National Small Business week began Sunday VALLEY. TAYLOR MCKENNA SMALL BUSINESS WEEK IS A NATIONWIDE EVENT TO RECOGNIZE AND SUPPORT SMALL BUSINESSES HERE IN PENNSYLVANIA. SHOPPING SMALL BOOSTS THE COMMONWEALTH’S ECONOMY, WITH ONE LOCAL ... 04/28/2024 - 2:21 pm | View Link
Treasury Secretary given one-year extension Treasury Secretary Mahinda Siriwardana is to be given an extension of service in his post in the Finance Ministry by President Ranil Wickremesinghe following his retirement on Friday from the Central ... 04/27/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
2nd Annual Clifton Park Restaurant Week ends Sunday The second annual Clifton Park Restaurant Week ends Sunday. Several restaurants are offering special two or three course menus. The menus range in price from $15 to $25. Participating restaurants ... 04/27/2024 - 5:07 am | View Link
Retirement reception for Rep. Ako Abdul-Samad is Sunday evening A retirement reception to celebrate the career of Rep. Ako Abdul-Samad will be from 5-8 p.m. Sunday at the DMACC Urban Campus, Building 7. He announced his plans to retire in February. Abdul-Samad ... 04/21/2024 - 8:45 am | View Link
Diamondbacks' Merrill Kelly: Won't start Sunday Kelly (undisclosed) was scratched from Sunday's game against the Giants, Nick Piecoro of The Arizona Republic reports. Kelly was set to make his fifth start of the season Sunday. It's unclear why ... 04/21/2024 - 7:42 am | View Link
“Charlie Spies, the Republican National Committee’s chief counsel, was pushed out of his new role just two months after taking the job, amid a storm of controversy over conflicts involving other clients at the firm where he still works,“ the New York Times reports.
“Mr. Spies, a veteran election-law lawyer whom the R.
“On his first visit to Europe in five years, the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, appears intent on seizing opportunities to loosen the continent’s bonds with the United States and forge a world freed of American dominance,” the New York Times reports..
“The Chinese leader has chosen three countries to visit — France, Serbia and Hungary — that each, to a greater or lesser degree, look askance at America’s postwar ordering of the world, see China as a necessary counterweight and are eager to bolster economic ties.”
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On the evening of August 8, hours after a wildfire ravaged West Maui, Maui County’s top emergency management official, Herman Andaya, texted his secretary to ask about the status of other fires across the island.
“Still burning,” she replied.
Gary Moore is one of the least talked about guitarists of his time, but man could he rock.
Still Got the Blues For You is in my mind his signature track.
Music Radar conducted an excellent interview with Moore and he discussed his music and guitar playing in general.
Moore also has some advice for the prolix guitar player, and we have surely all been one, coming down with acute case of fretboard diarrhoea and using too many notes in our solos.
Take a phrase, says Moore, and work on it, playing around with all the different permutations, accenting the first, second, or maybe the last notes, working on the dynamics – these are all ways of workshopping your phrasing and learning how to make more out of something simple and familiar.