music. The Farfisa organ and pounding bass
drums that kick off the album: they recall the headlong attack of Elvis Costello's Attractions.
The guitar: no way to mistake it. As lead guitarist for the Clash, Mick Jones forged an
immediately recognizable sound; it's sinewy, raw and direct. And the vocals: Jones can't bellow
like Bob Dylan or Joe Strummer; he never snarls like John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten).
Instead, he intones. Like early crossover phenoms, Deborah Harry (Blondie's "Rapture") and
Tina Weymouth (Tom Tom Club's "Wordy Rappinghood"), Jones has followed trails blazed by
hip hop. More rigorously than any other punk rocker (or new waver), he embraced and
developed music-making strategies--the sample-driven dance tracks--trumpeted by Malcolm
McLaren's Duck Rock (1983). And miracle of miracles, he did so without being fey,
arch or ironic. For 10 years now, B.A.D.has successfully yoked rock's conventional band format
to rap's collage aesthetic. "E=MC²"--a 1986 hit--formulated the potential of this fusion:
Energy
derives by expanding the MC's role by the power of two. Or as P-Funk guru George Clinton put
it, "Who says a rock band can't play funk music?"

But the kid on the way to his guitar lesson has young ears. He hears little history clinging to
the music that fills his family's car. "You know," Nathaniel declares, and it's already clear that he
intends to congratulate himself as much as issue a judgement, "this is pretty cool. But there are
people at my school--these guys who think they're punks--they wouldn't listen to it. It's got
keyboards." By which, Nathaniel and his classmates literally mean sounds associated with
traditional keyboard instruments. They don't realize that samples--the aural citations,


Curtis
Mayfield and the Impressions. "It's got that `People Get Ready' start," Jones allows, "but it's also
got a feel like Bob Dylan." Specifically, like "Day of the Locusts," off New Morning.
"That's my favorite Dylan album!" says Jones. "It made a great impression on me, especially the
song `Sign on the Window,' which has got the secret of life in it." (You'll locate that secret in the
lines that recommend moving to Utah, making babies and catching rainbow trout.) Only, it's a
stretch to imagine Jones identifying with Dylan's pastoral-bohemian idyll, much less settling for
the role of country squire. Even at age 40, he maintains the aura of urban commando. And it's
not just the black leather jacket. Jones is lean to the point of frailty. He seems hungry--literally
as well as metaphorically. "Somehow I1. Field of the invention
The present invention generally relates to a door mirror assembly for use in motor vehicles and more particularly to a sealing arrangement which includes a sealing means for preventing the air from passing through a clearance made between a mirror stay and a mirror case during the driving of the vehicle to eliminate or reduce the possible noise due to the rapid passage of the air therebetween.
2. Description of the related art
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A white Milwaukee cop has been fired, six months after shooting and killing a 31-year-old mentally ill black man, the Associated Press reports.

Dontre Hamilton, who suffered from schizophrenia, was sleeping in a city park last April when Officer Christopher Manney approached him around 3:30pm. Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn said Manney was responding to an earlier voicemail, not knowing that two police officers had already checked on Hamilton twice that afternoon.

Flynn said Manney identified himself, asked Hamilton to stand and began a pat-down search, according to WISC 12. Allegedly, Hamilton began fighting with Manney during the search. The officer tried to subdue Hamilton with his baton, but he was able to take it and struck Manney. Manney then used his service weapon and fatally shot Hamilton.

After an investigation,History, Horchata And Hope: How Classic Kiosks Are Boosting Lisbon's Public Life

Lisbon is a city of plazas, parks, overlooks and gardens. For more than a century, these beautiful public spaces were graced by Art Noveau and Moorish-style kiosks — small, ornate structures that provided chairs and shade and served traditional Portuguese snacks and drinks.

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These quiosques de refrescos (refreshment kiosks) were the heart of public life in the city. But, under the long dictatorship of Prime Minister António de Oliveira Salazar, which started


in the 1930s, laws actually discouraged public gathering and conversation. Many restaurants closed down and the kiosks fell into disrepair and all but disappeared.

That was, until Catarina Portas, a native of Lisbon, former journalist and entrepreneur stepped in.

"From the 19th to the 20th century, there were some hundred different kiosks in Lisbon. The city was full of them in different colors, different designs," says Portas. She used to take walks around the city and see these "sad, abandoned structures," she says. "I started to think, How could we bring this to our times?"

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So Portas began hunting down these kiosks — some still in place but boarded up or neglected, others in storage. She teamedup with architect João Regal to restore the buildings – not just to their former glory, but to their former place of prominence in Lisbon's public spaces.

"We went to the city council with amazing photographs of the old kiosks, and we prepared all the old drinks and made them taste the drinks," Portas says. The pitch worked -- Portas is fairly sure it was the drinks that convinced the council members. Their first three kiosks opened in 2009.

The kiosks offer affordable and traditional drinks and snacks, conversation and community – and also employment in a country struggling with the staggering levels of unemployment and recession gripping much of western Europe.

Leite Perfumado And Other Drinks Of Old

The first kiosk in Lisbon, which opened over a century ago, was called


Luís de Camões to the quieter Praça de Sao Paulo to Praça do Príncipe Real — showing off the kiosks he's helped restore. "This kiosk is bright pink, half wood, half stone. Six sides, hexagonal. And it has kind of this Moorish influence." The design is characteristic of the Art Nouveau style of the late 1800s and early 1900s, he explains, but it also draws from Byzantine architecture.

'They'd Become Dirty Places, Not So Proper'

In the beginning of the 20th century, the beautiful kiosks "played an important role in the street life of Lisbon," says Marina Tavares Dias, a Lisbon-based journalist who has written several books about the city's history. "Kiosks had a bit of everything – newspapers, lottery, drinks. You always meet somebody you know because you arein the center, outdoors."

When Salazar came into power in the 1930s, the kiosk culture started to fade, she explains. Salazar's right-wing, dictatorial government, the Estado Novo, which held strong for nearly four decades, discouraged the café culture, intellectual debate and public gathering that has long been a mainstay of life in the city. The Salazar regime urged people to stay out of public life, stay home, drink your wine, eat your bread, and don't come to the plazas and have a coffee or agitate. During this era, Portugal's most famous singer, Amália Rodrigues, even came out with a tune called "Casa Portuguesa," in which she sang about what a beautiful thing it was to be humble and poor, to stay at home and not expect a lot, and


to be proud of your life as a Portuguese person.

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"The Salazar regime goes on until 1974, which is the end of the Estado Novo," says Ellen Sapega, a professor of Portuguese language and culture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "In the 1980s, Portugal joined the European Union, and people wanted to get rid of things that were equated with the stuffiness of the Estado Novo and to embrace a new, more modern idea of Portugal," she says. "That's the time when the fast food restaurants enter into Portugal and global brands, and more supermarkets became chain supermarkets."

The old-fashioned kiosks did not fit into the city's urban renewal plans. "The kiosks just shutdown and were abandoned," Regal says. "They'd become dirty places, not so proper. They weren't elegant anymore."

The Kiosk Strategy

But as the years passed, the city council began to rethink these ideas. Portas and Regal's kiosk project was so successful that it inspired the government to adopt what it calls "The Kiosk Strategy," and start restoring more kiosks, as well as gardens and bike paths, throughout the city. It was a concerted effort to bring public life back into the public plazas, combat crime, and revitalize neighborhoods and local food traditions.

Lisbon's city councilor, José Sá Fernandes, even helped set up a contest asking for proposals to reopen some of the old kiosks. "The Kiosk Strategy is a way people begin to use the squares and the gardens that three


the country and find their fortunes elsewhere."

Then, he points out some local customers. "Those people that you are seeing here at the table, they're the locals," he tells us. "All of them they live here, come here every day. They just drink one coffee, but they stay here midday until 6 or 7 at night. Sometimes people are even ashamed, but they just have money for one coffee."

Sapega — the professor at The University of Wisconsin — says she divides her time between Madison and Lisbon. "In the neighborhood where I live in Lisbon, a kiosk opened about four years ago," she says. "This is a neighborhood that would probably never have had a kiosk before. There was a garden, but it was in a state of neglect.

"Theday they opened the kiosk was a hot day in the beginning of the summer. All of a sudden, the lights came on and you could see everyone in the neighborhood drawn into the garden. The kiosk immediately became the gathering place."

The last kiosk Regal takes us to is a beautiful purple restoration on the edge of a neighborhood park. "Now we're heading to Praça Das Flores, The Plaza of Flowers, in central Lisbon. It's a quiet little square where all the old ladies go. They leave notes for each other, they leave the keys. They feel it's theirs. That's the Kiosk Strategy."


The Cubs have a new front-line starter and top-tier manager, a slew of elite prospects, and money to spend. The front office has a plan, and the division is in decline. So stop talking about building a future contender, North Siders. The playoff run begins now.

The Girl Who Played With Fire

It’s fair to show up for the second of these Hunger Games movies and feel confused. Girls are shrieking — for scrappy Peeta and hunky Gale and the recently arrived pretty boy, Finnick; for every kiss Katniss Everdeen plants on one of them; for the scene in which a brazen new Hunger Games contestant, played by Jena Malone, enters an elevator, strips naked, arrives at her floor, then exits. It’s an amusingly frisky encounter, and it happens onlyfight to the death on live television. There can be only one victor, except in the first movie, in which there were two. Catching Fire begins with the winners — Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) — visiting the towns of the young players they vanquished. It’s the Tribute to the Tributes eulogy tour.

The thrust of the new movie is that mean, old President Snow (Donald Sutherland) fears how much the Panemanians identify with Katniss, who took the place of her younger sister in the 74th games. Maybe she could start a revolution that topples the Capitol. In one of the most strangely loaded scenes I’ve seen in any movie all year, Katniss offers her condolences to the families of the two black tributes. When she’s done,


was both rushed and logy. He was either too close to this assignment or not close enough. So you could feel that awful, modern creative phenomenon that compromises, if not ruins, so much mass movie entertainment: the pressure to please both the readers and the bean counters at the studio. With the first film, you never felt that you were watching a movie. Francis Lawrence, the director of Catching Fire, is a smarter choice, because what you need with a film like this is an egoless visualist. This is Collins’s show. Why complicate that? Lawrence came to prominence as a midtier music video director. He wasn’t an auteur in the David Fincher–Hype Williams–Michel Gondry sense, but he did handsome, flattering work. It was the same story at theFollowing a death toll that reached over twenty during the recent horse racing season at the Del Mar circuit in both training and competitions, the California Racing Board has been forced to investigate such fatalities, with both employees and horses being looked into. Former assembly woman Lori Saldana originally requested such an investigation, with concerns being voiced surrounding the ever rising number of incidents in racing events. For supporters of the sport, the simplicity of viewing the horse racing odds before the weekend’s action and placing a bet on your favourite is all well and good, however the continued fatalities of both horses and jockeys across the globe continues to place a dark cloud over the event. 65-year-old Manny Rotella was thrown from a horse in August, and


although recovering fully from his injuries, three-year-old filly ‘Alicanto’ was later euthanized.

Racing Board to Investigate Deaths Within Horse Racing

Across the pond, the Cheltenham Festival is one of the most prestigious events in the UK horse racing calendar, with punters spending millions of pounds on backing their favourites in the hope of winning big from races such as the Champion Hurdle and Gold Cup. However, the 2016 Festival saw the number of horses killed rise to a ten-year high, with a total of seven dying during the event, with as many as three in one single day. Despite the British Horseracing Authority stating that fatalities have in fact fallen by as much as a third in 30 years, calls are coming from all angles to investigate further such instances.

NoThe panel's new paragraph 2 corrected the second date of injury, January 17, 2004, to January 7, 2004, and the injuries sustained on that date to "LOW BACK, NECK, RIGHT SHOULDER, and LEFT SHOULDER."
¶ 6 Claimant continued to receive medical treatment for his compensable injuries, including medications, physical therapy, and additional surgeries (failed rotator cuff repair left shoulder/biceps tendon repair in 2008 and a back surgery in 2009). During 2009, Claimant amended his first claim to add "consequential psych," for which he requested treatment, and twice amended his third claim, adding "consequential left leg and left foot" and "disfigurement." Employer denied the injuries were work-related and raised res judicata as an affirmative defense to the amended "consequential psych" injury based on the "May 18, 2007 Order."
¶ 7 Because


the former trial judge had apparently left the bench, a second trial was held February 3, 2010 by a different judge, during which Claimant testified, inter alia, *102 about his surgeries since the first hearing, his chronic pain and continued need for pain medication, and his worsening depression, anger, and anxiety. To establish his psychological overlay injury, Claimant presented the medical reports of Dr. Trinidad and a licensed psychologist, Dr. Morgan, the latter of which was requested by the Social Security Administration for evaluation of Claimant's disability claim. To rebut the same, Employer submitted the medical report of Dr. Munneke, and medical records from Dr. Feild, neither of whom provided a current evaluation as to psychological overlay.
¶ 8 In its "Order Authorizing Medical Treatment" filed February 9, 2010,filed en banc appeals from the February 9, 2010 Order,[2] about which a three-judge panel expressly found "certain parts of said order were contrary to law AND against the clear weight of the evidence" and affirmed in part and modified in part. As pertinent here, the panel modified paragraph 6 of the trial court's order by adding a first sentence to the remainder, i.e., "THAT claimant has developed a consequential psychological overlay injury." In its order filed May 28, 2010, the panel ordered that "the February 9, 2010 Order, as modified, shall remain in full force and effect." Employer's Petition for Review followed.
¶ 10 Where a three-judge panel has vacated a trial judge's order, in whole or in part, and replaced the vacated portions with its own order,


"depression and anxiety" and similarly amended her claim to add psychological overlay. In the first order, the trial court found the claimant had compensable work-related back injury and awarded TTD benefits, but denied her claim for psychological overlay. The claimant did not appeal the first order. After reaching maximum medical improvement, she sought permanent partial disability (PPD) and medical maintenance for her back and psychological overlay injuries, the latter of which the trial court found she had sustained and awarded 5% PPD. The second order was affirmed by a three-judge panel.
¶ 16 On appeal, the employer argued the court's "consequential psychological overlay" finding was barred by the doctrine of res judicata. When discussing if the employer had waived such argument for appellate review, the Haley Court concluded "[t]heIn the year 2018, over 1 million people are living HIV positive in the United States. After the first detected case of HIV in the U.S., the FDA implemented a lifetime ban on MSM (men having sex with men) donating blood. Gay men have been barred from donating blood ever since.

Over 20 countries still impose a lifetime ban on blood donations from gay men, but in recent years, a variety of countries have begun alleviating restrictions and creating new processes to allow for donations without risking the spread of HIV-infected blood. Generally these procedures have taken the form of a deferral, in which the potential donor must wait a specified amount of time after their last sexual contact before they may donate blood.

In 2017, the UK officially lifted


the indefinite ban on blood donations from men who have sex with men, instituting a three-month deferral process. New Zealand has also seen progression in the last ten years for allowing blood donation from gay men, going from a lifetime ban to a five-year deferral in 2009, then, in 2014, reducing the deferral to one year. Even the US relaxed its stance in 2015, from a lifetime ban to a one-year deferral.

However, these approaches still discriminate against men who are in long-term relationships and avoid engaging in behavior that puts them at risk. 2015 saw marriage equality become law throughout the United States, but even three years after that landmark decision, married gay men must abstain from sex with their husbands for a full year before they areEffects of social interaction and children's relative inputs on older women's psychological well-being.
This study examines the influence of social interaction and relative inputs of parent and children (as perceived by the other) on older women's social and psychological well-being and their satisfaction with their children. The sample consisted of 719 Anglo-American women between the ages of 60 and 75. Half of the women were widows and the other half were currently married and were living with a spouse. For each marital status group the sample was further stratified so that approximately half of the women selected were childless and half had living children. Multiple regression analysis of survey results revealed that contact with other relatives, friends, and associates was more important for older women's well-being than was contact


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I am a Christian, twenty-something, farm girl living in Northern Illinois on a five acre farm with my family. I graduated from homeschooling through High School in May of 2009 and I am a Kishwaukee College graduate with a degree in Horticulture, majoring in Greenhouse Studies and currently working at gorgeous garden center in the historic town of Sycamore, IL.to the flavour and give the toasted roll a more golden appearance. The resulting roll has the advantages over simple cheese on toast of allowing for a more contrasting combination of a crisp outer surface with a soft interior (often with the cheese in a semi-liquid state), and its shape makes for easier eating.

Food researchers, notably Professor Helen Leach of the University of Otago, have identified three basic traditional styles of filling, with all known recipes seemingly a variant of these three.[3] The first of these recipes developed as a spread in the 1920s, prior to the invention of cheese rolls, and was based around a specific spicy Australia cheese, Rex Cheese. Variants on this style of filling include the use of spicy or strong cheese with mustard,


Worcestershire sauce, and even liqueurs such as Kahlúa. A second basic recipe again used spicy cheese, but this time mixed with savoury ingredients such as onion, which was cooked in butter or milk, mixed with the cheese, then thickened with flour or cornflour. A third version is similar to the second, but uses pre-processed food items as major ingredients, most notably dried onion soup mix and evaporated milk.

Early recipes for the dish date from the 1930s, with the earliest being in New Zealand newspaper New Zealand Truth from 1935. Though known from this period, the popularity of the delicacy seems to have taken off with the widespread availability of sliced bread from the 1950s.[3] Early recipes referred to the dish under the seemingly disparaging name of "Rat traps",a play on the longstanding nickname of "Mouse traps" used for cheese on toast, but also likely a reference to the cylindrical shape, which was similar to commercial rodent traps of the era. The earliest known cookbook recipe for cheese rolls dates from Dunedin's Roslyn Church Jubilee Cookery Book in 1951, with numerous other South Island community cookbooks listing the recipe in the decade that followed. Cheese rolls were not found in any North Island cookbooks, however, until the late 1970s, and the food is still little known north of Cook Strait.

Occasionally "Cheese roll fundraisers" are held, especially by schools, in much the same way that "sausage sizzles" or barbecues can be.[4] Recent rises in the cost of dairy products have however made these fundraisers less profitable than


The DC universe is expanding again and this Spring a new team of heroes will face their greatest challenge yet.

The Teen Titans; which include Robin, Beast Boy, Raven, Cyborg and Starfire, all must band together to take down the Justice League who have become possessed by the demon Trigon.

The all star cast includes Jon Bernthal as the voice demon Trigon; his daughter, Titans member Raven, will be voiced by "American Horror Story's" Taissa Farmiga. Rounding out the cast is Jake T. Austin (Blue Beetle), Brandon Soo Hoo (Beast Boy) and Kari Wahlgren (Starfire). The Titans voice actors join a cast filled of DC animated film vets; the Titans team is rounded out by Shemar Moore (Cyborg), Sean Maher (Nightwing) and Stuart Allan (Robin). The Justice Leaguers in the1320 MINUTES – Resolved – That the minutes of the proceedings of the meeting held on 9 February 2011, having been printed and circulated amongst the members, be taken as read and correctly recorded and be signed by the chair.

1321 (50) APPLICATION DEFERRED FROM PREVIOUS MEETING – In accordance with the decision at a previous meeting, members had undertaken a site visit on the morning of the meeting. The Head of Planning submitted a report and updated it orally.

(i) 10/1317 by Brinkley Homes for the erection of nine apartments on land north of The Gables, Belton Road, Epworth.

Prior to consideration of this application an objector and the applicant addressed the committee.

The objector referred to a refusal of a previous application on the site. She stated that the present


due to its character and materials.

Moved by Councillor England and seconded by Councillor Eckhardt as an amendment –

That consideration of this application be deferred until a future meeting and that members visit the site prior to that meeting

Amendment LostMotion Carried

(iv) 10/1462 by Mr and Mrs P Cannell for the making of alterations, erection of a garage and front boundary wall ane alteration of an existing vehicular access at Mildenbergh House, Barrow Road, Goxhill.

Resolved – That permission be granted in accordance with the recommendation contained in the report.

(v) 10/1463 by Mr D Evans for the change of use from grass field to garden at Southwind Lodge, Low Hall Road, East Lound, Haxey.

Prior to consideration of this application, the applicant’s agent addressed the committee. He stated that the development wouldbe a minor and insignificant change to the field boundary. The area was currently infested with weeds and thistles. It was proposed to plant a traditional hedgerow on the new boundary. The straighter boundary would improve the management of the field.

Resolved – That permission be granted subject to a condition requiring details of the proposed boundary treatment to be submitted.

(vi) 10/1464 by Mr S Watson for the change of use from grass field to garden at Ashdene, Low Hall Road, East Lound, Haxey.

Resolved – That permission be granted subject to a condition requiring details of the proposed boundary treatment to be submitted.

(vii) 10/1498 by Lincoln Gardens Primary School for the erection of a new classroom at Lincoln Gardens Primary School, Lincoln Gardens, Scunthorpe.

Prior to consideration of this application


an objector and the applicants’ agent addressed the committee.

The objector stated that he had no objection in principle to an extension to the school. However he considered the siting to be inappropriate being too close to residential properties. The development would lead to a loss of views for neighbours. There was adequate room within the school grounds for a more suitable site.

The agent stated that the development would meet a need for additional classroom space. The area had previously been used for storage. The building would be 21 metres from the nearest bungalow.

Resolved – That permission be granted in accordance with the recommendation contained in the report.

Resolved – That consent be granted in accordance with the recommendation contained in the report.

(ix) 11/0054 by Waste Recycling Group for minorto be informed of the decision.

1327 (55) MANUAL FOR STREETS – A GUIDE FOR NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE – The Head of Planning submitted a report notifying members of the production of this document with a view to undertaking a consultation exercise prior to adoption by the council as a planning guidance document.

Manual for Streets had been produced by central government in 2007 and recognised an important shift in thinking on urban design issues.

The manual aimed to assist in the creation of streets that:

helped build and strengthen the communities they serve;

met the needs of all users by embodying the principles of inclusive design;

formed part of a well-connected network;

were attractive and have their own distinctive identity;

were cost-effective to construct and maintain; and

were safe.

Manual for Streets emphasised the importance of streets for


NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Forty-four members of the U.S. Congress have urged President Donald Trump’s trade representative to restore trade concessions to India, saying the withdrawal of the privilege had led to retaliatory tariffs from New Delhi which were hurting U.S. industry.

FILE PHOTO: U.S Secretary of State Mike Pompeo holds flowers he received on arrival to New Delhi, India, next to U.S. Ambassador to India Kenneth Juster, Tuesday, June 25, 2019, from Afghanistan. Jacquelyn Martin/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

In June, the United States ended its preferential trade treatment for India, removing it from the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) program that allowed duty-free entry for up to $5.6 billion worth of its annual exports to the United States.

The elimination of GSP brought higher retaliatory tariffs from New Delhi on28 U.S. products including almonds, apples and walnuts.

In the letter addressed to United State Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and dated Sept. 17, the members of Congress said: “Just as U.S. industries are harmed by lack of fair and reciprocal access to India’s market, American companies and workers also are harmed by new tariffs due to the GSP termination.”

A lot of American jobs depend on the trade between India and the United States, the U.S. lawmakers said in the letter seen by Reuters.

The letter comes days ahead of a meeting between Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

After the Trump administration’s decision to remove trade privileges from Indian products under the GSP, U.S. and Indian trade negotiators met in July. But they failed to make any major progress on


setting for physical attacks against him. A few days ago, his assistant Jacky Sigaux was physically attacked in broad daylight by several masked men in front of the city hall of the 19th arrondissement – just opposite the Buttes Chaumont Park. He has lodged a complaint. But how much protection is to be expected from a government whose Interior Minister, Manuel Valls – in charge of police – has vowed to seek ways to silence Dieudonné? The story is significant but is almost certain to be badly reported outside France – just as it is badly reported inside France, the source of almost all foreign reports. In translation, a bit of garbling and falsehoods add to the confusion.

Why Do They Hate Him?

Dieudonné M’Bala M’Bala was born in aParis suburb nearly 48 years ago. His mother was white, from Brittany, his father was African, from Cameroun. This should make him a poster child for the “multiculturalism” the ideologically dominant left claims to promote. And during the first part of his career, teaming up with his Jewish friend, Elie Simoun, he was just that: campaigning against racism, focusing his criticism on the National Front and even running for office against an NF candidate in the dormitory town of Dreux, some sixty miles West of Paris, where he lives. Like the best humorists, Dieudonné always targeted current events, with a warmth and dignity unusual in the profession.

His career flourished, he played in movies, was a guest on television, branched out on his own. A great observer, he excels


nevertheless, the popular humorist was at the time enthusiastically embraced by other performers while the studio audience gave him a standing ovation. Then the protests started coming in, especially concerning the final gesture seen as likening Israel to Nazi Germany. “Anti-Semitism!” was the cry, although the target was Israel (and the United States as allies in the Middle East). Calls multiplied to ban his shows, to sue him, to destroy his career. Dieudonné attempted to justify his sketch as not targeting Jews as such, but, unlike others before him, would not apologize for an offense he did not believe he had committed. Why no protests from Africans he had made fun of? Or Muslims? Or Chinese? Why should a single community react with such fury? Thus began adecade of escalation. LICRA began a long series of lawsuits against him (“incitement to racial hatred”), at first losing, but keeping up the pressure. Instead of backing down, Dieudonné went farther in his criticism of “Zionism” after each attack.

Meanwhile, Dieudonné was gradually excluded from television appearances and treated as a pariah by mainstream media. It is only the recent internet profusion of images showing young people making the quenelle sign that has moved the establishment to conclude that a direct attack would be more effective than trying to ignore him.

The Ideological Background

To begin to understand the meaning of the Dieudonné affair, it is necessary to grasp the ideological context. For reasons too complex to review here, the French left – the left that once was primarily concerned with


any unwelcome ethnic particularisms. But some ethnic particularisms are less welcome than others.

The Muslim veil was first banned in schools, and demands to ban it in adult society grow. The naqib and burka, while rare, have been legally banned. Disputes erupt over Halal foods in cafeterias, prayers in the street, while cartoons regularly lampoon Islam. Whatever one may think of this, the fight against communitarianism can be seen by some as directed against one particular community. Meanwhile, French leaders have been leading the cry for wars in Muslim countries from Libya to Syria, while insisting on devotion to Israel.

Meanwhile, another community is the object of constant solicitude. In the last twenty years, while religious faith and political commitment have declined drastically, the Holocaust, called the Shoah in France,thrown out of court, such lawsuits constitute harassment and intimidation.

France is the rare country where the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement against Israeli settlement practices can also be attacked as “incitement to racial hatred”. The violence-prone Jewish Defense League, outlawed in the United States and even in Israel, is known for smashing books shops or beating up isolated, even elderly, individuals. When identified, flight to Israel is a good way out. The victims of the JDL fail to inspire anything close to the massive public indignation aroused when a Jewish person falls victim to wanton violence. Meanwhile, politicians flock to the annual dinner of the CRIF with the same zeal that in the United States they flock to the dinner of AIPAC – not so much for campaign


funds as to demonstrate their correct sentiments.

France has the largest Jewish population in Western Europe, which actually largely escaped the deportation during German occupation that expelled Jewish immigrants to concentration camps. In addition to an old, established Jewish population, there are many newcomers from North Africa. All this adds up to a very dynamic, successful population, numerous in the more visible and popular professions (journalism, show business, as well as science and medicine, among others). Of all French parties, the Socialist Party (especially via the Israeli Labor Party of Shimon Peres in the Socialist International) has the closest historic ties with Israel. In the 1950s, when France was fighting against the Algerian national liberation movement, the French government (via Peres) contributed to the Israeli project of building nuclearShpongle have reissued their 2001 album, Tales Of The Inexpressible, via Twisted Records, landing on 26th of February, 2018.

After the release of the much-awaited album, Codex VI, follows the success of reissuing the iconic debut album, Are You Shpongled?, the psychedelic chill out producers Raja Ram and Simon Posford have done it again by reissuing their 2001 album, Tales Of The Inexpressible. Almost two decades since the initial release, Shpongle this time remastered and re-cut their nine-track album for a fresh vinyl release. Starting the album with flamenco guitar and Latin vibes, the next tracks carry you immediately to an incredible music trip, adding the Indian Flute and numerous elements to combine with “multi layered sounds, shapeshifting focus and awe inspiring depths of the advanced Shpongle production techniques.”

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The South Has Risen Again: Thoughts on the Tea Party and the Recent Rise of Right-Wing Racism.
This paper examines the significance of racism in fueling the recent rise of the Tea Party and related Right-Wing political groups and activity. It briefly explores some of the history of racism in this country that has been directed toward African Americans and how it has influenced political developments from Colonial times to the present. It suggests that this racist resurgence can be seen, in part, as a re-enactment of the trauma of the Civil War by the descendants, and those who identify with them, who were on the losing side of that conflict.National Bank of New Iberia, Whitney National Bank of New Orleans, American Security Bank of Ville Platte and First City National Bank of Houston, creditors of the bankrupt holding negotiable warehouse receipts issued by Teche Warehouse Company, this being a trade name employed by the warehouseman Nelius Bordelon.
The referee rendered an exhaustive opinion covering the operations of the bankrupt after a thorough hearing on the merits of the trustee's petition attacking the validity of the pledges held by the banks and negotiable warehouse receipts endorsed to them by the debtor, Pine Grove Canning Company, Inc. A complete hearing was had by the referee, with full opportunity to all interested parties to develop the facts.
It is doctrine that we must accept findings of fact by the referee unless they


the early 1950's. Originally, Mr. Emile Duchamp of St. Martinville, a practicing attorney, acted as the warehouse operator. Subsequently, Mr. Nelius Bordelon, an automobile dealer of St. Martinville, was prevailed upon to take this assignment. It is the gist of his testimony that he was an absolute figurehead, and felt he was rendering a community service. All control of the "warehouses", which were located on the bankrupt's property, together with the canned goods purportedly stored therein, remained with Pine Grove and its officers, directors and employees. Apparently, Mr. Bordelon's sole function was to make application for the warehouse license every two years, furnish the required bond to underwrite the operation, and sign negotiable warehouse receipts when presented to him by Pine Grove employees.
Pine Grove transferred these negotiable warehousereceipts to the banks under agreements with them that they be held in pledge until sale of the goods; when they were sold, payments were made on the notes and the warehouse receipts surrendered for cancellation or for partial release, these entries being made at Mr. Bordelon's office where the receipt books were kept during the last two years of the arrangement. We add that he caused the receipt books to be *875 brought to his office at the insistence of Mr. Daigle, a State Warehouse Inspector employed by the Louisiana Warehouse Commission. These books were formerly in the possession and control of Pine Grove employees.
Several years before the bankruptcy, First City and American Security commenced dealing directly with the debtor. In 1959 Peoples, Whitney and American Can


assessment to ascertain the impact of mining activities before the issuance of licenses for big projects.

Companies have to ensure that their activities are sustainable and do not have negative social and environmental impacts. Recently the United Nations Global Compact Canada awarded Lundin Gold Inc. (OTCMKTS: FTMNF) for its sustainable activities. The award acknowledges the company’s efforts in implementing education and training programs. Besides educational programs, the company has also offered mining operations training for around 300 people in the past year.

Since 2017 Lundin has pumped around $61 million into the local economy which includes developing a network of around 300 local suppliers. The company is determined to align its investment programs in the community with the UN sustainable development goals. The goals include environmental protection, poverty elimination andcross-country with a close friend, camping and hiking for an entire month.

That trip helped remove me from the influence of media and peers, but most importantly, I witnessed the grandeur of creation (not knowing at the time, that it was in fact, created).

I wrote a postcard to my parents from somewhere in Arizona, saying that I had realized I would never be able to create anything of much greatness as an artist, now that I had seen such staggering beauty on the earth.

Shortly after that trip came the horrific attacks of September 11, 2001. I watched in horror from my classroom window, as the second plane slammed into the World Trade Center. It was surreal. My peaceful world was shattered that day.

Islam in the Headlines

I really cannot be


statements that are at odds with whatever strategy they have taken to deal with the COVID-19 crisis," said Phil Robertson, Asia deputy director for Human Rights Watch (HRW).
"It's insane frankly. In many cases it's people being dragged out of their homes to the lock-up, put in pre-trial detention, in crowded spaces where they're more likely to get COVID."
At least 266 people have been arrested for posting coronavirus-related information in 10 Asian countries, from Thailand to India and Mongolia, according to an AFP tally based on police reports.
They include a local politician in India who claimed on Facebook that the government was downplaying virus fatalities, and a Malaysian TV personality made to pay a fine of several thousand US dollars after he posted a YouTube video criticising a hospital'sby AFP.
Officials say Hun Sen was joking when he told motorbike taxi drivers to sell their vehicles if they cannot make money in the pandemic.

- 'Rumour mongering' -

Cambodian authorities have also detained four opposition politicians, according to HRW, while a local rights group and police sources said a 14-year-old girl was among more than a dozen people arrested. She was released soon after questioning with no charges.
The surge in arrests in Asia focused on coronoavirus misinformation has come after various countries toughened laws or introduced new ones on so-called fake news.
"Regulating misinformation by either introducing new legislation or by expanding the scope of existing laws has been the trend in Asia for the last few years," said Masato Kajimoto, a journalism researcher at the University of Hong Kong.
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pandemic has accelerated this because a crackdown can be perceived as protecting public health, rather than infringing on freedom of speech, he said.

In Thailand, a state-of-emergency decree passed in late March criminalised sharing misinformation online about COVID-19 that could "instigate fear".
This is on top of the Computer Crimes Act, which has a five-year maximum jail penalty and is often used to stifle dissent online.
The Philippines also recently adopted an emergency law giving it more powers to combat the pandemic, including arresting people who share false information about the disease.
Nearly 100 people in India have been arrested for spreading virus misinformation under existing penal laws and the disaster management act -- with punishments including up to one year in prison.
"While India lacks any specific fake news law, there doMonthly Archives: July 2010

Janaka was a philosopher-king of ancient India. He was the ruler of Mithila. The princely court consisted of great scholars, and Janaka himself was regarded with the respect throughout India for his wisdom.
Once Janaka performed a sacrifice in which gifts were freely distributed. Vedic Scholars from the far-off countries, like Kuru and Panchala, assembled in Mithila on this occasion.
Now Janaka thought to himself: “This is a rare gathering. So many scholars versed in the Vedic lore have assembled here. I must take this opportunity to find the most profound scholar, the one peerless member of this grand assemblage.”
Janaka hit upon a plan. He asked his servants to put one thousand choice cows in a nearby pen. He further ordered that to each of the cows’


horns should be attached five golden plates. The king’s servants obeyed him at once.
Janaka then appeared in the place of sacrifice. He solemnly announced, “Revered Brahmins, let him who is the best Vedic scholar among you drive the thousand cows home.” This was a rather peculiar announcement and a hush fell upon the assemblage.
None of the Brahmins was willing to rise and declare himself the best scholar. Yajnavalkya then stood up and asked Samashrava, his disciple, to drive the cows home to his forest retreat. Immediately, the Brahmins were a flutter. Ashwala, the priest of Janaka, was the first to issue a challenge, saying, “Yajnavalkya, are you really the best scholar among us?”.
Yajnavalkya: “ I bow down to the best scholar; I just want the cows.”
Ashwala decided todown at the wider-than-a-mile river and at the majestic span of the Talmadge Memorial Bridge rising high in the distance, a huge cargo ship slowly made its way upriver.

The next morning we explored the Savannah Historic District. Roughly corresponding to what the city’s boundaries were before the Civil War, the district contains twenty-two park-like squares that were planted back in the 19th century with the now massive, wide-branching live oaks. The squares are dotted with statues, monuments and historical markers and are surrounded by stately old churches and Victorian homes—an incredible experience for someone who loves eclectic architecture and American history.

On the way out of the city we stopped at the Bonaventure Cemetery which was made famous by the John Berendt book and the Clint Eastwood directed movie


Brawn has been put up for sale by Hexagon.

Leading London classic car retailer Hexagon Classics is proud to offer for sale one of the rarest Ferrari Dinos

Known as the ‘Flares’ variant, it is one of the most collectable and prized of all Dinos and car for sale is one of only 12 built worldwide

Previously owned by former Mercedes team principal and F1’s new Managing Director, Ross Brawn

Finished in Bianco Polo Park white paint with black hide, this right-hand-drive car is also the penultimate Dino to be exported to the UK

Leading London classic car retailer Hexagon is delighted to welcome one of the rarest and most desirable Ferrari 246 GTS Dino models in existence – the famous ‘Flares’ variant.

Previously owned by former Mercedes team principal and F1’s new ManagingStephanie Leonidas also have been cast in the live-action drama, written/executive produced by Farscape creator Rockne S. O’Bannon, which was developed concurrently with an online video game. Set on a future Earth, Defiance is set in a world where humans and aliens live together on a planet ravaged by decades of war and transformed by alien terra-forming machines. It centers on Jeb Nolan (Bowler), the law-keeper in a bustling frontier boomtown that is one of the new world’s few oasis of civility and inclusion. Benz, repped by ICM and Vincent Cirrincione, will play Amanda Rosewater, the idealistic newly appointed mayor of the mining boomtown who is determined to maintain peace in the community. Leonidas will play Irisa, a beautiful warrior who is part of an alien race called


Kors stores are operated, either directly or through licensing partners, in some of the most prestigious cities in the world, including New York, Beverly Hills, Chicago, London, Milan, Paris, Munich, Istanbul, Dubai, Seoul, Tokyo and Hong Kong.

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After Cavallaro was returned to the Missouri State Penitentiary, an indictment was returned in Texas charging him with murder.  Texas authorities then lodged a detainer against him with the Warden of the Missouri State Penitentiary and the Texas prosecutor filed a written request for temporary custody for the purpose of bringing him


to Texas for trial on the murder charge.  Cavallaro was not taken before a Missouri judge for a pretransfer hearing and he was never informed of his right to legal counsel.  However, before the Texas request was granted, Cavallaro, with the assistance of a prison inmate, filed a petition for habeas relief in a Missouri state court in an effort to prevent his transfer under the outstanding detainer.  Following a transfer hearing at the Missouri State Penitentiary in November 1981, the state court denied Cavallaro's petition and authorized his removal to the state of Texas.  Cavallaro filed a similar habeas petition with the Missouri Supreme Court and it was denied in December 1981;  however, in this petition Cavallaro complained that he was notpurpose of this hearing is to give the petitioner notice of the extradition demand and of the charges against him, and to inform him of the right to counsel and the right to challenge the extradition in a habeas proceeding.  While the hearing was not held, as the district court observed:

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In the present case, the petitioner obviously received notice of the demand and the charges against him as his own pleadings indicate.  Although it does not appear he was expressly informed of his right to secure counsel and to challenge the extradition in habeas, he did in fact secure the services of an inmate law clerk and had his day in court on the state habeas corpus petition.  Hence, although in some instances the failure


Acoustica was recorded during three concerts, at Convento do Beato, Lisbon, Portugal, in February 2001.[2] It was a most unusual set for the band, as Klaus Meine comments on the DVD. The band was supported by female backing vocalists, a percussionist, an extra guitarist and Christian Kolonovits (who had worked with the band as conductor and arranger on the Moment of Glory album) on keyboards. He also collaborated on rearranging the songs for the acoustic set. The band performed four new songs: “Life is too Short”, “Back to You“, “I Wanted to Cry” and “When Love Kills Love”, which was released as single.[3] All the new songs were featured on the DVD, while “Back to You” and five others were not omitted from the CD.effluent. A passageway directs the hot gas effluent from the outlet in the pressure vessel to the air bag.
After the burst disk ruptures, the separated disk falls into the passageway where the hot gas is flowing. Retention of the separated disk in the center of the passageway downstream from the opening would aid in the operation of the apparatus.
The igniter means which ignites the gases commonly includes a projectile which is propelled into and subsequently penetrates the burst disk prior to rupture of the burst disk. The projectile enters the pressure vessel followed by a jet of hot combustion products which then ignites the combustible mixture of gases. The hot combustion products, such as hot particulates, are the result of a combustion process which propels the projectile. The


jet of hot combustion products is formed behind the projectile and follows the projectile into the pressure vessel, despite being opposed by the flow of the inflation fluid out of the pressure vessel. To help channel the jet flow efficiently into the pressure vessel, it is desirable to minimize peripheral flow of the jet around the edges of the opening in the burst disk created by the penetration of the projectile.rejecting the opinions of his examining and treating physicians.
On December 13, 1999, the Commissioner moved the court to remand the case for further administrative proceedings to remedy a past defect. The Commissioner concluded that the ALJ's opinion was "not clear enough to provide for adequate review on appeal." Defendant's Memorandum in Support of Motion to Remand, p. 19. The Commissioner contends that upon remand the ALJ "should provide a more detailed rationale for his rejection of Plaintiff's credibility and his treatment of the medical evidence" as well as "present a new hypothetical question to a VE that includes relevant, credible, limitations." Id. at 29-30.
Gatliff contends that the court should reverse the decision of the ALJ, which the Commissioner concedes must be reversed, and remand for an award of


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I am a Catholic who embraced Jesus as my Lord and Savior. I attend Saturday Vigil Mass at the local Catholic parish. I also attend the local Baptist Church every Sunday morning. In May 2017 I was Baptized via immersion at that Baptist Church as a public profession of faith that I had given my life to Christ. In September 2017 I took a 10 week membership preparation class from the Pastor of that Baptist Church. In January 2018 I went before the congregation and gave my testimony in how I received salvation. I was then voted in as a member by the congregation and the Elders. I am an usher at that Baptist Church. I attend Adult Sunday School before worship at that Baptist Church. Icommitted fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: And upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon The Great, The Mother Of Harlots And Abominations Of The Earth. And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and


her borrow his car for work. Am I just being petty? -- THIRD WHEEL IN THE EAST

DEAR THIRD WHEEL: Forgive me if this seems negative, but your boyfriend's primary relationship seems to be with the girl who is living with him 24/7 and watching television in his bed rather than with you.

Keira's living with him, taking care of the house and his mother, spending time in his bed, hand-feeding him, and the few times a week you see him, she's coming along. He may treat you like gold, but it looks more like fool's gold to me.

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles,In the world of men's bottled scents, when something comes along that purports to be inspired by the smell of a stallion after a gallop, you’re inclined to take notice.

After all, this is an industry that tends to find its inspiration in the cash register rather than creativity; an industry that sends forth bottle after bottle of concoctions so uninspiring they may as well be called Ubiquity Pour Homme. So the introduction of Peau De Bête, the new fragrance by boutique perfumers Liquides Imaginaires, is refreshing – until you pop its cork, that is.

Translated, literally, as ‘skin of the beast’, Peau De Bête aims to capture, of all things, the animalic smell of horse sweat. The press blurb, with descriptions of hands brushing against hot, still damp horse


Playboy's First Black Playmate Reflects on Hugh Hefner's Legacy

Jennifer Jackson, the first black woman to be a Playboy Bunny and a centerfold in the magazine (as Miss March 1965), recalls Hefner's role in her groundbreaking pictoral: “Hef was kind of like a pimp, a high-class pimp.”

Jennifer Jackson was just 18 years old when she walked into the Chicago headquarters of Playboy. It was 1964 and Jackson, who is African American, was in college. She was looking for secretarial work, but the folks at Playboy had something else in mind. "I applied and right away they put me in a bunny costume,” she recalls. “I hadn’t dreamed about being a bunny.”

She was the youngest hire at the Playboy Club in Chicago, and it was the first time she’d everat an underground pool, a garden and a private chef who served food — whatever you wanted — 24 hours a day. The members of the house band at the mansion were African American and they took Jackson in, warned her who to avoid. Comedians Dick Gregory and Bill Cosby had been guests, and Jackson says she felt “at home.”

That night she met the pajama-clad Hefner, who presided over everything from his living room, entertaining his guests. Hefner often helped gin up publicity for Playboy by sending new Playmates on college tours, but that night he told Jackson he couldn’t extend her the same courtesy: it was the era of civil rights protests, and he had no way to adequately protect her, he explained. “Hef was kind of


tell his teacher himself if he wanted to tell her because even if I was the one who called her and tell her, his teacher would say, "Ya, but I already give you a last chance and already gave a warning.." and there was nothing I could say to that.. so i couldnt really help him in this area... perhaps if he told her himself and was an honest boy, his teacher would give him one more chance...

I figured he was trying to get my attention and that was his way of saying "can you come home quickly.." and so I dropped it...

The next day when I picked him up from the school bus, he told me that his teacher gave him final chance... and did not punisharrived in school. The moment the bus stopped, everyone pretended to be guai and serious and walked into the school quietly. But in fact, according to the teacher, based on her "research findings" later, the whole bus was noisy and everyone was saying nonsense lah...

So everyone walked into the school quietly.. everyone except Mr Honest here....

Our honest little boy walked up to his teacher with a sad face and told his teacher, "I am sorry Teacher Jasmine.. I really tried my best to control but I still couldnt control and i said PI GU on the bus..."

So the teacher gave him a little chiding and then went on to make him group leader of the bus in charge of reminding everyone not to say nonsense and keeping everyone


in check..

Wahhahahahahaa:)

PS: A few weeks later, Ace Chua called me while I was on the way home and this time, he begged me to bring him to say sorry to the uncle who owns the sweet shop that he took a sweet from when he was very young. I am surprised he remmebered that.. when Ace was three with no concept of money, he took a sweet from a sweet shop and ate it before I could stop him.. so I explained to him that he cannot do that as we have to pay for things before we eat them... and I forgot all about it but he still remembered it and he kept crying (with tears in his eyes) and said that he wanted to say sorryto Kerr gor gor as Kerr gor gor also needed to spend time with Yuria Jie Jie, Ace went to look for his fav playmate, Jon Jon, who did puzzles from the puzzle book together:)

Thanks to Xinrong and Xiaoling who also bought and gave him chocolates, he also had alot of fun EATING chocolates and sharing them:)

And then the very garang Kerr gor gor actually let Ace be the "Photographer of the day". He passed his $1000+ DSLR to Ace and Ace started taking photos of everyone and everything....

And somemore he very wusei okie.. he posed to take photo with his legs wide open and his stance is very professional looking okie! Everyone was so impressed and amused... Xinrong said he gives Ace full marks for his poise..


many photos of Simon.. wahahahahaha..

After a while leh, he got tired of it and pulled Jon Jon out to play hide and seek with him.. but because he was afraid of losing his way, he made Jo follow him wherever he went to find Jon Jon...

After a while, he came back again to bug Kerr.. wahahahaha... and then Kerr exuded fatherly love and played with all the shi wan ge wei shen me character cut outs with him.. hahahahahha.... but after a while, he also wanted to play hide and seek with kerr... but Kerr did not want to...

So my very clever son went to bug the typically quiet and reserved Yuria and he actually managed to make both of them agree to play hide and seek withhim.. he is good ah!

Anyway, after a whole day of play, Ace still says tat he had most fun playing hide and seek with Jon Jon.. I think it is because Jon always comes up with interesting places to hide so Ace is always thrown off the curve when he tries to find Jon...

Anyway, I think Ace realy misses his dad badly still.. cos during the whole few hours, he was basically sticking to all the men in the group while he basically left the women alone... anyway, I am very thankful to my friends and their support in taking care of Ace while I also had fun :D

Sunday, July 17, 2011

When Ace's right brain training teacher, Teacher Ivy, heard tat Ace would be relocating, she suggested tat


found ths spy gear but I could not persuade Ace to buy the cheapo items.. he insisted on the more ex ones.. and couldnt decide betweeen two different sets.. one is a big gun.. amtoher is a briefcase tat can double up as a gun...

As he was wasting alot of time to decide, I asked him to close his eyes and then choose with his heart.. in the end he chose the briefcase:)

Jo, Jon and KarenJon JOn birthday was on 26th mah.. so we celebrated both birthdays together:) After Ace finished his dabaoed mac donald dinner (Jon Jon's treat) he asked where is his present.. They disturbed him and said it was somewhere else and Ace insisted tat he saw it in the car adn wanted to searchthe happiest celebration he had because he really enjoyed playing with Jon JOn..

But interestingly, the next day hor, when i had to ship a box of toys over, Ace wanted to ship his new toy gun over.. when I asked him why, I found out he was afraid the police will confiscate his gun if he brought it over in his bag.. wahahahahahah.. cos the last time the police almost kept his toy gun when we went over to dubai as gun like things are not allowed in carry on baggage..

Mac Breakfast with Ah Yee And Net Net

Ah yee and Net Net brought Ace to eat mac donalds breakfast to celebrate with him and we went present shopping after tat...

After walking around for a long time, Ace finally


found a present he liked but it was quite ex but in the end, Ah Yee said OK buy for him:) So leh, he now has a Lego City Police set.. However, he only fixed the policeman's motor, hat and car.. after tat.. everything else was fixed by ME:( My eyes nearly popped out of my sockets after I finished fixing the whole thing:)

The intresting thing is he remembered tat Jon Jon said you had to handcuff the suspect at the back instead of in the front and tat was wat he did.. wahahaha..unique combination of architectural styles. The front exterior was designed in Tudor Revival and Modern Movement styles in order to allow it to harmonize with the next door Abbey Gatehouse. It was built on a slope, and the front of the building is only three stories tall. But thanks to the two basement levels built into the hill, the back of the building has five stories, and features a much more plain design than that of the front. Inside, the design is mostly Classical, featuring ample arches, marble flooring and a stunning turquoise glass mosaic at the entrance hall.

Image courtesy of Steve Cadman's Flickr stream.

Codrington Library, England

The Codrington Library of Oxford University was completed in 1751 and has been used by scholars ever since. In the late 1990s,


the building underwent a massive renovation in order to provide better protection for the books and to make the library more user friendly with better wiring and some new electronic work stations.

Images courtesy of Miguel Bernas' and Beth Hoffman's Flickr streams.

Bibliothe?que Nationale de France, France

The National Library of France has expanded greatly since new buildings were added to house the collection in 1988. Even so, the old buildings on the Rue de Richelieu are still in use, and are utterly gorgeous as well. These buildings were completed in 1868, and by 1896 the library was the largest book repository in the world, although that record has since been taken from it.

Image courtesy of Wikipedia user Zubro.

The Library of El Escorial, Spain

This library is located in Royal Seat ofSan Lorenzo de El Escorial, the historical residence of the king of Spain. Phillip II was responsible for adding the library and most of the books originally held within. The vaulted ceilings were painted with gorgeous frescoes, each representing one of the seven liberal arts: rhetoric, dialectic, music, grammar, arithmetic, geometry and astronomy. These days, the library is a World Heritage Site, and it holds more than 40,000 volumes.

Image courtesy of Jose Maria Cuellar's Flickr stream.

Biblioteca Geral, University of Coimbra, Portugal

The General Library of the University of Coimbra consists of two buildings, the New Building built in 1962, and the Joanina Library built in 1725. The Joanina Library is adorned with Baroque décor and houses the library’s volumes that date from before 1800.

Images courtesy of Taco Ekkel's and


Mick L's Flickr streams.

Handelingenkamer, Netherlands

The library of the Dutch Parliament contains every record of parliamentary hearings and discussions. Because it was built before electric lighting made the storage of books a lot safer, the building was constructed with a massive leaded glass dome in the ceiling to allow in light and minimize the need for candles and gas lamps inside the library.

Image courtesy of Jackie Kever's Flickr stream.

Delft University of Technology Library, Netherlands

While modern architecture can often be fascinating and unique, it rarely stands up to more classical designs in terms of beauty. The Delft University of Technology library is a rare exception. With a massive skylight in the ceiling that becomes a steel cone after escaping the confines of the library and an eco-friendly grass-covered roof, thelibrary is both stunning and totally modern.

Images courtesy of Robert Lochner's and Thomas Guignard's Flickr streams.

Abbey Library of St. Gallen, Switzerland

This lovely library is not only the oldest in Switzerland, but one of the oldest and most important monastery libraries in the world, holding over 160,000 volumes, many of which date back as far as the 8th century. The Rococo-styled library is often considered one of the most perfect libraries in the world and has earned the Abbey a place as a World Heritage Site.

Image courtesy of Wikipedia user Stibiwiki.

Admont Abbey Library, Austria

Built in 1776, the Admont Abbey Library is the largest monastery library in the world. The ceiling is adorned with frescoes depicting the stages of human knowledge up until the Divine Revelation. The entire design reflects


the ideals and values of the Enlightenment.

Melk Monastery Library, Austria

The Baroque-styled abbey and the library within were completed in 1736 based on designs by Jakob Prandtauer. The library includes a world-famous collection of musical manuscripts and features stunning frescoes by artist Paul Troger.

Austrian National Library, Austria

Austria’s largest library is located in the Hofburg Palace in Vienna and houses over 7.4 million items in its collections. The library was completed in 1723 and features sculptures by Lorenzo Mattielli and Peter Strudel and frescoes by Daniel Gran.

Images courtesy of Craig Elliot's and Jessica Curtin's Flickr streams.

Wiblingen Monastery Library, Germany

This library, completed in 1744, was modeled in the Baroque style after the Austrian National Library, but it is by no means just a cheap imitation of the original, and it certainlystands on its own. Just outside the library there is an inscription reading “In quo omnes thesauri sapientiae et scientiae,” which translates to “In which are stored all treasures of knowledge and science.”

Image courtesy of volzotan's Flickr stream.

Strahov Monastery Library, Czech Republic

This impressive library collection contains over 200,000 volumes, including just about every important title printed in central Europe by the end of the 18th century. While it started being built up over 860 years ago, both the collection and the building housing the books repeatedly fell victim to fires, plundering and war. In fact, the current building was not erected until 1679, and a second hall was added near the end of the 18th century. The collection continued to be dispersed during periods of Nazism and communist


rule, although the library has since managed to recover most of the titles lost during the last century.

As if the gorgeous décor and impressive book collection weren’t impressive enough on their own, the library also has a favorite feature of many geeks –- two secret passageways hidden by bookshelves and opened with fake books.

Images courtesy of Claudia Dias' and James Whitesmith's Flickr streams.

Clementinum National Library, Czech Republic

The series of buildings that make up this National Library owe their inception to an 11th century chapel dedicated to Saint Clement (hence the name), although the buildings you see now were not constructed until much later, when a Jesuit college was built on the location. The Jesuits transferred a number of books to the new college in 1622. The National LibraryCristiano Ronaldo scored all three goals against Atletico Madrid in their Champions League semi-final first leg

Phil Neville was at the Bernabeu for BBC Radio 5 live to witness Cristiano Ronaldo, his former Manchester United team-mate, scoring a hat-trick for Real Madrid in their 3-0 Champions League semi-final first-leg win over Atletico Madrid. Here are his thoughts:

I listened to my dad talk for 20 years about George Best and Pele and Cristiano Ronaldo is easily the equal of those.

What sets Ronaldo and Barcelona's Lionel Messi apart is that they deliver on the big occasion. We aren't talking about the two best players in the world, we are talking about the two best players who have ever lived. I think that's how good these two players are.

They take you to


hard work. He is a tremendous example of where hard work can take you.

When we were at Manchester United he said he wanted to go on to be the best player in the world. He had the self-belief to get to the very top. I look at Chelsea's Eden Hazard sometimes and wonder if he has that.

Phil Neville and Cristiano Ronaldo were United team-mates from 2003 to 2005 and also played against each other for club and country

United's Carrington training ground is maybe a mile, two miles around. Every single day he used to take a ball after training and run and do his tricks for a mile, two miles at a time. His drive and his ability to practise every single day is just phenomenal.

When he getsback to his house after the match against Atletico, he will have an ice bath, eat the right things at the right time to refuel his body, stretch - and he will have a masseur there. His professionalism, drive and desire are amazing.

I read an article before the second leg of the quarter-final against Bayern Munich and it was very scathing. It said he had lost speed and was not a team player - but he scored a hat-trick against Bayern. His form is not dwindling. If anything it looks like he is getting stronger because he is being managed well.

He has been rested well by Real boss Zinedine Zidane, and look at the sharpness and speed he still possesses. He is a physical specimen, a total athlete.

Real


Madrid were far too good on the night - they could have been 3-0 up at half-time and the man of the moment got three goals on the biggest stage.

Atletico Madrid cannot play at the level Real did. They played like a team that did not believe they could go to the Bernabeu and win - they were cautious, poor with their passing and there was no belief in their body language.

I have watched Atletico boss Diego Simeone a lot this season and he looks like someone who is coming to an end at the club, that he cannot take the team any further. He has got a big decision to make at the end of the season and it would not surprise me if he left tothree for Manchester United) - the most by any player, including when the tournament was called the European Cup.

103 - The Portugal international has also scored more Champions League goals than Atletico Madrid's 100.

7 - Ronaldo has equalled Barcelona forward Lionel Messi's total of Champions League hat-tricks.

8 - He has scored two consecutive Champions League hat-tricks, and eight goals in his past three games in the tournament.

399 - The 32-year-old is one strike away from 400 goals for Real Madrid alone.

Ronaldo as modest as ever...

After his match-winning performance on Tuesday, Ronaldo said: "It was a total team match.

"We have a good advantage, but this is not closed. Atletico are very strong, they are not in the semi-finals by chance and we have to concentrate on Wednesday."

On his ovation


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Hillary Clinton continued her Southern streak Tuesday by winning North Carolina’s Democratic presidential primary.

Clinton defeated Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who has struggled to win over enough African-American voters to be competitive in states where they make up a large portion of the electorate.

With all of the state's precincts reporting, Clinton led Sanders 54.6 percent to 40.8 percent.

While Sanders has won states with more white electorates -- such as New Hampshire, Oklahoma and Maine -- Clinton has dominated in the South.

Clinton, former President Bill Clinton and their daughter, Chelsea, each attended multiple get-out-the-vote events across the state in the week leading up to the primary. Sanders spent less time in North Carolina, but held rallies in Raleigh on Friday and Charlotte on Monday. He also visited Greensboro in September.

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The National Agricultural Center and Hall of Fame board of governors organized the behind-the-scenes aspects of the center during their annual meeting Monday at the Ag Hall.

Joe Steineger, who served as mayor of Kansas City, Kan., from 1987 to 1995, was elected as chairman of the board of governors.

Ag Hall director Cathi Hahner said in addition to electing officers,the main topics on the table were how to update the center’s exhibits, as well as fundraising progress and the center’s ever-challenging financial situation.

Since noted fundraiser Carl DiCapo came on board last year as a governing board member and as head of the fundraising committee, Hahner said there has been progress on the fundraising front. Through DiCapo’s efforts, the hall has already secured 10


A replica of the fossil of a Pterosaur of the "Tropeognathus Mesembrinus" species is displayed at the National Museum of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on March 20, 2013

Fossil hunters have found the remains of a pterosaur whose jaw suggests the flying reptile skimmed fish from surface water and stored the prey in a pelican-like throat pouch, they said on Thursday.

The unusual creature has been named Ikrandraco avatar—a tribute to the pterosaur-like flying creatures, "ikran," in James Cameron's sci-fi movie Avatar.

The monicker incorporates "draco," from the Latin for dragon.

Two incomplete specimens were found near each other in the Jiufotang geological formation of northeast China, part of a treasure trove of fossils from the Early Cretaceous era some 120 million years ago.

Ikrandraco had a very flatpterosaurs lived from about 225 million to 65 million years ago. So far, more than 100 species have been discovered, including giants with a wingspan of 13 metres (42 feet).

The research, published in the journal Scientific Reports, was led by Xiaolin Wang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and Alexander Kellner of Brazil's National Museum in Rio de Janeiro.

Explore further Remains of huge fossilized flying reptile displayed in Rio

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With the partial government shutdown approaching the five-week mark, hundreds of thousands of workers are still furloughed. | Alex Wong/Getty Images Government Shutdown House GOP postpones annual retreat over shutdown

House GOP leaders have postponed plans for their annual retreat in West Virginia next week, signaling that the bitter funding stalemate could drag into its fifth week.

House Republicans had planned to head to White Sulphur Springs on Jan. 30, a day after the State of the Union address had been scheduled. That three-day jaunt will now be rescheduled, according to the Congressional Leadership Institute, which organizes the trip. A new date has not yet been set.

“Since the government is shut down, we and Republican Leadership agree that Members of Congress should be in Washington, DC, negotiating a path thatAmazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy is joining Apple CEO Tim Cook in calling for Bloomberg to retract a major report from earlier this month, which alleges that servers used by the companies were compromised by Chinese intelligence services.

Both Apple and AWS had issued strong denials of the Bloomberg Businessweek story prior to their CEOs speaking out. Last week, Cook called for a retraction of the Bloomberg story in an interview with BuzzFeed News.

[Related: Read: Full Denials From AWS And Apple Of China Server Hack Report]

In a tweet Monday, Jassy said that Cook "is right" in his position.

"Bloomberg story is wrong about Amazon, too," Jassy wrote in the tweet. "They offered no proof, story kept changing, and showed no interest in our answers unless we could validate their


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from last year? His parents saw a doctor to have his arm extended by 20 percent.

"This adds a cinematic advantage over their short-armed competition—more heads equals more shares," the video says.

Viacom's in-house marketing and content agency made this snark-filled gem of an video that skewers the state of social media—and the parents of the device-obsessed generation.

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If you're aKennywood’s new rollercoaster, The Steel Curtain, will tower 220 feet in the air with the tallest inversion at a record-breaking 197 feet above the ground and 4,000 feet of track for riders to enjoy. The rollercoaster will open in 2019.

Kennywood’s new rollercoaster, The Steel Curtain, will tower 220 feet in the air with the tallest inversion at a record-breaking 197 feet above the ground and 4,000 feet of track for riders to enjoy. The rollercoaster will open in 2019.

Kennywood’s new rollercoaster, The Steel Curtain, will tower 220 feet in the air with the tallest inversion at a record-breaking 197 feet above the ground and 4,000 feet of track for riders to enjoy. The rollercoaster will open in 2019.

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On Tuesday, the International Association of Amusement Parks & Attractions (IAAPA) debuted the cars that riders will enter when the ride...

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"The Ark really is a one-of-a-kind...Friedman to Swear In as City of Cortland’s Official Fire Chief

Wayne Friedman will swear in today (December 13) as the City of Cortland’s newest fire chief, after serving for several months as acting chief since the retirements of Chiefs William Knickerbocker in July and Charles Glover in September.

Captain Duane Pierce will be sworn in as his Deputy Chief.

A ten-year veteran of the department, Friedman’s career totals a combined 24 years of fire and emergency service experience.

He also holds a B.A. in Public Administration.

Additionally, Friedman was one of only 45 fire executives from New York to graduate from this year’s prestigious National Executive Fire Officer Program.

That’s an exclusive four-year course that’s been in existence for more than three decades and accepts only 200 students from across the country every


June 17, 2012

Aaron M. Renn writes about what he calls Chicago's "demographic disaster" in City Journal:

Begin with Chicago’s population decline during the 2000s, an exodus of more than 200,000 people that wiped out the previous decade’s gains. Of the 15 largest cities in the United States in 2010, Chicago was the only one that lost population; indeed, it suffered the second-highest total loss of any city, sandwiched between first-place Detroit and third-place, hurricane-wrecked New Orleans. While New York’s and L.A.’s populations clocked in at record highs in 2010, Chicago’s dropped to a level not seen since 1910. Chicago is also being “Europeanized,” with poorer minorities leaving the center of the city and forced to its inner suburbs: 175,000 of those 200,000 lost people were black.

The second Mayor Daleytook a striking number of vacations in Paris, and brought back some highly publicized good ideas, like floodlighting bridges over the Chicago River at night just because it looks cool. I suspect, however, that the most important idea he brought back from Paris was that Americans were nuts to let violent poor people push them out of their own great cities.

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Chicago has had a remarkable renaissance the last twenty years with many, many areas becoming gentrified and white families increasing in number. I live near the former Cabrini Green housing project where cab drivers used to refuse to drive down Division for fear of getting shot and it is now full of white yuppie townhouses. You are now seeing companies moving their headquarters back into the city


from the suburbs as they can't attract younger people to work outside the city. Roscoe Village, Lincoln Square, South Loop, West Loop, Ukrainian Village, East Village, West Town, Lakeview, Pilsen, Logan Square, Wicker Park/Bucktown are all more white and middle clases than they used to be. I am only half kidding when I say that Chicago has become San Francisco without hills and with worse weather.

Chicago will never be Paris. Don't be ridiculous. How many poems dedicated to Chicago by great poets there have been? How many great scientists, poets, writers and artists have been compelled to move to Chicago for inspiration?

The U.S.A may or may not be better than France, but please don't drag the French through the mud by comparing the City of Light to thatsemi-provincial, freezing, windy mess that is Chicago.

The ONLY American city worthy of being spoken in the same sentence as the great cities of Europe like Paris, Rome, Florence, London or even minor stars like Hamburg, St.Petersburg or Barcelona is New York City and that is stretching it. The most intelligent and civilized Americans I have ever met are white people from New York. the rest of Americans strike me as provincial yobs with zero finesse or culture - and I can speak about this with good authority since I have been to all American states except Alaska.

In fact, Europeans speak very highly of NYC. They regard it as one of thecities of their own. In fact, it is the only American city they know about or care about.


Like Nabokov once said, NYC is the only place in America fit for civilized living. The rest of America is good for cowboys, buffallo and Paleolithic savages. I personally don't regard NYC as an American city, but an European city on the other side of the Atlantic. There is definitely an Old World vibe to NYC, even more so than to Boston.

Besides the preposterousness of comparing the majestic cities of Europe to America's provincial hamlets, there is the issue that the comparison does not hold. European kick their poor to the suburbs because the oldest and most expensive residential areas in cities like Paris, Munich, Florence, etc, are at the center of town. This is not the case in the U.S with it's middle-class, petit burgeoise Society, thathas made middle-class residents to go live in the suburbs whilst the center of town is the commericial hub and only inexpensive residential facilities are available - and all American cities are like this. The U.S.A is a petit burrgeoise Society to the core, including in city planning. The fathers of your Society(the Europeans), on the other hand, went through a LOT of history before the arrival of the burgeoise class and the concept of city planning even existed, and this is reflected in the design of their cities. The bottom line is that American cities will never have an "European" distibution of residential areas by socio-economic class, and poor people will always congregate and live downtown in American cities.

I've long found it astounding how much Chicago just


dropped off the nation's mental map since the early '90s. It used to be America's "second city"!

Stand-up comedy, which was the new rock music and a Chicago specialty, nosedived. The up-nosed elite gave up on jazz. In the hair metal hangover, "dude shredding a guitar" briefly yielded his icongraphic supremacy to "dude wailing on a saxophone in front of a brick wall" -- who was practically Chicago's mascot -- but who just faded off.

Pinball, which you probably didn't notice until someone pointed it out was a particularly Chicago thing, fell apart - of the 3 great manufacturers, only one's still limping along. To the extent that it's going through a renaissance right now it's players in the Seattle-Portland-SF-Boulder corridor, and an upstart manufacturer in New Jersey.

The Bulls tookon moving to the big city. While the coasts have many options: NY, LA, SF, SD, DC, Boston. There is only one option in the middle of the country: Chicago. I expect Chicago to be swamped with young professional white people when the economy improves and they can move out of their parents houses.

Moving the morally deviant and economically incompetent out to the ring suburbs is one step short of restricting them to reservations or homelands. The wisdom of apartheid should be clear now: it is the only way to realize a safe middle class society free of carjackings, flash mobs, child molesters, random murder, unusable public schools, hate crimes, and all these other abominations brought to American streets by third world immigration and the civil rights act.

I'm


suffering deterioration.

Chicago's banlieues are its formerly white suburbs, whose inhabitants are now enjoying a second round of ethnic cleansing, paid for by their own tax dollars, and brought to you by the same worthless elite who cleansed them the first time. Class war as race war.

How does this coexist with the fact that Chicago's flash mob epidemic is worse than any other major American city except DC?

I lived in a gentrified north side neighborhood from 2005 to 2007 and loved it. As the first anonymous commented, the gentrified parts of the city offer great quality of life at a comparatively low cost of living.

But I returned last summer on business and stayed for a week in the Loop. I didn't get flash mobbed, but in seven days inof the budget and a federal attorney that is not afraid to put Irishmen behind bars. Then Chicago will be a great city!

I almost wept when I and my wife walked around London at night in the central city. It was a warm summer night and people were eating and drinking in sidewalk cafes. In America there are no comparable districts. Parts of Georgetown and maybe a few blocks on Union Street in San Francisco still have a little civilization. But nothing like central London.

I'm going to cheat and comment on the News-of-the-Day, not your posting.

Rodney keng died and the TV news show all report on the riots incorrectly. The cause of the riots was media bias. The real story is in Lou Cannon's book. Alas it's an


the university and spendy Iranians don't seem to have killed anything.

As someone who works in Detroit, you guys are nuts to compare Chicago to it. Admittedly, the South side of Chicago is almost identical to Detroit, with downtown Detroit equal to the Hyde Park neighborhood, both surrounded by miles of blighted ghettos. But then Chicago has the highly prosperous downtown and decent North side. And it's South side ghetto is conveniently losing population, and the prosperous downtown seems to be growing South into former ghettos.

I almost wept when I and my wife walked around London at night in the central city. It was a warm summer night and people were eating and drinking in sidewalk cafes. In America there are no comparable districts. Parts of Georgetown and maybeaccompanied by deliberate policies of race replacement, it is genocide.

Regarding these kids moving to the cities to expend the last of their people’s vital force:

The most intelligent and civilized Americans I have ever met are white people from New York. the rest of Americans strike me as provincial yobs with zero finesse or culture - and I can speak about this with good authority since I have been to all American states except Alaska.

I think what you mean are white people who move to live and work in New York. Not people actually from New York. Many of the white people actually from New York (guidos, working class, and the like) are just as coarse, provincial, and cultureless as people from other parts of the US.

In fact, Europeans


speak very highly of NYC. They regard it as one of thecities of their own. In fact, it is the only American city they know about or care about. Like Nabokov once said, NYC is the only place in America fit for civilized living. The rest of America is good for cowboys, buffallo and Paleolithic savages. I personally don't regard NYC as an American city, but an European city on the other side of the Atlantic. There is definitely an Old World vibe to NYC, even more so than to Boston.

I disagree that NYC has an Old World vibe or feels like a European city. It doesn't at all.

However, it is true that it does seem like the only "real" genuine city in America.

I almost wept when Iand my wife walked around London at night in the central city. It was a warm summer night and people were eating and drinking in sidewalk cafes. In America there are no comparable districts. Parts of Georgetown and maybe a few blocks on Union Street in San Francisco still have a little civilization. But nothing like central London.

Ever heard of New York City? Georgetown and San Fran don't even compare.

“the preposterousness of comparing the majestic cities of Europe to America's provincial hamlets”

The majestic cities of Europe, while they are nice and interesting places, are nowadays more like curators of their glorious past than furnaces of creativity. America’s provincial hamlets aren’t doing too badly. Chicago has been affiliated with close on 100 Nobel winners; how many can Florence and


Barcelona claim?

"The most intelligent and civilized Americans I have ever met are white people from New York. the rest of Americans strike me as provincial yobs with zero finesse or culture - and I can speak about this with good authority since I have been to all American states except Alaska."

What is behind the surge in homicides so far this year in Chicago (up 44 percent over last year)? There is also the continuous threat of violent flash mobs popping up on the 'law abiding' populous. Seems Chicago was gentrifying nicely up until 2008-9, and has since started to enter a period of decline. I recently read that the return of the vibrant population to the south has slowed considerably in the last year. What would happen tosay, Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles if the vibrant population began returning?

"There is this trend of some cities becoming powerful pseudo city-states controlled by the Big Oligarchs (Bloomberg and Wall St. in NYC, Emmanuel and Crown/Pritzker in Chicago). I imagine this will continue as the US nation-state continues to hollow out"

"Chicago's banlieues are its formerly white suburbs, whose inhabitants are now enjoying a second round of ethnic cleansing, paid for by their own tax dollars, and brought to you by the same worthless elite who cleansed them the first time. Class war as race war."

The most intelligent and civilized Americans I have ever met are white people from New York. the rest of Americans strike me as provincial yobs with zero finesse or culture - and I