Новости за 19.06.2016

By Alan Bean

Spend much time in old San Antonio and you realize the city is really old–at least by Texas standards.  A charming mix of Latino and German roots, the city is best known for the Alamo and its delightful River Walk.  If you’ve seen the Alamo once, that’s generally enough; but the River Walk keeps serving up surprises.

As my wife Nancy and I strolled along one of the less commercialized stretches of the River Walk, I noticed that several arresting inscriptions had been chiseled into the rock work. Читать дальше...

The Tastiest Salt Beef ...

Mazel tov to Dean Kemer on being the first Israeli drafted, and signed, to a Major League Baseball team!

In the recent MLB draft, the Los Angeles Dodgers selected Kemer as their pick in the 14th round, and he signed with them. Kemer is a dual-citizen pitcher and has played for the Israel national baseball team in international tournaments.

Kemer was actually drafted in the 2015 draft by the San Diego Padres, but elected ...

This is very difficult,for me personally, but it is important so I feel I must join in making this announcement.

I am just going to copy the text from the Daas Torah blog:

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT Meir Pogrow (founder of Master Torah program) has been determined to be a rasha by beis din and that it is prohibited for women to have any contact with him

Ever see those ads where you can invest and get returns from the stock market, but you’re guaranteed to never lose money and wonder how they could offer such a product?  If you wanted to, you could do the same things with your portfolio by using the right mix of stocks and bonds, and holding your investments for a long enough time period.  You’ll actually make more that way than you will with one of the “guaranteed” investment products because you won’t be paying ...

Let’s chat on It’s A Wig Mujica. Such a glamorous and gorgeous style. Definitely a go-to-wig for that special occasion. Mujica has a thicker texture which makes it look more natural and fuller. Pair this style with many looks from super sexy to even casually romantic – definitely can wear this for walks on the beach in a spaghetti strap dress #goals. You can purchase Mujica for under $40 at ebonyline online ...

Claire Ainsworth in Nature, from February 15, 2016: Sex can be much more complicated than it at first seems. According to the simple scenario, the presence or absence of a Y chromosome is what counts: with it, you are male, and without it, you are female. But doctors have long known that some people straddle the boundary — their sex chromosomes say one thing, but their gonads (ovaries or testes) or sexual anatomy say another. Parents of children with these kinds of conditions — known as intersex conditions... Читать дальше...

Love may not arrive tomorrow,
Or today or in between the question,
and answer pause 
I’m not sure how long it takes,
Or whether it come
all at once, or piece by piece
I only know the one,
Wrapped around your hazel eyes
Where you hold a day,
Fill it with a lifetime
and still have room
for tomorrow.

As it is Father’s Day I thought I would pick my 7 favorite film dads! Very tough to actually just settle on the 7 in the end.

After six years without an album, UK dance legends Underworld returned with their ninth album recently. 'Barbara Barbara, We Face a Shining Future' is their first new material since 2010. Karl Hyde has said of the album: "When I listen to this record what I’m proud of most is that Rick and I made a record without thinking about where it fits or if it sounds like Underworld."The album was co-produced by drum and bass producer High Contrast, who previously ...

Hey Beauty and Subscription Box Lovers! These are the subscription box products I received and tested this week. These are my honest opinions and suggestions. I have linked where you can buy the products if you so choose. I hope you learn more about the products subscription boxes offer. I really enjoy testing these products. Let me know what you think in the comments below!

For me design is inspiration that has the capacity to improve our lives, but listen to the answers of some of the most famous contemporary designers at the Design Talks during MilanoDesign Week 2016 from the site of Archiproducts:

The strangest Trump video ever, in which Trump is elected world president, and if you suspect that it may not be shooting straight, you'd be correct:

It's by Mike Diva, "an American video director, special effects artist, musician and YouTube personality." Wikipedia says: Diva's intent was to "seem obnoxiously pro-Trump" while doing the opposite, with the production quality so good that viewers would ask: "Why would a Japanese ad agency make this?" Indeed, many early online comments mistook the video for a genuine ad... Читать дальше...

Saturday 11th June 2016

I sit down to write this, twenty-four hours after leading the group on this very walk in the southern half of the Quantock Hills. It was only eight-days ago that I finalised this route, having spent the previous months pre-walking, only to arrive at broken stiles and horridly overgrown footpaths.

In these posts, I’ll document my finalised route.

For the first half of this walk, I decided to deviate entirely from my intended route. I was happy with with it... Читать дальше...

Attention Deal Lovers! I have some awesome freebie links for you today! Today, there are a few great ones. I will be posting more today as well! Therefore, come back often! Or follow me on twitter so you never miss when new freebies are added! What do you think of the freebies? Let me know in the comments below!

Well, I'm getting pretty fed up about the lack of Summer weather. Half-way through June, we ought to be sweltering in the heat by now, but sadly that's not the case.

Despite the disappointing lack of sunshine, my tomatoes are producing lots of flowers, and now one or two of them have set fruit.

There is always hope for everyone, despite the blackness, the pervasiveness and the persistence of some of our sins. Always, there is hope; always! Because Mercy and Love are among His most prominent names.

Gosh, I hear you say, another one?  When will this end?  This must be the longest 'what I did on my holidays ever!' I would apologise, but I would not mean it.  You are, however, at last at the end (please keep the cheering down to a dull roar).

Those who have been paying attention might recall that on the list of places to visit was the garden of Bomarzo, the garden of monsters. Indeed I have said that this garden was the one I wanted to see most of all.........

....... so where... Читать дальше...

… or something or other.

From the BBC:

Mr Macron told Le Monde: "Leaving the EU would mean the 'Guernseyfication' of the UK, which would then be a little country on the world scale. It would isolate itself and become a trading post and arbitration place at Europe's border."

And he said the European Council would have to deliver an ultimatum to the UK about its intentions and that France's President Hollande would be very clear.

"If the UK wants a treaty of commercial access to ...

Vibraphone ace Mike Dillon is joined by percussionist Jim Loughlin (moe.) for a short Summer tour promoting his covers album Functioning Broke. Former Frank Zappa band member Ed Mann is on board for the shows in Black Rock, Portsmouth and New York.

Very interesting article by Mike Whitney, an acquaintance of mine. I do not understand economics very well, but some of you may understand it better than I do. Anyway, I think the diagnosis, etiology and treatment are correct.

More popular than the president

AT THREE o’clock in the morning on May 25th, guards roused Nadia Savchenko in her prison cell in southern Russia, told her to pack her things and whisked her to an airport. “I didn’t know if I was flying to Ukraine or to Siberia,” says the Ukrainian military pilot, who spent nearly two years in Russian captivity on fabricated charges. Only when she saw yellow and blue stripes on the plane did she realize that she was heading home.