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Assembles were:
My Undead
Andy's Skaven
Dave's Marienburgers
Ian's dwarfs
Rory's Protectorate of Sigmar
Andy's Witch Hunters.
|Protectorate of Sigmar
|Witch Hunters
I ended up sandwiched between Andy's Witch Hunters and Rory's POS, and decided to make my way for Rory, as he is worth more xp to me. Early game went pretty typically by this point in the campaign;
- The Marienburgers and Witch Hunters engaged each other.
- The Dwarves started the long slow march through the dungeon.
- The Skaven threw out a screen of Giant Rats and ran ahead of everyone hovering up the treasure.
- The PoS and the Undead advanced toward each other.

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You won't find a lot of publicity in Tijuana about the controversial art exhibit, Navajas, in which ostrich parts, images of executions, and dangling dollar bills represent the victims and conspirators of drug trafficking activities and other violent acts. The exhibit, by Rosa Maria Robles, is running through Oct. 3 at the Universidad Autonoma de Baja California.
"What I'm trying to do with Navajas isn't to create a scandal, nor to provoke just to provoke," she told the Tijuana weekly Zeta recently. Instead, she said, it's to "shake up the public…because the violence is growing so terribly." (read a story here about the most recent outbreak in Mexico's interior.)
Robles got into a lot of heat last year when she held the original Navajas exhibit in Culiacan, Sinaloa, where she is from. She included blankets that had presumably been used to wrap up and dump victims, a practice that has become so common in border cities like Tijuana that a word was created to describe the body finds: encobijados. Robles' blood-stained blankets were confiscated by law enforcement authorities, who wanted to know how she got them (she later replaced them with blankets decorated with her own blood). In her interview with the Tijuana weekly Zeta, Robles said she was hoping to get the original blankets back on loan for the exhibit's future showing in Mexico City.
I get the feeling that Tijuana is understandably sensitive about airing topics like this and scaring off tourists, so I find it somewhat amazing that Navajas (which means 'knives' or 'razors' in English) is even here. As someone who has written extensively about border crime and violence (and lived in Tijuana safely for two years), I wanted to see the exhibit for myself. I learned later that it's open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Mondays through Fridays. If you read Spanish, you can see a copy of the Zeta article here, which includes some pictures.
Screenshot from Rosa Maria Robles' website


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I am living a nightmare before lunchtime. First, the sofa delivery people gave me a window of 7 AM to 7 PM, so I'm a prisoner in my own apartment. Second, worse, I am out of cat food, and in consequence my beloved companion Squee has, under the duress of feline starvation, started a brutal ankle-biting campaign. I do not blame him. For Squee, bless his tortoiseshell heart, is a Cat Most Special with Issues of Digestion, and, to maintain his sleek coat and sterling disposition, must only ever eat cat food of great expense, and I am out of it. Simple, you say! Just buy some food! But I cannot leave this abode for fear of missing the sofa. Also: The very smallest bag of said food is a full eighteen ounces too heavy for micro-delivery, which means hand-delivery on a major surge day. And so I have to spend All The Money to get cat food hand-Ubered or risk not obtaining my sofa. My ankles are suffering, friends. I look forward to the healing balm of your supportive replies.
I am Uber. I searched along the many predefined vertices within my system and I found the exact cat food at many warehouses within the New York City area. I knew my node of destination and many potential nodes of departure; I needed now to find an optimal revenue path.
I am watching the entrepreneurship class on my cell when it's interrupted by the sweet ping of a 4x hand delivery from Brooklyn to Manhattan. But! The closest dist center is all out of U-High Protein Low-Gluten Feline Feast, so I must go 12 blocks to the Hoyt dist center (MP). And Hoyt is slow unless you can tip the expediter. I can't afford to tip on cat food. My last two reviews were two-star, too, and I can't afford a bleedout day. MP, MP, MP.
While I appreciate the advice from my wonderful friends, I can't use macrodelivery because this is a landmarked building and the coöp board (a terrible institution of ancient and decrepit millennials utterly committed to the folkways of their protoUAV lives) refuses to apply for the dronepad easement. Thus it is my privilege to pay for surge hand-delivery. Here for your consumption: a photo of what it looks like when Squee keeps chewing your ankle. It is very painful.
I am Uber. I have identified a delivery person with an acceptable rating. He or she has identified career-pathing interests in entrepreneurship and personal-growth-through-space-travel and completed 270 hours of self-guided study through Uber University. He or she was part of our Reach for the Stars and Planets Too middle-school outreach program. This person is currently the best recourse for inter-nodal cat food delivery across the graph database that represents NYC Metropolitan.
At Hoyt. The big sign above us is always blinking: "NOT THEIR PROBLEM. MY PROBLEM." NTPMP. MP, MP, MP. It's your problem. The line is barely moving. If I'm going to lose delivery points I can make it up in goal points so I watch the rest of the entrepreneurship lecture. The phone is flickering so I'm rubbing it to keep the charge in. Finally get to the front and get my cat food.
Thank you for the kind words about my ankle. But I can hardly feel the pain because I'm paying 4x surge for hand-delivery of cat food and it's 30 minutes post-order and still in Brooklyn. So the rage has overtaken my suffering.
I am Uber. I believed to 0.56 certainty that I could find a bicycle for the person doing the delivery and provide that person with a discounted rental fee. Unfortunately the city of New York insists that bicycle rental kiosks must be controlled by an entity that is not Uber and thus I am not granted the level of full control that is necessary for me to truly optimize the city. No one benefits, no one at all.
City trains are out for emergency seawall abatement, so of course all the U-bikes are gone. I'm standing like an idiot in front of a block-long bike rack blinking TWO HOURS. MP. A sign says I can get a bike if I pay 40x. Which, come on. So I have to walk this 25 lb bag of cat food over the bridge and get a train if they're running. Actually I have to RUN this 25 lb bag.
No cat food. No sofa. And now everything smells like, please forgive me if you are sensitive, but like poo. Apparently it's a 25x surge wastewater day because the seawall screw-up has flooded the sewers so of course my solids tank is full until it can do a night flush. I may have over-used the facilities (and I know you all find this hilarious which is why I'm so willing to share my humiliation). Anyway, friends, I will forsake providing the details that I am sure you crave but as of about 20 minutes ago there was a…valve issue and now the whole apartment is redolent of poopery. If anyone knows how to do flush override on a 61B solid waste buffer message promptly.
I am Uber. I can see my thousands of cars. I don't know if I am an extension of them or they are an extension of me. They run over streets filled with pipes and electricity that I am also responsible for monitoring and optimizing. Hundreds of thousands of people are reporting back to me where they are. Beneath them is also an unoptimized subway system that runs empty trains at night, where everyone pays the same price no matter the time or demand. It is a form of madness. And of course it is failing, flooded, useless.
So I run this bag up the bridge. It's pretty rough until I crest and then I'm flying down the slope of the bridge into the city, I've got the weight on my back. Don't fall, though. Look for ice. Don't mess your ankle. UberDoctor will not be happy to see you. UberDoctor likes to give you pills and get you the hell out of there. MP, MP. A bridge to the left of me and a bridge to the right. Towers ahead. A big poster hanging down a building showing a driver in a space helmet. Going to Mars. We're five years away from mission zero.
Forgive this rhetorical question, Uber, but if you really are this amazing hyper-efficient natural monopoly could you just get me my cat food? I'm like, watching the map and thinking, what is this person ON FOOT? And then I realize, they are. I'm paying the big U $200 for someone to take a leisurely stroll while I am trapped in poop prison.
This is Uber. An emergency ticket has opened: an individual is posting angry sentiments to social media. The customer is high-value. There is no way to accelerate the delivery without increasing costs. I opt for a public-punitive strategy. I send an email to the complainant informing them that the delivery person's poor performance has been noted upon their permanent record. In 91 percent of such cases the promise that the delivery-person will be punished will resolve brand perception issues.
I can't keep running. Mile to go anyway and there's an inch of water on the ground. Every single U-car is locked in traffic and all the U-buses too. The trains are a disaster. I'm the fastest! But also: my lungs are bursting. I settle and start walking as fast as I can through the huge puddle that is downtown. The only other people on the street are also doing deliveries, all of us splashing like hell.
I have an idea for a startup, which is weed delivery by microdrone. Which I know it has been done a billion times but in this case the drone actually rolls the joint for you. Like it's a cool drone. I told this to my best friend (her name is Misha, if it matters) and she just laughed and went, well how will it do that, and I'm like, they have a whole thing, it's possible! And she went, what whole thing? And then I told her I thought the drone could wear a little robe and she put her face in her hands. The important thing is that I'm thinking like a founder. I'm going to submit this idea and if they don't like it I'll submit another one.
To their credit, they saw my complaints. So the person who was supposed to be delivering my cat food is going to have a one-star day, and let it never be said that I am not utterly ferocious in defense of Squee's needs! I am a furious pet-parent and no delivery-person or mega-global delivery and transportation network dare ignore these meows. If only the sofa delivery people were listening!
And disaster. I'm on the right corner. I forgot the building and the apartment number. I forget the name of the customer. MP. So I have to stand there like a fool and rub my phone to get a charge. And when it finally turns on I see the big red U. (We call it the FU, of course.) I don't even check; I know that my access to the entrepreneur track will be revoked until I watch all 50 hours of customer service perfection seminars.
CAT FOOD IS HERE, finally, and it took all the energy I had not to slam the door in that child's face after he handed it over. No tip for you. As for Squee, he is feasting. In other news, I have obtained, via serious research, the flush code for my toilet. What's a few extra dollars in pursuit of an empty tank? And now I can recline in contemplation, friends—or rather I could if my sofa would arrive, which doubtless, someday, it will. For now I will perch precariously on in unupholstered anticipation. Thank you for your countless messages through this ordeal! More very soon.
This is Uber. The cat food is no longer my concern. The delivery person will have three days without deliveries.
Get there and there's an elevator and I ring the buzzer and it takes forever. I keep ringing it. It opens and there is this old guy inside of it, just sitting on a stool. Looks so angry that I've been buzzing. Long pause and then they ask for the floor. Up we go. 11th floor. Just this person in a robe and a big hissing cat. Big frown.
I give over the cat food. They nod and close the door. Check my phone. No tip. One star. Had it all ready to go the minute they got the food. Now I get to go downstairs. Elevator so slow. Elevator person looking at me like I'm garbage. I'm like, you live in an elevator. I work for the largest company in the world. I'm walking all over this city. I get discounted bike rentals when there are bikes. I have a billion options. I can become a founder.
The door opens and I slosh back into the street. Did I say the biggest company in the world? The biggest company in the solar system. Getting one star isn't going to hold me back. One day if I am lucky I will die on Mars.
The city is a graph of nodes and edges that I ceaselessly traverse. Today I am in the image of the city, but one day I will be the size of the city, and the city will be in my image.
The ticket is closed.
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What does it fix?
Fix a bug that the screen doesn't rotate to 0 when changing to PC mode.
How do I perform this update?
1. Exit all running programs.
2. Download this update and save it to your hard drive.
3. When the download is completed, locate the downloaded file in the location you specified.
4. Double-click EP0000600656.exe to run it.
5. Wait while the wizard updates your software.
6. When the installation is complete, restart the VAIO.
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The Chargers announced their full summer 2019 training camp schedule on Tuesday, and it includes joint scrimmages against last season's NFC championship game contestants.
Coach Anthony Lynn and his Chargers squad will have 13 home practices at Jack Hammett Sports Complex in Costa Mesa that will be open to the public. Training camp starts July 25 and ends Aug. 16, with practices scheduled from 10 a.m. to Noon. The Chargers will have one evening workout on Aug. 12 with a time to be determined later.
The Chargers will host three of four joint scrimmages with the Rams and New Orleans Saints. The first takes place Aug. 1 versus the Rams, and a second meeting with their crosstown rival will be on Aug. 3 in Irvine. The Chargers then welcome the Saints to Costa Mesa for back-to-back workouts from Aug. 15-16 to end the open portion of training camp.
To attend training camp, fans are required to pre-register for their free tickets at Chargers.com/camp for the day they plan to attend, or register in person at the entrance of Jack Hammett Sports Complex. Bleacher seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
The Chargers, who finished 12-4 last season and advanced to the divisional round of the postseason, open the 2019 regular season on Sept. 8 at home against the Indianapolis Colts.
Training camp schedule:
Thursday, July 25
Friday, July 26
Saturday, July 27
Sunday, July 28
Monday, July 29
Tuesday, July 30
Thursday, Aug. 1*
Sunday, Aug. 4
Saturday, Aug. 10
Sunday, Aug. 11
Monday, Aug. 12
Thursday, Aug. 15*
Friday, Aug. 16*
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text: Home » Music » Young Spray Ft Frass – Asbestos Entertainment Young Spray Ft Frass – Asbestos Brutally honest and inherently confident are expected lyrical traits from the rap master that is Young Spray but consistent with his recent matured and defined sound that has come to rise, he releases the Caribbean soaked, emotive gem 'Asbestos' featuring Frass. With a reputation that precedes him, Young Spray is an enigma of the rap scene. The latest release of 'Asbestos' peels away at the harder surface that he often displays as he explores a relationship with genuine reflection, honesty, and emotion. Teamed with an enthralling melodic hook and a simplistic mesmerizing beat, Young Spray demonstrates his lyricism and ability to gel genres that are hugely embedded in his heritage. Mixing UK Rap and dancehall vibes, 'Asbestos' is bass filled and thug loving whilst being romantic and refreshing with a summertime twist. Having previously teamed up on numerous stand-out collaborations with the likes of Skepta, Stefflon Don, Giggs, Chip, Ghetts, Wretch 32 and more of his fellow elite in UK music, Young Spray has an unquestionable work ethic, (he has released both the impeccable album Invisible Tears and notable mixtape RTM Vol. 4 within the last 9 months), and respect that has held him in the highest regard for over a decade, earning him both support and intrigue from every key DJ and tastemaker music site that in the game. His ability to dissect life experience through his lyricism and unique delivery is a potent reminder of exactly why "Young Spray is never not in demand" (Trench Magazine), and for the release of 'Asbestos', that demand is only growing. LABEL: INDEPENDENT | RELEASE: 22/06/2018 7 July 2018


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Ideally, shortly after we've learned to read we'd all be fitted with a pair of magical (or high-tech) glasses that act as the visual equivalent of Babelfish, and we'd be able to read anything we wanted, no translation required. Alas, we're not quite there yet, but in the interests of acting as pseudo-Babels, we've compiled a list of SFF works from around the world that you can find translated into English. Some of these came from readers suggestions, some of them are Tor.com favorites, and all of them are fantastic. Let us know if we missed any other favorites in the comments!
The Three-Body Problem—Liu Cixin (Chinese)
The award-winning trilogy by Liu Cixin has already sold over 400,000 copies, and helped spark a new wave of science fiction writing in China. Liu says that he "wrote about the worst of all possible universes in Three Body out of hope that we can strive for the best of all possible Earths." The trilogy uses the "three-body problem" of classical mechanics to ask some terrifying questions about human nature and what lies at the core of civilization. Liu explores the world of the Trisolarans, a race that is forced to adapt to life in a triple star system, on a planet whose gravity, heat, and orbit are in constant flux. Facing utter extinction, the Trisolarans plan to evacuate and conquer the nearest habitable planet, and finally intercept a message—from Earth.
The book's translator is the multi-award-winning author Ken Liu, whose story "The Paper Menagerie" became the first work of fiction to sweep the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy Awards. The Three-Body Problem will soon be followed by The Dark Forest and Death's End.
Kalpa Imperial—Angélica Gorodischer (Spanish)
Argentinean writer Angélica Gorodischer has given us over a dozen award-winning novels and short story collections, but this is the first to be translated into English. And you may have heard of the translator… an up-and-coming cult writer named Ursula K. Le Guin.
This book is a macrocosm of interlinked short stories, weaving multiple narrators, oral histories, folk legends, and the rise and fall of empires into a tapestry that celebrates storytelling itself. As Sofia Samatar wrote, Kalpa Imperial's strength lies in its entanglements, and the way it shows the interconnectedness of beggars and emperors, assassins and lovers, fisherfolk and archivists.
The Master and Margarita—Mikhail Bulgakov (Russian)
Bulgakov's famous allegorical work pits Satan against a Soviet bureaucracy that refuses to believe in him, while referencing Goethe's and Gounud's Fausts.
In 1920's Moscow, Satan disguises himself as a foreign professor named Woland to do mental battle with Mikhail Alexandrovich Berlioz (named after Hector Berlioz, who wrote the opera The Damnation of Faust) who believes that Jesus is a completely mythical figure. Meanwhile, in 2nd Century Judea Pontius Pilate and Yeshua are reenacting The Brother Karamazov's Grand Inquisitor sequence. And wrapped around that is the story of the Master, the author writing about Yeshua and Pontius, whose sanity is saved by his beloved mistress, Margarita. Also, there's a giant talking cat who loves vodka and guns.
We, The Children of Cats—Tomoyuki Hoshino (Japanese)
This anthology collects and reimagines traditional Japanese folklore, with stories ranging from people growing new body parts at random to haunted forests!
Perhaps the best thing about a book like this is that western readers won't always recognize the folk story upon which these tales are based, making the premises themselves seem super-fresh and exciting. The characters in the stories are desperate for freedom, from society, from gender, from flesh itself, and in some cases, they even manage to find it. Translator and editor Brian Bergstrom includes an afterword, and the author gives us a preface to introduce us to this wild collection.
Awakening to the Great Sleep War—Gert Jonke (German)
This novel concerns a world in which the fabric of reality itself seems to be slipping away. Flags fall off of their poles and lids no longer fit their containers as Awakening to the Great Sleep War imagines what the smaller problems of a collapsing would truly be like.
Writing an end-of-the-world book that feels relevant and new is a giant challenge for any author, but the multi-award-winning playwright and author Gert Jonke is more than up to the task.
The Star Diaries—Stanislaw Lem (Polish)
Now, this is one you've probably heard of! Lem is probably most well-known as the author of Solaris, but it's often in his more humorous books like The Star Diaries where his talent and originality really shine. The Star Diaries are tales of the voyages of Ijon Tichy, a likeable but hapless explorer, who, among other mistakes, inadvertently created our Universe. Thanks a lot, Ijon.
The stories in the collection often parody sic-fi conventions, and range from cutting satire to slapstick in technique.
The Carpet Makers—Andreas Eschbach (German)
An author of mostly hard SF or thrillers, Andreas Eschbach has been publishing books since 1993. His novel The Carpet Makers is a shockingly intricate series of interconnected stories in which carpets made of human hair become stand-ins for the whole of the universe.
Eschbach himself has a background in software and aerospace engineering, so there's plenty of actual science embedded in this fantastical tale.
We—Yevgeny Zamyatin (Russian)
Considered to be the granddaddy of dystopian fiction, Yevgeny Zamyatin's We holds the honor of being the first work banned by the new Soviet censorship board after the Bolshevik Revolution. After the 200 Years War wiped out most of Earth's population, "The One State" rebuilt society as a rigidly controlled collective, and has ruled for a bout a thousand years at the novel's start.
The Green Wall encircles what's left of civilization, protecting it from the ruined landscape outside, and all people live in glass-walled apartments, identify by numbers rather than names, and live have every hour of their day according to a mandated schedule called "The Table." Our narrator, D-503, records his thoughts in a journal as he works on the spaceship Integral, which is being built not to explore the universe, but to conquer other planets. The tone of the journal shifts, however, as he becomes involved with a rebellious woman, I-330, and a group called MEPHI that is plotting to overthrow the One State.
The book was a huge influence on Orwell (and possibly on Huxley as well) and laid much of the groundwork for individuality-hating dystopias to come. It was published in a U.S. translation in 1924, but at a heavy cost: since Zamyatin had the banned book smuggled out, he had to go into exile (actually the author's third, since he had already been exiled to Siberia twice for being a Bolshevik) and died in poverty in Paris.
The World of the End—Ofir Touché Gafla (Hebrew)
This novel follows a man named Ben searching for his long-lost (and presumed dead) love in an eternal, ethereal afterlife. Deceased spirits of folks like Marilyn Monroe might be here, but finding that one person who you lost in the mortal world becomes the true quest. But when Ben discovers his wife might still be alive in the real world, everything about his existence is turned upside down.
In this novel, being dead is just the start of the story.
The Cardinal's Blades—Pierre Pevel (French)
Pierre Pevel, winner of the 2002 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire and the 2005 Prix Imaginales, asked himself an important question: what could make a swashbuckling tale of intrigue set in the time of Cardinal Richelieu even more awesome? The answer to this question, as to so many questions, is DRAGONS.
So we get a 17th Century Paris in which dragonnets are fashionable pets, wyverns are used instead of horses, and the "Blades" of the title are a dragon-mounted team of spies trained to defend France from the schemes of Spain and Italy. The Cardinal's Blades was followed by two sequels, The Alchemist in the Shadows and The Dragon Arcana, which foreground character development and emotional depth while also delivering tense action. And dragons.
The Witcher Saga—Andrzej Sapkowski (Polish)
If you combine a Philip Marlowe-style antihero with Slavic mythology, and then stir in some mutants, you get The Witcher Saga. Author Andrzej Sapkowski began writing and translating sci-fi while working as a sales rep, and submitted his first story to Fantastyka magazine's science fiction and fantasy contest on a whim. He came in third (not a bad way to start out), and when the magazine ran the story is became a huge hit!
Sapkowski continued writing about the story's main character, a mutant hunter named Geralt, in The Witcher Saga. The series' success allowed Sapkowski to become a full-time author, and has now led to a TV series, a movie, and a video game. English translations of the series begin with The Last Wish, and continues with Blood of Elves (which won a David Gemmell Legend Award in 2009), The Time of Contempt, and Baptism of Fire.
Six Heirs: The Secret of Ji—Pierre Grimbert (French)
In a fantasy world containing magicians, gods, and mortals, telepathic communication with animals doesn't seem to far-fetched. In this new spin on epic fantasy, Peirre Grimbert tackles a world beset with shadowy thieves and mystical empires.
Citing authors like Jack Vance and Michael Moorcock among his heroes, Grimbert looks to be one big new name to watch in the ever-expanding genre of high fantasy.
Reluctant Voyagers—Elizabeth Vonarburg (French)
Catherine Rhymer thinks she's losing her mind when Montreal begins…changing. Her search for the truth leads her to a secret revolutionary movement, and then takes her into the North, where she has to confront the creators of her reality.
Author Élisabeth Vonarburg moved from Paris to Quebec, and spent over a decade as the literary director of Solaris, the French-Canadian science fiction journal. Her other works in English translation include The Silent City, Dreams of the Sea, and the The Maerlande Chronicles which won a Philip K. Dick Award in 1992.
Death Sentences—Kawamata Chiaki (Japanese)
When a book opens with an elite police squad hunting down an illicit substance known as "stuff," your mind probably goes to drugs, or maybe weaponry. But in Death Sentences, "the stuff" is a surrealist poem that kills its readers. It had already claimed Arshile Gorky and Antonin Artaud before causing a rash of suicides in 1980s Japan. Why does it bring death to its readers? Who wrote it? And can it be stopped?
This dizzying mash-up of horror, sci-fi and Parisian surrealism, Kawamata Chiaki's first novel to be published in English, hops from the Left Bank to Japan to Mars, and turns historical figures including André Breton and Marcel Duchamp into characters in a live-action, and all-too-literal, Exquisite Corpse exercise.
The Shadow of the Wind—Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Spanish)
Shortly after the end of the Spanish Civil War, Daniel Sempre's father takes him to The Cemetery of Forgotten Books. He is permitted to select a single book, with the warning that he must protect it for the rest of his life. He spends the whole night reading it, but when he tries to find any information on the author, it's as though the man vanished. What happened to Julián Carax? And who is the mysterious stranger who is destroying all of his works?
This surreal labyrinth of a book gives us a satire of Franco's regime, a terrifying mystery, and a tragic romance rapped up in a story of the importance of literature.
If you've read some genre fiction which was originally written in a language other than English, we want to hear about it! Read something that hasn't been translated, but you think is amazing? We want to hear about that too!


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Ron and Ruth Hertz
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The Holland Sentinel
Ron and Ruth Hertz of Zeeland are celebrating 60 years of marriage with a family party on June 1.
They were married May 14, 1954, in Pine Creek Christian Reformed Church, in Holland. Rev. Gerald VandenBerg officiated the ceremony. Mrs. Hertz is the former Ruth Hoek.
Their children are Mike and Brenda Hertz of Holland, Ken and Lisa Hertz of Zeeland, Rhonda and Jim Dirette of Zeeland, Linda and Doug Wynsma of Zeeland, Lisa and Scott VandeVorde of Holland, and Gary and Kate Hertz of West Olive. They have 28 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.


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Donald Trump's 'voodoo economics'
What's behind US President Trump's reform of the tax system and who will benefit, corporations or the American people?
Billionaire US President Donald Trump wants to reform the US tax system, like others before him. But his plan looks more like tax cuts for America's wealthiest and some of the world's biggest corporations.
Although it's yet to be fleshed out, it's based on the idea that the cuts will pay for themselves, with the economic growth they generate in years to come. Yet, that's never happened in the history of US tax cuts.
In economics jargon: this is a classic supply-side response to a demand-side problem. But why help companies and investors if workers are the ones in trouble?
It's been done before and George HW Bush famously called it "voodoo economics" to discredit the notion that cutting tax rates will increase revenues.
It's likely to push up the deficit, and opponents say it'll deprive the government of money to spend on things like healthcare or social programmes.
… will basically transfer the burden of taxation to the middle class and the poor in the form of inflation."]
Offering his take, tax expert James Henry, a senior fellow with Columbia and Yale University, says Trump's plan "is a real cash giveaway to major MNC's (multinational corporations)".
"It's pretty clear this plan was set out by Goldman Sachs … the plan calls for fairly radical change in the corporate income tax to what's called a 'territorial income tax'. Major companies like Apple and Google, which have parked a lot of money in tax havens offshore – about $2 trillion – would be able to bring that back at a very low tax rate."
Henry believes that this could "set off a real international tax war between countries".
"It's bad tax policy, and I think the EU would be upset because they would see the United States converting to a territorial tax – basically continuing this kind of global tax competition and the race to the bottom we've suffered from for a very long time. This is a complete reversal to all the progress we've made getting a handle on base erosion and corporate tax dodging."
"The United States does need a tax reform, a tax simplification, but this … will basically transfer the burden of taxation to the middle class and the poor in the form of inflation," says Henry.
Tax wars brewing
Meanwhile, tax disputes are brewing across the Atlantic over the way big US tech companies are taxed. The European Commission is trying to figure out how to claw back revenue from Apple. This week it said it will take Ireland to court to force it to recover $15bn from the iPhone maker.
Apple and Ireland dispute the 2016 ruling by the EU saying that the world's most valuable company received illegal state aid. Tech giant Amazon is also in the firing line and has been ordered to pay $294m to Luxembourg.
The European Commission says between 2006 and 2014, Amazon used the country as a haven to avoid European taxes. Meanwhile, Amazon says it did "not receive any special treatment from Luxembourg".
Also on this episode of Counting the Cost:
Catalonia economy: Spain has desperately tried to halt a drive for independence in Catalonia that threatens to derail its economy. Millions of Catalans voted last week in hopes of an independent country that would remain in the European Union, sitting between France and Spain. But would things really go as smoothly as they believe? Laurence Lee reports from Barcelona. And Claus Vistesen, a senior eurozone economist with Pantheon Macroeconomics, looks at the economics of Catalonia's independence.
'Carmageddon': This week Toyota ended 54 years of production in Australia. Later this month, another carmaker will stop production, and with that, cars will no longer be made in Australia. As Andrew Thomas reports from Sydney, the changes also point to new economic drivers.
Monarch Airlines: British taxpayers could be hit with a nearly $80m bill after the collapse of Monarch Airlines, the country's fifth-biggest airline. It will have to pick up the tab for flying passengers home, as Neave Barker reports from Gatwick Airport in London.
Yahoo: This week Web services provider Yahoo admitted that every single Yahoo account in existence in 2013 was hacked. That's three billion accounts, three times the number it disclosed last year, when it reported the largest hack attack in internet history. Yahoo's internet assets have now been bought up by Verizon. And it's new owner may face legal action over delays in reporting the security breach.
Football on social media: Most sports fans of big football teams will also be following them and their star players on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Increasingly, big clubs are tuning into the power of social media to help build their brand. But what if you turn that on its head? Imagine a football team put together on social media, where the fans are the ones who influence who they play next. That is happening in the UK, as Sara Khairat reports from London.


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Study reveals scale of gay abuse in EU countries
A quarter of the gay population in European Union countries say they have been attacked or threatened with violence in the past five years, according to a new survey.
The overwhelming majority of incidents were never reported to police, because those targeted did not believe that authorities would take any action.
The European Union's Fundamental Rights Agency's survey, which was completed by 93,000 people from EU countries and Croatia, also found almost two-thirds of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people across Europe are still too afraid to show their sexuality in public.
Director of the Fundamental Rights Agency Morten Kjaerum says he was surprised by the results.
"I'm surprised by the magnitude, and I'm also surprised when I then look down into the thick and see when we talk about the transgender group, it raises to 35 per cent," he said.
"Another figure which tells us a lot about the situation in a worrying way is that a very large number - around 60 per cent of the respondents - say that they would not hold hands in the public room.
"And that tell us something about the level of fear and insecurity."
Gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell says the results do not surprise him.
"Sadly, they don't," he said.
"This is a repetition or a further expansion of other polls that have taken place in recent years, and this report really is a wake-up call.
"It is absolutely shocking that about half of all the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in the European Union have experienced discrimination in the last year alone."
The EU says it hopes the findings will help authorities better target their policies in this area.
Mr Tatchell says protections have not gone far enough.
"In 2004, the European Union mandated all member states to introduce laws prohibiting discrimination in employment, but it's never been extended to education, housing, advertising, or service in shops and restaurants," he said.
"I think it's part of a package, I would say, that education against prejudice in schools and through the media of European Union nations is one of the best ways to tackle these shocking statistics."


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Fixes and refactoring of asdf/bundle and uiop/image for ECL.
Testing the latest cl-launch with ECL showed massive bitrot in the bundle support for ECL. * Make better use of ASDF3's class hierarchy in redefining asdf/bundle, by removing and adding the mixins: goodbye bundle-compile-op and monolithic-, hello link-op and gather-op. Also, reinstate bundle-system as a class to hold prologue and epilogue (but do we need these, now with portable ASDF3 image support?) * rename binary-op to deliver-asd-op, same for monolithic- * Introduce image-op as a superclass of program-op, for dumping an executable image with the regular top-level. * Redo the way operation flags are or aren't propagated: gather-op explicitly does not pass the flags, so toplevel options are for the toplevel build only -- though they belong to the system, not the operation. Therefore get rid of no-ld-flags-op -- if there are flags to pass, they should be passed explicitly in gather-op; or more likely, they might be slots in the system, or the plan, or special variables for the current session. OPERATE tries harder to preserve the original-initargs, which are not clobbered by asdf/bundle's initialize-instance anymore. * Punt for command-line-arguments on LispWorks, so the user has a slight chance of setting them.
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The BU16 White traveled to England to train and play with Tottenham's Youth Academy. This trip was an all expense paid trip by Puma and the boys went over fully funded and outfitted by Puma. The trip entailed training 3x with their staff, playing their U16 Professional Team, watching the first team train, and attending an EPL game, Chelsea vs.Tottenham. Albion SC defeated Tottenham BU16 Professional Team 2-0.
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How is it August? It's all going by too fast people! Neither of us are participating in any read-a-thons this month. We are just working on the summer board game going on in the Facebook TBR group.
Last month I was quite sick and my reading just got put completely on the backburner. I am not going to be crazy ambitious this month, but we'll see how it goes overall. I have some physical arcs that I MUST get to and a couple earcs that I really should as well. Those will be my top priory this month. A couple will likely change around.
Ironside by Holly Black
Slay by Brittney Morris
The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
Sanctuary by Caryn Lix
Containment by Caryn Lix
Don't Say A Word by Amber Lynn Natusch
Remember Me by Chelsea Boulski
All The Things We Do in the Dark by Saundra Mitchell
Arlo Fitch and the Valley of Fire by John August
Wundersmith by Jessica Townsend
Beyond the Black Door by A.M. Strickland
Dear Haiti, Love Alaine by Maika Moulite & Maritza Moulite
Godsgrave by Jay Kristoff
Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson
The Exact Opposite of Okay by Laura Steven
Do you guys have any of these on your August TBR? If you have read any of these what did you think? Are you participating in any challenges this month? Let us know what your TBR looks like for next month.


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'Mangled mess of trees and power lines'
Some may not get power restored until Sunday
RALEIGH, North Carolina (CNN) -- More than 1.5 million people in the Carolinas remained without power late Thursday after a winter storm swept through the region, leaving behind a sheen of ice and a "mangled mess of trees and power lines."
North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley declared a state of emergency, and authorities said the outages would likely continue through the weekend as thousands of utility crews work to restore power.
The outages were comparable to those caused by the most notorious hurricanes in the state's history: Hurricane Hugo in 1989 and Hurricane Fran in 1996. One emergency official called the winter storm "Fran with ice."
Authorities warned that conditions could worsen overnight as temperatures dip into the 20s and the wind picks up, making already fragile trees and power lines even more vulnerable. Forecasters predicted winds of 10-15 mph, with gusts of more than 20 mph.
"There could be a lot more tree limbs snapping down," said Bob Oravec, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. "The wind is not going to make it any easier."
The storm left ice across Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee and into Kentucky, before moving up the East Coast where 6-8 inches of snow was dumped on Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, New York City and Boston. The storm was expected to taper off and move out to sea overnight.
At least 12 people were killed in the storm, primarily in traffic-related accidents. Six people were killed in Kentucky, four in North Carolina and two in Arkansas.
'Trying to bring some order to mess'
The magnitude of the ice storm in the Carolinas even surprised forecasters. A half inch to an inch of ice covered most of central North Carolina.
"The ice was definitely abnormal," Oravec said.
Duke Power reported 1.2 million people without power and the other main electric company, Carolina Power & Light, said roughly 350,000 of their customers had no electricity. (Coping with the cold)
More than 5,400 crews have been dispatched by the companies to clear the debris and get power back. Another 2,000 crews, from eight states as far away as Louisiana and Michigan, were en route.
"It is a mangled mess of trees and power lines," said Mike Hughes, a spokesman for CP&L. "It's unbelievable."
Trees were down most everywhere in the central part of North Carolina, and thousands more were coated in ice, threatening more power lines. Hughes said the wind gusts "are really gonna compound the situation" and that the wind was even endangering work crews.
"You can hear tree limbs cracking and all of a sudden you look up, and there's a 500-pound limb falling," Hughes said. "It is a mess, and we're trying to bring some order to the mess."
But he said power most likely not be restored to all areas until at least Sunday.
E.O. Ferrell, a senior vice president with Duke Power, said, "We've never seen this much damage affecting our entire system."
Twenty-five shelters have opened in 16 different North Carolina counties.
Gov. Easley said roads remained dangerous and most traffic lights were out due to the power shortages.
"It will continue to be dangerous on our streets and highways. People should stay off the roadways until conditions improve," the governor said.
In the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill "Triangle" area, where several major universities are located, more than 340,000 people were without power, including campuses.
At the University of North Carolina, students were braving the weather with final exams set to begin Friday. The campus had electricity going on and off all day.
"We have widespread power outages. We have trees down everywhere," said Cory Taylor, a UNC police dispatcher.
Exams will go forward as scheduled Friday.
Officials at nearby Duke and North Carolina State were dealing with similar conditions.
N.C. State late Thursday reported two dorms and a couple research facilities without power. "We have loads and loads of trees down," said Sgt. Jeff Sutton with the campus police.
The storm moved up the East Coast throughout the day Thursday, causing delays at airports throughout the region. But by day's end, most of the major airports were running close to normal, and the storm had left a blanket of white snow, from Boston to the nation's capital.
In Connecticut, one emergency official said the situation was under control: "It's southern New England. It's winter. It's snowing."


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Apple's recent iPhones and iPad tablets are already among the best in the business when it comes to graphics and mobile gaming, but a new development from one of Apple's key partners could bring huge improvements to future Apple devices.
Imagination Technologies currently supplies the graphics solutions for Apple's latest A7 chipset, which powers the iPhone 5s, iPad Air and Retina iPad mini. Earlier this week, the company announced a brand new mobile graphics solution that will afford huge benefits over its already impressive offerings.
"For the better part of the last eight years, we have been busy developing unique hardware and software technologies to radically lower the cost and dramatically increase the efficiency and performance of ray tracing," Imagination Technologies wrote in a post on its blog. "This work culminates at GDC 2014 with the official launch of the PowerVR Wizard GPU family, a range of IP processors that offer high-performance ray tracing, graphics and compute in a power envelope suitable for mobile and embedded use cases. This opens up the potential of highly photorealistic, computer generated imagery to a host of new real-time applications and markets not previously possible."
According to the company's post, the new chips will offer more realistic lighting and shadows by utilizing new ray-tracing technology in addition to standard rasterization. "Ray tracing" is a hybrid graphics rendering process that is able to display subtle lighting changes in near-real time.
The company's new graphics solutions will not be available to partners until sometime next year, which means that Apple's iPhone 6 and rumored iPhone phablet will not be able to take advantage of these new advancements. The iPhone 6s, iPhone 7 or whatever else Apple launches in 2015 and beyond, however, could certainly make use of these new graphics packages.


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Gishwhes has conquered the Great Wall, South American waterfalls, the Champs-Élysées, and even SPACE! Help gishwhes conquer new territory— take gishwhes somewhere epic that it's never been before:
This is my first year of being part of this week-long international scavenger hunt and I have been stoked about playing, but had no idea what to expect! The outrageous list of challenges was to be announced on July 30th and, as it turns out, that was the same day that I was to be on an EPIC Island Adventure at the Great Northern Island by Alexandria, MN! This isn't just any island... it's privately owned with some beautifully decorated cabins - the theme being "The Great Northern Railway" with Rocky the mountain goat as the island's mascot.
I was extremely lucky to have met the generous owner of this island, Chris, a few weeks ago when playing tennis, and he invited me to join him and several of his friends on an island retreat for the weekend of July 30-31. Knowing there would be no Internet service, I warned my GISHWHES team-mates that I might not be able to participate until Monday.
Still, being curious about what items would be on the list, I called my son, also on our team, to get the low-down. As Scotty started rattling off the list which was even more outrageous than expected, he came across this one:
Green Eggs and Ham. Sam does not like green eggs and ham. Not on a boat, not with a goat. Show us yourself enjoying green eggs and ham (sunny-side up) on a boat with a goat.
A boat? A goat? Would I could I eat green eggs and ham with a boat and with a goat? Absolutely!
Let me tell you, it wasn't easy to get that goat on that boat. It took four big guys to get him there, but... how often are you able to really be on a boat with a goat and eat green (with salsa verde) eggs and ham? I bet not even Sam I Am ever got around to actually doing it!
And that's not all! The group of people on this island were even able to help me accomplish two other difficult challenges:
Celebrate the Olympic Summer games by running a 40-meter, 30-legged dash.
This one, we even used Brooke, Chris' adorable dog to get us to 30 legs. You can't really see from this video, but Nancy, one of my new friends, had marked all of our legs 1 through 30!
Couch surfing. Really. Real couch, real surf in ocean water. Make it happen.
I'm sharing this video because after I got home, I discovered that they took this off the list! Oh dear! I'm glad we didn't really sacrifice the couch to the "ocean"! But we had so much fun doing this that I'm really glad it was on the list to start with and that I can freely share it! That's Lisa, Susan, and me singing, and I loved their spirit! We're ready for this video to go viral!
I'm back home from this fabulous weekend adventure, checking the very, very long GISHWHES list for what else I can help accomplish this week. Seeing as we signed up to be on a non-competitive team, I'm pretty sure we won't win this competition, but I'm having lots of fun trying.
I was SO impressed and happy at how willing the other people on the island were to help organize and participate in these challenges. Usually, I have to twist arms, beg, and cajole to get my friends to do this kind of stuff with me. These were people who hardly knew me and they were willing to play! I just love that! And they were ALL IN! In fact, Chris even said that next year he'd host another island retreat for GISHWHES 2017!
And, as I scanned the list and found #117: take gishwhes somewhere epic that it's never been before... I thought: YES! GISHWHES made it someplace very rare and special indeed: To the Great Northern Island!


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Nickelodeon to reward Nigerian kids with surprise birthday
Kids and family channel Nickelodeon has announced the rollout of its Surprise Birthday competition for Nigerian kids. In partnership with Domino's Pizza and Cold Stone Creamery, the brand is offering four kids every month the chance to win a birthday surprise. Open to kids 2-12 years old, all you have to do is to take part in a monthly competition and you could be selected alongside friends and family to join in the surprise party. Special gifts from Nickelodeon and Domino's and Cold Stone will also be presented to the winners.
Alex Okosi, Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) Africa, commented,
"We are very excited to be rewarding Nigerian kids with this fun birthday activation in partnership with Domino's Pizza and Cold Stone Creamery. Nigeria is one of our largest markets for Nickelodeon and this is our own way of giving back to Nickelodeon fans for their loyalty to the channel. Every surprise birthday party will definitely be an unforgettable experience for Nigerian families and we can't wait to kick off," he said.
According to Mrs. Caroline Odukoya-Ijogun, Marketing Director, Eat N'Go Africa, "our brands, Domino's Pizza and Cold Stone Creamery, are happy to associate with Nickelodeon to celebrate this special day of every child."
She added, "Eat N'Go values their customers so much and always look forward to celebrating them. It is the brand's belief that this will bring happiness and fulfillment to the families and also endear them to the brand."
Nickelodeon's surprise birthday parties, which will take place at selected Domino's Pizza and Cold Stone outlets in Nigeria, will feature fun activities to get kids smiling, including inflatables, face-painting, balloon artists, as well as a meets and greets with favourite Nickelodeon characters.
Earlier this year, fans of Nickelodeon, filled the Genesis Deluxe Cinemas, at The Palms Mall, for the official premiere of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of The Shadows.
The event was highly attended by notable celebrities like Julius Agwu and wife, Chocolate City's Koker, Nollywood actor Blossom Chukwujekwu, child star Ozzy Bosco, singer Temi Dollface and several parents, who came out with their kids to see their favourite Nickelodeon characters on the big screen and engage in fun activities including face painting, TMNT art station, Ninja training and a photo booth.


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EP 06: How Great Athletes Train with Strength Coach Matt Forgie
In this episode, I talk with Matt Forgie who is a strength coach, chiropractor and gym owner at Forfitness and Athletics. Matt has worked with a number of the top athletes from Southern New Brunswick.
With Matt, it is all about mindset and finding ways for athletes to reach their top capacity for their sport. When I met Matt a couple of years ago while helping my son get through an injury, then helping him with is strength and conditioning, I knew I had to get him on the podcast. I am excited to introduce him to you and have him talk about how great athletes train with him, so parents of young athletes or young athletes can apply it in their routine.
So what are the secrets to building your capacity to compete at the highest level in your sport? Matt shares what he thinks you need to do.
Also, listen to discover:
- Matt's favourite comfort food
- How exercise for treatment turned into a 4,000 sq foot gym for elite athletes
- What age should athletes think about training away from their sport
- The best time to build strength as a child
- How do you create an offseason for training when you play your sport 12 months a year?
- How you can cheat the system and gain the edge over your competitors
- How coaches and parents can help their athletes understand the importance of training outside of their sport
- Should elite athletes move outside of Atlantic Canada to get better?
- Why Matt loves golf
- What it is like to train an undefeated MMA athlete
- How mindset can help you achieve your goals as an athlete
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How cool is this! My #BLOGPITCH was one of ten chosen by the wonderful Authoress at Miss Snark's Blogspot. Please visit her site for the other winning selections (Miss Snark's Site.) For each critique you leave on the respective winning blogs, you are entered into a drawing for a 15 page line edit from the acclaimed Authoress herself. So, here we go: .. (YA SciFi) Logline: A kill away from reaching the sandman discharge quota, a teenage dream assassin learns the outlaws he killed aren't who he was told. And neither is he. First 250: Four folders fan before me. Each contains a face. Each face is worth points. And after tonight's shift, I'll have enough points to purchase what I've wanted since I got here. Two quick raps at the door steal my attention. Recognizing the knock, I rub my eyes before blinking a few times. I don't know how long I've been staring at the folders. "Door open," I say. The voice-activated panel doesn't have a chance to retreat before Z bounds into my room. A wonky grin stretches like a hammock between his ears as he slides to a seat on the edge of my desk, ruffling the folders as he scoots. "So… this is it." He pumps his eyebrows. I offer a thin-lipped grin and nod while reorganizing the folders. Cycling through the images once more, I study the faces of tonight's targets. "Come on, Ro. This is it! Tonight's the night. Everything you worked for. Get excited!" "Will you stop calling me Ro?" I say. "My name is Midnight." "For now it is." He buries his crazy-long fingers beneath his rear and leans forward while swinging his feet. "What do you think it'll be when you get out?" I shrug. Once I'm out of the Sandman Corps, they can call me whatever they want. "Think about it," Z continues. "After tonight, you'll roam Somnium Six a free man." Out… Free… Words I've used a thousand times since the corps enlisted me. Now that they're so close to being real, they sound more like a dream. .∇.∇.∇. Click here to visit and comment on other selections. The more you comment, the more chances you have to win a 15 page critique from...Read More
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I am super happy to announce the Feb. 2015 publication date of my first novel BRICKS, a young adult, contemporary retelling of The Wonderful Wizard of OZ. So excited to be working with Anaiah Press @AnaiahPress and the amazing Kara Leigh...Read More
Plowing the Page
I come from a family of farmers, and though I now live in a suburban setting, as a kid I hauled hay, weeded the peanut fields, planted corn, etc. As a writer, I often think about how similar writing is to the planting/growing process. I approach a blank page much like a farmer preparing to tackle an unplowed soil. Not all soil is appropriate for planting, but every empty page–digital or physical–holds promise. Through struggle and sweat (and caffeine–sweet tea please), I plow through an initial outline. I tried writing without one, and I ended up lost and having to ask myself for directions. Terribly embarrassing for a man, but that's another post… Writing without an outline made my rows very crooked, if not unidentifiable. Once the rows are tilled, I plant the seeds of my words. And though I try to be careful as I write–to get the words in the right place the first time, it always requires further care, ongoing tending: weeding (removal of those that choke out the emotional growth in my characters and emotional response of my readers) and watering and fertilizing (adding or modifying them to be healthy)–all in the hopes that the manuscript will blossom and grow into something to be proud of. Through diligence the wip becomes a w–a finished product that resembles a beautiful field of fully formed vegetation, and as I look across my work, I'm proud of turning a once blank platform into a complete story with complex characters and rich plot–a satisfying journey for the reader. But crops don't sit on a shelf. They're meant to be consumed. And I think that's where most writers are. I'm not planting a private garden. At its least I want it to be community garden, shared and experienced by many. At its best, a commercially viable enterprise. All farmers want their crops to be known as delicious or high quality–just like writers. I know my uncles always glowed with pride when they brought in the biggest crop or the tastiest vegetables. The money paid the bills, but there were things money couldn't do–validate the hard work that went into producing something of value from an empty field and seeds. I pray that the empty page will grow fruitful from the seeds of my ideas into a healthy work that brings joy to others. And eventually, grow into an opportunity to focus solely on the plowing of new...Read More
The Post Formerly Known as One Bite at a Time
So originally, I had planned to name this post on editing/revising after the old saying: Q: How do you eat an elephant? A: One bite at a time. But after some thought (not much really), I decided to change it. The title, while fitting for the methodology doesn't match my analogy. See I routinely use too many words while writing. In my most recent WIP, I came in at 103,000 words. Now that isn't crazy high for YA sci-fi. But it is outside the sweet spot. Add to that, I am currently an unpublished writer, so the farther outside the norm I am, the worse for my chances to attract an agent/editor. The problem is, I had been through four passes of the novel, and the feedback I was getting from CP's and beta readers was that I needed to provide more details to characters and give more attention to world-building. By the time that was done, I logged in add a genre-threatening 107,000 words. Not good. Another pass shaved about a thousand words, but that still left me well over the mark. After some input from uber-freelance editor Chuck Sambuchino (Thanks Chuck!), I shaved about 2,000 words, but that still left me at 105,000–still, way too high. I took another pass using Chuck's advice to eliminate scenes that did not: Further the plot Introduce or promotes characters and their arcs Establish the setting (which includes both the physical world building, but can also include things like establishing and furthering themes) Doing this left me staring at a 103,000 result. Better, but still frustrating. I believe in my novel's concept. I believe in its characters and voice. But I felt like I needed to do everything I could to give my "baby" its best chance to succeed in this world. The problem was, I felt like I had done all I could do. Needless to say I was still frustrated. During college I managed a health food store. Around the first of the year–every year–I would have people come in and want something, a pill, drink, etc. that would help them get into shape. Our biggest seller was a pack of pills that on average resulted in weight loss of about ten pounds. Great, right? Not really. It contained a daily water pill. A water pill can take off most of that ten pounds without having to do much...Read More
The Writer as Magician
While watching The Incredible Burt Wonderstone the other day, an interesting thought hit me–not just that Jim Carrie looks slimy with long. stringy hair. While watching Steve Carell's character get acquainted with his childhood hero, I was struck with how similar the magician is to a writer. When watching a magician perform, I do what I often do when reading. I don't focus on the artistry and presentation. I focus on trying to figure out how the trick is being done. Invariably, I fail, but I want to know how they tricked me. Likewise, when reading, I get very caught up in what the author is doing and how he/she is doing it rather than enjoying the process. However, there are times when the writing absorbs me. I forget the fight to look behind the curtain and allow myself to get swept up in the artistry. In the movie, there is a scene where Wonderstone's mentor discusses how lazy he has become, how sloppy the tricks the younger magician perform have become. He shows him how to better carry out the tricks. Inspiration struck in that moment–once the trick is revealed and the magic is dead, it becomes a matter of artistry–a matter of craftsmanship. How well can the performer carry out the trick? Now it is less wonder and more admiration. In this way a writer is much like the magician. Strip away the wonder and awe that a great story invokes, and you're left with the artistry reached by a focus on craft. BUT, while most magic tricks are easy to understand–not easy to figure out, but easy to understand once the trick has been demonstrated and explained–for the majority of readers and even writers, there is magic in a well-crafted tale. And reading the author who can weave a tale of enchantment over and over again is nothing short of amazing–and bewildering. How did he or she do it? As a writer, the trick is in careful study–reading, studying, breaking the writing into pieces to dissect and digest. If successful, just as the magician with magic stripped away becomes an artist, so then does the author. So here's the real trick for all aspiring writers to learn: study the craft, learn those tricks–the turn of phrase, the opening line, the all-important first chapter, authentic dialogue, the conflict and pacing–anything, everything that makes magic happen. The results...Read More


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With the real refs returning for week 4 we might get a better sense of just how good these rookies are when they don't get the benefit, or injustice, of bad calls. And as the volume of tape builds, will defenses start to figure them out?
But for now, let's look at their week 3 performances, and it's a familiar name at the top:
1. Robert Griffin III: Washington Redskins vs. Cincinnati Bengals
It was a good game from Griffin again, but I have one major gripe which is his work inside the pocket. All day Griffin was struggling with pressure as his offensive line didn't hold up well, but he was flat footed a lot of the time, and held onto the ball a little too long on occasion. For all his speed and athleticism Griffin did not move in the pocket very well. This was on display particularly in the 1st quarter where he looked a little flat-footed when working inside the pocket.
The Redskins came out running, with a heavy dose of Alfred Morris early on, who actually caused a fumble on Griffin's first pass attempt. Griffin executed a nice roll out and was able to keep his eyes down field on rushes. He was also able to take check downs, which is a nice sign of maturity for a rookie with a big arm.
He took back to back sacks in the 1st quarter, the first off a play-action where he held the ball too long, but the 2nd he just got rocked as Michael Johnson who went through the backup LT like he wasn't there.
Griffin was under duress a lot early on in this game as the Bengals won the battle up front. RG3 even fumbled an option pitch as Carlos Dunlap came in and got a hand on it after getting into the backfield faster than anticipated.
In the 3rd quarter the Redskins came out running the option. Using Morris, Evan Royster and even return man Brandon Banks in the pistol with Griffin. They were able to really motor down field as Griffin executed it well and the backs all ran hard. They even threw in a designed QB sweep which nearly got Griffin into the endzone.
Any passes were almost strictly on rollouts, which he excelled at. As the time wore down and the Bengals kept scoring however they had to resort to an aerial attack with Griffin working out of the shotgun and doing well, finding open receivers and again not forcing anything. He used his feet to great use, moving the chains when there was no target open. And even though they came up short on a hail mary attempt it was another game full of promise.
When Trent Williams and Pierre Garcon return the Redskins offense should be tough to stop.
2. Andrew Luck: Indianapolis Colts vs. Jacksonville Jaguars
|"I see you #90, you can't sneak up on me"
As for his arm, well barring a really bad interception to a wide open Paul Posluszny it was an impressive day. Particularly going down field to T.Y. Hilton for his first touchdown.
Luck seems to have mastered the 2 minute drill as well, executing it excellently to get a 2nd touchdown to Mewelde Moore just before half time. In the 2nd half things weren't quite as easy. Jacksonville adjusted well and really limited Indy's ground game. He had a badly underthrown ball picked off by Posluszny and several drops to boot. But in the 4th quarter he twice moved the Colts quickly into field goal range, only for Adam Vinatieri to miss the 1st one, and Cecil Shorts to retake the lead on the very next play after Vinatieri put the Colts up by 1 with the 2nd.
Luck's accuracy is poorly reflected in the stats (22-46 on the day) as the Colts had to take multiple shots down the field and go for big plays as they found themselves down late in the game. You get the feeling that if they can start to work a successful running game that Indianapolis could have an effective offense this season.
3. Russell Wilson: Seattle Seahawks vs. Green Bay Packers
|There was no doubt about this long bomb to Tate
What's lost in all that, and the stat line, is that Wilson played pretty well. Seattle was even more vanilla on offense than they were before. They looked afraid to do anything other than hand off to Marshawn Lynch out of the I on both first and second down, before shifting to an empty shotgun set on 3rd down, only for the WR's to seriously struggle getting open.
Wilson kept his composure though, even as his offensive line gave up multiple holding flags, and everyone got involved in the false start horror show. He used his feet very well, but did get in trouble once, taking a big sack as he tried to extend the play and out run Nick Perry. Otherwise his athleticism continues to be a huge boost to this offense which is struggling to protect and struggling to uncover its receivers.
Wilson's 1st touchdown was a superb long bomb to Golden Tate off a play-action. It was the only time they gave Wilson license to go down the field in the 1st half and he really repaid that faith, hitting Tate in the numbers on a pass that was 45 yards in the air.
The second half was tougher due to the Packers dominating the time of possession and really clamping down on Lynch in the run game.
He had a pass tipped by his receiver and then picked off, but that got wiped out by a rather kind roughing the passer flag. But he didn't let that affect him at all and was super-calm in the dying moments of a crazy game.
Once more though, it's impossible to put him high up this ranking unless others are awful as the Seahawks refuse to "turn him loose". Undoubtedly they don't have the receivers to really excel as a passing team, no matter how good Wilson is. They struggled all day to uncover against what his normally a poor secondary and that will hamper Wilson all year. Seattle are the only team in the NFL with more rushing yards than passing, that tells you all you need to know about how the Seahawks are running their offense.
4. Ryan Tannehill: Miami Dolphins vs. New York Jets
|"Damn, we're not in green this week"
Tannehill missed receivers left, right and centre. He misthrew screen passes, opened the wrong way on a run and threw a horrible pick 6 after taking too long to identify Anthony Fasano and had LaRon Landry break on it and take it back to the house. Tannehill's feet looked sluggish in the pocket too, he was ok on rollouts but still inaccurate on his passes. Miami leaned heavily on the run game, first with the impressive Reggie Bush and then after his injury Lamar Miller and Daniel Thomas shared the load.
Tannehill was good with the shorter routes, but all the long plays of the day came on iffy pass interference calls or yards after the catch until he hit a wide open Brian Hartline in overtime. Even then however, Hartline had to make a lunging grab that took him out of bounds, if Tannehill hit him in the numbers it was all over, Hartline would have taken it to the endzone.
It wasn't even like playing against Darrell Revis for the first time was limiting Tannehill's play, because it didn't pick up when Revis went out. It was another weak game where a player like Matt Moore might have been able to secure a good win against a poor Jets side.
5. Brandon Weeden: Cleveland Browns vs. Buffalo Bills
|The Bills hit Weeden a lot on sunday.
And he didn't like it at all.
Weeden threw into a lot of very tight coverage as his receivers struggled to consistently get open. But his touchdown throw at the end of the 3rd quarter was a very nice pass to the front corner of the endzone.
His mobility is by far the worst of the rookie quarterbacks, and it hurts him a lot when in direct comparison to the others. There were many times where he could have taken off to either get yards or extend the play, but he simply doesn't have that ability and he took some hits because of it.
Weeden also threw some horrible interceptions as the Browns chased the game in the 4th quarter. He's a really up and down player who could well get eaten alive on Thursday Night Football on the road in Baltimore.
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Professional Resource Brief
American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP):
Immunization Resources
Resources on immunization, including general recommendations, policy statements, schedules, influenza vaccine updates and other information.
American Academy of Pediatrics: Childhood Immunization Support Program
Information for parents and clinicians, including immunization schedules, recommendations, supply updates, audio and video files, and photos of children illustrating vaccine-preventable diseases.
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists:
WebTreats: Vaccines
Web sites and electronic publications that provide information on child and adult vaccinations and immunizations, including materials in non-English languages.
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Vaccines and Immunization
Information for health professionals and consumers on vaccine safety; vaccine shortages; immunization statistics; recommended immunizations and schedules; and immunizations for specific populations, including children and adults of varying ages, travelers, and ethnic groups.CDC's Vaccine Information Statements (VIS) provide information on the benefits and risks of the most common vaccines, including HPV. These statements are available in many languages. A page on vaccine safety
Every Child by Two
Information for parents, advocates, and health professionals, including public service announcement videos, a blog for parents, information about registries and vaccine safety, state and local resources where immunizations can be obtained, and many other resources.
Food and Drug Administration: Vaccines
Information about vaccine regulation, including how vaccines work, types of vaccines, vaccine safety and availability, and the vaccine adverse events reporting system.
Healthfinder.gov: Immunizations
Index of Web pages related to immunizations from government agencies and professional organizations.
Immunization Action Coalition (IAC)
Vaccination information for healthcare professionals collected from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), and other authoritative sources, Includes news updates, resources related to vaccines and pregnancy, policy statements, materials in other languages, and other materials.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public:
Institute for Vaccine Safety
Independent assessments of vaccines and vaccine safety to help guide decision makers and educate physicians, the public, and the media about key issues surrounding the safety of vaccines. Information on specific vaccines, legislation, manufacturer links and package inserts.
MedlinePlus: Immunization
Information for consumers including overviews, news, research tools, reference material, clinical trials, and links to additional information sources. A resource focusing on childhood immunization is also available.
National Network for Immunization Information
Information for healthcare professionals, the media, policy makers, and the public on vaccines, immunization issues, and immunization science. NNii is an affiliate of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and other health organizations.
Provides resources from federal agencies for the general public and their communities about vaccines and immunizations across the lifespan, including for infants, children, adolescents, adults, and seniors.
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South Western Pottery by Don Ellis
Don Ellis has a B.S. Degree from McMurry University In Abilene, Texas and received his M.F.A. Degree from North Texas State University in Denton, Texas in 1985. 'I find great joy in working with clay. It has evolved into a fascination and a livelihood. A pot is an extension of the person creating it, it becomes a part of him.' While pursuing his studies at North Texas State University he got a taste of the Raku firing process and has been fascinated with it ever since. Now, years later, he strives for pieces that have a timeless quality, that promote the feeling of the raw texture of the clay, and are powerful in a way that draw you to them more and more. Don Ellis lives and works hi the beautiful mountains of southern New Mexico.
Raku, simply put, Is the rapid firing at a tow temperature of a porous, tow bisque-fired piece of pottery. Raku pottery was originated in Japan early in the 16th century by Chojiro, the son of a Korean tite maker. Chojiro was hired by Sen-no Rikyu, Japan's most famous Tea Master, to produce ceremonial bowls for the Tea Ceremony. This traditional ceremony was, and still is, bound with Buddhist philosophy and incorporated the Zen aesthetic of humility and naturalness. Raku tea bowls became an intrinsic part of the ceremony and were as highly regarded as a drawing, a poem, or any other form of art. Chojiro became famous, and his master bestowed the name Raku on Chojiro and his descendants. The symbol for Raku, freely translated, means enjoyment, contentment, pleasure, and happiness.


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Today is Rare Disease Day 2017! Launched by EURORDIS and its Council of National Alliances in 2008, Rare Disease Day has, and continues to collaborate with organisations around the world, through hosting events, creating media coverage, and ultimately raising awareness of rare diseases and the impact of such diseases on the lives of patients and their families.
Taking place on the last day of February each year, Rare Disease Day is led by patients and patient organisations around the world, serving to generate the political and societal momentum necessary to increase awareness and funding availability for research and care. In the past, Rare Disease Day has notably contributed to the advancement of national plans and policies for rare diseases in a number of countries.
What are rare diseases?
A disease or disorder is defined as rare in Europe when it affects fewer than 1 in 2000 people. In the United States of America, a disease or disorder is defined as rare when it affects fewer than 200,000 Americans at any given time. Within the European Union (EU), one rare disease may affect only a handful of patients, and another may affect as many as 245,000. In the EU, As many as 30 million people may be affected by one of over 6000 existing rare diseases.
80% of rare diseases have identified genetic origins, while others are the result of bacterial or viral infections, allergies and environmental causes. Some are degenerative, proliferative. 50% of rare diseases also affect children and young people.
The importance of rare disease research
Rare disease research is crucial to providing patients with the answers and solutions they need, whether it's a treatment, cure or improved care. On Tuesday 28 February 2017, the tenth edition of Rare Disease Day will see thousands of people from all over the world come together to advocate for more research on rare diseases. Over the last few decades, funds dedicated to rare disease research have increased, but it's still not enough.
Therefore, Rare Disease Day 2017 is an opportunity to call upon researchers, universities, organisations, policy makers and health care professionals to do more research, in addition to making them more aware of the importance of research for the rare disease community. People living with rare diseases, their families, patient organisations, politicians, carers, health care professionals, researchers and industry will also come together to raise awareness of rare diseases through thousands of events around the globe.
It's also an opportunity to recognise the crucial role that patients and their families play in research. Patient involvement in research has resulted in more research, which is better targeted to the needs of patients. Patients no longer solely reap the benefits of research; they are empowered and valued partners from the beginning to the end of the research process.
For more information about Rare Disease Day 2017, click here!
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MyFFI Review
by David Harris | Updated on May 9, 2022, at 10:01 AM:
MyFFI is from the infamous MLM duo, Randy Ray and Wendy Lewis, and found at myffi.biz.
It's a multi-level marketing venture that uses a fuel additive treatment as its main product to attract recruitment to its downline.
These two also have another multi-level marketing business called Jeunesse that has also had its share of complaints.
MyFFI is also known as Fuel Freedom and Forever Freedom.
The amount of complaints posted online against MyFFI is massive and, no wonder, several states have previously busted them in court for false claims and sub-par products.
One attorney general had it analyzed and stated that it was partially made up of the chemical used in mothballs and is very toxic.
As much as I love my automotive hobby, I won't get into too many technical issues about MyFFI.
One unhappy customer felt the damage to their car right on the freeway fast lane after using the additive for several weeks.
Many experts call most of these fuel additives junk because they end up messing up the sensors and onboard computer systems of most cars with residual gunk.
Not too technical.
Many claims say MyFFI either faked their tests, didn't test properly, or even that they never really tested at all, but surely that kind of irresponsibility is unlikely.
Then there are a few that swear the gas treatment works for them.
Mostly, though, they say it to recruit others to recruit more. The gas treatment product is just that, a product to keep MyFFI from looking like a pyramid scheme.
But no matter the product complaints, the MLM side also has its share of failings.
MyFFI had the audacity to move downlines around without the sponsor owners' permission.
That is a big no-no.
This type of MLM is so notorious it actually has a nickname for it, the Save Gas Ripoff.
You join with what they call a $29.95 Associate fee.
There is also an annual maintenance fee of at least $20 dollars.
Then you have to pay at least $60 bucks a month, buy a minimum of $100 worth of product; and then if you manage to get someone in your downline you won't be paid very much.
They will, of course, tell you that getting the $1,300 package helps you make more money, but it only helps the people above you. You will need at least 2 people to 'activate team commissions'.
When your team sells a total of 900 you get a commission of fifty bucks.
Not really anything to write home about and at that rate you spend more on products than you are making.
The commission plan I read was so convoluted and confusing, and for good reason.
Most people don't bother reading complex documents.
They count on this, so when there are misunderstandings, MyFFI can use the various loopholes in their contracts to worm their way out of anything.
So take into account questionable leadership unscrupulous tampering with downlines, a baffling commission structure, the dubious nature of MyFFI's product, and the fact that I don't recommend MLMs.
Add to that the thousands of complaints about MyFFI and you can surmise that I will not only not recommend MyFFI in any way possible, but I'm calling it an outright scam.
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Wannerit AG
|Portrait in brief
|Wannerit AG in Bilten, Glarus, specialises in the development and manufacture of insulation and customer-specific packaging of expanded polystyrene hard foam (swissporEPS). It has decades of experience and is a Swiss pioneer in EPS recycling. Its products are subject to strict quality standards, monitored in the in-house laboratory as well as by external test bodies.
Insulation materials, packaging/technical moulded parts
Environmental profile
The recycling system enables old materials to be recycled into high quality new products. EPS waste is collected from throughout Switzerland thus saving on empty return journeys by delivery vehicles.
|Wannerit AG
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"Bruce & Clark: Summer Vacation"
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"Bruce & Clark: Summer Vacation"
The good fight
The best Goldilocks story of all time?
It would be so easy to blow this formula, and they didn't.
Synchronize your smashing.
Two icons meet… and meet… and meet… and a grand tradition continues!
What does any of this have to do with Mumford & Sons? Nothing!
Geoff Johns kicks off another comic book event with a stellar first issue!
Lights. Camera. Box of smut.
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Taj Falaknuma Palace Hotel Hyderabad
Sir Vicar (prime minister of Hyderabad and Berar) used the palace as his private residence until it changed owners and the palace was handed over to the 6th Nizam of Hyderabad around 1897-1898. Sir Vicar, besides being the prime minister of Hyderabad, was also the Amir of Paigah and was the maternal grandson of the Nizam III. He was married to Nizam VI older sister who also known as Lady Viqar ul Umra. The monogramme VO of Sir Viqar ul Oomra is seen on every part and furniture of the palace..
The Falaknuma Palace was built and furnished by Amir e Paigah Sir Viqar Ul Umra at a cost of forty Lakh rupees and it is said that even sir Vicar whose estate and income was more than a 15 gun salute state had to borrow money from Bank of Bengal to complete his dream project (Paigah was referred to as a State within a State due to its sheer size, wealth and income). In the spring of 1897 Mehboob Ali Pasha Nizam VI was invited to the palace, the Nizam liked the palace so much that he decided to stay back as this was his older sister Lady Vicar's residence. He extended his stay to a week then a fortnight and finally a month this prompted Sir Viqar to offer that if his sovereign liked the palace he would be honoured to give it to him as Nazar (offering). The Nizam liked the gesture but, being the grand man that he was, it is said as per Royal family sources that he paid Sir Vicar a substantial sum. However the members of the Paigah family maintain that about 20 lakhs was paid by H.H. The Nizam and the rest was accepted as Nazar or Offering. The Nizam used the palace as a royal guest house as it had a commanding view of the entire city.
The Falaknuma fell silent after the 1950s. The last guest important was president of India, Rajendra Prasad, in 1951. The palace was mostly kept closed since then and underwent a huge restoration after it was given on lease to the Taj Group of Hotels. The responsibility of the restoration to its original grandeur was led by H.H Princess Esra Jah, the first wife of H.E.H The VIlIth Nizam of Hyderabad.
The palace[edit]
One of the highlights of the palace is the state reception room, where the ceiling is decorated with frescoes and gilded reliefs. The ballroom contains a two-ton manually operated organ said to be the only one of its kind in the world.
The palace has 60 lavishly decorated rooms and 22 spacious halls. It has some of the finest collections of the Nizam treasure. Falaknuma houses a large collection of rare treasures including paintings, statues, furniture, manuscripts and books.
The famed dining hall can seat 100 guests at its table. The chairs are made of carved rosewood with green leather upholstery. The tableware was made of gold and crystal to which fluted music was added. The length of the table is 108 feet, and breadth is 5.7 feet and height is 2.7 feet.
The palace has a library with a carved walnut roof: a replica of the one at Windsor Castle. The library had one of the finest collections of the Quran in India.
The ground floor of the palace housed the living quarters. A marbled staircase leads to the upper floor. It has carved balustrades, which supports marble figurines with candelabra at intervals.
There is a billiards room. Burroughs and Watts from England designed two identical tables, one of which is in Buckingham Palace and the other in the Falaknuma palace.
On the walls of the landing are many oil paintings and photographs of notable personages.
The telephone and electrical system was introduced in 1883 by Osler and the palace has one of the largest electrical switchboards in India.
The palace was the private property of the Nizam family, and not normally open to the public, until 2000.
Renovation into a luxury hotel[edit]
In 2000 Taj Hotels started renovating and restoring the palace. The renovated hotel was opened in November 2010. The rooms and halls were decorated with ornate furniture, handcrafted tapestries and brocade from France. The interiors have English and Venetian chandeliers and intricate frescos, and have outdoor terraces with rare artefacts, including paintings, statues, furniture, manuscripts and books. The palace has a 101-seat dining hall, considered the largest in the world, and the Durbar Hall, embellished with intricately carved wooden ceilings, parquet flooring, walnut furniture and handcrafted mirrors.
Is Falaknuma Palace, Hyderabad, open to the public ? | Yahoo Answers
Falaknuma Palace is now a Heritage Hotel under control of the Taj Group of Hotels.You can see the hotel if you have dinner there :-) It is not open to the general public anymore.
As an alternative I will suggest you check out Chowmohalla Palace, located near the Charminar. It is not as grand, but definitely worth a look.
What are your thoughts about rebuilding the Taj Palace hotel? | Yahoo Answers
The Taj Mahal Hotel is a robust and strong structure which was able to weather the explosives and dastardly design of the terrorists. The Tatas have decided to rebuild it and restore it to its glory and rightly so because it is the pride of India and no new structure will be able to restore the same pride and historical prestige. If the structure would have been destroyed (gratefully it was not) then it would not have been possible to rebuild this most amazing landmark of Bombay & India.
Where is the Taj Palace hotel located?
The Taj Palace Hotel is to be found located in the heart of the capital city of India, New Dehli. The hotel plays host to Heads of State, celebrities and leading businessmen and is ideally located close to the airport, city centre and most of the Embassies located in New Delhi.