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After nearly nine and a half years of renting space in Jeffersonville, NBC has moved into a our new church home! Our new church is located at 2219 Spring Avenue in New Albany. Although we've moved out of Jeffersonville for the first time, we are excited to be relocating to a new community and making lots of new friends.
Our Board of Directors has done an amazing job of guiding us through this process and we have so many of you to thank for contributing to our Building Fund to raise the amount needed for the down payment. We have no doubts that God opened this door for us and we cannot wait to see what He has in store for our church.
We'll have Bible Study and Youth Group each Sunday morning beginning at 9:30 a.m. and our Worship Service is at 10:30 a.m. We'll also have Wednesday night Worship at 6:30 p.m. and Children's Church on Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m., too.
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A new Kali YouTube Channel for to all things Filipino Martial Arts has been launched! You'll find some of IMPACT's Kali Lessons recorded here and published for you. It's like you're here in class or it can serve as a review for what you just worked on.
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Episode #155: Empty the Ashtrays, Get Out Some IceSaturday, December 26th, 2015
We triumph over unreliable software to bring you another fine music and chat selection. Ignore the clumsy edits and concentrate on the covers, the sad songs, the party songs, the early music, the classical, and the extremely modern music. Our gamble, as always: we like it, so you'll like it too. Take a chance.
(0:00:00) Christina Pluhar, L'Arpeggiata, Lucilla Galeazzi — Voglio una casa (improvisation)
(0:02:59) Your DJs Begin
(0:09:03) Gordon Lightfoot — Me and Bobby McGee
(0:12:44) Carole King — Oh No Not My Baby
(0:16:12) Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris — I've Had Enough (I Cried for Us)
(0:19:43) Courtney Barnett — Song for Odetta
(0:22:29) One and Only One of Your DJs Speaks
(0:24:32) Matthews' Southern Comfort — Mare, Take Me Home
(0:28:17) Little Sonny — Wade in the Water
(0:31:45) Weird Al Yankovic and Wendy Carlos — Peter and the Wolf Introduction
(0:35:43) Patrick Stewart and Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon — Peter and the Wolf: Just then a duck came waddling around
(0:38:13) Both of Your DJs Speak
(0:45:34) Al Green — It's the Real Thing (Coca-Cola commercial)
(0:46:33) Gordon Jenkins, Elliott Lewis, The Ralph Brewster Singers — The Party (from The Complete Manhattan Tower)
(0:49:28) D'Angelo and The Vanguard — Really Love
(0:55:05) The Seekers — If You Go Away
(0:59:07) Sam Smith — Good Thing
(1:02:28) Your DJs Speak
(1:06:12) The Corrs — Heart Like a Wheel
(1:10:05) John Denver — Let It Be
(1:13:54) The Moody Blues — Never Comes the Day
(1:18:42) Kendrick Lamar feat. Snoop Dogg, Anna Wise, Bilal — Institutionalized
(1:23:14) Avril Lavigne — Knockin' on Heaven's Door
(1:26:05) Blur — I Broadcast
(1:28:56) Your DJs Conclude
(1:34:23) Mike Post — School's Out (Theme to Richie Brockelman, Private Eye)


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The National Center for Science Education (NCSE) sent out news that the prolific writer about origins of life, Lynn Margulis, died on November 22.
The eminent biologist Lynn Margulis died on November 22, 2011, at the age of 73, according to the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Born Lynn Alexander in Chicago on March 5, 1938, she enrolled in the University of Chicago at the age of fourteen. She received her A.B. in liberal arts from the University of Chicago in 1957, a joint master's degree in zoology and genetics from the University of Wisconsin in 1960, and a Ph.D. in genetics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1963. After a stint as a post-doctoral researcher at Brandeis University, she spent twenty-two years in the Department of Biology at Boston University before moving to the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where she was Distinguished University Professor. Among her honors and awards were membership in the National Academy of Sciences, the William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement from Sigma Xi, the Darwin-Wallace Medal from the Linnean Society, and the National Medal of Science. A prolific writer (often in collaboration with her son Dorion Sagan), her books include Origin of Eukaryotic Cells (Yale University Press 1970), Origins of Sex (Yale University Press, 1986), Microcosmos (HarperCollins, 1987), Slanted Truths: Essays on Gaia, Symbiosis, and Evolution (Springer, 1997), Symbiotic Planet (Basic Books, 1998), and Acquiring Genomes (Basic Books, 2002).
Margulis was perhaps most celebrated for her advocacy of the endosymbiotic theory of the origin of organelles, starting with her paper "On the origin of mitosing cells," published in the Journal of Theoretical Biology in 1967. The endosymbiotic theory is now generally accepted for mitochondria and chloroplasts, if not for all of the organelles that Margulis thought. She was also known for her advocacy of the Gaia hypothesis and symbiogenesis, the idea that speciation is driven largely by symbiosis. Her proclivity for such unconventional evolutionary mechanisms allowed her to be steadily misrepresented by antievolutionists hoping to convince the public that evolution is a theory in crisis. But Margulis firmly rejected creationism, writing, for example, "Anthropocentric writers with a proclivity for the miraculous and a commitment to divine intervention tend to attribute historical appearances like eyes, wings, and speech to 'irreducible complexity' (as, for example, Michael Behe does in his book, Darwin's Black Box) or 'ingenious design' (in the tradition of William Paley who used the functional organs of animals as proof for the existence of God). Here we feel no need for supernatural hypotheses. Rather, we insist that today, more than ever, it is the growing scientific understanding of how new traits appear, ones even as complex as the vertebrate eye, that has triumphed" (Acquiring Genomes, p. 202). She was a Supporter of NCSE.
For the obituary from the University of Massachussetts, Amherst, visit: http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/newsreleases/articles/141605.php
This is a great blow to creationism. Margulis was one of the favorite scientists for quote mining and misquoting among creationism defenders.
It is a greater blow to science and friends of science. All the rest of us will miss the brilliant insights and the questions that forced people to look at life in a new way, often.


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The lowest-scoring Super Bowl in history disappointed a swath of America on Sunday, and the TV audience for the matchup between the New England Patriots and Los Angeles Rams is expected to have shrunk accordingly.
The CBS telecast averaged a 44.9 rating in the 56 overnight markets measured by Nielsen _ a decline of 5 percent from the comparable figure last year and the lowest since 2009. The number of viewers who watched will be released later Monday.
After a year when more offense and scoring helped boost regular-season ratings, Super Bowl LIII was a defensive battle, with the Patriots shutting down the Rams 13-3. The only touchdown scored came in the fourth quarter, a first in 53 Super Bowl contests.
While the tactical contest might have been compelling to serious football watchers, casual fans tend to enjoy higher-scoring shootouts.
Last year, Super Bowl LII was watched by 103.4 million TV viewers. Even though it was an action-packed contest in which the Philadelphia Eagles vanquished the Patriots by a score of 41-33, it was the smallest audience for the big game since 2009.
CBS, which sold 30-second ads in the game for an average of $5.25 million each, expected Super Bowl LIII to draw more than 100 million viewers. No Super Bowl has scored below that figure since 2009.
The first appearance of a Los Angeles team in the Super Bowl since 1984 did boost ratings in the nation's second-largest TV market. The 44.6 rating was the highest in Los Angeles since 1996.
While the size of the Super Bowl audience has fluctuated in recent years, the matchup remains the most watched TV event of the year by a larger margin than ever as the proliferation of viewing choices has chipped away at most other programs and big events. The Academy Awards telecast, which typically is the most-watched non-sports program of the year, had its lowest audience ever in 2018 with 26.5 million viewers.


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Our full Windows Phone 8.1 review — which, if you haven't read, go ahead and check it out, it's comprehensive — states: "while the People hub remains, it serves principally as a feed aggregator: Twitter and Facebook posts still show up within, but tapping on them takes you not to a custom People page but to the post within the appropriate app."
Microsoft pretty much removed the Facebook and Twitter integration from the People Hub, but, at the same time, allowed for applications to plug in to it. An example is the new Twitter Beta for Windows Phone 8.1 app — for Windows Phone 8.1 users only — which apparently brings back some of that integration, in addition to playing nicely with Cortana, as well as the Action Center. Follow the source link below if you're rocking WP8.1.
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The parting of the Red Sea came and went and did this summer really happen?
"It's crazy what they accomplished," Chaz Gagne said.
Gagne managed the Encinitas Little League All Stars, those boys playing lights out while school was out.
ELL, and its boisterous band of boosters dubbed the "Red Sea," fell short in reaching the Little League World Series.
But ELL exceeded expectations so many times it's had to categorize them all.
Going 15-5 and winning the ultra-competitive Southern California section is the stuff of dreams. Advancing to the West Region semifinals is another pinch-me moment.
ELL's push to Pennsylvania stopped in the shadows of the San Bernardino Mountains, but it was a downer not devastating.
Saturday, a.k.a. the day after ELL's last game, arrived with sun and smiles.
"We were kind of disappointed at first," Austin Machado said. "Then we just kind of bounced back and forgot about it."
Ah, youth. While coaches and parents hit game reset and the "what if" card, kids — why is this so surprising? — act like kids.
That's why Machado was splashing around the Seaside Beach waves his first day minus catcher's gear.
Why his teammates, Pete Gagne and Kai Haseyama, were playing tennis, swimming and bouncing on a trampoline with the baseball mitts stored.
But what's also been stashed are some classic memories.
Oh to be the players' ages, able to lean on those All-Star stories for life.
Some recollections have nothing to do with scoreboards or pitch counts.
"Getting to stay in the dorms in San Bernardino," Machado said about what he'll remember most. "It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience and it was pretty fun being with all my teammates."
Coach Gagne's take about sharing a dorm with 14 players on the verge of being teenagers? First he had to exhale.
"It was such a whirlwind," Gagne said. "A lot of these kids had never been away from their parents before, so for 10 days I was the surrogate parent. So it was a lot more than baseball, frankly."
And honestly, is there a better way for the ELL bunch to be tagged by the San Bernardino officials: "The Polite Team."
"When we went to the cafeteria we bused and wiped down our tables," Gagne said, sounding like Mother Hen. "Then they would thank the kitchen staff and the cleaning staff. And they did that everywhere they went. That was the face they showed out there and that was important."
Did those young mugs also shed a tear or two after being eliminated by Nevada, 5-1?
Did it matter to the 300 people appearing at Oggi's in Encinitas to welcome them home on Sunday?
"I was pretty surprised," Machado said. "I thought there was going to be like 10 people there."
Gagne knew, to a degree, of ELL's popularity. He saw the supporting crowds grow at each tournament, which had the Red Sea standing 10-deep when ELL faced Long Beach for the SoCal title.
Then again after being sequestered, he didn't know the ELL bandwagon was riding on four taxed tires.
"You are so isolated in San Bernardino you don't really know what is going on behind the scenes," Gagne said. "You kind of lose sight of that."
What didn't escape ELL's horizon was enjoying the moment instead of what's over the hill. This summer wasn't as much about the destination as it was about embracing the journey.
If en route the players started humming, "Don't stop believing," so be it.
"We beat some incredible teams," Gagne said.
While forging some undeniable friendships.
While rallying a region around a squad which played hard and smiled easily.
It was a summer ride few imagined. While it's over, the truth is it will never vanish.
"It really even hasn't sunk in yet," Gagne said. "I'm just really proud of what the boys accomplished on and off the field."
That feeling stretches from the Red Sea as well.
Contact staff writer Jay Paris at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @jparis_sports
Sportswriter Jay Paris has written his "Sports Talk" column since joining the Coast News in 2013.
Paris, a Cardiff resident, is a longtime Southern California writer, getting his start with the Orange County Register before coming to San Diego in 1992 to cover the Chargers.
He had the Chargers beat for more than two decades with Oceanside Blade-Citizen, the North County Times and the San Diego Union-Tribune, before being named a sports columnist with the San Diego Union-Tribune.
Paris has won numerous awards voted on by his peers in the Pro Football Writers of America. He has also been a staple on countless media platforms, everything from the KPBS to MLB Network and various radio outlets.
Paris is also the author of three books, with his latest one being, "Shohei Ohtani: The Amazing Story Of Baseball's Two-Way Japanese Superstar." He has also written "Game Of My Life Chargers" and "Game Of My Life Rams."
He currently covers the NFL in Los Angeles for Forbes. com and is a contributor to USA Today Sports Weekly. Follow Jay on Twitter @jparis_sports


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"The company employs plenty of people from ethnic minorities (mostly in production) and there's a good number of women too."Marketing, Graduate, Schlieren, Zürich
"There is a very diverse workforce as this is an international company."Grange Castle, Dublin
"Being honest, I would love to see more diversity at the senior level. As far as I am aware, there isn't much help when it comes to childcare and maternity leave etc."Marketing, Mid level, London
"There is a very diverse range of nationalities within Aryzta so I do not feel that this is an issue."Graduate, Dublin
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US Department of Agriculture hit by database hack
CA appoints new CTO
Intel opens new 65nm chip plant in Ireland
Opera browser hit by Jpeg vulnerability
The right tools for the desktop
Honing skills is a continuous process
IT investment cuts costs at Royal & SunAlliance
Office Flash vulnerability threat
IBM unveils new Java security tools
Review: Motorola Q
Mozilla launches more secure browser
Insider threat grows for UK businesses
Europe "unaware" of network security risks
New Trojan demands ransom
Notts housing association rolls out VoIP to cut costs
Red Hat makes patching easier
Novell CEO and CFO ousted
Aladdin study warns of increasing spyware problem
Safe-Post offers 'safe' email delivery
No progress on botnets, US warns
Symantec works on Security 2.0
Websense gives Google Trojan warning
Microsoft faces Excel bug
NEC to pull plug on Packard Bell
Messaging protocol aims to improve web services
Skype to tighten up VoIP security
Hardware problems key to Oracle outages
Cost rockets for Fujitsu's magistrates courts system
Lower costs and improved business continuity top server optimisation drivers
IBM ups the ante in blade server offerings
Sybase expands into infrastructure integration
HP launches 'breakthrough' blade server
Opsware targets datacentre for automation
ControlGuard launches enhanced endpoint SMB security solution
IP among upgraded Nortel telecoms solutions for SMBs
Trend Micro sees SMB security surge
SAP marks SMB milestone
SMBs should listen to flexible working demands
Government trading arm unveils new procurement framework
BearingPoint to collate defence logistics for government
World Cup worm now replicating
Frozen chips run at 500GHz
HP restructures to improve supply chain
Emergency services data integration standards adopted by Oasis
Microsoft security patch cuts off dial-up internet users
Your shout: IT governance, utilities, staff, maps
National ethernet versus legacy ATM/frame services
Google inadvertently hosts Trojan
Oracle offers content management products
DSG drives for paperless invoicing
Sun joins Ajax Alliance
Microsoft France website takes a hit
Scots uni offers ethical hacking degree
EC strives to sort out passenger data row with US
Yahoo Messenger offers collaboration via voice plug in
Government launches new data retention consultation
Do you trust chip and Pin payment systems?
MPs warned of 'security flaws' in ID cards scheme
HP offers 40% datacentre power saving
Business focus sought from Gates' successors
News in brief
SOA on the agenda for 75% of firms
Report fuels calls for new NHS IT review
Fifa prepares rapid exit for World Cup network
Network overhaul keeps easyJet on course for IT-enabled expansion
Camelot IT chief to check in at easyJet
Oracle issues list of 'safe' Linux set-ups
Airport pilots wireless flight information access
'Rushed' ID card scheme is a missed opportunity, IT suppliers warn MPs
Teachers association cuts hardware costs with virtualisation technology
Downtime: Would you like fries with your hard drive?
Tame the data storage beast
UK real estate industry builds on technology with above average investment in IT
Technology news in breif
Technology news in brief
Hewlett-Packard network tool aims for end-to-end lifecycle management
BAE looks to improve plane design using high-performance computing
Banks trial evolutionary computing approach to 'breed out' inefficiency
MS opens supercomputing to mainstream businesses
IBM releases catalogue of SOA tools and templates
ID theft scandal reveals 'persistent and longstanding
Microsoft admits problems with latest security update
Hackers use Ajax to access to Yahoo e-mails
PayPal security warning
Hackers target Excel bug
FAST moves to nab illegal SME software downloaders
EC demands online accessibility improvements
Gates to step down
Sybase acquires Solonde
Security company wins trademark rights to 'spam'
NHS National Programme for IT faces 'significant challenges'
Users attack Microsoft's counterfeit clampdown
EC calls for cap on mobile roaming charges
Google to launch its own version of PayPal
O2 and RIM target SMBs with new BlackBerry
Microsoft offers SMBs all-in-one security and protection
Scottish Executive integrates social care data and procurement
SAP improves global trading tool
ONS extends IT services contract
British Council upgrades business systems with SAP


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Take a bow, Michele McKenney. And take a moment to catch your breath.
Michele, a co-op at Barnes Dennig and a member of our manufacturing client service team, finished sixth out of 5,488 female runners in Cincinnati's annual Thanksgiving Day 10K race, with a time of 37:40.
In addition to her work at Barnes Dennig, Michele is a member of the University of Cincinnati track and cross country teams.


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Preschoolers, assertiveness, and bullying: initial thoughts
I should probably have been less surprised that bullying is already an issue with the toddler crowd. Though T is shy around strangers, I didn't think that she had any assertiveness issues. Mostly because she has no trouble telling H and me when she's angry with us. "You hurt my feelings! Say sorry!" is pretty much her go-to phrase when things don't go her way. But now I'm wondering if T is too soft when it comes to other kids. She goes to a great childminder and nursery which emphasize respect for other people and kindness - and though of course there are minor squabbles, T has come home only once with injuries she received from another child (and they were pretty minor scratches that I wouldn't have paid attention to if we hadn't had to sign the accident log). However: growing up in these environments, T is used to other kids listening when she says "no" - she evidently has no mechanism for dealing with someone who continues to pester her. This became painfully clear this weekend. T was playing with a slightly older girl (also 3) who didn't listen when T told her to stop pinching and pushing her while taking away the toys she was playing with. I didn't step in at first, because I wanted to see how T would react. My mother says that when I was that age a neighbor's son (again in the same age bracket) would frequently pinch and tease me until one day I snapped and bit him, drawing blood. While I wasn't hoping for that reaction, I did hope that T would follow these steps: How to handle preschool bullies iVillage: Bullying starts in preschool
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'Building a Community of Readers' will provide valuable resources focused on literacy
(PRINCETON, NJ) May 24, 2017 — edWeb.net and myON today announced a combined effort to provide educators with robust professional learning opportunities to transform literacy for all pre-K–12 students. myON will sponsor the professional learning community "Building a Community of Readers" on edWeb.net as a forum for professional learning and collaboration focused on all aspects of literacy. Educators will be able to collaborate online across the country and around the world to leverage information and learn best practices from their peers to build innovative approaches to literacy for the classroom
The myON mission—giving every child unlimited access to books to engage them in learning—supports 21st-century literacy, and educators can rely on myON to provide an innovative approach to personalizing literacy for all students. The commitment and investment that has been made over the past six years is now being realized, as myON is having measurable impacts on students' learning worldwide.
"While we know that literacy is the foundation of learning, we also know that educators are tasked with a deeply challenging job of engaging their students in literacy and learning," said Todd Brekhus, the president of myON. "We are thrilled to be working with edWeb.net to support all educators in navigating the literacy landscape and believe this is one of the most effective ways to support teacher professional learning, which in turn supports student achievement."
Educators are invited to join "Building a Community of Readers" to receive invitations to free edWebinars, earn CE certificates, participate in online discussions, and get exclusive access to free online resources focused on literacy
Steven Anderson, Digital Learning and Relationship Evangelist; and Shaelynn Farnsworth, Education Services Consultant for AEA 267 in Iowa, presented the community's first edWebinar on April 17th. In "Redesigning Literacy Instruction in a Student-Centered Classroom," Anderson and Farnsworth explained a simplified version of balanced literacy and helped attendees reimagine reading and writing in the classroom through an ed tech redesign. More than 400 educators from around the country and the world participated in the live presentation and chat, engaging in an ongoing dialogue with Anderson, Farnsworth, and fellow attendees, and adding additional insights and resources for all to share.
The community's second edWebinar, "'Fake News' and the Case for Media Literacy Across All Grades," took place on April 16 and attracted 445 live attendees, making it the site's most popular offering of the week.
Lisa Schmucki, founder and CEO of edWeb.net, commented, "Helping students develop literacy and critical thinking skills is more important than ever, so I am especially happy we can work together with myON to do all we can to support teachers—and all educators—in this endeavor. The feedback we get for hosting these events is so inspirational."
About myON
myON is an award-winning personalized literacy environment that incorporates a state-of-the art learning platform, enhanced digital reading content including five daily news articles written for students, The Lexile® Framework for Reading, cutting-edge literacy tools, and embedded metrics to monitor activity and growth. Robust professional development ensures that educators have the support needed to effectively implement myON. Together, these components power a Literacy Ecosystem that is built upon five pillars: personalization, unparalleled content, unlimited access, collaboration and success.
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edWeb.net is a free professional learning and social network that is a highly engaged community of connected educators who are on the leading edge of innovation in education. edWeb members are teachers, faculty, administrators, and librarians at pre-K–12 and post-secondary institutions who are working together to provide peer leadership, training, and support. Educators are creating their own communities on edWeb, and also participating in edWeb's professional learning communities and edWebinar programs. edWeb's growing ecosystem is a collaboration space where educators and thought leaders in the education industry gather and share ideas that can improve learning for all students. Learn more at EdWeb.net or follow edWeb.net on Twitter @edwebnet.


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The election seen from abroadBriefly noted
THEY think it's all over. Foreign newspapers, where they have bothered to report the start of Britain's election campaign, are telling their readers that Tony Blair is already assured of victory.
Few tears are being shed across Europe over the expected departure of John Major, least of all in Germany, where the conservative Frankfurter Allgemeine notes, a touch gloatingly, that the main reason for the Tories' likely defeat is their squabbling over Europe. The Tories have "lost their heads and lost sight of Britain's interests," says the paper. German papers are warming to Mr Blair, although they are unsure what he stands for. The liberal S
deutsche Zeitungasks: "Is he left or right?"
In France, the right-wing Le Figaro says bluntly that, if the Tories were to win, it would be bad news for all pro-Europeans. The left-leaning Le Monde is not the only paper to point out, however, that Mr Blair's policies are remarkably similar to those of Mr Major. The press in Belgium uniformly wants a Blair victory—it is still miffed that Mr Major vetoed the nomination of Belgium's prime minister, Jean-Luc Dehaene, for the presidency of the European Commission in 1994. The press in Italy has also gone Blair-crazy. Last week, the Labour leader's picture adorned the cover of Panorama, a top news magazine, and similarities are being noted between his policies and those of Italy's centre-left government.
"British Race to Have an American Accent", trumpets the Chicago Tribune, summing up how the election is being reported across America. Readers there are being told that several features familiar to presidential campaigns have crossed the Atlantic, in particular the proposed television debates between party leaders. The Washington Post also reports that Mr Major has introduced "White House-style" daily press conferences, and that Labour has "copied the rapid-response 'war room' technique perfected by the Clinton campaign in 1992." The Los Angeles Times lists the similarities between Mr Blair and Bill Clinton: both trying to redefine centre-left politics while accepting conservative limits on public spending, both married to lawyers, both still (just about) young enough to look plausible in jeans.
One of the few countries where there is anxiety over Britain's likely change of government is India, where the Times fears that a Labour government will desert India in its dispute with Pakistan over Kashmir "because of electoral compulsions in certain Labour constituencies."
In Hong Kong, the South China Morning Post notes that, although a Blair-led government is unlikely to change its policies on the colony, it is likely to blame its Conservative predecessors if there are any recriminations following the hand over to China.
But for newspapers in Japan, apart from stories about pop music and fashion, Britain rates somewhere between Albania and Zaire in importance. Blur, yes, but Blair—who he? Papers in most of East Asia carried brief newswire reports about the start of the campaign but the only British premier their readers want to hear about is premier-league football.


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FC: Spanish Explorers: Hernán Cortes and Juan Ponce de Leon Valentina Herrero
1: During the fifteenth century, Spain wanted a lot of things. They wanted to expand their knowledge about places they had never seen or heard of before and many explorers representing Spain reached their goal. The Renaissance was a time where Spain became very successful, the discoveries from the Spanish explorers brought Spain many untold riches, power and influence. In this project I will be comparing and contrasting Juan Ponce de Leon and Hernán Cortes. They were both Spanish explorers that achieved their goal in America.
2: Hernan Cortes
3: Hernan Cortes, a friendly explorer who actually cared about the natives. What? Yes, that is exactly what I just said. Hernan Cortes became very friendly with the Natives in Mexico and that is what led him to be a great explorer. Although his friendship was so that he could end up conquering the Aztecs. He conquered the Aztecs and became governor of some places he conquered. Cortes was born in Medellin, Spain around 1485. He went to the University of Salamanca when he was the age of 14. His parents wanted him to become a lawyer but he was more interested in exploration. The story of Christopher Columbus is what inspired him and he wanted to travel to the "New World". He moved to the island of Hispaniola in the New World and became a farmer owning many areas of land and many Indians as slaves. But Cortes wanted adventure, so he joined an expedition led by Diego Velázquez and they traveled to the island of Cuba. Velázquez became the governor of Cuba, giving Cortes many slaves and making him rich.
4: Velázquez and Cortes heard about a new discovery from Francisco Fernandez de Cordoba, that he had found new land named Yucatan. Since they both wanted Yucatan's riches, they made an expedition, making Cortes the captain. In 1519 Cortes sailed to Yucatan and met many Indian groups. Some of the coastal Indians gave women to Cortes as gifts and one of these women was Malinche, she learned Spanish and became his translator. A while later Cortes heard about a great city in the west, this city was the capital of the Aztec Empire, Tenochtitlan in Mexico. He told his men they would become rich and famous and the only way was to help him conquer the Aztecs. So none of the men would leave him, he destroyed his ships giving them no way out. In August 1519 Cortes and his men started their journey to Tenochtitlan. When he arrived they greeted him very warmly, he met the Aztec Emperor, Montezuma and Cortes told him he would be his friend, lying to him. Cortes learned about Tenochtitlan and their culture; he disagreed with their religion so he decided to take over the city.
6: Juan Ponce de Leon
7: Juan Ponce de Leon was Spanish explorer that is mostly known for his search for the Fountain of Youth. He was born around 1474 in Santervas de Campos, a village in the northwestern part of what is now Spain. He joined the Spanish army still at a young age. At that time they were fighting against the Muslims. What inspired him to start exploring was when he heard about Columbus's voyage to the New World and he started to get interested and joined Columbus's second voyage in 1493, the start of his discoveries. Ponce de Leon settled in Hispaniola in 1493. In 1502 he married a Spanish woman named Leonor and had three daughters and one son. He helped conquer the Taino Indians in Higüey, the eastern part of Hispaniola. As a reward, the governor of Hispaniola made Ponce de Leon the governor of Higüey and gave him a large piece of land. In 1508 he traveled to San Juan Bautista, Puerto Rico and found gold, riches and became governor in 1509.
8: He heard a legend in Puerto Rico about an island Bimini, where they said there was a fountain that restored youth to all who drank it. He got very interested and in 1512 he talked to the King and Queen of Spain and asked permission to conquer Bimini, they agreed. March 3, 1513 Juan Ponce de Leon left Puerto Rico and sailed north, arriving to present-day St. Augustine, Florida. He claimed land for it and named it "La Florida" which in Spanish means "the flowered one". | Later on, he sailed around Florida and discovered the Gulf Stream. In Florida, he fought with an Indian tribe named The Calusas and he returned to Puerto Rico. In 1521 he decided to settle in Florida and started his trip with many ships to start his colony. When he arrived, The Calusas did not allow anybody to take their land, they fought once more, Ponce de Leon was wounded during the attack and he was taken to Cuba.
9: Juan Ponce de Leon's wound did not heal and he died in Cuba in July 1521. He is buried at the cathedral in Puerto Rico.
10: The Atlantic Slave Trade
11: How would it feel to be in your home one day with your family and the next thing you know you're working for people you don't even know, and have no idea where the rest of your family is? Well, this is how Africans felt during the fifteenth through nineteenth century. It all started when the Muslim traders bought Africans and selled them to the Indians.After the discoveries of the New World, many Europeans got interested and it soon became known as the Triangular Trade. The first stage of this trade | when good were carried to Africa from Europe and were traded for slaves, the slaves were taken to the New World and then from the profit they won from that they would take cotton and sugar back to Europe. They were mistreated and many of them would die on the way to America, for not eating and many diseases the Europeans had. They were beaten and they put so many of them in a room where they could easily suffocate and they didn't bother.
12: Those who survived would be separated from their families and start working for the Europeans for the rest of their lives. This trade stopped in the nineteenth century, where Europeans came to a conclusion where slavery should be abolished. | My grade and I went to a Curacao trip a few weeks ago and we went to visit the Museum Kura Hulandda, an anthropological museum. There, we learned a lot about the African Slave Trade and saw many of its artifacts that were kept there. Some of my buddies in school took pictures.
14: Quiz 1. When did Cortes and his men reach Tenochtitlan? 2. How many daughters did Juan Ponce de Leon have? a) Four daughters b) Two daughters c) One son and three daughters 3. Juan Ponce de Leon fought with The Calusas (an Indian group) in Florida. True False
15: 4. Who inspired both, Juan Ponce de Leon and Hernán Cortes to star exploring? 5. What was the name of the trade pattern that the Europeans had?
16: Bibliography Hernán Cortes: Streissguth, Thomas. Hernán Cortes. Mankato, Minnesota: Capstone, 2004. Print. Juan Ponce de Leon: Nobleman, Marc Tyler. Juan Ponce de Leon. Mankato, Minnesota: Capstone, 2005. Print. "Ponce de León, Juan." Compton's by Britannica. Encyclopedia Britannica Online School Edition. Encyclopedia Britannica, 2010. Web. 6 May 2010
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Google Doodle Honors 'Father of Geology' Nicholas Steno
Google today has a homepage doodle to celebrate the 374th birthday of Nicholas Steno, who is widely regarded as the father of modern geology.
The Google logo, therefore, has been drawn like layers of the Earth, from fossils far below the ground to the greenery of the planet's surface.
Steno was born in Copenhagen, Denmark as Niels Stensen, but he best known as Nicholas Stenonis or Nicholas Steno. As a young man, he studied medicine and eventually moved to Italy. There, he was awarded a hospital post by the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Ferdinand II, which provided Steno with time for research, according to a bio published by UC Berkeley.
In studying the remains of a shark, however, Steno found that its teeth looked very much like objects that had been found inside rocks, now known as fossils.
"Steno's work on shark teeth led him to the more general question of how any solid object could come to be found inside another solid object, such as a rock or a layer of rock," his bio said. "The 'solid bodies within solids' that attracted Steno's interest included, not only fossils as we would define them today, but minerals, crystals, incrustations, veins, and even entire rock layers or strata."
Steno figured that fossils were formed when particles in water drifted to the bottom, creating layers. His findings were published in a book known as Prodromus, landing him the name "Father of Stratigraphy."
Despite his groundbreaking work, Steno's life as a scientist was rather short-lived once he converted to Catholicism. He became a priest and then a bishop and spent the remainder of his life ministering in Germany, Denmark, and Norway. He was beatified in 1988 by Pope John Paul II.
For more on Google's doodles, meanwhile, see the slideshow below. One of the company's more popular doodles last year was a playable image in honor of musician Les Paul, which eventually got its own standalone site. The company has also honored Gumby creator Art Clokey, Muppets creator Jim Henson, Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, and Intel co-founder Robert Noyce.
In 2011, it was revealed that Google obtained a patent for its popular homepage doodles, covering "systems and methods for enticing users to access a Web site."
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Infected Wisdom Tooth or Pericoronitis & Best Home Remedies
Infected Wisdom Tooth Might Be Pericoronitis with Dr Paul – Retired Dental Surgeon
Wisdom teeth, the sign of obtaining wisdom (or so the myth goes). Who ever thought that a 14-year-old was wise? Believe it or not, that's how early I've seen symptoms of wisdom teeth begin to cause problems.
If you've ever had an wisdom tooth infection, then this post is for you! It doesn't matter whether we're talking about infection after you've had wisdom teeth extraction (which I'll talk about in another post) or whether you've got an infection before you have them removed. Part of the treatment is the same.
I'm here with some possible home remedies until you can get either situation corrected or have a wisdom tooth extraction. I'll share with you my recommendations as people often need wisdom teeth pain relief. I gave this advice to patients before I could schedule them in for wisdom teeth removal surgery.
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Infected Wisdom Tooth – A Secret Weapon
What is an impaction? It means that a tooth doesn't have enough space to grow in to your mouth where it can become a functional part of your chewing apparatus (anyone else find that word funny?). Anyway, impacted wisdom teeth might be completely submerged in the bone (where they usually cause no problems at all) or they might make it almost all the way into the mouth with the exception that the normal arrangement of gum tissue around them can't form. The impacted wisdom teeth that tend to cause problems are somewhere between these two.
The Specific Name for an Infection
Caused by Impacted Tooth?
We call it Pericoronitis, here's what it means:
Peri = around
Coron = crown (the enamel-covered part of a tooth that you normally see in the mouth)
Itis = inflammation (in this case caused by infection)
If you've had pericoronitis or wisdom teeth symptoms, you know the experience of a wisdom tooth ache. It hurts like crazy when eating, it throbs when you're not, it can cause fevers, severe illness, and can preoccupy your mind like nothing else.
Here's the worst part. Problems can develop even before you ever see a wisdom tooth start to come into the mouth. How can that happen? It's all about bacteria in your mouth.
"OK," I hear you say. "I understand the problem when I can see my tooth start to come in to the mouth. It's like a baby teething. I can't brush it or clean it so it's going to build up plaque bacteria and I can see that that could lead to an infection."
By the time you see that white, icky sticky plaque bacteria, there are hundreds of thousands of bacteria involved, usually millions. It's true that plaque bacteria buildup can lead to an infection in the gums around a tooth (not to mention a cavity). However, with an impacted wisdom tooth that you can see, but can't get to it to clean it, there's another relevant question.
"Why Aren't My…
Impacted Wisdom Teeth ALWAYS Infected?"
Great question! The best answer I've got is that your immune system is working well locally in that situation most of the time. When you get a wisdom tooth infection, it's usually because the immune system is losing the battle at that moment in that location. The weird thing is that pericoronitis is almost always caused by a CIRCUMSTANCE rather than a poor immune system.
Let me explain. They're just teeth. ANY tooth can get pericoronitis if it gets impacted and can't make it fully into its rightful position in the mouth. It's just that wisdom teeth (your third molars) are the last teeth to arrive in the mouth and so usually don't make it. There are several factors that determine whether any tooth will make it into its normal position. These include the size of all your teeth, the size of your jaws, and any local factor that may block a tooth out.
But this isn't a lesson on tooth impaction. It's my little blurb to help you understand what's going on so you can do something about pericoronitis. Before we get to the remedies, we have to solve one more mystery. Remember I said that fully impacted teeth usually cause no problems at all.
If there's of a tooth coming into the mouth, then why do some people get an infected wisdom tooth?
Wisdom Teeth Symptoms and Bacteria
The answer, again, is about the bacteria in your mouth. They will live in any local pocket or environment where they can thrive. If you brush them off, they can't thrive. If you floss them off, they can't thrive. If you rinse them off with any mouthwash that kills them, they can't thrive. If your immune system is winning the battle, they can't thrive either… but they can survive!
The answer to the mystery is that although you can't SEE any signs of a wisdom tooth coming into your mouth, even the slightest MICROSCOPIC opening in your gums may allow bacteria to penetrate into the space around the tooth. If your immune system can't handle the bacteria overload, then voila, you have pericoronitis or infection in the soft tissues around the crown of the tooth.
It can give you mild pain or a dull ache OR the area may become painful and swollen. If the swelling becomes too severe, it can drastically restrict your ability to swallow or even breathe! Thank goodness it almost never gets that far, but who wants to risk it?
Solve a Wisdom Tooth Problem
Before it Gets Out of Hand…
Because pericoronitis is almost always caused by circumstances where plaque can get trapped and not cleaned away, the best long-term treatment is usually just to have the infected wisdom tooth extracted. To prevent the same thing happening to your other wisdom teeth, we usually recommend just getting them all out if there is no chance they will make it fully into the mouth where they are cleanable.
But what can you do in the short run before your appointment to have your wisdom teeth removed? Most dentists and surgeons will prescribe antibiotics to kill those bacteria that you can't reach to brush, floss, or rinse away. This can be a great idea in the short term, but not so wise in the long run. In case you haven't read headline after headline after headline about the overuse of antibiotics being the cause of superbug infections, then let me catch you up.
What are Super-bugs?
Super-bugs are strains of bacteria that survive even the strongest of antibiotics. For years we've heard news about MRSA (Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus). Then we got to hear about VRE (Vancomycin Resistant Enterococci), CRE (Carbapenem Resistant Enterobacteriaceae), and CRKP (Carbapenem Resistant Klebsiella Pneumoniae). The latest one to show up on the radar at the time of this writing is the NDM-1 strain that can lead to pneumonia, urinary tract infections, kidney infections, bladder infections, or even blood infections. Holy Schnikies!
So are you sure you want to play the antibiotic card every time your body gets a little localized infection? I know I don't. I never take antibiotics unless I know my body's immune system absolutely needs that extra help and my overall health or life may actually be on the line. Pericoronitis is almost never life-threatening.
Because pericoronitis is a local infection that the body almost always gets control of (over a week or two) if you do nothing at all, our real concern is about getting you out of wisdom tooth pain. Nobody wants to live through "hell week" while waiting for the immune system to win that battle. Making matters worse, your dental surgeon can almost never get you in for a wisdom tooth extraction during that time frame.
Infected Wisdom Tooth Home Remedies
That I've Always Recommended to Patients:
1. Mildly brush the infected gums with a soft toothbrush to remove as much plaque or food debris as you can.
2. Floss exceptionally well behind your second molar (usually that's the tooth farthest back in your mouth that you can fully see).
3. Make a very warm salt water solution that mimics the body's fluids (half teaspoon of salt dissolved in an 8 ounce cup of very warm water). You can swish hard with this to try and break loose some of the plaque and food debris that might have escaped your brushing and flossing.
4. After rinsing vigorously, HOLD that warm water over the affected area until it cools down (30 seconds or so). This can help reduce swelling of the tissues by a process called osmosis.
Until a few years ago, those recommendations helped all but the most extreme cases until I could get them in for surgery to remove the infected wisdom tooth to alter the plaque-trapping circumstance. Since then I've found one more fantastic tool.
The Secret Weapon
Infected Wisdom Tooth or Pericoronitis
Rinsing properly with Electrolyzed Oxidizing Water or EO Water is that secret weapon. I've talked about this optimized water in several other posts because of its very special ability to kill every bacteria, virus, and single cell organism with which it comes in contact within a reasonable period of time (30 seconds for most bacteria and up to 2 minutes for Bacillus Cereus and other food poisoning bacteria).
The fact that EO Water kills all single cell life forms has been known for decades, but its acidic pH can cause damage to materials that are affected badly by strong acids. Your teeth qualify as a material damaged by this acid IF and ONLY IF you use it incorrectly.
That's too long of a discussion for this post, but I laid out all the details in my free e-Book that is yours for the asking.
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Once you get your e-Book, you'll know how to safely use EO Water in the fight against the pericoronitis version of infected wisdom teeth. In another post I'll discuss infected wisdom teeth that might happen AFTER surgery. For those of you who are way ahead of me, it's going to involve EO Water.
And if you really want to know more details about EO Water, join Colleen and I for our very popular water education webinar. In one of them we discuss the pros and cons of EO Water in great detail, even to the point of how one cardiologist used it to save his own son's life after a serious infection following, you guessed it, wisdom tooth surgery.
We hope Dr Paul's article has helped you understand more about an infected wisdom tooth and Pericoronitis and how the right kind of water is an important home remedy!


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Starting a dog walking business can be a fun and potentially lucrative means of supplementing part-time income, or could possibly become a full-time business venture. With so many pet owners working long hours and not being at home, this service is increasingly in demand. Before getting started, it's important to understand the basics of getting the business off the ground and running. This mainly includes selecting a business name, getting insured, setting rates, creating contracts and marketing methods.
Creating a name is usually the first step for starting a dog walking business. This is a rather simple but important task because having a catchy business name will help attract clients. It's usually a good idea to make it short, sweet and easy to remember. Also, including the business owner's first name can add a personal touch.
Another important part of starting a dog walking business is getting insured. This will prevent any complications or legal problems if a dog happens to hurt someone or cause damage. There are several plans available, but most require an upfront payment and yearly payment afterward. Although it's not legally required for a small scale business, it's still a good idea in case any problems occur.
Setting rates for one's dog walking services also needs to be done before getting started. It's important to decide on a rate that is both fair to the business owner and the client. In most cases, the rates will be determined by how many dogs are being walked and the length of the walk. Generally, the more dogs walked and/or the longer the walk, the more money the walker will charge. Most business charge either by the hour or half hour.
It is also important to create a contract to ensure that there are no discrepancies between the business owner and clients. In any case, the owner needs a simple contract that states the services being provided and the rates being charged. There should also be a line at the bottom for each client's signature. Then the business owner should have every client read over the terms and sign the contract before ever walking the dog.
An additional concern when starting a dog walking business is the marketing strategy. One method of attracting clients is to create materials like flyers and business cards to hand out. Placing these at places like veterinary clinics, dog groomers and kennels are all effective ways of reaching dog owners. Other marketing techniques include starting a website, placing ads online or in newspapers, and simple word of mouth advertising.
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Sierra Leone: Major distribution of relief items to vulnerable farmers
02-05-2002 News Release 02/18
In an effort to help internally displaced persons and refugees resettle in their home villages, the ICRC and the Sierra Leone Red Cross Society (SLRCS) have begun distributing seed and farm tools to nearly 40,000 vulnerable farm families (about 240,000 people) in Kono and Kailahun districts. Also included in the relief package are shelter materials, blankets, buckets, kitchen sets, mats, mosquito nets, mugs, used clothing and soap.
The operation is the largest in the eastern region so far. For the communities involved, which face the task of rebuilding their lives after 10 years of crisis in Sierra Leone, it will provide vital support in their efforts to achieve food security and economic self-sufficiency.
The Red Cross is distributing rice seed, groundnut seed and hoes to about 20,000 families in seven chiefdoms in Kono district (Fiama, Gbanekandor, Lei, Mafindor, Sandor, Soa and Toli) and to another 20,000 families in six chiefdoms in Kailahun district (Jaluahun, Luawa, Kissi Kama, Kissi Teng, Kissi Tongi and Upper Bambara). The most vulnerable of the beneficiaries (about 12,000 people in Kono district and 14,000 people in Kailahun district) will receive non-food items as well. Before the operation was launched, needs were assessed and the beneficiaries were registered by community representatives using criteria set by the Red Cross. A joint ICRC/SLRCS team later checked that those registered were entitled to assistance.
In 2001 the Red Cross supplied 18,482 families in chiefdoms in Kono and Kailahun districts not included in the current programme with urgently needed items such as tarpaulins, blankets, buckets, kitchen utensils, mats, used clothing and soap.
The ICRC is also supporting the construction of wells and improved ventilated pit latrines to meet demands for safe water and sanitation in 53 villages in Kono district. In recent weeks nearly 800 pit latrines have been dug to a minimum depth of 3.5 metres. The ICRC is providing the materials, the know-how and training and the construction work is being carried out by the communities. In Peje Bongre, Peje West and Yawei chiefdoms in Kailahun district, a similar programme is under way.


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James staring at the crux on the fourth pitch of "Gweilo" (6a or 5.10b) a classic multi pitch on Lion Rock.
A work photo – Col and Juillian teaching absieling at Shek O. The weather has been a mixed bag with some amazingly hot days (around 30degrees C) and others like this that feel a little more like Scotland.
The view from the base of Lion Rock back towards the Kowloon peninsular
James coming up the 3rd pitch of Gweilo.
Me looking pleased with myself on the top of Lion Rock, taken by James after finishing Gwielo.
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The morning ferry ride into Central from Lamma island. This journey never really gets boring.


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On March 30, 1971, three businessmen who is an English teacher (Jerry Baldwin), a writer Gordon Bowke and a history teacher Zev Siegel first started the Starbucks Corporation in Seattle, USA (Wikipedia, 2010). 2010).At that moment, their primary goal was just selling the whole bean coffee .However, from 1982, there was a huge change in the company's business when Howard Schultz participated in the company in a role of a director in retail and marketing sectors. After attending an international house ware in Milan, Italy, he returned back with an advice that Starbucks should serve fresh brewed coffee, cappuccino, espresso as well as beans and other related equipment .However, his advice to his owners was rejected. In 1986, Schultz decided to open his own coffee store based on Italian coffee bar's model, selling brewed Starbucks coffee. By 1987, He extended his business by opening three other coffee stores and bought Starbucks from the original owners with the price $4 million. His business had grown tremendously from that year until now making Starbucks has become the world largest coffeehouse with over 17,800 stores across more than 55 countries (Wikipedia, 2010). Starbucks has served a variety of products ranges from hot and cold beverages, coffee-related accessories like brewed coffee, coffee beans, complementary food items include hot and cold sandwiches ,pastries, snacks to other non-food items such as mugs and tumblers to books, music, and film(Wikipedia,2010).
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Az-Zubayr ibn Al-Awam (Arabic: الزبير بن العوام بن خويلد; 594–656) was a companion of Muhammad and a commander in the Rashidun army.
Mecca, Arabia
|656 (aged 61–62)
Basra, Iraq
|Rashidun Caliphate.
|Rashidun army
|Years of service
|636, 640–642
|Commands held
|Rashidun conquest of Egypt, First Muslim civil War
Family and ChildhoodEdit
Al-Zubayr was born in Mecca in 594.[1]:75
His father was Al-Awam ibn Khuwaylid of the Asad clan of the Quraysh tribe, making Al-Zubayr a nephew of Khadijah. His mother was Muhammad's aunt, Safiyyah bint 'Abd al-Muttalib, hence Al-Zubayr was Muhammad's first cousin.[1]:75 He had two brothers, Sa'ib and Abdul Kaaba; a maternal brother, Safi ibn Al-Harith, who was from the Umayya clan;[2]:29 and several paternal siblings, including Hind bint Al-Awwam, a wife of Zayd ibn Haritha.[1]:32
While he was still a boy, Al-Zubayr fought an adult man and beat him up so fiercely that the man's hand was broken. Safiya, who was pregnant at the time, had to carry the man home. When the passers-by asked what had happened, she told them, "He fought Al-Zubayr. Did you find Al-Zubayr soft like cheese or dates or full of brass?" That's when they knew that he would grow up to be strong during war.[1]:765
Al-Awam died while Al-Zubayr was still young. His mother used to beat him severely. When it was said to her, "You have killed him! You have wrenched his heart. Will you destroy the boy?" she replied, "I beat him so that he will be intelligent and will be bold in the battle."[1]:76
Al-Zubayr is described as of medium height, lean, dark-complexioned and hairy, though with a thin beard. His hair hung down to his shoulders, and he did not dye it after it turned white.[1]:80
Conversion to IslamEdit
Al-Zubayr was one of the first five men to accept Islam under the influence of Abu Bakr,[3]:115 and is said to have been the fourth or fifth adult male convert.[1]:76
He was one of the first fifteen emigrants to Abyssinia in 615,[3]:146 and he returned there in 616.[3]:147 While he was in Abyssinia, a rebellion against the Negus (King) broke out. The Negus met the rebels on the banks of the Nile. The Muslims, greatly worried about losing their protector, delegated Al-Zubayr to be their news-bearer. Helped by an inflated waterskin, he swam down the Nile until he reached the point where the battle was being fought. He watched until the Negus had defeated the rebels, then swam back to the Muslims. He ran up waving his clothes and announced, "Hurrah, the Negus has conquered and God has destroyed his enemies and established him in his land!" The Muslims rejoiced.[3]:153
Al-Zubayr was among those who returned to Mecca in 619 because they heard that the Meccans had converted to Islam. "But when they got near to Mecca, they learned that the report was false, so that they entered the town under the protection of a citizen or by stealth."[3]:167–168 However, Al-Zubayr did not name his protector.
Al-Zubayr joined the general emigration to Medina in 622. At first he lodged with Al-Mundhir ibn Muhammad. It is disputed who became Al-Zubayr's "brother" in Islam: variant traditions name Abdullah ibn Masood, Talha ibn Ubaydullah, Kaab ibn Malik and Salama ibn Salama.[1]:76–77[3]:234 Muhammad gave him a large plot of land to build his house and a grant of some palm trees.[1]:77 In 625 Al-Zubayr was given more palm trees from the land of the expelled Nadir tribe.[1]:78
Military Activity under MuhammadEdit
It is said that Al-Zubayr joined all of Muhammad's military expeditions,[1]:76 typically dressed in a distinctive yellow turban.[1]:77
At the Battle of Badr he was sent as a scout and he captured a Meccan spy.[3]:295 He then fought in the battle[3]:328 and killed Ubayda ibn Sa'id of the Umayya.[3]:337
At the Battle of Uhud he volunteered to take up Muhammad's sword "with its right," which was to "smite the enemy with it until it bends," and was "much mortified" when Muhammad rejected his offer.[3]:373 He was standing so close to the fleeing Meccan women that he could see Hind bint Utbah's anklets.[3]:379 But it was at that point that the battle turned; Al-Zubayr was one of the handful of men who stood beside Muhammad when the Muslims in their turn fled and who accompanied him to the glen. "He was firm with him in the Battle of Uhud and he gave him allegiance to the death."[1]:78[3]:381
The TrenchEdit
During the Battle of the Trench, Al-Zubayr rode a roan horse. He volunteered to bring news of the Qurayza tribe to Muhammad, who responded, "Every Prophet has a disciple, and my disciple is Al-Zubayr."[1]:79
In 628 Al-Zubayr joined the expedition to Khaybar and answered Yasir the Jew's challenge to single combat. His mother Safiya asked Muhammad, "Will he kill my son?" and Muhammad reassured her, "No, your son will kill him, Allah willing." Al-Zubayr advanced reciting:
"Khaybar, know that I am Zabbar,
chief of a people no cowardly runaways,
the son of those who defend their glory,
the son of princes.
O Yasir let not all the unbelievers deceive you,
for all of them are like a slowly moving mirage."
They fought, and Al-Zubayr killed Yasir. Afterwards the Muslims commented on how sharp his sword must have been; Al-Zubayr replied that it had not been sharp but he had used it with great force.[3]:513–514
After the Muslims had conquered Al-Qamus, the Jewish treasurer, Kinana, was brought to Muhammad, but he refused to reveal where their money was hidden. Muhammad then ordered Al-Zubayr to "torture him until you extract what he has." Al-Zubayr "kindled a fire with flint and steel on his chest until he was nearly dead." However, it was Muhammad ibn Maslama who actually decapitated Kinana, in retaliation for his brother Mahmud,[3]:515[4]:330–331 who had been killed in the battle a few days earlier.[3]:511[4]:322–324
Al-Zubayr was later made one of the eighteen chiefs who each supervised the division of a block of booty-shares.[3]:522
In December 629, on the eve of the Conquest of Mecca, Muhammad sent Al-Zubayr and Ali to intercept a spy who was carrying a letter to the Quraysh. When they could not find the letter in her baggage, they realised she must have concealed it on her person, so they threatened to strip her. The spy then produced the letter, which she had hidden in her hair, and Al-Zubayr and Ali brought it back to Muhammad, confident that the Muslims would now take Mecca by surprise.[3]:545
When Muhammad entered Mecca, Al-Zubayr held one of the three banners of the Emigrants[1]:78 and commanded the left wing of the conquering army.[3]:549 He also fought at the Battle of Hunayn.[3]:670
Career After MuhammadEdit
In the third week of July 632, the Caliph Abu Bakr scraped together an army mainly from the Banu Hashim (the clan of Muhammad) to defend Medina from an imminent invasion by the apostate forces of Tulayha, a self-proclaimed prophet. The army included stalwarts like Zubayr, and Talha ibn Ubaidullah. Each of them was appointed as commander of one-third of the newly organised force. They had their roles during the Ridda Wars; however, they did not face any combat scenaria.
Al-Zubayr was the most successful field commander during the Muslim conquest of Egypt under Caliph Umar.[citation needed] He commanded a regiment in the decisive Battle of Yarmouk in 636,[citation needed] and in 640 he commanded the reinforcements sent to Amr ibn al-As in Egypt.[citation needed]
When Umar was dying in 644, he selected Al-Zubayr and five other men to elect the next Caliph.[5]:71 They duly elected Uthman,[5]:72 during whose caliphate, Al-Zubayr was not involved in political or military matters.[citation needed] Al-Zubayr was cautious about narrating ahadith about Muhammad even though he had been constantly in his company. As he explained to his son Abdullah, "I heard Allah's Messenger say, 'Anyone who tells a lie about me should take a seat in the Fire.'"[1]:80
Wives and ChildrenEdit
Al-Zubayr married eight times and had twenty children.[1]:75
- Asma bint Abi Bakr. They were married before the Hijra of 622 and divorced when Urwa was young, i.e., around 645.[2]:179
- Umm Kulthum bint Uqba of the Umayya clan. They were married in 629, but "she disliked him," and they were divorced in a matter of months. After their daughter was born, Umm Kulthum married Abdur Rahman bin Awf.[2]:163
- Zaynab
- Al-Halal bint Qays of the Asad tribe.
- Khadija the Younger
- Umm Khalid Ama bint Khalid of the Umayya clan. She was one of the emigrants who returned from Abyssinia in 628.[2]:164
- Khalid
- Umar
- Habiba
- Sawda
- Hind
- Ar-Rabbab bint Unayf of the Kalb tribe.
- Mus'ab
- Hamza
- Ramla
- Atiqa bint Zayd of the Adi clan, a widow of Umar.[1]:85
- Tumadir bint Al-Asbagh of the Kalb tribe, a widow of Abdur Rahman ibn Awf. Al-Zubayr divorced her only seven days after the wedding. She used to tell other women, "When one of you marries, she should not be deceived by seven days after what Al-Zubayr has done to me."[2]:208–209 She did not, however, enlarge on the nature of the "deception".
- Umm Jaafar Zaynab bint Marthad of the Thaalaba tribe.
- Ubayda
- Jaafar
Al-Zubayr's wives complained that he had "some harshness towards women".[2]:163 Umm Kulthum asked him directly for a divorce, and when he refused, she tricked him into it by pestering him while he was busy with the ritual washing for prayer. Al-Zubayr complained, "She tricked me, may Allah trick her!" Muhammad advised him to propose to her again, but Al-Zubayr realized that, "She will never come back to me."[2]:163 Atiqa only agreed to marry him on condition that he would never beat her.[6]
The Battle of the CamelEdit
Uthman was assassinated in 656. Al-Zubayr had reason to hope that he would be elected as the next Caliph, although he knew that his old ally Talha was also a strong contender.[7] But Ali was elected,[8]:166,176 to the debate of Muhammad's widow Aisha.[9]:52 Thereupon Al-Zubayr met with Aisha and Talha in Mecca, claiming he had only given allegiance to Ali at swordpoint.[8]:176
Al-Zubayr, Talha and Aisha called for Uthman's death to be avenged, and while Ali agreed, he said that he was not able to do this at the time.[9]:18 The allies then collected an army and marched to Basra. In Basrah, however, they defeated the Governor and took over the city,[9]:69–70,76[10] putting to death everyone who had been implicated in the assassination of Uthman.[9]:73 When they were challenged over why they now cared about Uthman when they had shown him so much hostility during his lifetime, they claimed: "We wanted Uthman to meet our demands. We didn't want him to be killed."[9]:69
Ali certainly behaved like a man who suspected hostility towards himself, for he soon entered Basra with a professional army of twenty thousand.[9]:121 For several days, there were negotiations, as both sides asserted they wanted only to see justice done.[9]:122,129,130,132,152 But on 7 December 656 hostilities erupted. Aisha's warriors killed Ali's messenger-boy, and Ali responded, "Battle is now justified, so fight them!"[9]:126–127 So
Al-Zubayr, however, had lost the desire to fight. He said that Ali had talked him out of it during the negotiations on the grounds that they were cousins; but his son accused him of fearing Ali's army. Al-Zubayr left the battle-field while Aisha continued to direct her troops. A man named Amr ibn Jurmuz decided to track his movements and followed him to a nearby field. It was time for prayer so, after each had asked the other what he was doing there, they agreed to pray. While Al-Zubayr was prostrating, Amr ibn Jurmuz stabbed him in the neck and killed him.[9]:111–112,116,126,158–159
In his will Al-Zubayr had left a house for all of his divorced daughters.[1]:80 He left a third of his property in bequests and instructed his son Abdullah to sell the rest of his property to pay off his debts, invoking Allah if any could not be paid. Abdullah found that the debts amounted to 1,200,000,[1]:81 presumably in dirhams. Although Abdullah went to some trouble to settle all the debts, Al-Zubayr's four widows eventually inherited 1,100,000 each, leaving over 30,000,000 to be divided among his children.[1]:81–82
Al-Zubayr ibn Al-Awam was one of the ten Muslims to whom Muhammad guaranteed Paradise while they were still alive.[11][12]
See alsoEdit
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u Muhammad ibn Saad. Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir vol. 3. Translated by Bewley, A. (2013). The Companions of Badr. London: Ta-Ha Publishers.
- ^ a b c d e f g Muhammad ibn Saad. Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir vol. 8. Translated by Bewley, A. (1995). The Women of Madina. London: Ta-Ha Publishers.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Muhammad ibn Ishaq. Sirat Rasul Allah. Translated by Guillaume, A. (1955). The Life of Muhammad. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- ^ a b Muhammad ibn Umar al-Waqidi. Kitab al-Maghazi. Translated by Faizer, R., Ismail, A., and Tayob, A. K. (2011). The Life of Muhammad. Oxford & New York: Routledge.
- ^ a b Medlung, Wilferd (1997). The succession to Muhammad. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521561817. Retrieved June 30, 2014.
- ^ Ibn Hajar, Al-Isaba vol. 4 p. 687, cited in Abbott, N. (1942, 1985). Aishah - the Beloved of Mohammed, p. 88. London: Al-Saqi Books.
- ^ Al-Tabari, Tarikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk. Translated by Humphreys, R. S. (1990). Vol. 15, The Crisis of the Early Caliphate, pp. 238-239. Albany: State University of New York Press.
- ^ a b Jalal ad-Din Abdulrahman Al-Suyuti, Tarikh al-Khulafa. Translated by Jarrett, H. S. (1881). History of the Caliphs. Calcutta: The Asiatic Society.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Al-Tabari, Tarikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk. Translated by Brockett, A. (1997). Vol. 16, The Community Divided. Albany: State University of New York Press.
- ^ Muir, W. (1924). The Caliphate: its Rise, Decline, and Fall from Original Sources, 2nd Ed., pp. 243-244. Edinburgh: John Grant.
- ^ Abu Dawud 40:4632.
- ^ Tirmidhi #3747.


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The second article in a two part series discussing what happened at the 172nd meeting of the AAAS last month.
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Dr. Sylvia Gonzales of John Moores University in Liverpool, England reported in 2005 about the discovery of 269 footprints preserved in volcanic ash in the Valsequillo region of central Mexico.
The following article written by David Menton is really a spoof on the current situation regarding the creation/evolution battle in the secular school system.
The newscasters and editorialists will be all abuzz about the Scopes trial this week on the 80th anniversary of America's most famous court trial.
Scientists have recently made the startling discovery of a dinosaur skeleton that still retains well preserved soft tissue.
How would you like to fly in an airplane produced by chance random processes—no intelligence involved?
Yet once again the popular media is alive with the sound of evolutionism. This time the story that has them all abuzz is the new claim that "running made us human."
One of the most fundamental axioms of biology is that all life comes from pre-existing life. Still, until the later part of the 19th century, life was believed to arise by spontaneous generation.
Science, or more accurately 'scientism,' has not hesitated to wade into the domain of religion.
The evolutionist's notion that man evolved by chance from ape-like creatures is largely based upon certain anatomical similarities between apes and men.
Anyone who has ever watched the monkeys and apes at a zoo, couldn't help but notice their resemblance to humans.
The bitterest pill to swallow for any Christian who attempts to "make peace" with Darwin is the presumed animal ancestry of man.
Evolutionists continue to propose a few of our smaller and least understood muscles as being vestiges of once useful organs left over from putative evolutionary ancestors.
Inherit the Wind is not a documentary, but it is perceived by many viewers to be a documentary–drama of the famous 1925 Scopes 'monkey' trial.
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Rector's Welcome
A very warm welcome to the Peterhouse website, which I trust you will find both relevant and informative.
Peterhouse is a top class independent school and, like all other similar schools across the globe, we offer our pupils an education which is characterised by an outstanding breadth of opportunity – excellent teaching, a very wide range of sporting, musical and extra-curricular activities, plenty remarkable opportunities to be enjoyed (like reaching the summit of Kilimanjaro) and well-structured leadership training. All of these experiences play their part in the development of self-confidence and character and in ensuring that our pupils leave us with the academic qualifications and personal qualities necessary to make a positive difference to life beyond school.
Rector's Profile
Howard Blackett has been Rector of Peterhouse since January 2013.
Prior to his appointment to Peterhouse Howard worked in the UK at The Royal Hospital School in Suffolk (Headmaster 2004 – 2012), Dover College in Kent (Headmaster 1997 – 2004), Ardingly College in West Sussex, Marlborough College in Wiltshire and St. Edward's School, Oxford. He was a Junior Master at Ruzawi School in 1979. Immediately post university, Howard was a Seaman Officer in the Royal Navy serving in the assault ship HMS Fearless and the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious.
Howard was educated at the choir school in Chichester, St Edward's School, Oxford, and Christ Church, Oxford. Whilst at Oxford he played both hockey (Blues in 1981 and 1982) and rugby for the university; he also played 'cello in the University Philharmonic Orchestra and sang with the Exeter College choir and Schola Cantorum. He gained an MBA in Educational Leadership in 2004.
Aims of the Peterhouse Group
Peterhouse is a community of three schools:
1. Peterhouse Boys (PHB) – a full boarding school for boys from Form 1 to 6th form (with girls from Peterhouse Girls being taught at 5th and 6th form level)
2. Peterhouse Girls (PHG) – a full boarding school, with a small number of day pupils, for girls from Form 1 to 6th form
3. Springvale House – a weekly boarding and day school for boys and girls from Grade 1 to Grade 7
4. In addition there is a Nursery School for boys and girls located at PHB
Academic Staff
Mr Howard Blackett MA (Oxon)
Mr F de Kock HOD Snr Prim
Mr AP Griggs BSc (Hons) PGCE MRSB
SENIOR MASTER (Pupils)
Mr TLC Mushiko Cert Ed DIMAV
SENIOR MISTRESS & i/c DAME MOLLY COURT
Mrs R Mudiwa BA (Hons) Grad Cert Ed Dip T&T Dip French
Senior Pupil Appointments
|Head of School
|Crispen Mashingaidze (G)
|Deputy Head of School & Head of Grinham
|Taine Smith (G)
|Head of Tinokura
|Torrin Bissett (P)
|Senior Scholar
|Simbarashe Govore (S)
|Head of Ellis
|Jock Moore Gordon (E)
|Head of Founders
|Andrew Rinomhota (F)
|Head of Malvern
|Kudzaishe Nyengerai (M)
|Head of Paget
|James Ross (P)
|Head of Snell
|Mudiwa Manikai (S)
|Tinokura Prefects
|Terance Sage (F)
|Dylan Mawire (M)
|Dale Molife (F)
In September 1951, Edward Paget, Bishop of Southern Rhodesia, wrote to the Rector of Michaelhouse in Natal, offering him the headship of a school that did not exist. Six months later, Fred Snell started working with Canon Robert Grinham and the Ruzawi School Board toward the creation of an independent senior school.
Peterhouse opened in 1955 under the rectorship of Fred Snell with 55 boys and within five years the number had risen to 360 according to plan. Peterhouse was founded as an Anglican boys' country boarding school. Its aims were to promote the ideals of Christian manhood, academic excellence and social responsibility.
Glossary of Terms
- The Association of Trust Schools.
- Our forms or year groups are called Blocks, and run bottom to top as D Block (Form 1), C Block (Form 2), B Block (Form 3), A Block (Form 4 - IGCSE), and 5th Form, 6th Form (A Level).
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