular ways but we’re not oppressed. We’re all free to enjoy a reasonably high standard of living and participate politically. By world historical standards, that is the antithesis of oppression.
Same thing with most other groups that claim oppression and victimization about everything, including feminists, LGBT groups, and minority activists groups of various stripes. Things are indeed unfair and could use reform. There are some rights not possessed, some inequalities requiring remedy, and some reforms necessary. But oppression is a very different thing.
Oppression is political suppression and exclusion, the systematic deprivation of basic life and liberty, and the conscious perpetuation of intolerable standards of living. It is not mere economic inequality, it is not the existence of opinions and voices that perpetuate narratives contrary to one’s own liking, and it is not corruption and inefficiency in the system of law and order. Oppression is far more sinister than those. Look to the lawless borderlands of the Middle East and Africa or the darkened halls of Russia and China- there you will find oppression. Look to the plight of blacks in the American South before the 1960s. Look to these- there oppression lies.
But we have slowly rooted out oppression from the American shores, and what a journey it has been. Now, in America, all men and women are free. We have not destroyed injustice- and we never will, though we must always try- but we have eliminated oppression from our system. The grave injustices still present- the plights of inner-city blacks and poor rural whites, the sad condition of undocumented immigrants, the accumulation of plutocratic power at the expense of the democratic spirit- these cannot be forgotten and must be combated with all due force and vigor.
But they are not oppression.
Anarchy begets oppression, for anarchy must be stopped and sheer force is the easiest solution. Consolidated power in any field begets oppression, as power consolidated faces no checks against its excesses. A fair penchant of centralized order mixed with a separation of centers of power is the surest guard against both tyranny and anarchy; it is that magic combination which we English-speaking peoples have been blessed to know for the last 500 years of our history, and have worked to progressively make better. It is that which has shooed away oppression, and that which has preserved our freedom.
Here’s the litmus test: If you can observe something that’s unfair, and you can speak out publicly against it, and take meaningful political action against it, you are not being oppressed. And I’d say that although there are many injustices in American society today, at the public level, there is no oppression save for that against criminals and traitors. And that oppression is called justice.
We do not live in oppression; nor do we live in liberty. To live in liberty requires a level of public self-discipline and social capital that our entitled, victimized, success-worshipping culture does not have; we are slaves to our passions. But, there being an absence of true oppression, we DO live in freedom. And for now, that’s enough.
Is privilege a thing? Of course it is. Is injustice a thing? It’s everywhere. Do we have a corrupt ruling elite and high levels of inequality? You’d have to be blind not to see them.
But are we oppressed?
No. Thanks to the enduring viability of our political tradition of liberty, the sweat of statesmen, and the blood of patriots, we live as free men and women, oppressed by no king. Indeed, there are those with powers over us; but they do not oppress us.
It is the task of our generation to reform our political system to maintain our freedom against the shadows of oppression always lurking at the gate. But it is the further task of our generation to reform our society to one of liberty- and that, in truth, is the far mightier challenge.
And fighting oppression when oppression is not there only distracts from that grander purpose.

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NEC began selling the Express 5800/130Pro in February 1997 as part of its Express 5800 high-performance server series. This model could accept one or two Intel Pentium Pro processors with a clock frequency of 200 MHz and permitted hard disk hot-swapping without stopping operations. The Express 5800/130Pro could run either Microsoft’s Windows NT Server 4.0 operating system or Novell’s NetWare operating system. It featured excellent scalability for a server and could be expanded to two Pentium Pro (200 MHz) processors, 1 GB of main memory, and 51.6 GB of hard disk memory. Hard disks were hot swappable and compliant with the Ultra Wide SCSI standard. For better operability and reliability, the server came with ESMPRO, a server management software package, and a server management board that provided remote maintenance functions. The Express 5800/130Pro was positioned to build economical client-server systems with excellent operability and reliability.
|Model name||Express 5800/130Pro|
|CPU||Pentium Pro (200 MHz)|
|No. of processors||1 - 2|
|Cache memory||Secondary cache||256 KB|
|Internal hard disk||Standard||4 GB or 8.6 GB|
|LAN board||100 Mbps|


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With its breathtaking nature and mystical historical texture, Trabzon is among the star routes of the Black Sea…
Trabzon, which fascinates its visitors with its beauty, is described as the pearl of the Black Sea. one of the cities. Trabzon contains the most popular routes of Black Sea tours. With its churches, monasteries, museums and plateaus, Trabzon promises an unforgettable journey to its visitors. Trabzon has an important place in our country in terms of plateau tourism. When you come to Trabzon, which is one of the most curious cities of the Black Sea Region, there are many alternatives for accommodation.
Where to stay in Trabzon? Trabzon Hotel Deals
Trabzon hotels with a variety of options reveal a thousand and one shades of green. In Trabzon, where each corner offers a different beauty, how you choose a hotel depends on your itinerary and your purpose of being in the city. Located in the city center, Trabzon hotels are a great starting point for exploring, as well as Trabzon in the highlands. The hotels offer a completely different accommodation. You can check Trabzon hotel deals on Hotelforex.com to make a reservation among the most suitable Trabzon hotels.
Trabzon Hotel Deals
Trabzon, mostly summer and spring is flooded with tourists during the months. These periods are not a good time to explore the city, as the region receives a lot of rainfall in winter and autumn. Therefore, Trabzon hotel prices can also differ in this sense. Trabzon hotel prices, which increase in summer and spring with heavy demand, come to more economical levels in autumn and winter. In order to stay in one of the cheapest Trabzon hotels, all you have to do is to follow Trabzon hotel deals regularly.
Places to Visit in Trabzon
Trabzon will be visited and seen in many places. hosts to the place. Of course, Sümela Monastery, one of the symbols of the city, comes first. Located within the borders of Maçka , the monastery continues its existence as the most touristic point of the city. Although not as famous as Sümela, the Vazelon Monastery, which has the same architecture with it, is also worth seeing. Peristara Monastery, one of the famous monasteries of Trabzon and located within the borders of Maçka, is also among the places to be seen in the city.
We recommend you to visit Trabzon Hagia Sophia Museum, which belongs to the Byzantine period and is located in the city center. In addition, you can include Trabzon Castle, one of the magnificent buildings of the city, on your trip list. The Çal Cave, which is considered to be the second longest cave in the world and located in Düzköy district, and Sera Lake, which has a different beauty in every season, are among the places to be seen in Trabzon.
Trabzon, which is famous for its plateaus, is in Uzungöl. We would like to remind you that you should definitely include Haldizen Plateau in your trip list.
Things to Do in Trabzon
The things we can say do not return without doing in Trabzon are as follows;
· Do not return from Trabzon without eating it.
· Make sure to tour the plateau.
· Buy Trabzon butter.
· Do extreme activities like paragliding, zipline.
· Explore the monasteries.

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Raise your hand if you can relate to this scenario: you find yourself with an hour of free time, and you decide to spend it crafting and creating. You head to your craft stash, and 10-15 minutes later you realize you've wasted a good chunk of your hour hunting down your supplies. Most annoying thing ever, right? It's really common for me to have two to three DIY projects going at one time, which means there are constantly two to three messes on the floor that I am digging through. I've realized that when my supplies and projects are out of control, I lose a lot of steam and tend to forget about them. A few months ago I decided I had to find a better way to keep all my supplies for each project in one spot, so I could quickly get them when I had random pockets of time to create (or random bursts of inspiration!). This is literally the easiest, most basic way to keep everything organized, but it's really helped me keep my DIY projects in order, and I hope it can help you too if it's something you're struggling with!
#groundbreaking. But really, shout out to the baskets who keep me sane! When I'm starting a new project, all I do is load my basket up with anything and everything I may need. Scissors, tape, glue, glitter, paint, etc etc. My favorite thing about this method of organizing projects is that it's portable. I can grab my basket and sit and watch TV while I craft, or place it next to my bed, or under my desk. As I go, I leave bits of my unfinished project right in the basket so I can pick up where I left off when I have time. This has really helped me save so much time, and it leaves me feeling more energized and creative! I mean, it's baskets full of craft supplies ;)
How do you organize your DIY projects?


Detroit board cancels meeting after open meetings challenge
The board of education for the Detroit Public Schools Community District had to cancel a scheduled meeting tonight after an activist filed an emergency motion in Wayne Court alleging the district didn't provide the proper notice of the meeting.
The meeting was to be held to review the finalists for the superintendent's job in the district. The finalists are Derrick R. Coleman, superintendent of the River Rouge School District and Nikolai Vitti, superintendent of the Duval County Public Schools in Jacksonville, Fla.
The district posted a notice on its website April 6 about the meeting, but it wasn't posted on the page that lists board meetings, and it was difficult to find today on the website.
The district notified the media about the meeting via e-mail last week, and multiple outlets — including the Free Press — reported that the meeting was to be held tonight. The district also advertised the meeting on its Twitter account.
Iris Taylor, the board president, read a statement shortly before 5 p.m. to a group of about a handful of people who had already arrived for the meeting.
"Although the meeting was posted well in advance on both the web site and social media, because of a technicality, the posting was not readily accessible," Taylor said. "This issue will be corrected moving forward."
Robert Davis, who last month filed a lawsuit against the district alleging violation of the state's open meetings rules, said that because the meeting wasn't prominently displayed on the district's web site, it didn't meet the requirements.
The state's open meetings laws say that notices of special meetings must be posted "on a portion of the website that is fully accessible to the public."
The law goes on to say: "The public notice on the website shall be included on either the homepage or on a separate webpage dedicated to public notices for nonregularly scheduled public meetings and accessible via a prominent and conspicuous link on the website's homepage that clearly describes its purpose for public notification of those nonregularly scheduled public meetings."
Davis, a former school board member in Highland Park who was convicted in 2014 for embezzling $200,000 from the cash-strapped school district, said a conference call was held between a Wayne County judge and attorneys for the district, as well as his own attorney. He said the judge advised the district that it could be headed for trouble if it held the meeting tonight.
The district is near the end of a process to hire a new superintendent.
The board had scheduled two meetings to review the candidates. One scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Tuesday will continue as planned. It now is scheduled to take place in the district offices on the 12th floor of the Fisher Building, 3011 W. Grand Blvd. However, the district is looking at holding the meeting at Frederick Douglas Academy for Young Men, 2001 W. Warren.
Taylor, asked whether the district would schedule an additional meeting after the one planned for Tuesday, said that's up in the air.
"We'll see how Tuesday's meeting plays out," Taylor said.
Contact Lori Higgins: 313-222-6651, email@example.com or @LoriAHiggins


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As I told the owner, “Boxheart sucks at marketing…” But we always need to discover the things that hide.
In all my time in Pittsburgh, I had never stepped foot into the venue placed in Pittsburgh’s Little Italy of Bloomfield. In two years time of covering over a thousand events, not once did this gallery blip the radar. This would have gone on forever. Except LocalPittsburgh’s Jeff Rose kidnapped me. That’s where I crossed the chasm and saw what Box Heart Gallery had been hiding all these years.
This opening was of Kal Mansur‘s New Valkyries and Michael Walsh‘s Intersection – Dissection – Connection. Mansur’s work focused on abstractions that subtly played with the walls they hung on. Walsh’s work took on many dimensions of exploration for the artist and viewer alike. Both exhibited signs of personal growth in their medium.
What was the venue like? Outside of its marketing pitfall, Nicole Capozzi and Joshua Hogan of BoxHeart Gallery have setup multi-story gallery that is deserves some national mention. The floor plan takes into account the artist as well as the buyer. The selection is professional weeding out most students instead steering towards those on their journey to mastery. The placement of statues, shapes, and canvas feel more like an invitation to a conversation rather than isolated pillars in the desert.


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Power Chord is a battle group based on maps with a new demo to try it now. Presented on the Future Games Show, it is a deck-building roguelike with a touch of rock. And if it ignites your pyro scene, you can find it on Steam and on the wish list Power Chord now!
The new demo on Steam Power Chord puts more light on the musical action combat cards, with new maps and new equipment, and the beginnings of a new drummer Roxy Cleaver. In Power Chord’s musical action, drummers are the tank class, defending the party with armor-like abilities, while redirecting incoming damage and attacking with power based on damage taken. For Roxy, it has the special ability to create stone loads or to protect the group of demonic attacks or to launch massive attacks on the rear of the opponents.
Roxy Cleaver can be unlocked in the new demo, with its new deck, when you’ve completed it once with the original drummer, Bor Ironcast, and defeated the boss of the demo, a demon with two heads called Crash and Snare. This will also give you a good overview of action to safeguard the rock world of charge Power Chord, while the most powerful musicians earth fighting demonic hordes.
While each character has its own powers, cards and benefits you will build your deck strategies using the unique capabilities of each musical class. Drummers, as we mentioned, are all focused on the defense and the redirection of damage. The singers use their voices for healing, buffs and support; The guitarists shredding concentrate their attacks on single targets, while Bass ton through the area of effect damage to treat multiple targets in a single riff.
In addition to checking out the game and wishlist on Steam at the link above, you can also get the latest news, beta access, and enter contests on the Power Chord Discord server.

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Boris Johnson has acknowledged that the government’s defeat in two by-elections ended up not “fantastic benefits” – but insisted he was not concerned about Conservative MPs plotting to exchange him whilst he is overseas.
The primary minister was speaking at a information conference in Rwanda hours soon after the Liberal Democrats overturned the Tories’ 24,000 majority to earn the Devon seat of Tiverton and Honiton, though Labour took back the red wall constituency of Wakefield in Yorkshire.
Mr Johnson informed reporters in Kigali: “I am not likely to pretend these are fantastic effects.”
“We have obtained to listen, we have obtained to find out,” he mentioned, introducing: “When persons are getting it tough, they deliver messages to politicians and politicians have obtained to answer – and which is what we’re executing.”
Politics Hub: PM blindsided by chairman’s resignation after by-election defeats
Requested if he was apprehensive about Conservative colleagues plotting to substitute him though he was abroad, the PM bluntly replied: “The response to the query is no.”
But he dodged a concern about irrespective of whether he had considered resigning at any level these days.
“If governments crumpled for the reason that of by-election results in the whole of the article-war time period, we wouldn’t have had many write-up-war governments,” he added.
When Sky’s Beth Rigby asked why he would not “accept you could be part of the challenge with voters”, the PM mentioned: “I truly, genuinely never assume the way ahead in British politics is to aim on the problems of personalities, no matter if they are mine or other folks.”
He said persons “will continue to beat me up and say this or that about to assault me”, introducing: “That is fantastic. That’s really correct. That is the occupation of politicians.
“In the finish, voters, journalists, they have no a person else to make their complaints to. I have to acquire that.”
Mr Johnson warned the general public that “no question there will some difficult situations ahead” but claimed his federal government understands “how to deal with our economic troubles”.
The poor performances right away led to the resignation of Conservative Chairman Oliver Dowden, who advised the PM: “We are not able to carry on with company as standard.”
But Mr Johnson insisted he would keep on with his “historic mandate” from the 2019 typical election.
Lifestyle Secretary Nadine Dorries defended the prime minister, contacting the effects a “reminder that we should be relentless in cracking on with the occupation of offering”.
She also claimed by-elections were “useless… as an indication of unquestionably nearly anything at all”, incorporating the governing administration would “stay relentlessly focused” on offering for the community.
But shadow levelling up secretary Lisa Nandy explained there was “a great deal of distaste” for the PM on the doorstep when Labour ended up campaigning in Wakefield.
She instructed Sky News that voters were “truly feeling that this is a federal government that basically is just not functioning”.
However, she reported the “storming outcome” for her social gathering was not just “people today turning away from the Tories”, but constituents “wanting toward Labour yet again”, and its leader, Sir Keir Starmer.
Education and learning Secretary Nadhim Zahawi mentioned the Conservatives “will need to pay attention” to its voters, especially all those who stayed at property, introducing: “We have to have to give them reasons to appear again at the upcoming election. We do that with a laser-like aim on shipping and delivery.”
But he felt small of explicitly backing Mr Johnson, including: “The voters will judge this Conservative government on what we provide upcoming. For me, it really is a concentrate on skills, universities and families.”
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When choosing components and fasteners for manufacturing and production, it’s important to consider the application, the environment of the finished products, and the characteristics of the materials available.
Plastics, and especially some of the advanced composite materials, make a great choice for many applications and offer exceptional strength and resistance to wear.
Here, E&T Fasteners, which offers a complete line of engineered molded plastic fasteners and machined metal fasteners, discusses the properties of Kel-F PCTFE or PolyChloroTriFluoroEthylene.
Note: the commonly used name for PCTFE is Kel-F®, and is the registered trademark of the 3M Corporation. However, 3M no longer manufacturers the product. E&T Fasteners provides PCTFE through other manufacturers.
Kel-F PCTFE considerations
Here are some reasons to consider PCTFE within plastic fasteners:
- It exhibits properties like near zero-moisture absorption and is non wetting.
- It has excellent chemical resistance. For example, it is resistant to the attack by most chemicals and oxidizing agents.
- PCTFE exhibits extremely low outgassing.
- PCTFE has high tensile strength and stress-crack resistance. Its high mechanical strength and low shrinkage rate at low temperatures provides excellent stability for applications such as valve seats.
- It provides excellent performance under a wide temperature range (from – 400° to 400° F).
- It has the lowest limiting oxygen index (LOI) amongst plastic fasteners.
- It provides outstanding electrical-insulating capability in high-humidity environments.
- It is resistant to oxidation because it does not have any hydrogen atoms.
- It does not absorb visible light. Therefore, its best applied to use in applications that require transparency.
What applications can you use it in?
The product’s high tensile strength make it a good choice for structural fastener.
At the same time, its low outgassing rate and permeability make PCTFE a good choice within lab, instrumentation, or aerospace applications. Some other common non-fastener applications for PCTFE include its use in wire and cable insulation, in valves or inert seals & lubricants, and in film for food and ‘blister pack’ pharmaceutical packaging.
To learn more, read the full article from E&T Fasteners here.

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Rick Ross Performs Tupac Back Live In London
Rick Ross performed his hook from “Tupac Back” live at London’s HMV Forum a few hours ago (20th June 2011).
Killerhiphop was on hand to capture some footage and let me tell you the show was crazy. The fans were singing back the lyrics word for word on almost every track.
Read the full Rick Ross Tupac Back Lyrics here.


Starter Replacement in Gilbert, AZ
Experiencing car starter problems in Gilbert, AZ? Trust the professionals at Highline Car Care for reliable starter replacement services. Get your car back on the road quickly and efficiently.
When your day is just getting started and you’re preparing yourself for the busy morning commute, the last thing you want to deal with is car starter problems. If you’re having trouble getting your car to start no matter how many times you jiggle the keys, it may be time to consult the professionals at Highline Car Care. Learn more about the importance of a starter and how our expert team can get your car back on the road.
What is a Starter?
This compact motor holds the power to start your car’s engine but can also prevent it from turning over. The starter is an often underrated yet necessary and complex component of your vehicle that requires professional maintenance and care. It is responsible for completing the circuit that connects your battery, ignition switch, and other important parts to get your engine working. Although starters are durable, complications can occur without proper care and consideration.
Identifying Starter Issues
There are several problems that could prevent your car from starting, apart from a failed starter. If you suspect a dead or weak battery, try turning on your headlights or interior lights to check. If you still have power, it’s time to check the starter. If the problem persists after checking the battery and looking for any faulty circuitry, it may be time for a starter replacement. Here are a few specific starter complications to look out for:
- Slow starts: If your car cranks but it takes noticeably more time, it can indicate starter issues. Avoid driving on a car with intermittent starting to prevent getting stranded.
- Grinding/whining sound: A grinding or whining noise coming from your starter, known as “freewheeling,” is caused by worn-down gears in the mechanism.
- Clicking sound: If all you hear is a clicking sound with no engine life when you turn the key to start your car, it’s a telltale sign of starter trouble.
Repairing or Replacing a Starter in Gilbert, AZ
Getting your starter repaired or replaced may feel overwhelming, but with trustworthy and experienced professionals, you can be back on the road in no time. After ruling out other complications or faulty parts, your mechanic will safely remove the starter for repair. This involves disconnecting the battery and wiring, unbolting the part, and removing support brackets and bolts. Once the new starter is in place, the battery and wiring are reconnected and the bolts tightened. In some cases, additional parts may need to be removed to safely extract the starter.
With a highly trained team of car experts, Highline Car Care is your go-to auto repair shop in Gilbert, AZ. Schedule an appointment with us today for fast and efficient starter repairs, AC repairs, tire rotations, brake pad replacements, tune-ups, and more. Trust us to keep your car driving safely and smoothly.


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In this body of work, Sandra Mendelsohn Rubin creates small, but meticulously detailed paintings of the rural northern California landscape, often from an aerial perspective.
While in the past she worked solely from life, Rubin utilizes digital photography in her most recent paintings as a supplement to her usual method. Instead of compromising her work, photography as a tool enables Rubin to portray the human presence, made evident through the use of aerial perspectives, in the framework of the natural environment. The use of photography furthers the artist’s desire to further bond her works to the physical world.
On each canvas, there are several layers of undiluted oil paint applied straight form the tube. The detailed application of paint is enhanced by the somewhat diminutive scale of these works, which transforms the impression of far-off space into an intimate experience. These works are inherently small in order to convey intensity of detail in a way that allows the viewer to physically feel a connection with the surface being depicted.
Although the rural northern California landscape remains her inspiration, water has now become the primary focus. It is the element that ties together this particular body of works and is present in some form, whether manmade or natural, on each canvas with the exception of one. The subject of water as a focal point is a reflection on its implicit presence in everyday life.
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By LJK Setright February 1980. Via: The cbxclub
"Browning would have seen the place of the CB900F in the scheme of things, and I think that I can too. It is a very fine motorcycle indeed, one of the very best; but it is not the best. It has only a couple of cylinders fewer than the CBX, only a few horsepower less, is only a few mph slower, takes only a little longer to reach whatever speed you fancy, steers and stops almost as well, is nearly as well furnished, and is not quite so costly either to buy or to run. Ninety-five per cent is enough of a good thing for most people; but let me see now, 95% of 95% of 95%...seven times over, it comes out at seventy per cent. No, it is not that much inferior to the CBX, surely, but if the nearness appeals in the showroom, the shortfalls appear on the road.Not a bikie-poet Robert Browning
There are so many similarities in detail between these two Hondas that we could hardly fail to consider the 900 a sort of bourgeois CBX. Brakes, valvegear, handlebars, even those three-way adjustable rear suspension units have been common to both since we first saw them in Europe, though the U.S. version of the CBX was not so trimly barred nor as adjustably damped--perhaps for the same reason as the CB900F was never intended for the U.S. market at all.
You will remember the subaltern who, asked the place of cavalry in war, described its function as "lending tone to what would otherwise be a vulgar brawl". The CBX does the same for motorcycling, with that effortless superiority which is the mark of the true aristocrat. Alas, a man is often ill at ease with a silver spoon if he was not born with one in his mouth, and it is not difficult to identify among motorcyclists that same resentful rejection of the best because of lack of familiarity with the best. It is a kind of craven lack of confidence, as though a mortal man were offered Aphrodite but, daunted by the prospect, ran back home to the girl next door. Only thus can I account for the failure of the motorcycling world to snap up every CBX made, while they hunt down the CB900F remorselessly.
The CB900F is the king of the superbikes, but the CBX is the hyperbike (and the KZ1300 is merely a megabike, which is not nearly as clever), unique and without peer. Don't tell me that its engine is too wide: It is no wider than the legs of a rider, so it adds nothing to the frontal area, and personally I would rather have my legs shielded by a cylinder apiece than exposed to every blow (whether wind or wallop) that might come their way. Anyway, the four-cylinder engine, needing to have its masses hung on the ends of its crankshaft, is practically as wide down at the levels where ground clearance begins to matter. And no four, not even a flat four, can be as good as an inline six; it cannot be as smooth, as flexible, as easy on the transmission and the rider, as muscular or as musical as the six, all other things being equal--and here they are not equal, for the four is, albeit less powerful, more highly stressed than the six however you like to measure it. From pressures to piston speed, from conrod angularity to ring flutter, the CBX engine takes life remarkably easy, leaving the 900 to toil with the sons of Martha. Yet the CBX engine is as responsive as a racer, the nicest cycle motor to ever reach the street.Most certainly a bikie: LJK Setright, Motoring journalist, musician, scholar of Judaism and smoker.As for the cycle, there are niceties missing from the CB900F that need to be there before it can face up to the aristocrat. Some pains were taken to lighten the inevitably hefty CBX, and they pay dividends: a hollow wheel spindle is not only lighter, it is a better wheelspindle than a solid one. Light-alloy parts, if not made quite as light as their materials might allow, can be stiffer than steel ones.
On paper, I am not in much doubt. On the road, I am in none. The CBX feels better and goes better, and the difference is greater than the difference in price, so the costlier bike is actually the better bargain. There are umpteen details to show why, but a ride does it all. I would have thought the 900 fantastic if I had not ridden the 1047 first; and when I rode the 900, somebody on a 1047 made me sad. A bunch of us were trying the 900 in Germany, but Honda had brought along a brace of sixes ("to lend tone to what otherwise would be a vulgar brawl," no doubt?) and a pair of German riders who set off on them after us caught us just as we were getting wound up on the Autobahn. Had I been alone on the four I would have taken the blame, for though I may be clever I am certainly not quick; but the chaps with whom I was keeping company are most emphatically quick--yet the CBX duo left us for dead, flat-out in the pouring rain and driving wind, with great cross-gusts angling off all the trucks and across all the bridges along the hectically busy road. It was a fair comparison of like for like, for the CBX bikes were (like the CB900F) manufactured to European specification, with proper dampers and riding position and brake pads and so forth. And yet in Germany, too, Honda is selling the 900F in thousands, the CBX in handfuls.The high that proved too high,
the heroic for earth too hard,
The passion that left the ground
to lose itself in the sky,
Are music sent up to God
by the lover and the bard;
Enough that he heard it once;
we shall hear it by-and-by.
I told you that Browning would have understood."


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Joel Ward is a versatile young player who was a scholar with Portsmouth before signing his first professional contract in July 2008. He spent much of the 2008-09 season on loan to League One side Bournemouth where he enjoyed a good run of first-team football before returning to Fratton Park. Joel, who can play across the midfield positions and also at right back and in the centre of defence, is dominant in the air and can read the game well. He had a real breakthrough season in 2010-11, firmly establishing himself in the line-up and becoming a key player in the squad.
Arsenal take on Tottenham in Arsene Wenger's 50th north London derby, which may be his last.
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After a previous spacewalk attempt on 30 November 2021 was cancelled due to a space debris hazard warning, NASA astronauts Kayla Barron and Thomas Marshburn ventured outside the International Space Station (ISS) on 2 December on an extra vehicular activity (EVA) spacewalk to replace a faulty SASA (S-band antenna subassembly) on the P1 truss part of the ISS. The antenna had recently lost its ability to transmit low-rate voice communications and data to flight controllers in mission control.
Marshburn was extravehicular crew member 1 (EV 1), wearing a spacesuit with red stripes and who was on his fifth EVA, with Barron as EV 2 in the plain white spacesuit on her first. The spacewalk lasted just under six and a half ours. After being depressurised the Quest airlock hatch was opened at 1114 GMT. Thomas Marshburn actually ventured outside at 1122 GMT followed by Kyla Barron at 1127 GMT. Marshburn and Barron returned to the Quest airlock and closed the hatch at 1743 GMT with a repressurisation occuring shortly afterwards.
All times from NASA via Jonathan McDowell


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Breakfast In Less Than 10 Minutes
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Breakfast bars are a great way to eat and go. They are packed with many essential nutrients, fibres and carbs; basically, all the ingredients you'll need to keep your mind working overtime until your next meal. Total time required to finish 1 bar: 2 minutes.
If you still don't feel satisfied, gulp down a nice cold glass of skim milk or orange juice, and enjoy the feeling of energy going into your stomach.
In Asia and most Middle Eastern countries, fruits are sometimes considered the only breakfast meal. This is for a few simple, obvious reasons: they're cheap, they're tasty and they're healthy.
I recommend having papayas, apples, oranges, strawberries, blueberries, bananas, grapefruit, pears, and apricots in the morning. To add some substance to these fruity meals, you could add some low-fat yogurt in your bowl and mix the fruits in with a teaspoon of pure honey. It sounds simple, but it's delicious! Total preparation time: 5 minutes, max.
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Breakfast should be a light, fulfilling meal. Fat actually takes away more energy from your body in order to store it. Stay away from the eggs and bacon with buttered toast and sausages.
Donuts are also a definite no-no. Homemade muffins are always better than those bought from outside since grocers and fast food joints always add unnecessary oil and fat to them. Instead, opt for a fruit salad or a cup of plain yogurt with fruits and honey.
2 or more cups of coffee
One cup of coffee in the morning is enough to give you a small boost. However, remember that coffee is a diuretic, and more than one cup in the morning could add stress to your kidneys and your system in general. Try spreading out your coffee consumption to 3 cups per day (max); 1 in the morning, 1 around lunchtime, and 1 right after supper.
This follows with the 1st point... no fat. Try saving that leftover tiramisu for an after-dinner treat, or even better, have it a few hours before you work out.
For all you college and university guys out there, sorry. Pizza is not a breakfast food, unless it's purely vegetarian, with no cheese or meat whatsoever. I guess that does it then. Leave "lunch" foods for lunchtime.
Chocolate or candy
A lollipop or a chocolate truffle is not considered a good source of carbs. In fact, such a high concentration of sugar all at once would actually make you more drowsy than awake. Pure sugar, believe it or not, is actually a mild sedative.
The best way to ensure you'll eat right, at the right time, and fast, is if you organize yourself a bit better in advance. Make sure your fridge is always filled with fruits, juice and milk, and that you have enough cereal and/or breakfast bars handy in your pantry.
If not, then make a shopping list and go buy them the night before. I usually shop for all of these items during the weekend. I hope these simple tips help. Bon appetit!


2SD424 transistor electrical specification
- 2SD424 is a silicon NPN POWER transistor device
- Collector to emitter voltage is 180V
- Collector to base voltage is 180V
- Emitter to base voltage is 5V
- Collector current is 15A
- Pulsed collector current is 20A
- Base current is 5A
- Power dissipation is 150W
- DC current gain is 40 to 140hFE
- Transition frequency (FT) is 5MHz
- Junction temperature is between -55 to 150℃
- Thermal resistance between, the junction to the case is 1℃/W
- Collector to emitter saturation voltage (VCE (SAT)) is 3V
- Output capacitance is 300Pf
- High power dissipation
- High collector to an emitter breakdown voltage
|Pin Number||Pin Name||Description|
|1||Base||Base terminal is the trigger for the transistor|
|2||Emitter||Current flows through the emitter|
|3||Collector||Current flows through the collector|
The 2SD424 power transistor has a TO-3 package, it is a bulkier device package used for power applications.
TO-3 is a two-terminal device and the body itself acts as the third terminal, the outer covering is made of metal which will act as the heat sink for the circuit.
2SD424 transistor electrical specification & application note
Here in this section, we explain the electrical specifications of the 2SD424 transistor, this explanation is really useful for a better understanding of the device and helpful for the replacement process.
The terminal voltage specifications of the 2SD424 transistor are collector to emitter is 180V, collector to the base is 180V, and emitter to the base is 5V, the voltage values indicate it is a high voltage device.
The collector-to-emitter saturation voltage is 3V, which is the voltage used to switching the device.
Overall, the voltage specs show it is a higher-voltage device used for power applications.
The collector current value of the 2SD424 transistor is 15A, it is the maximum load capacity of the device.
The base current value of the 2SD424 transistor is 1.5A, this value indicates the switching current of the device.
2SD424 transistors are been used for power switching applications, on such circuits load capacity is very important.
The power dissipation value of the 2SD424 transistor is 150W, it is the product of voltage and current produced by the transistor.
DC current gain specs
The DC current gain value of the 2SD424 transistor is 40 to 140Hfe, this value is important for amplifier applications.
Transition frequency value of the 2SD424 transistor is 5MHz, frequency value had important at the circuit level.
Maximum temperature value
The maximum temperature value of the 2SD424 transistor is -55 to +150℃.
The output capacitance value of the 2SD424 transistor is 300pF, capacitance values are very important for audio-related applications.
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2SD424 power transistor have equivalent devices such as 2N6676, 2SD753, 2SD0602, 2SD1001, 2SD0602A and 2SD0814A, each of these transistors have almost same electrical specifications.
The 2SD424 transistors have power applications, so specifications like the voltage, current, DC current gain, and PINOUT details are been checked and verified before the replacement process.
2SD424 vs 2N6676
Here in the table below, we list and compare the electrical specifications of 2SD424 and 2N6676, this comparison is really useful for a better understanding of the device.
Characteristics 2SD424 2N6676
Collector to base voltage (VCB) 180V 450V
Collector to emitter voltage (VCE) 180V 300V
Emitter to base voltage (VEB) 5V 8V
Collector to emitter saturation voltage (VCE (SAT)) 3V 1.5V
Collector current (IC) 15A 15A
Pulsed collector current - 20A
Base current 1.5A 5A
Power dissipation 150W 175W
Junction temperature (TJ) -55 to +150°C -65 to +200°C
Transition frequency (FT) 5MHZ 3 to 10MHZ
Gain (hFE) 40 to 140hFE 8hFE
Output capacitance 300pF 500pF
Package TO-3 TO-3
- Power amplifier applications
- Switching circuit applications
- Voltage regulator circuit


Jonas Blue – ‘Polaroid‘ – Not content with having a summer smash hit with the glorious ‘Rise‘ featuring Jack & Jack, unstoppable hit-maker Jonas Blue returns with an even bigger single ‘Polaroid,’ featuring Liam Payne and Nashville star Lennon Stella out now on Positiva via Virgin EMI. It is taken from his debut album Blue, which will be released in November.
Produced by Jonas Blue and written by Jonas, JP Cooper, Sam Romans and Ed Drewett, ‘Polaroid‘ is a heaven sent slice of R&B pop replete with a truly anthemic chorus and an irresistible groove. The video featuring Jonas, Liam and Lennon, was shot in Manhattan.
In addition to his Ibiza residency, Jonas Blue has recently launched a record label Blue Future, as well as spending the summer playing festivals around the world. Having worked on remixes and collaborations for the likes of Ellie Goulding, Becky Hill, MK, James Bay and Sabrina Carpenter, he is quickly establishing himself as a producer, writer, DJ and fast becoming the UKs biggest breakout star this year.
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FROM Denis Davis
Welcome to 'Sequestration' The leaders of both parties in both Houses of Congress met for less than an hour at the White House this morning, but there was no deal to prevent $85 billion in arbitrary, federal budget cuts go into effect today. As both parties and scores of Washington veterans have been saying for months, "Sequestration" was supposedly designed so it would never happen. President Obama says there was no way he could force Congress to negotiate. Republicans, of course, blame the President . We hear about the gradual impact of sequestration across the country. Is the US in a new period of austerity?
Is the threat from Russia missing from the Russia meddling probe? There's much being made about the Trump administration's possible ties with Russia. But the bottom line is Russia's effort to influence American democracy. Do the President and his aides care enough to take action before voters go back to the polls?
What is Trump's plan for Middle East peace? On his first foreign tour, President Trump has promised "peace" between Israel and the Palestinians. Are there any details for re-starting talks that have been stalled for the past three years?
Trump's 'America First' goes missing abroad In the Middle East, President Trump is changing some policies of the Obama Administration—and reversing his own campaign attacks on Islam as a religion that "hates us." We hear about his visit to Saudi Arabia and what's at stake for the rest of his foreign excursion.
Trump plays scolder-in-chief with NATO allies At the opening of NATO’s dramatic new headquarters in Brussels today, President Trump acknowledged that Article 5 — promising that “an attack on one nation is an attack on all” -- has only been invoked one time: in the aftermath of September 11. But the President failed to provide what 27 other Alliance members have been waiting for: a re-commitment by America’s new leader to Article 5. Instead, they got a scolding.


Today, Rudy Giuliani's NYC apartment and office building were raided by the feds who seized a few electronic device. trump employed the "ratfucking talents" of characters from Rudy Giuliani to Roger Stone. This is nothing new. Back in the late 90s early 2000s, Karl Rove was the ratfucker in chief. Today, one of Rove's biggest victims, former AL Governor Don Siegelman returns to the show.


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Gourd Vase Table Lamp - Glazed Ceramic, Crackled White
This gourd shaped porcelain vase table lamp is finished in a crackled white glaze and is available also in crackled tortoiseshell and crackled green.
To order the lampshade with the lamp please see our lampshade collection.
*The lamp is supplied as standard without a base. If you require a base select from the options available.
Due to the nature of the ceramic glaze, the exact colour may vary.
Designed and made in England.
|Weight||6.9kg without lampshade|
|Flex||Gold silk covered braided flex as standard|
|Switch||White inline on flex 45cm from lamp base|
UK - 13A 3 pin
UK - 5A 3 pin
EU - Type F 2 pin
|Lampshade||Shown with: 17" Pembroke Laminated Shade in Lily Linen (lampshade sold separately)- See Lampshade Collections for full details|
|Delivery||3/4 weeks from date of order|
|Note||This item is custom made to order so can not be returned for refund|