Friday, July 11, 2014

Basic British Time line part 1

TIME LINE

ROMAN BRITAIN
55-54    Roman incursions of Julius Caesar
47 AD Conquest of southeast England
50         Founding of Londinium
60/61    Revolt of Queen Boudicca
70-84    Conquest Of wales and scotland
122 Hadrian wall is built
196-213 Britain becomes two provinces..
306       Constantine the great proclaimed at york
367-369 Barbarian offensive
398-400 Victories over Picts , Scots, Saxons..

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The art of war...short verses..Part 1

THE ART OF WAR..
sun tzu

1.the art of war is of vital importance tothe state.

2.the art of war has 5 constant factors
- the moral law
-heaven
-earth
-the commander
-method and discipline

3.if your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him..n pretend to be weak..

4.all warfare is based on decepetion..

5.in war, then , your great object be victory..not lenthy campaigns...

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The art of war..part 2

(1)But when the army is restless and distrustful, trouble is sure to come

From the other feudal princes. This is simply bringing anarchy into the army,

And flinging victory away..

(2)thus we may know that there are five essentials for victory:

-he will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight

-he will win who kinows how to handle both superior and inferior

Forces..

-he will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks

-he will win who prepared himself waits to take the enemy unprepared

-he will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign

(3) hence the saying: if you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result

Of a hundred battles.

(4) if you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory you gained , you also

Suffer defeat

Thursday, July 10, 2014

Lebron James signs with Cleveland Cavaliers...

LeBron James Prepared to Sign With the Cleveland Cavaliers?

July 10, 2014

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By Marcel Mutoni

The big meeting with Pat Riley in Las Vegas came and went without a resolution to LeBron James’ free agency. LBJ reportedly won’t take any other meetings, and depending on who you want to believe, James is either non-committal at the moment, or has already made the decision to leave South Beach and re-join the Cleveland Cavaliers. Per the Sun-Sentinel and Sheridan Hoops:

The meeting lasted over an hour, with James emerging without immediately committing to a return to the team he has led to the NBA Finals in each of his four seasons in South Florida, winning NBA titles in 2012 and ’13, the first two titles of his career.
The Decision has been made. LeBron James is returning to the Cleveland Cavaliers, a league source tells SheridanHoops.com.

James met with Miami Heat president Pat Riley today in Las Vegas to deliver the news. A contingent of other Heat officials were informed they were not welcome at the meeting, according to a source who spoke on condition of anonymity. [...] An official announcement will be made on www.lebronjames.com.

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Blood on the Fourth of July..in chicago

Blood on the Fourth of July

Chicago’s deadly, gun-fueled holiday weekend was only marginally worse than last year’s deadly, gun-fueled holiday weekend.

By Josh Voorhees

A police officer guards a crime scene where seven people were shot on July 6, 2013, in Chicago. More than 70 people were shot, 13 of whom were killed, during the July Fourth weekend last year in Chicago. This year was just as bad.

Over the Fourth of July holiday weekend in Chicago, 82 people were shot in an 84-hour window, according to the Chicago Tribune. Fourteen were dead by Monday morning, including two boys, aged 14 and 16, who were killed by police in separate incidents when they allegedly refused to drop their guns. Things were so chaotic Sunday night that officers responding to the spasm of violence reportedly kept interrupting one another on their radios to report still newer bursts of gunfire. The string of shootings garnered national media attention and prompted Mayor Rahm Emanuel to plead with residents on Monday to put down their guns. “Wherever you are, wherever you live, the gun violence that was part of this weekend is totally unacceptable,” Emanuel told a gathering of concerned citizens on the city’s South Side, where many of the shootings took place.

Josh Voorhees is a Slate senior writer. He lives in Iowa City.

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The outbreak of violence stood in stark contrast to the message coming from Chicago City Hall in April, when Emanuel and his police superintendent, Garry McCarthy, trumpeted police statistics that showed the city had seen its lowest number of murders for the first three months of a year in more than a half-century. That announcement followed January’s much-hyped news that 2013’s homicide total was 415—still a lot of people killed, but 88 fewer than the previous year and the lowest total since 1965. Emanuel, up for re-election early next year, has highlighted the city’s progress in curbing violence in what was the nation’s murder capital in 2012.

How do we reconcile these two seemingly contradictory narratives? On the one had, the stats suggest that violent crime is falling in Chicago; on the other, the Windy City remains riddled by gang-related violence. The Fourth’s bloody toll wasn’t even unusual. Just last year, more than 70 people were shot, 13 of whom were killed, during the same four-day stretch. Things were slightly better in 2012, with at least 8 people killed. All told, if you tally the homicides in Chicago over the Thursday-to-Sunday window closest to July 4, this year’s long weekend was the eighth since 2002 to see double-digit murders, according to the city’s own statistics.

The sad reality is that by the time July 4, 2015, rolls around, we will have largely forgotten this past weekend’s violence. We’ve already done so for last year’s Independence Day. The fact that this past holiday weekend was only marginally worse than last year’s was a detail largely missing from much of the coverage this week. Even the Tribune, which provided by far the most detailed coverage of the shootings in real time, failed to mention the comparison in its online report on Monday and made only a passing, vague reference to it in its otherwise-comprehensive front-page follow-up the next day. Likewise, few reports bothered to mention a similar string of shootings less than three months ago that left 9 dead and 36 others injured over Easter weekend.

The media might have a short memory when it comes to Chicago violence, but the city’s Police Department appears to go to great lengths to willfully forget. Chicago magazine published a two-part investigation this year that detailed how the department appeared to be using pretty much every trick in the CompStat book to artificially deflate the city’s homicide and violent crime numbers. The reporters, David Bernstein and Noah Isackson, were able to identify 10 people “who were beaten, burned, suffocated, or shot to death in 2013 and whose cases were reclassified as death investigations, downgraded to more minor crimes, or even closed as noncriminal incidents—all for illogical or, at best, unclear reasons.” Given more time and better access, the article implies, the two reporters could have found plenty more examples of what would be considered murders by everyone but the police. The magazine’s investigation likewise documented that the police used similar tricks to depress the city’s larger violent crime rate.

McCarthy has brushed off those allegations as “absolute nonsense,” but Chicago magazine isn’t alone in making them. A recent audit from the city’s inspector general that focused on assault-related incidents found that police were counting crimes with multiple victims as a single offense, an accounting trick that led to an underreporting of victims by 24 percent in the sample studied. That means a shooting that left a half-dozen people injured—as several did this past weekend—might register in the police books as a single shooting incident. Put another way, recent history suggests that there’s a realistic chance that by this time next year, the dead and injured from this past July Fourth won’t be fully counted in Chicago’s official crime statistics.

Even if a portion of the recent drop in crime numbers is due to a statistical sleight of hand, most observers agree that violent crime is indeed falling in the Chicago, as it is in most major cities. But the overall numbers obscure the fact that Chicago is a city of neighborhoods, and much of the violence has been sequestered in poor, predominantly black areas of the city where gang violence goes largely unnoticed unless it comes in bunches, as it did this past weekend. After crunching the homicide numbers for 2000 through 2010, Yale University sociologist Andrew Papachristos found that the murder rate was about 3.1 per 100,000 residents living in the Northwest side’s Jefferson Park. Less than 10 miles away in West Garfield Park, the rate was more than 20 times that, a staggering 64 per 100,000, or roughly in line with the casualty rate for civilians in Iraq at the height of the last war. When people describe parts of Chicago as urban war zones, it is not hyperbole.

Seven aldermen on the City Council have called for an investigation into how the Police Department keeps its books, and an ACLU lawsuit against the city on behalf of a West Side community group claiming that the city doesn’t deploy police equitably across neighborhoods continues to wind its way through court.

Meanwhile, the violence continues. On Tuesday, the day after Emanuel spoke on the South Side, two more people died from gunshot wounds suffered over the weekend, and at least 11 more people were shot, including a 23-year-old riding his bike and a 17-year-old boy who was walking through a park with a group of friends. The teen was set to start college orientation on Thursday. Both died at the respective scenes.

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10-year career, Trey Songz has an established formula

for Pop stardom that excels at being commonplace, but not "common."

Six albums into a nearly 10-year career, Trey Songz has an established formula for Pop stardom that has allowed him to become a brand name performer in urban top-40 music. A consistent hitmaker, three of his now six albums have reached the top five on the Billboard R&B album charts, with his past three (2008’s Ready, 2010’s Passion, Pain and Pleasure, and 2012’s Chapter V) all reaching the top five on Billboard magazine’s overall album charts, too. As well, in an era where everyone decries a lack of album sales, he’s sold roughly 2.5 million copies of his last three releases. However, with the potential for high sales figures dwindling, Trigga, Songz’s sixth album features a simplified, “turnt up” formula for Pop stardom that excels at being commonplace, but not “common,” high-class production for music covering populist topics at play for those for whom wild nights aren’t hooks in songs, but rather a way of life.

One can basically figure out exactly what they’re in for when instead of less salacious fare to start the album, the album instead begins with “Cake,” an ode to cunnilingus wherein Songz compares women to confectionery flavors. “Light-skinned girls” remind him of “red velvet (cake),” “Dark-skinned girls” remind him of “chocolate,” while Caucasian women remind him of “vanilla icing” as a cake topping. While yes, this may appear to be a black mark against the album’s mainstream Pop sensibilities, let’s also remember that T.I. and Iggy Azalea currently have a single on the charts where T.I. refuses to copulate with women who have a “bush down there,” and Iggy wants you to “go 12 rounds with this Million Dollar Baby.” Expecting album-selling kingpin Songz to deviate from what’s moving units is an exercise in futility.

This album, similar to Jodeci’s pop breakout 1995 release, is meant for the show, the after party and the hotel. Both “Foreign” and it’s Justin Bieber-featuring remix advocate for the joys of romancing women coming to America (and visiting nightclubs) in a manner not heard since the days of Jay Z’s “Girls, Girls, Girls.” “Touchin, Lovin” and “Late Night” are club smashes too, as Nicki Minaj and Juicy J show up and drop eight-bar treatises on the liberating power of the female orgasm and the perils of one-night stands, respectively.

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nicki & usher with there new duet..

Usher enlist Nicki Minaj for his new single “She Came To Give It To You,” off his upcoming album, due this fall.
The seductive single saw production credits from Pharrell Williams who has been having possibly the best year of his career with his viral single “Happy.”
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These days it has become the norm for Nicki Minaj to stand out when making guest appearances on songs.
“No little boys its Usher / Got them under pressure / Tell your man play the back like a spine / He only last six seconds like a Vine,” Nicki Minaj raps over fast flowing beat.
Usher and Nicki Minaj previously collaborated on the 2010 hit single “lil Freak.” The duo are trying to repeat that success with “She Came To Give It To You.”
Nicki Minaj is also working on her new album The Pink Print, due this fall.

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