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The NYPD is looking for the woman who was part of a kidnapping and robbery group in the Bronx back in September.
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The kidnapping took place on September 2 when a 49-year-old woman was entering her apartment in the Eastchester section. She was grabbed by the three suspects and Hylton who forced her inside her apartment.
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Authorities say on September 4, a 48-year-old man and boyfriend of the victim, arrived to the apartment where the suspects tied and assaulted him before forcing him to reveal where he lived. Hylton and another suspect took the male victim to his apartment and stole jewelry, electronic equipment and cash.
Hylton then fled in the male victim's car, which was a 2011 Nissan Rogue. The car was found a few days later by police.
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The three suspects that were arrested in November are: Trevor Cole, 26, from Mt. Vernon, Dominique Jean-Phillipe, 29, from Mt. Vernon and Jeremy Acevedo, 25, from Mt. Vernon. All three were charged with Kidnapping 1st Degree and Robbery 1st Degree.
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Name: Beatrice Valenzuela (shoe designer and hairdresser) & Ramsey Conder (clay modeler for Tesla Motors)
Location: Echo Park - Los Angeles, California
Size: 800 square feet
Years lived in: 1 year
A good friend, Kathryn Bentley, suggested I tour Beatrice and Ramsey's unique and well decorated Echo Park home. From the moment I walked through the door I knew their place was very special. There were no barriers between the indoor and outdoor areas. Beatrice welcomed us into her home and continued her hospitality with fresh ice tea and snacks. Our hostess is probably the most warm and hospitable person I have ever met and her home reflects that.
Beatrice can be quite traditional; tending to her home to create a beautiful space to come home to at the end of the day. I miss the days of hanging the clothes on the line, gardening fresh vegetables, and making homemade dishes for your family. She seems to do it all and you can definitely feel the love through her cooking. With such a warm home, it must be hard to get guests to leave.
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Our Style: This is our dream home. We try to make it simple and comfortable and full of beautiful objects and very special treasures we find along the way.
Inspiration: A connection with the outdoors and imagining what it would be like living in a foreign countryside.
Favorite Element: The wonderful breeze that comes through our windows and the beautiful view we enjoy while sitting on the veranda.
Biggest Challenge: Taking our time in making things look exactly how we want them to look. We tend to want to do too much too fast. Sometimes if you wait a little new inspiration can take you in a different unexpected direction.
What Friends Say: Our friends love the feeling of openness throughout our home. The feeling of being indoors and outdoors all at the same time.
Biggest Embarrassment: Our home office "the side room" has become a room to collect anything NOT beautiful. We have just started to design shelves for it and plan out a more functional use for it. We eventually want it to be a place we can sit and work from as well as house our books and other precious things.
Proudest DIY: Installing our windows and hanging our doors successfully.
Biggest Indulgence: We have no regrets about purchasing our dishwasher and refrigerator
Best Advice: Do what you want! IT IS YOUR HOUSE forget about the resale value!!
Dream Source: Architectural salvaged yards all over the city
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We had a terrible experience buying our appliances, but they work great!
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- Found on a trip to Oaxaca, Mexico
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- Cherry and Martin
- Anna Sew Hoy
- David Korty Ceramics
- Rebecca Morris
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Thanks, Beatrice & Ramsey!
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Big fan. Not your usual run to the mill cookie cutter apartment therapy space. Really like the kitchen vibe.
o.m.g. i *love* the kitchen. love it. the rest of the house is pretty dang awesome too, but that kitchen... i won't be able to get it out of my mind all day.
So lovely! Will stick with me. It's refreshing to see something so beautiful, yet without pretense. A state to work toward. What an inspiration!
JessBell hit the nail on the head. So unique and lovely. I'm curious about the fabric wall hangings. What are they?
A very charming home!!
I love everything about this place. This is my favorite AT post ever.
I don't think there was anything in this tour that I didn't like. The amazing vibe of that place oozed out of every photo. This one will be in my head all day too.
Looks like a Latin house to me! Some of the wall hangings appear to be Maya huipiles, or blouses. They are beautiful examples of the weaver's art, and differ from village to village. The kitchen reminds me of the kitchen I shared in Caracas, and of caraqueno friends' kitchens.
So lovely, loving, and artistic. Wonderful use of wall hangings and color. And assuming those are the shoes you design, THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for not contributing to the oppressive exploitive posture&health-ruining "killer" (literally) spiked heels trend. Thank you.
love the textiles - and...THE CHICKENS!
Good job - very creative and inspiring home.
Easy breezy carefree style. Feels like summer all year round.
beautiful tile, enamel soap dish, artwork, bent wood chairs, everything! colors are wonderful and you could live in a house like that forever, also nice stack of world of interiors!
Love everything , the colors, textiles, pottery, art.....windows, open air...beautiful.
And darling little girl but I don't remember seeing her name?
Thank you for sharing!
I absolutely adore your home! I love the organic nature of it, the art work, the pottery, the simplicity. Nothing looks mass produced here. It's all very fresh. Congratulations on a lovely home.
Absolutely LOVE all the pottery & textiles as well as the beautiful paint colors, natural light, the airiness! And the chickens! One of my favorites tours.
I LOVE your house - wow! The hammered door with colored glass - where did you get that?? Such an artistic door - LOVE it! I love the colors, the kitchen, your textiles/bed linens. I love hanging clothes outside - I want chickens too - love the little coop. One of my favorite AP tours for sure! Thanks fo sharing:):)
So good. Thank you for sharing. Painted chair rail is the way to go, if a vibrant color gets too much.
I love the baby's room...and the kitchen...and the bathroom...and the front door...and the entrance *brain overload* This house is flippin' sweet!
Love this house! Feels very homey.
This tour makes my heart hurt with nostalgia for Los Angeles. Thanks for sharing.
Love how you layered so many patterns and textiles and still have a modern clean look. I wish I could pull this off.
Completely charming and lovely -- what a wonderful home!
This is my favorite AT home to date. it's so lovely and warm. Everything...the chickens, the pottery, the light, I love!
I have to ask, where did you find the whale mosaic in the bathroom? It is amazing.
That tile...Wow!
I love the tiles.
Also, her "best advice" about doing what you want and not worrying about resale value.
Also, that she credited the artists whose works are shown.
I love the shoes!
Love the colors, the bright open spaces, the pottery along the top shelf in the kitchen, the beautiful light in your entry, the artwork everywhere...but most of all I love the Heath pottery in your kitchen. Thank you for sharing!
I want to recreate every square inch of that perfect kitchen kitchen.
This is a beautiful home. Thank you!
my favorite thing about this home is the attitude of the owner. I love that this modest 800 sq ft home is her "dream home" and that they have worked to make it so. refreshing!
This is so beautiful, going through, I thought someone has to be foreign because of the mix of textiles, colors and the overall freshness of the space. I love how you've mixed the raw/bare woods with the vibrant, bright colors and layered it with some of the most gorgeous textiles. Everything about your home makes me happy, I love the color of your house, the tiled floors and back splashes, how you were able to keep everything simple yet with so much complexity. It reminds me alot of my father's house back in Jordan where the outdoors and indoors were complimentary living spaces, I cannot stop raving!
THIS is what AT posts should be. Original, unpretentious, attainable and inspiring. Also, the size is comparable to an apartment and shows the possibilities of small-space living. I love it.
WOW, Can I make a reservation now? Feels like a remote vacation home. So amazing in an un fancy way.
I like the macramé hanger and the kitchen counter. The shoes say it all about the inhabitants of the house.
Lovely, airy, and unpretentious. So many beautiful turquoises and textiles and textures.
I love your home! its so inviting....
I love the bright colors and different shapes throughout the house. Very welcoming and unique. You have an adorable little girl!
I'm divided on this one, there are so many things I absolutely love about this house. But, there are a few things I just can't stand~~ I love 99% of it, except the painting of half the walls, especially in the kitchen, where it looks like every stadium bathroom I have ever been in (especially with the colour choices). And not a fan of the bare bulb lights. Otherwise I love everything else. So much love has gone into this home, and it is a true family home.
Agree with all the compliments, especially Sally 305. I can only add that I covet that bunny in photo 28.
Beautiful! It felt like I was in Mexico or Costa Rica.
One of the best ever.
Beautiful home,I love your home. Best Home
LOVE the stools in the kitchen. i think i want to try to make some... they could be so versatile in my TEENY home... seating, coffee table, end table, footstool... ahh!! love the bare open shelving too... our new apartment won't have upper cabinets, so i'm thinking i'm going to do bare open shelves like this! i'm totally stealing all of your design ideas :P
Does anyone have an idea what color was used on the kitchen? I love that!!!
Ack! Marvelous - by far my favorite tour on AT ever. More of these please! What character, such a nice break from the usual.
Things that I normally really do NOT like (busy tile, bohemian knick knacks, ethnic fabrics) all came together in this home in the most beautiful way. I am seriously/surprisingly impressed with this house, kudos.
I got more and more relaxed as I looked at each picture - until I got to the kitchen! A laundry tub for a kitchen sink?? Genius!! Why did I never think of this???? For years I've muttered and cursed every time I've had to wash a large pot/platter/object and either couldn't fit it into the sink or under the faucet (or got water everywhere with the extendable hose sprayer thingy).
Seriously, I'm bookmarking this tour so I can come back to it - it definitely has the So Cal/ LA vibe I grew up with and miss a great deal.
Very nice! I love your huipiles and how you displayed them. I bought several on lake atitlan at markets ... All used and worn...salvaged what i could and made pillow covers out of them. Love them!
So natural, light -filled and easy. Like your use of turquoise throughout.
ditto on all the positive comments above! I LOVE the outdoor/indoor feel, the textiles, the natural charm of every room! I loved the front door! great energy!
This is one of the most effortlessly beautiful home tours I have ever had the pleasure of seeing. Thank you for sharing your place with us.
Wow, it feels so special, calm and beautiful. Not like anything else, and unique. I love it.
@ Sally305, you hit the nail on the head!
Beautiful Beatrice, Beautiful little girl and Beautiful home
I love it! It looks like it welcomes visitors to come and stay and help in the kitchen. For a bit I forgot it was in Cali!
WOW! Love the individuality and joyful playfulness, and the happy chickens and happy child.
From the time I started to watch Apartement Therapy (3 years?), it is one of the appartement I would love to live in. It is certainly not perfect, but this one has this charm I need to have in my life: something true.
Words can't describe how much I love this!
Your house is too cute! I love the front door...I am so jealous! But the cutest of all..is the lil punkin' in pink!!!
i used to live in echo park, and this post warms my heart. i love it all. wondering about sources for the textiles on both beds? looking for something similar for my two-year-old daughter. thank you!!!
Pretty... Nice home! Though as someone who has lived in LA, what happens to the pottery on the kitchen shelves during even a minor quake?
Delightful! Beautiful child. Thanks for sharing!
Lovely...as others have said, beautiful and refined without pretense.
Not my thing, but they look happy.
If I had my own house, I'd definitely have a front door like that!
So interesting that the tone of the posts reflects the vibe of the owner and, thus, the house. Love really does shine through.
Awwww, I love the kitchen! It looks busy and lived-in, and it reminds me of my old kitchen in West Hollywood. I'm super jealous of the clothesline, too; the shower rod I have to use to hang dry just doesn't cut it.
Not my style, but it is a lovely home. I am the only one who doesn't like the kitchen.
First I saw and loved the shoes on http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/shivas-romantic-modern-ranch-home-house-tour-166672
I thought after seeing her work that AT should do a tour of her house and here it is!! I knew I'd enjoy it before I saw it. I second SALLY305. Immediately I thought this home is so beautiful, unique and unpretentious. The seem like really down to earth family.
First I saw and loved the shoes on http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/shivas-romantic-modern-ranch-home-house-tour-166672
I thought after seeing her work that AT should do a tour of her house and here it is!! I knew I'd enjoy it before I saw it. I second @SALLY305. Immediately I thought this home is so beautiful, unique and unpretentious. The seem like really down to earth family.
Two years later still love it!
I still love this space but why is AT re-posting old posts?
I agree with BlueMom...the door is astoundingly cool! May we have a source, pls?
wasn't this house featured years ago???
This was "fresh" in 2012.
Lovely, lovely home! very happy they reposted
That pink dress - I'm sure it's vintage, but if not, share the source! Gorgeous :)
This is a fairly recent repeat.
if this is a repost, i'm glad to see it. i hadn't seen it the first time. what an inspiration and joy this home is! thanks for sharing with us!
I love this house.
(the bird needs a bigger cage ;-)
Beautiful front door to open up to the rest of the creativity.
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You can almost feel the cross breeze going through the house--it seems so open and light. I'm not sure that I could sleep without curtains, but perhaps the garden provides relief from streetlights? (It would be lovely to not need curtains!) Love the soothing colours throughout. The only thing killing the peaceful vibe for me here is the fur pillow on the couch.
best tour ever. oh my god. that KITCHEN!
Nice home.
But is that real bird in cage? OMG poor thing....cage seem just way to small for it. Hopefully since then you guys did give her bigger cage.
I was going to say the same thing about the bird in the kitchen. If that is a real bird in there, please,please,please get it a way bigger cage, something longer lengthwise than heightwise, so it can fly in it. Loved the house, but when I spotted that canary, I just got a horrible sad feeling in my chest.
Wow! I am really in love with the use of fun color and pattern here, and I am so happy you've used it in permanent ways with the tiles. Americans are so stuck on making everything beige and friendly to the next buyer. But as a renter often stuck with no option to paint walls, your use of pattern and color in textile is fun and inspirational!
Oh my goodness - how simply lovely. I live in sunny Queensland Australia and you have inspired me for my veranda - wonderful wonderful. What a lovely home. Love it - LOVE IT!!!!!!
I love all these Echo Park places, keep them coming!
I am dying to know what color was used in your bathroom. It looks amazing, I love peacocks so the blues and greens are my inspiration and Im currently remodeling and Im lookimg for the perfect colors and this looks like a forest green. Please tell me what color this is I want it, that and a nice cobalt blue in my home would look great. Your home is stunning and by though way cute kid:-)


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It's not always easy. Some babies push away and won't be held closely. If this happens, try holding your baby close but facing away from you and give them a chance to calm down.
Use movement to calm your baby
- pick up your crying baby. Carry, or gently rock your baby or use any kind of slow, rhythmical movement. Try not to do too many things at once. If you realise your are patting and jigging and shooshing and swaying all at the same time, try to slow down
- try putting your baby in a pouch or sling. Walk around and see if you can get on with your daily routine
- put your baby in a pram and walk around outside. First wrap your baby in a sheet or other wrap and then put the pram harness on. This will keep your baby safe and still while the pram is moving. Babies like the feel of a gentle breeze; they like to see the movement of trees and shadows but don't like the sun in their eyes. Go for a walk in a quiet place where you can feel more relaxed. Stay away from people who are likely to be critical of your baby's crying because their comments may increase your anxiety
- use a bouncinette for short periods. Make sure to use the harness or belt and use the bouncinette on the floor, not on a table, or bench
- you may like oto try going for a drive in the car in an attempt to settle your baby. Make sure your baby is in a child restraint approved for use in New Zealand (see fact sheet on Car seats on this website)
Try letting your baby suck on something
- sucking can help calm your baby and reduce the crying. Let your baby suck on their fist, fingers or thumb. Try giving a dummy. One trick is to place the dummy just on your baby's lips - the lips will automatically latch on to the dummy. If your baby is breast-fed try to avoid giving a dummy during the first two to four weeks as it may affect your baby's suckling ability and have an effect on your milk supply
- if breast feeding, try offering the breast. If formula feeding, try giving a drink of cool boiled water. Sometimes it might help to give the next feed a little earlier but try not to give formula more often than every three hours as this may encourage snacking or your baby using the bottle as a dummy
Give your baby a soothing bath
A bath may help your baby calm down. Some babies will relax and enjoy a bath but others will become tense and more distressed. Make sure to run the cold water first, then add hot water. Always check it isn't too hot before putting your baby in the water. Never leave your baby alone in the bath, even for a moment.
Give your baby a gentle massage
Rub your baby's tummy gently and firmly in a circular clockwise motion. You can find more information about baby massage in most baby books.
Try playing
Try distracting your baby with a favourite toy. This will not work if your baby is very upset or overtired and may even make things worse. If it doesn't work, stop.
What to do when nothing seems to be working
It is very hard to cope with a baby who seems to be crying all the time.
- you may feel helpless when your baby keeps on crying. Just think - it's not always easy for you to calm down if you're very upset. It's the same for your baby. Try to remember that you can't always stop the crying but you can still comfort your baby
- tune in to your baby's cry. Don't let the distress become too great before you decide to comfort your baby. Take a few deep breaths first if it helps you to slow/calm down
- if your baby continues to cry and you are starting to feel desperate, put your baby down in a safe place and walk into another room for a short break, or if available, ask somebody to take over the settling for a while. Remember, you are doing the best you can. When you go back, you may find your baby is easier to calm
There is something called "the period of PURPLE crying" which refers to a time period when some babies begin crying more and may be hard to settle. This usually starts at about two weeks of age and peaks at eight weeks. It usually ends by 12 weeks of age. The letters in PURPLE stand for the common parts of non-stop crying in babies:
P – peak pattern (crying peaks around two months of age, then decreases)
U – unpredictable (crying can come and go for no reason)
R – resistant to soothing (baby may keep crying no matter what you do to try to soothe them)
P – pain-like look on baby's face
L – long bouts of crying (crying can go on for hours)
E – evening crying (baby cries more in the afternoon and evening)
Parents may feel guilty and angry if they can't soothe their baby. The period of PURPLE crying tells us that if a baby is not ill and parents have tried to soothe baby, it is alright if they cannot stop baby from crying. Some babies are going to cry no matter what. The good news is that the period of PURPLE crying will end!
At times you may feel you are failing at being a parent. Most parents feel like this at one time or another. It may be difficult to ask for help, but it's easier if someone can help you. Things will improve with time, but you have to survive in the meantime! It is important to look after and be kind to yourself.
You will probably get a lot of advice from many different people. This can be very confusing and you may wonder what to do. The best advice to take is usually what feels right to you. You may decide that the best thing to do is to pick up and cuddle your baby. Be prepared for well-meaning people to tell you that you are giving in and that your baby has got their own way. Be reassured that your baby is far too young to think like that.
If your baby is crying a lot and is fed on infant formula, friends or relatives may suggest you change this use medications or herbal preparations. You might like to talk to your doctor or Plunket nurse about this.
If the sound of your baby's crying changes or you think your baby may be sick, or have a physical problem, see your doctor or go to your local hospital.
If you are finding it difficult to cope, or find that you are not enjoying being a parent at all, try contacting PlunketLine or see your doctor for help and advice.
Telephone advice - Healthline and PlunketLine
- ring PlunketLine on 0800 933 922 if you have child health and parenting questions or queries. For example, if you have questions about such issues as parenting, crying, sleeping, your child's growth, development, behaviour, immunisation, breastfeeding, nutrition, oral health, safety or want to know more about the Well Child / Tamariki Ora programme
- call Healthline on 0800 611 116 if you need advice about a child of any age who is unwell or hurt, or has any symptoms of sickness. Healthline provides a full range of telephone triage and health advice for children (and adults)
- both services are available 24 hours and are free to callers throughout New Zealand, including from a mobile phone
Starship Foundation and the Paediatric Society of New Zealand acknowledge the co-operation of The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney Children's Hospital at Randwick, and Kaleidoscope - Hunter Children's Health Network in making this fact sheet available to patients and families.
© Paediatric Society of New Zealand and Starship Foundation 2005 – 2014
Printed on 01 October 2014. Content is regularly updated so please refer to www.kidshealth.org.nz for the most up-to-date version


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A kitchen which will be used to cook thousands of meals for hungry South Georgia children is being installed.
The Second Harvest of South Georgia is installing their kids cafe kitchen in their Albany warehouse, hoping to improve their education and life.
The kitchen is part of a $200,000 investment by the Food Bank to take part in the Kids Cafe national program under Feeding America.
The kitchen will be designed to cook and produce 5000 meals a day, to be delivered to kids in after school and social programs across South Georgia.
To provide a healthy meal for kids so that they do homework. That they can enjoy programs after school and stay in school. The main thing we are trying to accomplish here is to get these kids graduated and get them out into the workforce.>
The kitchen will employ at least four people, and should be producing meals for kids in more than 50 centers in the next six months.
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- Juan Gallego-Calderon
- Roskilde
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What does society means to you? And, do you think ours is working?
I have been struggling with the concept of society lately, mostly because of the political situation in the US, where both sides are pushing to their extremes with out reaching an agreement in nearly anything. I believe that a country needs to have a strong social safety net where everyone can have the same, or similar, opportunities to grow and contribute to society. But I feel that the views in this country are so polarized that made me question the concept of society that we have as a "society" today.
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Mar 7 2012: Bastian,
What I mean by "a strong safety net" is that every member of society should have access to the basics: education (k-12 through college), health care, social security, etc. along with those you mentioned. This way the people that are born less fortunate can have the same opportunities than those who are born fortunate. I believe that these are the pilars of a strong society where each individual grows with different capabilities so it can help support a strong society.
I agree with your idea of a transparent journalism, with out any kind of bias or money influence by corporations, so we can have a transparent election.
Mar 7 2012: Juan, Bastian
In principle, I agree completely with what you "want from society" in terms of a social net. The problem here is one of reification. Reification is a form of fallacy that occurs when we ascribe concreteness to something abstract. Its a very common problem that is perhaps inherent in language. "Society" can't provide any of us with anything because it is not a thing and therefore cannot have its own agency. Because society is the emergent effect of the norms, rules and conventions that we recreate and support through our actions on a daily basis. "Society" will not solve the problems of how to provide for the basic needs of everyone in a way that the planet can sustain. But as individuals we can contribute to the creation and maintenance of norms, ways of behaving, rules and create new ideas and tools that achieve the outcome of a social safety net.
With respect to the particular example Juan cites of the US, I don't see the problem as being two extreme sides failing to meet at a sensible middle ground. The sensible ground is not in the middle, its in a whole different ballpark. Much of the political discourse is actually motivated (on both sides) by a desire not to see the game migrate to that ballpark.
Mar 7 2012: Political discourse? If this were true
.., when would politics start to stop corporations?
Media has a big influence on trends and mass media is also a form of make believe. I think that when we visit a culture wherein the people seem to respect and support each other all the time, then that they have kept something beautiful alive and are neither divided by their financial status, nor by what the media tells them how to see the world and each other. In addition I feel free and happy to live in a society that grants me free education and a social safety net and I definitely think that it should be granted everywhere on the planet. Who pays for it? Everyone equally, after we received free education we work in our professions and partly pay back the social safety net that brought us to our profession.
Mar 8 2012: Matthew,
Thanks for you comment. The problem in the US is the influence of corporations into elections, as Bastian pointed out with his 2nd. clip. Here, corporations are treated as people and therefore can done unlimited amount of money to candidates without disclosure. That translate into conflict of interests, and the election of candidates that would work for the corporations instead of the people. To me, that is one of the big problems with "society" right know because we are heading (or we are already there) to a place like Bastian's 1st. clip.
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IBM Emerges in Amazon's Cloud
Big Blue is now providing images for Amazon's cloud. A cloud software-as-service (SaaS) for SUSE Linux, among other products, is to follow.
Free Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) are now immediately available for a few IBM products so that testers and developers can work on applications in Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) environment. The first of these IBM products include DB2, Lotus, WebSphere and Informix.
IBM plans production versions as SaaS offerings in the near future, including for Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and IBM's Tivoli service manager. In any case, additional licenses are required based on the processor unit value (PVU) of the number of virtual CPU core instances.
EC2 implementation incurs some basic costs based on usage time and data volume. The list of Amazon web service partners now also includes Red Hat with JBoss for cloud computing.
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Issue 168/2014
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Mozilla's product think tank sinks silently into history.
Internet Giants Launch Collaboration to Improve Open Source
TODO group will focus on open source tools in large-scale environments.
Fedora Announces New Partition Manager App
New tool will look like GParted but support a wider range of storage technologies.
Mozilla Releases a New Firefox
New public key pinning feature will help prevent man-in-the-middle attacks.
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Carnegie Mellon researchers say 3 million pages could fall down the phishing hole in the next year.
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Knoppix 7.4 Released
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According to a report, many potential victims of the Heartbleed attack have patched their systems, but few have cleaned up the crime scene to protect themselves from the effects of a previous intrusion.
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LEE COUNTY: A tough night for students at FGCU, remembering one of their own who died in a car crash over the weekend.
Hundreds gathered on the lawn on campus tonight to remember Carisa Herald.
Herald was a junior at FGCU--she died Friday afternoon in an accident heading home to Tampa along Interstate 75.
Through tears, her friends spoke of how they'll remember Carisa.
"She was that 'Zeta' woman," one of her sorority sisters said. "Full of pride, enthusiasm, devotion, passion, love, faith, life, and to know that it's gone is the hardest thing we have had to go through."
During a prayer, another student remarked to those gathered at the vigil, "in the midst of this, we ask that you comfort, we ask that you would give immense strength to Carisa's family as they grieve."
Carisa's family also attended the vigil tonight. No one with the family or the university wanted to talk to the media.
But we're told Carisa's loss is something that the entire community there is just coming to grips with.
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I don't really do crafting per se, I make quilts. I'm in my 80's and have been making quilts for almost 30 years. I'm really addicted to doing that. When I finish a quilt I'm already thinking about the next one.
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Is It Fur Real?
Bundled up in her favorite long black and tan tweed coat, Eleanor strolled down the sidewalk enjoying the brisk chill in the air. A young woman approached Eleanor with a look of concern in her eyes and asked, "Excuse me, ma'am, but that's not real fur on your collar, is it?" Eleanor was shocked, and quickly said, "Why no, I would never wear fur. It is an awful thing to kill an animal for its fur." The young woman smiled and said, "Well, I'm sure glad you checked, I know it can be hard to tell sometimes," and wished Eleanor a pleasant day.
After the woman walked away, Eleanor began to wonder what she had meant when she said she was glad she "checked" that the collar was not real fur. Why, she just assumed the fur was fake. The furry-looking lapel was dyed a creamy tan color, unlike any animal she'd ever seen. And the price sure didn't indicate that it was real fur — she got a great deal on the coat. But was it actual fur? How awful she would feel to know that her purchase was an end product of animal suffering.
When faced with a "fuzzy" purchasing decision this season, consumers can take heart — API is here to help them feel confident in their fur-free shopping!
In a recent survey, more than 98 percent of API's members felt that consumer issues, including fur, were an important priority for the organization. So as the holidays approach and fall merchandise fills the stores, API would like to offer our supporters some tips so that they can shop with confidence, knowing that their money is not benefitting the cruel and exploitative fur industry.
Unfortunately, the fur industry, this is an industry that is becoming increasingly adept at disguising fur, making it difficult for conscientious consumers to know whether a trimmed collar, boot cuff, fuzzy cat toy, or mitten lining is in fact a real animal product or simply a good synthetic. Even sales clerks may not know if a product is fur or faux!
Adding to the confusion is a loophole in the U.S. law for clothing labels. This loophole allows retail items priced under $150 not to carry any label indicating the type of animal fur used to create the fur-like trimming or effect. This means that if you're considering buying an item that costs, say, $100, and are wondering whether the fluffy pink collar is real fur, you have to become a bit of a detective to ensure that your purchase is not supporting animal suffering!
Is it real or fake? is a quick "cheat sheet" to help you become an expert "fur or faux" detective.
When in doubt, API asks that you not purchase an item unless you are sure that it is fake fur. Better to err on the side of caution when it comes to potentially supporting animal suffering and death for fashion.
Fur Trim: What You Need to Know
These days, fur trim abounds — along with misconceptions about the real nature of this product.
Here are some facts about fur trim that you can use to educate your friends and family to help them avoid making uninformed purchases that support cruelty towards animals:
Fur and fur trim are not byproducts of the meat industry.
Many believe mistakenly that believe fur is "salvaged" after animals are killed to make meat; you may hear, for example, that rabbit fur is a byproduct of the rabbit meat industry.
The truth is, rabbits used for meat and rabbits used for fur are distinct breeds, slaughtered at different ages. Some breeds of rabbits are killed for their young tender meat; others for their fully developed fur pelts. And when is the last time you've had a "mink sandwich" or a "fox burger"?
Fur trim is not leftover from making a full length coat.
Another misleading claim you might hear is that fur trim consists of the scraps that are left over from the making of full-length coats. Ninety percent of the fur from foxes killed on fur factory "farms" are used in fur trim. Other animals commonly killed to be used as trim include rabbits, minks, chinchillas, coyotes, and sheep.
Even in the U.S., cat and dog fur are sold as fur trim.
It was only in 2000 that the U.S. banned the import of domestic dog and cat fur. However, items made from cats and dogs are still making their way into the U.S. market, often imported from China.
Each year more than two million dogs and cats are killed for the fur trade. The items made from cat and dog fur can be mislabeled to conceal the true nature of the fur.
An undercover investigation in China recently revealed gruesome "harvesting" of domestic dogs and cats for the fur trade. Such horrific acts will continue so long as consumers keep buying fur-trimmed items.
Quick Shopping Suggestions:
- Shop with confidence this season, and take the time to double check what appears to be fake fur, just to be sure it is, in fact, fake!
- Forego spending your money on purchases at stores that sell fur or fur trimmed items. Let store managers know that you wish to see them discontinue selling fur. Feel free to offer API as a resource if they would like to learn more about how a store that sells fur actually supports animal trappers, fur "farmers," the fur processing industry, and shares the responsibility for animal suffering and death.
- Help friends and family by sharing with them your knowledge on fur, fur trim. By spreading compassion, you can help save animals' lives!
API Fights Fur
As leaders in the fight against the fur industry, API asks that people educate themselves and those around them about the unimaginable suffering of animals living in fur "farms," as well as those animals harvested from the wild by indiscriminant and inhumane traps. For more information on trapping and fur farms, visit API's special website www.BanCruelTraps.org — or call us at 1-800-348-7387 with questions you may have about the fur trade.
To increase global awareness of the cruelty of fur, API is an active member of the Fur Free Alliance (FFA), an international coalition of more than 30 animal protection organizations who share the goal of ending the exploitation of animals for their fur. For more information about the collective efforts of API and the FFA, visit www.infurmation.org.


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The count down is on for resident Canada goose and Dove seasons in many states – and the start of hunting season is just over 30-days away. That's right, a mere month away. As we ramp up for the coming season, and another record year for duck production, issue #22 of Waterfowler.com Journal is in production and slated for a September release to celebrate the arrival of another hunting season.
The 2014 off-season has been quite productive for both waterfowl and waterfowl management. Duck numbers will reach another record this season and in response to those numbers a number of states in the Upper Mississippi Flyway will host in their first early teal seasons this year – including Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa and Minnesota. Waterfowler.com encourages our readers to consult their state regulations for details and to participate in these experimental seasons. Of course, during teal-only seasons, species identification is paramount and wood ducks can be easily mistaken for teal during the early season before waterfowl molt into colorful breeding plumage. Waterfowler.com reminds our readers to hunt safe, hunt legal and take extra precaution with regard to species identification. Continue reading


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Release Date: 2005 |
good one, but you got your exclamation points all screwy in the 1st paragragh. and I may check this out.
Album Rating: 3.5Those are the band names, not the sentence structure =).
their new album is definitely their best. probably somewhere in the 5 range for me.
Album Rating: 3.5I'm listening to that now and I'll be doin' a review of it soon.
nice review, not my cup of music
Album Rating: 3.5Hmmm.. cup of music new term? :]
yeah man
Album Rating: 3.5You're just full of surprises.
Album Rating: 4.5fufufu
Album Rating: 4.0mmhhh the drummer
Album Rating: 3.5ya some of the best drumming ever. this albums jonesin'
who else ordered this on vinyl? : )
Album Rating: 4.5I've come to realise that toe are one of the most perfect bands in the world, this could be a 5
Album Rating: 5.0Well, Tashaki is one of the greatest drummers on the planet. Really, it's amazing.
Album Rating: 4.0This is a great album but it makes no sense to compare it to post-rock groups, it's basically an all-instrumental version of American Football.
Album Rating: 3.5Way more math than post-rockDigging: The Antlers - In the Attic of the Universe
Digging: The Antlers - In the Attic of the Universe
american football is a post-rock group so what's your pointDigging: Luigi Nono - A Pierre; Quando stanno morendo;
Digging: Luigi Nono - A Pierre; Quando stanno morendo;
haven t listened to this for ages. this album is amazing
Album Rating: 3.5Btw if you like this album you should check this out:
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Coloring Your Kitchen Appliances?
Yesterday we polled you on multi-colored faucets. Would you customize your kitchen appliances with color, glitter, or Swarovski crystals? Italian company Coolors is offering you the option to "be cool with colors"...
Customizable colored panels are available for fridges, freezers, cooker hoods, panels, and other home appliances.
See more Coolors kitchen appliance decor on the Coolors website.
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Ugh. These would look so bad in a normal kitchen.
hmmm... not a good look IMHO.
Not to mention I could never commit to something like this- I change my mind too easily. I want to be able to move things around and redesign at any moment!
I thought those were boxes for cheap 99 cent store quality perfume or cosmetics until I looked closer!
I prefer my appliances to be as unobtrusive as possible - not the center of attention.
Yeah this wouldnt look dated at all in a week!
Agreed on the perfume box comment... I could see this being really cool if executed well, but these just aren't.
Anyone else reminded of that show Boy Meets World? There was an episode where the older brothers were looking for an apartment and one of their requirements was an avocado colored fridge.
Oh my, that 2nd one from the left looks like a bad sympathy card.
These are a hoot, but no....no....no
These are hideous.
I support colored refrigerators but this is just stupid. Those examples remind me of the cheesy flash emails I get from my grandma. I could see having like a crazy colorful and bright kitchen with maybe a pattern on the fridge, like the zebra print, but not an actual picture. And that could only look cool in the crazy over the top kitchens anyway.
I like them. Especially that skyline one in the second picture. They'd have to be in the right kitchen setting but in the right place they'd be stunning. Kitchen appliances are boring -anything that spruces them up and makes them interesting is fine by me. It's no different to decorating your walls or doors.
That on with the rose and the music notes looks like a Trapper Keeper I used to have in the early 90's.
I like the idea of a well decorated fridge. The only one I've seen that I really liked was a black on black design on amanacolor.com. Some of the other designs there look like bad 70's decor. Nonetheless, I'd want something removable.
I've said it before and I'll say it again... if you want to customize your appliances, use contact paper! Of course it's much easier to get a patterned look than a "vista"/5-foot flower style with contact paper, but if you realize you don't like it, you're only out $5-10.
Also, for those who like this kind of thing, some of the pics on the website are a lot more attractive than the ones in this post.
No thank you.
The website says that all products are available with glitter. Of course they are. Glitter always adds that special something.
Glitter, hunh? *sniffs* How chintzy. If this were my contact-paper 80's-era-Trapper-Keeper design, it'd come with rhinestones, damn it.
Somehow I want to love them...I really do ... but...
I would add a glitter dew drop on the rose.
I wonder if one person squeezes the glue bottle and another follows, using only a pinch of glitter at a time (as we were taught in school).
I saw my neighbor carry their old fridge to the curb and had to walk closer to verify that it was a MIRRORED fridge! How glam!!!
I immediately had to google it:
perhaps if they had some cool design, like some lovely wallpapers have, then they could go somewhere with it. The rose one reminds me of teenage romance, the rest of them are just tacky too.
I think my husband would have a heart attack if he saw one of these in our kitchen
Westinghouse did this in the 60s. Watch this hilarious YouTube video:
You have to get past the intro before you start seeing the glorious, psychedelic-paneled fridges.
Would definitely get one if they had leopard print!
no. just.... no.
you are so going to regret this in five years....
Ooo! Ooo! Can i get one with a Hologram
of a religious figure that opens and closes his eyes as one passes by? Or wait....wait! Dogs playing poker!!
Now THATS classy!


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Joyce Atrude Ewing: January 15, 1921 – October 29, 2011
On Saturday October 29, Joyce A. Ewing passed away peacefully at St. Joseph Hospital in Bellingham.
She was born January 15, 1921 in Bellingham to Jack and Mable Chute. Joyce was a lifelong resident of Blaine where she attended school and was an honor student throughout her education. She married William L. Ewing in September 1940.
They raised three children Bill, Leslee and Guy. She was preceded in death by her husband Bill who passed in 1991, her two granddaughters Cyndee and Beckee and great granddaughter Jessica. Joyce is survived by her brother Gail of Vancouver BC, her three children Bill (Lucille), Guy (Liz), and Leslee, and 5 grandchildren Guy, Bobby, Sheree, Tim and Matt. She was fortunate enough to have been an active part of her twelve great grandchildren's lives.
Joyce was a loving and giving mother, grandmother and great grandmother.
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The Rev Clay Nelson has announced that he will be leaving St Matthew's to take up the role of Consulting Minister with the Auckland Unitarian Church from 1st September. more...
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"Behind the church's deliberations on same gender blessings are real people" says Rev Helen Jacobi, vicar of St Matthew-in-the-City.
Rev Jacobi was reacting to news from the General Synod of the Anglican Church in Waitangi, 14 May, which adopted a structure and process to take the church forward on the issue of same gender blessings and ordination.
"While the General Synod is to be commended for taking a step forward, seen from the perspective of the people affected, those faithful gay and lesbian Anglicans wanting to be married more...
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Vestry met on 24 February 2014. This was the first meeting since the announcement of The Revd Dr Helen Jacobi as the new Vicar of St Matthew-in-the-City. Members of Vestry had received questions from the congregation about the appointment process and the appointment itself. Conscious of our roles as elected representatives of the congregation, all of these questions were put to Bishop Jim White, who attended the first part of the meeting.
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Sunday, July 6th Glynn Cardy announced to the congregation he will be leaving St Matthew-in-the-City to accept a position as the minister at the Community of St Luke's Presbyterian Church in Remeura. He acknowledges that it is a very strange thing to be moving to a sister communion within the Christian Church after a lifetime of worship as an Anglican, and 29 years of ordained service in this Diocese. Nevertheless he believes that this is the right move for him at the right time. He will conclude his ministry at St Matthew-in-the-City on Saturday 5th October.
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The Revd Clay Nelson and his wife Lynette are off to Europe before beginning a three month pulpit exchange from 1 August through 30 October at St George's Anglican Church in Barcelona. The Revd Andrew Tweedy, Chaplain at St George's, and his wife Billie will be arriving 1 August to work in Clay's place.
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Anglican clergy have been informed that if they officiate at a same sex marriage their bishop will be "forced" to remove their licence. Clay noted, "The irony that politicians were able to act on their conscience, yet Anglican clergy are not given the same freedom is not lost on us." What this means for St Matthew's is that while same sex couples can hold their wedding at St Matthew's (previous law prevents us from discriminating), Glynn and Clay cannot be the officiant without losing their licence to be priests. As has always been true, they can conduct a more...
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Megan Reynolds shows the spirit and determination that have helped her on the road to recovery.
Hairdresser Megan Reynolds was paralyzed from the waist down in a car accident in 2010 while on the way to a University of Michigan football game. Today, she is the local marketing manager for a Sport Clips Haircuts in Granville, Michigan. Her story is one of triumph over tragedy and she is an inspiration to anyone fortunate enough to know her.
"I started working at Sport Clips in 2008 as stylist and moved up to manager," said Reynolds. After the accident, she was in a coma and her initial prognosis included severe head injury, bleeding on the brain, burns and back fractures. She was in the Intensive Care Unit for a month and then spent the next 10 months between hospitals and inpatient facilities. Once released from the hospital, she was in outpatient therapy five days a week. Since the accident, her employer, Stacey Patulski, local Sport Clips Haircuts franchisee, has worked with her to create an opportunity that fits her adapted skills.
"It has been a real journey back. When something this tragic happens to you, it becomes hard to see myself as I used to be, as beautiful on the outside and the inside," says Reynolds. "I started again at Sport Clips almost a year ago and everyone has been so helpful and accommodating. It means so much to me to be contributing and to feel needed."
Her injuries mean she has no feeling in her right hand or arm so she was not able to continue cutting hair but Reynolds has returned as a Sport Clips marketing manager.
Megan (in the middle) promoting her location with Sport Clips team mates
"From working as a stylist in the store you get an idea of what marketing makes sense. This year, I have become part of our local Chamber of Commerce and I have joined forces and created marketing relationships with sports bars and with Cabelas, which sells outdoor gear for hunting and fishing. We have done events together."
Her commitment to her store and to Sport Clips equals her determination that being in a wheelchair should not define who she is as a person.
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The Caledonian-Record | February 09,2013ST. JOHNSBURY Canadian officials have linked Maple Grove Farms of Vermont to a case in which $20 million of maple syrup was stolen in Quebec.
The company denies any wrongdoing.
Mark Bigelow, a Maple Grove manager in St. Johnsbury, declined to comment Thursday afternoon. A statement released later by the company notes, Maple Grove Farms purchased the maple syrup in good faith with no reason to believe that it was coming from Quebec or that it may have been stolen.
The case now implicating Maple Grove, a major regional company, which bills itself as the largest distributor of maple syrup in the United States and the worlds leading maple-candy producer, involves siphoning the equivalent of 10,000 barrels of syrup from a warehouse controlled by the Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers in Quebec. The value of the stolen syrup has been set at $20 million.
The federation has been compared to an OPEC-like cartel that distributes up to 78 percent of the worlds syrup, influences market prices by withholding supply, and maintains a strategic syrup reserve likened to the United States strategic oil reserve.
The Gazette in Montreal reported that Maple Grove was caught with 12 tanker truck loads of maple syrup that came from the syrup stolen from the warehouse in Saint-Louis-de-Blandford, Quebec.
The newspaper report stated that Maple Grove was visited in October by Vermont and Canadian police in the investigation connecting the company to the stolen syrup. The significance of the heist has given birth to the moniker The Great Maple Syrup Theft Caper.
The French newspaper Le Soleil reported Wednesday that the amount of syrup that could be transported in 12 tractor-trailer loads would be about 700,000 pounds. If Maple Grove purchased that amount it would equal about 15 percent of the total amount of stolen syrup.
Chief Clem Houde of the St. Johnsbury Police Department, which covers the area in the village where Maple Grove is located, said his officers were not involved in the investigation. Lt. Michael Henry of the Vermont State Police also said his troopers were not involved.
According to a petition filed before the Board of Agriculture and Food Marketing of Quebec, a Maple Grove representative confirmed the company purchased syrup from heist kingpin Richard Vallieres last summer at a cost substantially below normal rates set by the syrup federation. Media reports say Vallieres is a well-known buyer of illegal maple syrup.
Maple Grove denies the purchase was at a greatly reduced cost. Press reports that the prices paid for the maple syrup were substantially below normal rates are inaccurate. The prices paid were consistent with normal commercial prices for maple syrup purchased from sources outside of Quebec.
Canadian authorities have made more than 18 arrests in the case, including Vallieres. Maple Grove for its alleged part could face fines and trade sanctions.
The Agriculture and Food Marketing Board of Quebec frowns on the purchase of syrup from unauthorized dealers, and was scheduled to rule on Maple Groves breach of procedure this week. However, the matter was postponed to allow criminal charges to be laid in the matter, according to Canadian media reports.
The maple syrup theft was discovered in July 2012 by an accountant sent to assess inventory at the Saint-Louis-de-Blandford warehouse. The warehouse is located about 100 miles northeast of Montreal.
Maple Grove Farms was founded in 1915. It is headquartered on Portland Street in St. Johnsbury, but also maintains a branch in Saint-Evariste-de-Forsyth, Quebec.
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What is the ruling on wearing the kind of abayah that comes from the shoulders?.
The abayah that comes from the shoulders is not the kind of dress prescribed in sharee'ah that the Muslim woman should wear, because the 'abayah that is prescribed in sharee'ah should cover the entire body from head to toe; this is more like the jilbab that Allaah enjoined in the verse (interpretation of the meaning):
"O Prophet! Tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to draw their cloaks [Jalaabeeb pl. of jilbaab] (veils) all over their bodies (i.e. screen themselves completely except the eyes or one eye to see the way). That will be better, that they should be known (as free respectable women) so as not to be annoyed. And Allaah is Ever Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful"
[al-Ahzaab 33:59]
The jilbaab is a cloak that is worn over the head cover (khimaar), like an abayah.
It was narrated that Umm Salamah said: "When the verse 'to draw their cloaks [Jalaabeeb pl. of jilbaab] (veils) all over their bodies' was revealed, the women of the Ansaar came out looking as if there were crows on their heads, because of their outer garments."
(Narrated by Abu Dawood, 4101; classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in Saheeh Abi Dawood, 3456)
'Aa'ishah also described the woman's jilbaab as coming from her head, as she said: "The riders would pass us when we were with the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) in ihraam. When they came close, each of us would lower her jilbaab from her head over her face, and when they went away we would uncover (our faces)." (Narrated by Abu Dawood, 1833; Ibn Maajah, 2935. al-Albaani said: its isnaad is jayyid, in Mishkaat al-Masaabeeh, 2690)
In addition to that, wearing the abayah coming from the shoulders involves imitating men, because this is what men do, not what women do.
The following question was submitted to the Standing Committee:
In recent times a kind of 'abayah which shows the shape of the body and is tight has become popular; it is composed of two light layers of thin material, and it has wide sleeves and embroidery and designs, and it is worn coming from the shoulders. What is the Islamic ruling on this kind of abayah? Please advise us, may Allaah reward you.
After studying the matter, the Committee answered that the 'abayah which is Islamically acceptable for women is the "jilbaab", which is what fulfils the aims of sharee'ah, namely complete covering and avoiding fitnah (temptation). Based on this, the woman's abayah must meet the following conditions:
1 – It must be made of thick material that does not show what is underneath, and it should not cling to the body.
2 – It should cover the entire body, and be loose enough so that it does not show the shape.
3 – It should be open from the front only, and the sleeve openings should be narrow.
4 – It should not have any adornment that attracts attention, so it must be free of designs, decorations, writing and symbols.
5 – It should not resemble the dress of kaafir women, or men.
6 – The 'abayah should come down from the top of the head.
Based on the above, the kind of abayah mentioned in the question is not the kind of abayah that is prescribed for women in sharee'ah, so it is not permissible to wear it, because it does not meet the necessary conditions. It is also not permissible to wear any other kind of 'abayah that does not meet the necessary conditions, or to import them, manufacture them, sell them or distribute them among the Muslims, because this is a kind of cooperating in sin and transgression, and Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):
"but do not help one another in sin and transgression. And fear Allaah. Verily, Allaah is Severe in punishment"
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The Committee has stated that and has advised the believing women to fear Allaah and to cover their entire bodies with the jilbaab and khimaar from non-mahram men, in obedience to Allaah and His Messenger (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), and so as to avoid the causes of fitnah and temptation.
And Allaah is the Source of strength. May Allaah send blessings and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad and his family and companions.
Al-Lajnah al-Daa'imah li'l-Buhooth wa'l-Fataawa.