text:
Please join me here as we stand in solidarity with Israel, a sovereign nation on the front lines of the global jihad. Sign up here. I will be speaking.
If you haven't joined Robert Spencer and me in the launch of Stop the Islamization of America, join here now. Be a mensch, be a member.
DATE: Sunday, April 25, 2010 — 1 PM
LOCATION: Israel Consulate, 2nd Ave between 42nd and 43rd St, NYC
"Humanity sympathizes with a strenuous aspiration. It can't have respect for people who lack self respect." Pierre Van Paassen - "The Forgotten Ally"
By Beth Gilinsky and Rabbi Aryeh Spero
We have been receiving numerous communications from the People of Israel expressing how demoralized and abandoned the Jewish People in Israel feel by the lack of any strong and meaningful statement and vigorous, public demonstrations sponsored by any of the major and established Jewish organizations in support of Israel's position regarding Jerusalem.
They feel that the treatment of Israel during the last three weeks by President Obama, Hillary Clinton, and spokesmen for the Administration has been an unprecedented humiliation of the Jewish State and a willful isolation of it among the community of nations.
In addition, they are alarmed at the silence of the Jewish community in light of how the Obama Administration has been making statements and taking measures that everyone knows give license for the Arab population within Israel and on its borders to renew intifada and rioting that will severely harm the individual Israeli, as is already being done.
Furthermore, the brazen and humiliating way in which the Prime Minister of Israel, the de facto representative of the entire Jewish People, was treated by the entire staff of the White House in front of all the eyes of the world should not be tolerated. It is encouraging other Western countries, as well as Arab countries, to treat Israel as a diplomatic pariah and even question Israel's legitimacy as a state itself.
The Israeli People are not looking for yet another statement from the establishment Jewish community as to how we are in favor of a peace process, a "two-state solution", or that the last three weeks of humiliation "disrupts" further peace negotiations. What they are looking for, and what the establishment Jewish organizations should do, is to express their outrage at the mistreatment and humiliation of the Jewish State and attempts to portray the Jewish State as being the sole entity blocking a successful War on Terror. This is reminiscent of previous blood libels throughout history, where the Jewish People have been accused that their existence, rituals, or means of survival has been the cause for the loss of Muslim or Christian life.
The Jewish world is awaiting your affirmation that the entire city of Jerusalem must continue to be under Jewish sovereignty and is Israel's eternal, united capital, and that Jews not be specifically outlawed from building and living in all of its neighborhoods.
Furthermore, it is apparent that the Obama Administration, from the President to Mrs. Clinton, to David Axelrod, and the President's spokesmen are engaging in an attempt to overturn the will of the Israeli People who voted for the current Prime Minister and his coalition partners. They view it — and rightly so — as a belittlement not only to their sovereignty, but also to their right to determine who their leaders should be.
On so many fronts, the past three weeks have been an absolute and unwarranted, yet purposeful, humiliation of the Jewish People and the State of Israel. We would expect that the establishment Jewish organizations and leaders would have the courage to stand up, with pride, for the Jewish People and its state. Instead, we are witnessing a silence that conveys the message that the leadership of the Jewish community is more interested in being friends with the Administration than doing its duty by announcing to the world that this cannot be tolerated. We look for the Jewish organizations and its leaders to speak Truth to Power.
The silence of the established Jewish organizations on this matter, in contrast to the outspokenness from J Street, has elevated and allowed J Street to become the most visible and prominent organization speaking out about these issues within the Jewish community. No doubt, many of our leaders are working behind the scenes to repair the rupture of the last three weeks. In this case, however, that is simply not enough and evades the real issue. The world at large has seen a public humiliation and rebuke of the State of Israel go unanswered. Unless it sees a profoundly public rebuke of such treatment, it will assume that such humiliating treatment of Jews and the Jewish State are now acceptable and de rigueur.
The World must hear. The World must see. It takes little courage to meet with other leaders behind closed doors. The courage that is needed now is one where the world sees that Israel, its representatives and the Jewish People cannot tolerate that which no other nation or community would tolerate. Failure to do so openly and in public will guarantee that this will happen again, even if this particular crisis is "smoothed out."
Leaders are not simply men and women who work behind the scenes. Leaders of a community are those who have enough conviction and pride in the profile of their community that they boldly, with enthusiasm, defend their People when unjustly humiliated. Doing so stops the slide of demoralization in its people and restores their confidence in themselves as a People, a people with a legitimate destiny. The American Jewish Community expects that type of leadership from those who claim to be its leaders.


text:
Patron saint of quirky, culty contemporary cinema, director/screenwriter Edgar Wright has put a distinctly English spin on the fanboy worlds of zombies, aliens, and comic book heroes. In the mid-'90s Wright got his start working on BBC TV comedies, but it wasn't till his feature film Shaun of the Dead hit theatres in 2004 that he began really making a name for himself on both sides of the Atlantic. The hits came in steady succession, with 2007's Hot Fuzz and 2013's The World's End making up the jokingly named Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy, a nod to both influential Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski's Three Colors trilogy and the British ice cream treat brand Cornetto.
Wright swung by Amoeba Hollywood to share some of his favorite flicks with the What's In My Bag? team. The honor of being Wright's first and only musical pick goes to David Bowie, whose latest album The Next Day, gets a nod. Next up is Guillermo Del Toro's big budget spectacular Pacific Rim, an epic monster movie with amazing special effects--plus brains, beauty, and heart. Later on, he highlights Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha, a gem of a film starring the effervescent Greta Gerwig in a black-and-white film about being young, broke, and eternally hopeful in New York City. Next up, Spring Breakers, Harmony Korine's candy-hued fever dream (or is it more of a nightmare?) gets highly recommended. British horror anthology film The Monster Club shows up at the end, leaving viewers with the weird and wonderful proposition of watching Vincent Price try to fit in at a nightclub populated by monsters in extremely cheap-looking Halloween masks. Check it out in the full episode below.

subset: commoncrawl


text: We know that you probably don't need help figuring out if what you're drinking is hot or cold, but that only makes these Smart Coasters all the more endearing. Essentially a solar cell trapped in waterproof resin, cold drinks light up blue and hot drinks light up red. Full instructions to build your own can be found in The Hungry Scientist Handbook (which runs about $12 at Amazon). But for the less labor-inclined, sticking your finger into visitors' drinks has always been considered a fine gesture of hospitality. [Evil Mad Scientist Lab via boingboing]


text:
MADRID, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- Tens of thousands of protesters calling themselves the Citizens' Tide flooded Madrid Saturday, angry over unemployment and alleged government corruption.
The protest, filled with chants, drum beats and whistles, was noisy but peaceful, The Wall Street Journal said. Many carried signs calling for Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy to resign amid media reports charging members of his government have accepted cash kickbacks from businesses seeking state contracts. Rajoy has denied the charges but is under official investigation.
Saturday's protest was one of the largest since a series in 2011 staged by a group calling itself "the indignant ones." The protests two years ago -- before Rajoy came to power 14 months ago -- were in response to the Socialist government's harsh austerity policies to address the country's mounting national debt.
Though Rajoy has said the austerity measures have helped steady an economy on the brink of collapse, the lack of government spending resulted in mass layoffs. Spain's unemployment rate is 26 percent, CNN said.
He defended his government's actions in a speech to the nation Wednesday.
"We have left behind us the constant threat of imminent disaster and are starting to see the path for the future," Rajoy said
But many average Spaniards weren't buying it.
"I hate to think he was taking illegal money," said Luis Garcia, a 63-year-old welder at a defense plant who voted for Mr. Rajoy. "But the official explanations don't add up."


text:
dreamcatcher - pentagramHandbags should not only be regarded as a piece of accessory to take your things with you, but more like as an extension to your arm which you can feel comfortable with whatever the occasion maybe. Now you can do just that with our designed shoulder bag. Hand-crafted and designs printed right up to the edge using a heat dye sublimation technique to prevent color fading. Bag has a zippered closure on top and features various mini compartments within for easy access. Measures approximately 16"(w) x 10.5"(h) x 4.5"(d).
If you order more than 50 pcs items (can be combined), please click here to contact us for whole price quotation, please include the SKU# and the quantity you want for each of them. For order less than 50 pcs, please order directly from our website.


text:
Hamburg Wadden Sea National Park is located in the north of Germany. It surrounds a small group of islands on the North Sea coast off Cuxhaven, just beyond the Elbe estuary, and protects around 12,000 hectares of coastal mudflats.
Three islands on the coast of Lower Saxony, off Cuxhaven and just beyond the Elbe estuary, are the focal points of the Hamburg Wadden Sea National Park, the smallest of the three Wadden Sea parks. They are the lush, green island of Neuwerk (population approx. 40), the dune island of Scharhörn and the artificial island of Nigehörn.
On fascinating excursions through the mudflats, visitors can search for amber and see large colonies of little, common, sandwich and Arctic terns. In addition to the natural sights of the wetlands, the region also offers many cultural attractions.
The history of Neuwerk Island is particularly intriguing, with records linking it to the city of Hamburg going back as far as 1299. The island paths lead through verdant scenery to a fortified tower in the Elbe estuary, a relic from the days of the Hanseatic League. This bastion was an outpost in the battle against piracy. Feature attractions include horse-drawn carriage rides through the mudflats from Sahlenburg to the car-free island of Neuwerk and cruises from Cuxhaven to Neuwerk, which offers guided bird-watching tours and excursions through the salt marshes and the coastal mudflats. There is also a delightful exhibition of amber.
The mudflats are again much in evidence on the trip from Neuwerk to Scharhörn. Originally a sandbank, Scharhörn is popular with visitors for its colonies of sea birds. Just like the artificial bird island of Nigehörn, which is closed to the public, Scharhörn has impressive expanses of unspoilt natural scenery.
שני צירופי מקשים שימושיים להגדלת/הקטנת התצוגה בדפדפן:
הגדל תצוגה: +
הקטן תצוגה: +
עזרה נוספת ניתן לקבל מספק הדפדפן, באמצעות לחיצה על הסמל:


text:
Spent the whole of today doing blog related stuff! After the usual "real life" chores, I replied to emails, wrote blog posts for ETCLLYMLRS, sorted stock and sent all my orders for JWLRY, photographed all the new stuff i've got to review & got my blog lovin down to a fairly reasonable number. Happydays! Having a few days away got me itching to get back into the game! Posted a ton of photos of what I've been doing the past week over on my other blog! My "life" really isnt as glamorous as the photos may suggest, Obviously I don't include ones of me doing housework or sitting here trolling in my slippers and slanket!
Pretty simple outfit, which I actually wore a few weeks ago for a meal out but photographed today for blog purposes as I didnt have time that night! The dress is super flattering thick material with a slight silvery shimmer thread going through it. Fur stole because its pretty much standard wear for me at the moment! Its nice wearing them too as I dont really like getting the tops of my arms out! And also making its debut is my new favourite nail polish Rainbow Connection from OPI. Its from The Muppets collection and its the glitter-iest, happiest and fun nail colour I own! Cant wait try layering it with a soft pink for cupcake inspired nails!


text:
You are currently browsing the tag archive for the 'Dupont-Tissanderot' tag.
The holidays came early this year with my purchase of an exciting new gadget called a Coravin, a new wine preservation system. This is a small device you can use to tap into a wine without removing its cork, that is, it's as though the bottle has never been opened. This clever tool was innovated by Greg Lambrecht, a man who just wanted to have a glass now and again without needing to consume the whole bottle. It is also a useful tool to test whether that special wine is now ready to drink (maybe it needs a few more years?). You can now sneak a taste and eliminate the guesswork.
While it was designed for the wine collector, I believe it has had an even greater effect on the wine industry itself. For my part, I can sample high end wines to my retail and restaurant accounts without worry (and therefore sell more wine too). Prior to my purchase, I would never have dared sample that Dupont-Tissanderot Mazis-Chambertin 2006 without having at least twelve appointments! Now, no problem.
Sommeliers benefit because they can now pour a much broader range of wines without concern of spoilage. So in finer, more cutting edge restaurants, like Lafayette, it is now possible to find a high end wine like Châteauneuf-du-Pape or Côte Rôtie poured by the glass. Retailers, too, can also sample their customers on a wine before its purchase. This game-changing gadget has been affectionately nicknamed the 'mosquito', as there is indeed something a little vampiric about it!
Here is how it works:
You can use it on any bottle with a true cork, NOT screw cap and definitely not sparkling wine. Simply pull the needle down and clamp it around the neck of the bottle. The needle should be resting right on top of the cork, and there is no need to even remove the foil or dressing.
Once fastened, push the needle into the cork. As the needle is quite sharp, it doesn't require much physical effort to penetrate the bottle.
Hold the bottle upside down with the spout positioned over your glass and quickly press the button on the handle (it doesn't take much, maybe a second). As wine leaves the bottle, argon gas goes inside the bottle in its place.
Once you upright the bottle again, the wine will cease to pour. While holding the clamp, simply pull the needle back out and the injected cork heals itself. The argon inside the bottle perfectly preserves the wine and has no effect on its flavor. You could 'coravin' (now also used as a verb) that wine to the last drop over a couple of years (or potentially longer) without compromising it … Brilliant!
The one drawback is the high price tag of $300 and, at $10 a pop, those argon canisters are not cheap either. Each argon canister is screwed into the handle base, a design not unlike a whipped cream canister, and each is good for about 60 one-ounce tastes or 7-8 generous glass pours. So it's really NOT ideal to use it on a bottle you intend to finish that evening (or even the next day) and certainly not on a wine under $15. But if this sounds like the right tool for you, find out more about it here.


text:
Page 4 of 6
Our results show that the GTX 560 2GB Beast left the reference GTX 560 in the dust, mostly due to the high overclock. However, we also included Gainward's reference GTX 560 2GB and it served to show that the card benefits from the extra memory only on rare occasions.
3D Mark 2011
Aliens Vs Predator
Metro 2033
Crysis 2
Unigine Heaven


text:
Debian Installer
A Slight Flaw with the Debian Installer
A few weeks ago, I noticed some really good e-Bay deals on used, Opteron-based servers. I mean, they were going for less money than I had to pay for old Pentium III-based servers just three years ago. So, I decided that maybe it was time to upgrade.
Three of the four machines that I bought were Sun Sunfires, each with a pair of single-core 2.4 Gigahertz Opterons and a pair of hot-swappable SCSI hard drives. Since the drives are rather smallish, I figured I'd just combine each pair into one large logical volume.
On the first machine, I installed Fedora 11. When I got to the hard drive setup page, I chose to go with the default Logical Volume Manager setup. The installer then asked me how many drives that I would like to use for the Fedora installation. I chose both drives, and both were automatically added to the logical volume. No muss, no fuss, and everything worked fine. This is typical of the Red Hat-type installers.
On the next machine, I decided to install Debian 5.0. Again, I decided that I wanted to combine both drives into one large logical volume. When I got to the hard drive setup page, I chose the "Guided" option for setting up the LVM. The next page asked me which drive I'd like to use for the installation. I wanted to choose both drives, but Debian doesn't provide that option. So, I backed out, and decided to use the "Manual" option for setting up the hard drives myself. That didn't work either, because the "Guided" option had already created the LVM volume group. (That happened, even though I hadn't been asked to confirm whether to write changes to the hard drive.) So, I backed out again, and choose to open a command-line session. I then used the LVM tools to delete the volume group and physical volumes. I then decided to go "old-school", and try setting things up with fdisk and the command-line LVM tools. That way, I could get both drives added to the logical volume and continue the installation.
Only one problem. . .
When I finished, I went back to the hard drive setup page, thinking that my new, manually-configured setup would be recognized, and I'd be good-to-go.
Wrong. . .
Instead, my configuration got wiped out, and I ended up with the original single-drive setup.
Okay, no problem. I figured that I'd just continue the installation, and add the second drive to the logical volume later.
Wrong, again. . .
When the installation completed and I tried to boot from the hard drive, I got an error message about how the logical volume couldn't be found. Apparently, the LVM metadata got messed up when the installer replaced my manual configuration. So, not wanting to waste any more time on this machine, I grabbed my Fedora 11 CD and installed it, instead. Again, no muss, no fuss. It automatically deleted my mess-ups and created the two-drive logical volume.
On the final machine, I gave Debian another try. This time, I just accepted the default single-drive logical volume, and continued the installation. After the installation completed and I had it booted from the hard drive for the first time, I added the second drive to the logical volume. I didn't want to mess around trying to learn any graphical LVM utilities, so I just did everything "old-school". (That is, I used fdisk, the command-line LVM tools, and the command-line filesystem resize tool.) Finally, I did a quick "df -h" to verify that the logical volume was resized correctly.
To be fair, I'm sure that Debian isn't the only distro that has this kind of installer deficiency. And granted, for an experienced Linux user, it's no huge deal to add a hard drive to the logical volume after the Debian installation has completed. Still though, you have to wonder. . .
If Red Hat can create an installer with an easy-to-use LVM setup, why can't everyone else?
February 21, 2010 at 1:36 am
Have you fill a bug report?
February 21, 2010 at 2:02 pm
Interesting note, but why blend 2 drives like that anyway? Hard drive space is so cheap these days, and combining 2 drives like that effectively doubles your risk for losing all the data on either drive.
February 21, 2010 at 5:37 pm
I also had problems with the LVM set up on two drives. I spent way too much time on it. I just did it on one drive then had to add the second.
Another problem is that it gave my 8GB machine 24GB of swap and I cannot change it.
I don't need 24GB of swap.
February 21, 2010 at 7:01 pm
Debian Installer 6.0 Alpha1 release.
P.S. DI Team is looking for people willing to help the project.
February 22, 2010 at 10:36 am
I would second that, file a bug report or this stuff goes unnoticed some times.


text:
Scotland Traveloholic
| Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube
Simply Sharing Scotland!
It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
I've come across a few out just past Monymusk.MogMJMR said:Hi Everyone - does anyone know of a herd of highland coos in Aberdeenshire? I am often asked where overseas family and friends visiting can see these, but now that my favourites at The Store Farm Shop and Cafe have become lunch, I am unsure where to find them?
Any tips?


text:
PieGuy brauchte ein neues Print oder Verpackung Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 13 Designs von 11 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
Immanuel Lutheran Church
The people of Immanuel are on a mission to CELEBRATE, GROW and SERVE as Jesus' Disciples!
It is in these ways, our celebration, our growth, and our service that the power of God is at work in and through us!
God's power not only changes us but blesses others.
The practical ways this power is at work is when, we as Jesus' disciples depend on the Power of God.
This will be sent out to approximately 25K households in the Minneapolis, MN USA area. The idea is to create interest in the tent event.
See sample from last year. Dates have been updated and are correct.
1) ONLY Red, Green, and Black colors may be used. Paper is white and can be used as a color as well.
2) Need separate source documents (PDF, Word, etc.) for each color
3) Due to printing mechanism, colors do not necessarily overlap correctly - please take this into account in the design. VERY IMPORTANT!
4) Need two flyers per 8.5" x 11" page as in sample


text:
Amazon took the first steps in creating an online marketplace for Android applications -- taking on Google's official Android Market and other smaller app stores. Amazon is now actively looking for app developers for its new Amazon Appstore branch on its website. Its Appstore Developer Blog continues:
Our customers also have a strong interest in mobile, and across the company we are working hard to make our great products and services available on mobile devices. . . . An Appstore is a logical next step for Amazon in mobile.
Amazon is charging a $99 a year fee to would-be developers, although it's now waiving the fee to drum up interest. It will also pay developers "70% of the sale price of the app or 20% of the list price, whichever is greater." However, TechCrunch reports that Amazon ultimately decides the price, no matter what the developer wants. Here's more of Amazon's pitch:
Why should you submit your apps for inclusion in the Amazon Appstore for Android?
- For the first time, you will have access to tens of millions of active Amazon customers.
- Amazon's proven marketing and merchandizing features will help you get your apps discovered and in front of the right customers.
- The convenience of using an existing Amazon.com account will make it simple and easy for customers to purchase your apps - both online and on their mobile devices.
Although there's no launch date yet, many are predicting that Amazon will do well in the Android apps market, especially with its enthusiastic user-generated reviews, millions of repeat customers andpre-sale application testing.


text:
As a group, prostitutes represent one of the most visible symptoms of an Iraqi refugee crisis that has exploded in Syria in recent months.
MARABA, Syria — Back home in Iraq, Umm Hiba's daughter was a devout schoolgirl, modest in her dress and serious about her studies. Hiba, who is now 16, wore the hijab, or Islamic head scarf, and rose early each day to say the dawn prayer before classes.
But that was before militias began threatening their Baghdad neighborhood and Umm Hiba and her daughter fled to Syria last spring. There were no jobs, and Umm Hiba's elderly father developed complications related to his diabetes.
Desperate, Umm Hiba followed the advice of an Iraqi acquaintance and took her daughter to work at a nightclub along a highway known for prostitution. "We Iraqis used to be a proud people," she said over the frantic blare of the club's speakers. She pointed out her daughter, dancing among about two dozen other girls on the stage, wearing a pink silk dress with spaghetti straps, her frail shoulders bathed in colored light.
As Umm Hiba watched, a middle-aged man climbed onto the platform and began to dance jerkily, arms flailing, among the girls.
"During the war we lost everything," she said. "We even lost our honor." She insisted on being identified by only part of her name — Umm Hiba means mother of Hiba.
For anyone living in Damascus these days, the fact that some Iraqi refugees are selling sex or working in sex clubs is difficult to ignore.
Even in central Damascus, men freely talk of being approached by pimps trawling for customers outside juice shops and shawarma sandwich stalls, and of women walking up to passing men, an act unthinkable in Arab culture, and asking in Iraqi-accented Arabic if the men would like to "have a cup of tea."
By day the road that leads from Damascus to the historic convent at Saidnaya is often choked with Christian and Muslim pilgrims hoping for one of the miracles attributed to a portrait of the Virgin Mary at the convent. But as any Damascene taxi driver can tell you, the Maraba section of this fabled pilgrim road is fast becoming better known for its brisk trade in Iraqi prostitutes.
Many of these women and girls, including some barely in their teens, are recent refugees. Some are tricked or forced into prostitution, but most say they have no other means of supporting their families. As a group they represent one of the most visible symptoms of an Iraqi refugee crisis that has exploded in Syria in recent months.
According to the United Nations high commissioner for refugees, about 1.2 million Iraqi refugees now live in Syria; the Syrian government puts the figure even higher.
Given the deteriorating economic situation of those refugees, a United Nations report found last year, many girls and women in "severe need" turn to prostitution, in secret or even with the knowledge or involvement of family members. In many cases, the report added, "the head of the family brings clients to the house."
Aid workers say thousands of Iraqi women work as prostitutes in Syria, and point out that as violence in Iraq has increased, the refugee population has come to include more female-headed households and unaccompanied women.
"So many of the Iraqi women arriving now are living on their own with their children because the men in their families were killed or kidnapped," said Sister Marie-Claude Naddaf, a Syrian nun at the Good Shepherd convent in Damascus, which helps Iraqi refugees.
She said the convent had surveyed Iraqi refugees living in Masaken Barzeh, on the outskirts of Damascus, and found 119 female-headed households in one small neighborhood. Some of the women, seeking work outside the home for the first time and living in a country with high unemployment, find that their only marketable asset is their bodies.
"I met three sisters-in-law recently who were living together and all prostituting themselves," Sister Marie-Claude said. "They would go out on alternate nights — each woman took her turn — and then divide the money to feed all the children."
For more than three years after the American-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, Iraqi prostitution in Syria, like any prostitution, was a forbidden topic for Syria's government. Like drug abuse, the sex trade tends to be referred to in the local news media as acts against public decency. But Dietrun Günther, an official at the United Nations refugee agency's Damascus office, said the government was finally breaking its silence.
"We're especially concerned that there are young girls involved, and that they're being forced, even smuggled into Syria in some cases," Ms. Günther said. "We've had special talks with the Syrian government about prostitution." She called the officials' new openness "a great step."
Mouna Asaad, a Syrian women's rights lawyer, said the government had been blindsided by the scale of the arriving Iraqi refugee population. Syria does not require visas for citizens of Arab countries, and its government had pledged to assist needy Iraqis. But this country of 19 million was ill equipped to cope with the sudden arrival of hundreds of thousands of them, Ms. Asaad said.
"Sometimes you see whole families living this way, the girls pimped by the mother or aunt," she said. "But prostitution isn't the only problem. Our schools are overcrowded, and the prices of services, food and transportation have all risen. We don't have the proper infrastructure to deal with this. We don't have shelters or health centers that these women can go to. And because of the situation in Iraq, Syria is careful not to deport these women."
Most of the semi-organized prostitution takes place on the outskirts of the capital, in nightclubs known as casinos — a local euphemism, because no gambling occurs.
At Al Rawabi, an expensive nightclub in Al Hami, there is even a floor show with an Iraqi theme. One recent evening, waiters brought out trays of snacks: French fries and grilled chicken hearts wrapped in foil folded into diamond shapes. A 10-piece band warmed up, and an M.C. gave the traditionally overwrought introduction in Arabic: "I give you the honey of all stages, the stealer of all hearts, the most golden throat, the glamorous artist: Maria!"
Maria, a buxom young woman, climbed onto the stage and began an anguished-sounding ballad. "After Iraq I have no homeland," she sang. "I'm ready to go crawling on my knees back to Iraq." Four other women, all wearing variations on leopard print, gyrated on stage, swinging their hair in wild circles. The stage lights had been fitted with colored gel filters that lent the women's skin a greenish cast.
Al Rawabi's customers watched Maria calmly, leaning back in their chairs and drinking Johnnie Walker Black. The large room smelled strongly of sweat mingled with the apple tobacco from scores of water pipes. When Maria finished singing, no one clapped.
She picked up the microphone again and began what she called a salute to Iraq, naming many of the Iraqi women in the club and, indicating one of the women in leopard print who had danced with her, "most especially my best friend, Sahar."
After the dancers filed offstage and scattered around the room to talk to customers, Sahar told a visitor she was from the Dora district of Baghdad but had left "because of the troubles." Now, she said she would leave the club with him for $200.
Aid workers say $50 to $70 is considered a good night's wage for an Iraqi prostitute working in Damascus. And some of the Iraqi dancers in the crowded casinos of Damascus suburbs earn much less.
In Maraba, Umm Hiba would not say how much money her daughter took home at the end of a night. Noticing her reluctance, the club's manager, who introduced himself as Hassan, broke in proudly.
"We make sure that each girl has a minimum of 500 lira at the end of each night, no matter how bad business is," he said, mentioning a sum of about $10. "We are sympathetic to the situation of the Iraqi people. And we try to give some extra help to the girls whose families are in special difficulties."
Umm Hiba shook her head. "It's true that the managers here are good, that they're helping us and not stealing the girls' money," she said. "But I'm so angry.
"Do you think we're happy that these men from the gulf are seeing our daughters' naked bodies?"
Most so-called casinos do not appear to directly broker arrangements between prostitutes and their customers. Zafer, a waiter at the club where Hiba works, said that the club earned money through sales of food and alcohol and that the dancers were encouraged to sit with male customers and order drinks to increase revenues.
Zafer, who spoke on condition that only his first name be used, refused to discuss specific women and girls at the club, but said that most of them did sell sexual favors. "They have an hourly rate," he said. "And they have regular customers."
Inexpensive Iraqi prostitutes have helped to make Syria a popular destination for sex tourists from wealthier countries in the Middle East. In the club's parking lot, nearly half of the cars had Saudi license plates.
From Damascus it is only about six hours by car, passing through Jordan, to the Saudi border. Syria, where it is relatively easy to buy alcohol and dance with women, is popular as a low-cost weekend destination for groups of Saudi men.
And though some women of other nationalities, including Russians and Moroccans, still work as prostitutes in Damascus, Abeer, a 23-year-old from Baghdad working at the same club as Hiba, explained that the arriving Iraqis had pushed many of them out of business.
"From what I've seen, 70 percent to 80 percent of the girls working this business in Damascus today are Iraqis," she said. "The rents here in Syria are too expensive for their families. If they go back to Iraq they'll be slaughtered, and this is the only work available."


text:
Life on the Ranch
ranch wife, mom, educator, entrepreneur
A big hello from the banks of the Yellowstone River in Montana! My Montana Rancher and I raise cattle, kids and crops here in big sky country. Welcome to our ranch!
Join the Ranch Crew!
Stay in the the loop with life on the ranch!
Search Mrs Montana Rancher


text:
The U.K. was sounding a note of authority with assertions that banks should be compelled to hold a certain amount of capital and threats of an investigation into Starbucks' tax affairs.
Reuters reported Wednesday that Bank of England (BoE) Deputy Governor Paul Tucker said in a speech to the British Bankers' Association (BBA) that banks should be required to hold capital reserves in amounts set by regulators and not by the banks themselves, because allowing banks to calculate their own reserves is not safe.
Tucker, front-runner to be the next head of the BoE, was quoted saying, "Leaving banks completely free to choose risk-weights, using internal models, is not safe. It effectively allows banks to determine their own regulatory capital requirements, which hardly fits with society's purpose in regulating banking in the first place."
Adding to the dire tone on reserves, Andrew Bailey, head of prudential regulation at the Financial Services Authority (FSA), said that British banks may no longer be permitted to cut capital reserves if such cuts do not increase lending while the economy struggles or if they pose a threat to financial stability.
While in September the BoE Financial Policy Committee (FPC) said that banks don't have to retain as much capital, it also said that banks should bolster their reserves through profit retention and bonus cuts. The mixed messages have been a source of complaint for banks, and Bailey said that regulators are working on clearer explanations of requirements.
Meanwhile, Starbucks came in for some parliamentary action as Margaret Hodge, chairwoman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and an MP for the center-left opposition Labor party, called for an investigation into Starbucks' tax practices by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC), the U.K. tax authority, after a Reuters report earlier in the week revealed that the company told its investors one thing while saying something entirely different to the tax man. Hodge has the authority to launch an investigation.
Starbucks has been telling investors that its U.K. operations were highly profitable and at the same time claiming losses that cut its tax bill in Britain to nothing on tax on 1.2 billion pounds ($1.93 billion) of sales since 2009. Hodge has said that questions about Starbucks will be posed next month to the head of HMRC, who will be testifying to the PAC, which is tasked with ensuring value in government financial affairs.
Conservative party member and MP Steve Baker also called for an inquiry. He was quoted saying, "I am a highly free market person but what I want is simple transparent tax law that is actually obeyed … there are some serious questions to answer here."


text:
We have all experienced too many meetings and too many meetings that have run too long, but that does not mean that we should avoid holding meetings. After all, meetings are critical for communication, resolving issues, building unity and planning effectively.
To avoid people feeling like nothing gets accomplished in your meetings, you send each attendee a clear agenda with goals prior to the meeting, and you should designate a secretary to take notes and send a meeting summary to all attendees by day's end. This duty can be rotated among team members or permanently assigned to one person.
For most clubs, four types of meetings with specific agendas and goals would be beneficial:
1. Weekly tactical meeting. This meeting should be attended by all department managers at a preset weekly day and time. The general manager must enforce the time limit so the meeting is quick and productive. Prior to the meeting, each attendee should review the previous meeting notes and prepare for the meeting. The meeting starts with each manager doing a two- to three-minute presentation that includes:
- Their top two to three priorities for the week
- Their personal schedule for the week
- Any items they believe should be discussed in a strategic meeting (more on this later)
- Three to six predetermined relevant metrics, such as weekly check-ins for the front desk manager or number of memberships for the membership manager.
The last item for this meeting can be a short educational session conducted by a manager on a professional topic that they prepare and review with the general manager prior to the meeting. A different manager would do the educational presentation each week. Doing this improves their presentation skills while providing education for the team.
The weekly tactical meeting is designed to keep everyone up to date. In-depth discussions are scheduled by topic for strategic meetings generally held one to two times per month.
2. Strategic meetings. These meetings are for the resolution of a specific issue. Managers involved in any way with the topic should be invited and should come prepared to discuss the issue and resolve it during the meeting or shortly thereafter. Each person is encouraged to be open and express all their concerns and opinions. Controlled arguments that are focused on the issue are encouraged. As in all meetings, a secretary should take and distribute notes to all parties.
Each person should be heard in full. After everyone is heard, the general manager should make a decision that settles the issue, and specific action items should be determined. When team members are encouraged to share their honest point of view, they are more likely to support management decisions.
Examples of appropriate issues for a strategic meeting are consideration of a new program offering and suggested changes to club policies that cross several departments.
3. Monthly financial review. It is critical to review financials for the club and for each profit center in a team meeting. Each attendee should be given a monthly profit and loss for the whole club with a detailed statement for their department(s).
At the meeting, the general manager should review the summary profit and loss, sharing the number either on a projector or through handouts to all attendees.
Department managers should discuss their department's revenue/expense/variances and should be prepared to explain all variances. This review process builds managers' business literacy. This exercise is not about criticizing team members but rather about insuring that everyone understands the cause of all variances. (Many variances are cash flow changes that disappear when looked at over three to six months, but managers should know this and own their budget.)
4. Quarterly off-site review. This meeting should review the business in holistic fashion. Attendees should address where the business is going, what is happening in the fitness industry that will affect the club and what is happening in the overall economy and in the region that will affect the club. This is a good time to conduct a thorough review of all competition, including their location, pricing and competitive advantages.
These meetings also are a good time to hold team building exercises and have managers complete the Gallup 12 Question Management Survey, which is a standardized survey conducted anonymously providing a method for assessing management effectiveness.
Managers must pass on all relevant information to their department team members. Lack of communication is a top complaint so managers should have their own department meetings along with having a system of departmental communication including emails, bulletin boards, etc.
Greg Maurer is an associate partner with New Paradigm Partners. He can be reached at [email protected]


text:
Neil Young Angered by the Way Today's Music Sounds
Rock legend Neil Young doesn't have a bone to pick with the artists of today (well, he may but he didn't sound off about it this week) but he is upset with the quality of recordings purchased through digital retailers.
"I don't like it. It just makes me angry," Young told MTV at the Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. "Not the quality of the music, but we're in the 21st century and we have the worst sound that we've ever had. It's worse than a 78 (RPM album)… Where are our geniuses? What happened?"
Young, at the Slamdance Film Festival to promote a film called 'Journeys,' explained that an mp3 only holds five percent of the data that an original file holds. He compares it to an artist only offering a small percent of a masterpiece to the consumer.
"That's why people listen to music differently today. It's all about the bottom and the beat driving everything, and that's because in the resolution of the music, there's nothing else you can really hear. The warmth and the depth at the high end is gone."
The singer didn't make it clear how his feelings on digital downloads will effect the release of the two (yes two!) albums with Crazy Horse he is working on. One is finished, and he says the other is in the works currently.


text:
The National Park Service is working to diversify visitors to parks -- and staffers -- across the country, NBC News reported.
As the National Park Service celebrates its centennial this August, the agency is turning its focus to making sure both visitors and staff are more diverse. The National Park Service had record high attendance last year — 307 million visitors, to be precise — but fewer than 20 percent of those attendees were minorities.
This is a stark contrast from the country's actual makeup. According to Census data, minorities comprise nearly 40 percent of the nation.


text:
For the second year in a row, Springside Chestnut Hill Academy hosted the FIRST LEGO League (FLL) Challenge this past Saturday and enjoyed tremendous success alongside fabulous fun.
In addition to a record number of SCH students participating in the competition – 82 students in grades 1 through 8 – three of the eight teams qualifying to move on to the regional competition at the University of Pennsylvania in February were SCH teams.
SCH also boasts big team wins with the Vulcan Robotics boys' team taking 1st place for Robot Design and the LEGO Lions girls' team taking 2nd place for Core Values. The Core Values are the eight principles that guide the FLL competition: teamwork, friendly competition, discovery, learning together, Gracious Professionalism® and Coopertition®, and fun.
Each year, the competition features a challenge that drives the two aspects of the tournament—the robot game and the project. This year students focused on "Senior Solutions" and were charged with designing a robot that could perform tasks representing independence, engagement, and community connection – things like exercising, turning off a stove, gardening, and woodworking. Each robot had to perform a specific series of tasks in a set amount of time during each round of the field competition.
Each team also designed an invention or solution to help improve the lives of senior citizens. Students began by interviewing a senior citizen to discover what challenges he or she faced growing older. Afraid to carry things upstairs for fear of falling and breaking a bone? SCH LEGO Lion girls' team designed the "Lift-a-Way," a specially lit staircase with an escalator belt and traveling basket to carry items upstairs.
Having trouble reading, even with your readers on? Check out the LEGO Lions' "Read-a-Way," a hand-held device that scans printed text and images, records it, and reads it back aloud. Having trouble operating that complicated remote control due to diminished vision and arthritis? SCH Vulcan Robotics boys' team designed a new oversized remote with oversized buttons and a pillow base.
The boys used a new technology offered by the Makey Makey prototype board from MIT Media Lab to create their design, complete with touch-sensitive switches and fewer options than standard remotes.
For seniors having trouble lifting heavy objects into the trunk of their car, another SCH boys' team designed a folding truck ramp, called "The Tramp," that fits into any car trunk; the senior simply unfolds it and pushes the item up the ramp and into the trunk.
"The FLL competition is the culmination of weeks of work by dedicated students to solve both the real-world problems of seniors citizens and also the challenges of the robot game," said Peter Randall, chair of the SCH Engineering and Robotics Department. "It requires research, analysis, and group problem solving that represent the best of an SCH education. I am extremely proud that our boys and girls have risen to the challenge and that three of our teams qualified for the regional championship."


text:
DRC home :: Events :: Feedback :: Wallpaper :: Advanced Search
The S.H.R.A. is an organization of drag racing enthusiasts dedicated to preserving the longevity of nostalgia style drag racing in the Southwest. The S.H.R.A. Racing Series includes nostalgia style racing machines with modern safety equipment and specifications. The series includes everything from blown and injected front engine dragsters and altereds to pre-1979 door car and gasser racing. Three index classes and two bracket classes will be in action at every event and the series is proud to also include the junior dragster classes, as we aim to expose the next generation of drag racers to the old school approach to hot rodding.
"We see the success of this approach to nostalgia racing in other areas, yet there is nothing like that here in the Southwest. This approach appeals to the masses and economically makes sense to both a racer and a track owner. With the executive committee that has been put in place, I believe the S.H.R.A. Series is in great hands and will prove to be the future of grass roots nostalgia style drag racing in this area. We are proud to be involved and look forward to kick-starting this series at North Star Dragway," said NSD owner Gene Nicodemus.
2013 S.H.R.A. Schedule
April 6 - S.H.R.A. Spring Nationals - North Star Dragway
In 2013, the S.H.R.A. will race in conjunction with the Painless Performance Outlaw Fuel Altered Association on three dates at North Star Dragway: April 6th, July 6th and October 5th. With a wide range of classes and simplified rules system, the S.H.R.A. aims to provide both participants and spectators with an entertaining venue to keep the old school traditional style of drag racing alive! The S.H.R.A. series is currently seeking marketing partners. We look forward to seeing you at the strip! For more information, visit us online at www.shraracing.com.


text:
John Clevenger
|Chattanooga, Tenn. (McCallie School)
2014 Track and Field: Specialized in the javelin throw for Lipscomb… placed fifth at the Rhodes Open with a throw of 50.56 meters… Placed second at the Boston-Moon Classic (50.36 meters)… Took third at the University of Tennessee Challenge (45.60 meters)… Threw for 51.64 meters at the A-Sun Outdoor Championships placing third.
2013 Track and Field: Competed in the outdoor track and field season in the javelin throw... At the UNF Spring Break Invitational, broke his personal best and took home second place for his throw of 50.33 meters... Earned first place at the Margaret Simmons Invitational after throwing for 44.10 meters... Finished third at the Boston Moon Classic with a throw of 48.48 meters... Set his current personal best in the javelin at the 2013 Atlantic Sun Outdoor Championships with a throw of 53.01 meters.
2012 Track and Field: Competed in the outdoor track and field season in the javelin throw... Placed ninth at the BSC 'Southern Invitational with a throw of 44.42 meters... At the Tennessee State Invite, threw for a distance of 43.49 meters finishing in fifth place... Took seventh place at the 2012 Atlantic Sun Outdoor Championships after throwing for 46.75 meters.
Prep: Competed for Eric Voges at the McCallie School.
Personal: Son of Chuck and Jody Clevenger... Has one brother (Charlie) and one sister (Julie)... Plans to study pre-Law at Lipscomb in order to become a lawyer.


text:
See DWTS Derek Hough In "Make Your Move" This Weekend (Promos, Interviews, Sneak Peek)
Hey All! If you are wanting something fun to do this Easter weekend, go out and see Derek Hough's and BoA's new movie "Make Your Move"….and especially if you are in the mood to watch some kick a** dancing!! To get you geared up, below is a some fun promos. Also, Derek is interviewed about how the movie came about. He also gives you an exclusive sneak peek as well as invites fans to come see it. If you'd like to know more and see some new interviews, high quality stills, reviews, etc., see Pure Derek Hough and Make Your Move Fans as both sites have covered all of their bases with it. Also, be sure to follow the Make Your Move official twitter an facebook as well. They keep throwing out all kinds of fun gems like the graphic above. Here's to "Make Your Move" and "moving to your dream"!


text:
Join us for a powerful experience.
Video art captures and demands viewers' attention in ways other media cannot. Often presented as immersive experiences, video installations engage multiple senses while requiring a commitment of time to view and appreciate.
During NMWA's weekly "Conversation Pieces" series, view selected videos featured in the special exhibition, Total Art: Contemporary Video, and then join NMWA staff and fellow participants for a conversation about what you saw, heard, felt, and thought.
This week, Assistant Educator Ashley W. Harris facilitates a conversation about Mwangi Hutter's Neger Don't Call Me (2000).
Featuring recently acquired works in NMWA's collection as well as loans from private and public collections, the exhibition highlights the inventive processes that sustain women artists' position at the forefront of video. Total Art reflects the continued global scope of video. The exhibition features works by Dara Birnbaum, Kimsooja, Mariko Mori, Mwangi Hutter, Alex Prager, Pipilotti Rist, Michal Rovner, Margaret Salmon, Eve Sussman, and Janaina Tschäpe.


text:
Moderators: pd Rydia, LadyDragonClawsEDW
See, this is the thing that gets me.Kai wrote:You lose the freedom to betray the standards of your profession, yeah. Doctors lose the freedom to deny care to people who come to them for it, psychologists lose the freedom to gossip about people who talk to them in a professional context, etc. I realize this loss of freedom of expression and action must be deeply traumatic for doctors.
And, like, what are we, the people, doing? Blogging? We're adults here, what can we do to matter?
I am a registered Maryland voter and I absolutely oppose the recently proposed regulation "to help protect health care providers from discrimination".
It is disingenuous to call the uniform demands of a health care provider "discrimination." A health care provider's job is to provide for my health care, whatever it may be. Perhaps I will need a surgery. Perhaps I will need psychotropics. Perhaps I will need birth control. Whatever my needs, my doctor--and everyone else in the practice, including the volunteers--need to be able to provide for me, regardless of personal beliefs. It is not appropriate to deny me a life-saving blood transfusion because my nurse's religion forbids it.
We have wonderful freedoms in our country. They are not, however, a free ticket to do whatever we want, causing harm to whoever we want. We all must practice our beliefs in a manner that respects the freedoms of others.
Yes, this may lead doctors to hard decisions. They may need to provide care they disagree with, or even leave their job. They do, however, have these choices--choices which do not come at the cost of their patients' health. And if a doctor is not foremost concerned the health of his or her patients, it may well be time to look for another job.
Cheryl Kuhl-Paine
I am a registered Indiana voter and find myself absolutely opposed to the recently proposed regulation regarding "protection of conscience.â€
At the bottom line, enacting this proposal will make it more difficult for women to obtain necessary medical care. This is no better, and is in fact worse, than the incorrectly-labeled "discrimination†against medical practitioners. Medical practitioners do not have their lives and livelihoods placed in serious jeopardy by performing services which they knew would be required of them when they chose their profession. If a woman is unable to receive birth control, on the other hand, the result can be a serious risk to her health, her life, and her ability to support herself. This is discrimination because it places a preventable risk on women that men do not face.
To say that this proposal does not threaten women's access to treatment is inaccurate. In many rural areas, access to medical care is already severely limited. If the only provider within reasonable distance refuses to provide treatment or information necessary to receive treatment in a timely manner, access to treatment is effectively restricted. Furthermore, to say that the issue is only about abortion and not contraception is also inaccurate because the language in the proposal is sufficiently vague that doctors would be able to define conception rather than implantation as the beginning of life.
Why should this risk be considered valuable as a possible social statement, as Secretary Leavitt has suggested? If we do consider that outcome as a statement, the statement would simply be, "We as a society find that women are not qualified to control their own lives and may justifiably have control of their own bodies taken from them.†Truly, this statement should be far more horrifying than anyone seems to realize.
Placing uniform demands on health care providers is not discrimination. We do not, for example, grant special protections for individuals entering the medical field who believe that prayer is the only morally acceptable means of healing. If the requirements of a job are against an individual's belief system, then the individual should simply choose a different career. That may be a hard decision to make, but principles are only worth anything if a person can make hard choices for their sake.
Those entering the health care field do not currently surrender any rights of conscience when doing so. They do, however, take on certain responsibilities. This is simply called "making a choice,†and it entails the caveat that they must be prepared to accept the results of that choice. Freedom of speech is not intended to create a carefree world where everyone is protected from all of the consequences their own choices naturally bring. Women who choose birth control face this caveat, and so too must those individuals choosing a career where the ability to provide birth control is a known requirement.
Maverick!PriamNevhausten wrote:Not gonna post my thing, though.
This is a wonderful rule for slackers, since it provides a legally protected way to get paid while doing no work at all. Here's the plan:
(1) Get an MD, and a job as a doctor.
(2) Become a Christian Scientist.
(3) Announce your religious objection to participating in any medical procedure, or to supporting such procedures in any way (e.g., by doing the other doctors' paperwork. This refusal would be protected under the rule.)
(4) When your employer protests, explain that your right to refuse to participate in any medical procedure at all is legally protected under this rule.
Certainly, that's been a problem for some time. This rule, however, enables them to be legally protected while being assholes.PriamNevhausten wrote:Then the problem isn't so much that the rule is bad (though it is both bad and a problem); we're more along the lines of the doctor being an asshole. Credit where credit is due.
The rule must now be submitted to both the Government Accountability Office and both houses of Congress. Congress has a period of time to review the rule (and because of the timing of the rule's publication, this period will stretch into the 111th Congress), during which time a motion to disprove can be introduced. If the motion to disprove is passed by both houses of Congress and signed by the President, the rule cannot be enforced or defended in court. Using the Congressional Review Act in this way to invalidate the regulation, however, would be "controversial," says Matt Madia, of OMB Watch. A motion to disprove has to see an up-or-down vote; it can't be attached to appropriations bills or other must-pass legislation. "Everyone has to go on record on the issue, and there's no way to fudge it," says Madia.
If this avenue fails, Congress could refuse to appropriate funds for implementation of the rule, or Congress could pass the legislation introduced by Sens. Hillary Clinton and Patty Murray that would prohibit HHS from implementing the regulation. Finally, the new administration could begin a new round of rule-making, perhaps the most time-consuming option.
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 1 guest


text:
- Perfect Deft Huge Citrine
- Item Level 70
- +7 Agility and +7 Haste Rating
- "Matches a Red or Yellow Socket."
- Sell Price: 1
Perfect Deft Huge Citrine is a gem crafted by a jewelcrafter as a result of a proc.
There is no recipe for perfect gems because they are the result of an approximately 20% proc. [Gem Perfection] is learned from the [70] Gem Perfection quest. The original recipe for [Deft Huge Citrine] requires 350 Jewelcrafting to create and is taught by any grand master jewelcrafting trainer for 1.
External links
Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted.


text:
Paul McCartney Rallies for Non-Turkey Meals This Holiday Season
As we head toward the holidays, legendary rocker and animal rights activist Paul McCartney is urging fans to find other options than turkey for their family gatherings.
McCartney has taken part in PETA's advertising campaign, wearing an 'Eat No Turkey' t-shirt beneath the slogan, "Celebrate life this holiday season, go vegetarian."
The singer has also narrated an anti-meat industry video titled 'Glass Houses' and suggests in the campaign, "If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian." The video goes on to address the slaughter of pigs, cows, fish, chicken, turkey and other animals.
NME reports the vocalist addresses his own holiday rituals, adding, "We eat a veggie roast at home, so if we have traditional moments like Christmas … the roast is perfect. It's completely vegetarian, but I can slice it, so I can do all my traditional dad things. We can do our family stuff with it, and it's delicious, so I much prefer that to my memory of turkey."
In the past year, McCartney has been active in the animal rights world, lending his support to a campaign to protect turtles in the Cayman Islands and rescuing an abused elephant in India.
The vocalist has been plenty busy on the music front as well, completing work on his 'Live Kisses' DVD. He's also been rumored to be working on a pair of new albums.


text:
Used Cars, Trucks, and SUVs for Sale in Spokane WA - (888) 587-6419
|Larry H. Miller Downtown Honda Spokane
Home of the "Real Deal"
Real Savings, Real Selection, Real Service
|Sales: 888-587-6419 I Service: 888-318-0857
Certified Honda I Pre-Owned Specials I Service Specials
Service I Value Your Trade I Finance Applicatio
At Larry H. Miller Downtown Honda Spokane, we stock an extensive inventory of used cars, trucks, SUVs, vans and more. With some of the most competitive prices on used cars in Spokane, we can find one that fits within your budget range. Our skilled auto technicians perform a detailed inspection on every used car we sell. Test drive a used car at our dealership, located at 1208 West 3rd Avenue. Drive away in a used Honda or other vehicle which satisfies all of your needs.
We are here to simplify the process of buying a used car. Our used car auto finance team will find the car loan option that works best for your budget. You can start the car loan process for your used car in Spokane by completing our online finance application. If you have not found a vehicle you are interested in, we also have a complete inventory of new Honda vehicles. Call our Spokane car dealership today at (888) 587-6419, and talk to our friendly used car sales staff.
Actual vehicle price and payments may vary for various reasons, including but not limited to, applicable manufacturer rebates, special limited time offers, dealer incentives, taxes, fees, and buyer's credit qualifications. Listed price for the vehicle does not include fees and costs of closing, including but not limited to, government fees, taxes, document fees, title fees, licensing fees, any dealer documentation fees, any emission, inspection or other testing fees. All prices, specifications and availability subject to change without notice. Contact dealer for most current information.
Although every reasonable effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information contained on our website, absolute accuracy cannot be guaranteed. This site, and all information and materials appearing on it, are presented to the user "as is" without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title or non-infringement. All vehicles are subject to prior sale. Not responsible for typographical errors.
The monthly payments and payment terms are ESTIMATES AND EXAMPLES ONLY. Monthly payments and terms are based on approved credit and NOT ALL CUSTOMERS WILL QUALIFY FOR THE RATES OR TERMS INDICATED. Payment estimates are based on featured price for a vehicle and ACTUAL PRICE AND PAYMENTS MAY BE DIFFERENT due to applicable rebates, cash down payments, trade-in allowances, financing rates and terms, specials, taxes, fees and buyer's credit qualifications.
*#1 Volume Honda Dealer claim is based on New Vehicle Retail Sales for 2019 according to AHM.
vehicles may be subject to unrepaired manufacturer recalls. Please
contact the manufacturer for recall assistance/questions or check the
NHTSA website for current recall information: https://vinrcl.safercar.gov/vin/


text:
The "Wireless Charging Market: Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends, and Forecasts 2016–2024″ Global Wireless Charging Market report provided by Zion Market Research portal has all the details regarding the market growth on a global scale mentioned from the reader's point of view. The current empirical report focuses on providing the clients and other readers with all the necessary information linked to market share, new product launch, applications, provinces, businesses, economic growth, and supply and demand rate. The existing report has analyzed the factual data and numerical introduced in the report for the client purpose. The Wireless Charging Market research report has all the geographical players mentioned in the report with the aim of giving away market dynamics related information.
Request For Free Sample of Wireless Charging Market Report: www.zionmarketresearch.com/sample/wireless-charging-market
Some of the Major Wireless Charging Market Players Are:
- Convenient Power HK Ltd.
- Integrated Device TechnologyInc.
- Duracell Powermat
- WiTricity Corporation
- Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd.
- Texas InstrumentsInc.
- Oregon Scientific
- Energizer HoldingsInc.
- and Qualcomm.
All the bifurcations portrayed in the dossier are based on the global product types, applications, regional players, industrial players, end-users, and other segments. The other segments show the overall market supply and demand rate. The Wireless Charging Market research report has documented the market share, opportunities and challenges, market advantages, industrial policies, revenue gain, and market popularity in various regions. The scientific research report proffers the information for clients to take the necessary strategic market crucial points for their future gains. The market electrifying factors and market status are presented in the current report with the goal of providing the audiences with the necessary information in a single report itself.
The market potential, risks, market capacity, revenue, agreement, expansions, acquisitions, global market influencing factors, and other competitive strategies are clearly penciled down in the report. The current dossier has details regarding regional analysis provided to endow readers with the entire market condition in a glimpse. The Wireless Charging Market research report focuses on providing the market statistics and dynamics in a graphical and theoretical format for indicating the recent market development and escalating challenges associated with the investments made.
Request Brochure of this Wireless Charging Market Report: www.zionmarketresearch.com/requestbrochure/wireless-charging-market
Promising Regions & Countries Mentioned In The Wireless Charging Market Report:
- North America ( United States)
- Europe ( Germany, France, UK)
- Asia-Pacific ( China, Japan, India)
- Latin America ( Brazil)
- The Middle East & Africa
Available Array of Customizations:
- Country-level bifurcation of data in terms of Product Type (Concentration, Temperature, Combustion, Conductivity, and Others) and Application (Petrochemical, Metallurgy, Electricity, and Others) for any specific country/countries.
- Expansion of scope and data forecasts until 2030
- Company Market Share for specific country/countries and regions
- Customized Report Framework for Go-To Market Strategy
- Customized Report Framework for Merger & Acquisitions and Partnerships/JVs Feasibility
- Customized Report Framework for New Product/Service Launch and/or Expansion
- Detailed Report and Deck for any specific Company operating in Wireless Charging Market
- Any other Miscellaneous requirements with feasibility analysis
To view TOC of this report is available upon request @ www.zionmarketresearch.com/toc/wireless-charging-market
Some of the key questions answered in this report:
• Detailed Overview of Global Wireless Charging Market will help deliver clients and businesses making strategies.
• Influencing factors that thriving demand and latest trend running in the market
• What is the market concentration? Is it fragmented or highly concentrated?
• What trends, challenges and barriers will impact the development and sizing of Global Wireless Charging Market
• SWOT Analysis of each defined key players along with its profile and Porter's five forces tool mechanism to compliment the same.
• What growth momentum or acceleration market carries during the forecast period?
• Which region may tap highest market share in coming era?
• Which application/end-user category or Product Type [Cloud-based & On-premises] may seek incremental growth prospects?
• What would be the market share of key countries like United States, Europe, China, Japan, Southeast Asia & India etc.?
• What focused approach and constraints are holding the Global Wireless Charging Market tight?
Enquire Here to Get Customization, Methodology & Check Discount for this Report: www.zionmarketresearch.com/inquiry/wireless-charging-market
Reasons to Buy the Report:
- Learn about the driving factors, affecting the market growth.
- Imbibe the advancements and progress in the market during the forecast period.
- Understand where the market opportunities lies.
- Compare and evaluate various options affecting the market.
- Pick up on the leading market players within the market.
- Envision the restrictions and restrains that are likely to hamper the market.
In conclusion, Wireless Charging Market report presents the descriptive analysis of the parent market based on elite players, present, past and futuristic data which will serve as a profitable guide for all the Wireless Charging Market competitors
Also, Research Report Examines:
- Competitive companies and manufacturers in global market
- By Product Type, Applications & Growth Factors
- Industry Status and Outlook for Major Applications / End Users / Usage Area
Thanks for reading this article; you can also get individual chapter wise section or region wise report version like North America, Europe or Asia.
Browse for more Research Reports: fnfresearch.com/


text:
DURHAM — Emerging as the champion of the school level competition of the 2013 National Geographic Bee held at Oyster River Middle School, Russell Miles, 14, said remembering facts about geography comes fairly easy to him.
The eighth-grader said he didn't necessarily put in a lot of time studying for the bee, which had more than 60 questions including those asked during two practice rounds conducted before the official rounds began Thursday morning.
Cheering their classmates on, students of all grades watched as one by one their peers stepped to the microphone answering questions about locations from around the world. Friends and family of contestants were also invited to attend the bee and support their young scholars.
Just as they stepped up to answer their questions, students stepped down from the stage once eliminated following each round.
Per National Geographic rules, questions asked during the bee are not allowed to be reprinted as other schools use the same questions and knowing the answers ahead of time would give an unfair advantage.
Breaking a two-way tie between Miles and Ryan Burgess, Miles gave his final answer to a series of six tie-breaking questions with "Istanbul" and the most correct answers.
"I didn't really study that much," he said. "I just kind of remember things from class and reading books."
He said his answer of "Istanbul" was one he simply remembered from somewhere. To his surprise, one answer he thought he would recognize, "the Yangtze River" escaped him.
The two went head-to-head writing their answers to each question with dry erase markers on white boards. After 15 seconds, each held up their board to display their answers to Nate Groves, moderator and eighth-grade social studies teacher.
The geography champion will move on to take a written exam to determine eligibility to become one of 100 state competitors and hopefully advance to the state bee held at Keene State College on April 5.
This is the 25th annual National Geographic Bee and it kicked off in November with schools around the country participating and declaring winners. The 2013 bee is sponsored by Google.
Each of the 18 contestants received a certificate of participation and a handshake from Groves and the judges.
In addition, Miles received a medal.
All state-level winners are eligible to win the national championship and its first prize, a $25,000 college scholarship, at the national competition May 20-22 in Washington, D.C.


text:
GASTONIA � Being the unbeaten team in the playoffs against an upstart team frequently creates an upset.
On Wednesday in the Gaston County Conference middle school playoffs, Southwest handled its favorite�s role in fine fashion by rolling to a 46-6 win over Chavis.
The win advances the unbeaten Roadrunners (7-0) into next week�s county championship game against Grier (6-1). The contest is tentatively slated for 6 p.m. next Wednesday at Hunter Huss High School.
After fumbling at the Chavis 1 on its first drive, Southwest scored touchdowns on its next six possessions to cruise to the victory � and its first appearance in the county title game since 2009.
Marvin Reynolds rushed for 112 yards, three touchdowns and two conversion runs on offense and had two tackles for loss, a fumble recovery and a forced fumble on defense.
�We�ve got a lot of leaders on our team,� Southwest coach Bryce Powell said. �But Marvin is our leader and passion and lead by example guy.�
Chavis (3-4), which had won three straight games to end an on-field losing streak that dated back to 2008 to make the playoffs, cut a 22-0 lead to 22-6 just before halftime.
Taking possession with 34 seconds left, B.J. Ramseur caught three passes from Matt Cain, the last a 28-yard tackle-breaking TD run with nine seconds left in the opening half.
�We were upset about that mishap,� Powell said. �So we had to play better defense in the second half.�
Southwest limited Chavis to 45 yards, two first downs and no pass completions in the second half.
Xavier Swann rushed and passed for one touchdown each and rushed and passed for one conversion each in addition to directing a 325-yard offense. Joe Wade and Jayveon Love also had touchdowns and Alexis Murriel and Jeremiah Whitlow had two-point conversions.
For Chavis, Ramseur accounted for 64 of Chavis� 104 yards total offense � 29 rushing and 35 receiving.
�It was a good year,� said first-year Wolverines coach Terry Moss. �We kind of had a new day and a new attitude after all the recent losing. We learned how to win this year and took a big step getting here � and Southwest is a very good football team.�
You can reach Richard Walker at 704-869-1841 or by twitter.com/JRWalk22
Southwest 46, Chavis 6
Chavis 0 6 0 0 � 6
Southwest 8 14 16 8 � 46
First quarter
S�Marvin Reynolds 11 run (Reynolds run), 0:57
Second quarter
S�Xavier Swann 8 run (Swann run), 3:19
S�Reynolds 6 run (Run failed), 0:44
C�B.J. Ramseur 28 pass from Matt Cain (Run failed), 0:09
Third quarter
S�Jayveon Love 15 pass from Swann (Reynolds run), 6:20
S�Reynolds 12 run (Alexis Murriel pass from Swann), 1:55
Fourth quarter
S�Joe Wade 14 run (Jeremiah Whitlow run), 5:35
Chav SW
First downs 7 14
Rushes-yards 22-37 27-228
Passing yards 67 97
Total yards 104 325
Comp-Att-Int 6-15-0 5-8-0
Fumbles-lost 5-2 3-3
Penalties-yards 4-26 5-25
Punts-avg. 1-4 0-0
RUSHING�Chav, B.J. Ramseur 6-29, Joey Patterson 6-minus 7, Stephen Maher 5-8, Justin Lemmons 3-10, Matt Cain 1-minus 10, Cameron Wingate 1-7. SW, Reynolds 14-112, Murriel 2-9, Swann 3-23, Love 3-12, Joe Wade 2-14, Jacob Ash 2-54, Jaylan Moore 1-4.
PASSING�Chav, Cain 6-9-0 67. SW, Swann 5-7-0 97, Tony Davis 0-1-0 0.
RECEIVING�Chav, Noah Ford 3-32, Ramseur 3-35. SW, Love 2-24, Davis 1-21, Wade 1-18, Zavion Williams 1-34.


text:
Demi Lovato on Unfollowing Selena Gomez: 'People Grow Apart' [VIDEO]by Michelle McGahan | PopCrush
When Demi Lovato stopped by 'Watch What Happens Live,' she played one bombshell round of 'Plead the Fifth.'
First, host Andy Cohen grilled her in a game of 'Shag, Marry, Kill' — with the options being Justin Bieber, her ex Joe Jonas, and her 'X-Factor' co-judge Simon Cowell.
"I'd kill Bieber," she responded, laughing. "I'd kill Simon… and, f— it, I'd kill Joe too." Hmmm… we're not so sure that's how the game works, Demi!
But the 'Really Don't Care' singer quickly backtracked, saying: "No, Joe and I are good friends. I'd keep him," though she soon admitted she wouldn't marry him, and wouldn't choose to "shag" him or any of the other options, either. (Considering one is her ex, another is her former BFF's on-and-off boyfriend, and the last is 33 years older than her, we can't say we really blame her.)
And as for what was the most scandalous thing she ever saw a former Disney star do? While we were all dying (dying!) to know the answer to this one, Demi had to keep her lips sealed.
"I can't answer that," she cracked up. "I plead the fifth."
But the final question was just a little more poignant, with the host asking the pop star why she unfollowed her former bestie Selena Gomez on Twitter.
"I plead the sixth, if that's in the game," she initially answered, before giving a genuine response.
"I think it's just one of those things where people change … and people grow apart," she explained.
Lovatics + Selenators, what do you think about Demi's response? Do you wish the singers were still best friends?
See Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez + More Celebs' Yearbook Photos


text:
Old Street in Montmartre
Utrillo Street
Dancers by Napoleon Bridge
The Rest
Winter Morning at Bateau Lavoir
French artist Rody is known for her playful portraits of early Parisian life. Inspired by the white and sepia-toned postcards from her childhood, her paintings recall a simpler time when men and women roamed the city streets looking for love and adventure. Working mainly in oil on canvas, she deploys a limited, almost monochromatic, color palate of soft yellows, bright reds, and somber grays to bring this world to life. Bordering on Impressionism, the artist uses soft, light brushstrokes to capture the light and emotion of the scene instead of meticulously bringing every detail to life as it exists in the real world.
Steeped in romantic nostalgia, her paintings bring the viewer back to a time where people lived in the moment and moved at a slower pace. Like an old poster or postcard, every scene feels intelligently staged as if the artist were sending a message of love to someone in another country. Full of whimsy and wonder, the work invites the viewer to embrace the ways of the past without losing sight of the present.
Copyright & Disclaimer -
Privacy Policy -
Accessibility Policy
© 1984-2020 Agora Gallery, All Rights Reserved


text:
Imagemore – royalty-free modern Asian stock images
Featuring everything from family portraits to days at the office, this collection of royalty-free modern Asian stock imagery also delves into the realms of technology and service. Offering exclusively Asian subjects, Imagemore showcases food stock photography, business photos and lifestyle photos. You'll also find everything from close-up shots of preserved sausage in the meat market to young women shopping for new coats, all of which accurately depict modern day life in Asia.Search the full Imagemore collection


text:
Fairelands calling, Fairelands calling! Today there's to be a concert of Keeba Tammas and her band, The Tiny Maniacs, and we're both huuuuuge fans of Ms Tammas, so we don't want to miss this. We start to prepare already in the afternoon in our small inn room at the Faery Court. We pick an outfit, find matching shoes, apply cosmetics, comb our hair neatly, yet when the look is ready we're not satisfied, so we start over – five times. When we finally deem ourselves presentable in our mermaid tails, we swim across the lake towards Heavenslough and walk the rest of way, only to find our entry barred by a man twice as tall as me and wider than the double doors of the Mayor Hall.
"Sorry, ladies, you're late. We're full." The man speaks to us.
"But… but … We're reporters, surely we're in the VIP list!?" I cry out pleadingly, and state our names and the newspaper we represent.
The man looks over a book beside him and then shakes his head. "Sorry, ladies, you're not on the list."
"Bah, there's gotta be something you can do?!" The annoyance and fury in Duchess' voice is clearly audible.
"No, ma'am. The sheriffs are watching ever so vigilantly and if I were to let you in, they'd surely call off the concert and arrest everyone. What do you think would happen if the audience was to find out it was because of you two?"
Duchess and I look at each other, both imagining the outcome of us being locked up in a cell with an angry mob, and neither of us finds the result very appealing.
"There's gotta be a way to sneak in…." Duchess murmurs at me when we're out of the bouncer's hearing-range. "Let's walk until we're out of his vision and then try to get in through all those bushes. Good thing we're at the Fantasy Faire, I don't think mer-folk can walk this easily on land elsewhere." She chuckles a bit, keenly studying our surrounds for a hidden entry.
Luckily for us, we do find the perfect, mermaid-sized gap amongst the vegetation. We begin to crawl through carefully, trying to avoid breaking our costumes. However, the moment our hands touch the earth of Heavenslough, we see a pair of small boots before us. We lift our gazes slowly and there's a sheriff standing right there, dangling two pairs of handcuffs in her tiny hands. "Now, now, ladies. You have two options. Crawl back where you came from, or spend the night in a cell… And no, running is not an option. This place is crawling with sheriffs and two mermaids are rather easy to spot."
Defeated, we return to the Faery Court, where we decide to chill out at the dock, have a cocktail, two, or three while observing the people, and of course give grades to the handsome male-folk who pass us.
Photography by Duchess Flux
Text by Irina Strazytski
MERMAID: Tahitian Pearl by Mer-chandise Cove ~ Available at Fantasy Faire at The Faery Court
CROWN: Sumiana Crown {spring} by aisling ~ Available at Fantasy Faire at Hopes Horizon
NAILPOLISH: Pixiedust Gold by Bliensen + MaiTai ~ Available at Fantasy Faire at The Faery Court
ARMBAND: Gilgalad Armband by Bliensen + MaiTai ~ Available at Fantasy Faire at The Faery Court
REMAINING ITEMS: Please see complete details at Duchess's Blog Threads and Tuneage
OUTFIT: Mermaid Treasures Boutique – Loving Salacia Mermaid @ The Faery Court
JEWELRY: AZE Designs – RFL Fluted Scallop Nekky & Tiara @ Asperatus
SCALES TATTOO: Even Tide – Mer Scales Bold (purple) @ Blackwater Glenn
NAIL POLISH: Bliensen + Maitai – Mermaid (Slink hands required) @ The Faery Court
REMAINING ITEMS: Please see complete details at Irina's Blog, Dark Chest of Wonders


text:
Dealing with leaks causing property damage and interruption of operations?
What are the benefits to using a reflective roof coating?
Here are some reasons to use Thermo Materials® on your next project.
Here are several reasons to stock Thermo Materials®.
Since 1948, Thermo Manufacturing has provided waterproofing and cool roofing products to the commercial, low-sloped building owner.
Thermo Materials® are exterior building envelope waterproofing and cool roof products. Our products are sustainable and protect the assets of the building owner, reduce energy consumption in the building and provide a safe environment for its occupants and contents.


text:
1 product
Waterscape Box (Turquoise)Regular price ₹ 1,580 Sale price ₹ 950
Make your Bedroom your sanctuary by throwing in fresh designs from exquisite range
Versatile and Stylish Storage. Multipurpose furniture piece for your living room or bedroom areas
These elegant sheers make dreamy curtains for any space. Take it up a notch with our beautifully designed printed fabrics.


text:
Raiders write-thru, my version . . . with notes at end
The Raiders took a big step up in class Monday night and found out how far they have to go to be a contender in the AFC West.
After Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos shredded the Raiders 37-21 at Sports Authority Field before 76,978 fans, one of the few things they could take solace in was an encouraging performance from quarterback Terrelle Pryor.
Except Pryor suffered a concussion in the fourth quarter, didn't finish the game, and his status is up in the air when the Raiders host the Washington Redskins Sunday after a short week of practice.
Raiders coach Dennis Allen, who said more will be known about Pryor when the club gets back to the facility, saw his team outclassed in all three phases against a 3-0 Broncos team that has won 14 consecutive regular-season games and beaten Oakland the last four times they've played.
Beating the Broncos means keeping Manning under control, and in that area, the Raiders failed in falling to 1-2.
Manning was 32 of 37 for 374 yards and touchdown passes of 2 yards to Eric Decker, 12 yards to Wes Welker and 13 yards to Julius Thomas, all of them coming in the first half. The Broncos also rushed for 164 yards on 35 carries as Denver rolled up 536 yards of offense and 31 first downs.
Matt Prater kicked field goals of 53, 41 and 40 yards and Ronnie Hillman scored on a 1-yard run for Denver.
In the first half, Manning was nearly perfect, completing 21 of 24 passes for 264 yards in staking Denver to a 27-7 lead.
"When you fall behind against a team like that, it's tough to come back,'' Allen said. "We just didn't play well tonight.''
In the second half, the Raiders managed two touchdowns, with McFadden completing a 16-yard pass to Marcel Reece and sweeping in from the 1 on another score when he was looking to throw.
Pryor established career highs with 19 completions in 28 attempts for 281 yards, with a 73-yard touchdown pass to Denarius Moore accounting for the Raiders only score in the first half.
The Raiders also got their first two takeaways of the season on a pair of fumble recoveries, but were never really in the game.
The Raiders dialed back some of the blitzing tactics that gave them nine sacks in the first two games, in part because Manning is so adept at picking them up. A win over the Jacksonville Jaguars and Chad Henne in Week 2 did little to prepare for the Raiders for what they saw against Denver.
"You know playing the Broncos you don't have any room for error,'' free safety Charles Woodson said. "Playing Jacksonville, you have some room for some things and you can make up for it, but with (Manning), you can't. He's going to find whatever weakness you have out there.''
Said Manning, whose 12 touchdown passes in his first three games are an NFL record: "I think guys are doing a good job getting open on time. I think guys have good clock in their heads when to come out of break versus different coverages. Protection has been good, so it gives you a chance to see the field and throw accurate balls.''
Coming in as the top-ranked running team in the NFL, the Raiders managed just 49 yards on 17 carries and 23 of those came on a Pryor run around left end. McFadden had 9 yards on 12 carries.
"They came in as the leading rushing team in the NFL and our group was the No. 1 rushing defense,'' Broncos coach John Fox said. "I thought we answered the bell versus the run this time out.''
Matt Flynn made his Raiders debut Monday night in a scenario he never could have envisioned in mid-August.
After starting quarterback Terrelle Pryor was knocked out of the game with a concussion, Flynn emerged from the bench following a Raiders fumble recovery and completed a 19-yard pass to Marcel Reece to the 1-yard line.
The play helped the Raiders get in the end zone one last time in a 37-21 loss to the Denver Broncos at Sports Authority Field.
"You've got to be ready at any time,'' Flynn said. "Obviously the game didn't go the way we wanted to. But I got in there, we had good field position and I was able to get it in so we were fortunate in that aspect.''
Flynn said it wasn't "the time or place'' to discuss his demotion from the starting job he held through training camp, but he promised to be ready if the Raiders need him to start Sunday against the Washington Redskins.
Pryor must go through the NFL concussion protocol and be cleared to play.
"I'm always going to be ready,'' Flynn said. "That's one thing this team will never have to worry about is me being ready.''
— Raiders cornerback Charles Woodson believes it would be unfortunate if Pryor were to miss a game at this stage of his development.
"It'd be a big blow. It's a guy that's getting his chance, and I think with each week he's getting a little bit more comfortable," Woodson said. "He did some good things tonight. So it'd be a tough blow especially for him and his development as a player if he's not able to bounce back and come back next week. We'll just see how that pans out."
— More Woodson . . . the key to dealing with Manning is getting his uniform dirty. The Raiders sacked him only once.
"You've got to get to 18. If you don't get to 18, you know you're going to have a long night," Woodson said. "That's the focal point when you play the Denver Broncos. Got to get to him. Offensively you've got to sustain drives to try to keep the ball out of his hands, and if you don't do that, nights like tonight happen."
Woodson is now 3-2 in games vs. Manning in his career. He said he was playing on the outside and that Wes Welker simply made a good move to score against him on a 12-yard touchdown pass.
— A 73-yard touchdown catch by Denarius Moore was the second-longest of his career and the 14th since joining the Raiders in 2011. Moore caught a 20-yard pass from Pryor, bounced off two tacklers and raced the remaining 53 yards for the score.
"It was just (Pryor) waiting on me to get open and being able to catch the ball and make a play when the opportunity was given to me,'' Moore said.
— Raiders running back Darren McFadden found Marcel Reece for a 16-yard touchdown, the first scoring pass of his career.
"It was a halfback pass and we were able to catch them in the right defense and get it off,'' McFadden said. "I feel like I have a pretty good arm.''
— Lineabacker Sio Moore was inactive, having not sufficiently recovered from a concussion to face the Broncos. Moore was hurt in an auto accident Saturday.
The Raiders opened in a nickel defense against Denver, with D.J. Hayden starting along with Tracy Porter and Mike Jenkins.
— Porter left the game with a concussion and like Pryor must be cleared t play after going through the NFL concussion protocol this week.
— Tight end David Ausberry, a three-year veteran who has been listed as the first-team tight end since training camp began, was placed on injured reserve, ending his season without playing in a game.
The Raiders promoted guard Lamar Mady from the practice squad to the 53-man roster and he was active against the Broncos. Nix has been hobbled by an ankle injury, with Andre Gurode starting Monday night at left guard.
Mady was active over Antoine McClain even though McClain has been with the 53-man roster since the start of the season and Mady was promoted Monday.
Jeron Mastrud continued in his role as the Raiders starting tight end, although it's been more of a two-man effort with rookie sixth-round draft pick Mychal Rivera playing on passing downs.


text:
Notes on Frank Cloutier's Grave
December 08, 2012
This past Thursday was the 55th anniversary of Frank E. Cloutier's death. He died just over 5 years after the release of the Anthology of American Folk Music, for which he's marginally remembered.
Here's what his headstone looked like on my first visit, the first Saturday after Thanksgiving, 2006:
It's in La Crosse, Wisconsin, which is a beautiful drive from the Twin Cities, especially if you take Highway 61 through the Mississippi River valley.
You pass through, or near, Red Wing and Rollingstone, Wabasha and Zumbro Bottoms, Frontenac and Trempealau. There are often bald eagles, red-tailed hawks.
Frank Cloutier is buried "on a local heroes hill," to borrow John Prine's phrase, in La Crosse's Oak Grove Cemetery. Frank's is one of about 200 headstones of veterans of each American war from the Spanish American through the Korean.
Though basically from Rhode Island, Frank happened to be working as a piano player in Manitowoc when the US entered World War One — hence the "Wisconsin" on his Army-issued headstone.
He arrived in France with the 311 supply train company in 1918, not long before the Armistice and too late to see fighting.
But France was pretty out-of-sorts and needed supply trains, so Frank's company stayed on after the war for about 9 months in wine country. Less than six months after Frank returned to the states, Prohibition took effect.
Knowing he was both Catholic and a Freemason, I was curious to see whether his headstone would have a cross or a masonic square-and-compass.
Frank Cloutier contributed the Anthology's only Upper Midwestern music. Here's his headstone on March 1, 2009:
As the musical director of St. Paul's Victoria Cafe, Frank and his band made a 78 RPM record in September 1927 — "Moonshiner's Dance, Part One".
It was released that January, but by then the Victoria Cafe itself was already in Federal court, fighting for its life. From the start, the record always represented a gone world.
"Moonshiner's Dance" seems to have utterly vanished from history almost as soon as it was released. When Frank died in 1957, he apparently didn't know the recording had been reissued 5 years earlier in New York as part of the Anthology of American Folk Music.
But even then, nobody would've been able to predict the Anthology would become as important to America's self-image as it's become.
Frank Cloutier couldn't have foreseen that "Moonshiner's Dance, Part One" would one day become the best known recording made in Minnesota during his lifetime.
Its hard to appreciate how deeply the country had changed between 1927 and 1957. Indeed, much of the Anthology's power derived from the way the alien sounds of Prohibition-era, pre-Depression, pre-WW2 America mystified young Cold War listeners.
Frank Cloutier died on a Friday morning in 1957.
That very same morning, the Vanguard TV3 exploded on its launch pad in Florida. Meant to meet the challenge of Sputnik with America's own first satellite, the Vanguard TV3 was an embarrising, televised explosion. Headline writers dubbed it Flopnik, Oopsnik, and Stayputnik.
The satellite itself was recovered from the wreckage and put on display at the National Air and Space Museum, where I took a picture of it in January 2005, not yet knowing the object was somehow about the Anthology.
(I was in Washington for Mike Seeger's concert marking the "Picturing the Banjo" exhibit at the Corcoran Gallery).
Note the light trespass fogging the film in my old battered 1970's camera. More than any other single photo, this one finally convinced me to get a digital SLR camera.
In any case, that Friday morning in 1957 not many Americans were focused on the death of Frank Cloutier.
Even by the time the Smithsonian reissued the Anthology on CD in 1997, there was exactly zero research on Cloutier and the Victoria Cafe to draw from while writing the liner notes.
It wasn't until Thanksgiving weekend 2006 that an Anthology listener finally showed up at Cloutier's grave, wearing earbuds to listen to his record graveside.
In 2007, on the 50th anniversary of Cloutier's death, I had planned to be in La Crosse, but an opportunity suddenly arose to go to Chicago instead. It took me a while to choose Chicago, but I made the right decision ... although I still do think about that now and then.


text:
We say that racing is all about cheating, but is it? What if the greatest cheats, weren't even breaking the rules at all?
Today, IndyCar racer Alex Lloyd explained how race team engineers repeatedly break the rules to get an unfair advantage, but reader Tentacle argued that the very best engineers were those who never did anything explicitly illegal.
There is a thin line between cheating and being ingenious.
In case of Smokey Yunick, he simply made use of gaps: if you specify tank capacity, but not fuel line capacity, then you're free to use, say, a couple of feet of 1" diameter fuel line. If you don't specify a given weight post-race, then you can lose some along the way.
It only becomes true cheating if you break rules, instead of venturing into unspecified territory. Toyota was mandated to draw all of the air through the restrictor, yet it devised a way to bypass the restrictor (pictured below). That's cheating.
If you're not allowed to have traction control, but you do and you have a self-delete sequence built into the car's ECU to remove it post-race, then you cheat.
If nothing mandates what kind of dampers you have to use, so you switch from conventional dampers to magneto-rheological ones, that's being creative. It's an advantage over everyone who A) can't afford them and/or B) didn't think of them, but cheating it is not.
So what race car engineers do you think only bent the rules and didn't break them? What famous race engineers can you think of who did actually cheat all the time? Which teams made cheating something to be proud of, and which teams were total scumbags about it?
We have our own heroes and villains, but what about you?
Photo Credit: Getty Images, Associated Press